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Volume 49 | Issue 11 | November 25, 2014

Arthur has had the opportunity to assess its Campus Readership and Sales, and is changing the schedule, layout, and a whole bunch of other things in order to reposition staff during production times, so as to focus on quality and quick coverage of events. This will mean circulating each issue first on East Bank, then the week after on West Bank, with more news, comment, and sports options in each location. As such we will now be publishing on a three week rotation (Week 1: Issue on the East Bank, Week 2: Issue on West Bank, Week 3: break week, no service). In addition, we have discontinued the use of Photoshop so we could give management holiday bonuses, so there will be no more photos in Arthur. Furthermore, our office will be open at 4am on weekdays in order to accommodate early risers and late sleepers with more content coverage options. Unfortunately this means we have to close earlier each day at 9am.

The office will no longer be open during weekends so we can layout the issue in peace, but we’ll leave some coffee and snacks in front of the door and next to our issues on campus. First come, first served. We suggest you check the coffee next to West Bank Issues, as it will be left over from the week before.

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Just kidding. But, you can find real coverage of Chartwells’ food service changes, as well as the reactions from students and staff, on Page 3.

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ThisIssueinHistory:Volume25(1990),Issue 11 Throughout the 1990s and the early 2000s, Arthur was known to be a fiesty and radical individual.

As this space has documented over the past few weeks, these years saw Arthur on the vanguard of the fight against the forces of neoliberalism, frequently lashing out against Mike Harris’ Common Sense Revolution, and championing the causes of social justice, equality, and compassion in the face of increasing government cutbacks and privatization.

This anti-establishment demeanor was only one of the faces Arthur wore at this time, however, and at the age of 25 Arthur was caught between the rebellious years of teenage angst and predictable stability that comes with middle age.

Thus there was a milder side to Arthur, one that liked to match placard and protest with pen and diary. It was this side took great pleasure in documenting the mundanities and trivialities that occurred throughout everyday Peterborough.

One such instance was in Issue 11 of Volume 25, an issue that marked the debut of a new regular column entitled Tales of Peterborough. “This is sort of an all-purpose column,� wrote its author Shannon Ash. “Basically it’s a place for anecdotes and stories about life in this big town/ little city.�

In the introduction to the column Ash explained her vision for the column as a space where students and community members would be able to share little slices of life

(“slices from the bread of Peterborough,� she called them) and bond over their shared community.

In the first story, Ash recalled a time in which she spent three hours exploring Lansdowne Place mall shopping for winter boots and researching war toys. “The boot shopping proved unsuccessful, and the war toy research was pretty easy, since Lansdowne consists mainly of clothing stores,� she remarked.

The column proceeded to document her “glassy-eyed� escapades throughout the many stores of the mall and into Loblaws grocery store where, like so many of us before and after her, she was “seized with the impulse to run with [her] cart and then slide along the floor.�

After escaping the grocery store with minimal damage (“I.. made it out with just a few vegetables�) Ash continued on her harrowing journey to Shopper’s Drug Mart where she had a close counter with a drug peddling Santa Clause who was “pushing candy canes� to the kids nearby. “I finally drag myself out into the real world,� Ash concluded, and “echoes of ‘Would you like to apply for a Sears card’ follow me as I leave.�

Living in a town like Peterborough it can sometimes feel as though life is stuck on constant repeat, and certainly Ash’s this column does nothing to disprove that (how many times have you too left Sears with those words ringing in your head?)

However, what is special about a column like this is that it reminds us that no matter how dull or boring our lives may seem, even everyday occurances are worth reading and writing about.

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CampusNews Trent’s foodservice staff speak out over working conditions

By Ugyen Wangmo

Trent University’s food service is currently suffering from many changes and uncertainties that have been implemented since the new foodservice provider, Chartwells, took over last May. Of all the changes that Chartwells has made, the most notable have been to the hours of operation of food available, which has radically changed the positions and working hours of the employees.

According to multiple interviews with foodservice staff members, this has hampered the overall quality of the food service operation at Trent.

“Chartwells is not respecting the collective agreement for the most part,” said one member of the staff, who spoke only under the condition of anonymity. “Management has way too much on its plate and they are in over their heads. Most managers are chaotic and there are few who actually know what they are doing.”

“They are breaking the law, every day, every time, and all day long,” said another, who similarly requested to have their name withheld. “It is like we are nothing.”

At the core of the problem is a widespread feeling that Chartwells management is not capable of managing the operations at Trent, and in this respect some staff members pointed to issues with Food Services Director Edward Rama, who was retained by Chartwells when they took over operations from Aramark.

One staff member explained that there have been many mistakes made under his direction, including catering functions missed all throughout the university because of the lack of communication between him and the catering manager.

“Everyday there is something different that they cannot get right. It is just chaotic,” lamented the staff member. “We feel very uncertain and job security is scary, especially given the fact that they are not respecting our collective agreement.”

According to Judy Gates, president of CUPE 3205, the union that represents Trent foodservice workers, the situation has deteriorated since the beginning of the school year when the Foodservice Committee took away a number of important services including the popular Rez-Express late-night delivery service, which previously kept staff busy at night, especially during the exam periods.

“It doesn’t make sense,” said Gates. “The food committee didn’t make their final decision until recently and all of a sudden our hours are cut. My hours just got cut by ten and that is a lot of money. It means that the foodservice is in turmoil again.”

Gates also noted that the university has refused to stand up for the workers.

“When the transition [from Aramark to Chartwells] started I had an interview with Associate Vice President Students Nona Robinson and she said it would be seamless and very few changes, but that didn’t happen,” said Gates.

She added, “Anytime we have reached out since, the university hasn’t supported us at all. They don’t want to hear it because they say it is between us and Chartwells.”

Similarly, the union’s Vice President said: “Our hands are tied, we can only offer suggestions. I just hope that the kids can

be patient with us and understand that we are here for them, at this point we are here only because of them.”

While the staff may be bearing the brunt of these cutbacks, students are also feeling the effects.

“In terms of the food services, staff fall behind and feel rushed; as a result they make mistakes,” said second year Media Studies and Journalism student Stelios Pappas.

“The worst thing is if you are in a line up at 12 o’clock you will not be able to get out for 40 minutes. So students can’t enjoy their meals since they have to rush to class.

You can frequently walk by and see half finished meals.”

Trent Central Student Association President Braden Freer is well aware of students’ concern and said that they trace back to the new management.

“It would have been understandable if there were just a few issues at start, but now its nearing end of November and there are still some glaring issues,” he said.

Freer cited issues of service and machine reliability, as well as limited hours of operation, and long line-ups as being the most notable problems with the new foodservice provider.

“I go to Tim Horton’s on campus not because I necessarily enjoy the coffee, but because of the staff,” he said. “Now, to hear the staffs make comments of dissatisfaction to each other is frustrating.”

The representative of the university administration, Associate Vice President Student Nona Robinson, said that there have been many changes to food services at Trent and that Chartwells is still adjusting.

One of the biggest changes is the move to a “retail model” of foodservice where students pay for what they eat, she explained. This means that Chartwells has to make enough in sales to cover their expenses, rather than relying on guaranteed income from meal plans.

According to Gates, CUPE 3205 just had a meeting with the Compass hierarchy and they said that “it is not working here but it works at other universities.”

Saira Husain, Manager of Corporate Communications of Compass Group, justified the recent changes by saying that they understand that food cost is an important issue for students and that they are proactively looking for solutions to ensure that their foodservice operations remain viable.

Meanwhile, there are currently 25 grievances against Chartwells.

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Campus

Trent unveils new collaborative Teaching and Learning Centre

By Brian Hough

Located on the second floor of Bata Library, the Trent Centre For Teaching and Learning is a new initiative at Trent, says Educational Developer (and Part-time Psychology Department faculty member) Robyne L. Hanley-Dafoe.

“It is committed to continuing to foster an environment where excellent teaching is valued, supporting student learning and creating a safe space for faculty to try new things in class and take risks. We want to continue Trent’s mission to see education as transformative.”

To do this, the centre offers a number of services aimed at the professional development of faculty, grad students and instructors, having already conducted three separate workshops involving student groups, faculty and student accessibility staff. They plan on hosting five in total, ranging from classroom management to preparing teaching portfolios.

The centre, which opened this fall, grew over four years as an ongoing collaboration between faculty, staff and various departments, finally coming into fruition through Provost Gary Boire and Interim Vice-Provost Dr. Elaine Scharfe (who is

also Dean Of Graduate Studies).

As Hanley-Dafoe notes, “it’s a common feature in other universities, but what makes Trent different is the collaborative element between students, faculty, departments and graduate students.”

In addition to the workshops, the centre offers a series of 20-minute demos

Writers’ Society to run workshop

By Brian Hough

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Aspiring writers at Trent (and in the local community as a whole) may be excited to know that thanks to the Trent Writer’s Society, an opportunity may be available next semester to take a 12 week (noncredit) workshop with a professional writer for only $140 (about $12 a week).

The course would be run by Oakville based writer and editor, Beverly Bell.

Bell began her career as a graduate of Concordia University with an MA in Journalism, before moving on to write for the Ottawa Citizen and then for various medical and health magazines and websites. She then pursued a career writing what she calls ‘middle-grade adventure novels’.

She became interested in setting up a workshop at Trent when asked to run a one-off workshop on meeting deadlines as part of the Trent Writer’s Society series of events tied to the annual ‘National Novel Writing Month’.

After having been invited by family friend and TWS member, Classics student Kelsey Levins, she saw that there might be other students interested in taking this kind of workshop (Trent only offers one Creative Writing course through the English department, and it is limited by portfolio only; Sir Sanford Fleming offers on-line courses but they’re around $400 each).

Says Bell, “I had mentioned that I would be happy to edit 1-3 pages for a couple of

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students to give them an idea of what to expect from a professional editor. The offer was very well received and that’s when I realized it might be a great idea to offer a weekly class, or workshop, provided enough people sign up in order to make it worth my while to drive to Peterborough from Oakville.”

To do that Bell is hoping to find a minimum of 6 students to make it viable, which shouldn’t be too difficult with scheduling. “I’m currently offering a Monday and Wednesday class here in Oakville beginning January 12th, so those days are unavailable but Tuesdays, Thursdays or Saturdays would suit me well. I’d prefer to run them from 12:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. The cost would be $140 per participant for a 12-week course (once a week).”

When asked what to expect, Bell replies “The goal of the workshop is to help every writer to write the best prose they possibly can. I plan to give a short talk each time (just 10-15 minutes) on key points such as hooks, dialogue, plot, characters, how to end chapters etc.— actually whatever the students would like to know more about.

Each participant will send 3-5 pages each week to me (and I, in turn, will send them out to the group) for critiquing. The sessions will run for two and a half hours.”

Bell also encourages students not to worry too much about experience. “Experience doesn’t matter. What matters is the desire to write and learn. Expect to write a lot and to re-write a lot.”

highlighting brief ways of showcasing tech and technique (Live Scribes for example) as well as a ‘Brown Bag Lunch Series’, which Hanley-Dafoe says “brings together first year teachers to focus on student engagement”.

What the centre envisions is a place where “a faculty member who wants to incorporate a new piece of technology into the classroom could use the centre as a consultant for incorporating it into the pedagogical framework of the class to improve the experience as a whole,” says Hanley-Dafoe.

For Grad students, the centre offers Certificates of Teaching Experience for Graduate Teaching Assistants. They aim many of their services at them as a way of preparing them for their careers as well as helping with their development as teachers here at Trent.

The centre also has a number of services aimed at undergraduate students, primarily with the goal of helping students identify their own learning needs and goals.

This involves helping students better un-

derstand their own learning styles so that they can better incorporate that into their own professional and educational development so that “there’s a clear map for their learning,” says Hanley-Dafoe.

The centre also helps students with a number of different learning skills like providing feedback, measuring learning outcomes so that, according to HanleyDafoe, “students can participate in the process of learning and be better able to evaluate for themselves how their courses are fitting into their overall learning strategy— any student can come to us for one on one consultations.”

Students will also be able to nominate and recognize engaging and innovative teaching, and participate in the teaching award system.

While the centre circulates information about workshops and events to a number of different departments as well as the Graduate Students’ Association, more information can be found on their website: www.trentu.ca/teaching or on twitter @ trentuteaching.

Campus

Writer’s Reading: A double dose to close the year

By Brian Hough

The Trent Writer’s Reading Series wrapped up its season at Scott House at Traill College last Wednesday with two local writers, Michelle Berry and Jonathan Bennett. Being old friends, Bennett credits Berry with convincing him to come to Peterborough.

The community braved the snow and cold weather to fill Scott House for the occasion, which saw both writers reading.

Berry started the evening with a reading from Interference, her latest novel, which started as a series of short stories. While the book was eventually turned into a novel, each of the stories was written in such a way to stand-alone.

The novel follows the lives of a suburban area based somewhat on Peterborough, and the characters therein, as a series of crimes plunges the community into an air of menace that hangs throughout the writing in the characters’ isolation and disconnect.

Though the linear narrative, keeping track of the ensemble of characters’ various

intertwining sub-plots proved a challenge in and of itself, requiring Berry to use a whiteboard and “no less than 17 different coloured pens”.

Bennett, born in Vancouver, raised in Sydney, Australia and now living just out of town in Keene, is the author of six books, and read from his latest, Colonial Hotel.

Much like Berry’s work, Colonial Hotel didn’t begin in novel form. According to Bennett it began as a long poem, and after reaching 70-80 pages, he sent it out to two of his writer friends.

According to Bennett, both wrote back to him with the same response: “This is the weirdest outline for a novel that I’ve ever read.” Which he took in stride, inspiring

him to transform it into a lyrical work of prose fiction.

Colonial Hotel, set in a fictional, unnamed developing country, retells the ancient Greek story of Helen and Paris, working for an NGO at the outbreak of civil war, “She is obsessed with the work,” Bennett says, “and he is obsessed with her”.

Bennett read from three sections, including one from the character Oenone, written as an oral retelling which Bennett claimed was drawn from multiple sources as a means of keeping it authentic without implying any one in particular, as to keep the country its own and keep the allegorical style of story free of the baggage of real history.

Unfortunately with two writers on the bill, there wasn’t much time for questions.

However, both writers spoke of the importance of understanding rhythm and cadence, and their importance for differentiating their characters’ voices.

As the final installment of the fall season, it was a great way to wrap up the year in the coziness of Scott House on a cold night.

Hundreds gather at Wenjack to hear Dr. Vandana Shiva

By Sara Desmarais

For a Sunday morning, Trent University was extremely busy on November 16.

That’s because people were lining up to get into the Wenjack Theatre to listen to world-renowned environmentalist, prolific author, feminist, philosopher, and activist, Dr. Vandana Shiva.

Dr. Shiva is recognized for her work to protect heritage seeds from genetic engineering, and challenging how we think about development and sustainable agriculture in the face of increasing globalization. In 1991, she founded ‘Navdanya’, a movement to protect the diversity and integrity of living resources, especially seeds, working to prevent seeds from genetic modification patents and becoming intellectual property.

A highly anticipated event, Dr. Shiva’s Peterborough visit was collaboratively organized by the Kawartha World Issues Centre, the Trent Centre for Biomaterials Research, Indigenous Environmental Research, and the First People’s House of Learning with support from The David Sheperd Family, Sustainable Trent, and Trent Oxfam.

This support reflects the multi-disciplinary appeal of Dr. Shiva’s work, intersecting Indigenous knowledge and culture, with the sciences, such as bio-tech research, while embracing the critical issue of food security from a global human rights perspective.

Following a welcoming reception at the Gathering Space, with a delicious breakfast prepared by Dan Ledandan Catering,

Vandana spoke to an audience of almost 400 people.

I helped with ticket collections, and it was exciting to interact with a vibrant variety of people from different walks of life; students, professors, First Nations elders, local farmers, youth, and community members all came together to hear Dr. Shiva speak.

Having so many different people from the community come out to the event really provides us with an idea of just how important local and global food systems are to us.

The Carbon Conversations: ‘Sacred Seeds: Seeds of Justice, Seeds of Resistance’ lecture focused on the importance of saving seeds, and how GMO crops threaten not only biodiversity, but the livelihoods of small-scale farmers.

Dr. Shiva emphasized the role of traditional knowledge to our food systems. She explained that knowledge, like seeds, is meant to be shared. One of the many problems with GMO crops is that it patents life.

She went on to say that life is not an invention, and yet corporations try to patent it.

This patenting of life goes directly against our duty to save seeds. Seed saving and sharing enables genetic diversity to thrive, and biodiversity to flourish.

For example, traditionally the Three Sisters (beans, squash, and corn) are grown and thrive together, working as companion crops. The corn serves as a structure for the beans to climb (removing the need for poles), while the beans provide nitrogen to the soil for the other two Sisters to use,

and the squash spreads along the ground, blocking sunlight to prevent weeds.

The squash also serves as a living mulch, as well as protecting its Sisters from pests with its prickly vines. In a companion crop system, there is no need for pesticides, genetic modification, or even fertilizer.

GMO crops depend on pesticides and create mono-cultural, with the inherent danger of supplanting diversity. For example, as a GMO crop, the Three Sisters cannot be grown together.

Vandana calls for collaboration between Indigenous knowledge and scientific knowledge for the sake of future health.

She spoke of the relationships between soil, our gut, and our brains, and how science validates the important connection between the soil and human health. Through shared knowledge, we have power.

Dr. Shiva explains that there are five corporations controlling seeds, food, and life, and asks how it is that the minority can have so much power when there are seven billion people sharing this planet.

She calls on us to work as a community of the majority to create a food sovereignty movement.

The audience was engaged the entire time Dr. Shiva spoke, and you could just feel the warmth of community aspirations flowing through the lecture hall. The discussion did not just end after Vandana left the stage to catch her plane back to India; there was an open conversation to explore the themes of Vandana’s lecture held with standing room only in the Gathering Space afterwards.

Elders, knowledge holders, and com-

munity leaders led discussions on traditional food sovereignty and sustainable food practices while sharing food prepared by our local food activist collective, Food Not Bombs.

One of the important messages from Vandana’s talk was the acknowledgement of Earth Day being renamed as Mother Earth Day. This recognition of ‘Mother Earth’ speaks to the interdependence of all species, the importance of which was the impetus for the General Assembly to declare April 22 as International Mother Earth Day. Vandana would like us to move beyond switching off our lights for a few minutes, to create seed freedom in our communities for this upcoming Mother Earth Day. We need to stand in solidarity and embrace our role as active global citizens, and make wise choices.

Aside from ‘eating responsibly and growing our own food’, as Dr. Shiva urges, what are you going to do to protect local food systems?

As Mother Earth Day approaches in the coming spring, remember that you are part of a global community— of not only humans, but all living organisms— and your actions can drive positive change and protect diversity to ensure a just and sustainable future for all with whom we share this planet Earth.

Note: Copies of Sacred Seed, a collection of essays inspired by Dr. Shiva and featuring contributions from Trent professor Dr. Dan Longboat, and local environmental leader Diane Longboat, are available at the Trent Bookstore for purchase.

Photos by Cherylanne James

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Campus: Academics

Intimacy is a bridge to the past for individuals with Alzheimer’s

By Ugyen Wangmo

The experiences of sexuality and intimacy among persons diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) will finally be understood first hand from persons coping with the disease themselves, said Trent University post-doctoral fellow Dr. Linn Sandberg.

“Later life sexuality must be understood from a broader perspective on intimacy, rather than narrow focus on intercourse,” she said while presenting her latest work, “Sexuality, Intimacy and Gendered Subjectivity in Couples with Alzheimer’s Disease”, in a seminar at Trent on November 19.

Dr. Sandberg’s work explores the experiences of sexuality and intimacy of persons living with AD and their partners.

The aging embodiment, ailments from aging, erectile changes and other bodily changes directing men to intimacy and touch, will be the focus of her research.

According to her, the sexualities of

people with dementia are viewed as being grotesque and problematic— “inappropriate sexual behaviour”— which is termed either ”hypersexuality” or ”disinhibition”. And, Alzheimer’s on the other hand, is also considered a major cultural anxiety that needs to be treated, often through medication.

However, those experiences of intimacy, sexuality, and touch continue to be important aspects of life for people suffering from Alzheimer’s and their partners, pointed out Dr. Sandberg.

She explained that the onset of Alzheimer’s disease often entails considerable changes in a people’s lives, but it does not decrease the significance of embodied intimacy and sexual activity. Instead, these things become a central aspect of the relationship and the maintenance of identity when memory, language, and communicative skills are deteriorating.

“The major outcome of the study is to identify the significance of intimacy and touch, and way of shaping desirable sex as

more mature and considerate, hegemonic narratives of becoming a better lover and man,” said Dr. Sandberg.

Not to mention re-experiencing gendered and sexual subjectivity through intimacy and touch. For instance, the performing and un-performing of gender and sexuality in relation to AD, she added.

Her research is based on the understanding that being continuously sexually active is now generally considered to be an important aspect of healthy and successful aging. But there are limitations and problems of today’s successful aging discourses, which exclude the fact that there are many seniors who cannot or do not want to live up to expectations of active later lives.

According to Sandberg, during any discussion of sexuality as a positive part of aging, older persons with chronic illnesses or disabilities are largely invisible.

Furthermore, even though there is a fair amount of previous research conducted on dementia and sexuality, it is mainly from the perspectives of staff in health care and residential homes.

Consequentially, there are few studies dealing with the sexualities and intimate relationships of people with dementia based on the experiences of couples.

Another limitation on previous research into this area is that the research is almost exclusively based on the experiences and perspectives of the partner without dementia, therefore the voices of people afflicted with the disease remain unheard.

Not to mention how the existing research is mainly quantitative, measuring the frequency of sexual activity and the satisfaction.

Very few studies focus on an individuals’ own sense of sexuality and intimacy from a qualitative perspective. So those are the lines of areas her current research will address, she informed.

The main challenges of the research, she noted, are the ethical issues such as, negative aspects of sexuality or experiences of abuse in research with couples.

And also, the power relations between participants with AD and partners, and between participants and herself as a researcher, is another challenge.

Deliberating Dissent lecture gives a lesson in political action

By Ayesha Barmania

On November 17, Dr. Barbara Falk of the Royal Military College of Canada gave a public lecture entitled, “Deliberating Dissent: From Fighting Words to Radical Action”.

It was an introduction to dissent as a mode of political engagement and the historical legacy of dissent. It addressed five questions: 1) What is dissent? 2) What is the relationship between dissent, legal protection for freedom of expression? 3) Why is dissent essential to democracy?

4) Is peaceful dissent more effective than violent dissent? 5) How is dissent different now than in the past?

Dissent is much more specific than resistance. Dissent is not only a differing of opinion, but also the intentional and public performance that makes dissent a political action.

It challenges the status quo and is motivated by a desire to see change. “I think people dissent the world over because they want to change something; they want to change our ideas, our minds, or our institutions,” said Falk.

Movements such as rights based campaigns (LGBTQ+, women’s rights, ending slavery) represent challenges to the status quo and oppressive structures. These dissenting movements are not limited to challenging the state or corporate institutions, but they can be directed at larger endemic social issues.

On the other hand, association with political dissent can represent the withdrawal of consent to the state’s authority

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by certain constituents. It is a mechanism for enforcing a group’s awareness and dissatisfaction with the political order. The state can be made vulnerable by these challenges to its authority.

Historically there have been numerous examples of dissenters being persecuted by the state. Falk discussed the Trial of Socrates as such an example for the state objecting to Socrates ‘corrupting the youth of Athens’. The spread of ideas that challenge the status quo was and is often still deemed a risk to those in power.

Falk argues that it is essential for democratic societies to protect freedom of expression, as dissent is a mechanism for citizens to be fully engaged with politics.

“Effectively, dissent is a double-edged sword: it can enrich democracy but can also fundamentally undermine political order,” said Falk.

In Canada, freedom of expression was only recognized in 1982 with the passing of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It has had to be fought for in the House of Commons, in 2001, The Anti-Terrorism Act received pushback at the time and was amended to exclude lawful and unlawful dissent.

Falk argues that democracies require competition and debate to be successful.

Dissent is one such mechanism for getting this result. And for those who are not politicians, it is an opportunity to engage with the process of political deliberation more to the point than simply voting once every few years.

Falk’s final point addressed the utility

of contemporary technologies in dissent movements. The popularity of social media she said has potential as a medium for sharing information, and connecting dissenters transnationally. However, the speed of information can minimize the time needed for analysis to a fault. Falk said, “Greater access to information does not make us smarter: speed means less time for analysis, the Internet has generated as much falsehood.”

The tone was disarmingly hopeful in a space where students are often beaten down with the challenges of affecting change in society.

Peterborough has an active community

of activists, and Falk’s advice for them is to learn from the long history of past dissenters, and to spend time on deliberation and analysis.

For those at the lecture, the running slideshow of images behind Dr Falk showed dissenters throughout history.

Movements that consistently make the news even today, like the Berlin Wall, Arab Spring and Idle No More, were complemented with photos from lesser-known movements historically like The Weather Underground, and The Velvet Revolution.

In discussions after the lecture, attendees left with ideas for dissent movements to research and learn from.

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16th Trans Day of Remembrance observed in Peterborough

Photos by Keila MacPherson

By Hannah Collins

On Thursday November 20, members of the community and Trent students gathered outside of city hall for the Trans Day of Remembrance vigil.

Candles were lit and a moment of silence was observed for all the people who are no longer with us due to anti-trans violence, and for the trans people who are still living and surviving.

Afterward, we marched to Sadlier House for an open mic, refreshments, and food.

Trans Day of Remembrance can be difficult time for many, and ending the night on a positive note was a big refresher.

Trans Day of Remembrance has been observed internationally since 1999. It was initially created to memorialize the murder of Rita Hester, a black trans woman, in Allston, Massachusetts.

Trans people, specifically trans women and trans women of colour, are regularly the target of violence and abuse. The day is set to memorialize trans people who have suffered from anti-trans violence. Candlelight vigils, like the one in Peterborough, are held all across the world.

It was wonderful to see so many people from the Peterborough community show up to support trans people who are still living, and memorialize those who have lost their lives.

Artspace and CFGP to host symposium about the reality of the arts

By Brian Hough

This weekend Artspace and the Community Foundation for Greater Peterborough will be presenting ‘Make Work: A Symposium On The Economics of Cultural Production In Canada.’

It is a two day event featuring performances, workshops, and panels that aim to bring to awareness the reality of arts and cultural workers in Canada, showcase talent and bring together artists from a range of disciplines, and help bring the local cultural industry into wider regional and national attention.

According to Artspace Director, Jon Lockyer, the project began in early 2014 as a project grant was applied for by Fynn Leitch and Nick Ferrio (art director for the Peterborough Folk Festival).

The idea was to partner the Folk Festival with a senior partner such as Artspace to plan an event that would be cross-disciplinary and benefit the larger Peterborough community.

The project proposal ended up receiving funding support from the The Community Foundation for Greater Peterborough.

What emerged from that process was ‘Make Work,’ a two-day symposium meant to engage critically with what it means to both be artist and cultural worker in Canada and in this day and age.

The Symposium kicks off on Friday November 28 at 8pm at the Gallery In The Attic (140 ½ Hunter St. West) with “Singer/Writer.” It’s a $10/Pay What You Can event that brings together three disparate

artists who work in multiple fields: musician Dave Tough, fiction and stage writer/ performance artist Kate Story, and Steve Lambke (aka Baby Eagle), critically acclaimed musician and founder of ‘You’ve Changed Records’.

Says Lockyer, “Pairing musicians and artists and writers together who have a diverse practice and are not easily labelled as one kind of artist or another, it isn’t something new, but also not something that typically gets a lot of attention.”

He continues, “we’re just as interested in seeing what comes out of it.”

The Saturday events begin at 10am at Artspace with an “Archiving For Practicing Artists” workshop (free admission) run by Kristie MacDonald, who works for Vtape and is a working artist herself.

The workshop, according to the event page “is intended to provide an introduction to storing and preserving artworks.

The session will focus on teaching artists how best to care for their own body of work within home and studio environments. Participants will be introduced to preservation standards, terminology and best practices.”

As Lockyer puts it “its one of the primary challenges for visual artists—storing, preserving and caring for an artists’ body of work once after it’s been shown and if it doesn’t get taken into a collection.”

Artspace will then host a panel starting at 1:30pm with Make Work: The Economics of Cultural Practice.

The panel will consist of three different artists, each slated to make a 20 minute presentation on a specific theme followed

by a discussion on the panel.

The topics include: ‘Don’t get C.R.E.A.M.(ed): Strategies of resistance for artist-run centres when cash rules everything around us’, presented by Amber Benson (SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art, editorial committee of .dpi, a feminist journal of digital art and culture, Board of Directors at SKOL), ‘Advocacy, Artist Rights, and the History of CARFAC’, presented by Kristian Clarke (Board for the Canadian Arts Resources Foundation of Ontario [(CARFO) recently rebranded as CANVAS] and Work In Culture), And finally ‘Doing Things— Making Things Happen— With Nothing’ presented by Clayton Windatt (Director at the White Water gallery in North Bay).

At 5pm at the Art Gallery of Peterborough, the Keynote address will be given

by Shary Boyle. The address is entitled ‘Inside, Outside, Upside, Downside’.

Boyle is “a visual and performance artist from Toronto, who has worked and exhibited in Canada and beyond since 1996”.

Among her many credits are the Gershon Iskowitz Prize (2009) and Hnatyshyn Foundation Award (2010), and she is currently showing an installation piece- The Illuminations Project with Emily Vey Duke at the Oakville Galleries, is currently exhibiting two large installations in Shine a Light: The Canadian Biennial at the National Gallery of Canada. Tickets are free but require R.S.V.P.’s as only 100 seats are available (contact jon@artspace-arc.org to reserve space).

Finally, the symposium closes out with

a Gala Dinner at 8pm at Two Dishes on Charlotte, with Shary Boyle.

As Lockyer notes, “a nice way to conclude the symposium is as much about sharing a table and getting a great meal as it is getting a chance to unwind after what will busy two days and spend some time with Shary Boyle.”

Tickets are $25, with part of the proceeds raising funds for Artspace.

As for the hopes for this event, Lockyer says “Peterborough has an exceptionally high number of people who rely on Arts and Culture to make a living, but it’s increasingly difficult giving the economic realities and increasing emphasis on austerity. That’s why it’s important that a lot of the focus is on doing a lot with a little, and doing more with less as resources get scarce.”

He adds “it’s a chance to show people the realities of what’s happening in the Arts and Culture sector, not just in Peterborough, but regionally and nationally”.

Finding the means to maintain creative productivity and making a living is a central concern to not just artists, but the small businesses and sectors that are both directly and indirectly positively affected by the presence of the sector.

As Lockyer notes, “Peterborough is doing something really special; a lot of what people are doing here is being done with very little.

But at the highest quality possible, it’s important to ask the question- ‘where’s the breaking point?’ At what point can the quality no longer be maintained with the struggle just to make a living.”

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ArtsPages Sailing the soundwaves with local yacht rock band

By Caleigh Boyle

A new music craze is sweeping the city, and the streets are being filled with cotton suits and dock shoes. But here’s the catch: the music isn’t new, in fact some might even call it old.

This craze has given a name to musicians who did not fall into any category.

They aren’t soft rock; they aren’t disco, or new wave. They are Steely Dan, Christopher Cross, The Doobie Brothers and more. They are… Yacht Rock! And on Wednesday, November 26 at 9:00 and 10:30 you can catch all of these musicians live at The Spill!

Now I don’t want to mislead you, Steely Dan and Christopher Cross and the rest won’t actually be at The Spill on Wednesday, but a very talented group of musicians will be there and they will be doing a Tribute to Yacht Rock. These musicians are Dave Tough, Kelly McMichael, Daniel Banoub, and Marcus and Rico Browne.

“Yacht Rock is a style of pop rock that peeked in the late ‘70s early ‘80s that came out of California. It was associated with a sort of sophisticated jazz approach to rock music,” explains Tough.

For so long these musicians have been genre-less, often being clumped with either soft rock or pop. “It wasn’t defined and given a name until around 10 years ago,” says McMichael. Some would say that Steely Dan is the founder of this genre of music, and then after them people like Christopher Cross and Hall & Oates followed.

The Doobie Brothers jumped on board the Yacht only after members from Steely

Dan, Michael McDonald and Jeff Skunk Baxter (who now works with classified information for the pentagon…interesting) joined the band.

What is fun about Yacht Rock is that though it may sound simple to the ear, these songs and this style of music is actually rather complex. “We decided to do a show together, doing a set of covers, and we wanted to find out a theme of covers,” Banoub says.

“We were basically already a Yacht Rock cover band, so then we added a few more Yacht Rock songs to make it official,” explains Tough when asked about why the band chose this genre of music to cover.

I had heard a rumour that when listening to a Yacht Rock cover band that it is likely they will not play songs by The Doobie Brothers, however Tough says that is not true of this particular cover

band. “The attraction for us is that it is catchy and accessible but tricky to learn,” says McMichael.

“A lot of the Yacht Rock songs are really, really hard to play, and so you have to be strategic as a Yacht Rock cover band and not pick all of the most difficult songs.

So I can understand why someone would start a Yacht Rock cover band and not play Doobie Brothers songs because they are really hard, so are Steely Dan songs.

So we pick one the easiest Steely Dan songs and put a lot of energy into learning a really hard Doobie Brothers song,” explains Tough. One of the defining features of Yacht Rock is that it is really hard to play but it doesn’t sound hard to play.

You may think you don’t know any Yacht Rock songs, and then the band starts playing, and BAM! Turns out you actually know a lot of Yacht Rock songs, which is makes Yacht Rock a hidden gem

among music genres.

“We have defiantly stretched our scope of Yacht Rock, because the definition is pretty limiting, what we have done is apply any general feel of soft rock, jazz influence to pop music and so we’ve included Bonnie Raitt and Fleetwood Mac,” says McMichael.

This show coming up at The Spill will be the bands second official show as a Yacht Rock cover band and it will cost $10 for the public and $5 for students, and there will be a surprise guest saxophonist.

For this performance audience members are encouraged to dress the part.

That means bring out those pastels, your cotton suits, and your dock shoes; “clothes that you would party in on a boat in the ‘80s,” laugh Tough and McMichael.

This show is about music, dressing up and escaping this dreary winter weather to sail the sound waves of Yacht Rock.

Movie Review: The Hunger Games Mockingjay Pt. One - Half a film

By Brian Lukaszewicz

We’re at a point now where debating the merits of splitting a book into two parts for the movie has grown a tad stale.

Yes, it’s happening a lot more lately – Peter Jackson has somehow managed to milk a trilogy out of The Hobbit – but the trend itself, which seems to colour more than a few critic’s reviews, isn’t that interesting, mainly because the argument doesn’t go too far beyond “if there’s enough material there, great, if not… well that’s not going to stop anyone from doing it anyway.”

Which is sort of why it pains me to start my review with the critical equivalent of saying climate change is bad, but for all the insight and analysis I can come up with, the root cause of my tempered enthusiasm for this year’s iteration of The Hunger Games is that there just doesn’t seem to be enough material to work with. Mockingjay

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too often feels like half a movie, the minor qualms are all just symptoms.

When we last saw Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) she had been rescued from the games, sans her District 12 companion Peeta (Josh Hutcherson), by rebels from District 13. In Mockingjay, we find her – albeit somewhat reluctantly – as the mouthpiece for the rebellion, all while doing her best to persuade her new hosts to mount a rescue for the captured Peeta.

Complicating those efforts are Peeta himself, who is beginning to appear in propaganda pieces at the behest of President Snow (Donald Sutherland) discouraging people from joining the rebellion against the capital. In a sense, Katniss and Peeta become the dueling faces of the rebellion/anti-rebellion agendas.

To be honest, all of that amounts to a pretty slow start for Mockingjay. The early going is heavy on dialogue laden scenes

meant to justify placing Katniss back into the fray, and that tends to bring out the more “young adult novel” aspects of The Hunger Games (read: contrived plotting).

In the past, Lawrence’s performance has been able to ground some of the sillier qualities of the series, but even she can’t quite sell it here.

Which sort of leads me into one of the more disappointing realities of the first part of Mockingjay, which is that Katniss lacks the teeth she’s had in earlier installments.

This time around she’s been somewhat sidelined from the action, and the lack of urgency has transformed her from the strong, gritty young woman that made the first two films so refreshingly great into a far more brooding, reactionary figure, mourning all the nasty things that’ve happened to her.

Now it’s not that there’s anything wrong with being vulnerable. On the contrary, it’s Katniss’ vulnerability that makes her such a well-rounded and relatable character. It’s just that the previous two movies have done such a better job of balancing that vulnerability with a sort of inherent resilience.

Perhaps though, it’s more a problem of scale. In its first half, the series focused mainly on Katniss’ personal struggle to survive. Now it’s about revolution, with Katniss simply playing her, albeit significant, part.

Unfortunately, what that seems to amount to is a lot of scenes of Katniss making a statement followed by a crowd responding to whatever it is Katniss just said. You know, just in case you were won-

dering whether it was motivating anyone or not.

Which is exactly my problem with this sort of plot device, it’s just basically the writing telling us how inspiring the writing is. Frankly, if that were true, and the movie as a whole were doing what it’s supposed to, the audience shouldn’t need that reinforcement, we should just be inspired.

But I need to be fair here, because there are times when Mockingjay accomplishes just that. I know most of this must be coming across pretty negative, but that’s more because The Hunger Games has set such a high bar in the past I feel I need to justify my mild discontent this time out.

The film can still be moving when it wants to be. It’s still got Jennifer Lawrence.

And while she’s hidden away for parts of the film, Mockingjay still has one of the best heroines of any of the Young Adult adaptations flooding the market.

Likewise, The Hunger Games is still a compelling franchise. Sure, the ending of this one didn’t have as much punch as one would like in the second to last installment, but the series is nevertheless positioned to deliver something great in the finale.

The problem with Mockingjay Part One is that at this point in the story we’re watching the wrong people. It’s the rebels actually fighting for this cause that are interesting, not the people recruiting them.

And to that there’s an easy solution – just make Katniss one of them.

I have a feeling that may be the plan, it’s just that one book got cut into two movies.

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Afrobana 2014: A journey of joy, love, and respect Photos by Keila MacPherson

By Carmen Meyette

Afrobana is an annual cultural showcase organized by the Trent African Caribbean Student Association (TACSU).

This year it was titled Hakuna Matata and took place downtown at Showplace.

Each year the show tells a story. This year it was based on the story line of a married couple indulging in their honeymoon on a romantic cruise.

The show this year accomplished a lot

more than just entertainment, though.

The students performing used the playful story line to take their audience on a journey of joy, reflection and respect.

By including a spoken word piece titled “I Am More” addressing the generalization of many countries as Africa, to a jawdropping rendition of At Last, students took to the stage with passion and purpose.

Perhaps what was most memorable about the show however, isn’t simply what happened on stage, but the atmosphere in

the audience.

For some it was a matter of seeing their friends on stage, for some it was familiar cultural references, and for some it was simply exciting to celebrate diversity in our community.

Regardless of why people were excited, their excitement was obvious and kept people dancing in their seats, cheering and singing along throughout the night.

The show also featured guests STOP from Toronto, and Trent’s own TISA Choir. These groups help to highlight the

collaborative nature of the show. STOP in particular brought a heartfelt message with them.

It is events like these that remind us of the creativity that is encouraged to grow and develop at Trent.

With both experienced and new students taking the stage to share their stories, it was evident that this show was a great opportunity for all.

For everyone on stage or in the audience, there was, I’m sure, learning and appreciation all around.

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OpinionPages Editorial: Trent (still) deserves Editorial: Artists deserve a better from its foodservice living wage for their work

By Matthew Rappolt

On January 28, 2013, an article I wrote entitled “Staff struggling over slashes in hours, positions” was published in the pages of Arthur.

The article detailed how the management of Aramark Inc., Trent’s foodservice provider at the time, was cutting staffing hours, reducing full time positions, and curtailing shifts in an attempt to reduce labour expenditures.

And now, with the news that the management of Chartwells is choosing to follow that same path (see page three), I am once again reminded of that old adage that what goes around comes back around, and even sooner than you expect.

You see, this is the editorial I was sincerely hoping I would not have to write this year.

After covering the foodservice RFP for the past two years and reporting on all its positive aspects – from the grassroots student activism, to the open forums and consultations, to the rare and refreshing sense that the administration and the student body were finally on the same page – I perhaps naively came to believe that Trent’s foodservice contract with Chartwells was going to represent the start of a giant step forward for this university.

Throughout the lengthy, but thorough, proposals process I kept hearing the same mantra from the university administration: that this new contract was going to be a game-changer for Trent; that this univer-

sity was finally going to get the foodservice it deserves.

That’s why it is such a let down to have to write this piece scarcely three months into the school year and barely six months into the new contract.

From what I have heard from friends and students on campus and now from the staff reported here in this issue, it seems that instead of the foodservice we deserve we got the food service we already had, only with a few shiny new brands and a second Tim Hortons kiosk we didn’t ask for.

The new provider’s questionable food quality, the mistreatment of its labour force, and its focus on the bottom line remain the same as the last one.

Like most students and alumni of Trent, I have a great deal of respect for the foodservice staff who are consistently cheerful, personable, and professional in their jobs.

Virtually every time I’ve eaten on campus it has been the staff rather than the food that has made my dining experience a pleasant one.

Therefore, to hear that things have gotten worse, not better, for Trent’s foodservice staff under the new contract is incredibly frustrating.

Trent is a great school, with excellent staff, and we deserve a similarly great dining experience.

The new contract was supposed to be a fresh start and a chance to do right by our shared values, principles, and commitments. Right now, however, it just feels like more of the same old, same old.

By Pat Reddick

When Bank of Canada Govenor Stephen Poloz publicly stated that young, unemployed Canadians ought to work for free, it seemed most people were rightly annoyed.

For a while, it seemed like the rest of society could actually sympathize with us young folk. The idea that most un- or underemployed people could not afford to do something like extensive volunteering or unpaid internships in lieu of actual work to build a CV was discussed in mainstream settings for what seems like the first time.

The idea that maybe unpaid jobs only benefit those who already have enough money to live off of was finally publicly accepted.

Value was publicly placed on our generation’s labour force for the first time that I can remember.

It’s unfortunate that the conversation never came to include artists who, at any age, find their work publicly devalued and financially unappreciated.

Just two weeks ago I wrote about the origins of Artspace in 1974. It started in part because a group of local artists felt that they deserved to earn living wages for their work.

Few galleries, including public galleries supported by the government of Canada, paid artists appropriately, if at all, for showcasing their art. Artspace was an attempt to change that attitude and start a

conversation about artist’s wages.

While it’s been a hugely successful 40 years, by no means has this problem been erased. The idea that an artist ought to work for free to gain some exposure is still prevalent and accepted by many.

To me, this is no different than telling young people to work for free to gain experience. If we won’t have one, we can’t have the other either.

In many ways it’s actually more outrageous to say this to an artist given what their work entails.

Artists, regardless of their field, use special tools that most people don’t know how to use. Part of being an artist involves becoming an expert at using them.

Like all things, these tools degrade over time through use, and need to be repaired or replaced from time-to-time. Some of those inevitable costs ought to be factored in to any artist’s payment.

Furthermore, a lot of the work an artist does happens behind the scenes. No matter the discipline, extensive planning is necessary to make sure the final product is the best it can be.

This is especially relevant for applied artists like photographers and designers.

It doesn’t take long to take a photo, but it does take extensive planning to set one up.

But, because this work isn’t always easy to see happening, it often gets ignored.

All too often artists are expected to work for free. It shouldn’t matter whether you’re an artist or young, everyone who works ought to be paid for it.

Comment: Fighting back against the art of boxing

By Adriana Sierra

We have a knack of putting things into boxes. We have shoeboxes and cereal boxes and memory boxes and big land boxes that we call countries. We have even managed to place people in boxes.

Millennia from now, our civilization may well be known for mastering the art of boxing.

Once we have boxed in shoes and cereals and people, we need only look at the label on the box to know what is inside. It makes things easy, separate, simple.

However, placing people in boxes is problematic. Cultural and geographical stereotypes— the labels on the neatly stacked boxes— are often misleading representations of what lies within the cardboard walls.

Categorizing people and placing them in labeled boxes on the basis of their skin colour, culture, religion, language, and nationality ignores the variety that exists within these groups.

Though there is some truth in the shared characteristics within a culture or region, it is also true that there is immense diversity to be found underneath the labels.

As, Mauricio Orellana, president of the Organization for Latin Awareness (HOLA), phrased it: “each individual is unique, even if they come from a certain part of the world.”

Opening the boxes, whether you are pushing at the wall from within or pulling at them from outside, is a challenge that requires both the push and the pull to be

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effective.

Katherine Davidson, a domestic student from Ottawa and co-director of the TISA Choir, recognized this difficulty: “everybody is going to feel more comfortable with other people from their own country; they don’t feel like they have to act a certain way or explain things, they just get it.”

She added that “It takes conscious effort to break that down.”

Jessica Rogers, President of the Trent International Students’ Association (TISA) and International Student Commissioner, argued that “there is no way to step out of being stereotyped if you don’t step out of your own crowd. Until you do that, you won’t see a different light and wont allow others to view you differently.”

Pushing these walls open requires openness to what lies outside of them, and recognition that tearing the label off involves individual initiatives.

Jessica Rogers added that “it is all about breaking traditions and being you.

It’s about being yourself and being your culture after,” pointing to the uniqueness of each individual despite their cultural background.

Pulling on the walls involves a disposition to see the box for its content, not the label. Orellana, Rogers, and Davidson all mentioned that their integration with the international student community at Trent required an open mind and a willingness to learn from other cultures and to share their own.

Looking beyond the boxes and allowing their contents to spill and mingle is important in many aspects. Jessica Rogers stated: “if you haven’t mixed and mingled with everyone else and looked at things from different points of view, it will be hard for you to adjust in any field.” Cross-cultural interaction broadens perspectives and enhances our understanding of the world.

Mauricio Orellana commented that by interacting with people from other areas of the world he “learned to interact in a certain way, a respectful way” and that “it [cross cultural interaction] always makes you a better person; you are not trapped in a bubble.”

In addition, Katherine Davidson spoke on how her integration with the international student community and her experiences with TISA Choir have affected her: “I really do feel like I’ve internalized a lot of international values. It also makes me want to explore more; go travel the world and meet new people, eat new foods, go travel and sight-see.”

Opening these boxes— and letting them stay open— is crucial to understanding the complexities and differences that exist in the world, and through those differences understanding that we are also very alike.

Jessica Rogers stated “One thing I do know is that we all have certain things in common.”

Taping up boxes and pasting labels on them based on their contents has been our specialty, but it is time we started reopening them. Unless we want our era to be remembered as “the box age”.

Opinion

Comment: Poverty and the ethics of victimization Letters

By Daniel Martin

At some point in their lives, everyone will either experience or witness homelessness and poverty. It is a growing problem in Peterborough and across Canada, and one that needs to be definitively addressed.

According to poverty charity United Way, one in ten people in Peterborough City and County live in poverty. Furthermore, a report in 2013 states that at least 200 000 Canadians are homeless in any given year, in addition to at least 30 000 being homeless any given night.

Indeed, this problem is further complicated when 50 000 are in the shadows, staying with friends or relatives as they have no permanent solution.

This issue is one that affects local communities and concerns us all; we all know somebody in that situation. Every year spending on poverty equates to between $72-84 billion, yet the problem is far from being solved.

It would seem pertinent to suggest the problem is the fault of a failed government, though having witnessed it in other countries, it is no different in Canada.

People are unable to recognize the problem unless two conditions are satisfied, although not predicated; it only concerns us when we have to see it, when we are confronted with the raw suffering, or when we ourselves are in that situation.

Yet in 2012, 872 379 Canadians used food-banks. The problem surrounds everyone and we cannot go on ignoring it.

To pretend the problem does not exist, and not try to help is detrimental to society; it is morally and ethically wrong, and anybody who likes to think they have liberties must recognize they have a duty to ensure the well-being of others as well.

Earlier this year Steven Harper announced three tax-cuts: the family tax cut, the universal child care benefit, and the child care expense deduction. Initially it would seem the tax breaks will provide an extra support for those that need it, however, I question Harper’s ethics.

This comes after an address to the UN in September in which he promoted free trade and capitalism as the road to freedom and world peace.

If free trade really were to solve the crisis of poverty and homelessness, it would

have done so by now. Capitalism as an economic model does not work, the more volatile it gets, the better it works.

Harper is largely ignoring the two fundamental issues that are hitting his country with the standard ink blot demise of the liberal that ‘I should make you all temporarily happily, but by the way, you’re all about to get beaten down and the best part is, you cannot do anything’.

Solutions can be found, but not with a Conservative government. The point therefore is to structure society in such a way that poverty and homelessness become impossible.

Maddie Porter, staff member at Shelter House in Thunder Bay said in an interview on this issue, “One of the biggest challenges facing organizations dealing with poverty and homelessness is the common sense idea that everyone begins on an equal playing field and we can all achieve success if we just work hard enough.”

It is a sad fact that homeless shelters even exist, that society has degraded to such an extent that we are unable to provide those individuals with a permanent solution.

More funding needs to be placed into social housing initiatives and programs, increased spending on welfare and a greater focus on community support and action. When walking around Peterborough, it often makes me wonder just how many buildings are abandoned, not used, and so on that could feasibly, without much work, be either bought by an organization, rented, or donated for the cause of housing. It is not difficult to imagine the potential.

Pressure needs to be placed on Daryl Bennett; he needs to be forced to take action. If he loves the city as much as he says he does, then he simply cannot continue with his eyes closed.

Dear editors, I will be back in the new year making more new stories for Arthur. I enjoy doing them. It is a great opportunity and I enjoy what I do. I also like the written stories by Arthur.

I will not be walking over, as I have been, because there will be ice on the sidewalks. I will be staying home because I don’t want to fall on the ice and snow. I would not want to be in the hospital.

I would like to say to you all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

See you soon, Jeffrey Stewart Trent Radio Historian

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Comment: Canadian’s forced statelessness an affront to human rights

By Simon Semchuck

Deepan Budlakoti was born in Ottawa in 1989. His parents emigrated from India, and received permanent residency status followed by Canadian citizenship and passports. He also received a passport stating that his nationality was Canadian.

After running into problems in his youth, in December 2009 Deepan was convicted to four months for break and entry. In May 2010 officials told him he was no longer a citizen.

This brief rundown details how Budlakoti’s troubles began, how he came to be in the limbo of statelessness. Knowing no other home than Canada, he is currently struggling against being deported— but to where? India will not issue any travel documents for him. If anything, his story is one of the dystopic reality of nationalistic border control.

It also identifies as a story of racism, as during his incarceration, Budlakoti has stated that he had a big beard that made him appear Muslim.

“I am suffering double, if not triple, punishment for my crime,” says Budlakoti’s online statement, “I now face deportation, and this could go on for years, since at this time I have no status and no nationality anywhere. At the same time, because of my citizenship status, I don’t have access to heath care services.”

But how does the Immigration Board of Canada support themselves in this fla-

grant move against human rights? They say his parents worked for the Ambassador of India at the time he was born, which under Canadian law does not ensure a child’s right to Canadian nationality at birth. They say his passport was issued in error.

“I don’t know how they can say that since it is stated in the Passport Act that only a person who is Canadian can be issued a passport. Each passport goes through several different departments before it is signed and issued. There is nothing in the the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act or Canadian Passport Order that says the government can take away a passport issued in error. In

fact, nowhere in the Order does it say that they can take away a passport in my situation.

“My parents did not work for the Indian High Commission when I was born.

At that time, they worked for a doctor in Canada who has stated, under oath in court, that they worked for him at that time. However, the Canadian government refuses to accept this and other evidence we provided in order to prove it.”

What is the Canadian government doing? The fact that the government began working toward revoking Budlakoti’s Canadian citizenship and deporting him right on the tail of his incarceration seems a clear causal link.

That officials will racially profile an individual and dig into their past to punish them further is against any sense of human rights.

When I told a friend hoping to get Canadian citizenship in the near future Budlakoti’s story, she became terrified.

It is perverse that the law can be twisted to deport an immigrant’s child. And certainly it won’t be white children deported— the racial component to how Canadians view immigrants is disgusting. ‘Stealing our jobs’ has become the chant of the prejudiced, and yet Statistics Canada showed that 31% of immigrants with a university degree work low-skill level jobs.

We in Canada like to tout ourselves as a multicultural mosaic, a place where diverse persons and peoples can meet with some kind of equal footing. And yet racial prejudice in Canada is thriving. Most know that our own community in Peterborough has the highest hate crime rate in Canada as of police reporting in 2011 — and that it’s based on police reports says a lot too.

Instead of throwing immigrants and the children of immigrants under the bus, we need to press for reassessment of the immigration and deportation systems in Canada.

We cannot let what has happened to Deepan Budlakoti set a precedent in Canada. We need to cultivate respect for our neighbours.

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Clubs&Groups Trent Radio Revue Review

By James Kerr

The Wind Rises

By Pei Hsu

Following last week’s screening of Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, TFS would like to draw an end to this exciting term with a film that is also set in WWII Japan. The Wind Rises, the latest, and unfortunately, the last film from Hayao Miyazaki, is an animation film that possesses the same magic as all the other Studio Ghibli productions.

However, unlike Miyazaki’s earlier films, The Wind Rises is an anomaly in terms of its realistic historical context, adult male protagonist, and focus on romance. Many viewers and critics find autobiographical hints in these transitions, which fittingly reflect Miyazaki’s conclusion of his own splendid and legendary career as a farewell piece.

The Wind Rises film is a fictional biography that recounts the dream of designing a plane, and the melancholic love story of Jiro Horikoshi. While the former part is inspired by an engineer of the same name, who designed the Mitsubishi Zero fighter plane, the latter part is based on the writer Tatsuo Hori’s romance with his wife, both taking place during WWII Japan.

Considering Miyazaki’s pacifist and environmentalist views shown in his previous films, his decision to set the story during WWII, and his approach to the widely condemned Japanese nationalism and militarism, inevitably draws attention and criticism.

In The Wind Rises, the Japanese civilians and the society, including Jiro, are portrayed as separated and overshadowed by the war, without clear understanding of what it may

bring. Individual aspirations, such as Jiro’s dream of building planes, are used to support the cannibalist, fascist regime. There are scenes where characters express concerns over Japan’s future and critique the oblivious mentality.

Miyazaki, seeking to problematize the binary representation of good and evil, presents Jiro as a persistent and sometimes naïve young man who devotes himself solely to his career. As an engineer, Jiro doesn’t directly encounter the war, and when his dream of designing the perfect plane confronts the violent nature of militarism, he seems confused and unsure of what to do, as any ordinary person would.

From Jiro’s conversations with the Italian engineer Caproni in his dreams (visualized by an enchanting montage throughout the film) we see the development of his aspiration, struggle, and disillusion from his childhood to the death of his wife Nahoko.

The Wind Rises is important not only because it offers an honest reflection of a subject that is controversial and too often forgotten, but also because the story is so wonderfully told, like Miyazaki’s previous films. With a beautifully animated world and a mesmerizing soundtrack (unique to all Studio Ghibli productions), The Wind Rises marks an important step in innovative creativity, and the end of an era for the legendary Hayao Miyazaki.

Please join us for a free public screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises, Wednesday Nov 26, 8pm @ Market Hall (140 Charlotte Street). All are welcome!

In my heart I suppose that what I would like to be able to recreate, live on stage, is an episode of The Muppet Show.

I want to imagine I could invite students and community members to sit down in the Muppet Theatre, and take in a night of song, dance, puns and pie throwing gags, peppered with sincere and touching artistic performances.

Really I want to recreate the feelings I had watching The Muppet Show in the audience that assembles. There’s something about the humour of puppets that makes me feel more connected with humanity.

I’m not sure how that works. When I think of Trent Radio and I think of wanting to build community, that is the ruling image, Vaudeville puns from puppets.

I shouldn’t be surprised that this is the way my brain bends. The Muppet Show was referencing the vaudeville and variety shows of the 1920s, and early radio.

Early radio actors and hosts were lined up on a theatre stage and gave a performance to a live studio audience. The whole event would be sent out on the airwaves, coinciding quite interestingly with events happening down-the-street (artistically) at Vaudeville houses and variety theatres, which lent more towards burlesque acts and pie throwing.

We do something like this still at Trent Radio— try to bring people in, to listen and to feel, by tuning in at 92.7 fm. But it can’t end there.

Trent Radio is not a radio station. We have (and are very happy to have) a broadcast facility, but we’re more than just being able to broadcast. One of the things we do to bring community together is stage events at Sadleir House, your downtown student space at 751 George St N. So, instead of the Muppet Theatre we

have the Sadleir House dining hall. Instead of Kermit the Frog it was I hosting the “Trent Radio Revue”, trying to make community come alive. It was a night of song, piano, live radio drama, and, rather than pie throwing, pie eating. High concept and heartfelt.

The live drama was a play commissioned for our 2014 radio drama series. It was called The Effect of Flies Upon Flesh; a WWI-era home-coming-to-a-brokenhome story written by Randy Lawrence and directed by Em Glasspool. It certainly upped the legitimacy of the evening, taking our audience on a forced marching tour through a family splintered by the effects of war, all performed live on stage via spending performances.

It was just like radio in the 1920s. Or as much as it can be.

Last night was an exhausting, busy night for me and I’m glad this is over. I hope everyone who came out had fun, met each other, and mingled to form splinter communities as is proper.

For myself, at least I got to tell some very bad jokes, and generally made the best Kermit the Frog of myself by running around making sure acts were ready, moving up and down timetables, and introducing acts with as much pun as I could sling.

Thank you everyone.

Maybe someday we’ll have a real piethrowing act. Maybe someday I’ll make the Sadleir House dining hall into the Muppet Theatre properly: curtains and trumpets and dance number and all.

As I grow nearer each year and each Revue to realising my admittedly silly muppet-directed artistic goal, I do feel like I’m bringing people together. Or, as much as they can be.

Someday we’ll find it, the rainbow connection, vaudeville, Trent Radio, and me.

Join TUMS for a Winter Concert

By Lindsay Thackeray

The Trent University Music Society is winding down for the semester, and we’re celebrating with our annual winter concert this Friday evening.

If you’re in the mood for something musical, stop by Wenjack Theatre on November 28 to see what our bands and choirs have been working on this year. Like most TUMS events, it’s completely free. Here’s a rundown of what to look forward to for this festive affair: The music will begin at 7pm. First up is our concert choir, which will sing a few choral tunes to kick off the evening. Up next, we have a very special performance from our jazz band. In a new experiment this year, we’ve joined forces with the highly esteemed Kawartha Jazz Ensemble. This should be a real treat and is a performance you won’t want to miss.

After those guys jazz up the evening,

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we’ll take a refreshment break. If this hasn’t already persuaded you to come out, you should know that it’s a TUMS tradition to provide homemade cookies and other holiday snacks at our winter concert. I reiterate, there will be homemade cookies, and they will be free.

Following our cookie break, you can then enjoy a performance from our concert band, which will be performing some popular film scores that I’m sure you’ll recognize.

Finally, the madrigal choir, Trent’s oldest musical group, will be doing a throwback to the 16th century to finish off the evening. It’s not often you get to listen to madrigals, so don’t pass this up!

Our hard-working bands and choirs have been practicing diligently all semester, and we’re excited to put on a great show this Friday. Everyone is welcome to attend, so come on out for a night of good music and good company. Hope to see you there!

SportsPages

Focus: How inclusive are athletics at Trent?

By Renzo Costa

Sports and athletic activities are at the core of defining ourselves as cultural beings. The health benefits and influence on our social development are enough evidence to include physical activities as one of the pillars of human life. But how is that pillar seen at Trent University?

Is the Athletic Centre an inclusive and open space? Are varsity sports an accessible and achievable goal for all students?

There are a plethora of issues that need to be evaluated to answer these questions, namely the structure of student athlete development, the intramural and varsity framework, and also the inclusivity of the Athletic Centre as a space. In terms of numbers, there are 320 varsity athletes and 1300 students participating in formal recreational programs.

Arthur talked to Deborah BrightBrundle, the Athletics and Recreation Director, and also to Patrick Assinck, the Varsity Sport interim coordinator, in order to find out more information about sports at Trent.

In terms of student athlete development, Bright-Bundle and Assinck recognized that there is no formal strategy to work on students that are already at Trent and could possibly join varsity sports, given the right conditions such as training and motivation. Bright-Brundle agrees, “we do not have a formal model, which we are working on, but we are building partnerships with the college heads, ISW, and the international program to create more awareness about the possibility of being a varsity student.”

Patrick Assinck argued that they are working on how to bring more people here, and how can we engage more potentially varsity athletes. He contemplates the possibility of engaging more people through recreational activities and bridging the gap between recreational and varsity athletes.

In the short term, the athletic’s director is focusing on an outreach campaign to spread knowledge about the varsity program. They are considering sending out a survey to evaluate why students get involved and the types of sports that could be included both at the varsity and recreational level.

Having a formalized strategy to identify those students that could be part of recreational or varsity sports is of paramount importance in order to increase the level of inclusivity of sport at Trent.

Many students have the skill set to become athletes, but are not seen as taking the chance. But, why?

It is true that motivation and a high level of commitment is needed to be part of a varsity team. However, in the context of Trent, students are attracted to the university to a high variety of reasons, and Trent does not figure as a key player in providing full athlete scholarships.

As a result, it could be a beneficial structure to develop those student athletes that are already at Trent in order to give a boost to the varsity teams.

This is especially relevant in the context of the gap between intramural and varsity sports. There are plenty of students at the intramural level that would fit into a varsity program, given the right conditions.

There have been many instances, in which students have been rejected from varsity sports due to the level of fitness.

Due to confidentiality issues, the names of those students will not be revealed.

However, one notes that in plenty of cases, coaches have rejected very promising candidates in the name of fitness.

Fitness is a highly necessary requirement of any varsity team, however it would be perhaps more inclusive and beneficial for varsity sports to include those students that show motivation and determination in participating in try outs in order to develop their fitness.

An option would be to have reserve teams that practice regularly and formally that can be included on the team if the coaches deem necessary, or if there are injuries in the squads.

The role of coaches is really important and their performance seems to differ. When asked about the role of the coaches, Bright-Brundle expressed that there is no formal strategy for the evaluation of coaches, but they are working on “a coach-developing model because we want to ensure that there is consistency of evaluation and programming.”

Regardless, there seems to be a high reliance on coaches’ judgment since they are seen as the ‘experts’ in sports, but who holds them accountable? Coaches also are given a lot of responsibility in recruiting, and are well connected with local leagues. The argument is that a solid base team is necessary to ensure success.

However, it may be beneficial to establish formal evaluation systems to make sure that all resources are used, and those students that could be varsity athletes are given the right opportunities.

It terms of opportunities, it is often the case that varsity sport is seen as huge commitment, which discourages students that have other obligations. Plenty of students at Trent would love to be in a varsity sport without sacrificing their grades, but would also like being able to participate in campus activities and student groups.

This becomes an issue of priorities and trade-offs. But it is also an issue of our institutional priority as a whole. Is our purpose to select the best to compete, or to do so and develop potential athletes at the same time? What is the purpose of the Athletic Centre and varsity sports? Is winning the ultimate objective of varsity teams?

Even though winning is very important, other aspects are vital, such as developing leadership and work ethic skills.

Patrick Assinck states that “winning is really important to us, but pulling back to our athlete development model we want to make sure that is not just about winning, that we are providing all the athletes with an experience where they can gain work ethic and leadership skills that come with competing in sport.”

Deborah Bright-Brundle agrees that athletes are “first and foremost students,

and that the experience of sport also translates into leaders off the field. It is expected that the drive and determination for success on the field would translate to their academic life, personal life and work life as well.”

Are students from different backgrounds benefiting from the enormous advantages and skills that would come with varsity sports? Of the 320 varsity athletes, 2-3% are international students.

That means that approx. 10 international students are varsity athletes.

Some international students were consulted but their identity will remain anonymous. Some feel that the varsity program should include more international students in the sporting aspect since the teams would benefit from the diversity.

Also, some of the students expressed that there are some stereotypes regarding international students as not trying hard enough or not assigning the proper priority to varsity sport. There is a concept that in order to be a varsity athlete, you can only do the sport and academics and not much else in terms of commitments.

As previously mentioned, a high level of commitment is necessary to become an athlete, however, an inclusive varsity sport would include those students that show promise and develop them so they can meet the standards. This could be done by providing a bridge between intramural and varsity where students could develop the fitness and motivation.

This would ensure more inclusivity.

Another international student paid attention to the fact that travelling commitments often inhibit their ability to go for trials, as they occur prior to the school semester commencing, in the case of soccer for instance.

Furthermore, the student expressed that there seems to be a divide between the intermural and varsity departments.

Allowing for greater interaction and possible recruitment for those students that come late or may have less knowledge about the varsity teams would narrow this bridge. It would also not only allow for potentially stronger teams, but would also foster social interaction and comradity and increased support for varsity teams.

What about financial inclusivity?

When asked about the monetary average amount that a student would need in order to be a varsity athlete, a straight answer was hard to find. Bright-Brundle expressed that there are different season durations (including the possibility of playoffs), and travel requirements, which she argued makes it difficult to come with a number. She also stated that there is a student varsity fee that students pay standard across all universities in Canada.

Finally, it is important to look at the

This photo is for illustrative purposes only. By Jenny Fisher.

inclusivity of the Athletics Centre as a space. We have to take into account that the facilities are used not only by varsity, intramural and recreational groups, but also by community members and students at large. How does the athletic program mediate the tension between these groups?

Bright-Brundle argued that it is an “ongoing juggling and balancing act.”

Varsity sport has strict demands with regard to facilities. She expresses that “when varsity season starts, we obviously have commitments when hosting a tournament or event, but we know far in advance, so we can book them early on and hopefully not run into conflict.”

However, there have been a couple of instances where there has been conflict between student groups, intramural sports and varsity sports. For instance, intramural competitive soccer books the field every Monday night to run the intramural league. However, on a Monday the women’s rugby varsity team showed up and took half the field. According to the Athletics Centre, there was a booking error, so both groups were believed to have booked the facilities. BrightBrundle and Assinck attribute this type of error as “human error”. In fact, they argue that there is a booking system, and that there is no formalized way in which a group can override a booking.

This specific instance is no more than an example that the athletic facilities at Trent are spaces of contestation. There is a growing demand for the field, the gym and the indoor facilities, which is putting stress on the system. Furthermore, the expansion of the athletic centre as a community centre is also furthering the situation.

Other less specific instances revolve around students and groups attempting to book facilities during the week, but encountering that most of the time slots are assigned to varsity practices. Surely, varsity sports need the facilities to train and remain competitive, but this comes at the cost of inclusivity of the athletic spaces at Trent.

There seems to be a recurring theme at Trent, under the financial constrains caused by the broader neoliberal restructuring, in which the university is trying to squeeze as much as possible without further investments in infrastructure or even faculty, in certain areas. The Athletics Centre is run almost as an independent business.

When talking about the student athlete development model, Bright-Brundle agreed that as “with any other business if you don’t have customer feedback, we can sit here and develop a model, but it may not be as effective.” Is this ideal?

Should the Athletic Centre be run as a business? One may even wonder if universities as a whole are not run as businesses.

It is surely beneficial for our community engagement that the Athletic Centre is open to all members of the community, however, there is a growing tension between the current infrastructural capacity and the ability to ensure that students are the priority.

At the end of the day it is all about priorities: do we want to have an Athletic Centre and a varsity program that is inclusive and develops athletes, or a business like entity that is only accessible to a selected few?

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Trent curling teams button up for the new season with local bonspiel

By Zachary Cox

The Trent University varsity curling teams are looking forward to their season this year, kicking off the first interschool competition of the season during the exhibition bonspiel held on Saturday, November 22 and Sunday, November 23 at the Peterborough Curling Club.

The bonspiel brought teams from Brock, Carleton, Laurier, Queens and UOIT to Peterborough for some friendly competition.

There are 11 Trent varsity curlers this season, with the men’s team consisting of six players and the women’s team consisting of five.

For the men, the team members are Brad Robinson, David Bolsby, Ryan Davis, Dillon Muldoon, Derek Hutcheson and Chad Ramsay. The women’s team has Kristina Adams, Jennifer Wale, Julie O’Donnell, Catherine Alksnis and Olivia Huber.

“I hope we can make some noise,” said coach David Farnell prior to the exhibition bonspiel.

At the time of print, the bonspiel was ongoing so scores were not available, though the men won their game against the University of Ontario Institute of Technology 8 to 4 and the women took theirs 6 to 4.

The Trent University varsity curling season begins with a meeting around mid-September for those who are interested in trying out for the curling teams.

“We try to explain to them that this is what we’re about, this is what you’re getting into,” said Farnell. Farnell coaches alongside Steve Whitehill and Brad Kidd.

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ice time so the coaches can get to know the individuals. Selections are made and posted a week or so later.

The Trent teams then participate weekly in the local league, playing each Wednesday night. Those who can make it also practice Thursday evenings.

The league play is preparation for the Ontario University Athletics bonspiel, with this years’ taking place in Guelph from February 18 to 23.

Exhibition bonspiels, such as the one hosted here in Peterborough, give the schools a chance to get some playtime against those who will be their opponents in February.

Last year a new element was introduced, with the curlers beginning athletic conditioning. “The students work with Garth Myles who is our personal trainer at the athletic centre,” said Farnell.

The training has been a hit with the team members. “It’s definitely a good thing for the sweepers.” said Hutcheson adding that the training regimen is designed specifically for curling, with a focus on brief spurts of activity. “I like it,” agreed Davis, “It gets you in shape, it keeps you healthy.”

The two teams looked impressive out on the ice Saturday morning, and they themselves recognize the dynamic between the members. “The people at Trent are so nice,” said Davis. “I like this team.”

The teams foresee a challenge this season, but are eager to meet it. “We only won one OUA game last year,” said Brad Robinson, stating that this year’s goal is to improve on that.

It won’t be easy, though, because as Hutcheson puts it, “all the teams are high level.” Easy season or not, the Trent University varsity curling teams are ready to rock.

Varsity Standings

as of November 22

Women’s Volleyball - OCAA East Wins

Losses

Draws

Points

Georgian

6

1

0

12

Canadore

5

1

0

10

Trent

5

1

0

10

Seneca Durham Loyalist Algonquin George Brown La Cite

4

2

0

8

3 3 3 2 1

3 3 5 4 5

0 0 0 0 0

6 6 6 4 2

Fleming

0

7

0

0

Wins

Losses

Draws

Points

Durham

6

0

0

12

Algonquin

5

2

0

10

Fleming

5

2

0

10

Seneca Canadore

4

2

George Brown Georgian

3 2 2

3 4 4

0 0 0 0

8 6 4 4

Trent

2

4

0

4

Loyalist La Cite

1

5

0

2

1

5

0

2

Team

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Upcoming Matches Sport

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Date/Time

Women’s Volleyball

Trent

Seneca

Nov 29 @ 6pm

Men’s Volleyball

Trent

Seneca

Women’s Volleyball Men’s Volleyball

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Nov 29 @ 8pm Dec 3 @ 6pm Dec 3 @ 8pm

Clubs & Groups Theatre Trent Logo Contest. That’s right, Theatre Trent needs a new logo. The old one has served us well, but it is time to search for a new one. Are you a Trent student or alumni and think you have what it takes to design the new Theatre Trent logo, then we want to hear from you! Send your logo designs to: Theatre Trent, c/o P.R. Community & Student Assn., (Sadleir House), 751 George St. N., Peterborough, ON, K9H 3T2 or visit our new website: http://theatretrent.wordpress.com/ Deadline for logo submissions is: December 31, 2014 Weekly Open Mics EVERY Thursday evening at 8pm at the Trend pub in Traill college!

Hosted by the Trent University Music Society. Bring your instruments or just come to listen for a night of good music and good company. Free admission, all welcome! More info: trentumusic@gmail.com.

Come learn basic to advanced Arabic! Our classes cover reading, writing and speaking. Weekly Arabic classes every Tuesday from 5-6pm at GCS 108. Absolutely free!

Visual Artist Needed ... Trent Fashion Show is a student-run charity event raising money this year for Peterborough’s YES Shelter and UNICEF Canada. They are in need for a visual artist to design the event posters and advertisements. If this could be you, please contact us at trentfashionshow@gmail.com Seasonal Celebration and Potluck. The Seasoned Spoon is delighted to invite you to a seasonal celebration and Potluck that is sure to warm your heart and belly. It has been an amazing semester here at the Spoon and we would like to thank our supporters for all they give back everyday in making the Spoon what it is. So come on down and lets feast and stay warm together while we celebrate the coming of winter. Expect hot cider, cookies for decorating, music and more! PLEASE BRING A VEGETARIAN DISH TO SHARE WITH AN INGREDIENT LIST. Tues Dec 2 from 5 - 8pm @ The Spoon. Email: spoonvolunteers@gmail.com for more info.

Trent Writers Society NaNoWriMo Wrap-up.

There will be an All Night Write at Whistle Stop Restaurant on Thurs. Nov 27 to Friday Nov. 28 (9pm to 9am) and we welcome all writers to bring their computers and spend their time finishing their NaNo novels or any other projects. There will be coffee, wifi and snacks provided! On top of this we will also be holding our weekly meetings on Thursdays from 7-9 that usually take place in CC M2. Find us on Facebook, or email trentwriterssociety@gmail.com

Sadleir House BABE–LESQUE Tuesdays until Dec 2, 6-7pm in Hobbs Library (room 101) wheelchair accessible. Presented by Burlesque in PTBO and the TQC. Get in touch with your inner babe with this fun 6 week class! Learn the fundamentals of burlesque, develop a stage persona, craft your own props and costumes, fall back in love with your beautiful body! No dance experience is necessary and this class is open to any-BODY. $60 for 6 weeks, or $15 drop-in. Contact

Tuesday t Earl Wilfong @ The Tankhouse (4pm) t Mother Mother w/ USS @ The Venue (8pm) t The Sean Hully Jazz Group @ The Garnet (8pm)

listings burlesque.ptbo@gmail.com to register now!

Facebook: Burlesque in PTBO Barefoot Flamenco. Explore the roots of flamenco without the heavy stomping or foot technique. Develop better rhythm, concentration, balance, and strong posture, and enjoy the beauty and passion of flamenco without feeling limited by the technicality and precision of the footwork. Saturday Nov 29, 11am-6pm. Price: sliding scale $50 to $75 for the day. Location to be announced. Preregistration required: please contact Jess 705-977-2709 or rowlandart@ yahoo.ca

Trent Walkhome—Trent’s safe walk service. Late class? Working in the lab? Call us for a walk; 25 minutes from Symons or Traill (downtown) Hours of operation: Monday to Friday: 7pm to 1am, Saturday & Sunday: 9pm to 1am 705-748-1748 Walkhome—Pre-book your safe walk. Do you regularly have practice Monday night, work in the Library Tuesday night or go downtown Friday night? Our team of volunteers walkers can meet you, on campus or downtown. Monday to Friday: 7pm to 1am, Saturday & Sunday: 9pm to 1am. Call us 705- 748-1748 or email walkhome@tretnu.ca to Prebook a walk.

Summer Job Fair, Trent University. Are you looking to get experience this summer?

Come to the Summer Job Fair to meet representatives from organizations interested in recruiting YOU. Mark your calendars for January 14th, 2015 10:00AM to 2:00PM in the Gzowski Atrium. Contact the Career Centre for more information. For a list of exhibitors, visit www.trentu.ca/sep.

The Academic Mentoring Program is recruiting! Need help with course concepts or effective studying? Apply as a mentee and request an upper-year student mentor. Want to aid another student in a course you’ve taken before? Apply as a mentor to help out and gain valuable experience. Visit http://www.trentu.ca/academicskills/peermentoring.php for more information.

Did you know our instructors can help you with every assignment Trent University gives? From essays and lab report writing, to the basics of citation and grammar, we can help you with it all! Use this free service to help organize your thoughts for projects, brush up on writing skills or get the hang of lab reports. Drop by the Academic Skill Centre for a visit at Champlain College, Suite 206, call us at 705748-1760 or book your appointment online.

Local Warren Miller Ski Film Night and Fundraiser. Rick Storey of Devil’s Elbow Racing Club is planning a fundraising event, with a portion of the proceeds to benefit our not-for-profit ski racing club which operates at nearby Devil’s Elbow Ski Arena.

Following a successful fundraising event last year, the goal this season is to raise $2400 for the purchase of additional B-net safety systems for our club. The event will include a screening of Warren Miller’s 65th Annual Ski & Snowboard Feature Film

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“No Turning Back”. It will take place Nov 28, 7pm, at Showplace Performance Centre.

Tickets are $15 and can be purchase online (deracing.ca), Wild Rock Outfitters, and Devil’s Elbow Ski Services. There will be door prizes and auction items.

Volunteer Tutors Needed at the New Canadians Centre. Do you have one or two hours a week available to help a newcomer to Canada improve their English language skills and become more confident and connected in their new community? No previous experience is required. For more information or an application form, please contact: Anne Elliott, Community Coordinator, 705-7430882 or anne@nccpeterborough.ca St. John’s Ambulance Standard First Aid Our Standard Certificate is valid for 3 years! Includes CPR and AED training! This course provides a certificate in Standard First Aid & a CPR/AED certificate. 13 to 14.5 hours of instructional time (2 days); includes 435-page First Aid/CPR/AED book. **This course is required by the WSIB if your place of work employs more than 5 employees per shift.** Upcoming sessions: Weekdays(8:30-4) Nov 26-27. Weekends(8:30-4) Nov 22-23, 29-30. sjapeterborough@bellnet.ca, 705-745-0331, sja.ca St. John’s Ambulance CPR Recertification (Weekdays at 6:30 pm) Dec. 10. Call for additional dates, or organize your own group at a convenient time at any location--discounts for groups! sjapeterborough@bellnet.ca, 705-745-0331, sja.ca Travel/ Teach English - TEFL Certification with The TESL Trainer at One World ESL School. Free info & registration Open House. www.tesltrainer.ca Contact: tesltrainer@sympatico.ca ESL Help & Editing - Contact: worldeslschool@sympatico.ca

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Arts Galerie Q Solo Exhibit: Allen Sapp November 20, 2014 - January 15, 2015. Free Admission. This winter, at Galerie Q, the artist Allen Sapp will tell you the stories of his life through the paintings, where you can also feel the love and peace from the reserve.

The Peterborough Storytellers usually meet on the third Wednesday of the month, from 7 to 9 at the Peterborough Public Library.

Our next meetings will be on Jan 21 (Troubadours), Feb 18 (Personal Storytelling) & March 18 (World storytelling day. Theme “Wishes”). There is no December meeting.

Pet Sun, Billy Moon & The White Crowleys at The Spill Dec 6. Come celebrate the end of classes at the Spill and check out Hamilton’s Pet Sun as they continue their tour in Pbro. Supporting them is Billy Moon and The White Crowleys. Its sure to be a groovin time. Its 5 dollars or pay what you can, we don’t care, no one will be turned away.

Yacht Rock Party at the Spill. Dave Tough and Kelly McMichael have put together a backing band of some of the finest musicians in Peterborough to perform the smooth and sophisticated hits from the 70’s and 80’s associated with the genre “Yacht Rock”. Covered artists include,

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Hall and Oates, Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac, and The Doobie Brothers. Come out and dance in your best boating clothes. Wed Nov 26, 8:30pm til midnight. $10, $5 for students.

Trent President Leo Groarke, Mayor Daryl Bennett and Arts Champion Bill Lockington headline Electric City Culture Council AGM. Join local artists and arts, culture and heritage supporters at EC3’s 2014 Annual General Meeting Wednesday, November 26, 7pm, at Showplace, in the Nexicom Lounge. Hear the new Trent President speak on the arts and be there for the announcement of important new program initiatives in the Peterborough arts sector.

Kawartha Youth Orchestra’s “Winter Tales” concert. Come join the KYO for their season premiere concert “Winter Tales” at 3pm on Sunday, November 30 at Market Hall. See and hear our region’s talented youth perform some of the greatest music ever written.

Tickets are available by phone from the Market Hall Box office at 705-749-1146 or online by visiting MarketHall.org.

November is National Novel Writing Month!

Take part in a fun writing challenge.

Writers worldwide unleash their creativity each year with the goal of writing a 50,000 word novel in November. Visit nanowrimo. org for details and to sign up. Join us in writing at the Peterborough Public Library each Saturday from 1-5pm in November.

Dance Your Bones: Move freely to DJ beats from around the world. no steps, no alcohol, just the freedom to move the way you want in the company of like-minded others. $10. Every Thursday 6pm-8pm at 235 Rubidge St. in Peterborough until December 18. www.danceyourbones.com Mysterious Entity’s Script Club! Thursday, December 4th @ 7pm. PWYC. Mysterious Entity welcomes local theatre artists and theatre lovers to this monthly reading series taking place on the first Thursday of every month. Theatre lovers - come and be a part of the process! First rule of Script Club … be there. Second rule of Script Club....

ALWAYS talk about Script Club. The Theatre on King, 159 King St. #120 (around back) TTOK and Fleshy Thud are excited to welcome back Kate Story and her Grant Writing for Artists 101 workshop on Tuesday, December 9th, 6 - 8:30pm. $10 or pwyc. Pre-registration is recommended: contact@ttok.ca. In this workshop, professional grant writer Kate Story will take you through the steps of applying for arts grants. Visual artists, dancers, theatre artists, photographers, media artists, crafters, musicians, interdisciplinary, this means you! From how to articulate your creative process, to crafting a budget, this workshop will make finding funding for your passion accessible and even fun. The Theatre on King, 159 King St. #120 (around back) The Theatre on King is happy to host the “small dance for a small space festival 2014.” Three nights only! Dec 19-20 @ 8pm, Sunday Dec 21 @ 1pm. $10 or pwyc at the door. Dance that takes place in a ten by ten foot space with a duration of less than ten minutes. Last year’s festival turned out so well, we’re doing it again! Featuring performers: Mandy Livings, Sarah Rudnicki, Kate Story, Hilary Wear, Chelsea McPolland, Brad Brackenridge and Ryan Kerr. Fueled by Public Energy. The Theatre on King 159 King St. #120 (around back)

Friday

t Mark Edwards Band t Graham Norman @ The t Rye Street @ The @ The Black Horse Pub Tankhouse (4pm) Tankhouse (5pm) (7pm) t Medicine Line @ The t Chelsey Bennet w/ t Yacht Rock Party! @ Garnet (10pm) guest @ Carpe Diem (6pm) The Spill (8:30pm) t TUMS Open Mic @ The t Sunset Strip @ The Trend (8:00) Red Dog (9pm)

t Monoblock, Sunn, & guests @ The Spill (9pm)

This Week in Live Music: presented by ElectricCityLive.ca

Saturday t Kitchen Party Acoustic Jam @ The Tankhouse (1pm) t Kevin Siena & Robyn Cunningham @ Gallery in the Attic (8pm)

t Evangeline Gentle @ The Garnet (8pm) t Steve Lambke w/ guests @ Gallery in the t David Wilcox @ The Attic (8pm) Venue (8pm). t 1VCMJD "OJNBM X Charming Ruins @ The t Nosys and Friends @ Gordon Best Theatre The Spill (9pm) (9pm) t Pearly Jenkins @ The Pig’s Ear (10pm) t James Burrows @ The Garnet (10pm)