Volume 46 Issue 20

March 5 - 8

(please see IAW Peterborough's schedule on page 6)

Environment Check

By Anthony P. Gulston

Last weekend First Responders from all over the province came to Trent to participate in first aid seminars and compete in a theatrical set of games designed to test their crisis management and first aid skills.

This benevolent battle of co-operation, helpfulness, and skill sharing not only extolled the virtues of those participating, but the virtues of our school as well.

The funding was made possible by your student union and the fundraising efforts of conference Finance Coordinator, Conner Brookfield. One effort was a silent auction in which legendary FR (First Responder) and conference Logistics Coordinator “Hot” Tom Colucci was bidden on. The months of hassle and planning were worth it though.

The first day of the conference was a series of helpful talks and workshops for FRs. Mike Alcott, Head of Champlain College, gave a talk on normalizing responders’ standards when faced with the influx of international students from countries that have differing standards of care. Peterborough Red Cross Branch President, Brenda McCarrell facilitated a discussion about leadership in general when it comes to First Aid organizations.

Karen Basciano of the Kawartha Sexual Assault Centre ran a seminar about how to recognize and properly deal with a victim of sexual assault. And Chris Barry was there on behalf of Peterborough EMS to speak to the relationship between First Responders and ambulance drivers. It wasn’t all Peterborough First Aid All-Stars; conference participants could update or recertify First Aid training, as well as train to become an NCCER compitition judge.

The second day of the conference is an elaboratly planned route that takes a participating schools’ FR teams of three and their Trent guides (volunteer runners) to different situations that they must respond too. Each situation is dramatically portrayed and demonstrates a wide variety of problems that a campus FR may encounter.

In one scene, a young man is in the OC bathroom beneath the School of Education and he is mutilating himself so that he can be “more beautiful.” The fake blood, fleshy putty and haunting performance from the, FR turned thespian, NCCER volunteer vividly illustrated the need of talking, discussion, and compassion when dealing with people instead of a cold, rigid, clinical approach. “It’s amazing how some people just deal with the symptoms and

First Responders take to Trent for National Conference [Trigger Warning: self-harm] don’t bother working the problem out with you,” remarked the judge of this particular situation.

Other scenes made use of the LEC Pit, the Environmental Science Building lobby, Gzowski’s Red Light District, Champlain seminar rooms, as well as SC 137. The scenarios ranged from rough sex in the Champlain concrete stairway to a set of twins being born in the LEC bathrooms.

Some would seem wacky, far fetched and contrived but they are not there to strive for accuracy; their goal was to test specific skills a responder needs to do the job.

Joy Loo & Sarah Senik, the Competition Coordinators, organized and planned out the routes and scenarios that gave volunteer runners a chance to show Trent off to the visiting responders.

The competitions are like First Responding itself; long periods of waiting and boredom punctuated with extremely heightened periods of excitement and concentration. “It’s hard to think things through in the moment,” pontificates McGill Responder Joe. “Now let’s go save some lives,” another responder retorts.

In competition, a responder has to vocalize every step of the process so that the judge knows that they are going through the

checklist in their head. The readings from their instruments are replaced by the judges voice.

To ensure fairness in the competition, the judges come from other ACERT campuses and there is a referee that mediates any perceived advantage or disadvantage. At one point, a volunteer runner showed their team to a situation via a non-designated route and thus gave an extra vantage point to the intrepid and daring McGill squad.

The situation had to be stricken from the judging criteria.

When the corn-based blood product is washed off and their first aid packs put down, the responders go from helpful, dutiful medical officers to swankily dressed lounge lizards, slinking around Peterborough’s downtown clubs, campus banquets, and wine and cheese parties. The nourishment and rug cutting are necessary parts of the highly wound work of First Responding. Prolific Absynthe writer, FR and Red Hotness captain, Jen Freele, organized the nosh and good times.

The last time Trent hosted NCCER was in 2008 and was one of the biggest conferences, but the scale and scope of NCCER 2012 at Trent was measured in awesomeness, not numbers.

in the paper this week

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TMUNS @ NAMUN, Apartheid Week p.s 2 & 3 - Write ALL the letters p. 4 - Boxers or Briefs? Briefs. p. 9 - Big Oil, Little Responsibility p. 10 - Queering Black History Month

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This week got busy and very full late in the game, but I would feel unwhole if I left the office without writing you a tiny hello.

Firstly, thank you, thank you, thank you. I love all of your letters and I hope you enjoy reading them on our humble pages. In these past two weeks the paper has been quite full of many opinions and I would like to give a shout out to whomever takes the time to share their

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opinion with the rest of us.

Secondly, there are so many interesting events coming up this week.

I hope you have time to attend some of them. International Women’s Day is coming up this week (March 8) and it would be great to see you at KWIC’s discussion Building a Culture of Peace: gender, sexuality and building solidarity across borders and binaries on that day at the World Issue’s Cafe. As well, as you can tell by the front and middle pages Isreali Apartheid Week is on now. They

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Board of Directors Chair • Ki Alleyne Secretary • Not yet named, Treasurer • Not yet named Members at Large • Caitlin Currie, Hazel Wheeler, Jacob Bogaard, Jenna Cameron, Maxim Gertler-Jaffe

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Letters Limit letters to the editors to 250 words. Letters longer than 250 words may be published but Arthur reserves the right to edit for length and clarity (but not content).

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Letters

Re: Savage Firearms Re: “who the fuck” Let’s get something straight. Mr. Davidson’s objection to Savage Firearms at Trent University has little to do with savages, implied racism, or the rest of the excuses he made in his letter. He should have focused more on his irrational dislike of firearms, which are erroneously blamed for a lot of things by people like him in Canada. Like it or not firearms have been a part of the cultural makeup in Canada for centuries, and an important part of our history. So, we should have no objections to Savage pursuing its business needs for talented people with Trent Univerisity degrees. While we’re at it, perhaps some of us would like to look at […] criminologist John Lott’s More Guns, Less Crime for a sober look at why Savage should be celebrated at Trent rather than subjected to a diatribe of presumptions and false accusations.

Quite an interesting article, but I am not surprised. I have written to multiple media sources about the on-going transphobia in the Canadian media. As part of the GBLTQ community, I understand how this affects every member - every letter - of this group. The CBC showed a complete lack: a lack of concern for those of the community watching, a virulent response to a member - a child, yet - of the community, and a lack of sensitivity to parents of transgendered children. Perhaps viewers should send the CBC a list of trans students who have been the victims of bullying and mistreatment in schools. By airing this episode, they just continued this violence (it is that—violence). Thank you to the writer of this article for bringing this issue up. So far, Arthur is the only paper I’ve read that has.

Kind regards,

I suppose, as a community we have each other to count on.

I wouldn’t, however, begin to fool myself that I am accepted.

Social evolution has a long way to go and the media will be the first marker of popular opinion.

Doug Benn, Orangeville

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have so many awesome discussions for you to take part in.

Keep an eye out about the tragic fire that damaged 22 houses in Iqaluit. We should have more on this story as more information is released. Please give if you can.

Next week, join us again, as we hope to show you the amazing talents of your Trent peers who participated in the Trent Fashion Show and the GLOW 2K12 dance performance. There will be pictures! I am quite excited.

And I thought that the media was at least beginning to reach out. Silly me.

S. Gallagher

Would you like to be an editor next year?

All you have to do is run to be elected!

Now is your chance. In order to be elected to be an editor next year you need to be on the staff collective. That means contributing to three or more issues before election day. Those in the grey box below are already qualified to create their editorial platform and run to be editor by themselves or with another staff collective member. Interested? Keep your eye out for more information these coming weeks and start submitting if you are not yet on the staff collective list!

Volume 46 Staff Collective to-date as of Issue 20 Iris Hodgson Miranda Rigby Tyson Shennett Chelsea Rodrigues Andie Hartshorne-Pople Monica Trzeciakowski Matt Jarvis Andy Cragg Carmen Meyette Pat Reddick Wesley Collett-Taylor Mya Rushnell

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Letters

Inter-generational warfare

Aramark also does good

Dear Editors, I was interested to read your editorial urging Baby Boomers to retire p.d.q. to make room for the younger generation. Given how many there are of us and how many there are of you, the generosity of the offer to keep us in leisure rather than have us pay our way is quite extraordinary. So I shall put down my quill pen and pull the rocker onto the porch. Thank you, Miranda.

Yours gratefully, Jackie Tinson Department of Ancient History & Classics Champlain College

Water Street Residence Fulfilling the Vision Dear Editor, It is clear that the Water Street Residence has received a lot of criticism over the past few years for a number of reasons. However, I wanted to write to shed light on the positive aspects of this new development. It is in my opinion that many students and members of the Trent community are too focused on the “good old days” of Trent. Unfortunately, times have changed.

Trent is now a University that must compete with other Universities in Ontario. Trent must have a competitive edge that will set it apart from other institutions. While I completely acknowledge the strong role that the College System plays in establishing first year students at Trent and creating a sense of belonging at Trent University, I do not believe that the purpose of the Water Street Residence was, or should be, to mimic a college.

The Residence was not built for the purpose of housing first year students. Furthermore, if upper-year students wish to be involved with the college system, they are more than welcome to join their respective college cabinets or to partake in college events.

I would also like to address a comment made in a letter entitled, “Arthur Makes Space for the Private Residence”. There appears to be great concern about the effect of the residence on the downtown core of Peterborough. While I am not sure exactly what Miss. Hutchinson is referring to (housing concerns or the utilization of downtown services), I do not see the residence having such an effect.

At the present time, there are no grocery, retail, or food services located in close proximity to this area.

Hence students who occupy the residence will have to travel to downtown or other areas of Peterborough to access these services. As for housing concerns, with the Province of Ontario projecting growth in the post-secondary sector, Trent will inevitably increase in size. Future students will need to find housing, and the new residence will provide housing which meets the needs of students who do not wish to live in the “student” section of downtown Peterborough.

I would like to close by saying that I see both sides of this debate, but the Water Street Residence will meet the needs of many current and future students. Trent must stay current and provide students with the amenities they are looking for in a University. “Red Brick” buildings, such as the Water Street Residence, are extremely popular options for many students at Universities including Western and Guelph.

I realize that many students like to reflect on the past of Trent University. I believe that the Water Street Residence begins to fulfill the vision of Ron Thom who planned a “village” in his original Master Plan (1964).

This is an idea that was expanded in the Endowment Lands Master Plan, which recognizes the construction of a ring of University Villages “removed from the core campus yet close enough to be accessible…” The Water Street Residence will surely be a positive addition to Trent University in the coming years.

Sincerely Yours, Brandon Koebel

After reading the front page article from last week’s Arthur, I too was deeply embarrassed on behalf of the Trent community and those conference organizers by the way Aramark disrespected them and the conference delegates, as well as reneged from what I assume was a contracted deal.

When reading the article, I didn’t understand how Aramark can back out of something last minute like that. But ultimately, I was shocked by this article because of my recent experiences with Aramark, experiences that have been mostly positive.

From February 23-26, Trent University was home to the National Conference for Campus Emergency Responders, an annual event held for all First Responders in Ontario and Quebec to come together and improve their first aid and responding skills, as well as interact with other response teams. I was a food and social coordinator for this conference, and therefore worked closely with Conference Services before the event, and Aramark staff during the event. With approximately 180 delegates and board members to feed, this was a big contract. We had breakfast and lunch on campus, in the OC cafeteria, for three days straight, and hosted our formal banquet dinner in the Great Hall on the Saturday. For all these meals, Aramark had the food ready for us on time, were very professional in their demeanor and interaction with the delegates, and the food provided was well-received. For our banquet, the staff was very accommodating with the timing of food service as well, as we had to push back our serving of the first-course by 30 minutes, while the staff waited patiently. The food was all prepared by the best of the best, their head chef who adhered to all our dietary restrictions (over 20 of them), and was served by friendly staff. It was an overall very positive experience.

This contract was negotiated through Conference Services, however, and I have no idea how contracts are managed if they’re made solely through Aramark.

I know that Aramark’s contract is up for renewal and there are many students that are looking at alternatives because of their overall dislike of the cafeteria food service. I am a 3rd year LEC student, and I have noticed the quality of meals, as well as the diversity of food provided at meals, increase tremendously since I lived on residence. This might just be because Aramark is trying to appease new students who will be looked to for food quality review, but I think that if they maintain this standard of food service for every year (if their contract is renewed), then they will have less conflict in the future. Now a typical LEC dinner consists of the ever-present bagel bar, followed by a choice of four or five main dishes (including a vegetarian option). There is now the choice of two pizzas, something I never had in first-year, as well as a custom created dish that you can opt to get. Along with this, there is the salad bar, the choice between two soups, an array of deserts and – if worse comes to worse – you can always have some cereal, which is out for every meal.

This is a typical LEC dinner, and it is pretty damn good. This is just one college, however, and one experience. But it’s a positive one that I wanted to share.

There are many opinions surrounding Aramark, and my biggest objection to [Aramark] is the monopoly that they hold over the campus.

For the conference that I organized, there were food sponsors from the community interested in coming and providing a meal for our delegates.

But since Aramark is the only food that can be served on campus, we had to turn them down. Also, as an off-campus student who sometimes looks to have a quick snack on campus, I find the food very expensive.

On another note, many Ontario universities have switched to Aramark in the past few years, and although the students that I’ve spoken to about it from these other universities would still rate Aramark’s quality of food as low, they admit that it is better than what they’ve previously had. So if not Aramark, who would be Trent’s food provider? And are we sure that it would be an improvement?

Jen Freele

Responding to the “Anti-Hipster Manifesto” responses To respond to the four people (some of which are Arthur writers) who wrote into the Arthur to share their opinions about my first letter entitled “The anti-hipster manifesto” I have only a few words and a rhetorical question. Hipsters are not a group of people, it is an ongoing fashion trend that will fizzle out and a new trend will be there for the old hipsters to conform to. I am speaking out against the uniformity and homogeneity that is promoted and captured in the style of a hipster. Smugness is not something that hipsters should aspire too. In the U.K. a hipster would be equivalent to the Mod or Teddy fashion trend. I do hope that hipsters stop wearing glasses that they don’t need and that they will shop local because it is something that they want to, not just because all of their friends are doing it. My final point is that all of the respondents qualify as being people who do things that hipsters do or wear what hipsters wear but not one called him or her-self a hipster. So why did they not want to call themselves hipsters when they were so defensive with my assessment?

Thanks again, Anonymous

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Important event for Trent

Student position opening

By Carmen Meyette

The Board of Governors at Trent is a key leadership body. In the management of our University, from finances, to property management, to who will be our highest administrative members, their say matters.

However, they could hardly lead a university without at least one member from the body of people for which this institution was created: the students.

That’s right ladies and gentlemen, if you would like to be a voice for the students in Trent leadership, now’s your chance!

You have to act fast though!

To be nominated you can find the nomination form on Trent’s website (under “Administration”, then “Board of

Governors”, from here you should be able to locate the form), and follow the instructions found there by 4:30 pm on March 5th. There will be an election process during which the candidates are welcome to present speeches during the TCSA speech presentations.

It is important to note as well that success in the election only creates candidacy. Having been identified as a candidate by the elections, an interview will occur after which the success or failure of the candidate in actually becoming the student member of the board will be confirmed.

This is our University, our Education, and our chance to make sure that in every way possible, the students are heard and understood.

U of T and CUPE duke it out

By Zach Ruiter

By Pat Reddick

Sky Gilbert, co-founder of Canada’s largest professional gay and lesbian theatre Buddies in Bad Times Theatre and Artistic Director of Hammertimetheatre, is one of Canada’s most prolific and award winning playwrights. He is also an Associate Professor at the School of English and Theatre Studies at Guelph University where he holds a University Research Chair in Creative Writing and Theatre Studies. Gilbert recently received the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New

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Play for his play The Situationists. On August 13 his newest play St.Francis of Millbrook will premeire at 4th Line Theatre in Millbrook, On. The play is a coming of age story that deals with the difficulties of growing up gay in rural Ontario. On Wednesday, March 7 Sky Gilbert will be at Trent University in conversation with Kim Blackwell, director of 4th Line Theatre’s production of St. Francis of Millbrook. This event will be held from 7pm to 9pm at Traill College’s Scott House, Room 105 and is free to attend.

CUPE 3902 has been in negotiations, eight months since their contract expired (April 30 2011). They may have reached defeat by their behemoth employer, the University of Toronto, averting a strike which could have crippled the entire university like York’s CUPE 3903 three month long strike did in the winter of 2009.

“Our last contract was good for three years and during that time the administration of the University of Toronto found a technical loop-hole in that contract which allows them to reduce the amount of funding they can give per student” said James Nugent, former chief spokesperson for CUPE 3902.

Nugent wears the Carre Rouge, a square patch of red felt pinned to his jacket.

Along with negotiator Ashleigh Ingle, a Ph.D student in Physics, Nugent resigned from the bargaining team after a four to three vote in favour of ratifying a settlement with the university.

According to documents obtained by Rabble.ca’s unpaid and un-unionized news intern, Mick Sweetman, there is no cap on tutorial size in the agreement, but instead an administrative appeasement of “a joint working group […] set up to make recommendations to the Provost who is also the chief budget officer for the university”.

The deal means surrender to Comrade Nugent who claims “tutorials are getting too big […] over twenty-five percent of tutorials have more than fifty students, over forty percent have more than thirtyfive students”.

The university administration has reduced graduate student research money by an average of $3000 per student per year under the new agreement, and according to Sweetman, in the deal, “there would be two payments of $150,000, which would total about $35 each [per year] for the 4,200 teaching assistants”.

Students in their fifth and sixth years have not only lost funding but will now have to pay many thousands more in tuition costs as the administration simultaneously cancelled the Doctoral Completion Grant, which covered 40 percent of their tuition costs. Under the tentative agreement, the University will not renew the Doctoral Completion Grant but provide $250,000 in the second and third years of the contract, which would amount to a piddly reduction of $833 for each doctoral student over the next two years.

“It is a sad state of affairs when asking for any form of tutorial caps ends up being this much of a fight” says Ashleigh Ingle, “it is completely ridiculous to ask that our funding package, which has not gone up since 2008, only go up with inflation, the fact that it is being treated as a demand that they cannot meet, is pathetic” Sandy Hudson, a UofT graduate and Chairperson of the Ontario Canadian Federation of StudentsOntario, argues “we have students who come to us with stories of having their classes cut short because their sessional lecturers have to leave to go their next job because you need to have more than one in order to afford to eat”. For Hudson it is a problem of “how little attention we are actually paying to the people of this society and what the people in this society need”.

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Showplace Players’ Pride & Prejudice

By Elisha May Rubacha

So I went to the theatre with my mom. Up on stage I saw my old Weldon math teacher Justin Boyd as Mr. Darcy. I saw Kenn Gibb, a waiter at the Olde Stone, as Mr. Wickham.

Timothy Vigneux played several small roles, usually in military dress – we suffer together in one of Stephen Brown’s classes. And Stephen was in the audience, hiding in the back row with the lovely Kathryn Chittick.

Pride & Prejudice – Christina Calvit’s award-winning adaptation of the Jane Austen novel – is the first production of the newly formed Showplace Players. Bea Quarrie, who seems ever involved in Peterborough’s theatre underbelly, directed this collaboration with the Scottish Country Dancers.

Quarrie’s large cast did not quite master their choral speaking parts, rendering the technique ineffective, except in the scene when word spreads that Mr. Bingley is going to marry Ms. Darcy, and that Charlotte has agreed to marry Mr. Collins immediately after Elizabeth refused him. The cast slowly knots together in center stage as they chant names – some in harmony and others discord – first in whispers, and then with rising volume, climaxing in a cry from Mrs. Bennett as she faints from the realization that two marriage possibilities for her daughters

are lost.

The pacing of scenes was unnatural. Several were short, rushed even, and those that were not were too long. The ball scenes, I believe, could even this imbalance, but were significantly lengthened by the Scottish dancing. The best scenes were those in the drawing room, where the actors are left to talk, banter, and spar.

Upon Bingley’s return to the Bennett home, he is promptly entangled again with Elizabeth’s sister Jane. The woman next to me whispered to her friend, “But isn’t he supposed to marry Darcy’s sister?” This is dealt with in the novel by the appearance of Ms. Georgiana Darcy, but isn’t addressed explicitly in the play. And I think it’s better this way.

Pride & Prejudice is full of misapprehension. Elizabeth believes Mr. Wickham is a good man, wronged by the cold Mr. Darcy, when in fact Wickham is wild and deceitful and Darcy kind and considerate. Likewise, Mr. Collins does not at first believe that Elizabeth has refused his proposal. He is certain she is playing love games with him, making him want her more, intending to accept him in good time.

These people all struggle to lay hold of things as they are. Strong-headed, minds not

easily changed, Elizabeth and Darcy must revise their opinions of each other. Rumours then, and the whispering of the townspeople, are an echo of this misapprehension.

How easy it is to get the wrong idea about someone, about anything at all.

This play was Christina Calvit’s first adaptation. “When I first started adapting,” she says, “I had a tendency to pull narrative and splotch it on the page. And I would have a narrator simply tell the story.” This happens frequently in Pride & Prejudice. Characters slip into the Austen third person narration of their own thoughts and feelings.

For the most part, the actors did not make these asides distinct enough from the rest of their dialogue. Kait Dueck’s Elizabeth Bennett, however, spoke them strong. When she did it, it worked; that Austen voice came through.

It was strange seeing my math teacher as Mr. Darcy. I’ve seen Boyd in a couple of Theatre Guild productions and I’m used to him in slapstick and farce roles. Here he was a stiff man in elegant clothing, his face pinched, his eyes fixed straight ahead, his sentiments too rational, teetering between the comedy of his sternness and the tragedy of his social inability.

Christopher Spear’s Mr. Bennett was ab-

solutely perfect. He was warm and intelligent and a cheeky devil. Jacquie Butler’s Mrs. Bennett was wonderfully loud, over-the-top, and completely invested in meddling in the marriages of her daughters.

Kenn Gibb’s Mr. Wickham was charming and sly in turn. Chuck Vollmar’s Mr. Gardiner and Sir William were both warm, though largely interchangeable. Vollmar is slightly whimsical. He is very possibly some type of fairytale creature. Rebecca Reynolds’ Lydia Bennett was exactly the right amount of gregarious and youthful.

Konstantine Malakos’ Mr. Collins surprised me. At first I was a bit confused about the characterization; he was young and goofy, but he grew on me. I had completely revised my opinion after the scene where he proposes to Elizabeth. He spends a good deal of time before she arrives just arranging the chairs for his proposal and practicing his knee bend.

The exaggerated idolization of Lady Catherine de Bourgh was comic, especially when Elizabeth refuses to go to dinner, and Mr. Collins, again, doesn’t want to let her refuse.

The Showplace Players perform again May 3-5 in Fishing Buddies, written by Chuck Vollmar and Geoff Hewitson.

Tai Chi : more than just a martial art

By Matt Jarvis

Taijiquan or Tai Chi is a centuries old martial and health cultivating art, grounded in both Taoist and Confucian Chinese philosophy. There are five major historical styles of Tai Chi and dozens of modern renditions. The forms share much, but differ in training style. All Tai Chi emphasizes a straight spine and attentive abdominal breathing.

Tai Chi is classified as an internal art, which suggests the application of internal power. The practical theory surrounding Tai Chi in its martial applications are that to meet force with force results in injury for both parties, whereas a soft and controlled engagement with an opponent can redirect their energy to exhaustion or safely out of the way. The ultimate goal of this is to gain control of an opponent’s center of gravity, which is another way of saying control of an opponent.

Although Tai chi has a martial history, most contemporary practitioners are more interested in its health benefits, such as mental focus and balance.

Students or community members interested in a beautiful, low impact, stress alleviating form of exercise have several Tai Chi options within the city, and I can speak from personal experience that it is a fine juxtaposition to the grind of our daily lives.

Bill Whit is a retired Sociology professor and Millbrook resident with more than 20 years experience in the Shaolin Praying Mantis form of Tai Chi. I have been lucky enough to attend a couple of classes with Bill, and he was kind enough to spare some time to talk with me about the aesthetic, physical and psychological aspects of the art.

Tai Chi as meditation B.W.: One of the reasons I got into tai chi was; I had done yoga and the form of meditation my class took was lying down and I always fell asleep. Or if I was sitting, little goblins kept coming into my mind. Tai Chi is a moving meditation. One of the things my master was asked was “what do you do with your mind when you’re doing Tai Chi?” he said: concentrate on the next move.

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Tai Chi as a martial art B.W.: Tai Chi is referred to as a soft martial art; it is always defensive. Instead of all the hitting and striking of kung fu or karate, everything is evade and counterattack. My form happens to be particularly vicious in its martial applications because it was designed by people who were defenders of one of the Chinese emperors; it was designed to maim and kill very quickly.

Praying Mantis goes for the pressure points of the body. None of Tai Chi is particularly effective against prize fighters because they pull their punches. It’s effective against thugs, which is what most of us would encounter.

Tai Chi as beauty B.W.: Tai Chi is aesthetically beautiful; it has all the attraction of dance. But so many dancers injure their ankles, they injure their thighs, they have coaches that persist, and they burn out very quickly in life whereas Tai Chi is an investment in your body, mind, and spirit. You have an aesthetic sense when you finish a Tai Chi form of having done something beautiful.

Tai Chi as health B.W.: Tai Chi is the most sophisticated form of exercise in the world. It emphasises lower body, thigh strength and the development of the energy center called the “dan tien”. A lot of Tai Chi is twisting and moving of your abdomen. This and the other circular movements of Tai Chi really massage all your internal organs, all the joints, all the muscles, all the ligaments, all the tendons. Essentially, once you’ve practiced Tai Chi long enough, you’re giving yourself an internal massage every time you do it. Along with this, like any exercise but more profoundly with Tai Chi, it is a form of stress release. Stress is probably the greatest incubator of disease in contemporary western society.

In Bruce Francis’ book Tai Chi: Health for Life, his point is you take responsibility for your own health.

You do the work to prevent the illnesses rather than becoming a victim.

Bill teaches at Sadleir House, just north of Parkhill on George, Sundays (except the first of every month) @ 1:30. For more information, call him at 705-9325539.

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TMUNS goes to NAMUN

By Airin Aguilera

During the past Reading Break, delegates from the Trent Model United Nations Society were in motion once more when they attended the University of Toronto’s North American Model United Nations Conference (NAMUN). NAMUN is Canada’s oldest national Model United Nations Conference and this year it held over 300 delegates from both Canadian and international schools.

A group of six delegates travelled to Toronto to represent Trent University in the roles of Algeria in the Human Rights Council; Spain in the Social, Cultural, and Humanitarian Committee; India in the Disarmament and International Security Committee; Australia in the Economic and Financial Affairs Council, and as Robespierre and Le Marquis de Lafayette in a Crisis Committee simulating the conditions of Pre-Revolutionary France.

Matthew Seaby, a second-year History and International Development double-major and fellow TMUNS delegate, acted as Australia inside the ECOFIN Committee. This committee debated around topics of macroeconomic policy regarding coping measures with natural and human-made disasters, and the ongoing issue of food price volatility.

Matthew managed to dominate the discussion within the committee with innovative policy ideas. His performance in the first day of the conference gained the attention of NAMUN’s press whose writers wrote a Spotlight piece on Matthew. In the following days, Matt was the primary writer of a resolution which sustained the scrutiny of his committee and was finally approved in the last day of the conference. His public speaking and negotiating skills earned him the award of Best Delegate for the ECOFIN Committee.

I personally represented Robespierre, a historic French figure who in Pre-Revolutionary France was known for his strong advocacy of the rights of the Third Estate. Robespierre is notorious for his radicalism over the course of the Revolution which eventually made him into the dictator of France. During the conference, I pushed for the restructuring of the French society around the premise that all people have the same rights.

Jared Knechtel was also present in this committee. His role was to embody Le Marquis de Lafayette, a supporter of the revolution blamed for letting the King escape during the Flight to Varennes. For us, being in this crisis setting provided a great opportunity to develop out-of-the-box thinking skills which can later be applied to modern situations. In the end, after being arrested for treason, taken to and escaping La Bastille, and surviving the attempts made by Le Marquis against my life, I was awarded the Honorable Mention within the Committee.

For a group that was only reactivated this year, TMUNS has been received with a lot of enthusiasm within the Trent community and its current 20 delegates are committed in representing Trent as best they can in each conference they attend. The next endeavor for the TMUNS delegation is to attend New York City’s National Model United Nations taking place from April 1 to 5.

If you are interested in TMUNS like us on Facebook as TMUNS – Trent Model United Nations Society and get involved! If you would like to apply as a member please email us at tmuns.time@gmail.com.

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TCSA-ing:

referendum questions

By Chanel Christophe

The nominations are in and we are now exactly one week away before the first votes are cast in the spring elections of 2012. In addition to voting for candidates, students will also be asked to vote on a number of referendum questions, three of which are initiated by the TCSA this year.

The first issue that students will have a ‘yes/no’ vote on is a proposal to have a studentowned and operated student centre. The referendum will call for a non-refundable levy of $80 which would allow for a partnership with the university to construct a new building on the main campus. The proposed structure will house office space for student clubs and groups as well as storage facilities, lounge areas, a student-owned and operated food service, and a cafe. Such a space is vitally important as it would allow the library to free up more areas for quiet, individual study, while also making more space available for the storage of reference materials.

The drawing up of plans in terms of size and location for such a building is contingent on the response to this referendum question. If it is successful then the money raised from this levy will be used to secure a loan through the university which will guarantee a degree of student ownership of the property.

There will be also be a question on the ballot calling for a $1.50 non-refundable levy for the TCSA Food Bank. The food bank is freely available to all students and is supported by generous donations from the community which are not always guaranteed.

If successful the money generated from this initiative will be used to purchase gift cards from local grocery stores and businesses to supplement and eventually replace shelved food currently in the food bank.

The final TCSA-sponsored referendum question will have students vote on whether or not the $241.75 non-refundable Transportation fee should be on an opt-in basis as opposed to being included with the rest of the university fees. A yes vote for this particular initiative would mean that students would have to purchase their bus passes each year from the Card office on their own as opposed to simply picking them up from Blackburn Hall at the start of each academic year. An opt-in system would also see the cost of the bus pass increase by approximately 20% which represents a figure of about $50.

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Finding the hidden gems

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A Programmer Profile of Emily Anastassidias cently – who are either Peterborough locals, temporary residents, or people who are on tour and just passing through for one night in the city. I like to interview them for basically the whole hour of my programme.

CM: Cool. Who have you interviewed thus far? Any big names?

EA: Oh yeah, there have been a few interesting people. I’ve had Evalyn Parry on. Have you heard of Evalyn Parry?

CM: No, I can’t say I have.

Caileigh Morrison: Hello Emily.

seven every Thursday night.

Emily Anastassidias: Hello.

CM: Can you describe your programme?

CM: What is your programme called and when is it?

EA: What I do is I find the hidden gems in Peterborough – so that could be university professors, artists, writers, musicians, and I’ve had a lot of spoken word poets on re-

EA: It’s called Find Your City and it’s on at

EA: She’s a Canadian artist/musician who was on a cross-Canada and European tour doing a show about bicycles. She’s also a writer, a playwright, and has several albums.

She’s pretty neat. I’ve also had Dan Longboat, who’s a professor – or actually, the director of – the Indigenous Environmental Studies Program. I had a couple members of the Slam Championships on, and I’ve had the Peterborough Poet Collective as well as the Slam Collective in. Who else have I had that’s an interesting, big name? Hmmm... oooh, there’ve been so many people. I’ve had Lily Swanson, who’s a local healing artist and really well-known. She’s been around for thirty years and done a lot for the community. Coming up soon I’m going to be doing a heritage show and learning more about the culture of Peterborough and talking to [elderly] folks. I’m trying to hunt down [elderly] people who’ve lived in Peterborough for something like sixty to eighty years to get an idea of what Peterborough looked like eighty years ago.

CM: That’s really cool [geeky chuckle].

EA: Yeah? Oh thanks!

CM: I’ll be listening to that one.

EA: Cool. I’m trying to get in touch with the folks who sell eggs at the farmer’s market because apparently they started the Peterborough Farmer’s Market. That would be neat.

CM: Yes, that would be. Alright, so. How long have you been at Trent Radio and what else do you do here?

EA: I did a couple-year stint from 2001 to 2003 at Trent Radio and it started off with a children’s programme called For All People Big and Small that had stories and mu-

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sic for children. Then I did a couple of radio days, special episodes on hip hop and women in hip hop and spoken word. Then I moved away from Peterborough and just came back this year. I’m now an operator on Thursday nights.

CM: Lovely. So, outside of Trent Radio, what do you do with your time?

EA: Well, I’m sort of back-and-forth from Toronto a lot because, as you know, the employment situation in Peterborough is not great. So I’m a teacher in Toronto, just parttime, and I also have a practice called craniosacral therapy which is hands-on healing arts therapy. So that’s what I do for work, and then I’m also the Peterborough Slam Team coach and just an arts appreciator.

CM: What originally drew you to Trent Radio and what has made you come back after all these years?

EA: Well, I love that it’s such an accessible station. You know, I think I was born to be involved with radio because when I was a kid my parents didn’t have TV. We volunteered at the local radio station in Toronto, CJRT, which was one of those public-supported radio stations where you would have to answer phone calls for people to make donations. I started to answer the phone when I was six years old. And then I used to play my mom’s record player for hours.

All she had was classical music so I’d play Tchaikovsky or Chopin and then practice with my little Fisher-Price microphone: “That was T-t-t-chai-kovsky....” and try to read the record. I think I’m just inclined to work this way; I’m an auditory learner so I don’t actually get that much from visual stimulation. And then Trent Radio’s just a phenomenal place. There’s a lot of creative freedom here.

CM: Great. Is there another programme on Trent Radio that you would endorse?

EA: The Country Cousins. I think that’s the best programme on Trent Radio. It’s been on for so long and it always puts a smile on my face. It has brought me near to tears sometimes, which is ridiculous because they’re so sarcastic and silly. But they’re just charming and I think they offer really highquality radio.

Very Large Crude Containers

by Marianne Pedretti

VLCC is the acronym for Very Large Crude Containers. It is a fitting name for the supertankers in use worldwide, averaging 400m in length.

Now picture yourself at the helm of one of these, navigating the coastal inlets of British Columbia. The route planned for supertanker traffic on the west coast is along the fjord known as the Douglas Channel.

It’s a steep walled, narrow, but fairly deep fjord that has Kitimat terminal at the inland end. The ships will need to travel this route for 140 km to the open waters of Hecate Strait. Transit time is estimated to be about 15 hours.

Last week, TERMPOL which is a committee made up of Transport Canada, the Coast Guard, Dept. of Fisheries, among others, determined that this route is safe for supertanker traffic. They used simulators to travel the route and estimate things like ideal speeds, maneuvering capabilities and hazardous areas.

I’m wondering if they sat at their simulators for the full 15 hours to get a sense of the trip in real time. My feeling, after reading the report, is that what looks good on paper, or on a simulator, may be quite different in reality.

Enbridge, who are pleased with this ‘stamp of approval’, have included many ways to minimize the inherent risks of taking huge tankers up these waterways.

Throughout their proposal, they’ve gone above and beyond current regulations.

Some of these inclusions are:

and that none of their recommendations are binding. They are there to assist in developing safe projects but then the report states that the industry has no obligation to follow these recommendations. The committee admits that they’ve approved Enbridge’s proposal based on the company’s inclusion of all these safety mechanisms that exceed the regulations, but there’s no means to ensure that these mechanisms are enacted or continued.

If Enbridge is not legally required to do any of these things, then what’s to stop them from cancelling these ‘added safety measures’ in the future when they are deemed to be too costly? In the day to day running of operations, safety standards are sometimes made lax or sacrificed when the need to be on a schedule takes precedence.

The plan would involve as many as 820 transits of the Douglas channel per year.

Not all the ships will be supertankers but this waterway has never had vessels of this size before. Currently, 50,000-ton ships are what are used for transport. The biggest

tankers are up to 320,000 tonnes with a capacity to carry up to 431 million litres of oil.

While the report does not address oil spills, it seems like the main concern.

Current spill response regulations only pertain to spills of a limited size, which is considered to be inadequate when it comes to supertankers. Enbridge recognizes this and has developed a ‘spill response plan’ that would better match the increased capacity of these ships.

The Exxon Valdez spill was 11 million gallons and continues to have lasting detrimental effects on the ecology of Prince William Sound. In this case, a spill by even one massive tanker could wreak havoc on marine life and contaminate hundreds of kilometres of coastline.

The report also does not address liability issues. Enbridge is not responsible for the tankers or for cleaning up an oil spill.

Enbridge is only liable for the oil in the pipeline. Once it’s onboard the ship, it becomes the shipping company’s liability.

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Ships have limited insurance coverage for the costs of a spill and any costs and compensation above this will need to be covered by the Canadian government.

“The public is being asked to trust a company that has no liability for the marine aspects of its project, including oil tankers,” said Katie Terhune, Energy Campaign Manager for Living Oceans Society. “Why would anyone trust a company with a horrible record for oil spills that has preached empty promises before?”

In my view, jeopardizing the health of the coastal waterways is way too high of a risk to take and I agree with a plan to limit all tanker traffic from this area. Given the enormous environmental (and economic) costs of an oil spill, the responsible course to take is to reinforce the moratorium on oil and gas projects on the coast. As the push continues for the tar sands to be rapidly expanded, let’s advocate for a precautionary approach. We can’t actually ‘clean-up’ an oil spill after all. We can only try to minimize the damage done.

- the use of only double-hulled tankers that have been approved in an inspection process - escorting each tanker with two tugboats intended to ‘save the ship’ if it does run into mechanical trouble, weather, etc.

- improving the currently insufficient ‘navigational aids’ on the passageway and maybe committing to funding their creation, including a radar system - respecting adverse weather conditions by limiting tanker traffic during extreme winds The whole endeavor reminds me of walking a tightrope. There’s an obvious risk involved which the public and most opponents of the project have pointed out.

It’s a kind of ‘common sense’ understanding of ‘if you walk across that tightrope, way up high, there is a distinct possibility that you will fall and injure yourself ”.

The industry and regulatory bodies take a very different angle of approach. Enbridge is thinking of ways to minimize the risk and damage. ‘We can put a net under the tightrope, we can have a safety line from the walker to the pole, we’ll have doctors on site ready to handle any injuries resulting from a fall.’

The regulator’s take is a statistical approach. If this tightrope has been walked across 200 times with only four falls, then we consider that pretty safe. They based their analysis on supertanker spills and accidents worldwide in the last ten years.

The point that most people on the coast are making is that any spill will have disastrous effects on the ecology of the area.

It’s a huge risk to give to a part of the country that is a rare and intact wilderness and marine ecosystem, home to a spectacular diversity of life.

The part of the report that I had the most trouble understanding was the actual process of accountability. TERMPOL states that their review is a voluntary process

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Queering Black History/African Liberation Month

By Ki Alleyne, Caitlin Currie and Karolyn Givogue

It is often joked that Black History Month takes place during the month of February as a token offering to Black/African communities from White powers that be.

The history of Black History Month itself is not a commonly told story. Black History Month (BHM) in its current manifestation is the culmination of nearly 100 years of Black scholarship, community organizing and political activism.

BHM has its roots in the formation of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History co-founded by one of the first Black scholars of Black History Carter G. Woodson in 1915. Under his influence the first Negro History and Literature Week was held in February 1920. The month of February was chosen, particularly the second week, as it includes the commemorative dates of February 12 and 14 which are the birth dates of Abraham Lincoln (under whose leadership the Emancipation Proclamation was passed) and Frederick Douglass (an escaped slave and a leader of the abolitionist movement). If those dates occurred in different weeks Douglass’ birth date took precedent.

In 1926 Woodson changed the name to Negro History Week and it is this year that is generally acknowledged as the beginnings of this observance, which evolved into the month long celebration we know today.

In Canada, it is believed, news of BHM travelled with train sleeping-car porters (one of the few employment opportunities

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available for Black men at the time) and in 1950 the first celebration of BHM was held in Toronto. Petitioned for by the Ontario Black History Society (OBHS) the City of Toronto first officially recognized BHM in 1978, the province followed suit a year later.

However, it wasn’t until 1996 that February as BHM was officially declared by the State.

So as we can see BHM has been an evolution and it is currently being advocated for that (r)evolution to continue in a shifting of the discourse away from “Black History” towards “African Liberation.” Why you ask? Let’s think for a minute about popular manifestations of BHM; particularly in schools and the media (and so in the mainstream public imaginary) it has been a time to recognize “Black firsts” and “notable achievements by Black/African peoples.”

In the context of a White supremacist, continually colonial, heterosexist, and overtly capitalist society we must engage critically with the tokens that are offered by dominant institutions as sites of “Black History” and ask ourselves whose interests they serve.

Arguably BHM in the mainstream has been about celebrating Black peoples’ participation in White Culture. And so, the discourse of African Liberation Month is an active reclaiming of Black history by Black peoples and signals a shift in focus (or a refocusing) on Black history and Black achievement as enmeshed within the struggle for African Liberation and the liberation of African peoples throughout the Diaspora.

To take from a quote by activist/scholar Abdul Akalimat “...it is time to move from a general notion of history to the specific theme of Black history which is [a history of] liberation [struggle].”

Reimaginings of Black History Month can also be seen in the Queering Black History Month movement, which generally aims to celebrate and re-insert the lives, histories, experiences, and achievements of Queer and Trans Black folks since the voices of Black LGBTTQQI2SAP peoples have largely been excluded and ignored from mainstreamed conversations of Black history and the accomplishments of Black peoples in general.

Similar to the African Liberation Month movement, Queering Black History Month efforts are often aimed at extending the struggle for (queer and trans) Black empowerment beyond the month of February into a sustained and ongoing effort that seeks to transform historical and ongoing power relations.

Campaigns have begun to develop, such as Egale Canada’s Queering Black History Month postcard campaign beginning in 2009. Events explicitly in honour of Queering Black History Month have emerged firstly with the Queering African Liberation/ History Month celebration of Black Queer artists and experiences in Toronto in 2010, and followed by the annual Queering Black History Month panels and photography exhibits at Ryerson University since 2011.

This year, the Community and Race Relations Committee (CRRC), the Centre for Gender and Social Justice (CGSJ) and the Trent Queer Collective (TQC) partnered to join this movement by organizing Queering Black History Month events in Peterborough/ Nogojiwanong with programming that included discussions, film screenings, and performances.

The inclusion of artistic and cultural production in Queering Black History Month programming is significant, especially when one considers the tremendous historical and ongoing impacts that Black communities and Black cultural production has had on both mainstream and queer culture.

For instance, in a recent interview with Xtra regarding the group exhibit 28 Days: Reimaginig Black History Month artist Dana Inkster spoke about the Harlem Renaissance - one of the legacies of the intersections of queer and Black culture - which included novelist and playwright James Baldwin, poet Langston Hughes, and blues singer Bessie Smith.

In Peterborough Queering Black History Month programming has also unfolded to tell a story about intersections, reimaginings, reclaimings, and appreciations for the influences and accomplishments of Black Queer peoples and cultural production. For instance, the film Paris is Burning was screened in order to begin a conversation locally around the historical emergence of voguing in Black communities and its impacts on modern dance, music, modelling, and fashion.

This conversation was further extended by inviting House of Monroe - Canada’s only official

vogue house - to perform and thereby to demonstrate and celebrate the ways in which Black peoples carry and keep histories and practices alive in order to build vibrant and resilient communities. Cheryl Dunye’s The Watermelon Woman, the first feature film directed by an (out) Black lesbian, was also screened this month in order to weave issues around reclaiming and actively constructing histories, and Black Queer self-representation into the fabric of this unfolding narrative of Black Queer identities, histories, and cultural production.

Local programming also involved a public talk from Dr. Rinaldo Walcott, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at OISE, whose work is in the area of Black Diaspora Cultural Studies. At the talk, Dr. Walcott shared his insights on the legacies and ongoing importance of queering Black histories as well as the necessity of re-inserting Black anti-racism and intersectionality into queer politics. Walcott pointed to discourses on the nation and citizenship that have served to marginalize and erase Black peoples and histories, and how this dynamic is reproduced in queer communities that mirror the broader socio-political and economic context of homophobic-racism.

The consequences are a replication of dominant power relations that privilege White queers over queers of colour (just as broader society privileges White heterosexuals over heterosexuals of colour).

It also results in homophobic-racism within (White) queer communities that champion Canada as inherently more queer-positive then other nations and communities, resulting in the ongoing colonial project of “saving” queer peoples of colour.

An anti-racist queer politic challenges all forms of oppression, recognizes the intersectionality of identities, and aims to foster communities that acknowledge and equitably negotiate differences.

Through honouring difference and the intersectionality of experiences we challenge the master narratives of Black History and Black representation, acknowledge and celebrate Black Queer cultural production and its many impacts, and combat the sanitization and consumerization of queer and trans identities in mainstream culture that constructs the queer and/or trans subject as White and upwardly mobile.

We must keep the spirit and political project of reimagining and other traditions of Black liberation movements alive by extending the struggle into all social spaces and movements, at all times. The recognition and celebration of Black culture mustn’t be limited to the Queering of Black History Month, but must also extend Black anti-racism into other political spaces and movements, including anti-oppressive, radical and/or queer communities and the celebrations thereof.

By recognizing that all identities and communities are multilayered and require diverse representations, liberation movements must be grounded in intersectionality and informed by the current colonial context in order to address interlocking oppressions through allyship practiced by consent and collaboration rather than appropriation and tokenization.

Listings Frontier College at Trent University is hosting a Scrabble Night for alumni, friends, and family on Wednesday, March 7 from 5-8 pm. All proceeds go towards Frontier College programming! For more information, please contact: sarapowell@ trentu.ca or fc@trentu.ca. Trent University, at the Ceilie, Champlain College.

Join us for an evening of language and laughs. Meet old friends and make some new ones! Win prizes! Bring a team or we can place you in one when you arrive.

Help us raise funds for Frontier College’s Literacy programs. All are welcome!

International Women’s Day at The KWIC World Issues Cafe: Thursday, March 8: Building a Culture of Peace multi media presentation, panel and discussion, 7-8:30 pm Peterborough Public Library.

Refreshments and child friendly space.

Suggested $5/pwyc. www.kwic.info or 7481680.

The 605 collective coming from Vancouver to Peterborough with performances on March 9 & 10 at Market Hall: presented by Public Energy. The most exciting dance company to come out of the vigorous Vancouver dance scene in years. The 605 Collective aims to become a company known for innovative and physically demanding works, valuing collaboration as an essential tool for new directions in dance. matinee: Friday, March 9 at 12:30 pm evening: Saturday, March 10 at 8:00 pm www.605collective.com Hip Hop Class Thurs March 8, 7-8:30pm Location: At the PCVS Dance Studio, 201 McDonnel St., Peterborough Highly energetic and fun, this class will focus on elements of hip hop, emphasizing individualism and personal style. Cost: $5 Love Theatre? Be sure to check out the Cultural Studies department’s production of ‘He Left Home’. Playwright Tadeusz Rózewicz captures a post-modern mixture of realism, theatre of the absurd, poetry, dance, and ironic allusions to the Odyssey, Hamlet, and Becket’s Waiting for Godot. Starring talented Trent Students and directed by Diana Manole, this is a show that should not be missed! March 8-11 8pm daily at Nozhem First People’s Performance Space (Trent University, Gzowski College) March 13 8pm Market Hall Performing Arts (Downtown) Donations accepted at Door! Reserve seats by emailing: trentu.helefthome@gmail.com Join us for a Critical Discussion about the Canadian Wheat Board and the federal government’s plan to end the CWB’s single desk authority on August 1, 2012. Discussion will be held in the Champlain Living Learning Commons on Friday, March 9, from 12-2.

Light Refreshments will be provided. Speakers: Tony Winson (M.A. Ph.D., University of Toronto, John Porter prize-winning author, Professor at Guelph) and Ann Slater (Organic Farmer, National Farmers Union, Ecological Farmers of Ontario) The Holy Bolt’s release Night Danger at the Pig’s Ear Tavern. Saturday March 10!

Peterborough’s swankiest indie-punk outfit are releasing their full length on CD and digital download! With help from our friends Mokomokai. 10pm, $3 at the door. www.myspace.com/theholybolts Master Class Sat March 10, 10:30am - noon Location: Market Hall, 140 Charlotte St., Peterborough Includes movement repertoire from Audible. This class will include examples of 605’s movement vocabulary from past repertoire, as well as improvisation structures, combining techniques and styles found in both contemporary and hip-hop dance. Cost: $10 Razzamatazz: by the Peterborough Pop Ensemble and the Peterborough Concert Band at Calvary Church, Lansdowne Street West.

Saturday March 10, 2012: 2 p.m. tickets are $20 ($10 for students) from Titles Book Store, Bud’s Music Centre, Chesler Shoes, Happenstance Yarns and Books (Lakefield) . There is a $15 price for prebooked groups of 10 or more – please

call the office at 705-740-6052.

Seedy Sunday: Peterborough’s Annual Seed Exchange. Sunday March 11 2-5pm. George St. United Church. FREE. Seedy Sunday is a great place to get inspired for Spring.

Come out and get the knowledge, tools and resources you need to get growing this season. There will be vendors selling a huge variety of heirloom seeds, local community offering resources, advice and information, as well as a seed exchange area where participants can trade seeds or purchase some for a donation. The PCGN will be hosting informative garden related workshops.

Kinamagawin: Aboriginal Issues in the Classroom. March 20 7-9 pm in the Bata Library Film Theatre. Join us for a film screening and evening with the filmmaker.

A question and answer session with cocreator Melissa Santoro Greyeyes-Brant will follow the film. Sponsored by PACHREA, First Peoples House of Learning, Champlain College, and School of Education.

Relay for Life is a 12-hour charity even to raise money for cancer research. The event begins at 7 pm and runs all night until 7 am. Relay for Life is more than just a fundraiser. It is an opportunity to get together with family and friends to celebrate cancer survivors, remember loved ones, and fight back against cancer. Trent University will be running our very own Relay for life on March 23 in the Athletics Complex. For more information about Relay for Life please contact the Relay for Life chair Holly Ottenhof at hollyottenhof@trentu.ca or myself the Survivor chair Brittany Williams at brittanywilliams@trentu.ca. Also, feel free to stop by at our information booth outside of Wenjack Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursdays leading up to the event.

Tuesday Circus Art Jams: Come run away with the circus one night a week. Bring some circus toys or acts: hulahoop, poi, juggling, clown, dance, etc and come practice, share, and learn new circus skills. Don’t have any skills? Come anyways! There are always extra toys and willing teachers. Takes place at the Sadlier House Dinning Room Tuesdays 7pm10pm. PWYC Donation. So come and enjoy the fun!

Dance your Bones: Move freely to music from around the world. Every Thursday 6pm-8pm at All Saints Anglican Church Hall, 235 Rubidge St. Peterborough. The cost is $10 ( sliding down to $5). For more information please contact (705) 750-0411 Students - St John Ambulance is Canada’s leader in first aid training - We offer courses every weekend and many weekdays and weeknights. Renew your CPR in 1 evening - most courses include a student discount. If you need to renew your first aid certificate or take a course for the first time contact St John Ambulance 705 745-0331 sjapeterborough@bellnet.ca sja. ca Too busy with assignment deadlines to fit in an Academic Skills appointment? Let the Academic Skills Centre come to you!

You can submit questions about academic or writing skills or submit a draft of your writing at any stage of the process.

An instructor will offer comments and answer your questions on any of the following: structure, organization, clear

writing (grammar and style), documentation, narrowing a topic, developing a thesis and effective research. Our goal is to get back to you within 72 hours (excluding weekends). For more information or to submit an assignment or ask a question, go to www.trentu.ca/academicskills/service_online.php

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Peterborough Clicks, a local amateur photography group, is having their first exhibition and sale on Saturday, March 24 from 10-3 at the Sadlier House, George St N. Admission is free 9th annual Giant Book Sale, on Sat March 31, from 10 am (sharp) to 2pm at St Andrew’s United Church, 441 Rubidge St at Brock, (just south of McDonnel St and north of Hunter St). Available in the adjoin room, will be a Bake Sale and Café, where people can sit at small tables to enjoy coffee/tea, a muffin or order sandwiches from the UCW ladies in the kitchen, or just sit and enjoy their new purchases from the books sale. We expect to offer an extensive assortment of books (including new and almost new books, textbooks, teen’s and children’s books, gardening, historical books and a lovely selection of gourmet cook books. We also have CD’s, DVD’s and puzzles. Please enter at the parking lot door (Reid and Brock Streets) or at the Kirk St door which is wheel chair accessible. Proceeds will go to the general church funds to support our many outreach projects in the community. Come to browse –to buy-to enjoy a quiet café moment with a cup of coffee and muffin.

Continuing Study Group in Introduction to Buddhism: Karma, Rebirth and Selflessness. This is an 8-week Study Group based on talks given by The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche and carefully compiled under his direction. The Study Group format includes some meditation and contemplation, while the emphasis is on exploring and discussing the teaching material.

Starts March 1 at Sadleir House. These peer sessions are free of charge. The Source Books are $15. For more information, including Study Group dates and times, and to register, please call and leave a message at 705-755-0063.

We can do it! Everyone is welcome to join and participate in Occupy Peterborough at our General Assembly every Saturday from 2pm-4pm at Sadleir House. Facebook: OccupyPtbo | Twitter: @OccupyPtbo | Email: occupyptbo@gmail.com. Let’s build a better world through consensus!

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