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Coming back from Diversity at
Afghanistan the U of R
After returning home, Karen Holowaychuk
shares her experiences overseas
Martin Weaver
everyday struggles women police of-
ficers face in that country, and
martin weaver
contributor showed pictures from her deploy-
ment.
Most people wouldn’t dare travel to a Holowaychuk explained to the
war zone. But, for RCMP Corporal crowd what her role in Afghanistan
Karen Holowaychuk it was a dream was. “The ultimate goal was to bring
come true. the Afghan National Police to more
“It was something that I’ve al- community policing rather than the
ways wanted to do, a UN peacekeep- soldiers they used to be.”
ing mission.” Overseas, her role was to lead
Holowaychuck was at the RCMP groups of trainees. She taught them
Heritage centre on Saturday, Feb. 19, basic policing skills as well as per-
to talk about her recent time spent in sonal safety. She explained that, re-
Afghanistan. She spent nine months, gardless of where she was, the male
from May 2010 until December 2010, trainees respected her. She really en-
helping train the Afghan National joyed working with the women to
Police. help them fight the barriers they
During the hour-long presenta- faced.
tion she talked about her mission, the “The female officers are very
sheltered when it comes to who they
are and what they are doing” said
Holowaychuk. “They don’t advertise
who they are when they leave their
homes.” She added the women must
“ You could hear also go to a location other than police
the explosions headquarters before changing into
their uniforms.
The dangers she and her students
going off in the
background at faced were very real. “You could hear
the explosions going off in the back-
night. You would ground at night. You would hear
them, you would feel them, and you
hear them, you
would look into the sky and see
would feel them, traces of rounds going everywhere.
You knew you were in a war zone.”
and you would
She even felt tragedy first hand.
look into the sky “Unfortunately one of those stu-
dents was killed at the end of August.
and see traces of
Some reports say it was insurgents.”
rounds going As the presentation went on, im-
ages from overseas helped bring her
story to life for the crowd of 20, who
everywhere.”
stayed glued to their seats.
They showed the devastation
caused by the war. But some also told
Corporal Karen
Holowaychuk a different story of Afghanistan, a
side many in the audience haven‘t
seen before.
“I told the guys to stop because I
had to take a picture of this,”
Holowaychuk said, pointing to an
image of the local KFC – Kabul Fried
Chicken. Later on in the slideshow, a
picture of a ruined temple with beau-
tiful mountains in the background
appeared.
“Imagine how nice this would
have looked in the ’80s before the war
started.”
Other images showed the work
being done by the Canadian military.
“That’s what we do, we help re-
build and we really are the best at it,”
Holowaychuk told the audience.
Holowaychuk was surprised to
see the reaction from local Afghans
with regard to the Canadians’ pres-
ence. “They really liked us. The
Afghan people really liked
Canadians. They appreciated what
we were doing as far as helping them.
They knew that we weren’t trying to
change them and make them west-
ernized. They knew our hearts were
into helping them be better at what
they do.”
Many in the audience left with a
changed perspective about
Afghanistan and the work being
done.
Holowaychuk also had a
changed perspective when she got
back to Canada.
“You get a better appreciation of
everything. And to come back to de-
pot – my approach with the cadets is
a little different.”
While this was a once in a life-
time experience, Holowaychuk is
hesitant when asked about another
opportunity to go.
“Would I go back to Afghanistan?
No, too dangerous. It was a good ex-
perience, but for nine months being
in a closed confined area, it was
tough.”
News Editor: Kimberly Elaschuk
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Fourth International Night high-
lights diversity within the city
Ali Nikolic
ed kapp
news writer
Billed as a celebration of the
University of Regina’s diverse stu-
dent population, the Graduate
Students Association’s fourth annual
International Night proved to be just
that.
Some may perceive the U of R as
a small city school with little diver-
sity among its student body. The
truth is, according to students inter-
viewed at the event, the university
boasts a nearly unmatched degree of
diversity. Among graduate students
alone, there are over 300 international
students, representing nearly 100 dif-
ferent countries and regions, cur-
rently enrolled at the U of R.
Many of the U of R’s interna-
tional students, along with a num-
ber of their domestic counterparts,
attended the GSA’s International
Night festivities on Feb. 17 to cele-
brate diversity at the university.
Before a packed Multi-Purpose
room in the Riddell Centre, guest
speakers Dr. Rod Kelln, dean of the
Faculty of Graduate Studies and
Research; Dr. George Maslany, the U
of R’s VP Academic; and Adam
Belton, president of the GSA, began
the evening with brief addresses to
those in attendance.
Following the opening speeches,
over 20 performers, including repre-
sentatives from the Afghan Students
Club, the African Students
Association, the Iranian Society, and
the Muslim Students Association,
and many more took the stage to
share pieces of their cultures with
dancing, poetry, and singing.
After the performances, the main
event of the evening – an assortment
of food from around the globe – was
served to everyone in attendance.
While an evening of free food
and entertainment was reason
enough for many students to flock to
the Multi-Purpose room on a cold
Thursday night, many believe events
like the GSA’s International Night
serve a more profound purpose than
providing U of R students with a
complimentary night out.
Belton, who did a great deal of
work to make the International Night
come to fruition, believes that – espe-
cially in a diverse environment like
the U of R – events that celebrate and
promote different cultures are valu-
able for everyone who participates.
“The whole university has seen a
growing number of international stu-
dents over the past 10 years. It’s a
trend that we can see,” said Belton af-
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ter the final performances of the
evening.
“I think that this event was
started up in order to celebrate the
addition of the different ethnicities
and backgrounds that people are
coming from. It represents their cul-
tures and allows us to gather and
learn about them. I think it’s a very
important event.”
Like Belton, the evening’s second
guest speaker, Dr. Maslany, believes
that having a diverse student body is
very important for the university.
With the U of R boasting such a var-
ied student body an event like the
GSA’s International Night serves as
an important opportunity for every-
one involved.
“[Diversity at the U of R] is an in-
tegral part of our fibre. Basically, I’d
say taking the international compo-
nent away would be like removing
the wetness from water. It’s very
much a part of our heart and our soul
and our very being. It gives an op-
portunity for exchanges between
people that might not have been af-
forded to them otherwise,” offered a
passionate Dr. Maslany.
From a student’s perspective,
Kabari Quaye, a second-year actuar-
ial studies student, believes that the
GSA’s International Night is an im-
portant mechanism in bringing peo-
ple of all cultures together.
“I think that [events like the
GSA’s International Night] are very
important, because our university is
very international – you walk around
and you always hear different lan-
guages. It’s good to have events like
this to bring people together, so peo-
ple don’t have to stay in their tight-
knit groups. International Night is a
big deal. It should be a big deal to
bring out everyone and all of the cul-
tures.”
“ It represents
their cultures and
allows us to
gather and learn
about them. I
think it’s a very
important event.”
Adam Belton
GSA president

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Solidarity
Regina comes out to support Libya
Kim Elaschuk
The Saturday rally called for Canada to step up and do what it could to
remove Muammar Gaddafi
kim elaschuk
news editor
“Libyans united will never be de-
feated,” yelled the protestors.
“Gaddafi, criminal,” they
chanted.
Just another Saturday in down-
town Regina.
While it may sound like a scene
more familiar to northern Africa, on
Saturday, Feb. 26, the Queen City’s
citizens came out to show their sup-
port for their Libyan brothers and sis-
ters. Those marching began their
stand at city hall, and marched down
Victoria Ave.
This wasn’t the first rally against
Libya’s dictator, Muammar Gaddafi,
that the city has seen. Supporters for
the cause had braved the minus 20
degree weather the previous week-
end. And this showing will not be
the last, either.
“We will meet next week, same
time,” a voice boomed over the
crowd. “Even if it’s a celebration, we
still meet.”
Eman Abdulhadi has been at
both rallies. She’s noticed that the
movement seems to be gathering
some steam. “This time, there’s more
people. So, I hope awareness is get-
ting out, and more people are notic-
ing what’s going on. Hopefully, it’ll
put pressure on the Canadian gov-
ernment to say something.”
It is over 7,000 kilometres away,
yet the citizens in Regina feel a con-
nection to those struggling under
Gaddafi’s over-40-year reign. While
it’s something that pleases
Abdulhadi, she is not surprised by it
and credits the strong presence of her
culture.
“I know the Libyan community
tries to put itself into every aspect of
Canadian culture,” she explained.
“Whether its sports, whether it’s de-
bate, whether it’s anything ... I think
people see that, and that’s why
they’re concerned for us and why
they’re concerned for our families
back home.”
While this show of solidarity
may seem almost common to those
accustomed to free speech, for mem-
“ Until now, parents would say, ‘Do not say
anything opposing the Gaddafi regime,’ be-
cause that’s how powerful he was for so long.
He’s instilled that fear into people even when
they’re away from the country.”
bers of the rally it was a new – and
brave – step.
Mona Aboudheir knows the
pressure the Muslim community has
felt to stay quiet. Even after living
here for almost two decades, her fam-
ily was never comfortable speaking
out against Gaddafi.
“Until now, parents would say,
‘Do not say anything opposing the
Gaddafi regime,’ because that’s how
powerful he was for so long. He’s in-
stilled that fear into people even
when they’re away from the coun-
try.”
The world has been changing
quickly. Aboudhier credits move-
ments started in Tunisia. She said she
believes the effect snowballed from
there.
“That one brave nation started a
domino effect and everyone has
found that spirit in them to say, ‘This
is enough – we’re better than this and
we have to stand up.’ And the world
is answering their call.”
The long line of people marching
in front of the Cornwall Centre on
Saturday suggests action surround-
ing Libya’s tense political situation
is gaining coverage and recognition
in Canada. One reason could be that
the issues are connecting people, past
race or creed.
“Forget if you’re Muslim, forget
if you’re Libyan, forget if you’re
Arab. They’re human beings. If that
person is a human being living in
Libya and you’re a human being liv-
ing here, why do you get the benefits
that you have and they don’t?”
Aboudhier asked. “We all deserve
the simple thing of wanting to have
freedom in this world.”
The rally ended with those in-
volved meeting again at city hall.
Signs that read “Free Libya” and
“Democratic Reform” waved along-
side flags of red, black, and green.
People chanted, hugged, danced, and
sang together. Whatever power
Gaddafi had held that had kept peo-
ple silent for so long had obviously
been broken.
Aboudhier agreed, “The fear is
gone. From the very first person who
stood up and told Gaddafi to get
down.”
Mona Aboudheir
Bloodshed in Libya
Thousands rise up against Muammar Gaddafi
Taouba Khelifa
Mona Aboudheir is ready to fight for change
taouba khelifa
contributor
Feb. 15, 2011 is unlikely be forgotten
by many Libyans. That’s the day pro-
testers in the city of Benghazi took to
the streets, beginning what soon be-
came a revolt against the government
of Libya and its 42-year dictator,
Muammar Gaddafi.
Soon, the country saw pro-
democracy protests rising in other
cities. Al Bayda, Misurata, az-Zawiya,
and even the capital, Tripoli – mostly
populated by government loyalists –
joined in the uprising.
However, what started as peace-
ful protests quickly turned into a
nightmare.
Gaddafi promised that he would
fight until death, and soon the blood
of innocent civilians was shed.
Up until Feb. 24, outside media
was banned from entering the coun-
try, telephone lines were tapped and
later cut, and the internet stopped
working for some time. The country
was under a media blackout. On state
television, images of happy pro-
Gaddafi protests painted the screen.
And the atrocities began.
Through eyewitness reports and
videos sent in by protesters, the world
watched as civilians were killed by
gunfire from security forces, heavy-
calibre shells, and hired mercenaries
paid to silence the uprising. The
videos are difficult to watch and
frightening – gun shots ringing in the
background, and protesters scram-
bling to run away.
Mona Aboudheir, a Libyan-born
Canadian living in Regina, was out-
raged at the silence and lack of action
from the international community,.“I
cannot say why the international
community was so late to state any-
thing. And when they did, it was to
condemn his actions. [That is] stating
the obvious.”
The United Nations and its pow-
ers have certainly been put to the test
with Libya’s uprising, and the inter-
national community has found itself
in a difficult position. World leaders
in the United States, Italy, United
Kingdom, Arab League, and
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon of the
UN condemned the actions and hu-
man rights violations by the Libyan
government. But to date there has
been no direct intervention by foreign
powers.
Aboudheir says that it really
shouldn’t be that difficult. What
needs to be done, she says, is “directly
contact this man and get him out.
There is no need for military help; it’s
too late for that. He needs to pack that
tent of his and get dragged out. We
need a solution now, no more beating
around the bush.”
Things, however, are easier said
than done. While the international
community has been slow in reacting
to the situation in Libya, the world is
not dealing with just any leader.
Rather, they are dealing with Gaddafi,
and he is a special case.
On Feb. 22, Gaddafi made his
first appearance on state television
since the protests began, and ad-
dressed the Libyan people. The dicta-
tor rambled on for more than an hour,
talking about everything and any-
thing. His words were not the words
of a leader, but of a sick man.
“The words of a man that is
over,” Aboudheir said. “He has noth-
ing left: no power, no command, no
dignity.” To her, this speech was a re-
flection of him trying to desperately
hold on to the last threads of leader-
ship.
Gaddafi blamed the uprising on
drugs and pills that had mysteriously
been slipped into the Nescafe cups of
the protesters. He insulted his citi-
zens and called them alley rats that
had lost their way. In a telephone in-
terview a few days later on state tele-
vision, he even blamed the revolution
on America, al-Qaeda, and Osama
Bin Laden – who Gaddafi said he be-
lieves is in Libya right now – for slip-
ping drugs to the youth so that they
would revolt.
However, amongst the ramblings
of this leader were some frightening
threats.
He was defiant and refused to
step down. He encouraged his sup-
porters to go out in the streets, and
capture those who were putting
Libya’s image to shame.
“If you love Moammar Gaddafi,
go out and secure the streets, don't
be afraid,” he said on Feb. 22. “Chase,
arrest, and hand over those anti-gov-
ernment supporters.”
Gaddafi later went on to say that
he would die a martyr for his country,
and will continue to fight for his po-
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sition until his very last drop of blood.
And his threats had been followed
through.
It has been estimated that the ca-
sualties in Libya are in the thousands,
but it has been difficult to confirm the
exact numbers.
One thing that is certain is that
the killing rampage continues, with
the number of casualties rising ever
day. Aboudheir is shocked at how a
leader could do such a thing, and to
his own people.
“Live ammunition from the
ground, planes, and mercenaries sent
for unarmed civilians. They are just
peaceful humans, asking for what?
The thing that you and I take for
granted everyday. Where is the jus-
tice?”
But justice and freedom seem to
be words with forgotten meaning at
this time. “Freedom is a word so
loosely used that it doesn’t seem to
hold a heavy meaning for us. But it’s
so important,” Aboudheir argues.
“It’s what every human dreams of,
it’s the fresh air we breathe, it’s the
colors of the sky. Freedom is life. Is
that too much to ask for?”
The rest of the world should
agree that no, it isn’t too much to ask
for. Still, Gaddafi’s regime has chal-
lenged people’s values and morals.
His actions have put human rights to
test, questioning the importance of
the rights we are entitled toward, but
have so little access to.
For now, the world is waiting for
justice and freedom to come to the
people of Libya.
“ It’s what every
human dreams of,
it’s the fresh air
we breathe, it’s
the colors of the
sky. Freedom is
life. Is that too
much to ask for?”
Mona Aboudheir
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Libya’s tomorrow
Libya’s future is uncertain, but some outcomes prove more likely
than others
abc.net.au
ed kapp
news writer
After two weeks of brutal conflicts be-
tween Muammar Gaddafi’s armed
forces and a number of allied opposi-
tion groups, it appears as if Libya may
become the next North African nation
to see its disgruntled population over-
throw its authoritarian regime.
The leader of Libya, since taking
control of the country in a bloodless
coup in 1969, Gaddafi has long ruled
his nation with an iron fist – and has
vowed to fight until the end to extend
his tenure as Libya’s head of state.
Throughout his 40-year run as
Libya’s leader, Gaddafi has been noto-
rious for wide-spread human rights
abuses in both Libya and abroad.
Known as much for his disdain for
the notion of human rights as he is for
his often-outlandish behaviour,
Gaddafi has long been viewed as a
somewhat cartoon-like character to
many outside observers, despite the
fact that he has maintained strict au-
thoritative control over Libya, a nation
with incredible amounts of oil re-
serves, for more than 40 years.
In response to nearly half a cen-
tury of Gaddafi’s often-erratic rule,
and the series of successful uprisings
in neighbouring Tunisia and Egypt, on
Feb. 15, thousands of inspired Libyans
took to the streets in protest. Initially,
these protests were centred in the na-
“ The protest
movement is no
longer a protest
movement; it’s a
war. It’s an open
revolt.”
Richard Engel
NBC Chief Foreign
Correspondent
tion’s two largest cities, Tripoli in the
west and Benghazi in the east. By Feb.
18 widespread demonstrations had
spread to several smaller cities across
Libya.
Within 48 hours, anti-Gaddafi
demonstrators, aided by a number of
defected armed forces officers, had
gained control of Benghazi. In re-
sponse to this, Gaddafi sent elite army
officers and a number of alleged
Chadian mercenaries to the opposi-
tion-controlled city. After two days of
conflict, more than 200 had been killed.
On Feb. 22, NBC News Chief
Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel
insisted, “The protest movement is no
longer a protest movement; it’s a war.
It’s an open revolt.”
At press time, Libyan rebels had
both taken control of several cities
across the country and established a
national council to coordinate admin-
istration in areas seized from the
Gaddafi regime.
Still, Gaddafi has shown no will-
ingness to leave office, even after re-
ceiving strong condemnation for his
acts of violence and pleas to resign
from a number of outside observers.
On Feb. 25, Dr. Omar Ashour, a
Canadian-born Middle Eastern ana-
lyst for the British Broadcasting
Corporation, offered a number of po-
tential future scenarios for Libya – a
nation that boasts a population of 6.5
million citizens and vast petroleum re-
serves.
The first scenario Dr. Ashour pre-
sented was that of Gaddafi using
chemical weapons against his opposi-
tion – a tactic used both by Saddam
Hussein in 1988 and by Hafez al-Assad
in 1982.
Dr. Ashour insisted that this op-
tion, albeit extreme, is still possible. In
2004, inspectors from the Chemical
Weapons Convention verified that
Libya had over 23 metric tonnes of
mustard gas and an additional 1,300
metric tonnes of precursor chemicals at
their disposal.
In his second version, Dr. Ashour
offered the notion that dissent among
factions of Libya’s armed forces could
lead to an attempted coup against their
embattled head of state, similar to the
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effort that Gaddafi spearheaded to
take the reins of the North African na-
tion in the late 1960s.
Dr. Ashour said that, although a
coup could be carried out by disgrun-
tled Libyan officers, it is nevertheless
unlikely to occur. Since the onset of
the conflict, Libya’s armed forces have
failed to act as a cohesive unit and
would likely not have sufficient man-
power to carry out such a bold move.
Another scenario presented by Dr.
Ashour was the prospect of interna-
tional intervention.
Although this seems like a plausi-
ble scenario, Dr. Ashour suggested that
if the Western world’s reactions to past
Gaddafi indiscretions are any indica-
tion of how they will react to Libya’s
current conflict, then it is unclear what
they may – or may not – do to help
remedy the country’s worsening situ-
ation.
“The West has known about
crimes against humanity and terrorist
plots committed by Col. Gaddafi’s
regime for decades now. Most notably,
the June 1996 Abu Salim massacre in
which more than 1,200 political prison-
AU student Kristy in Edmonton, AB
ers were gunned down after protesting
against prison condition,” wrote Dr.
Ashour. “Still there was no interna-
tional inquiry, mainly due to oil inter-
ests.” Finish.
On Feb. 19, in an article in the New
York Times by Anthony Shadid, a
Benghazi resident and demonstrator
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U of S president Taking the humanitarian

appointed to PM's
advisory committee
gesture a step further
Peter MacKinnon will be working U of R student Ali Molaro is taking her
alongside Stephen Harper volunteering from Regina to Malawi

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These two already look comfortable together

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SASKATOON (CUP) – University of MacKinnon, originally from

Saskatchewan president Peter
MacKinnon will soon be advising
Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Harper’s office made the an-
nouncement on Feb. 1. MacKinnon
will assist a nine-member federal ad-
visory panel that meets three times a
year. The panel guides the vision of
Canada’s civil service.
P.E.I., came to Saskatchewan in 1975
as an assistant professor of law after
studying at Dalhousie University in
Halifax and Queen’s University in
Kingston, Ont. He later went on to
receive a master’s in laws at the U of
S and served as dean of law for 10
years before taking on the president’s
job in 1999. Ali Molaro

The advisory committee was As an adviser, he will join other

founded on November 2006 and re-
ports to the prime minister as well as
the clerk of the Privy Council on mat-
ters ranging from diversifying
worker recruitment strategies to ef-
fectively branding the public service
as a “trusted and innovative institu-
tion,” according to a government
website.
The fourth and most recent re-
port, “A Relevant and Connected
Public Service,” applauds the gov-
ernment’s “Economic Action Plan”
and acknowledges that a complete
transformation in the leadership of
public service is appearing due to
the multi-year retirement wave of the
baby-boomer generation.
“The quality of the public service
[sector] is tremendously important,
and the fact that this committee was
appointed to assist in its renewal and
future development makes it a com-
mittee that can add value to the fu-
ture,” said MacKinnon.
Indira Samarasekera, president
of the University of Alberta, left the
committee in 2010. MacKinnon will
be taking her seat.
“I think the committee is in-
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The committee is co-chaired by Paul
Tellier and David Emerson, both
hailing from Quebec. Tellier is a
prominent CEO who has worked
with CN railway and Bombardier.
Emerson is a former Liberal MP most
famous for crossing the floor in 2006
to join Harper’s cabinet.
The group also includes Dominic
D’Alessandro, president and chief
executive of Manulife Financial, and
Barbara Stymiest, who heads the
RBC Financial Group.
MacKinnon is enthusiastic about
the opportunity, but remains mod-
est.
“I come to the task with humility.
I really believe in a strong and highly
successful public service. I think it’s
important to the country and any-
thing I can do to assist in some mod-
est way with that, I will welcome.
But with that, I have a lot to learn as
well.”
The first public service commit-
tee of 2011 – MacKinnon’s first ever –
got underway Feb. 3 in Ottawa.
Molaro: all A’s in our book
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contributor
Passion and commitment, they say,
are two inseparable items that drive
people to take steps that defy that sta-
tus quo.
This is the story of Ali Molaro, a
third-year environmental systems en-
gineering student who is volunteer-
ing with Engineers Without Borders
overseas project in Malawi this sum-
mer.
The University of Regina student
will be joining at least 30 other junior
fellows from other EWB chapters
across Canada. They’ll be working in
EWB’s water and sanitation project
in Malawi from May to August of this
year.
An anxious Molaro said that
what motivated her action is the fact
that she was going to help people liv-
ing in Malawi. “When I think about
and hear about the type of lifestyle I
will have in Malawi, it makes me
even more anxious to go. I can’t wait
to meet the family I will be living
with and the co-workers I will work
with. I’m almost already sad about
the fact that I will only get to spend
four months with them.”
Molaro has being involved with
EWB chapter at U of R since her first
year and has served as director of
fundraising, director of chapter –
Africa connection, director of mem-
ber learning, and VP Internal. Her
long involvement with EWB has
given her the awareness of the orga-
nization’s vision and the kind of work
“For me, I understand what
EWB’s approach is and why, but I
need to really feel and experience the
overseas part of our programs so that
I can better communicate it to people
in Regina.”
Lucky for Molaro, she will be
working in an area closely related to
her field of study, “I’m very excited. I
now know that I will be working in
the Water and Sanitation Sector in
Malawi. I’m interested in what the
team is working on with data-based
decision making and increase in user
demand for safe water and sanita-
tion. I think that I have lots of ideas to
offer and I’m anxious to get started. I
will get the opportunity to apply my
job skills to a project or jobsite that
has the potential to create lasting
change.”
This experience will also be part
of a learning process for her. Molaro
hopes that her contributions will
help. “I'm also anxious to understand
the relationship between the work
that EWB is doing and the effects felt
in the countries we work in. In theory,
I know that everything that is being
done overseas is done with the hope
that our efforts are providing oppor-
tunities for people living in poverty
to overcome it. I really would like to
see and understand that from my
own point of view.”
While she is excited, she also
knows that her individual efforts
won’t yield results alone.
“I am one person, who is part of
a giant movement of people, who are
actively trying to create some sort of
change in the world. I would say that
short time to do anything life chang-
ing. Alone, my four months in Africa
isn’t going to change any lives. My
presence there won’t ‘save’ anyone.
I’m not there to throw around money
or build schools or adopt babies.”
However, she derives fulfilment
from the fact that she is doing her bit
to a movement that is causing inter-
national development.
“I really support EWB. I think
that EWB is creating change in the
world. I know that when I go over-
seas with EWB I will be contributing
my small part to the success of the
EWB projects and will ultimately be
contributing international develop-
ment.”
Like George Roter, the CEO of
Engineers Without Borders, says, “So
much is expected of our junior fel-
lows.” Molaro understands this, and
wants to make the most out of her
trip.
“I have asked myself these ques-
tions over and over: ‘Why am I going
to Africa? What will I actually do?
What does EWB actually do?’”
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Ottawa seeks to ban hallucinogenic herb

Health Canada proposal would criminalize and classify increasingly popular
salvia as controlled substance
emma godmere
cup ottawa bureau chief
OTTAWA (CUP) — The federal gov-
ernment has announced it plans to ban
salvia, a hallucinogenic herb that has
recently enjoyed a surge in popularity
among young people in North
America.
In a Feb. 21 release, the govern-
ment indicated it intends to add salvia
to the Controlled Drugs and
Substances Act, thereby making it ille-
gal to possess, sell, import, export and
grow the plant. Christian Paradis, min-
ister of natural resources, described
salvia in the release as having the “po-
tential for abuse, especially among
young people.”
Otherwise known as Salvia divi-
norum and salvinorin A, and colloqui-
ally as magic mint or diviner’s sage,
salvia is a plant in the mint family and
is normally smoked to experience
“mild hallucinogenic sensations,” as
described by a fourth-year University
of Ottawa student.
“Salvia gives an intense, but short-
lived high,” explained the student,
who wished to remain anonymous. “It
is more accessible in this way than
marijuana, as it won’t leave you hun-
gry and giggly for an hour after-
wards.”
According to a Feb. 4 government
notice from Health Canada that first
proposed the ban, little is known about
the health risks related to salvia. The
report lists dysphoria, out-of-body ex-
periences, unconsciousness, short-
term memory loss, and hallucinations
among its known effects.
“The term hallucinogenic can also
likely be misleading or poorly under-
stood,” the student added. “Users
aren’t interacting with others and see-
ing things that aren’t there; rather, they
strongly experience their sense of self.
A comfy chair becomes engrossing to
the point that you feel you’re a part of
it, or you spend two minutes wonder-
ing intensely why you can’t remember
how to stand up.”
Salvia is currently considered a
natural health product and technically
is only allowed to be sold if it has been
reviewed and authorized by Health
Canada. Nevertheless, as it has yet to
be added to the CDSA and become
fully criminalized, it can often be
found in shops as accessible as con-
venience stores.
The Feb. 4 notice also cites the
Canadian Alcohol and Drug Use
Monitoring Survey, which indicated
that 7.3 per cent of youth aged 15-24
had used salvia as of 2009.
“Because its psychoactive effects
resemble those of other substances in-
cluded in ... the CDSA, such as lysergic
acid diethylamide (LSD) and psilocy-
bin, Health Canada is concerned that
the ready availability and use of S. di-
vinorum poses a risk to the health and
safety of Canadians, particularly
youth,” read the notice.
“I think it’s foolish,” said the U of
O student, referring to salvia’s pend-
ing criminalization. “There isn’t a pres-
ent or growing threat from salvia, nor
is there a danger or harm to its users.
Criminalizing it puts more money into
the pockets of smugglers and organ-
ized crime who will take up the latent
demand, and costs us more in terms of
the social cost of increased prosecu-
tion of well-intentioned and harmless
citizens.”
Salvia has already been regulated
or restricted in some U.S. states and
several countries, including Australia,
Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany,
Italy, Japan, South Korea, Spain, and
Sweden, according to Health Canada.
However, the herb will not go un-
der an immediate ban: stakeholders
and members of the public have until
March 21 to comment on the proposal,
after which the federal regulatory
process could continue for up to two
years.

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Oscapocalypse
The Carillon’s navel- and star-gazing awards recap
matthew blackwell,
paul bogdan, james
brotheridge, john
cameron, mason pitzel,
rhiannon ward
billy crystal fans
Reading Week is a time of productivity
and focus, a chance for students to get
their heads back into the game and
come out of February with a clear set
of goals for the last month of classes.
Failing that, it’s a good chance to
spend a week forgetting about your
coursework and then scrambling to
finish it all on Sunday night.
This year, however, that Sunday
night coincided with the 83rd Annual
Academy Awards. So rather than
spend time doing something tedious
like studying, the Carillon got cozy
with a social network, prepared for
some kingly speeches, and Inception
Black Swan Toy Story 3. If you didn’t
watch the broadcast, we recorded our
responses to the show’s highlights –
and low-lights.
The Red Carpet
James Brotheridge: “Everyone will be
taking home one of these chocolate
Oscars.” No consolation, ABC.
John Cameron: ABC is already prom-
ising that their Monday night news-
cast will have “red carpet disasters.”
What do you know that we don’t,
ABC?
JB: ABC is has a crazy 3D model of the
Kodak Theater. Lord forbid I don’t
have a full conception of the space.
Mason Pitzel: A question from
Facebook!
JB: The “question from Facebook”
thing is a big scapegoat. “Here’s a
shitty question I don’t have to take re-
sponsibility for.”
MP: I think Jesse Eisenberg is going to
get tired of the suggestion that he
should be home on Facebook right
now.
Rhiannon Ward: I read an interview
that said he doesn’t even have a
Facebook, so.
MP: Jennifer Lawrence wants to be
elsewhere. “My nickname is Jeff
Bridges.”
RW: Jeff Bridges is a weird nickname.
JC: Jennifer Lawrence abides.
MP: Her jewelry really tied the outfit
together.
JB: “Interactive questions”? Tim Gunn
doesn’t understand the Internet.
RW: Every single host of this red car-
pet show is a terrible, terrible inter-
viewer
MP: I really wish they could get the
writers of these “Facebook questions”
to appear via holograms.
JC: While ABC might have the theatre
shots, E! has picture-in-picture, with
the interviews nestled inside shots of
people arriving. It’s an information
nightmare.
RW: It sounds like disaster coverage.
JC: Ryan Seacrest just asked Spielberg
if his family ordered in to watch this
year’s Oscars. Spielberg seemed really
uncomfortable. And speaking of un-
comfortable: “When you see [Helen
Mirren’s] body, it’s bangin’, still.”
JB: She still gets reported on when she
wears a bikini, because it’s awesome.
JC: Seacrest just asked Hugh Jackman
how Colin Firth was able to figure out
how to stutter, for a film.
MP: Cate Blanchett: “brainy”.
Paul Bogdan: Those look like barna-
cles on her dress.
MP: I will never get used to the ques-
tion, “Who are you wearing tonight?”
JC: Wait, I’ve been watching this for
half an hour and haven’t seen Ben
Mulroney once. Did they leash him?
PB: One can only hope.
JB: Natalie Portman looks so troubled.
RW: “I am so annoyed that I get to be
at the Oscars” – Natalie Portman.
MP: Nicole Kidman talk forever
please. Can I play with your hair.
JB: “Nicole Kidman, are you just a
greedy bitch for even still competing
for these things?”
MP: I would really love for someone to
make a compilation of moments where
Tim Gunn deals with technology, and
technology words.
JC: Okay, the current E! thing: one of
their correspondents isn’t on the car-
pet. She’s got a ladder up against a
fence and is watching cars come in.
She read out a Steve Martin tweet. It’s
difficult to watch.
PB: I’m debating switching to E! be-
cause this sounds disastrously awe-
some.
JC: This is obviously contrived but
now she’s talking about having been
able to touch Marisa Tomei's dress.
This is denigrating.
PB: She touched fashion history.
JB: Did Hugh Jackman plan his own
slick entry, or did they request that he
slide in?
JC: That’s just how Hugh Jackman
rolls, man.
The opening pre-filmed segment and
monologue
JB: This is just a mini-pilot for the
Hathaway/Franco version of
Portlandia.
RW: And it’s much worse. Whatever, I
still love them.
JC: Morgan Freeman narration!
RW: I want Morgan Freeman to nar-
rate my dreams too.
JC: Why are they in Back to the Future?
MP: Back to the Future is not up for any
nominations.
JC: And we’re into the monologue.
MP: Anne Hathaway wins for Most
Adorable, forever.
JB: “My presence is a present, kiss my
ass.” Possible James Franco acceptance
speech?
MP: I’m convinced the only thing
that’s going to save the Oscars is if Tim
& Eric start writing the jokes.
Best Art Direction (Robert Stromberg
and Karen O’Hara, Alice in
Wonderland)
JB: Tom Hanks to present the Gone
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With the Wind Award.
JC: The King’s Speech had to disguise its
set’s gay porn roots, which to me
sounds like Oscar Material.
MP: If Inception won they’d also have
to give out a retroactive Oscar to who-
ever designed the Holodeck.
JB: Someone needs to take the awful
ending of Alice in Wonderland that in-
volves Johnny Depp breakdancing and
just overlay the words “Oscar Winner”
over top of that.
Best Cinematography (Wally Pfister,
Inception)
JB: Wally Pfister. What a name.
MP: I hardly know her!
JB: These were all solid choices.
Inception, True Grit, and The Social
Network were all just beautiful look-
ing movies, and any of those winning
wouldn’t have been a crime.
Best Supporting Actress (Melissa
Leo, The Fighter)
JC: Nominees announced by a seri-
ously charming Kirk Douglas.
JB: This doubles as a list of ladies Kirk
Douglas would like to make rude sug-
gestions to.
MP: No one wasn’t grinning during
that preamble.
JC: Whoa! Melissa Leo takes it.
PB: Her dress looks like it’s made out
of doilies.
RW: You’re right. Stiff doilies.
JC: Yeah but she has an Oscar now,
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like it’ll be any less depressing, for the
most part. MP: KING’S SPEECH. YOU DID IT.
JC: The night’s gawkiest auteur takes MB: Who’d have thought that
it for God of Love! Oscarbait would win Oscars?
JB: Tom Hooper looks like a James
Cameron who still has hope for the
world and trust in mankind.
Bizarre AutoTune montage

MB: Also known as “Let’s Make This

the Most Dated Oscars Ever in Like
Two Years.”
Lifetime Achievements

JB: They probably could’ve gotten
Timberlake to actually sing his part.
He would’ve been down.
Best Documentary Feature (Inside
Job)
[note: this award was presented by Oprah]
JC: Eli Fuckin’ Wallach! Why wasn’t
Godard invited to the actual cere-
mony? Oh right, he’s French.
PB: They should have got a
Godardogram.
JC: Clarification: I totally thought he
was dead.

RW: EVERYBODY GETS OS- Best Actress (Natalie Portman, Black

CAAAAARS!
JB: Oprah is giving out Best Doc obvi-
ously because of her sterling journalis-
tic reputation, which includes talking
to Jay Leno about his cars.
JC: Inside Job! Typical leftist Oscars.
RW: Oh my goodness.
JC: Political speech! Thank God, I was
thinking Big Hollywood wasn't going
to have anything to post about.
Guest hosts Billy Crystal and A
Horrifying Hologram of Bob Hope
MB: They flew Billy Crystal out to
save the broadcast.
JC: And a fucking creepy Bob Hope
“ ‘Interactive questions’? Tim Gunn doesn’t understand the Internet.” hologram.
RW: Better than will.i.am.
JC: The Hopeogram is like visibly
walking around, despite being behind
James Brotheridge
a podium.
Swan)
RW: Can you effing imagine being
told you are good at something by
THE EFFING DUDE?
MP: Keep in mind it’s just, like, his
opinion, man. Now he’s compliment-
ing Portman on her range of charac-
ters, but isn’t like the main criticism of
her that she plays a very limited range
of characters?
MB: It’s a bogus criticism, honestly.
But I’m a Portmanpologist.
JC: Natalie Portman wins Best
Trembling and Sweating in a Leading
Role.
MP: Natalie Portman, Best Holy Shit
What Is Happening to Your
Fingernails.
Best Actor (Colin Firth, The King’s

MB: This is deeply frightening.

she can dress like a coffee table when-
ever she wants.
MP: “Fuckin’!”
JC: Melissa Leo takes it with the first
audible “fuck” of the night, too.
PB: My Christian ears!
RW: I thought the broadcast was
slightly behind!
JB: “It’s the young and hip Oscars!”
Best Animated Short Film (The Lost
Thing)
JC: Okay, so the short film, which like
nobody’s ever seen but let’s face it al-
ways look like they will be a fun thing.
JB: Everyone’s seen Day and Night,
though.
MP: Visually The Lost Thing looks a lot
like Robots.
JB: I wonder how the dudes who
made The Lost Thing felt when they re-
alized the score that they made would
be what they’d walk up to when they
won.
Best Animated Feature (Toy Story 3)
JC: I’m obligated to cheer for The
Illusionist, but Toy Story 3 will win.
JB: Toy Story 3 is a lock, but How to
Train Your Dragon was one of my fa-
vorites from last year. Just saying.
RW: I loved How to Train Your Dragon
also, but TS3 made me cry harder so
you know.
JC: Lee Unkrich was talking as if Toy
Story 3 was a risk that they weren’t
sure if people would go watch.
RW: Good point. There really wasn’t
any chance of it being a flop.
JB: It was a movie that was univer-
sally accepted in a way that no other
film was this past year, which is really
cool for a cartoon-funny picture.
Matthew Blackwell: I definitely en-
joyed both of the other films more than
Toy Story 3, but when a movie's nomi-
nated for Best Picture and Best
Animated Feature, it's a lock.
Best Adapted Screenplay (Aaron
Sorkin, The Social Network)
JB: Sorkin!
RW: Obviously.
JC: Aaron Sorkin speech prediction:
prewritten and archly contrived!
Prediction confirmed with Network ref-
erence!
RW: What a bizarre reference, Aaron.
JB: No one in the room is surprised
that Sorkin would have to be played
off.
Best Screenplay (David Seidler, The
King’s Speech)
MP: I’m a fan of this montage, just say-
ing.
JB: Best Screenplay are always their
opportunity to make the nominee
videos look really cool.
RW: I always love these clips with the
script on the screen.
JC: And David Seidler takes it!
MP: Accepts the award on behalf of
stutterers everywhere! Class act.
Best Foreign-Language Film (In a
Better World)
JC: Canada loses again.
MP: At least Australia didn’t win, am
I right?
JB: I was really plugging for retroac-
tive recognition for Men With Brooms.
Best Supporting Actor (Christian
Bale, The Fighter)
RW: I really don’t want to ever see
Winter’s Bone, is what I’m learning –
not because of quality but because I’m
not good with sinister subject matter.
JB: The Ruffalo clip should just be the
Ruffalo Wink.
MB: It’ll be Bale, I’m one million per
cent certain of it.
JC: Eerily accurate, Matthew.
RW: Not really eerie so much as obvi-
ous.
MB: Yeah, I pretty much have been
spending all of my time on Oscar picks
and film blogs all week. Because I’m a
huge nerd, suck it.
JB: How many websites have been
mentioned by name in acceptance
speeches before?
Best Score (Trent Reznor and Atticus
Ross, The Social Network)
PB: Go Trent Reznor!
RW: Academy Award winner Nine
Inch Nails. How does that feel, year
2011?
MP: Academy Award winner The
Prodigy.
JB: Academy Award winner
Mixmaster Mike.
Best Sound Mixing (Lora Hirschberg
et al, Inception)
MB: Don’t want to speak too soon, but
this is almost always the loudest
movie that wins.
MP: Inception features an Edith Piaf
song slowed down beyond recogni-
tion; it wins the award. I guess the
Academy loves chopped-and-screwed
mixes.
Best Sound Editing (Richard King,
Inception)
MP: And the award for Most Explode
Sounds goes to ...
JC: In an ironic bit of sound editing,
they kept playing the explode sounds
even after they cut to Richard King.
MB: Explosion speech!
JB: Just looking at this little guy on
stage is weird, because his head is just
filled with a cacophony of explosion
noises at all times. His mind is
Pandora’s Box.
INTERMISSION: Marisa Tomei recaps
the Science and Tech awards
JB: I never know how to feel about the
person who presents at the non-broad-
cast awards.
RW: James Franco does.
MP: “Congratulations, nerds.”
Best Makeup (Rick Baker and Dave
Elsey, The Wolfman)
JC: Oh fuck me. The Wolfman?
RW: “That’s gross.”
MB: OSCAR WINNER THE WOLF-
MAN.
JB: HAHAHA.
JC: “That’s gross.” -me, watching The
Wolfman take home an Oscar.
JB: This is totally just props because
this production insisted on doing a ton
of practical effects.
Best Costumes (Colleen Atwood,
Alice in Wonderland)
JB: Tickle Trunk Award!
JC: Goes to an appropriate person.
MP: Well, The King’s Speech still wins
for Best Achievement in Double-
Breasted Suits.
JB: Double Academy Award winner
Alice in Wonderland.
Best Song nominees, part one
MB: Randy Newman is so the boss.
RW: He sounds like he’s doing a
Randy Newman impression.
MP: Mandy Moore in A Gown to
Remember.
MB: I’m not ashamed to say that the
sequence in Tangled that this song is
taken from is probably one of the best
animated sequences ever.
Best Documentary Short Subject
(Strangers No More)
JC: Every film in this category looks
really depressing.
MP: Award goes to Strangers No More!
Because this wasn’t the “Best Typeface
Used For Title” award.
Best Live Action Short Film (God of
Love)
JB: Best Live Action Short doesn’t look
Speech)
JB: From beyond the grave, Bob Hope MB: I can’t believe Sandra Bullock is
announces the arrival of Jude Law and within three thousand miles of this au-
Robert Downey Jr. ditorium. “Star of All About Steve
JC: The Hopeogram, it speaks to the Sandra Bullock.” Fuck, even “Star of
future! The Blind Side Sandra Bullock.”
RW: Okay, now it’s not better. Now JC: Jesse Eisenberg nods, because it is
it’s terrifying. impossible for her to be serious about
his non-existent Facebook account.
MB: James Franco looks SO HIGH.
JC: I’ve been hoping the whole broad-
Best Visual Effects (Paul Franklin et
cast that he’s blazed. Cause wouldn’t
al, Inception)
MB: Any fanboy’s hope of Inception you do it, if you had the chance?
RW: Everyone keeps saying that, but
winning any “important” awards is
that is just James Franco. He looks
dashed by all of these tech awards.
high at all times.
MP: Colin Firth takes it!
Best Film Editing (Angus Wall and
MB: Has anyone watched the Pride
Kirk Baxter, The Social Network) and Prejudice miniseries? Or, um,
What a Girl Wants? Let’s just say he in-
JB: These dudes edited The Curious
stantly makes any movie way better.
Case of Benjamin Button and couldn’t
make that movie any shorter?
Best Picture (The King’s Speech)
MB: Sorry, but this whole 10 film thing
Best Song nominees, part two, and
is still ludicrous.
award (Randy Newman, “We Belong
RW: We were just saying. It’s crazy-
Together”)
town.
MB: I’m still Jenny Hudson from the
MB: Putting King’s Speech narration
block.
over a montage of every other movie
MP: “Singer, actress, and woman”
means a King’s Speech win. Overall,
Jennifer Hudson.
this isn’t a bad list – maybe even a
MB: Thank you, Enya. Our next per-
great list – but it has a distressing lack
former is ...
of The Ghost Writer in it.
MP: Mom-pop group Florence and the
JC: Ten films still isn’t enough for Matt
Machine. “Kaitlyn, did you leave your
Blackwell, everybody.
CD in my car? It’s not bad. Who is
MB: Thanks John. Ki-ki-kin-King’s
this?”
Speech!
MB: Oh, it’s Gwenyth Paltrow. This
JC: whoisthekingsspeech.tumblr.com
song is also really bad. Also her micro-
phone is ugly and vain.
JB: “We Belong Together”, based on
Wrap-up
the Mariah Carey song, wins for Best
PB: Are those cotton t-shirts? So un-
Adapted Mariah Carey Single.
derdressed. Tsk tsk, youth choir.
JC: Gwenyth was robbed. I’m writing
a furious letter to GOOP in support of JB: Tim Gunn is having a fit offstage.
Gwenny. MP: “Boy with cornrows, who are you
wearing?”
RW: “Looks like a mic.”
PB: Maybe Randy Newman was con- RW: Anne needs to stop wooing.
fused after seeing Gwenyth Paltrow’s MP: All I know is that this credit med-
mic. ley just featured a guitar solo to the
tune of the vocal part of “Take My
Breath Away”.
In Memoriam
JB: The one thing I can say about this
is that there weren’t any surprises. It’s
always the saddest when you discover
that a character actor you’ve really
“ Can you effing
loved died this year, and you find out
via one of these.
imagine being
JC: What's the mood in the Kodak
Theatre like during the death roll call,
told you are good
do you suppose? Uncomfortable, be-
at something by
cause literally everyone in there knows
that they’ll be on that screen one day? THE EFFING
MP: But it’ll be okay because they can
still introduce Robert Downey Jr. and
DUDE?”
Jude Law.
Rhiannon Ward
Achievement in Directing (Tom
Hooper, King’s Speech)
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Hungry art Where there’s a will

Art for Lunch program wants to ex-
pose students to art and artists
paul bogdan
a&c writer
What are you having for lunch this
Friday? Burger Studio? Henderson’s?
The Owl? If you’re feeling adventur-
ous, the visual arts program here at the
University of Regina serves a healthy
dose of art that’s got 100 per cent of
your recommended daily intake of peo-
ple involved in the visual arts field. The
Art for Lunch program is a lecture se-
ries that’s held in the basement of the
Riddell Centre (room 050) that features
speakers that are involved with art in
different ways.
“Once a week on Fridays at
lunchtime, the faculty hosts either an
artist, critic, curator, historian, or some-
one else that’s involved in the visual
arts in some way.” explained Sean
Whalley, one of the coordinators of the
program. “They get a 50-minute presen-
tation with 10 minutes of questions, and
it’s open to all of the university, stu-
dents and faculty, and to the general
public in Regina.”
Art for Lunch was started by Leesa
Streifler “so the students would have
more exposure to people working in
the art field sort of to offset their educa-
tion and to bring in other perspectives
about art-making and the art process.”
It can give students in the visual arts
program a real-life sense to their educa-
tion, she said, and some of the various
directions in which they can go and
work after they finish their studies.
Aside from seeing artists’ various
works, there are many other benefits to
Art for Lunch, such as “exposure for
students to artists or critics or writers
they may never have been exposed to
before, augmenting things that happen
in class, and of course broadening their
perspectives in some way,” said
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Whalley.
“The students are also able to ap-
proach the speaker afterwards, so they
could potentially make new contacts
with people. Depending on timing and
stuff, they may be able to invite them to
look at their work. There are opportuni-
ties that can come out of it aside from
the obvious”.
Sean Whalley isn’t the only one
who sees benefits to the program
though. Dennis J. Evans, one of the
artists who spoke at an Art for Lunch
lecture earlier in the year also thinks
that there are many good things to
come from this.
“People come to it, and there’s a
real interest and a need,” Evans said. “It
gives people an opportunity to see, in
this particular case because I haven’t
been [here] for the past three years,
what I’ve been up to, and it gives me a
chance to try to put something together
that might be of some value. I remem-
ber when I taught here, it was always
really something to look forward to,
and we always tried to push students to
come to it because it’s for them ... [the
program] often [has] people come from
other cities and other countries ... I
think it’s really beneficial.”
Getting people to both know about
the program and then come to the pro-
gram can prove difficult to the program
coordinators. Whalley finds that “peo-
ple aren’t always willing to take a
chance on things, and people get busy.
We do advertise, but we’re pretty strate-
gic in the placement of our posters. It’s
difficult to compete with the bombard-
ment of stuff on campus.”
However, even if you’re not a vi-
sual arts student, Whalley still encour-
ages you to come to the lectures. “Any
more people to be exposed is the bet-
ter.”

Richard Bain

paul bogdan
a&c writer
While students at the University of
Regina were taking a week off to
read and relax, the Globe Theatre
was hard at work as the production
of their fourth main stage produc-
tion, entitled Shakespeare’s Will, got
underway on Thursday, Feb. 24.
The play is centred around Anne
Hathaway, the wife of William
Shakespeare, and it is all told from
her perspective. It takes one into her
life and marriage to the literature gi-
ant and also tries to shed light on
this little-known character.
Shakespeare’s Will does a fantastic
job of delving into the mind of the
lone character that is physically pres-
ent and taking the audience deep in-
side her thoughts. The play seems to
take place almost entirely inside her
mind, using minimal props and set,
heavily relying on audience imagina-
tion to establish a setting and other
characters. Furthermore, despite be-
ing the only character onstage, there
is still dialogue in the performance. It
biases, impersonations, and views.
While there are no scene changes
that can be visibly seen in terms of
characters entering and leaving the
stage and changes in the set and
backdrop, there are scene changes
that are implied by Anne’s dialogue.
The advantage of this sort of scene
change is that it can happen rapidly,
fluidly, and effectively; the scenes
change with Anne’s thoughts and
what particular subject she’s
dwelling on. The disadvantage to
this is that at times scenes could
jump from one to another almost
randomly and one had to pay very
close attention to the action on stage.
This was combated with changes in
lighting to help cue scene changes
and the arrival of other characters
into the mind of Anne.
Shakespeare’s Will has a unique
tone to it in the sense that it felt less
like one was at a play, but rather
given a strong visual aspect to read-
ing a descriptive piece of prose. This
is due to the fact that because there is
only one actor on stage, she narrates
the piece as well as gives her lines to
the other invisible characters on-
factor in helping to set the tone and
mood of the play.
Seana McKenna, the lone actor
of the play, did a fantastic job. Not
only did she play the part of Anne
deftly, the indirect characterization
used to create the other characters
was also done quite well. Essentially,
she was faced with the task of not
only learning and mastering her part,
but learning the parts of every char-
acter that arose in the play. It would
seem a rather daunting task, but that
was not the impression left after see-
ing her performance in Shakespeare’s
Will. There were also a few a capella
singing parts that were also done
smoothly.
Overall, this one-woman show
does a great job at taking one into the
depths of Anne Hathaway’s mind
and marriage to Shakespeare. The
lack of on-stage characters make
changes in scene and location flow
smoothly and give an unwrinkled
pace to the production.
Shakespeare’s Will is playing at the
Globe Theatre from now until Mar.
13. Tickets start at $25 and are avail-
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Ottawa student plans to write 100 songs

in 100 days
Hotshotcasino member sets musical challenge for himself
charlotte bailey
fulcrum (university of
ottawa)
OTTAWA (CUP) — Musician Pascal
Huot is challenging himself to write a
song per day over the course of 100
days.
As each day begins, the
Hotshotcasino member composes a
song from beginning to end, writing
about whatever inspires him that
morning. Huot is currently on day 26
of his challenge, and he finds that so
far, he’s living up to the challenge.
“I’m tired,” Huot joked. “It’s pretty
hard to keep up with it.”
Huot says the idea came to him
while his band stopped making music
and performing temporarily in
November during exam time.
“I was kind of bored,” he said.
“I’m taking a break from the band right
now, and I needed something to pour
myself into. I was looking at my behav-
iour toward music – me always think-
ing about it, even comparing it to
religious behaviour – I thought it
chartattack.ca
would be fun to practice music every
Pascal Huot, centre, is being productive during his band’s downtime day.”
Huot explains that his reasons for
setting this challenge for himself aren’t
fuelled by anything other than his de-
sire to improve his songwriting skills.
“There’s no concrete reason [why
I’m writing the songs],” said Huot. “It’s
not some sort of weird bet. It’s just to
find things that I otherwise would
never have found.”
All of Huot’s creations have been
posted online, free to download.
“I just figured that I might as well
let people enjoy them,” he explained.
“What I’d like to do – if I actually pull
this off – is to take a step back and look
at what I liked in there, and what I dis-
liked, and actually work on them.
[Currently], I don’t have any time to
second-guess what I do, which is pretty
essential in writing a strong piece of
music.”
His band, Hotshotcasino has
started to rehearse for their upcoming
show in March, which will end their
six-month hiatus. Huot’s looking for-
ward to getting back to the band, but is
also anxiously anticipating May 2 – the
final day of his 100-day challenge.
“It’s three days before my birth-
day, which is awesome,” he said.

cd reviews Demystified is a bit, well, mystifying. The record

If this album is Conor Oberst’s last album under
the Bright Eyes moniker, as has been rumoured,
then he’s going out on a high note. The People’s
Key is the band’s most satisfying pop record yet.
It’s tempting to assess it in reference to previous
albums in the Bright Eyes oeuvre – the synth-
heavy production is vaguely reminiscent of
Digital Ash in a Digital Urn, and a few of the al-
bum’s harder-hitting moments recall similar
songs on the band’s breakthrough album Lifted.
But The People’s Key is arguably more successful
than anything Oberst has yet recorded by not be-
ing beholden to a concept or a theatric sensibil-
ity, but by simply delivering pop hooks neatly
stacked on top of each other in interesting ways.
The drum lines crackle, the guitars occasionally
snarl (especially on the indie rock anthem
“Triple Spiral”), and Oberst’s trademark war-
ble and hyper-introspective lyrics are tied to his
best melodies in years. The album, svelte as it is
at ten tracks, is even generous enough for
Bright Eyes
opens with a blast of cognitive dissonance: gui-
tars that hearken back to when you couldn’t
throw a rock at Pitchfork’s reviews section with-
out hitting the word “angular”, not-quite-disco
drums, and shouty, anthemic vocals. It’s not ex-
actly what you’d expect from Glenn Milchem,
the drummer of Blue Rodeo. In fact, as the
record goes on, it sounds even less like
Milchem’s day job – and, truth be told, as the
record goes on, it sounds less like The Clash
and Gang of Four, the bands Milchem cites as in-
fluences – instead coming across remarkably
like latter-day material by The Wedding Present,
though without David Gedge’s knack for lyrics.
Songs like opener “Shoot Out Sparks” and jazzy,
vibraphone-heavy “The One Who Got Away”
sound like tunes you might hear out of a band
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The Swallows

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The People’s Key Demystified

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Carrying on
One year after the funding crisis at FNUniv, students and staff are working
hard to move forward
Matt Duguid
A mixed crowd in the atrium of the First Nations University of Canada watches as Jesse Robson speaks
john cameron
editor-in-chief
It was like a tornado, Cadmus Delorme
tells the crowd – “We didn’t know where
we were going get spit out, we didn’t know
where we were going to get picked up, and
we didn’t know where we were going to get
dropped off.”
There’s a small crowd in the atrium of
the First Nations University of Canada
(FNUniv) today, watching Cadmus speak
from a podium. FNUniv interim president
Shauneen Pete and elders Velma
Goodfeather and Isadore Pelletier are
seated at a blanket-draped table near the
podium, as is the guest of honour,
University of Regina president Vianne
Timmons; FNUniv student association
president Jesse Robson stands off to the
side.
It’s Thursday, Feb. 10, a year after
FNUniv students were given the chance to
confront president Charles Pratt and vice-
president Al Ducharme. But Pratt and
Ducharme didn’t show up, and students
were greeted by then-board chair Clarence
Bellegarde, who gave them and their con-
cerns 30 minutes – which he then talked
through.
The students were furious. Soon, they
crammed into a bus and headed north to
Saskatoon, where they told the assembled
politicians of the Federation of
Saskatchewan Indian Nations that the
time had come to take a stand for their
university.
And, while students were meeting
with the FSIN, the provincial and federal
governments withdrew funding from
FNUniv.
The institution was plunged into
chaos. Pratt, Ducharme, and eventually
Bellegard were dismissed, but that wasn’t
enough to bring the funding back. FNUniv
students didn’t give up; instead, they or-
ganized marches and rallies, and when
that failed, they conducted a 72-day live-in
on FNUniv’s grounds. At the end of that
period, the funding was temporarily re-
stored, with FNUniv relinquishing finan-
cial autonomy to the U of R.
That’s in the past now, on this bright
February morning, but the crisis lasted a
long time, and its effects are still lingering.
You can hear them when Cadmus says he’s
“still” a student here. But you can also
hear lots of pride, and hope.
“... We are a family here, and many
people support this university. It is a great
cause. As First Nations people, it is said
that we are on a healing journey, and this
institution speeds up that healing journey
for us, and helps me to identify myself as
a First Nations person and rediscover my
past.”
During the crisis, he said, people came
together. People like Jesse Robson,
Shauneen Pete, Vianne Timmons, and
Cadmus himself.
And they all had a role to play.
When Shauneen Pete brings me into
her office, one of the first things she
does is joke about how messy her desk
is.
Dr. Pete is, like any university ad-
ministrator, busy, so it’s understand-
able. Reports to and from various
agencies are spread across the surface
of her desk. She laughs and straightens
it up a bit.
But neither a packed schedule nor
a cluttered desk is new to Pete. Even in
the period between being fired from
the post of VP Academic and being
hired as president at FNUniv, Pete was
active, doing a school review study in
La Ronge with her own independent
educational company. She was finish-
ing up this process, in fact, when she
heard that FNUniv students were de-
manding accountability from Pratt and
Ducharme.
As an observer, she says, she was
unsurprised. During her tenure as VP
academic, she had questions about ac-
countability at FNUniv. Questions she
wasn’t afraid to ask. Questions that
eventually got her fired.
“As a member of the executive
team, I never shirked my responsibil-
ity to ask those questions,” Pete ex-
plains. “In fact, I thought it was more
important that I asked them from in-
side, as a member of the executive
team. Those questions weren’t always
viewed with the intention that they
were asked.”
“... I mean, a comment that was
directed to me was, ‘You make it look
like I can’t control you.’ And my re-
sponse was, ‘Why is controlling me
the issue?’”
So, on Feb. 5, 2009, Pete was fired
without cause. And almost exactly one
year later, shortly after Murray
Westerlund’s firing, she was finding
out news about FNUniv the way
everyone else was – reading the news-
paper and watching TV. She also re-
members cheering students on the
whole time.
Her first steps back into the
FNUniv community were hesitant.
Pete attended a fundraiser for the stu-
dent movement, unsure whether she’d
be welcome at the event or whether
she’d run into people with lingering
resentment over her tenure at the col-
lege, such as Pratt and Ducharme. But,
she says, it was a good decision to
have gone – the students welcomed
her warmly, as did Del Anaquod,
FNUniv’s then-Chief Operating
Officer, who asked her if she’d con-
sider seeking the office of FNUniv
president.
“I was actually humbled by the
way I was greeted when I arrived at
the event, because a whole table full of
people stood up and applauded, and I
was like, ‘OK, cool. That’s good.’ That
gave me a sense of hope.
“And many, many people came by
and said, ‘I never got to see you when
you were fired. Will you come back?
Can you come back?’ And I was re-
ally taken and touched by that, and I
said to the COO, ‘Yeah. I will.’”
Pete began to get more involved
with the student protests, attending
them and speaking at students’ behest.
She was actually attending a protest
the night she was hired as interim
president. She remembers it clearly; it
was the same night her daughter
joined the live-in. She was hired, and
soon had to face several tough deci-
sions, such as the sale of FNUniv’s
Saskatoon property in order to pay for
the severance of the employees that
the college, according to their
Memorandum of Understanding with
the federal government, had to down-
size.
“[The layoffs were] the worst,” she
says, sighing. “... We ceremonied that
day. We sat with the elders and we
smudged and we readied ourselves.
We practiced. And then we delivered
the messages. And that was one of the
most difficult days professionally for
me, ever.”
But the university shrunk its staff
in order to stay open, and that means
– difficult or not – moving on. So Pete
tries to keep her door open to students
and faculty, travels regularly to
Saskatoon and Prince Albert to meet
with students, and makes herself
available when prospective students
are visiting the campus. The atmos-
phere she wants at FNUniv isn’t just
academic, it’s one of openness, trans-
parency, and community – which
means she finds herself working to-
ward what the students demanded of
the previous administration. And it’s
work she’s proud to do.
“It’s such a privilege to be in this
position, even in this troubling time.
To have seen it through, it’s pretty
damn fine.”
Jesse Robson’s big hands are gripping the
sides of the podium. He’s leaning semi-ca-
sually on it and talking into the micro-
phone, speaking with the ebb and flow of
his own memory as he recalls meeting with
the FSIN. Cadmus had just thanked
President Timmons for her work on behalf
of the students during the crisis; she sits
silently, watching Jesse hold onto the
podium and remember.
“It seemed like we were climbing this
mountain, and it seemed like that day,
with that meeting, we were maybe about to
make some progress and get to the top of
that mountain.
“And I remember, we received a phone
call – I think, it actually appeared on the
news, we heard it on a radio broadcast
over the Internet, that the provincial gov-
ernment had pulled the funding from our
school. And I remember, from that point, it
was kind of like a blur. There were a lot of
tears being shed, and there was disarray,
and we didn’t know what to do. It seemed
like, we tried to hold our heads high, but I
remember that bus ride. For me, it was
very long. I was very quiet, and very frus-
trated. To me, it felt like the battle was
over at that point.
“The very next day, I realized the bat-
tle was just beginning.”
When he remembers how stu-
dents went to face down Charles Pratt
and Al Ducharme to demand answers
only to be met with Charles
Bellegarde, Jesse Robson chuckles, ex-
asperated.
“It was – it was so frustrating,” he
says. “Because it felt like this was the
day we were actually going to get to
talk to these people. A group of us.
And we felt like we weren’t able to be
“We didn’t know where we were going get
spit out, we didn’t know where we were going
to get picked up, and we didn’t know where
we were going to get dropped off.”
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intimidated, because there was more
of us than there were of them. And we
were going to remain very respectful,
but the moment their replacements
showed up, it just felt like – I dunno.
You felt like a little kid whose dad for-
got to pick him up after the baseball
game, you know? Just cheap.”
That was the moment, Jesse says,
that the student movement within
FNUniv coalesced. After years of ig-
noring their concerns, the school’s ad-
ministration had finally outright
insulted students. So students took ac-
tion, approaching the FSIN and de-
manding change at the university. But,
Jesse says, they didn’t want that
change to come at the cost of their ed-
ucation.
“We didn’t want them to get in a
tug-of-war with the government. We
kind of wanted them to hold their
hands up in the air and cooperate,” he
remembers.
And it was during that meeting
when funding was withdrawn.
“It was probably three o’clock,”
he says. “We’d been there all day. And
we heard on the news on the Internet
that the province has pulled the fund-
ing from our school. And I remember,
it was just like – the students were sur-
rounding this meeting, so we heard
before Chief Guy Lonechild heard and
before any of the chiefs actually heard.
So we’re watching their communica-
tions guy write up this memo that he’s
about to hand to Chief Guy Lonechild
as he’s addressing all the chiefs ... I re-
member it felt very historic to be
standing there, watching this memo
be handed to the chief of the FSIN.
“In my mind, it plays back like a
movie. I can see that hand, and I can
see him looking down and stopping
and looking up and realizing the very
thing we’re talking about right now
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has just been turned on its head.”
From there, things just got harder
for the students. They had worked to
keep FNUniv from becoming a politi-
cal battleground; now, they were
working even harder just to ensure
that there would even be a fall semes-
ter. The student association, in collab-
oration with the FSIN, worked to
organize protests and marches. But
March arrived and, despite changes to
FNUniv’s staff and board, the univer-
sity was still without its funding for
the following year. So the students de-
cided to do something more dramatic.
“I don’t know who said it,” Jesse
admits. “But I just remember hearing,
‘If they wanna close our school, we
should just move in. And we won’t let
them take it from us.’ ... And that sort
of was the defining moment, that was,
like, ‘Well, if that’s what it takes, that’s
what it takes.’”
In the FNUniv student association
lounge, a few metres from where I’m
interviewing Jesse, there’s a bulletin
board filled with news clippings and
information for students. One of the
letter-sized paper sheets is a list of
rules for the live-in, covering every-
thing from littering to the respect of
elders to reminding participants that
they still had to fulfill their academic
commitments, meaning attending
classes and turning in assignments
and doing all the things that the stu-
dents on campus whose college isn’t
facing imminent closure also had to
do.
I point it out to Jesse, who tells me
that the combination of media pres-
ence and actual coursework was “sur-
real”. But he adds that the live-in
protest was always about the school,
first and foremost. According to him, it
never left the students’ minds.
“No matter whether it was the
live-in itself or just everyday classes
here,” he remembers. “The fact that
we were students, it was always pres-
ent.”
In between speakers, Cadmus is thanking
a slew of people: gifts go to Del Anaquod
and the daughter of board chairwoman
Joley BigEagle, and verbal gratitude goes
to the U of R Students’ Union’s Kyle
Addison and Kaytlyn Barber, unidentified
arts faculty professors, and community
elders who stayed overnight.
And, finally, he’s able to start thank-
ing Vianne Timmons. She was, he says, a
tireless champion of the students, not only
at the level of provincial and federal poli-
tics, but even on the level of just waking up
early one morning and bringing the live-
in participants huge sacks full of breakfast
sandwiches from McDonald’s.
“Our saviour!” Cadmus cries, to
laughter and applause.
He’s still grinning as the applause
dies down, but his voice becomes more se-
rious. “She also helped the students. A lot
of the students, we endured too much pres-
sure from what was going on and a lot of
us kind of got away from our studies. Well,
she gave us her word: ‘If you need any
help, you come and see me.’
“To me, that was support,” he contin-
ues. “To me, that was someone really step-
ping up and telling us, ‘We’ll support you
any way we can.’”
When she accepted the presidency of
the U of R in fall 2008, Vianne
Timmons didn’t have FNUniv’s gover-
nance on her mind. The University of
Prince Edward Island, her previous
employer, didn’t have federated col-
leges. In talking about it, the words
“learning curve” do come up. But she
does say that having FNUniv on cam-
pus was a factor in her taking the job;
after all, she’s spent years working on
educational outreach programs for
Aboriginal students and families.
Above all, President Timmons is
very diplomatic, and although you
can’t help but wonder what she might
have been thinking of FNUniv’s gov-
ernance when Dr. Pete was fired mid-
way through Timmons’ first year in
office, her answer is measured and
pragmatic.
“She was let go without cause;
that meant that it wasn’t anything to
do with her job performance. And one
of the challenges of administration is
you have to have a team that works to-
gether. So I didn’t get involved in any
intrusive way, I just listened to both
sides and asked both sides to act and
move forward in a positive way.
“And I have to compliment Dr.
Pete, because she did,” Timmons con-
tinues. “... It was devastating for her,
and she kept her head held high. And
it was without cause, and I think she
managed to handle that in a classy
way.”
But at the time of Dr. Pete’s firing,
Timmons had bigger concerns –
namely, the college’s hemorrhaging
budget, which Timmons says was full
of issues that weren’t being addressed.
Eventually, Murray Westerlund’s air-
ing of these issues were what got him
fired.
Still, despite faculty and student
ire over at FNUniv, Timmons main-
tains that herself, her administration,
and her board attempted to remain as
neutral as possible, working with Pratt
to try and resolve the college’s budget
crisis without impinging on their au-
tonomy from the U of R proper – the
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“I would credit the students ... I think the
students’ voice mobilized the provincial
government to come to the table.”
Vianne Timmons
strongest action she took was to push
FNUniv’s executive toward having a
fallback plan for their budget beyond
waiting for more government fund-
ing. It was only after Pratt and
Ducharme were dismissed and
Bellegarde’s board dissolved,
Timmons says, she brought the main
stakeholders in FNUniv together to try
and resolve the school’s ongoing crisis.
But she says that the credit for getting
everyone involved – the governments
who withdrew funding from the
school included – doesn’t belong ex-
clusively to the U of R administration.
“I would credit the students ... I
think the students’ voice mobilized the Jarett Crowe
provincial government to come to the
table,” Timmons said.
When talking with Jesse, I tell her,
he’d expressed concerns about both
the FSIN and the provincial govern- “I just remember hearing, ‘If they wanna close
ment, in terms of how the students
had explicitly wanted discussions of
our school, we should just move in. And we
FNUniv to be about academics, not
politics.
won’t let them take it from us.’... And that sort
“I would say that the students did-
n’t allow that to happen,” she said.
of was the defining moment.”
“The students were so consistent and
passionate in their messaging. They
were always visible, and always re-
Jesse Robson
spectful. I can recall one of the stu-
dents saying, ‘If things do not work
out, we’ve been assured that U of R is
there. And I’m proud to be a First
Nations student and I’m proud to be a
U of R student.’ I think that really
stayed with me and really kept me on
a straight path.”
Timmons is reluctant to talk about
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Time for a victory lap

Cougars men’s track and field team repeat as Canada West champions

Bill Zuk

The Cougars celebrate their second consecutive and second-ever title

jonathan hamelin
sports editor
The Max Bell Fieldhouse in Winnipeg
may be in need of some repairs. The
University of Regina Cougars men’s
track and field team has torn up the
track.
Last weekend, the Cougar men
claimed their second Canada West title
in a row, and second ever, putting up
an outstanding 106 points. Regina fin-
ished well ahead of the Calgary Dinos
(79), Alberta Golden Bears (76), and
the host Manitoba Bisons (55).
“Every single person came out
and did at least what we hoped they’d
do and, in a lot of cases, much more,”
Cougars head coach Bruce McCannel
wrote about the men’s team in a state-
ment posted to reginacougars.com.
“Everybody performed fantastic and
the team came out and really showed
they wanted to repeat as champions.”
The men’s team was powered by
gold-medal finishes from Jeremy
Eckert (high jump, pentathlon), Chris
Pickering (weight throw), David
Walford (triple jump), Kelly Wiebe
(3000-metre run), and the 4x200m re-
lay team. At the conference meet last
year, Eckert won the high jump while
Wiebe placed first in the 3000m.
Pickering (shot put), Connor
MacDonald (high jump, long jump)
and Mason Foote (60m dash) all
picked up silver medals in their re-
spective events. Taking home bronze
medals were Eckert (long jump),
MacDonald (triple jump), Iain Fyfe
(3000m run), and Tait Nystuen (300m
dash).
In high jump, Eckert cleared the
bar at 2.11m, while MacDonald was
close behind at 2.01. Jarrett Hoffart of
Regina finished sixth at 1.87m. Eckert
won the pentathlon by finishing first
in high jump (2.13m), second in long
jump (7.01m), third in the 60m hur-
dles (8.88 seconds), sixth in the 1000m
(three minutes 2.15 seconds), and sev-
enth in shot put (10.63m). Michael
Barber also competed in the pen-
tathlon for the Cougars. He was first in
shot put (12.90m), third in the 1000m
(2:45.27), sixth in the hurdles (9.19),
fifth in high jump (1.76m), and sev-
enth in long jump (5.97m).
Pickering won the 35lb weight toss
with a throw of 16.06m, while fellow
Cougar Codey Pakula had a toss of
14.69 to finish fifth. Walford’s jump of
13.94m was good enough to secure
him the victory in long jump, with
teammates MacDonald (third, 13.33),
Lex Ewen (eighth, 12.93), and Torey
Welsh (10th, 12.07) finishing behind
him.
Wiebe posted a 8:19.82 first-place
time in the 3000m. Other athletes com-
peting for Regina were Fyfe (third,
8:30.59), Matt Johnson (12th, 8:45.82),
and Michael Middlemiss (15th,
8:59.60). The 4X200m relay team, com-
prised of Foote, Nystuen, Walford, and
Ethan Gardner, came in first with a
time of 1:27.98.
On the women’s side, the Cougars
finished fourth with 58 points. The
Saskatchewan Huskies (65), Alberta
Pandas (102.5), and Calgary (113.5) fin-
ished ahead of them. Last season,
Regina came in fifth.
“It was great to see the women im-
prove their finish from last year,” said
McCannel. “We ended up just shy of
60 points and both Merrissa Margetts
and Chelsea Valois were outstanding.
Amanda Ruller also had an incredible
performance considering she was in-
jured just two weeks ago.”
No Cougar women picked up
gold, but Valois took home silver in
the pentathlon and Nicole Breker won
silver in triple jump. Bronze medals
were received by Margetts (60m hur-
dles), Ruller (60m dash), Shalane
Haselhan (high jump), and Gina
Jestadt (triple jump).
In the pentathlon, Valois placed
first in long jump (5.52m), tied for first
in high jump (1.70m), finished second
in the 60m hurdles (9.02) and shot put
(11.98m), and fourth in the 800m
(2:34.73). In triple jump, Breker
jumped 11.36m.
The next step for the Cougars is
the CIS championships, where they
will be sending several athletes. The
championships begin March 10 in
Sherbrooke, Que.
Wiebe was also busy earlier in the
week, competing in the North
America, Central America, and
Caribbean cross-country champi-
onships in Port of Spain, Trinidad. He
placed ninth in the senior men’s divi-
sion, finishing the eight-kilometre race
in 24:15. Wiebe helped Canada finish
second behind the U.S.A in the team
standings and he was the third
Canadian to cross the finish line.

“ Every single person came out and did at

least what we hoped they’d do and, in a lot
of cases, much more ... the team came out
and really showed they wanted to repeat as
champions.”
Bruce McCannel

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A touch of gold
Connor Malloy wins gold as Cougars men’s wrestling team
places third at CIS
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Malloy defeated Jake Jagas of the Guelph Gryphons to finish first in the 76 kg division.
Men’s Results
54 kg: 1. Steven Takahashi, Western; 2.
Gilbert Musonza, Regina; 3. Dustin
Helwig, Lakehead.
57 kg: 1. David Tremblay, Concordia; 2.
Gaston Tardif, Lakehead; 3. Jason
Wass, Alberta.
61 kg: 1. Vince Cormier, UNB; 2. Kirk
Ackerman, Regina; 3. Stephen
DeLayen, Concordia
65 kg: 1. Ilya Abelev, Western; 2. Cory
Horsburgh, Regina; 3. Scott Schillar,
Concordia.
68 kg: 1. Shawn Daye- Finley, UNB; 2.
Mario Pereira, Concordia; 3. Brian
Hutton, Calgary.
72 kg: 1. Ryan Myrfield, U Sask; 2.
Ryan Blake, McMaster; 3. Ben Sayah,
UNB.
76 kg: 1. Connor Malloy, Regina; 2.
Jake Jagas, Guelph; 3. Dene Ringette, U
of T.
82 kg: 1. Daniel Olver, U Sask; 2. Kevin
MacLellan, McMaster; 3. Matt Miller,
Concordia.
90 kg: 1. Korey Jarvis, Guelph; 2. Eric
Feunekes, UNB; 3. ColtenWoznow,
Lakehead.
90-130 kg: 1. David Zilberman,
Concordia; 2. Charles Thoms, UNB; 3.
John Fitzgerald, Guelph.
Women’s Results
48 kg: 1. Jade Papke, Guelph; 2. Jasmine
Mian, Brock; 3. Haley Thomas, Alberta.
51 kg: 1. Diana Ford, Brock; 2. Jennifer
Nguyen, Western; 3. Natasha Kramble,
U Sask.
55 kg: 1. Gen Haley, Calgary; 2. Koren
Pitkethly, U Sask; 3. Victoria Ralph,
MUN.
59 kg: 1. Samantha Stewart, UNB; 2.
Marlen Figueroa, Alberta; 3. Kathleen
Ken, U Sask.
63 kg: 1. Nikita Chicoine, Concordia; 2.
Larissa D'Alleva, Western; 3. Laura
Steffler, Brock.
67 kg: 1. Allison Leslie, Guelph 2.
Sabrina Kelly, Alberta; 3. Elizabeth
William, Concordia.
72 kg: 1. Erica Wiebe, Calgary; 2.
Veronia Keefe, Concordia; 3. Molly
Bouchard, Alberta.
82 kg: 1. Leah Callahan, Calgary; 2.
Nicole Plummer, Lakehead; 3. Alishiah
Depass, Brock.
autumn mcdowell
sports writer
The University of Regina
Cougars men’s and women’s
wrestling teams competed on the
big stage at the CIS champi-
onships last weekend in Thunder
Bay, Ont., and the men earned
themselves a place on the
podium.
Heading into the weekend,
Regina’s men were ranked first
after taking home the top spot at
the Canada West championships.
Regina was looking to better their
third-place, 45-point finish from
last year at nationals. Although
the team was able to register 49
points this year, they finished
with the bronze once again, fin-
ishing behind the UBC
Thunderbirds (52) and Concordia
Stingers (55). Concordia had two
wrestlers finish with gold medals
and had a total of six wrestlers
reach the podium, which allowed
them to take the top team spot.
The Cougars had four
wrestlers competing for gold
medals on day two of the cham-
pionships including Gilbert
Musonza (54 kilogram), Kirk
Ackerman (61 kg), Cory
Horsburgh (65 kg), and Connor
Malloy (76 kg).
Malloy, Ackerman, and
Musonza all finished the 2010
championships with silver
medals around their necks, but
only one of those wrestlers was
able to upgrade to gold in 2011.
Malloy was finally able to cap-
ture gold after defeating Jake
Jagas of the Guelph Gryphons to
earn the 76 kg crown. Ackerman
(lost to Vince Cormier of the New
Brunswick Varsity Reds) and
Musonza (lost to Western Ontario
Mustangs’ Steven Takahashi) had
to settle for silver once again,
while Horsburgh (lost to Western
Ontario’s Ilya Abelev) also took
home a silver medal.
The gold medal now brings
Malloy’s CIS medal total to three
as he has medaled in each of his
“ It was truly Malloy’s weekend as he
finished off with not only the gold, but
was also recognized as being the recipi-
ent of the R.W. Pugh Fair Play award.”
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three years competing as a U of R
wrestler. The third-year arts stu-
dent has bettered his medal finish
each year, beginning with a
bronze in 2009, followed by silver
in 2010 and finally reaching the
top of the podium in 2011.
It was truly Malloy’s week-
end as he finished off with not
only the gold, but was also recog-
nized as being the recipient of the
R.W. Pugh Fair Play award. It
was the only award the Cougars
received.
On the women’s side, the
Cougars did much worse than
their fifth-place finish in 2010.
Regina was only able to register
eight team points, resulting in an
11th place finish out of 12.
The Alberta Pandas took
home the team title after collect-
ing 47 points, narrowly beating
the Calgary Dinos (45) and the
Brock Badgers (44). Alberta was
able to take home the top spot, as
they had four wrestlers earn
medals, yet none of them were
gold. Calgary had three wrestlers
reach the podium, all of which
earned gold.
Trisha Elliot was the only fe-
male wrestler from Regina fight-
ing for a medal, but was defeated
by Alberta’s Haley Thomas, caus-
ing her to finish just out of the
medals in fourth place.
Calgary wrestler Gen Haley
made history over the weekend,
as she was able to capture her
fifth-straight gold medal in five
years, a feat which had never
been accomplished by a CIS fe-
male athlete.
The record-setting win came
as Haley defeated Saskatchewan
Huskies wrestler Koren Pitkethly
to take home the title in the 55 kg
division.
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the end of the 2010-2011
wrestling season. Numerous
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Fighting off a Viking invasion
Cougars women’s basketball team beat Victoria Vikes to
advance to Canada West Final Four
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It wasn’t easy, but the Cougars managed to sweep Victoria in quarterfinal action.
autumn mcdowell
sports writer
The University of Regina Cougars
women’s basketball team began the
playoffs last weekend, hoping to ad-
vance to the Canada West Final Four
tournament and not say goodbye to
their season.
Game one in a best-of-three quar-
terfinal on Friday against the visiting
Victoria Vikes got off to a bit of a slow
start, which is something the Cougars
have been struggling with all season.
It was a low-scoring affair as
Regina led 2-1 four minutes into the
game. Although the team had many
strong individual efforts throughout
the first quarter, the team cohesion
just wasn’t there early on.
Even with the help of a long three
from Lindsay Ledingham at the
buzzer, Regina still found themselves
trailing Victoria by three heading into
the second.
The Cougars’ inconsistency con-
tinued throughout the second, as they
seemed unable to fully execute a play
and began to pile up the turnovers. As
buckets continued to drop for the
Vikes, they managed to earn a two-
point lead over the home team at the
break.
“ Joanna (Zalesiak) played like an
All-Canadian in the second half [of
Saturday’s game] and we made two key
defensive stops late when we needed
them.”
The Cougars came back from the
break ready to play and were able to
regain the lead with nine unanswered
points. Victoria was never able to cut
into the lead in the third as Regina
was able to hold an 11-point lead
heading into the final frame and
ended up earning a 66-55 victory.
“I was happy with how we
played in the third quarter” offered
head coach Dave Taylor on the vic-
tory in a statement, “But we struggled
with turnovers yet again.”
Danielle Schmidt was one of the
standouts for the Cougars, as her 15
points and seven steals helped Regina
secure the victory and take a 1-0 lead
in the series.
In all, the Cougars committed a
hideous 31 turnovers, but made up
for it by having four players scoring in
double digits. Megan Chamberlin reg-
istered a double-double for Regina
with 14 points and 11 rebounds.
However, it was the strong defen-
sive, not offensive, play of the
Cougars that allowed them to secure
the win on night one.
“I was also pleased with our half-
court defence” said Taylor. “At this
time of year, any win is good – pretty
or not pretty.”
Desperation was in the air on
Saturday as Victoria would have to
Dave Taylor
come out on top in order to force a
Game 3 on Sunday.
“We had a much better effort (on
Saturday), which was much needed
because Victoria was also better,” said
Taylor.
Night two was a fast-paced game
that could only be described as a back-
and-forth battle. There were a total of
21 lead changes in the game, with the
greatest deficit being a nine-point lead
that Victoria held over the Cougars in
the third quarter.
The Cougars were able to over-
come the deficit by scoring 11 unan-
swered points, but the Vikes were not
about to give up on their final four
dreams.
The two teams found themselves
deadlocked at 67 apiece with just one
minute 13 seconds left on the clock.
Joanna Zalesiak was sent to the line
but couldn’t connect on either free
throw attempt. However, Zalesiak
was able to make up for the missed
points by finishing off a layup and
putting the home team up by two.
Carly Graham was also sent to the
line with just 11 seconds left in the
game. Graham went one for two to
give the Cougars a three-point lead.
Victoria had one final possession,
but the buzzer beating shot from be-
yond the arc didn’t fall and the
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Cougars were able to get a well-de-
served “W” by a final score of 70-67.
“Joanna (Zalesiak) played like an
All-Canadian in the second half and
we made two key defensive stops late
when we needed them.” explained
Taylor, regarding Saturday’s game.
Zalesiak finished the night off
with 24 points while Ledingham
pitched in with 15.
The Cougars now have a place in
the Canada West Final Four, which
runs Friday to Sunday in Saskatoon,
and will take on the Alberta Pandas in
a conference semifinal on Friday. The
Cougars will automatically earn a
spot at the CIS championships if they
win the conference. Even if they don’t
finish first, the three teams who don’t
win in Saskatoon will get a chance to
qualify at a CIS regional tournament
next weekend. Consistency and fast
starts will be keys if the Cougars are
going to be named national champi-
ons.
Oddly enough, even with the loss,
the Vikes still have the opportunity to
advance to the nationals, as one of the
12 slots will go to the recipient of an
at-large berth, but it is far from guar-
anteed.
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Regina vs.
Alberta
The Cougars and Pandas split
two meetings in Edmonton dur-
ing the regular season. Regina
won 77-74 in one game and
Alberta topped Regina 81-58 in
the other.
Regina finished third in the con-
ference with a 19-5 record, while
Alberta finished fourth at 17-7.
Alberta is coming off a sweep
of the UBC Thunderbirds (17-7).
Regina met Alberta in the
Canada West Final Four tourna-
ment last year in a semifinal,
topping them 86-77.
Joanna Zalesiak is the Cougars
top scorer with 16.2 points per
game. The Pandas counter with
Marisa Haylett (15.8).

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Vying for national glory
University of Alberta Athletics
The U of R’s women’s curling team will be looking to defend the school’s title at nationals
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sports editor
Women’s Curling
The U of R will have a shot at defend-
ing their women’s CIS championship
victory from last season.
This year’s team, comprised of
skip Alex Williamson, third Kelsey
Michaluk, second Stephanie Gress,
lead Jade Ivan, alternate Chantel
Martin and coach David Miller, quali-
fied for nationals, which run March 9-
13 in St. John’s, Nfld., thanks to their
performance at the Canada West
championship last weekend in
Alberta.
Regina defeated Manitoba 8-3 to
win the bronze medal at the confer-
ence meet.
Last year, the Regina rink, led by
skip Brooklyn Lemon, defeated the
favoured Saint Mary’s Huskies 6-5 in
the national final. The winning team at
nationals gets the chance to represent
Canada on the world stage.
Football
Rams quarterback Marc Mueller and
slotback Brenden Owens have moved
one step closer to the CFL.
The pair are two of 53 players who
were named to the 2011 CFL
Evaluation Camp roster. The camp is
being held March 4-6 in Toronto and
“ Rams quarterback Marc Mueller and
slotback Brenden Owens have been
selected to the 2011 CFL Evaluation
Camp.”
includes strength and flexibility testing
and on-field drills. Players will be
evaluated in lieu of the CFL Draft on
May 8.
Mueller and Owens, both enter-
ing their fifth season with the Rams
next year, had fine 2010 campaigns.
Mueller went 182/278 for 2,437 yards,
14 touchdowns, and five interceptions,
boasting a 65.5 completion percentage.
He led Canada West in yards, comple-
tions and completion percentage and
was second in touchdown passes.
In an injury-plagued campaign,
Owens still finished with 596 receiving
yards and five touchdowns. He was
second in the conference in both cate-
gories.
Men’s Basketball
Heading into a Canada West best-of-
three quarter-final matchup against
the host Saskatchewan Huskies last
weekend, the Cougars were looking
to avenge a two-game 214-159 sweep
they received from Saskatchewan ear-
lier in February.
Instead, Regina suffered the agony
of defeat once again.
Saskatchewan topped Regina 98-
75 on Friday and followed that up
with a 92-75 decision on Saturday.
Regina is eliminated from the playoffs,
while Saskatchewan advanced to a
conference semifinal against the
Trinity Western University Spartans.
A big reason the Cougars failed to
advance in the playoffs was because
they could not contain Huskies Rejean
Chabot and Jamelle Barrett. On Friday,
Chabot scored 29 points and Barrett
added 23 points and 11 assists. Nolan
Brudehl dominated the Cougars on
the boards, pulling down 22 rebounds.
Jeff Lukomski went 5-13 from be-
yond the ark for the Cougars, finishing
with 23 points. Paul Gareau scored 20
points while pulling down nine re-
bounds. The Cougars’ inability to
shoot the ball hindered them on
Friday, as they shot only 39.4 per cent
from the field compared to
Saskatchewan’s 46.0 per cent.
The next day, Barrett torched
Regina for 30 points and nine assists.
Chabot was deadly as well with 24
points. The Huskies upped their shoot-
ing percentage to 47.1 per cent.
Gareau had 20 points again and
added nine boards for the Cougars,
which got four three balls and 15
points from Marek Downarowicz.
Regina shot much better in the game,
finishing at 43.8 per cent.
Women’s Volleyball
The Cougars learned just how hard it
is to beat a Spartan.
Regina dropped two 3-0 decisions
to the host Trinity Western Spartans
on Feb. 17-18 in a Canada West best-of-
three quarter-final, ending the season
for the Cougars.
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Tiffany Herman had 26 assists and
Meagan Onstad had 11 digs for the
Cougars on Feb. 17, who lost the first
two sets by a combined 15 points.
Lauren O’Reilly was in a giving mood
for Trinity Western, setting up her
teammates 31 times. She also had 10
digs. The Spartans got 13 kills from
Kara Jansenvandoorn and 11 digs from
Andrea Ball.
Herman was on again for the
Cougars on Feb. 18, recording 25 as-
sists and 13 digs. Rebecca Rink had 11
digs for Regina. O’Reilly tallied 20 as-
sists and 16 digs for the Spartans, who
got 12 kills from Amy Leschied and
14 digs from Ball.
Trinity Western then went on to
beat the Alberta Pandas 3-1 in a confer-
ence semifinal last weekend and
dropped a 3-2 decision to the UBC
Thunderbirds in the final.
Swimming
Jessica Winter did not pick up a medal
at the CIS championships last week-
end in Calgary.
The lone Cougar at the meet had
her best finish in the 800-metre
freestyle, swimming to a 10th place
finish (nine minutes, 9.12 seconds fin-
ish). Winter failed to advance out of
the preliminaries in the 200m butterfly
(26th, 2:27.64), the 200m freestyle
(33rd, 2:08.75), and 100m freestyle
(42nd, 1:06.88).
Winter has plenty of big events on
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the horizon. The rookie is competing
in the World Aquatic Trials in Victoria
this April and the Olympic Trials in
2012.
Women’s Hockey
While the Cougars failed to advance to
the playoffs, they still received some
good news recently.
Forward Rianne Wight has been
named a Canada West second-team
all-star. She racked up 16 goals and
nine assists on the season, putting her
sixth in the conference with 25 points.
Her 16 goals put her one behind
Hayley Wickenheiser of the Calgary
Dinos for the conference lead.
“Rianne showed that she can be
an elite player in the CIS this season,”
said Cougars head coach Sarah
Hodges in a statement. “She brings
great intensity to the rink every day
and it was great to see her produce of-
fensively for us. I expect that her suc-
cess this season will lead to more
confidence in her game and consistent
offensive output in the future.”
Wight’s totals were helped this
season by her strong start. She scored
in five of the team’s first six games
and had a four-game multi-goal streak.
Erin Balfour and Brandy West are the
only other Cougar players to score at
least 16 goals in a season.
Regina finished fifth in the confer-
ence at 9-13-2, missing the playoffs by
one spot.
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A dream meeting Final Canada West

standings
Jenna Bain finally connects with her y = clinched first
x = clinched playoff spot
long-time idol Luciann Lahey Men’s Basketball
W L PTS
UBC xy 22 2 42
TWU x 21 3 42
Sask x 20 4 40
Alberta x 16 8 32
Regina x 14 10 28
UFV x 10 14 20
Manitoba x 9 15 18
Calgary 8 16 16
Lethbridge 7 17 14
Winnipeg 6 18 12
Brandon 4 20 8
TRU 4 20 8

Top eight teams qualified for postseason

Men’s Hockey
W L OTL PTS
Alberta xy 19 6 3 41
Calgary x 17 8 3 37
Sask x 17 11 0 34
Manitoba x 13 9 6 32
Lethbridge 13 11 4 30
UBC 11 12 5 27
Regina 8 18 2 18

Top four teams qualified for postseason

Men’s Volleyball
W L PTS
Alberta xy 17 1 34
The Caper Times Calgary x 16 2 32
TWU x 13 5 26
Manitoba x 11 7 22
Bain (right) was only in preschool when she first saw and was inspired by Lahey (left), who was 14 at the time
Brandon x 10 8 20
coaches,” Lahey said. love to coach, too. I’ll see where my TRU x 9 9 18
shannon
Now that Lahey was at the uni- job takes me. I’d love to stay in Cape UBC x 7 11 14
versity level and already well-versed Breton. I’m a big homebody.” Sask 3 15 6
Winnipeg 2 16 4
aikenhead-bain
in the hectic life of a student-athlete, With a shy grin, Bain asked, “Do
Bain was curious about the time com- you have any advice for me?” Regina 2 16 4
caper times (cape breton

mitment. Lahey took a second to think

university)
SYDNEY, N.S. (CUP) — Cape Breton “We practice most weekday about the answer, but then said some- Top seven teams qualified for postseason
Capers women’s basketball player evenings, and Saturday and Sundays thing that will likely resonate with
Luciann Lahey was just 14 years old if we’re not away for a game. If we’re Bain forever.
when she inspired pre-schooler Jenna on the road, we have a walk-through “There are times when you don’t
Women’s Basketball
Bain with her basketball skills and Friday morning, go away and play play well and you can get down on W L PTS
kindness during a provincial tourna- all weekend, come back late Sunday yourself. Don’t get discouraged if it Sask xy 22 2 44
ment. night, [and get] up for school all doesn’t come together right away. Winnipeg x 20 4 40
After seven years of wanting to Monday morning,” Lahey said. There are people who didn’t even Regina x 19 5 38
meet Lahey again, Bain finally got to “Wow, that’s a lot!” Bain replied. play junior high ball, but practiced a Alberta x 17 7 34
connect with her basketball idol at a It sounded exhausting. lot and made a high school team. So UBC x 17 7 34
Capers game against the visiting But Lahey didn’t seem over- even if you don’t make certain teams, Victoria x 15 9 30
Saint Mary’s Huskies last month. whelmed by her response. She talked keep practicing. It’s the time you put UFV x 12 12 34
For the youngster, to be sitting about how much she gets out of being into it. You can develop yourself into Calgary x 10 14 20
with a varsity athlete and chatting on a varsity team. a good player.” TRU 9 15 18
about basketball was the thrill of a “I love every part of it, not just Bain beamed when Lahey invited Manitoba 8 16 16
lifetime. After all this time, Lahey was the basketball itself, but being so ac- her to watch the rest of the men’s Lethbridge 4 20 8
as skilled and gracious as we had re- tive, going away, meeting new game that was going on while they TWU 3 2 16
membered. friends. I have a few friends on my were chatting outside the stadium. Brandon 0 24 0
The two players – one a CIS team that I think I’ll have for the rest The two basketball enthusiasts spent
women’s basketball player, the other of my life. Last year, our team went to the rest of the hour discussing the Top eight teams qualified for postseason
a member of the under-12 Bedford Cuba. When I was in Grade 12, I got close game.
Eagles – lit up with big smiles as to travel to Florida.” It was obvious they both loved
Lahey gave Bain a hug following the With every word, this path to- watching basketball as much as they
Women’s Hockey
Capers win. Lahey had scored a long ward being a university basketball loved playing it. To be hanging out
basket with the same “perfect teapot player was becoming more appeal- with Lahey in the bleachers, talking W L OTL PTS
shot” that Bain admired years ago. ing to Bain by the minute. about this “intense” game was a huge Alberta xy 17 4 3 37
As they looked at the old provin- After hearing about Lahey’s highlight for Bain. That, and when Manitoba x 16 5 3 35
cial team photo, with a four-year-old lifestyle over the years – Bain discov- Lahey insisted Bain email her the Calgary x 16 6 2 34
Bain standing proudly alongside ered that Lahey played piano for 15 Eagles schedule so she could see her Sask x 15 8 1 31
Lahey, the elder player chuckled and years, took the Conservatory exams play. Regina 9 13 2 20
said something that stunned the and dabbled in baseball and school It has been eight years since Bain UBC 7 16 1 15
youngster. volleyball while enrolled in the first cheered for her basketball idol Lethbridge 4 17 3 11
“When I was in Grade 7, I didn’t French Immersion program – the in a junior high school gym. From the
even make the junior high team, A or youngster brought the conversation sounds of it, next time it’ll be Lahey Top four teams qualified for postseason
B. I just played on the C team,” Lahey back to Capers basketball. doing the cheering.
explained. “What is the toughest team Women’s Volleyball
“Then something happened over you’ve played against this year?”
the summer. I had a really big growth Bain asked. W L PTS
spurt that helped me, plus I played a “All of our games have been UBC xy 15 3 30
lot in the backyard with my six older tough,” Lahey explained. "The games TWU x 15 3 30
brothers. And I always listened when we win are not blowouts. We still “ For the young- Alberta x 11 7 22
Patrick [brother] would give me tips. have to play [New Brunswick] and Brandon x 11 7 22
I made the Grade 8 A team and then they have a couple of all-stars on their Manitoba x 10 8 20
ster, to be sitting
with this Grade 9 team. That’s when team, so I’m thinking that’ll be our Calgary x 10 8 20
I finally began to stand out.” toughest match.” Regina x 8 10 16
with a varsity
As Bain and Lahey talked, the Lahey was optimistic, though, athlete and chat- Winnipeg 6 12 12
conversation steered towards learn- about the prospect of her team going TRU 2 16 4
ing more about how to get on a uni- to nationals for the third year in a Saskatchewan 2 16 4
ting about bas-
versity basketball team, which Bain row.
says she would love to do someday. And what of Lahey’s goals when
ketball was the
Top seven teams qualified for postseason
Her talk with Lahey only served to this year’s season comes to an end? thrill of a
reinforce this desire. “I will finish my teaching degree
“If the coaches see someone they in July, so this is my last year playing
lifetime.”
like, they’ll follow you and start to for the Capers. Right now, I’m prac-
talk with you and your high school ticing teaching at Riverview High. I’d

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No place like home
Some Canadian athletes who cross the border to the NCAA
come back
ian turner
ubyssey (university of
british columbia)
VANCOUVER (CUP) — Go to the
States or stay close to home? Big Ten
Conference or Canada West? Packed
stadiums or parent-only crowds? A
possible full-ride scholarship or a sum-
mer spent babysitting to pay tuition?
Such questions filled Megan
Heise’s head when she was in Grade
12. As a top-flight field hockey recruit,
she eventually narrowed her decision
down to the University of Iowa or the
University of Victoria.
Most of her college-bound team-
mates from Chilliwack, B.C. would go
on to play at the U of V, but at 18 years
old, Heise was seeking excitement –
the kind that the island outpost just
didn’t offer.
“I went [to Iowa] because I wanted
the experience,” said Heise. “I didn’t
want to pass up the experience and
not see what it was like, because I’ve
always been big into athletics.
Everybody there is super enthusiastic
about sports and that is the kind of at-
mosphere I wanted to be a part of.”
An arranged visit to Iowa’s ath-
letic department proved to be the tip-
ping point for Heise.
“I got to go to an Iowa vs. Iowa
State football game, which was the
most unreal thing I’ve ever seen in my
life. Since they don’t have professional
sports in Iowa, college football is the
way of life,” explained Heise. “It was
a big school rivalry. I remember people
running through the streets saying,
‘We’re going to beat State.’
“I’d been to UBC games and there
was barely anyone in the stands. In
the States, you’re a celebrity. We got
first-class treatment on my initial visit.
It was unreal. Everything was Iowa,
Iowa, Iowa. It was like a college movie
and I wanted to have it.”
A similar sentiment drove former
UBC baseball pitcher Jordan Anderson
down south to Central Arizona
College from his Burlington, Ont. high
school.
“I knew I didn’t want to stay in
Canada because I wanted to play base-
ball at a competitive school ... I really
had no desire to stay in Canada. One
still has that mentality that you have to
go to the States to get noticed,”
Anderson said.
“When I came down here, we had
four or five guys that were drafted
right out of high school, which is a lot
more than most Division 1 schools. I
wanted to play professional baseball.”
Anderson’s professional aspira-
tions wore his body out, however. At
Arizona, he threw every day as part of
his four-and-a-half hour daily train-
ing regimen. The intensity was too
much for his arm, which lead to a sea-
son-ending injury. With his dreams of
reaching the big leagues seemingly all
but over, he had a change of heart.
“I went to UBC because, at that
point, I knew I really didn’t have a
shot at going on to play professionally
and UBC is a great academic school,”
explained Anderson. “I knew I needed
to get some sort of education and even
then, if something went right, I would
have still had a shot to go on and play
professionally. [UBC] had two guys
drafted last year.”
But Anderson found baseball
training at UBC to be no less demand-
ing than at Arizona. After getting in-
jured again while with the
Thunderbirds, he opted to hang up his
mitt for good.
Anderson’s experience, where
teams from both the U.S. and Canada
train equally rigorously, was the ex-
ception amongst those interviewed.
Kelly Kurisu, a current UBC
Thunderbirds offensive lineman,
found the athletic routine far more de-
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manding down south while playing If you’re not doing exactly what they of 23-year-olds, many of whom were posure – some games are aired on local
at Western Washington University, be- say, you’re kind of a wash off. When I considered top Division II players. channels – and better competition.
fore the program was cancelled be- came up here, I instantly felt that the Without playing time and with most of Ruel was more ambivalent.
cause of the multimillion-dollar coaches cared. That was big for me. I his family still in Pitt Meadows, B.C., “I’m an NCAA guy, so I’m very
financial burden of fielding a Division wanted to play for someone who was Plumb wanted to come home because pro-NCAA,” Ruel said. “I really think
II football team. big on character and who also wanted he had lost his confidence. it would get the UBC name out there.
He explained that in the NCAA, to have a relationship with you off the “It seems like a business down You know, if you’re playing down
with big scholarships come a greater field.” there,” he said. south, there’s a lot more coverage on
responsibility to the team. Fitting into a business plan is “Your coach will recruit over you TV of college hockey, especially
“They do expect you to be a lot tough. Current UBC basketball guard if he sees something he doesn’t like. If Division I. Division III, I’d feel a little
more involved with the football pro- Doug Plumb found that out as a you lose your confidence because bit more skeptical about.”
gram. Since they’re giving you money, young 17-year-old in Minnesota. you’re not getting playing time, you But he said that some of his cur-
they can expect that. Up here, a lot of When Plumb’s father went to the don’t have the support network to stay rent teammates wouldn’t be able to
the guys on the team aren’t getting U.S. for employment, Plumb tagged positive because your family isn’t in play NCAA hockey because, unlike
any money, so the coaches are more along in the hope of elevating his town.” the CIS, individuals who played junior
lax, saying, ‘Well, okay, you don’t ex- game. After making the varsity team After a year at Minnesota State, hockey cannot subsequently play in
actly have to do this. You don’t have to in Grade 10, he chose to play colle- Plumb came north again and played the NCAA.
come to that’,” Kurisu said. giate ball in the States, thinking, “It two years for the University of the “It’d suck to see my teammates
“[In the States they say] ‘You’re was America or bust.” Fraser Valley Cascades before trans- not being able to continue their educa-
here at this time. You’ve got to do this At Minnesota State University, he ferring to UBC. tion.”
at this time. It doesn’t matter what else didn’t have much opportunity, as he Like Plumb, Anderson sees the
is going on. We’re paying you’.” was a 17-year-old on a team comprised benefits of the NCAA: increased ex-
Kurisu estimated UBC football
trains about 90 minutes less per day
than WWU’s now-defunct program
did.
During UBC men’s hockey for-
ward Tyler Ruel’s freshman year at
Wayne State, the school chose to end
funding for the ice hockey team be-
cause of the program’s high financial
costs. Without a palatable scholarship
offer, Ruel came back to Canada,
where he enrolled at UBC.
“The education you get at UBC, I
feel, is a lot better than what you get at
most universities in the U.S. I feel there
is definitely more of an emphasis on
academics here,” Ruel said.
“I find that at UBC you have to
earn your grades a little bit more. I feel
some of the classes down there could
not really be a school class.”
For Heise, it was a similar experi-
ence of slack academics.
“[The education system at the
University of Iowa] was just pointless.
I’d go sit there and twiddle my thumbs
and I never had any schoolwork. On
my first paper at Iowa, I got an A+ on
it and I was like, ‘Oh, a 100-person
class and my T.A. just told me I got the
top mark in the class.’ That was scary.”
Anderson, perhaps, had the easi-
est time of the group.
“I was told what was going to be
on my exam beforehand. I’m sure
other students weren’t told, but I think
that comes down to a school decision,”
he said. “If the school wants to allow
that to happen, then they can allow
that to happen. I highly doubt that’s
going on at Stanford.”
Most others said they were
pushed through the academic require-
ments to ensure they meet the NCAA’s
academic criteria to be eligible to play.
The easier academic requirements of
schools that put a greater emphasis on
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The scent of victory Time to unmark

Tiger-Cats hope Avon Cobourne’s winning aroma the calendars
will rub off on the team The unflattering opening week sticks
out the most in the 2011 CFL schedule

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jonathan hamelin
sports editor
The CFL needs to remember that if is-
n’t broke, don’t fix it.
The 2011 CFL schedule was re-
leased last month, and one of the first
things that this observer noticed was
the rather lame opening week of play.
The season opens up on June 30, as
the two-time defending Grey Cup
champion Montreal Alouettes begin
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their defence against the visiting
British Columbia Lions. The next day,
in a doubleheader, the Winnipeg Blue
Cobourne is coming off back-to-back Grey Cup victories with Montreal. The Tiger-Cats will be looking for him
first game should always be on
Canada Day (it is Canada’s league af-
ter all), featuring the defending Grey
Cup champion at home against the
team they beat. It does not necessar-
ily have to be a doubleheader. The
opening game would give the de-
fending champs a chance to hang up
their banner and it would give the
losing team a chance to get some re-
venge. Plus, it would be a really excit-
ing game.
After the opening game, the
league should try to work in as many
rivalry games a possible. Of course,
some matchups wouldn’t work.
Saskatchewan couldn’t face

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to deliver similar success in Hamilton

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jonathan hamelin
sports editor
The Hamilton Tiger-Cats are not win-
ners.
Over the last decade, the Tabbies
posted a heavily unflattering record
of 61-118-1-3 and posted seasons of
one, three (twice), four, and five wins.
They made the playoffs four times,
but only won one game. Bad man-
agement decisions, poor coaching,
and inadequate players doomed
Hamilton for much of this period.
Even now, when the Tiger-Cats
have taken strides towards improve-
ment after missing the playoffs from
2005-2008, things haven’t got that
much better. The Black and Gold
recorded a 9-9 record and secured a
home playoff game in ’09. Things
looked good for them, that was until
Casey Printers and the British
Columbia Lions show came into
town as the crossover team, outgun-
ning the Tabbies 34-27 in the East
semifinal.
Last season, Hamilton looked
poised to advance to the East final as
“ “[Avon]
Cobourne reeks
... of success.
Seriously, if
Cobourne re-
leased a cologne,
it would be called
‘SUCCESS’.”
they played host to the inconsistent
Toronto Argonauts in the East semifi-
nal. Hamilton proceeded to turn the
ball over five times and forgot to
bring their running game, dropping
an aggravating 16-13 decision.
Need I cite more examples?
Yes, it has been a time of futility
for the Tiger-Cats organization, which
has not won the Grey Cup since 1999.
Only the Winnipeg Blue Bombers
(1990) have been lonely longer.
Heading into this off-season, one had
to wonder what the Tabbies could do
to change the image of their organiza-
tion.
Well, they may have just solved
that problem.
When the CFL free agency period
kicked off last month, Hamilton did-
n’t waste much time in snagging up a
major free agent. The team signed for-
mer Montreal Alouettes running back
Avon Cobourne.
It is clear this move changes
Hamilton’s entire outlook. Their team
has, well, smelled recently. Cobourne
reeks ... of success. Seriously, if
Cobourne released a cologne, it
would be called “SUCCESS”. The
West Virginia product won the Grey
Cup in ’09 and ’10 with Montreal, and
in ’09 was named a league all-star
and the Grey Cup’s most outstanding
player. Most of the players on
Hamilton’s roster can only dream of
that kind of success.
You know the Tabbies are hop-
ing Cobourne’s aroma will rub off on
his new teammates. Without even
looking at the impact he will serve
on the field, the Cobourne signing is
so important for the mood of
Hamilton’s players. They will realize
that they have a player in Cobourne
who has performed amazingly on the
big stage. Thus, they should have
confidence in big games this upcom-
ing season. With Cobourne added to
the roster, Hamilton added a bit of a
winning atmosphere.
Will Cobourne fix Kevin Glenn’s
problems on the big stage, the oft-
shaky wide receiving core of
Hamilton or the inconsistent defence?
No, but having a playmaker of
his quality on the team gives the
Tiger-Cats a player they can go to in
the crunch if others are struggling.
Cobourne will help Hamilton in
both the running and passing game.
In five CFL seasons, the five-foot-
eight, 200-lb running back has at-
tempted 593 rushes for 3,301 yards
and 27 touchdowns, while maintain-
ing a 5.6-yard average, and has
caught 194 passes for 1,714 yards, five
touchdowns, with a 8.8-yard average.
Keep in mind, this was while
playing for Montreal. Over the years,
the Alouettes have had such a potent
passing attack led by Anthony
Calvillo that they have not had to rely
on Cobourne. If Hamilton requires it,
Cobourne can take on a heavier
workload and carry the offence a bit
on his shoulders. He is 31 years old,
but there should definitely be a cou-
ple of good years left for the new
Tabbies running back.
Hamilton has had trouble find-
ing successful, but more importantly
stable, running backs over the last
while. DeAndra’ Cobb had rushed
for over 1,000 yards in each of the last
two seasons for the team, but was in-
consistent and often disappeared in
big games. Cobourne provides a bet-
ter option for the Tiger-Cats.
The Tabbies have added more
than just Cobourne so far in what has
been a busy free agency period for
them. The team has signed former
Saskatchewan Roughriders middle
linebacker Renauld Williams, offen-
sive lineman Wayne Smith, and de-
fensive back Daniel Francis. Daryl
Stephenson, a running back who last
played for the Winnipeg Blue
Bombers, was also signed.
These others moves aren’t as sig-
nificant, and the Tiger-Cats have lost
a couple of solid players themselves.
But the fact that the Tabbies have
been aggressive during free agency
and picked up one of the prized pos-
sessions on the block is a positive sign
for an organization sick of losing.
the Tiger-Cats, and then the Calgary
Stampeders welcome the Toronto
Argonauts to town. Finally, on July 3,
the Edmonton Eskimos open up on
the road against the Saskatchewan
Roughriders.
With only one real rivalry game
scheduled for the opening week
(Edmonton-Saskatchewan), it is
hardly an opening schedule to be ex-
cited about.
Last season, the CFL seemed to
nail the schedule almost perfectly.
The 2010 season opened up on
Canada Day, featuring the then-de-
fending Grey Cup champion
Alouettes traveling to Saskatchewan.
It was a Grey Cup rematch of the year
before. As soon as the schedule was
released, fans all across the CFL be-
gan circling the date on their calen-
dars. That game was arguably the
most anticipated season opener in
league history. To make things even
better, another game (Toronto at
Calgary) followed. The Canada Day
doubleheader really generated in-
creased exposure for the league and
got the season started right.
The CFL had the chance to build
off the success of their opening week
in 2010 this upcoming season.
Having Saskatchewan travel to
Montreal for an opening day clash
would have generated as much or
more excitement than the year before.
Instead, the Lions are visiting
Montreal. When these teams met in
Montreal in Week 3 of 2010, the game
went to the Alouettes by an unflatter-
ing score 16-12. Exciting! It is usually
a slower-paced game when the Lions
travel to Montreal. If this happens
again, it will be a disastrous way to
open the season.
In my opinion, there is a really
simple formula the CFL should fol-
“ It is a great time to be an eraser sales-
man in Canada, but not so much a fan of
the CFL.”
the Banjo Bowl. But that would be a
rare exception. This year, for example,
Toronto could travel to Hamilton and
the Eskimos could travel to Calgary,
leaving Winnipeg and B.C. to battle.
You couldn’t get a more exciting
opening week than that. Why scatter
the rivalry games all over the place
when they could be put together to
create a glorious Week 1?
While glancing at the rest of the
2011 CFL schedule, there wasn’t tons
more to pick apart. That is, until I got
to Labour Day weekend. Three of the
games remain the same as usual, but
the one glaring difference stood out.
Montreal is traveling to Hamilton for
the Labour Day Classic, breaking the
longstanding tradition of Toronto
journeying to Hamilton. Instead, the
Argos host B.C. I understand
Hamilton-Montreal is an upcoming
rivalry, but to break up such a classic
Labour Day rivalry like Hamilton-
Toronto is simply wrong. Personally,
the Hamilton-Toronto game is not the
Labour Day Classic I most look for-
ward to, but it is definitely ranked
right up there with the
Saskatchewan-Winnipeg and
Edmonton-Calgary games.
All in all, the 2011 CFL schedule
has a very impersonal feel to it. It
seems as if the league has disre-
garded what the fans really want and
went with what they felt would be a
good schedule.
Don’t be surprised if many fans
across the league are going to their
calendar and erasing the circle
around June 30. The anticipation for
the opening game in the CFL is no
longer there.
It is a great time to be an eraser
salesman in Canada, but not so much
a fan of the CFL.
 op-ed
editorial
What a slut
OTTAWA (CUP) — “And then we
went back to my place and fucked,”
the girl ahead of me in line at the cof-
fee shop triumphantly declared,
catching her friend up on the week-
end’s events.
“I can’t believe you did that,” re-
sponded the second girl, incredu-
lously. “You’re such a slut!” Both girls
erupted into laughter as they grabbed
their coffees and walked away.
What’s wrong with this conversa-
tion? For starters, the fact that most of
you silently thought “nothing” in re-
sponse to that question.
The word “slut” is everywhere –
be it on TV, scribbled across a bath-
room stall or in our everyday conver-
sations. Even the Canadian Oxford
Dictionary has an entry for slut, yet
the word has inconspicuously taken
on a meaning greater than that which
can be defined by a dictionary.
First used in the 14th century to
refer to “a dirty, untidy or slovenly
woman,” the word slut has always
been applied to women of low char-
acter, specifically those who exhibit
questionable sexual behaviour – be-
haviour that doesn’t conform to soci-
ety’s patriarchal expectations of a
woman’s sexual conduct.
But within our contemporary cul-
ture, where it’s increasingly accept-
able for a woman’s sexual identity to
exist outside of a marriage, what con-
stitutes “questionable sexual behav-
iour” is unclear. Nonetheless, words
like “slut” and “whore” are hurled at
women, usually in an attempt to exert
control over their actions.
You’re a woman and you’re open
about your sexuality? Slut. You’re a
woman who enjoys having sex – be it
within the confines of a monogamous
relationship or as a career choice?
Whore. You’re a woman who has
never had sex before, but just so hap-
pens to wear shirts that say you do,
indeed, have breasts? Skank.
When we consider the endless
scenarios that render a woman a slut
these days, it becomes clear that this
word is used solely to shame a
woman for expressing herself sexu-
ally. There’s a notion that this act of
slut-shaming – making a woman feel
ashamed for being sexual or having
one or more sexual partners – is a tool
that can be used to compel a woman
letter to the editor
On March 16 and 17, students of the
University of Regina will go to the
polls to elect an URSU executive and
board. Kyle Addison has had two
years to make real, lasting, and posi-
tive change on campus and in the
lives of students – but he hasn’t. After
a costly URSU website debacle, ex-
pensive black paint in the Owl, a di-
visive CFS referendum, and two
years of tuition hikes, I start to won-
der if Addison has overstayed his
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to alter her behaviour for the better.
Call a woman a slut and perhaps
she’ll feel ashamed enough to change
her behaviour – behaviour that soci-
ety believes leaves her vulnerable to
things like unplanned pregnancies,
sexually transmitted diseases and
sexual assault. It’s for her protection,
right?
Far from leaving her better off,
slut-shaming can irreparably damage
a woman’s self-perception. Being
called a slut for exhibiting perfectly
normal sexual behaviour can cause a
woman to associate herself with the
negative connotations intrinsic to that
word: Dirty, easy, and worthless.
Maybe she’ll indulge these un-
founded labels and take on multiple
partners, or maybe she’ll shut herself
down to all forms of sexual activity
out of shame. She may become a tar-
get for others to take advantage of,
feeling as though her right to consent
is taken away by her reputation.
Either way, it diminishes a woman’s
ability to express her sexuality – and
that’s not healthy.
Slut-shaming has been used to
make examples out of “bad” girls to
their peers, sometimes ending with
severe consequences. In 2009, a 13-
year-old girl from in U.S. sexted a
photo of her breasts to a boy she
liked, which was intercepted and cir-
culated around her school and a
nearby high school. The girl was
forced to endure endless taunting by
her peers, routinely being called a
“slut” and a “whore.”
When school officials were in-
formed of these events, their response
wasn’t to talk to the girl about what
had happened, or to discipline the of-
fending classmates. They suspended
her from school for a week, an action
that sends the message to students
that calling someone a slut for ex-
hibiting “slutty behaviour” is okay –
that, perhaps, slutty girls deserve to
be punished by their peers.
She hung herself less than a week
after the suspension.
Beyond damaging someone’s
reputation and self-esteem on an indi-
vidual level, slut-shaming shapes so-
cietal discourse on things like rape,
abuse and sexual harassment. There
is an inconspicuous but real concep-
tion in society and our legal systems
Mike Burton, Jenn Bergen, Kristy
Fyfe, Craig Fink, Sean Dunham, and
many others, were all champions of
this university’s students – most still
are. Under their governance our stu-
dents’ union was focused on environ-
mental sustainability, improving
public transit, and a provincial tu-
ition freeze. When I compare an im-
age of former URSU executives
sleeping in the cold to bring atten-
tion to a need for a tuition freeze, to
s
Kyle Addison handing out free beer
i
ti
o n-
at sports games – I long for the days
t
o n
that rape is more understandable un-
der certain circumstances — circum-
stances that revolve around the
identity of the victim.
In 2007, a British man charged
with the rape of a 10-year-old girl was
given concurrent two-year and 18-
month jail sentences, as opposed to
life in prison. The judge felt he was
faced with “a moral dilemma” in this
“exceptional case” because the vic-
tim regularly wore make-up, strappy
tops and jeans, making her appear at
least 16 years old – as though some-
how her provocative clothing
trumped her right to consent – as-
suming a child is even capable of con-
sent.
Cases like the above aren’t iso-
lated anomalies in our legal systems.
Rape cases are thrown out on the ba-
sis of the victim’s appearance – how
they dress, act, and speak – while in-
stances of sexual harassment in the
workplace are overlooked because of
the victim’s sexual history. Women
are constantly written off by their
peers as worthless, irrelevant, and
less capable at the simple utterance of
that four-letter word.
The word slut has become a
catch-all phrase used to defame a
woman – one that has lost its mean-
ing in society, while simultaneously
carrying dark implications with its
use.
Next time you want to call a
woman a slut, think about what you
actually mean to say. Does the fact
that she’s open about her sexuality
make her a slut, or is she just a liberal
woman? Is the woman that fucked
your boyfriend really a whore, or is
your boyfriend simply a cheating ass-
hole? Is that classmate wearing the
low-cut top skanky, or is she just
gutsy enough to wear something you
could never pull off? It isn’t until we
stop being so loose with our word
choice that the problems associated
with this powerful vocabulary will
begin to dissipate.
mercedes mueller
fulcrum (university of
ottawa)
of old.
No matter what faculty you are
in, or whether you support the CFS,
in this upcoming election vote for
change. Our students’ union can be
so much more than it is, and Kyle
Addison had his chance – let some-
one else have theirs.
farheen surtie
contributor
Op-Ed Editor: Cheyenne Geysen
the carillon, March 3 - 9, 2011
opinion
In the aftermath
Right off the bat, yes, I am on the
University of Regina Students’ Union
Board. I am Arts Director, and I may
have a slight problem when it comes
to politics – I’m a little thin-skinned.
Which isn’t to say that I have a prob-
lem with people disagreeing with
me. Jordan Palmer voted against tak-
ing a Canadian Federation of
Students stance, and I still think of
him as a friend because I love the
civil exchange of ideas that we
shared. However, I do have a prob-
lem when people attack not my ideas,
but myself, even if it is indirectly.
Should I be offended if someone
calls the URSU board “incompetent”
or insinuates that the board doesn’t
have their best interest at heart, even
if I know that I am competent and
that I do have the best interest of my
constituents in mind? When those ac-
cusations came up at the AGM, my
first instinct was to stand up and de-
fend the board. But instead, I stood
up and defended a position by dis-
cussing the ideas, not the individuals.
Here we are, a few weeks later, and I
still can’t get those accusations out
of my pallet. So here are a few re-
sponses to various editorials and
comments I’ve heard. I speak on be-
half of myself, even if the accusations
are based on the board in general, or
on other individuals.
“The latest instance [of URSU
Executive abusing privilege] is Kyle
Addison’s mudslinging against the
Carillon [and Kent Peterson] on his
student-funded blog.” [Alex
Mortensen, letter, Vol. 53, Issue 15,
Feb. 10-16, 2011]
There are some things that
Addison doesn’t deserve to be called
out on. Addison using his blog to dis-
cuss an article run on the Carillon’s
website [Ivory Tower Award
Nominations] is just as abusive of
privileges as Mr. Peterson posting the
article on the Carillon’s website – both
are ostensibly the opinions of the
posters themselves, and both are
posted on sites that the students
fund. Whatever may be said within
them, the URSU blogs are supposed
to be a place where we can get a more
direct idea of our student reps, and
attacking them for posting their
thoughts on an article posted on a
website that the students funded is
counterproductive to this more open
political landscape.
“... free meals at the Owl. There
are many options on and near cam-
pus for Kyle and his friends to eat. I
don’t think it is appropriate to give
them free meals at URSU’s pub ...”
[Alex Mortensen, letter, Feb. 10]
I don’t know where this came
from. There is no provision anywhere
that Kyle or anyone else would get
free meals at the Owl. If I see him
there, he pays, and every dollar that
goes into the Owl helps support the
President’s Advisory Council funds –
which pay out to every student soci-
ety (ASA, BSS, FASA, etc.). Kyle eat-
ing there is supporting our student
groups.
“At best the current URSU exec-
utive is incompetent; at worst I fear
partisanship may be the real reason
they sit idly by.” [Sonia Stanger, letter,
Vol. 53, Issue 14, Feb. 3-9, 2011]
Lowering tuition is always a con-
tentious issue when I bring it up
around my faculty lounge (econom-
ics), because there needs to be a bal-
ance between affordability and
quality. Immediately pushing tuition
down to zero will increase the
amount of people who want to take
classes, but will cut off a huge portion
of funding the University has to pro-
vide services. Of course I want af-
op-ed@carillonregina.com
fordable education for anyone who
wants it, but I also want an educa-
tion, and a class with 400-700 people
with only one professor is not the
way there. That’s why we don’t see
dramatic tuition action, because we
want to maintain the quality of edu-
cation. Of course I want tuition to
come down – I know many students
who work multiple jobs just to pay
their tuition and are forced to live on
ramen and water. But saying that the
students’ union isn’t doing its job
based on that one factor shows a my-
opic view. We are also there to en-
sure that student groups receive
funding, that students receive sup-
port during times of trouble (refugee
funding, emergency tuition funding,
supporting of student groups, a voice
on disciplinary committees). Just be-
cause it isn’t all as flashy as putting
money back in your wallet doesn’t
mean that the students’ union isn’t
doing many important tasks.
As for the idea of the “Ivory
Tower Awards” [Vol. 53, Issue 12, Jan.
6-12, 2011] being a work of satire,
there’s a simple point to make. While
I will never support the idea of taking
away someone’s voice when they are
trying to make a change, my biggest
complaint comes from when the ac-
tual story has been obfuscated. In the
Ivory Tower’s case, Mr. Peterson says
that “Addison’s near-perfect execu-
tion of the CFS referendum in 2010
hardly infuriated the student body at
all...”, ignoring the fact that Kyle did-
n’t execute the CFS Referendum. The
Vote No campaign was run by Jeph
Maystruck, the support for said cam-
paign was moved by Adam Nelson
and Ally Pilkey, and was supported
by all but three of the board mem-
bers. His job was to represent the
board’s wishes. Kyle Addison is not
responsible for the Board deciding to
support Vote No, for any campaign
decisions the Vote No group made,
and for anything the Referendum
Oversight Committee has done. Ms.
Timmons did a fantastic job defend-
ing herself in last week’s issue – I en-
courage you to check that out.
What this comes down to is that
I’m really happy that so many people
are so excited about the Student
Union, and want us to be held ac-
countable to the students. But please,
make sure you form your opinions
on good information, not something
posted “just to increase hits to [the
Carillon] website so [they] can charge
more for ads.” (Peteron’s commen-
tary about my comments on the “We
like to Move it Move it” post on the
Carillon website, that I can no longer
find).
bart soroka
contributor
[Bart Soroka is running for URSU VP
Operations and Finance. And Bart, we
we do want to address a point that we
failed to address initially. You’re right in
that URSU executives are neither bud-
getarily nor constitutionally entitled to
free meals at the Owl; although there’s a
line item in the budget for executive dis-
counts, that’s hardly the same. –Ed.]
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