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AIESEC: complicated name, simple vision RAINER KOCSIS Associate News Editor Tucked away in a small and remote office in Lower Place Riel is an organization that wants to make a big difference.

The Association Internationale des Étudiants en Sciences Économiques et Commerciales (AIESEC) is a non-governmental, not-for-profit organization that provides students and recent graduates with internship and volunteer opportunities around the world. AIESEC is present within 2,400 universities and 125 countries.

“We mainly want to focus on experiencing other cultures through work and volunteering,” said events coordinator and vicepresident elect Crystal Lau. The purpose of the Saskatoon chapter — called a local committee, or LC — is twofold: aside from placing University of Saskatchewan students in other countries, the AIESEC also accepts interns and volunteers from other parts of the world who wish to work in Saskatoon.

“We do internships for marketing, [information technology], accounting, lots of different things,” Lau said.

Placements range from six

weeks to 18 months in length.

Recently, the Saskatoon’s local committee placed one student in Taiwan, who will begin teaching English in January.

“We just had an intern come from India to do [information technology work] with a company in Saskatoon,” Lau said. “He wrote a program that they still use. Another intern from Colombia is here for 18 months.”

A dedicated team of 30 to 40 volunteers makes these placements possible. Within the local committee, there are five main streams to which members can contribute: talent management, marketing and communication, finance, incoming exchanges and outgoing exchanges. Each stream plays a vital role in the functioning of the local committee.

“We promote placements, but

we also go to Saskatoon companies and ask if they want to accept students,” Lau said. “The company will arrange everything else.”

AIESEC is open to students and recent graduates between the ages of 18 and 30. Students do not need to be a member of AIESEC to receive a placement, although members are given priority.

“We’re trying to make it open to all post-secondary so we can include [Saskatchewan Polytechnic] students,” Lau said.

AIESEC accepts applicants in January, May and September of each year. It can take between one and three months to receive a placement after filing an application.

Lau, now in her second year of linguistics, joined AIESEC in the spring of 2014 to practice her professional skills. She hopes to pur-

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AIESEC’s events coordinator Crystal Lau hopes to work abroad in 2016.

sue an internship teaching English in the spring of 2016.

“I’m getting so much experience organizing conferences, conducting meetings, making phone calls and conducting myself professionally,” Lau said.

AIESEC hosts and attends numerous conferences throughout the year, including a recent trip to Vancouver.

“Each year we have five major conferences,” Lau said. “I will be going to Ottawa during new year’s for a national conference. We’ll be hosting one here in February.”

The individual streams meet on a weekly or bi-weekly basis and have monthly committee-wide meetings. In addition, the club holds socials and fundraisers.

The club is highly selective in who it allows to join the committee. Students who wish to be a part of AIESEC must endure a rigorous interview process.

AIESEC was founded in 1948 as a collaborative effort between Sweden, Czechoslovakia, France, Belgium and later Switzerland. The full French name is no longer in use.

To date, AIESEC has filled 257,079 placements with over 8,000 partner organizations.

Students wanting more information on AIESEC can visit the club’s office (room 70.2 in the International Student and Study Abroad Centre) between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. or email the group’s organizers at aiesec.saskatoon@gmail. com. Additionally, the club has a Facebook page and a website: aiesec.ca.

Internships could replace entry-level positions, on-the-job training: report RACHEL WARD CUP Labour Bureau Chief

HALIFAX (CUP) — At this point, Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz’ words on unpaid internships are almost famous among young people.

“If your parents are letting you live in the basement,” Poloz said on Nov. 3, “you might as well go out and do something for free to put the experience on your CV.” He was speaking about unpaid internships students and recent graduates take on when they’re unable to find work. He defended his opinion the next day to a House of Commons finance committee when questioned about how poorer graduates could afford to work unpaid internships.

“I still think that when there are those opportunities,” Poloz said, “one should grab them.”

Similar placements are sometimes mandated by university or college program for educational work experience. Currently the exact number of people doing such work is unknown, as Statistics Canada doesn’t collect that information in its Labour Force Survey.

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ment was at 12.6 per cent, down slightly as fewer young people looked for work, said Statistics Canada. According to a recent Conference Board of Canada survey, employers said applicants and new hires lack essential skills, such as communication, critical thinking and teamwork. That same report shows companies invested 40 per cent less money in on-the-job training from 1993 to 2010. Current opportunities, it says, for “workplace training … are limited, declining and of questionable impact.”

Karen Foster, a sociology professor at Dalhousie University, said unpaid internships have become a replacement for that training.

“Over the last decade employers are reaching for the unpaid internship first as a way of getting recent graduates and not having to pay anything to train them,” said Foster, who studies economics and youth.

“They’re essentially putting all their risk on young, recent graduates.”

Advocates say unpaid internships are unfair and illegal. Courts seem to agree. Recently in the U.S., major media company Condé Nast agreed to pay $5.8 million to settle a class-action lawsuit by 7,500

former interns. Condé Nast owns several media brands, including magazines the New Yorker and GQ. Canadian unpaid internship programs have taken a hit, too.

Just this summer in Canada Bell Aliant shut down its unpaid internship program following court action from ex-interns.

The matter has reached Parliament. In June, NDP MPs Laurin Liu and Andrew Nash proposed an amendment to the Labour Act to include unpaid interns as employees. That means interns would be, for example, covered by workplace safety laws and protected from sexual harassment.

Liu said the bill is inspired by Andrew Ferguson, an intern who died in 2011. He fell asleep at the wheel after working an overnight shift at an Edmonton radio station.

“I believe that interns need to benefit from at least basic protections,” said Liu, 24. “Most of my friends, most of my peers, have recently graduated from university and many of them are working in unpaid internships. I’ve seen how they themselves are vulnerable.”

The bill goes to second reading in early February.

To raise awareness, Alex Dawson, a English and theatre graduate, is using her own interning experience to produce a comedic web series called Turning Intern. Her group of former interns just raised over $3,000 to professionally produce the videos. Dawson did her first internship after completing a copywriting certificate, and has since left the field.

“The foundation of this industry, the copywriting industry, relies on the unpaid work of talented young people,” she said. “That really made me mad.”

Dawson, 25, now works in marketing and accounts management at a job which she said combines skills from her previous internships and contract work. She’s paid and puts in reasonable hours. At her unpaid internship, Dawson said she worked long days.

Government has “no shortage of policy solutions,” said Foster, to improve working conditions for interns.

“But they have to be enacted,” said Foster, “instead of just saying, ‘Well, it’s up to the individual to fight over the very last low paid job or unpaid internship.’”

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Temperature taken of student life on campus

U of S administrators release results of Campus Climate Survey SOMA DALAI University administrators took the temperature of student life on campus with the release of their results on the Campus Climate Survey on Nov. 17. Data for the comprehensive, 53 question-long survey which examined student belonging on campus, was collected in November of 2013 from 5,205 students.

“One of the strategic goals of the University of Saskatchewan, included in the third integrated plan, is to provide a safe and welcoming environment and to encourage and support activities that lead to the development of a more diverse and inclusive community,” wrote Patti McDougall, vice-provost of teaching and learning in an email interview with the Sheaf.

The survey included questions about harassment, discrimination and quality of support services. Many results gleaned from the survey appeared to be positive.

“I found lots of reason for optimism in the findings from the Campus Climate Survey,” wrote McDougall. “Beliefs about feeling comfortable and safe on campus were encouraging. I was very encouraged by what students reported on their classroom experiences. A very large majority said that they were treated fairly and felt comfortable. I also found it helpful to see that students provided strong endorsement of how helpful they find the services the university provides.”

Specifically, 79 per cent of respondents “felt comfortable or very comfortable at the U of S,” 85 per cent “saw themselves as being part of the campus community,” and 76 per cent “were satisfied or very satisfied with their academic experience at the U of S.” However, students who reported they had a mental health issue, a learning disability or were part of a sexual minority tended to rate the campus climate less positively.

When it came to campus support services, 81 per cent of international student respondents found the International Student and Study Abroad Centre (ISSAC) helpful or very helpful and 76 per cent of Aboriginal participants thought the same of the Aboriginal Students’ Centre. The Pride Centre was found to help 72 per cent of sexual minority participants while 66 per cent of respondents with disabilities found Disability Support Services helpful and 51 per cent of female respondents found the Women’s Centre helpful.

However, in a statistic that may be troubling to some, out of the 21,027 students invited to participate in the survey only 25 per cent responded.

“Interestingly, a response rate of 25 per cent is an indicator of a highly successful survey in a university student population,” McDougall said of the response rate. “It would be much more common to ask a population of more than 20,000 students to complete a comprehensive survey like this one and get answers back from less than 15 per cent.

I was thrilled at the response rate.”

“More important than the number of students who responded were the individual characteristics of those who provided responses,” McDougall added. “In order to have some faith in the interpretation of these findings, it was very helpful to see that the characteristics of student participants mapped nicely onto the characteristics of our whole population of students.”

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nal, 49 per cent belonged to the College of Arts and Science, 11 per cent of respondents were international students and eight per cent were parents, which McDougall said was an accurate representation of university demographics. McDougall also acknowledged that female students (which were 64 per cent of respondents) and graduate students (18 per cent) were slightly overrepresented.

In the additional comments section of the survey, one theme that emerged was the idea of unfair “special treatment” such as targeted scholarships, academic support and other advantages given to minority groups, particularly to Aboriginal students.

While McDougall did not support this view, and wrote that it was only expressed by a very small minority of participants, she wrote that engaging students in discussion about the unique social and cultural circumstances of Aboriginal people is an important task for university campuses, and offered a spirited defence of university policy.

“The data are very clear on the following point: Aboriginal people as a whole have yet to reach parity with the larger population in terms of educational attainment. To be fair does not always mean to treat everyone in the same way. So-called ‘special programs,’ whether academic, cultural or financial, are intended to work towards creating a fair university, where every student arriving here does have an equal opportunity to succeed,” McDougall said.

The next step for the Campus Climate Survey is for administrators to spend a few months, to a year, talking with students and staff to properly interpret the survey’s findings and to prioritize the steps that need to be taken to support those who are struggling.

The university will likely wait until 2016 to survey the student population again.

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CLS researchers make medical breakthrough and no significant long-term nuclear wastes.”

The MIP uses a particle accelerator to bombard enriched molybdenum-100 metal (Mo100) with high-energy X-rays, said de Jong.

The X-rays knock a neutron out of the nuclei of some of the Mo-100 atoms in the target, converting them to the isotope Mo-99. The Mo-99 decays into technetium-99m (a metastable isomer), which is used for tagging radiopharmaceuticals — pharmaceuticals that contain a radioactive isotope — for medical diagnostic tests. After the Mo-99 has decayed, the remaining Mo-100 in the solution is recovered and recycled into additional targets.

Radiopharmaceuticals act as a tracer inside the human body. A gamma imaging device easily detects the radioactive tracer atom, allowing researchers to study the function of vital organs and detect ailments like cancer.

The idea to produce medical isotopes with a linear accelerator was hatched in 2008, de Jong said. The proposal for the project was submitted in 2010 and the funding process

RAINER KOCSIS Associate News Editor Scientists at the Canadian Light Source have developed a new way to produce critically-needed medical isotopes.

On Nov. 14, the CLS announced the first batch of radioisotopes produced with a linear accelerator at the Medical Isotope Project (MIP) facility. The project is the first of its kind in the world and could help supplement nuclear reactors’ unreliable supply of isotopes.

Director of accelerators at the CLS Mark de Jong wrote in an email to the Sheaf that the advantages of using a linear accelerator to produce medical isotopes include “fewer regulatory hurdles, no use of enriched uranium

began in 2011.

The nuclear reactor in Chalk River, Ont. has traditionally produced Canada’s medical isotopes. Constructed in 1945, the facility supplies nearly a third of the world’s medical isotopes, said Shane Timm from the Saskatoon Health Region’s medical imaging department.

“There was a large medical isotope shortage a few years ago and it was a global crisis,” said Timm.

The aging Chalk River reactor was shut down for repairs in 2007, creating a worldwide shortage. The facility is scheduled to be retired permanently in 2016.

“Historically, we’ve relied on these reactors to produce isotopes,” Timm said. “If a nuclear reactor goes down, it becomes crippling.”

Approximately 50 scans, called conventional nuclear medicine exams, are performed on Saskatoon patients every day. In Canada, 5,000 scans are performed daily.

The MIP “gives us a secure supply of technetium,” Timm said. “The medical isotopes

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Besides not producing nuclear waste, the most important advantage over nuclear reactors is that linear accelerators can be repaired far more quickly, requiring weeks or days to fix. A nuclear reactor can be out of commission for a year if it breaks down.

The next step for the project is to receive Health Canada approval, which it expects to have within two years.

“We are starting biological, or human, trials so we can present a package to Health Canada,” said radiopharmacist Kennedy Mang’era.

Mang’era works for the Prairie Isotope Production Enterprise (PIPE) in Winnipeg, Man. PIPE is responsible for converting nuclear reactors’ Mo-99 into technetium to be shipped all over the world.

MIP is going to “provide a diversified option,” Mang’era said. He is confident that linear accelerators like MIP will eventually replace nuclear reactors as a main source of medical isotopes, even if it takes many years.

“It’s going to be a while before we can fully replace reactors,” Mang’era said. “You would need 50 to 100 linear accelerators to replace one nuclear reactor.”

Currently, MIP has the capacity to provide enough nuclear isotopes to supply Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Two or three linear accelerators would be needed to supply all of Canada when Chalk River stops production.

Timm says the prospect of replacing nuclear reactors with linear accelerators for medical isotope production is a “game-changer.”

“It’s a testament to the collaboration between Saskatchewan and Manitoba,” said Mang’era.

De Jong said the project was a collaboration between the CLS, National Research Council Canada, Mevex Corporation, PIPE and independent consultants William Diamond and Herb Moore. Funding for the research included a $10-million grant from Natural Resources Canada and another $2 million dollars from the Government of Saskatchewan.

“Today’s achievement is welcome news for Canadian families and our communities,” said Member of Parliament for Saskatoon-Rosetown-Biggar Kelly Block in a press release.

“Our investments in new technologies are supporting new milestones and contributing to reliable global supplies of medical isotopes.”

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Huskies sweep Vikes in weekend basketball MICHAEL KNIGHT Both the men’s and women’s Huskie basketball teams won both of their games against the visiting University of Victoria Vikes on Nov. 21 and 22.

The women started off the weekend with a 71–62 win on Nov. 21 at the Physical Activity Complex. A strong first two quarters paved the way for the Dogs as they lead by 12 points at the half. The Vikes played a motivated second half and managed to outscore the Huskies, but it wasn’t enough to complete the comeback.

Dalyce Emmerson led the scoring with 17 points, Laura Dally finished with 13 points and Kelsey Trulsrud was a strong presence under the net, amassing 11 boards in the win. The Vikes couldn’t quite get it going offensively as they shot just 41 per cent from the field and their 17 turnovers didn’t help the cause either.

In the women’s Nov. 22 game, the Huskies were again victorious, winning 89–68. The Huskies were more wary of the dangerous Vikes offence and did their best to control the game. The back-andforth first quarter saw the Huskies lead by only two points. However, strong offensive rebounding on the Huskies’ part allowed them to convert on many of their offensive possessions.

The Huskies shot at 63 per cent and won the rebound battle 33–20. Trulsrud was again strong under the net with 14 points and seven rebounds. Emmerson and Dally led the scoring with 20 and 19 points, respectively.

The men’s team had equally impressive results during the weekend. Their Friday night game saw them win with a score of 82– 70. At the half, the Huskies led by 15 thanks to a strong second quarter. The Vikes attempted to mount a comeback but the Dogs weren’t going to allow it. Evan Ostertag played off the bench and proved instrumental in keeping the Huskies ahead, adding 13 of his team-leading 24 points during the second half. Mike Scott had 19 points and Matthew Forbes had 10 rebounds.

In the men’s second game of the weekend on Nov. 22, the Huskies started with a flurry of points and never looked back. Dadrian Collins’ amazing first half where he shot 7–7 from three-point range accentuated the team’s 95–70 win. Shooting 9–9, Collins finished the night with 28 points.

The Huskies’ strong press in the first half forced a few turnovers from the Vikes that led to quick points after baskets. At half, the score was 56–30 in favour of the homeside. The resilient Vikes once again showed their second-half strength but were unable to catch up to the powerful

Huskies. Forbes was second in team scoring with 18 points.

With their impressive weekend performances, both Huskie teams now sit at 4–2. The men’s

Huskies guard Laura Dally (above) led the Dogs in scoring on Nov. 22 when they beat Victoria 89–68.

Upcoming Games

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Canada West Standings

Men’s Hockey

Men’s Basketball

• Nov. 28 & 29 at Mount Royal Cougars @ 7 p.m.

• Nov. 28 & 29 at UBC Thunderbirds @ 8 p.m

Women’s Hockey

Women’s Basketball

Nov. 28 & 29 vs Mount Royal Cougars @ 7 p.m.

• Nov. 28 & 29 at UBC Thunderbirds @ 6 p.m

Men’s Volleyball Nov. 28 & 29 vs UBC Thunderbirds @ 8 p.m.

Women’s Volleyball

Women’s Hockey

W-L 1. UBC Okanagan 10-4 2. Alberta 9-3 3. Calgary 8-4 4. Trinity Western 8-4 5. UBC 8-6 6. Brandon 7-5 7. Thompson Rivers 7-7 8. Winnipeg 6-6 9. Manitoba 6-8 10. MacEwan 5-7 11. Regina 3-9 12. Saskatchewan 3-9 *Top seven teams qualify for playoffs

W-L-OL 1. Alberta 1. Alberta 9-5-0 2. Manitoba 2. Calgary 9-4-1 3. Saskatchewan 3. Mount Royal 9-3-2 4. UBC 4. Manitoba 8-3-3 5. Calgary 5. Saskatchewan 7-3-4 6. Regina 6. UBC 9-4-1 7. Lethbridge 7. Regina 3-11-0 8. Mount Royal 8. Lethbridge 2-9-3 *Top six teams qualify for playoffs

Men’s Volleyball

Women’s Volleyball Nov. 28 & 29 vs UBC Thunderbirds @ 6 p.m.

Vancouver to play the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds. The next home games are Jan. 16, 2015 against the University of Regina Cougars.

team is on a three game winning streak while the women have won four in a row.

The next game for both teams is on Nov. 28 when they travel to

- Home Game

1. Alberta 2. Brandon 3. Winnipeg 4. UBC 5. Mount Royal 6. Trinity Western 7. Saskatchewan 8. Manitoba 9. Calgary 10. Thompson Rivers 11. UBC Okanagan 12. Regina

W-L 12-0 9-3 9-3 9-5 8-4 8-4 7-5 7-7 5-7 5-9 2-12 0-12

*Top seven teams qualify for playoffs

Men’s Hockey W-L-OL 13-3-0 12-4-0 10-6-0 8-8-0 8-8-0 6-8-2 4-11-1 3-13-0

Women’s Basketball

men’s Basketball

Pioneers Division 1. Alberta 2. Regina 3. Saskatchewan 4. UBC 5. Winnipeg 6. Calgary 7. Trinity Western 8. Brandon 9. Lethbridge 10. Victoria 11. Manitoba

W-L 5-1 6-2 4-2 4-2 5-3 4-4 4-4 3-5 3-5 2-4 0-8

Pioneers Division 1. Calgary 2. Manitoba 3. Alberta 4. Saskatchewan 5. Victoria 6. Lethbridge 7. Winnipeg 8. Regina 9. UBC 10. Brandon 11. Trinity Western

W-L 6-2 6-2 4-2 4-2 4-2 5-3 5-3 3-5 1-5 1-7 1-7

Explorers Division 1. Thompson Rivers 2. MacEwan 3. UFV 4. Mount Royal 5. UBC Okanagan 6. UNBC

W-L 5-1 4-2 4-2 3-3 2-4 0-6

Explorers Division 1. UFV 2. MacEwan 3. Mount Royal 4. Thompson Rivers 5. UBC Okanagan 6. UNBC

W-L 6-0 3-3 3-3 3-3 2-4 1-5

*Top 7 teams from Pioneer and top 3 from Explorers qualify for playoffs x - Clinched playoff spot

y - Clinched first place

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Men continue to win in volleyball action AUSTIN ARVAY Sports Editor In another exciting weekend of University of Saskatchewan volleyball, the men’s team continued their hot streak but the women continued to struggle against the hosting MacEwan University Griffins.

The first match of the weekend for the women, set on Nov. 21, was the best of the weekend. In a backand-forth contest it would end up being the Griffins who would outlast the Dogs as they took a thrilling 3–2 (10–25, 25–17, 25–17, 13–25, 15–10) victory to open play. After a dominating first set, it looked like the Huskies would run away against the lowly Griffins, but the home side would dig in and take sets two and three.

Another big fourth set gave the U of S momentum heading into the fifth and deciding set, but it wasn’t meant to be. MacEwan used four of their 10 blocks in the final set for the exciting win. As usual, Emmalyn Copping led the Huskies on offence with 11 kills. Kayla Tycholiz had eight blocks but the star of the match was Jennifer Heuser, who notched an incredible 27 digs.

The following night, the Griffins who were once again victorious as they beat the Dogs 3–1 (25–18, 19–25, 25–18, 25–16). After a second set loss evened the score at one, MacEwan turned it up a notch for their home fans and were dominant down the stretch to pick up the sweep of the Huskies. MacEwan hit at 0.181 while the Dogs sat at just 0.109.

The losses drop Saskatchewan to 3–9, which is second last in the Canada West conference. MacEwan, meanwhile, improves to 5–7 and sits just outside the playoffs. Nearing the halfway point of the season, the Dogs will really have to pick it up if they want to make the post-season.

On the men’s side it was the Huskies who swept the host Griffins, who are still searching for their first win of the 2014–15 season. The Friday evening saw the Huskies drop the first set, but rebound nicely to pick up the 3–1 (22–25, 26–24, 25– 23, 25–20) win. The Huskies’ power duo of Paul Thomson and Jordan Nowakowski each had 18 kills and also combined for 19 digs and one serving ace. It was another terrific performance on Thomson’s part, who ranks third in CanWest in kills per set with 3.93.

On Nov. 22, the pair was at it again with Nowakowski recording 17 kills and Thomson having 11.

With the duo setting the pace, the Huskies took a 3–1 victory (25–14,

17–25, 25–20, 25–21) to complete the sweep. It was a great day allaround as the team had a collective hitting percentage of 0.250, much better than the Griffins who hit 0.146.

With the pair of wins, the Dogs have won six in a row and improve to 7–5 on the season. Their recent

Pronghorns over the four games.

The 6–8 Huskies men’s hockey team was on the road last weekend as they took on the 3–11 Pronghorns. The 10th ranked Huskie women were at home last weekend as they played host to the 3–9 Pronghorns.

On Nov. 21 at Rutherford Rink, Huskies goalie Cassidy Hendricks stopped all 17 shots that the Pronghorns threw at her as the Huskies disposed of the Pronghorns 3–0.

The Huskies came out strong in the first, hitting three posts and had a goal disallowed. In the second, Mar-

surge has them up to seventh place in the standings, which just happens to be the final playoff spot. The Griffins drop to 0–12 and sit in last place.

Next weekend the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds will be in town to take on both the men and women’s teams. For the men,

it’s a big matchup as the T-birds are 9–4 on the season and in fourth place, while for the women UBC is 8–6 and sitting in fifth position.

The games against UBC will take place on Nov. 28 and 29 with the first serve set at 6 p.m. for the women with the men following at 8 p.m. All games will take place at the PAC.

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The men’s team reeled off their sixth straight win, but the women had a tough weekend versus MacEwan.

U of S hockey pulls off double sweep KADE GATES

It was a great weekend for Huskies hockey as the men took both games and the women’s team recorded back-to-back shutouts to sweep the University of Lethbridge

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Forward Julia Flinton (above) had one goal and one assist over the weekend as the Dogs won both games.

ley Ervine potted her third goal of the season on a wrister from the top of the circles beating Pronghorns goaltender Crystal Patterson.

A second goal midway through the third would make it 2–0, when Kaitlin Willoughby took a Hanna McGillivray pass and went in alone to beat Patterson. Julia Flinton’s point shot late in the third found the back of the goal to make it 3–0.

The next evening, the Huskies rode Hendricks to a second straight shutout and got a pair of goals from Rachel Johnson to beat the Pronghorns 2–0. Hendricks had a carbon copy of last night’s performance as she again stopped 17 shots in a shutout win. Johnson got her first of the evening late in the first period on the power play as a Flinton point shot generated a rebound that was banged home

by Johnson. The Pronghorns nearly tied it late in the second when a two-on-one shot went off the post, but Johnson got her second goal of the game early in the third to put it out of reach.

Meanwhile in Lethbridge on Nov. 21, the men came out hot early as they put up three goals in the first period and held on to win 3–2 over the Pronghorns. Michael Soffilas came in on a breakaway and beat Pronghorns goalie Damien Ketlo under his arm to make it 1–0. The Huskies kept it coming and on the

power play they made it 2–0 when Sean Aschim took a pass from Matthew Delahey and fired a high shot past a surprised Kelto. Firing off a faceoff win, Kendall McFaull beat Kelto to make it 3–0. Pronghorn forward Brock Hirsche scored twice in the second but Ryan Holfeld shut the door in third.

The following night, the Huskies used a four-goal third period to beat the Pronghorns again. Josh Roach got the ball rolling for the Huskies midway through the second as he beat Pronghorn goalie Warren Shymko. The Pronghorns got a goal early in the third from Ryon Moser as he tipped a shot past Jordon Cooke to tie it at one. Roach and Matthew Spafford scored 11 seconds apart to make it 3–1. Sofillas tapped in a Roach pass to make it 4–1 for the Dogs and forward Parker Thomas finished off the scoring late in the third as he beat Shymko low blocker to make it 5–1.

With the weekend wins, the women’s team moved up to third in the conference and the men are tied for fourth place. Both teams have big games coming up this weekend against the Mount Royal University Cougars.

The men will travel to Calgary and look to keep winning, while the women will play host to the Cougars at Rutherford Rink. Games are set for 7 p.m. on Nov. 28 and 29.

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Money talks in major sports leagues

Sponsors shifting expectations for professional athletes MICHAEL KNIGHT While professional athletes getting in trouble with the law is nothing new, but it certainly brings to light the major leagues’ primary concern: money.

Professional athletes are well known for having highly publicized run-ins with the law. The major leagues have usually responded by handing out suspensions lasting for a few games or, in some more extreme cases, for entire seasons. For the most

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Adrian Peterson is one of many professional athletes in trouble with the law.

part, though, minor felonies and misdemeanors have been punished lightly and a player’s career wasn’t overly impacted by their offence — until recently. A few players’ recent wrongdoings have led leagues to get tough on crime and change the way they expect athletes to behave.

The shift in personal conduct expectations stems from an incident involving NFL player Ray Rice in 2014. In February, Rice was arrested for an incident occurring at a casino in New Jersey.

He was charged with assault in March and the NFL responded by suspending Rice for two games.

In September, TMZ leaked a surveillance video from the casino’s security system that showed Rice knocking out his then-fiancée with a punch. Public outcry was immense with many fans returning their Rice jerseys demanding a refund. An indefinite suspension was doled out after the NFL was denounced for its light punishment of Rice. The suspension is upheld to date.

Since the latest Rice suspension, NFL running back for the Minnesota Vikings Adrian Peterson and NHL defenceman for the Los Angeles Kings Slava Voynov have both been involved in sim-

ilar domestic violence incidents.

The respective leagues were quick to indefinitely suspend both players. It is understandable as to why indefinite suspensions are given: let the judicial system go through its process and then the leagues can hand out proper punishment after a ruling has been reached. However, the leagues seldom used this reasoning in the past and were hesitant to suspend players even when the players were charged with aggravated assault or driving under the influence causing death.

With no new radical commissioners to blame, what could have caused the sudden change in mindset? Although the loss of fans over an incidents like these would be so minimal that the leagues wouldn’t feel a dip in revenue, the reasoning is closely linked to money: sponsorship deals.

After the Rice and Peterson incidents, many league sponsors made it publicly aware that they were unimpressed with the situation in the NFL and that they would be monitoring in closely.

Long-time endorsers like PepsiCo, Anheuser-Busch and Covergirl were among those concerned

with the situation. Luckily for the league, the NFL righted the ship before any big names pulled their funding.

Individual teams were not so lucky, though. Radisson Hotels ended its sponsorship of the Minnesota Vikings and Nike stated they would stop producing Peterson jerseys. The risk of losing out on lucrative sponsorship deals is what prompted the NFL to re-evaluate its strategy regarding the player conduct cases it handled. The same risk prompted the NHL to act swiftly with the suspension of Voynov and you can bet your bottom dollar that as soon as any similar incidents arise in the coming months that the governing leagues will act in a similar manner.

Sponsoring companies don’t want to be associated with any source of negativity so it makes sense that they would look at cutting ties with a sports league.

Yes, the big leagues value their public image and are genuinely concerned with how their players act, but neither of those come anywhere near their concern of how much money is in their pockets.

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What is ebola?

According to the World Health Organization, “Ebola virus disease (EVD), formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever, is a severe, often fatal illness in humans.”

Dr. Johnmark Opondo, deputy medical health officer with the Saskatoon Health Region, has done extensive work in public health and communicable diseases including research on Ebola.

He said there have been flareups in Sudan and the Congo in the past but from late 2013 until now, the biggest outbreak of Ebola ever has taken place. Opondo explained that former outbreaks have been in very remote forest regions in the jungles of central Africa, went through populations and destroyed entire villages, which caused the virus to burn out.

However, in the current outbreak, the disease has moved outwards incredibly quickly. It spread from rural eastern Guinea into the rest of the country, but also into Liberia and Sierra Leone.

In smaller countries, the virus tends to move between rural areas

and nearby cities. Opondo said that this is the first time Ebola has been seen active in a capital city, which is a massive development. Not only are capital cities densely populated, they have a lot of susceptible individuals, Opondo said. All of the capital cities in the most affected countries have international airports.

With all of these factors working together, Opondo mentioned the incredibly saddening statistics, which to his guess are underestimated; there are over 8,000 confirmed or suspected Ebola cases, and 4,500 confirmed deaths.

Opondo said the scientists at the Centres for Disease Control - Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) are learning that even a small dose of viral particles can cause Ebola. Interestingly, they have studied this virus over the years and have reported no genetic change. This outbreak is still the Ebola virus causing EVD and still spreads through close contact, blood and bodily fluids of an infected person or by consuming meat of an infected animal, Opondo said.

Though the virus is genetically the

WHAT IT MEANS From an international relations point of view, Martin Gaal, political studies professor at the University of Saskatchewan, sees the Ebola outbreak as a call to greater global governance.

“What happens in the rest of the world has an impact upon us,” Gaal said. “It is a call to action, from a global perspective.”

He said that similar outbreaks can also be a symptom of other problems such as extreme eco-

nomic inequality.

Gaal pointed out that one of the most significant concerns with the current outbreak is its size, along with its unprecedented rate of growth.

“It has far eclipsed the total amount of Ebola victims in the past,” he said. “It is starting to cause panic in the West. It is threatening the South.”

He said the media’s propagation of this panic has had many

same, eradicating Ebola has numerous complications which are especially challenging. There is no antiviral vaccine or specific treatment.

The patient needs a good medical care system to provide support until they can produce the necessary antibodies to fight the infection.

Incubation lasts between two and 21 days after infection and in that period there are no symptoms.

Opondo said that contact tracing is extremely important. Public health has to review every single person the patient was in contact with and evaluate that contact. This takes a lot of effort and resources, which are at our disposal in Canada but are simply not available in the three most highly affected countries. Public health becomes even more of a challenge as Ebola disproportionately affects healthcare workers because they are constantly exposed to infection.

Statements from the WHO and others predict at the current level of intervention, the epidemic will continue for another six months.

Opondo said that prospect becomes even more disheartening when you realize that Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone are still experiencing exponential rates of transmission over half a year into the outbreak.

Nigeria and Senegal have also

had outbreaks, but have been able to control them with strong public healthcare systems. Opondo said they are not yet labeled Ebola-free, but will be after one more 21-day period with no new cases.

Opondo mentioned that Ebola, like other many other illnesses, has to be controlled at the source; it is a well-known truism in communicable disease.

He said although Ebola is consistently present in the media, it is not as easy to contract as one may believe. If an individual has no symptoms, they are not infectious.

“We shouldn’t be overwhelmed and crippled by the fear of Ebola.”

For those in health care, with proper infection control, the right personal protective equipment is sufficient to safeguard you and should be used properly anytime someone has an undiagnosed illness. Opondo also mentioned the importance of hand washing, as with many other infectious diseases.

He suggests that everyone educate themselves and keep an eye on the Health Region website for resources that are available and to review the information that Public Health and other departments are providing.

“This is really one of those areas where knowledge is power.”

unwanted effects, including seeing ourselves as more important and seeing the ‘other’ — or anyone outside of our area of familiarity — as a threat. The average U of S student should not be worried about contracting Ebola, Gaal said, adding that they should examine the breakdown in the global system and question what it means.

In the affected states, the virus has the possibility of wiping out any gains made in international development since the onset of the development programs in 1945, Gaal said. Nobody can quantify how great the setback will be.

The outbreak will also indirectly impact all trading partners of affected areas. Gaal said it is going to re-define economic and political relations in that area of Africa for untold time in the future. It is so destructive locally, Gaal said and the global North needs to start taking action.

“We need global institutions.

We need to have more interdependence. We need to have greater shared empathy. We need to look at problems abroad as not ‘happening to the other’ but as ‘happening to the self’. What is happening there has an impact on our lives.”

CANADA’S R While it may seem as though the buzz from the federal government about Ebola has quieted down this month, Prime Minister Stephen Harper was definitely clear about the message he was sending out in October.

As he accepted the Rotary Foundation Polio Eradication Champion Award for Canada’s efforts, he said that much like polio, Ebola must not be underestimated.

Harper warned Canadians not to get complacent.

“What has happened recently with Ebola reminds us that in an age of globalization and particularly global trade and travel, what was a problem that was at one time far away from us could arrive at our shores very quickly.”

In more recent news, the Ebola vaccine has been making headlines, with phase 1 trials currently underway.

Ebola researchers at Canada’s National Microbiology Labora-

WHAT ARE One such laboratory, the Liberian Institute for Biomedical Research (LIBR), is located about 100 kilometers east of Monrovia, the country’s capital. With a team of experts from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U. S. Agency for International Development, LIBR is one of the few labs in Liberia where Ebola

TAKING IN U of S alum Victoria Martinez is currently working on a crowd-funding project with the World Federation of Science Journalists to support local reporters in regions the Ebola virus disease has affected.

The WFSJ, in association with Hirondelle USA and the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters, created this fundraising campaign to assist local radio stations in Ebola-affected areas.

The campaign mentions that, beyond the devastating effect of the virus itself, poor communication heightening fear among the public has been an enormous obstacle. They state that in

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RESPONSE tory in Winnipeg created the vaccine and the trials are being conducted in Halifax. The Canadian Immunization Research Network is holding the trials, for which the PHAC and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research have allocated $300,000.

Phase 1 began by recruiting 40 healthy volunteers between the ages of 18 and 65. Ten each would receive one of three different doses of the vaccine, and the remainder will get an injection of saline as a placebo. The aim is to see if a low dose of the vaccine will trigger a protective response.

Results are expected to be published in early 2015.

Of course, the Government of Canada’s website also has other information: multiple pages, links and online resources pertaining to Ebola virus disease.

Under the heading “Canada’s response to Ebola,” the first thing addressed is what is being done to protect Canadians. It states

that the PHAC is working with all levels of government to stop the spread of Ebola to Canada and that this prevention of further transmission is essential to controlling the current outbreak.

The PHAC also meets with provincial and territorial health authorities on a weekly basis to support cooperation and readiness. In fact, they have Ebola Rapid Response Teams that are ready to deploy at any given moment upon provincial or territorial request.

The website also has a section on the dedication of millions of dollars to strengthen Canada’s domestic preparedness.

Over half way down the page, and again elsewhere on the site, it mentions that there has never been a confirmed case of Ebola virus disease in Canada and that the risk is low.

Near the bottom of the “Canada’s response to Ebola” page, it addresses what the government of Canada is doing to fight the outbreak in West Africa. Here, they have listed the country’s pledged financial and in-kind contributions, including $81.5 million USD — the

equivalent of just over $91.8 million CAD. A valuable resource to examine the contributions of various countries is the Ebola Response Tracker at one.org, the website for ONE — an international organization that aims to end preventable diseases and extreme poverty, primarily in Africa. It allows an individual to see how much of the pledged funding has actually been disbursed, with Canada currently sitting at 62.81 per cent. This ranks the country as 11th in financial response.

As far as in-kind contributions, Canada has provided protective gear, for example, supplies and 800 vials of the experimental Ebola vaccine being developed.

An important point of contention lies in the fact that Canada has not committed any healthcare workers. Some may have gone independently or with a non-governmental organization but the country has no formal medical presence. However, Canada has deployed two teams of scientists to staff mobile diagnostic laboratories.

specimens are sent to be tested.

In September, the scientific lead on this team of experts was U of S graduate Jason Kindrachuk.

Kindrachuk works at the NIH Clinical Center laboratory in Maryland. Recently, he has used an innovative new software called the Platform for Intelligent Integrated Kinome Analysis (PIIKA) to study several infectious diseases, including Ebola. A great step in the relatively new field of

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many regions the rural radio is the most trusted source of information, but they lack necessary resources.

Funding to the initiative, dubbed Help African Journalists Fight the Spread of Ebola, goes directly to tangible donations: $25 can provide a prepaid phone card so that one local radio station can get news and interviews for one month, while $100 can provide a community radio journalist with a portable audio recorder in .WAV and .MP3 format, for example.

Martinez suggested multiple other channels for students to take action without spending a lot of money. Beds 4 Ebola is another Indiegogo campaign to

• 8,000 confirmed or suspected Ebola cases • 4,500 confirmed deaths

Senegal Nigeria

E DIAGNOSTIC LABORATORIES? bioinformatics, the software system can be used to examine how the virus infects cells and what cells do to fight the infection.

U of S PhD student Brett Trost and his supervisor Anthony Kusalik developed PIIKA. It can evaluate huge volumes of data and several protein samples at the same time.

The web-based system is made to analyze enzymes called kinases. Kinases tell cells how to respond to external factors and

maintain their normal functions through signaling pathways.

The NIH U of S team found that when this signaling is interrupted the virus does not replicate, a discovery that could be a massive step forward in the fight against Ebola. Their results were published this summer in the Journal of Virology. The article is easily accessible through the U of S Library website.

help fight the outbreak in affected West African nations. Improve Design Supply created the “IMP bed” from the need for inexpensive, disposable beds where patients are being treated. Their funds will be used to manufacture and distribute 1,000 IMP beds directly to relevant authorities in the affected countries.

Community Response to Ebola in Sierra Leone is planning to do just that by providing direct support and coordinating a local response. Their funds will be sent to Rev. Moses Frederick Khanu, a Sierra Leonean man who works with orphans, quarantined families and survivors to offer vital support. He plans to use the money where it is most urgently needed: to provide food to those in quarantined homes, hand washing materials and support

for widows, orphans and those who have recovered from the disease.

The Fight Ebola in Sierra Leone campaign has a similar goal but works through Families Without Borders. This campaign is centered in Makeni, the country’s third largest city. Funds to this campaign will be used on medical supplies to treat patients and prevent civilian contraction of the disease, medical support to rehabilitate patients and promote public health, treatment centres for the infected and transportation of supplies to Makeni.

For additional information and current updates about Ebola virus disease, visit the World Health Organization or Centres for Disease Control and Prevention websites.

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• Nigeria and Senegal have controlled their outbreaks with strong public health care systems

•Canada’s pledged contributions include Roughly $91.8 million CAD

• poor communication HAS HEIGHTENED FEAR • in many regions the rural radio is the most trusted sourcE of information

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Oneiro Designs a fierce new addition to Saskatoon’s artistic community

MADISON TAYLOR Culture Editor Alissa Ramage is a perfect example of the idiom “good things come in small packages.” This petite, bubbly and vibrant young woman is the mind behind Oneiro Designs — an up-and-coming jewelry business sold out of Luna + Hill Clothing Company on 3rd Avenue South in Saskatoon.

Ramage derived the name Oneiro (pronounced “oh-nairoh”) from the word “oneirology”, which refers to the study of dreams. Aptly named, her collection of earrings, necklaces, bracelets, body chains and dreamcatchers is indeed dreamy as it combines an edgy blend of modern industrial style and bohemian flair.

The idea for the independent business was first cooked up 2012 and saw its official launch this past August out of Luna + Hill.

“My business started with dreamcatchers,” said Ramage.

“I started off making one for a friend, then I went into Luna + Hill one day when they had the art gallery upstairs and I was like, ‘Oh, I could just see my dreamcatchers in here.’ That was the first time I ever made a collection.”

What began as a part-time position at Luna + Hill has transformed into a managerial role for Ramage, who also has ambitions to open her own store one day through which she can further promote her designs.

“I started off just hanging out in [Luna] because of my dreamcatchers and then one day they were like, ‘Do you want a job here?’” Ramage laughed. “It’s my

passion. I always thought I was going to have my own business, but Oneiro just kind of took off and it’s getting so much hype that I thought I should take a shot at it.”

In addition to opening her own store, Ramage has plans to expand her business online as well as to other cities in Canada and the United States. The market for her work in Saskatoon is proving to be very promising in the meantime, however.

“I’ve had lots of support from the community and I’ve met so many great people through it,” said Ramage. “It’s a little intimidating having my stuff at Luna though because I’m so nervous about what [customers] are going to think. I’m the designer but they don’t know that, so they just say what they think of my stuff right in front of me.”

Ramage’s designs, though initially geared towards university students, are quickly growing in popularity across the board — in fact, she’s even designed jewelry for a six-year-old.

“But women in their 50s and 60s are really loving everything too, so it’s a pretty wide range.”

It’s easy to see why Oneiro Designs is receiving such positive feedback. From chunky necklaces and delicate earrings to unique wrist and body chains, Ramage’s creations are able to travel smoothly from the classroom to the club. Made up of an eclectic combination of chains, feathers, crystals and gemstones, Oneiro pieces can be seamlessly adapted to suit many different styles and outfits — especially for those who favour a more chic, daring look.

“Everytime I do a photoshoot or a lookbook I’m always like ‘be witchy’ to my models,” laughed Ramage. “I want it to look edgy, darker and kind of moody.”

Ramage gets her gemstones from a crystal farm outside of

Vanscoy, Sask., and her chains and metals from a distributor in Toronto.

“I love the little crystal farm.

My fall and winter lookbooks were shot there too,” said Ramage. “It’s easy to get inspired there because the land is amazing. [There is] this big labyrinth with rocks and you can walk along it and when you reach the end its supposed to clear up your problems. There’s even a medi-

cine wheel. It’s just beautiful.”

The positive response to Oneiro Designs is just one example of the collaborative artistic community that is growing more by the year in Saskatoon. It’s refreshing to live in a place that nurtures and encourages up-and-coming musicians, artists, designers and writers and Ramage’s work is a beautiful new addition to our warm and welcoming neck of the woods. In a small city such as this,

it is easy to carve a place in the cultural market simply through word of mouth — no wonder Gord Downie of The Tragically Hip famously referred to Saskatoon as the “Paris of the Prairies” in the song “Wheat Kings.”

Oneiro Designs products will be featured at the Black Market Market on Nov. 30 at the Wall Street Common and at the Flock and Gather craft market on Dec. 5 and 6 at St. Joseph’s Parish Hall.

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Ramage’s jewelry uses locally sourced crystals and gemstones to create a dark, edgy look.

Upcoming events Thursday Nov. 27

Friday Nov.28

It’s A Wonderful Life at the Persephone Theatre

Foggy Hogtown Boys Barra MacNeil’s at The Bassment SPCA Fundraiser at the Broadway Bastard Poetry with Theatre Cedar Sky at Amigos Slow Down Molasses The Classy Chassys with Good Girls and with Blackwater at Susan at Amigos The Capitol Mustache Mayhem II Newman Sounds at Louis’ Pub One Hit Wonders at Father O’Donnell Festival of Trees at Auditorium the Western Development Museum (last day)

Moist with guests at O’Brians Mike Boyd and D-Sisive at the Capitol The Ataris with Hot Panda, Teenage Kicks and Honest Friends at Vangelis

Saturday Nov.29

Sunday Nov.30

Monday dec.1

Tuesday dec.2

Wednesday dec.3

Black Market Market at Wall Street Common

Monday Jam with Bryn Becker and Jordan Welbourne at Louis’ Loft

Mother Mother with USS at O’Brians

Sunset Kids at Bon Temps Cafe

Saskatoon Potter’s Guild Annual Christmas Sale at the Albert Community Centre

Hot Club Saskatoon at Bon Temps Cafe Enchanted Forest Holiday Light Tour at Saskatoon Forestry Farm (through Jan. 11)

27 November, 2014 - THESHEAF.COM 12 Culture Silence! returns to the Snelgrove Gallery for its 17th year

MADISON TAYLOR Culture Editor Fine art students at the University of Saskatchewan have few opportunities to showcase and promote their artwork to the public — and even fewer opportunities to sell it. The Visual Arts Student’s Union seeks to provide a solution to this problem with their annual silent art auction Silence!

This winter’s show marks the 17th anniversary of Silence! Student artwork will be displayed in the Gordon Snelgrove gallery on campus Dec. 1–5 for the viewing pleasure of interested buyers and art lovers. After having their time to shine on the gallery walls and floor, these same art pieces will be available for purchase during the silent auction on the evening of Dec. 5 that caps off the fourday event with delicious food and drinks, live entertainment, door prizes and a photobooth.

“It’s just fun to go to a cultural event and I don’t think you hear too much about the arts at the U of S,” said Christine Czajkowski, VASU’s publications coordinator. Silence! “is like a statement for the arts students because it allows them to showcase their work.”

The proceeds gathered from the auction are divided evenly

between the artist and VASU itself, the latter of which enables the student-run group to offer scholarships and workshops such as figure drawing sessions to both its members and the public.

In addition to providing an opportunity for young artists to sell their work, Silence! allows students to experience what may be their first time displaying their art in a true gallery setting. Having one’s artwork critiqued and available for the public to purchase enables VASU members to both broaden their academic horizons and grow as artists.

The pieces that will be for sale at the auction are a selection of over 180 unique creations that U of S students have made.

“From what I’ve seen, there’s paintings and lots of prints,” said Kenton Doupe, poster designer and event planner for VASU. “A majority of it — including my own work — is scanned copies of graphite drawings reprinted to a different size.”

With cocktails, appetizers, prizes and silent auction night, Silence! may seem a tad ritzy to some, but Doupe assures any interested attendees that there will be art that is well within the range of a student budget.

“Most pieces will be around $25 to $50 and may extend to a couple hundred for special works,” said Doupe. “It’s more geared towards pricing for students, not art connoisseurs.”

VASU members may submit

up to 10 pieces of their work and are able to set their own prices, which allows them to experience the business aspect of being an artist. The event usually draws in a crowd of around 200 people, some of whom may be interested in commissioning the artists after viewing their work.

On top of being able to purchase beautiful art pieces, attendees can enter to win a variety of door prizes that include gift certificates from local businesses, art supplies, sample paints and the VASU executive’s special “gag gift”.

“The gag gift is a cheesy ‘how to be become an artist’ kit,” said Stephanie Mah, president of VASU. The evening will be kicked up a notch with the musical stylings of U of S fine arts student Emily Kohlert, who moonlights as both DJ Dandy Lion and pianist for local band Dream Country.

In contrast with most gallery exhibits, Silence! does not subscribe to one unified theme. Artists are encouraged to submit utterly unique and diverse creations which ensures that those bidding on the artwork will have an impres-

sive variety of pieces to enjoy and possibly even take home to display in their own homes.

An invaluable event that supports young local talent, Silence! has been the proud voice of the small but tight-knit artistic community of VASU for almost two decades, so why not celebrate that along with them — while gorging yourself on free appies and drinks, of course.

The Silence! silent auction will be held free of admission at the Gordon Snelgrove gallery on Dec. 5 from 7–9:30 p.m.

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University of Saskatchewan fine arts alumnus Mackenzie Browning ponders the meaning of life and art.

Hunger Games series unfinished but still defiant as ever SAMUEL RAFUSE The Hunger Games series is one of the smartest and most politically astute franchises Hollywood has released.

While most young adult series are content to exploit the disposability of their one-size-fits-all protagonists in order to capitalize on the identity confusion that defines adolescence, The Hunger Games series instead asks questions

about everything from identity to the necessity of bravery and the structure of capitalistic society.

Mockingjay Part 1 is only half a story and for that reason it is difficult to critique. In 10 years when we are able to watch the series in its entirety, perhaps this will be less noticeable — after all, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was a disaster as a two-parter but worked wonderfully as a whole.

For now we will have to be satisfied with this partial offering of the

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adaptation of the final book in Suzanne Collins’ bestselling trilogy.

Collins’ characters are even more engaging in this final installment than they were in the first two films. The script for Mockingjay Part 1 isn’t quite as sharp as the previous movies and struggles early to maintain the energy the games provided in the books.

However, the character dynamics, politics and especially scathing indictment of celebrity-obsessed media makes up for that.

The plot picks up right where Catching Fire left off but focuses more on Katniss’ (Jennifer Lawrence) struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder. Lawrence is brilliant here, balancing Katniss’ tough exterior with emotional battle scars that will likely never heal — all while having to deal with being the leader of a revolution and wondering every moment if she is responsible for the captivity and torture of Peeta (Josh Hutcherson).

Focusing on PTSD allows the movie to say something poignant about the realities of the world, Panem, in which the story takes place. This move is uncommon for fantasy series, where characters can go into “God-mode” and kill countless numbers without

suffering a single blowback ethically or emotionally.

The late Phillip Seymour Hoffman — to whom the movie is dedicated — returns as Plutarch Heavensbee gleefully directing the public relations of the mockingjay, the symbol of the revolution. Along with the familiar faces, we are introduced to President Coin (Julianne Moore), the leader of District 13 who rules the uprising with an iron fist and is determined to destroy the grasp of the Capitol. We also meet Cressida (Natalie Dormer) who leads a camera crew that follows Katniss and broadcasts her to the revolution as inspiration. These videos are called “propos,” or propaganda videos, a cringe-worthy and obvious parallel in a story that was otherwise just subtle enough to respect its audience.

In contrast to the previous movies, Mockingjay Part 1 is very bleak.

The Capitol is completely grey scale and the fights to the death do not occur in beautiful arenas.

Instead, this movie takes place primarily in a claustrophobic, underground bunker where any ounce of happiness is prohibited in favour of grey uniforms, grey walls and grey food.

Regardless, director Lawrence Francis manages to balance action spectacle with emotional intimacy surprisingly well and even finds more than a few good comedic moments in the midst of all the bleakness. A change in tone would have been welcomed about halfway through, but nobody could have objected to Katniss singing "The Hanging Tree" — created by The Lumineers for the movie — in an intensely moving scene.

Despite all its faults, most due to the marketing team arbitrarily deciding to split this adaptation into two parts, Mockingjay Part 1 ends on a powerful climax and sets up a series of dominoes for the final movie to knock over. If Part 2 manages to pull this off, Mockingjay could easily be the best of the series with its increasingly complex character dynamics, frighteningly astute real-world resonance and piercing look at the struggles that come with the responsibilities of leading a revolution while still feeling unprepared for adulthood. Adult audiences will find more to think about in this series aimed at adolescents than they will in most adult movies, which is quite impressive.

13 Cosby allegations put an ugly face on victim blaming opinions

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SAMUEL RAFUSE Victim blaming and sexual assault are phrases we’ve become all too familiar with lately, but it seems we still refuse to listen to cries for justice.

Over a dozen women have accused Bill Cosby of rape after decades of silence. Allegations of

sexual abuse against the famous actor involve Cosby using force, manipulation and coercion due to his celebrity status. Yet America’s favourite dad has gone so far without being rebuked for his actions.

The first response the public seems to have is to ask, “What took them so long?” The problem here is that we are asking the victims that to begin with. The fact that we

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Bill Cosby’s response to rape allegations has been weak at best.

don’t see an issue with this attitude and asking this question is where we as a society have gone wrong.

Asking a victim of any other crime to explain themselves as though they are responsible for the actions of the perpetrator would be silly, yet when it comes to sexual violence it is an anomaly not to. In theory, the idea of victim-blaming is ludicrous; in reality it is a common practice employed to restore equilibrium to the false sense of security we have constructed for ourselves where everything is okay and there are no unwanted consequences to our actions.

Whoopi Goldberg came to Cosby's defence on The View.

“Don’t you do a kit when you say someone has raped you? Perhaps the police might have believed it, or the hospital,” she said.

Goldberg said she is reserving judgement until the evidence displays a clear verdict. But there is a glaring problem in her statement which suggests that it is the victim’s fault for not having evidence. As if the rational thing to do when we find ourselves the victim of a crime is to go hunting for clues to incriminate the person we claim did it.

What about innocent until proven guilty? Doesn’t Cosby deserve that? To which I ask, what about the innocence of the victims? Are we really assuming they are guilty of lying and denying them the same defence of innocence we extend toward someone who has been accused by enough people to comprise an entire jury?

Maybe the Cosby allegations are getting out of hand — he seems to think so — telling Florida Today, “I know people are tired of me not saying anything, but a guy doesn’t have to answer to innuendos.

People should fact check. People shouldn’t have to go through that and shouldn’t answer to innuendos.”

It doesn’t matter what Cosby thinks anymore. His actions are his and we ought to serve justice where it is due. The real issue now lies in facing society’s mentality towards rape, women and victimizing those involved.

Are we so used to the idea that rape victims somehow “deserved it” that it’s become a mundanity?

The bystander effect — the idea that if nobody else intervenes in a compromising situation, neither

will we — a well documented social phenomenon, implicates us in the suffering that sexual assault inflicts upon people and maybe that is just too uncomfortable for us to accept.

Yet justice has little room for comfort. By no means does passivity equate with the act of rape itself, but it has a far more damaging effect than we are aware of as evidenced by the stories of the women who have come forward.

One of the women who came forward, Barbara Bowman, told Rolling Stone that she dealt firsthand with society’s passivity towards addressing rape.

“I have been trying to be heard since 2006. We have a culture that re-victimizes the victims. It is the most shameful, scary, intimidating, filthy place to live. It is a place of shame and darkness and fear.

When people ask, ‘Why didn’t you tell anyone?’ Well I did tell someone.”

This problem is bigger than the status Cosby commands. We’ve got some wrongs to make right and if the only people talking about it are the people we refuse to listen to in the first place, we’re in real trouble.

Fertility awareness methods undervalued for their worth KATRINA BURNS Women’s reproductive health is a global concern encompassing various issues and agendas, but concerns are often addressed without regard for the normal, healthy function of the body. Fertility awareness by contrast, focuses on the natural functions of a woman's body and works with it to avoid impairing these functions in the long run.

So often when I hear or read material about women’s health in developing countries, the conversation quickly turns to overpopulation or the poverty that children grow up in — if they survive long enough. The suggested solution to all of this is contraception. This may be as simple as condoms or the pill, or as invasive as sterilizations — which are not always voluntary either. What I don’t understand is why these suggestions make sense.

Condoms need to be stored in cool, dry places to be effective — I’m not sure how many impoverished women in Africa have storage space that would suffice.

The pill, besides being identified by the World Health Organization as a carcinogen, continually costs money. Maybe I’m idealistic, but I think clean water, nutrition and sanitation are more worthy causes if we’re sinking money into these nations.

I don’t think sterilizations are an appropriate response either. They also cost money, require a doctor and eliminate the possibility of a woman ever having children

again, should she want to later in life. There’s also a sanitation issue; if proper sanitation for daily activities is nonexistent, there probably would not be ideal conditions for an invasive surgery either.

I wish to make it clear that I am not advocating for women in developing countries to bear child after child only to see them suffer in poverty or die in childbirth. Rather, I think it makes a lot more sense to offer them an alternative that is simple, effective, free — or close to it, depending on the method — and that mothers can teach to their children easily. Fertility awareness methods are simple to teach and to learn, effective in practice and can be virtually cost-free.

Fertility awareness methods — also called natural family planning

— are hugely underrated. Maybe that’s because they’re what our grandparents used and it clearly didn’t work for them, so now they have a bad rap. Except they’re not what our grandparents used; we’ve come a long way in our understanding of a woman’s menstrual cycle since then and the days of the “rhythm method” are behind us.

There are much more sophisticated methods available now: Billings, Serena and Marquette.

These methods observe signs that indicate the fertility of a woman.

These signs include: cervical fluids, which become clear and slippery at peak fertility, basal body temperature, which increases as a result of progesterone which is produced after ovulation, cervical position and concentrations of estrogen and

luteinizing hormones in the urine.

The latter of which is measured using a monitor — this is the only part that has any significant cost associated with monitoring.

Avoiding pregnancy is simple, maybe not easy, but simple. A woman tracks her signs of fertility and abstains from intercourse during the fertile window, which is about a week of each cycle. That means for about three quarters of the average female cycle, pregnancy is very unlikely to occur as a result of sexual intimacy. Not having sex may be a challenge, but I think it’s a worthwhile hardship when the gain is a healthy, natural functioning body and healthy relationships.

Couples who practice fertility awareness tend to report better communication, high levels of

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respect for each other and their bodies, and more satisfying sex lives. This compared to the possibility of weight gain, mood changes and decreased sexual desire on the pill ranks pretty high.

For me, even with a cycle that has been difficult to make sense of, the choice is obvious.

Women’s reproductive health care is the only type of health care I am aware of where the intention of some of the most common treatments is to prevent natural, healthy bodily function. A woman’s body is designed to be able to carry and nourish a growing human being. Hormonal fluctuations, the development and shedding of a uterine lining and ovulation are all signs that a woman’s body is doing exactly what it is supposed to do. Why, then, do we suppress our hormones with artificial ones and throw off these natural processes and then call it health care? This isn’t the healthy functioning of a woman’s body at all.

We, as women, have better options than impeding the healthy function of our bodies for avoiding pregnancy. Fertility awareness methods are our best options.

Rather than ingesting a carcinogen daily, relying on a thin layer of latex to stop millions of potential sperm from reaching our ovum, implanting a foreign object in our uterus or eliminating the possibility of ever having children by severing our fallopian tubes, we can work with our bodies to avoid becoming parents before we’re ready and have a healthy, happy uterus for a growing child when we are.

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Harper’s aggressive policy towards Russia is positive, hopeful ALANA HUCKABAY On Nov. 14, Stephen Harper told Vladimir Putin to “get out” of Ukraine at the annual G20 summit. As Canada shows it will not tolerate Russian military action, this could be a positive step for international relations between Canada and other countries.

Canada’s newfound boldness is a good move that could result in it being seen as assertive on the world stage — putting up with other countries’ negative actions is not a way to be respected in an increasingly globalized world.

However, there is a risk that Canada’s stance against Putin’s actions could threaten relations with Russia because countries do not like to be confronted with issues pertaining to their actions or sovereignty.

While Canada is a world leader in human rights, protecting these rights can and should include protecting the rights of people in other countries. With Putin

commissioning violence against the people of Ukraine, it is inevitable that civilians will be hurt or killed in the conflict. These civilians are unrelated to Russia’s political agenda and are innocent casualties in its continuing military actions. In August, the death toll of the Ukrainian-Russian conflict was approximately 2,953 and is presumably rising with time.

There are also reports of Russia’s human rights abuses including physical and psychological torture and forced labour. Armed groups are wreaking havoc in Ukraine, torturing people and holding them captive. A United Nations report from August stated that various groups involved in the conflict are expected to be holding at least 468 people in captivity. These are all human rights violations and Canada is right to not idly stand by.

However, Canada’s previous actions seem to have made little impact so far. Despite imposing sanctions on Russia for months, the violence has not subsided.

This continued violence is not only a threat to the people of Ukraine, but it also affects the economy of both countries.

War is an expensive business, as weapons and military vehicles do not come cheap and it costs to send troops into other countries. The economic growth of Russia is being dragged down and the people of Ukraine cannot attempt to rebuild their country when fighting is tearing it apart.

The people of Ukraine have the right to live in peace and as long as they are living in a war-ravaged country, they cannot do this. War and violence leave psychological scars on survivors that take time to heal. Although the conflict may not be in our own backyard, Canadians should care because we are all human and the plight of other people affects us.

Canada’s history of aiding countries in crisis makes me think that Harper is passionate about helping Ukraine. If Canada puts enough pressure on Putin, then Russian troops could be

pulled out of Ukraine. Infighting and war are not helping either country, nor their people, to grow and thrive. Attempting to destroy each other is not a way

nutrients humans require than any other single food. Its nutritional profile includes carbohydrates, proteins, lipids and a plethora of vitamins and minerals essential to human health.

A 2010 study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggested that adult men and women who consume dairy products may be at lower risk for heart attack. Milk was also recognized in a 2014 article published in Metabolism-Clinical and Experimental to have an inverse relationship between its intake and human susceptibility to type 2 diabetes. Recognizing the important nutritional value of milk and dairy products, experts have gone as far as devoting a unique food category to dairy in the Canadian Food Guide and recommending two to four servings per day.

The University of Saskatchewan has long been involved in dairy research and many faculty members have devoted their lives to sharing their knowledge with the public. One of the most entertaining and inspir-

ing stories of a U of S faculty member promoting dairy is that of Douglas Gibson.

Gibson was head of the department of dairy science in the 1950s.

During the spring of 1954, his third year dairy students challenged him to live off of milk for a period of three weeks in order to prove its value. He enthusiastically accepted under two minor conditions: that he was provided with four ounces of orange juice for vitamin C and that he was allowed to consume an iron supplement.

In the end, Gibson lived on 3.41 litres of whole milk per day for 25 days with no adverse health effects. His admiring students later presented him with a well-earned certificate of performance. I am in no way endorsing the “Doug Gibson Milk Diet,” but the point he was trying to illustrate regarding the nutritional value of milk rings loud and clear.

In Canada, the dairy industry is both concerned with and proactive in ensuring quality products are made available for their consumers. Because dairy producers are producers of food, the dairy farmers of Canada have developed The Canadian Quality Milk Program. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has approved the program and ensures proper protocols are followed in areas such as animal feed, animal health, milking management and the use of pharmaceuticals on farms. The use of the hormones rBGH (recombinant bovine growth hormone) and rBST (recombinant bovine somatotropin) are strictly prohibited due to animal welfare and human safety concerns.

If an animal requires antibiotic treatment, the milk of that treated animal does not enter the human food supply.

There is no denying the impres-

sive nutritional value of milk and the substantial scientific evidence supporting the role of dairy products in sustaining human health. As Deborah Valenze states in her 2011 book Milk: a local and global history, “The commodity of milk has triumphed

to solve conflict. If Canada can be influential in making peace, we should put in as much effort as possible — it’s the least we can do.

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“Got milk?” Dairy products key for healthy diets JANNA MOATS

Being such a high quality food product, milk should not be taken for granted by its Canadian consumers.

Milk has been a human dietary staple for thousands of years, thanks to its rich nutrient profile. In Canada, we are fortunate to have a strong dairy industry offering a readily available supply of milk with high quality of standards. Unfortunately, many consumers do not value milk and dairy products for their true worth and often take the convenience of these foods for granted.

Stuart Patton, a world renowned dairy expert, puts it best: “To many people, milk has become like a public utility, resembling such things as water and electricity.”

Milk has been described as “nature’s perfect food” by nutritional experts, government agencies and scientists in acknowledgement of its truly impressive nutritional profile. It alone contains more essential

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Milk is often undervalued as an essential food for good nutrition.

as a universal icon of modern nutrition, despite all attempts to deny its supremacy.”

As Canadians, we mustn’t take for granted how fortunate we are to have convenient access to such a remarkable food product.

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Campus Chat What is the cheesiest pick-up line you’ve ever heard?

Your name must be Gillette, because you’re the best a man can get.

Griffin Moody

If I could rearrange the alphabet, I’d put U and I together.

Jasmine Sites

Hey, I’m going outside to make out, wanna come with?

Malusi Mabeleka

Is that a mirror in your pocket?

Because I can see myself in your pants.

Amara Haywood

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