Issue 2 Volume 51

Volume 51 | Issue 2

| September 19 | 2016

INside:

A new chapter for Catharine Parr Traill College

A Word with Trent President Groarke

2016 Pride Week Schedule!

Interview with the one Generation and only James Kerr Screwed at Trent

Editors-in-chief Yumna Leghari & Zara Syed editors@trentarthur.ca @TrentArthur /ArthurNews

Photographer Samantha Moss @MossWorks

Copy Editor

CONTENTS Volume 51 Issue 2

Opinion

September 19 2016

Double-Feature

• Pg 3: Editorial

Campus • Pg 4: Debt Clock at Trent • Pg 4: Guide to Sex

Pride

• Pg 5: Pride Schedule • Pg 5: There is a Pride for you

Arts

A word with Dr. Leo Groarke and a look at Traill

Community

• Pg 10: Artsweek Peterborough • Pg 11: Interview with James Kerr • Pg 10: Trent Film Society • Pg 11: Hot Dish: Hot Plate Hash

Zafer Izer

Board of Directors Chair: Anthony Moniz Secretary: Josh Skinner Member at Large: Ugyen Wangmo • Jordan Porter • Jeffery Moore • Shannon LeBlanc • Zach Muto

Contributors • Joshua Skinner • Reba Harrison • Zara Syed • Shan Culkeen • Samantha Moss • Marina Wilke • Yumna Leghari • Donald Fraser• Alex Karas Submissions due Thursdays at 12:00 pm Pride! Issue 3: September 22nd Issue 4: September 29th Issue 5: October 6th Issue 6: October 13th Articles should be subitted via email as *.rtf, *.odt, *.odt or *.txt attachment | word limit: 800 words.

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Editorial: there is no future without you

OPINION

Photo by Andrew Tan: Arthur Staff of Volume 48 Issue 24

Zara Syed Cultural Studies; Trent University’s bestkept secret. The gateway to the arts, it is arguably one of the finest programs here.

Video Games, Mass Media and Experimental Fiction are just some courses that you can find in this diverse program. It has cross-listings with English, Gender Studies and Politics, and is a springboard to fascinating Master’s programs and dynamic career paths.

Though it was my major, I’m not just being biased. In our first issue we highlighted Jill Staveley, Production Manager at Trent Radio and graduate of Cultural Studies.

James Kerr, longtime Programme Director, shares the same degree.

Liam Mitchell, Cultural Studies professor, incorporates community involvement as part of his class. You can get involved in Trent Radio, Arthur Newspaper, Absynthe Magazine or Media Matters Inc. (a publication company) as a practical options in place of writing assignments. How cool is that?

Watching James Kerr present on behalf of both Media Matters Inc. and Trent Radio, he said, “I can’t escape it. It’s in my blood now.”

Kerr no longer works at Trent Radio, which is quite a recent development in the organization, and we have featured an interview with him (pg.11) that sends a positive message to students who are creative minds and looking for a future in the arts.

A future I had to ponder while I was getting my Trent degree.

Right now, you’re all really busy running around trying to adapt yourselves to Trent.

You’ll spend many a late night handing in an essay, or not hanging one in, beating yourselves up about this huge thing that you’re supposed to become. A lot of you are creative people, which is probably why you’re at this university, no matter what your major. And a lot of you have probably been told to focus on something practical, forget about becoming an artist and get a job to dig yourself out of the debt that is sure to possess your life.

Well, here I am telling you all of that is total bullshit. Coming to Trent University and watching alumni such as Stephen Stohn (founder of this newspaper), become very successful artists made me realize that what you learn in the classroom is only half of where you will gather the skills to get that future you can’t quite put together in your mind.

I remember being so small, so unsure of what I wanted to do, but knew one day I would be a writer. Maybe I’d even work for the CBC, publish my novel, but here I was trying to get my degree and be practical. Somewhere along the way, getting the degree became the sole focus of my life.

Having a job at the same time, along with all the other problems one has, those lofty dreams got thrown on the back burner, and struggling to hand in an essay on time was top priority. I’m writing to tell you that, not only can you work for the CBC, you can do something way cooler than that—you can have your own show at Trent Radio.

Flashback, 2014 Two years ago, when my friends and I thought to have a radio show, we were also balancing school life, jobs, and writing for this newspaper. I remember running to make it to Trent Radio on time to hand in our proposal, sweating, panting, late as usual.

Out of breath, I stumbled into a room full of the coolest people I knew. I was five minutes late, and the operator meeting had already started. “Well, come in, we don’t bite,” someone joked. I dropped off our proposal, squeaked a thanks and ran away.

Flash forward to 2016, and here I am, running late for the same meeting—but this time, I’m an operator. I feel the same fear that I am woefully inexperienced. I don’t know anything about radio, I don’t belong here.

Entering the same room, it seemed fuller, the people even cooler. My eyes wide, the whole room stared back and me and I felt red from embarrassment. “Don’t be afraid,” a girl joked beside me. I ran to the back and hid for the rest of the meeting, unable to escape that shy awkward girl I had always been.

Despite that, Jill Staveley sparked excitement in the shyest operators and programmers by telling us, “if you fuck up it’s okay”.

Young Trent students: the fact is, you gotta start somewhere, and you have to push yourself away from Symons Campus and see what there is around you that’s going to get you to the CBC, to the completion of your novel, to make your screenplays come to life.

As I write this hours before the paper goes to print, we are currently running a newspaper without a staff. This our second year at Arthur Newspaper, and after a whole year of late nights and extreme stress, we decided that not only did we want to do this again, but do it while throwing ourselves into the community and school.

We’re perfectionists. We’re way too hard on ourselves, and perhaps we take what is supposed to be a student newspaper too seriously. The reason for that is we had great editors when we were reporters. I had bosses who, though they were my age and my closest friends, recognized a talent in my insecure self and pushed me to grow and flourish at this newspaper. They paved the path for us to run our very own business, and soon it will come time for a writer from this year to do the same.

We hope you have been reading the paper the last few weeks, and seen our shift in focus to community members who have, just like my editors, fostered new generations of leaders. Today, I write this editorial to you, the student body: the future leaders of this community. We are the last of a generation of staff here at Arthur Newspaper. I have watched community organizations around us transform, grow, fall apart, and gain new leadership. My first step into grassroot movements was working for Community and Race Relations Committee, which opened me up to a world of action, initiatives, and activism that exists in this community. For many, The Theatre on King will bring about their first beautiful realization of hey, I wrote something, it’s a play now; my story has come to life! For others it will be Trent Radio, or Absynthe Magazine, or making your very own zine like the late and great NewFangled. My point is that the reason for going to university isn’t simply to get that degree. It’s realizing what you’re capable of. If you push yourself to do things, even if it’s just one little thing, there’s no looking back to everything you can accomplish here.

I found my voice at Arthur Newspaper when a race relations issue at campus really bothered me. I wrote about my first piece on it, and my then-editors made it the front page. I was shocked, and realized I’d almost forgotten that I wanted to be a writer, though that’s all I’ve ever really wanted to do. There was space for my writing somewhere.

That feeling of pride, seeing your work in the paper, it never goes away, I promise you that. Having people read your work, and being a part of something that actually leads you somewhere.

I’m writing to tell you, yes you, in the back of the class, dazed and confused, on the front lines of a movement, in your

room unable to bring yourself to that lecture, you could have all of this. One day, you could run a newspaper, a radio station, an organization that means something, right here in Peterborough.

Don’t believe me? Read James Kerr’s interview. He was just like me, and just like you—a quiet, shy and creative individual.

He told us at the time of our re-election that Arthur Newspaper had a staff bigger than the Peterborough Examiner. We live in a world where print media is slowly dying, but Arthur will exist as long as Trent University does. He asked, what are we going to do to get this print publication to the level of seriousness it should be?

It will be so weird not seeing Kerr at Arthur elections, or to be embraced by his kindness upon entering Trent Radio. It is sad to know that many newcomers may not get to know who I am talking about.

Another generation of community programming, changed, gone, with only this newspaper caring enough to capture it; a fragment of time in a photograph of writing.

To you, students, I have this to say.

We want the best, the most creative, and the most passionate of you. By the time I found my place in Arthur, I was involved in student body government; I had started my own club; I was in my last year at Trent.

“I can’t commit to being on staff,” I told my disappointed editors—then ended up writing for them anyways, because whatever I did, I found I could really affect true change at this paper.

Whether it’s your last year or your first month, do this. Even though you’re busy, you’re stressed and you can’t find time to feed your cat—become involved. Because all of this could be yours. Your very own newspaper, your very own play, your own radio drama. And it will lead you to the greatest of places.

Are you a student? A writer? A passionate, creative soul? We need you! Apply to Arthur Newspaper and you could be a reporter for the best student newspaper in Canada

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CAMPUS

Debt Clock at Trent University

Pictured: (top) Leblanc, far left, beside the Federal Debt Clock (right) Trent Conservative table at Clubs and Groups Day, Make America Great Again hat on display

Josh Skinner Friday morning a large clock was unveiled outside Bata Library at Trent University.

The Trent Conservatives in concert with the Generation Screwed, a campaign of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF), put the Federal Debt Clock on display. The CTF is a not-for-profit citizens’ advocacy group that seeks to hold governments accountable. The group does this by highlighting the rising tally of public debt, which in Ontario currently stands at just over 632 billion.

In a bid to appeal to younger people who may not yet identify as taxpaying citizens, the CTF established Generation Screwed.

This campaign conducts workshops at university campuses across Canada with the message that it will be the youth who end up paying for the frivolous fiscal policies of today. Generation Screwed says that this debt will be paid through increases in income taxes unfair to current young people.

Trent University is just one of 13 schools

on the Generation Screwed campus tour.

The debt clock itself not only shows the total debt but breaks down the amount of debt owed per citizen. As it stands in Canada, the per person debt is currently just over 17,000; for those in Ontario, this number is closer to 21,000. For students who are already taking on debt through student loans, this can be a daunting statistic, considering that the government of Ontario estimates that students will accrue 22,000 in debt over a 4 year period.

The move by Trent Conservatives is one that re-centers their activity to Canadian politics amid accusations on Twitter that the group has become a surrogate for the Donald Trump campaign. In an interaction with the group’s president, Corey Leblanc (@CLeBlanc4Canada), undergraduate Zafer Izer (@rapunzaf) tweeted on Monday that “the Conservatives are a Canadian party. You have become a Trump surrogate”. This was after students attending Clubs and Groups Day witnessed the iconic “Make America Great Again” hats

on display at the Trent Conservatives booth. When asked for comment, Leblanc had this to say: “Callum and myself met Corey Lewandowski’s (Trump’s ex-campaign manager) wife’s son at the Bohemian Grove in July between cocktails with Colin Powell and Henry Kissinger. He put us in touch with the Trump campaign. We have since been working in concert with the Trump campaign to establish a puppet government in Canada once Donald Trump becomes the

next US President. As such, our ultimate goal is to have all Canadians ask the simple question “where my country gone?” and rise up against the stifling political correctness being pushed by our political elite, the Lutheran Church, and the Pokémon Go App. Any further questions I will have to forward you to Hope Hicks, press secretary of the Trump campaign”.

The Trent Conservatives are Trent’s only active group that has explicit ties to a federal Canadian party.

A freshman’s guide to sex Reba Harrison Everyone’s genitalia is different. Anal is not as quick and easy to do as it looks.

People really do wear condoms. Sex is always consensual. Non-consensual sexual action is rape. Porn is lying to you. Most friends I met in my freshman year in residence had never had sex, or were new to exploring their sexual lifestyle. I became the cheerleading coach of their sex lives with my Freshman’s Guide to Sex, which can be just as useful for non-newbies.

This guide is by no means complete; it is just to help educate you on the basics!

Pain The first time, or anytime after, is not normally supposed to hurt or bleed for a person with a vagina. Proper preparation, foreplay, and lubrication can make your sex life pleasant and enjoyable, as it should be. Relax your muscles, build up to it with foreplay over time.

(Disclaimer: Everyone’s body is different.

It may hurt/bleed for some people and this is okay, but it is not very common.)

Birth Control Always have condoms. At the very least, be clear beforehand as to who is providing them. Your residential dons have them for free. Condoms are smart. Condoms are good. Condoms can be fun in colours, flavours, and textures… especially the ribbed ones (do NOT try the Fire and Ice type; it burns!). If you are embarrassed acquiring condoms, ask yourself why you’re

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embarrassed, and if you’re even ready for sex. Condoms won’t work if put on upside down. Practice, and have extras. Make sure to have the wearer hold the base of the condom when they pull out. It can get stuck inside the wearer’s partner if they do not notice, and cause an infection.

If you need a dental dam, you can cut a condom into a large rectangle and use this! Remember: condoms are only 98% effective when used properly. Do not flush your condoms! Tie them in a knot to keep the sperm in and throw them in your trash.

Talk to your doctor about the best type of additional birth control. The pill, the patch, IUD, etc. Do you really want to risk pregnancy? Tuition, rent, and food is expensive enough! Even with a birth control method, you should still use condoms to defend against STI’s, and also because it will help ease the wearer in with the smooth latex and lubricant.

Tip: Trent is a breeding ground for chlamydia, so seriously, wear a condom.

Talk to your partner about the plan if you do get pregnant. Talk about what you are both agreeing to consensually do during sex. If you don’t feel comfortable saying no, choose another safe word that means ‘no’ and ‘stop.’ (If you cannot comfortably do these, ask yourself why, as well as if you are ready for sex with this partner.)

During Sex Foreplay is your friend! If it is your first time especially, fingering will help gradually stretch the vagina/anus to prepare for penetration. A loosened vagina is an

aroused vagina, but it’s a little more work with anal. If you don’t get very wet but feel comfortable and turned on, don’t worry, just use lubricant! Water-based is easier to clean up, but oil-based lasts longer. Relax, have fun! If you are stressed or nervous, your penetrated muscles will tighten and cause discomfort or pain.

One trick to relax is to take a deep breath out, and relax your lower body, while your partner makes small thrusts until they slide right in. Feel free to try different positions in order to find your favourites.

Sometimes certain positions don’t work for certain people, and that’s okay! Everyone’s genitalia is different; some are tilted one way or enjoy different spots.

Don’t be afraid to say “a little further up” or “slower.” You want to pleasure your partner, right? Well, they want to pleasure you too, so help them do it right!

And for those applicable, don’t be afraid to direct your partner’s penis toward your vaginal opening; you probably know where it is quicker than your partner.

Orgasming For people with a vagina who enjoy penetration during sex, you probably will not orgasm the first time. In fact only 25% of women can orgasm at all through vaginal penetration alone. That is not even bringing the statistic down to how many people orgasm the first time with someone; your partner needs to learn and understand your body well in order to bring an orgasm. Don’t fake it; if you are honest and build trust, you are more likely to orgasm

sooner in your relationship, and a lot of the vaginal orgasm is mental stimulation. Plus if you fake it, your partner may think they know what they did to make you feel that good, and will continue doing that.

Afterwards Clean up. And pee! You want to flush out any bacteria that may have entered your body. For people with a vagina, peeing will absolutely hurt. This is normal as you made hundreds of tiny tears in your labia and the urine is cleaning them out.

Trust me, it will hurt much much more if you wait until the morning. For those applicable, if for some reason you did not use a condom and your partner’s sperm entered your vagina, squatting over a rag helps to bring some sperm out.

Never douche yourself, just take a warm bath and relax, or use your shower head to clean yourself. Sex is natural and your vagina has a natural cleansing process.

Cuddle, and talk about what was great and what you want to try differently next time.

This doesn’t mean you and your partner(s) must be in a relationship, but even if you are only having sex once, it is usually great to exchange notes.

Respect your partner. Don’t tell people things they wouldn’t feel comfortable sharing. Don’t ignore your partner in public, even if you don’t plan on being friends. We can make Trent happy, safe, and sexy.

Editors’ Note: A portion of birth control is covered by your Health Insurance through the TCSA.

PRIDE SCHEDULE SEPTEMBER 2016 Tuesday the 20th Peterborough Pride is Healthy @Buckhorn Lake Room, Peterborough Public Health 12:00-1:00pm Express Yourself! Speaking Out @Sadleir House Lecture Hall 1:00pm-2:00pm FREE Pride Euchre Gathering @ The Spill 6:00pm FREE Drag Bingo @ Delta Gaming 7:00pm $15 Wednesday the 21st Drama Queens: An LGBTQ2 Theatre @ Theatre on King, 159 King St 2:00pm-5:00pm PWYC Trent Film Society and Pride present: But I’m a Cheerleader @ The Market Hall Corner of Charlotte and George 8:00pm Free

Friday the 23rd

Pride Day on Trent Radio 92.7 FM Radio 8:00am-8:00pm Trans Day of Resiliency @Seeds of Chance 3:00pm-7:00pm Quick, Queer Meet-Cutes @Black Honey $10 or PWYC It’s a Drag Race! @Catalina’s (131 Hunter Street) 7L00pm Saturday the 24th PFLAG Pre-Parade Brunch @Peterborough City Hall 1:30pm Pride in the Park @Millenium Park 2:30pm-6:00pm Square Dance for Everyone!

St. John’s Anglican Church Donation at the door The Official Pride Show: The Market Hall Doors @7:30pm $10 or PWYC

Thursday the 22nd

mysterious entity presents: ACT ON IT! @The Garnet The Morning After @ Positive Care Clinic (159 King St. Suite 8:00pm-11:00pm $10 at doors 305) Also 9:00am to 12:30pm @Peterborough Public Health (185 King) TIDAL WAVE Pride After-Party @Shots 1:00pm-7:00pm 8:30pm $10 in advance/$15 at doors Frontrunners Walk/Run 19+ @ Dreams of Beans Cafe 6:00pm run/walk 7:00pm eat at Sam’s Deli

Sunday the 25th

Take Back The Night @ Residence Circle, Fleming College 7:00pm Free

Hangover Bangover Pride Roller Derby Scrimmage @Legacy Bowl 3:00pm Free

Pride Spoken Word Spectacular @ The Spill Sign up at 7:30, Slam at 8:00pm $5 or PWYC

Between the Covers: Show and Tell Edition Patio of the Only Cafe 3:00pm

There is a Pride for you Shan Culkeen There is a Pride for You. I attended my first Pride Parade by accident. For five minutes. It was cold and windy, and I could only stay for the length of a quick smoke break. I hadn’t known about the parade, but my first cigarette of the kitchen shift just happened to coincide with shouting and a riot of colour down George Street.

I called to a silver-haired couple walking in tutus.

“Is this Pride?!”

“It’s Pride! Happy Pride!” They strutted away laughing, a vision of true love in pink tulle. I laughed too, clapping my hands. I thought it was wonderful, and I wanted to tell everyone back in the restaurant kitchen about what I’d seen: the pipe band, the trade unions, and the families. I smoked as slowly as I could.

I was about to head in, but over the wind I heard people begin to sing. Suddenly, I was sobbing and I couldn’t stop. Even amid the booming sound systems playing Cher and Madonna, the song was unmistakable. They were singing “Jesus Loves Me.” I balled up my apron in my hands, sat on the sidewalk and cried.

I looked up and I was surrounded by the singers: It was St. Andrew’s United and the Affirm congregations of Peterborough. They looked worried; through my ugly-crying I managed to thank them and promise that I was ok. They marched on in a swirl of glitter and streamers.

They couldn’t know that I had lost my faith community when I came out, and that they were the first LGBT+ affirming congregation I’d ever seen. I’d been told before that I was forever cut off from my spiritual life. Now, the first time, I felt that maybe there was a place for queers like me, and that God loved me still. These wonderful allies in their royal blue shirts had told me so.

I invite you to come to Pride, to engage critically and passionately with it. I know I do. Most of all, come and find the parts of Pride that are life-giving just for you. There are things that we can give each other as a community that no powers nor state can ever take away.

Issue 3 is our Pride Issue!

We invite Trent University and the greater Peterborough community to participate and send us articles, photography, and creative pieces pertaining to the celebration of the LGBT+ community. Please email your submissions to us

by September 22 at noon to editors@trentarthur.ca

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An interview with Trent University President Leo Groarke It’s still less than a thousand students. If you took an extra thousand students, you’d still have the smallest campus in Ontario. I think some small increases here, especially to help the budget, is not a bad thing. But I don’t envision huge growth for Trent University. If people feel that they want it to go in that direction, then they need to get involved in that discussion. I don’t think the Board would be interested. We want to be a smaller university known for quality. We want to have some PhD programs and graduate programs. We will have to manage our enrollment, and we’re going to have to think in an open way about what we want to do with our residences.

One of the reasons to do Traill residences this year is that I would rather put students in Trent residences than find some private apartment for them to go to. In a way, going to Traill is not just good for Traill but good for Trent.

Have you seen the new residences at Traill?

You know, I haven’t. I’ve got photos of them but they were just finished recently. It was really crazy. The people from physical resources did a fantastic job and the city was very supportive. There are all sorts of approvals and inspections that have to go on with big changes like this and I would say that the people at the city and our physical resources people did a fantastic job. I was sweating a little bit for a while, we were not sure, but they got it all done.

How many residences are there?

Photos by Samantha Moss Yumna Leghari and Zara Syed The Traill Review is all done. What was it like working with an old friend?

Well, I should just say that I didn’t have much to do with Chris Tindale while he did the Traill Review. I mean, he came and visited me in the beginning, but I try not to get personally involved during the review. The idea is to bring somebody from the outside; I’ve had a lot of luck asking people to do reviews, because I really give them the space to come to the conclusions they want to come to. So I probably had three conversations with him during the review and met with him once. He’s in philosophy, so I saw him in philosophy conferences. I don’t feel that I was really working with him. I feel that he has written a good review, I feel that he was the right kind of person because he’s clearly very sympathetic to Traill, but he’s also pretty objective and understands some of the issues Traill will deal with.

Students voiced their concerns that you two were friends, and Tindale was quick to point out that he had no problem arguing or disagreeing with you.

[Laughs.] Oh yeah, he definitely has no problem doing that.

I think there are a couple different perspectives. Let me put it this way. One perspective is the professional student services model of how universities should work, and that’s a different model than the collegiate model. I think there was disagreement and there are people on both sides of that, and obviously Profesor Tindale came down on the collegiate side of things. And that’s okay; I welcome that. I think that going forward, this is about trying to create a college in the traditional sense. Which means that it will have a different approach to student services than the rest of the university.

Does Traill stand out as more collegial compared to the other colleges at Trent?

I think in the college system, one of the big differences is that it’s run by an academic, so the principal is a professor. And a lot more of the decisions are made by professors and by the community in the particular college. So you can’t totally extract it from decision-making and the rest of the university, but it will end up being more independent. And then we’ll see what happens with other colleges.

In his review, Tindale wrote ‘I should stress that ... the core of an interdisciplinary college is the graduate student body.

The core should be retained and even reinforced by moving the Graduate Studies Office and Dean to Traill.’ What do you think, in broad terms, is the future of graduate students

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at Trent?

I certainly think that there is an important place for graduate students at Traill [but] I don’t know whether the Graduate Studies Office would move to Traill. You know, the Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies have to be involved in any decision like that. I think one has to be careful; there are a significant number of graduate students that are attached to their labs that are on this campus, but that will work itself out. I don’t know what happens in that regard, but the conclusion isn’t that Traill should become an undergraduate college and not have graduate students. The conclusion is to mix undergraduate and graduate students. That’s the model that we’re going to seek and to develop. I would have thought there would be a special emphasis on students connected to the graduate programs that are already at Traill; cultural studies, public texts, and all that.

I would say more generally that I don’t expect us to follow all of Professor Tindale’s recommendations. Just like he has no problem disagreeing with me, I have no problem disagreeing with him. But the spirit of it, I think, will go on.

For example, he’s got some ideas about connection to the downtown and continuing education; I think we’re going to explore all of those. But I wouldn’t expect at the end of the day that a 100% of what he recommended will happen. In fact, I think the biggest decision was to put undergraduates there. That took hundreds of thousands of dollars to do those renovations.

That being said, absolutely, there needs to be graduate student presence at Traill college.

With the 17% enrollment increase, more students are in need of residences. Do you have any reflections on past decisions made at Trent to sell off lands and property? Do you think we would be better off now if that hadn’t happened?

I think one of the things we have to do is not go too far with our enrollment. You know, we’re about 8,000 students, and that may grow to become 10,000 students. Nobody is looking to make us a 20,000 student campus. So we will need to start to think about how many students we do accept; we could increase the admission average and that could cut back on the students that come. We can try to manage that.

I don’t know what to say about past properties. I wasn’t there for that, but maybe having extra students, if this continues and we’re comfortable with it, maybe it will give us the opportunity to do more capital developments. They could be

on this campus, they could be on Traill. I think that the Argyle residents are very interesting. You should go and visit because at first I was skeptical, but it’s close to the downtown core and they’re nice residences. Although it would be nice if we could move those students to Trent residences. We’re going to have to explore more options in that regard. I don’t know if that’s more building, or more renting from other people. We will need to sort that out. It’s not just first year students, because when we saw that we were not going to have enough resident spaces for our students, we went and looked at the possibility of renting from private developers.

It was very difficult to do because they were all full.

It just wouldn’t have been the case if we hadn’t sold those properties. We’re in this conundrum because we are growing, and maybe one day we will no longer be a small university.

In the original model, we were meant to expand our campus and our colleges. The original model for Trent had 11 colleges. So we’re in a transitional phase right now, trying to figure out how to deal with change.

It’s interesting because it does raise questions of what Trent wants to be long term. My guess is that if you went to the [Trent Board of Governors]—and the board is key—my guess is that they would very strongly say they want to keep Trent a small university under 10,000.

I’m curious if you think different, but their idea is that there are some advantages of being small that we would lose if we were 20,000 students.

Well, we don’t want 600-seat lecture halls where we don’t really meet our instructor. We don’t want to be in a classroom watching our instructor on a screen from the next classroom. It is such a disconnect and a lack of quality. We experienced this at a lecture at McMaster, in fact.

I think that when you get really big, graduate students do the teaching. I have talked to students who have gone to McMaster. I can remember one in particular who told me that there were too many students for the room, so they had three rooms. The professor taught in one room, and there were televisions in the other ones. She told me very wittily, ‘I never even stepped into the same room as the professor.’ So I think we all clearly want to avoid that. We want to be small small enough to be interactive, and you can get to know your professors, and there are lots of goings on in the community that way. So we have to watch, I think.

Are we struggling to find a balance as a university?

I think we’re fine at the moment, especially in Durham.

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The Retention Review is very interesting. Particularly regarding what David McMurray said about the identity of the colleges: ‘In building a more integrated learning and personal development ideology, Trent must consider the relationship between its comprehensive institutional identity and the independence of the colleges. Debate over their often conflicting roles continues. The consultant suggests that Trent could maximize the quality of the education it offers and its reputation by recognizing the colleges for their distinct and explicit identities at the same time that it harmonizes and unites them as one. Continued conflict between the two identities will prolong the weaknesses of not forging them together.’ Is Trent making a commitment to the college system?

a leader in internationalization, and it would be at the VP level, which is a level above what it’s at now. Jackie Muldoon is running that competition and there will be an advertisement. But the idea is that all the different components of internationalization should be put together by that person.

A lot of international students often go to TIP for resources.

Do you have any plans to expand the future of TIP? I think the first plan is to challenge the way that you think.

Which is ‘here’s an opportunity to think about everything that you want to do, to think about whether we could do it in a better way.’ I mean, costs and finances are part of that, and I think that that’s really got to come from the new leader, but I will give you an example: So, we’ve had a lot of talk about TIP camp. It’s been hugely successful, and we’re certainly going to keep it. But we’re thinking of moving it to campus. To do the kinds of things that are done at TIP camp, whether it’s canoeing or whatever else, would work out really well. You know, some international students come here after a long trip, and what they really want is their room and instead they hop onto a yellow school bus and they get taken up north. And actually, to some of these people it even causes anxiety. You grow up in Hong Kong or something, and all of a sudden all you see are trees. The idea would be that we want to give them that same bonding experience, you know, they get a chance to meet and bond with other students before school starts, but we want them to get to know this campus. We want international students to know that we have wildlife trails, and if you need to go on a walk and think about things during the year, those trails are here.

Hopefully with the new leadership, we can think about all the things that we do. I certainly think that one of the things we aim to do is increase the number of international students on campus.

Would the students be from all over the world or specific countries?

I think that the hope is for them to come from all over.

But for example, we are at about 6.5 % international, and let’s say we aim for at least 10% or 12%. Hopefully they will be from everywhere but we start with China and India. Those are the two places that the bulk of international students come from. We are developing some graduate programs that I think will be of some interest to China. We don’t have a lot of recruitment going on in India at the moment so that would be a new development; we’ve just started doing things in India. There are a lot of Nigerian students here and I think we need to take that seriously, and we have a lot of Saudi students here. I think other places in Africa as well. My new assistant Ngina is from Kenya. So, we will certainly try and mix it up. I think it will start with China and India.

Any further comments?

A couple comments! One, and I need to be careful, I’ve only been here 3 years, but I’ve seen more energy this Orientation Week by far since I began here. This has been the most energetic and most dynamic week. I wanted to get a little bit of a professorial role, I miss teaching, so I did a session with students. It was myself and six other professors and we had 200 students come to a session on academic skills. Just look at the number of people swimming in the water. I think there are some good things happening; the baseball diamonds are all done and it’s exciting watching the Student Center slowly appear (it should be done by next September). The soccer field is there.

We want to get more development in the Research Park, and a big part of that is to provide employment and research opportunities for students.

Yes, there’s no question about that. How does it translate in practice? Academic support or advising. There are a couple of models that universities use and in a lot of places, all of the academic advisors sit in one place. Every student knows that they’re there, and every student knows where to go and they work together. Does one want that model or does one want a model that is focused on the colleges, so that you get to know your college and it’s the college that you go to where you want academic advising or academic skills development? I think that to some extent we’re committed to the latter group.

It’s in the colleges, but in specific cases we just have to work out what works best for students.

I certainly think residences have to be run by one group of the university. Like you can’t have different models for residences in each college. I mean the rooms can be different but one group has to run those. Of course, they need to be run in a way so that the people who take care of Gzowski residences [for example], the dons and other people in there, are very attached to a full-on college.

All units managing the colleges need to be working together.

We read your response to the Internationalization Review. There’s an advocacy for centralizing the various facets that deal with international students and study abroad programs. We are referring to international academia as well. Can you comment?

When you talk about academic programs, to some extent different departments and different faculties are going to do different things, and you need to give them the space to do those. But when you’re talking about programming, the idea that came from the Internationalization Review is to hire

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TRAILL

Traill, Tradition and Change: what does being a “traditional” college mean in the 21st century?

“Throughout its various iterations, Traill has never lost its capacity for innovative programming.

It retains the potential to develop into something quite distinct among Ontario’s post-secondary institutions… if a multi-year plan is put into place, with a series of clear and achievable interim goals to measure success, then something unique and exiting can emerge.”

– Dr. Christopher Tindale, Traill Review.

Dr. Michael Eamon On June 28th, President Leo Groarke released the Traill Review and his initial response to its recommendations.

Playing upon the college’s already established strengths, author Christopher Tindale recommended that Traill become more academic in focus and deepen its ties with the surrounding downtown community.

The initial changes have been swift. With the release of the Traill Review, the President appointed me to a three-year term as Principal, so that I could, in his words, “lead the transition to a new Traill which will embrace collegiate traditions.” A massive renovation project, started in July, has just completed, creating new residence spaces in Wallis Hall for 27 undergraduates. The Trend, our beloved dining space, has increased its food services and more changes are on the way.

Creating a balance between tradition, change and the recommendations of the Traill Review will not be easy.

As in all external reviews, not every recommendation can be, or should be, implemented. To this end, the President has asked Dr. Nona Robinson, AVP Students, to work with me in the evaluation and execution of the Traill Review. For Traill’s supporters (and there are many), the con-

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tinuation of Trent’s oldest college has been much welcome news. Now with the future of this beloved space more assured, the real work—as the saying goes—is about to begin.

This year, I would like to re-establish the student cabinet, re-evaluate and refurbish student spaces, and restore student supports. Starting this fall, we will have parttime counselling services, academic skills and academic advising. We will be asking you how we can improve and expand these, and other, services. Traill already boasts several much-loved collegiate spaces such as the JCR and SCR. What new spaces are required? Is there interest in a renewed computer lab with resource centre and library? How about an outdoor theatre space? In your opinion, what strengths can we develop?

Beyond these specific ideas, how does one “embrace collegiate traditions” in the 21st century?

I have previously written in Arthur about the importance of having a “Collegiate Compass:” a set of core values that can help us to determine the relevance of old traditions and to also create new ways of doing things.

Over the next few years, Traill will find direction from many places: our faculty, our students, our alumni; the Peterborough community and around the world.

Currently, I head Collegiate Way Inter-

national, a body dedicated to sharing global best practices. It is comforting to know that Traill not only has support from Trent’s President, Provost and Board of Governors, but from dozens of collegiate universities from Oxford to Macau. It is also interesting to note that some of the newest universities being built in the world—in Singapore and China, for instance—are collegiate universities. In a world where higher enrolments and student anonymity are increasingly the norm, more and more institutions of higher education are starting to look to the collegiate tradition to create smaller academic communities and dynamic incubators of thought and interaction.

Embracing college traditions, in my mind, can also represent a few other key things.

A first tradition, or guiding principle, is that that the college is an academic community, integrated into the larger university, but still independent to some degree and distinctive in spirit.

Secondly, a college should be rooted in a past that offers consistency in an uncertain present, but also should not hesitate to embrace newness and diversity in all of its forms. In this sense, I would agree with Dr. Tindale’s assessment that “given the current makeup of Traill, there is an opportunity to promote the academic vision of the earlier model within the more practical realities of the contemporary university.” (Traill Re-

view, p. 6) A college should be an institution with a past, but one that is not stuck there.

Thirdly, the college should be a community of scholars—of all ages—and it should be led by someone who is directly invested in the scholarly mission of the university and who has devoted their life to the path of higher education.

The core collegiate values of integrity, community-mindedness, humility, acceptance, understanding and scholarship are secular values that can unite us all and fuel learning and inquiry.

Fourthly, the Principal and College Office need to be the central authority for the college spaces to ensure that every aspect from programing to the day-to-day operations respects the academic, interdisciplinary, international and intergenerational mission.

Finally, and most importantly, a college must be fun! The rigours, frustrations and stresses of higher education are too numerous to count. Isolation, depression and loneliness is far too common. A college has to be a place where friends come together to support each other and enjoy each other’s company.

If you believe in this vision; if you are seeking out a place of acceptance; or, if you just want to have fun, then I ask you to join us. We need your help to build the new Traill!

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Photography by Samantha Moss

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ARTS

Artsweek unites city and campus communities for celebration of arts Donald Fraser

Asked to describe Artsweek, Program Director Laurel Paluck says that it is “bold, quiet, intense, playful, serious, mysterious, intelligent, delirious, magical, practical, emotional, curious, demanding, rewarding…”

And that’s her just getting warmed up.

“Artsweek is a thought-provoking, soulevoking journey into the heart of Peterborough,” she adds.

More specifically, it is Peterborough’s annual festival of the arts—a ten day, multi-disciplinary showcase of creativity that began as part of the City’s Centennial Celebrations in 2005. It is an annual event that strives to bring new work to new audiences, support original creation by local artists, and celebrate Peterborough as a creative community.

Best of all, it is a 100% free festival.

This is the festival’s 11th installment— and it gets more ambitious every year. This season features 30 projects involving almost 100 outstanding artists in a celebration of original, home-grown works showcased in many exciting Artsweek Signature Programs.

Your best bet to view all the action is to check out the schedules and program at artsweekptbo.com, your online home for all things Artsweek. Here are just a few teasers from the many planned events and installations.

WORDS captures the often elusive art of language in new and imaginative ways.

The Take Out Poetry Cart (curated by Ziysah von Bieberstein) will serve up poems to go with any occasion (a limerick for your toddler? A birthday poem for your boss? A sonnet for your sweetie?). Heliotrope (by Wendy Trusler) offers up words burned into gorgeous reclaimed wood, evoking themes of new beginnings. Words Not Bombs (by Food Not Bombs) brings together witty verse and good food to feed both the body and the soul—a poetry slam that shouldn’t be missed. Storefront Stories

(by Kate Story) will create a piece of literature using one sentence per George Street storefront, that can be read by passersby travelling north-south between Hunter and Simcoe Streets. Meanwhile, cafés across the downtown will be wrapping eCityLit “micro-literature” sleeves of short poetry and prose around their cups. This is but a taste of the many linguistic treats that Artsweek will dish up!

BLINK on Charlotte showcases eight commissioned artists working in a variety of media and styles to transform Charlotte Street storefronts and our downtown streetscape into works of art. Moonflowers (Laura Madera) will be a massive, glow-inthe-dark botanical watercolour of morning glories climbing from the ground floor windows of LLF Lawyers into the upper level windows. Patrick Moore’s How to Honour a Tree presents an artistic vision of a tree growing within the multi-storey windows of Kawartha Cardiology Clinic, inspiring viewers to reflect on the nobility and importance of our trees. Rabbits vs.

Monsters (Ann Jaeger) describes and helps us process the 21st century diet of collective trauma, powerlessness, and juxtaposed banal entertainment, through large black and white acrylic paintings with collage and hand-stitching on tarp, viewed through the windows of the new Chasing the Cheese store. All eight pieces can be viewed as part of a guided tour and are also available for viewing throughout the entire festival.

Pop-Up Arts will surprise people across the city with installations in the most unexpected locations.

To the River (Shannon Taylor) will be both contemplative and riveting—a live, sound-based performance featuring the London Street footbridge as a percussive instrument around which performers create a melodic soundscape of drifting vocal harmonies answering the motion of wind and water. Nibi/Maa’ (Sarah DeCarlo and Amro Khito) is both a short film and an opportunity to share an in-canoe chat with the artists as they recount the first conver-

sations between two youths, one First Nations and one Syrian, embarking on a canoe ride across our shared waters (Nibi / Maa’). These are just two of many Pop Up Arts projects in store.

Porchapalooza invites you to take a tour of East City verandahs and savour a movable feast of live music: classical, blues, alternative folk, root soul and cajun tunes performed by Rick Fines, Evangeline Gentle, Paul Clark White, Pays d’en Haut, High & Lonesome (Bobby Watson & Kate Kelly), and The 3 Martinis. Porchapalooza is curated by Washboard Hank & Sweet Muriel.

Things wrap up with New Moon Afternoon, the Artsweek grand finale. This is a “create your own adventure event” as the Artsweek crew transforms Millennium Park into a treasure trove full of exciting art happenings. Join an “art attack,” bring a picnic basket and blanket, relax and enjoy

an early autumn day by the water. Get your circus on, see the unicycles square dance, make shadow puppets, and so much more.

Artsweek is a truly inclusive event, bringing together both the Peterborough and Trent communities in an artistic celebration that unites us all.

“There are about 100 artists, 80 businesses and organizations and 50 or more volunteers who help out with Artsweek,” notes Electric City Culture Council Executive Director and Artsweek Manager, Su Ditta. “We call it ‘Planet Artsweek’ and it is astonishing how many of them are Trent graduates or Trent students.

There are Artsweek events at Traill College and the entire festival brings “town and gown” together for 10 days of free cultural events!

Its a great way to get to know the downtown, see Millennium Park and check out the local arts scene.”

Trent Film Society presents: But I’m a Cheerleader (1999)

Alex Karas Trent Film Society welcomes you back to another year of film screenings!

We at TFS have been working hard on our schedule for the fall term and we’re happy to announce that we have selected a lineup of classic, cult and independent films for your viewing pleasure.

If you’re new to Trent and have never been to a TFS screening, you should know that we are a student group that hosts free (yes, free!) public film screenings once a week, paid for by your levy money (thanks!). The venue of our screenings var-

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ies but is generally in the downtown core.

Our first screening of the year, John Carney’s Sing Street (2016), a coming-of-age story about a group of downtrodden teenagers in Dublin who start a rock band, was well attended and featured some great discussion from the audience. We would like to continue this trend by hosting films that are accessible to audiences (nothing boring and pretentious, we promise), are interesting and thought-provoking.

For our next screening, we will be teaming up with Peterborough Pride to show a cult classic of LGBT+ cinema, Jamie Babbit’s But I’m a Cheerleader. In case you didn’t know, September 17-24th is Pride Week in Peterborough and there are a variety of events planned downtown and elsewhere throughout the week (check out peterboroughpride.ca for more information).

LGBT+ culture is known for its cult films, the screening of which has become a yearly tradition around Pride, and we are happy to participate in this tradition.

Recent events such as the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Florida remind us that homophobia and transphobia are far from extinguished and confirm the necessity of Pride Week to combat discrimination against and hatred of LGBT+ people.

But I’m a Cheerleader is a campy, overtly political comedy that satirizes the practice of conversion therapy, a controversial technique that aims at changing the sexual orientation of LGBT+ people. Although it has been roundly condemned by many medical

and psychological organizations as pseudoscientific, ineffectual and unethical, this practice continues to persist in some fringe movements of the religious right, particularly in the United States.

The plot of the film follows Megan, a lesbian whose misguided parents send her to a camp that aims to convert LGBT+ teenagers into becoming straight, conservative and joyless by forcing them to engage in gender-stereotypical behavior and curtailing their attraction for their desired gender.

The film showcases such abusive practices as administering electric shocks to discourage homoerotic thoughts, gender segregation, and misleading and harmful sex education.

Of course, since the premise of the camp involves a large number of gay and lesbian teenagers living together, this attempt fails spectacularly and the teens flout the authority of their homophobic counsellors by flirting and secretly going to a nearby gay bar.

By intentionally exaggerating and playing up gender stereotypes (much of the film is awash in vivid pinks and blues) the film aims to show how ridiculous and artificial the gender roles that are normative in our society really are.

Its quirky visual style and ironic humour have been compared to the work of notable director John Waters, who made many LGBT+-themed films during his long career and is gay himself.

The film was both written and directed

by Babbit, who has had a productive career as a screenwriter and director for many well-known TV shows (including the lesbian-driven series The L Word). She was inspired to write the film from her own experiences, being lesbian and having a mother who ran a rehabilitation camp for teenagers with addictions.

Because of its frank depiction of sexuality, the film was the subject of a controversy over its rating of NC-17 (the most restrictive rating), criticized as a homophobic double standard since films with similar content that depict heterosexual characters do not receive the same restrictions. Babbit challenged this rating and succeeded in having it changed to R. The film was negatively received by many critics, who did not like its blatant political message and depiction of LGBT+ stereotypes. Audiences responded more warmly however, and the film was shown at many film festivals, including TIFF and Sundance, to an enthusiastic response. Although it was one of the lowest-grossing films of the year, it remains popular in the LGBT+ community for its humour and style of over-the-top parody.

TFS will be showing But I’m a Cheerleader on September 21st at Market Hall. The screening begins at 8 p.m. and will be preceded by a discussion about queer cinema by community member Quinn McGladeFerentzy. We hope that you will attend this and many more screenings we have to offer you this year.

COMMUNITY

An interview with James Kerr of Trent Radio Zara Syed

Photo by Elizabeth Thippawong

Beginnings I started at Trent Radio in 2002. I was in second year in the Great Hall at Champlain. My friend Ryder Ziola said, “Hey James! Do you want to do a radio show?!”

And I was like, “Oh, God… Grrrnerrr.”

Because I was nervous. Because I’m pretty shy.

And he said, “No! It’s going to be great, we’ll do a show about Star Trek.”

And I thought, well, I like Star Trek.

When we went Barb Woolner, Program Director at the time, she was very warm and welcoming. She’s working at Trent Walkhome now.

Because, you see, these people tend to stick around on campus one way or another, and do the things they love. She got us on the air, and I felt horribly unprepared, sweating with fear, I think I wanted to throw up all over the microphone. Then, when I was done, I had that kind of reliefsweat, and I was like… Ah, I did something really cool I didn’t know I was capable of [laughs].

Making mistakes at Trent Radio I’ve always tried to be very gentle and kind with programmers. It’s because I made every mistake, I made every failure. John Muir used to call me his canary in the coal mine, because I would come upstairs and say, “John, I, uh… broke the CD player, and I’m really, really sorry… I don’t know why it’s not working.”

Oh, I broke everything. I destroyed the Studio B computer one time, because I was trying to do a radio drama that was much too big for the hard drive. I thought ooh, radio drama, that’s cool! Threw myself into it.

And like many people in university, I was escaping a terrible relationship so I devoted myself to a project and the project that I had was radio.

So I melted the computer, and John demanded, “Well, what were you doing!?”

And I said, “It was a four-hour radio drama that I was trying to make.”

I guess he thought, what is this person doing making four hour radio dramas and melting the computer?

Becoming Program Director So, very quickly I looked for other ways to get involved. I became an operator, and I got onto the Board and Ryder Ziola, who

“I think it’s really important to get people the skills, and to help develop them, and for people to fail, because if you don’t give people opportunities, there’s no future. There’s actually no future.” was President of the Board, he ended up leaving part-way through the year so I ended becoming President.

I don’t know how this happened, Zara, I don’t know how any of this happened. I was very nervous and I felt like a big fake the whole time, like someone was going to turn around the corner and go “boo!”

Partly why I wrote that last article for Arthur that way, it was my suspicion that it might be my last one.

Because I remember what it’s like to be young, and uncertain, and maybe a little insecure and not able to find your footing.

I was able to hang out with really weird people who were very different from me.

Sweaty and nervous and creative and interesting too. And then, you know, we were all sweaty and nervous in this big pile and we got less sweaty and less nervous because we got to be creative together.

So I fell in love with Trent Radio, and so when it came time for me to graduate I said to John in probably one of the boldest statements I’ve ever made in my life: “I’m coming back later, and I’m coming for your job.”

And he said, “Really? People usually like the Program Director’s job better and it’s a lot more fun.”

So then I said, “Okay, then I’m coming for that one!”

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Peterborough’s

For most of the time Laurel Paluck was Program Director and she went on to work for Peterborough NewDance, ArtsWeek, amongst other things. It’s interesting how

the really cool people at Trent Radio tend to stay in Peterborough and stay in the arts and keep doing really different things.

I think Trent Radio affects people in a kind of brainwashy way that they feel the need to help the community and to help foster new generations of Peterborough.

Part of the reason why I wanted to do this class with Liam Mitchell is that even though I’m in publishing now, I really want to do this component. I think it’s really important to get people the skills, and to help people develop them, and for people to fail, because if you don’t give people opportunities, there’s no future. There’s actually no future.

Trent Radio changing your life I want people to do really cool things. To write stories, to do radio shows, to explore their creativity. Learn how to be serious about your creativity and get a product out of it, because lots of people can be creative and never leave their apartments and never get anything done. And what Trent Radio does, and what I still try to do is to take that creativity and take that energy and get something done with it and that’s actually what people will be able to share.

It is student organizations like Arthur Newspaper, like Trent Radio, that actually connect students with the community.

Trent University is a bubble; university is a bubble of learning, but it is the extra curricular activities that define you, and that’s the way you actually connect to Peterborough.

You will not find one cool person in the arts scene in Peterborough who does not have a history with Trent Radio or Arthur.

Hot Dish: Hot Plate Hash

downtown at 225 Charlotte Street and Saturdays at the Memorial Center) and through fantastic food share programs and delivery services like Locavorest (www. locavorest.com). I like to serve my Veggie Hash with a dollop of natural yogurt and a squeeze of sriracha, but it is equally good served plain. So get frying!

Marina Wilke The beauty of this dish is that it requires very little equipment. A soup pot, frying pan, cutting board, knife and hotplate will

make this delicious, nutritious vegetarian lunch. I have listed specific veggies to include, but I encourage you to improvise and enjoy the bounty of the season! Local fresh ingredients are available at our wonderful Farmers’ Markets (Wednesdays

Ingredients: 2 tbsp cooking oil 3 potatoes cleaned and cut into 2cm cubes 1 onion diced 2 cloves garlic minced 1 bell pepper sliced 1 small zucchini cut in 2cm cubes A bunch of kale chopped (remove the veins first!)

1tsp turmeric powder 1.5 tsp dried oregano Salt to taste

And they’re all over the place, and they’re all over the world. I can’t tell you how many people from Trent Radio have gone on to not only be at other radio stations but on to the CBC. It is one thing that John tries to downplay quite wisely is that TR will not lead you to a job. And it won’t, Trent Radio will never lead you to a job. Trent Radio will be able to lead you to be the kind of person who gets the job. Arthur Newspaper does the same thing.

That’s the great thing about institutions like Trent Radio and Arthur. They make you try things, and they make you afraid and on the cusp of failure at all times and that makes you develop.

Trent Radio’s philosophy has been embedded in me for life. I’m really big on investing in failure.

Trent Radio vs. Commercial Radio The music industry is very slow to discover new things and exciting things and very slow to discover change. The kind of music that would be charting is just to get record weasels better numbers to return to their record executives.

But on Trent Radio, we had sixteen yearold girls playing Lorde six months before she was ever heard on commercial radio.

And if we were doing something like charting at Trent Radio, we would be an arm of the music industry, and that never would have happened.

The internet is moving faster than the music industry. As long as you put it in the hands of someone doing it, you get all these new and interesting things.

So rarely do you get to be a part of an institution that does good, and Trent Radio, creatively and culturally, does good in the community. If I’m going to be happy about anything I’ve done in Trent Radio, it’s that.

Trent Radio doesn’t have an identity; it teaches you to embrace your identity.

Advice for first timers Everyone’s going to be afraid. Everyone’s in the same boat as you are. It’s not only okay if you don’t know what you’re doing; it’s okay if you don’t know what you want.

I encourage people to get involved in Trent Radio who have no real interest in radio, who just are interested in the topic they’re interested in.

Like Star Trek.

Like Star Trek, it’s a great way to focus your interests.

Method: 1. Dice your potatoes and boil them for 4-7 minutes until tender, but not falling apart. Drain them and set aside to add to your fry up later.

2. While your potatoes are boiling, chop up the rest of your veggies and start frying in your oil over medium/high heat. The onions should go in first until translucent.

Next, add the pepper, zucchini, garlic, potatoes, salt and spices. Continue frying until the veggies are nearly cooked then add the kale and cook until it has softened.

3. Once the kale has softened and you have tested the potatoes to ensure they are cooked through, transfer to a bowl, add your desired condiments and enjoy!

Hot Hint: If you can’t stand the idea of a meal without meat, grab some Italian sausages, cut into medallions and fry them with the onions. It adds a whole new level of flavor to this meal.

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LISTINGS SADLEIR HOUSE Sadleir House Board Game Night: Located at the Jolly Hangman Pub. Thursday Sep. 8, 9:00pm-12:00am. 751 George Street North at the Dining Hall Room 209. Bring your friends and your favourite games. Or just bring yourself and try something new.

Free cover, coffee and tea provided. Bring snacks to share! Cash bar.

Sadleir House Library: Support the Sadleir House Library! The library consists of literature, popular fiction, non-fiction, textbooks and antiques. All books are by donation ($0.50- $2.00). The book sale will be held at the Lecture Hall Room 106.

Wheelchair accesible. October 1.

Sadleir House Science-Fiction & Fantasy Bookclub: Tuesdays 7pm-8:30pm Room 107, Library (wheelchair accessible).

This club meets monthly on the second Tuesday of the month.

OPIRG Free Market: Wednesdays 3-5pm, Thursday & Friday 1-5pm. Basement (unfortunately this is not an accessible space).

The primary goal of the Free Market is to provide a space for the redistribution of donated clothing and other items to everyone. At the Free Market “store” people can come in and take items they can use for free, without donating anything. This is not a bartering or trading system, but rather a space where items that are no longer needed by one person can be redistributed to those who need (or want) them.

Everyone is welcome to stop by during the hours of operation and take items free of charge. The Free Market is always looking for volunteers who could donate 2 hours per week to keep the project going. If you would like to be a part of this project or would like more information, please contact OPIRG at 705-741-1206 or email opirglistings@gmail.com.

Improv Class with Mike Davidson: Wednedays (until Dec 15th) from 7:30-8:30pm Dining Hall (unfortunately this space is not an accessible space). Want to try improv? Stop by for a drop-in class on Wednesday nights.

Improv is fun! Come on out and join in!

Adults $10, students $5.

Sadleir House Contemporary Book Club: Room 107 fornightly Tuesday, 7:00pm-8:30pm.

Sadleir House Contemporary Book Club. This club meets monthly on the fourth Tuesday of the month.

CAMPUS Seasoned Spoon Volunteer Call Out: Exciting opportunity! THE SEASONED SPOON IS LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS! If you are interested in food issues, sustainable food systems, cooking, or getting involved in community building and non-profit work, volunteering at the Spoon may be the right opportunity for you! Join an amazing team, learn new skills, get free meals and more!

Email spoonvolunteers@gmail.com if you are interested or for more info.

Seed Saving Workshop: Join the Trent Vegetable Gardens and Jill Bishop from Nourish Project for this workshop about how to sow the seeds of community-empowered food systems. Jill is a skilled grower, educator and avid seed saver with her own heirloom seed company, Urbantomato. She will lead us in this hands-on workshop about the basics of seed saving including how to get started, why it is important, practical tips, resources and more! As part of this workshop we will explore the Trent Community Gardens and learn how to identify, collect and clean seeds as we go. There will also be the opportunity to hear about inspiring community seed projects such as Seedy Sunday as well as take some Trent Garden saved seeds home with you! Thursday September 22, 4:00pm-6:00pm at the Trent Field Garden.

Seasoned Spoon: The Seasoned Spoon Café is grateful for the support of Trent students. Refundable levy requests by registered students will be accepted until Friday, October 21st. We serve delectable, local and organic food, Monday & Friday from 8:00-3:30, and Tuesday through Thursday from 8:00am-7:00pm, in Champlain College. For more information about the Spoon

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Honey Harvesting with Seasoned Spoon: Friday September 23, frpm 3:00pm-5:00pm. $5 or pay what you can. Located at the Trent Vegetable Garden (Field Garden).

Vegetarian Cooking 101: The foundation of this intro to vegetarian cooking workshop will be CHEAP, QUICK and EASY! Learn how to make simple, delicious and nutritious vegetarian food with our one and only fabulous head chef, Gar! This workshop will provide first time cooks, vegetarians and more experiences herbivores with a new approach to healthy home eating. Monday September 26 from 5:00pm-7:00pm at the Seasoned Spoon.

Trent field-to-table tour: Join the Seasoned Spoon Café and the Trent Vegetable Gardens for this unique and exciting fieldto-table tour. For over 10 years the Seasoned Spoon café and the Trent Vegetable Gardens have been partnering together to cultivate a field-to-table campus food system, providing students and community members with access to affordable, sustainably produced foods and hands-on learning opportunities from seed to fork. Join us as we make our way through the stunning café space, off-the grid root cellar, rooftop garden, community gardens and more! Expect some delicious food samples and as part of this tour and take the opportunity to have a meal at the Seasoned Spoon following the tour if you choose! This local food tour is being held as part of local food month in Peterborough, organized by Farms at Work and Transition Town Peterborough. Email trentvegetablegardens@gmail.com to register or for more info. Thursday September 29. Tours leave at 2:30pm & 4:30pm. Meet at the Seasoned Spoon!

LOCAL Tomboys Taking Shape: Join us for a night of gender play & geometric maneuvering.

Gordon Best Theatre, 216 Hunter St. From 6:00pm-8:00pm. A free, all ages event. For full details, visit kwic.info KWIC Announcement: KWIC appreciats the support of Trent undergraduate and graduate students to support the Global Education & Resource Centre and programs. Students are invited to request their refund by Sept 30th by email to info@kwic.info. For more info about the centre, visit kwic.info. Students who require their $3.31 Trent Oxfam refundable levy should do so by Sept 30th by emailing TrentOxfam@gmail.com. Trent Oxfam organizes lcoal education and activities related to climate change, food and gender. Please email us if you’d like to volunteer on our working group.

ARTS Constellation/conversation: Tanya Lukin Linklater and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, along with Layli Long Solider, Cheyanne Turions, and Cris Derksen will present Constellation/conversation, a new collaborative performance and installation work.

Constellation/conversation will begin on Friday September 16th 8:00pm-10:00pm with Simpson and Derksen, where they will perform Simpson’s poem “How To Steal A Canoe.” The performance will be followed by responses from Turions, Long Soldier, Lukin Linklater. Each response may assume different forms, including text, performance, and spoken word. Installation on display until September 30th at Artspace.

Upcoming events at the Gordon Best Theatre: • Citiots Improv: September 23.

• Sweet Alibi & Jadea Kellyon, Wednesday October 19. $15 All ages.

• Andy Shauf & Chris Cohen on November 26. $20 plus fees. All ages, doors at 7:00pm.

The Theatre On King Events: Intro to Tap Dance with Di Latchford. Classes start Monday Sept 12 at 7:00pm and run every Monday through the end of October.

The 4th Annual Playwright Festival deadline is September 30, 2016. Do you have a one act play? Send it in and it might be produced at TTOK in 2017.

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