Volume 49 Issue 7

Volume 49 | Issue 7 | October 29, 2014

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Celebrating 50 Years of Trent

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Editors’ Notes: The editors wish to extend a special thank you to everyone who helped out with the Municipal Election / 50th Anniversary special issue!

This Issue in History: Volume 22 (1987), Issue 7 With the many advances in digital communications and computer technology over the past three decades, from the smart phone to cloud computing to peer-to-peer file sharing to video streaming, it is often easy to forget (especially by my own Millennial generation) that computers did not just appear from nowhere with Windows 95.

Rather, computers and computing technology was under development long before the release of the popular home operating systems that we’ve come to rely on.

Similarly, questions and concerns about the impact of computer technology on societal structures and social relations are also decades old.

Back in 1987 (volume 22, iss. 7), Arthur reporter Ed Cottrill covered a comprehensive lecture given by Symons Award winning professor Dr. Jim Jury on the possibilities and perils of computers and artificial intelligence.

The lecture, entitled “Futureworld Now: Can You be Replaced by an Intelligent Machine?� questioned whether computers will ever be able to take the place of human beings in society.

Interestingly, Dr. Jury predicted that somewhere between 2001 and 2050 “computer responses would become indistinguishable from human responses,� a foresight that seems to be right on schedule given the recent advances in search engine technology and, of course, the infamous Watson ex-

periment on the popular television show Jeopardy.

Dr. Jury also drew important correlations between technology, knowledge, and power in his lecture, arguing that “If access to [computer] programmes were justly distributed, they could be of use to everyone.�

However, he warned that “in a world where knowledge and power are closely related, the question of who owns knowledge must be addressed with extreme caution.�

Almost thirty years later, with communications, computer, and information technology becoming increasingly ubiquitous in our day to day lives, these are still wise words to keep in mind.

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CampusNews Provost search committee composition questioned

By Ugyen Wangmo

As the term of the incumbent Provost and Vice President, Academic nears it end, Trent is preparing itself to search for a successor.

The first step taken towards the search was the declaration of 13-member search committee. But, sooner than one would have expected under normal circumstances, it was opined that the search committee was not fairly representative by those few who were aware of the process.

The most obvious general demographic concern of the committee is that it is comprised of only two students, no student representative from Oshawa campus, and only three women.

“The search committee is not a fair representation,” said the President of the Trent Central Student Association, Braden Freer, who is also one of the student members for the search committee. He justified his statement by saying that the “Trent community is made up mostly of students, and it is also not a male dominant community, so on that alone it is not a fair representation.”

He would have liked to see more students on it; at least one more would have been nice. He said that argument did come up with the administration, but the justification he received from the administration was to look at provost search committee from other universities. For instance, one other university had one student and 20 other administrators.

According to him, it is easier to say that he has great relations with the president of the Trent Part time Student Association.

It’s not that he doesn’t have great relations with the president of the Trent Oshawa Student Association (TOSA), but it is just that Oshawa is a 50 minute ride away from Peterborough. The schedules don’t mesh as much, and there is not as much synergy between what they are doing.

He agrees that the needs of part time and full time students are different, but they are closer than the needs of the Peterborough campus versus Oshawa campus.

Nevertheless he said that he can fairly represent students because of all the processes he had been involved at Trent in the past five years, and successfully having involved students in them.

“And also why I was elected, and what the president of the Graduate Student Association and I know is going to come with our positions,” will make them a fair enough representation.

In response to the small proportion of only three women representatives, he said

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if it is not too late to change the representation he feels like there should be a change.

But he understands that it would be a mere response to it since it has already started, so definitely for the next provost search he recommends the need for more diversity in picking the members.

“Despite initial thoughts on the composition, President Groarke has done a wonderful job oh expanding the search committee to include as many areas as possible, and I look forward to the process,” emphasized Freer.

As a member of the search committee, the qualities he will look for in a candidate are that they recognize what Trent is, and where its strength lies, and where Trent has been strong in the past, but then also being able to balance working with the Ontario government. The ability and skill to say, “I am here not just to make money but to promote academia, free thought, research and inquiry for students,” and at the same time be able to say that Trent is going to get the money to be able to function will be the biggest thing on his mind.

In addition, someone who understands that even though traditional learning is a big chunk of post secondary education, the better part should be that students are able to explore their interests. And that has to be a key to all the programs Trent has.

Besides, it has to be someone who is also willing to engage and work with students, he added.

An anonymous graduate student who is not on the search committee said that the search committee for new Provost and Vice President, Academic, is not fairly representative. He feels that not everybody gets their voice heard, and for such an open process it seems pretty closed to him.

According to him, they did try to get a little bit broader, but they are still missing several really important groups of people or academic departments.

If Oshawa campus is a part of it, having only one representative and no student on committee is not fairly inclusive, he suggested.

The committee has two student representatives, but the question is how much do those two students actually represent everyone else.

It was suggested that it could have been more open so many more students could have their say. After all, the job of provost is primarily concerned with the academic affairs of the university for students.

“I don’t understand why it is not an open, transparent process,” stated the anonymous source.

Further, he commented that they don’t

even know how the committee works and as such makes one even assume that the head might get to veto everybody and take all the power. “We don’t know how it works. It looks like it is a black box for something that important of a position which will affect the students,” he said.

So if their goal is to make sure that everyone’s interest and all the people that give money to the school are represented then “the committee is definitely not satisfactory enough,” and “it shows that they really don’t care about the students as much,” the source said.

A conversation with the incumbent Provost and Vice President, Academic, Dr. Gary Boire, shed a clear picture on how student benefit is the primary focus of the position. It made the situation more justifiable that there are not many student representatives as opined by those few.

“Any provost worth their salt, they’ve got to have one thing in their mind and that is they have to think about what is best for the students,” said Dr. Boire. And if one is divorced from that then maybe it is not the right job for them, he added.

Although he sees students very rarely and most of his work is with faculty members, “it is always about the students,” he said.

According to him, despite the general belief that the worst job in a university is to be the Provost, he thinks that it is the best job and also the most challenging job.

Even though he has to deal mostly with complaints, “Provost is an absolutely fascinating position because we are expected to see all different aspects of the university,” he said.

“I would hope that the new Provost listens very carefully to the existing stories of the place before they start speaking, work closely with the new president [Dr. Groarke]. The new president in my opinion has all the right instincts about how to make this place sustainable and viable and enriched,” advised Dr. Boire.

However, the Chair of the search committee, President Leo Groarke, feels that it is a strong and diverse committee with students, members from a very diverse set of programs, a Board member, members from Oshawa as well as Peterborough, men, and women, and members of visible minorities.

He took the structure of the previous committee and expanded it, primarily to ensure that there were faculty members representing each of the key academic areas of the University.

President Groarke is also of the view that the two student presidents are in the

best position to represent students generally, but it is not only the students on the committee who will be looking to find a Provost.

The community has picked the members of the committee by election. He added three members to make the committee better fit the academic structure of the university, he said. The community can make representations to the committee, but when they get to the review of specific candidates, it is important that this be a confidential search, informed, President Groarke.

It will increase the pool of candidates who will apply and ensure that those who do apply have their privacy protected, he reasoned. He does understand the interest that everyone has in the outcome, but it is only the committee members that are in a good position to judge the candidates.

Provost is a tremendously important role, said the president. He went on to describe the position as being the manager of the academic operations of the university, who has a very significant impact on its evolution, and represents Trent provincially.

With regards to the candidate, the committee will discuss the key attributes in detail. They will also invite the community to submit their own ideas, which according to him will be the basis of the advertisement. He hopes that it will be ready by the end of November.

The next major step will be the hiring of a search consultant. Following that, it will be the advertisement, says the president.

Meanwhile, President and Vice-Chancellor, Leo Groarke will chair the 13-member Search Committee for Provost and Vice President, Academic. The members include a member of the Board, Robin Quantick, Vice-President Research and International, Neil Emery, and Dean of Arts and Science,Holger Hintelmann, selected by the deans.

It also includes five faculty members, one from each academic division and each school: Ingrid Brenner from School of Nursing, Paul Elliott for School of Education and Professional Learning, Michael Epp from Humanities, Joanna Freeland from Science and Haroon Akram-Lodhi from the Social Sciences.

In addition, the two students representatives are the President of TCSA, Braden Freer, and the President of GSA, Rathika Balthasar.

The final two members to the list are a full-time staff member, Matt Keefer and the Head of the Oshawa campus, Joe Muldoon.

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Meet the new College Team: Barry Townshend, Director of Colleges

By Ugyen Wangmo

In conversation with the Director of Colleges, Barry Townshend, introducing the newest position at Trent, which is a part of the new College team.

Trent is just as new to him as he is to the Trent community, and he is still learning. He compares Trent to a great library, and he is someone sitting outside, looking through the door. He feels that is where he is right now, still outside the door and can see only one sliver of what Trent is.

Talk about how your career pathway that brought you to Trent?

I went to the University of Guelph for a Bachelors of Arts degree, and got a Master’s of Social Work from the University of Toronto.

During my undergraduate I worked in a drop-in centre for street-involved youth.

The idea was to get to young people before they ended up on the street.

I also worked in residence house that was the equivalent of a Don, and then for four years as a housing professional in residence. During my Master’s I did a placement in an intensive care unit and outpatient cancer clinic.

Social work is often times dealing with everything from family problems, to relationship problems, to money problems; anything with difficulties that people face.

I went back to working at Guelph in a department called student life. I was specifically responsible for the transition program for undergraduate students, which connected a little bit more to my residence experience. Centre for new student was my specific portfolio. I was also doing one on one counseling therapy for a number

of years. The theme that connected to all those different things is working with people who had difficulties in their lives.

Why did you want to work with people with difficulties in their life?

It relate to my own personal experience.

I came out when I was 17, I was very depressed, there were other people dealing with my own mental health issues, dealing with my own identity. In the 90’s being queer was not easy, it’s not that it is easy for everybody now. But there were no television shows that dealt with gay people, no movies that had positive gay role models at that point. So there were a lot of really negative messages. I had a lot of internalized negative homophobic ideas and it was other people who supported me. I just became very interested in supporting other people who were struggling and that has always been a theme in what I do.

How will you bring your personal experience into your role as the Director of Colleges?

As the director of colleges, part of what I want to do is create a community where there is a strong safety network, so people who struggle have that support. And also, I want to help people access education to be inspired because if you’re overcoming poverty, discrimination, or just any difficult life circumstances, education is often times the thing that helps you over come difficulties.

What does your typical workday look like?

I don’t have a typical workday, which is one of the reasons why I love my job. It is dif-

ferent every day. However, one of the big pieces of my job is going out and meeting and talking to lots of different people. And a substantial amount of committee work is also involved. A bit of a jack-of-all-trades, lots of planning, budget stuffs. In the world of student affairs, often times you have to be through what we call a full cycle. A cycle will be a year, because work changes depending on what is going on in that year.

So basically, it is planning, relationship building, education, training workshops, networking, and a lot of dialogue. I talk all day long. It is a relationship job; I try to understand people and bring people together.

Its funny because I am an introvert and my natural inclination is to be quiet. I have been amazed since I started that I probably have talked more in the last three months than I did in a full year before.

Expand on the kind of person you are?

I am introvert who learned to be an extrovert. I am definitely a creative person, and I am a fairly intuitive and emotional person.

One dimension of my personality is that when I go into a room, I often get a read on it emotionally where people are at in a room, because I get a sense of what they are talking about. But then I am also a curious person, wanting to learn and explore.

I am an educator to some degree. I like to do things in an unconventional way. I wear big earrings, and that is one of the signs of being unconventional. I do things a little bit differently from other people!

Why do you do things differently?

I want to be my own unique person. A little bit of it is that it is an expression for me of what it means to be a part of a queer community. Coming out for me, not everybody but for many people in the queer community, is about doing things a little bit differently from what is expected.

Once you start to diverge from what was originally laid out as the “normal” ways of what is expected, then you start to venture in to other possibilities. For instance, “how am I unique? And how do I embrace my uniqueness, strengthen that and take pride

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in my uniqueness?” It draws a little bit on my creativity, my values around social justice, and it sorts of blends in all together.

A little more about your uniqueness?

For people who don’t know me, I use the label gay, but for people who know me or understand the culture and what it means, I prefer the term queer because it’s a little bit more open. I have been fully out for 20 years. It is not everything I am but it is an important, ‘one piece’ of my life.

What can we expect from you and your new role?

You can expect so many things from me, but one of the ones that I am really passionate about is retention, because it is a social justice for me, and also a success of the university. One of the ideas I have is building a safety net that catches the people who are the most vulnerable in a community, which supports everybody. Because at some point, all of us are going to have bad times in our lives and that safety net will make the whole community stronger.

You will see me put a lot of emphasis on community and how do we help to hold on to the students who need us to hold on to.

Take home message?

There are many things and chapters of the colleges that have not yet been written, and we get to write them together in a community. The writing of those stories comes from the relationships that we build, the community that we have together, and the way that we come together.

For me this work, the colleges, the reason I come to this work and what I love about it, is that we get to write the stories about where the colleges are going to be in the future; stories of student experience, or stories of Alumni and faculty’s experiences and what the university is going to be. But that comes from dialogue. So I want people to know that I am open, I want to have a conversation, to meet people, to know how people think about the world and how to be in a relationship together.

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TCSA’s brand ambassadors engaging students on campus

By Renzo Costa

The TCSA has created three new positions this year under the title “Brand Ambassadors.” They are a paid staff that work from 8 to 10 hours a week and whose main responsibility is to have face-to-face interactions with the membership.

Stephanie Laing McKay, the Board Resource Manager for the Trent Central Student Association, spoke to Arthur.

She expressed that the Brand Ambassadors were essentially created to foster engagement, communication and accountability with the student members; to really ensure that there is a strong sense of continuity and a team there to let students know about the services, campaigns and events that the TCSA runs.

She furthermore added that there is not always public knowledge of all the services that the TCSA offers, such as the groceries assistance program or the go transit sales; so in a way the Brand Ambassadors help students have a better experience at Trent by benefiting from these services.

She also added that the Brand ambassadors work both ways since students can come to them with questions, and so in that way they can link the TCSA with the student membership directly.

In terms of their actual activities, Laing McKay explained that the Brand Ambassadors have participated in many productive ventures. For instance, they were in charge of the TCSA table at Clubs and Groups Day, something new since the TCSA does not typically have its own table. During

vendor day they interacted with students through games, representing the TCSA and individually talking to students.

Laing McKay agreed that the brand ambassadors had a foremost important effect on the recent increase in the voter turnout in the fall by-elections. They went from 2.7% last year to 6.7% this year.

Face to face interaction is their main responsibility, Laing McKay expressed.

For instance, during midterms, the TCSA bought cookies for students and the Brand Ambassadors were handing them out to give students a bit of a smile.

Moving beyond their function, Laing McKay also explained other reasons why the Brand Ambassadors team was created.

She stated that today we rely too much on social media, and on letting students know what is going on by means of Facebook, Twitter, myTrent etc.

She did agree that these are effective but argued that they are not always getting to every student, since not every student is on Facebook and not every students checks myTrent everyday.

In this way, she adds, the Brand Ambassador team is a way to make sure that the TCSA is really on the ground level with the students, and engaging with them.

The Brand Ambassadors idea has many positive features in terms of increasing the engagement with the student membership.

However, it would be difficult to really assess the extent to which they have a real impact in enhancing student participation and knowledge about the TCSA. First, there is only so much three people can do to promote a student association.

Even though face-to-face interaction is of foremost importance to engage with the student membership in a meaningful manner, the activities that the brand ambassadors do fall more under the jurisdiction of promotion rather than interaction.

They are there to answer questions, but also more often, to redirect you to the right people to ask those questions. Maybe a good idea would be to go directly to the office instead.

It is important to not fall on romantic discourses of interaction. If the TCSA is

committed to increase its engagement with the student membership then maybe a more direct approach is necessary.

And interaction goes both ways. It is actually important to make the TCSA office more accessible to the public. The ways to do this are up for discussion. A starting point would be reforming the infrastructure of the TCSA office to make it a more open and welcoming space.

In terms of representation, it is also important to make note that if only three students are selected to represent the TCSA and promote its services, then it is difficult to choose students that are representative of the whole diversity of the student body and their different backgrounds.

Moreover, the positions are a fantastic idea from a promotion point of view because it allows the TCSA the opportunity to always count with staff to carry out outreach activities.

However, social media has and will reach more students. A clear example is off-campus students.

Maybe these Brand ambassadors would have neither the work force nor the responsibility to manage to reach out to offcampus students. It is not possible, nor desirable, to pinpoint them in comparison with social media, since they both serve different functions regardless of their advantages and disadvantages.

At the end of the day, it is important to invest on positions that help bridge the gap between the students and their main association, while creating much needed student jobs at the same time.

Jane Bow presents Cally’s Way at Writer’s Reading Series

By Caleigh Boyle

Whoever it was that called this October cold, miserable, and crappy…was right.

However there was one day two weeks ago when the temperature broke 24 degrees.

At first I thought it was the weather gods of Canada giving us poor civilians a break, but I was wrong. It was, in fact, the Greek Gods making sure that Jane Bow— the most recent speaker at the Writer’s Reading Series—had the same weather as Crete, Greece, whilst presenting her new book Cally’s Way to the Trent community.

While many claim that they have been traveling all their lives, Jane Bow has been doing it since the moment of her birth.

While her family was taking the train from Vancouver to Ottawa they had to detour to Edmonton, for her mother to give birth.

Travelling has thus been a way of life for Bow, who grew up as the daughter of diplomats, and she has been all around the world. However, the place she felt most at home (and the place where she began more than a decade of writing) was Greece. “Greek language is full of life. The energy resonated with who I am fundamentally,” explained Bow. Cally’s Way took Bow 12 years to write, and is certainly an inspiration for anyone who has worked on a project they thought would never be completed; every writer, at one time another, questions whether their writing is crap.

But after hearing Bow speak, I realized that this is okay; that if writing happens hastily you’re not doing it right.

Bow explained that when she first began thinking about the novel she thought she was going to write a historical novel.

“A young women came into my head who had nothing to do with Crete,” she said.

Trying to work through the connection between this character and Crete is what took Bow 12 years.

Fellow writers, if you are going to remember anything from this article remember this: just because there are no words on paper, does not mean there is no story.

Stories develop in the mind, they need time to fester and stew before they come to life. I envy those who pick up and pen and can instantly write something profound, or remarkable or outstanding, but I have to remember that those profound, remarkable, outstanding thoughts were likely simmering for years.

These Writers Readings hosted by the English Department are incredible opportunities to her accomplished writers speak about their passion. When asked why she writes, Bow said, “I don’t know, it’s the closest a human can come to flying. It’s who I am. It’s what I do.”

But more importantly these readings are a way for struggling and/or aspiring writers to hear that even accomplished and successful writers face very similar challenges.

These readings are opportunities to ask questions and learn, because every author in a part of this series has something say and something to teach. Bow taught me this: work through the crap; flush it out because it is through this process that we find our Cally.

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Trent Writers Society gives aspiring writers a home

By Brian Hough

With National Novel Writing Month about to start, there has never been a better time for the creation of the new Trent Writers Society, a student group dedicated to helping aspiring writers as well as those who just enjoy putting pen to paper.

The group is co-led by two students, Sarah McDonald (4th year History/ Cultural Studies) and Bianca Nucaro (2nd year, Con-Ed).

Says Nucaro, “I started Trent Writers Society this year. Writers societies have never seemed to stick before, but I felt currently Trent was really missing a place for writers to make connections and become aware of all the writing opportunities available on campus.

I thought creating a space for writers of all genres would allow for good liaisons between publications across Trent and beyond, as well as a supportive community for people interested in writing.”

About the goals of the group, Nucaro adds “TWS is aimed at writers and creative thinkers at Trent University who live both on and off campus. We hope to provide a communal space for writers to support, share, create and edit each other’s works, as well as meet like-minded peers.

We hope to create a lasting society that will carry forward year after year, and publish anthologies that will showcase the

works of the talented students of Trent.”

Among their other projects, they have already started a blog, trentwriters. wordpress.com, of which Nucaro explains “we hope that the circulation of our members’ works will expose people to the writing talent here at Trent, and excite people for the release of the anthology next semester.

Long term, we hope to organize more fun social events in 2015, and make sure TWS runs for a second consecutive year and continues to offer a writing community for Trent’s students.”

The most immediate plans however, are for National Novel Writing Month, in which people from around the country will try their hand at writing 50,000 words worth of material in a single month in an event that has been growing quickly both on and off the web.

“We are holding special events in November to celebrate NaNoWriMo,” says Nucaro.

“First, we are going to have an all-night write for those looking for a fun time with other writers as well as raising their word count for the contest. We also are having guest speakers come and talk about different aspects of writing and writing careers.”

While details were still being worked out, McDonald and Nucaro advised students to either follow them at their blog above or to find them on social media.

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LocalPages Places to go in Peterborough that a student may never see

Photos by Jenny Fisher

A lookout point by the Peterborough Museum and Archives in Ashburnham Memorial Park

CP Railway Bridge

The Peterborough Lift Lock

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Del Cray Park and Little Lake

The Rail Trails

Local

The Kawarthas just might be home to Canada’s Smartest Person

By Jack Smye

Nader Nadernejad, a local programmer at Trent Radio, will be competing for the title of Canada’s smartest person on the CBC’s hit TV game show of the same name.

Nader, who’s now in grade 12 at Lakefield District Secondary School, was just 16 when the show filmed this summer, making him the youngest contestant.

That being said, Nader’s young age should serve as no indication of life experience or wisdom. He has had an interesting and unique upbringing, which has led to him having more ‘friends’ than you’d think.

When Nader was in grade nine, he made a love video for his girlfriend at the time. This love video was meant only for her eyes, but, unbeknownst to him, it was leaked onto the online social forum Reddit where, within days, it went viral and had several million views.

The video has since been removed, but not before millions of people (including everyone in his high school) saw it.

This is where Nader showed a form of intelligence and wisdom far beyond his years age. “I thought instead of crying about this situation, I’m going to use it to my advantage.”

Using his newfound Youtube fame, Nader ended up partnering with a website called FullScreen and continued making videos. He says, “I loved the idea of being able to say anything and then have so many people turn around and respond to it.”

Currently, Nader has over 120 thousand twitter followers and the views of his Youtube videos are usually in the hundreds of thousands. When asked about his fame, Nader responds with another comment that contradicts his youth.

“It feels good to know that your community is supporting you, but I wouldn’t say that I’m famous. I tend to question myself sometimes. I’m just doing what I love, I’m not really caught up in what I’ve accom-

plished as much as I’m caught up in what I love.”

What Nader does love is talking. Indeed, his show at Trent Radio is called Talking, Never Stopping. Rather than talking about his own show, however, Nader prefers to highlight the great things Peterborough’s own community radio station. “Trent Radio is amazing, he says, “it’s a place where you won’t be overlooked because your different. That’s what I love about it.”

This sentiment is particularly important for Nader because of his childhood. Nader grew up in the Mississauga area until he was about 13 years old. That’s when his family moved to the little village of Lakefield. “When I moved up here it was totally different, he recalls. “The vibe was different and also, with my background, I was noticeably different. I’ll just put it at that.”

This unfortunately lead to instances where Nadar was targeted because of his

difference. “Classmates would say things like ‘you’re not a real Canadian’. It was real discouraging, I wondered how I was going to deal with this.”

Much like his response to the love video going viral, Nader decided to deal with it by embracing his differences rather than hiding from them.

When he got to grade nine, he joined the concert band and picked up as many instruments as he could. This led to him playing saxophone in front of the entire school to an awkward dance.

As Nader’s videos continued to grow in popularity on social media, his goals evolved as well. “I thought instead of making people laugh at my demise, I could inspire them, or at least I wanted to.”

It was perhaps what that led him to Canada’s Smartest Person. Sitting on the couch one day, Nader saw a commercial for the show that said to apply if you have

new smarts. “I thought, well I don’t have book smarts, so I must have new smarts,” he says.

Perhaps new smarts is characterized by the willingness to overcome obstacles that try to align an individual within a set of norms. If this is the case, Nader might just be Canada’s Smartest Person.

Nader won’t say whether or not he was actually crowned Canada’s Smartest Person since an agreement with the CBC prohibits him from being able to reveal any details about the show.

You can find that out for yourself, though, when the show airs on Sunday, November 9 at 8pm on CBC. “Do I believe it myself?” Nader added. “No … I didn’t believe it from the beginning. I have to be honest here, I don’t think that I’m in any way smart. However, do I have the most unique smarts? Well, maybe that’s a different story.”

Dining in Ptbo: In conversation with local restauranteur Scott Wood

By Zara Syed

Peterborough is a city rich with history. It is also a city known for its food, which is something I was unaware of when I moved here for Trent five years ago.

I lived at the intersection of George and Parkhill, and my first year life was, like many first years before me, a quick meal of pizza and subs.

It was only a matter of time before my housemates and I came out of our comfort zones to explore restaurants that would offer more than the ordinary dining experi-

ence.

One such place was a memorable café on George Street called The Ritz Deli North.

It is now The Food Forest, but for us (who were all off- res students in our first year) it became a haven for good sandwiches and robust coffee. The interior had been furnished with rich, dark wood and the bathrooms with humorous children’s books about pooping.

For those who miss the Ritz, look no further than East City at 128 Hunter Street.

The Ashburnham Ale House has developed quite a reputation for itself, and that

is where I met owner Scott Wood over coffee. I had exclaimed at how much the coffee was like the Ritz Deli’s, and he smiled and said that it because it was.

“We kept the best elements of the Ritz when we moved to this location,” Wood said. The lighter-coloured wood gleamed in the sunlight that poured through the windows. There are a handful of restaurants downtown that always had a resemblance of wood, eloquence, and beer. After recently being employed by one of them, I had become curious about that relationship.

“How did Olde Stone and Hot Belly Mama’s come to be?” I asked, referring to the restaurants that were side by side on George Street. Wood established the Olde Stone Brewing Company in 1996. Hot Belly Mama’s was originally on Water Street, where 38 degrees is currently located.

It was not flourishing as well at the time, so when the opportunity came up he purchased it in 2000. He also had a hand in establishing St. Veronus in 2003.

I inquired about the décor they all seemed to have in common and he stated that the “warmth and richness” of the wood was something he wanted in his establishments. When asked what kind of wood, he said, “Pinewood and ash.”

After working at the Olde Stone Brewing Company, I found the chemistry between the two restaurants being side by side was well-balanced. Hot Belly Mama’s is a lively New Orleans-themed restaurant and holds

a special place in my heart, as I had my graduation dinner there. The Olde Stone Brewery has an equally warm and inviting atmosphere, but with a laid-back pub setting.

Though the in-house brewed beer is what the place is known for, their menu is surprisingly creative. They offer pub-style grub like fish and chips; burgers, bangers, beans and chips, but also ethnic cuisine like Nasi Goreng, Chicken Curry and Thai Noodles. Both restaurants also serve exciting daily specials and desserts, and for those new to town, they provide a uniquely Peterborough restaurant experience.

One such experience could be an unforgettable one. I mentioned a story to Wood that a customer once told me. One night in 2006, this man was dining at Hot Belly Mamas, which had a live in-house band at the time (featuring artists such as Beau Dixon). Suddenly, the power went out, and the open patio becomes lit with candles on the tables.

The band cleverly switched to acoustic, improvising by banging on the wood, and the atmosphere was calm and uninterrupted as though this happened all the time. He said it was the most memorable dinner he had ever had.

Wood fondly remembers that chaotic time as a power outage that lasted in Peterborough for two days. “It was fun, we had to bring out barbeques and cook everything in the freezer. The line of people went around the corner.”

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ArtsPages Side effects may include laughter

By Caleigh Boyle

There is an uprising in Peterborough. The pandemic is spreading, and if you plan on catching it, which I think you should, seek it out at night.

You’ll find it in dark rooms with low ceilings; you’ll find it where you find people roaring; you’ll find it where there is beer.

Please don’t be afraid, we want this plague to spread. Don’t worry if you catch it because we have the best medicine.

This incoming wave of roar-inducin, knee-slappin, belly-laughin disease is comedy; and Peterborough, it’s comin’ for you.

It is certainly no secret that Peterborough has an incredibly active arts community, from music to theatre there is always, and there will always continue to be, something new.

We have Artspace for the visual artists and Market Hall for the dancers, Showplace for the musicians and The Theatre Guild for the actors (all of these are of course among many other venues). But where oh where do the comedians go?

After speaking with many different comedians, it seems that there are few constant places for them to go to make people laugh.

While speaking with Steve Kearns and the Homeless Man, Kirk Scott—two local stand up comedians—they mentioned they had a room booked at one location and with a week before their show were told they the venue had been double

booked and got bumped.

I have to wonder, why did the comedians get bumped? Who were the competing against and why was it more important that they get the venue instead of Kearnsy and The Homeless Man? On the other hand, Sean Quinlan, another local comedian who has been doing stand-up for seven years now, thanks BE at the Trend and owner Simon Terry for making this a space for comedians to go.

In fact there is an open mic night every Thursday night at BE at the Trend, a great opportunity for stand-up comedians looking to get a little practice.

Comedy is an art. Just as any musician composes music and just as any artistsbrings paint to page, comedians bring laughter to people. “We want to make you laugh, but also challenge you to make you think,” says Quinlan.

Art invokes emotion, which can be sadness or anger or angst or any other deep feeling emotion; but it can and often does invoke happiness and laughter.

There is so much talent in this city, but to make it in this profession comedians are leaving Peterborough to go to Toronto.

I say let’s keep them here, let’s bring the Torontonians to Peterborough. That is exactly what Linda Kash does.

On the third Thursday of every month at The Venue, Kash hosts a dinner theatre night called Improv with Linda Kash. For this event, Kash brings in the best of the best comedians from Toronto, people like Colin Mochrie.

“What I’m trying to do is bring a local

performance to each show,” explains Kash.

This is an amazing opportunity for locals to learn and continue to shape their craft.

Kash and her late husband Paul O’Sullivan, both with a background in improv comedy, came to Peterborough and started a school called the Peterborough Academy of the Performing Arts and began teaching improv to kids and teens.

“We knew that there was a niche here to fill because there wasn’t anything like it,” explains Kash.

The talent here is real and is being recognized; three Peterborough comedy teams made it through the first round of CBC’s Comedy Coup. This is a national competition and it is incredible that these comedians and artists are being recognized across Canada.

“The goal is laughter,” says Dan Smith, local comedian who is competing with his team in Comedy Coup, and is also a member of the improve group known as the Citiots.

Having made the Gordon Best their home, the Citiots can be found there the third Friday of every month. That makes two local and monthly comedy events in Peterborough.

While talking with Quinlan, his advice to stand up comics was this: “even if you are not performing, go watch and take it in.” Just as with any other art, it is a lifetime pursuit and there will always be opportunities to grow and learn.

“Never stop taking classes. I will never be an expert and I have well over 10,000 hours,” says Kash. “The triumphs are what

you live off of and talk about in the bar, but the mistakes make you learn.”

There is a certain comradery within the comedy community, which Quinlan expresses great gratitude towards. Having taken classes with Paul O’Sullivan, he says, “it helped me learn the art part of comedy breaking down premise, punch line, premise, punch line.”

To keep making the comedy scene bigger in the community, these comedians work as a community. It is just as important to grow and learn from each other as it is to grow and learn from the experts.

While all of these comedians have a very different style and approach they all have one thing in common, and that is to bring the comedy to Peterborough and keep it local.

“Bring the fame here, create a scene and make it happen in Peterborough,” declares Kearns.

To use a cliché, laughter really is the best medicine and these comedians need something to cure.

So go out and support your local comedians! The Gordon Best for the Citiots, The Venue for Linda Kash, BE at the Trend for Sean Quinlan and other stand up comedians and on December 5 laugh with Steve Kearns and Kirk Scott at their Christmas Comedy Toy Drive at Dr. J’s!

There is always something going on in this community but it might not always be on the “big” stage.

Look for those dark rooms with low ceilings and follow that roar, because if you listen you will hear.

Concert Preview: Doug Paisley is coming (back) to town

By Nick Ferrio

Understated, delicate, and quietly enrapturing, the music of Doug Paisley is a powerfully minimalistic take on rustic Americana.

Firmly rooted in the musical community of Toronto, Paisley has received his fair share of accolades south of the border.

Rolling Stone called his 2010 album Constant Companion a “nearly perfect singersongwriter record” and the New Yorker called it a “quiet wonder.”

His 2014 release Strong Feelings has also graced a number of “best of ” lists in both Canada and the United States, leading MOJO to extoll that with Paisley’s impressive and prolific body of work, “an antistar is born.”

Paisley’s albums feature a who’s who of the North American music world, including collaborations with Leslie Feist, Mary Margaret O’Hara and The Band’s Garth Hudson. Last week, he even released a beautifully fragile duet with Bonnie “Prince” Billy.

While largely considered one of Canada’s brightest up and coming talents, Paisley started his musical career as a student at Trent University in all too familiar haunts like the Red Dog Tavern and Sadleir House’s Dining Hall.

Doug Paisley will be performing in Peterborough at the Gordon Best Theatre on Thursday October 30. He will be joined by special guest, two-time Juno award winner Jenny Whiteley and Peterborough’s own (and the writer of this article) Nick Ferrio.

Over the past year, Paisley and I have become friends, travelling and perform-

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ing in Dawson City and even taking a ride in dog sled together. I chatted with Doug Paisley about Peterborough, his time at Trent, songwriting and working with his heroes.

You’ve told me before that Trent and specifically Peterborough had a profound effect on your music. How did you start out and how did Peterborough affect what you did?

I would say I first started performing music in Peterborough. When I was studying at Trent, I was introduced to a lot of bluegrass records from Tim Haines at Blue Streak Records.

I also spent a considerable amount of time in a place called Ed’s Music, a great guitar shop that was run by Don Skuce. I put up a sign in Ed’s Music that I wanted to start playing with other bluegrass musicians and this guy called Mark Terry, a banjo player in town, contacted me and we started playing.

Over time we started playing with other musicians in town. We played a lot of shows at The Red Dog and at Sadleir House. I really got into music in Peterborough when I should have really got into academics.

You’ve worked with Feist, Garth Hudson, and just this week released a duet with Bon-

nie “Prince” Billy. Can you tell me how that relationship came to be, and how working with people you respect has affected your music and your work as a songwriter?

For my first tour, I was in a duo with visual artist Shary Boyle called Dark Hand and Lamp Light, that we actually put together to tour the US with Bonnie “Prince” Billy.

So, that’s how I met him and got to know him, and our friendship just continued from there. That’s led to us working together.

I think musicians inherently are curious and want to try things. So, all of the people I’ve worked with, I just approached them and asked them if they’d be interested in working together. It has made the projects a lot of fun as opposed to being on my own.

It’s a long road and a long career being a musician. So, working with people whose work you respect, it brings a lot of energy into the recording process and just helps to charge things up and lets you get outside of yourself a little bit.

As for songwriting: for me, writing a song is trying to play a song almost as if it’s already written. That’s the majority of the work I do: spending hours and hours playing, leading these songs on.

Thursday October 30: Doug Paisley Jenny Whiteley & Nick Ferrio at Gordon Best Theatre 8pm - $15 advanced tickets Available at the Only Café (216 Hunter St.) Or online at: ticketscene.ca

Arts

Lester Alfonso asks: just what IS art, anyway?

By Simon Semchuck

If Lester Alfonso’s What Is Art? series has taught him anything – and it seems to have taught him more than a few things – it’s that in the right framing, anything can be art.

The What Is Art? film project came out of an open studio through Media Arts Peterborough after a grant was received and put towards Alfonso being named artist in residence.

Through a meeting at town hall where people were asked what they would like to see as media, a webseries was settled on.

What Is Art? is “a way to encompass it all under one umbrella,” explained Alfonso, as it includes various portrayals of the Peterborough art scene.

The film series hinges around either performances or interviews with local artists as Alfonso collects answers to the question “what is art?” It’s also an opportunity for first time directors to get a “crash course by making something.”

On November 1 at Market Hall, Alfonso

is holding What Is... Erring? a screening of several episodes of this season’s batch of short films in addition to fundraising for the next season. “It’s going to be like a 100 minute version [of the series] – six episodes back to back to back.” There will also be DJs Gnosys and Ekoplex and “a circus party” amongst other performers.

The fundraiser will help him in editing the subsequent release, What Is... Erring? focusing on Public Energy’s Erring on the Mount art festival.

The three day art and performance festival “transformed an empty building, a former convent, into an art and performance space.”

Alfonso pointed out the root of “erring” as being “to wander,” the building providing a venue in which the audience can do just that—wander the grounds and stumble onto a performance. “To feast their eyes and ears and senses.”

In terms of the whole project, Alfonso referenced the Jean Cocteau quote, “film will not become an art-form until it is as

simple to execute as picking up a pencil and writing on a piece of paper.” He strives in making film into an accessible medium, and with advances in technology and social media like phone apps and Youtube, it’s becoming that vision.

“When I was 13… I really felt that I would make a movie. But it was not possible at the time to have your own camcorder. As technology became more accessible, the self-taught, DIY style has made it the people’s medium.”

Alfonso added that there are “Mozarts in suburbia out there,” that there can be truths told without the sleek perfection of the major film industry as long as a director “can tell a story from image and sound.” This is the “democratization of film-making.”

He sees his work as being closer to that of a painter—it’s not your Hollywood glamour—he’s a primarily solitary worker: “I have all the hats – agent, publicity, editing, accountant…”

His goal is to make a series that both

promotes local artists and Peterborough itself - “It’s the narrative of everyday life.”

Alfonso also hopes for longevity as the series “was conceived as an idea for other directors to take over, and they can be the next artist in residence.”

In terms of his own answer to the question of defining art, Alfonso said “Art is never having to say you’re sorry.” He also picks up his favourites from different interviewees at different times. His current favourite is from Mike Camper: “Art is the engine of reality.”

“There’s a certain kind of art to living every day,” he added, saying that even conversations, being kind, or a smile is art.

And that essentially, art is transformation.

Another quote from Jean Cocteau he brought up was “Art is the marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.”

On the horizon for Alfonso is also the chance of winning greenlighting for another project as he is one of four nominees in the Toronto-based Reel Asian Film Festival’s So You Think You Can Pitch competition.

After making a pitch for a film project, the winner will be immediately greenlighted to produce the film. Alfonso will be pitching a documentary on birthmarks and the mental fictions people attach to them out of his own superstition from Filipino culture that his birthmark meant bad luck.

The What Is... Erring? fundraiser and screening starts at 8pm on November 1.

Tickets are $20 in advance from Market Hall, $25 at the door, and for $25 through indiegogo you can be entered into a raffle.

Additionally, artwork from the film will be auctioned off.

For more information, check out mediaartspeterborough.org.

Movie Review: Fury - In the final throes of the Second World War

By Brian Lukaszewicz

For better or for worse, any film set in the combat of the Second World War is indelibly going to be held up next to Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan.

It was a masterpiece, plain and simple.

Not just for its brutally realistic depictions of combat, but because it so viscerally confronted the human tragedy that is war. And while 1998 was a long time ago, it still feels like a tough act to follow.

To its credit, Fury aspires to more than just Saving Private Ryan with tanks. There are times where it harkens more to 70s and 80s Vietnam films like Apocalypse Now than it does Spielberg’s epic, but it never quite escapes the conventions of its predecessors either, and the mix leaves the film feeling muddled and unfocused.

Set in April 1945, the final month of the European campaign, Fury follows battlescarred Sergeant “Wardaddy” Collier (Brad Pitt) through Nazi Germany as he breaks in his new assistant driver Private Norman Ellison (Logan Lerman).

As you’d expect, Norman is a little green around the ears when it comes to combat.

His outsider status gives Wardaddy and the rest of his crew (filled out by Shia Labeouf, Michael Pena, and The Walking Dead’s Jon Bernthal) the excuse to spend the better part of the film explaining to him the cruel realities of tank warfare.

And that’s really where Fury breaks from previous movies set in and around the time period. Writer/director David Ayer is

intent on exploring the darkness that can come out of people in times of war. It’s a theme that’s certainly been explored before, but rarely is it as close to the forefront as it is here.

To some extent, Ayer manages to get his point across. He’s just a tad heavy-handed about it. In the early going, every scene— both combat and non-combat alike— seems constructed to spell out to young Norman that there’s no easy morality when it comes to war. It’s never quite subtle.

There are times even—like an extended stay in a German town—where Fury seems to be going out of its way to balk convention and drive this theme home.

Which makes it all the more baffling when at about the halfway mark the film all but forgets about it and turns into a rather

by the numbers war film.

It’s disorienting. Fury can never really decide where its narrative or thematic arc is trying to take us. It’s as if one part of the creative team wanted to go for something more thought provoking and the other just wanted a conventional war movie, so they split the difference.

If it were a true story, the meandering nature of Fury wouldn’t have bothered me so much. War should be shown for what it is and the concept of altering the truth to improve “pacing” or make things more fantastical seems to be missing the point entirely. But Fury isn’t a true story, which makes its lack of direction (and the rather rote ending) all the more confusing.

In another sense though, the shift is refreshing. Fury spends so much energy

in its former half trying – and not always gracefully – to explore the difficult ethics of the war it forgets that there’s something inherently unique about the fact that we’re following a tank crew around. It’s a sphere that hasn’t been shown on the big screen before and the intricacies and tactics of it are fascinating.

But in all the shuffle, I almost missed the fact that this group doesn’t actually encounter another tank until the start of its final act.

And given the intensity of that particular scene, it makes you wonder why it took them so long. It points to a deeper issue in Fury—there’s a deciding lack of scope. The war feels small here, and not in a good way.

Part of that could be due to budget.

Clearly, Ayer didn’t get the same money that Spielberg and some of those who followed him got (though the difference is less than you would think).

Still, if you look at what, say, HBO was able to do with the Band of Brothers miniseries (which came in at about $12.5 million per hour of television) one would have expected a bit more.

In truth, Fury is a difficult one to peg down. It seems equally likely to please as it does to disappoint.

If anything, it offers a competent glimpse into the troubled realities of war and the trauma inflicted on those caught in the middle of it, even if there are other films that do it better.

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OpinionPages Editorials: Looking back on an Onlinelearningneedsananoverhaul exciting, engaging election

By Matthew Rappolt

By Pat Reddick

By the time you read this, the results of Peterborough’s municipal election will be well known. Unfortunately, given the nature of our publication schedule, the same cannot be said for me as I write this editorial.

One of the downsides of a weekly paper is that sometimes there are events and happenings you just have to wait until the next week to cover.

Of course, this is supplemented by our social media and our website, which we will be taking full advantage of to provide you with up-to-the-minute election coverage on Monday.

But regardless of the results, I want to applaud the candidates for doing a fantastic job of engaging voters, especially students.

I can hardly remember the 2010 municipal election. Aside from a few signs around my neighbourhood, it seemed like something that was going on “over there” rather than something that affected my life.

There were only two candidates for the position of mayor, and neither of them particularly sparked my interest.

Compare that to this election where there are six candidates in the running, several of whom have interesting ideas that council would benefit from. And almost all of them have made direct attempts to appeal to Trent students.

There are candidates from all over the political spectrum. I’m still only talking about mayoral candidates here. Things get even more exciting when you factor in the

councillor candidates.

With a few exceptions, we’ve been able to get in touch with candidates to discuss their ideas and their platforms, for both the Election Focus series and the candidate profiles in Issue 6.

Furthermore, campus leaders have done a great job of making sure Trent students were informed. Debates were held on campus, as were meet-and-greets, among other events and campaigns. There should be no reason for students to feel like this election doesn’t concern them.

The Trent Politics Society, the Trent Central Student Association, and scores of other groups have set the bar high regarding how to engage students during an election.

Finally, the City of Peterborough should be acknowledged for doing a great job of making voting easy and accessible.

For perspective, I won’t be voting in my home town’s election because Internet Voting closed on October 20 there. In Peterborough it was open 24/7 until the polls closed October 27.

The election was a great example of what democracy can and should look like in Canada. Multiple perspectives were heard, all demographics were engaged and treated as important, and there was relatively little mudslinging.

In my editorial in Issue 1, I predicted that the calibre of candidates in Peterborough’s election would keep local voters from getting distracted by the Ford brothers’ antics in Toronto.

Not just the candidates, but also the people I mentioned above did a fantastic job of ensuring this was the case.

Letters to the Editors pooling, better busing and bike lanes.

Trent students have the right to vote for Jackson Park needs to be former Trent alumnus Maryam Monsef who is running for Mayor, as well as other protected from Parkway progressive candidates for council. Please Re: “Parkway good for the city” (letters, issue 4, September 30) Dear Arthur, Your letter-writer Joan Reeves [Letters, Issue 34] claims to be a life-long environmentalist who wants to see the Parkway bridge built through Jackson Park to “save” local streets from truck and excess car traffic. She even suggests it would be undemocratic of new councillors to jettison the idea.

She likely doesn’t appreciate that a referendum in 1992 found a majority of residents were opposed to building an overpass through the park. It is therefore completely undemocratic of our current council to have overturned that public plebiscite.

Anybody claiming to be an environmentalist cannot legitimately advocate for the destruction of green space to reduce traffic in their own neighbourhood.

That is not an environmental position.

That is NIMBYism at its best. Jackson Park is a great green sink that has provided solace and respite to citizens for a century. Let’s protect it for future generations by electing local municipal candidates pledged to keeping the park intact. There are other unexplored alternatives: traffic calming; rerouting to Atkinson Rd, car-

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register to vote and help this community elect candidates committed to green principles and alternative planning. Peterborough needs young Trent voices too. Online voting is now in process!

Kathy Woodcock Arthur Editor 1979/80

The mystery of the missing nachos Re: “Why students don’t go to the Writer’s Readings” (campus, issue 6, October 15) Dear Editors, I am writing in response to Brian Hough’s article on the Writer’s Reading Series to refute an atrociously inaccurate claim that he has made.

As a current English Literature student, I am appalled at this ignorant misrepresentation of fact, and I think the student body will agree with me as I not only disprove his most revolting misconception, but enlighten with knowledge meaningful to students across Canada.

In the article, Mr. Hough claims that students who attend the Writers Reading Series are invited to “attend a free reception

During my recent interview with Trent University’s new President, Dr. Leo Groake (published in our last issue), he discussed at length the arrival of the digital age and how he believes it will transform higher education around the world.

“Digital education is going to become a key component of higher education in the future,” he said, before remarking that the provincial government is already pressing Ontario’s post-secondary institutions “very strongly” to add more online courses to their programming.

Later in the same interview, Dr. Groarke also talked about how universities across Ontario are facing similarly strong pressure from the provincial government to cut costs as the government hopes to reduce its operating operating budget by a whopping $12 billion over the next three years.

I, for one, find it difficult to believe that these come unrelated.

Online courses cost less money to run since they do not require lecture space or seminar rooms, and are attractive to penny-pinching administrators (both government and university) since they are not constrained geographically and can thus be marketed to students across Canada and even around the world.

For Trent, a university that has for years been forced to cut back its program offerings in the face of budget challenges and stagnant enrollment, offering costeffective online learning at the same price as traditional, classroom-based learning can be an effective way to inject much needed revenue into the budget.

However, as someone who has taken several of these courses in my time at Trent, I can safely say that online courses as they are currently constructed offer a second-rate

with free food (nachos!)”. Under the assumption that he has attended the WRS— given his incontestable knowledge on the subject—I would like to address his overt falsification that there are, in fact, nachos at these events.

In an interview with the Trent English Student Society’s Vice President, Amanda Hobbs, she states that “there are plain chips with some artichoke dip so guests don’t go hungry” and, when asked about the presence of nachos, she claims “I don’t think we’ve ever had nachos” (Hobbs, 2014).

Webster’s defines nachos as “a tortilla chip topped with melted cheese and often additional savory toppings such as hot peppers or refried beans” (Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary, n.d.). As plain chips with dip do not fit this definition, nor do nachos with Hobbs’ report, there emerges a question of where Mr. Hough’s evidence for this overdrawn statement comes from.

Someone who has been to the Writers Reading Series would assumably be capable of making this clear distinction, yet he has chosen to outright deceive the community via nacho fabrication. A deplorable lie about the presence of a delectable snack.

However, as a critical thinker I will explore a more optimistic deduction in his favour: that Mr. Hough has simply misconstrued what nachos consist of, making this an equally disturbing argument. Don’t worry, I can help.

Using the above definition as a jumping off point, the “chip” is merely a component of the “nachos”, not the entirety. Toppings and condiments must be added to make

education that is absolutely incomparable with the highly personal tutorial learning that this university prides itself on.

The courses (at least the one’s I have taken) operate as extensions of the online Blackboard software, which means that they are little more than incredibly expensive online forums. These courses offer little room for important facultystudent engagement, academic debate is virtually non-existent, and it is impossible to develop any sort of meaningful rapport with your peers.

It should not be this way. If Trent University is committed and serious about offering a range digital programming in the future (and there is no reason to think that this should not be up for debate), then the university needs to act on Dr. Groarke’s words, that Trent should “expand in the direction of digital learning... in a way that’s keeping with what our core identity is.”

Accomplishing this, however, would mean bucking the current trends of discount education and building a unique approach to online learning that puts student experience ahead of cost-effectiveness and the bottom line.

It would mean pioneering new pedagogical practices and tools that combine the best aspects of our traditional tutorial approach with the accessibility, connectivity, and mobility of the Internet.

It would necessitate a meaningful, community-wide approach that ensures that the system is offering both professors and students the best possible avenues for engagement and accountability.

While its true that communications and human interaction are increasingly shifting to digital platforms, it is crucial that Trent enter this brave new “digital age” of education with the right priorities and for the right reasons.

the full assertion that the deliciously cheesy dish you are eating is in fact, nachos.

Many examples of this can be found at some of Peterborough’s local restaurants such as Riley’s located on George Street, or Gabby’s located on Hunter Street. I personally recommend checking out Riley’s as nachos are half-price on Mondays!

As this is seemingly common knowledge to the average university student, we must remember that due to many circumstances, there may still be those lacking this intellectual distinction.

If this is Mr. Hough’s predicament, I thoroughly apologize for my harsh language and hope I have assisted him in his academic pursuits and—by education— maybe even contributed to his employability for the future.

Sincerely, Clarissa Harlowe

Do you have something to say about something you read in Arthur or about something going on at Trent or Peterborough?

Bust out a .doc, then send it to

editors@trentarthur.ca 500 words or less, due Thursday

Opinion

Comment: “They” attacked “Us” and Canada will defend: In response to the Parliament Hill shooting on October 22

By Jack Smye

In the wake of the events on Wednesday October 22, I’ve found myself reeling with a form of disconnect from my Canadian Identity. I have to say it, I’m honestly scared.

The Prime Minister tells me that I shouldn’t be afraid though. “Canada will never be intimidated,” he triumphantly declared in his address to the nation.

He went on to tell us how strong we are as a nation, and it’s the rhetoric that we all seemingly needed to hear at such a critical time. In what’s being perceived as the true nature of Canada’s resolve, each party leader has echoed the same sentiments.

They’re all telling us not to be afraid, and that Canada – together – is strong.

It seems that this will be this moment in our history that defines us. It will be this moment that we set aside our differences and unite against our common enemy.

But why am I still afraid?

Is this fear an indication that the enemy is winning? Surely we can’t overlook this “attack on our country, on our values, on our society, on us Canadians,” as Stephen Harper described it in his address. Surely we should presume the worst; that there are those in this world that hate us because of our Canadian freedoms.

You see, they hate you and I, it’s as simple as that. This fact became undeniably clear when a single individual marched to parliament and took the life of a man who defends our freedom.

It’s obvious that this individual is so

much more than just a mentally ill person who has been neglected by the social structures of our country and has spent several stretches in jail due to drug possession charges.

He is so much more than a drug addict who spent the weeks prior to the shooting in a homeless shelter; unable to advance in life due to heroin addiction and the criminal record that came with it.

He is so much more than the person who was denied a passport to travel to his father’s home country of Libya. ISIS is there, right?

This individual was a recent convert to Islam, and is therefore a representative of the terrorism we fear so much.

This is vastly different than when the white male with the white name killed three RCMP officers in New Brunswick just months ago.

You see, all we have to do is look at this recent shooter’s different sounding name and we automatically know that this was an ideological attack on Canada from ISIS. If only when we denied him of his passport, because we knew he was a troubled Muslim and therefore an ISIS combatant, we threw him back in jail instead.

If only there were laws that made us able to prevent such a heinous attack against Canada as a nation.

Well, fear no more my fellow Canadians. We will not be intimidated. Our Prime Minister made our new resolve abundantly clear in his address.

“This will lead us to strengthen our resolve and redouble our efforts, and those

of our national security agencies, to take all necessary steps to identify and counter threats and keep Canada safe here at home.”

In lieu of the events, be thankful that the highly controversial Bill C-13 will pass through uncontested. If you disagree with the bill at a time like this, well, you’re probably a terrorist.

Just like when the bill was originally tabled as Bill C-30 in 2011 and turned down in 2012; if you were against it, you were probably a child molester.

The bill in question, which has been slammed as absolute privacy invasion by almost everyone who has read it, will legally make it far easier for Canadian security agencies to spy on you.

But it’s for your safety, though, because Canada is under attack. Just imagine if these initiatives had been put in place and we could have monitored the online undertakings of this homeless drug-addict.

Be thankful as well that we will soon see new legislation that will make it far easier to utilize this collected information against Canadian citizens.

Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney has already indicated to the CBC that the government intends to strengthen Canada’s security laws while focusing on preventative arrests.

This new legislation will most likely mimic Bill C-36; which was implemented in Canada post 9/11.

Bill C-36 allowed for the detainment of a suspected terrorist for up to one year without charge. It also allowed the gov-

ernment to make a list of suspected terrorist groups without releasing the criteria of what constitutes a terrorist group.

Fortunately, the government also didn’t have to notify a ‘terrorist group’ they were on the list. This should, coincidentally, serve well for any of those annoying social-activist groups. They could be pegged as terrorists and arrested; this should keep them in line.

Don’t listen to Naomi Klein and her silly Shock Doctrine theories. This is for your best interest and for the safety of your country against the terrorists.

Do not be afraid because – together we will defeat this enemy. Canada will not be intimidated by these terrorists.

You have to do your part though, and thankfully, many of you have.

First of all, you have to forget about that white guy who killed three RCMP officers just a few months ago.

Continue spreading the actual truth on your social media. Continue with the fear-mongering, but don’t be afraid!

Continue informing everybody that Canada has been attacked by Islam. Don’t listen to those leftists who claim you to be bigoted and racist. You’re just defending your country by writing things like ‘Go Home’ on mosques in Alberta.

Together, as a nation, we are resolved.

We will implement all the procedures necessary to fight this terror.

The enemy has attacked Canada, and Canada will defend. The enemy is terror and we will not be intimidated. …So why am I still afraid?

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Clubs&Groups TMSA: Reflections on Malala’s Peace Prize Photo of Malala Yousafzai

By Nomaan Butt

Malala Yousafzai has been awarded the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, which she shares with Kailash Satyarthi, as recognition “for their struggle against oppression of young people and children in South Asia” (the Nobel committee chairman, Thorbjoern Jagland).

“This award is for all those children who are voiceless, whose voices need to be heard,” said Malala, who chose to finish her school day in the central English city of Birmingham before addressing the media.

Malala at the age of 17 seems to have set her priorities straight. She is an advocate for women’s education in her native Pakistan and around the world. Her message is simple, yet one that cannot be ignored: instead of waging wars and spreading violence, governments and institutions should invest in education of youth to embark on the development of the Global South.

In a recent meeting with Obama, Malala

addressed – though not for the first time – on the US foreign policy of sending weapons to war-torn regions of Syria and Iraq: ‘Instead of sending guns, send books’, urging the president to reconsider the strategy of his government.

This is not the first time Malala had to take an uncomfortable stance on a politically sensitive situation. Having lived in some of the most conflict-ridden and remote regions of Pakistan, the Swat Valley, Malala as a young woman stood by her father’s vision for making education accessible for all girls and boys around her country.

Her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, who is a school owner and an educational activist. himself encouraged Malala to get an education in a place where girls are not supposed to get formal education. Ziauddin was part of the same tribal culture, but fortunately realized that his daughter could not be kept ignorant. This was a paradigm shift, and Malala and her family paid the price by almost losing her at the hands of an attack by the Taliban.

Luckily for us, Malala survived and gained a new sense of courage to pursue her cause in the face of adversity. She quickly learned to recognize her own voice and became outspoken about her cause for women’s education and challenged the patriarchy that is embedded in present-day Pakistani society.

She explains: “In Pakistan when women say they want independence, people think this means we don’t want to obey our fathers, brothers or husbands. But it does not mean that. It means we want to make deci-

sions for ourselves. We want to be free to go to school or to go to work. Nowhere is it written in the Quran that a woman should be dependent on a man. The word has not come down from the heavens to tell us that every woman should listen to a man.”

Malala used the strength of her faith to chart her hazardous journey of liberating her from the fear of patriarchy. She turns the theological question around and uses it as a framework to argue for the importance of education. She was physically injured during the attack but did not become bitter, and that made her more determined in becoming a champion of raising awareness about female education.

In doing so, Malala has given voice to the majority of Muslims who have been made silent by the mainstream media and which has consequently given rise to Islamophobia, which is no different from Anti-Semitism, or other forms of racism.

As Leslie Hazelwood points out: “The vast and still far too silent majority, have ceded the public arena to this extremist minority. We’ve allowed Judaism to be claimed by violently messianic West Bank settlers, Christianity by homophobic hypocrites and misogynistic bigots, Islam by suicide bombers. And we’ve allowed ourselves to be blinded to the fact that no matter whether they claim to be Christians, Jews, or Muslims, militant extremists are none of the above. They’re a cult all their own, blood brothers steeped in other people’s blood.”

It is our hope that Malala assuages some of the concerns by the mainstream media and the current European anti-immigra-

tion policies, who are increasingly finding ignorance as an inherent part of being a Muslim.

Malala is a beacon of progress in the darkness of ignorance. The youth from all walks of life look up to her; the grownups admire her. The fact that she may not be able to live a normal life or visit her village for a long time is the reflection of her commitment.

Although critics have emerged over the years to argue that she is some kind of “Western Conspiracy”, Malala continues to prove them wrong. She knows what’s at stake here: a recent report from the United Nations’ Childrens’ Fund in South Asia recognised nearly 17.5 million girls aged between five and 13 are out of school and over 12 percent of children between 5 and 14 are engaged in labour in South Asia.

Even if they don’t agree with a 17 year-old winning a Nobel Peace Prize, the least they can do is educate themselves about her cause and do something to contribute toward positive change.

Malala addressed her critics by saying the following words in her autobiography titled I am Malala: “We human beings don’t realize how great God is. He has given us an extraordinary brain and a sensitive loving heart.

He has blessed us with two lips to talk and express our feelings, two eyes which see a world of colours and beauty, two feet which walk on the road of life, two hands to work for us, and two ears to hear the words of love. As I found with my ear, no one knows how much power they have in their each and every organ until they lose one.”

TUMS: What is the Madrigal Choir?

By Lindsay Thackeray

If you’re not one of the 10-15 people who regularly attend rehearsals, chances are you probably don’t know much about the Trent Madrigal Choir.

In addition to the concert choir, concert band, and jazz band, the madrigal choir is one of the four groups funded by the Trent Music Society. It’s also the oldest musical group at Trent.

“The 16th century stuff that we do are basically songs of love, and of war,” says Choir Director Peter MacKinnon, of the madrigal pieces the choir performs.

They’re anywhere from three to eight choral parts, traditionally done unaccompanied, but backed by a pianist in the case of the choir at Trent.

The bulk of their repertoire hails from the golden age of choral music; around the late 16th century. However, the group does sing a few contemporary pieces, performing “O Canada” at the presidential installation in September, as well as “God Save the Queen” at Trent’s 50th anniversary weekend.

“One small issue is the fact that a fair amount of our stuff tends to be religious,” says MacKinnon, of the traditional pieces the choir performs. “This is simply a fact of history, ‘cause the secular stuff didn’t get written down.” He says that they’ve made every effort to be as inclusive as possible in the search for new pieces, but it has sometimes been difficult to find choral music from other traditions. “We’ve had some Islamic music, some Hindu, a fair amount of Jewish music, and a bit of Indigenous music.”

He feels that it’s important to experience

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music based from a variety of cultures, even though the Trent Madrigal choir isn’t affiliated with any tradition in particular.

“A lot of people think that if you’re not a group that is based originally in one of those traditions, you shouldn’t be performing it,” MacKinnon explains. “It’s the same as saying, ‘clarinets shouldn’t be playing Bach, that instrument wasn’t invented until after he died’. Are we not allowed to experience the music of another tradition?”

The choir tries to stay true to the historical source material of these traditional pieces, performing in the original language whenever possible. They have sung in French, German, Latin, and English.

However, being faithful to history does have its downfalls. “That’s the other area that’s been a bone of contention,” says MacKinnon of the outdated prejudices in some of the pieces they perform, such as the prevalent sexism of 500 years ago.

“Occasionally we’ll change the language to get an inclusive pronoun. Often we’ll preface it at a concert by saying that no one in their right mind would be using these words today, but it’s important that we realize that this did exist.”

The madrigal choir has performed at a number of events throughout the area, both local and otherwise. In addition to functions at Trent mentioned above, they also perform at other local events like the Festival of Trees and the Peterborough Kiwanis Festival. The choir has also participated in the Toronto Kiwanis Festival and the Ontario Vocal Festival, as well as performing for a senior’s home or two.

“Anybody who takes the trouble [to par-

ticipate] is committed, and that’s really satisfying work,” says MacKinnon of the choir members. He explains how the smaller group is generally pretty tight-knit, and the discourse is good among the little community. “It’s the most democratic music organization you’ll ever see,” he says, “Last week at rehearsal we looked at six things for this term, and said ‘what do you think’.

People said ‘these five are good, but this one is awful’, so we’re not gonna do it. It’s a great relationship.”

Madrigal choir practices are Thursdays from 8-9:30pm at Peter MacKinnon’s home in Peterborough. If you’re interested in joining, keep an eye out for sign-up in the winter semester. Contact trentumusic@gmail.com for more information.

clubs&groups

Trent Radio: A demonstration of some possible things

By J. Jonah Jameson

Wherein James Kerr of Trent Radio demonstrates the silliness that could happen on the radio.

Some of you may have seen this highjumping web-head “Spider-man” slinging his goop all over the Market Hall’s clock tower last Saturday, October 18. Some of you might even have thought, in the misguided gaze of the public education system, that his battle with Doctor Octopus was ‘exciting’ or, worse - ‘saved the city’.

Earnest Estford, the Market Hall restoration historian has a very different take on these events. “There’s some major damage to the surface of the (Market Hall) clock tower,” he lamented to the Bugle, hat in hand. “The clock has stopped ticking. Doctor Octopus’ tentacles did horrible damage to the surrounding structure, but it was Spider-man’s right haymaker that knocked off the latticework.”

Major structural damage, just on a whim for ‘old Spidey, who cares little for all the hard-working, working-class working people who are working every workingday of their work-lives while he goes off gallivanting. It’s the not-for-profits and the taxpayers that have to pay for Spider-man’s folly, not Spider-man.

But surely a little structural damage is enough to pay for saving the city? That is, if the city really was in danger! Regular readers of the Daily Bugle may remember that in July the City of Peterborough released a warning to swimmers and canoeists in the Peterborough area because of a large river octopus sighted near Inverlea Park.

Suspected of coming in on a yacht tour-

ing the locks, the apparently fresh-water octopus eluded capture for months, eating—according to the Ministry of Natural Resources, “mostly carp and zebra muscles”, invasive species themselves. Even Peterborough’s own Peterborough’s Public Aquatic Invasion Officer agreed that this “Otonabee Kraken” posed no immediate threat.

A harmless octopus, helping balance the local environment—saving the Otonabee from a far worse threat!

Regular and recent Bugle readers will know that this “Otonabee Kraken” turned out to be Dr. Otto Octavius, a.k.a. “Doctor Octopus”, recovering from his most recent beating at the bloody red hands of SpiderMenace.

I ask you, what’s so wrong about an eccentric University Professor sitting at the bottom of Little Lake eating zebra muscles?

I’m sure there’s more than a few at Trent University! Are we going to beat them all up with Spider-fists? Is that what academic criticism has come to?

At best Spider-man is simply a menace, leaving corrosive web toxins dangling from gargoyles all around Peterborough just because he can’t be bothered to take the bus.

At worst he’s a threat to all of us, polluting our society with his sloppy vigilantism.

Other ill-informed news sources may tell you this was all a hoax perpetrated by students as part of “Trent U @ 50” debauchery.

To them I say: Baby, You’re no Bugle.

And to Spider-man I say: If you were an employee paying taxes and accountable for your actions during “Trent U @ 50” on Saturday, you’d be FIRED!

The House of the Devil

(This is the kind of stuff we do on the radio.)

We started our Shock-tober horror series by visiting various parts of the world, exploring different types of horror, and understanding what makes people tick. From South Korea’s I Saw the Devil and France’s Martyrs, to Britain’s Repulsion.

To conclude our month of chills and thrills, TFS will screen a film made here in North America: the critically acclaimed indie horror/satanic thriller The House of the Devil (2009).

Directed by up-and-coming independent horror filmmaker Ti West, you may be familiar with his other works including The Roost (2005), The Innkeepers (2011), and his most recent The Sacrament (2013).

West’s style is that of a horror aficionado: he understands what makes people frightened and does not pander to his audience with cheap scares and excessive gore and violence; he clearly is a fan of the genre and cares deeply about what he is making.

Harkening back to classics such as Kubrick’s The Shining, Friedkin’s The Exorcist, and Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby, The House of the Devil makes excellent use of developing the film’s protagonist Samantha (Jocelin Donahue) so as to provide the viewer with someone to care for, to make the events that follow actually have an impact.

Samantha, a university student in the American mid-west, is the best caricature for Trent students to sympathize with. She is young and she is primarily concerned with paying the deposit on a new lease.

Sound familiar?

Samantha comes across a ‘babysitter needed’ flier on a university poster board, calls the number, and sets up a meeting with the person on the other line. Along with her best friend Megan (Greta Gerwig, who you will remember from Frances Ha), Samantha visits the house and discovers that something is not as it seems.

Despite Megan providing Samantha with rational advice, Samantha does not listen to reason and stays the night at the house.

“This one night changes everything for me!” exclaims Samantha. What she discovers during her stay I won’t spoil for you…

Director Ti West “Establishes mood with precision and care of early Polanski” says film critic Jason Zinoman. Tension and mood are key elements in The House of the Devil, and West knows how to pace his film just right so as to keep the audience intrigued, avoiding any sense of boredom that could arise in a slowburn satanic thriller.

West demonstrates his love for 1970s and 80s horror cinema by placing the narrative in an 80s backdrop with relevant fashions and sets. Even the cinematography evokes the 80s, with the various zoom shots and paused frames in the film’s opening sequence.

We’ve decided to end the month with a bang and hold our screening at Market Hall on Wednesday, October 29 at 8pm, just before Halloween! Admission is FREE as always and there will be blood popcorn and Halloween candy available for your enjoyment!

no copy within the TQC office. This was a pretty big disappointment, as writing this made me realize pretty quickly that many of the stories we tell get lost almost as soon as they’re spoken. More on that later.

In the 1996 issue of “Queer?” I found a bit of writing credited to “Emily Glasspool”.

It was a name I recognized mostly from the defunct Barbeside, but also from Courage Peterborough. Em also put on plays with Mysterious Entity Theatre (check out Romeo and Juliet. In Space. On Ice). I decided this was my best bet in terms of getting a chance to actually talk about… the 90’s.

Em remembers some things that made me really… weirdly jealous. I sorta forget that it’s been twenty years since the 90’s, and it sounds like Peterborough was a different place.

For one thing, the Red Dog hosted “The Loud Sisters” every Wednesday.

The band was mostly made up of queer women, and drew a huge queer crowd.

Let’s all sigh a nostalgic sigh at what once was, shall we?

Then there was the Underdog, now “The Rock and Roll Underground”, a smaller, more bare-bones rock bar. When I first came to Trent I kept hearing rumours of a secret lesbian bar underneath the Red Dog (seriously). Appar-

ently this may have been a whisper of the biweekly drag performances that Em did with David Bateman. Mostly King and Queen duets, this collaboration evolved into larger theatre pieces, most notably “Pool for Love”. Overall, it seems like the queers of yesteryear had more to turn to and more ways to get involved.

Which brings me to reflect on the contested history of Queerlines/Queer?/ Queer! It started in 1995, apparently, and came to an end in 2012. There had been arguments over accurate representation, general controversy, and some students were angry their levy money was going towards what they viewed as porn.

What stood out to me was how much of the present I’m seeing echoed in the past.

While we currently don’t have a central, Trent-based means of communicating the needs, fears and desires of the queer student, the piece I found in the 1997 issue seemed familiar.

“We have been muddling through, providing dances, drop-ins and phone support but not much else” (Allen Pinkerton, Queer? page 6 1997). And then Allen mentions the challenges of funding, space and student apathy.

It’s likely to make a queer very depressed.

So nevermind that! Never mind that these queers printed more f-words in a month than I could get away with in my life! Never mind that the persistent myth of Trent as a queer utopia continues to not be true.

Let’s focus on the big picture. From 1995-2012, Trans* issues went from not being discussed to being central to queer talks… I mean, old hub members went

to “Michigan” and didn’t even discuss the policy (no longer a thing) of trans* woman exclusion.

However, the sometimes radical, usually political, articles of the past seem to have given way to a growing focus on LIVE! NUDE! QUEERS! Not that those two things are mutually exclusive, but I am a gentle creature of words and easily scandalized!

This article has been hard to write, mostly because the “facts” aren’t really there. There’s a list naming the contributors, but no contact information. Ads for the long lost “Friends”. Just little bits and pieces like that.

Reading through the “archives” you get a rough sense of what a small group of students really cared about, but not the climate on campus. You can see how much things change in four years, while the fundamental problems remain too big, too scary, to tackle in this time.

Also, some people left some photos in the office. A whole bunch of them. You guys are all adorable.

Want to make your voice heard and usher the queers of Peterborough into a new era of hope and wonder? Join the TQC hub.

“But how?” you ask. Send us an email at trentqueercollective@gmail.com. Or give your message to a cat. Queers love cats and it’s about time they started giving back.

Want something to do on Thursday October 30? Come to the TQC’s Masqueerade! Satisfy your fiendish cravings for glitz, glamour and gore. (9pm, at the Sapphire Lounge. Bring valid ID because we love this bar and want it to stay a bar.)

By Steve Snow

TQC: A history of the Trent Queer Collective

By Quinn Ferentzy

The Trent Lesbian and Gay Collective sent out their first newsletter in 1987 and did absolutely nothing till the nineties.

Well not really, but this is the story the “archive” tells. Going from the self representation paper, I give you: The new definitive and very authoritative history of the TQC! (In my opinion, it’s completely official and unbiased, like all histories.)

We start off in 1996, with “Queer?” The letter from the editor page begins to tell me that the “Queer?” began in ‘95, but there is

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SportsPage OCAA Rugby

Trent men end season in first place

By Patrick Assinck

The Trent Men’s Rugby Team won 33-17 over St. Lawrence College on October 18 during their last game of the regular season.

The win, which came after a hard-fought game at Justin Chiu Stadium, solidified Excalibur’s standings in the league, putting them first in the OCAA East division heading into the playoffs due to start at the end of the month.

The Trent Men’s Rugby Team came out with full force with #7 Ryan Lockett scoring a try within the first six minutes of the game, followed by a successful convert.

Not long after #14 Hayden Ryan scored another daring try for Trent but the Excalibur men missed the convert bringing the score to 12-0.

St Lawrence, however, refused to go down quietly and bit back with a try scored by #16 Jacob McDonald.

Nonetheless the Trent Men were still up by a score of 12-5 by the time the half time whistle blew.

In the second half Alex Shotton for St. Lawrence scored a try and the convert was successful. Excalibur #7 Ryan Lockett then responded by scoring his second try of the match and the convert kicked by Jesse Leadbetter was successful.

At the 26th minute Trent Excalibur #10 Charlie Tremblay had a huge run all the way downfield scoring an impressive try with his team following up with the convert.

Jordan Buck for Trent scored yet another try for the home side and the last try of the game was scored by St. Lawrence leaving the final score at 33-17 for Trent University.

The Trent Men’s Rugby Team had an amazing season only losing in their home opening game by one point.

Ending the regular season at the top of the Eastern division, Trent hopes their success continues into the playoffs all the way to the finals being held at their home field, Justin Chiu Stadium in November.

Varsity Standings

as of October 25, 2014

Women’s Volleyball - OCAA East Wins

Team

Losses

Draws

Points

Algonquin

1

0

0

2

Georgian

1

0

0

2

Loayalist

1

0

0

2

Seneca

1

0

1 0 0 0

0 1 1 1 1

0 0 1 0 0 0

2 2 0 0 0 0

Trent Canadore Fleming George Brown La Cite Men’s Volleyball - OCAA East

0

Wins

Team

Losses

Draws

Points

Durham

2

0

0

4

Algonquin

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Fleming

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Georgian Canadore Loyalist

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0 0 0 0

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Trent George Brown Women’s Lacrosse - OUA East Team

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Toronto

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2

1

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UOIT

4 3

3 3

1 2

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Trent Queen’s York Men’s Lacrosse - CUFLA East Team

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McGill

11

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Bishop’s

8

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Queen’s

6

5

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12

Carlton Trent Ottawa Concordia

6

4

3 3

7 8

0 0 0

12 6 4

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11

0

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Arthur is looking for a sportswriter to cover varsity and local sports!

No writing experience is necessary! Let this be your excuse to check out varsity sports each week, add writing experience to your resume, see your name in print, or get involved with campus media for the first time.

Send us an email at editors@trentarthur.ca for more information, or to submit your stories.

There’s no formal commitment necessary. You can write about the sports you like when you have the time to do so.

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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!

Soap Making! Learn how to make your own sensational soap—phthalate and paraben free!

What a treat for your hands and body! Or a great gift idea for family and friends.

Just in time for Christmas! The batch of soap you will make in this workshop will leave you with 30 full bars of soap, lots to give away and stock up in your home.

Only 16 spaces available in this popular workshop so don’t miss out! Wedensday Nov 5 @The Seasoned Spoon $40/members $45/nonmembers. Registration and $10 deposit required. Come by the Spoon starting Mon Oct 27 to register and secure your spot! Email spoonvolunteers@gmail.com for more info The Seasoned Spoon and the Trent Vegetable Gardens Present: Sauerkraut Making. “What is sauerkraut? You say. Sauerkraut is a way of preserving various vegetables using a natural laco-fermentation method which actually increases the nutritional value of your food and is full of probiotics, just like yogurt! Oh, did we mention, it’s also extremely delicious! Using traditional recipes and fresh fall produce from the Trent Gardens, this workshop will teach you how to make you own super nutritious and delicious preserves that will last you all winter long. A staple for any local food lover’s fridge! Wednesday October 29, 5pm @ the Seasoned Spoon. $5 or pwyc. spoonvolunteers@gmail.com for more info 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

Sadleir House BABE–LESQUE Tuesdays, October 28 - December 2, 6-7pm in the Hobbs Library (room 101) wheelchair accessible. Presented by Burlesque in PTBO and the Trent Queer Collective. 6 week class about burlesque, body confidence and finding your inner babe!

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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 burlesque.ptbo@gmail.com to register now! Facebook: Burlesque in PTBO Trick or Tell-a-Tale at Sadleir House Thursday, October 30, 7:30pm in Hobbs Library (room 101, wheelchair accessible).

Everyone has a story, and some stories surge within us until we have a chance to tell them. ChiSeries Peterborough has been bringing you famous Canadian authors to tell their tales and now it is your turn.

On October 30 at 7:30 PM at Sadleir House (751 George Street North), you can have a chance to tell your spooky tales of Peterborough... or hear the spooky tales of others in the community... and just in time for Halloween! There is something fantastic about telling ghost stories in a Victorian mansion that is rumoured to be haunted that is definitely worth an evening wander down to Sadleir House. Feel free to wear a costume and help scare away the spooky things that wander about... or trick them into thinking you are one of them.

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: 7 p.m. to 1 a.m., Saturday & Sunday: 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. 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.

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.

The Trent University Career Centre presents: The Professional and Graduate Schools Expo, taking place Wednesday, November 5 in the Athletics Centre Gymnasium from 10:00am to 2:00pm. Explore further educational opportunities upon graduation.

Recruiters from a broad range of institutions will be on hand to provide current admissions and program information. All students are encouraged to attend.

Mid-terms are quickly sneaking up on us!

We can’t think of a better time to come see us at the Academic Skills Centre! With our one-on-one sessions, students can learn great study tips, how to organize their notes and how to make their busy schedules easier to manage. All of our services are free of charge! Visit our site www.trentu.

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ca/academicskills to book an appointment online with our new service! Come say hello at Champlain College, Suite 206, or call us at 705-748-1720.

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 wonderful 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) Oct 2930. Weekends(8:30-4) . sjapeterborough@ bellnet.ca, 705-745-0331, sja.ca St. John’s Ambulance CPR Recertification (Weekdays at 6:30 pm) Nov. 4, 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 Tom Eastland is playing a singer/songwriter showcase at the Garnet 231 Hunter Street West on Saturday evening November 1st from 8pm until 10pm. Folk music with howl & growl. $5 or pwyc.

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 November 19, 2014 (Tales of the Wee Folk), January 21 (Troubadours), February 18 (Personal Storytelling) and March 18 (World storytelling day. Theme “Wishes�) 2015. There is no December 2014 meeting.

The World Premiere Screening of WHAT IS ART? Special Edition. From the street to the studio and all walks of life, Peterborough reveals a multitude of answers to the question. WHAT IS ART? is the result of the Media Arts Peterborough open studio project. This event is a fundraiser for the next installment: WHAT IS... ERRING? about Erring on the Mount. See below for afterparty listing. November 1, 8PM at Market Hall. Tickets: $20 in advance, $25 at the door. www.markethall.org. www. mediaartspeterborough.org

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The Kawartha Strings and Kawartha Community Orchestra welcome new members as they begin a new season. If you play a string or wind instrument, please contact conductor Auriel Creighton at acrate1@hotmail.com.

All ages, all skill levels welcome, with no auditions.

Kawartha Youth Orchestra’s “Winter Tales� concert. Come join the Kawartha Youth Orchestra for their season premiere concert “Winter Tales� at 3pm on Sunday, November 30 at Market Hall Theatre. 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 The Theatre on King is proud to present a new work by David Bateman, “destiny in the park,� one of the co-winners of last year’s Playwright’s Festival. This short one-act play, made up of two conversations, reflects the nature of HIV transmission, disclosure and casual social/sexual interaction. “destiny in the park� runs Thursday, October 30 - Saturday November 1 at 8pm. $10 at the door.

Fleshy Thud and The Theatre on King are pleased to welcome back Kenn Gibb and Without a Scratch for an upcoming workshop, Martial Arts for Actors, on Tuesday, November 11, 2014 from 6pm - 9pm. $10 or pwyc. Kenn Gibb is offering a vigorous workshop designed to introduce techniques from a wide spectrum of traditional disciplines with a stylised focus for the stage and screen actor. Drinking water, appropriate footwear and comfortable clothing is encouraged. TTOK, 159 King Street, #102 (around back) The Theatre on King is happy to welcome Don Masters back. This time with his new workshop: Two Day On Camera Acting Intensive. This two day workshop takes place on Saturday, November 15 (10am - 5pm) and Sunday November 16 (10am - 4pm) and is full of essential knowledge for anyone interested in persuing a career on screen: the psychology of acting, script analysis, basic professionalism, and screen coaching. TTOK, 159 King Street, #102 (around back) Please email Don to register your spot:donmasters@bell.net Chelsey Bennett is looking for musicians who can play R&B, hip-hop, soul, funk, and world music to accompany her on originals tracks. Bass and percussion are particularly useful! If you are interested, contact bennettchelsey@gmail.com or come to Carpe Diem Cafe on a Wednesday between 6-8pm to jam!

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Saturday

t Earl Wilfong @ The Tankhouse (4pm)

t The Craigger Retro Party @ The Spill (9pm)

t Pine Box String Band t Jazz & Blues @ Carpe t Neil & Peter @ Carpe Diem Cafe (6pm) @ The Tankhouse (4pm) Diem Cafe (6pm)

t Knightshift @ Mark’s Finer Diner (5:30pm)

t The Burning Hell @ The Garnet (10pm)

t Doug Paisley w/ Jenny t Zen Again @ The Red Whitely, & Nick Ferrio Dog (9pm) @ The Gordon Best Theatre (8pm) t Zachary Lucky w/ Li’l Andy @ The Spill (9pm) TUMS Open Mic @ The Trend (8pm) t Rob Phillips Band @ The Black Horse Pub (9:30pm) t Elementals w/ guests @ The Spill (9pm) t Something Awesome for Halloween @ The Garnet (10pm)

t Randy Hill @ Black Horse Pub (9pm) t Trentcore: Drag the Lake w/ guests @ The Spill (9pm) t Keith Hallet @ The Garnet (10pm)

This Week in Live Music: presented by ElectricCityLive.ca

t 8)"5 *4 Erring?

Fundraiser afterparty featuring Ekoplex, Gnosys, Char Agnello, & Lisa McKaskell @ The Market Hall (8pm) t Tom Eastland @ The Garnet (8-10pm)

t JJ and the Pillars w/ Brothers of the North, & the Fiscals @ t TCSA Halloween Bash @ The Red Dog (9pm) The Venue (10pm) t The Dirty Sheep w/ guests @ The Spill (9pm)