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Gallery of Student Art Gallery coordinator position cut

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Aramark Renovations Completion expected this fall: UMSU businesses to pick up the slack

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U-Pass Don't miss your bus referendum this fall

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Gallery of Student Art hit hard by cutbacks Budget cuts to UMSU student services leaves future of GoSA uncertain DANA HATHERLY

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rtists and students (financially burdened or otherwise) are among those most impacted by the UMSU executive’s decisions to cut financial support for the Gallery of Student Art and other UMSU student services.

Co-ordinator of the Gallery of Student Art (GoSA) Kira Koop told the Manitoban last month that she was advised her position was being terminated due to budget cuts implemented by the current UMSU executive.

Initially, there was confusion among University of Manitoba students and artists about the impending future of GoSA. Numerous students voiced concerns over the rumoured closing of the gallery.

Tom Ingram, fourth-year music student and former staff member of the Manitoban, worries about the future of GoSA. As an ally to the visual arts, Ingram is concerned that university should be more focused on music, drama, and creative arts in its various forms.

“Many people often come to the university setting without an exposure to [the arts],” said Ingram. “The gallery provides one little hold out of culture on campus.

“It is crucial for students to develop confidence, get first-time exposure, and establish a fine arts presence on campus,” said Shaylyn Plett, a fourthyear student in the faculty of fine arts.

Cliff Eyland, associate professor of painting at the School of Art, said his students have used the venue.

“GoSA’s exclusive focus on student art—and not only that, its inclusion of work by non-artists who are students—makes it unique in Winnipeg.

There is no place like it.”

In regards to the alleged closure of GoSA, UMSU executive members have tried to clarify the decision to the student body via email and on the GoSA Facebook page.

“GoSA will not be closing in the 2014-2015 school year,” reads a post on the GoSA Facebook page.

With Koop’s co-ordinator position having been dissolved, management and maintenance of the gallery remains unclear.

According to Daria Lukie, UMSU

vice-president student services, the Kopp maintained that students decision to cut funding to the GoSA using the gallery are capable of manwas made “due to a flawed endow- aging their own exhibits. ment fund which is rapidly losing “Students should be able to hang money.” their stuff and curate their stuff The endowment fund is linked themselves,” said Kopp. to a source that should never run “We’re not talking about rocket dry – money from each student that science here. If you’ve got paintings, generates interest and becomes the it’s about putting a nail in the wall operating budget for GoSA. and securing the nail so you can hang UMSU vice-president internal them [ . . . ] It’s not a complicated Jeremiah Kopp said it is the nature of process.”

UMSU to want to fund many student The person occupying the role of ventures, but expressed concerns that UMSU service co-ordinator will cothere are no long-term consequences ordinate exhibitions. Students and for unruly spending. artists will be in charge of facilitating The Board of Trustees is working their own exhibits . to address an outdated endowment fund by opening up a tendering process for how the funds are managed “We’re not talking and developing a policy manual about rocket science for more effective and accountable governance. here. If you’ve got The UMSU executive maintains paintings, it’s about that the funding was unsustainable, and that the cutbacks to operation putting a nail in the costs and services were inevitable in order to financially rebuild and fund wall and securing the more sustainable options. nail so you can hang Other programs and services linked to the endowment fund them” – Jeremiah impacted by cutbacks include the Kopp, VP internal hardship fund (provides assistance to students in the face of a crisis), UMSU Living (has amalgamated with Answers), Bison Patrol, and In reference to the loss of the galtravel grants and awards. lery co-ordinator position, Ingram Some students blamed the deci- said that people frequently misunsion made by UMSU on a perceived derstand the arts and undermine the devaluation of the arts on and off amount of work that goes into them. campus.

Eyland added, “If the UMSU serIngram said his biggest concerns vice co-ordinator has a background or were about the UMSU executive’s experience in art, then it could work.” priorities. He questioned how there “How could someone with no was no room in the budget to support experience in art run that space? a position that manages a “hole-in- Why would you want someone who the-wall that actually accomplishes is unqualified to run it?” great things throughout the year.”

The budget for GoSA last year was Ingram also said he wondered how $12,000. The co-ordinator was paid on UMSU was unable to maintain the a salary basis at 13 hours per week for low operating costs of the gallery, but a total of approximately $9,000 per were able to find the means to host year. The Gallery of Student Art’s the costly, short-lived Frosh Festival money was allocated to this salary, experience with big names like Tiesto. gallery and artist promotions, vinyl Kopp told the Manitoban that the for labelling exhibits, supplies, and an UMSU executive is supportive of the additional $40 for the opening receparts, and recognized the importance tion of each exhibit. of GoSA for celebrating diversity The new budget for GoSA is and providing a holistic student $3,000. experience.

Kopp stated in an email to stu-

dents that cutbacks to the student gallery are the result of tough decision-making and prioritizing on behalf of UMSU .

In the long term, UMSU hopes reconfiguring the endowment fund will provide opportunities for future investments to be managed in a way that permits capital to generate, which can in turn be reinvested in services like GoSA. For now, UMSU executive members Kopp and Lukie insist GoSA will continue to function for the 201415 academic year.

PHOTO PROVIDED BY KIRA KOOP “The future of student art is bright on campus,” said Kopp. “How that looks in terms of space is an evolving solicited 65 per cent of artists, and discussion. This is a rebuilding period 35 per cent of participation was for our students’ association and there artist-initiated.

“My job was not only to faciliare few certainties in terms of space allocation.” tate, but to teach,” said Koop, as she Kopp mentioned the university is explained that she worked with artin the process of undergoing various ists to show them how to prepare and infrastructural changes and space showcase their work.

She stressed that the position of audits.

The question of whether GoSA gallery co-ordinator should not be will remain in its University Centre undermined – that it was integral (UC) space for following years to maintaining both functional and depends on remaining competitive creative art displays. “[Now], the students will be with Aramark and remodelling plans of various UMSU services and other responsible for facilitating their dischanges on the UC first floor. There play while the service co-ordinator are no immediate plans to change position at UMSU will assume the space, but analysis is being done responsibility for the co-ordination to determine if the space could be of exhibits,” explained Kopp. better utilized.

Rumours of GoSA’s closure Presently, the gallery is mandated resulted in the initial misinformato be used on a student-only basis tion and confusion among students, with no direct cost to students, and especially artists who made use of to serve as a resource for students. The the space.

“People were really upset, but there purpose of GoSA’s current space is to showcase the work of students and was positive reception in response student groups on campus, including to [do something about] it. People service centres. expressed how important it was and According to former GoSA coor- that they would be interested in fundinator Kira Koop, it is the only cost- draising [to maintain the operating free space of its kind in the city. costs of the gallery],” said Koop.

UMSU executive members told The UMSU executive has confirmed that the gallery space in inquiring students that fundraising University Centre will continue to was not an option. be available to students on the same “Fundraising activities would be cost-free, student-only basis. just for the co-ordinator salary, and The position of gallery co-ordina- it’s a bit disingenuous to have a staff tor, cut last month, was responsible member raise money for the gallery for various duties involved with main- and have it go only to themselves,” taining the space as curator, facilitator, Kopp explained. public relations and communications worker.

Kira Koop estimated that she

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Students to vote on U-Pass in 2014 fall referendum Students will vote to determine U-Pass implementation at UMSU, UWSA, and UMGSA DANA HATHERLY, STAFF

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embers of UMSU and totaling 27 per cent of eligible voters, With the U-Pass, students would pay University of Winnipeg the highest voter turnout up to that $260 over the course of the school year, Students’ Association (UWSA) will point in 15 years. which equals $32.50 per month. This vote this upcoming fall term on the This result meant that UMSU means a total savings of $282. universal bus pass (U-Pass) that could was given a mandate to negotiate a The University of Manitoba give post-secondary students access pass for $85 or less per semester.

Graduate Students’ Association to more affordable transportation at Based on the process of nego- (UMGSA) held an informal poll reduced rates starting in the fall 2015 tiations, UMSU and UWSA execu- among their student body that inditerm. tives did not achieve the intended cated 62 per cent support for the pass The first referendum occurred in rate to fulfill this mandate. The at the price of $260, with a 20 per March 2013. original plan has undergone changes cent turnout rate of its over 3,300 stuAt that time, former UMSU between UMSU, UWSA, the City dents across three major campuses in vice president advocacy during the of Winnipeg, and Winnipeg Transit. Winnipeg. time of the first referendum Jennifer According to Black, who was Black stepped down from her execu- actively involved in negotiating with tive position in order to campaign in transit, her focus was to maintain a “A universal bus favour of the U-Pass as a student and fair price for students and push for pass works to not as a student representative. service improvements that would advantage the most “A universal bus pass works to make public transit more accessible advantage the most disadvantaged and efficient for students. disadvantaged students on our campus and provides Current UMSU vice-president students on our greater access to education,” Black external Christian Pierce told the explained. “The U-Pass is a service Manitoban that UWSA president campus and that UMSU would provide students, Rorie Mcleod Arnould and he conlike a mandatory U-Pass [ . . .] where tinue to be involved in lobbying for provides greater all students would buy into a bus pass the U-Pass . access to education” that would go from Sept. – Apr., draCouncillor Jenny Gerbasi and matically lowering the cost of the pass Mayor Sam Katz put forward a – Jennifer Black, for everybody.” motion to include the U-Pass proZach Fleisher, Canadian posal in the City of Winnipeg oper- former UMSU viceFederation of Students Manitoba ating budget at a price point of $260 president advocacy Chairperson, wrote in the Uniter: plus inflation. On Feb. 4, 2014, the “Through collective purchasing and motion to support the U-Pass in prina subsidy from the government, stu- ciple was passed by city council.

This was the basis of support for dents are able to receive these passes Due to cost changes since the ini- UMGSA president Laura Rempel at a cheaper rate.” tial referendum, the memberships to put forward the question of the The UMSU website states that of UMSU and UWSA will vote in U-Pass to the UMGSA executive. the process for achieving the U-Pass referendums this fall to determine The UMGSA has already been in program involves students showing whether students still support the contact with the City of Winnipeg interest in the U-Pass, meeting with U-Pass at the price point of $260 for and Winnipeg Transit. Rempel said Winnipeg Transit, holding a student the eight-month academic year. they wrote a letter to Winnipeg referendum to provide evidence of Fleisher noted that these changes Transit expressing their interest in student support, meeting with the were “statistically justified” because being involved in U-Pass consultagovernment and stakeholders, formal the new price is comparable to what tion, and for their student members approval of the U-Pass agreement, other university students pay in to be included in the calculations for and implementation of the program. Edmonton ($245.84), Calgary ($234), the program, assuming a successful Two UMSU executives’ terms ago, and at Simon Fraser University ($304). referendum. the U-Pass received overwhelming The newly proposed cost is still The motion at city hall only support from the U of M student much cheaper than present rates included UMSU and UWSA , and body, with 74 per cent of students for students. Monthly student bus UMGSA sought to be formally conindicating their support for the passes currently cost $67.75, which sidered in the calculation of students program. Over 7,015 votes were cast, totals $542 over the academic year. across the city that would receive the

benefits of the U-Pass. Awaiting for- representatives from the Manitoba mal approval regarding their letter of Eco-Network and the Canadian intent, Rempel said that using gradu- Federation of Students-Manitoba) ate student numbers would “not make taking a two-pronged approach a big difference in executing the plan to achieving more affordable and

by Winnipeg Transit.” accessible public transportation for Pierce added that the inclusion of students.

UMGSA could potentially drive the At that meeting, Kopp cautioned price down. that, as far as the UMSU executive is At their last executive meeting, concerned, any campaign or organithe UMGSA executive passed the zation external to UMSU operating motion. on the U of M campus and advocating Executive support was granted, for the U-Pass would be shut down and on Wednesday, Aug. 27, the exec- quickly, reiterating how important it utive presented about the U-Pass to was for UMSU to remain officially their council. Rempel said a vote was impartial to the plan. held, and the idea was well-supported.

The U-Pass referendum will The next steps for UMGSA in adhere to strict UMSU election terms of negotiations on campus are bylaws and policies accordingly. to work with the elections commit- Kopp said that supplementary rule tee, hire a Chief Returning Officer changes are underway that would (CRO), and collaborate with UMSU solidify the executives’ emphasis on and UWSA to determine a referen- neutrality. These changes would be dum date. implemented prior to the campaign Rempel stated UMGSA’s intent period and may impact the campaign to work together with UMSU to environment. develop a consistent referendum He also pointed out achieving question to pose to students. the U-Pass is a process of “negotiatNeither UMSU nor UMGSA ing while advancing.” Raising the executives have taken an official question of transportation issues is stance on the U-Pass. Both are work- not just a student issue, and thus ing to inform the student body so requires further negotiations with that voters can make their own fully- transit regarding providing subsidies informed decision upon hitting the for public transportation. polls this fall.

Mcleod Arnould explained that Rempel and UMSU vice- existing literature about the U-Pass president internal Jeremiah Kopp is extensive and lays out a lot of the informed the Manitoban that their benefits, including environmental mandates state that the executive benefits to the city and the social must maintain a neutral stance. They benefits of having more transit users. would be required to step down from The U-Pass referendum date has their executive positions if they chose been set for Oct. 27-29 at the U of W. to advocate for or against the U-Pass. The dates have not yet been confirmed But the UWSA executive will at U of M. However, Pierce said that be actively supporting the U-Pass UMSU seeks to coordinate the voting because they believe it is in the best period with UWSA. interest of students, according to Mcleod Arnould.

On Aug. 14, 2014 the U-Pass Coalition held a meeting at the U of M. The coalition consists of students and community members (including

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Food services temporarily unavailable Renovations to food service locations underway in University Centre CRAIG ADOLPHE, STAFF

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enovations to several food second floor location. service locations are underway A new Starbucks is being conin University Centre (UC) as a new structed near the location of the foracademic school year begins. mer Tim Hortons on the first floor.

Changes are being made to some Renovations occurring beyond of the Aramark-managed food UC for the fall include changing the service establishments on campus, Robin’s Donuts in Fletcher Argue with select renovations expected to to a self-serve Tim Hortons and the continue well into the fall semester. addition of a Starbucks in place of the Establishments that are still open are former Food Services canteen in the expecting heavy traffic as students Armes complex. return to campus in large numbers.

Renovations to the campus food A report from UMSU vice- court are expected to be completed in president internal Jeremiah Kopp late 2014, according to the UMDS’s in UMSU Council’s July meeting website. minutes say the renovations came as a part of Aramark’s contract with the university, allowing them to continue “There’s 30,000 serving as a campus food provider. people, right? It’s The University of Manitoba a small town, just Dining Services (UMDS) website provides some details about the plan a couple places for renovations to the area, saying “the [campus] food court in University are not going to Centre will receive a complete overbe able to really haul, featuring all new concepts which focus on culinary variety and keep up with the speed of service. In addition to the demand. As much concept changes, the seating [ . . . ] will be upgraded to a mixture of soft as I would probably seating, new tables, and improved love to do that it’s lighting.”

The website also features a messimply not possible” sage which reads, “Please bear with us during construction, as we bring an – Thomas Blumer all new dining experience to campus this fall!”

The installation of a Starbucks on The campus food court is currently walled off and undergoing the first floor of UC is expected to be renovations, blocking off the numer- completed in September 2014.

In response to the investments by ous small food stations and seating Aramark, the UMSU executive is blocked for faculty and students.

Additional renovations tak- laying out plans to help UMSU busiing place in UC for the fall of 2014 nesses compete with the campus food include taking the Tim Hortons, for- court in the long term.

In his report from the UMSU merly located on the first floor of UC, and amalgamating it with the Tim Council’s July meeting, Kopp said Hortons on the second floor, adding that UMSU needs to counter efforts two new express coffee lines to the by Aramark to make the campus food

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court area the place students want to eat.

“The plan for the third floor is to open up the business[es], make them more integrated, and create a streetscape,” said Kopp.

The report then highlights specifics, including plans to: install new carpeting and paint in Degrees, invest in new kitchen equipment for the Hub, remove the glass in the front of I.Q.’s, as well as replace Global Bubble Tea with a new sushi restaurant called UMSushi.

UMSushi was a prominent campaign promise of the Refresh slate, who won last year’s UMSU election.

In the short-term, several UMSU businesses are preparing themselves for a particularly busy start to the school year.

Jack Jonasson, manager of the Hub, said that UMSU businesses are expecting a larger number of customers than normal at the start

of the school year as a result of the renovations.

Jonasson said that in order to prepare for the rush they’ve hired staff, brought in kitchen equipment, and that they will be offering a more streamlined service for customers in order to meet increased demand.

Degrees manager Thomas Blumer also identified hiring more people as well as streamlining the menu as ways in which Degrees is preparing for the rush of new students.

“Also doing some production in terms of making more take-away food, which is like the sandwiches, the salads, the veggie and dip, spring rolls – all that kind of stuff [ . . . ] Grab-and-go items. Then we’re also going to be supplying that to I.Q.’s as well as down at G.P.A.’s,” Blumer said.

But Blumer voiced concern about the capacity of UMSU businesses to deal with the demands of such a large

portion of the campus population.

“There’s 30,000 people, right? It’s a small town, just a couple places are not going to be able to really keep up with the demand. As much as I would probably love to do that it’s simply not possible,” Blumer said.

Both managers suggested that despite the strain associated with providing service to so many more students, the temporary closure of the campus food court represents a great opportunity for UMSU businesses.

“Anytime we have a chance to put more people through the door, it’s a benefit for us. Obviously for the first couple of weeks we’re going to be still figuring out [ . . . ] how to do things with this kind of new reality, but we feel very confident that the product we’re going to put out is going to be great and that it’ll be a good experience for students,” said Jonasson.

Buller Greenhouse opens to the public New greenhouse manager institutes open door policy CRAIG ADOLPHE, STAFF

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arla Zelmer, the new manager of the Buller Greenhouse, has created an open door policy for the facility.

In previous years the greenhouse had remained closed other than to the department of biological science’s faculty members. But in an effort to increase access and revitalize the space, Zelmer is welcoming the public to come in, visit, and occasionally take home plants.

In prior years plants and plant cuttings were given away at special events, typically once a year, but since taking over, Zelmer has increased the frequency of such occasions.

Steven Anderson, a volunteer at the Buller Greenhouse, is very excited with the changes he’s seen in the past year. Some of these changes include the greenhouse’s open door policy, improved plant management, and an increase in the number of plant

giveaways hosted by the greenhouse.

“I think the biggest change is the hiring of Carla Zelmer, the new greenhouse manager. She’s the one who’s put in all these changes,” said Anderson. “The place is looking so much better now that someone’s looking after [the plants].”

Anderson is happy to see the space rejuvenated.

“There’s always people in there now.

Professors are always stopping in to

see what’s new. International students keep bringing in plants from where they’re from and they’re coming in just to remember what they all look like. There’s a lot of hustle and bustle and a lot more volunteers around.”

For students interested in volunteering or visiting the greenhouse, Anderson suggests just stopping by during the greenhouse’s open hours, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., Monday to Friday.

There’s also a Facebook page, Friends of the Buller Greenhouse, where supporters and volunteers can find more information about greenhouse events and enjoy an assortment of photographs of plants from the greenhouse.

Editorial Editor-In-Chief:Bryce Hoye Contact: Editor@themanitoban.com / 474.6770

Pages from the Past In this instalment of Pages from the Past we offer some vintage, Feb. 16, 1934, Marshall McLuhan material.

In this instalment of Pages from the Past Nahannni Fontaine discusses the position of Aboriginal women within the broader conversation of violence towards women.

Sept. 27, 2000

Comment Comment Editor: Katerina Tefft Contact: comment@themanitoban.com / 474.6529

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Issues to follow in the civic election

Crime, transit among important policies under contention this October ZACH FLEISHER

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f you’re like most Winnipeggers, then you haven’t spent an outrageous amount of time following the #wpg14 hashtag, otherwise known as the lead-up to the 2014 City of Winnipeg election.

Campaigns have been saturated with attacks emanating from hyperpartisan politicos, and a never-ending deluge of selfies and photographs from council candidates. There has even been some mention of policy from a wide-ranging gallery of candidates. At last count, nine individuals were vying for the mayor’s chair.

It is probable that most Winnipeggers won’t vote in this election; according to the City of Winnipeg, turnout since 2002 hasn’t topped 50 per cent, with 48 per cent of citizens casting their ballot the last time around. Since that time, the city has been rocked by scandal, from real estate audits to police headquarter relocation overruns.

With that in mind, I’d like to bring up three different issues to follow in the lead-up to the election.

Crime in Winnipeg

Winnipeg gets a bad rap for violent crime and is often referred to as the murder capital of Canada, which puts the city in a negative light. In the past few years, the city has tried to reform this perspective by investing a fair amount of money into the police service. Winnipeg runs and administrates its own police force, which has taken steps to improve these often startling numbers.

Along with the $3.5 million purchase of a police helicopter, which, according to the police service, flew an average of 43.1 hours a month in increase police on the ground and 2012, the police have seen a signifi- eyes in the sky. cant increase in funds. The police response operating expenses are $27 million greater in the 2014 prelimi- While the mayoral nary budget than in 2012. race has garnered Since that time, the 2013 crime stats show that the city is getting the vast majority seemingly safer, with a 13 per cent of media attention, drop in violent crime, combined with a 17 per cent fall in property-related it is important to crimes. Candidates have proposed a variety of ideas, ranging from the recognize that the expansion of a block-by-block stratmayor only has a egy, to flying drones, to additional support and surveillance by the police. single vote on council However, in light of recent announcements around new potential policing strategies, no major candi- The transit system dates have come forward moving to Since the 1950s, Winnipeg has combat the root causes of crime in consistently grappled with the need our city. Colonialism, racism, and for a rapid transit system. We’ve poverty all lead to marginalization discussed the potential for subways, in our society – certainly not an easy monorails, and light rail. From all of topic to tackle in the age of Twitter this, a shattered consensus formed to and 30-second news sound bites. advocate for a southwest transit way Keep an eye out for any candi- that would connect the downtown dates speaking to the true root causes, to the University of Manitoba Fort rather than focusing on a tough-on- Garry campus. crime approach that simply seeks to Beginning in the late 2000s, after

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initially cancelling the program, Mayor Sam Katz emerged as somewhat of a champion of a bus rapid transit system, which has been partially constructed as a busway leading up to Pembina and Jubilee. Delays have led to the overall projected cost of finishing the project now rising to an estimated $590 million. Of that amount, the city would be on the hook for only $225 million, with the senior levels of government moving forward to cover the cost.

Despite the initial burst of hope, that the city might be able to finish a project that had been on the docket since the 1970s, it seems that the future of Winnipeg’s rapid transit is anything but a sure bet. Calls for a referendum on the continued construction of the leg have left the project with a weak level of public support. Combined with mayoral candidate Gord Steeves’ proposal to kill the plan entirely, it is quite possible that Winnipeg will continue to be the only Canadian city of our size without a functional rapid transit system.

As of this writing, no candidates

for the mayoral office have presented the public with any form of a realistic or feasible plan to either finish the existing route or continue to expand the rapid transit network.

New faces in old spaces

Finally, another aspect of the municipal election to watch is the sheer number of new faces popping up as candidates in this October’s race. Winnipeg is notable in that an incumbent mayor has not been defeated in a re-election bid since the 1950s. With Mayor Katz announcing in June that he would not seek re-election for a third term, the door was suddenly wide open, with mayoral contenders like Judy WasylyciaLeis, Brian Bowman, Gord Steeves, Paula Havixbeck, and Robert-Falcon Ouellette putting their names forward.

While the mayoral race has garnered the vast majority of media attention, it is important to recognize that the mayor only has a single vote on council.

The number of open council seats and competitive races is also an

intriguing aspect of the civic election. Like Katz, we have seen many prominent council members such as Dan Vandal (St. Boniface), Scott Fielding (St. James), Paula Havixbeck (Tuxedo-Charleswood), and Justin Swandel (St. Norbert) choose not to file for re-election in their ridings.

In addition to these wide open races, the city will likely see vigorous competition in the Daniel McIntyre ward, where challengers Cindy Gilroy-Price, Keith Bellamy, and John Cardoso are taking on the incumbent Harvey Smith. In Old Kildonan, incumbent Devi Sharma faces a tough challenge from school trustee Suzanne Hrynyk.

Of course, the names mentioned above only constitute a small number of the numerous candidates putting their name forward on Oct. 22. Watch for forums, new ideas, and chances to meet candidates to increase as the leaves begin to fall. As citizens, this is our chance to engage with those seeking to represent us.

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Ebola and ZMapp questions answered All you need to know about monoclonal antibody therapy BAILEY RANKINE, STAFF

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he recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa has placed pressure on pharmaceutical labs worldwide to develop a treatment for those infected and to prevent the spread of the virus.

On July 31, a highly experimental drug in its earliest stages of development was administered to two American patients, Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia.

The two recipients of the unapproved drug, ZMapp, were Christian aid workers who had been providing medical assistance in West Africa.

They contracted the virus through contact with the bodily fluids of patients under their care.

How the virus works

Ebola enters the body through mucous membranes or breaks in the skin. Unlike humans, whose genetic information is stored in their DNA, Ebola’s is stored in the RNA of the virus and instructs it to replicate in invaded cells.

Ebola is an enveloped virus, which means it carries a specific protien that allows for the virus to easily move in and out of cells.

Once inside the cell, the virus injects its RNA, which takes over regular cellular function – ultimately transforming it into an Ebola virus factory. The virions are secreted from the cell and join the attack on the immune system.

As the virus gains an upper hand over the immune system, the virus turns its assault on connective tissues, epithelial cells, neurological cells and the interior cells of blood vessels resulting in internal bleeding, tissue damage, and organ failure.

Before these antibodies can be administered to humans they must first undergo a process known as humanization in order to make them compatible with our immune system.

“The antibodies are humanized using molecular engineering techniques,” explained Sam Kung, associate professor in the department of immunology at the U of M.

Immune system function and treatment therapy

“Big Tobacco”

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are fused together with cancer cells to produce a cell that continues to divide, making only one type of antibody: clones.

Three antibodies harvested after this process were identified to have binding sites that bound to Ebola.

Mass-producing clones

T he e x per imenta l d r ug does something ZMapp, manufactured by Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc. based in commendable San Diego, is a serum comprised of three laboratory-made antibodies – two of which were developed at the Simply put, this process entails National Microbiology Laboratory replacing some of the mouse antibody in Winnipeg. protein components with human The Winnipeg team was led by proteins.

Gary Kobinger, head of special pathThe next step is mass production. ogens at the laboratory and adjunct This is where “Big Tobacco” does professor in the department of medi- something laudable. cal microbiology and infectious disKentucky BioProcessing, a subeases at the University of Manitoba. sidiary of Reynolds American (the Antibodies are Y-shaped proteins second-largest tobacco company in produced by the immune system in the United States), applied their posiresponse to germs or viruses. These tion as a worldwide leader in plant foreign invaders are also known as protein expression, extraction, and antigens. The antibodies produced purification to amplify the produchave binding sites that latch on to tion of ZMapp. the attacking antigen.

The tobacco plants used are a relSo how does this work specific ative of the kind used in cigarettes. to Ebola? How does ZMapp step in They are selected for biotech applifor a compromised immune system? cations because their biology is wellThe group of antibodies utilized known, they are low maintenance, in ZMapp are known as monoclonal. and they grow rapidly.

This means that they are specifically A piece of DNA from the monodesigned to target only one antigen clonal antibodies is taken and inserted – in this case, the Ebola virus. into the tobacco plants. These plants The monoclonal antibodies are produce the mouse/human antifirst developed in mice injected with Ebola antibodies just like they would Ebola. The antibody-producing cells make any other protein.

The resulting treatment was tested cumbed to infection. The World through the laboratory animal hier- Health Organization warns that archy, from mice to primates, before cases of the Ebola virus could exceed it was administered to Brantly and 20,000 as the disease spreads across Writebol.

West Africa.

The effectiveness of ZMapp is 1,500+ and counting still uncertain. The race to develop As of Aug. 26, the United States a vaccine to prevent the spread is Centers for Disease Control and still underway, and will be the next Prevention estimated that the death breakthrough in the control of Ebola toll from the Ebola outbreak has outbreak. reached 1,552, while 3,062 have sucThe United States Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention stresses that, “the most effective way to stop the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa is meticulous work in finding Ebola cases, isolating and caring for those patients, and tracing contacts to stop the chains of transmission [ . . . ] and having healthcare workers strictly follow infection control in hospitals.”

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If a wheel is placed in the wild, will the mice run?

An investigation of wheel running as a captive behaviour in lab mice JEREMIAH YARMIE

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hen a mouse is placed in a size of a rat.

“When I saw the first mice, I was cage with a wheel, why does According to Meijer and Robbers’ extremely happy,” said Meijer at the it choose to run? report, “Wheel running in the wild,” Leiden University Medical Center. “I Does the mouse enjoy running, published by Proceedings of the Royal had to laugh about the results, but at and do so unconditionally? Or is this Society B, animal visits were recorded the same time, I take it very seriously. running a habituated or stereotyped by a camera equipped with night It’s funny, and it’s important at the activity that it develops in captivity? vision. A passive infrared motion same time.”

Does the mouse run because there is detector allowed the camera to capture Shrews, rats, slugs, snails, and simply nothing better to do? Are they every animal visit to the site. Infrared frogs also caused wheel movement. just curious by nature? light, which is invisible to mice and Snail movement, however, was not The inquisitive nature of scientists does not interfere with motion detec- directional, and was not included in inevitably drove a few to investigate tion, was used for visibility at night. the analysis. these questions by placing running Over the three-year period, the sites The frogs bounded and the mice wheels out in the wild. recorded more than 200,000 animal ran. In fact, the mice only ever ran; Johanna H. Meijer and Yuri visits. From the recordings, 12,000 they were never observed walking Robbers, two neurophysiologists video fragments in which wheel move- slowly within the wheel. The mice from the Netherlands, carried out a ment was observed were analyzed. This ran for more than one minute in 20 field study like no other. The group wheel motion was detected using a per cent of the cases, with the longest placed running wheels in two loca- magnet on the wheel and a magnosen- single bout of mouse running being tions inhabited by feral mice—a green sor, which detected the magnet as it 18 minutes. urban area and a remote dune area— passed on each revolution. Cases where Meijer told the New York Times that and recorded the activity at these wheel motion was caused by external Konrad Lorenz—who studied aniwheel sites for over three years. mal behaviour and is viewed as one of animal action were excluded.

The running wheels had diameters In the first two years of the experi- the “founders of modern ethology”— of 24 cm and were placed in a cage- ment, mice accounted for about 72 per once wrote in a letter that some of his like apparatus with a food tray. The cent of urban animal site visits and caged rats had run away, only to later apparatus was designed to allow for about 91 per cent of visits to the dune “return to his garden to use the runthe easy entry of animals up to the site. ning wheels placed there.” However,

this was just a sentence in passing, and voluntary wheel running had not yet been tested.

According to Meijer and Robbers’ report, some animals seemed to have unintentionally used the wheel, but most mice, along with some shrews, rats, and frogs, were seen to leave the wheel and re-enter it within minutes, which is indicative of voluntary and intentional behaviour.

To study voluntary wheel running without external reward or incentive, the group stopped providing food at the urban site for more than a year. The number of visits to the site decreased; however, the amount of wheel running, expressed as a fraction of total site visits, increased by 42 per cent. This indicates that the presence of an external reward was not a major influence on the wheel running of mice.

Although the mice ran without an external reward, they may be experiencing an underlying intrinsic reward, an internal gratification for wheel running. The results of the experiment

find that it does not entirely fit to define wheel running as a stereotypy, a behaviour found only in captive animals.

Despite the fact that wheel running fits the stereotypy criteria of being invariant, repetitive, and absent of goal and function, wheel running is reactive to external stimuli and occurs outside of captivity, confirming that there is more to wheel running than being a cure to boredom.

Feral mice like running; they find it enjoyable and rewarding, and voluntarily engage in it. Exercise helps protect against several diseases and disorders, and has been shown to stimulate neurogenesis, the formation of new neurons, in mice.

It’s possible that wheel running triggers physiological benefits – or maybe mice, like some humans, simply exercise because it feels good.

The article itself is open access, and is available, along with supplemental videos of wheel running, at Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

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Happy birthday, Outwords Local GLBT magazine celebrates 20th year

Photrocity School of art exhibit explores mass violence and its aftermath LAUREN SIDDALL, VOLUNTEER STAFF

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his year marks a milestone for Outwords; the magazine is celebrating 20 years of “queer views, news, and issues.” The shiny, monthly magazine has come a long way over the past 20 years, and will be celebrated next week at a birthday party at Fame Nightclub.

Outwords: a brief history

In the fall of 1994, a small group of men and women founded Swerve magazine (the name changed to Outwords in 2007) and printed the first issue on low-quality paper in mostly black and white. The format was a mixture between a tabloid and a newspaper.

“It was raw,” says Rachel Morgan, member of the Outwords Board of Directors. Morgan has been involved with the magazine for about eight years.

“They wanted to be able to reflect the community at the time, and if you cast your mind back to 1994, it was a time when the laws did not allow for equal marriage, and equal rights, etc; AIDS was a big deal, and discrimination was quite rampant,” says Morgan.

The original Outwords was printed every two months, though sometimes months were missed.

The founding members did their best to put the issues out as often as they could, says Morgan.

“It was always a labour of love.

There were volunteers who came

and went [ . . . ] but somehow there than it was in the past. were always enough people who The evolution from tabloid were interested and excited about to glossy, colourful magazine rolling up their sleeves and inter- “[reflects] the changing needs of the viewing folks.”

GLBT community,” says Morgan.

“There were volunteers who came and went, but somehow there were always enough people who were interested and excited about rolling up their sleeves and interviewing folks” – Rachel Morgan, Outwords Board of Directors member

Outwords today

Meg Crane, senior online editor at Outwords, values the sense of community that working for the magazine has provided her.

“What I really like about working here is all the support that I get, both personally and as a journalist and as an editor,” she says. “Within Outwords it feels like a really strong community of people who support each other.”

Crane has many ideas for the future of Outwords, including an increased online presence and more multimedia pieces. In the future, the magazine will post video profiles of local GLBT organizations on their website.

The birthday party at Fame Nightclub begins at 9 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 12 and will feature stories from individuals who have been involved with Outwords over In the mid-2000s, laws began the past 20 years. There will be to change in the favour of GLBT birthday cake, birthday gifts, and individuals. Equal marriage was a dance party to the tunes of DJ legalized in Canada. The maga- Tracy Young. All are welcome. zine began to focus more on suc“Every community, every human cess stories of individuals in the being, it doesn’t matter who they community. are, needs a sense of community,” Morgan says the political edge says Morgan. “We need to be part remained, but was less dominant of something.”

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he University of Manitoba’s School of Art Gallery is now displaying Photrocity: Mass Violence and Its Aftermaths in the Sovfoto Archive, an exhibit that uses Soviet propaganda images taken from the Sovfoto Archive to alter our understanding of the human suffering caused by mass violence.

The exhibit is in collaboration with Barrie, Ontario’s MacLaren Art Centre.

Comprised of 19 vintage gelatin silver prints dating from 1936 to 1957, this exhibit focuses mainly on World War II and its aftermath, particularly among the Soviets.

The gallery itself is a stark white, contrasting powerfully with the dark images seen on the walls.

Text fragments written by Struan Sinclair, designed to heighten the viewer’s experience and take the almost surreal images into a territory more akin with reality, accompany each image in a booklet available upon first entering the exhibit.

The images range from souvenir photographs taken by soldiers intending to share the atrocity with friends and family, to Soviet-manipulated photographs attempting to control the meaning of suffering in Nazi prisoner-of-war camps.

Collectively, the images speak volumes about how we represent— or should represent—human suffering, as well as our capacity as humans to harm one another deeply.

Curator Adam Muller of the University of Manitoba got the idea for the exhibition after a research trip to the Sovfoto Archive, which contains more than 20,000 Soviet propaganda images.

At the suggestion of Mary

Reid, the former curator of the School of Art Gallery at the U of M, Muller reviewed the collection of images – blown away by the Soviets’ “attempts to propagandize, and therefore manipulate and use, human suffering in more and less overt and explicit ways.”

He felt that an exhibition of the images would best share the stories behind the atrocity that occurred during this time period, and might “stimulate some wider public reflection on the way we depict and relate to violence and atrocity in social life more generally.”

Scheduled to run alongside the opening of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (officially opening Sept. 20), Photrocity helps to illustrate that despite our great improvements in the field of human rights since the horrors of World War II, there is still a long way to go. The exhibit and the questions it raises about the morality of depicting human suffering are very timely, and still upsettingly relevant in our modern society.

But it’s not all disheartening.

Perhaps, as Susie Linfield argues in her book The Cruel Radiance, examining images of human suffering—and more importantly, learning to see the individuals within the photos—is politically and ethically necessary to help us understand and appreciate the importance of human rights in the present, as well as deepen our need to defend them when we feel they are being violated.

Photrocity is open from Monday to Friday between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. until Oct. 31 in the School of Art Gallery, 255 ARTlab, 180 Dafoe Road.

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Fast, fresh, farmed, fruitful My Farmers’ Market brings fresh produce to your door KATY MACKINNON, STAFF

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ith school beginning and assignments already piling up, the last thing you want to do is spend what little free time you have on grocery shopping. My Farmers’ Market, an online grocery and delivery service, can save you time by bringing fresh, local food right to your dorm.

The idea for My Farmers’ Market was sparked at a barbecue when Nathan Steele, owner and operator, wanted a convenient and efficient way to provide local products to local people. Steele has a background in food, having spent time fruit-picking in the Okanagan and working in various kitchens.

In February 2013, My Farmers’ Market sprouted. The business has had steady growth ever since.

“In the last three months it has been doing a little bit of exploding and we’re beating each prior month substantially,” says Steele. “It’s kind of taking off here at this point.”

Many of the customers are regulars, and these consumer relationships are important to Steele.

“Quality is my priority, not making money,” he says. “I’m stepping back looking at the bigger picture and just trying to create a real quality service

that people can really enjoy and want to come back to.”

“I’m stepping back looking at the bigger picture and just trying to create a real quality service that people can really enjoy and want to come back to” – Nathan Steele, owner/operator of My Farmers’ Market Many of the foods featured on the website are produced within Manitoba, says Colby Charles, operations manager. A wide variety of nonlocal organic food is also available. In the spirit of being a one-stop shop, health and beauty items, household items, and pet foods can all be purchased through the website.

The website is easy to use, with

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grocery items organized by section (produce, meat, dairy) and a shopping cart system. For a number of postal codes, just place an order before 12 p.m. to receive same-day delivery.

Orders from campus (R3T postal code) are delivered on Saturdays from 6-8 p.m.

There is no minimum order amount, though orders $50 and above

receive free delivery. The delivery charge is $7.50 for orders below $50.

Charles understands the busy student life, being a past student himself.

My Farmers’ Market is designed to provide you a little more time in your day.

“Spending all your time studying, having to go to the grocery store was just an extra amount of time that

could have been spent doing something else,” says Charles. “Healthy students are productive students.”

The prices of the items are comparable to grocery store prices, and there is no minimum order.

“We’re just trying to create a very sustainable model for better distribution and local food,” says Charles.

Cockroach zine fair Live music, vegan baking, and workshops for the crafty type KATY MACKINNON, STAFF

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ocal feminist and environmen- together yourself in as little or as talist publication Cockroach zine much time as you want,” says Crane. will be hosting a zine fair on Sept. “ You can sit down in the afternoon 20-21 at Frame Arts Warehouse. and create a zine, and you don’t really Cockroach zine was created by have to follow any format.”

Meg Crane, when she found a lack Zines can contain all sorts of of lighthearted feminist magazines crafty items, from sequins to feathin Canada. ers, and Crane enjoys the creativity “Some of the issues covered are involved with putting one together. pretty serious, difficult things, but I try to put a positive spin on it,” she “You can sit down says.

For example, in a previous issue’s Meg Crane PHOTO BY JESSE RILEY in the afternoon article about a lack of clean drinking and create a zine, water in northern communities, there zines by visiting the zine vendors, and was a focus on the positive actions try out some vegan baking. and you don’t really being done to combat the issue, and The name “Cockroach zine” came have to follow any how people can make an impact. from the fact that many people disThe zine publishes every other format” – Meg Crane like environmentalists and feminists, month, and each issue follows a spein a similar way to how they dislike cific theme; past themes include water, cockroaches, says Crane. “They aren’t sex, religion, and journeys. The next At the zine fair, you can take part going to get rid of them.” issue—coming out Oct. 1 in stores, in a workshop about how to build There is a saying that if there is a or Sept. 27 at Etsy’s Made in Canada a zine before you head to the zine- nuclear attack, the only thing that sale—is themed “disguises.” making stations, where there will will survive is the cockroach.

You can find a little bit of every- be paint provided to help make your “I think feminist environmentalists thing inside the zine, from writing, creation sparkle. are like that; no matter what you do, to artwork, to photography.

Live music performances are we’re always still going to be around, scheduled throughout the day, featur- bugging people who don’t like us,” Zine not a ’zine ing artists such as Alannah Zeebeck, says Crane.

For the uninitiated, a zine is not to Claire Bones, and Elizabethan Tickets for Cockroach’s zine be confused with a magazine.

Teyems. fair range from $6 to $12 and “It’s something you can put You can check out some other local can be purchased at the door.

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Arts & Culture Editor: Katy MacKinnon Contact: arts@themanitoban.com / 474.6529

Handcrafted, raw, organic

Review: The Room

Local entrepreneur hits Toronto Men’s Fashion Week

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t a time when the words L oz ensk i entered t he “organic” and “raw” are a grow- Government of Manitoba’s Young ing trend, Jasmine Lozenski’s Entrepreneurs Program—a grant homemade skin care products are program that helps individuals much sought after. Make Time, a aged 18-29 start a business—durlabel that stirs thoughts of slowing ing which she attended business down for some self-care, recently courses and received mentoring to debuted as an official product spon- get her business going. sor of Toronto Men’s Fashion Week.

Her workstation is her kitchen; Make Time got its start when a shelf lines the wall and is stocked Lozenski decided to take her per- with Mason jars, labels, a juicer (for sonal skin care into her own hands. the cucumber juice in After Sun Finding too many chemicals in the Time), and an iPod speaker. skin care products currently on the Each ingredient involved in a market, she decided to make her Make Time product has a differown products with ingredients like ent purpose – lemon for an anticoconut oil and honey. septic, olive oil for moisture, and When friends took notice, peppermint oil as an antifungal.

Lozenski, with a love for crafts, Lozenski knows the ins and outs made 12 jars and posted them on of each product.

Instagram for sale.

“It works for all skin types, too,” “It blew up,” she says. “And then she says. “A lot of my customers Christmas was coming, and people will complain that they have acne or [wanted] these as gifts, so I had to rosacea, so the honey kind of takes make them left, right, and centre.” away the rosacea.”

Lozenski crafts products for the bearded fellow, too. Her Stache Wax and Beard Time were given out in 200 gift bags at Toronto Men’s Fashion Week.

The signature black and white striped Make Time logo was displayed on the big screen, next to Aldo’s logo. During the three days of fashion week, an estimated two million viewers saw the Make Time logo. The exposure led to some discussion about bringing the Make Time products to stores in Toronto and Montreal.

“The fad of organic and natural is just rising,” says Lozenski. “I don’t think it’s going to drop.”

Purchase Make Time products at http://www.maketimeproducts.com/. Free delivery within Winnipeg. Products also sold at Prep Hair, Normandy Shoppe, and Be-YOU-tee Factory .

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t is impossible to review Tommy The difference between this Wiseau’s The Room (2003) with a and every other drama is the straight face, mainly because it is awful director behind the scenes. awful, everybody knows it is awful, Conversations stop and start at and we choose to watch it anyways. random, major plot points are It fails on every level, but many find introduced and then scrapped it entertaining because it’s such a throughout the film, and the actfailure. ing is just unimaginably bad.

In recent The Room years it has views more like Conversations become a cult comedy than phenomenon, drama, though stop and start at on par with the audience random, major Plan 9 From is not laughOuter Space ing with the plot points are (1959). The cult film; they are following direclaughing at it. introduced and tor Wiseau has The humorous then scrapped gained is almost quality of the frightening. picture is clearly throughout the The stor y not intentional. film, and the takes place in Wiseau himSan Francisco, self suggests acting is just where s u cthat his film cessful banker should not be unimaginably bad Johnny (Tommy seen as a humilWiseau) lives, iating sideshow sharing a pasattraction, but sionate relationship with his fiancée rather as a complex work of art. One Lisa (Juliette Danielle). One day wonders if Wiseau is an idiot or a she decides to seduce his best friend comic genius. out of boredom. Will their lives ever The Room is a complete waste of be the same again? time to see, but it does its job as Unusual for a midnight-movie being so bad that it’s slightly funny. favourite, The Room does not consist If you are a fan of watching comof Equinox-esque monsters, surreal pletely stupid movies, then this is imagery, crazy clowns, or singing the film for you. transvestites. Rather, it is shaped in the style of a conventional drama.

(No rating for this film)

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Sports Sports Editor: Mike Still Contact: sports@themanitoban.com / 474.6529

Just for kicks A look at the 2014 edition of Bison soccer MIKE STILL, STAFF AND DAVID GRAD, VOLUNTEER STAFF

he University of Manitoba Bison Defenders women’s soccer team begin their The loss of fifth-year player 10th season in CIS action in 2014, Gillian Sidon hurts the Bisons, but poised and ready to improve off veterans Sarah Haiko (720 minutes of a 1-7-4 record in 2013. They will played) and Elyce Molyneaux (one have their fair share of youth com- goal, one assist, 1,004 minutes played) ing through the program this year, are returning to stabilize the back with 19 rookies looking to make an end. Rookie Jessie Harland, another impact and earn a significant role on member of Team Manitoba at the the team. Combined with a stable 2013 Canada Summer Games, also amount of veterans returning to the looks to make her presence felt. squad, Manitoba could be in for a breakout campaign this year.

Goalies Fifth-year player Chloe Werle Forwards (2013 team MVP) returns for her Manitoba ranked 10th in the CIS final season, making the goaltendin goals per game last season; how- ing position an immediate strength. ever, that average should steadily Martina Arran, Brittany MacSween, increase this year. Daniella Scerbo, and newcomer Madison Wilford add who led the team in goals (two), assists (two), and points (four) last season, enters her third year with the squad. The additions of Jamila Calvez and Bruna Mavignier de Vasconcelos should also aid in the amount of goals the Bisons score this season.

Calvez, a member of Team Manitoba at the Canada Summer Games in 2013, scored 16 goals in 19 games this past season with Team United, while Mavignier de Vasconcelos comes all the way from Brazil, where she scored six goals in four games playing for Taça Brasil sub 20 (Brazil Cup under 20).

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regular season, the Bisons welcomed the Minnesota-Crookston Golden Eagles to Winnipeg on Aug. 29 with a soccer clinic. Manitoba looked calm and in control as they moved the ball fluidly to stifle any pressure from the Eagle strikers.

The story of the game was the speed and skill infused into the Bison lineup by multiple rookie forwards looking to crack the starting line.

Bruna Mavignier de Vasconcelos provided a goal and a helper in the 2-0 rout of the Eagles.

Jamila Calvez pushed the play through the middle with her speed and flair with the ball, and Camille Plett buried the second goal of the game, delivering a dagger into the hearts of the Golden Eagles.

The youth movement was also on display in the net as second-year goaltender Brittany MacSween and first-year Madison Wilford stood tall in the second half, repelling the Golden Eagles’ desperate attempts to youth and energy to the team. find the equalizing goals.

Leadership and recruiting Sarah Haiko led the Bison defence Head coach Vanessa Martinez- and was happy with the team’s overall Lagunas enters her second year at the performance.

“Defensively we felt organized, helm, and provides a combination of experience, enthusiasm, and ability connected in the middle, connected to develop skill. Martinez-Lagunas up front, and were able to put the ball is a FIFA women’s soccer instruc- in the back of the net,” said Haiko. tor and former member of Mexico’s Martinez-Lagunas had her squad national team. She has coached across looking prepared and confident at the world in Mexico, Germany, and Friday’s pre-season matchup, and the the United States , and was a featured team is full of confidence heading clinician at the 2014 National Soccer into the regular season.

“A game like this builds confidence.

Coaches Association of America conThe issue with us, we lose games, then vention in Philadelphia. get mad at ourselves,” said the head coach. “We are excited to go into next Showing what they’ve got In their final tune-up before the week.”

The Bisons look to continue their strong team play at their home opener this Friday at 6 p.m. at the West Turf Fields.

Bisons supporting Bisons

Last Thursday, the women’s soccer team hosted a Bison Soccer Coffeehouse to help raise funds for an upcoming skill development trip to Texas and received strong support from a large number of family, friends, and fellow athletes. The coffeehouse featured numerous performances from members of the soccer, and track and field teams, as well as their relatives.

The Bison soccer team also has a great secret; they are full of talented musicians and performers.

Captain Sarah Haiko showed off her voice and piano skills with multiple performances. Forward Daniella Scerbo showcased her multi-instrument ability by switching between mandolin and acoustic guitar in the same song to cover “House of the Rising Sun” by the Animals. Rumour has it that Scerbo can also play the banjo.

Goaltender Martina Arran provided the piano while rookie forward Jamila Calvez sang an Adele cover.

Even coach Martinez-Lagunas stepped on stage to showcase her musical talents.

If you want to help support the women’s soccer team, you can sign up for an upcoming soccer tournament they are running on Sept. 14. All funds raised will go to support the team. Check out umanitoba.ca/bisonpride for info on how to sign up to play.

Midfielders

Megan Graca (one assist, six SOG, 794 minutes played), and Robyn Kastner (one goal, one assist, 895 minutes played) lead a young, but energized, group at the midfield position.

There will be plenty of competition this year, including Sara MacLennan (younger sister of defenceman Emma MacLennan, provincial player from 2008-2012), and highly-sought-after recruit Amanda Wong (Manitoba Soccer Association Outstanding Youth Female Player of the Year in 2013).

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Running with the herd

Staying focused once school starts MIKE STILL, STAFF

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ell, it’s that time of year again! The summer has come and gone in a flash, and the dreaded first week of school is upon us.

While it’s really easy to get absorbed in your schoolwork in an attempt to stay on top of things, your exercise levels have a tendency to crash and burn. Believe it or not, there is such a thing as “the freshman 15,” and I am here to help you avoid it with a few quick tips to keep your fitness level in peak condition.

Write down your goals

First things first, you need to establish fitness goals for the year.

By doing so, you will keep yourself motivated, and determined to achieve what you set out to do.

A valuable tool to use would be the S.M.A.R.T. principle, which ensures that your goals are manageable, and specific enough to achieve.

It is important to make sure that you don’t set too lofty of a goal. For one thing, you will still be quite busy with school, and if your goal is too challenging, it may end up taking more time in your life than your education. It’s also discouraging if you don’t ultimately achieve your end goal, so make sure to set something realistic, whatever that may be for you individually. Everyone’s health and fitness levels will vary, so keep that in mind as well.

Develop a program, stay consistent

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sessions to recover. I also suggest establishing your workouts at some point after your classes, or after study sessions. This will give you an outlet to release the stress you may have built up, and will also help to clear your mind.

Once you have established a clear fitness goal, the next step is to plan out a program. It is critical that you map out assigned times during the day in which you will engage in physical activity, Keep a log in order to keep of your Keep in mind your schedule progress, the same. The and evaluate that there is a first thing you every month greater goal should do is evalA f ter you uate what your have determined that you are current schedule when the most aiming for, and looks like, and effective times figure out when to engage in as long as you you have time training will be, stay focused, during the day to you should make get in a workout. sure to track your you can—and My advice progression. This would be to penwill give you a will—get there! cil in a workout form of encourfour times a agement as the week. That will give you enough months go along. I would suggest time to train, but not so much that logging everything in a journal so you are hurting your body. Take that it is easy to keep track of. one day in between your training It is important to keep in

mind that not every month will have a significant gain in fitness level. Note when your exams are, and when there are major tests or assignments coming up. During those times it is okay to push things back a little bit, as long as you still engage in smaller forms of physical activity during the week to keep your mind fresh.

Write down how every individual workout went, that way you can develop a baseline as a reference down the line. Also include your nutrition for each day, and if that may have had an effect on the way your workout went.

Wielding the iron Getting to know Manitoba Bison golf captain Josh Wytinck MIKE STILL, STAFF

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olf runs through Josh apart. Fast forward three years later Wytinck’s blood. He grew and I was in the final group again up with it, and has been playing and played well and was able to help the game since he was five years old. the team win.”

The native of Glenboro, Man. From a timeline perspective, still remembers playing weekend Wytinck added that securing the mornings back at home with his national championship was probdad, brother, and late grandfather, ably his most memorable golfing where he had some of his fondest experience. memories of the game.

“In my tenure we had 12 team “From a timeline perspective it wins and made winning look easy started with my dad and grand- but winning the national chamfather who taught me the game pionship took everything we had and put the time in with me,” said and is probably one of, if not, the Wytinck. greatest accomplishments I’ve been “After that my mom made sure a part of,” said Wytinck.

I always made it to tournaments.

The rapport which Wytinck has Without that I would have never had with his teammates has cercaught Garth’s [Goodbrandson’s] tainly gone a long way. attention.”

“I got to know most of my teamWytinck has racked up quite the mates through junior golf tournaresume in his golfing career, includ- ments starting at about age 13,” said ing being named Golf Manitoba Wytinck. player of the year in both 2012 and “I got to know Garth through 2013 , as well as a two-time final- Manitoba junior teams where I ist for the Manitoba Sportswriter played alongside some of the guys and Sportscasters Association male from the U of M as well. It’s funny athlete of the year. to think how we became teammates While his accomplishments are later in life, too.” many, Wytinck was quick to praise Now that Wytinck’s CIS career his coaching staff, who were part of has come to an end, it is on to bigthe reason he chose Manitoba in ger things. He is currently looking the first place. to attend qualifying school for the “I really liked the coaches at the PGA Canada tour in May 2015, and time, Garth Goodbranson and play professionally.

Derek Ingram, as people. They were “I’m currently in education but great guys who wanted to have me. would love to be involved in golf, After my first year Ed Boge joined either playing or working.” and he has been a fantastic coach Regardless of what Wytinck as well.” chooses to do after university, he This past year, after numerous has already left a permanent mark other accolades, the team captain on the golfing program. His advice finally secured the biggest prize for golfers that are new to the comof his university career: a national petitive circuit is very basic, but goes championship. It was the first title a long way. in the 15-year history of men’s golf “Anyone new to competitive golf, at the University of Manitoba.

I would tell them to just soak up as “Personally, it was a neat, full- much info from the competition as circle experience,” said Wytinck. possible,” said Wytinck.

“My first trip to nationals, I led “Experience is even more imporafter the first round and was in the tant than talent and will help the final group on the last day but fell player become better.”

Stay positive

Most importantly, stay positive!

Even though you are going to be pushing your body, and it may be hard to enjoy yourself sometimes, keep in mind that there is a greater goal that you are aiming for, and as long as you stay focused, you can— and will—get there!

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VOL. 101 NO. 33 September 3, 2014

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Sports opinion: Step up the sanctions CFL, CCES need to crack down on PED use going forward MIKE STILL, STAFF

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n Thursday, Aug. 28, the intriguing, however, is the fact Canadian Centre for Ethics in that his results were revealed pubSport (CCES) announced that for- licly just hours before the 2014 CFL mer University of Manitoba Bison Draft took place, yet Calgary still football player Ranji Atwall had took him seventh overall. The only tested positive for anabolic steroids. punishment he will receive as a CFL The offence occurred at the player is mandatory drug testing, as 2014 CFL Regional Combine in well as counselling.

Edmonton, and Atwall was promptly Evan Gill was taken in that same handed a four-year ban from the CIS. draft, just two places after Smith. A While Atwall’s PED use is a teammate on the defensive line with very serious matter, it is the reper- Atwall for two seasons, he agrees that cussions—or lack thereof—which the CFL needs to crack down on its should be garnering more attention. drug testing policies.

Atwall’s violation occurred on “I don’t understand what message March 17 – long after the football the CFL is sending when a player can season had ended. Atwall had com- test positive at their own combine pleted his five years of eligibility by and still have an opportunity to be the time the CFL regional combine drafted,” said Gill. rolled around, and, therefore, from a CIS standpoint the ban had no effect “I don’t understand on him.

Bison athletic director Coleen what message the Dufresne was quick to describe the CFL is sending when process all athletes go through to hopefully prevent an infraction from a player can test occurring, noting how thorough the positive at their own education process is.

“We educate our athletes every combine and still year,” said Dufresne. “They go have an opportunity through an online drug education seminar; we have coaches speak to to be drafted” – them. Our assistant athletic director in the initial meetings goes through Evan Gill , Bison all of that as well.” defensive tackle A similar incident occurred at a different CFL combine, which also took place in March, when former Concordia offensive lineman Quinn “It sends a poor message to young Smith tested positive for a PED athletes watching the [CFL] draft known as stanozolol. Smith stated on national television. What are you that he unintentionally used the supposed to tell kids with pro aspirasubstance while consuming a sup- tions? Change is needed; it’s not fair plement he hadn’t fully researched to other athletes.” the contents of. Smith was handed These two cases, among others, a two-year ban for being a first-time reveal multiple risks for the future offender, ending his CIS career as he of Canadian football. There is a loophad just two years left. hole for draft-eligible players going What makes Smith’s case so into their fourth or fifth year of CIS

eligibility. A player could simply take a PED, if it’s their first offence, in order to perform better at the combine, and face no consequences from a university standpoint as their time had already finished.

In the example of Smith, the use of a PED may have significantly increased his performance at the CFL combine. He sprung up draft boards immediately afterwards, coming in at number four on the final pre-draft list, after an impressive showing on both sides of the ball. Interestingly enough, Smith wasn’t included on the CFL scouting bureau’s fall or winter lists, and came from relatively out of nowhere at the draft.

As a first-time offender of the CFL drug policy, Smith typically wouldn’t have had his name mentioned. It was his choice to reveal his test results publicly. This is also a danger for the CFL, as players essentially have a hall pass to cheat, knowing that a first-time offence warrants a relatively loose penalty.

The CFL has only had a drug policy in place since 2010. While it is great to finally see some sort of regulation, being so late with a final platform meant the CFL was for a long time a “summer camp” for players that had been suspended from other leagues.

Take Ricky Williams, a former running back with the Miami Dolphins. In 2006, he was suspended for the entire NFL season after his fourth violation of the league’s substance abuse policy. He chose to suit up with the Toronto Argonauts that year, and not only played, but was also handed the highest paid contract for any CFL running back that season.

This issue comes down to money.

In recent years, the CCES, which is funded by the Canadian government, has received $5.4 million, but most

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of that money goes toward testing Olympic athletes.

According to a report from TSN. ca, “the CCES is planning 200 tests for nearly 11,000 CIS athletes” this year. That is simply not enough.

Part of the problem stems from the fact that it costs $1,000 to perform a single test, most of which goes to lab fees. When the government evaluates these costs, and then looks at where drug testing is most important, they are going to grant priority to athletes representing Canada at international events, as opposed to university athletes.

More needs to be done on both the CFL’s end and the CCES’ in order for athletes to get the message.

The CFL needs to update their

drug policy in order to make the consequences for first-time offenders more severe. The NFL, for example, hands down a four-game suspension for a first-time PED offence. The CFL should consider looking into an approach such as this, both for the benefit of current players, as well as for those coming from the CIS. The CCES simply needs more funding from the Canadian government. With more money, more testing can be done on all athletes, regardless of whether they are amateur or professional.

Little steps such as these should ultimately pay off in the long run, and bring down the amount of PED use going forward.

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