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Maroon and Grey vet Jason Medeiros is preparing to don the black and gold as he returns from a recent Hamilton Tiger-Cats training camp.
Mac student Samira SayedRahman was in Chicago last month during the NATO Summit, leading thousands in an emotional anti-war demonstration. Read more in InsideOut, 9
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Of the protests that have been held in downtown Hamilton, this was certainly one of the noisiest. In a show of solidarity with Quebec students, downtown Hamilton hosted a “pots and pans� or casseroles demonstration at Gore Park on May 30. Demonstrators joined an international movement of solidarity that spans more than 70 cities across the world and continues to grow. “The issues we’re dealing with in Quebec are part of a broader struggle,� said Ethan Cox, the Montreal journalist whose May 27 article for Rabble.ca set in motion the wave of solidarity casserole protests last Wednesday. Students in Quebec initially mobilized to protest the tuition increase being imposed by the provincial Liberal government, led by Jean Charest. However, with the advent of Bill 78, which limits the rights of protesters to assemble, the protest movement has evolved to encompass concerned community members from all walks of life. “Economic systems that promote lower corporate taxes at the expense of social pro-
grams ‌ are systems that are broken. And this stronger response from McMaster students and is the unifying thread, fighting against these students across Ontario. broken systems,â€? said Cox. “Students have said, ‘Well why should they The casseroles protest complain, our tuition is concept, which involves already expensive.’ Ques“As education becomes more protesters taking to the tion is: why aren’t we comand more inaccessible, the streets banging pots and plaining?â€? quality is also decreased. The pans, was taken from The SRA brought reality of the situation is that the Chilean Cacerolazos forth a motion in Noif Quebec students lose, we all movement, which protestvember that declared the lose.â€? ed the repressive rule of MSU to be in solidarity dictator Augusto Pinochet with Quebec student bodRodney Diverlus Ryerson Students’ Union President in the 1970s. ies. The motion did not Cox explained that prescribe any particular each city has now created their own unique action, intending to leave room for students to movement that represents their own voices. take individual action. The Hamilton event attracted about 150 The MSU is a member of the Canadian Alattendees, comprised of students, community liance of Student Associations (CASA), one of members and union members. It was organized the two major national bodies that represents by humanities student Dorian Batycka. students. The other, the Canadian Federation Hamiltonians and McMaster students alike of Students (CFS), is typically more involved in have been pulled together by the cause. Ryan direct student action campaigns, while CASA Sparrow, a labour studies student and a former takes a political lobbying approach. member of the SRA, noted that a majority of Schools in the GTA, such as Ryerson and the attendees at the Gore Park event were, in York, which are members of CFS, have been exfact, students. tremely active in mobilizing students. Sparrow and many other students believe that the solidarity casseroles should spur a SEE PROTESTING, 3
An agreement is in the works that would likely see an increase in student fees for Access Copyright, which licenses universities for copyrighted works, including course materials. Although McMaster faculty and staff would also fall under the agreement, students would likely be absorbing the cost. The agreement might also be redundant, given that court case precedent and the new federal Copyright Bill (Bill C-11) already offer similar protections. “It is the University’s responsibility to provide academic materials,� said Huzaifa Saeed, McMaster Students Union’s VP (Education). He has been challenging University administration on the deal. Under the previous agreement with Access Copyright, which expired in December of 2010, students were charged $3.80 each, plus $0.10 per courseware page. The new agreement would charge $26 a student and no per-page fee. The elimination of the $0.10 per-page fee, though, does not necessarily mean a decrease in courseware prices, as the University could continue charging the same amount for course materials. The agreement would also add restrictions on how students can save and share academic materials. It appears clear at this point that the University intends to sign the deal, but the details are unclear. Other universities have chosen different options. Some are choosing not to download the extra cost onto students, while others have refused an agreement altogether, setting up individual agreements with publishers directly, which has been much cheaper for them. Peter Smith, McMaster’s VicePresident (Academic) and acting Provost, was unavailable for comment.
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The Ryerson community has been particularly active, staging its own demonstrations as well as travelling to Quebec to support student bodies there. “Students in Ontario aren’t immune to the effects of high tuition fees,â€? said Rodney Diverlus, President of the Ryerson Students’ Union. “We have the highest tuition fees in the country as well as the lowest per-student funding of any province. This means as education becomes more and more inaccessible, the quality of education received is also decreased ‌ Reality of the situation is that if Quebec students lose, we all lose,â€? said Diverlus. Although McMaster students seem to be less active, the casseroles solidarity movement has continued to build steam, and McMaster students remain an integral part of the Hamilton demonstration. Another casseroles protest took place on June 6. As the movement continues, student activists have tried to challenge the notion of the ‘apathetic student’ by elevating the volume of a student voice.
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Editorial Board Sam Colbert Executive Editor Jemma Wolfe Managing Editor Andrew Terefenko Production Editor Aissa Boodhoo-Leegsma Senior News Editor Julia Redmond Assistant News Editor Anqi Shen Online News Editor Kacper Niburski Opinions Editor Brandon Meawasige Senior Sports Editor Scott Hastie Assistant Sports Editor Sam Godfrey Senior InsideOut Editor Amanda Watkins Assistant InsideOut Editor Nolan Matthews Senior ANDY Editor Bahar Orang Assistant ANDY Editor Yoseif Haddad Senior Photo Editor Jessie Lu Assistant Photo Editor
To the major Canadian news outlets: I understood your fascination with the story of Luka Rocco Magnotta. At first, there was the crossover between a gruesome murder and Canada’s major political parties. Then emerged the biography of a bisexual escort and his Chinese immigrant victim. More recently, the plot turned into an international manhunt for a ‘Canadian Psycho.’ This guy had it all, topped off with an arrest in a German Internet cafe and allegations of cannibalism. But now that Magnotta has been caught, please quit plugging up top story space with this troubled porn actor. Despite the plastic surgery, the guy’s undeniably creepy mug does not resemble that of James Dean (which, according to reports, was the look Magnotta was going for), and it’s no longer useful to the public that I know what he looks like. Can we, perhaps, refocus on the other big story out of Montreal these days? I can’t even fathom protests like the ones in Quebec happening elsewhere in this country – least of all in this relatively conservative province, around this relatively conservative campus. We got 150 people out for a night in downtown Hamilton last week to cause a stink with some pots and pans. About a hundred times that many students have gone on strike over the last few months a province over. In part, this speaks to a difference in culture. Quebec seems much closer to Europe than other Canadians give it credit for. Protest and political involvement, particularly among young people, are a much more popular means of expression there. But I can’t help but feel that the way we’re reading about these events – or not reading about these events because a couple of severed hands and feet got mailed to Ottawa – has something to do with it. Francophone media outlets have accused English ones of boiling this issue down to a cross-province comparison of tuition rates, when demonstrations are about much more to most protesters. This story’s not just a Montreal story or a Quebec story. It’s a Canadian story. We might not fully understand what’s happening over there, but whatever’s causing it involves us, too. So, Globe and Mail, CBC and National Post – all of whom, as of this writing, have lead stories whose headlines include the term ‘body parts’ – can we get back to the stories that really matter? Magnotta doesn’t need the attention, and I’ve heard enough of the details.
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to weekdays of employment: eight hours of sleep, eight hours of work and eight hours at the phoenix.
to flooded stations.
to all nolan (nolan always).
to all the dismemberment and cannibalism.
to the coffee-bagel diet. to motown. it ain’t the same, but it’ll do. to found woody allen stand-up recordings. to staff helping out over the summer. you rock, guys. to fighting for our right to party like it’s 1986. to calling obama, maybe. to prince philip. ‘cuz he’s sick, and missed the jubilee. dang, bro. to bd, the sil’s favourite yuppie. to jf. love you too, bud.
to shootings in malls. thanks for the updates, brett lawrie.
to the parents against drunk students. and to the drunk students. can’t we all just get along? to the gradual unoccupation. i hope you’re well, dr. karl. to ‘yolo,’ the annoying kid brother of ‘carpe diem.’ to high school kids being too cool for facebook. to magnolia. nah, just kidding. to aissa’s very stern concerns with russia. consider yourself on notice, motherland.
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I should preface by saying that this isn’t a cry for help. Nor is it an otherwise lackluster student’s lament. Instead it is a realization that the summer sun is fleeting, and in its wake is a perpetual cycle of work, school, work, school, work and school some more. Maybe I’m just tired of it. Maybe I’m sick of the monotony. Or maybe I’m just both sick and tired of the lie of academia that as students, we are not supposed to struggle or complain. We are supposed to sit in the large classes, recognized only by our number, and enjoy the luxury of a university education that is reserved for a select few. We are told marks are only important as we choose to make them; the same could be said of social experiences. All of the opportunities, all of the activities and all of the groups – they are but a small portion of the privilege that is a “student’s life.� And yet, I cannot help but feel something is very wrong in this current climate of academic culture. Despite the apparent pleasures, there is an underbelly that is rarely discussed. Behind
the picture-perfect, poster-child students and the stratospherically high GPA’s is an environment that stigmatizes the smallest imperfection. Schadenfreude has replaced empathy. Hyper competitiveness pits student against student. Weaknesses are exploited, successes are lauded above all else, and the failures of others are a source of celebration. Don’t get me wrong. A new age of natural selection in academia is all fine and dandy, but where does it leave the students who are trampled by competition? Where do those with arguably unstable personalities find themselves? Alone. Forlorn. And waltzing around with ideas reserved for the end of times. Or, at least I was. To some, there is a thing called ancient history – events that happened so long ago they are worth being forgot. But sometimes, it’s hard to forget. Some memories are triggered by the slightest provocation, hidden by thousands of daily jokes and smiles. Even though my eyes were closed, I recall everything from that night just like it was my first kiss. The way the water from the showerhead masked my cries. The amount of time I could hold my
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time I planned to take my own life. With a pained look on his face, my father wearily sighed. To no avail, I tried to get the attention of my mother, who simply gazed off into
the distance. Although I couldn’t read her lips, it seemed she was mouthing, “My son, my son.� SEE IT GETS BETTER, 6
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Society today is completely obsessed with the ‘next big thing’, that unattainable stroke of genius that always seems to bestow itself upon someone you wouldn’t expect. A prime example is Facebook, a multi-billion dollar company created by a drunk college student in his dorm room – or so the story goes. Since its creation in 2004, Facebook has become a household name and is the most successful social networking site out there. Facebook appeared to be going strong when the company announced it would be going public, but when stock prices hovered around the initial public offering price of $38 instead of rising, people began wondering what this could mean for the company. Is it possible that Facebook is actually dying out? Ultimately, social networking relies on trends just like everything else in the world, but the hardest part about locating new trends is that most people can’t seem to
think fast enough. By the time the rest of the world catches on to a popular fad, the early adopters have already moved on, leaving the remainder of the population to stumble after them. These days, it’s teenagers who are at the front of this cycle, which really shouldn’t be a surprise. The combination of a small attention
network, and 63 per cent of them access these sites every day. Surprisingly, teenagers seem to be using Facebook less and less every day. Teens who used to update their status every hour are now only logging in every couple days to catch up with their ‘friends’, more often out of obligation than for entertainment. They’re moving on to other social networking sites like Twitter, which, according to Forrester Research, was the most popular social networking site among young people in 2011. Facebook is still extremely popular, and will most likely remain that way for the foreseeable future, but it seems to be shifting from younger audiences to the 6,/+28(77( ),/( 3+272 middle-aged. As 7HHQDJHUV DUH JURZLQJ ERUHG ZLWK )DFHERRN DQG KDYH PRYHG RQ WR 7ZLWWHU teens navigate span and quick-to-judge attitude creates the perfect group to sift through new concepts and ideas and to decide what will catch on and what won’t. This theory is especially true when it comes to social networking trends, and teens are well qualified to pass judgment: 73 per cent of North American youth, aged 12-17, are on a social
away from Facebook, their parents, and sometimes even grandparents, are just discovering it. Facebook won’t be obsolete in a matter of months; in fact, it will probably be around for a very long time. There are over 900 million active Facebook users, and that number isn’t going to drop significantly in the next year. After all, talking about ourselves makes us feel good; it activates a part of our brain that acknowledges rewards, and that’s why we’re so hooked on social networking. The odds are, even when people complain about the newest layout, lack of features or privacy issues, they won’t actually terminate their Facebook account. But young people in particular are beginning to grow bored with Facebook, and are moving on to other sites like Twitter and Tumblr. This migration of interest in teenagers is similar to the drop in Myspace’s popularity a few years ago in favour of Facebook. If this is any indicator of Facebook’s future I think it’s safe to assume that, like shoulder pads and spandex before it, the site is a slowly sinking ship.
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Now after four years, I’m really beginning to question the mentality behind some of McMaster’s technological upgrades that are supposedly benefiting students. New buildings that I’ll never personally get to use for course purposes are all well and good – thousands of students attend this institution, after all. No, the updates I question are the ones we all suffer equally from - though some suffer more equally than others. WebCT, ELM, Avenue2Learn. Some of these may sound familiar. WebCT in particular may not to most current students; it’s just that old. Of the three systems, it was the most reliable and tended not to
give the more technologically confounded professors a hard time. In other words, it worked the best (in the opinion of this fourth-year student) of the online classroom systems Mac has used in recent years. Who cares, you ask? Well, I do, and I’m probably not the only one, given what students have said through social media. Without warning and without explanation, almost three years ago now, Mac dropped WebCT for the wonderfully buggy system that was known as ELM. I’m irked about the lack of explanation for no big reason – just that we the students are only paying for the damn system. Of course, after a year of hell, they axed ELM in favour of our current wßnderapp, Avenue2Learn. Hey, don’t get me wrong,
“It gets better it always does� FROM 5 At the same time she was shaking her head, stuck in an infinite loop between now and forever. I helplessly stared at them – my parents, my caregivers – while my father waffled about to find the right words. He stuttered once. Twice. Despite having lived in my house for years, it felt foreign. As I sat there with hands that grappled against the air that seemed to be suffocating me, it felt as though my house was not my home. Was it my fault? Was I just incorrigibly inept? I wasn’t sure, and at the time, I took that as a confirmation that I was. The grades. The disappointment. All of it was my undoing, a testament of my limitations. Others could balance school and athletics. Some even worked. And here I was struggling with just academics. In my head, I was less than pathetic. I remember my mother’s botched attempt at reassurance, the feeling of overarching meaningless, and the days I never wished to face, days I couldn’t believe had happened. But above all else, I remember the stern voice of my father, who spent five minutes in a quiet search of wisdom. “I promise,� he whispered, “it gets better. It always does.� After it all, I like to pretend that I am stronger. I could even say that I am wiser too. But I’m not. For a while, I let my depression get the better of me, and I became a victim of my own suffering. Yet in due course, I realized
that my father was right. Even though the following days were filled with uneasy footsteps that echoed a song of regret, I remember that it – the pain, the heartache, the unquestionable distress – eventually stopped. When it did, I experienced the spicy taste of peppers, my first true love, a passion for writing, the beauty of a Polish cathedral, the soothing call of an Imam in Turkey, the confusion of an abstract painting, the exhilaration of cliff diving, the salty kiss of an ocean, the unbridled carnal urgency of sex, and a whole blur of other memories that bring both joy and happiness to me now. In short, I experienced life like I never thought I would again. I tell this story not in search of therapy. I’ve dealt with my own demons already. Instead, I write with the hopes that I can inspire you – whoever you are and wherever you live – to believe that you are not alone. Now I certainly do not think I can ever truly understand what you’re going through, and I will not presume to make a blanket statement about what is best for you. I will not tell you that the sun will rise tomorrow. Nor will I tell you that it will set today. In the end, I will not pretend to know you. But while it is perhaps foolish to hope that these words will reach anyone, and it is probably even more so to assume that they could help in any way, I want you to know that no matter what has happened and no matter how you feel, you are fantastic. You are unique. And I love everything about you.
it at least works compared to ELM, except for the odd time it overloads or confuses a professor. I’ll even admit A2L is quite straightforward and functions rather well. So here we are still with it after two years. And finally McMaster announces updates for the bane of everyone’s existence, MUGSI. Certainly there was much rejoicing.
“Instead, MUGSI now hides its decrepit self behind a pleasing facade. The worst part is that in not upgrading the functionality, McMaster demonstrates its commitment to progression.�
And then there was the fine print. The upgrade? Purely aesthetic. No mention of upgrading the capacity or the functionality. It just looks prettier. It appears as though they didn’t even consider the lovely problems we all have in the summer, scrambling to enrol in our courses for the fall and for so many hours are met with a “max capacity, try again later� message. My first thought after seeing the finished product was, “Well that just makes it blend in better with the rest of the school’s website.� No more bold gold and maroon with old block menus, resembling its functionality. Instead, MUGSI now hides its decrepit self behind a pleasing facade. The worst part is that in not upgrading the functionality, McMaster dem-
onstrates its commitment to progression. As we all know, the student email server was recently handed over to Google’s Gmail. According to an email in an old undeletable folder back in MUSS, that server was created back in 2000, as per the date of the email. It only seems reasonable to assume that MUGSI is as old, if not older. Why? Well look at MUSS, now back to old MUGSI, then over to Gmail and back to the new MUGSI. See the similarities? Maybe certain elements of McMaster’s leviathan of an administration needs to focus more on what works, rather than just what looks good. Of course, I’ve always been more of a pragmatist, so who am I to judge?
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Marauders moving on from Mac Jason Medeiros and Kyle Quinlan are making tracks elsewhere Brandon Meawasige Senior Sports Editor
After the news broke of quarterback Kyle Quinlan’s recent signing with the Canadian Football League’s Montreal Alouettes, McMaster’s football community, still on the highs of 2011’s historic Vanier Cup-winning season, has been confronted with the harsh reality that has long been entrenched in collegiate athletics: players of the highest calibre will eventually leave, ready or not, to begin their professional careers. After leading his team to national football supremacy, Quinlan will now be expected to work at a much higher level. From such a successful team, one deemed to be among the best in CIS history, surely more than one player would be considered to have “next-level� talent. Enter All-Canadian guard Jason Medeiros, who has recently signed with the Hamilton Tiger Cats. Medeiros, a Hamilton native, will get a chance to fulfill a lifelong dream of any athlete: to make the roster of his hometown team. Keeping things truly close to home, Medeiros attended the May 31 TiCats rookie camp on some familiar soil, as the camp was held at McMaster’s Ron Joyce Stadium. Full training camp began on June 3 and it can be expected that the 6’4�, 315-lbs. sociology major will make a strong showing throughout the duration of the pre-season. Marauder head Coach Stefan Ptaszek weighed in on Medeiros’ readiness, saying that the third-year lineman will make McMaster proud at the very least. “I am so happy that Jay has earned the
opportunity at a professional career. I know he will be a positive representative of the McMaster Marauder Football program.� Now, supporters of the defending champion Maroon and Greys may be experiencing some mixed emotions. On one hand, Medeiros and Quinlan have a shot at joining the six CFL players who started their playing careers out of McMaster’s program. On the other, one of the country’s best offenses in 2011 could lose at least two of its players to the pros, one of whom was arguably the best player on that offense. In fact, both Me& 2 5,&+$5' =$=8/$. deiros and Quinlan have one year of CIS eligibility 0HGHLURV DQG 4XLQODQ OHDYH EHKLQG DQ DOO VWDU 0DUDXGHUV RIIHQVH ZKLFK WRRN WKH 9DQLHU E\ VWRUP remaining. So, if neither makes the roster of their new team, Mac can injury. Mac to the ranks of professional football. expect to have them return for the defense of Now a member of the Canadian NaThat note on their football resume both provincial and national football titles. tional Bobsledding team, Lumsden holds might be indicative of a promising career for If successful, the two players would join several offensive records at Mac, though he both players – one that raises the bar of exthe ranks of receiver Mike Bradwell, safety was never able to bring a national champi- cellence for those graduating out of Canada’s Jason Arakgi, linebacker Jay Pottinger and onship back to the Steel City, despite his il- top university football program. offensive linemen Andrew Jones, Chris Van lustrious career. Either way, whether they don the colZeyl and Kyle Koch in Canada’s proleague. The success of both Medeiros and Quin- ors of their new team, or come home to once A notable name missing from this CFL lan as part of the 2011-12 Marauder squad again wear numbers 61 and 12, respectively, list is former Marauder running back Jesse that won the Vanier Cup sets them apart the future is bright for Jason Medeiros and Lumsden, whose career was cut short due to from those who have blazed the path from Kyle Quinlan.
Stones is rolling to a Canadian U-20 win Jason Erlich & Tyler Wright The Silhouette
The McMaster Men’s rugby team has been among the more successful varsity sports on campus in recent years, winning six OUA championships in the last decade alone. Along with these championships have come numerous opportunities for our Marauders to make their mark on provincial, even national stages, and it seems that 2012 is shaping up to be yet another hallmark year. In a recent tour of South America the Ontario Senior Men’s Team (“The Blues�) fielded five current and former marauders for their three-game series against national teams from Chile, Uruguay and an Argentinean Club side Salta.Under the guidance of team captain Mike Pletch (a former Marauder captain) who had help from fellow alumni of the Maroon and Grey Daniel West and Michael Scholz, The Blues, who also dressed current Mac stars Tyler
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place in Salt Lake City, from June 18-30. Stones will be joined south of the border by Marauder teammate Andrew Ferguson, who played with Stones on Canada’s U-20 side last year. Ferguson will also be found representing Canada at the World University Championships in Brive, France from July 11-13. This month, Canada’s Senior
Men’s National Team will be hosting three international tests. The matches will see the team face the United States in Kingston on June 9, Italy at BMO Field in Toronto on June 15 and Georgia in Burnaby, BC, on June 23. SEE RUGBY CUP, 8
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Rugby cup is in Maroon sights FROM 7 On June 1, Marauder alumni Aaron Carpenter was named Canada’s captain for the three tests and will be joined by Mike Scholz and Tyler Ardron – who will be looking for his first cap on the Senior Men’s team. Both Scholz and Ardron are regular members of Canada’s Nation 7’s team and are recent gold medal winners at last year’s PanAm Games. Adding to the success of Marauder
players, Shaun Allen, former Head Coach of the Marauders and OUA Men’s Rugby coach of the year in 2010, was selected as the new Head Coach of Rugby Ontario in April. Allen has been a key player in three OUA championships during his four-year playing career at McMaster before joining the Marauder coaching staff – a position he took on an interim basis while head coach Phil White was on sabbatical. Allen will also be joining Stones and Ferguson this June as an Assistant Coach for Canada’s U-20 team.
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of Iraq Veterans Against the War. The veterans announced that, at a weekend Executive Editor rally, they would be giving back medals When Samira Sayed-Rahman was they had received for their time overasked to represent Afghans for Peace seas, much like veterans of the Vietfor a workshop at a NATO Counter- nam War did after returning home in Summit in Chicago last month, she the ‘70s. considered declining, unsure if she was Later that day, the members of AFP up to the task. and some of the veterans were walking But the McMaster political science past the Obama headquarters, where and religious studies student ultimately there was an anti-war rally taking decided to go, having no idea that she place. Members of the rally recognized would be leading thousands of pro- the women and the veterans from the testors – she later heard estimates that morning’s media event and encourranged from ten to fifty thousand – aged them to speak, leading to more through the streets of the city. coverage. “I crossed two things off my bucket “From then on, we kept getting list, getting onto Fox News and Al invited to all of these different events, Jazeera at the same time,� she laughed. running back and forth across the city NATO leaders, including Can- to speak,� said Sayed-Rahman. adian prime minister Stephen Harper, The workshop AFP held at the were meeting at a Summit in Chicago, start of the weekend that followed was in part to discuss the Iraq and Afghan- packed. istan conflicts. The plan was for Sayed“It was a little strange having all Rahman and two other young women these older folk looking up to me and from Afghans for Peace, an organiza- asking me questions,� she said. “We’re tion with chapters in Canada, the U.S. all a bunch of young ladies – we’re all and parts of Europe, to speak and host in our 20s – and it was an experience a workshop at the Counter-Summit being there and having people look to happening nearby. us for answers, because most people She arrived on the evening of Wed- didn’t know anything about the connesday, May 16 for a press conference flict.� the following morning with members The weekend’s events were building toward Sunday’s rally. The many groups taking part in the march that day wanted “It was a little strange having all these to follow the lead of the vetolder folk looking up to me and asking erans, who were drawing the me questions. We’re all a bunch of bulk of the media attention young ladies - we’re all in our 20s - and for the protests. The veterans, it was an experience being there and though, wished to follow the having people look to us for answers, three women. because most people didn’t know “They said this was more anything about the conflict.� about the Afghan people than it was about the people Samira Sayed-Rahman on speaking returning their medals.� at the NATO Counter-Summit
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So the three walked at the front of the march, carrying the Afghan flag, as the veterans walked alongside them carrying the American flag. When they stopped, less than a block from the NATO Summit, the former soldiers folded up the U.S. flag to represent an end to the occupation. “The veterans were an incredible group of people. They made sure we always felt safe and were always comfortable,â€? she said. After throwing their medals, the men took a knee, a sign of apology to the Afghan people. By the time SayedRahman was reading a statement to the crowd at the close of the event, the veterans were in tears. “I don’t know how I didn’t shed a single tear on that stage. Looking back on the footage, I’m blown away by it ‌ I don’t know how I was able to speak in front of all of those people.â€? Much of Samira’s extended family still lives in Afghanistan. “I am involved in anything antiwar, whether it’s the Palestinian movement or Libya or anything. But there’s that connection to Afghanistan through my family that I can’t escape, and it has really fuelled me.â€? She has returned to Canada, and is back at McMaster for summer classes. But she’s anxious to continue pushing the issue. The young women of her organization have been invited to events in Germany, Nepal and elsewhere as a result of the attention they’ve received. Samira acknowledges, though, that there might never be another event that comes close to matching her experience in Chicago. “The relationships we built in two days, I don’t think I could build those relationships with some people in a lifetime.â€?
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PS I love you, too Paul Saulnier on PS I Love You’s history, the Hamilton connection and death dreams PS I Love You is an old-school kind of indie rock band, the kind from back when ‘indie rock’ meant something more specific than ‘music some nerdy young people listen to’ – back when it meant the Pixies and Sonic Youth. PS I Love You brought their nostalgia-rock to a small but excited crowd at the Casbah on May 19, and before the show I spoke to singer and guitarist Paul Saulnier. Though PS I Love You are loud, Saulnier is not. He has an unexpectedly soft voice and a dreamy, dethatched expression. I asked Saulnier about whether the band’s need for body-rumbling loudness is rock star confidence or a wall of sound to hide behind. “Well, maybe it’s a bit of both, I don’t know,� he replied. “I let the volume speak for me, so maybe it’s shyness, but I’m confident in my playing. I feel like my guitar is more my voice than my voice.� In the early days, PS I Love You was just Saulnier, and he would do everything himself when the band played live. “I would have more gear than most bands. Only a couple shows ever went well,� Saulnier recalls. “Stuff always ended up being a disaster, like if the drum machine cut out then the organ loop wouldn’t be in sync anymore. I was not good at using looping pedals, so I got rid of them.� Benjamin Nelson, the band’s drummer, replaced the temperamental looping pedals and drum machines. After Nelson joined, PS I Love You began to look more like a proper rock band, and they went on their first tour.
The band’s first show away from their hometown of Kingston was in Hamilton. Saulnier said the show “went well, and it kind of made us think, oh yeah, we could do this again.â€? Encouraged by their first Hamilton show, PS I Love You continued to tour. Buzz began to build around the band, and in early 2010, their song “Faceloveâ€? was featured on Pitchfork. “Recently, we kind of got a bad Pitchfork review, so we’re going to find out how that affects us, which is kind of scary,â€? said Saulnier. “When you’re touring in America, the word of God has been replaced with the word of Pitchfork.â€? Almost every music blog that has written about PS I Love You recently, including Pitchfork, has mentioned how the song “Death Dreamsâ€? is a recording of a melody that Saulnier heard in a dream about his own death, like a musician’s version of a dream journal. Keeping a dream journal is thought to help people have lucid dreams. I asked Saulnier if he thought that by recording his dream melodies he might be able to someday lucidly write music while asleep. “I don’t know, maybe. That’s interesting. I do fall asleep with my guitar quite often, so maybe I already do and I don’t even know about it.â€? • Nolan Matthews, Senior ANDY Editor
Group of Mac folk rockers looking to take advantage of big opportunities Of Gentlemen and Cowards is headed to the Sound of Music festival following its Ontario-wide battle of the bands victory The members of Of Gentlemen and Cowards name the Arkells as an influence with half reluctance. They understand that the Arkells, who formed after meeting at McMaster as students, paved the way for acts with true Mac and Hamilton pride – naming themselves after the Westdale street on which the lived and practiced while at school and calling their debut LP Jackson Square. “We all listen to the Arkells, but we tend not to write like them, because the last thing we want to do is become ‘the next Arkells,’� said bassist Josh Dawson. “We respect what they do ... but as we’ve grown and matured, we’ve kind of found our own sound, and I’m glad it’s not the next Jackson Square.� Of Gentlemen and Cowards is a band of current students at Mac, who play almost any campus charity show or event they can get, in part to get their name out there, and also out of a connection they feel to their school. SEE OGC, 11
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OGC staying positive, taking good with bad FROM 10 The four-piece folk-pop-rock group was the McMaster winner in the Campus Music Explosion battle of the bands competition in March. They went on to win the Ontario-wide CME Finals. “We rehearsed that show more than we’ve rehearsed any show we’ve ever played. It was a 20-minute set, and I’m embarrassed over how much we rehearsed that show,� said lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Simon Edwards of the Ontario Finals. “We knew what we were going to say. We knew what we were going to wear.� “It’s the stuff that you don’t want to think about,� said Dawson. Now, they’re gearing up for an appearance at Burlington’s Sound of Music festival on June 14, playing on the same stage and day as the Arkells. Although they won’t be quite so meticulous in the planning for Sound of Music, they’re excited. It was at the 2010 festival that the Arkells had one of the biggest breakout shows of their career. Things weren’t always this good for Of Gentlemen and Cowards, who got their name from the story of a trial that followed the sinking of the Titanic, in which the judge is said to have asked a defendant
who paid for a lifeboat to leave the ship only half full, “Are you a gentleman, or are you a coward?â€? There were the shows to no one while on tour, or the time Edwards broke a rented, $3,000 guitar to start a show at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto. But the band took it all in stride, thinking only of the positive. “That was the tightest we’ve ever played,â€? said Edwards of an empty-audience show. “I had never really stopped thinking about who I was playing to until then.â€? They were also thankful that Long & McQuade only charged them a $400 repair fee for the destroyed Martin guitar. If they had to pay the full price? “We wouldn’t be releasing a record. That’s for sure,â€? laughed Dawson. They’re currently working on a seveninch release with Hamilton producer Michael Chambers of Catherine North Studios downtown, planning to release material in small doses. They came out with an EP last year. Of Gentlemen and Cowards will be playing at 7 p.m. on June 14, appearing on the ArcelorMittal Dofasco stage of the Sound of Music festival in Burlington. • Sam Colbert, Executive Editor
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