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And so it continues
Months after the vote, U of R students still have no idea whether they’re
with CFS or not

Timeline
Oct. 13: After their board
of directors meeting, the
URSU declared via their
Twitter feed that they
“are against continued
membership with the
[CFS].”

Oct. 26-28: For three

days, after weeks of cam-
paigning by both sides,
students across campus
voted on the URSU’s con-
tinued membership in the
CFS.
Kim Jay

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news writer
More than two months removed
from the Canadian Federation of
Students (CFS) referendum, where
University of Regina students voted
to either remain a member or part
ways with the national students’
union, students and outside ob-
servers are still anxiously awaiting
October’s referendum results. The
University of Regina Student’s Union
(URSU), in an attempt to make the re-
sults of October’s referendum public,
filed a court-ordered injunction
against the CFS – and an update on
the joint Referendum Oversight
Committee’s official website, refer-
endumoversightcommittee.ca, stat-
ing that the provisional ballots have
been counted seems to indicate that
this strategy produced results.
“ Voter eligibility
should have been
determined be-
fore the election
ever took place.”
Unfortunately, those results haven’t
been the ones the students of the U of
R have been waiting for.
Although the votes were cast
over two months ago, questions re-
garding who was eligible to vote and
disputed ballots that required re-
viewing to ensure their legitimacy,
have left October’s referendum re-
sults up in the air, with many ob-
servers wondering what exactly
happened.
Carillon editor-in-chief John
Cameron summarized student frus-
trations in his Nov. 18 op-ed article,
“Remember the referendum?”
“This is a problem that could
have been solved months ago, long
before anyone voted,” he wrote.
“And yet, here we are two weeks
later with no results, and not even a
hint of which side won,”
Nearly two months later, stu-
dents are in essentially the same po-
sition they were in the days after the
referendum took place; the votes
have been counted, but the campus
remains unaware of what that means
for its future.
In an attempt to make the results
public, URSU announced on their
website on Dec. 2 that it was seeking
a court-ordered injunction against the
CFS over their ballot-counting
process.
An injunction, in its broadest
sense, is a court order by which an in-
ular act. It commands an act that the
court regards as essential to uphold-
ing justice, or it prohibits an act that
is deemed “contrary to good con-
science.”
“It is unfortunate that students
have to wait this long to find out
what the end result of the referen-
dum is,” offered URSU President
Kyle Addison following the URSU’s
injunction announcement in early
December. “This court injunction ap-
plication we are pursuing against the
CFS comes as a last resort; we are
only doing this to get all the agreed-
upon eligible ballots counted, in
hopes that students will be able to
find out the end result before
Christmas.”
Provisional ballots, which have
been verified by the U of R’s
Registrar’s Office, were initially not
counted by members representing
the Canadian Federation of Students
on the Referendum Oversight
Committee (ROC), forcing students
to wait even longer on the final re-
sults of the CFS referendum.
Even after the ballots had been
verified by the U of R’s Registrar’s
Office, further delays stemmed from
a disagreement between the URSU
and the CFS regarding the eligibility
of First Nations University of Canada
(FNUniv) students, who pay dues
both to the URSU and the First
Nations University of Canada
Despite the fact that members of Oct. 29: A day after vot-
the ROC reached an agreement to
count all eligible voters prior to tally-
ing concluded, the
ing the vote, the decision on eligibil- Referendum Oversight
ity of the FNUC students votes was
left undecided until it was deter-
Committee explained to
mined if the FNUniv student votes interested students via its
would affect the outcome – one way
or the other.
website, www.referendu-
The CFS’ ROC representatives re- moversightcommitte.ca,
fused to continue the ballot counting
process until the eligibility of FNUniv
that there was “a delay
students is cleared up, prompting the
related to the verification
students’ union to pursue their court-
ordered injunction. And while the in-
of enrolment status of
creased pressure seems to have
some voters,” and that
worked the way URSU intended it
to, the ROC’s update is the only news
results would be pending
from them in weeks, and has no indi-
the verification of the
cation of the actual results; instead, it
aforementioned voters’
only reveals that the votes have been
counted.
eligibility.
Regardless of the outcome of the
referendum or impending injunction,
many students and outside observers
Dec. 2: In an effort to
are frustrated with the progress – or push the ballot-counting
lack thereof – of the referendum
process, as “JP” noted on the
process along and make
Carillon’s website, “Voter eligibility the results of October’s
should have been determined before
the election ever took place. This
referendum public, the
shows a lack of professionalism on URSU announced that it
the part of both URSU and the CFS.
This referendum casts both organi-
will seek a court injunc-
zations in a poor light and weakens tion against the CFS.
my confidence in both to represent
my interests as a student.”

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4 news

Addison looks back The resolve to

URSU’s President sees 2010 as a success
lauren golosky
contributor
Kyle Addison’s feelings on the last year
are concise and optimistic – in one word,
2010 was “great.”
For the president of the University of
Regina’s Students’ Union, the year is not
measured like the calendar year, but
rather by the elected term. Still, just like
any other individual does when one year
ends and a new one begins, Addison can
spend a moment or two to reflect on 2010
as URSU president, a task made some-
what easier by the fact that this is his sec-
ond consecutive term in the position.
At the beginning of the 2010-11 term,
the URSU executive and management
ventured away on a staff retreat, which al-
lowed them to get together and create
plans for the year.
Besides advocating student interests
to the University of Regina, much of
URSU’s accomplishments were philan-
thropic. They raised over $1,000 for the
United Way campaign, as well as over
720 pounds of food in the annual URSU
food drive. They also worked with the
Regina Public Interest and Research
Group, the UR Pride Centre, and the
Women’s Centre to put together the 16
Days of Activism campaign that took
place during late November and early
December of 2010.
Many of the organization’s past plans
are still works in progress, including the
new URSU Skype Lounge, for which they
are seeking sponsorship from Sasktel and
Access Communications.
There are also some goals that URSU was
unfortunately unable to fulfill.
“In hindsight, we would have loved
to be more successful in mitigating the
dramatic five per cent tuition increase last
spring,” Addison said. “I noted my vote
of non-support at the University of
Regina Board of Governors table, but un-
fortunately was in a minority position.”
Other missed goals had less dire con-
sequences. “We would have loved to suc-
cessfully won the Adidas University
shape up
Challenge,” added Addison. “However,
we still did an outstanding job and placed
second place.”
Still fresh in many students’ minds is
the Canadian Federation of Students ref-
How to stick with it
erendum, where URSU had backed the
campaign to defederate. Whatever the re-
sults may be, the way that students re-
sponded to and became engaged with the
referendum impressed Addison.
“We were quite surprised and very
excited with how much student engage-
ment there was during the CFS
Referendum,” stated Addison. “We were
able to motivate students on both sides of
the spectrum to come out and get in-
volved with the current events on cam-
pus, and we are very grateful for that.”
It is safe to say there is a lot more to
come from the student union for the re-
mainder of the semester. URSU plans to
complete and release the rough draft of
their “strategic plan” – a list of goals they
hope to accomplish during the remain-
der of their time in office – later this
month, as well as their upcoming annual
general meeting and subsequent annual
report. Regardless of how any un-
favourable events might have coloured
the last semester, Addison remains opti-
mistic.
“As long as we are continuing to
learn as an organization, and strive to
provide all of our members with quality
representation, then we have accom-
plished our overall goal. We are satisfied
knowing we have done just that. We will
continue [to] provide this quality of serv-
ice to our members for as long as the
University of Regina exists.
“…The highs and lows aren’t what
make or break your year,” he added. “It’s
how you chose to deal with them that
make your year a success or not.”

Matt Yim

A little bit of resolve is what I need now

iryn tushabe
news writer
Getting into shape and losing
weight has been one of the most
popular New Year’s resolutions
since the calendar was invented.
The University of Regina’s
gym was abuzz with activity late
last Friday morning. People were
coming in through the door every
five seconds to make use of the
gym’s equipment. Some of them
regulars, others people who have
determined to get into shape and
lose those extra pounds this year.
Danielle Pieracci, in her first
year of her masters in Justice
Studies, and Bruce Anderson, a
fourth year Kinesiology and
Health studies student, were on
duty at the gym. They knew, being
January, there would be a consider-
“ People will
pile up in here;
it will be hard
to breath. It’s
like that every
year.”
Bruce Anderson
U of R gym employee
able increase in gym attendance
and they were prepared for it.
“January is our busiest month of
the year,” said Anderson. “In the
next 40 minutes the next set of
classes is going to be out and peo-
ple will pile up in here; it will be
hard to breath. It’s like that every
year.”
Karen Fahlman, manager of
the Fitness and Lifestyles Centre,
has not had a chance to run this
year’s statistics yet, but she figures
they will hit a record one of the
next two Mondays. “The atten-
dance is what I expect it will be at
this time of year. We usually get
between 1,500 and 2,000 people in
each week day.” said Karen
But not all of these people
carry through with their resolu-
tion. According to Pieracci, gym
attendance starts to go down by
mid-February. She thinks that
Reading Week is partly to blame
for the loss of steam for going to
the gym.
“The reading week causes
kind of a rift in people coming to
the gym because they go home if
they are not from Regina and then
they lose their initial determina-
tion because of that break in their
routine,” she said
Fahlman attributes this drop
in gym attendance to the pressure
of midterms and assignments be-
ing due.
Anderson agrees, “At some point,
in March, it gets back to the regu-
lar people that you see on and off
that are always coming.” He adds
it does not take long for the resolve
to die down.
Ashely Stevens is in her second
year in the faculty of arts. She has
determined to go the gym at least
twice every week this year.
In her defense, Stevens didn’t
know students didn’t have to pay
gym membership fees, since they
are incorporated into our tuition.
“I didn’t go last year because I
thought I had to pay a member-
ship fee until I heard some guys in
class talking about going to the
gym before lunch and asked them
how much they paid and they told
me it was free,” she says, looking a
little bit embarrassed.
Steven’s goal is to lose
the weight she put on during the
holidays so her clothes can fit bet-
ter again.
“You go home and there’s all
this food and cookies lying around.
It seemed like they were calling
out to me and I just couldn’t help
myself.” She said laughing.
Karen says that the best way to
go about staying with your resolu-
tion is to put it in your schedule.
“If you say you will do it later,
later will never come. Challenge
yourself and make goals. A yoga
studio I heard about has the 40-
day challenge because that is how
long it takes to make something a
habit. I am trying that myself, to
workout or do physical activity for
at least the first 40 days everyday;
even though it is already my
habit.”
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news 5

Drug wars
As the cartels of Mexico gain power, civilians are caught in the middle
blackhole.xerces.com
Armed and dangerous: Mexican drug cartels are waging a bloody civil war throughout the country
ed kapp
news writer
Once viewed as a vacation hotspot and
tropical paradise, four years of extraor-
dinary violence have threatened stabil-
ity in Mexico. With no end to the
brutality in sight, many fear that
Mexico’s already precarious situation
could grow to become even more
volatile.
Although Mexican drug cartels
have existed for decades, their influ-
ence has become much more promi-
nent since the demise of Colombia’s
Cali and Medellin cartels in the ’90s.
Currently, Mexican drug cartels dom-
inate the wholesale illicit drug market
in both the United States and Canada.
By some estimates, they supply up-
wards of 70 per cent of the narcotics,
including 90 percent of the cocaine,
flowing into the United States – and
from there, into Canada.
Mexico has historically held a gen-
erally passive stance towards the drug
business and its accompanying vio-
lence. But on Dec. 11, 2006, the then-
newly-appointed President Felipe
Calderon – in what is widely regarded
as the state’s first major operation
against drug cartels – deployed 6,500
federal troops to the state of
Michoacan to help curb their out-of-
control cartel problem.
Currently, over 45,000 Mexican
troops are deployed throughout the
nation, in some instances replacing
large numbers of police officers who
were discharged after it was made
public that they were cooperating with
the cartels. On Aug. 30, 2010, reports
surfaced that Calderon, in an attempt
to make hay against the influence of
corrupt police officials across the na-
tion, fired nearly 10 per cent of
Mexico’s federal police force, roughly
3,600 officers.
Since late 2006, when the first
troops were deployed in Michoacan,
nearly 30,000 citizens have died in car-
tel-related violence throughout
Mexico, often the result of standoffs
between cartels and Mexican authori-
ties, or dramatic shootouts between ri-
val cartels over valuable border towns
– or “plazas” as they are referred to
within the ranks of Mexico’s criminal
underbelly.
Unfortunately, many of the vic-
tims, including a group of 15 men who
were decapitated and left near an
Acapulco shopping center in broad
daylight last Saturday, are merely civil-
ians who are either caught in the cross-
fire or killed in barbaric showings of
unadulterated brutality by cartels and
their affiliated gangs to anyone brave
– or perhaps foolish – enough to go
against their command.
Mexico is essentially at war with
the roughly eight prominent drug car-
tels throughout the nation, and con-
stant in-fighting between rival cartels
has threatened stability in Mexico for
the last four years. Yet President
Calderon insists that Mexico is not, nor
is it close to being, a failed state.
“Latest figures show our economy
is growing at seven per cent,”
Calderon told reporter Stephen Sackur
in late October. “Exports are up and
the outlook is bright. There is no com-
parison to be made between our situ-
ation and Colombia or Pakistan.”
When defending his objection to
Mexico being labelled a failed state,
Calderon is quick to insist that
Mexico’s economy is prospering.
However, many outside observers and
native Mexicans view the situation
quite differently.
A recent report from the Credit
Suisse Bank attested that “crime has
become a clear threat to the strength of
[Mexico’s economic recovery]; the cost
of doing business in Mexico has risen.”
Furthermore, pervasive violence
and widespread intimidation have
threatened the economic prospects of
Monterrey, Mexico’s most industrial-
ized city. Last year saw over 600 mur-
ders, while nearly 60 per cent of
businesses were faced with threats of
extortion from criminal organizations.
Although Calderon insists that he
and the Mexican government are do-
ing everything that they can to put a
stop to Mexico’s widespread violence,
the Mexican president is adamant that
more must be done by Mexico’s neigh-
bours to the north to fight the influ-
ence of Mexico’s cartels.
“Why do we have narco-traffick-
ing?” Calderon asked Sackur.
“Because we are living beside the
largest consumer of drugs in the world
[the United States] and everyone
wants to sell him drugs through my
window, through my door.” Calderon
added that the vast majority of the
weapons used by cartels flooded into
Mexico from the United States.
“They have a clear responsibility
in this,” Calderon noted.
In response to Calderon’s accusa-
tions that the United States’ govern-
ment isn’t doing enough to support
Mexico’s plight against drug-related
violence, in September a White House
official insisted that the United States
government’s joint anti-drug effort
with Mexico “remains a top adminis-
tration priority [...] we are constantly
evaluating our efforts to make sure we
are doing all we can on this issue.”
“ Why do we
have narco-traf-
ficking? Because
we are living be-
side the largest
consumer of drugs
in the world and
everyone wants to
sell him drugs
through my win-
dow, through my
door.”
Felipe Calderon
Mexican President

newsbreak

After more than two decades in politics, Pat
Atkinson is calling it quits. The longtime New
Democrat announced on Jan. 11 that she would
not be seeking re-election in the Saskatoon-
Nutana riding this November. During the press
conference announcing her impending retire-
ment, the former NDP cabinet minister said her
party would have to fight to regain seats; this
fall, her own might be one of them.
Dominating American airwaves over the last
week has been the news about Gabrielle
Giffords, the American congresswoman who
was greviously wounded by a gunshot to the
head at point-blank range during a meet-and-
greet with constituents of her Arizona congres-
sional district on Jan. 7. Other victims included
a federal district court judge and a nine year-old
girl; the shooter, 22 year-old Jared Lee Loughner,
is currently awaiting trial.

Homeless one week, the voice of Kraft Dinner
the next. Such is life. Ted Williams, the internet
sensation known for his “golden voice,” has
landed his first job. After living on the street up
until last week, he can now be found voicing the
latest commercial for Kraft. He has also been of-
fered a position with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Even Oprah’s been knocking on Williams’ door.
You know you’ve made it when the big O
knows your number.
It’s all Oprah all the time. Speaking of the day-
time mogul, her newest venture, an entire net-
work run by Winfrey, debuted in the U.S. on
Saturday. While Canada will still have to until
March to subscribe to the OWN network, the re-
lease definitely spoke to the end – and beginning
– of an era. Winfrey announced she would be
ending her popular talk show this year, and will
concentrate on printing money instead.

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In-site-ful
UR Pride’s online presence
will be getting a facelift
UR Pride
kim elaschuk
news editor
It’s located upstairs in the
Riddell Centre. But if people don’t
have time to stop in for a chat, UR
Pride is updating their website for
the new year.
Dan Shier is responsible for get-
ting that site up and running for
University of Regina Students.
“We’ve come a long way with
our branding and we want the web-
site to fall into the consistency that
we’ve achieved,” said Shier. “We
also wish to bring a vast improve-
ment in the functionality of the web-
site.”
The new website will be an im-
provement on the previous which,
Shier explained, wasn’t very practi-
cal. “Our current website is very de-
pendent on me working on it. If I
were to leave the centre with this
website, they’d have to find a new
computer-savvy person to replace
me, learn my coding, and all of that
is just unnecessary work and a
waste of time.”
The website has become an in-
valuable tool for the club since it
was launched when the group was
still known as GBLUR in late 2008
and early 2009. UR Pride uses the
website to collect donations, organ-
ize volunteers, collect memberships,
and inform people of news and
events. With the future upgrades,
UR Pride hopes to make learning
about the group and its events eas-
ier.
“ Students can expect a cleaner,
more organized website that we
hope will be far more useful with
fresh new content posted more fre-
quently to keep our users engaged.”
The website will, of course, still
represent UR Pride and its members.
The website was made to feel like a
place students could expect open
minds, while keeping the group’s
values at the heart of it. Those who
peruse the website can look forward
to having all the resources they had
before, with general improvements
all around. For instance, the website
will feature an easier way for visi-
tors to post comments for the group.
In fact, Shier explained that the
whole site will be becoming more
user-friendly. “Students can expect a
cleaner, more organized website that
we hope will be far more useful with
fresh new content posted more fre-
quently to keep our users engaged.”
While there is a temporary site
available, the new site is still being
perfected. Until it is launched, stu-
dents looking for information about
UR Pride or to wishes to contact the
group can log on to their current
site, urpride.ca, or pay them a visit
in room 225 in the Riddell Centre.
Looking towards the future, UR
Pride has big hopes for this new site.
Shier can foresee a time when the
site could become a source of pride
for the group, and an important tool
for those looking for information on
sexual diversity throughout the rest
of the province.
“I’m hoping that with the
changes set to be put in place, the
website will become an even better
tool for all people in the community
and that some day it can be seen as
one of the better sites out there for
queer content.”
Dan Shier
UR Pride
Copyright fee
increase postponed
Copyright Board of Canada puts new
$45-regulations on hold
Flickr
jamie ross
cup atlantic bureau chief
FREDERICTON (CUP) – New rules
that would change how much univer-
sities and students are charged for
photocopies and course packs won’t
come into play for at least another few
years.
The Copyright Board of Canada
issued an interim decision Dec. 23 that
puts a hold on a proposed tariff put
forth by the licensing agency Access
Copyright.
The collective is asking to raise
the fee that allows schools and stu-
dents to access and copy copyrighted
material from $3.38 plus 10 cents per
copied page for course packs to a
blanket fee of $45 per full-time equiv-
alent student.
Under the interim tariff, all par-
ties concerned can go about their busi-
ness as usual, says Erin Finlay, legal
counsel and manager of legal services
for Access Copyright.
“The great news about the interim
tariff is that actually nothing has to
change. The institutions, the profes-
sors and the students, everyone can
operate as they have been for the last
15 years,” said Finlay, adding the pro-
posed tariff will take the board a “few
years” to process.
The old agreement, which the in-
terim tariff has extended, expired Dec.
31.
The board issued the interim
measure without reasons stated be-
cause it considered the decision “ur-
gent.”
Critics of the proposed tariff say
the fee increase is too substantial.
Greg Fergus, director of public af-
fairs with the Association of
Universities and Colleges of Canada,
says raising the rate to $45 per full-
time student doesn't make sense be-
cause in post-secondary education
today, learning is being done more
and more in the digital realm.
“What Access Copyright is pro-
posing is paying more for something
we’re using less of,” he said, noting
that some schools already pay double
fees, for both digital and Access
Copyright licences.
“What it means is we should be
paying somewhere close to $8-10 [per
full-time student] ... it doesn’t seem
right to me that we’d be paying any-
where between 2.5 or even five times
as much for a service we're using less
and less of.”
A number of universities, includ-
ing the University of Alberta and
Ryerson University, across the country
had decided before the Dec. 31 dead-
line to deny the proposed increase
and let their contracts expire.
In an email circulated to faculty
and staff at the University of New
Brunswick in mid-December,
Anthony Secco, vice-president aca-
demic at the Fredericton campus, and
Robert MacKinnon, vice-president of
the Saint John campus, wrote that
there was no option to continue the
current agreement, and that the uni-
versity had rejected the alternative fee
plan.
They also encouraged faculty to
use electronic materials licensed by
the library because its terms of agree-
ment allow for course reserve and
classroom use.
No one at UNB could be reached
for an interview.
Finlay said there have been a lot
Jan. 13-26, 2011
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of misconceptions about the proposed
tariff and fee increases, which she says
have been grossly exaggerated.
She said you can’t take the old
rate of $3.38 per student and apply it
directly to the new price of $45 with-
out considering the 10 cents per page
that’s paid by the student each time
he or she buys a course pack.
“You can’t take the former rate
and compare it to the proposed new
rate and say, ‘That’s the difference.’
You have to take into account all of
the payments that were made by stu-
dents for course packs. In addition,
there are a number of additional uses
that weren’t covered in the previous
access copy licenses.”
She said the old licence only cov-
ered photocopying, and that the tariffs
would cover different types of digital
uses like scanning and posting to
websites.
“There has to be a value captured
for those types of uses,” she said.
“ What Access
Copyright is pro-
posing is paying
more for some-
thing we’re using
less of.”
Greg Fergus
The Association of
Universities and Colleges
of Canada
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Feds funnel millions into

summer student job creation
Large investment will create 3,500 more jobs, though
part-time students remain ineligible

Alex Smyth

More full-time students will enjoy summer employment this year

emma godmere
cup ottawa bureau chief
OTTAWA (CUP) — More Canadian
students will be able to find full-time
work this summer, thanks to a $10-
million investment from the
Conservative government.
Ted Menzies, newly-appointed
minister of state for finance, an-
nounced on Jan. 5 that the government
would help create as many as 3,500
new student jobs for summer 2011.
In an email to Canadian
University Press, a Human Resources
and Skills Development Canada
spokesperson explained the national
budget for the Canada Summer Jobs
program is being permanently in-
creased by $10 million, starting this
year.
“It’s welcome news for debt-rav-
aged students,” said Dave Molenhuis,
national chairperson for the Canadian
Federation of Students. “The Canada
Summer Jobs program is important in
that it’s created employment opportu-
erwise exist.”
The Conservatives first put
Canada Summer Jobs into place in
2007 after slashing funding to its pred-
ecessor, the Summer Career Placement
Program, in the 2006 federal budget.
Since then, the Tories have invested
$10 million in the summer employ-
ment initiative each in 2009 and 2010
as part of their Economic Action Plan.
Both of those years saw some of the
highest youth unemployment rates on
record, according to Statistics Canada.
Last summer, 16.8 per cent of
Canadians aged 15-24 were jobless;
19.2 per cent of youth were unem-
ployed in summer 2009.
NDP youth and post-secondary
education critic Niki Ashton explained
that while the government’s invest-
ment is an important step, it’s not
enough to help young Canadians.
“But not only are they not doing
enough, they’re not showing any sort
of innovation or really any strategy to
deal with this in the longer term,” she
said. “The high rates of youth unem-
ployment are not just a phenomenon
Additionally, not all students will
be able to benefit from the
Conservatives’ new investment. The
jobs that will be created will only be
available to full-time students aged 15-
30 who are returning to full-time stud-
ies in September 2011.
According to HRSDC, “Canada
Summer Jobs is specifically designed
to support full-time students returning
to school because they only have sum-
mer months to be employed full-time
and to save money to support their tu-
ition costs.”
Molenhuis agreed that not enough
attention is being paid to part-time stu-
dents.
“Looking at who is a part-time
student, especially today’s economy,
[it] includes mature students, students
with dependants, students with dis-
abilities, as well as those requiring re-
training,” he said.
“These are students who can only
complete their studies on a part-time
basis because of financial circum-
stances, because they have to work
during the school year in order to be
ford the increasing cost of post-sec- for funding throughout the month of
ondary education,” he continued. February and are expected to be able
According to Statistics Canada, to have students working starting in
there were 284,154 part-time univer- May 2011. According to HRSDC, stu-
sity students registered for the 2008- dents will be able to apply for jobs di-
2009 academic year — the most recent rectly with employers, although a full
year for which information was col- list of supported workplaces will only
lected. In that year, part-time students be available after the summer.
made up about 25 per cent of all uni-
versity students in Canada.
“To not allow them the opportu-
nity to access summer employment,
or to ignore that demographic and the
needs they have, is further setting
them back in the challenges they face,”
said Ashton. “ It’s welcome
Along with age and full-time sta-
tus criteria for students, the federal
news for debt-
government will be investing specifi- ravaged students.”
cally in non-profit organizations, pub-
lic sector agencies and small
businesses. Priority will be given to
Dave Molenhuis
jobs and workplaces that support local
communities and priorities, offer ca-
National Chairperson for
reer-related experience to students,
the Canadian Federation
and will hire students with disabili- of Students
ties and youth who are members of
visible minority groups.

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Stuffing the opposition

Joel Colter, a middle blocker for the Cougars men’s volleyball team,
excels at blocking shots
Colter’s rank
amongst
past
Cougars
Joel Colter
(2010-11)
Matches Played: Eight
Total Blocks: 40
Blocks Per Set: 1.48

Blake Wheler (2008-09)

Matches Played: 18
Total Blocks: 53
Blocks Per Set: 0.80

Drew Smith
(2009-10)
Matches Played: 18
Total Blocks: 46
Blocks Per Set: 0.81

Noah Roellchen-Pfohl
(2006-07)
Matches Played: 18
Total Blocks: 40
Blocks Per Set: 0.62
Matt Yim

Colter has 40 blocked shots and 1.48 blocks per set this season for the Cougars

jonathan hamelin
sports editor
Joel Colter is a master of rejection.
No, Colter does not routinely
break people’s hearts. Instead, the
fourth-year faculty of kinesiology and
health studies student focuses on
breaking up plays on the volleyball
court.
Colter has recorded 40 total
blocked shots (tbs) and 1.48 blocks per
set (bps) for the University of Regina
Cougars men’s volleyball team so far
in his first season with the team. The
middle blocker is third in Canada West
and fourth in the CIS in bps and is
fourth in the conference and 15th in
the CIS in tbs.
“A lot of it has to do with team-
work,” remarked Colter on his suc-
“ I have a lot of speed, which helps me get
into the right position for a block. To be a
good blocker, it takes a lot of good speed
laterally and a lot of discipline.”
cess. “Our outside guys have been set-
ting really good blocks and funnelling
the ball towards me. When they get
blocks, I usually get partial credit if I
help close.”
There are three blockers, two out-
sides and one middle, on the court for
each team in volleyball. Their primary
job on defence is to contest the opposi-
tion’s spikes and prevent them from
scoring easy points. Naturally, when
you are jumping up high in the air, it
helps to have a height advantage. At
6’4, Colter is a small blocker.
But what he lacks in height, he
makes up for in other skills.
“I have a lot of speed, which helps
me get into the right position for a
block,” explained Colter. “To be a good
blocker, it takes a lot of good speed
laterally and a lot of discipline. You’ll
see a lot of guys come in and try too
Joel Colter
hard for the block and they end up
moving their arms too much. Most of
the time, if you just go up and be solid,
hitters usually find you.”
Colter has been able to master the
technique of blocking shots through a
lot of playing time. He became a
blocker early in high school, switching
over from a setter. Colter notes it was
a little difficult catching up with the
speed of the game at this new posi-
tion and having to now hit the ball all
the time on offence instead of setting
up hitters. But, he only improved as
time went on.
Before coming to Regina, Colter
most recently played with the
Lethbridge College Kodiaks of the
Alberta College Athletic Conference.
He put up blocking numbers in the
ACAC similar to his numbers with the
Cougars now. Of course, that was the
ACAC, a league less competitive than
the Canada West.
Colter admitted that “Canada
West is a much tougher league so I
didn’t expect to have this kind of suc-
cess.”
There has been one area, according
to both Colter and Cougars head coach
Greg Barthel, where Colter has not du-
plicated his past success.
“We thought he would contribute
more on the offensive end,” Barthel
confessed. “Still, the first thing you
look for in a middle is defensive abili-
ties.”
Even with the minor offensive
woes, it has been a solid relationship
between Colter and the Cougars since
he joined the squad. For Colter, it has
meant coming to a university where he
could finish his degree and settling
down somewhere familiar to his
hometown of Brandon, Man. He has
been living with some teammates off
campus. For the Cougars, it has meant
acquiring the services of a quality
player.
“He’s brought a lot of experience
to the middle position, which we re-
ally needed,” offered Cougars head
coach Greg Barthel. “He’s performed
really well when it comes to blocking
and is a pretty good all-around
player.”
Despite these qualities, however,
Colter’s time with the Cougars has un-
fortunately not produced many victo-
ries for the Cougars. Regina is buried
in the conference standings at 1-7.
Regina’s past struggles are well-docu-
mented. Last season, the team did not
even win a conference game.
It leads to a question that everyone
associated with the organization is
likely tired of hearing, why the strug-
gles?
“I don’t think our record is very
indicative of our play,” noted Barthel.
“We’ve had some close sets and we’re
very competitive.”
“We’re hoping to turn that around
this semester when we have some of
our easier games,” added Colter,
whose squad resumes regular season
play this weekend in Alberta. “It is still
going to be a pretty big fight for us.
“After that first semester, the
mood isn’t too great (amongst the
team) but everybody has high expecta-
tions. Hopefully, we’ll improve a little
bit and start having some more suc-
cess. This is going to be the year when
try to turn our record around a bit and
hopefully draw some more talent in.”
When it comes to blocking, Colter
is poised to put up better numbers
than any Cougar has for several sea-
sons. Since the 2006-07 season, the
highest number of blocks recorded by
a Cougar in a season was 53 (Blake
Wheler) and the highest number of
bps was 0.81 (Drew Smith). With a full
semester still to go, Colter should eas-
ily finish with higher numbers in both
categories.
It is not something Colter is wor-
ried about.
“It doesn’t mean much when you
measure it up to our record,” he
pointed out. “It is a team sport for
sure. All the individual success I have
is only important if it’s helping the
team.”
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From bad to Huskies settle the

worse score
Cougars women’s hockey Saskatchewan sweeps the Cougars men’s
team loses 2-1, then 7-1, hockey team to win the season series
against the Huskies

sportsshooter.ca

Gina Campbell, who scored the lone goal for Regina in the 2-1 loss,
goes in for a shot
autumn mcdowell
sports writer
The University of Regina Cougars
women’s hockey team were back in
action last weekend, taking on their
provincial foes, the Saskatchewan
Huskies, in a Canada West home-
and-home series.
Regina sat in fifth place heading
into the weekend and was nine
points behind the Huskies for sec-
ond. The Cougars had come out on
top in both of the team’s previous
two meetings and were looking for
another big weekend in order to
make a jump in the standings.
Friday’s opening game was a
relatively low scoring affair as the
Cougars made the highway drive in
frosty conditions to take on the
Huskies in hostile territory. It didn’t
take long for Sasktchewan to get on
the board, as they were able to gen-
erate offence within the first three
minutes of the game when a trip-
ping penalty sent the team to the
power play. Shelby Davey was able
to score one on the man advantage
while Breanne George netted an-
other goal for the home team with
just eight seconds left in the frame.
After being outshot 17-13, the
Cougars headed into the first inter-
mission down 2-0.
The second period did not see
any goals from either team, even
though both were sent to the power
play three times as the penalties be-
gan to pile up. However, both goal-
tenders stood strong and the
Huskies were able to hold their two-
point lead going into the final frame.
As the Cougars desperately
tried to claw their way back into the
game, Gina Campbell was finally
able to get the puck past Huskies
goaltender Mackenzie Rizos halfway
through the third, cutting
Saskatchewan’s lead in half on a
short-handed goal. Despite their ef-
forts, Regina was unable to generate
any more offence and were handed a
loss by a final score of 2-1 after being
outshot 43-30 on night one.
Saturday presented similar
problems to Regina, as they had
trouble getting anything past Rizos
at the Co-operators Centre. The
Cougars quickly found themselves
in an eerily similar situation as the
night before, heading into the first
intermission down 2-0. The second
period did not go well for the
Cougars, as the Huskies were able to
put another three goals on the board,
while Regina was still stuck at zero.
The Cougars were able to steal
Rizos’ shutout with four minutes left
in the third on a goal from Paige
Wheeler, but the Huskies added an-
other two goals in the game. It was
in no ways a close contest. As a re-
sult, Regina took its second loss of
the weekend, this time by an ugly,
one-sided score of 7-1.
Regina sits at 5-9-2 in the confer-
ence, while the Huskies are sitting
pretty at 10-5-1.
The Cougars will have one week
off to think about things before they
take on the UBC Thunderbirds at
home on January 21-22. Both games
are at 7 p.m. at the Co-operators
Centre.
Matt Yim
Neil Kodman fights for a faceoff during Friday’s game at the Co-operators Centre
autumn mcdowell
sports writer
The University of Regina Cougars
men’s hockey team was looking to
start off 2011 with a bang and, more
importantly, a pair of wins.
The Cougars took on the
Saskatchewan Huskies in a Canada
West home-and-home series this
weekend, in a battle of former team-
mates, provincial rivals and brothers.
Coming into the weekend, the two
teams were split with two wins apiece
when facing each other and these
games would prove to settle the score.
In the first game on Friday, the
first period was not exactly action-
packed. Both teams ended up leaving
the period with goose eggs still on
the board. The best scoring chance
was seen from Regina’s Matt Strueby,
whose team had a mere four shots on
net in the first. The Huskies were able
to more than double their chances,
registering nine shots on net, but
goaltender Adam Ward stayed strong
for Regina in order to keep things
even.
“ The Cougars now sit last in the confer-
ence at 6-12-0. Saskatchewan’s victories
vaulted them into second place at 10-6-0.”
The second period saw more of
the same, but with a few more quality
chances from both sides of the ice.
Regina was granted 47 seconds of 5-
on-3 after Steven DaSilva and former
Regina Pat Matt Delahey took trip-
ping and hooking penalties one after
the other for Saskatchewan.
However, the hometown boys were
unable to capitalize on this opportu-
nity and spent a good portion of the
power play chasing the puck rather
than generating quality scoring
chances.
Both teams were still held score-
less until Kyle Bortis of the Huskies
was finally able to break through 12
minutes into the final frame when he
ripped a snap shot past Ward. Bortis
was able to put the Huskies up by
two a mere six minutes later when he
scooped up a rebound, brought it to
his backhand, and flipped it past
Ward to light the lamp once again.
The Cougars were successful at
narrowing the gap, as Cody Gross got
a shot past David Reekie just over a
minute after Bortis’ second goal, thus
cutting the Huskies lead in half.
However, that was the only offence
that the Cougars were able to gener-
ate, while Saskatchewan added one
more empty-netter from Travis
Brisebois to seal the deal.
The Cougars didn’t play a terrible
game – they were getting chances, but
as usual got no bounces.
The two teams squared off once
again the following night in
Saskatoon and Regina appeared to be
ready to settle the score. Once again,
the Cougars were denied the victory
and the Huskies sailed to a 6-2 win.
Carter Selinger and Neil Kodman
provided offence for Regina, but the
Cougars were never able to recover
from the Huskies four-goal flurry in
the first period.
Regina was handed two losses
and zero points for their efforts this
weekend. The Cougars now sit last
in the conference at 6-12-0.
Saskatchewan’s victories vaulted
them into second place at 10-6-0.
These games marked the final
meetings of the season between
Regina and Saskatchewan The
Huskies come out on top of the
provincial battle winning four of six
games in the series. Delahey was able
to edge out former-teammates
Strueby and Brett Leffler and
Saskatchewan’s Brett Ward will have
bragging rights over brother Adam.
The Cougars will now enjoy a
bye week before heading out to the
west coast to take on the UBC
Thunderbirds on Jan 21-22.

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sports 11

U of R Sports Canada West

standings
Roundup As of Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011
U of R looking for new rowers Men’s basketball
W L PTS PF PA

Trinity Western 14 2 28 1490 1200

UBC 12 2 22 1312 1059
Saskatchewan 9 3 18 1099 933
Alberta 9 5 18 1179 1083
Manitoba 7 5 14 987 998
Regina 7 5 14 920 978
Victoria 7 7 14 1096 1028
Calgary 5 7 10 903 929
UFV 5 9 10 1118 1165
Brandon 4 8 8 919 1014
Lethbridge 3 11 6 1006 1265
Winnipeg 2 10 4 920 1130
TRU 2 12 4 1047 1214
Regina’s last game: Regina 62 at Williston State College 88 (non-conference).
Regina’s next games: Regina vs. Thompson Rivers, Friday, 8 p.m., Centre for Kinesiology, Health and Sport;
Regina vs. Thompson Rivers, Saturday, 8 p.m., CKHS.

Men’s hockey
W L OTL PTS GF GA

Alberta 12 2 2 26 71 43
Saskatchewan 10 6 0 20 57 37
Calgary 8 5 2 18 41 38
Manitoba 7 3 4 18 47 36
UBC 6 6 4 16 47 58
Marc Messett Lethbridge 6 6 3 15 50 66
Regina 6 12 0 12 37 72
The Cougars stuffed the Medicine Hat College Rattlers 85-55 at home in a non-conference game last Regina’s last games: Saskatoon 3 at Regina 1; Regina 2 at Saskatchewan 6.
Friday Regina’s next games: Regina at British Columbia, Jan 21-22.

was in the 82 kg division. The WolfPack on Friday and Saturday.

Men’s volleyball

Cougars got fourth place finishes Both games are a 6:15 p.m. at the
W L PTS PF PA
jonathan hamelin
from Kirk Ackerman (65 kg) and CKHS.
Manitoba 9 1 18 29 8
sports editor
Gaelan Malloy (68 kg), while Jimmy
Calgary 8 0 16 24 4
Trinity Western 8 2 16 27 10

Levesque (90 kg) earned a fifth-place

Alberta 7 1 14 21 13

finish.
Rowing Men’s basketball UBC 4 6 8 19 23

Regina hosts the U of R invita-

Thompson Rivers 3 5 6 16 19

If you would like to row, row, row tional on Saturday, 9 a.m., at the Regina dropped an 88-62 non-con-
Brandon 2 6 4 12 19

your boat gently down Wascana CKHS. ference road decision to the
Regina 1 7 2 4 23

Creek, you’re in luck. Williston State College Tetons last

Saskatchewan 1 7 2 8 22

The U of R Rowing Club is look- Saturday.

Winnipeg 1 9 2 8 27
Regina’s next games: Regina at Alberta, Jan. 14-15.

ing to add members and find the
next generation of provincial, na-
tional, and Olympic rowing champi-
Women’s wrestling Further details were unavailable
at source.
Men’s wrestling
Savannah Toth finished fourth in the The Cougars sit at 7-5 in Canada
Regina’s last event: Golden Bear Open, Jan. 8, Edmonton.

ons. As such, they will be holding 63 kg division as Regina came in West. Their regular season resumes
Regina’s next event: U of R Invitational, Saturday, 9 a.m., CKHS.

information sessions from Jan. 18-
20 in the U of R’s Faculty of
Kinesiology and Health Studies
fourth at the Golden Bear Open in
Edmonton last weekend.
Finishing fifth for the Cougars
this weekend against the visiting
WolfPack on Friday and Saturday.
Swimming
Each game is at 8 p.m. at the CKHS.
Regina’s last event: Time trials, Dec. 18, Lawson Aquatic Centre.

building 166. The sessions on was Trisha Elliott (48 kg), Emily
Regina’s next event: Canada West Championships, Jan. 28, Vancouver.

Tuesday, Jan. 18 and Wednesday,
Jan. 19 are scheduled for 1:30 p.m. to
2:30 p.m. On Thursday, Jan. 20, the
Brentnell (55 kg) and Shelby Moran Track and Field
(82 kg).
Track and field
Regina hosts the U of R invita-
Regina’s last event: University of Saskatchewan Dual, Jan. 8, Saskatoon.

session runs 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. tional on Saturday, 9 a.m., at the The Cougars competed in the
Regina’s next event: Golden Bear Open, Jan. 21, Edmonton.

At the sessions, information will CKHS. University of Saskatchewan Dual in

Women’s basketball
be provided about a Rowing Saskatoon last Saturday.
Results were unavailable as of
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Canada Aviron talent identification

event that is to be held at the U of R
Women’s basketball press time.
Alberta 12 2 24 1079 852

on Sunday Jan. 23. Regina is next in action on Jan.

Regina 10 2 20 892 696

The information sessions are for Joanna Zalesiak scored 21 points – 21 at the Golden Bear Open in
Saskatchewan 10 2 20 901 681

those who are considering trying going 6-6 from the field and 8-8 from Edmonton.
Winnipeg 10 2 20 752 690

rowing and would like more infor- the free throw line – as the Cougars
Victoria 11 3 22 998 854

topped the Medicine Hat College

UBC 9 5 18 962 828

mation on the sport. There is no ex-

Thompson Rivers 7 7 14 935 843

perience necessary to attend. Rattlers 85-55 in non-conference ac-

Men’s volleyball UFV 7 7 14 901 908

To register for any information tion last Friday at the Centre for
Calgary 4 8 8 810 753

session, contact Garett at Kinesiology, Health and Sport. The Canada West schedules gets
Manitoba 3 9 6 676 833

rowing@uregina.ca Also kicking in for the Cougars back underway for Regina this
Lethbridge 2 12 4 758 976

was Gabrielle Gheyssen (19 points), weekend, as the team travels to

Trinity Western 1 15 2 856 1101

Lindsay Ledingham (16) and Alberta.

Brandon 0 12 0 563 1068

The Cougars are 1-7 in the con-

Regina’s last game: Medicine Hat College 55 at Regina 85 (non-conference).
Men’s wrestling Danielle Schmidt (11). Rayna Belyk
Regina’s next games: Regina vs. Thompson Rivers, Friday, 6:15 p.m., CKHS; Regina vs. Thompson Rivers,

chipped in with nine rebounds for ference.

Saturday, 6:15 p.m., CKHS.

Gilbert Musonza and John Regina. Medicine Hat’s high scorer

Lendvoy’s second-place finishes led was Meagan Koroll with 18 points.
Women’s hockey
the Cougars to a third-place finish After jumping out to an 11-point
Women’s volleyball W L OTL PTS GF GA

last Saturday at Golden Bear Open lead after the first quarter, Regina
in Edmonton. rode a 24-5 second quarter to take The Cougars resume Canada West
Alberta 10 3 3 23 55 24

The team finished only one control. play this weekend in Alberta on
Saskatchewan 10 5 1 21 49 34

Friday and Saturday.

Calgary 10 4 0 20 50 24

point behind Saskatchewan for sec- The Cougars, currently 10-2 in

In the conference, Regina is 3-5.
Manitoba 9 3 1 19 49 20

ond. Canada West, resume regular sea-

Regina 5 9 2 12 36 76

Musonza competed in the 57- son play this weekend, as they host
Lethbridge 4 9 2 10 30 62

kilogram division while Lendvoy the Thompson Rivers University

UBC 4 9 1 9 27 56
Regina’s last games: Regina 1 at Saskatchewan 2; Saskatchewan 7 at Regina 1.
Regina’s next games: Regina at British Columbia, Jan 21-22.

Women’s volleyball
W L PTS SW SL
Trinity Western 9 1 18 27 13
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wrestling team] to Thompson Rivers 0 8 0 2 24
a third-place finish Regina’s next games: Regina at Alberta, Jan. 14-15.

last Saturday at Women’s wrestling

Golden Bear Regina’s last event: Golden Bear Open, Jan. 8, Edmonton.
Regina’s next event: Cougar Invitational, Saturday, 9 a.m., CKHS.
Open.”
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12 sports

ROUNDTABLE
Congratulations Greg Marshall, now bring us the Grey Cup
and probably never will. I just can’t belt. Instead we picked a guy with won’t go that far, but he’s pretty bad. There have been some pretty big sur-
see myself out there. Hamilton and Winnipeg on his re- I shouldn't have to hold my breath prises in the opening round of the
jonathan hamelin,
matthew blackwell, sume. every time the ball is kicked in the air. NFL playoffs. The Seahawks earned
The Saskatchewan Roughriders hired As for Berry, I seem to think he’ll re- and upset over the defending Super
Greg Marshall as their new head Buchinski: I’m not sure I can say turn. Bowl champion Saints and the Jets
rhiannon ward, autumn
coach last week, ending weeks of whether it was the right call or not. topped Peyton Manning and the
mcdowell, colin
buchinski speculation. Was this the right call? However, I can say that Greg Marshall At the world junior hockey champi- Colts. What stood out for you the
Would you have hired someone else? was not at the top of my list. I would onship gold-medal game in Buffalo most in the opening round of the
have rather seen Chris Jones, Scott last weekend, Canada gave up a 3-0 playoffs?
this week’s roundtable

Hamelin: From all the reports I’ve Milanovich, Dave Dickenson, or even lead to lose 5-3 to the Russians.
The University is Regina Rowing read on Marshall, he is a nice guy. But Matt Dunigan take the reins. Thoughts? Hamelin: I was surprised to learn that
Team is looking for rowers. Have you don’t nice guys finish last? Ken Miller games were played on Saturday! I’m
or would you ever consider trying the was a nice guy, and the Riders choked Fans are certainly hoping that other Hamelin: It is funny how Canadian not an NFL fan – I much prefer CFL –
sport? in two consecutive Grey Cups under Riders coaches, like offensive coordi- fans went from a feeling of utter pride so I don’t really make an effort to
his reign. The Riders may regret pass- nator Doug Berry and special teams in their team, to an unfathomable watch, even when it is the playoffs.
Jonathan Hamelin: I actually tried ing on the offensive-genius Scott coordinator Jim Daley, will be fired. loathing towards them after they However, I do know enough to realize
kayaking, which is similar to rowing, Milanovich in favour of the players’ With Marshall now hired as the new choked. It was just a game. The how big an upset the Seattle-New
when I was in British Columbia last coach Marshall. head coach, what will the future hold Russians outworked Canada when it Orleans game was. Wow!
summer. It was a lot of fun. While it for Berry and Daley? mattered. And no, Russia did not cel-
was a bit tiring at first, I’m sure it Blackwell: I think that Greg Marshall ebrate excessively. Any Canadian fan Blackwell: The run by Marshawn
wouldn’t take long to get used to it. will do OK and bring some fire to the Hamelin: Since the Riders didn’t pro- who thinks that needs to realize that Lynch is probably one of the best foot-
However, rowing is a tough sell in sidelines that we didn’t have with Ken mote internally and hired Marshall, I our players would have done the same ball plays of all time. The YouTube clip
Regina where the weather is less than Miller. That said, I think I was more in can only assume it means they’re thing. I found of it says “Marshawn Lynch
cooperative most of the time. the Scott Milanovich camp, personally, cleaning house. They’d better. That goes into Beastmode.” I think that
if only because he seems like more of a means Berry, Daley and defensive co- Blackwell: I don’t want to talk about about sums it up.
Matthew Blackwell: Oh god no. I cerebral presence. ordinator Gary Etcheverry should go. it.
have the utmost respect for rowers, Berry can be replaced with a young Ward: OK, seriously, I was floored by
but I have the upper body strength of Ward: Only time will tell if this was the up-and-coming offensive coach and Ward: I was at the gym during the the Saints-Seahawks game. People
an eight-year-old. correct call, but I’m going to be posi- Richie Hall can take Etcheverry’s job. gold medal game, watching on the ma- were calling it a bye for the Saints. And
tive and say it absolutely was. If we As for Daley, hell, you could give the chines. The timing was just such that I I hardly need to mention that run by
Rhiannon Ward: Rowing looks like hold onto our core players, Greg job to almost anyone and it would be saw the game up to 3-0 for Canada. I Marshawn Lynch – incredible. The
the single most demanding sport. Just Marshall will have lots to work with an upgrade. left the gym and carried on with my Seahawks are a team that I cheer for
thinking about it makes me feel weak. and he should be able to put together evening feeling pretty proud of my but in a sad, resigned-to-failure way,
I wouldn’t consider trying it, in other a successful season. There’s also al- Blackwell: I was OK with Berry’s of- country. That made it particularly jar- so it’s very fun to be a legitimately
words, but I would consider watching ways the added incentive of hundreds fence, but there’s certainly better out ring and disappointing to later find proud fan this week. With that and the
it and swooning. of thousands of angry Rider fans to there. Daley has to go, obviously, and out what happened in that bizarre Colts’ loss to the Jets, we have the be-
deal with should he underperform. if we could get Richie Hall to replace third period. ginnings of some very strange and ex-
Autumn McDowell: Never. I am by Etcheverry (seriously, our run defence citing playoffs indeed.
no means a rower and I have ab- McDowell: No, I don’t think it was. was more porous than a thirteen-year- McDowell: Heartbreaking, absolutely
solutely no desire to try the sport. Let’s Like I said last week, I think that Scott old’s face), that’d be swell as well. heartbreaking. They had it, it was in McDowell: The Seahawks beating the
just say they won’t be seeing me at Milanovich would have been a better the bag and then they let it slip away. Saints, definitely. Everyone was bash-
tryouts anytime soon. choice. I mean, we could have had a Ward: It was an interesting season. We Choke artists is the only way to de- ing the Seahawks because they made
guy that coached Anthony Calvillo heard a lot of blame for losses and scribe them. I love Team Canada prob- the playoffs despite of their atrocious
Colin Buchinski: Never tried the sport and has multiple Grey Cups under his poor plays going directly to coaching ably more then the next person, but record in the regular season. But they
staff rather than players. I happen to that was just brutal, and left me shut everyone up pretty fast with that
agree, and I hope that general man- speechless. victory. However, they will get
ager Brendan Taman can build a better crushed in the next round, let’s make
“ I was OK with [Doug] Berry's offence, but staff around Marshall. It’s important – Buchinski: We just saw sport in its that clear.
these guys hold so much responsibility purest form. I love the world junior
for the way the team plays. tournament, because anything can Buchinski: Michael Vick’s return to
there's certainly better out there. [Jim] Daley
has to go, obviously, and if we could get Richie happen on any given night. Over the the playoffs was the big story for me.
McDowell: It’s hard to say. I wouldn’t years we’ve seen many classics. The fact that Vick basically came right
be overly opposed to the firing of ei- Personally, I was getting a little bored out of prison into the NFL and within
Hall to replace [Gary] Etcheverry (seriously, our
ther of them, especially Jim Daley. seeing Canada win every year. The two years led his team to the playoffs,
run defence was more porous than a thirteen-
year-old's face) that'd be swell as well” Let’s face it, our special teams ab- other teams in this tournament are get- with the possibility of making some
solutely blew this year. ting better and better every year. A noise, is crazy. People love those
great example is the Swiss team, who down-and-out guys that just rise
Matthew Blackwell Buchinski: If Jim Daley is still coach- is capable of skating with any team in above themselves and return to great-
ing this football team in July, I’m giv- the tournament. ness. It was truly an underdog story ...
ing up my season tickets. OK, maybe I no pun intended.
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Hey big spender,
you should surrender
Despite the money they dropped on Kovalchuk,
the New Jersey Devils are having a terrible season
nydailynews.com
colin buchinski
contributor
We’ve reached the halfway point in
the National Hockey League. It’s been
a season that’s featured many ups and
downs, a lot of surprises and many
disappointments.
The story of 2010 in the NHL was
Russian-sniper Ilya Kovalchuk’s con-
tract negotiations between the league
and the New Jersey Devils. On July
19, 2010, the Devils announced the
signing of Kovalchuk to a 17-year,
$102 million contract. The deal would
see Kovalchuk playing hockey well
into his forties, earning the league
minimum for many of the final years
of the contract.
The NHL quickly rejected the
deal, stating it circumvented the
league’s salary cap. Shortly after, the
league and the Devils came to a com-
promise and a new deal was signed.
The league would then change sec-
tions of the CBA in order to prevent
cap circumvention in the future. The
Devils were also forced to forfeit one
first-round pick of their choice in the
next four drafts.
Last season, Kovalchuk rejected
a 12-year, $101 million offer from the
team who drafted him, the Atlanta
Thrashers. It became very clear that
Kovalchuk was heavily interested in
both earning a large paycheque and
playing for a contender. The
Thrashers were forced to trade him to
the Devils at the trade deadline. In re-
turn, they received defenceman
Johnny Oduya, prospect forward
Patrice Cormier, and a 2010 first
round pick. It was a slap in the face to
Atlanta and their fans.
Fast-forward to this year and, as
of press time, New Jersey has the
worst record in the NHL’s current sea-
son. The team has played very poorly
and Martin Brodeur is not the elite
goaltender he once was. Kovalchuk
holds the league’s worst plus/minus
rating with -30 and has only posted 10
goals thus far. The Thrashers, on the
other hand, are enjoying perhaps their
best season in franchise history. They
have been very competitive this year
and are poised to make the playoffs
for only the second time ever.
At this point, Kovalchuk has to
be questioning his off-season decision
and the Devils have had karma bite
them right in the ass. They’re one of
the worst teams I’ve seen in years. As
a Habs fan, we used to fear playing
the Devils; now, they’re the free space
on the bingo card, and rightfully so.
The Devils and Thrashers are two
of the biggest surprises in the NHL
this year. One team is thriving and
the other one is a sinking ship.
Other headlines from the first half:
In Dallas, life after franchise player
Mike Modano has begun. After a very
disappointing season in 2009-10, the
Stars decided to part ways with the
greatest player they ever had. With
Modano aging and not what he once
was, it was time to move on.
This season, the Stars have been
playing some fantastic hockey. At the
midway point, they find themselves
leading their division and finally
pegged as a contender. Brad Richards
has been everything for this team.
With 47 points in the first half, he is
definitely earning his paycheque.
Loui Eriksson, Mike Ribeiro, James
Neal, and others have also brought a
lot to the table in what has been a
dream season so far.
In Montreal, Carey Price has been
everything you can ask for in a goal-
tender and more. He has posted 20
wins, good enough to lead the league
in that category. He has also posted a
.920 SV% and four shutouts. The
Canadiens currently find themselves
eighth in the Eastern Conference and
without the stellar play of Price would
probably be nowhere near this posi-
tion. Defencemen Josh Gorges and
Andrei Markov are both on the long-
term injury reserve for Montreal.
However, Price has shown the ability
to single-handedly steal hockey
games. If he can continue this type of
play, the Canadiens will make the
playoffs and once again have the po-
tential to make some noise.
Two others teams that have been
a story all year long are the Pittsburgh
Penguins and Washington Capitals. If
you haven’t seen it, HBO 24/7 ran a
special on HBO that featured the
Penguins and Capitals and their road
to the 2011 Bridgestone Winter
Classic.
At the time, Washington was
struggling significantly and had lost
nine games in a row. Pittsburgh, on
the other hand, was riding high.
Sidney Crosby registered a 25-game
point streak for the Penguins, a truly
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fantastic accomplishment in today’s
NHL. HBO’s special followed the two
teams around day and night, at prac-
tice, in the dressing room, basically
everywhere. It gave you an inside
look at two professional sports teams,
while clearly depicting the life of a
pro athlete and the great amount of ef-
fort and emotion that accompany twitter
Hey, U of R stu-
sport.
The Capitals ended up winning
this year’s winter classic, which was a
great game and a great showcase for
dents! Want to
the game of hockey in the U.S.A. The
two teams may very well meet again
in the playoffs.
stay up-to-date
In Calgary, the Flames have a new
interim GM in Jay Feaster. Earlier this
year, Darryl Sutter was finally forced
to step down after his team’s woeful
on campus news
performance to start the year. The
Flames sit 14th in the Western
Conference as of press time and
and events?
things are looking mighty bleak.
Trading franchise superstar Jarome
Iginla and beginning a long rebuild
looks to be where the team is headed.
Follow
They will likely miss the playoffs this
season, but for Flames fans, lucky for
them, so will the archrival Edmonton
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Oilers.
As we reach the half point in the
NHL season, many stories have been
told and there are still many more
for all of your
questions to be answered. Thus far,
the best teams in the NHL are the
Vancouver Canucks, Detroit Red
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It is a safe bet to assume that at
least one of these teams will appear in
this year’s Stanley Cup Final. Who
information
will win? I’m sticking with my origi-
nal prediction of the Canucks. The
Sedins will finally bring the Stanley
needs.
Cup back to Canada. The Canucks are
scary good. With Roberto Luongo in
net, they are always a threat to win.
This is their year.
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my original [Stanley
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Canucks. The Sedins
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14 sports
A winning diet Preaching an
Jake Shields, the #2 ranked UFC
welterweight, is a vegetarian
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ed kapp
news writer
Before Jake Shields had his first bout
in the UFC in October of 2010 – a
three round decision victory over
Martin Kampmann, many regarded
the Mountain Ranch, Cali., product
as one of the most dangerous mixed
martial artists to never compete in-
side the Octagon.
With a resume that boasts wins
in four different nations, including
victories over Yushin Okami, Carlos
Condit, Paul Daley, Jason Miller and
Dan Henderson, and championships
at various weight classes under the
Shooto, Elite XC, and Strikeforce ban-
ners, Shields hasn’t lost since late
2004, and has only been finished once
in his career – nearly 11 years ago.
What is perhaps more interest-
ing than the fact that Shields flew be-
low the radar of the majority of
mixed martial arts fans, despite his
impressive body of work, for so long,
is the fact that Shields has accom-
plished everything he has, including
securing a shot at current UFC wel-
terweight king Georges St. Pierre in
late-April, without eating meat.
“I was raised a vegetarian, so
I’ve never really eaten meat. I tried it,
but I didn’t care for it,” offered
Shields. “A lot of people think you
can't be strong without meat, but I'm
proof they're wrong.”
A highly respected mixed mar-
tial artist and lifelong vegetarian,
Shields is a far-cry from our society’s
stereotypical conception of a vege-
tarian, and despite preconceived
ideas, the 11-year veteran shrugs off
the notion that his vegetarian
lifestyle puts him at a disadvantage
inside the Octagon.
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“I feel [not eating meat] is an ad-
vantage, so that’s not something I
have to think about,” explained
Shields. “I think I train better – my
body feels like its efficient. I’ve had a
number of training partners who
have become vegetarian.”
While many professional ath-
letes’ diets include extraordinary
amounts of chicken, fish, and other
animals, a typical day in the life of
Shields’ diet includes oatmeal with
raisins, soy milk and a protein shake
for breakfast, perhaps a bean burrito
with vegetables for lunch, and brown
rice with vegetables and tofu for din-
ner, with nuts, dried fruit, and pro-
tein bars snacked on throughout.
Although reasons for becoming a
vegetarian vary by the individual, be
it health, moral, economic, religious,
or otherwise, Shields essentially has
a number of reasons for enjoying a
vegetarian lifestyle.
“Personally, I just feel better, and
one of the problems with meat right
now is the big factory farms are run
by corporations. The animals are un-
healthy and treated cruelly,” ex-
plained Shields. “It’s not a ‘mom and
pop’ farm like it used to be. It’s one of
the reasons there’s so many problems
with E. coli and salmonella.”
Although many people generally
view vegetarians as perhaps weak or
unhealthy, Shields is a living contra-
diction to that stereotype, and when
he meets St. Pierre in Montreal, the
Gracie Jiu-Jitsu black belt will be
looking to make another statement
on behalf of vegetarians everywhere.
When asked for a prediction for
his upcoming bout, a confident
Shields replied, “I think it'll be a
tough fight, but I'll end it with sub-
mission.”
important message
“The Reverend” Isaac Bruce gives back
bleacherreport.com
Bruce’s foundation honours God and helps underprivileged high school students
ed kapp
news writer
Throughout the history of profes-
sional football, few athletes have
reached the levels of success that
Isaac Bruce has achieved on the grid-
iron.
What may be surprising, espe-
cially considering how terrific a foot-
ball player the future NFL Hall of
Famer was, is that Bruce is just as de-
serving of recognition for the great
work he has been doing off the field
since entering the league in 1994.
Although Bruce is known by
football fans as an integral member of
the Super Bowl XXXIV-winning St.
Louis Rams and is primarily remem-
bered for any number of his over
1,000 catches, over 15,000 yards and
91 career receiving touchdowns in his
16-year career, the Fort Lauderdale,
Fla. native’s charitable organization,
the Isaac Bruce Foundation, has been
“ I look at it as a
way to honour God
and help people.
That is at the very
core of what we
do, and, up to this
date, I think we’re
doing a serviceable
job.”
Isaac Bruce
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trying to understand texts from
our moms since 1962
making just as big an impact off the
field as the sure-handed receiver ever
made between the sidelines.
Bruce, who is currently working
to become a minister, views his foun-
dation as serving two important
functions.
“I look at it as a way to honour
God and help people,” offered Bruce.
“That is at the very core of what we
do, and, up to this date, I think we’re
doing a serviceable job.”
Bruce’s foundation has long
worked to provide underprivileged
high school students with opportuni-
ties that they would otherwise be
lacking, donating nearly $200,000 in
grants and scholarships since 2006
and rewarding more than 550 stu-
dents with the opportunity to attend
an NFL game for their work in the
classroom and community.
“Some of the goals we have are
to make it possible for (high school
students) who may be lacking funds
going into the next level of education
and make it possible for them to have
those funds, and we do what we can
do to encourage and also help them,”
said Bruce.
Although Bruce has worked ex-
tensively to help high school stu-
dents, providing many with financial
support and unique opportunities,
his foundation has also done a great
deal to help younger students make
healthy lifestyle decisions.
“Our biggest desire is to promote
having a healthy lifestyle, as far as
eating well, exercising, dieting, and
nutrition,” noted Bruce. “We’ve done
some projects with the Healthy Youth
Partnership in St. Louis, visiting local
grammar and elementary and middle
schools throughout the city of St.
Louis. They’re very much into some
of the ideas that we have at the Isaac
Bruce Foundation as far as healthy
Jan. 13-26, 2011
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lifestyle. Making sure the healthy
lifestyle is preached and pro-
claimed.”
In the future, Bruce, 38, has big
plans for both his foundation and for
himself.
“I see the Isaac Bruce Foundation
expanding throughout every city in
the United States and making a huge
dent internationally – making sure
the Isaac Bruce Foundation is all over
the world, honouring God and help-
ing people,” said an enthusiastic
Bruce. “Every day is an opportunity
to study, execute what I’m learning
and be out on the field, making sure
I’m on the front lines. I’m doing my
part, and I plan on that part growing
and being much more part of the
ministry.”
Bruce, who was nicknamed “The
Reverend” during his playing days,
has long dreamt of preaching, rather
than playing, on Sundays.
“The word of God has been a
part of my life before I stepped on
earth. My mother is a minister and I
just love proclaiming the word of
God – in word and in deed,” ex-
claimed a passionate Bruce.
“I think it’s truly what the world
needs right now, and it’s the only
way that we as human beings can be
reconciled back into God, so my pro-
claiming of the word and living the
word is truly instrumental not only to
others but to myself, also.”
Although Bruce will no doubt be
remembered as one of the classiest
and most productive athletes of all
time, what is more important than
that is that the University of
Memphis alumni serves as a true role
model – not only to athletes, but to
everyone, for the hard work he has
done to make the world a better
place.
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Getting the right High hopes

aandc@carillonregina.com
the carillon, Jan. 13-26, 2011

tone Globe main stage play has

a small cast but big themes
Schumiatcher Shoebox play has many
stories and many moods

Globe Theatre

met a character I haven’t liked in this

Globe Theatre
paul bogdan
a&c writer
Kate Herriot maintains that The Story
of Mr. Wright is “different than your
average story.” For the play’s cast,
who are staging it as part of the
Globe’s more experimental
Schumiatcher Sandbox series, differ-
ent is good.
The Story of Mr. Wright is unique
in the fact that the cast and directors
helped create it. “It [is] a devised
piece of theatre ... our two directors
came to us with this story in a work-
shop that we did last fall. They came
to us with this story about this Mr.
Wright, this medical miracle that
happened in the fifties ... [the story]
sounds unbelievable.”
The cast and directors then also
added their own personal touch to
the character’s story. “We strung to-
gether the story of Mr. Wright, and,
just through conversations we’d had
in rehearsal, we decided that there
are a lot of medical miracles that hap-
pen in our own lives, or times we’ve
experienced the power that story can
have over [one’s] mind.”
This realization led the cast to in-
corporate their own stories into the
narrative. “We then proceeded to
take the essential parts of [Mr.
Wright’s] story and incorporate the
fact that, throughout the show, it’s
very clear that we’re not just playing
characters; we’re also playing our-
selves as ensemble members. We
took little bits of those stories and in-
terspersed them with scenes of Mr.
Wright’s story. The fact that we’ve all
got stories from our personal lives
makes it really unique because it’s
really hard to play yourself on stage.”
Amalgamating the narrative
with cast stories is likely going to be
a surprise to audience members. “If
you know us, [you’ll] come to the
show thinking that we’re going to
tell you a story and play characters
that aren’t [ourselves], but at the be-
ginning [think], ‘Oh, that’s just Kate.
That’s just her telling her story,’ that’s
something that’s really interesting es-
pecially because the theatre commu-
nity is quite tight,” Herriot explained.
“And so [there will be] a lot of people
the production. “[The play’s tone]
flips back and forth. We’ve got this
mood when you’re in the hospital
scenes [that’s] very cold; you can
hear the heart monitors, and it’s ster-
ile and a bit eerie. When you flip out
of that, to either when we’re talking
about the process, or when we’re
talking about the stories from our
own lives, it’s totally natural, warm,
personable. There’s a complete turn-
around of tone between those
scenes.”
Although there are distinct sto-
ries from the different cast members,
they “all have to do with medical
miracles or the power of the mind,
thinking ‘Oh, I’m going to get bet-
ter,’ and then you get better - things
that are just a little out of the ordi-
nary. Sometimes [they’re] for the
worse; it’s not always that [the char-
acters] get better. There are some very
sad stories in the play as well.
Overall, we end up telling a [narra-
tive] about medical miracles, and the
really seductive power of story and
how it affects [one’s] mind.”
This is no ordinary narrative
piece of theatre, and Mr. Wright turns
paul bogdan
a&c writer
Midway through their 2010-11 season,
The Globe Theatre is in full swing.
With two successful main stage per-
formances this season, Metamorphosis
and Honk: a Musical Tale of the Ugly
Duckling, the Globe is looking to keep
their momentum going with the up-
coming production, Having Hope at
Home.
“I think that [the audience] can
expect to have a great time,” says
Laura Condlln, one of the leads in
Having Hope at Home. “[They
should] expect to be surprised, in a
good way.”
When asked what the play was
about, Condlln and other overhear-
ing Globe Theatre employees could
only chuckle. Condlln plays Carolyn,
a woman hosting a tension-filled fam-
ily dinner at her farmhouse, but she
said it was about more than just a
family dinner. “Having Hope at Home is
about love and forgiveness, family,
understanding, a turkey dinner, a
baby, choice, points of view, conflict
and tension, humans; humans that are
mostly related to each other in one
way or another ... most of all it’s about
family, and how one deals with one’s
family.”
Because family is such a universal
subject, it is likely that the audience
will have little trouble identifying
with the performance and the charac-
ters. “This play ... functions very well
because it is ... relatable,” Condlln ex-
plained. “You see a family up there,
you hear the lines, you hear people
pushing buttons, you see how it hap-
pens, and you can place yourself in
that situation in your world so
quickly [and] so easily. I think that’s
why this play works.”
The characters also look to be an-
other element of the play that the au-
dience can get a hold of, such as the
piece.”
In Condlln’s words, the play in-
corporates themes of forgiveness and
acceptance; it’s about “allowing peo-
ple to be who they are whether you
agree with it or not, finding the gen-
erosity in yourself to step back and
allow that to happen.”
Despite the earnest underlying
themes, Condlln says that Having
Hope at Home still retains a large
comedic aspect to it. “It is a comedy,
definitely; it’s a comedy, but with lots
of different shades of drama because
it’s a very human piece, and I think
we, as humans in the height of our
personal tragedies, are often very
funny. There’s humour everywhere,
and I think wit is very, very impor-
tant.”
With Having Hope at Home, the
Globe is striving to present an easily
identifiable and relatable performance
that can present a deliberate theme
but still have a strong comic presence
in it. Condlin encouraged readers to
beat the winter cold and “come in, get
warm and cozy, and enjoy [yourself]
for an hour and a half.”
Having Hope at Home is a Globe
Theatre main stage production. It will
run from Jan. 27 to Feb. 13. Tickets
start at $25 and can be purchased
from the Globe Theatre box office, in
person or online.
“ ... I think we, as
humans in the
height of our per-
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because it’s really
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hear a story that’s not true [and] com-
self on stage”
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thing; it creates a conflict between
what is real and what is a story.”
Kate Herriot
The intermingling of the stories
causes a shift in the tone and mood of
editor@carillonregina.com
Jan. 20 to 22 and Jan. 26-29 in the
Templeton Studio Cabaret at the
Globe Theatre. Tickets are $20 and
are available from the Globe Theatre
box office, in person or online.
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Five things to
do when
you’re sick
Evangeliwhat
U of R Anime Club prefers to keep things low-key

Maybe you’re run-down from all the party-

ing over Christmas break. Maybe your prac-
tical-joke-playing baby cousin thought it
would be funny to sneeze on your face
when you were holding her. Maybe your
immune system just sucks. Whatever the
case is, here are some things you can do if
you’ve become the common cold’s latest
victim.

5 Drink copious
amounts of fluid
Dehydration can come quickly if you’ve
fallen ill, and your body needs to stay hy-
drated to keep firing on all cylinders. Don’t
be afraid to crush a carton of OJ as you pro-
ceed through the rest of the items on this list.

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Neon Genesis Evangelion’s guns might be big, but its cachet with the U of R Anime Club isn’t
Wash your hands
Its Wikipedia page is a hair shorter If you’re a bit lost at the men- week, and then when they see what
than the page for the Bible’s Book of tion of InuYasha, that’s all right; else is on, they’ll usually come and
john cameron
Genesis. And, fifteen years from while that series has also had its see what these other animes are. I
Just because you’re ill, this doesn’t mean you
editor-in-chief
when it started, the franchise is in fair share of spin-offs and merchan- know last year we had a bunch of
get to drag everyone else down into your
Neon Genesis Evangelion (pro- the midst of a Batman dising cash-ins, it’s nowhere near as members join us, and they were a
stuffy-nosed, watery-eyed hell. Be courteous
nounced “eh-van-gell-ee-on”) is Begins¬–style reboot, the second famous as animes like Dragon Ball little unsure, and then we got into a
to your friends/classmates/family/other hu-
one of the biggest anime success film of which, the dourly-titled Z, Gundam Wing, or even Pokémon, series called D.Grey-Man and they
mans and help reduce the chance of infecting
stories of all time, earning billions Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) all of which had their runs on chan- just wouldn’t leave.”
others by washing your hands often.
of yen in profit, spawning multiple Advance, is coming to Cineplex the- nels like YTV in the 1990s. Other perks, he says, include
offshoots in forms of media like atres in Canada for one night only But a conversation with the environment, which Falconer
games, books, and films, and seeing on Thursday, Jan. 2. Falconer goes deeper than InuYasha; describes as comparatively free-
translation into several languages. But James Falconer isn’t that in- he constantly mentions anime se- wheeling. During screenings, mem-
terested, and according to him nei- ries that haven’t seen the light of bers of the club crack jokes and talk

3 Watch daytime
TV
Nothing says “I’m sick” like watching four
ther are many members of the
University of Regina’s Anime Club.
The club, which has been around
for five years, meets twice a week to
back-to-back hours of Judge Joe Brown and watch and discuss anime, but
Jerry Springer. Falconer said that something like
“ I think with the Evangelion screening just isn’t
their style.
“I mentioned it to my mem-
our members it’s
that we’ve bers, and they were like, ‘What?
Evangelion is coming?’” Falconer
said. “I looked it up as soon as they
conventional English-language
broadcasting yet – anime series that
lack the stereotypical giant robots
or outrageous super-powered bat-
tles. According to him, however,
that’s one of the perks of the U of R
Anime Club.
“You’ll see all kinds of genres
within anime that coincide with a
lot of regular stuff, like novels or
movies,” Falconer said. “For in-
stance, you get slice-of-life animes,
about what’s going on onscreen as
it happens, giving the meetings less
of a stoic air. They also participate
in completely non-anime activities,
like November’s laser tag outing in
tandem with the UR Pride centre,
cheekily named “Gayser Quest
with Anime.”
But anime and manga are the
core of the group; they’re the com-
mon media that the U of R Anime
Club celebrates. Falconer believes

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Play video
games
What’s that? I’ve just renewed my Xbox Live
account and have nothing but multiple hours
to do as little physical activity as possible?
Maybe today won’t be so bad after all.
grown up with
it.” gave me that reaction, and it’s actu-
ally just a re-release of the original
tetralogy.
Jordan Falconer, “... What they did was, they
took groupings of episodes and
turned them into a film, sort of like
President, U of R
what you get with the InuYasha se-
Anime Club
ries,” he went on. “There are about
four different InuYasha movies and
which will follow, normally, high
school students and their day-to-
day occurrences and the relation-
ships between the characters. And
that’s the entire plotline.
“... I think for our anime club,
what draws them is we never play
anything mainstream. So we’ll oc-
casionally get something ... which
that anime’s importance to the
club’s members has deep roots.
“I think with our members it’s
that we’ve grown up with it,” he
mused. “Without realizing it, a lot
of the shows we watched as car-
toons as kids was actually anime.
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realize it’s an entirely different cul-

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Lee), leading the “witch,” who purportedly amount of damage, but the number of traps and
brought the plague upon the town, out to her enemies can occasionally make things over-
Season of the Witch Lost in Shadow

“trial.” whelming. The Brian Eno-esque ambient sound-

Dir. Dominic Sena
Nicolas Cage, Ron
Perlman
I’ve never really gotten the hatred towards
Nicolas Cage. The man is perhaps the most
“committed” actor in America, and his perfor-
maces are fascinating, whether they are in great
films like Leaving Las Vegas or Bad Lieutenant, or
truly awful, otherwise irredeemable films such
as The Wicker Man or Next.
But that dedication to chaos in acting, or
rather the lack of it, is perhaps the biggest disap-
pointment of Season of the Witch. It’s true that this
is a ghastly film, but Cage’s aloof performance is
perhaps the most shocking thing of all.
Season of the Witch is a vaguely historical su-
pernatural drama. Cage plays Behmen and Ron
Perlman is Felsen, his wisecracking sidekick.
Both men are knights in the Crusades, and hav-
ing seen enough death and destruction, they
desert their posts and set off for freedom. Soon
enough, they’ve encountered a town that has
been decimated by the Black Plague. The only
way they can avoid being persecuted for deser-
tion is to take a job from the leader of the town
(played in a minute-long cameo by Christopher
The boredom of all involved is palpable.
Perlman is probably the most game to the mate-
rial, acting as if the whole thing is just a lark.
Unintentional silliness, at least for the first two-
thirds, is even too much to ask of the director
Dominic Sena (probably best known for Gone in
60 Seconds) and the writer, Bragi Schut, who at-
tempt to maintain a “dark thriller” atmosphere
and fail to keep things interesting.
Probably the biggest culprit for Season of the
Witch’s failure is its writing. Besides the weird
juxtaposition of “ye olde” English and modern
American slang, the film also seems to make
some wild claims – for example, that the plague
didn’t have a biological origin, and that the
Crusades were ultimately justifiable. Not to
mention the film’s odd sexism, which it tries to
sweep under the rug with a “supernatural” ex-
planation.
Mostly, though, the film is just a slog. The
first two-thirds are so perfunctory and slow that
the CGI nightmare at the end of the film isn’t en-
tirely justified and winds up being unintention-
ally hilarious. For fans of Nic Cage, however, the
movie’s worst sin is is the tediousness of his
performance.
matthew blackwell
tech coordinator
Hudson
Wii
Lost in Shadow is, for all intents and purposes, a
straight-ahead platform game. Its core mechan-
ics aren’t that different from the original Prince
of Persia, a game over 20 years old. But under-
neath the standard gameplay lies an enigmatic
game, all delivered in a gorgeous aesthetic and
one really great gimmick.
At the start of the game, you’re introduced
via a solemn, silent cutscene to the setting of
the game, a massive tower. A boy approaches a
door, but not before a man clad in armor rele-
gates him to a less than corporeal state. See, the
main hook to Lost in Shadow is that instead of in-
teracting with the world in a normal way, your
character can only interact with the shadow
world. Every action relies on light shone on the
platforms in the game’s foreground. For the
player, this means reorienting your normal
means of perception in order to make sense of
this dangerous world.
Lost in Shadow absolutely nails the feeling of
being dropped into the middle of a deadly alien
landscape. Your character can withstand a fair
track and perfectly designed soundscape also
play into the downtrodden atmosphere. In fact,
the entire game is a little depressing – collecting
your shattered memories strewn all over the
tower and making a journey into the unknown
is amazing, but hardly uplifting.
The game succeeds at one of the toughest
tricks in video gaming – delivering an involving
experience while keeping everything ambigu-
ous. Some have compared Lost in Shadow to
games such as Ico or the recently-released Limbo,
and it absolutely deserves to stand in that com-
pany. The subtly wondrous level design keeps
things fresh, even when the length threatens to
keep things “same-y.” The desperate need to
uncover the game’s mysteries of the setting and
situation make it very compelling.
The only place where Lost in Shadow really
falters is that its central conceit isn’t taken far
enough – the first few hours are quite a bit eas-
ier than the devilish last half, and the mystery
untangles at a glacial pace. But the atmosphere
of the game, its blurry and vague storyline, and
its beautiful, if simple, gameplay all contribute to
an extremely memorable experience. Moreso
than many modern games, Lost in Shadow is a
game that will stay with you for a long, long
time.
matthew blackwell
tech coordinator

cd reviews
opus A Bell is a Cup Until it is Struck and 1979’s
154 are present, but Red Barked Trees is hardly a re-
tread; for a group of sixty-year-olds, Wire is still
making left-field choices and eschewing pop con-
vention, even as they embrace it more fully.
“Adapt” is a seriously gorgeous acoustic ballad,
while songs like “A Flat Tent” find the band ex-
ploring Guided by Voices-esque powerpop in a
distinctly Wire way. And while Red Barked Tree is
full of the kind of non-sequiturs the band has
made their stock in trade, the lyrics on display
now are more fleshed out.
For every spiky bit of post-punk that the
band basically perfects, there are major change-
ups that sound nothing like Pink Flag. While the
album’s many genres make it far from cohesive,
nearly every song (except the surprisingly plod-
ding “Down to This”) contributes a new idea,
brilliantly executed. Red Barked Tree is perhaps
the best endorsement for aging rockers to keep
making music – that is, if they’re half as inventive
Wire
Buck 65 is no stranger to oddities. His latest re-
lease, entitled 20 Odd Years, is a collaboration
with numerous other artists to celebrate the
roughly twenty years that Buck 65 has been
making his odd style of hip-hop music. Because
the album is so collaborative, 20 Odd Years is
full of variety. All the songs feature Buck 65’s
unique alternative hip-hop style, but the utiliza-
tion of other artists’ vocal styles, ranging from a
deep baritone to a soaring soprano, with Buck
65’s flow of rhymes creates an intriguing sonic
blend. This unique auditory landscape that’s
filled with deep layers of synths, samples, elec-
tronic drum tracks, and a multitude of physical
instruments is in no shortage of hooks; harmonic
minor melodies over the tonic and dominant-
seven chords are a common occurrence that help
to achieve tension-building hooks that keep the
listener interested. As a whole, 20 Odd Years ven-
tures though an abundance of moods, moments,
and musical styles to create a fine way to spend
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Red Barked Tree 20 Odd Years
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For a band who’s made their name by changing

their sound from album to album, Wire’s new al-
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“victory lap”. Shades of the band’s 1988 magnum
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Parking wars
Everyone enjoys going shopping for
one reason or another: getting away
from an annoying boyfriend or girl-
friend for a while, or just getting out
and seeing something different.
Bumming around the mall and
browsing through thousands of items
that make us laugh at their ridicu-
lousness or shock us because of the
fact that they are horrendously over-
priced – a shopping adventure can be
a great way to relax.
“Can be” should be the two key
words here, because shopping in
downtown Regina is anything but re-
laxing. What makes the downtown
core such a stressful nightmare is that
it is basically a jungle. The one-way
streets are not even the worst of the
problem because you can get used to
those very quickly. What makes it so
stressful is that many pedestrians do
not respect motorists and many mo-
torists do not respect pedestrians.
When I am driving downtown,
trying to find where I need to go and
where I can find a parking space, too
often pedestrians come out of
nowhere. They appear to have no re-
gard for the fact that the several thou-
sand pounds of steel under my
control can seriously injure them. The
rules of the road apply to pedestrians
as well. On the flip side of the coin,
too many motorists seem unable to
understand that when a crosswalk
light turns green and I, as a pedes-
trian, wish to cross the road, those
turning right have to yield to me. I
cannot really recount how many
times motorists have expressed their
annoyance at me for simply engaging
in the correct behaviour. I like to think
that the drivers’ apparent anger has
more to do with the fact that they just
experienced a moment of fear.
Swearing at me is their way of coping
with the situation. After all, it is quite
scary to have almost struck someone
with your car.
Yet the number one stress factor
of downtown has to be metered park-
ing. Those little posts that consume
your hard-earned change are the
greatest annoyance when trying to
find a parking space. Combined with
those nice folks from parking enforce-
ment who write you those hefty tick-
ets, parking is the greatest reason I
try to avoid downtown. It’s actually
sad, because downtown has some
unique shopping experiences. Many
of the stores downtown carry items
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that you will never find at Wal-Mart,
Zellers, or any other department
store. I would like to point to Vintage
Vinyl & Hemp Emporium as an excel-
lent example. Last time I checked,
Wal-Mart did not have an aisle that
sold items for your hemp needs.
Even if you don’t go downtown
for unique items, the shopping atmos-
phere in itself is very different.
Anyone who has entered the new
Wal-Mart knows that it is just a large
warehouse-turned-store. There’s no
character to the building, nothing that
would make me enjoy the shopping
experience. The one advantage of big
box stores is that there is plenty of
parking and it is all free. How can
downtown compete with that? We all
know the answer: it cannot. So why
will the City of Regina not get rid of
metered parking in the downtown
core? The simple answer is that me-
tered parking is a cash cow for the
city. First you pay to park downtown
by plugging the meter and then
Parking Enforcement preys on you
and the bad luck that your shopping
took five minutes longer than was al-
lotted on your time at the meter. It is
like getting slapped in the face twice
in a day by the same person.
So where does that leave drivers
to go? If you can, the Cornwall
parkade is a great option and I have
used it in the past to do shopping out-
side of the Cornwall Centre. If the
parkade is not convenient for you or
it is full to capacity on the day you
need a parking space, a pocket full of
change is your best bet. At the end of
the day you are better off over-plug-
ging the meter to avoid a parking
ticket and swearing at City Hall while
you are doing so. If you do happen to
get a ticket, pay it promptly to avoid
lining the pockets of City Hall even
more. Then go ahead and vent your
feelings by swearing at City Hall a
second time that day. Hopefully that
unique item was worth the trouble
you just went through.
sebastian prost
contributor
editorial
The real world
So, here we are, at the beginning of
the winter semester. For me, this se-
mester is a bit different than the
three winter semesters I’ve already
suffered through – it’s my last one!
For this degree, anyway.
That’s right – I convocate in
April. (Or maybe June. But I’m done
school in April, and that’s all that
matters.) I’m trying to make the all-
important decision if I should try my
hand at the work force (ie. the “real
world”), or come back to the safety
net of university and take some more
schooling.
I’m in a very practical, hands-
on program here at the U of R. The
journalism program is designed so
you don’t have to come back to
school. You should be able to gradu-
ate and jump head first into your
job. And I feel like, for the most part,
I can probably do that. Especially if
I end up in a print journalism job,
where I’ve actually had some experi-
ence in a newsroom.
Note the term “end up.” The
scary thing about convocating is that
you aren’t guaranteed your dream
job when you walk out of the
University’s doors for the last time.
You aren’t even guaranteed a job in
your field. (Don’t get me started on
the UR Guarantee program – I’m
pretty sure my program is excluded
anyway.) In fact, I know, or know of,
quite a few people who graduated
University and ended up in a com-
pletely different job than the one
they are educated for.
Part of that could be the fact that
they were not in a practical program
like mine. So I shouldn’t worry.
Preoccupied with
Armageddon
“It seems the world is about to end.”
You might be saying that if
you’ve been following the news.
Almost immediately after the new
year, when everyone becomes ex-
cited with the possibilities of a fresh
start, things started to go sour. It’s
not difficult to see how conspiracy
theorists and people susceptible to
the forces of mass hysteria could
suddenly be swept up by varied re-
ports of how horrible the world sud-
denly is.
I suppose it really started before
the new year with increasing tension
in the Korean Peninsula. With the
United States and South Korea gear-
ing up to hold a massive military
drill, North Korea obviously had to
respond with sabre-rattling and rhet-
oric to appear as if they had control
of the situation. Suddenly, the world
was on the brink of the Third World
War, which was about to start in
Korea. Certainly this is one of the
more volatile places on the planet
where there is obviously going to be
a conflict in the future, but rather
than a Second Korean War, which
seems likely, the world was prepar-
ing for the Third World War, com-
plete with nuclear holocaust.
Then a day or two after we rang
in 2011, the media started reporting
on the deaths of 5,000 blackbirds in
Arkansas, and soon after reports of
dead wildlife began to pour in from
around the globe. Five hundred
birds in Louisiana were found dead,
Op-Ed Editor: Cheyenne Geysen
op-ed@carillonregina.com
the carillon, Jan. 13-26, 2011
Right? Wrong. The journalism world
is a scary one – it’s competitive. No,
it’s downright cut-throat. Budget
cuts and layoffs are a fear in any
newsroom and a reality in many. Full
time jobs are not easy to come by,
and no one who already has a job is
going to give it up very easily.
I have decent marks, a basic skill
set, a good work ethic, and a little bit
of experience. But all of a sudden,
three months before I’m due to leave
University forever, that doesn’t seem
like much. Even in my small class of
26, I’m up against people who are
smarter, have more experience, and
are, in my view, all-around better
candidates for any job than I am.
So what do I do? Go back to
school and take something else? Or
forge my way out into the real world
and hope for the best? I don’t want
to have a degree and still be serving
for a living. And quite frankly, I
don’t want to move too badly either.
But jobs are scarce, and I’ve been
told many, many times that if I want
to succeed I can’t be afraid to move.
So what if I am afraid to move?
What if I’m comfortable here, with
my friends and a city I know well af-
ter four years of calling it home?
What if I find a job somewhere that
my boyfriend can’t?
You see my predicament. If I go
back to school, I definitely won’t
have to move. I won’t even have to
look for a job, really. But I’ll also be
further in debt, and delaying the
start of the “real world.” I have to
jump into it eventually. I’d like to
start making “real money,” too.
So – who else is in this situation?
as many as 8,000 turtle doves
dropped from the sky in Italy, dead
crabs washed up on the shores of
England, and authorities in Sweden
reported dozens more birds dead.
Almost immediately, claims that
these mass deaths were harbingers
of Armageddon began to fly fast and
furious on the internet.
In the United States, a gunman
shot a congresswoman and 14 others
for no discernable reason. Of course,
that does not mean we cannot infer
a reason. Almost immediately fol-
lowing this tragedy, discussion of
whether the gunman was a fascist,
communist, socialist, or conserva-
tive began to emerge. Suddenly, the
focus of the tragedy went from the
victims and the gunman to what
larger group was responsible, with
both right- and left-wingers accusing
the other side of inspiring hateful
acts through their rhetoric. Cue con-
spiracy theorists who see this act as
the first shot in the revolution
against the government. Or the first
shot in a revolution by the govern-
ment to further enslave the popu-
lace. Another harbinger of doom.
So where does the world go
from here? Well, the Korean tension
quickly subsided; the South held
their drills and the North did noth-
ing. In fact, the North is now asking
for diplomatic talks without precon-
ditions, a sign that they are finally
willing to talk seriously.
As for the “Aflockalypse,” sci-
There are a lot of people getting
ready to graduate out there. Is there
some six-step plan to the “real
world” that I’ve missed? Whoever
has it, I wish they’d give it up.
Publish a book. I swear you’ll make
millions, and I’ll be the first in line to
buy a copy.
For now, I guess I’ll just hope for
the best. I have three-ish months to
make a decision. I’m taking advice
though. So if you have some, fire it
my way. Otherwise – good luck to
everyone who’s at the beginning of
their final semester. Make it a good
one. Even though this maybe hasn’t
been the best time of your life, I’m
pretty sure it’s probably been some
of the most memorable years. And
maybe, just maybe, when we’re fi-
nally done, we’ll wish we could go
back.
If all else fails, MTV might be
hiring.
cheyenne geysen
op-ed editor
entists have determined several
mundane causes for the mass bird
deaths that are not government con-
spiracy or Biblical prophecy. Not to
mention that mass wildlife death is a
common occurrence that is only now
being overanalyzed because of the
media frenzy surrounding the
Arkansas event.
And perhaps the most shocking
event, the attack on a congress-
woman, is nothing new. There have
been both assassinations and assas-
sination attempts on public figures
in the United State for decades. This
does not mean these events are not
tragic, but it does mean that one
such event will not result in the total
decay of society into civil war or an-
archy.
Calm down. Take a deep breath.
Things are bad, but they have cer-
tainly been this bad and worse in
the past. Humanity has made it
through tough times before; we’ll
make it through these tough times as
well.
edward dodd
contributor
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