Volume 49 Issue 8

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Volume 49 | Issue 8 | November 4, 2014

INside:

A look at online learning: Page 3 Pink Hijab Day Raises Awareness

Trent Research on How Has Community Eidolon: Sexual Deviancy News Evolved?

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This Issue in History: Volume 22 (1987), Issue 8 Now that the municipal election has happened, we at Arthur can pour our energy into covering other local news.

But before that happens, let’s have one last look at student engagement.

While not everyone may be pleased by the results, certainly most will agree that this time around students were highly engaged and encouraged to vote. But 40 years ago in 1974, the City of Peterborough had a very different idea about encouraging students to vote.

According to the Chief Electoral Officer at the time, S. Hendry, students should not be considered “residents� of Peterborough since it’s often not their intention to stay in the city. Instead, wherever their parents live is where they should be considered residents. Of course, this means that students should vote there, not here.

The decision seemed to have precedent only in Peterborough. While it was also the position of the Electoral Officer in Peterborough in the 1971 elections, other university cities had no such rules precluding transitory students from voting in municipal elections.

In fact, even within Peterborough during the provincial elections of 1971 there were no problems with getting students on the voters’ list.

For Hendry, in order for a student to qualify they must have “cut ties with home� and be “completely self-sufficient.� The latter apparently meant that if a student returned to their parents’ home on most weekends and holidays, and

used that opportunity to do things like laundry, then they ought to be disqualified from voting here.

If you didn’t fall into this category, technically you could vote, but Hendry made the process much more difficult than necessary. The main campus of Trent, then called Nassau Campus, was the first location to be enumerated ... on September 1 ... when no students were there to be counted.

This meant that if a student wanted to vote they had to appeal their omission from the voters’ list.

Of course, it was Polling Office staff, who worked under Hendry, who were in charge of validating a student’s appeal. It doesn’t appear that simply showing a piece of photoID and mail would work as well as it does today.

Things were complicated further by a well-meaning but ultimately useless student who assumed responsibility for submitting lists of student voters to the city. Two weeks after the deadline he had still failed to do so.

According to Arthur, this issue had been coming up since at least March of that year in the student government elections, so there’s no reason for this student to be so late in doing so.

Regardless, he was determined, and had plans to initiate a court order. Arthur raised considerable doubt as to both the effectiveness and timeliness of this strategy.

As for how this story ends ... nobody knows! Presumably students didn’t get much of an opportunity to vote, but Arthur never did cover the topic again in 1974. But by the next election students could surely vote, as evidenced by the political articles and ads in later volumes of Arthur.

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CampusNews Moving where the students are: Trent’s push into online courses Part 2 of a “Students and Media” series

By Ayesha Barmania

The nature of work has changed in university life to embrace the digital tools at our disposal.

The Internet provides a vast resource for academic research and forums for discussion. And while most acknowledge the facility it provides for research in academics, the question remains and is currently being meted out as to what presence a university should have online.

Building off of the ubiquity of online academia, universities have begun pushing the frontier of online courses. Online courses take advantage of programs like Blackboard and Moodle that provide an interface for education regardless of spatiotemporal limits. Students and faculty can be flexible regarding when they complete course requirements, as online courses do not require presence in a classroom.

The benefits to the university in terms of finances are astronomical. An article in the Economist, entitled “The Digital Degree”, writes that online courses are a tool in the arsenal of universities to make them more attractive to potential students. For example, such American universities as Harvard and Stanford have created affiliated online platforms for the distribution of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) free of charge.

Certain other online universities, like Athabasca University, charge for their courses but provide officially recognized degrees to students.

The struggle for universities comes from making their experience more valuable than taking a free online course. The Economist predicts that only small schools with low teacher-student ratios will remain relevant in a new age of free universities.

Lucky for Trent, this is one of our selling points.

Yet, in looking at trends of our university, this is not the priority highlighted by administrators. Rather than pushing our comparative advantage, rhetoric of remaining competitive in the online market is common.

Arthur met with Mary Jane Pilgrim, coordinator of the Trent Online and Distance

Education department, who stressed that Trent students are seeking online courses and we may as well provide them.

“We are in the game of online learning whether we’re doing it ourselves or not,” said Pilgrim. “[Trent] is either in the online learning game by being a spectator or by actually promoting and developing the courses that the students want offered online.”

For students and faculty, online courses can provide the flexibility to participate in courses according to their own schedule and economic trends are showing that students seek out online credits to supplement their degrees. By offering them at the home school, Trent students are spared the cost of enrolment fees and often out-ofprovince fees.

At Trent, the bulk of online courses are offered during the summer semester, and student spending during this season indicates a demand for flexible courses. A majority of students seek employment during the summer break and for those who need to upgrade a course mark or get ahead in their credits, they need to work around employment schedules.

This past year, enrolment in online courses during the summer term eclipsed enrolment in classroom courses.

Questions have been raised about the realization in online courses of Trent University’s vision for an intimate, tutorial based learning environments. The intention when founding Trent was to stimulate academic discussion at every turn and provide students grounds to find their voice.

Online courses are broken into small groups, which organize the forum for students to engage in discussions. The format of discussion is different than classroom seminars, but the level of engagement remains.

Pilgrim explains, “In face-to-face seminars you’re sitting down in classroom and trying to make yourself heard; if you’re working in an online environment you have 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for you to give your opinion on whatever is being discussed. I think it results in a more equal playing field where every student has a voice.”

Every student, who can discipline himself or herself adequately to complete the course, will find online courses an appropriate venue for degree completion. For those students that lack the self-discipline, online courses can be disappointing. The drop-out rate is holding at 20%, which is only 5% greater than the drop-out rate for classroom courses.

Pilgrim feels that the benefit of online courses is not only in the course material being transferred but also with soft skills of Internet literacy. “I think that what [students] are learning with the online courses is how to interact with the media and with each other in the digital fashion.” A skill that will be highly relevant for graduates in workplaces revolving around digital media.

It is clear that the Trent Online team is working to make online courses fit with the university’s core values and courses which best suit the needs of students. There has been and continues to be drive from the administration to increase the offerings of online courses.

University President Leo Groarke and

Chancellor Don Tapscott are heavy proponents of online learning, they further have the capacity to shape university priorities.

In an interview with Arthur, published on October 14, Groarke said, “I think that Trent, along with every other university, needs to expand in the direction of digital learning and we need to do so in a way that’s in keeping with what our core identity is and that is by stressing interaction, feedback, discussion, and active learning.

This is an example of how we can change while still staying the same and I think that’s what we have to do.”

It remains to be seen how online programming will evolve at Trent, but it is clear that digital media is shaping the priorities of the university.

I can only hope that those policies makers retain the core of Trent’s values in their decisions for future courses, online and in classrooms.

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College Head Profile: Otonabee’s Ashley Wall comes full circle

By Ugyen Wangmo

How did your Trent experience start?

I am from a small town outside of Ottawa in Renfrew. When I was pursuing university I looked far away because I wanted to get a new experience but at the same time still wanted a university with smaller communities.

It was Trent that inspired me. The green space, river running, and the fact that it was not in the middle of downtown let me still be a part of the big city but also gave the opportunity to be in my own little world.

What does being Head of Otonabee College mean to you?

I also took these experiences when I became a residence life manager at other schools.

I learned to focus on the component that community is the foundation of everything and I feel like that sense of belonging, whether it is a house, a college, or a university, is important to who I am.

So I try to foster that sense of community in any part of my job or my personal life, through out because it is so integral to everything that students experience.

What got you into the career that you have chosen- to work for students?

Being a Don at Trail was what led me to

While at Trent I lived in Otonabee College in my first year so that is part of what makes this position that much more special to me. When I was helping out with moving this year I made the realization that exactly ten years ago that weekend I moved into Otonabee.

It was a really impeccable experience to come full circle and to be now working in this capacity in the college where everything started for me at Trent.

my professional career. I had a college residence life coordinator while I was a Don and she inspired me, motivated me, and helped me see that the parts of what I really enjoyed about being a Don could be applied into by going into a career in residence management.

I came to Trent to be a teacher but through donning I realized that alternative classroom was something I really enjoyed doing, working with students and help them develop both as students and personal life as well by offering programming and support to them during their academic year.

Describe an experience that had really stood out for you since you assumed your current position?

Something that was really striking is how quickly relationships have formed with the student leaders in Otanabee.

I was cautious of the changes but the way these students have embraced the college office and who I am very quickly really stood out to me. They stop by everyday and the office is vibrant because of their energy and what they are working on. They are very eager to do things and to bring their ideas.

That effect has trickled down to the students of Otonabee as well. It has really motivated me.

How does your experience being an OC student connect to your current position?

Besides student life, what else do you invest your time in?

When I became a Don for two years at Traill College I took a lot of the things that I learned and saw from how our community was formed and put it into my work.

I am a very crafty person at heart. I have a

blog called “Projects with AWall” and anytime I do a project I blog about it and talk about how I performed the craft. I love to focus on my sewing, baking, and knitting experiences.

I have already mentioned curling, but I am also an avid reader and as a result I am also a part of a book club with a group of my friends in town.

What can Trent expect from you in particular?

Something I would particularly want to bring is to develop a complementary curricular approach to the experiences that are offered in the colleges.

Academic curriculums are developed in syllabus making the students aware of what it looks like. I want to create that cocurricular curriculum for the students so they are aware of what experience they will walk away with.

I want the students be aware of what they will achieve from their academic career and as well as what they will achieve from their student experience career.

Your message to students?

Embrace all the opportunities you have for you while studying at Trent because you never know where it is going to take you and what experiences are going to open doors for you.

I am that student who came in with one vision and came out with another, and I have loved every second of it because of the opportunities I embraced.

Michael Winter Speaks at Trail College: Just Write it Down

By Caleigh Boyle

Last Tuesday night began as any evening involving Lewis MacLeod does, with pizazz and humour.

The writer of the week at the English Department’s Writers Reading was Michael Winter and after a few minutes of enjoyable and funny banter, MacLeod introduced Winter to the audience.

What followed next was not what I expected. Winter did not launch right into his novel or even his writing history. Instead he told us stories about his life.

Born in the North of England, Winter’s parents wanted public and open spaces, his mother suggested New York and his father moved them to Newfoundland. Winter told us a story of a story his father told him.

When Winters was 12-years-old his father reminisced about a time when he was fly fishing with Mr. Penny and a big wave came along that capsized their boat. His father tells Winter that despite swimming up and up and up he just kept going down, down, down. He realized that as the boat had overturned, the anchor got wrapped around him and was pulling him deeper and deeper until Mr. Penny dove down, untangled him and saved his life.

Winter commented on this saying that there was a beautiful irony in this situation being that the thing that is supposed to save you could be the very thing that kills you. And his talk continued on this way, showing that inspiration for stories can come from anywhere. As he continued to speak, it was clear that in everything he said at least one person in the audience was moved, and could relate to what he was saying.

He told a story that resonated with most everyone in the room, and that was the

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story of the notebook. Every writer experiences that moment when a family member has bought us the most gorgeous notebook that there ever was and at the time we are so grateful for such a thoughtful gift. But then the anxiety sets in and when we are sitting on the bus or in a coffee shop and we see something that seems important enough to write down, we all reach for our book and then think, in Winter’s words, “hummmm, no it’s not good enough for the book”. This was brilliant. Such a simple observation, but somehow every single person in the room knew the exact moment he was talking about.

“Anything that strikes you as interesting, write it down. After a couple of years, string them all together and you’ll have a novel,” says Winter. We all know that moment when ‘it’s not good enough’ to write in the book, and say we will write it down when we get home, and then never do. Winter’s advice is write it down, it’s all important, it’s all good enough if you just write it down. And the key is to write it down exactly as you see it. For example he says, “I saw a man with his arms folded

and they started to bark. Then I saw a set of ears” is extremely different from “I saw a man with a dog in his arms and it started to bark.” The first example forces the reader to provide the dog, it allows a really nice ‘ahhh’ moment when the reader puts together the images the writer has provided, it forces us to engage with the text; the second example does not force any imagination, ergo does not encourage the reader to continue reading.

Winter is an incredible story teller, from start to end he had everyone in the room captivated and engaged even without reading from his book, and I loved how he did this.

A writer is so much more than the works they produce, and Winter took the time to talk to us and let us see a little into his life, his mind, and his process. Before we broke up to head over to Be at the Tread for some tasty snacks, Winter left us with two very important points about structure and character. Regarding structure he said, “You have to be able to trust the author,” and then he told us this story: “Today is the day I am going to kill the

gym teacher. I woke up, brushed my teeth, mom asked me to get some milk for her, I played basketball with a friend, and then we killed the gym teacher.”

And then he told us this story: “Today is the day I am going to kill the gym teacher. I woke up and brushed my teeth. Mom asked me to run out and get some milk but I told her I didn’t have any time. She said please can you just run out to get some milk. So I went, but then I ran into a friend and started playing basketball. They said, ‘okay, lets go kill the gym teacher’. I said, ‘I’ll meet you there I just have to get some milk for my mom’. Then we didn’t kill the gym teacher.”

Winter says each reader will be thinking ‘Yes! They didn’t forget the milk, I can rely on this narrator,” even though nothing happened, they didn’t kill the gym teacher, they are reliable because they didn’t forget about the milk; it’s all in the details.

Concerning character Winter said he will never leave a character alone in a room with their thoughts. He says on the first draft sure, but as soon as their thoughts are out he will place them “in the front yard, fixing a lawnmower with a neighbour, talking to him from the other side of the fence”.

The same thought can happen in both situations but the latter situation adds dynamics.

It was a great evening laughing and listening to Winter tell us all sorts of silly or serious stories, and to see each one served a purpose. Stories are everywhere, they are in the strangers talking louder than anyone in the coffee shop, and they are in the man with the dog in his arms. We just have to write them down. Winter says there is no such thing as realism, because “everything about realism is about making the false things seem real”.

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Trent Model United Nations holds skillbuilding conference

By Renzo Costa

During reading week, the Trent Model United Nations Society (TMUNS) organized a conference for high school students.

Throughout the two days, students were able to grasp on important tools and develop skills that will enable them to succeed in their respective future careers.

Model UN allows you to better understand the UN system and at the same time improve your public speaking and debating abilities.

In a nutshell, Model UN recreates the workings of the UN system. There are different committees, such as the Security Council or the United Nations Development programme (UNDP). Students are given a random country and they have to prepare their position when participating on a committee. The committee chairs set the topics to be discussed in advance so that the students can prepare.

Model UN is, above all, a way to learn how to develop informed arguments and to push them forward. It is a way of learning how to read a room and become emotionally intelligent. These are extremely necessary skills in any career.

It also allows students to place themselves in the shoes of important public officials in order to better understand their

positions, their merits, and their shortcomings. Taking the point of view of another person is a very valuable skill. It is also important because embodying certain perspectives can demonstrate how different interests and circumstances influence them.

In the process, students develop important research skills since they have to build a profile and then take a stance on a topic.

However, this stance will be challenged and students will have to negotiate in order to reach a consensus.

Anna Nikolaeva, a fourth year Trent student who is part of the Trent Model United Nations Society and was a chair in

TMSA spreads awareness through Pink Hijab Day

Photo by Jenny Fisher

By Ayesha Barmania

The Trent Muslim Students Association (TMSA) participated in a global movement called Pink Hijab Day which aims to spread awareness about women’s issues across campus and across the world. The movement was started by a group of high school students in Missouri and has since spread globally, and as of last year, to the Trent campus.

The event had two goals in order to reach a wider audience and gain attention from individuals who may not have approached the table if it had been one cause or the other.

“People who come to talk about breast cancer learn about hijabs, and people who come to talk about hijabs learn about breast cancer,” said Noor Zan Zoul, the publicity director for the TMSA. The event collected donations for local breast cancer support groups while simultaneously spreading information about hijab wearers.

Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in Canadian women, and the TMSA aims to spread awareness about the illness and promote preventive screenings. Included in the goodie bags handed

out was detailing information about selfadministered breast exams.

While breast cancer more often presents itself in older women (40 years and older), it is important for young people to begin the pattern of self examinations to learn what their breasts feel like when healthy and recognize any abnormalities in the future.

Event organizers particularly wanted to address misconceptions about hijab wearers and provide a space for all to learn about the tradition. Pink Hijab Day opens a friendly discussion for the curious to ask questions of hijab wearers about what it means to them.

The TMSA hopes to provide a forum for the Trent community to address issues about Muslim culture in an inclusive space.

Vice-President Sobia Riaz said, “I think people do have questions that they may be very shy to ask. We provide a platform for that.” Pressures to remain politically correct can stifle meaningful conversations that address innocent concerns.

The TMSA plans to continue their public presence and inclusive forum with such upcoming events as a seminar on Atheism, Science, and Islam on November 13.

the conference, spoke to Arthur. She expressed that“it was very rewarding to see kids striving to learn something new. Most of them really struggled in the beginning, mainly because of the way the debate is structured in MUN, but they got into it very quickly”.

As a chair, she helped the Secretary General in the elaboration of the handbook, did research on one of the topics to put it into the background guide, and helped direct the discussion during the sessions themselves.

Nikolaeva agrees that “MUN is a very idealistic model, and some might argue MUN is a controversial activity since kids

might get an impression of the “easiness” of conducting a discussion of the MUN type.

In fact, it is there to help kids understand it is important because it helps young people to understand how imperfect international law can be, and how complicated and twisted some cases might be”.

The UN system has been a locus of much criticism in the last few decades.

Some would argue that it is an outdated system that perpetuates global inequalities and maintains power inequities. Others have also argued that the demise of the nation state is also undermining the capability of the UN to respond.

In any case, Model UN provides a very important experience to understand some of the current challenges. Debate and negotiation skills are highly valuable in a context where there is a wide range of competing perspectives.

Some universities have model UN courses that count as a credit for a degree.

At Trent, the TMUNS not only organized this conference for local high school students but also plans to attend conferences in Montreal and New York.

At the end of the day, Model UN is a great way to engage in meaningful debate while learning valuable skills and making connections with students from other parts of the world.

Students have the power to act

By Daniel Martin

UK. Glasgow University has become the first European University to begin divesting from fossil fuels.

The institution has £18 million invested and has voted to also freeze further investments. The campaign which involved over 1300 students progressed over a 12 month period resulting in what many will see as the first step in many to a more ethical educational experience.

Lancaster University, UK, is also pursuing a more ethical approach. The University is invested in a portfolio of companies including BAE (global arms manufacturer), BAT (British American Tobacco) and BP (British Petroleum) to name but a few.

Students have begun a similar campaign to Glasgow, having created a list of ethical demands and petitions to gain popular support which would ultimately force the University to take action.

Ethical investments are available and it is these that both UK Universities want their respective institutions to take seriously. Sustainability group People and Planet within the University have been the initial source for pushing fossil fuel divestment whilst being backed by student groups such as the NUS. The NUS (national union of student) is one of the largest student bodies within the UK - proving the desire to see sustainability taken seriously at a national level.

The question has to be raised, why should Universities be ethical or moral?

The idea is one that was formed from a small group of seemingly radical students several years ago, determined to rescue their institutions from the crux of capitalism and more specifically, from the exploitation and so on that results.

In the eyes of many, the terms ethical or moral are not ones that are ever thought to apply to a University, viewed instead as a purely academic environment.

Although Institutions have come down hard in the past years on protesters, things are beginning to change. Ethical and moral standards have to apply, there is no rea-

son why, if we adopt such principles in our own lives, they cannot also apply to our own places of learning and work.

Trent is following in Glasgow’s footsteps, pushing the University to divest from fossil fuels. Sustainable Trent are at the heart of the battle with a group of students attending a Montreal based conference on how to do exactly what Glasgow did.

Indeed, Trent’s reputation as a sustainable University is being called into question. The University, situated in beautiful scenery epitomises everything a campus should be and it is a just move to ensure it is doing all it can to preserve that environment.

Calvin Beauchesne, recently elected as Environment and Sustainability commissioner for the TCSA, whilst himself being heavily involved with Sustainable Trent is working to ensure the University is doing all it can for the cause. We must ensure those in power are held accountable for their actions and to not be dragged into University bureaucracy.

Despite this, things are only getting worse. French 20th century philosopher Jean Paul Sartre wrote in 1944 a play entitled “Huis Clois” telling the story of a group of people trapped in a room and told they can never leave.

Oddly telling in such times, a way out is required as much in the same way the protagonists argued about the futility of their situation, the same version of politics and decision making is being played out.

For many, the mention of the term “activism” will provoke more questions than should be necessary. In its basic form, the word means enacting the just, ethical and moral. To go beyond and reject what society tells you is the standard.

Trent contains a wide array of groups to get involved with and many campaigns both within the University and locally exist with which to show your support.

Therefore it is imperative that the power of the individual not be underestimated as Dante Aligerhi once claimed “the secret of getting things done is to act.”

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Academics: Trent University research shines a light on psychopathy and deviant sexuality

By Brian Hough

Several weeks ago, in the Journal of Personality, Trent University professor of Psychology Dr. Beth Visser and undergraduate student Victoria DeBow published an acclaimed article, entitled “Psychopathic Sexuality: The Thin Line Between Fantasy and Reality,” in collaboration with Julie Pozzebon, Tony Bogaert, and Angela Book of Brock University.

The study involved a thematic analysis of the written sexual fantasies of more than 200 people as well as a follow-up questionnaire showing that people with psychopathic traits are more likely to act on their sexual fantasies than those without.

Furthermore, the study found that those with psychopathic traits were more likely to fantasize about uncommitted, nonromantic sexual activity as well as act on those fantasies when those fantasies involved sexual behaviours often categorized as being ‘deviant’.

Both Visser and Debow were interested in the subject matter due to their mutual interest in ‘dark personalities’- people who lie, cheat, and manipulate.

But while the subject matter might be of general interest and importance to society under any circumstances, what no one could have predicted is that within just a couple weeks of publication questions about the distinction between healthy and unhealthy sexual practices and sexual ‘deviance’ would explode onto headlines across the country with the multiple rape allegations against former CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi.

After being let go from the CBC earlier this week, Ghomeshi made a post to his personal facebook page claiming that the CBC of fired him for his personal sexual preferences and that these accusations were an attempt to ‘re-frame’ practices that were performed within, according to Ghomeshi, the context of consensual BDSM and role-play.

So while Dr. Visser and Ms. Debow’s research may offer a lot of insight and contextual information relevant to this ongoing scandal, the allegations against Ghomeshi and his attempt to defend himself by claiming to be engaging in BDSM practices did press the need to further clarify some of the distinctions between healthy and unhealthy, safe and unsafe practices.

Dr. Beth Visser was reached for interview by e-mail: How would you define the terms ‘psychopathic’ and ‘deviant’?

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Although there are researchers who approach psychopathy as a criminal justice issue (for good reason - offenders who are psychopaths tend to re-offend at higher rates than non-psychopathic prisoners), I study psychopathy from a personality perspective.

My interest is specifically in psychopathic traits - the degree to which people are callous, interpersonally manipulative, lacking in empathy, irresponsible, deceptive, impulsive, grandiose, and rule-breaking.

Because I’m interested in a pretty normal range of psychopathic traits, my research samples are just regular people, where there would be very few individuals who meet criteria for a diagnosis of psychopath. Even in these non-offender samples, psychopathic traits predict some pretty interesting outcomes.

I’m glad you asked about “deviant”. I’m really not fond of that word, but it was the best way to connect this study to previous work.

Our “deviant” sexuality items incorporated voyeurism, exposing oneself to someone who isn’t expecting/wanting it, frotteurism (rubbing or pressing against a stranger in a sexual manner), incest, transvestism, and being tied up/tying someone up.

The latter two are behaviors that I personally would describe as somewhat “unconventional” or “less common” whereas

the others have a common thread of nonconsent. However, I was using an established measure that incorporated all of the above behaviors.

Suppose I’m a student whose partner is interested in doing something that might be considered ‘deviant’ (but not illegal) and I’m not opposed to it, and not uncomfortable with it myself. To what extent should I be worried about whether or not they might be psychopathic?

I think the fact that a partner is “proposing” an activity is a great sign. Discussing and negotiating a new sexual activity and caring about a partner’s comfort level, interest, and satisfaction, are all very nonpsychopathic activities.

When a partner is insisting, demanding, or manipulating, that is a gigantic red flag.

Engaging in a respectful discussion about a potentially exciting activity sounds pretty darned healthy to me.

Given the current climate (vis a vis the ongoing Jian Ghomeshi scandal) what would your response be to members of the BDSM community who might feel unfairly characterized or associated with psychopathic behavior (or, from a psychological perspective, what separates a healthy paraphilic sexual activities and ones that could be dangerous, exploitative, abusive etc.)?

It’s been interesting to see the Jian Ghomeshi situation unfold as an issue of consent rather than an issue of BDSM. People, including his accusers, haven’t been taking the stance that his preferences are offensive - it’s been about whether they consented to these activities.

I don’t pretend to be an expert on BDSM but my understanding is that it’s a community that has developed some very clear rules and guidelines around negotiating consent.

Also, note that we did code for Dominance sexual activities and Submission sexual activities and neither of those was related to psychopathic traits. Preferences for anonymous, unromantic, and uncommitted sexual activities, however, were related to psychopathic traits.

People with psychopathic traits weren’t any more likely to have “deviant” fantasies, but for those people who did have deviant fantasies, it was the people with psychopathic traits who also reported that they done it in real life. I think a big part of that is the lack of consent in several of the deviant activities (i.e., frotteurism, voyeurism, exposing oneself).

I would suggest that psychopathy probably isn’t related to kink or to paraphilia. I think psychopathy is related a lack of concern for a partner’s well-being and preferences though, and that lack of concern would seem to make for an unhealthy relationship regardless of sexual preferences.

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Traill College Visiting Fellows to discuss life after Trent

By Brian Hough

Every year, Catherine Parr Traill College hosts a series of lectures and engagements with the Traill College Visiting Fellows program in which visiting fellows not only come to Traill to deliver one lecture but to come and live on campus for two weeks to get the full college experience.

With Trent celebrating its 50th Anniversary, organizers decided to do something special, bringing not one, but two fellows: Bill and Mary Waiser, a couple who are both Trent Alums.

Bill Waiser, an historian and member of the Royal Society of Canada, graduated in 1971 and was affiliated with Champlain College.

Mary Waiser, who also graduated in 1971 and was affiliated with Traill College, pursued a career in the sciences and had a long and very successful career, most of which entailed doing water quality research for the federal government.

Explains Traill College Principal Michael Eamon: “I think it’s uniquely Trent to not just have a Trent alum couple, but to have a couple that bridges the Arts and Sciences.”

Also unique to this year, many of the engagements will be specifically tailored to the themes of post-graduation careers in the arts and sciences, with the fellows drawing upon their own life experiences from both within and outside of academia.

The series begins with a lecture from Bill Waiser on explorer and fur trader Henry Kelsey on Tuesday Nov. 4th at 7pm

at Bagnani Hall.

On Wednesday Nov.5th, they will also be giving a special lecture to Prof. Eamon’s 1st year Arts and Science class at 1pm located in the Lady Eaton Lecture Hall, room 201. The lecture open to everyone, but it is a class so space is limited.

On Thursday Nov. 6th The Waisers will be giving a talk centred on careers in the arts and sciences at Scott House.

In the second week, the format will shift to more informal, conversational events with a College Tea that will allow students to glean more information from about post-graduate life in the arts and sciences on Wednesday Nov. 12 at 2:00pm in the Senior College Room.

The final event will be a formal college dinner with both the Waisers and the founding President Tom Symons.

Although the other events are free admission, the dinner does require a $25 dollar ticket.

Says Eamon, “It’s really a great way to have Fellowship at Bagnani Hall and a great way for students to interact with Fellows and a great opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to interact as well.”

It is also important to note that these events are not just open to students affiliated with Traill, but for all students, Eamon says, “English, Cultural Studies and many other Arts and Humanities students often feel closer to Traill than their own colleges, so of course they’re very welcome.”

Photo by Pat Reddick

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MovieReview:Nightcrawler-DonnyDarkogrewupandnowhe’sapsychopath

By Brian Lukaszewicz

For all the movie psychopaths that this Halloween season has brought us, let it be known that none are more creepy than Louis Bloom.

Ever the entrepreneur, Nightcrawler is a dark tour through Lou’s foray into the world of freelance crime journalism. A small time thief selling stolen scrap metal in Los Angeles, Lou (Jake Gyllenhaal) is the sort of guy who seems to have read one too many monster.com articles. He’s a walking collection of self-help quotes desperate to work his way into something, whatever it may be.

On his way home one night, he happens upon a bloody accident. There he finds a few men with cameras – nicknamed nightcrawlers (by themselves) – scampering to get some footage they can sell to the local news. Lou is intrigued, so he buys a camera and a police scanner and starts spending

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his nights chasing after shootings and car accidents. Anything with a few gruesome details.

And it turns out the unflinching Lou is quite good at what he does. Before long he’s sold his first piece to Nina (Rene Russo), the news director at a local TV station, and added an intern (Rick played by Kevin Rahm) to his roster.

Gyllenhaal is at the absolute top of his game here, taking the misunderstood awkwardness he demonstrated so memorably in his breakout role as Donnie Darko and turning it into something absolutely chilling. There’s an air of naivety to Lou, but right from the first scene we know he is much more dangerous than that “aw shucks” grin would suggest.

It’s that lion in sheep’s clothing mentality that gives Nightcrawler most of its thrills.

Gyllenhaal gives absolutely nothing away with Lou and there’s something particularly disconcerting about the fact that you’re

never quite sure what’s going on between those big blue eyes. Especially as Lou ventures away from simply recording the news (which is horrifying enough) into making it himself.

Indeed, Lou – a fairly unconventional protagonist if you can call him that at all – is so chilling that at one point in the film I was just praying the knock at the door would be a detective played by a big enough movie star that I could rightly expect them to stick around long enough to catch Lou for what he is. For the sake of your own discovery, I won’t tell you if they were or not…

Either way, Gyllenhaal gives one of the most unsettling depictions of a psychopath I’ve seen on the big screen in a long, long while. Hannibal Lector for instance was a scary guy, but at least you knew where he stood – he’s going to try to eat you. There’s no telling how far Louis Bloom will go to get what he wants and it’s the wondering

that gets you.

But like I said in the lead, there are plenty of movie psychopaths out there. Perhaps the reason this one works so well – aside from Gyllenhaal’s performance – is that in these days of a camera on every phone and the non-stop recording of all of life’s events, the total lack of empathy involved in filming the misery of others for financial gain doesn’t feel all that far from the truth.

It feels like the 11 o’clock news.

In fact, the thematic brilliance of Nightcrawler lies in the fact that whatever morose thrill the audience might find in Lou’s work immediately turns the lens right back on them. You may scoff at what these nightcrawlers do, but that desire for every gory detail is what signs their pay cheques.

It’s a biting satire of both the news media and corporate America. Isn’t Nina’s explanation of news that sells – urban crime spreading into suburban neighborhoods – the sort of manufactured narrative that is everything that’s wrong with journalism right now?

Then there’s Lou, whose corporate ramblings (my personal favourite being his penchant for internships) aren’t anything you wouldn’t hear outside of a boardroom or business school. The sort of egotistical nonsense spouted out by wannabe executives as they act like they’re solving problems and doing you a favour. Yet there’s never any doubt what Lou’s motives are – he’s completely self-serving – which cleverly turns it all on its head.

Nightcrawler probably isn’t for everyone – for one thing there’s a deciding lack of anyone to root for – but its disturbing thrills, capped by a tour de force performance from Jake Gyllenhaal, should have most leaving satisfied, if not a little skeeved out.

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Local Theatre Preview: Romeo and Juliet goes extraterrestrial

By Brian Hough

Mysterious Entity is gearing up for one of the most unique Romeo And Juliet adaptations that you’ll see in a long time- Romeo And Juliet: Superstar Ice Miners of Europa.

Mysterious Entity is a local theatre company that began in 1999 and did their first show in 2000.

Their mission is to produce original content with often socially conscious themes, talking about race, gender, domestic violence, and other contemporary issues and their new adaptation of Romeo and Juliet is no excepion.

Written by local author Kate Story (who has published two novels Blasted and Wrecked Upon This Shore) and directed

by Em Glasspool, this version of Romeo and Juliet is adapted from Story’s upcoming short story “The Yolk Of Inauspicious Stars” which will be released soon by sci-fi/fantasy giant Tor Publishing and is complete with new text written in iambic

pentameter.

The story is set on Europa (a moon of Jupiter) in a future where corporations have depleted the Earth’s resources to such a degree that mining for water in

space is the last hope for humanity.

Story says, “It’s really exciting, I’ve always loved Shakespeare, and always had a passion for infecting people with that same passion. It should be a pleasurable experience [Shakespeare], a fully embodied, fully emotional, pleasurable experience - and it’s in space!”

But in addition to the five shows running in November, Mysterious Entity has larger plans for the production, says Glasspool. “Our goal is to raise a lot of interest in it this year and then try to attract more high school students over the course of next year, with a much bigger spectacle,” and the Theatre On King plays an important role in that

journey, “It’s the perfect place for a workin-progress,” says Glasspool, “Its accessible and affordable and a great place to be trying something new.”

While most of the cast and crew are Trent Alumni, this production also features two actors new to the company, Taylor Beatty and Sarah McNeilly, both of whom are Trent students.

The show runs from November 5th -8th at 8pm at the Theatre On King with a matinee on Sunday, November 9th at 1pm.

Tickets are $15 or pay-what-you-can, says Glasspool. “We really stand by the paywhat-you-can cover, and hope that people understand that and come even if they don’t have the $15. Of course we want to cover our costs, but more than that, we just want people to come out.”

Tickets can be booked by calling (705) 933-4510 or by emailing m.entity@gmail. com.

For more information, visit mysteriousentity.com

Performance Review: eidolon - Possessed by ghosts

By Simon Semchuck

Photo by Esther Vincent

Entering Market Hall performance centre to see Bill James’ one-night dance performance, eidolon, the audience was met by a large stage space with a table of what seemed to be junk in one corner, and a simple table and chair set-up in the middle of the back.

With this, director Ruth Madoc-Jones and James, as choreographer and performer created, what can only be called an experience. Mixing simplified visuals of the human body and lighting with an ethereal soundscape, the artistic endeavour used all-encompassing ambience to showcase humanity’s relationship with death.

The Greek word “eidolon” is defined in Market Hall’s description of the event as “1. an idealized person or thing. 2. a specter or phantom.” James gave the audience apparitions of the dead – melancholy, comedic, and quotidian.

Here’s the thing about interpretive dance: to me it’s most comparable to an abstract or even non-objective painting.

Many people “just don’t like it” and some decry its value as art at all, but to me it works through the articulation of the grey area between our conscious and subconscious.

What we perceive is translated into meaning through subconscious associations – meaning is extracted through personal associations and self-reflexivity.

In order to appreciate less realistic representations of a thing, event, or character, we must put ourselves into the work. A viewer has to open up the unconscious, let go of their inhibitions and socialized self, and access pure emotion and raw memory. Surrealism, the abstract, is most haunting because it is a reflection of ourselves.

Haunting is another word to describe eidolon. James’ physical presence and movements coupled with music by David Grenon created an atmosphere possessed by ghosts. Dealing in the half-world between the living and the dead, eidolon also raised questions of an afterlife.

The table of found objects served in creating the soundscape with additional sound effects (including frequent echoing) and dialogue clips from the ‘50s or thereabouts.

Music was created by blowing bubbles in a jug of water, to shifting fingers

through coins, to a child’s toy piano, to a bow on a bike tire. The last one created both melody and discord and its creepiness will haunt my dreams. The combination of the artificial and the natural was seamless, while the echoing continued the sensation of haunting, of a soul repeating through memory.

The choice to leave the sound table within view was interesting, as it gave a simplicity and also disillusionment to the production of the music, which sometimes distracted from James’ dance. Still, it added to the spectacle and gave a sense of the mundane – a sense of accessibility but also wonder that simple objects could be turned into music, furthering on the point of the human body itself as a piece of artistry.

Lighting design by Rebecca Picherack completed the experience, James starting in a box of light that slowly spread across the stage along with his movement.

The light created paths, prisons, emptiness and claustrophobia, and even what I took to be the shaft of light leading toward death itself.

The moment with the thin shaft of light going across the stage invoked constriction and confusion, a barrier between realms as James crawled towards the end of the light and would scramble back, as if in dialogue about a fear of death’s finitude.

There was also a moment where James’ shadow seemed to become a half-character. The dance of inversion, of the self as double, spoke to the constitution of (or at least how we choose to constitute) identity.

The three vignettes James presented were signalled by a sombre clang and a change of light, presenting tales of solitary and pensive struggle, loss of vitality, family life, illness, and the human being stripped down to mundanity.

The final vignette also involved James singing in Latin, which was unexpected, but fit well as a seeming dirge in the face of death’s inevitability.

It was also notable that an older, whitehaired man proved to be much more agile than either myself or most of the people I know. I guess that is what you get for giving up ballet after eight years.

Luckily, I can still enjoy the things I cannot do through the astounding performances both produced in and brought through the Peterborough community.

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Editorial: SMA a forecast of Editorial: Broadcasting can the higher education’s future be public—why can’t print?

By Matthew Rappolt

It has been more than two years now since the Ontario government and, specifically, the Ministry of Training, Colleges, and Universities (MTCU) began their province-wide initiative to differentiate the post secondary education sector.

What began with the 2012 MTCU discussion paper entitled “Strengthening Ontario’s Centres of Creativity, Innovation, and Knowledge” gradually evolved into the current individualized Strategic Mandate Agreements (SMAs) that were recently approved by the provincial government and released to the public.

What are these agreements? Well, back in 2012 the MTCU asked each of Ontario’s 44 post-secondary institutions to draft individual visioning documents, to be approved by the Ministry, that would determine the specific areas, disciplines, and initiatives that each school could undertake over the next five years.

The goal at the time was radical differentiation and Trent’s 2012 SMA draft re-imagined the future of this university, promising to create two brand new schools of learning; a cutting edge sustainable village in the core of Symons Campus; and a new business and student entrepreneurship centre.

However, those first drafts were never accepted by the Province and last year the Trent administration once again had to put pen to paper and draw up a vision for the future.

In examining Trent’s document, what is most interesting is that, unlike the earlier incarnation, the new SMA does not offer specifics on any radical new initiatives. Rather, it offers some profound insight into the broader direction that Trent University (and indeed the broader provincial post-secondary system) is being steered by administration, staff, and government. `Most importantly, it backs up these insights with real data.

For example, while the Trent administration has talked somewhat vaguely for several years

about wanting to introduce more online courses to the university’s offerings, the reality is that there has already been an aggressive pursuit of this path. The SMA notes that Trent has “tripled the number of online and blended courses in the past two years” and that there are now more than 3000 individual registrations in almost 60 online undergraduate courses.

These numbers represent a dramatic shift in the way that Trent is delivering educational content to its students. Especially when you consider the fact that in this same time period, the administration has cut a number of traditional tutorial courses.

And while the number of online registrations still represents only approximately six percent of the total, the SMA makes it clear that we should expect that number to increase significantly over the next few years.

Another example can be found how the SMA discusses Trent’s relationship with its sister institutions in Peterborough and Oshawa.

Although it is by now common knowledge that the government is actively attempting to break down the boundaries between college and university and, more broadly, between academic and professional programming all together, the SMA gives a real sense of what this future of cross-pollination could look like.

The document calls for the “formal alliance” of Trent University and the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) that would “bring... humanities, science, social science, professional programs, and Science Technology Engineering Mathematics (STEM) disciplines together...” with the stated goal of creating “a comprehensive and cooperative model for the sector.”

While the specifics of this “alliance” are not spelled by the SMA, it is clear that this path is being actively pursued by the current Trent administration.

These are just two of the many examples of how the SMA is forecasting the future of higher education, both here at Trent and across Onatrio. For anyone interested in the future of Trent, it is definitely worth checking out.

Letters to the Editors to a few words, it could best be said that they the person who supervises Trent’s faculProvost search committee is are ty. Of course this means that they deal with issues, but their first job is working representative of community student with professors, chairs and deans.

Re: “Provost search committee composition questioned (campus, issue 7, October 29) Dear Arthur, I was glad to see you devoting some attention to the Provost Search last week, but a little disappointed that my own view of the committee was not conveyed well.

I think it best that I don’t make a habit of responding to comments, but the appointment of the Provost is a key initiative and I would, in this particular case, underscore the careful considerations behind the process.

I am surprised to find the search committee being criticized as being in some way non-representative in a situation in which I have expanded it by adding three members to ensure that there is more, not less, representation from the Trent community.

It is understandable that students are particularly interested in the students on the committee, but it is faculty, not students, who are the key players when it comes to the hiring of a Provost.

If one had to boil the Provost’s job down

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I would add that faculty are our academic experts, are typically with us for 25 or more years, and have an especially deep knowledge of universities and academic matters.

These are good reasons why they should play the lead role guiding me in a decision on who should be appointed Provost.

In terms of the individuals on the search committee, I think your commentary misses the key point, which is that the members of the committee are there because they have been elected by their peers. Picking people who fit one’s preconceived notion of what representatives should look like is not the way to achieve real representation. Allowing people to elect their representatives is preferable.

More deeply, I would say that the idea that someone can’t understand or appreciate the interests of others who are not exactly like them is undemocratic and unworkable (it would mean that a fourth-year student cannot represent a first-year student; that someone who lives in residence can’t represent someone who doesn’t; that only alumni can represent alumni; that gay people cannot represent people who are not gay, and so on and so forth).

By Pat Reddick

The CBC has radio, television, and Internet content. This content includes entertainment, documentaries, sports coverage, and even journalism. Why then is a publically owned and operated newspaper not among its services?

It’s easy to make the argument that journalism is a public service. Telling stories and keeping the public informed about events they may not have directly experienced is a hugely important aspect of any society.

It’s not that the CBC doesn’t do this.

Many people turn to the CBC’s various products for news, and their website reads much like a newspaper would.

They generate enough content to fill a newspaper. So why not just go ahead and print one?

By definition, it’s not exactly within the CBC’s mandate as a broadcaster since print media has much different implications than broadcast media.

Print media are essentially public records. Once something is printed it will appear that way forever. Broadcast media can be recorded, but its essence is less corporeal than print. It’s there for only a moment, and then it’s gone.

But if the CBC is to have a (printed) online product then they’ve already transcended their “broadcaster” mandate, which only includes radio and television.

They might as well literally print it as well.

One of the major problems with print journalism in Canada is that everything is owned and controlled by very few companies.

Postmedia, with their recent buy-out of Sun Media, will soon own the majority of newspapers in Canada. Torstar more or less owns the rest. There’s also Woodbridge, which owns The Globe and Mail.

The biggest problem with these companies is who they are accountable to.

While they serve the public through their My own view is that we have a strong search committee for the new Provost, and that it is very well equipped to attract a strong person to the role.

We have a good start on the search process, and I would expect us to have hired a search consultant and have an advertisement by the end of this term. I am very much looking forward to working with the committee.

Best Regards, Leo Groarke, President, Trent University

Trent Radio is back in business for another season

news coverage, they are not accountable to them. As profit-making enterprises they are accountable only to their corporate stakeholders and advertisers.

As such, the content they produce is heavily influenced by the interests of those stakeholders. That’s going to be the case in a pubic newspaper as well, but the process by which you become a stakeholder will be much more open.

A public newspaper would likely not be run as a profit-making enterprise, allowing journalists to focus on producing accurate, critical news, independent of the influence of advertisers.

Furthermore, the CBC has an ombudsman that ensures fairness, accuracy and accountability with respect to news coverage, something certain publications would no doubt benefit from.

The for-profit model major newspapers currently operate under is no longer viable, and hasn’t been for years. Almost no publications maintain a profit, and with the prevalence and dominance of Internet news services, that’s unlikely to change.

Part of the purpose of Crown Corporations is to provide services that aren’t economically viable for private corporations, after all.

Simply printing and distributing the content already being published on the CBC website would be a marginal cost given that it already exists, and could probably be subsidized by advertisements.

If you need further convincing, look no further than the CBC’s coverage of the recent Parliament Hill shootings on October 22. Each and every major newspaper in Canada ran large, bold, sensationalist headlines like “ATTACK ON OTTAWA.” On the other hand, CBC coverage led

by Peter Mansbridge was calm, collected, and focused on getting the facts right.

In Canada, we need more news coverage like that. A CBC Print Division would be a great start.

We are in another year of Trent Radio, all the radio shows are doing well. We are happy to have James Kerr, Jeff Stewart, John Muir, and Jill Staveley back at the helm again.

We would all like to say that we are back at Trent Radio and we are loving it. We have our operators doing such a good job again and we don’t know what we would do without them.

We have lots of great music again this year. As Rogers and Hammerstein said: “The Hills are alive with the sound of music” and all you have to do is turn your dial to 92.7 FM and you can here the sound of Trent Radio’s music. We would be glad to have you listen to us.

Sincerely,

Jefferey Stewart, Trent Radio Historian 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

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KWIC: 75 combined years of community engagement

By Sara Desmarais

2014 is a big year for the Peterborough community, as Trent celebrates 50 years of challenging the way we think, and the Kawartha World Issues Centre (KWIC) celebrates 25 years of engaging the Peterborough and Kawartha region’s communities in social and environmental issues at both global and local levels.

Wow! That’s 75 combined years for us to celebrate. That’s seven and a half decades of people coming together to share ideas and help shape a brighter future. As Trent’s festivities and celebrations continue to unravel throughout the year, it is important that we take a moment to acknowledge KWIC’s 25 years of hard work and accomplishments, as KWIC has been an important player in supporting our wonderful community in Peterborough and the Kawarthas.

Established in 1989 as a “Learner Centre,” KWIC became a ‘hub’ for social and environmental justice. With a house on Murray St, KWIC became easily accessible to community members from various walks of life. An inclusive and supportive space, KWIC’s Murray St house was truly a space where people could come together to address issues and plan a variety of events.

When the Canadian Partnership Branch of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) announced in 1995 that it would eliminate its Public Participation Programme (PPP) and cut all funding

to 100 development education centres in Canada, KWIC had been struck hard. Losing 65% of its budget from the PPP, KWIC had to sell the house on Murray St. Trent came forward and offered to house KWIC, and built an office in the Environmental Science Building’s resource centre for the last remaining Global Education and Resource Centre in Ontario.

Despite the challenges of 1995, KWIC continues on as a charitable organization, as busy as ever, supporting a large number of community projects. Creating a space for dialogue and hosting a variety of workshops and activities, KWIC strives to bring

people together for positive change at the global and local scale.

KWIC is known for a variety of education activities, such as its Seeds for Justice youth-led engagement program, which includes an annual spring conference, Global Youth Day and Facilitators Collective, and the KWIC World Issues Café discussion series.

As a charitable umbrella, KWIC has inspired and supported a wealth of Trent and community initiatives over the years, including: Peterborough Green-Up; Kawartha Food Share; SEEDS for Justice Youth Engagement Project; ReFrame Peterbor-

ough International Film Festival, Sustainable Trent, Trent Oxfam, and TRACKS Aboriginal Youth Outreach project, a collaboration with the Trent Indigenous Environmental Science program and surrounding First Nations.

As we take time in 2014 to celebrate the combined 75 years of accomplishment and community engagement of our beloved school and charitable organization, we should also look forward to the future endeavours and achievements of these two establishments, as there is so much to look forward to.

With KWIC’s mission to encourage positive social and environmental change, and Trent’s strong Environmental programs, it seems rather fitting that Trent Carbon Conversations and KWIC have collaborated with the David Sheperd Family, Indigenous Environmental Studies, Trent Oxfam, Sustainable Trent, and the First People’s House of Learning to bring a world-renowned author and environmental activist to speak in the Wenjack Theatre during this very special year.

Mark your calendars for Dr. Vandana Shiva’s “Sacred Seeds” lecture on November 16, 2014. Tickets are limited and available online at kwic.info.

To learn more about what KWIC does, or how you can get involved with KWIC, please visit kwic.info; send an email to info@kwic.info; or visit Room B101 in the Environmental Sciences Building on East Bank at Trent.

OPIRG: Facts about supermarkets

By Chelsea Desrochers

Have you ever been walking in a mall or supermarket, either alone or with friends, and completely lost your awareness of time? The restriction of visible clocks has been one of the changes made in retail industries to create a space where passivity diminishes genuine activity and critical engagement.

In regards to the supermarket, these changes have lasting implications to the food choices you make. Just within the entrance of a supermarket, there are several confronting issues one can unconsciously overlook. One can be enticed and comforted by the empty (over-sized) shopping carts and baskets, the music playing overhead as well as colourful produce and product placement.

Firstly, the use of large shopping carts have supported the perception to consumers that they must buy much more than is actually needed. Kiddie carts have even been created in some supermarkets to allow children to have their own cart to fill along with their parent’s, further encouraging unnecessary consumerism. Stores have even started to place children’s products at the eye-level appropriate for children.

Walking around the supermarket, the background music playing softly is manufactured to have the consumers (i.e. you) buy more. This construction targets the supermarket’s audience with ambient music and subtle customized messages that have been proven to increase profits.

Muzak Holdings LLC is the most successful company to produce these effects on the consumer by modifying music to change the mood of consumers. In 2011, Muzak Holdings LLC was acquired to become a subsidiary of Mood Media Corporation.

Lastly, the colourful produce provides another distraction from the information of the product itself. For example, the ‘freshness’ and brightness of foods can deceive consumers from questioning if the product is in season or if it is locally sourced.

Usually this information is not easily noticeable, if available at all. This is problematic, as produce is grown largely using pesticides which are not made known readily. For example, pesticides are used on produce during transportation to protect from bruising. You accept this process as necessary, but an ordinary apple purchased at a supermarket has been dipped in fungicide and chlorine as well as being scoured by detergents and wax.

Also, The amount of oil needed in producing and transporting foods combined with impending oil crises will represent a problem to food security. Without information on these food products, it becomes difficult for the consumer to make smart choices.

Most of these brands and grocery store chains, however, have been virtually integrated into major conglomerates, which largely reduces consumer choice. For instance, in Canada there are five major retailers who share over 60% of profits from food sales. Nevertheless, there are alternatives to the issues raised in this article, like making and adhering to a grocery list, using smaller grocery shops which tend to be more community-driven, or joining a food co-op.

If you want to learn more about the food issues raised in this article, including others, attend the Supermarket Tour Facilitation Workshop hosted by OPIRG on Tuesday November 4, from 12-2 PM at the Champlain Living Commons.

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Clubs&groups

Arthur: Come on board!

By David Tough Chair, Arthur Board of Directors

By Nathan Prendergast

Hello fellow Trent students and movie goers! Next week, Trent Film Society will be taking a break from our usual programming to bring you a movie a little more mainstream than what we typically screen.

Join us Wednesday, November 5 for V for Vendetta. Come celebrate Guy Fawkes Day with a movie not to be forgotten. V for Vendetta is jam-packed with action. With a thrilling political plot, it is exciting from start to finish!

Typically we don’t screen films with this much box office success (we like to screen movies we think people might not have had the opportunity to see otherwise), but seeing as this Wednesday’s screening fell on its unofficial holiday we decided it was too perfect an opportunity to pass up.

Set in a dystopian future, the fascist Norsefire party rules the United Kingdom with an iron fist. With a secret police keeping an eye on every citizen and the threat of chaos and disease, the people of the United Kingdom live orderly lives in fear of the threat of persecution.

On the night of November 5, a young woman named Evey (Natalie Portman) is confronted by members of the secret police while out after curfew. Before the secret police can do anything, the masked vigilante V (Hugo Weaving) comes to Evey’s rescue. Suddenly Evey is caught between a corrupt government bent on maintaining control and a force of vengeance that wants the whole establishment to crumble.

V for Vendetta was adapted from Alan Moore’s 1982 comic by the same name into a screenplay by James McTeigue and the Wachowski siblings, who also worked on The Matrix trilogy together a few years before.

Working with McTeigue and the Wachowski siblings yet again is actor Hugo

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V for Vendetta Weaving (who played Agent Smith in The Matrix trilogy) as the vigilante V. Weaving is joined with a stellar cast, including actress Natalie Portman as protagonist Evey, John Hurt as the menacing High Chancellor Adam Sutler, and British comedian Stephen Fry as Deitrich, offering comic relief. The film is captivating not only because of the action but also because of the actors’ performances.

Guy Fawkes masks and costumes are encouraged, so bring them if you have them, or make your own! Store bought V for Vendetta merchandise is discouraged (mainly because of the irony) but is in no way prohibited.

Our screenings are open to everyone, Trent students and locals alike. Did I mention entry is 100% FREE!? Our screenings are held at Artspace, Peterborough’s artistrun centre, which is located at 378 Aylmer St North, near the Greyhound station at the Simcoe St and Aylmer St intersection.

The screening starts at 8pm. We hope to see you there!

Also on Wednesday, November 5 @ Artspace, Boris Godzinevski and David Hollands will be screening their new movie Destination: Rad City.

The film stars Rick, a loner in a small town, ridiculed for his love of the 1980s.

Anxious to leave the town that ostracized him, Rick sets out to fulfill his late father’s wishes to attend an 80s themed music festival. Faced with adversity and unforeseen obstacles along the way, Rick is forced to make some of the most important and difficult decisions of his life.

Entry fees for the Destination: Rad City screening is $5. All proceeds go towards the filmmakers; they have to eat too! Their screening starts at 6pm. Hope you can make it!

Arthur’s Board of Directors will be electing new members at our Annual General Meeting on Wednesday, November 13. If you’re interested in seeing that happen or taking part, you are most welcome. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, read on.

Like Trent University, Arthur operates essentially on a bicameral (literally, twochamber) system, though Arthur gives preponderant power to the content side, whereas Trent favours the business side.

At Arthur, editorial and production – what’s actually in the paper – is entirely in the hands of the editors. Operational and financial issues, which aren’t always very interesting or controversial but need to be covered for the paper to publish and for the editors to have editorial freedom, are handled by the Board of Directors.

Arthur is pretty democratic. Editors and Directors are elected, though editorial elections tend to be more openly contested and political because they affect the content of the paper, and especially its political position, for a given year. For the most part, Directors are acclaimed, because they only control whether the paper even exists.

(That’s irony, by the way.)

Editors are elected once a year, in the spring, whereas Directors are elected twice:

half the Board is elected in the spring along with the editors, and the other half is elected in the fall at the Annual General Meeting.

Arthur is supported by a student levy, so all students are formally members of Arthur. Members can attend the Annual General Meeting and vote at it, and can run and sit as member Directors on the Board. Member directors are elected in the fall.

Anyone who contributes to producing Arthur – the writers, editors, photographers, and production staff and volunteers – on a semi-regular basis (officially it’s 15% of the issues, or three issues) is a member of the Staff Collective.

People in the Staff Collective not only vote on who gets to be editor of Arthur (see? Pretty democratic) but also can run to be staff directors on the Board. They’re elected in the spring along with the editors.

The Board of Directors meets once a month to discuss with the editors how the paper is going. It’s not much of a commitment time-wise, but it’s a pretty big deal. If there’s a crisis (and there have been some doozies over the years) it becomes an even bigger deal.

Mostly, though, it’s a chance to contribute to independent journalism at Trent by making sure everything is working the way it needs to.

Please consider joining us.

SportsPage Sports Brief

International gymnastics brings out best in sport

By Kristina Dergacheva

This past September was extremely important month for people interested in what is often considered to be the most elegant, beautiful and graceful of sports. Lots of lovely girls with their coaches arrived in the city of Izmir, Turkey to demonstrate their excellence, tenacity and what they have learned from a full season of training.

The competition, which took place over seven days, from September 21 to September 28, was a massive celebration for the athletes, their relatives, thier coaches and, of course, all of the fans.

It was a week which showcased the princess of all sports: rhythmic gymnastics! In this competition there were 132 individual athletes were performing in four distinct disciplines: hoop, ball, clubs and ribbon. As well, medals were given given our to the atheletes in allaround and in the finals.

Lets talk about the most outstanding girls from this year’s championship. It must be said that Russian gymnists Yana Kudryavtseva and Margarita Mamun were competing against each other, both being at least head and shoulders above all the other girls.

Mamun won a silver medal lacking only 0.167 of a point compared to the gold medalist Kudryavtseva.

However, the triumph of this championship was Ukrainian athlete Ganna Rizatdinova who demonstrated her durability and showcased some absolutely beautiful compositions. Judges gave her high scores and she got a well deserved bronze medal.

Later, in an interview, Rizatdinova said that she considered this medal to be as good as a gold one. All the audience, photographers, staff and people involved in this tremendous event said that all of the gymnasts representing Ukraine were greeted as heroes with loud and continuous applaus.

Another girl who was creating miracles on the carpet was Melitina Stanuta from Belarus.

This charming girl succeeded in making each perfomance into little theatre performances from the 90 seconds given to each apparatus.

The favourite of the audience (and not just for this year) was Son Yon Jae representing Korea. Jae surprised her fans by putting together a strong performance that showcased all her tricks and risks.

But, the surprise discovery of the entire championship was a Canadian gymnast by the name of Patricia Bezzoubenko. She is currently only 17 years old, but she is progressing extremely fast up the international rankings and in this championship she was in the list of 20 best gymnasts which is a huge success.

Her coaches, Svetlana Zhukova and choreographer Daria Kondakova, already have big hopes for her future in the sport. And even at her young age, she already holds the honour of being two time Canadian National Champion. In fact, many believe that Bezzoubenko will be able to fight for an Olympic medal in the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Let’s hope that next year, when the championship is held in Stuttgart, Germany, Bezzoubenko will be able to fight for one of the World Championship medals. But for now I want to wish to every girl who was competing lots of health, fortitude and faith.

It is also important to note that competition in Izmir did not only take place in the individual disciplines, but also in groups too. This, however, is a completely different story.

Varsity Standings

as of November 1, 2014

Women’s Volleyball - OCAA East Wins

Team Algonquin

2

Georgian

Losses

Draws

Points

0

0

4

2

0

0

4

Trent

2

0

0

4

Canadore Loayalist Seneca Durham George Brown La Cite

1 1 1 1 0

1

0 0 1 0 0 0

2 2 2 2 0 0

0

1 1 2 1 1

Men’s Volleyball - OCAA East Wins

Team

Losses

Draws

Points

Durham

3

0

0

6

Algonquin

2

0

0

4

Fleming

2

1

0

4

Georgian Seneca Trent

1

1

1 1 0

1 1 1

0 0 0 0

2 2 2 0

0

1

0

0

George Brown La Cite Women’s Lacrosse - OUA East

Wins

Team

Losses

Draws

Points

Toronto

8

2

1

-

UOIT Queen’s

4 5

4 6

2 1

-

Trent York

3 0

5 10

2 0

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Wins

Losses

Draws

Points

Men’s Lacrosse - CUFLA East Team McGill

12

0

0

Bishop’s

10

2

0

20

Queen’s

7

5

0

14

Carlton Trent Ottawa Concordia

6

6

4 3

8 9

0 0 0

12 8 6

0

12

0

0

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The

Annual General Meeting

will take place on

Thursday, November 13 @ 6pm in Sadleir House All are welcome!

Written with the assistance of Kristina Kislyk

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Clubs & Groups SEX FOR SALE? The Trent Philosophy Society, Trent Feminist Society, and Lady Eaton College are hosting a Roundtable discussion on Canada’s proposed prostitution legislation, Bill C-36. Several professors from different departments will speak about issue before the floor is opened for further discussion. Everyone is welcome to come out to watch, listen, and participate!

The Roundtable is this Wednesday, November 5, 4pm to 6pm, at Lady Eaton College Suite 301 (Senior Common Room). Contact Professor Michael Hickson (michaelhickson@ trentu.ca) if you have any questions.

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 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 The Trent Centre for Biomaterials Research in partnership with Kawartha World Issues Centre present a Carbon Conversation, Sacred Seeds: Seeds of Resistance, Seeds of Hope with Dr. Vandana Shiva. Sunday Nov 16, 11am at Wenjack Theatre, Trent University. Tickets limited and in advance on-line at kwic.info, free with donations accepted at the door. {Suggested $20/ pwyc} Please join us for a post-talk discussion from 1-3pm at the Gathering Space, hosted by Indigenous Environmental Studies and the First People’s House of Learn-

Tuesday t Graham Norman @ The Tankhouse (4pm) t Art Lajambe @ Black Horse Pub (7pm) t Uncle Sid, Milo McMahon, Kerry McMaster @ The Spill (9pm)

listings ing. Dr. Shiva is a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award and holds a PhD in Quantum Theory from the University of Western Ontario. In 1991, she founded ‘Navdanya’ a movement to protect the diversity and integrity of living resources, especially seeds, and to oppose the aims of the World Trade Organization agreement, which would have all seeds susceptible to genetic modification patents and becoming intellectual property. This is Dr. Shiva’s first Peterborough visit and will coincide to kick-off Trent University International Education Week activities.

Sadleir House The Peterborough Chapter of Amnesty International will host Mark Cameron, a paramedic, who has just returned from Syria.

He will speak about his experiences in Syria on Monday, November 10 at Sadleir House, 751 George St. N, in the Hobbs Library at 7 pm. Everyone is welcome.

BABE–LESQUE Tuesdays until December 2, 6-7pm in Hobbs Library (room 101) wheelchair accessible. Presented by Burlesque in PTBO and the Trent Queer Collective.

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 Barefoot Flamenco. Explore the roots of flamenco without the heavy stomping or foot technique. Develop better rhythm, concentration, balance, and strong posture, and enjoy the beauty and passion of flamenco without feeling limited by the technicality and precision of the footwork. Nov 11 and 25, 7:30-8:30pm at Sadleir House. $15 per session. For more info or to register call Jess at 705-977-2709 or just show up!

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

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 pres-

Wednesday

send yours to listings@trentarthur.ca

ents: 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.

Is your schedule overloaded? Do you feel like there should be two of you in order to get it all done? We can help! Come to the Academic Skills Centre, Suite 206 in Champlain College! We can help you organize your schedule, set study times, and boost your time management skills! Stop by Champlain College, Suite 206 for more information, call us at 705-748-1720 or book your appointment online!

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

Local 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) Nov 12-13, 1920, 26-27. Weekends(8:30-4) Nov 8-9, 1516, 22-23, 29-30. 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 From Stage to Lens to Screen: A one day hands-on filmmaking intensive with filmmaker Jeremy Mimnagh & dance artist Heidi Strauss. Sunday, November 16, 11am – 5pm.

An exploratory (and fun) day of creative, technical and compositional film making, this intensive invites a range of participants from filmmakers to performers.

Participants are encouraged to come prepared with a particular scenario in mind that they are curious about turning into a film. These ideas will converge to form the source material/content for the development of short films. It’s designed as an

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Friday

intense day, with no time to overthink! Location: Market Hall, 140 Charlotte Street.

Fee: $25. Register by email to admin@publicenergy.ca or call us at 705-745-1788.

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.

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

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

November is National Novel Writing Month!

Take part in a fun writing challenge.

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

Dance Your Bones: Move freely to DJ beats from around the world. no steps, no alcohol, just the freedom to move the way you want in the company of like-minded others. $10. Every Thursday 6pm-8pm at 235 Rubidge St. in Peterborough until December 18. www.danceyourbones.com 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 from 6-9pm. $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 Tom Eastland is playing an early evening of folk music with howl and growl, originals and other favorite songs, at Carpe Diem Cafe 552 Armour Rd Saturday evening November 8. Music from 6pm til 9pm, all-ages, inspired by donations.

Chelsey Bennett is looking for musicians who can play R&B, hip-hop, soul, funk, and world music to accompany her on original 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!

Saturday

t Randy Hill @ The t Earl Wilfong @ The t The Bonus Numbers @ t The Donna Collison Quartet with Biff HanBlack Horse Pub (7pm) Tankhouse (4pm) Carpe Diem Cafe (6pm) non, Michael Morse, and t The Rebel Spell w/ t TUMS Open Mic @ The t Occam’s Blazer, Tay- Ken Erskine @ Curry KnifeHammer, & Indict- Trend (8pm) lor Knox, Sarah DeCarlo Village (6-9pm) able Mischief @ The @ The Red Dog (9pm) t Tom Eastland @ Carpe Spill (9pm) t Elms w/ guests @ The Garnet (10pm) t Goodnight, Sunrise, Diem Cafe(6-8pm) t The Old Salts @ The Hush Money, Television Garnet (10pm) Rd, & Those Gulls @ The t Dub Trinity and Muddy Hack @ The Red Dog Spill (9pm) (9pm) t (VOTMJOHFST @ The t Beautiful Losers, Black Horse Pub Daniel Fewings, & guests t Psychedelic Rock Ex- @ The Spill (9pm) traveganza @ The Garnet t Jerry Legere and the (10pm) Situation @ The Garnet (10pm)

This Week in Live Music: presented by ElectricCityLive.ca