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Vote YES :
• An additional student fee of $25.00 will be levied,
starting in September 2010.
• UCC Gyms will be renovated to become lounge, 24-
hour study, programmable, and meeting space.
• Renovation will be completed in time to be used dur-
ing the 2010/11 academic year.
• Fee will allow for ongoing renovations to student
controlled spaces within the UCC in subsequent years.
Vote NO :
• No additional student fee will be levied.
• No funds will be available to make significant re n ova-
tions to the UCC Gyms.
• Students will continue paying rent for UCC Gyms.
• Capital deficit will continue to grow for other student-
c o n t rolled spaces within the UCC.
• Other options for the UCC Gyms will be considered,
including maintaining them as is, making a limited
investment in equipment and furniture, or returning
them to the unive r s i ty’s contro l.
P4 ➤ sex issue theGazette • FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2010
51
% of respondents
thing you or your partner condom, a marker, ice cream have faked 2% of respondents have had sex
have said during sex? What’s your strangest fetish? scoop, Xbox controller, whisk, an orgasm with a professor
Wait, stop ... don’t you have a cello Light bondage and tickling, feet inhaler, a pair of panties (stolen) 16% have had sex with a soph
lesson on Thursday?, Is it in yet? being dominated in various ways, from a close friend, fish tank air
Giv’er, I can’t believe I taught you walking my girlfriend on a leash, pump, electric toothbrush. 6% of respondents have said the
when you were 15, Skadoosh! If you ears, massive harems of women, wrong name during sex
45
% of respondents
don’t warn me when you’re going to doing it while I‘m trying on a new The Gazette’s favourite answer… masturbate 1 to 3
cum I’ll bite off your dick off, My dress at a department store, shav- One time I came into a Frosty cup times per week 36% of respondents like to cuddle
boyfriend is going to be pissed. ing off body hair, pregnant from Wendy’s while watching up immediately after sex
women, Burberry scarves, pop- Baby Blue 2 on CityTV when I was 26% like to clean up
The Gazette’s favourite answer… ping pimples, strip search, watch- like 16. Does that count? 8% like to sleep
Once my ex-boyfriend shouted ing guys pee, Abercrombie’s
26
% of respondents
out “Glencoe! That’s where the “Fierce”, Photoshopping my own Favourite role playing 12% of respondents have said “I
have partaken in
tournament was!” right in the porn, badminton. situation? love you” for sex
first-year floorcest
thick of things. He was referring to I’m the king, breaking and enter-
a hockey tournament I’d asked We’re not going to touch any of ing, pirates, Princess Lea in a gold 18% of respondents have caught a
him about two hours earlier… these… bikini, vampire/prey, she’s a cow- roommate having sex
girl and I’m a wanted cowboy, the 36% of respondents are male
In what public places Greatest lengths gone for sex? only one I’ve done was a conve- 60% of respondents are female 12% of respondents have had a
have you had sex? Ran home (sprinted, actually) from nience store owner and his cus- threesome
Saugeen study room, movie the- the bars at one in the morning, tomer, I‘m Cookie Monster and 7% of respondents are 18 or under
atre, library, SSC 2028, The Tasting made dinner, drove two hours for a they are Big Bird, student- 25% are 19 4% of respondents have paid for sex
Room, UCC, Barking Frog, post quickie, faked my age, pretended I teacher, whorecraft (World of 27% are 20
office, back room at Harvey’s after had to walk home alone and was Warcraft role play), Batman and 16% are 21 32% of respondents have role
hours — BF used to work there, on scared so I needed someone to Catwoman, princess and stable 9% are 22 played during sex
the tank in Victoria Park, Italian walk with me, sat through a terrible boy, the “hit me” scene from Blue 14% are 23 or over
airport, Masonville Zellers, Cana- amateur production of The Wizard Velvet, getting her to call me 2% blank 63% of respondents have been
da’s Wonderland bathroom, mov- of Oz, I once covered my entire Tiger, pretending to be a Hispan- involved in a friends with benefits
ing truck, Gazette office, tractor, body in Jello, kept a girlfriend I did- ic labourer pounding a rich 12% of respondents are not sexual- relationship
between Med and Syd, third floor n’t like for an extra year, buying a tourist, Mario Brothers, tennis ly active
boardroom-style classroom in cell phone and growing a beard, instructor and student, Snooki 19% of respondents have made a
University College — on top of the ruining years of friendship. and Pauly D from Jersey Shore, 24% of LGBT respondents are out video with their partner
table and walked out to a class Boy Scouts.
waiting to enter — Ooops..., bowl- The Gazette’s favourite answer… 13% of respondents lost their vir- 23% of respondents’ favourite posi-
ing alley, Storybook Gardens, Bought her a hot dog outside of The Gazette’s favourite answer… ginity between 13 to 15 years of age tion is doggy style
Poacher’s Arms, roof of Thompson soph formal Mary and Joseph 50% between 16 to 18 19% missionary
18% between 19 to 21 10% girl on top
2 % between 22 to 25 4% reverse cowgirl
theGazette • FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2010 sex issue ➤ P7
P8 ➤ sex issue theGazette • FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2010
The great
marriage
debate
— they get married, they get Patrick and Esther Daly are become a part of a routine you
divorced then married again — fourth and fifth-year students have to spend time with each
ment because divorce is so and it’s not so special anymore. and have been married since other,” Julia says.
rampant. It’s not just your But I think that in our hearts August 2009. They dated for a lit- Although marriage may be
By Grace Davis perspective on people living and in our minds there’s still tle under two years before getting the ultimate goal for many peo-
Gazette Staff together before marriage but it’s that longing for what it’s sup- engaged, and didn’t move in ple, we live in a culture where
your perspective on marriage posed to mean, which is forever together until they said “I do.” independence is encouraged
Love, flowers, food, music, stress that affects it.” [the] pursuit of loving someone Both of them felt it was impor- and progressing as an individual
and happiness all combined into Although cohabitation has and choosing them […]. I think tant to fully commit to one is often considered what’s most
one day — a wedding day. While become more common, many the movie business and pop another before they lived togeth- important. Marriage requires a
many people may fantasize people still say they want to get culture plays off of that because er, and their faith played a role in lot of selflessness, which may be
about that perfect wedding day married in the future. Popular that’s what people are fantasiz- that decision. why the number of successful
with the perfect dress or tux and culture also supports the institu- ing about.” “We’re Christians and we marriages is dwindling.
a decadent cake, most aren’t tion of marriage considering “Today’s society is interesting believe that God has set aside liv- “If you get married and then
ready for what comes after. many movies are focused around in terms of its relationship to ing together for something in find out that they do something
Instead, cohabitation has a couple being engaged with the marriage,” Roulston says. “On marriage. Not because it’s a really annoying, then you have
become a popular choice. climax being the wedding day. the one hand, it’s the norm for moralistic law, but just because no choice but to work through it.
Cohabitation has become “[Marriage] still represents the couples to move in together He thinks that that’s the best and But if you’re just living with the
more common in Canada since cultural norm — even if divorce without being married, and yet is the best that’s going to work person, you might think ‘should I
the 1990s. It’s often seen as rates are quite high — and of any survey of people in their out for [us],” Patrick says. bother working through it?’ It
entailing fewer responsibilities at course, it always makes a good twenties will show that most of “The vow that you’ve taken to makes for really cheap relation-
the legal, economic and even story,” Christine Roulston, femi- them do plan to get married at each other, and not only before ships because you don’t have to
emotional levels, and is per- nist researcher and associate pro- some point. So marriage is no each other but before witnesses deal with anything,” Esther says.
ceived to be a freer lifestyle than fessor in the women’s studies and longer connected to the tradi- and before God, so you’re more “I find it’s a huge source of
marriage since it’s a relationship french departments, says. tional values of one’s first-time accountable to make it work,” comfort because even when we
not bound by permanency. “In literature and pop culture, sexual experience or of starting a Esther says. do disagree or have issues we
Lara Descartes, an associate there’s very often a focus on the family, but it still has a narrative “Even if you get bored or frus- know that this is a permanent
professor in family studies at lead-up to marriage and on hold over our culture.” trated or angry with whoever thing,” Patrick adds.
Brescia University College, the wedding day, as opposed to A major idea that stems from you’re married to you’ll just have While the convenience and
emphasizes that, “there is less the actual experience of being the marriage versus cohabitation to work through it instead of just instant benefits of living with a
taboo about living together married. Although couples mov- debate is that of commitment. ending it.” boyfriend or girlfriend may be
before or without marriage than ing in together rather than get- Julia* is a recent Western gradu- Since marriage is ideally a life- too great to pass up for some,
there used to be.” ting married is a cultural reality, ate and has been living with her long commitment, Julia and Jose there are some students like
“Cohabiting relationships are it’s less appealing as a narrative boyfriend, Jose*, since she grad- point out it’s important to really Betts who have a passionate per-
less institutionalized than mar- or storyline.” uated. They moved in together know somebody before taking spective on why waiting until
riage,” Descartes says. “That’s not So why the fascination with because it was the next step to that vow, and it’s possible to learn marriage is important.
necessarily bad, but it does mean marriage when people can sim- take in their relationship and it about one another through “I think there’s something
that roles, boundaries and ply move in together? Fourth- was the most practical decision cohabiting. about that relationship of living
expectations in the relationship year social science student Kari- in terms of housing. Jose says the “Spending a couple of days with somebody that should be
may be less clear, and it seems to ma Betts, who has been with her level of commitment in their with them and just seeing them special to the person that you
be easier to leave these relation- fiancé for about three years, relationship wouldn’t change if every once in awhile doesn’t tell marry. So if I have already shared
ships, as they do have a higher believes it has to do with the they were to get married. you what their habits are in a all of my life with somebody,
rate of dissolution than formal human desire to be pursued. “The commitment is the same routine,” Julia points out. “The every aspect of who I am, then [if]
marriage.” “I think in every human being [as marriage],” Jose says.“I would- house is clean, but is it only clean I marry [a different person] what’s
“Obviously you can say that there’s a deep longing to be n’t cheat on her nor would she because you’re going over?” so sacred about that relation-
you’re fully committed to each known and to be pursued, and cheat on me. The only difference “The counter to that would be ship?” Betts says. “I want to save
other before you get married, there’s something about mar- would be financially in terms of that ‘if you love the person, you’ll that for him and it’s my gift to him
because we live in a culture riage that is almost like the ulti- the shared bank account.” love them through [everything].’ when I marry him — this is my
where commitment is relative,” mate pursuit in terms of a rela- “It would only be different in I just think that it’s important to life and it’s been sacred and saved
fifth-year student Esther Daly, tionship,” Betts says. that you decide to change your be realistic. You’ll learn about for you, not for anyone else.”
who is married, points out. “Even “I think that it’s [...] been dis- name,” Julia adds. “This is basi- everyday things, money, and
when people do get married now torted in pop culture, especially cally what being married is; this who’s doing what […] People get * Full names changed to protect
there’s still not that total commit- when you look at our celebrities is what life would be like.” into routines and in order to anonymity
theGazette • FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2010 sex issue ➤ P9
All photos and graphics in this issue taken and composed by Laura Barclay, Brett Higgs, Corey Stanford and Stuart A. Thompson