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Animaniacs on the loose SOMA DALAI Dragon Ball Z, Sailor Moon, Naruto, One Piece and even Pokémon — the list of popular anime and manga is endless and its followers are legion. If you’re part of that legion there’s a spot on campus just for you in the Animanga Club.

Started in 2011, the Animanga Club aims to introduce anime and manga to the wider campus community, according to current president and second year geology student Jacob Van Breugel.

The club began when a group of “anime and manga fanatics thought it would be a cool idea” and has carried on ever since.

For those non-fanatics who don’t know the difference between anime and manga, Van Breugel has a sympathetic look and a simple explanation: “Anime is basically what’s on TV, while manga is books and comics.”

Every year, the club attends numerous events including the Saskatoon Blitz — which took place this past July at Prairieland Park — and the Saskatoon Comic and Entertainment Expo coming up Sept. 20-21, also at Prairieland.

The Saskatoon Blitz involves gaming tournaments, vendors, artists and a cosplay contest while the Entertainment Expo is described by its own website as a “nerd-tastic celebration” and is usually well attended by the Animanga Club.

If you are afraid of attending alone, you needn’t be.

“We make groups so that people who are new to the convention scene have people they know who are going,” assured Van Breugel in a followup email. The Expo features guests from the television, film and comics industries along with numerous vendors and artists.

This year, Dino Stamatopoulos from Community and Steven Yeun from AMC’s hit series The Walking Dead will be amongst the stars featured.

The Animanga Club also hosts events for its members throughout the year. In the past, the club has held Japanese language lessons and drawing lessons. Yearly Halloween and Valentine’s Day parties feature anime showings, large art auctions and food while karaoke nights, bowling and swimming

are popular non-holiday themed events.

“We like to have fun, hang out and watch anime,” Van Breugel said.

“One of the big things for the club is being able to connect with like-minded people who have something in common and then building friendships and connections,” he wrote to the Sheaf.

When asked why anime and manga continue to have such enduring appeal in a world filled with other forms of entertainment, Van Breugel waxed philosophical.

“Part of the reason why people enjoy these things is because it shows part of a different culture than what we are used to,” he wrote. “Another part is that it brings back the fun of watching

cartoons and reading comics that we did as children, but with a lot more teenage/adult viewpoints.”

Van Breugel also commented on the various anime genres and the diversity of artistic techniques. His favourite anime shows and manga comics are Beck, an anime about a group of struggling teenage Japanese rock musicians, and Rave Master, a manga about a teenager who goes on a quest to find pieces of a stone and save the world.

Aside from going to conventions and sharing enjoyment of their favourite shows, the Animanga Club is a non-profit that donates extra money made from events to charity. This year, the club has chosen the SPCA. For those who wish to become involved in the Animanga Club, Van Breugel has a simple set of instructions.

“Just show up,” he said. “Anyone can join the club, whether you’re an undergraduate or an alumni or someone who’s working.

We have people from arts and science all the way over to engineering, and there is a lot of diversity between nationalities, where we have members from all over the world.”

Those interested in joining the Animanga Club can contact them directly at uofsanimanga@gmail. com or attend one of their weekly Friday meetings, which begin Sept.

12 in upper Place Riel’s campus club room at 6 p.m.

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The Animanga Club recruited new members during Welcome Week.

BRIEF: Alleged assault on campus HENRYTYE GLAZEBROOK Senior News Editor On Sept. 3 at approximately 11:30 a.m., an incident of assault was reported to have occurred at the Graduate House residence at the University of Saskatchewan.

Both the alleged assailant and the victim are said to have known each other prior to the incident, as detailed in an email to students from the university.

Though initially outlined as a sexual assault, Saskatoon police have since begun investigating it as an assault only.

“Once our personal violence investigators were able to look at it, they could see it should be investigated as an assault, as opposed to a sexual assault,” said Saskatoon police spokesperson

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Alyson Edwards in an interview to the StarPhoenix.

The investigation is ongoing, and students with any information are urged to contact the Saskatoon Police Service at 306-975-8300 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

Given the incident, U of S Protective Services is reminding students to be safe on campus, and offered the following tips: • Use a buddy system and ensure someone knows where you are, how long you plan to be there and when you leave.

• Discuss your plans in advance with a supervisor and follow any established local procedures.

•Keep doors locked when working alone.

• On the Saskatoon campus, call Safewalk at 306-966-SAFE(7233) for an escort to your vehicle or residence on campus.

Suspicious activity can be reported to Protective Services at 306-966-5555. 9-1-1 is available for emergencies.

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New bill seeks to protect unpaid interns RAINER KOCSIS Associate News Editor On June 16, New Democrat Member of Parliament Laurin Liu tabled Bill C-620, The Intern Protection Act, in the House of Commons. The bill is scheduled for debate this fall.

The enactment would amend the definition of “employee” in the Canada Labour Code to include unpaid interns, thus extending the same workplace protections that cover paid employees to interns who do not receive a wage.

“Currently in Canadian law, there is no reference to interns whatsoever, so right now there’s sort of a ‘wild west’ situation for interns in which no federal law protects them against abuse,” Liu said. “The bill would essentially offer all interns, both paid and unpaid, the same protections that paid employees receive.”

Liu and the NDP are hoping to end the exploitation of unpaid interns by placing a cap on the number of hours an intern can work. The bill would also grant interns the right to refuse dangerous work and offer them protection from sexual harassment.

“The standard hours of work are eight hours in a day and 40 hours in a week and that would mean interns would be entitled to one full day of rest per week and to nine annual statutory holidays,” Liu said. “Moreover, rights to health and safety are included in the bill, so the right to know of any hazards that are present in the workplace, the right to receive proper training and the right to participate in identifying work-related health and safety concerns.”

The bill was inspired by the death of 22-year-old Andy

Ferguson in Novermber 2011.

A practicum student at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in Edmonton, Ferguson died after working a 16-hour day at a radio station where he was doing an unpaid internship. While driving home, Ferguson’s vehicle crossed the centre line and struck a gravel truck head-on.

“He fell asleep at the wheel… his employer refused to sign his practicum if he didn’t complete the shift,” Liu said. “These are the kinds of abuses that we see elsewhere as well, and unfortunately Andy didn’t benefit from the protections contained in the bill… we’re hoping that interns and future interns in Canada will benefit from certain minimum protections.”

The second part of the bill deals with the fact that interns are considered to be free labour by many employers. Liu hopes that the introduction of Bill C-620 will prevent companies from turning paid jobs into unpaid internships.

“What’s happening to them across Canada is that, unfortunately, employers are taking advantage of interns by replacing paid positions with unpaid internships,” Liu said.

“First of all, that’s abusive. But it also obviously leads to races to the bottom in which unpaid interns are working in jobs previously occupied by paid employees.

The bill would force internships to be educational and to provide training equal to that offered in a post-secondary institution.

Additionally, the bill would ensure that internships primarily benefit the intern and offer tangible training opportunities to the intern.

Youth unemployment is currently double the national average and many university graduates are having a hard time finding work after earning their degree. As a result, young workers must often resort to taking unpaid

internships to start their careers.

“They’re faced with a very difficult labor market. For many people it’s not a choice, it’s one of the only options that they have,” Liu said.

“It’s a difficult economic period. If we look at youth unemployment, it’s been at a record high over the past few years, and it actually peaked at 14 per cent and right now it’s just a bit lower than 14 per cent.”

Currently, the bill is operating on a complaint-based system where interns would be responsible to report abuses.

“What this bill would do is it would provide the courts a new tool to examine whether or not the internship is legal,” Liu said.

According to Liu, the response from the other MPs has been positive overall.

“It’s part of an ongoing discussion in my caucus and my colleagues are really supportive of the bill… I’ve been working with Andrew Cash on this issue, who is an MP from the Toronto area, along with an urban worker strategy he’s been working on,” Liu said. “Unfortunately, the Conservatives have been pretty silent on the issue and we haven’t heard much from their side. As you know, we have a majority Conservative government so it’s essential to get support from the Conservatives in order for this bill to move forward in the House.”

So far, the Bill has been endorsed by the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations, the Canadian Federation of Students, the Fédération étudiante collégiale du Québec, the Regroupement Étudiant Franco-Ontarien as well as the Canadian Intern Association.

“Over the summer we’ve been talking to student associations and other stakeholders and encouraging them to write to their members of parliament,” Liu said. “I would encourage the students and the University of Saskatchewan to write to Mr. Brad Trost on this issue.”

Liu and the NDP have been trying to raise the pressure on Conservative MPs to support bill C-620.

“This affects people all across the country and these are very basic protections,” Liu said. “It’s a question of fairness and safety.”

The bill is limited to federallyregulated workplaces and would not affect interns working in businesses or government institutions regulated by the provinces.

But it’s better than having no protections at all, which is what currently exists, Liu said.

“I think MPs are hearing more and more from their constituents about this issue, especially highprofile cases like Andrew’s,” Liu said. “There has been an increasing number of high-profile cases concerning companies abusing their interns so there’s definitely a lot of mobilization across the country. College students and young workers are writing to their MPs but there’s definitely a momentum

in favour of offering these basic protections to interns.”

Liu is optimistic that her bill will become legislation.

“This bill was written with the goal of getting support from Conservative members because we do see an urgency to get this passed as soon as possible,” Liu said. “It’s really important that this be a non-partisan issue.

When we look at the number of interns working across Canada today, which is up to 300,000 interns, it’s a national problem that we need to deal with, and hopefully we can work together to get this bill through the house.

“It’s really important to write to your MP to support this bill.

These are very basic protections that offer basic health and safety protections, basic protections against workplace sexual harassment, and I think everyone should benefit from those kinds of protections whether they’re interns or employees. I think those are protections that we owe to every worker.”

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Buffalo Child Stone rediscovered in Lake Diefenbaker

ANNA-LILJA DAWSON Editor-in-Chief After nearly 50 years, the Buffalo Child Stone has once again been seen — only this time it was 70 feet under water.

Th story of Buffalo Child Stone comes from the Plains Cree and involves two stories. The first tells of an eagle soaring in the sky that then drops a giant buffalo however, only a giant buffalo-sized rock was to be found in its place.

In the second story, an infant falls from his parents’ travois and is raised by buffalo. When an adult, the man approached his buffalo father who lay dying at the hands of a Cree hunting party. He then swore finally face the hunters and then transformed into a buffalo before turning into a rock which grew to a massive size.

The rock is sacred in Cree culture and became a site for ceremonies, offerings and dances such as the Sun Dance.

“This is the first time that anyone has seen that piece of rock in 50 years,” said Steven Thair, who led the diving expedition to the depths of Lake Diefenbaker to find the Buffalo Child Stone.

Thair and his team dove to find the Buffalo Child Stone that was submerged in 1967 as the shores of the lake were formed.

The rediscovery of the rock comes after just over one year of following a paper trail to find its coordinates and a boat trip to further ensure its location.

“I went out with my friend and sonar, and we found a response from the sonar that was unquestionably the pile of rocks and nothing — nothing — nearby

that was anything like it. We were 99 per cent sure that we’d found it,” Thair said.

A seasoned Caribbean diver, Thair said he had wanted to get back to fresh water dives and came up with searching for Buffalo Child Stone as the perfect reason.

“I thought that it would be a good challenge to go looking for the remnants.”

When Thair was in Grade 12, the fact that Buffalo Child Stone was going to be engulfed in Lake Diefenbaker was a hot topic in the local news and protests had people gathering at the rock in support of its preservation. Despite the large amount of publicity that the protests generated, not enough money was raised to save the rock from its fate.

After conducting a survey to determine the costs of relocating the 400-tonne glacial boulder to higher ground came up with numbers ranging from $50,000 to several hundred-thousand dollars, the government resorted to using dynamite to break the rock into smaller and more manageable pieces in 1966.

A large piece of Buffalo Child Stone was moved to the marina at Elbow, Sask. for the Mistaseni Cairn which pays tribute to the Cree culture associated with the rock. Other remnants of Buffalo Child Stone were taken to Chief Poundmaker’s grave just outside of Cut Knife, Sask.

A government document Thair found during his research reported that 15 holes were drilled into the rock and then 60 pieces of dynamite were inserted into them.

Thair is sceptical of the method used to break the rock, referring to his days in the Thompson, Man. nickel mine.

“That’s not how you would crack a large rock into smaller pieces,” Thair said. “When we wanted to crack a large piece into smaller

pieces… you would drill a hole in it and put a charge in it and crack it into two pieces… [The Buffalo Child Stone] was blown into smithereens.”

Thair’s Facebook page for Buffalo Rock Saskatchewan has users asking why the government resorted to dynamite even though the rock was going to be submerged regardless. Reflecting on the time of the late 1960s, Thair believes that the government’s actions were done out of fear and oppression: a fear of the newly rising civil rights and anti-Vietnam protest movements and the institutional oppression of Aboriginal people in Canada.

“The protest was mostly by whites. The Aboriginal population was still in the midst of really quite severe oppression,” Thair said, adding that Aboriginal practices had only recently been decriminalized with the Indian Act revisions of 1951 and that the

residential school system was still fully operational in the late 1960s.

“The political awareness and empowerment of Aboriginals that we see today wasn’t there.”

Another theory that Thair has developed for the rationale behind using explosives is that the government had hoped that it would put an end to the protests, an outcome which did happen.

The question remains as to which course of action today’s government would take if faced with the same situation and Thair believes, although there were many commercial and recreational benefits from the formation of Lake Diefenbaker, that history would not repeat itself.

“My initial reaction is that the government would never — never — do what they did and certainly the Aboriginal community wouldn’t stand for it,” he said. “I think probably today they would spend the money to move it.”

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Steven Thair led the dive to rediscover the Buffalo Child Stone.

U of S archaeology professor Ernie Walker shares similar thoughts, but from more of a legal standpoint.

“Back in the day there wasn’t the sensibility about heritage resources in general... Now the remnants of it are underneath the reservoir and we know where they are, but that’s another story,” Walker said. “Back around the turn of the century, archaeological resources were just plowed under. ‘This is nothing, nobody’s interested in it, it’s just a bunch of old bones and buffalo chips.’”

Today, when a city or town expands or any other major projects such as road, pipelines and reservoirs, are built, an impact assessment must be done to determine if there are any sites that are archaeologically or historically important.

In 1980, the Heritage Property Act was passed which made provincial and municipal governments responsible for protecting sites that are historically significant. Included in the act are sites of special nature, which include human burial places, boulder effigies, medicine wheels, ancient rock paintings and any other sites that are considered sacred by contemporary First Nations and Metis people. These sites are ensured a high level of protection where it may not be altered or excavated in any way unless authorized by a permit.

“A good case in point is Lake Diefenbaker, if that was being built today, there would be a very detailed impact assessment done to locate the archaeological or historical resources that would be impacted and then they would be mitigated,” Walker said.

Those who violate the Heritage Property Act are liable to a fine of up to $250,000, in the case of a corporation, and individuals can be fined up to $5,000, imprisoned for six months or both.

Carleton Student leaders apologize for “fuck safe space” shirts SAMMY HUDES The Charlatan (Carleton University) OTTAWA — Carleton frosh leaders have apologized after photos surfaced across social media on Sept. 7 showing students wearing shirts that said “FUCK SAFE SPACE.” “While our intentions were not to harm or disrespect anyone, the T-shirts in question were without a doubt inappropriate, inconsiderate, offensive and disgraceful,” a statement posted to the university’s website said.

Some frosh facilitators have said the shirts were meant to protest the university’s policy during orientation week that prohibits student leaders from swearing.

The statement, however, calls the

shirts’ message “misguided.”

“Intent is not an excuse for impact and we take full responsibility for the seriousness of our actions,” the statement said. “In this moment we are reminded of our influence on not just current and incoming Carleton University students but also our community. It pains us to know that we have tarnished the name of our institution and the hard work of thousands of students, staff and faculty in creating a safe and inclusive environment.”

The apology was addressed to Carleton students, staff, faculty and alumni, as well as Leslie Robertson, who initially tweeted photos of frosh leaders wearing the shirts near the university and in the greater Ottawa community.

Those involved say they will make amends for their actions by participating in community service throughout the year.

The back of the offending shirt said “or me.” Many had accused frosh leaders of promoting rape culture by wearing clothing that denounces “safe space.” Carleton has a safe-space program, which it defines as a “university-wide initiative to reduce the impact of homophobia and heterosexism on campus.”

Some Carleton students countered the shirts messaging during a rally on campus Sept.

8, calling on fellow students to “embrace safe space.”

University president Roseann Runte also issued a statement later in the day following Carleton’s investigation saying the

university would issue sanctions after further meetings with those students involved.

“The inappropriate action did not undermine the overall effectiveness of Carleton’s Orientation programming,” Runte stated.

She said the event took place after the conclusion of orientation week and was not sanctioned by the university.

“Such behaviour is not acceptable and extremely disappointing to the broader Carleton community,” Runte said.

Carleton’s Graduate Students’ Association has condemned the shirts. “‘Safe space’ initiatives are intended to create environments free from harassment, discrimination and violence,” it

said in a statement. “In particular, these initiatives aim to ensure everyone can participate in campus life regardless of their race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, political affiliation or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, family status and disability.”

The Carleton University Students’ Association initially said it would abide by the university’s safe space policy.

“We would like to make it unequivocally clear that this is an unacceptable message for Carleton students to promote whether on or off-campus as it does not accurately reflect the atmosphere within the Carleton University community,” it later said.

B.C. student joins ISIS, forum held on TRU campus ASHLEY WADHWANI The Omega (Thompson Rivers University) KAMLOOPS (CUP) — After a CBC article uncovered that a former Thompson Rivers University student had apparently gone to fight with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria terror group, a TRU professor is asking why it happened and what can be done to stop it from happening again.

In his search for answers and in an attempt to start a dialogue, TRU political science professor Derek Cook held a forum on ISIS recruiting in the West on Sept. 4.

Cook is also the chair of the TRU Faculty Association’s human rights committee.

Collin Gordon, a TRU student up until 2009 and former member of the WolfPack men’s volleyball team, recently made headlines for joining ISIS alongside his brother Gregory.

It was suggested to Cook by the university that his forum not focus on Gordon, citing privacy concerns.

ISIS has been justifying violence and mass murders as part of a religious ideology, when really, Cook said, it’s a political ideology.

Before opening the room to feedback and questions from attending students, faculty and public, Cook aimed to disillusion the extremist group’s use of religion in order to gain followers.

“The main thing I’d like to emphasize is that the story they’re

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being given — the inducements for joining — it’s a con. It’s a phony story. It’s not as advertised and people need to know that and this group needs to be confronted for what it is,” Cook said.

“So how is it that so many Western young people are joining them? Someone suggested that Western culture advocates violence; we see violence all around us. These people are simply reflecting our culture back at us.”

ISIS has used online propaganda on social media as a way to recruit.

The access to that information may be doing more than just informing young people, which is a concern to Annie St. John-Stark, chair of the philosophy, history and politics department.

“The Internet and social media make it very clear to us when we wouldn’t have had it clear to us 30 or 40 years ago on what is going on.

I think that, in a sense, encourages the attractiveness,” St. John-Stark said. “I think that that type of access may be in general principle a good thing that we can look at all of that. I’m not sure if there’s a way to stop that connectivity.”

“The question is if we can get into the dialogue and see if we can steer people susceptible to ISIS propaganda in a different direction, to show them that they are being conned,” Cook responded.

Gordon’s Twitter account shares a glimpse into the extremist culture in 140 characters or less.

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This image was posted on Collin ordon’s Facebook page on April 12.

A harmless tweet dating back to Oct. 27, 2011 said: “Am doing color commentary for the @TRUWOLFPACK Kamloops Volleyball Home Opener this Friday Nation wide broadcast on canadawest.tv!”

But by contrast, in April 2012 he began to quote the Quran, the religious text of Islam. On Aug. 21, 2014 he tweeted: “10/10. The video of James Foley losing his neck is the perfection of “Terrorism”. #IS #JamesFoley #Caliphate #Iraq #Sham #Gaza #FreeGaza,” referring to the Aug. 19 murder of U.S. journalist James Foley.

The person using Gordon’s Twitter account has responded to those who tweet to him, and follows six other active accounts consistently tweeting similar radical messages.

In an interview with CBC, Cook said that those attempting to communicate with Gordon over social media should be aware, as it may not be him.

“If we tried to persuade him to come back, what would happen?

He’d be killed,” Cook said.

“Unfortunately, he’s lost.”

Whether the account remains Gordon’s personal account or is being used by ISIS, his story has created recent media waves.

Does this coverage combat ISIS recruitment propaganda, or encourage it?

TRU journalism professor Alan Bass believes the line between reporting and aiding the spread of propaganda can be a difficult one to find.

“Where that line is drawn often depends on the gravity of the news event itself. However, I suspect mainstream media has virtually no impact on whether or not a young person — and let’s keep in mind we’re talking about a very small number of people — decides to travel halfway around the world to become a fundamentalist killer,” Bass said via email.

Greater influences might be targeted messages being delivered through fundamentalist-controlled social media and Internet recruiting sites, he added.

The forum ended with a message from Cook in reflection of our own political system.

“It has to be more than a military response. It has to be a fight of belief systems. It has to be showing young people who want to do something about injustice that their concerns are recognized,” Cook said.

“This is a war of ideas. And it needs to be taken on by those who engage in ideas, like universities and colleges, so that we can stop the tide of young people who are headed towards ISIS,” Cook said. “Once they get under ISIS, they do what they’re told or they get killed.”

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CLS at the forefront of nanotech development TAYLOR BOROWETZ The Canadian Light Source at the University of Saskatchewan has been home to multiple new discoveries and developments that could help move scientists toward the nanotechnology of the future.

Research over the past summer has been filled with new insights, including the examination of graphene. Graphene is a singlelayer sheet of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice.

It has been a growing topic of interest for scientists since the substance was first isolated in 2004.

Swathi Iyer, a post-doctoral fellow at the CLS, and her team studied the nanostructure using the synchrotron and other experimental facilities. In a news release, Iyer mentioned that there is potential for graphene-based nanodevices, which because of the structure and capabilities of the material could even enable futuristic electronics to be flexible.

Another international team of researchers, including members from the University of British Columbia, the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, University of Würzburg, the Leibniz Institute IFW, McMaster University, the University of California and the

CLS, has focused on a different facets of new electronic devices that could be developed with transition-metal oxides, according to another news release. Until recently, the phenomena that occurs on the atomic level when the materials were layered was not understood, because existing measurement techniques are

either lacking in detail or would destroy the film while trying to analyze it.

The release states that the team developed a new technique using the synchrotron based on resonant X-ray that allows them to view these layers at the atomic level: X-rays with a wavelength of a few nanometers are reflected

Researchers have been working on nanotechnology with the CLS.

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Huskies light up Bisons AUSTIN ARVAY Sports Editor The University of Saskatchewan Huskies used a dominant second half to knock off the University of Manitoba Bisons by a score of 44–24.

The Huskies entered the game as the 10th ranked team in the country, but played far better than their ranking would indicate as they dominated the sixth ranked Bisons in front of 8,121 spectators.

Quarterback Drew Burko was impressive in the season opener as he completed 25 of 41 passes for 233 yards and four touchdowns. His favourite target on the evening was Mitch Hillis, who hauled in eight catches for 55 yards.

Mitch’s older brother Kit recorded 52 yards receiving and a touchdown. John Trumpy, Andre LaLonde, Brydon Ozmun and Jarvis James also scored touchdowns for the Dogs.

Shane Buchanan paved the way along the ground with 94 yards rushing on 13 carries.

Rookie running back Tyler Chow had 50 rushing yards, including a lengthy 22-yard scamper.

Safety Mark Ingram was named Canada West defensive player of the week after his performance

against Manitoba. Ingram had five total tackles and two key interceptions that set the tone on defence. Keegan Arnyek also had an interception while Adam Morrison and Timi Agbaje both tallied sacks.

On the night of the annual toga run, the teams made the many sheet-clad students wait anxiously as the Huskies and Bisons combined for 22 first half

penalties. An average football game takes around three hours to play out and the first half of the contest took just over two hours to complete.

The lengthy first half was a back and forth affair that saw the teams trade points all the way up until the halftime whistle.

Kit Hillis scored a major with just 18 seconds left in the second quarter to cut into the Bisons

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The Huskies defence started slow, but pulled it together in the second half for a big win over Manitoba.

Upcoming Games Men’s Hockey

Men’s soccer • Sept. 13 & 14 vs. MacEwan Griffins @ 12:00 p.m.

• Sept. 12 vs. Manitoba Bisons (tournament) @ 8p.m.

Women’s soccer

Women’s Hockey • Sept. 13 vs. Alberta Pandas @ 5 p.m.

Sept. 14 vs. Red Deer College Kings @ 2 p.m.

handled the punting duties and had 10 kicks for an average of 41.7 yards.

Running back Jarvis James scored the eventual game winner on a six-yard run with just over four minutes to go in the third quarter, giving the Huskies a 31– 24 lead. Ozmun would tack on the insurance midway through the fourth quarter on a 16-yard pass making the score 41–24 in favour of the home side.

The Huskies used a balanced attack throughout tthe game to keep the Bisons defence guessing. They racked up 419 total yards of offence on what is considered to be a strong, talented defence.

The green and white were also aided by some superb special teams play. Kick returner Travoy Martinez had two returns for an average of 38 yards to help set up the offence with great field position. Punt returner Keegan Arynek had four returns for an impressive average of nine yards.

Time of possession is usually a key stat to see who controlled the game and on this night the Dogs were on offence for 34 minutes, compared to just 23 for the Bison.

Next up the Huskies will travel to Edmonton to take on the winless University of Alberta Golden Bears. Alberta was hammered 71–3 by their provincial rivals the University of Calgary Dinos in week one.

The game will take place on Sept.

12 at 7:00 p.m.

Canada West Standings

• Sept. 11 vs. Regina Cougars (tournament) @ 7p.m.

• Sept. 14 vs. Calgary Dinos (tournament) @ 3p.m.

lead, making the score 24–21 at the half. The wily veteran coach Brian Towriss made some key halftime adjustmemts that allowed the Dogs to dictate the second half.

Kicker Denton Kolodzinksi connected on second half field goals of 34, 32 and 23 yards to finish 3 of 4 for the game, missing from 44 yards out in the second quarter. Kolodzinski also

Sept. 13 vs. Mount Royal Cougars @ 12:00 p.m.

Sept. 14 vs. Alberta Pandas @ 12:00 p.m.

Men’s football • Sept. 13 vs. Alberta Golden Bears @ 5 p.m.

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Men’s Soccer Prairie Division 1. Alberta 2. Mount Royal 3. Saskatchewan 4. Calgary 5. Lethbridge 6. MacEwan 7. Winnipeg

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Prairie Division 1. Saskatchewan 2. Calgary 3. Mount Royal 4. Regina 5. Alberta 6. Lethbridge 7. MacEwan 8. Winnipeg

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Pacific Division 1. UBC 2. Trinity Western 3. UBC Okanagan 4. UNBC 5. Victoria 6. Thompson Rivers 7. UFV

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Pacific Division 1. Trinity Western 2. Victoria 3. UFV 4. UBC Okanagon 5. UNBC 6. Thompson Rivers 7. UBC

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1. Calgary 2. Regina 3. Saskatchewan 4. Alberta 5. Manitoba 6. UBC

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Triathlete Amanda Regnier competes at World’s TAB RAHMAN Copy Editor For most athletes, dominance in one sport — running, swimming or biking — would be satisfaction enough. For Amanda Regnier, however, being the best at all three is her goal.

On Aug. 29, Regnier traveled to Edmonton to participate in the TransCanada Corp. World Triathlon Final against athletes from across the globe.

“It was amazing, it was epic,” Regnier said. “Just being at World’s was incredible. And the amount of talent that goes into the competition is amazing.”

The World’s Triathlon has two categories, one for regular competitors and another for elite athletes trying to qualify for the Olympics. Even though Regnier competed in the regular 20-24 age category, she was motivated by watching the elites compete.

“Their race was so inspirational to watch,” Regnier said. “It was so cool to see that I raced on that course and then they raced on that course right afterwards.”

But just because she wasn’t trying for the Olympics doesn’t mean her training to get to Worlds wasn’t rigorous. Regnier first qualified to compete in 2012 in London, England and her training for the competition was grueling. She would start off by running cross country with the Huskies track team, then incorporate swimming and biking to her training, doing it as often as six times a week. Adding strength training to round out her routine, it was hard for her to balance school, work and training all at once.

“I took all of September and most of October [2013] off... It’s really hard to do during the school year which is why I have so much respect for anyone who does the elite category — to be able to do that during school or during their work. But I just can’t fit it all in with work and school.”

Regnier’s training also put a lot of stress on her body, leading her to have a hip injury during her training to compete this year in Edmonton.

Her doctor “wasn’t really sure, he thought it was a muscle strain. I had to take some time off of training for that, but it’s going good now,” Regnier said.

Even with the difficulties, Regnier still has time to coach the Triathlon Club at the University of Saskatchewan.

“Most people say, ‘Oh I can’t swim, I could never do a triathlon,’ but I’ve had people come that can barely swim 50 metres and by the end, they race the Subaru Saskatoon Triathlon in the lake with no wetsuit.

So that just goes to show, if you really want to do a triathlon, you can do it.”

Regnier herself started her triathlon career by doing the Masters at the Physical Activity Complex, with no previous triatholon experience. However, in just three years she has been able to work hard and train herself to where she is today.

“If you put in the work, you can definitely get the outcome. The triathlon club here at the U of S, I try to make it very inclusive. So if you want to be a very competitive athlete, I offer as much knowledge as I have to try to push you to

however good you want to be and if you want to do it for more fun and social, I can definitely help you with that too.”

She also acknowledges that she couldn’t have done what she has by herself. She owes a lot to her swim coach Jen Gertken.

“I owe a lot to Don Zealand and Prime West Mortgage Company who sponsored me to go to all my races this summer and I’m very grateful. I also owe a lot to RossAnn Edwards, my coach who’s

helped me. One day I said, ‘I would love to go to worlds,’ and I ended up qualifying so I owe her a lot for bringing me from a beginner knowing nothing about triathlon all the way up to going to my third world’s in three years.”

As for her future, after finishing her kinesiology degree this year, she has no plans on stopping her training, or competing in triathlons.

“This isn’t really a just a sport for me anymore, triathlon is a lifestyle now.

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Amanda Regnier helps train students who want to compete in triatholons.

Women’s soccer off on the right foot AUSTIN ARVAY Sports Editor Sweeping both Manitoba teams under the rug was a great way for the University of Saskatchewan Huskies women’s soccer team to kick off their season.

On Sept. 5 the Dogs downed the University of Winnipeg Wesmen by a score of 3–1 and then followed that up the next day by knocking off the University of Manitoba Bisons 3–1.

In the season opener, the Huskies opened the scoring thanks to third year striker Jenelle Zapski’s goal in the 19th minute of action.

Then just seven minutes later, Erica Hindmarsh scored her first of two goals for the day, firing a shot past Wesmen keeper Taylor Thorkelsson.

After halftime, the Wesmen would cut the lead in half when Danielle Bulloch took a perfect pass from Chesea Kwasnicki and put it past Huskies keeper Kyleigh Vause.

Hindmarsh would restore the twogoal Huskie lead with her second of the match in the 73rd minute.

Early on in the game an intense lightning storm moved in on the area and caused a 45-minute delay.

Thorkelsson was busy all night as the Dogs put 13 shots on goal,

compared to a mere four by her Wesmen teammates. The Huskies actually put an astounding 24 shots toward the goal, but only 13 hit the target.

The second game of the weekend turned into the Zapski show as the striker potted a hat trick to carry the Dogs to victory against the Bisons. Her first goal came in the 26th minute on a shot to the top of the box that beat Bisons keeper Martina Arran. She found the back of the net again before the half to give the Dogs a comfortable two-goal cushion. A corner from Meagan Manson was headed home by Zapski in the 44th minute for her second of the game.

In the second half, the green and white picked up right where they left off as Zapski completed her hat trick in the 49th minute. She finished off a beautiful cross from Carmen Gorlick for her fourth goal of the season.

Bruna Mavignier scored the Bisons’ first goal in the 65th minute on a nice assist from Kaylan Strang.

Dating all the way back to 2010, the win was the sixth straight for the Huskies over the Bisons.

Zapski’s performance over the weekend earned her the Canada West women’s first star of the week, making her the best female athlete in the conference.

The Dogs will host the Mount Royal University Cougars on Sept.

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Men’s soccer team starts out strong AUSTIN ARVAY Sports Editor The University of Saskatchewan Huskies men’s soccer team is off and running for the 2014 season, starting by defeating the University of Calgary Dinos not once but twice in the same weekend.

The Dogs completed the two game sweep of the Dinos in front of a home crowd, winning 4–1 on Sept. 6 and 2–1 the following day.

Coming into the new season, the squad was ranked sixth in the Canadian Interuniversity Sport preseason rankings and lived up to the billing in the season opener.

The game got off to an ugly start as Dinos forward Dominic Russo suffered a broken leg early on in the contest, which held up the game for 15 minutes while emergency personnel responded to the injury. Russo was then taken off the field in an ambulance.

After the brief delay, the Dinos would end up getting on the board first. Huskies defender Matthew Gillott had the ball bounce off him and past keeper

Michael Bandula to give Calgary a 1–0 lead. Just a short time later Huskies striker Garrett Peters was hauled down inside the penalty area and fellow striker David Brown stepped up and evened the score at one apiece.

In the second half, Peters would score the eventual game-winner in the 61st minute that put the Huskies up 2–1. Then in the 80th minute, striker Bobbi Nicholat added some insurance with a nice shot and Brett Levis would put the final nail in the Dinos’ coffin with a goal in the 90th minute to make the final score 4–1.

The following day the Huskies took care of business thanks to goals from David Brown and also from Levis, a two-time CIS all-Canadian athlete.

The Dinos opened the scoring for the second straight game thanks to Dominick Zator’s tally in the 51st minute. However, just five minutes later Levis evened the score with a free kick from 18 yards out. Then in the 67th minute Levis was tripped up in box and the Huskies were awarded a penalty kick. The aforementioned Brown drilled home the clinching goal and the Huskies found themselves at 2–0–0 on the season.

After making it all the way to the CIS national championship, an undefeated start to the year was exactly what the Huskies

were looking for.

Both Brown and Levis are tied for third in scoring in Canada West with five points each. The Dogs will need Levis to keep up his strong play at the striker position if they want to continue to win. After a strong 2013, he will be counted to lead the Huskies offensive attack in 2014.

defensive ends, projecting him as a fifth to sixth round pick. But as the draft went on, Sam continued to slide all the way down to pick 249 when the St. Louis Rams drafted him.

Sam slid further than any other SEC defensive player of the year in the last five years. C.J. Mosley, Sam’s co-award winner went to the Baltimore Ravens with the 17th overall pick of the draft. The last 11 SEC defensive players of the year were drafted in the first round of the NFL draft but Sam fell all the way to the end of the seventh round.

Handling the disappointment of the draft with class, Sam showed up to the St. Louis Rams training camp ready to prove he belonged. Unfortunately, a media circus also showed up and with them they brought the baggage that has held Sam down.

From all accounts, the Rams loved Sam, head coach Jeff Fisher loved Sam and Sam’s teammates loved Sam. He finished the preseason with 10 tackles and three sacks. To put that in perspective, 12 players had 2.5

or more sacks in the preseason, 10 are on main rosters, one is on a practice squad and the other was Sam. The Rams cut Sam as they made final trims to their roster. The NFL is fine with domestic abuse, drunk driving and dog fighting, but there wasn’t a roster spot for a gay player. Granted players like Michael Vick were proven stars, but not one NFL coach or general manager has said Sam can’t play because the truth is he can play in the NFL. After being released by the Rams, Sam went unclaimed off waivers and it looked as though his NFL dreams were going to be put on hold. Rumors started that the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League were going to sign Sam. Then as if the story didn’t already have enough drama it was announced that the Dallas Cowboys had signed Sam to their practice squad giving him another chance to make it to the NFL. Just before the start of the season Sam tweeted: “The most worthwhile things in life rarely

Following the perfect start to the season, the Dogs find themselves in a three-way tie for first in the Prairie division of the Canada West. The University of Alberta Golden Bears as well as the Mount Royal University Cougars are both 2–0–0.

This weekend the Huskies will take on the MacEwan University

Griffins for the first time in school history. The Griffins are winless on the season after dropping both decisions to the Cougars by scores of 4–0 and 4–1.

Next up, the Dogs travel to Edmonton to take on the 0–0–2 MacEwan University Griffins. Game times are 12:00 p.m. on Sept. 14 and 15.

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It was a perfect start to the season for the men’s soccer team as they beat the Calgary Dinos twice.

Sam deserves NFL shot KADE GATES

Before Michael Sam became college football’s first openly gay player he was already making a name for himself as one of the league’s premier pass rushers at the University of Missouri.

By the end of Sam’s college career, he had accumulated six forced fumbles, 19 tackles for a loss, 21 sacks and 123 tackles.

Sam was named Southeastern Conference’s Co-Defensive Player of the Year and a firstteam all-SEC selection and he capped off an impressive senior year by forcing a fumble that was returned for a touchdown cementing a Missouri victory in the 2014 Cotton Bowl.

Heading into the National Football League draft, Sam was projected to be a third round pick. However, a combination of being undersized for the position of defensive end and a poor combine raised questions about Sam’s speed and versatility.

By the time the draft rolled around in May, Sam was ranked between 12th and 25th among

come easy, this is a lesson I’ve always known. The journey continues.” Sam’s journey continues on the practice roster

with the Dallas Cowboys as he will continue to pursue his dream of playing in the NFL.

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Riders win Banjo Bowl, lose Durant for the season

AUSTIN ARVAY Sports Editor The Saskatchewan Roughriders just keep finding ways to win.

For the seventh straight game the club was victorious, completing a three game season sweep of

the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. The Riders downed the Bombers by a score of 30–24 in the annual Banjo Bowl in Winnipeg.

The win was overshadowed by the fact that starting quarterback Darian Durant tore a tendon in his elbow during the game after taking a hit from Bombers defensive lineman Bryant Turner Jr. It was announced on Sept. 9 that Durant would miss the remainder of the season with the injury.

That means it’s backup

quarterback Tino Sunseri’s team from here on out. Sunseri completed eight of nine passes for 77 yards in relief of Durant.

Yet again though, the Roughriders rushing attack paced them offensively and led them to victory.

Running back Anthony Allen won the Canadian Football League offensive player of the week after he ran for a total of 114 yards and scored a touchdown. Other backs Jerome Messam and Will Ford ran

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for 32 and 29 yards, respectively.

After the Riders’ special teams were called into question after giving up a return touchdown three weeks in a row, they came out and played their best game of the season.

They blocked a Lirim Hajrullahu field goal attempt and Rod Williams returned it 60 yards for a touchdown to give the Riders an 8–7 lead early in the second quarter.

Later in the frame, Allen scored his touchdown to stretch the lead to 20–8 for the Riders. Then, just a minute later, fan favourite Weston Dressler returned a punt 74 yards for a major to blow the game open and gave the green and white a 27–8 halftime lead.

The second half saw the Bombers mount a comeback, only before Drew Willy threw the game away with a costly interception late in the fourth quarter.

Before that, Willy threw touchdown passes of 14 and 29 yards to bring the Bombers within six points of the Riders. That was as close as they would come however, as the Riders defence shut the door from there on.

John Chick recorded his 13th sack of the season in the game and Terrell Maze, Tearrius George and Trevor Guyton also tallied quarterback takedowns. Tristan Jackson and the aforementioned Williams both intercepted the former Roughrider backup Willy.

The Roughrider defence was very uncharacteristic as they

allowed 404 total yards, compared to their season average of 310 yards per game. They used the old “bend but don’t break” philosophy — allowing Winnipeg to move the ball down field but not allowing them to rack up points.

Finding themselves in sole possession of second place in the West division, the win runs the Riders record to 8–2. They are chasing the Calgary Stampeders for first place who sit with an impressive 9–1 record on the season. The Roughriders will play the Stamps twice down the stretch, but they will be tough games with Durant not able to play in them.

The loss of Durant really puts a damper on an otherwise remarkable season for the team so far. As an unquestionable leader on the field and in the locker room, Durant’s leadership qualities will be dearly missed.

Such is sports — injuries happen and the best teams find ways to battle through adversity.

It’s now on the other 52 guys on the roster to step up and help the squad continue to win. Veterans such as Ricky Foley, Tyron Brackenridge, Brendon LaBatte and Taj Smith will all have to rise to the occasion and make up for the loss of Durant.

Next on the schedule is the 2–7 Hamilton Tiger-Cats, which is almost a must win game for the Riders to keep pace in the tight West division playoff race. The game goes Sept.14 at 11:00 a.m. on TSN.

Time for the NFL to go green KADE GATES In the National Football League, smoking pot is worse than domestic abuse — or at least that’s what the suspensions of Ray Rice and Josh Gordon tell us.

Gordon violated the NFL’s banned-substances policy for the second time in as many years — this summer he was again caught smoking marijuana.

Last year Gordon failed a drug test and was suspended for two games for smoking a joint. This year Gordon will miss the entire 2014 season because of the second infraction, though this time he argues that it was secondhand inhalation.

Rice, on the other hand, was suspended for the first two games of the 2014 season for knocking his fiancée out cold in an Atlantic City, N.J. elevator and dragging her body out.

In the third week of the NFL season, Rice’s Baltimore Ravens will play Gordon’s Cleveland Browns but only Rice will be on the field because smoking pot is

considered a worse crime than domestic violence.

This story shines light on the backwards policies and regulations of the NFL. Plaxico Burress brought an unlicensed gun in a nightclub and shot

himself in the leg only to receive a four game suspension — just a quarter of what Gordon got. The NFL has very outdated policies regarding marijuana.

Washington and Colorado have already legalized marijuana and

there are over 10 other states that aren’t far behind. It seems as though it will soon be legal to smoke pot in most places and it seems hard to find someone who would still argue that marijuana is worse for you than alcohol.

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The NFL is slowly progressing to an enlightened world but needs to pick up the pace before they start losing fans who aren’t willing to watch violent men and dog fighters play while casual marijuana smokers are forced out of the league because rules that are over 20 years old.

When they put drug offences under the collective bargaining agreement making all punishments mandatory and nearly ironclad, the NFL and the NFL Players Association sure did paint themselves into a corner.

The league has no excuse for why domestic abuse was only a two-game suspension up until a couple days ago when it was changed to six — even six isn’t nearly enough for an offence so disturbing. The second offence, which is a lifetime ban, should be the penalty for the first offence.

Send a message NFL, prove to all the skeptics that you’re not just a corporate, heartless, money making machine. Prove that the NFL really does care about their players conduct.

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NFL week two picks: Falcons win a wild one AUSTIN ARVAY Sports Editor Week one in the National Football League had plenty of action — including two games that went to overtime. There were upsets and surprises and many highlights, including a punter getting drop kicked in the face.

Sept. 11 Pittsburgh (1–0) at Baltimore (0–1) The Baltimore Ravens actually played well against the Cincinnati Bengals last week, but just couldn’t pull out the win. The Pittsburgh Steelers looked dominant in the first half against the Cleveland Browns, before collapsing in the fourth quarter and then pulling out a narrow 30–27 win. Take: Pittsburgh Sept. 14 Atlanta (1–0) at Cincinnati (1–0) The Atlanta Falcons upset the New Orleans Saints last week in overtime behind quarterback Matt Ryan’s career day. The offence looks great, but the defence is weak.

Cincinnati was solid last week, and wil have home field advantage. Take: Cincinnati Sept. 14 Miami (1–0) at Buffalo (1–0) Both teams are coming off of surprising wins in week one, with the Buffalo Bills prevailing in overtime over the Chicago Bears and the Miami Dolphins taking down the

New England Patriots. The Dolphins looked very good, but the Bills played well against a favoured Bears team.

This is yet another game that’s nearly too close to call. Take: Miami Sept. 14 Detroit (1–0) at Carolina (1–0) Quarterback Matt Stafford was excellent in the opener as they routed the New York Giants.

Carolina’s defence is arguably the best in the league and they carried the Panthers to a win in week one.

Take the defence. Take: Carolina Sept. 14 New Orleans (1–0) at Cleveland (0–1) The New Orleans Saints are coming off a tough loss to the division rival Falcons and now play the weak Browns. With injuries and suspensions piling up, the Browns could be in for a long afternoon against superstar quarterback Drew Brees. Take: New Orleans Sept. 14 New England (0–1) at Minnesota (1–0) The Minnesota Vikings humiliated the St. Louis Rams with a 34–6 victory last week, but this week will be a much tougher task. Following a loss, the Patriots come into town with quarterback Tom Brady who won’t let a win slip away two weeks in a row. Take: New England Sept. 14 Arizona (1–0) at New York Giants (0–1) There are so many things wrong with the Giants. A sputtering

offence and an incredibly porous defence doesn’t bode well for the team in the long run. The Arizona Cardinals on the other hand had a big fourth quarter comeback to claim a victory in the first week of the season. Take: Arizona Sept. 14 Dallas (0–1) at Tennessee (1–0) The Tennessee Titans were surprise victors in week one over the talented Kansas City Chiefs.

The Titans defence held all-star running back Jamaal Charles to just 17 yards rushing in the win. The Dallas Cowboys are a better team than they showed last week, but the Titans are at home Take: Tennessee Sept. 14 Jacksonville (0–1) at Washington (0–1) The Jacksonville Jaguars nearly made me eat my words last week, but in typical Jags fashion, they allowed 34 unanswered points to lose again. The Redskins looked particularly awful in a 17–6 loss to the weak Houston Texans. This is another toss-up featuring two subpar teams. Take: Washington Sept. 14 Seattle (1–0) at San Diego (0–1) Quarterback Russell Wilson and the Seahawks looked exceptional versus the Green Bay Packers, who are considered one of the better teams in the National Football Conference. The San Diego Chargers let one slip away in

Arizona last week and now they get the defending champs. Sitting in the extremely tight American Football Conference, a 0–2 start is bad news for the Chargers. Take: Seattle Sept. 14 St. Louis (0–1) at Tampa Bay (0–1) Both sides are coming off tough losses in week one. The Rams were demolished by the Vikings and scoring only six points isn’t going to win you many games. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers should be able to win this one at home against the lowly Rams. Take: Tampa Bay Sept. 14 Kansas City (0–1) at Denver (1–0) Quarterback Peyton Manning picked up right where he left off after a record setting 2013.

The Denver Broncos defence is improved and they look poised for a run at the Super Bowl. The Chiefs appeared to take a step backwards and this one could get ugly really fast. Take: Denver Sept. 14 New York Jets (1–0) at Green Bay (0–1) With the loud home crowd behind them, the Packers should have a big bounce back game after last week’s debacle. Quarterback Aaron Rodgers will have a much easier time with the young Jets secondary. The Jets played well enough to win last week against the Oakland Raiders, but just aren’t good enough to beat the Pack. Take: Green Bay

Sept. 14 Houston (1–0) at Oakland (0–1) Rookie quarterback Derek Carr played pretty decent in his NFL debut and he could be the future for the Raiders. Speaking of rookies, Texans first overall pick Jadeveon Clowney is out two months after injuring his knee. Both teams are young and this could be an exciting game. Take: Oakland Sept. 14 Chicago (0–1) at San Francisco (1–0) Even with the rash of injuries to their defence, the San Francisco 49ers looked excellent in their victory over Dallas. Quarterback Colin Kaepernick moved the football with precision and made it look easy in the process. The Bears lost in overtime to the Bills, whom they should have beaten. Playing a strong San Fran team is a tough rebound for Chicago. Take: San Francisco Sept. 15 Philadelphia (1–0) at Indianapolis (0–1) Episode two of Monday Night Football has two good young quarterbacks going toe-to-toe.

Andrew Luck and Nick Foles will put on a good show, but Luck and the Colts are difficult to beat at home.

Take: Indianapolis Last week’s record: 10–6 Overall record: 10–6

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USST reaches for

High Altitude Balloon tak HENRYTYE GLAZEBROOK Senior News Editor The University of Saskatchewan Space Design Team’s project doesn’t seem that impressive at a glance. A tangled mess of wires and electronics bursting forth from a violently hatched Styrofoam shell, with a rickety stabilizing arm shooting through the centre and out from the sides like spindly limbs — it’s incredible to think that this contraption was carried nearly 30 kilometres into the sky just over a month ago.

The project is a High Altitude Balloon and it’s the second attempt that the USST has made at reaching that 30 km target. Launched on Aug. 2 from the U of S campus, the HAB was pulled upward by three cubic metres of hydrogen — chosen because of its lower density when compared to the Earth’s oxygen-rich environment — which steadily expanded the balloon as atmospheric changes in pressure occurred until it reached its breaking point.

Austin Shirley, who worked alongside the project’s four to five fluctuating members and was voted in last year as vice-president of engineering for the USST, explained the process of the balloon’s lift in detail.

“As it goes up it keeps expanding and, because there’s less pressure outside, as it keeps expanding it keeps giving more lift,” Shirley said. “Like how when you let go of a helium balloon and it just goes up forever, this’ll keep going up until it expands so much that it has to pop — it can’t stretch anymore — and that happens at about 30 km in the sky.”

Though the USST hoped to reach 30 km, the balloon burst shy of their goal at the relatively close altitude of over 27 km. The height marks an ascent well into the Earth’s stratosphere.

“The target was definitely 30 km and we didn’t reach it because there’s a bit of a balance between the amount of lift you get from the balloon as well as how fast you go up and how long you want the balloon to last,” Shirley said. “If it goes up slower there’s a better chance of it going higher because the balloon won’t pop as soon, but if you want to go up quickly then you have to put more gas in it and that means it’ll expand and pop faster higher in the atmosphere.”

Even though the team has yet to reach its goal, Shirley believes that with a bit of recalibration they’ll be successful.

“We have to find the right balance of weight and the amount of gas before we can actually get to 30, 35. I don’t know if higher than 35 is actually possible, but definitely 30 is possible. We got very close on this launch and on our previous launch last fall.”

Any concerns that the HAB could cause damage

after its balloon support pops, perhaps by landing on someone or crashing into something of value, are easily accounted for.

Weighing in at a relatively spry three kilograms, the craft was supported during its descent by a parachute, which was not released at a certain point but was rather hauled alongside as a pre-deployed part of the overall mechanism.

Coupled with this apparatus, the craft also featured two separate global positioning system transmitters which were used to track it live as it made its voyage — one of which was donated by the Saskatoon Amatuer Radio Club and was included under mandatory conditions set by Transport Canada.

The latter group helped oversee the procedure to prevent the HAB’s flight path from interfering with any air travel happening in the surrounding area.

The flight path is also fairly simple to track, as the HAB “always follows the jetstream at that altitude, so it’ll almost always head East,” according to Shirley.

Despite the various failsafes in place intended to prevent issues from arising, the USST did run into some trouble near the end of a journey that saw it travelling a distance of 60 km across the prairies and eventually splashing into a pond outside of Zelma, Sask.

Though the HAB’s watery end point would seem to spell disaster, it in fact had little effect on the process.

“Because of the Styrofoam it floated and it floated nice and upright, so it was pretty easy to retrieve,” Shirley said, acknowledging that he wasn’t personally there for the recovery.

While its ability to float meant that any electronics onboard remained undamaged by the unexpected splash at flight’s end, the Styrofoam also proved to be a quite versatile material for enclosing the HAB’s payload — though the final product’s chewed appearance would suggest otherwise.

“Part of the plan is that it does get damaged. Most of it’s made out of fairly cheap materials,” Shirley said. The shell “is made out of Styrofoam and it’s a pretty good insulator. It’s homemade Styrofoam insulation, so as it becomes -60 degrees Celsius outside, it only goes to about -40 inside. If these electronics became -60 they would probably stop working, so it is really important to keep it properly enclosed. It’s so enclosed in fact that we have to tear it apart afterwards in order to collect our data.”

Other materials used included an ice cream bucket, which helped to protect an antenna for transmitting data.

In total, the project only cost an estimated $120 worth of materials, though some were supplied via sponsorships from groups like Solidworks, which donates licensing for their software to the USST, local engineering groups Space Engineering Division and WRT Equipment as well as the Saskatoon Engineering Students Society and the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan.

Though the balloon itself is the most striking part of the HAB project, the real science is happening just below. Encased in the Styrofoam frame are a

series of devices that were the balloon as it drifts s additional informtaion, inc magnetometer and a gyros electronics that recorded Components such as captured video for the d resulting footage, which w has since been compiled in reel available on the USST Some of the images th the resulting video are not “At that height you c curvature of the Earth,” S see the sky is completely don’t see the blue sky any Another piece of equipm infrared camera, which th of scientific pet project on “Near-infrared is not qu so you can still see it wi true infrared as far as s Shirley said. “The idea b photosynthesis happens of the visible light and refle see the leaves and they w the sun because that’s the comes from the sun and w most it’s actually reflectin can — the idea being tha infrared camera you can most photosynthesis is h farmyards and in trees.”

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a lot of wiring, a lot of tape, ad no idea what to expect, board,” Shirley said. “It’s amlined.” nch — which is tentatively ugh it may be put off until dules don’t line up — the with the idea of including s ‘floaters’ in an effort to loon pressure.

“It’s got a little valve that it releases gas at a certain altitude to make sure that is doesn’t pop as it gets too high. So you can get it to 20 km, get it to 30 km and then it just stays there. You have to find the balance,” Shirley said. “We haven’t figured out a way to do it yet and we don’t know if that’s in the scope of this project. It’s a simple thing but it requires a lot of testing and a lot of time and money invested to actually make that work for us.”

The team is also considering using the HAB as a means of doing community outreach with schools now that they’re more familiar with the process of designing and building one themselves, which is how the project had been originally conceived by thenpresident Justin Gerein.

“What he wanted to do was to contact the schools and say, ‘If your kids can think of a project, we’ll make it with them; we’ll put it in the HAL 2 balloon and we’ll put their project 30,000 meters in the air,” said Thomas Johnson, president of the USST. In the meanwhile, the team is largely focused on their primary project: a Mars rover. First built during the 2013–14 academic year, the current version is a large metallic creature roughly the size of particularly large dog, wirelessly controlled and featuring a looming claw-like arm. Entered into the University Rover Challenge that took place last May in Parkland, Utah, the USST was pleased that their rover placed seventh overall.

Hosted by the Mars Society, the URC focuses on designs that would be beneficial to human life on the Red Planet.

“The Mars Society is a group of people that are interested in what living on Mars is going to be about.

Unlike the Mars rovers and Curiosity, this rover is about being controlled by people, doing tasks that assist people side-by-side,” Shirley said. “So it would focus on things like going over rough terrain — which a scientific rover would never do — picking up tools and doing equipment servicing — which is what the arm is really, really critical for.”

The location for the URC was chosen for its geographical consistency with the surface of Earth’s neighbouring planet.

The team also plans to enter their second design into the European Rover Challenge in Poland next September. Though they considered entering their first design into the 2014 ERC, they ultimately decided it would be better to regroup for 2015.

“We were considering going in [this year] but this is our first crack at a rover,” Johnson said.

“It’d be like taking your first draft of an essay and submitting it to a book writing competition,” Shirley added.

Though they are proud of the work they did for the 2014 URC, the team plans to retrofit their current build as a show model and start fresh for the competitions in 2015.

“There’s still a lot of problems with our design that we couldn’t have known until we actually did the competition,” Shirley said. “This was our first time doing [the URC], so there’s a lot of things we learned

about what the terrain is like and what the challenges are really like outside of what the rulebook says, so we think the best idea is just to start from scratch and build a whole new rover now that we know what the true design requirements are actually going to be.”

While the team has other smaller projects that they work on periodically, Johnson and Shirley said that how the USST divides its time is largely dictated by its members.

“We’re always looking for more people. A lot of the projects we do and how far we get them really depends on how dedicated our members are that are coming in. So if we get some people coming in that are really interested in atmospheric science, than this project could really take off and get really big,” Shirley said. “The more members the better, and the more members we have possibly the more projects we can do at once, too.”

Begun by a group of master’s students in 2005, the USST has grown exponentially since it first got together to work on concepts for a space elevator — a theoretical space railroad of sorts that would involve leaving Earth without the use of rocketpropelled vehicles. The team is now largely made up of undergraduates, though Glenn Hussey of the university’s physics department does act as a faculty advisor. Still, the team is largely self-managed and only reaches out to Hussey and other faculty members in an advisory capacity.

“We’re a student run group. We make all the decisions ourselves and we do all the project management ourselves,” Johnson said. “Through the engineering faculty, we have advisors… to help us. For instance, our finances have a fund through the university. We have a faculty advisor because we’re an engineering student group, so we give him updates on what we’re doing. But it’s really openended as to what we do. He just kind of makes sure we don’t do illegal things.”

Though the HAB project was a relatively simple one for the USST to tackle, especially when compared with their Mars rover, Shirley outlined the scientific benefits of undertaking it by explaining the differing conditions as you increase in altitude.

“Down on Earth it’s very easy — the temperatures are pretty mild and the pressures are normal and there’s lots of oxygen and plants and stuff — but as you get higher and higher, close to space, the temperatures get either hotter or colder depending on what area of the atmosphere you’re in and also the pressures decrease,” Shirley said. “There’s a lot of room for studying high atmosphere stuff, and the best way of doing that is launching a high altitude balloon.”

“The high altitude balloon itself is a really versatile way of getting a whole bunch of equipment up really high where it would be really hard to get a plane that high. There’s only a few planes that can go 30 km.”

Those interested in joining the USST can reach out to Johnson at pres@usst.ca or through the team’s website at usst.ca/contact.

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STEPHANIE MAH / GRAPHICS EDITOR

Tonight It's Poetry transports the mind to a whole other world AYAN GULED Language is the most important tool humanity has. It allows us to express endless emotions and experiences with one another.

Poetry is one of many art forms that have enabled us to do this.

I had the wonderful opportunity to attend the first night of Tonight It’s Poetry’s brand new community stage at the Woods Alehouse on Sept. 7.

First of all, if you haven’t been to the Woods I suggest you stop by — a clean, friendly and relaxing environment awaits you. They offer an impressive selection of draught beer proudly made by the Saskatoon-based

breweries Paddock Wood and Prairie Sun. In addition to the fine pint selection, customers can enjoy an assortment of burgers, sandwiches and starters with their Sunday night poetry fix.

The show began with a quick introduction about the group Tonight It’s Poetry from board member Isaac Bond. I first met Bond this past summer at Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan where he performed some inspiring spoken word pieces.

Bond described TiP as a weekly spoken word — or any other form of poetry — series that gives both local and national artists a stage to share their work.

The main feature for the

opening night was the extremely talented Joel “Dash” Reimer. The audience was taken on a tearjerking adventure as Reimer shared his experiences with love, life and his daily struggle with mental health issues.

Many talented poets took to the stage, which in turn inspired me to read my own work — and let me tell you, it was a nerveracking thing to do. But the audience’s warm and welcoming smiles got me through it.

Now I know what you’re thinking — how can I possibly stand in front of a crowd of strangers and read my personal thoughts to them? It is definitely not an easy task, but it is an

exhilarating thing to do.

Many of us have to present in our classes all the time and to have blank-faced students stare back at you is dreadful. Imagine being in an environment where people are eager to hear what you have to say, where judgment is left at the door and your success is all anyone wants. That’s what poetry night with TiP is all about.

Discrimination and hateful slander is put aside and all that is left is a loving place where anything magical can happen.

I will most likely be making the weekly trip to the Woods for some tasty brews and enchanting readings in the future. I honestly cannot think of a better way to

spend a Sunday evening.

Next week will feature Shanda Stefanson at the Haiku Death Match. If you’re like me and have no clue on how to write a haiku you should go a bit early, hang out with some new faces and learn a few fun tricks about the art of poetry writing.

“If you have something to say, you should come on down and say it. We exist for speaking and listening. It is an honour, privilege, specialty and gift that the Tonight It’s Poetry community want to extend to as many people as possible,” Bond said.

You can catch the Tonight It’s Poetry crew Sundays at 7:30 p.m. at the Woods Alehouse.

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Jann Arden at TCU Place

The New Jacobin Club with guests at Amigos Cantina

Sparky at Amigos Cantina

Shockload with Ellesmere at Capitol Music Club

Fernie Turnbull at Bud’s on Broadway

Super Jam at Somewhere Else Pub & Grill

Hedda Gabler at the Persephone Theatre

La Luz with Phalic Baldwin at Vangelis Tavern

Saskatchewan Intercultural Association at Art Drop-in at SCYAP Prairieland Park Art Centre & Gallery The Laugh Shop at Park Town Hotel feat.

Craig Sherburne, Dave Stawnicky and Tim Kubasek

Eamon McGrath with Slates at Vangelis Tavern YXE Food Truck Festival at the River Landing Russell Peters at Credit Union Centre Fronteras Americanos at the Greystone Theatre

Saskatoon Terry Fox Run on Spandina Crescent and 20th Street

LB5Q Presents: Blackout at TCU Place

Liminality: A Transient Gaze at the Gordon Snelgrove Gallery How To Lose Your Virginity at the Broadway Theatre

Eagle Tears at Capitol Music Club Just In Case at the Broadway Theatre Open Stage at Amigos Cantina

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Homestead Ice Cream offers patrons the breakfast of champions

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Heaping plates of delicious brunch food await your tastebuds at Homestead Ice Cream.

MADISON TAYLOR Culture Editor Residents of Saskatoon have satisfied their sweet tooths at Homestead since 1978, sampling a mind-boggling assortment of soft and hard ice cream flavours ranging from classics such as vanilla and cookie dough to headscratchers like dill pickle and Guinness. But did you know that Homestead also serves brunch?

From 9 a.m. to noon Fridays through Sundays, Homestead offers a small but delicious selection of brunch food for their customers. Going for brunch also means avoiding the flood of nighttime customers that usually fill the joint most days of the week.

The menu includes a choice of light and crispy waffles, mini quiche and their newly developed wonder-sandwich, the waffle B.E.L.T. Once choosing the basis of your brunch, you can decide to top it with anything from fresh berries — Saskatoon berries, raspberries, blackberries or blueberries — sour cherries, chocolate or caramel sauce, to a scoop of ice cream and a dollop of whipped cream.

This is certainly not the healthiest way to start your day, but isn’t that what weekends are all about? Indulge in some syrupsoaked waffles and a hearty scoop of made-in-house ice cream and while you’re at it, try a steaming mug of coffee or tea on the side.

Having been a dedicated member of the Homestead waffle cone fan-club for over a year now, I was eager to test drive their new brunch menu. The first thing that caught my eye was a PostIt note stuck to the side of the menu laying out the contents of their newest addition, the waffle B.E.L.T. A breakfast sandwich made up of bacon, an egg (fried with chopped green peppers and onion), lettuce, tomato and cheese cradled between two crisp waffles, the B.E.L.T sounded just disgusting enough to be delicious.

After taking a few bites though, I was pleasantly surprised. What initially seemed a little bit too outthere for Sunday brunch ended up being the perfect combination of traditional and experimental breakfast food — and probably the perfect hangover cure as well.

Homestead also allows customers to enjoy their meals in the ambience of their 1950s inspired diner decor. Despite having only opened in the late 1970s, they do a convincing job of replicating the retro malt shop look of those vintage restaurants we all know and love. They really do have it all — the black and white checkered floors, the vinyl booth seating, the candy striper servers and even the jukebox. Best of all, you can scarf down a plate of waffles while artists such as Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin croon away in the background.

On top of their authentic dining experience, Homestead offers their food at prices that wouldn’t be out of place in the past. A plate of waffles, a waffle B.E.L.T, two coffees, bacon on the side and a generous amount of added toppings only rang in at around

$20 — a perfectly reasonable meal for the penny-pinching student.

It seems Homestead is really beginning to branch out from their ice cream scooping roots.

Since beginning to offer a brunch

menu, there have also been rumblings of the restaurant starting up a food truck.

There is no proposed finish date for this project, but for now I’m content to dream of an ice cream truck with a tinkling bell

and a mustachioed driver touring around the city and handing out heaping waffle cones to delighted children and tipsy bar-goers alike.

Visit Homestead Ice Cream at 822 Victoria Avenue, open every day of the week until 10:30 p.m.

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Slow Leaves: More of the same old folk-country BRADEN HURSH Slow Leaves — the recording alias of singer Grant Davidson — recently released a full-length album that blends into the mass of folk-country music that is already on the market.

Following Tired Limbs for Ashes (2009) and Dust and Violets (2011), his most recent album Beauty Is So Common is a poetic look at the genre. From Winnipeg, Mb., Davidson’s prairie roots can be heard sneaking through this calm acoustic music. Fitting into the genre like so many other indie artists from Western Canada, Slow Leaves uses widely accepted and somewhat predictable lyrical topics.

The musical styling of Slow Leaves is evident in its name. The music is in no hurry as it often begins quietly with a single guitar and soft vocals, collecting the sounds of other instruments and increasing its pace as the song progresses. Like leaves in the wind, the music starts slow, swirls, rises and finally settles.

The obvious strength of Beauty Is So Common lies in the heartfelt lyrics and warm

accompanying guitar, harmonica and soft percussion, as seven of the ten tracks are either purely slow or progressive tunes. The attempt to inject what may be considered lively songs into the middle and end of Beauty Is So Common takes away from the album as a whole. The inclusion of songs such as “Neighbourhood Watch” and “Country of Ideas” — although understandable as perhaps a means of a brief tonal shift — is unnecessary and largely detrimental to the album as a whole however, the energetic “Life of a Better Man” is undeniably a great song.

Davidson recruited Rusty Matyas, producer of Imaginary Cities’ debut album, to produce Beauty Is So Common. Yet the pop music experience of Matyas does not seem to match what the sound of Slow Leaves should be — pure folk-country without the attempted rock-like songs included that may appeal to a wider crowd.

The music of Beauty Is So Common is not that of bright sunny days, nor would it be played on the main-stage at a music festival. This is music about love and idealizing

nature like a Romantic poet, but in an honest and believable way.

The lyrics may be considered sappy — but to be fair, basically any love poetry can fall into that category. The lyrics are for people that believe in the storybook kind of love. This is music to listen to during the winter hours, in a coffee shop, or at an intimate and relaxed venue such as a small pub.

Although Slow Leaves makes music that is easy to listen to and has lyrical merit, there is very little that differentiates it from the huge percentage of bands within the same genre.

Folk-country is currently saturated in both the indie and mainstream market, placing the onus on new artists to be different or more appealing in some way, shape, or form. Slow Leaves has not set itself apart or broken any new ground. Instead, Davidson has found a comfortable spot in a genre that is accepted as being quite similar from one band to the next. Musical comparisons to Slow Leaves could be made to such artists as Angus Stone, Ray LaMontagne, Jeremy Fisher and Dawes.

Beauty Is So Common is

undoubtedly an album designed to fit a specific mood. It is not something that could be listened to unless it strikes your fancy. It is not an outstanding album by any

means, but it would be great to have as background music while studying or maybe if you have indeed found that storybook and idealized kind of love.

MIKE LATSHISLAW

Singer Grant Davidson fits comfortably into the folk music scene.

The Broadway Street Fair celebrates 31 years of fun

MADISON TAYLOR Culture Editor Broadway Avenue is undoubtedly one of Saskatoon’s trendiest districts. It is the place to take a first-timer to the city, the place to take a date, the place to shop for unique local swag and it is home to a variety of yearly festivals and events — the smallest and most intimate of which being the Broadway Street Fair.

The Broadway Street Fair celebrated its 31st birthday this year on Sept. 6. The five-block fairgrounds were flooded with well over 1,000 locals and tourists alike after opening at 10 a.m. as the party kept going all day long.

For those early risers, the event kicked off with a pancake breakfast and miniature parade.

Throughout the afternoon the streets filled with vendors, vintage European cars supplied by the Saskatchewan British Car Club and displays of pottery, woodwork, and paintings from local artisans.

The surrounding Broadway businesses supplied stacks upon stacks of books, rows of running shoes and endless racks of clothes on sale that lined the sidewalk, offering special one day promotions for eager shoppers to take advantage of.

Broadway Street Fair is most unique in its ability to provide local vendors with the opportunity to display and sell their work — as opposed to the Fringe Festival, which places a larger emphasis on provincial and nation-wide artists.

Many booths were recognizable as being from local businesses and designers, offering creative pieces such as graffiti welcome signs by Saskatoon-based artist Ryan Kerpan, an assortment of beautiful hand-made jewelry and a wide variety of independently published books sold out of Broadway’s Turning the Tide bookstore.

Some of Saskatoon’s finest food trucks also made an appearance, offering delicious treats to fairgoers. Thrive Juice, Ace Burger, Pineapple Express and Snak Truck were just a handful of the options available that made it out to the street fair — one of their last major events before the busy festival season meets its untimely end.

Live performers dotted the sidewalk throughout the day, showcasing everything from Ukrainian dancing, Riverdance, magic shows and cheerleading demonstrations to local busking talent. In addition to passive entertainment, the fair encouraged attendees to take an active role in the fun — offering a dunk tank, bouncy castles, lifesized root beer pong game, super slide and pie throwing contest for the pleasure of its participants.

An annual event that allows kids to act their age — and adults to forget theirs — the Broadway Street Fair celebrates all that is summertime fun.

Taking place on the Saturday after Labour Day every year when

the days begin to shorten and the weather takes a down spiral, it acts as an epitaph to the last days of summer that Saskatonians are so reluctant to let go.

The warmest months of the year are undeniably when the city

feels most alive and it is difficult to accept that we must say goodbye to the gooey food truck burgers and half-melted ice cream cones and start bundling up for that infamous Saskatchewan winter.

A busker at the Broadway Street Fair strums soulfully on his resonator guitar.

JEFF GLASEL

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A Most Wanted Man covers espionage for the modern age TAB RAHMAN Copy Editor Reminiscent of old-school spy thrillers, A Most Wanted Man delivers a compelling and humanistic view of terrorism, espionage and bureaucratic power play. It is a tense, slow-burning watch that allows viewers to step behind the scenes and explore the innerworkings of the government on an international scale.

Based on John le Carré’s novel of the same name, A Most Wanted Man starts off with a shot of the waters of the Elbe river rushing against the cement banks of Hamburg, Germany while a text overlay explains how the Sept. 11 attacks were planned in that city.

The muted colours and crystal clear view of sewage water certainly set the tone for the rest of the movie.

Günther Bachmann — played masterfully by the late Philip Seymour Hoffman — is a German agent that heads up an espionage group that operates off the books for the German government. Their objective is to gather intelligence from the Muslim community in Hamburg to find and stop the person that has been funnelling large amounts of money to alQaida. To do this they start tracking Issa Karpov (Grigoriy Dobrygin), a Chechnyan refugee that enters Hamburg illegally after escaping torture from Russian authorities.

The Russians label Issa as an extremely dangerous terrorist, one that Günther should be trying to stop from attacking Hamburg.

But as we see him interacting with the players around him, there is a sense that not everything is clearcut. Not once during the movie do we actually see Issa attempt any violence, acts of terror or even make eye contact with most of the characters. Rather, he says he wants to move to Germany to start a new life for himself away from the violence of his past.

The best thing about the film is that the audience is never sure which view of Issa is the correct one, or if there even is a correct view at all. In fact, there is no clearcut good-guy or bad-guy as seen with most movies that deal with Islamist terrorism. Every player has their own motive and agenda that they’re trying to accomplish by screwing over everyone else.

Issa’s immigration lawyer Annabel Richter (Rachel McAdams) is possibly one of the only characters with altruistic motives, but she unfortunately gets wrapped up in Günther’s game of intrigue. She initially gets in touch with Issa’s father’s banker, Tommy Brue (Willem Dafoe), to collect his inheritance from his late dictatorial father. What she doesn’t know is that Tommy is being blackmailed and influenced by Günther in order to leave Issa without money, resources or any type of help in Hamburg.

At its heart, A Most Wanted Man is a modern tale about terrorism and the complicated relationship between Muslim immigrants and the West in a post-9/11 society. At the end of the movie, you leave the theatre wondering if any terrorists have actually been caught, if the government has done any good or if the world is any better off.

A Most Wanted Man certainly shows the stark reality of the Western powers’ war on terror on the ground level — where it’s disenfranchised Muslims in poor and immigrant communities that are arrested — with or without cause. As a child of a Muslim immigrant family, I certainly left the movie wondering how different my family’s life and experiences would be if we tried to immigrate after 9/11, something I am sure is intentional on director Anton Corbjin’s part.

Hoffman’s character had very little dialogue compared to many other characters in the movie, but his gruff and sardonic words only accentuate his visible struggle to deal with the events of the film.

While Günther truly believes his methods and actions are right — being a very “ends justify the means” kind of guy — the power struggles between different bureaucracies and having to deal with the consequences of other people’s mistakes certainly wear him down throughout the film.

A Most Wanted Man marks Hoffman’s final performance on film and while the viewer can certainly see something is physically not right with Hoffman, his intense performance really drives home the fact that a great actor has been lost from the silver screen.

Corbjin has a masterful hand when it comes to the direction of the film. The gorgeous architecture of Hamburg is nothing but a subtle backdrop to the human story being told in the city. Every shot focuses on the characters, their emotions

and their struggles. Corbjin draws on traditional German culture and etiquette as he has the characters refer to each other using their last names — with the exception of Issa and Annabel, who have a complex relationship beyond being mere friends.

Though overly action-filled at certain times, the movie is certainly a slow burn. But if a classic humanistic spy thriller is what you’re looking for, A Most Wanted Man will definitely suit your taste.

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Sex crime? Try privacy and property violation

NAOMI ZUREVINSKI Opinions Editor On Aug. 31, nude photographs of a number of celebrities were leaked online — including Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Teresa Palmer and Ariana Grande. Tech News claims there were over 100 women targeted with the release.

Some of the female celebrities have reported the photos to be fake, but others were not so lucky and it turns out the photographs are the real, naked deal.

An online article I read from Forbes reported that this event should be classified as a sex crime; one involving theft of personal property and exploitation of the human body. I do agree with classifying this as a crimes of theft and exploitation, but I cannot agree with calling it a sex crime. When it comes to nude photos, should these women be held responsible at all for having the photos in the first place?

The term “sex crime” is usually used for rape, prostitution, sexual assault and cases relating to commercialized vice. This type of crime does not seem to fit the bill for this specific situation. It is probably

more appropriate to call the release of these nude photos a “sexual offence” if they are to be classified as some sort of sexual exploitation, which according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation defines as offences “against chastity, common decency, morals and the like.”

Based on this defenition, the category of sexual offence is fairly vague and largely subjective. But the photos were stolen through hacking iCloud, an online storage service that automatically backs up iPhone photos, clearly making this a theft of private property. It is very clear that the photos were not meant for public consumption.

It would be very easy to put the blame for the nude photo leaks on the female celebrities themselves — if you had the photos in the first place, what can you expect? Even I would be leery carrying around nude photographs on my phone or putting them onto my computer.

You never know when your phone or computer could get stolen, lost or someone else could casually go on the device and happen upon a little surprise.

The women involved did nothing morally wrong as to take nude photos of themselves in the first place — that is their own decision — but because they have responsibility for the initial photos, the consequences that fall from the photos being leaked have to fall on their shoulders to a certain extent.

The classification of this as a “sex

crime” is partially due to the fact that these women are famous and therefore the whole thing tends to be blown out of proportion. It may sound harsh, but consider this: if a University of Saskatchewan student’s nude Snapchat was making its way around the internet, would the world be so forgiving as to label it a sex crime, or would we laugh at the woman’s foolishness at risking to send a nude snap in the first place?

This situation described is a little different from the one at hand, but probably the latter of the two options would be the reaction.

That’s not to say that it is the correct reaction and that the person who screen-shotted the Snapchat is innocent, but with the way things tend to work, it is highly likely that the girl in the photo is going to be blamed — and that the person who took the screenshot is not going to be charged for a sexual crime or offence.

If you send someone a nude photo or keep photos on a electronic device for later use, that is your own risk. Someone hacking into anything or seeing the photos could happen at any time and to anyone — and it is to be expected that celebrities would be targeted over the general public.

Ideally, it should be assumed that total privacy is allocated to one’s personal property and we shouldn’t have to worry about any violations of that, but this is not a

perfect world nor is that the reality of the situation.

I must say that leaking these photos was a very disrespectful and unnecessary thing to do. It’s not funny and it’s nothing to be proud of. So yes, that specific person or persons are at fault for revealing them to the world.

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not easy for Canadians.

In a column Stephen Harper wrote for the Calgary Sun in 2001 he said, “It's extremely difficult for someone to become bilingual in a country that is not." Yes, we

have two official languages, but it is indeed quite a stretch to attempt to claim that we live in a bilingual country. In fact, the vast majority of the population consists of exclusively Englishspeaking citizens.

In anglophone Canada, bilingualism is very much optional in the form of French immersion and core French programs in elementary and secondary schools. However, should it be this way? Given that the purpose of education is to prepare the youth for their future so that they may succeed individually and as a whole nation, bilingualism should be an indispensable part of education and more highly regarded.

According to a 2011 census

by Statistics Canada, only 17.5 per cent of Canadians are able to converse in both English and French. In contrast, more than half of the European Union's citizens are bilingual or even multilingual.

The EU's current language policy requires students to learn at least one language in addition to their mother tongue in secondary school.

Multilingualism grants EU

students certain advantages over Canadian students in the increasingly globalized world such as preference in the global job market and intercultural understanding.

Maybe a certain level of proficiency in French — the reverse being English in Quebec and other francophone areas — should be required of students in order to graduate from high school in Canada. As a former French immersion student, I don't believe that such a change would be too drastic and that the school system would still remain far simpler than that of the EU. It is difficult to argue against the benefits of bilingualism.

Studies have shown that learning multiple languages provides cognitive advantages — essentially it makes you smarter.

Bilingualism also tends to improve many complex cognitive processes such as attention span, inhibition, monitoring, selection, memory and planning. Besides improving cognitive function and awareness, bilingualism's effects on the brain have also been known to protect against some mental illnesses, namely dementia in old age.

themselves from their privacy being intruded upon in this way — if I want nude photos then I should be able to rest assured that they will be for my own distribution only.

But this is clearly not the way it goes and if I were a famous woman holding onto nude photographs, I might just take more caution in the matter.

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All Canadians should be bilingual PETER PARK

In a world where subtitles and Google Translate exist, why bother learning a second language? The task is certainly

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Aside from the cognitive benefits, there are the obvious practical benefits like the ability to communicate with francophones in Quebec and abroad. Additionally, employers love seeing bilingualism on a resumé, particularly if you're looking for a career in government. In this day and age when an ever increasing amount of information is being shared through the internet, fluency in an additional language can prove to be a very useful tool.

Again, becoming bilingual is by no means a walk in the park. I do feel that it is difficult to learn a new language when you're not immersed in it. Going to class and reading a French textbook doesn't quite compare to listening and conversing in French.

Canada really isn't a bilingual country in practice, so it's not often that French is heard in everyday situations. The amount of time it takes to make any significant progress is huge; it is a big commitment and takes dedication to stick with it. Nevertheless, the benefits outweigh the costs.

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Don’t shoot: Bringing race into Michael Brown’s death AYAN GULED I would like to give my condolences to the Brown family.

With all the unrest going on in Ferguson, Mo. they are the ones who are truly suffering. The life of 18-year-old Michael Brown has come to an abrupt end and nothing can be done to bring him back to his family. While riots take place in Ferguson and claims of racism and police misconduct ensue, the Browns are just trying to find out what happened to their loved one.

Brown’s death seems to have occurred for no reason. However,

this leads me to question how much race may have been a factor in his death. There are huge injustices to deal with that the people of Ferguson are currently facing.

Let’s start with what we know: Brown was with a friend and walking down the middle of the street when officer Darren Wilson approached them in his police cruiser. It’s presumed that Wilson was telling the boys to move to the sidewalk, which is a reasonable request.

Now here is where it gets complicated. Many differing

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son’s death.

witness accounts claim that Brown and Wilson got into a disagreement while Wilson was still in his car. After the struggle, it is said that a few shots were heard coming from the car. Brown and his friend took off running and Wilson began pursuit. So far, none of this seems like a racial incident given what we know. The only questionable aspect is the gunshots, but there is no way to know why they were fired since Wilson claims his gun misfired during the disagreement.

Witnesses say that Wilson fired shots at the boys as they were running away and that Brown’s body jerked — it appeared he was struck. Now it starts to get hairy: Brown either turned around with his hands in the air and apparently took a step towards Wilson — who continued to shoot — or he collapsed forward due to having been shot from behind.

In no way do I believe that all police officers are racist and trigger-happy mongrels nor do I believe that every person shot or arrested by police is innocent.

I admire the police for constantly putting their lives at risk to protect citizens. It’s a tough job and can put a lot of stress and pressure on anyone especially in this day and age.

That being said, the recruitment

and training methods should be put under more care and screening. It seems that there are more and more instances lately where an officer shoots someone — with a high incidence involving visible minorities — without probable reason and then gets away with it. The excuse commonly used is that the victim appeared too dangerous and was concealing a weapon, which is later found to not be true.

In regards to Brown, he had no weapon and was running away when he was shot from behind.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but since when is it okay to shoot an unarmed teen?

I’m going to have to pull the race card and say that officers — and people in general — are quicker to judge and attack whenever a black, male teenager is involved, as opposed to when the person in question is a white. Although this is not always the case, it happens more often than not.

Ferguson is currently a militarized zone where citizens — predominantly black — and police officers — predominantly white — are at war. Yes, it’s a race war. Yes, the people feel misrepresented with a lack of their peers being in the police force.

What was meant to be a peaceful protest against the discrimination

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that citizens have been facing has turned into America’s worst battle of the decade. The police are using military grade equipment on innocent and harmless people seeking justice. Am I the only one who thinks that giving people who seem power hungry and trigger-happy even more powerful weapons is a terrible idea?

To make matters worse, the police force has claimed that Wilson may have presumed Brown to be a suspect from a robbery that had occurred that same day. Brown was shot two times in the back and six times in the front. Being unarmed and having no criminal record were not enough to protect Brown from the police pinning him as a robbery suspect.

It’s sad, but this is the reality of the times. This isn’t the first time police brutality has occurred and it most likely will not be the last.

It was first publicized with Rodney King in 1991, then in 1999 with the death of Amadou Diallo and again in 2006 with the death of Sean Bell.

I hope the Brown family gets the answers they need and that the death of young Michael Brown will be an eye opener for the injustice that people in Ferguson are facing. Rest in peace Mike.

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Growth hormones in milk are udderly disgusting STEPHANIE MAH Graphics Editor Milk is exclusively made to nourish calves, so are humans really benefitting when we drink milk that is meant to nourish cattle?

As one of the most consumed beverages in the world, milk is prevalent in most people’s diets.

The Canadian Food Guide suggests that we consume at least two servings of dairy products a day, preferably one cup of milk and an additional dairy product.

But humans are the only mammal that consistently consumes milk produced by a different species.

The genetic makeup of a cow is nowhere close to that of a human; it only makes sense that nutrients in cow milk and human milk are vastly different.

Lower amounts of protein, calcium and sodium are found in human milk when compared to cow’s milk. Human milk also contains significantly higher levels

of essential fatty acids, which regulate cellular development and blood pressure, among other health benefits. When children drink their mother’s milk, they are getting these nutrients and benefits, but when humans drink cow’s milk it does not have the same effect.

Not only does cow’s milk lack the adequate nutrients needed for optimal human growth, it also contains various other additives that are harmful and unnatural.

Recombinant bovine growth hormone — better known as rBGH — is a synthetic growth hormone and also the most alarming unnatural ingredient that has been added to milk to keep production high and costs low. It is given to cows to increase milk production by 10 to 15 per cent. In 2000, rBGH was banned in Canada due to the unhealthy side effects it had on cows, but is still being used in the United States.

If the Canadian government banned rBGH for the health of the cows, what does this synesthetic additive do to our human bodies?

In humans, rBGH also increases the production of another hormone called insulin-like growth factor-1.

IGF-1 is not destroyed during

pasteurization nor processed by the human body and is still active in our systems after digestion.

Humans naturally have IGF-1, but high levels of this hormone are suspected to be a cancer accelerator as it correlates to the development of prostate, breast and colon cancers.

Although rBGH is not allowed for use in Canada, the Canadian government is changing dairy regulations allowing the U.S. to have access to our dairy market.

This is a huge problem for Canadian consumers as rBGH is still prevalent in American dairy products that are being sold on our shelves, such as dehydrated milk products. Yogurt and other popular dairy alternatives often contain these ingredients, like milk protein concentrate and “milk ingredients.”

So if it’s really not that good for us, do we even need milk in our diets? Milk is marketed to be our main source of calcium and the only way to significantly lessen our chances of osteoporosis. In reality, it’s hard for human bodies to absorb all of the calcium present in milk meanwhile dairy products are high in saturated fats and vitamin A. A high intake

level of saturated fats and vitamin A can actually weaken bones.

It’s completely possible to cut out dairy as a food group and substitute legumes, spinach, bok choy, kale and almonds — among many other alternatives — to obtain your daily dose of calcium.

Interestingly, human breast milk also seems to be trickling into the food scene. The latest breast milk product is ice cream, sold at a London store called the Icecreamist. The milk was donated and screened the same

way that blood is screened prior to donation. A fine dining restaurant in New York City, Klee Brasserie, has also served dishes featuring breast milk cheese from the chef’s lactating wife.

While it’s weird that humans consume a different mammal’s milk, it doesn’t seem that much more normal if humans were to drink their own milk past infancy.

The concept of drinking cow’s milk might be ingrained in us — but that doesn’t necessarily mean we should keep it that way.

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Why are humans the only mammal to drink another’s milk?

Have we forgotten the Second World War? ELLIOT CHO There are many parallels between the current events in Russia and Ukraine and the beginnings of the Second World War; notably the world’s appeasement with Adolf Hitler — and now it seems a similar pattern is emerging with Vladimir Putin.

Russia has risen again. From a nation of poverty, Russia has become economically strong thanks to spikes in international oil and natural gas prices. With its enormous amount of wealth, Russia has successfully modernized its military with the latest weapons and technology. Russia’s role as a consumer of western manufactured goods and as an exporter of raw materials and energy in the global market has allowed them to become an influential world player.

However, there is one problem: Russia’s current position has taken the world back to the eve of the Second World War — the question is, has the world learned its lesson this time around?

Just like Hitler — whom we all know too well — Putin has portrayed himself as the savior of his people.

Before he was president, Russians were overwhelmed with the difficulties of everyday life that were the direct result of a hastily organized economic plan and people who did whatever was necessary to become rich — from asset stripping to murder in broad daylight.

Putin, who was largely unknown to

the Russian public before he became prime minister, seized opportunity in chaos. By brutally repressing the separatist movement in Chechnya, he was portrayed as a man who could get the job done. Then as president, he has been portrayed as a man who brought stability and order. He won the war on organized crime and used Russia’s oil and gas revenue to improve the quality of life for the citizens of Russia.

Although he and his associates have been putting government money in their pockets, Putin has successfully stayed in power for 15 years and counting. Much of his success has to do with the resurgence of Russian nationalism.

Russians are encouraged to feel proud of their glorious — and imperialistic — past and not to question his authority.

However, the danger of Russian

Do Vladimir Putin and Adolf Hitler’s actions bear any resemblence?

nationalism lies in the creation of the alternate reality by Putin and his associates, which has been used often to justify Russia’s unlawful intervention in neighbouring countries. In the case of the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, Russian media has been producing propaganda with the sole purpose of justifying Russia’s unlawful occupation of Eastern Ukraine.

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fantasy into reality by letting people helplessly drift into its ocean of lies.

Although many people in Eastern Ukraine are ethnic Russians, there is a mutual understanding that they belong to the Ukrainian statehood.

The recent case regarding the people of Mariupol forming a human chain shows their support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and peace.

It is indisputable that the ongoing crisis in Ukraine bares a strong resemblance to what happened in Europe before the Second World War. I cannot help but to recall the annexation of Sudetenland, a predominantly German region of former Czechoslovakia and Hitler’s claim that it was for protection of German lives was groundless.

But because the rest of the world was reluctant to take firm action against Hitler, he became more belligerent and ambitious. The world’s inaction led to the Nazi invasion of Poland and eventually to a war that killed more than 50 million people. We must not let the same tragedy occur in our time.

Canada and the world must take firm action against the resurgence of Russian nationalism which is fueling the separatist movement in Ukraine. We are witnessing a mass of people who are faithful to their nation, believing every word that comes out from their nationalistic leader’s mouth and his propaganda machine, willing to do whatever they see as necessary to support their nation.

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Welcome Week, turned down to what?

NAOMI ZUREVINSKI Opinions Editor If you thought coming to university would mean a real frosh experience you thought wrong.

Gone are the days of universityoriented drinking games, excessive alcohol and the traditional frosh week. But doing away with the tradition of the first-week-gone-wild isn’t necessarily the best option.

All across Canada, universities and colleges are switching up the party to fit a clean image and the University of Saskatchewan is no exception. The new emphasis is on a frosh experience that promotes fun on campus in a safe, secure way. Rather than even calling the first week back “Frosh Week,” universities have opted for “Welcome Week,” “Orientation” and other similar, unsuspecting names.

In other words, we don’t get the same experience that our parents’ or older siblings may have had when they began university. I certainly did not have a rowdy first week in my first year — I wasn’t even old enough to have a drink on campus at the time. But part of me wishes that I would have had the opportunity.

Past events at the U of S included the legendary Lady Godiva as part of the welcome back traditions. She would parade around the bowl on a horse with flowing long, blonde hair — all while naked — and apparently it was quite the sight. The parties were rowdier before too. It’s no longer the university throwing one big party, but rather Welcome Week at the U of S is organized, safe, wholesome fun — it’s also something that sparks minimal excitement in me (and propably everyone else).

I know I’m not the only one. After asking some other U of S students what they thought, the responses were pretty much the same across the board — they’ve toned it right down, just about as far as one could have possibly gone.

“Generations before would not have had things like a bouncy castle,” said U of S student Alexander Quon.

“As the social stigma of froshing has grown, so has the pressure for administration to make Welcome Week more family friendly.”

Monica Gordon, another U of S student, shared similar sentiments.

“I don't think the emphasis on wholesome is necessary and as long as events are monitored to prevent them from getting out of hand. I would like to see them turned back up,” Gordon said.

That’s not to say that nothing

exciting happens during Welcome Week at the U of S — to be clear, I’m not complaining about live music, beer gardens and free planners with great coupons. But it is definitely a much tamer version of what it could be — nevermind being highly structured. And while I know everyone loves free food, the welcome back pancake breakfast just reminds me of the elementary school pancake breakfasts of my past.

The students who attend this university are not children; the administration is not here to babysit us — especially since they can’t even provide adequate childcare services. This should be an environment where adults are trusted to make good choices for themselves and to enjoy a week back that is a little crazier than most. It shouldn’t be that we are so heavily limited in this way.

This isn’t the first time we have witnessed the “we want no responsibility for mishaps” attitude from the U of S administrators.

Whether it’s TransformUS or LB5Q, it seems that nobody wants to risk any sort of liability issue these days — and increasingly so.

Carnivals, sports games and movie screenings are put in place to prevent extreme situations from happening. There have been cases in Canada where students have died from excessive alcohol consumption, made alarmingly stupid decisions and reports of sexual assault have increased during frosh weeks. But these are the exception to what usually just results in a bad hangover and a great memory — and whether these things happen on or off campus, they are likely to occur regardless.

Nobody wants to be responsible for an accident but it also seems that nobody wants to be responsible for a good time either. A little party never killed nobody — except for frosh week. Yes, a little party definitely killed frosh week.

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Campus Chat If you were a wizard what would your Patronus be and why?

A wolf because I’m my own pack.

Mac Dawson

An elephant because they’re beautiful.

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Shrek because “Shrek is love, Shrek is life.”

Tanner Armstrong

An eagle because that’s my name.

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