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Guelph goes organic 32nd annual Organic Conference and Expo

amy van den berg

Walking into the University Cen-ter from Feb. 2-3, anyone would have been overwhelmed by the intense and frenzied bustle of Guelph’s 32nd Annual Guelph Or-ganic Conference. Everywhere on the main and basement floor, peo-ple of all ages and backgrounds were walking from one booth to the next, tasting, chatting, and learning about what it means to

“go organic.”Entry to the Expo was free of

charge and all were welcome to explore the three levels of 150+ booths that exhibited everything from carrot juice samples to in-teractive displays of innovative farming equipment. Workshops were available with a registration fee for people who were interested in attending specific lectures, and ran from Jan. 31 until Feb. 3.

The Organic Conference and Expo allowed consumers and producers to come together to network, as well as to share knowledge, ideas, and delicious samples. It was designed to in-crease awareness and to offer people the chance to get to know the taste of organic food. The ex-hibits and workshops provided a backdrop of the “real action” be-hind organic farming, with many interactive activities and displays

geared towards brand-new users, who could ask questions, and dis-cover how and why purchasing organic goods, and making the local choice, can benefit them and the community.

“It’s a place where we can learn from each other…where like-minded people come together,” said Carrin McGowan, a rep-resentative of CRAFT Ontario (Collaborative Regional Alliance for Farmer Training in Ontario), a company that offers ecological farm internships.

And there was no better place to host such an affair than at the University of Guelph. With a his-tory deeply rooted in agriculture and livestock management, the university is home to numerous students and scholars from diverse agri-backgrounds, many keen to interact with consumers and major actors within the industry.

“It was nice to get first-hand ac-counts from organic consumers,” said Dirk Brunsveld, a University of Guelph student studying Or-ganic Agriculture, “I never realized

how interested many people are in finding out exactly how their food is produced, and how to improve upon what we have.”

The label “organic” means that the food or product was created and cultivated in a way that en-hances and promotes biodiversity, uses environmentally sustain-able practices, and protects the health of the soil and surrounding ecosystem. Certified organic prod-ucts assure the consumer that the way in which the food is grown or

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The conference drew many people interested in finding out more about organically grown and produced food.

Wendy Shepherd

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Global to Local: U of G students and

faculty on international and national news

Feb. 4 marked the beginning of the end for Canadians’ least fa-vourite coin, the penny. It filled wallets and pockets with the pre-tense of being something more, like a nickel, and never got used unless there was a donation-on-ly bake sale, and now, or at least over the next three to four years, Canadians will feel a little better about throwing the penny out, which they’ve undoubtedly been doing for years. The Royal Mint of-ficially stopped distributing the coin on Feb. 4, and businesses will round cash transactions up to the nearest five cents, while debit and credit payments will still account for the one-cent increment. With the forecasted disappearance of the penny comes an upsurge in sales centered on making artistic pieces from the coin. In fact, one jewelry business owner told CTV News that since the planned de-mise of the penny, her sales have been going up.

The Ontarion: Have you heard about this news topic, and does it interest you?reilly fullerton, art History stu-dent: Yes, it does. I work in the customer service industry, so I think it’s interesting that we’re going to have to round [prices] up or down.

The Ontarion: How big of an im-pact do you think it will have on your life?rf: Not too big, but it is kind of sad that [the penny] is leaving because it’s a part of Canadian history, and working in the customer service industry, it’s going to impact us a little bit, having to round up and down. But, I don’t think it’s too big of [a deal] just because it is only one cent.

The Ontarion: What do you think about people preserving the coin through various arts and crafts?rf: I think that’s really interest-ing, especially for kids that won’t know about [the penny]. I think it’s interesting that it can be sold for a lot too just because it isn’t really worth anything right now, but in the future, it will probably be sold for a lot more, which is really cool.

Thanks to the participant for this week’s interview. If you have something to say about inter-national or national news, and would like to be contacted for future issues, or if you want to see a particular news story cov-ered here, contact News Editor Alicja Grzadkowska at onnews@uoguelph.ca.

Bridging the gaps between ways of knowing The 19th annual Environmental Symposium a great success

emma wilson

On Feb. 2, the University of Guelph held its 19th annual En-vironmental Sciences Symposium in Rozanski Hall. The theme this year was, “Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Perspectives on the Environment.” The symposium focused on moving environmen-tal issues forward by bridging the gaps, and oftentimes abyss-es, between public and academic knowledge, and traditional and

“modern” thinking.Speakers included Karen Kow-

alchuk, Laura Taylor and Jeremy Shute, Dr. Deborah McGregor, John Crump, Dr. Steve Crawford, Anthony Chegahno, Sandra Mc-Cubbin, Dr. Lynn Gehl, Dr. Barry Smit, and Henry Lickers.

“There is a desperate need for the world to take action on greenhouse gasses,” noted Smit. Smit’s talk

explored the many serious rami-fications of warming temperatures such as rising sea levels and storms threatening island states, drought

and associated disparity and land degradation in Kenya, and in other areas.

Solutions to environmental concerns may be found in en-couraging interdisciplinary study.

“Lots of people are looking at the bits, but not the whole bicy-cle,” said Smit. The “bits” regard individual disciplines and special-izations, and the “bicycle” is an ideal network of these specializa-tions that allows for a flourishing of coordinated problem solving.

Lickers, a member of the Seneca Nation, Turtle Clan, presented a talk on the integration points of science and traditional aboriginal knowledge. He noted, “At a basic level, traditional knowledge and science can be integrated.”

“Traditional” is sometimes associated with the inapplica-ble conventions of ages passed. However, Lickers suggested that traditional knowledge is always changing and the learning pro-cess can be very similar to science. For instance, Lickers noted that the process of hunting is largely experimental. He also suggested that the anecdotal stories through which traditional knowledge is disseminated are really no differ-ent than the stories in scientific journals.

Despite the similarities, there are serious barriers to further integrating traditional and West-ern or “modern” knowledge. Disseminators of both forms of knowledge sometimes view the other form in adversarial terms.

For example, Lickers suggested that Aboriginal Peoples have seen Western knowledge as “a process

that is arrogant and ignores or ridicules the knowledge of the local people. Western Culture is seen [as] a process of Dominator Society [separating] itself from the Environment and Humanity to the destruction of them both,” explained Lickers.

“Even though we have known each other for 500 years, we are still mis-knowing each other,” said Lickers.

Those students, faculty mem-bers, and Guelph residents who attended the symposium were left with a strong message: embrac-ing the merits of different ways of knowing the natural world will help to move us towards coordi-nated and thoughtful solutions to the environmental problems at hand.

“A key element is respecting what others do. Each piece of knowledge has its value,” con-cluded Lickers.

executive members of the symposium (left to right): erin Maloney, Geneviève Lalonde, Colleen parker (director), Alex harris and Laura Blazejewski.

Wendy Shepherd

“Even though we have known

each other for 500 years, we

are still mis-knowing each

other.” - Henry Lickers

www.theontarion.com news4If Barbie were real…Eating Disorders and Body Image Exposé promotes self-esteem and positive body image

Kelsey coughlin

Seven feet tall, 110 pounds, with a 39-inch bust. If this sounds too good to be true, that’s be-cause it is. That’s right, the infamous Barbie has been lying and misrepresenting herself to little girls everywhere since 1959.

According to the Wellness Centre, it is because of this and other types of unrealis-tic and detrimental thinking that women and men all over the world suffer from low self-esteem and have a negative perceptual body image. This is why on Feb. 5 the Wellness Centre organized an Eating Dis-orders and Body Image Exposé designed to educate students about the challenges that ac-company this type of thinking.

Emulating certain unrealistic standards ultimately leads young

women to feel insecure about their own bodies and can lead to such eating disorders as anorex-ia or bulimia. Lindzie O’Reilly, dietitian at Student Health Ser-vices, was on hand at the event and said the idea of the fair was to “raise awareness about how the media can influence our body image and self-esteem and to show that positive body image comes in all shapes and sizes.”

Many off and on-campus partners were in attendance, including Student Support Net-work, Homewood Health Centre, and Trellis Mental Health. All of these organizations had two goals in mind: to promote pos-itive body image, and to bring to light the truth about eating disorders.

According to Statistics Can-ada, anorexia affects up to 3.7 per cent of women in Canada. The onset of anorexia is typi-cally mid-to-late adolescence, with behaviour likely beginning as innocent dieting. 20 to 30 per cent of cases end in suicide. Bu-limia, on the other hand, affects up to 4.2 per cent of women and usually begins in early to late adulthood. 90 per cent of these

cases occur in females.Many of these cases affect

young women in universities and colleges, which is why it is im-portant to “appreciate what you like about yourself individually rather than trying to conform to a specific ideal,” explained O’Reilly.

By exploiting the media’s at-tempt to create this ideal, the Wellness Centre created a “re-al-life” Barbie to show just how unrealistic the doll’s proportions are. If Barbie were actually seven feet tall and 110 pounds, she would be about 45 pounds un-derweight and would most likely suffer from an eating disorder.

University of Guelph student Hunter Marshall was at the fair and said, “The Barbie myth cre-ates a false hope that perfection is something we can achieve only if we avoid sugar and exercise every free moment we have.”

Organizers hope that students left the fair with a new respect for themselves and a differ-ent way of thinking about their bodies. True beauty comes in all shapes and sizes, so maybe Bar-bie as we know her can become a thing of the past.

A “real-size” Barbie at the expo on Feb. 5 shows what the doll would look like in reality.

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Passing of professor affects students and facultyProfessor O.P. Dwivedi’s legacy lives on through the many lives he touched

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The University of Guelph com-munity is mourning the loss of one of its finest in Dr. Onkar Prasad (O.P.) Dwivedi. Dwivedi was known for his endless aca-demic achievements as well as his strong passion for life.

Dwivedi was born near Bindki in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. He first came to Canada in 1963 as an undergraduate student, eventually earning his doctorate in political science from Queen’s University. Dwivedi then joined the University of Guelph in 1967 where he taught environmental policy, law, and public adminis-tration. Upon much success, he served as chair of the Depart-ment of Political Science from 1979 to 1990.

Dwivedi retired in 2002;

however, he continued to instruct undergraduate and grad-uate classes and mentor young faculty in an effort to ensure the comfort, enjoyment and confi-dence of new professors to the University of Guelph. Dwive-di was a leading scholar who contributed much to the field of political science, publishing more than 30 books and over 115 scholarly articles.

In remembering Dwivedi, Nanita Mohan, a former stu-dent and sessional lecturer at the University of Guelph said,

“Professor Dwivedi was such an accomplished man that his accomplishments alone could fill volumes.” During his life, Dwivedi served as president of the Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA), president of the Canadian Asian Studies As-sociation, and vice-president of Schools and Institutes of Admin-istration. Dwivedi also acted as an advisor for major organiza-tions such as: UNESCO, the World Bank, UNO, WHO and CIDA.

With these and many other

accomplishments, Canada con-ferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Law (LL.D). Furthermore in 2008, the Uni-versity of Waterloo honoured Dwivedi with a Doctor of En-vironmental Studies (D.E.S). In 2005, Dwivedi was also a recipient of the Order of Can-ada, the highest civilian order one can receive in Canada, as well as being a recipient of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee medal. Additionally, Dwivedi was also a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Dwivedi was known for much more than just his academ-ic work and accomplishments. What made Dwivedi so popular was his dedication and genuine concern for the well-being of not only his students, but also many of his peers. Associate Professor Jordi Díez explains, “He made a significant contribution in many ways, but one that truly has left its mark has been his desire to mentor and support younger colleagues.”

Rajeni Chagar, a former stu-dent of Dwivedi and now a lecturer at the University, also remembers him as a great men-tor who, “took me under his wing, encouraging me to do field research in my Masters and not to be scared to ask the hard questions.”

She continued, “He gave me the confidence to pursue a PhD and focus on issues that we spent countless hours discussing over tea.” Dwivedi was also famous in the department because of his unbridled optimism. As Mohan explained, “He exuded so much positive energy that it was really difficult to think he ever had a bad day, even when he was not well.” To this end, Gerie McCau-ley remembers that the professor

“never complained and stayed positive until the very end.”

Dwivedi also lived a life of phi-lanthropy. After a trip to North India, he found that many peo-ple had cataracts and were in dire need of surgery. When he returned home from his trip, Dwivedi and his family decid-ed to sell their summer home in Wiarton and take their savings to India to help build a hospi-tal. In 2008, the Sushila Devi Eye Hospital was established. The hospital has doctors and five technicians, along with a walk-in clinic. In 2009, more than 8,500 people were seen at the hospital for eye examinations and tests, and 715 had cataract operations. It provides free ser-vices for patients and provides

preference to women and girls from rural areas who may have difficulty getting treatment else-where. In his interview with At Guelph, Dwivedi mentioned that the goal was to “do more than 1,000 operations a year.”

Dwivedi and his wife simply “stopped going on vacations” in order to invest the money ded-

icated to fun and relaxation towards their many philanthrop-ic endeavours. Additionally, using his life savings, Dwivedi funded the development of a ju-nior high school in rural India, which is named after one of his mentors at Queen’s University, John Meisel.

Despite Dwivedi’s many achievements, he never forgot where he came from, acknowl-edging his humble beginnings.

“I came from a poor family. When I arrived to Canada I had $10 dollars in my pocket. And when I die, I will take nothing with me, so why not help those who are destitute and need to be empowered?”

Dwivedi was also known around campus for offering free yoga classes every Friday in the University Centre. In 2010, dur-ing an interview with At Guelph, Dwivedi explained that four years prior to beginning his classes, his cardiologist had in-formed him that the blood flow to his heart was blocked in four places. Because surgery was not an option, Dwivedi turned to pran yoga, and in an amazing turn of events, two years later, his cardiologist found that all of the blockages were gone.

Upon experiencing the pos-itive effects of pran yoga, he decided to become a certified yoga instructor as a means to extend his passion for yoga to his students and the rest of the student population at the Uni-versity of Guelph; one of the many ways he reached out to the University community.

Dwivedi was a true role model and spiritual leader who touched many lives and will be terribly missed by University of Guelph and the broader community. The fact that he made such an indelible impression on his stu-dents and the community alike is undoubtedly evident of his wonderful, warm-hearted per-sona. In the words he so-often left with students and peers who were seeking peace, “om, shan-ti, om.”

dr. Onkar prasad (O.p.) dwivedi’s philanthropic efforts are just one aspect of his legacy.

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“…when I die, I will take nothing with

me, so why not help those who

are destitute and need to be empowered?”

– Onkar Prasad Dwivedi

www.theontarion.com news6Monsanto’s promises fall short in IndiaDocumentary exposes the suicide pandemic after introduction of non-conventional cottonseeds

andrew donovan

Much is said about the power of today’s largest multinational corpo-rations. Some critics say that they’re nothing more than neo-colonialist corporations taking advantage of low international working wages, while proponents tout their ability to pro-vide jobs to otherwise economically poor places of the world. The com-panies themselves are protested yet accepted as necessary evils that the majority of us even promote the use of; take for example gasoline compa-nies and food and beverage producers.

Perhaps though, none are more heavily debated and fiercely advo-cated against than the Monsanto Company, a multinational agricul-tural business that makes claims of bettering food production practic-es while being protested against for their growing monopoly over the

production of seeds. Monsanto and rampant suicide

rates were the primary reasons why documentary filmmakers from Teddy Bear Films decided to travel to India to investigate why on average every 30 minutes, a farmer was committing suicide from failure to produce suffi-cient yields and the accumulation of massive debts. The documentary was presented at Planet Bean in Guelph on Jan. 31.

According to the documentary, this was a phenomenon that began five years prior to the introduction of BT seeds when farmers began using a hy-brid seed and continually got worse once the Monsanto product was in-troduced in 2002.

The promises made by the subsid-iary company to Monsanto in India evidently fell far short of its expec-tations and the documentary, Bitter Seeds, follows young inspiring jour-nalist, Manjusha Ambarwar, in her journey to expose the failings of the BT seeds and bring national attention to the suicide pandemic amongst rural farmers.

The tale told by Ambarwar and the documentary film crew was grip-ping and at times quite emotional, but

nevertheless told the very real story of what happened to this particular In-dian region prior to the BT seeds being banned in August 2012.

The situation in India was a perfect storm so to speak, according to the documentary. The Indian government, under pressure from the World Bank and the IMF, was forced to stop public funding of cotton farmers in a global cotton market that was being kept ar-tificially low because of the subsidies European and American governments were giving to their cotton farmers at home.

Yields never met their promised outputs, more pesticides were need-ed than originally thought and 80 per cent of farmers, due to their need to take bank loans and inability to pay them back after yet another poor farming season, were forced to go to private lenders that negotiated bor-rowing terms with incredibly high interest rates.

Ambarwar eventually got her first investigative report published in a local newspaper and received the opportu-nity to speak to a group of farmers at a public protest about her experience as a journalist learning about the plight of farmers in India.

It was grassroots efforts like the one by Ambarwar and Teddy Bear Films that helped to end the monopoly of the cottonseed and pesticide indus-try that Monsanto had in India. Now

only time will tell if the damage done to the farming industry is reversible, if the suicides will stop and if the life-long indebtedness to banks and private loaners will no longer be so.

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Making the city a better place to liveGuelph well-being initiative involves students in process

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Are you looking to live a healthier and finer life in the City of Guelph? Well, if you are, the Guelph Com-munity Well-Being Initiative (CWI) is working towards doing just that. This movement is an action towards a better life for every individual of the Guelph community, including the University of Guelph students.

This initiative has been separated into eight different design teams that each focus on a different perspective of well-being. These design teams fall under the categories of: Time Use, Leisure & Culture, Community Vi-tality, Living Standards, Healthy Populations, Environment, Educa-tion, and Democratic Engagement. Therefore, each team will be focusing on a different aspect of wellbeing that relates to physical, mental, creative, educational, political or any other type of wellbeing.

By creating these design teams and discussing openly with the

community, the CWI is hoping to take into consideration what the people of the community truly desire, and their need to live a healthier and better life. Over the past few months, people from all over the community have been sending in ideas and creat-ing a plan for a better Guelph. At this moment, the CWI is in the process of team meetings and project planning. The eight teams, mentioned above, will have their first meetings over the month of February and at these meetings they will discuss their goals and action plans with those who are registered or interested in helping

the team. Michael Pecore of University of

Guelph’s Central Student Associa-tion (CSA) is involved with the CWI and is enthusiastic about student at-tendance and participation in this initiative. The CSA is also working towards having at least one student on each team. Pecore believes it’s especially important for students to become involved in this movement.

“It can be easy to get caught up in a student bubble that doesn’t ex-tend very far beyond campus and the routes one takes to home or er-rands or the bars,” said Pecore. By

becoming involved, students can then inspire other students to be-come involved in community acts outside of the realm of the univer-sity campus or the common social life of a student.

Furthermore, it is important to stress the influence that the Univer-sity of Guelph students have on the City of Guelph.

“Guelph’s population is rough-ly 120,000, and there are roughly 19,000 undergraduate students - which means that students can have a great say in the evolution of the town,” said Pecore.

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newsology: Killing cupidArticle reports that eternal love isn’t real

alicja grzadKowsKa

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, cynics everywhere are getting increasingly angst-y and bitter. As much as the day is meant to celebrate love, or at least have an excuse to eat at an expensive restaurant and con-sume as many truffles as you want, guilt-free, it’s also a time for those who don’t have a loved one or those who, understand-ably, don’t particularly want to participate in a Hallmark holiday to hold anti-Valentine’s Day par-ties and just generally ignore the festivities.

A recent article from Toron-to Star might help with their cause, as a psychology profes-sor recently reported in her new book Love 2.0: How our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything we Feel, Think, Do and Become that, guess what, everlasting love does not exist. In an interview with

the newspaper, Barbara L. Fred-rickson stated, “What I am trying to spotlight is not how love looks like in love songs and love sto-ries,” adding that the emotion is in fact built on “micro-moments” of connection where people feel a bond, which can happen through a gesture of appreciation, spend-ing time together, or trying new things together.

The book tries to break down the feelings of “falling” in love or being “struck” by love with psychological, spiritual, and bio-logical analyses, and explain the broader process of developing the emotion towards others.

While new research and find-ings that explore the human body and mind should be supported (most of the time), the article and its subject are relaying in-formation that people are not unaware of, and more likely, not surprised to hear. Watching mov-ies and television shows that are centered on romantic moments and depict immediate attrac-tion between characters doesn’t necessarily mean that people are

prone to believe relationships re-ally work like that, though it’s undeniable that there is some influence on our psyches when viewing such material.

The timing of the article is also hard to ignore. A little over a week to Valentine’s Day, and the news media is already undermining any romantic ideas people might have going in to Valentine’s Day, which, with the popular news today, should probably be recon-sidered as most people don’t need or want to hear more negativity.

And, if people do believe in “struck by lightning” love, what’s the point of telling them that it can be explained by science? Let people be optimistic and indulge in their perceptions of relation-ships, whether they are irrational or sane; otherwise, we might be celebrating the social sciences on Valentine’s Day instead of love.

Films like The Notebook apparently distort our sense of realistic love and relationships.

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senate elections approachUniversity of Guelph Board of Governors and Senate offer positions for students

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Have you ever wondered who is in charge of making the decisions that shape your experience as a student at the University of Guelph? Look no fur-ther than the Board of Governors and Senate – both of which offer positions for students, providing an opportunity to get involved and make a difference in the governance of the university.

Genevieve Gauthier, assistant uni-versity secretary, explained via email the important role that the Board and Senate play in shaping experience and education here at U of G.

“The Board and Senate are the high-est governing bodies at the University,” Gauthier stated, and both have des-ignated seats for undergraduate and graduate students.

“The Board is comprised of 24 mem-bers (external representatives, staff,

faculty and students, as well as the President and Chancellor), and is re-sponsible to oversee the government, conduct, management and control of the university and its property, rev-enues, expenditures, business and affairs,” Gauthier said.

Ultimately, the Board works to “achieve the objectives and purposes of the University.”

Senate also plays a key role in regu-lating various aspects of academic life.

“The Senate is responsible for all ac-ademic programs, regulations and policies, and is similarly comprised of representatives from all campus constituencies (faculty, staff and students), as well as alumni and members of the Board of Governors,” Gauthier said.

There are two undergraduate seats on the Board of Governers, elected by the entire undergraduate population, and one seat for graduate students, voted by the graduate student pop-ulation, while positions on Senate are elected from within their degree program. Student representation on Senate is determined in proportion to

the number of students registered in each program, Gauthier explained.

These volunteer positions pro-vide students with an opportunity to contribute to governance, helping influence policy and issues that affect many aspects of experience at U of G.

“Students participate on both bod-ies as full voting members and have the same responsibilities to the uni-versity as other constituents.”

Though nominations from students interested in the positions were due Feb. 1, the elections for positions will be held Feb 11 to 15. All undergraduate and graduate students will have the opportunity to vote, and will receive ballots via their U of G emails.

“Both Board and Senate offer fantas-tic opportunities for students to learn about how the university operates and contributes to important deci-sion-making, build their networks, and speak publicly in a professional setting,” Gauthier said.

More information can be found at the University Secretariat web-site at http://www.uoguelph.ca/secretariat/.

processed is according to legis-lated standards.

When asked why consumers should choose organic products, Almut Wurzbacher, the manager of Pfennings Certified Organic Health Products and Food re-plied, “Why not?” Surrounded by organically grown garlic, on-ions, apples, lettuce, tomatoes, carrots and more, Wurzbacher explained that the act of pro-ducing and consuming organic goods is doing something good for the earth. She described or-ganic farmers as healers who give

back to the land through sustain-able farming practices, instead of just taking and robbing the soil of life.

“On the outside, commercially produced food looks the same [as organic], but it’s the inside that nourishes us,” said Wurzbacher.

According to the Organic Council of Ontario, by purchas-ing certified organic goods, the consumer is selecting food from suppliers who prohibit the use of antibiotics, synthetic growth hormones, pesticides, and geneti-cally modified organisms (GMOs). Organic producers protect water

systems and strive to build soil health. It’s “honoured food,” ac-cording to Wurzbacher.

Debbie Vice, a dairy farmer for Organic Meadows, told The Ontar-ion, “People want to know where their food is coming from,” and explained how producing milk or-ganically is a lifestyle choice that is devoted to making the pro-cess sustainable and the product healthy and safe.

“It just makes so much sense,” said Wurzbacher.

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www.theontarion.com arts & cuLture8K’naan opens up at Hillside InsidePerformer joined at River Run Centre by special guest Sarah J. Felker

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The Sunday night edition of Hillside Inside saw a whole lot of soul, drums, and incredible musical talent. On Feb. 3, Sarah J. Felker opened for K’naan at the River Run Centre, concluding Guelph’s indoor music festival.

Sarah J. Felker, a 19-year-old singer and songwriter, has been making music for a while. The Guelphite won her first show, a battle of the bands at Club Vinyl, at 13 years old, using an old tie as a guitar-strap. Felker discovered her love of singing at a young age.

“My mom and dad sang a lot. I was always around it but I didn’t think that I could sing, so I didn’t really try. It was kind of embar-rassing, because I hung out with all guys, and they… made fun of me. I didn’t sing until I broke out and became my own per-son,” said Felker.

You can imagine the magni-tude of performing at the River Run Centre, a place the teen art-ist remembers visiting as a child.

“I was excited that I have a dressing room,” Felker said on the Hillside performance. “To be opening for K’naan, if someone were to tell me that five years ago, I would’ve been like ‘you’re crazy.’ To be here is definitely a dream come true – it’s nuts.”

Yet, despite probable nerves, Felker belted out a power-ful voice and proved worthy of playing Hillside. After only two songs, one audience member

yelled out, “You’re the Canadi-an Idol!” Felker treated listeners to soulful original songs, such as one inspired from a solo trip to Jamaica, and a cover of “Hal-lelujah” that was sure to give everyone chills.

The young artist just released her first single, “Lies,” on iTunes. Fans can expect a lot of variety from the debut album, which is also set to release this year.

“I’m writing a lot of bluesy stuff, a lot of radio-pop stuff. It’s def-initely going to be a mix of a bunch of different songs.”

The four-time Juno-award winner K’naan followed, treat-ing Guelph with his only Ontario show of the year. The Somali Canadian poet, rapper, singer,

songwriter, and instrumentalist has been away from perform-ing for some time, but is touring again to promote Country, God,

or the Girl (2012).“It feels like jumping in the

ocean again,” said K’naan on getting back into the music, which is a mixture of hip-hop, jazz, and Somali music.

During his performance, K’naan often took a seat to chat and share anecdotes or stories about origins of the songs. Mak-ing the audience laugh over the lyrics of “What’s Hardcore,” –

“If I rapped about home and got descriptive/ I’d make 50 Cent look like Limp Bizkit” – the art-ist talked about meeting 50 Cent, who was genuinely pleasant and polite.

K’naan censored little about past personal issues with the mainstream music industry. The

artist equated orgasms to making music, and compared the sti-fling control of a record label to bringing to bed a list of reasons why orgasms are destined to fail.

“I am not the easiest sell to Top 40 radio,” said K’naan in an opin-ion letter to The New York Times in Dec. 2012.

Inevitably, K’naan performed “Wavin’ Flag,” the theme song for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, which at one point reached number one on iTunes in 18 countries around the world. It was definitely a crowd-pleaser, yet, afterwards, the singer discussed the con-flict in hearing that song over and over.

“I would like to make specif-ic music, not necessarily music that is made for everyone,” said K’naan. “Although one of my songs did end up being for ev-eryone, I don’t feel like that’s what I am or what I do. I love the song, but I feel like I make specific music, like how some-body will make mugs, particular to their region. I’d like to keep doing that.”

K’naan and accompanying band played out amazing perfor-mances of “Hurt Me Tomorrow” and “Take a Minute”, while also throwing in a few songs from The Dusty Foot Philosopher (2005). Audience participation was strongly encouraged, especial-ly during the moving rendition of “Fatima.” Relying on heavy beats, the harmonica, and spo-ken word, the artist moved the audience from a pin-dropping silence to a drum-circle inspired dance party.

Somali-Canadian rapper/singer K’naan returns to Guelph, vocalizing the unrest of Somalia and the hardships of his childhood in contrast to the ghettos of the first world.

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James and Blackburn took to the stage at Jimmy Jazz on Jan. 31 with

a set that included psychedelia, space rock, and blues influences.

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“It feels like jumping in the ocean again.”

- K’naan, on performing at Hillside after a

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Hollerado headlines Hillside Inside saturdayPop-rockers joined by shorthanded Born Ruffians

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A surefire way to tell how much fun you had at a concert is on the basis of how much confetti you need to pull out of your hair: the more con-fetti, the better the show. Or at least, that’s how Hollerado might want you to judge it. When the indie pow-er-pop group famous for its DIY approach to everything – finger-painting their website, selling their first album in Ziplock bags – came to Guelph’s St. George’s Church to headline for Hillside Inside on Feb. 2, they were sure to bring an ample supply of the stuff.

The show was opened by Born Ruffians, who arrived in Guelph with a piece of bad news. Guitar-ist/keyboardist Andy Lloyd broke his arm roller-skating the previous day, and would not be performing with the band. Lead singer Luke Lalonde remarked that it was the first time the band had played with only three members in about four years. While the band’s sound did seem to be lacking something, Born Ruffians showed tremendous poise in going on with the show. Their set

was tight and had the crowd capti-vated and dancing along.

Hollerado took to the stage with a collection of songs from their up-coming album, White Paint, which will be released later this month, as well as the highlights from their debut Record in a Bag.

“I’m really excited about [White Paint] coming out. I think it really

embodies the spirit of what we’ve been up to the last five years, just playing a lot of shows and working hard…. It’s been a long time since our last album, so […] you get older, per-spective changes,” said lead singer Menno Versteeg, who was actually born nearby in Eden Mills.

Much of the album was inspired by Versteeg’s grandfather, who passed

away while the album was being written.

“He was a really cool guy, and he’s always really encouraged me to seize the day,” said Versteeg. “And he was really honest about things. When I first started in music, I was terrible, and he’d be like, ‘Listen, you’re ter-rible. If you want to do this, you’ve got to do it. Keep going, you’re so

terrible, keep going.’”In particular, the song “So It Goes”

tells a tale of forgiveness based on the experiences of Versteeg’s grandfather in Nazi-occupied Holland.

This spring, Hollerado will be going on tour with Billy Talent, playing some of the largest indoor venues of their career to date. The heightened profile of the tour means the band can submit a rider – a list of items the band requests to have backstage.

“Until recently it’s always been like, we could tell them what we want-ed, and it doesn’t matter: you get a case of water and two beer tickets,” said Versteeg. “We’re just going to find the best suggestion that people have for the rider, and we’re going to add that there. Someone said grilled cheese sandwiches. I feel like we’d never get it, because it’s too much of a pain in the ass, but that would be amazing.”

The band’s newer material seemed to be well received by the crowd; a testament to Hollerado’s ability to craft catchy guitar riffs and melo-dies, for sure, but also to their ability to rock hard in live shows. And of course, confetti never hurts.Visit theontarion.com for a web-ex-clusive Q&a with Menno Versteeg.

despite missing a member of the band, lead singer Luke Lalonde led Born ruffians through a solid opening set for hollerado on Feb. 2.

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a welcome BroodElliott Brood gets packed River Run Centre on its feet

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Elliott Brood doesn’t play many theatres.

Delivering a breed of alt-country that’s been appropriately dubbed

“death country” for its deployment of a stripped down, no-frills folk-punk approach to performance that is a defining feature of the more ex-treme Norwegian subgenre of death metal bands, it’s understandable that the three-piece pointed out it was more acquainted with the sticky floors and gloom of the Toronto bar scene when it played the main hall at Guelph’s River Run Centre on Feb. 1. But that’s not to say the trio was entirely uncomfortable playing the theatre setting.

“It smells good in here,” singer and multi-instrumentalist Casey Laforet noted to the crowd in a lighthearted nod to the virtues of the compara-tively sterile environment.

All joking aside, that Elliott Brood played the more spacious setting of the River Run Centre was no mis-calculation in planning; just prior to their Hillside Inside performance, the group catered to two sold-out audi-ences at the Dakota Tavern in Toronto

on Jan. 30 and 31.The band’s not without its Guelph

history, either. Between songs, the group also gave a shout out to local watering hole the Jimmy Jazz, where they said they played their first show outside of Toronto.

They also recalled a flash mob that broke out last summer during a Hillside performance of “If I Get Old” before delivering a slowed down vari-ation of the 2011 single.

Despite having been faced with the unusual sight of a crowd that watched from well above their heads, the band didn’t shrink in discomfort. Urging the audience to make noise as they entered the stage (to which they were met with obliging howls), the band dove into a set including singles “Sec-ond Son,” “The Bridge” (dedicated to evening MC Vish Khanna), and a

“cooperating ukulele” performance of “The Valley Town.”

“Oh, Alberta” had everyone on their feet, even if they were guilted into it (a fan shouted out the track title in be-tween songs and the band asked him if he would be the first to stand up and clap along because of it). But it is hard to justify sitting down while watch-ing Elliott Brood perform. Even if two of the group’s three members play with their behinds planted firmly in seats more comfortably padded than your own, it is easy to understand why; all members handle multiple

instrumental duties – almost always simultaneously. In particular, Laforet plays guitar while filling in the low end with his feet – tapping bass ped-als along with the chords.

The group also performed “Lind-say,” a cover of “Old Dan Tucker,” and the longing-but-joyous “Miss You Now.”

On Feb. 2, the band tweeted thanks to the crowds at their Guelph and Toronto performances for “a great send-off” to a European tour that will span Feb. 7-March 3.

Following the death country trio were Great Lake Swimmers (GLS).

With a turned down, atmospheric take on folk rock, GLS were perhaps more appropriately situated on the main stage at the River Run Centre, especially when they brought out members of the Suzuki String School of Guelph. The school – specially in-structed for the evening by GLS fiddler Miranda Mulholland, who was once herself a student at the school – ap-peared throughout the set to perform

“Quiet Your Mind,” “A Song for the Angels,” “The Knife,” “On the Water,”

“Changing Colours,” and “Changes with the Wind,” among others.

The quintet ended its performance with an acoustic call and response rendition of “Still.”

death country band plays outside of their element at the river run Centre for hillside inside.

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Inlet sound celebrate LP releaseBand visits eBar with Mad Ones and The Baxters

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Yet another rocking night of music went down at Guelph’s eBar on Wednesday, Jan. 30. Mad Ones, The Baxters, and the evening’s headliner Inlet Sound created a wall of sound that was at all turns surprising, energetic, and heartfelt.

Toronto duo Mad Ones opened the evening with hair-raising and bone-crushing sonics – the sound of Andrew DeVillers’s overdriven Gibson SG and Phil Wilson’s pounding, do-or-die drumming fashions work well to support a wailing vocal style and devil-may-care stage presence. With obvious but never obnox-ious nods to Death From Above 1979 and Foo Fighters, Mad Ones present the sort of greasiness that only rock n’ roll honesty can offer. It’s all about energy and ferocity for Mad Ones, and they delivered in spades. Mad Ones recently released a cassette tape entitled Burning Window,

and promoted it as part of their Furever tour of the region.

London-based funk-rock quintet The Baxters took the stage shortly after for their eBar debut. The five-piece outfit shared the same passion for noise as the band prior, but expressed

themselves in a different techni-cal way. Where Mad Ones were stripped-down and simple, The Baxters displayed a more fluent technical sensibility, utilizing compound rhythms and in-terwoven guitar parts between players Quinton Strutt and Alex

Mason. Syncopated grooves held sway over their musical style, and said grooves were held down with confidence and conviction by the rhythm section – bassist Justin Lund and drummer Tay-lor Lucas kept it down and dirty while singer Scott Thomas belted

out some seriously killer vocals. The band has a forthcoming LP due in the near future.

The night’s headliner, Toronto-based Inlet Sound, performed a very different style of music from the other groups of the evening, but it was a nonetheless beauti-fully performed and arranged set. The five-piece folk-rockers have been making waves all over Can-ada, with support by CBC Radio 2 and a brand new debut LP enti-tled The Romantics, produced by Laurence Currie (Sloan, Hey Ro-setta!, Wintersleep, Holy Fuck). With densely layered instru-mentation and gorgeous, idyllic lyrics led by frontman Michael Wexler, Inlet Sound wore their influences (such as The Decem-berists and Noah and the Whale) on their sleeves and made unique and heartfelt music sure to in-trigue and excite any fan of folk music, regardless of dedication to the craft. Among the many highlights of their set, one stand out cut was their encore – a pas-sionate rendition of The Verve’s

“Bittersweet Symphony,” com-plete with sweeping violin riffs courtesy of Steven Gore and soar-ing vocals from Wexler.

The Baxters, a London-based funk-rock quintet, used their intricate musicality to warm up the audience for inlet Sound’s Guelph Lp release on Jan. 30.

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jordan raycroft celebrates 100th showLocal singer returns to where it all began

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Jordan Raycroft played at the Al-bion Hotel on Feb. 5 to mark a major milestone: the local sing-er-songwriter’s 100th show since launching a music career at the same venue in March 2010.

But Raycroft has a confession to make: “Well, it’s not techni-cally my 100th, it’s actually my 104th, but I’m really excited.” (And who’s counting, anyway?)

“This is kind of like a celebration of where I’ve come as an artist,” said Raycroft prior to the show. Raycroft’s first concert was with Peter Katz and Ben Doerksen, “so it was a pretty cool show and it’s really great to be back and be – hopefully, when everyone gets here – surrounded by friends.”

Raycroft took an interest-ing approach to celebrating the milestone. Rather than making the event centre exclusively on Raycroft, it placed considerable focus on friends and fellow mu-sicians Rose Brokenshire, Graham McLaughlin, and Beth Moore. Bro-kenshire, McLaughlin, and Moore opened the show, taking turns performing their own songs in a songwriters’ circle type of format. Warm lighting from a collection of

lamps gave the Albion an intimate coffeehouse or living room feel.

“Local […] musicians that are here tonight playing, like [McLaughlin], [Moore], and [Bro-kenshire] – they’ve all been with me since the beginning, and also Ben Doerksen; he’s been a pret-ty good influence on my music,” said Raycroft. “All four of them have been really inspirational in helping me start my musical ca-reer because they were all doing it before I was.”

When Raycroft took to the stage, the opening musicians frequently provided accompaniment in the form of backing vocals, violin, or a second guitar part. This added musical depth, which set Raycroft apart from the openers, and cap-tivated the audience. Those who were comfortably seated for the coffeehouse style start to the night rose to engage with the music, clapping and dancing along.

Raycroft’s honest lyrics are derived from personal experi-ences and social causes the singer supports.

“All my songs tell stories – stories that are sometimes about things that have gone on in my personal life, whether it’s a re-lationship or something in my family, or something I care about like the child sex trade or human trafficking,” said Raycroft.

The singer cited studying

criminal justice at the University of Guelph as a source of the pas-sion to do something about these issues.

“If there’s a message I feel needs to get across, I’ll do it and I’ll write it in a song,” said Ray-croft. “And that doesn’t mean I have some political agenda be-hind my music.”

Raycroft is in the process of re-cording an album, and will embark on a two-month tour of western Canada by train in the summer.

Local songwriter Jordan raycroft celebrated surpassing the 100-show mark with an intimate performance at the Albion hotel Feb. 5.

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Beach vacation fails to deliverBeach Life brings sloppy performance to Jimmy Jazz

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At around 11 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 2, the bass player for Beach Life took to the stage at Jimmy Jazz to prepare for their set, and promptly dropped his pants. He was, of course, wearing swim trunks underneath, but it was still an interesting way to start the evening.

Next up was the guitarist who perked the crowd up with, “It’s not often you get to see a young man’s legs in the winter... it’s not great either.”

Unfortunately, this was the most entertaining point in the evening. The trio attempted to bring the feeling of being at the beach (the theme of the event) to this cold Canadian winter, but instead fell somewhat short. Their lyrics were substantially lacking; it is one thing to be lyric-ally simplistic and another to be uncreative and rushed about it. The latter was heard throughout most of the evening. The common themes were drug use, scantily clad women, drinking, and party-ing. While these themes have been done well many times before, an entire song comprised of the

lyric “the loneliest lifeguard on the beach” felt very uninspired.

The word of the evening was potential. The lead singer could have potentially used his raw and impressive vocal abilities to carry their songs, but he was visibly drunk and became even more so as the evening went on.

At one point, something mal-functioned and the singer’s response was, “That’s what we do when something stops working, we go for the bar!” immediate-ly followed by a bar break to do shots.

Comical yes, but in absolutely no way professional. It would be one thing if alcohol was not such a clear inhibitor, but as each guitar solo became painfully punctured

by wrong notes and slip ups, it was no longer funny for those listening. The potential that this singer and guitarist had to create good music was apparent, but not achieved.

The set was done with a pared-down drum kit, which ended up leaving the songs sounding empty.

Right off the bat it was apparent that for the genre of music the band was playing, a full drum kit was needed, or at the very least more than one cymbal. The drummer did his best on what was available, but it did not hold up next to the roaring electric guitar and fast progression of the bass

line. It was in fact this bass play-er that appeared to be the only one taking the gig seriously, and he was the one wearing flip flops and swim trunks.

It should be said that despite the growing that this band has ahead of them, they sure did look like they were having a good time.

Beach Life’s Feb. 2 show at Jimmy Jazz was meant to feel like a beach vacation, but fell short when it included as much alcohol as a beach vacation.

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singles club2013 is off to a unique and promising start

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artist: Born Ruffianssingle: “With Her Shadow”released: January 1, 2013We heard a live recording of their new song “6-5000” not too long ago, but “With Her Shadow” is the first official release to come from Born Ruffians in relation to their upcoming album, Birth-marks. The four-piece indie rock band blends the light-handed percussion filled tune with Luke Lalonde’s unique vocals, and an experimental feel. It feels famil-iar enough to know this song just simply screams “Born Ruffians,” but new enough to feel comfort-able with their progression as a band who has been making music for nearly 10 years now. I think my only question for the band is whether they like their shadow more than their reflection.

artist: The Dirty Nilsingle: “Zombie Eyed”released: January 8, 2013The Dirty Nil live up to their name by always slathering their tunes with a thick layer of grit and grime. Their latest release, “Zom-bie Eyed,” is no exception to this. It’s Side A of a split seven-inch record which features “Positive Bondar” by Northern Primitive on the other side. The Dundas trio shows a familiar side with lead singer Luke Bentham’s distinct vocals and the consistent tone of carelessness. Pushing that safe avenue aside, “Zombie Eyed” is probably the most mature track from the band to date, possibly the most clean-cut in overall composition, and a very promis-ing look into their future releases.

artist: Northern Primitivesingle: “Positive Bondar”released: January 8, 2013

“Positive Bondar” is the B-side of Northern Primitive’s split seven-inch record with The Dirty Nil. The Welland trio eases into the

track and sort of relaxes you, but the eerie quality honestly makes it hard to breathe. The sad tones resonate to a place that puts you on the edge of relaxation, yet doesn’t quite let you slip out of its grasp. The song continues to escalate through to the end, and it’s as if listening to a panic attack in pro-gression in the form of audio. That sounds weird, and truthfully it is, but “Positive Bondar” really does take a back seat approach to liter-ally taking your breath away.

artist: Rachel Zeffirasingle: “Here On In”released: January 8, 2013Canadian Rachel Zeffira is best known as one half of the duo Cat’s Eye and has already gained praise in the UK for her debut solo album, The Deserters. The album will be released in North America in March, and Zeffira marked the announcement with the release of the single “Here On In” earli-er this month. It is chock-full of unearthly pop tones, influence from classical opera training, and

an eerie sadness that’s addictively haunting. Zeffira’s ability to ex-press emotions vocally leads me to believe that the singer could prob-ably read words from a dictionary and turn it into an emotionally powerful song that anyone could relate to.

artist: You Say Partysingle: Friendreleased: January 16, 2013This single is quite as literal as it sounds and even more touching because of it. “I can see my friend no more / he’s gone for good / he’s gone for sure,” sings Becky Ninkovic in honour of friend, Devon Clifford. Clifford passed away while playing drums on stage with the rest of the members of You Say Party in April 2010. It had taken an evident toll on the band when they decided to go on hiatus a year later. That being said, the dance-punk BC band has chan-nelled their tough times into new music. The single, “Friend,” con-tinues to make use of their familiar offbeat drumming pattern, but the

emotional tension of the song is covered by a veil of dream pop. It ends with a recording of falling rain and the slight hint of thunder, which makes you think this single is just the calm before the storm.

artist: Young Galaxysingle: Pretty Boyreleased: January 23, 2013

“Pretty Boy” is Young Galaxy’s debut single released from their upcoming album, Ultramarine. The consistent drum machine beats carry the track through vi-olin accents, the smooth vocals of Catherine McCandless, and the emotional ties between the lyrics and the resonating notes. Unfor-tunately, the single doesn’t end on the note that I feel it should, build-ing up greatly through notes that twinkle and sparkle in a memo-rable way, but falling just short of the potentially greater climax than the one provided. However,

“Pretty Boy” is a good look at what to expect from the Montreal band’s new album, and it seems to be a decent expectation.

“The potential that this singer

and guitarist had to create

good music was apparent, but

not achieved.”

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Django UnchainedTarantino crafts another masterpiece

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It should come as no surprise that Django, the 1966 spaghetti western by the beloved schlock master Sergio Corbucci featuring a lone antihero seeking violent revenge would be an inspiration to Quentin Tarantino. Much of the appeal is that, if born half a century earlier, Tarantino would clearly be making grindhouse films for their own sake, and Django is al-most eerily up his aisle. What should be a surprise, however, is that from a film in which the protagonist car-ries a machine-gun-filled coffin for most of the movie, Tarantino has cre-ated his most subdued, paced, and at times most dead-serious film.

Django makes the film. Though Christoph Waltz is, as always, fantas-tic as the controlling but ultimately entrancing and righteous Dr. King

Schultz, and Leonardo DiCaprio is effectively despicable as Schultz’s unpalatable opposite Calvin Candy, Jamie Foxx’s Django displays the greatest depth of character. When we first meet Django in the woods, after the inexplicably lacklustre title sequence, he is quiet and re-served. He comes off as the subdued straight man to Waltz’s enigmatic dentist. Only later do we see that this is a mere mechanism developed so as to not stand out, and to not draw attention to him or his wife, Broom-hilda, played by Kerry Washington. His evolution into the strongest char-acter, in terms of development and power, illustrates exactly what ef-fect the institution of slavery has had on a man. Compared to his loud, revenge-driven self in the second and third acts, the early Django is a broken man.

In a film filled with grand, huge-ly important characters who enjoy plenty of screen time, the smaller roles are inevitably overlooked. Kerry

Washington appears only briefly for half of the film, and although she is never a major player at any point, she serves as motivation for Django with-

out her actions affecting the course of events. Normally, this would be cause for concern, but this seems to be

appropriate for her character. She is both a woman and a slave, and is thus treated as the ultimate object. The film plays with her role as the myth-ical Broomhilda, a princess who sat, trapped, until her prince came to res-cue her. Our Broomhilda, however, does try to escape, and does fight for her freedom. It is only because of the world she lives in that her actions are moot. She is beaten, whipped, brand-ed, and thrown naked into a “hotbox.” This is all played dead serious, with absolutely no sexualization or be-littlement. Her resolve in the face of the most honest portrayal of violence in recent Hollywood history comes through as a result of a shocking, subtle performance.

Tarantino is, of course, up to his usual tricks. Clever nods and jokes abound, from a throwaway line con-necting this film to the others in the

“Tarantinoverse” to Dr. Schultz being a dentist opposing a man named Candy. The visuals are stunning as always, with tricks such as Django’s head

passing behind a noose when he is viewed by a white woman, and plenty of blood spilt on white objects. Taran-tino even manages to slip his signature trunk shot in there. He manages to break new ground in the dialogue, which feels much more restrained than earlier films. While characters still monologue for minutes at a time, these sections now always serve as a way to advance the plot or define character, in addition to adding the sense of cool hyper-reality of Tar-antino’s Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction days.

This is a film that succeeds. It suc-ceeds in humor, in action, and in tension. Most importantly it succeeds in letting the real horrors of slavery be seen raw, unhindered by movie-making convention. When it hits you, it will hit hard. From buddy comedy to revenge fantasy to complex drama, Django Unchained succeeds, and is a film you must see. If nothing else, the branding scene will stay with you for weeks.

Binki Shapiro and Adam GreenCollaboration lets Shapiro shine

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Adam Green and Binki Shapiro are two names you likely haven’t heard of, but I assure you that you’ve come across at least one of them. Adam Green is one part of the anti-folk group The Moldy Peaches who were major contributors to the soundtrack of the film Juno. Binki Shapiro is one part of the band Little Joy whose music was used in the roller derby

film Whip It! At the age of 26, Shapiro is a young music veteran. Shapiro’s projects cleverly teamed up with successful yet somewhat under-the-radar acts, positioning her to be a hidden gem as opposed to the belle of the ball.

It’s interesting that this album was released in the middle of the win-ter season as its sound is light and summery, much like Shapiro’s for-mer project. The album boasts an easy rock sound that borderlines on cheesy and could be compared to the sounds of Sondre Lerche, Jens Lek-man or Beirut. I like to think this style

of music is a lighter, more jolly inter-pretation of a typical pop-rock tune. Their sound in particular makes great reference to old Serge Gainsbourg

tunes with more prominent female vocals.

The tune “Casanova” is a very mod-ern interpretation of an old doo-wop sound. Shapiro’s vocals swing and sway eloquently on their own, with-out the help of Green. The tune “If You Want Me To” sounds identical to Shapiro’s past work with Little Joy, exemplifying a sense of apprehension and wryness. Shapiro’s work with Green differentiates from her for-mer project in its assertiveness with catchy, strong numbers like “I Never Found Out” and the surf rock sound of “What’s the Reward.” Greater

presence here brings Shapiro into the lime light instead of a minute, sup-porting role in Little Joy.

The album very boldly ends on a meandering tune called “The Night-time Stopped Bleeding.” The tune has a terrific flourishing chorus but is too underwhelming as a whole. It doesn’t feel like an adequate end to the album and leaves it sounding incomplete.

Despite an underwhelming finish, I anticipate that Adam Green & Binki Shapiro will be one of the most un-derrated, lovely albums of the year. It also serves as the follow-up Little Joy album we will likely never get to hear.

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Ptarmigan - Eliak and the DreamBand explores how songs relate to one another

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Eliak and the Dream, the debut LP of Guelph/Toronto band Ptarmigan, is a gorgeous record that seems at once classical and contemporary. The group looks to the past for in-spiration but is not anchored by it, and finds a comfortable and much needed niche within folk music narratives.

The record was born out of Pe-terborough, ON, and maintains an aura of yearning for the great outdoors throughout. In particu-lar, the name Eliak and the Dream

stems from the group’s original moniker, and in turn stems from a Dungeons and Dragons charac-ter created by the band. The timbre of Aaron Hoffman’s mandolin/ac-cordion apparently came out of necessity, as he was to play a con-cert with a keyboard, but the venue had an accordion handy; thus, a large part of Ptarmigan’s distinct sound was born, complimenting Sam Whillans’s rich acoustic bass, Brandon Munro’s locomotive drum patterns, and Peter McMurty’s cut-ting banjo and soft-spoken vocal style.

Tunes like “Clifftop” and “Fief-dom” illustrate instrumental fluency by the band as a whole, but virtuosity is not the end goal here. Case in point, Sam Gleason’s

succulent electric guitar wizardry throughout the album’s runtime could easily feel out of place, awk-ward, or overdone, but he utilizes

the potentially ill-fitting instru-ment as a textural tool as opposed to a method of “look how fast I can play!”

The key to the album’s accom-plishment is the group’s devotion to melody. The record’s second cut,

“Sanctuary,” for example, could fit comfortably on any college or mod-ern rock radio station. Through crafting strong hooks, immersive atmospheres, and self-reflective lyrics, the record has plenty of room to breathe and plenty of room for its audience to immerse themselves in it. The crystal clear mixing/master-ing job also puts focus on the band unit, with superb volume leveling and production value throughout.

Also of note is the record’s syn-tactic structure; it seems like the songs are exactly where they need to be to offer an exciting and im-mersive listening experience. The album’s penultimate piece, the near

seven-minute “True Colour,” works perfectly in its spot as the second last song, precluding “Eliak.” These two tunes seem to give a heartfelt

“goodbye and thanks for listening” to the audience, simply in how they are structured in contrast to the re-mainder of the record. This careful structuring of the songs is a testa-ment to Ptarmigan’s production sensibilities – they have an acute ear for how songs work in relation to another, and how sounds and words blend into an effective song.

All in all, Eliak and the Dream surpasses expectations from a group of 20-somethings. The writing and production displays wisdom beyond their years, and is one of the most listenable records of the year, major label or not.

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from a to ZavitzArtists collaborate to bring a studio into the gallery

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Picture_Jamming, an exhibition by Samuel De Lange and Graham Ragan is different than what one would expect to see in a pristine, white gallery space. In the middle of the gallery sat a table. Sprawled on top were the artists’ supplies, including a palette of paints, tools and works-in-progress.

The two worked in the gallery space for the past week from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. As in a music jam session, the artists spent the week reacting to each other’s creations in a nod to surrealist art games. The collab-orative works were exhibited on the back wall with the artists’ pre-vious works on the two opposing ones in order to contextualize their practices. As such the white cube of gallery space was transformed into a studio-like environment.

At the beginning of the week, Ragan created a white minimal-istic painting that De Lange then responded to by photographing, manipulating the negative to cre-ate an entirely new artwork. This process was then repeated, result-ing in several hybrid artworks by

the end of the week. As a result, the artists complicated the existing relationships between the gallery and studio as well as painting and photography. The gallery became an environment where the viewer was transformed into a participant, actively engaging with the artists and their makeshift studio. The art-ists were influenced by the viewer as much as they were by each other, explained De Lange, noting that the artists would have ideally liked more time in order to create mul-tiple series of artworks.

In order to contextualize the exhibition, De Lange and Ragan displayed works that they had created previously throughout their artistic practices. De Lange, who grew up in Guelph, noted the influence of the increasingly suburban environment. Using a medium format camera, De Lange photographed monotonous rows of suburban homes devoid of ex-pression that extend off the edge of the photograph. De Lange then disrupted the repetition and order through techniques of alteration by using red marker, cigarettes, ink, and sandpaper to alter the origi-nal photographic image. As such, there was a painterly aspect intro-duced to the photographic works. The photographs were displayed on the gallery walls under sheets of Plexiglas, referencing the process

of sandwiching negatives between glass in the dark room.

Complimenting De Lange’s pho-tographs of homes were Ragan’s small, observed still life paintings of familiar objects that the artist has

“personal relationships with.” These include anything from beer bottles and egg cartons to scissors and soap containers. Ragan noted an inter-est in these seemingly banal objects for their formal characteristics,

including shape, colour, and the way they transform through paint. One of Ragan’s larger yet quiet-er paintings is revealed to be quite political upon further investigation. What appears to be a minimalistic composition of vertical stripes was adapted from the famous photo-graph The Falling Man by Richard Drew. Drew snapped the icon-ic photo as a man fell from one of the twin towers during the events

of 9/11. In reaction to this photo-graph, Ragan removed the figure from the composition, creating an ambiguous field of stripes.

At first glance these artists’ work might seem quite different. How-ever, both explore the intersection of painting and photography in re-action to the world around them, creating an ongoing dialogue be-tween their environment, the audience and each other.

Picture Jamming in Zavitz gallery the week of Jan. 28 saw artists Samuel de Lange and Graham ragan collaborate in a way not unlike a musical jam session.

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Pop Machine: autopsy and autocracyExhumed

corpse of king could put wrench in cog of cultural fabrication of his image

tom beedham

On Feb. 4, researchers at the Uni-versity of Leicester announced that a skeleton discovered on the site of a Leicester, England park-ing lot about a year ago is in fact

that of 15th-century English king Richard III.

The announcement follows a year of debate, DNA testing, and carbon-14 dating carried out to verify the source of the re-mains. The confirmation of the bones’ belongings came after its DNA was matched up to that of matrilineal descendents of Anne St. Leger, Richard’s only sororal niece whose line of descent per-sists to this day.

The day following the an-nouncement, the Richard III

Society unveiled a life-sized plas-tic model featuring the likeness of the king based on craniofacial examining of the unearthed skull.

With its model’s face being no-ticeably smoother and younger looking than that of several por-traits of Richard, the group says it is dedicated to “reclaiming the reputation” of the king.

Richard III died at the bat-tle of Bosworth Field in 1485 at the age of 32, and has since been portrayed – most famously as the villain in Shakespeare’s Richard

III – as a hunchbacked and hate-ful man accused of murdering his own nephews.

Critics claim that Richard III was the first “victim of spin.” That claim could easily be debat-ed, but it’s a well-known fact that throughout the Middle Ages, it was never uncommon for royalty or other members of “noble” soci-ety to have misleading portraits produced in their likeness. Unlike modern portraits, which (argu-ably) strive to capture accurate likeness, medieval portraits were

sought out to express social status, religious convictions, political po-sition, and above all an image that the person wished to be remem-bered by for time ever after.

While it’s uncertain whether the Richard III Society’s wishes will be met, it’s already clear that Richard III’s own skeleton has undermined his original intentions as exhib-ited by portraits from the period of his life.

It all goes to show that in a world of power and performance, autop-sy is the great equalizer.

what the tech?Planet Earth: greatest artist of all time?

nicK revington

Lately, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, currently aboard the International Space Station, has amassed a substantial Twit-ter following. With over 311,000 followers, the astronaut is more popular in the Twitterverse than even Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

The surge in Hadfield’s popu-larity is largely attributed to one thing: the astronaut has been tweeting photographs of Earth as the space station orbits around it. The stunning visuals – sand rip-ples in the Australian outback, well-known cities lit up at night, tropical islands – have garnered the attention of such celebrities as Stephen Fry and William Shatner.

The captivating images tweet-ed by Hadfield are reminiscent of those in Earth as Art, a com-pilation of photographs and

false-colour images acquired by satellites, published as an e-book by NASA. False-colour images are created when light not visible to the human eye – such as the in-frared portion of the spectrum

– is represented using red, green, or blue. The result is an image of Earth’s surface in colours that we are unaccustomed to seeing. Healthy vegetation may appear red instead of green, for example. These pictures have their practical appli-cations, like assessing deforestation rates or measuring soil moisture

characteristics over a wide region of the planet’s surface. The por-tions of the invisible spectrum used and how they are represented in red, green and blue portions of the visible spectrum vary based on the specific application.

The final product, in addition to being a useful tool for geographers, also exposes the beauty of our plan-et in a way that until recently was not even possible. Earth observing satellites are largely a product of the Cold War space race, and thus date back no more than a paltry

half-century. Admiring these im-ages of Earth from space, however, is not just a passing fad based on the novelty of a relatively new tech-nology. Humans will always have a sense of wonder about their world, and this is but another way to ex-plore that fundamental curiosity.

It does raise an interesting ques-tion, though: who is the greater artist? Is it the astronaut or satellite capturing the image, or is it Earth itself, combining form and colour in unparalleled ways? Surely, it is the latter.

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www.theontarion.com sports & HealtH16University of Guelph Climbing Club reaches new heightsClub is a hidden treasure for adventurous students

SuSannah ripley

The University of Guelph Climbing Club (UGCC) has been described as the University of Guelph’s best-kept secret. Since the club’s climbing gym is hidden in the basement of the Athletic Centre, it’s no surprise that many students have never ventured there. But those who have discov-ered the club have found that it has many rewards.

A running joke for the club is that it was mentioned in The Ontarion’s annual list of one hundred things to do before graduating – “find the climbing gym in the basement of the Athletic Centre.” But the gym hides in plain sight.

The climbing gym can be accessed as easily as the cardio room in the Ath-letic Centre. Instead of going up the stairs that lead to the cardio room, take the stairs down to the left. At the bottom, a narrow hallway leads to the two rooms where the club trains. The walls are speckled with colourful

handholds and projecting angles.“We’ve been running this gym for

several years now,” said the club’s president, Josh Leyte-Jammu.

“It actually used to be our old squash court. We do everything from boul-dering events, which is a harness-free advanced form of climbing, all the way up to top ropes.”

Despite its underground reputa-tion, the club has about 200 members each semester.

“We are actually one of the largest clubs on campus,” said Leyte-Jammu.

“It’s a very loyal membership, as well. Many of these members, in-cluding myself, end up becoming monitors for the club later.”

The UGCC competes with climb-ing clubs from universities across Canada, and recently some Ameri-can schools as well. Last year the club established the University Boulder-ing Series (UBS) in partnership with the Guelph Grotto climbing gym. So far, four competitions have been held in the series, and more are planned. Past competitions have featured cat-egories for three different skill levels, from beginner to advanced, and a DJ to keep the energy high.

At the fourth UBS meet, which took

place in Guelph on Jan. 26, Guelph was well represented with a second-place finish in the men’s division and an unbroken streak of firsts in the women’s division.

The Guelph team’s arch-rival in the series is surprisingly not the

University of Western Ontario. “It has to be McMaster University

– they have the next biggest climb-ing team in Ontario,” explained Leyte-Jammu.

Leyte-Jammu also extended an in-vitation to students to try out the club.

“It’s a great little club to have on campus, and I’m glad we have it. It’s not like anything else you’re going to find on campus.”

Members of the University of Guelph Climbing Club scale a wall in the depths of the W.F. Mitchell Athletic Centre.

Ben DeroChie

Gryphons ravaged by a pack of hungry WolvesMen’s basketball team drops game to Lakehead

triStan DavieS

In men’s basketball action on Feb. 1, the Guelph Gryphons were handed a crushing defeat by the Lakehead Uni-versity Thunderwolves, 87-55. This marks the 11th defeat this year for the men’s squad.

After the initial tip off, the Gryphons

looked promising by gaining a healthy seven-point lead. Despite showing early signs of a faltering defence, the Gryphons were able to maintain a two-point lead to end the first quarter.

The second quarter was marred by defensive mistakes and missed of-fensive opportunities. Lakehead was allowed to take the lead, outscoring a sluggish Gryphon team, and led 35-23 at halftime.

The second half began with a total defensive meltdown by the Gryphons, allowing the Thunderwolves to go on

a 20-point scoring run. The Gryphons were able to regroup near the end of the quarter and appeared to have gained some momentum with scor-ing coming from guard Zach Angus.

At the start of the fourth quarter the score was 70-33 for Lakehead. This quarter was by far the most produc-tive for the Gryphons, who outscored the Thunderwolves 22-17. However, it was too little too late as Lakehead coasted to an easy 87-55 win over Guelph.

The top scorer for the Gryphons was forward Trevor Thompson netting eight points and connecting on three of his eight shots. The Gryphons defense couldn’t find an answer to Lakehead’s leading scorer forward Ryan Thomp-son, who netted a game high 22 points.

The Gryphons downfall was their inability to capitalize on scoring op-portunities scoring on just 35.6 per cent of shots attempted. Elsewhere on the court, the Gryphons were again unable to match up adequately against their opponents, tallying a modest 25 rebounds compared to the Thunder-wolves’s 35. If the Gryphons are to succeed, they will have to be better at capitalizing on scoring chances and tighten up defensively in order to take pressure off the offense.

The Gryphons look to learn from their mistakes in this weekend’s rout by the Thunderwolves as they gear up to close out the regular season and try to sneak their way into the post sea-son. In order to make the playoffs, the Gryphons will need to maintain their position in the top six of the OUA West

as they currently sit tied for fifth place with Laurier. To accomplish this task, Guelph will be hard pressed as they take on a strong McMaster team in

Hamilton on Feb. 6 before returning to the W.F. Mitchell Athletic Centre to take on an equally strong Brock Badger team on Feb. 9.

Jack Beatty (31) of the men’s basketball team works the ball past a defender against the Lakehead Thunderwolves on Feb. 1. Guelph lost both games of the weekend doubleheader.

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Gryphons vault lancers in men’s hockey standingsGryphons find themselves in a second place tie after a 4-1 victory over Windsor

Jeff Sehl

With only three games remain-ing in their regular season, the Gryphons found themselves in a crucial matchup with the Wind-sor Lancers on Feb. 2. After a disappointing loss to the UOIT Ridgebacks on Jan. 31, the Gry-phons entered play trailing the second place Lancers by just a single point in the OUA West standings, a point that the Gry-phons proved motivated enough to overcome.

After a slow start to the con-test that saw the Gryphons down 1-0 early on, they seemed to find their stride in the second period. Near the halfway point of the middle frame, fourth year for-ward Matthew Lyall found the net on the power play tying the game for the Gryphons. Guelph went on to take the lead on a

Jon-Thomas MacDonald goal late in the period and never looked back on route to a critical 4-1 victory.

“Windsor is a pretty solid team so we had to try to get on them quickly because they had played the night before in Windsor. We were lucky enough to overcome a 1-0 deficit and kept our foot on the gas until the end of the game,” said Lyall, who lead the Gryphons with two goals in the win. “It’s a good tune up for playoff hockey because they are a pretty talented team.”

The win improves the Gryph-ons’ record to 16-8-2 and moves them into a tie for second in the OUA West with the Lakehead Thunderwolves at 34 points apiece. However, according to Lyall, the win versus Windsor was more important than just improving their standing in the OUA West. The victory was a key momentum builder for the team with the playoffs looming in the coming weeks.

“It’s very important to play well going into playoffs because

it really sets the tone,” said Lyall. “The guys have to know that playoff hockey is harder, faster and more physical. So it’s essen-tial to go into playoffs playing well as a team if we hope to be successful.”

With some momentum en-tering the final games of the season and the playoffs, hopes are high that the Gryphons may be able to make a deep run in the post season.

“We’ve had a pretty good season so far so I think our ex-pectations are very high. All we can do is play hard every game and hopefully, that takes us very deep into the post season,” said Lyall.

However, with the tight standings in the OUA West, the Gryphons still have two more critical games to focus on before shifting focus to the playoffs. The Gryphons will take on the sixth place Laurier Golden Hawks in Waterloo on Feb. 7 before taking on the fifth place York Lions on Feb. 9 in Guelph in their regular season finale.

The men’s hockey team defeated the Windsor lancers on Feb. 2. The score was 4-1.

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GMHa pairs with GryphonsMulti-year partnership first of its kind

chriS müller

On Jan. 30 the University of Guelph’s athletic department agreed to a multi-year partnership with the Guelph Minor Hockey As-sociation (GMHA) that will offer support to the community orga-nization’s rep and house league programs.

The agreement can be seen as the materialization of the univer-sity’s Building Potential project in which the university is committed to improving athletic opportuni-ties for students and athletes at the University of Guelph as well as working with the communi-ty to improve the Guelph sports landscape.

The agreement focuses on the development of hockey knowledge through programs and workshops conducted in collaboration with the varsity coaching staff and the GMHA coaches.

The young players stand to ben-efit the most from the program, as players enrolled with the GMHA will receive a Jr. Gryphon admis-sion card good for entrance to any

Gryphon athletic event (excluding homecoming, of course) and will receive discounts on merchan-dise and entrance fees for Gryphon summer camp programs.

The agreement comes at a time that the GMHA has decided to em-phasize the development of their coaches as the means to teach-ing better hockey. Chuck Nash, president of the GMHA, released a statement prior to the announce-ment of the agreement outlining the goals of the association.

“It is our goal over the next three years to take our coaches to the next level through expanding the knowledge base and tools that they already possess,” Nash’s statement reads.

Purchasing an additional $43,000 in ice time — and sub-sequently finding people to make the most of that time — look to achieve part of that goal.

One such person is Jeff Reid, the head coach of the Gryphon men’s team from 1997-2007. Reid com-mitted to spending more than 20 hours a week with young hockey players of the GMHA to improve their hockey skills. Reid’s expe-rience in the OUA hockey scene and 20-plus years of involvement in elite hockey is sure to be a boon

for the young hockey hopefuls.On facet of the agreement is the

decision to have the GMHA rep teams at the AAA, AA, A, AE, and Select levels will now be adorned with the Gryphons logo and co-lour scheme of red, black, and gold. Additionally, the Gryphons will support six GMHA house league teams.

The impact of having the minor hockey association adopt the Gry-phon colours is significant, as it’s sure to have some degree of influ-ence on the young players when it comes time to consider playing op-tions at the university level.

Regardless, both sides look to benefit from the agreement, with improved coaching for the young players and a greater presence for the Gryphons in the realm of Guelph’s hockey community.

Since the program is the first of its kind, it will be interesting to see how it unfolds in the coming years, though this precedent-set-ting agreement has the potential to cross into other sports as well. Forging links between the uni-versity’s athletic programs and community athletic organizations can only help grow both programs, and both parties ought to be ap-plauded for their efforts.

www.theontarion.com sports & HealtH18Women’s hockey beat top-seeded Golden HawksVictory extends impressive winning streak to 12 games

anDrea connell

The Gryphons made it 12 straight wins when they beat the top-seeded Laurier Golden Hawks by a score of 3-2 in a tight game at the Gryphon Centre on Feb. 3.

Coach Rachel Flanagan said the team played well against their opponent.

“It was a great team effort today and we were very pleased with the result. We expected a tough game and some girls had to step into different roles. Having to deal with adversity at this point in the season is a great lead into the playoffs,” said Flanagan.

Golden Hawk Lauren Blair opened the scoring for Lauri-er 12:19 into the first when she scored straight out of the penalty box, but Guelph answered back just over two minutes later on a powerplay when Jessica Pinker-ton added her tenth goal of the season to tie it up.

It took almost the entire second period for either team to cap-italize on end-to-end chances to score. Finally, center Hilary Walsh netted the go-ahead goal for Guelph assisted by Amanda

Parkins and goalie Stephanie Ne-hring with less than a minute left to play in the second period.

It was Laurier’s turn to score on the powerplay and make it two apiece with a goal by for-ward Robyn Degagne in the third. Gryphon Averi Nooren scored the game winner assisted by Parkins

and Kim Wong just before the buzzer at 19:23.

The win puts Guelph in sec-ond place in the OUA regular season division standings with 40 points; just three short of the first-place Hawks, and on par with the third place Queens Gaels.

The Gryphons have just two matchups left to finish out the regular season: back-to-back

away games against the Ryerson Rams and the Waterloo War-riors take place Feb. 9 and 10, respectively.

Winning both games would add four points to their over-all total increasing it to 44, but would leave them one point short of top spot if Laurier were to win their last game on Feb. 9, against Queen’s. For Laurier, a

win would give them 45 points and ensure first-place in the standings.

Regardless of how the numbers work out, with just two games to go, Flanagan plans to keep the team on task.

“Our goal heading into the weekend is to stay focused and execute our game plan in small-er rinks.”

Gryphons split weekend series with ThunderwolvesGoodhoofd, Douglas lead Gryphons to Feb. 1 victory

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The Gryphons took the first game of the two-game weekend se-ries by simply outperforming the Lakehead Thunderwolves on Feb. 1 inside the W.F. Mitchell Athlet-ic Centre.

Lakehead emerged from the first period with a narrow 23-19 lead, but the Gryphons went on to

outscore the Thunderwolves 63-35 in the remaining three quarters, capturing the victory with a final score of 82-58.

Third-year forward Kayla Good-hoofd tore up the Lakehead defense, posting 19 points and seven steals in the matchup. Goodhoofd con-nected on nine of 13 shot attempts.

Defensively, the Gryphons were led by fifth-year center Jasmine Douglas, whose three blocks, four steals, and eight-total rebounds highlighted a stellar team-wide de-fensive effort after the first quarter.

Feb. 2 held a different result for the Gryphons, as they were unable to find the rhythm that brought them success in the previous day’s matchup. Lakehead’s 35 defensive rebounds compounded a struggling Gryphons offensive attack that combined to convert only 27.8 per cent of their shooting opportunities. Lakehead worked the three-point-ers, connecting on 16 from outside the arc en route to a 70-65 victory over the Gryphons.

Guelph now sits at 6-11 in the OUA West, one game behind the 7-10 Thunderwolves.

Guelph will need to improve on the shooting percentage if they wish to be competitive with the Brock Badgers (15-2) on Feb. 9,

though the game itself will play a backseat role to the event the Gry-phons are set to participate in over the weekend.

The Gryphons are involved in the sixth annual “Shoot for the Cure,” a program developed by the CIS Women’s Basketball Coaches

Association in which funds are raised for the Canadian Breast Can-cer Foundation and other related charities. Since 2007, the program has raised over half a million dollars in donations. Last year, the CIS-wide program raised $121,248.70 for cancer research. The program raises

funds throughout the season, with the weekend’s game slated specifi-cally to promote the endeavor.

The Gryphons will wear pink uniforms in support of the pro-gram when they host Brock on Feb. 9 in the W.F. Mitchell Ath-letic Centre.

Jasmine Douglas (21) of the women’s basketball team uses her height to the team’s advantage. The women’s team split the weekend series with Lakehead on Feb. 1 and 2.

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Amanda Parkins (6) of the women’s hockey team works the puck past a Laurier defender during Guelph’s 3-2 victory over the Golden hawks.

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and some girls had to step into

different roles. Having to deal with adversity at this point in the season is a great lead into the playoffs.”

– Coach Rachel Flanagan

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From the BleachersIt’s February,

and we all know what that means

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The conclusion of the year’s first month has gracefully placed us in the thrall’s of 2013’s shortest asso-ciate, the great month of February. It’s the month where sports fans the world over show their love and appreciation for their significant other, often with tokens of affec-tion or going out somewhere nice together. Yes, romance is in the air and there’s simply no denying it – an infection in the hearts and minds of faithful lovers, a remem-brance of time past and a feverish anticipation of what the future may bring.

Wooed by these thoughts, it’s easy to find yourself daydreaming of that special someone – perhaps a new face or perhaps one you’ve grown accustomed to, regard-less of your choice the romance

of spring is undeniable, and I dare not attempt to fight it.

I catch myself – often in the middle of a sentence – wondering what joys the summer will bring for my betrothed, and entertain notions of how we might celebrate those moments together. Yes, Feb-ruary is a special time, a glimpse of summer in the middle of winter.

We entertain ideas of running away on the winter break to some-where warm, to places where grapefruits and cactuses grow, somewhere to sneak away together in anticipation of the lazy Sunday afternoons of July and August. I long to stare at palm trees in the distance, to wear cheap sunglasses and forget to put on sunscreen. I dream of cold beer in plastic cups, of clear skies and carefree sum-mer days.

But most of all, February marks the time when pitchers and catch-ers report to spring training, and hope springs eternal for fans of all 30 Major League Baseball teams.

What else could I have been

talking about?Canada’s only team, the Toronto

Blue Jays, held their annual “State of the Franchise” meeting with season ticket holders at the Rog-ers Centre on the evening of Feb. 6. The meeting was held by owner Paul Beeston, general manager Alex Anthopolous, manager John Gib-bons, and the television broadcast crew of Buck Martinez and Jack Morris. Morris is a new addition to the broadcast crew, with for-mer member Pat Tabler leaving for the new members of the American League, the Houston Astros.

For those unfamiliar with Morris, he’s the only major league pitch-er to ever start on opening day for 14 consecutive seasons. In other words, he was seen as the best pitcher on the team’s roster for 14 consecutive years, not a bad ac-complishment. Morris also spent some time in Toronto, posting 21 wins in the regular season in 1992 – the year the Blue Jays won their first World Series. Given the similarities between what happened in 1992

and 1993 and what’s happened in the past few months for Toronto’s team, the choice to bring in Morris must have been an easy one.

But Morris wasn’t the most in-teresting thing about the “State of the Franchise” event, which was attended by 1,200 season ticket holders and special guests.

Rather, this was a perfect exam-ple of how Rogers is making the most of their professional baseball franchise. Rogers Communications Incorporated is the owner of the Blue Jays, and they are also the sole provider of live Blue Jays broadcasts

– owning the Sportsnet television channels and the Fan 590 (the radio broadcaster of Blue Jays games).

The meeting itself was broadcast live on sportsnet.ca and began with a standing ovation from the fans in appreciation of the men sitting on top of the home-team’s dug-out. Toronto doubled its payroll for the 2013 season, adding Nation-al League Cy-Young winner R.A. Dickey (the 2013 opening day start-er) and a bevy of talented players in shortstop Jose Reyes, outfield-er Melky Cabrera, utility players Emilio Bonifacio and Maicer Izturis, and starting pitchers Josh Johnson and Mark Buerhle.

The arrival of a World-Series cali-ber team comes one off-season after a disappointing 2012 campaign that saw the Jays finish 73-89, 20 games out of a playoff spot. Despite the dismal season, attendance averaged out to be 25,921 fans attending each home game, a 3,500 increase over the 2011 campaign.

Clearly, the abundance of media-coverage (including a nation-wide media tour with members of the team) has facilitated the growth in attendance and the general mar-ketability of this team.

Sportsnet and its parent com-pany, Rogers Communications,

have very clearly gone all-in in their coverage of the Blue Jays. Sportsnet has been innovative in recent years with the presenta-tion of their sports-information, providing news and information online, on the radio, on television, and in print through the Sportsnet magazine. With exclusive broad-cast rights to the sure-to-be well attended games, Rogers appears to

be planning on winning big on the field and in the boardroom.

I for one am quite ready to reap the rewards of Rogers’s spending, and businesses that reward the consumer of their product should be applauded, even if that compa-ny stands to make a fortune in the coming months.

So here’s to February, that won-derful reminder of the promise of summer and the suddenly real potential of a ring in late October. Let’s play ball.

Blue Jays pitcher Brandon Morrow is presumably fired up about February. From the Bleachers tells you why you should be too.

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pMs: potentially made-up syndrome? U of T study claims premenstrual mood swings do not exist

makenzie zatychieS

Almost any person in today’s so-ciety, male or female, can agree that they have been victim to a girl lashing out during that “time of the month.” Apologetically, the girl will ask you to understand that it is not her fault, but is due to Pre-menstrual Syndrome (PMS).

But what if it were to come to light that the mood swings lead-ing up to, and during, a woman’s

menstrual cycle – commonly ac-cepted as a side effect of PMS – do not actually exist?

A recent study on PMS was con-ducted by a University of Toronto research team and published in Gender Medicine. Of the 47 stud-ies that met the scientific criteria, ranging from sources 1806 to present, 18 clearly stated that there was no correlation between hormones during menstrual cycles and mood swings; 18 showed that women were moodier around the time of their cycle; seven showed classic PMS symptoms; and four indicated that women were more prone to mood swings when they

were, in fact, not premenstrual. With this research backing their claims, the research team also lead their own studies with their data claiming the same point: premen-strual mood swings do not exist.

The team delves into the idea that PMS is a social construct, and that this is a time where women aren’t expected to be pleasant as usual. Part of this construct is that women are often depicted as be-having in a certain manner before and during their menstrual cycles, therefore they begin to behave in this manner assigned to them by society.

After presented the research team’s ideas, I decided to ask a small pool of men and women their opinions in regards to pre-menstrual mood swings. Initially, any information of the University of Toronto findings was withheld, just to get an honest opinion on the matter, and then the evidence was brought to light. Dyllan Chris-tie, a 21-year-old living with his girlfriend, says he has to deal with the erratic moods of his partner at the beginning of her cycle.

“I believe that girls are uncom-fortable at the beginning of, and during their periods, but I don’t think their bad moods are actual-ly linked to hormones as they say. I think that they are more upset about the situation they are in.”

Christie’s statement is similar to the findings of the study on pre-menstrual mood swings. On the other hand, Bailey Rae-Ashton, 21, believes that her moods dras-tically change leading up to her menstrual cycle.

“The main reason that you have such bad mood swings is because you are aching and uncomfortable, and the other part is the hormon-al imbalance and changes in your body,” said Ashton.

Many of the women interviewed had very similar answers in attrib-uting their monthly mood swings to a hormone imbalance that is caused by their cycle, and there-fore beyond their control. Even when the information from the U of T study was given to them, many women did not want to ac-knowledge the evidence presented, clinging to the idea that constant mood shifts are part of the men-strual cycle.

The U of T study claims that

there is no correlation between the hormones and mood of women leading up to their menstrual cycle and any mood swings that they suffer are circumstantial to the fact that they are uncomfortable. If this is clearly outlined, then why are women still arguing for the idea that their moods at that time of the month are beyond their control?

Maybe women do not want to relinquish that small exemption they have if they want to be less than pleasant. Or maybe women do not want to believe that they are really just irritable and it is within their control. Either way, watch out ladies, because your ex-cuse may just have been disproved.

New study on portions and satietyA portion of chocolate can be just as effective as a full bar

Garry Go

Chocolate. What more is there to say? Our guiltiest pleasure can be our very own weakness. We all at one point have had those cravings for chocolate, which sometimes end in an overdose – and then po-tentially symptoms of withdrawal and regret.

Many students on campus can relate to this feeling of temptation.

“I normally don’t have choc-olate in the house but if we do I try my best not to give in,” said Candace Jahani, a second year bio-logical sciences student.

Chocolate is not all bad. Ac-cording to an article from EatRight Ontario, chocolate contains com-pounds known as flavonoids which

“can help the body repair damaged cells, may reduce the risk of heart

disease and other chronic disease.” The article also states that “choc-olate is also high in fat, sugar and calories, which can lead to weight gain.”

So how much is enough?A new study done by Cornell

University suggests that eating only a fraction of chocolate is enough to satisfy us.

The study involved 104 partic-ipants that were separated into two different groups. One group was given popular snacks such as chocolate, apple pie, and crisps but at larger portion sizes, while the second group was given only a fraction of the same foods as the first group. Both groups were al-lowed to take as much time as they needed to finish the foods. The participants were required to fill out a survey, which rated their affinity for the snack, whether or not they had preference for one snack over the other, and the de-gree of hunger they felt. Surveys were taken fifteen minutes before

and after the consumption. The results of the study dem-

onstrated that the group which consumed the most snacks ate 77 per cent more than the other group. Here’s the interesting thing: the group that consumed the less-er amounts were just as satisfied as the group that ate much larger portions. The group that ate 77 per cent more snacks showed no signs of being hungrier than the other group. The study suggests that cut-ting down on food portions may have less impact than you might think, and moderation is sufficient to satisfy your cravings.

This can be useful for those trying to lose weight or trying to keep off those extra pounds. You can still satisfy your cravings and at the same time stay fit. So the next time you grab that delicious chocolate bar at the University Centre remember that you don’t necessarily need to eat the whole thing and that a fraction can go a long way.

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so the career fair is over – now what?wayne Greenway

You have just come back from the recent Career Fair. You followed all the right steps.

You created an effective busi-ness card that gave your contact information on it with your key accomplishments or qualifications on the back.

You did your research on your top ten target employers. You knew why you genuinely wanted to meet these people and you had gathered enough research on each of them to ask them pertinent questions that will both impress the company representative and inform your career job strategy.

You dressed appropriately, just as though you were representing that company at an important event. Your 20-30 second intro-ductory pitch went well because you had rehearsed it thoroughly. It gave the key information: who you are; the kind of work you are seeking to fit with the employer; where you are at in your studies; one or two relevant accomplish-ments from your summer co-op and/or academic experience relevant to their business and openings.

Your thoughtful questions en-gaged the recruiters and you

exchanged business cards. Be-fore moving to the next booth, you wrote down details about the conversation on the back of their business card, so that, in your follow up correspondence, you could easily remind them of the conversation you had with them. It seems like each meet-ing went extremely well, except for two companies that you now know you will not be pursuing.

Now you are home and the work has just begun. If you can engage the people you met in further dis-cussions, then you stand a much better chance of finding a career job that matches what you are seeking and what they are look-ing for in an employee.

You already have a head start as you wisely prepared a rough tem-plate for a thank you email before you left for the career fair. Now you need to customize it with a couple probing questions, per-tinent to the job, in a way that gives you a chance to highlight your strengths.

The follow up email is very important because the repre-sentatives see so many people that you need to say something to help bring your conversation to the forefront of their mem-ory. You will want to thank the

person for the opportunity to speak with them. If you include something from your note on the back of their business card, it will help them to remember you. You will also want to restate the same pitch that you used throughout the day, highlighting achievements that specifically pertain to what you learned in your conversation. Naturally you will want to close the letter with a request to meet with the person at their earliest convenience to learn more about … and discuss next steps in exploring how you could add value to their company’s operations. It is an ex-cellent idea to say that you will be in touch with the recruiter next week to arrange a meeting time. Then you will want to be sure to thank them again for their time and consideration.

It’s important to keep track of these details by company name and to put all future actions to be taken in a day planner. Naturally, calling when you said you would is prudent and ongoing follow-up is important. Bright, upbeat and friendly messages every 10 days will likely get you a reply.

Once you have made contact, be sure to keep in touch periodically throughout your job search with an interesting relevant article or

news story.Now that you have mastered the

live career fair process, your next step is to get yourself ready for a virtual career fair.

Initial attempts at offering virtu-al job fairs did not go well but now that technology is improving, HR departments are rethinking their value. Shelly Gorman explains the change in a recent report to the Kenan Flagler Business School.

“In today’s virtual career fairs, job seekers and recruiters use avatars to enter a virtual world. Participants can chat live through text, voice or video; conduct inter-views using that same technology; and visit networking lounges where they can interact with dif-ferent employers and other job seekers. Virtual career fairs can even allow managers who would normally be unable to attend live fairs to talk to candidates speed-ing up the interviewing process.”

In the same report, Groman de-scribed Monster Canada’s Virtual Career Fair, which featured 21 em-ployers, and “generated more than 400,000 page views, 18,000 vis-its, 21,000 job views and collected more than 12,000 resumes.”

It is certainly convenient for ca-reer job seekers because you can stay in the comfort of your home

and some virtual job fairs can run for several days compared to the typical one-day model of trad-itional career fairs.

The preparation process is almost the same with a few im-portant differences: You will want to take extra care to ensure that your social media sites are pro-fessional looking and that your profile photo, Skype picture and username all have the same pro-fessional look; be sure to take the compatibility test, if one is of-fered, as it will help you see how your strengths best match with which employer’s needs; be sure your spelling and grammar are correct before you click the send button; and do not use text slang or emoticons in your replies. It is very important that you dress just like you were going to attend a career fair because you may be inter-viewed in a video chat. It’s also important that the background visible in the call be clean and tidy.

Just like in a traditional job fair you will talk with recruiters to help them to see how you could fit for positions now or in the future.

Like many things it’s all about practice and with one live career fair under your belt you will be ready to do even better at the next one, whether it is live or virtual.

What happens next?kiera vanDeborne

You’re sitting in a lecture hall, sip-ping a can of pop while struggling to stay awake. As the lecture ends, you toss your empty can in the re-cycling on the way out. For most of us, recycling has become part of our routine, something we do out of practice – but have you ever stopped to think about what hap-pens next?

From an aluminium can to a glass bottle, each item you throw in the recycling bin tells a slightly different story after it gets collect-ed. Depending on the material, the length of the process and success rate of recycling differs. For those interested in finding out just ex-actly how it works, there are many useful resources available.

One of the more obvious ways would be to spend some time on Google (or preferred search en-gine) figuring out how recycling plants operate. Local recycling plants will have information avail-able on their website to inform curious citizens of their work-ing. Here in Guelph, the plant has opened up a new education centre to raise awareness of recycling and the mechanics of what happens once your recycling gets collected.

From the first week of February through until the end of March,

the U of G community will be participating in Recycle Mania. This eight-week program is run through all of North America and aims to create awareness and get students excited about recycling. This year, U of G will be focusing on the story of “what happens next?” in hopes of connecting the community to their waste and the process it endures after consumption.

For those who have never con-sidered the story of their stuff, you might be surprised by what you can learn. Of course the Inter-net has some great information floating around, and if you are a member of the university com-munity, keep a look out for the next eight weeks to find out what happens next.

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www.theontarion.com liFe22Brew review: porterchriS müller

Porter is believed to have developed through the use of brown malt that was common to brown ales in the 18th century, but the introduction of the hydrometer (an instrument that measures the relative density of liquids) allowed for an understand-ing that brown malt produced less fermentable sugars than pale malt, a common beer ingredient at the time. With higher alcohol content in mind, brewers used the pale malt and added colouring to simulate the dark colour of porter.

A combination of the Napoleonic War’s increase on malt tax and the in-troduction of a beer purity law in 1816 in London that mimicked the German

“Reinheitsgebot” of 1516 (both laws state that only water, malt, and hops can be used in beer brewing) posed a problem for the brewing industry, and one that was solved with black patent malt in 1817. Black patent malt allowed porter to be brewed from 95 per cent pale malt, and five per cent black patent malt, the colour and taste achieved without artificial colouring.

Modern varieties of porter possess

various malt combinations, but a tra-dition of cask-aging this style of beer has continued into the present day. Centuries ago, breweries would add

long-aged beer to fresh beer in order to simulate the taste of a moderately aged porter – this would have been what was served in pubs at the turn of the 19th century. The name “por-ter” is derived from the men that drank it frequently, those who moved packages and baggage in the streets, shipyards, and later in railway yards.

A modern link to this brewing tra-dition can be found in five per cent ABV Trafalgar Ales and Meads “Co-gnac-Aged Porter,” available at the LCBO in an attractive 500 mL ceramic swing-top bottle.

This porter pours without any head at all, which was admittedly a dis-appointment. The beer produces an aroma of mild sweetness, with wal-nut and rye providing a balancing effect. The cognac barrel imparts a mild cognac flavour to the brew, but it is by no means overwhelming. A mild carbonation produces a smooth mouth-feel, and the aftertaste is of mocha-sweetness, very pleasant.

Ultimately, this selection serves as a suitable introduction to the por-ter style, and should be responsibly and thoroughly enjoyed in the win-ter months.

“The name ‘porter’ is

derived from the men that drank

it frequently, those who

moved packages and baggage

in the streets, shipyards, and later in railway

yards.”

The attractively packaged trafalgar Cognac-Aged Porter highlights some features commonly associated with the porter brewing tradition. read all about it in this week’s Brew Review.

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liFe 23170.5 ◆ february 7th, 2013

This Week in Historysweet rationing ends in BritainTo the excitement of kids throughout England, on this day in 1953, sweet-shops started selling unrationed candy again, the rationing of which began in July, 1942. According to the article, toffee apples, ticks of nougat, and li-quorice strips were the best sellers, and one company distributed 150 pounds of lollipops to 800 children during their midday break from school. Free sweets were also handed out by several shops, and adults were not excluded from the “sugar frenzy.” People indulged in the “luxury of being able to buy [two pounds] of chocolates to take home for the weekend,” which sounds similar to the amount of alcohol in litres that one student might purchase for the weekend. Sugar rationing, howev-er, continued in the country, but the confectionary economy experienced a huge jump from spending, which increased from £100 million to £250 million over the next year. Today, con-sumers spend more than £5.5 billion on sweets every year. (The BBC – Feb. 5, 1953)

two astronauts Float Free in space, 170 Miles UpIn an epic moment for the United States, two astronauts, “Free of any lifeline and propelled into the dark void by tiny jets [became the] first human satellites.” Bruce McCandless and Rob-ert L. Stewart were the men behind the helmets who completed the first untethered spacewalk, and described their dramatic experiences with Mc-Candless stating that he did not have a sense of his speed as the shuttle orbited the earth, though he was able to no-tice the earth rotating when he looked down. The propulsion backpacks worn by the astronauts were imported piec-es of technology considered crucial to “future operations to repair and ser-vice orbiting satellites”(The New York Times – Feb. 7, 1984)

Man kills his wife with an axeDetroit was the scene of a horren-dous murder close to a century ago, when a 23-year-old male, under sus-picious circumstances, put an axe into his wife. Eerily, he had no recollection of committing the murder, as he found himself fully-dressed in the street two hours after the couple had gone to bed. He then found a policeman, and “told him that he thought he had killed his wife, but was not sure.” The grue-some details of the crime scene are explained thoroughly in the article that appeared below this headline, and refer to the wife’s separated head. The husband’s mental lapses due to a train accident a few years before this inci-dent were provided as an explanation for the crime, along with his person-al statement that he did it “under an uncontrollable impulse.” (The Globe – Feb. 7, 1920)

Compiled by Alicja Grzadkowska

Not always a picnicPerspectives on working and travelling in other continents

colleen mcDonell

It’s got that appeal – hot, and ex-otic. With a palate for strange food, and versed in a foreign language, it brings forth an excitement as you two meet for the first time.

Travelling and working in another country can be very at-tractive. 20-somethings have been known to pick up and leave dur-ing summer breaks or after they graduate, an experience quite dif-ferent from studying abroad.

Brandon Schneider, 22, decided to live in Australia for a year be-cause his friends were going, and it was a “challenge to go some-where new and survive”.

The first days in a new country can be both intense and excit-ing as you find your way around, discover how much things cost, where you are going to live, and look for a job.

“We went with no plan, which

I think is the best idea; just show up and have fun. Our first cou-ple of days were really busy and we spent a lot of time exploring,”

explained Schneider. The group also found that getting help was very easy.

“As long as you are polite, every-one else is polite with you.”

Living by the beach and surf-ing everyday seems like a dream. However, Schneider and friends did have a couple frustrating ex-periences in Oz, such as difficulty in finding jobs, and a landlord from hell. There is also the poten-tial heartbreak that comes with travelling.

“Don’t travel as a couple. It’s a good test on the relationship, but I’m going to say about 80 per cent of the relationships that I encountered while traveling all broke up,” said Schneider. “If you are going to go travelling and you have a significant other that you are leaving behind, make it quite clear that you should prob-ably go on a break at that time.”

Returning home is another challenge; goodbyes are bitter-sweet. Schneider wishes he had known how quickly his yearlong stay would end.

“You have a timeframe, and you know you have a date in your mind, but it kind of creeps up on you. You develop relationships and they also kind of end.”

Stephanie Shaffee, 22, went to Chandigarh, India for four months through AIESEC and also discovered that expectations do not always pan out with reality.

“I thought it was going to be a really cool, hip intern house,” said Shaffee on her arranged ac-commodations. “It wasn’t – it was really shitty, and I lived on a cot for five months, and it sucked.” After one month Shaffee quit the internship and happily decided to tour around instead.

The preparation the AIESEC-er had beforehand, such as two

seminars on culture shock and the purchase of Lonely Planet guide (the traveler’s “bible”), helped her get through her initial homesickness. Shaffee learned quickly the importance of keep-ing open-minded.

“You need to adjust, because you are in somebody else’s country now,” advised Shaffee, pointing out it’s also useful to learn the host languages before you travel.

Despite all of the unpleasant experiences, Shaffee misses the

“quirky” things about India, such as getting candy for “change” at a local market. Like many other young travelers, she acknowl-edges how much the constant challenges helped her grow as a person.

“Before, I was a princess, but [there] I was able to live in the shittiest hostels and fall asleep on 20 hour bus rides that look like they belong in a dumpster,” said Shaffee. “I would go back in a second.”

“...just show up and have fun.

Our first couple of days were

really busy and we spent a lot of time exploring”

–Brandon Schneider

one of the most difficult hurdles to overcome when travelling abroad is adjusting to culture shock and contrasting lifestyle. Pictured is a busy intersection void of cars in Delhi, india.

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Dear Editor:Re: Sugar Coated Relationships,The Ontarion, January 31, 2013

I was appalled to hear of a uni-versity professor here in Guelph pushing the notion that prostitu-tion for students is no big deal. She argues that giving sex for money has existed, “throughout the his-tory of human relationships.” But stealing, lying, killing, raping, etc. have also been around for quite some time, so the longevity ar-gument for prostitution is not particularly compelling.

Dr. Ruth Neustifter defends the idea of students prostituting themselves for tuition because after all it’s “nothing new” and not something “necessarily negative.” She goes on to sup-port the practise because after all, even though it is sex work, “that doesn’t make it good or bad.” I find these comments absolutely appalling.

Way to go professor – you have turned thousands of years of his-tory on its head. Has it not been the norm for most of record-ed history to discourage girls from prostitution? Tragically in our endarkened age respecting

all things sexual we seem to be going in the other direction. But allow me to pose this simple ques-tion, “Would you encourage your daughters to work as prostitutes to pay for tuition?” And if not, how dare you encourage young women who are someone else’s daughters to step into this de-grading and enslaving lifestyle in order to earn a few dollars.

As an evangelical minister I re-cently heard from a former sex trade worker who spoke at one of our meetings in Guelph. Her story is one of enslavement, victimiza-tion, and brutality. Katrina (I share her name with her permission) was formerly a sex-trade worker who escaped the snares of prostitution and now openly shares her story to protect the vulnerable from get-ting enslaved and to help those who want out. Her story can be accessed at www.risingangels.ca. It is well worth reading.

I long for the day when our universities might once again be places of light and wisdom. If that’s too much to hope for—may they at least be a safe place for our daughters.

Royal Hamel, Guelph

keep your eyes wide open for trudeau 2.0During the last federal election in May 2011, it became evident that young people are divided between those interested in voting, and those who just don’t give a damn. The divi-sion between these groups was pretty equal, with Statistics Canada report-ing that 50 per cent of voters aged 18 to 24 voted in 2011.

What was the main reason for not coming out to the polls for this age group? Thirty per cent claimed that it was because of a lack of interest, with 23 per cent reporting that they were too busy.

Students at the University of Guelph definitely showed a determi-nation to be noticed by party leaders and demonstrate their enthusiasm for voting, which resulted in a few

“scandals,” namely the valid/inval-id poll booth held in the University Centre. Nonetheless, many young people are just disinterested in Cana-dian politics, and they simply don’t approach the topic or take an ini-tiative to get information about it. They’re neutral, and that might be the best thing for visiting politician Justin Trudeau, who visits the uni-versity campus on Feb. 7.

Trudeau has certainly sparked a miniature media frenzy over the last few months, though he’s far from gaining the same following as his fa-ther, Pierre Trudeau. What the media has reported so far, however, has been slightly idealized and closer to the profiling of an up-and-coming actor than a potential party leader. A spread in Maclean’s magazine in October 2012 encapsulated that idea, with a nine-page feature on Trudeau, complete with family photos (appar-ently the Trudeaus enjoy running up hills holding hands and generally just tossing the kids around in a rather joyous manner).

Another 12-page spread in the same issue included photos of young Trudeau growing up with his parents and an article on the politician titled,

“Breaking Out of Bounds” about Jus-tin’s life in British Columbia. And

“Trudeau news” just keeps getting better. A recent article from The To-ronto Star about tweets concerning the Liberal leadership debate revealed that some viewers might have been more focused on the politician’s head of glorious hair than the actual poli-cies discussed during the debate.

What the media is steering us to-wards is the undeniable fact that Trudeau is cool. So much, in fact, that as long as his policies (and appear-ance) are perceived as different from

Stephen Harper’s, we might be wel-coming Trudeau 2.0 to Ottawa in 2015.

A few weeks ago, The Ontarion’s editorial discussed how students are prone to living in a university bubble, and often remain unaware of national or international news. This situation is no different. With Trudeau com-ing to campus for a meet-and-greet at the Brass Taps, which in itself says much about the image he’s trying to create, now is the key moment for students to take a few minutes away from their homework, illegal down-loading and all the other things we

find ourselves doing when we should be doing something else, and look up information about the guy.

This is not to say that students won’t take an interest in the politi-cian’s visit, or that they’ll be swayed to support him just because he’s young and hip. But, when you con-sider the impact that we can have on the elections, asking Trudeau the tough questions that students want answers to now will help our image as savvy young adults with opinions, which we all know you have, whether you share them or not.

Whether you’re going because you like or dislike Harper, want lower tu-ition fees, have something to say about Canada’s involvement in Israel, or be-cause you don’t want to be neutral anymore, be wary of the charm that a new politician with a family founded in “cool” Canadian politics can cast over you.

And if you do look up news about Trudeau, stay away from sources like Sun News, whose columnist named him the Man of the Year based on his boxing match win and charisma, while calling him flamboyant and a

“glamorous charmer.” Remember when Harper came to

Guelph and got a less-than-positive response from students? Though that visit was plagued with an “exclusive” conference that enraged more than a few people, let’s not put down our guard for the new guy. University of Guelph students are, after all, known to freely express their opinions.

“…be wary of the charm that

a new politician with a family

founded in ‘cool’ Canadian politics

can cast over you.”

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Guelph Field Naturalists. Meet-ing: 7:30pm at the Arboretum Centre. All welcome. “A New ‘Big Year’ Birding Record for On-tario” ; speaker : Guelph’s own Josh Vandermeulen.

Thursday At Noon Concert Ser-ies. Concerts start at 12:00p.m. Thursdays in Mackinnon room 107 (Goldschmidt room). Admission free – donations gratefully appre-ciated. Everyone welcome!

LGBT Social Justice Workshop @ 7:30-9pm, CSA Board Room, 2nd Floor UC. Free workshop -come learn about various social justice issues facing the LGBT community both locally and internationally. Space is limited, first come, first served.

saturday February 9 Winter Pride Family Event @ 12-3pm, Market Square and 10 Carden St. Skating in Market Square along with games, hot chocolate, cookie decorating, and crafts inside. 10Carden directly across from Market Square. Free event! Www.Guelphpride.Com/Winterpride2013

sunday February 10“Out of Africa” -Scott Leithead:

Edmonton’s Kokopelli Choirs, drummer: Akufuna Sifuba Dub-lin Street/Harcourt United Church Choirs, Siren the University of Guelph Woman’s Chorus; Story-teller Sya Van Geest. 3pm at Dublin St. United Church. Tickets: General $20, Students $5

Monday February 11Tim Hortons Food Drive, Febru-ary 11-17, to help replenish the Guelph Food Bank. Please drop off brown paper bags (February 7th Guelph Tribune insert), filled with non-perishable food items and drop them into the Food Drive bins located inside participating Tim Hortons restaurants.

The BetterPlanet Project Speaker Series presents “Making it a More Sustainable World of Business” with CME business professor Ru-mina Dhalla, who will talk about her research in corporate sustain-ability and social responsibility. Noon-1pm in UC 103.

Career Aviators Business Career Club: Students and professionals welcome. Mondays 7pm -9pm, Innovation Guelph (111 Farqu-har Street). Strategic advice and support; guest presentations; motivation to stay on track; world-wide Information exchange.

PWYC. Info:1 866 873 7633 www.careeraviators.com

Wednesday February 13Guelph Guild of Storytellers. Con-certs for teens, adults, 7pm, 2nd Wednesday each month, Guelph Public Library Main Branch, 100 Norfolk. New tellers welcome. Call if longer than 5 minutes. guelph-story@gmail.com, 519-767-0017, www.guelpharts.ca/storytellers.

Guelph Hiking Trail Club: Hike Crieff Hills Conference Centre. 2 hrs. Level 2. Speed Moderate. Meet at 1pm by TD in Clair Rd. Plaza parking lot to car pool. Bring water, snacks and icers in case of slippery trails. Leader: Gayle 519 856-1012, Mary 519 827-1814.

Thursday February 14VDAY 2013 presents a benefit performance of Eve Ensler’s ‘The Vagina Monologues’. 8pm at the Guelph Little Theatre. Join the One Billion Rising! All proceeds to GW Women in Crisis. Tickets: $15/door; $10/advance (available at Steel Health Centre, 28 Cardigan St. and Moksha Yoga, 78 Norfolk St).

Monday February 18Guelph Civic Museum RBC Family Heritage Day - Enjoy an after-noon with lots of free indoor

and outdoor fun! Activities in-clude: Battle of the chainsaws, snowman target practice, photo booth, historic presentations, music, crafts and refreshments. 1-5pm. 52 Norfolk St. (519)836-1221, museum@guelph.ca, guelph.ca/museum

saturday March 2The University of Guelph is host-ing Relay for Life in support of the Canadian Cancer Society, March 2-3. Register online, purchase a luminary or pledge a participant at universityofguelph.ca/univer-sityofguelph. Information: email relay@uoguelph.ca or like our page on Facebook: University of Guelph Relay for Life.

ongoing:Now recruiting Student Support Network volunteers. February 4 - March 1. For more information contact ssn@uoguelph.ca.

From Big Brothers Big Sisters Of Guelph- Bowl For Kids’ Sake -March 21-24 at Woodlawn Bowl. For more details and to register check us out on Facebook “Bowl for Kids’ Sake 2013” and online at www.guelphbowl.kintera.org

Free tutoring program run out of the Bookshelf downtown for high

school students. The program runs Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thurs-days from 3:30-4:45pm beginning on Feb 5th through to March 28th. If interested, contact bookshelftu-toringprogram@gmail.com.

Macdonald Stewart Art Centre Ex-hibitions by Canadian artists: ‘Phil Bergerson: American Shards’ runs until April 14. ‘Vessna Perunovich: Line Rituals & Radical Knitting’ runs until March 31. MSAC 358 Gordon St. 519-767-2661 www.msac.ca

Guelph Civic Museum opens’ Waist Management: A History of Unmen-tionables’, a new touring exhibit from the Fashion History Museum. Exhibit runs until April 14. Open daily 1-5 pm. 52 Norfolk St. 519-836-1221 ext. 2773 www.guelph.ca/museum.

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