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Saskatchewan students break the bank Saskatchewan undergraduate students are shelling out more than ever to go to school this year.

The latest numbers from Statistics Canada indicate that Saskatchewan’s undergraduate fees for 2012-13 are among the highest in Canada. On average, full-time undergraduates in the province paid $6,017 in tuition per year, compared to the national average of $5,581 and second only to $7,180 in Ontario.

Overall, Canadian universities saw an average five per cent rise in undergraduate tuition — more than three times the rate of inflation, which was 1.3 per cent between July 2011 and July 2012.

Tuition increased in all provinces with the exception of Newfoundland and Labrador, where undergraduate fees have been frozen at an average of $2,649 since 2003-04.

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Quebec students are in revolt but they’re not the only province with soaring tuition costs.

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Huskies move to 2-1, ready for Rams COLE GUENTER Sports Editor

Huskies receiver Kit Hillis had a huge game for the Dogs Sept. 15 against the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds.

Hillis recorded 224 yards on 14 receptions with three touchdowns and led his team to a fourth quarter 39-34 comeback victory.

The third-year business student scored twice in the second quarter — first on an 18-yard reception to make the game 14-3 in favour of the Dogs, and then again at the end of the frame on an eight-yard gain to give his team the lead going into halftime.

UBC fought back, though. A third quarter field goal combined with a passing touchdown 48 seconds into the final frame gave the T-Birds a nine point lead.

Hillis came through again and caught his final touchdown, a 48yard grab on the Dogs’ next drive, sparking the team’s comeback. His performance garnered him Canada West offensive player of the week accolades.

“It wasn’t too shabby,” Hillis said of his performance. “I was just happy we were able to pull out that win.”

Next up, the Huskies play under the lights of Griffiths Stadium for their homecoming game where they will welcome their provincial foes, the Regina Rams.

OPINION: Canada needs more addiction specialists

Huskies receiver Kit Hillis deserves all the hugs after catching 224 passing yards for three touchdowns.

The Huskies have made a habit of keeping games close until the dying minutes in their past few matches, and Regina is also coming off a fourth-quarter pull away win.

Tied at 10 going into the fourth quarter, the Rams put up 21 points in the final 15 minutes to defeat the winless Alberta Golden Bears 3117 in their last game.

It’s likely that the HuskiesRams game will be the same and

the match could end up being an offensive shootout between a veteran and rookie quarterback.

Rams fifth-year pivot Marc Mueller threw for his second 300yard game this season against the Golden Bears. After three weeks of action Mueller sits fourth among CIS quarterbacks in passing yards, with 901, and tied for third in touchdowns tossed, with seven.

In the UBC game, Drew Burko tossed for more than 300 yards,

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a first in his CIS career. He has improved his passing total in each game so far this season. Even as a rookie Burko understands that every opponent brings a new set of challenges but he says the key to success against any team comes down to which team wants the win more.

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MONTREAL (CUP) — According to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 10 per cent of Canadians over the age of 15 will struggle with being dependent on either drugs or alcohol. Though there are numerous support groups out there to help deal with this disease, the rate will likely only increase unless steps are taken to help doctors learn how to best help their patients.

The healthcare system in Canada is not equipped to deal with the ever-growing problem of addiction. There are barely any training programs for doctors, nurses and even specialists when it comes to dealing with addiction in its many forms. This desperately needs to change. It is disheartening to live in a society where people can’t get sufficient treatment for a common and difficult disease.

Dr. Evan Wood is a Vancouver medical doctor focusing on innercity medicine. This lack of training for doctors, Wood says, extends beyond the shortcomings of British Columbia’s system.

“The problem is typical of all Canadian provinces,” he said. “Dedicated and caring as they usually are, most Canadian physicians who consider themselves addiction medicine specialists assembled their knowledge about addiction treatment after completing their medical training.”

What Canada really needs are doctors and specialists who know exactly how to approach addiction and who have formal training as well as experience in the field.

We need to teach physicians how to help people who are struggling with such deeply personal psychological issues using the latest scientific and therapeutic advances.

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The cost of higher learning ANNA-LILJA DAWSON and DARYL HOFMANN Editorial Staff First-year engineering student Patrick Douville has yet to make his first tuition payment but is already concerned about pushing his limited budget into the red.

Undergraduate tuition at the University of Saskatchewan is up 4.75 per cent this year and is projected to continue rising each year until 2016.

“If you can’t find a summer job that pays well enough to cover [the extra] cost, you’ll have to take out a student loan that you will have to pay for long after you graduate,” Douville said. “It puts students in a bad position.”

University provost and vice-president academic Brett Fairbairn said tuition rates are reviewed annually by the Board of Governors and set to match the average of other medical-doctoral universities with similar programs and of similar size.

“When we are below that median, it means that other programs across the country may have more revenue to work with than we do,” he said. “In certain programs that actually leads to a competitive disadvantage.”

The budget framework that accompanies the university’s four-year third integrated plan projects a tuition increase of 5.2 per cent for 201314, and an additional 4.5 per cent jump in each of the following two years.

Fairbairn said the university does not expect its annual provincial operating grant to increase by more than two per cent per year and therefore predicts a need to raise tuition.

“We’re looking at an environment where we think tuition fees will likely go up a bit at our comparator institutions. So we’re projecting to remain relative to them,” he said. “But if tuition levels off at those institutions, then it would level off for us too in all likelihood.”

Tuition makes up 22.5 per cent of the annual budget and is the university’s largest source of revenue next to the provincial operating grant, which provides 70 per cent of revenue.

Fairbairn said that tuition does not make up for shortfalls in the budget during years of deficit. He said tuition is used to pay for campus infrastructure and faculty salaries, while deficits are addressed by cutting expenses.

The university is projecting a deficit for 2012-13 after receiving a smaller than requested operating grant from the provincial government in April.

“We get what we get with the government grant. We set tuition fees according to [comparable institutions] and when that leaves a problem in the university’s budget — which we will have for the next few years — then we work on that with other means,” Fairbairn said.

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Former U of S students’ union president Scott Hitchings sat on the board during last year’s annual tuition review. He said tuition would have been raised regardless of the operating grant increase.

“Tuition still would have been increased if they had gotten the money they wanted from the government,” Hitchings said. “It would have been increased at a lower rate — closer to two or three per cent instead of four.”

Hitchings said the university is raising tuition each year in increments, rather than freezing tuition for a handful of years and then hiking it all at once. Raising the fees, he said, is necessary for better programming.

“We need to recognize that the University of Saskatchewan isn’t the best university in Canada right now. And it’s not going to be unless we raise tuition.”

Third-year engineering student Samuel Ferré is dealing with the 5.75 per cent increase that his college was hit with this year. He said he’s hoping to see more teaching assistants and help sessions.

“You’re paying that much more so you expect more,” he said.

Anurag Dalai is in his third year of pharmacology and physiology. He said he has yet to see any changes in his programs and believes that only students in their first and second years will benefit from the rise in tuition.

“You only give money because you think you are going to get back something,” Dalai said. “But we’re not sure what we’re getting back from it.”

Logan McManus is in her third year working towards an English degree. She’s also frustrated that the extra tuition she is shelling out is not trickling down to better her education.

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We need to recognize that the University of Saskatchewan isn’t the best university in Canada right now.

And it’s not going to be unless we raise Scott Hitchings tuition.”

“It kind of pisses me off,” McManus said. “There’s a lot less money going into [the humanities and fine arts] and yet we’re paying more money to go to school.”

Average undergraduate tuition at the U of S 2012-16

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Engineering $7,699 • 5.73% Kinesiology $5,948 • 3.82% Law $10,658 • 15.62%

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Education $5,978 • 4.18%

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The debate over how the provincial government spends money to support post-secondary students is a contentious one.

The Saskatchewan Party government introduced a scholarship this year of up to $2,000 for grade 12 graduates who choose to stay in province to pursue post-secondary education. The government also gives university graduates that remain in Saskatchewan a tuition rebate of up to $20,000.

“Post-secondary education needs to be accessible and affordable for students,” Premier Brad Wall said to grade 12 students while visiting Mount Royal Collegiate June 14.

“Saskatchewan offers many opportunities, and it is our hope that the Saskatchewan Advantage Scholarship will encourage our high school graduates to continue their studies and build a future here in the province.”

But representatives from the

Nursing $6,269 • 4.63% Nutrition $6,455 • 4.18% Pharmacy $8,878 • 4.72% Dentistry $33,718 • 0.09% Medicine $14,649 • 7.32% Veterinary Medicine $8,255 • 4.46% Graduate Studies $4,040 • 4.15% Canadian Federation of Students say university students are paying enough as it is.

“As a consequence of the provincial government’s budget, the University of Saskatchewan has been forced to offload costs onto students,” CFS Saskatchewan spokesperson Kent Peterson said in a press release Sept. 6. “Students are facing steep tuition fee increases despite a booming provincial economy and already recordhigh student debt.”

Both the U of S Students’ Union and the U of S Graduate Students’ Union are members of the CFS, the largest student organization in Canada.

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B.C. planning ahead for aboriginal post-secondary education MICKI COWAN — CUP B.C. Bureau Chief VANCOUVER (CUP) — The British Columbia provincial government announced this summer its plans for increasing aboriginal involvement in postsecondary institutions — a muchneed move, says one First Nations post-secondary student liaison.

The Aboriginal Post-Secondary Action Plan outlines goals and objectives to increase aboriginal involvement at higher education institutes across B.C. until 2020.

The plan includes $16.2 million in financial assistance for aboriginal students this year along with funds for a handful of other initiatives. Most of the money will go towards creating partnerships between post-secondary institutions and aboriginal communities, as well as implementing programs and activities as part of Aboriginal Service Plans. Some funding also goes towards emergency financial assistance and award funding.

First Nations liaison of the Capilano University students’ union Dolly Reno said it’s good the government is doing more but that it shouldn’t require so much red tape to get things done.

Though she is from the Mi’kmaq First Nation in Nova Scotia, she is most familiar with West

Beating the drum and showing off some dance moves at the first-ever powwow at Capilano University in North Vancouver.

Coast traditions. She organized a powwow at Capilano on Sept. 13 as a way to expose the community to First Nations culture.

“Originally I was planning a typical speakers’ series and have people speak about the culture and have some artists come in,”

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Reno said. “Half way through the planning I thought that was kind of boring. I don’t want to talk about the culture, so why don’t I just bring the culture here?”

While her powwow was a success, she said that’s not always the case for those organizing First Nations events.

“I know of people that have tried to [host] other cultural celebrations and then been told, ‘No, sorry, you can’t do that,” Reno said. “We can only go so far and then we hit a wall.”

Shirley Hardman, the senior advisor on Indigenous Affairs at the University of the Fraser Valley in Chilliwack, said finding alternative ways of offering First Nations post-secondary education is imperative.

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As a Shxwhá:y village band member, Hardman said that working with the aboriginal community to discover what aboriginal post-secondary education should look like — rather than institutions making curriculum decision without input — has been a crucial step in the last ten years.

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“The initiatives have really been gung-ho in the past 15 years. But anyone who was educated prior to that wasn’t educated in the same way; the initiatives aren’t fully embraced by all segments of society,” Hardman said. “That’s probably one of the biggest challenges.”

While there is still a lot of work to do to improve aboriginal post-secondary education, the government programs have been making a difference, Hardman said.

The Ministry of Advanced Education provided $600,000 to the building of a new log house at UFV’s Chilliwack campus three years ago as part of a provincewide initiative to create First Nations gathering spaces.

Reno hopes the increased opportunities for post-secondary aboriginal students will generate more graduates.

“For aboriginal people, a lot of the doors have been closed before, or how to navigate post-secondary is not immediately clear when you don’t have a role model there before you to guide you,” she said.

“Now it’s about opening those doors and securing those places.”

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Huskies soccer prevails on home pitch

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Men’s soccer captain Dion Morgan beats everyone to the ball and shows off his flexibility.

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The squad hosted the Winnipeg Wesmen with a dominating offensive effort that started in the second minute of the match with a goal from fourth-year striker Lindsay Manz.

Manz’s effort sparked the Huskies offence and the team went on to win 6-1. Rookie Erica Hindmarsh scored her first and second university career goals in the match.

“It felt good to be able to prove myself out on the field as a rookie,” Hindmarsh said following the game. “I was nervous up until my first goal and felt like I settled down after that.”

Team captain Leanne Mylymok assisted on Hindmarsh’s first goal. Mylymok lobbed a free kick towards Hindmarsh who was able to control the ball and shoot it over top of Ainslie McConkey, the Wesmen goalkeeper. Mylymok would go on to score two goals of her own in the win, effectively

doubling her goal total from last season.

Midfielder Daniela Fuenzalida completed the scoring for the Huskies in the 90th minute to cap the huge 6-1 victory.

In their second game of the weekend, the Dogs welcomed the Manitoba Bisons. Despite being outshot 12-8 by the Bisons, Saskatchewan’s second-string goalie Lisa Evans made some huge saves to record a shutout in her first Canadian Interuniversity Sport win.

While Evans kept the balls out of the Huskies net, Kelly Cerkowniak and Manz managed to put the ball into Manitoba’s goal to give the Huskies the 2-0 victory and move their record to 2-1-0 on the season.

Saskatchewan travels to visit the University of Northern British Columbia Timberwolves next weekend, with a game Sept. 22.

Men’s

Mitchell Bauche tallied his first CIS goal and the lone marker in a 1-0 victory for the Huskies over the University of Northern British Columbia Timberwolves.

The Huskies kept play in the Timberwolves end, nearly

doubling the visitor’s shot total 30 to 16 by the end of the game.

Bauche tallied the goal in the 34th minute of the match. After the ball landed on the inside of his foot he lobbed it just past the outstretched UNBC keeper Mitch MacFarlane.

UNBC switched goalies in the second half and Bauche had a few more chances to score on the new keeper but couldn’t keep the ball from drifting high above the goal.

With the win the Huskies record improves to 2-0-1. The Dogs play at home again Sept. 22 and 23 when the Regina Cougars visit for back-to-back games in PotashCorp Park.

For the opening ceremonies of both the men’s and women’s games on Sept. 16, former Huskies women’s soccer player Kaylyn Kyle was honoured. Kyle, who was a Huskie in the 2006 season, won a bronze medal with Canada’s women’s team at the London 2012 Summer Olympics this past summer.

“It’s always nice to be able to share this Olympic honour with people I played with and coming to the home field where I used to play brings back great memories,” the Saskatoon-born olympian said.

Canada West Standings Football

W-L 1. Calgary 3-0 2. Manitoba 2-1 3. Regina 2-1 4. Saskatchewan 2-1 5. Alberta 0-3 6. UBC 0-3 *Top four teams qualify for playoffs

Men’s Soccer

Prairie Division 1. Alberta 2. Saskatchewan 3. Winnipeg 4. Lethbridge 5. Calgary 6. Mount Royal

W-L-T 3-0-0 2-0-1 2-1-1 2-2-0 0-3-1 0-4-0

Pacific Division 4-0-0 1. UBC 3-0-1 2. TWU 2-2-0 3. Victoria 0-2-0 4. UFV 0-4-0 5. UNBC *Top three teams in each division qualify for playoffs

Women’s Soccer 1. Regina 2. TWU 3. Victoria 4. Alberta 5. Saskatchewan 6. UBC 7. UFV 8. Manitoba 9. Lethbridge 10. Calgary 11. Mount Royal 12. UNBC 13. Winnipeg

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“With the Canada West conference being as close as it is you have to be ready to play four quarters of hard-nosed football every game,” Burko said.

On defence the teams are very comparable as well. Regina’s cornerbacks Jamir Walker and Kirby Kazeema lead all CIS defensive players with three interceptions each. The defensive duo have also combined for 21.5 tackles in the first three weeks.

The Huskies defence has sacked the opponent’s quarterback seven times this season. They will expect big games from linebacker Richard Zacharias, who made a season high nine tackles last game, and veteran defensive back Bryce McCall, who sits only two interceptions away from tying the Canada West career interception record of 21.

Both the Rams and the Huskies enter the week-four matchup with a 2-1 record, making this

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game crucial in the battle for a home playoff spot. Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Regina are all currently tied for second place in Canada West.

“These three teams are pretty evenly matched and Calgary seems to be a little bit better at this point in the season,” Huskies head coach Brian Towriss said.

The Calgary Dinos remain the only undefeated team in the league and are currently ranked number two in the nation.

Behind Calgary, the Huskies are ranked number seven in the CIS, while Regina currently sits in ninth spot. This two-spot lead in the national rankings combined with home-field advantage should give the Huskies the edge in a close game that kicks off at 7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 21 at Griffiths Stadium.

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Men’s hockey ready to repeat as conference champs COLE GUENTER Sports Editor The Huskies men’s hockey team will enter the 2012-13 season with big expectations and a healthy combination of skill and experience.

The squad has 20 returning players from last year’s team, which won the Canada West championship— a title that the club hopes to win again this year.

Among those returning is forward Derek Hulak, who was only in his second year of eligibility last season when he lit up the league with 11 goals and 33 assists, earning the Dave ‘Sweeney’ Schriner Trophy for leading point producer in the Canada West conference.

Hulak, a third-year business student, played for the Saskatoon Blades in the Western Hockey League from 2007-10 before joining the Huskies.

Dogs head coach Dave Adolph is happy to have the dynamic forward returning to the lineup this season.

“He is the kind of player that

prepares hard, is in fantastic shape and is a high average student too.

It’s a luxury to have someone like that,” Adolph said.

Just behind Hulak in last year’s conference points race were fellow Huskies Kyle Bortis and Kyle Ross. Together the three players combined for 116 points in 28 contests last season, making the trio the most potent offensive line in all Canadian Interuniversity Sport hockey.

Ross completed his eligibility at the end of last season, leaving Bortis and Hulak looking for a new linemate to complement their skills. Ross’s departure also left the Dogs looking for a new captain.

Announced only two days prior to the team’s first pre-season tilt, this year’s captain will be Brennan Bosch. Bosch is a fourth-year pharmacy student who previously played with the Medicine Hat Tigers where he won a WHL championship with the club in 2006. Hulak, along with fellow forwards Chris Durand and Andrew Bailey will assist Bosch as alternate captains of the team.

This season the Dogs will be

hosting the CIS men’s University Cup at Credit Union Centre in Saskatoon March 14-17, 2013.

The national tournament welcomes only the best teams from each conference in the CIS to come together in a bid to determine the top team in the country.

By hosting the University Cup in both 2013 and 2014 the Huskies are given an automatic berth into the year end tournament. Despite this, however, Hulak says the team’s focus is still winning the Canada West conference.

“Although we’re hosting nationals we want to make it there the right way, by winning our league,” Hulak said. “We don’t want to take any short cuts. We want to earn everything we get.

That mentality has been in camp right off the bat.”

The path to repeating as conference champions will be harder this year. With Mount Royal University entering the league this season the standard of competition has been bumped up another notch, Adolph explained.

“We expect Mount Royal to be a very stern test for us,” he said.

Huskies forward Derek Hulak led the Canada West in points last year.

“This season I think there are six teams that could win our league at any one time.”

The Dogs started pre-season play Sept. 14 in a non-conference tournament hosted by the Regina Cougars. The Huskies downed the University of Manitoba 5-2 in their opening match and defeated the

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Cougars 5-1 Sept. 16.

The Huskies hope their dominance continues in Regina for their regular season openers when they play back-to-back matches in the Cougars arena Sept. 28 and 29.

Young Huskies aim to surprise competition

The Huskies women’s hockey team were all over the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology Ooks on Sept. 14.

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The Huskies women’s hockey team has plenty of new faces this season after graduating seven players at the end of last year.

With most of the players entering the season as rookies out of high school, the Dogs will attempt to prove to the rest of the league that their young players can compete among the best teams in the conference.

In all, four forwards, three defencemen and two goaltenders are new to the squad this season.

Perhaps most promising among the forwards is Cami Wooster, the twin sister of the team’s captain Cara Wooster. Cami and Cara both played their first two years of university sport eligibility for the University of North Dakota from 2004-06, before deciding to return to Canada to continue their schooling.

Cami attended the University of Alberta and played one hockey season with the Pandas while

completing a degree in education.

Cara attended a technical institute in Alberta but remained inactive in university hockey until her first year with the Huskies in 2010.

Cara is now entering her final year of eligibility and is excited about getting one last chance to play with her sister Cami.

“We’ve been on the same line ever since we started playing hockey so it will be fun to rekindle that,” Cara said. “It will take us a little bit to get used to each other again but hopefully we can pick up where we left off a few years ago.”

Cassandra Jorgenson, Carlee Hrenkiw and Rachel Johnson will also suit up as Huskie forwards in their first year of eligibility.

These young recruits are expected to help fill the large gap left by the departure of forwards Julie Paetsch, Breanne George, Kelsey Tulloch and Sara White, who all helped lead the team to a 16-6-2 regular season record and third place in the Canada West standings last season.

On defence the Dogs were able to recruit Saskatoon-born talent Alyssa Dobler. Dobler played with the Saskatoon Stars in the Saskatchewan Female Midget AAA Hockey League last season.

She tallied four goals and 17 assists in her final year with the stars and helped land her team a spot in the league final.

Two brand new goalies, and one familiar one, will make things interesting in the crease this season. Tehnille Gard and Cassidy Hendricks signed with the Huskies back in the spring, and goaltender Justine DeNure, who played one year with the Huskies in 2010-11 but took last season off, will rejoin the roster. All three goalies will see ice time during the pre-season before Kook makes a decision on who the starter will be.

“I think a lot of teams are going

to look down our roster eligibility and they are going to see a lot of ones and twos in that column and we are going to get a chance to surprise some teams with that,” Kook said of his predominantly rookie and sophomore roster.

Kook believes his second year players are among the best sophomores in the conference and thinks they will give his team a fighting chance every night.

To be successful, the team will rely on captain Cara and her assistant captains Danny Stone, Shelby Davey and Megan Frohaug, who are all entering their final year of eligibility, to provide leadership to the ensemble of new players on the team.

The Dogs have already begun pre-season action. They defeated Lethbridge 3-2 in a shootout Sept.

8 and had a big 7-1 victory against the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology on Sept. 14. Stone scored a hat-trick in the game against NAIT while sisters Cara and Cami began to find their groove, each potting a goal in the match.

One change has been made to the women’s league format this season. By adding Mount Royal University to the league the women will expand their playoff structure to one that mirrors the men’s league, with two quarter final games, two semifinal games and one final to determine the Canada West Champion.

Your next chance to see the Huskies women’s hockey team is when they open the regular season at home against the Regina Cougars Oct. 5 at Rutherford Rink in Saskatoon.

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Danny Stone is entering her fifth season with the Huskies women’s hockey team and as pre-season action gets underway, she is already being recognized as an offensive powerhouse with the Dogs for another year.

Having closed out the 2011-12 regular season tied for fifth in the Canada West scoring race with 13 goals and 12 assists in 25 games, Stone is carrying that success into this year. She scored a hat trick in a pre-season match against the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology on Sept. 14.

At the end of this season, the forward from Prince Albert, Sask. will exhaust her Canadian Interuniversity Sport eligibility, but after four years with the club Stone already knows she will always cherish her time with the Huskies.

“There are so many memories made with the girls you meet and play with. I’ve remained friends with lots of the players who have already graduated,” Stone said. “The whole experience with this team is more than anyone could ask for.”

Stone will graduate with a bachelor’s degree in sociology this spring and eventually intends to continue her education, pursuing a bachelor’s in social work through the University of Regina.

She says social work has always been a natural fit for her, especially working with youth. In her free time she volunteers with the Saskatoon Sports Council helping run inner-city sports programs with children from grades four to seven. The group, which boasts a handful of Huskies athletes, puts on sports clinics at six different schools in Saskatoon, each for an hour a week.

Stone has more than just hockey skills to

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show the youth. In addition to floor hockey, Stone has been involved with basketball and soccer clinics with the city’s sports council.

Upon entering university she was forced to turn down scholarship offers from the Huskies’ basketball and track and field teams in order to accept one in hockey and focus her efforts on the ice.

After this year, however, Stone intends on taking a break from hockey and school before finishing her second degree. She plans to save up some money and travel with a friend to Fiji for a few months.

“I’ve always had school and hockey as priorities in my life, but at the end of the year I’ll be graduated from both of them,” she said.

“My friend asked me to go to Fiji and with those priorities gone I couldn’t say no.”

After four years with the Huskies, Stone has become a leader on the team and will show it on her jersey this season as one of the assistant captains. This new position on the squad will not change Stone’s pre-game routine, though, which relies on her trusty sidekicks Fro and Muncher.

“Me and Fro [Megan Frohaug] like to skate around the ice before we get our equipment on and I always have Muncher [Brooke Mutch] taping up my stick before every game,” Stone said. “Little things like that help us keep calm and focused on the game.”

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Huskies men’s striker Brett Levis is both a potent and passionate soccer player.

Last season Levis was named a Canada West second team all-star after posting four goals on 37 shots as a rookie with the club. Now in his second season with the Dogs, Levis quickly reminded everyone of his offensive prowess in the first game of the season when he scored two goals against the Winnipeg Wesmen.

Levis says his success may have something to do with his pre-game ritual.

He always wears a wristband imprinted with the words ‘In loving memory of Leanne Levis.’ Leanne was Levis’ mother.

She passed away in 2008 after battling cancer.

“I keep the wristband on and I pray before the game starts. I know she is watching, so I pray to have a good game and it usually works,” the Huskies striker said.

Levis further commemorated his mother with a tattoo of her name and birthdate on his forearm. It reminds him of the impact she had on his life.

He said his mother’s impact on him went further than just raising him. Levis credits his mother for teaching him how to play soccer as well.

“When I was a little boy she was always the one to volunteer as the team coach.”

Levis says he also needs to eat particular food on game days to prepare for his matches.

“Peanut butter, toast and Cheerios. No matter if the game is in the afternoon or evening, that’s my pre-game meal,” he said.

Levis is in his second year in the college of Arts and Science. Prior to university, Levis played soccer on Team Saskatchewan for six years and was also a member of the Canada Games Team in 2009. Despite all his years playing soccer, Levis says his most memorable moment is scoring his first goal as a Huskie.

“Against Alberta last year I scored my first goal and tied the game in the 85th minute. It was a good goal and I was pretty excited.”

While many soccer superstars are seen juggling and maneuvering soccer balls with their feet and head, Levis says the only tricks he cares about are the ones he performs in a game.

“Everybody can do tricks and flicks but I don’t want to work on that,” he said.

“It’s almost a different sport when you do that. Soccer on the field is much different than a few little tricks.”

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The streets, the tracks, the growth of a community KEVIN MENZ and JENNA MANN Editorial Staff Graffiti is a transient form of art. It can be painted over. It can be washed away.

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| thesheaf.com | 20 September, 2012 | of Saskatoon Community Youth Arts Programming Inc. Darrell Lechman said.

“Those trains will take your art places that you will never see,” fellow artist Darren Wolfe said. “People from across the country have seen our artwork because of where we’ve put it.”

Robinson was a prominent artist in Saskatoon and was known for his generosity and work in local exhibits. His contributions to various art shows in the city include graffiti as well as hand-painted peices.

SCYAP has dedicated its second annual graffiti show, titled “We Needi Graffiti,” to the artist.

Robinson was set to curate the exhibit and a number of his own works are on display in the show, which runs until Sept. 29.

“This whole art show is for him,” Danny Schoenfeld, a close friend of Robinson’s, said.

Schoenfeld has a few works featured in the SCYAP show and is glad to remember his friend through the gallery, but feels the

best way to commemorate Robinson is through his art on the streets.

Schoenfeld recently rolled a wall on the north end of Avenue H with Robinson’s tag, ACME. “ACME had the sickest hand styles I’ve ever seen and I’m going to really miss seeing them,” Schoenfeld said, adding that some of Robinson’s work can be found behind the SCYAP centre.

Schoenfeld also recently helped complete a work on a wall near the corner of Warman Road and 33rd St W. The eight-foot-tall concrete wall, which showcases the talents of various graffiti artists in the city, spans 175 feet.

The wall was built privately by property owner Ches Burns in order to combat the loud noise of traffic along the road. Each year for the past five years, Burns has commissioned a group of graffiti artists to paint the wall.

“It’s his wall and he can paint it how he wants,” Shaun Decae, a contributing artist

to the wall, said. “We usually do it once a year so that each thing we do can run for a while.”

Decae described this year’s finished collaboration as a production line.

The artwork resembles “a factory,” Decae said. “There’s a conveyor belt and everybody’s got their graffiti pieces being built by different machinery, laser covers, painters, welders. Everything along the line is being built.”

This assembly line parallels the Saskatoon graffiti community. The community is a work in progress. It is always evolving.

“When we were growing up there was nobody to look up to. It was strictly the love of what we might be able to create that kept us influenced,” Wolfe, another contributor to the wall, said. “But now there’s a ton of kids, a ton of crews, a ton of talent in this city that I’d like to say I’m very proud to be a part of.”

Now aspiring graffiti artists in Saskatoon have a place to go and feel inspired— the

SCYAP Art Centre and Gallery — and experienced artists such as Schoenfeld, Decae, Wolfe and Robinson to look up to.

Lechman said the “We Needi Graffiti” exhibit and others like it show the community that “graffiti has a place in the art world” and encourage talented artists to showcase their work in a professional environment.

The “We Needi Graffiti” art show runs until Sept. 29 at the SCYAP Art Centre and Gallery in Saskatoon.

Opposite, top left: Graffiti featured behind the White Buffalo Youth Lodge.

Bottom: The wall on Warman Road and 33rd St. W. Opposite, right: Schoenfeld’s tribute to fellow artist Spencer Robinson.

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Current, left: One panel of the Warman Road wall.

Current, centre: One of Spencer Robinson’s works on display at SCYAP Art Centre and Gallery.

Current, right: A featured work from the “We Needi Graffiti” exhibit. raisa pezderic/photo editor

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Paul McCartney’s Meatless Monday catches on ERIN HIEBERT Meatless Monday embraces the idea that small positive choices can affect mass global change.

The idea dates back to the First World War, when Americans gave up some of their food staples to aid the war’s effort.

In the Second World War Americans used Meatless Monday as a way to alleviate the effects the war had on European citizens.

Meatless Mondays had another revival in 2003 as a way to improve health and reduce the environmental impact of the meat industry. Then, in 2009, Paul McCartney and his daughters Stella and Mary launched the Meatless Monday website and cookbook encouraging people to give occasional vegetarianism a try. The movement quickly gained speed with endorsements from governments, doctors, nutrition and food activists and scads of celebrities.

There are many great reasons to go veggie once a week, including personal and environmental health, as well as animal welfare concerns.

Reducing your meat intake can have great benefits to your health. It can lessen your risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, strokes, cancer and it can lower both your blood pressure and cholesterol levels.

According to the United Nations, the meat industry is responsible for 18 per cent of human generated greenhouse gas emissions — though some studies put the number as high as 51 per cent. It takes 1,500 gallons of water to produce a pound of beef as opposed to the thirty gallons it takes to produce a salad. Cutting meat out of your diet once a week could cut greenhouse gases and water waste by about 14 per cent.

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Another great reason to embrace Meatless Monday is for animal welfare.

Animals are routinely abused within the meat and dairy industries. Reducing support for inhumane and cruel practices in any capacity is ideal. Whether animals are sentient beings or not, the cruelty of the industry is simply unfortunate, uncomfortable and unkind. Realistically, factory farming allows meat to remain affordable for the average person, but they are disappointing behaviors for something that is considered a luxury in our diets.

Cooking meat-free from time to time has many personal benefits as well.

You know what is cheaper than meat?

Beans. If you are only going meatless on Mondays, don’t spend money on pricey, over-processed meat substitutes. I also find it is a good way to exercise your creativity in the kitchen. You do not need bacon to have mouthwateringly satisfying food.

There is no need to worry about protein deficiency as it is uncommon, and with the careful incorporation of eggs, nuts, beans and dairy into one’s diet there is no reason for it.

Meatless Monday is exciting and you can help benefit the world in a simple way.

If you want Paul McCartney, Al Gore and Oprah to think you are cool, Meatless Monday is the way to go.

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Some ideas to get you started:

If all else fails just take the meat out of what you eat and add some pepper, or just eat Nutella on a spoon.

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3. Curry: Sauté your favourite vegetables and, with curry paste, add coconut milk to simmer for 30-40 minutes. You can also add beans or legumes; chickpeas work great. Serve over rice, vermicelli noodles or quinoa for the protein conscious. You can buy premade sauces to expedite the process.

2. Pasta: Toss lentils into tomato sauce for a great veggie bolognese. Lentils are a perfect substitute for ground beef and are delicious. Top with Grana Padano parmesan,

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Hey Ocean to perform in Saskatoon Sept. 22 KENDRA SCHREINER Vancouver-based indie-pop trio Hey Ocean have gained a large fan base across Canada since their formation.

Lead singer and flutist Ashleigh Ball, bassist David Vertesi, and guitarist David Beckingham are set to bring their third full-length album, IS, to Saskatoon Sept. 22 at Louis’ Pub as part of their country wide tour.

It will be one of many times the band has played in Saskatoon.

“It’s like our second home,” Beckingham said, excited to perform in the city again. “We’re pretty stoked.”

Beckingham and Ball were longtime friends, having met in grade six, when they formed the band seven years ago.

“Our sisters tried to set us up on a little date,” Beckingham said.

He and Ball developed a “natural friendship” after living close to one another and attending the same summer camp.

They were already playing music together when they met Vertesi at a show, completing the Hey Ocean trio.

Last year, the band signed with Universal Music Canada, their first major label deal. Previously, they released their albums through Pop

Machine, the label created with fellow Vancouver indie-folk band Said the Whale, but Pop Machine has since fizzled out.

Hey Ocean’s biggest crossCanada tour yet kicks off Sept. 15 in Vancouver. No strangers to the 13,000-plus km journey, the band members are bracing themselves for living in a van for the next two months.

“Along with excitement comes the fear,” Beckingham said of the trip. Long hours in tight quarters can take its toll on relationships.

“Positive vibes are very, very important.”

Although touring takes its toll, the band enjoys bringing their music to the country.

“We always say we get sick of touring half way through and start wanting to come home and then when we’re home we want to get back on the road,” Beckingham said.

“We try to keep it new and fresh.... The show tends to morph over the course of the two month tour.”

When not on the road, all three musicians write music together.

“We are very adamant about sharing everything in terms of the writing,” Beckingham said.

“Finishing writing a song is the best feeling... then going into the

studio to record it is amazing. I love it,” he said.

Hey Ocean’s music is influenced by many artists, such as Led Zeppelin, Harry Nilsson, Radiohead and, most notably, the Beatles. Their lyrics come from life, romance and sometimes “a quirky idea that just comes into my head. I feel like I get that freedom from being a huge Beatles fan.”

The band is influenced by the types of songs that give you shivers and “stuff you can relate to on an emotional level.”

The band spent a lot of their time while working on their last album exploring their musical goals. They discovered that the “band is about making music that is from the heart and trying to be as honest as possible.”

All three members are inspired by the beauty of the British Columbia coastline, which is reflected in their songs, “Big Blue Wave” and, “If I Were a Ship.”

Because of their connection to the coastline, the trio is concerned about the Enbridge oil pipeline project and the environmental impact it could have.

“We want to do whatever we can as a humble band with a small voice to... get behind this,” Beckingham said, noting the band is looking for ways to get involved

Singer Ashleigh Ball and bassist David Vertesi performing live.

with the David Suzuki Foundation.

He feels the band offers a platform for the members to speak out on important issues.

Beyond their environmental efforts, Hey Ocean believes in getting kids involved in music.

Last Christmas, the band organized a charity show that raised $25,000 for St. James Music Academy For Kids, which runs an after school music program in Vancouver.

After their cross-country tour winds up in November, Hey Ocean hopes to spread their music internationally. They now have an agent in the U.S. and the album will soon be released south of the border. Tentatively, the trio have

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their sights set on Australia for next spring.

Beckingham is stoked to one day tour Europe and jokingly mused about his dream gig.

“It would be nice to do an acoustic show in the Sistine Chapel, I bet the acoustics are pretty nice in there,” he said.

While the Sistine Chapel is not quite ready to host Hey Ocean, Saskatoon fans will be excited to welcome the band back this Saturday at Louis’.

Mother Mother’s The Sticks polishes rough edges KATLYNN BALDERSTONE Vancouver-based indie rock band Mother Mother is back on the scene with its fourth album, The Sticks, a year since their last album.

The five-piece group is going strong, complimenting their existential themes, melancholy and introspective lyrics with driving beats and catchy instrumentals.

The slow, peaceful introduction to the first track, “Omen,” quickly gives way to strong percussion in the titular piece, “The Sticks.” The percussion continues for several songs until the album drops back down into softer acoustic tunes.

Similar jumps happen throughout the album but the energy of the sound carries through and keeps one’s interest.

The bouncy and energetic rhythms contrast with the darker content of the songs themselves, as is typical of this group, but everything ties together without the elements clashing or overpowering one

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The complex layering of theses songs requires multiple listens to fully appreciate the intricacy of the tracks. Of course, at least one or two songs will echo in your head long after the first listen.

Catchiness is another of the groups most pronounced strengths, which they have exploited well both in their music and their repetitive yet engaging lyrics.

Standout songs like “Infinitesimal” and “Let’s Fall In Love,” are relatable and express what many people end up going through regarding life, love and one’s place in the universe. These are common themes for Mother Mother, but the lyrics are polished and hit accurately what many young adults feel in this day and age that one can’t complain.

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Aside from the increase of energy and rock beats in several of the songs, not much appears to be new or groundbreaking within the album itself, but in this case it works. The focus is refining and improving on what they already have, and the effort shows. Each song flows into the next, with the first and last even sharing chord structures to act as the album’s “bookends.”

With the accessibility of the album’s themes and the appeal of the music itself, The Sticks seems to be a great place for newcomers to the band to start listening. It is a solid album and recommended for anyone who enjoys rock and the Canadian music scene.

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Sexual assault discussion misses the point VICTORIA MARTINEZ Copy Editor There’s been a lot of rape talk in the news and online recently, which is great, because rape talk is uncomfortable and hits too close to home for a lot of people, myself and this paper, as Ashley Hyshka’s Sept. 6 article illustrated, obviously included.

There’s a wider and arguably more important discourse here than that which the immediate discussion seems to allow. That immediate discussion being around claims that bodies can terminate pregnancies from legitimate rape, and that there is a distinction between “legitimate” or “forcible” rapes and other rapes.

And the discussion of what’s wrong with those ideas, while generally well-intentioned and useful, has its own set of problems too diverse and difficult to unpack in this space. Sexual assault and rape are not black and white issues, and anyone with an ardently-felt position in that binary is probably, well, wrong.

My point is, bodies do kindasorta shut down some unwanted pregnancies. Some, at least. Seminal priming is a valid and useful theory.

Sexual science writer Jesse Bering’s article on the theory, “Darwin’s Morning After Pill,” has a great discussion if you’re interested.

I’ve been sexually assaulted.

I’ve also been raped. They are fundamentally different. I have not been violently assaulted, which is also different.

Sure, rape is rape is rape. But

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sexual assault is not acquaintance rape is not violent rape. And penetrative rape is not envelopment, (when a woman rapes a man). They all count, and they all suck.

Women rape men. (Sorry!

But really, it happens!) Men rape women. Men rape men and women rape women. The second case is most prevalent outside of prison and is most currently pressing, but acknowledging and validating the range of sexual violence that individuals are exposed to all too regularly is important for creating an intelligent conversation about the most dominant issue. So I don’t want to leave those out.

I’d like to skip over discussion of my experience with rape and sexual assault. I’d also like to skip having any more experiences of that kind.

Which is why, even if you’re already bored of hearing about this stuff, maybe you should be paying closer attention. If everyone was paying close attention, maybe we could move past expecting these things to happen. At which point it would make sense not to talk about it.

A big part of the problem, and here I am using myself as a proxy for most women, is that because I’m afraid of being in some way violated, I no longer drink in the company of men without a close friend available for protection. This is true whether at home or in bars.

Because I am female, I am aware that my gender means my appearance is more likely to be noticed than my work. So I work hard to try and

make up for it. I expect unwanted ass-grabbing when I go to work at the bar. I brush off cat-calls alone in the street.

Are you female? Do you also do these things, expect these things?

Does that seem right? Do you violently disagree with the imperative to protect yourself thus?

Are you male? Are you adamantly not a rapist, not an objectifier of women? Do you consider this whole discussion unfair and presumptuous?

Hey, us too.

It’s not good for anyone that assumption of guilt is a reality.

You may never have compromised someone’s sense of themselves sexually, but someone very much like you very likely has. We are all on edge because of presumed guilt, and if you are lucky enough to not understand the reality of victims or of victimizers, then it may well be useful to investigate them.

In a perfect reality, adult women would not be like me. They would not be aware of themselves in sexual terms at all times. They would just be ladies who could go home unattended. Or they would be ladies who could get a walk home from a dude and not be worried he’d try “something.” Except those are still pretty scary things to do, because lots of the time it’s fine and a whole lot of the time it really isn’t.

The onus should not be on potential victims to protect themselves. The onus is not solely on potential aggressors to not rape. The imperative is to keep talking about it,

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Polarizing the rape discussion just propagates the issue.

to acknowledge what is wrong and to understand how we (even victims) are contributing to the culture.

I am afraid of men because experience has taught me to be so. I protect myself because I have learned

how. Those are things I wish weren’t true. But they are, so, I’m just trying to be better.

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Wood has familiarized himself with many addiction centres around and outside the country and believes that having a trained doctor when it comes to dealing with addiction can make all the difference.

“What was really eye-opening from my visit to [the Boston Medical Center’s Clinical Addiction Research and Education Unit] was the impact that a skilled addiction medicine workforce can have in turning patients’ lives around,” he said.

Canada needs to invest more time and money in creating programs where such skills and techniques can be taught and developed. Hope is not lost

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Addiction is difficult to overcome alone.

though, Wood said, referring to a new initiative — one which could prove game-changing in the fight

to improve addiction treatment.

“A potentially ground-shifting opportunity has emerged with the recent establishment of the American Board of Addiction Medicine,” he said. “The board has created guidelines for the development of addiction medicine fellowship programs, enabling Canadian medical schools to create programs that are eligible for full accreditation.”

Now it’s Canada’s turn to invest more money and time in order to create effective addiction training programs — and to stop ignoring the larger problem.

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English degrees: An education for more than just educators ALYSSA RUDYCK We have all heard the expression, “Those who can’t do, teach.”

Perhaps it is the common misconception that there is nothing you can do with an English degree that leads people to assume that all English majors are aspiring educators. What many people, including a number of English students, may not know is that there is a wide variety of occupations available to those with a degree in English.

When people learn that I am an English student with no intentions of becoming a teacher or professor, they usually assume I want to be either a journalist or a librarian.

When I tell them that, no, I am interested in becoming neither a journalist nor a librarian, they look at me with a mixture of pity and confusion, as though it is inconceivable that there would be anything else I could do with my degree. But there is!

Although teaching, journalism and being a librarian are all fine career choices, they are by no means the only options for those graduating with an English degree.

What all English majors have in common is an appreciation of language. This zeal for words can be expressed through a love of literature, a passion for writing, an enthusiasm for syntax

or a combination of the three.

It is through the exploration of language and the study of literature that English majors acquire an understanding of language that exceeds most people’s.

English graduates should come away from university adept at reading critically, writing articulately, thinking creatively, arguing persuasively and interpreting text analytically. They should also possess both aboveaverage knowledge of grammar and vocabulary. With these useful skills at their dispense, literati and linguists fit into a nearly limitless range of work.

English majors who predominantly enjoy writing could look into becoming novelists, copywriters, film or literary critics, technical writers, freelance writers, playwrights, biographers or greeting card writers.

Word junkies may be cut out for a career as a translator, a cruciverbalist (a person who creates crossword puzzles) or a linguist.

And those who prefer reading and researching could look into working as a consumer researcher, a public relations and information specialist, a corporate communications specialist, a policy and procedures analyst, a radio, television or publications researcher, a manuscript reader, an editor or a publisher. Literary

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criticism is a good fit here as well, which further proves how many careers are open to people with any of the skills an English degree fosters.

The list goes on.

If you are an English major and teaching is just not for you, seek solace in the fact that there are many other opportunities and career paths out there for you. And the next time someone smugly

asks you what you are planning to do with your life and your English degree, you can report that you haven’t quite decided, as there are so many different options to choose from.

Is higher education a right or privilege?

SOFIA HASHI The Fulcrum (University of Ottawa) OTTAWA (CUP) — Time and time again, both on and off campuses, the question has been debated: Is higher education a right or a privilege? Both the riots in London over dramatic post-secondary education tuition increases almost two years ago and more recently the province of Quebec coming to a near standstill over a proposed tuition hike make it clear that education is important and citizens take it seriously.

While discussion of the importance of education is by no means new, it has been spotlighted once again by the recent student solidarity tour across Ontario, which aims to lower tuition fees in Ontario. Supporters believe that tuition increases will make postsecondary education inaccessible. But even as they fight vehemently to keep tuition hikes from becoming a reality, many others see things differently.

Point: It’s a privilege Basic education is a right, but higher education — attending university — is a privilege. This argument may not be the politically correct or even mainstream way of thinking, but it’s the truth.

In the discussion about access to education, one of the topics people bring up tirelessly and repeatedly is tuition fees. In Ontario, for example, full-time tuition sits at approximately $6,000 a year — money that for most students is not chump change. Nevertheless, it’s the price the province has deemed acceptable to charge university goers. And fees are only increasing, which is why so many students are up in arms over tuition prices.

“Look to the future,” protesters cry.

“Students can’t possibly continue to pay these fees, and soon enough there won’t be that

many students in university.”

But is this a sound argument?

If access to education is what they’re worried about, maybe protesters should look at other, arguably greater barriers to postsecondary education.

Other obstacles begin to affect students long before they even think of setting foot on a university campus.

Your parents’ education level is one of the largest factors in your decision to enroll in university. Likewise, preparation for and information about university while in high school are just as important in the decision to pursue post-secondary education as how much a university or college education costs.

These are all preventing higher post-secondary enrolment and will not be mitigated by lowering or maintaining tuition fees.

Universities are also selective by nature, choosing some applicants over others.

Usually the successful applicants display strong academic skills and are willing to invest greatly in their education. Everyone has the right to not be discriminated against by universities because of their race, religion, political beliefs, gender or sexuality. However, no one has the right to be a scholar.

Finally, if you can’t afford tuition fees, then you can turn to grants, scholarships, bursaries and loans. The government doles out student loans, which many students do not even apply for. What we need to do is make potential students more aware of this kind of assistance from a younger age, so more people believe they can enrol in higher education.

It is senseless to argue about your right to education when you’ve practically been handed one on a silver platter.

Counterpoint: Everyone has a right to learn Education is a right and not a privilege.

Many countries offer free schooling from ages

four to 18 and after that it’s pretty much up to the parents or the student to pay for their education. This system is flawed and hurts society as much as it does individuals.

Education is the cornerstone of a functioning society. Educated and well-informed citizens make sound decisions that sustain both democracy and the nation’s political landscape.

Furthermore, by making higher education more accessible, general society will actually end up saving money. Think about how much cash it costs to support a low-income single parent or keep an inmate incarcerated, scenarios that are far more likely for people who do not continue their education after high school.

By sending more young adults to university, taxpayers end up saving in the long run on social services. For instance, Canadians with lower education levels suffer higher instances of depression and high cholesterol, putting pressure on a strained medical system.

Additionally, our country loses money on the people who drop out of school or choose not to pursue a higher education because people who further their education earn more money and thus pay more in income tax throughout their working lives. According to Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, university-educated Canadians earn an average of $46,800 per year, compared to $25,500 for the average Canadian holding only a high-school diploma.

If cold, hard cash is what society is after, then keeping students in school and making higher education more accessible is the way to national profit.

As students, juggling classes, a social life and adequate sleep is difficult enough. Now imagine adding a part-time or even full-time job to the rotation. The fact is that financial aid barely covers tuition and book fees, much less living expenses. Students face enough stresses

before struggling to make ends meet.

Without the support of parents or a large scholarship, it’s nearly impossible to complete a university degree in four years.

If higher education was recognized as a right and tuition fees were drastically lowered, we would see more youth considering university or college. For a country that prides itself on equality, it seems unfair that post-secondary education favours more affluent students.

Everyone should have a chance at an education — regardless of how much money they have in their pocket.

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If you have one or any combination of these symptoms and they persist beyond three weeks please see your doctor.

Ovarian Cancer Canada is always looking for new volunteers to help run a variety of different programs, if you are interested in volunteering please contact us at

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