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Antarctica and its international implications michael Bohdanowicz

Antarctica, and ultimately Earth as a whole, is likely to experience negative changes, a conclusion which could be drawn from a pre-sentation held at the Arboretum Centre on Jan. 12. The presenta-tion was given at a meeting of the Guelph Field Naturalists by its president, Peter Kelly, who once taught at the University of Guelph.

This presentation began by briefly describing Antarctica’s his-tory. From its discovery in 1820 until the mid-20th century the continent was the site of whal-ing, which decimated its whale population. Currently an interna-tional treaty restricts whaling in the Southern Ocean, which sur-rounds Antarctica, for scientific purposes. One signatory country, Japan, is alleged to have abused the scientific purpose stipulation as Kelly claimed that “these ‘sci-entific’ whale samples show up in restaurants.”

Another international law, the Antarctic Treaty, has pro-hibited mining and military activity–among other environ-mentally damaging activities– in Antarctica since its enactment in 1959. Currently the treaty has been signed by 47 countries, which Kelly stated encompass

the only ones with the ability to commit these activities in Antarc-tica. He responded to allegations that Russia is illegally engaging in oil extraction by saying it’d be a

“slippery slope” for Antarctica’s environmental health if that ac-tivity occurred.

Overall, the presentation fo-cused on the impact of climate change on Antarctica with a

particular focus on the region Kelly visited as a tourist in 2003, the Antarctic Peninsula. That region features the highest concentra-tion of wildlife in Antarctica. The Antarctic Peninsula is estimated to be warming at a rate three to five times faster than the rest of the planet.

The continuing depletion of the ozone layer over Antarctica allows

winds to circulate around the continent and warm the coastline, which melts sea ice, lessening Antarctica’s defense from the waves that warm it. The increase in storms climate change entails will increase the amount of waves hitting and subsequently warm-ing Antarctica.

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guelph Field naturalists talk about why Antarctica’s delicate ecosystem is in jeopardy.

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The price of vanityCanadian vision specialists are asking people to think twice about changing their colour. After receiving surgical proce-dure that changes the colour of the iris, Beatriz Murillo from Toronto has been left with severe eye complications, and sig-nificantly impaired vision. The cosmetic surgery places a dif-ferently coloured iris on top of the existing one and can irritate the eye and cause inflammation. Costing approximately $8000, the cosmetic iris can lead to bleed-ing and glaucoma. Murillo has had two glaucoma surgeries and a cornea transplant and has been left legally blind. The operation is not available in North America, and it is estimated that over 600 patients have had the surgery carried out in Panama. (CBC)

It’s a bird, it’s a planeA couple from Buenos Aires could be in trouble after hitting an opera singer with a cat. The victim, an 85 year-old-woman and the couple’s neighbour, fractured her skull when the couple’s cat landed on her head. The cat was thrown by the husband and was intended to hit his spouse. When the wife ducked, the animal fell through an open window, hit-ting the woman who was walking along the street below. The cat did not survive, and the neigh-bor is in critical condition. (The Mirror)

correctionsThe Ontarion would like to make a correction to an article published last week that featured the City of Guelph’s new skating rink, and to clarify the financial figures that were given in an interview with City Councilor Bob Bell. The article stated that the rink cost approximately $8 million, how-ever, this figure referred to the total cost of the Market Square and Carden St. project. The rink itself cost only $2.1 million, and this money was provided by both the federal government and a community fundraising campaign. The remaining $5.9 million was used for the rest of the construction projects. The maintenance cost of the rink is $413,000, and the City’s debt is $45 million, set well within the provincial guidelines

This correction is in regard to the article that addresses the recent 30 per cent tuition grant. The five per cent tuition increase cap set by the province has not yet been lifted. However, the CSA is con-cern that there is a danger that it might be lifted, as the framework for post-secondary funding is re-evaluated.

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out on the selfA Queer friendly Library and resource Center

tyler Valiquette

Out on the Shelf, located at 141 Woolwich St., is a library and re-source center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, Trans-sexual, Two-Spirited, Intersex, Queer and Questioning indi-viduals (LGBTTIQQ). Out on the Shelf’s mission is to “gath-er and make resources available with the goal of creating a sup-portive and positive space that responds to the dynamic needs of the queer communities” and, in fulfilling that, provide resources and information on queer issues including health, relationships and sex. A safe space is provided that is free from discriminatory and harassment.

Out on the Shelf has a wide array of books, magazines, mov-ies, pamphlets and resources available to all those who are in-terested. The library and resource center is completely volunteer driven. Students and individuals of all ages help create a relaxed

and safe space for all those who visit.

Out On the Shelf is the orga-nization responsible for running Pride in Guelph. Guelph pride exists in order to bring together Guelph’s LGBTTIQQ communi-ty and their allies in a safe and welcoming environment. Guelph hosted its first Pride event in 2003. Since then, there has been overwhelming support from the community resulting in the event growing from its initial Pride

Picnic to a full force Pride week. Although Canadian Lesbian and

Gay rights are accepted with the recognition of same-sex unions, there are currently 23 countries that recognize same-sex unions. There are 52 that offer anti-dis-crimination laws and 72 countries where you can face prosecution for being Lesbian or Gay; five of which enforce the death penalty.

Out On the Self helps promote acceptance and understand-ing of queer culture, while also

providing a safe space for all in-dividuals regardless of sexual orientation. Pride not only cel-ebrates queer culture, but also helps educate and enlighten those uninformed about queer issues. Through Pride, accep-tance of queer culture may one day be reached globally.

The presence of sea ice is vital to the survival of animals in Antarctica. Krill– shrimp-like animals– only reside in sea ice and are the basis of the Antarctic ecosystem, according to Kelly, as virtually all animals in Antarctica consume krill or other animals that consume krill. One scientist estimates that half of all krill in Antarctica are eaten every year.

“The less sea ice you have, the less krill you have, and then you start to see declines in the pop-ulations of other organisms that live there,” Kelly remarked. He also noted that a decline in sea ice would prevent birds (exclud-ing penguins) from conducting migrations to other continents, as fewer places would be avail-able for them to rest during their flying migration. The amount of sea ice in Antarctica has already declined by 40 per cent in the last 25 years.

Penguins, arguably Antarcti-ca’s most famous animal, could be threatened in the future. Some estimates claim that two-thirds of penguin colonies could collapse

if the average world temperature rises by two degrees. Kelly pre-dicts that “overall, all penguin species are going to decline” if climate change continues.

One of the four species of pen-guins that reside in Antarctica have already experienced a pop-ulation decline –Adelie penguins are estimated to have declined by 33 per cent in the last 25 years. Adelie penguins generally reside farther south than other penguin species in the summer, although winters are spent on sea ice.

Because of its warming temper-atures the summer residency area of the Adelie penguins has seen an increase in Gentoo penguins which increases competition for food. Regions to the south of the Adelie penguins’ summer resi-dency area have become colder, preventing Adelie penguins from relocating there.

Kelly emphasized that ulti-mately every continent will be negatively affected by climate change’s effects on one continent alone. He concluded that less ice

“is not good for us as well. Global sea levels will rise significantly.” Penguin populations are on the decline, as competition for food

sources increases with global warming.

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scientifically Inclined: men with lower pitched voices are less fertileAustralian researchers determine men with Barry white-like voices have less concentrated sperm arielle duhaime-ross

Darwin’s theory of selection teach-es us that sexual traits, such as a male peacock’s feathers, or a stag’s antlers, do not aid in enhancing survival but rather aid in convey-ing an individual’s potential as a mate. They are thought to indicate a mate’s quality in any combination of the following very important as-pects: genetic quality, child-rearing skills, and overall fertility.

As a member of the animal kingdom, humans also use sexu-al traits to determine the quality of a potential mate. For instance, heterosexual women tend to find men with lower voices more at-tractive. The opposite is also true, where most heterosexual men pre-fer women with higher voices. One would think that a woman’s pref-erence for lower pitched voices, a biological adaptation, would have developed as a way of confirming a man’s quality as a mate. However, a new study published in the open

access journal PLOS one challenges this popular belief.

A team of Australian scientists, led by Leigh W. Simmons, have determined that men with lower pitched voices have lower concen-trations of sperm in their ejaculate than men with higher pitched voic-es. This finding indicates that men who have a Barry White-like qual-ity to their voice are less fertile than men with higher pitched voice.

In order to determine this, the researchers recruited 54 male par-ticipants, aged 18 to 32. They made voice recordings of all the partici-pants and collected semen samples from each. The participants also answered a questionnaire about their lifestyle and general health, and measured their own testes, fol-lowing a standardized procedure.

The semen samples were analyzed to determine the total concen-tration of sperm cells and their overall motility, as determined by their velocity, activity, and abil-ity to maintain a linear path. The voice recordings were rated for attractiveness and masculinity by 30 Caucasian heterosexual women, aged 18 to 30.

As expected, the researchers found that the women deemed the lower voices as more attractive

and more masculine than the higher voices. When the recordings were compared to the semen analysis, however, a lower pitched voice was not an indicator of semen quali-ty. In fact, the lower the voice and the more masculine and sex-ually attractive these men were thought to be, the lower the sperm concentration.

The researchers believe that this can be explained by a trade-off between sperm production and a man’s investment in competing for and attracting women. What exactly is being traded off? Testos-terone is the main determinant of the pitch of a man’s voice. At puber-ty, elevated levels of testosterone cause an increase in the length of the vocal folds, as well as the larynx, causing a lowering of the pitch of a boy’s voice. Testosterone also con-tributes to sperm production. So a trade-off arises, where men who develop lower pitched voices have less energy, as determined by tes-tosterone production, to invest in sperm production than a man with a higher pitched voice.

These sorts of trade-offs are not new and are usually described under the “handicap principle,” where the development of a sexual trait incurs at a certain cost, usually

energy-related. Under this princi-ple, a mate that develops a sexual trait and survives the trait, such as a low-pitched voice, is deemed to be a good mate. This is despite the cost of having the trait, which in this case limits the testosterone that can go towards sperm production.

This study is most intriguing when compared to previous stud-ies that determined that a woman’s preference for a more masculine, lower pitched voice is more or less pronounced throughout her men-strual cycle, and peaks when she is most fertile. According to this new

finding, this female preference is not very beneficial in terms of en-suring successful reproduction.

All you bass and baritones out there need not worry. The men sampled in this study were well within the range of functional fer-tility. This study simply suggests that Justin Timberlake-like tenors might have slightly more concen-trated sperm than the average Joe, a fun fact that adds to anyone’s trivia night repertoire.

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upcoming board elections need students to votealicja Grzadkowska

The upcoming elections for under-graduate and graduate governors begins Feb. 6 and runs until Feb. 10. For Guillaume Blais, the un-dergraduate governor on the Board of Governors, endorsement for increased student participation becomes particularly important.

“It is up to students to take interest in matters that they feel passionate about,” said Blais.

Though the average student is typically aware of university as-sociations like the CSA, Interhall Council, and other representative bodies, the Board of Governors is less known on campus despite its significant contributions to student life and its overall maintenance of the University. Promoting aware-ness for the board is thus imperative as the board’s decisions impact stu-dents as well as faculty and staff members.

According to Blais, the board con-sists of 24 members and is primarily tasked with setting the priorities and strategic directions of the Univer-sity. Blais’s role as an Undergraduate Governor is to bring a student voice to the board as he works alongside President Summerlee, university faculty and external members in the oversight of the University of Guelph’s fiscal affairs and the man-agement of the school.

“Another responsibility of stu-dent representatives is to provide

the other board members with an idea of what it is like to be a stu-dent and how decisions made at the board table can come to directly af-fect students,” says Blais.

The representatives bring up issues that concern students to the rest of the board, such as the lack of study space on campus, which was a topic of interest late last year.

“A lot of the Board members were wondering what was going on,” adds Blais. “Many of them didn’t realize that space was an issue and there was a good discus-sion about what is considering space on campus.”

Yet the importance of the under-graduate and graduate governors’ role, although relevant to student experience at the university, has not been enough to increase vot-ing turnout.

“Turnout is usually unfortunately poor,” commented Blais on student participation in past elections. “I won the election last year with less than a thousand votes, which is less than five per cent of the stu-dent population.”

With the student nomination period for the board ending on the Jan. 27, students will soon be asked to vote for two undergradu-ate representatives, or one graduate representative through their Gryph-mail accounts. Instead of ignoring the ballot, Blais encourages students to become an active participant in university governance and vote.

community building with habitat for humanityHouse-building group looking for members for their women Build Committee

andrea lamarre

Habitat for Humanity has been operating in Guelph-Welling-ton since 2000, having built 19 homes in the area and with plans to build three to six more this up-coming year. Most recently, the organization has put forth a call for more members for its Women Build committee, a group that plans on building one of these homes.

“Every home Habitat builds re-quires a team of volunteers who assist with Fundraising, Volun-teer Recruitment, Sponsorship, Public Relations and Build Activi-ties,” explained Lynda Slater, the Guelph-Wellington Women Build Committee Chair. Members are being recruited to do everything from organizing, to “swinging a hammer” at the build site.

The Women Build committee is not new, but interest has been growing of late into the group’s commitment to partnerships with local families. Slater ex-plained that the Women Build committee works alongside the partner family who will receive the home being built, donat-ing 500 hours of their time to

the build in a practice known as “sweat equity”.

“The home is sold to the fam-ily at market value and the family will pay back a zero-interest mortgage to Habitat, never paying more than 30% of their household income,” she said. “This leaves far more for items like utilities, clothing, food, etc.” This also allows the fami-ly to own their home, affording them equity, unlike renting.

Students can get involved with the committee in particular, and Habitat for Humanity more gen-erally in many different ways.

“Students can get involved at every level - from building on the build site to becoming a commit-tee member,” said Slater. “They can help to plan or carry out fun-draisers, help recruit volunteers, spread awareness. We need many hands to build a home and there is a volunteer role for everyone.”

The skills learned through in-volvement in Habitat projects, Slater notes, can help translate classroom knowledge into prac-tical, hands-on experience.

“Working on Women Build committees is a great way to practice skills in marketing, public relations, leadership, engineering, information tech-nology, teamwork, [and] project management,” said Slater.

Volunteers like Slater have seen changes in their own lives as a result of their experiences with the group.

“Being part of Women Build has allowed me the opportunity to join forces with other proactive, goal oriented women and come together to support a cause we all feel strongly about, while at the same time improve my own skill set in an area that I knew little about when I started,” she said. “It’s also a whole lot of fun and lots of laughs when we all get together, and in the end a Guelph family has a new home they can call their own! It really is a great feeling to be part of it.”

A closer look at Alzheimer’sHuman Health and nutritional Sciences hosts 42nd annual symposium

Beth Purdon-mclellan

The Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences held it’s annual health symposium on Jan. 14. The conference, entitled “Al-zheimer’s: The tangled mind” was the 42nd symposium to be hosted by the department. It featured re-searchers Dr. Carol Greenwood and Dr. Richard Bazinet from the Uni-versity of Toronto, Dr. Mark Oremus from McMaster, and Dr. Bettina Ka-lisch from the University of Guelph.

“Normally we try to have at least one University of Guelph speaker, just because it’s nice to represent the community,” said Margret Clark, who helped organize the event. “But we try to branch out to bring in dif-ferent perspectives. Mostly to the University of Toronto and McMaster, just because of the distance.”

In the past, the symposium has featured different topics such as obesity. Due to the amount of new

research on Alzheimer’s and its social implications, the committee chose the disease as its area of focus. Approximately 500,000 people live with Alzheimer’s today, and that number will double as baby boom-ers age.

“When they were discussing ideas originally, someone had brought up ‘well, what will students today have to deal with in their careers?’” said Clark. “Alzheimer’s is huge be-cause the baby boomer generation is growing a lot older. Alzheimer’s is extremely prevalent.”

The speakers stress that preven-tion starts at age 20, especially if your strategy involves medication or nutrition. For example, there is some evidence DHA, an omega-3 fatty acid, works as an anti-inflam-matory on the brain– a symptom that is characteristic of Alzheimer’s. However, these methods cannot reverse brain degeneration, and the exact effect of long-term pre-vention is unknown.

“Alzheimer’s is a very intricate disease, it’s very complicated and we don’t know a lot about it,” said Clark. “And because we can’t open up the brain of someone and then

close it back up and expect them to live, it’s really hard to find an-swers. So none of the researchers have definite answers.”

This was the second year that the symposium hosted a student panel consisting of four undergraduate students, Michael Tomizza, Mary Cranmer-Byng, Sarah Mavin and Emily Meko. The panel helped to facilitate dialogue between the au-dience and the presenters making the symposium much more inter-active. Clark noted that because the panel used “layman’s” terms to describe Alzheimer research, the material was more inclusive of symposium attendees.

The symposium revealed that Alzheimer’s is an issue that has social implications as well. The importance of the caregiver will only increase, and strategies need to be developed to support them.

“The conclusion from pretty much all of them is that it is re-ally hard to treat Alzheimer’s,” said Clark. “Once someone has it, there’s no cure. There proba-bly isn’t going to be a ‘be all, end all’ solution. So its more about prevention.”

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What’s in a degree?Post-secondary education’s role in the economy

Beth Purdon-mclellan

Joniada Milla, a PhD candidate in economics, is asking the same question that students often ask themselves: what effect will uni-versity have on our lives after graduation? Her thesis, entitled

“Exploring the Dynamics of Entry and Exit in Post-Secondary Ed-ucation” looks at why students enrol in post-secondary edu-cation, how the university and academic program they choose shapes employment outcomes, and the overall effect these choic-es have on the economy.

The thesis is an extension of her master’s research, which inves-tigated the connection between economic growth and educa-tion. Milla’s findings suggest that post-secondary education

is crucial for economic growth. “A highly skilled and educat-

ed labour force assimilates new innovations and technology spill-overs faster,” said Milla.

Considering the effect of edu-cation on large-scale economies, there is incentive to encourage students to pursue post second-ary education. Part of Milla’s research is to understand what factors influence students in their decision to enroll in both college and university programs.

Milla’s research showed that parent’s expectations were a significant factor in whether or not a student attended universi-ty. Certain trends in student peer groups, like smoking, also had an impact on academic aspirations.

“Having friends who smoke might be indicating a symptom of more general social attitudes about the peers which affect the teenager,” said Milla. “A teenager of age 15 that has made smok-ing a habit may be more likely to

show negativity towards school and/or reflect an overall rebel-lious attitude.”

For her data, Milla used the Ca-nadian Youth in Transition Survey (YITS), which follows students from the beginning of their high school experience all they way up to when students enter the work force. When looking at how program choice effected employ-ment, Milla’s data came from a much more accessible source. Prospective students are not the only ones to turn to MacLean’s magazine for university rankings.

“We complemented YITS by merging it with external data on university rankings from Ma-clean’s magazine,” said Milla. “ [As well as] other university characteristics such as facul-ty to student ratio, enrolment rates, faculty salaries, average high school grades of the entering cohort etc. in order to be able to build a university quality index.” Joniada milla’s research follows students before and after their

enrollment in post-secondary education.

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employing a simplistic painting technique, tess martens offered a topless interpretation of the sun-maid logo in part of a show that zeroed in on childhood memories at Zavitz gallery from Jan. 9-13.

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I heard tapes are backdiVinus caesar

The music industry has undergone a major shift in recent decades as first compact disks and then mp3s radically changed the relationship between music producers and consumers. For the consumer of mass market bands, much of this change has been good, the only real loser (the complaints of Me-tallica aside) appearing to be the record labels. However, for small bands the rough edges of these changes have caused more pain, with little done so far to alleviate it.

Cassettestival organizer Peter Bradley is one of a growing number enthusiastically advocating cas-sette tapes as a palliative measure. To that end, this week’s Casset-testival event at Ed Video was not meant only to showcase new musical talent, but to reintroduce the tape itself as a star. While the event’s 85 or so attendees found themselves faced with tapes and tape guts hanging like streamers everywhere they turned, the fu-ture of the tape will depend more on its potential advantages for musicians and audiences than on visuals and spectacle.

The main advantage of the tape for musicians is that they are ex-traordinarily cheap to produce.

“For a band that doesn’t think that they’ll sell more than 100 CDs– which is a reality for a band that isn’t really interested in touring across Canada tirelessly and los-ing money on their project, for a band that is more homebound and just wants 50 or 100 copies of a tape,” Bradley said, “tapes are re-ally good.”

For audiences hoping to get their hands on bands output at a rea-sonable price, this feature will be equally appealing.

The cassette tape’s other major advantage for musicians, though, is not necessarily one shared with consumers. Skipping through tracks on a tape is, in Bradley’s words “torture.” Changing out tapes is time-consuming, and carrying around multiple tapes is unspeakably, damnably bur-densome. These factors tend to promote the immersion and rep-etition in an album that can be important for fostering familiar-ity and love for a band, but they may chafe on listeners accustomed to hundreds or thousands of tracks on demand.

Consumers will require some-thing in return for this tradeoff if tapes are to catch on again. Brad-ley pointed to several qualities of the tape that may play this role.

Primarily, the tape serves as an actual thing to have and to hold.

“The audience is encouraged by the opportunity to have an artifact.” Bradley said, “I think as preva-lent as mp3s are, and as much as mp3’s make sense, you still want something. Maybe in a few years we won’t want anything, but we all grew up wanting stuff, and it’s going to die hard, and until then, tapes.”

Just as important may be that the non-commitment demanding nature of the medium seems to encourage experimentation, with several bands already using tapes to explore side projects and new genres. It’s pretty easy to imagine this breathing long term life into the tape if it becomes the norm.

However it pans out, Bradley says he’s happy to be in it for the long haul, planning Cassettestivals

for every three or four months and “looking for people making sorta side-projecty, weird, di-vergent, sorta unusual music, to put out on tape. It doesn’t need to be performable live, it can be electronic and strange, it can be jazzy, I don’t care, I’m looking for a variety of music from a variety of genres.”

“getting” downtownnew website to track downtown nightlife in Guelph

oliVer dzuBa

Being able to balance academia and a social life is not the easi-est feat, and it would seem nearly impossible to combine the two without one suffering. Severn Bailey, Mike Hillcoat and Adam Estrela however have done this with a new website endeavour that has its roots in a course at the University of Guelph.

Bailey and Hillcoat were enroled in Doug Adlam’s entre-preneurship class MCS*4100 last semester, which featured a project that required students to create an idea for a business. Bailey and his now business partner used an idea titled guelphspot.com for their grade, but have taken the pro-posal one step further, and are currently taking this class proj-ect and making it into a reality.

“Our website offers students a complete look into the down-town scene; with photos of nights out, a collection of all nightly bar specials and events into one con-venient location, local DJs, and a list of all the popular bars in Guelph,” said Bailey, describing the website he and his colleagues

are working on. The website is tailored specifically to student nightlife at the University of Guelph.

“We feel there is a strong need for it in the Guelph community” stated Severn, claiming that there is no website that can current-ly serve the students as well as guelphspot.com will.

“After hundreds of hours of pro-gramming and coding we came to the realization that the work-load was far too much for just the two of us and we decided to pick up a third member” said Bailey, stressing the amount of hard work the three have put in to make this

website function. The team real-ized that on the internet, websites come in ample supply, and have worked hard on making their website stand out.

“We have had nothing but 4 a.m. nights of constantly bonk-ing heads and coming up with new ideas to keep evolving the website into something students really will enjoy,” Bailey said.

“We have created our very own ‘shout box’ (which is currently in the Beta stage), and we feel it will create a social atmosphere with-in the U of G community because it’s open to everyone,” said Bailey. He feels the feature will separate his team’s website from Twitter and Facebook as it removes some of the boundaries of these tradi-tional social networking websites. Visitors to the website will also be able to enter contests to win prizes from the website and other sponsors.

It is not unusual that students show apathy towards the material taught in classes, often because they fail to recognize a use. Many learn just enough to receive a good mark, only to forget the informa-tion in a couple of months. Bailey and his team, however, have done the opposite, and while doing so they have taken the chores of ac-ademia and combined them with the fun of a night out.

organizer Peter bradley brought cassettestival, a “hopefully periodic celebration of new music by guelphites … on cassette” to ed video on Jan. 12.

mIchAelA Kennedy

“bringing people together, one house show at a time” is the slogan of community music, a local effort to create awareness and exposure for up-and-coming musical talent. on Jan. 13, a seemingly quiet house on Waterloo Ave. in guelph was host to a show featuring merlin’s beard, rose brokenshire and Jordan raycroft. The pay-what-you-can policy included admission to the show, a hot bowl of soup and the chance to buy the band’s demo cds. The cozy and vibrant atmosphere of the venue coupled with the modest but outstanding musical talent of rose brokenshire and Jordan raycroft especially, made the night a success. shine a little light on them, music gods.

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snowed in at the theatreStudent-organized one-act festival a success

kelly wiGhton

Topping off the first week back to classes was the Sno-Week One-Act play festival, presented by the U of G’s Drama Students Federation (DSF). The festi-val showcased two series, each featuring a different group of performances.

On Jan. 14, in the George Lus-combe Theatre, “A Mugging Guide (For the Rich and Suc-cessful)” was the first of three one-act plays performed in the first series. Written by Sean Jacklin and directed by Andrew Luscombe, the play set the night

off to a great start. Short and sweet, the play

clocked in at a mere twenty minutes in length. Despite the brevity, actors Lou Progosh and Jacob Citron successfully man-aged to portray the dark humour in the interactions between a businessman and his mugger. Though the ending came sudden-ly, it was pleasantly surprising.

Surprise was a common ele-ment throughout the first series of the festival. Agnieszka Mlynarz, writer of “Beth and Laura” used the element of surprise in a very dark, comical sense, which paired nicely with the witty sarcasm of the characters. The actors dived right into their character’s perso-nas, which made for a believable performance of a relatively unre-alistic experience in a coffee shop.

Though both of these one-act plays were well executed, the shining performance of the night was “Posting Secrets” by Cas-sandra Van Oort. It was a longer act than the others, featured a larger cast, but restricted inter-action between the characters to a minimum. For the duration of the performance, each character shared a secret with the audi-ence, presenting a powerful and emotionally satisfying work of theatre.

As a whole, the festival was a success. With the little bit of time available for the DSF to prepare for the festival, the student run organization managed to kick-off winter semester 2012 with a successful festival.

Album review: medicine Hat – Medicine Hat 3.8/5

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Guelph rock band Medicine Hat’s debut record came out in Novem-ber, but the official unveiling party goes down Jan. 19 at the eBar. De-spite being their first recording, their eponymous seven-track album already establishes them a sound unto their own.

Opening track “To Be Named” probably most closely resembles lead singer Nabi Loney’s folksy solo material, albeit with a not-unwelcome rock element. Each iteration of the anthemic chorus is masterfully built up to a great-er intensity than the previous. The subject matter is relatable to anyone: waiting to be loved and wanting to fit in.

“Ships,” meanwhile, poetically adapts nautical metaphors for the trials and tribulations of love to song. Next on the playlist is pow-er-pop piece “Little Cigarettes,” a catchy duet between Loney and her boyfriend-guitarist Tyler Ber-sche. The guitar part cleverly picks a syncopated rhythm through the chords instead of strumming– a technique I wish more people used. The lyrics seem to simul-taneously lament and accept the

loss of innocence by way of to-bacco, drugs, and alcohol. Do the back-and-forth vocals represent a real-life aspect of the singers’ own relationship?

Things take on a rougher edge with “Digging For Diamonds.” The slow blues-rock tempo and heavy distortion actually manage to con-vey the sense of back-breaking physical labour suggested by the title even before words are sung. Building up the refrain towards the end of the song, the backing vocal part has room to grow and experiment with variation, but in-stead settles to repeat the same simple melodic line, though this song is still definitely a gem (pun fully intended).

Reverting to a pop feel once again, “Our Right” reaffirms a youthful need to make mistakes for ourselves—taking risks is some-times part of growing up. “Isaac” follows up as possibly the record’s heaviest song. Not a particularly fast piece, the slightly haunting melody still manages to be catchy.

The record closes with “Home,” a ballad sung by Bersche about how everyday things just aren’t the same without our loved ones around. Eventually, joined by his band mates, the song artfully ends out as a sort of sea chantey without ever feeling incongruous. However, the piece would be no worse if the stick-on-drum-rim clicks were removed from the earlier part of the song.

Overall, Medicine Hat has cre-ated a strong album. The songs all fit together nicely, but offer a va-riety of tempos and dynamics that neatly avoid the curse of beginning to sound the same after a while. At just over 23 minutes in length, one can only hope there is more of this type of polished writing to come from them in the future.

A true entertainerrich Aucoin brings immersive electronic act to eBar

sean chiliBeck

Rich Aucoin is a true entertain-er and that is clear from his live shows, where he never fails to get the crowd jumping and singing along. Bringing his high-ener-gy electronic act to the eBar on Jan. 12, Aucoin’s show opened with a customized opening cred-its video, where Aucoin grabbed names from the Facebook page advertising the event in order to personalize the show just that little bit more.

Before each song, Aucoin went through lyrics with the crowd, and then started each song with a video ripped from YouTube, bringing pop culture references into the mix as well. Through-out the show, psychedelic videos of the Grinch and other random videos flashed across the screen along with the lyrics just in case they managed to slip the minds of everyone gathered to listen.

At one point, Aucoin took out a parachute. One of those giant multicolored parachutes that every Canadian elementa-ry student loved like no other gym supply, Aucoinp unfurled the cloth canopy over the crowd and everyone naturally started to

wave it and jump uncontrollably with nostalgic joy.

Aucoin is an artist that makes it easy to be proud of the Canadian electronic music scene. Anyone looking for a fun night of live music is recommended to check out one of this Nova Scotia na-tive’s live shows.

If you missed out on his last visit to Guelph, Aucoin allows listeners a chance to get a handle on his music by offering down-loads of some of his songs on his website, and even returns fans’ text messages with free zip files of his latest album.

sno-Week one-Acts ran from Jan. 12-14 at george luscombe Theatre.

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one-man act gains numbersGraydon James and the young novelists talk upcoming debut release

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On Jan. 12, Graydon James and the Young Novelists played a show at Jimmy Jazz downtown Guelph, with an opening by Ben Caplan. Native to Toronto, the band that was once a one-man show is about to record its first full-length album this month. When speaking with Graydon James and drummer Mike Paddags, the two discussed their group’s upcoming record.

“We were lucky enough to get a government grant, a factor grant,” said James. “We’re spending every penny we can, starting next week.”

Having only been together for roughly two years, the group has released one EP and one live album recorded at Dublin St. Church.

“Mostly we were friends before or in various bands that we knew of,” James said of the band’s initial con-nection. “We knew each other and

had seen each other play in before.” Originally a solo act, it was inter-

esting to hear how James thought the music had changed with a full band.

“I did an album and it sounds like there’s a full band playing but it’s mostly me, which was a real-ly bad idea in retrospect,” James said. “But now that there is actual-ly a live band that I’m playing with they all bring a brand new kind of freshness to every part, people are actually thinking about what they’re playing, as opposed to just playing a part.”

Reflected in their performance, the musicians created a full, har-monious, folk sound that filled the small venue.

The reason for the group’s pres-ence in Guelph was a desire to test out new material.

“We just wanted to do a few more shows before we went into the stu-dio, just to kind of road test the last few songs before we go in, to see how they feel.” As the band will be working with producer Chris Stringer (Ohbijou, Timber Tim-bre), it is little to say that they are

enthusiastic for the end results. “Rumor has it he knows what

he’s doing,” Paddags joked.

It will be interesting to see where this new album will take Graydon James and the Young

Novelists, and how they will dy-namically create a solid sound they can call their own.

list service: Four infamous record productionstom Beedham

nine Inch nails – The Downward Spiral

There might be some ghosts lurk-ing in the background of Trent Reznor’s 1994 studio album. It’s been said that when seeking out a location to record The Downward Spiral, Trent Reznor would check out up to 15 houses a day. Eventual-ly, he settled on renting out a house in Beverly Hills, but not just any ranch in the affluent city. Reznor selected the very same location in which actress Sharon Tate had been murdered by members of the Man-son Family in 1969, claiming it was the location he found the most in-teresting. Reznor and his former manager occupied the house for 18 months of recording, and taking cues from a blood-scrawled mes-sage that had been written on the door after Tate’s murder, Reznor named the house “Le Pig.”

Iggy and the stooges – Raw PowerWhen the Stooges broke up

after The Stooges (1969) and Fun House (1970) received little com-mercial success, singer Iggy Pop’s heroin addiction was escalating and bassist Dave Alexander bat-tled alcoholism. Just getting the band back together was a task in itself, but David Bowie managed to do it. After shuffling around some roles, Bowie had the band together in the studio, manning the helm as producer. Although the album eventually went on to receive critical acclaim, Columbia Records invited Pop to remix the album in 1996. Fans still clamour over which pressing is better.

The velvet underground and nico’s eponymous debut

Andy Warhol held a lot of titles in his time: painter, printmaker, filmmaker, and record producer. At first the Velvet Underground’s

manager and mentor, Warhol is cited for serving production du-ties throughout the recording of its eponymous debut (there is, however, debate over the level of influence and authority he held throughout the process). Nat-urally, Warhol also created the album artwork for the release.

n.W.A. – Straight Outta ComptonOften cited as the pioneer

gangster rap record, and perhaps best known for featuring (and not featuring) the protest man-tra “Fuck Tha Police,” the success of Straight Outta Compton is re-sponsible for having launched N.W.A. member Dr. Dre (who also produced the album) into one of the most successful rap produc-ing careers of all time.

graydon James returned to guelph with a full band on Jan. 12.

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The Pop machineOdd future and The internet

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Most of the people writing about Odd Future are music critics and bloggers, and typically, they have one of two opinions about what they have heard: (1) the collective is composed of a bunch of homo-phobic, misogynist kids that need to grow up; and (2) they are some crazy kids churning out some of the most popular and progressive-subversive alternative hip-hop being produced these days.

Both of those opinions stem from the fact that the collective’s affiliates are less than sensitive where its lyrical choices are con-cerned. In collective leader Tyler, The Creator’s case, NME has reported that more than 200 vari-ations of the word “faggot” make appearances on Goblin, and The Fader counted 68 uses of “bitch” on the same album, where rape is a predominant theme. It is not hard to see where the people that call the group’s material out as hate

speech get their fuel. At the same time, those defend-

ing the group’s frequent usage of piercing epithets as one of its pro-gressive-subversive offerings are quick to point out that while the majority of Odd Future is com-posed of straight males, the group also harbours Syd tha Kid, an openly gay woman.

While this piece of information might suggest that the meaning behind Odd Future’s deployment of certain controversial words might not be as obvious as it would seem, friendship and alliance with one member of a community is not enough to signal an alliance with the community in question.

I’ll state my bias right now: I feel people give this group too much credit.

I have actually heard some-one go so far as to cite Tyler, The Creator’s anthemic chorus from

“Radicals” (“Kill people/burn shit/fuck school”) as proof that Tyler, The Creator is “an aggres-sive postmodernist commenting on setting.” This person (who shall remain nameless) and the highbrow snob types like them

qualify their claims by explaining that Odd Future’s lyrics often pick out qualities that determine the world they live in, and then parody them by employing over-the-top representations of the ideals per-petuated in their culture.

Yes, I recognize that “Radicals” is preceded with a disclaimer from Tyler that says, “Hey, don’t do anything that I say in this song, okay? It’s fuckin’ fiction.”

That said, I find it highly unlike-ly that a 20 year-old kid that raps about Rugrats characters has any real grasp of pomo.

Even if this is true, Tyler and

the Odd Future collective’s use of shock value is hardly subversive, and it’s definitely not progressive. It’s about as wild and out there as Pepsi using Britney Spears to ad-vertise their product, with more obscenities. All it requires is a basic understanding of a cultural cli-mate. Anyone could do that, and plenty do. Their use of homophobic and misogynistic slurs promotes more than dissuades people using.

Different things can be said of Syd tha Kyd’s new project, The Internet.

The artist publicly outted her-self with the video for “Cocaine,”

the single off her new album Pur-ple Naked Ladies. Therein, she picks up a girl at a carnival, snorts some white powder with her, and eventually abandons her when she passes out. Here, the shock value of the video combined with the peer pressure-inspired lyrics simultaneously encourages listen-ers to think critically about their choices and also about what they are watching and listening to.

If there is any hope for a pro-gressive Odd Future, it lies with The Internet.

Artifacts of the everydaywhat next?

seamus oGden

I’m driving home from night class on Monday after a long, defeating day. A Wintersleep and Postdata mix CD plays in harmony with the mood I find myself swimming in. After a melancholic Postdata num-ber, Wintersleep’s “Orca” begins calmly, bearing a shadow of the violence it will become. I know what’s coming. I feel a predator’s anticipation. I listen intently to Paul Murphy’s cathartic voice: “I’ll be a killer whale / when I grow up.”

What a perfect creature is a kill-er whale. Terribly, mysteriously beautiful. As a small boy it was my favourite animal (that was before I stopped taking time to ponder about inane things like favourites). I used to sit for hours drawing them. The stark black and white of their glossy skin, the flowing lines of their bodies. The creatures seemed to draw themselves. Each one the image of ancient wisdom, of beautiful stature, enduring calm, of silent presence. There is nothing

I would rather be. There is a question forced upon

every young one: “what do you want to be when you grow up?” These days I feel as though I have become that awful question. Over my seven years off-and-on at the University of Guelph, I’ve seen a number of friends buckle under its weight. Graduate’s Depression. A medically recognized condition surely, this state of eternal “what next?” Us sufferers need our ther-apy sessions. This time it’s with the boys from Wintersleep, a band that speaks directly to this gener-ation’s neuroses about our future lives, about the beautiful possi-bilities and promise of youth and the bitter realities and pressures of youth. We wonder: will we fall short? – or worse – will we mis-succeed? will we make others the victims of a plight that is our own?

Beauty is not all that the image of the orca brings to this song. There are great tensions: the un-discerning violence of natural forces contrasting the beautiful gifts they give us; the possibilities of power and desire to create, to

destroy; the black and the white. Oh, the greatness before which we are nothing worthy: the orca, the hurricane, the forest fire, the avalanche, the tidal wave. Oh, to be something so awesome and ca-pable, to be nothing but a will, a saviour or a destroyer, an Achilles.

The music erupts into a raging force. It takes me with it, there in my forest green Volkswagen ‘03 Jetta. I will wonder later, is that thundering crescendo an ex-pression of the completion, the achievement of that distant great-ness, for better or worse, or is it rage at the impossibility of its achievement? In this instant it is not of concern to me.

And there, headlights point-ing ever onward, I pass through a street-lit intersection headed back to my parents’ house (– going no-where –) driving 70 in a 60 zone (a true bad-ass). I’m rocking-out alone in my Jetta, feigning care-lessness, a decided mad man. A perfect metaphor for my own pre-dicament, for the predicament of yet another generation.

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gryphon wrestling looks to finish strongThe wrestling team looks to build on their recent success as they prepare for the OuA and CiS finals.

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Wrestling deals with the execution of an unstoppable force against an immovable object, a problematic situation for most; yet for Coach Doug Cox and the Gryphon Wres-tling Team, it’s simply “business as usual.”

A member of Wrestling Canada’s Hall of Fame, former Olympian and Pan-Am Games Champion Doug Cox has grown the program since his first year as head coach in 1996. In that time, he has increased the size and success of this unique program. The team is composed of about 70 per cent varsity athletes, the remaining are comprised of former students and other athletes looking to compete at an elite level.

“[The] elite athletes stay, and that’s a good draw for the varsi-ty athletes. Without those elites, it would be difficult to bring in re-cruits,” said Coach Cox. “Wrestlers usually get into the best part of their careers when they’re about 27 or 28,” he added. The benefit of this particular program lies in the lon-gevity of the athletes’ tenure with the club, allowing Coach Cox to guide and develop the athletes in the most productive way.

Coach Cox is quick to dismiss his own accolades as a drawing point on bringing in new athletes from high school. “The thing about the Guelph

University and Club program is that we’re about the whole athlete,” he explained. Cox’s focus on creating the team as a family-unit and in de-veloping strong individuals through wrestling remains the sound foun-dation of the program. Evidence of this lies in some athletes’ decisions to come to Guelph after finishing their undergraduate elsewhere – a marker of the Guelph’s program’s success and respect in the wrestling community.

That success is recognized na-tionally. The men and women are ranked eighth and third, respec-tively. The men had been ranked second only a week ago, but after an ACL tear sustained by star athlete Tyson Frost-Dreyer, the Gryphons dropped slightly in the national rankings. However, Coach Cox feels that the team will pull through and continue to find success.

The Gryphons will host a meet this weekend and look to continue ex-ecuting the way that has garnered them an esteemed spot among the nation’s best programs.

February envelops both the OUA and CIS Championships, two events that the Gryphons surely have cir-cled on their calendars. “We’ve worked to peak the athletes for this time of year,” said Cox. “Howev-er, the more we keep it business as usual, the better we’re going to be.”

The Gryphons will look to last year’s gold-medal performances by Korey Jarvis and Allison Les-lie as an example of how to move forward into the championship sea-son. And in the sport of collisions between unstoppable forces and im-movable objects, moving forward could prove to be the key for Gry-phon dominance on provincial and national levels.

gryphons roar past Warriors in men’s basketball actionOn the back of a 24 point performance from Kareem malcolm, the Gryphons men’s basketball team was able to improve their record to 7-5.

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This past Saturday Jan. 14, the Gry-phons Men’s Basketball team was able to rebound from a strong third quarter charge from the Waterloo Warriors to come away with a de-cisive 82-63 victory. The win was the Gryphon’s third in a row after wins against Windsor and Western last week.

After a tight third quarter in which the Warriors brought the score to within one, the Gry-phons were able to overpower their opponents with strong team de-fence and a fantastic performance from fourth year guard, Kareem Malcolm.

“In the fourth quarter we created probably about four turnovers in a row and put a lot of pressure on [Waterloo]” said head coach Chris O’Rourke. “We grinded and finally it paid off in the fourth quarter and we went on a big run, converted

a couple of three-point plays, and just did what we wanted to offensively”.

Malcolm, who scored 12 points in the fourth quarter alone and led all scorers with 24 points, was named the “Gryphons Male Athlete of the Week” on Jan. 16. According to O’Rourke, Malcolm was successful by sticking to his strengths.

“[Malcolm’s] a great slasher and when he sticks to slashing he takes guys off their dribble and some-thing positive happens. He got into the lane and finished, and that’s what he does best,” said O’Rourke.

The Gryphons now look for-ward to their next game against a powerful and experienced Laurier Golden Hawks team. The Golden Hawks have one of the most pow-erful offences in Ontario, so the Gryphons have a tough test ahead of them. According to O’Rourke, in order to be successful against Laurier, the Gryphons will need to focus on defensive rebounding, containing Laurier’s transition, and playing disciplined basketball.

The nationally ranked number seven Golden Hawks will be put-ting their 10-2 record on the line against the Gryphons on Jan. the 18 at the W.F. Mitchell Athletic Centre.

Kareem malcolm goes in for the layup during saturday’s game against the Waterloo Warriors

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The other side of Adhdmelina lin

Attention deficit hyperactivity dis-order (ADHD) is a developmental disorder in the brain, specifically in the frontal lobe. It is most often characterized by hyperactivity and inattentiveness, as well as impul-sivity, addiction and short term memory loss. On the other hand, people with ADHD think and view the world differently, which can re-sult in much creativity and insight that others may not realize.

Students with ADHD often have trouble keeping up with their stud-ies; this includes difficulty absorbing information, slower paced learn-ing and/or handing in assignments late. Usually, if the student is feel-ing overwhelmed by the amount of work, he or she would turn towards an addiction to numb the emotions.

However, ADHD is not without its own perks. In addition to being creative and quite compassionate, people with ADHD also have the ability to hyperfocus.

“The ability to hyperfocus is es-sentially that you lose all track of time, you lose all track of sense of the world when you’re doing this one thing, or these several things that you’re extremely passionate about,” said Alino Kislenko, ADHD and Productivity Coach.

Kislenko is a University of Guelph graduate, and certified neuro-lin-guistic programming therapist. She leads the weekly Guelph Adult ADHD Support Group, helping chil-dren, students and adults. She also has a company, ADHD Interrupted, which provides many resources for people with ADHD.

“What I do [to treat] ADHD is a mixture of cognitive-behavioural therapy, as well as practical coach-ing. We do a lot of problem-solving and help the people with ADHD cre-ate healthy habits by working with them weekly […] to learn what their learning styles are and what their [individual] problems are.”

By learning and adapting hab-its and strategies to cope with

inattentiveness and other prob-lems, as well as identifying what they’re interested in, people with ADHD can be much happier in what they do. In terms of career paths, they are likely to be suc-cessful with a career in their area of interest as a result of their in-tense passion for it.

“The [thing about] ADHD is that it makes you bad at things you aren’t passionate about; you can get distracted, or you’re just not into it, you’re not as driven and you miss things. But when it’s something you are obsessed with naturally, if you follow that, amaz-ing things happen,”

Kislenko said.There are resources and tools on

campus available for both students with and without ADHD. One place to check out is the Centre for Students with Disabilities as well as the website for ADHD In-terrupted, which offers tips, tools and further information on servi-ces in Guelph.

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Guelph is home to some of Canada’s most talented fe-

male athletes, though there are few who are aware of this. In the far corner of campus, the women’s rugby team has won the OUA championships in front of close friends and family members. Rather than showcasing the talents of a hockey team that currently sits in second place in the OUA standings, the Frosty Mug will spotlight their male counterparts, who have won less times then the women have lost. So why is it that our often more-deserving fe-male athletes get overshad-owed? Interviews with high profile senior female Gry-phons hope to illuminate this issue and discuss the door-ways that are open to them post-graduation.

What can female athletes do in terms of continuing their ath-letics after university?

Jasmine Douglas, basketball: I know a few people that have gone over and played in Europe professionally so that’s always an option. Many also go into coaching.

Kerith Gordon, rowing: The rowing community is set up so that you can continue rowing [after university]. Through the

summer we row for the club and as soon as the school sea-son starts we row for the uni-versity, so post-graduation you just can’t wear the UofG uni-suit anymore. You just have to move on and move back to your club, but there are certainly lots of op-portunities for senior athletes to continue to compete at a high level.

Christine Fraser, golf: The golf industry is kind of its own little world, so even if you don’t continue to play golf you’re still involved in the golfing community. As for continuing to play golf [professionally], I don’t think it’s really an option. However, you can play golf until you’re 90– it’s a lifetime sport– so in that way, [golfing] is really cool because it’s always going to be a part of your life.

Tamara Bell, hockey: If fe-males want to continue playing hockey competitively they can either play in the Canadian Wo-mens Hockey League (CWHL) or play professional hockey overseas.

Genevieve Lalonde, cross country: It depends what they’re looking to do. For myself when I graduate I’m actually looking to go to the Olympics. For a lot of the other girls on the team, they will probably finish their eligibility and pursue a masters here. Otherwise, some of them may end up in sports medicine.

Melissa Corso, soccer: There’s not much actually. You can pretty much only play in typical wom-

en’s leagues, which are any age group. There are some profes-sional leagues, but they’re very time consuming. You [would] practice four or five times a week and then on the weekends you go away and you don’t get paid. You basically just get your reg-istration and uniform paid for […] so it’s not much.

Jacey Murphy, rugby: Right now I’m looking at being in-volved in the Canadian women’s program. Last year I went to Ve-gas with them for a 7’s tourna-ment there, so I’m looking at developing myself into someone that can work their way into that program.

Allison Leslie, wrestling: Guelph has a club here at the university so [wrestlers] can still compete. There are a bunch of world competitions, the Olym-pics, Pan Americans and so on, too.

Do you ever come up against people who have preconceived notions of female teams as less valuable than men’s?

Jasmine Douglas, basket-ball: Yeah, but they’re not very knowledgeable if they do think that. Recently a lot of guys have come up to me and said that they saw us play while working out in the gym. So it’s awesome that even though they may not have gone to the game, the way the gym is set up [they can watch it].

Kerith Gordon, rowing: Of course we do, and actually there is a huge hierarchy in rowing be-cause it’s a weight based sport, so of course you want to see the big guys who row in the big eight [boats] and can move super fast. An eight of heavy weight men can pull a water skier and that’s pretty cool and of course those are the big races to watch. So there is sort of ingrained dis-crimination I guess.

Christine Fraser, golf: Yeah, and then we just beat them on the golf course.

Tamara Bell, hockey: Yes, but these people often have never watched female sports. After watching the skill and competi-tiveness of female sports they often change their opinion.

Genevieve Lalonde, cross country: Yeah, that’s definitely one struggle that our team comes up against. Our team is so strong and we’ve won more times than the guys, but the men’s team al-ways seems to outshine us at the end. We’re proud of our achieve-ments as much as anyone else.

Jacey Murphy, rugby: I think so. Especially with the differ-ences between body types for men’s and women’s sports, par-ticularly for something as physi-cal as rugby.

Do you think there are fewer opportunities for female ath-letes post-university gradua-tion than male athletes?

Kerith Gordon, rowing: It depends on the level that you intend to attain. If you want to be a high performance athlete and you want to go to the Olym-pics, for example, there aren’t as many women’s boatings so there aren’t as many events you can qualify for. But at the club level, there are a lot of opportunities to race.

Christine Fraser, golf: Defi-nitely. [There are less opportu-nities for female athletes] in the golf industry especially, because it’s like a boys club. But if you’re good and you’re persistent then you shouldn’t have a problem.

Tamara Bell, hockey: Yes I do. It is unfortunate that females do not have the same number of op-portunities as males. However, it is becoming more equal and females are beginning to have more opportunities compared to the past years.

Genevieve Lalonde, cross country: In the past there wasn’t but now everything that the guys can run the girls can run too, with the exception of dis-tance. In cross country specifi-cally guys run 10km and girls run 5km, and there was talk to cut that down to 4km which would’ve been ridiculous.

Kerith gordon genevieve lalonde christine fraser

melissa corso jacey murphy

Melissa Corso, soccer: At this level, it’s hard to say. Overall, programs are a lot more devel-oped for men’s. They have MLS, so pro-teams are being formed in North America, [just not for women].

Jacey Murphy, rugby: I think it’s different within rugby. I know a couple of my guy friends have had the ability to go and play rugby overseas in England and Wales, so there’s definitely more opportunities for them in that sense. But the Canadian program is expanding right now which is great because they’re giving a bit more funds to the women’s teams.

Allison Leslie, wrestling: I actually feel right now that fe-male wrestlers have more op-portunities in Canada because the women’s program is better than men’s so we have a lot more funding available [to us].

Do you feel like you need to look outside Canada for athletic op-portunities?

Jasmine Douglas, basketball: I’m not too knowledgeable about what’s available for athletes within Canada, other than fun leagues. I know that Europe is always a possibility for female athletes. Our assistant coach Ker-ri Jilesen, played professionally in Europe for a few years.

Kerith Gordon, rowing: I

don’t think I’d have to go outside Canada. I’d definitely stay here.

Christine Fraser, golf: No, I think [golf is] really growing in Canada and a lot of new op-portunities are presenting them-selves. You network a lot in golf, so again, once you’re part of the community, even if you’re a girl, then you can meet other girls and go through them.

Tamara Bell, hockey: No. If you asked me this question 10 years ago, I probably would have said yes. Now there are a lot of opportunities in Canada for athletes.

Genevieve Lalonde, cross country: In terms of going pro-fessional, I would definitely stay here. One of the things that a lot of people don’t know is that we’ve got a whole Olympic de-velopment team training at the university everyday, which I’m a part of. As far as competitions go, you might have to go down to the States to get some of the bigger competitions, but it’s defi-nitely a sport that’s developing quickly in Canada.

Melissa Corso, soccer: I prob-ably wouldn’t. In Europe they have the culture for it, but I don’t think there are [many opportu-nities].

Jacey Murphy, rugby: Not at the moment. I think it’s really changed within the last year. The women’s 7’s program got a big grant from the government,

especially since rugby is going into the Olympics in 2016 as a trial sport, so it’s certainly got more attention now.

Allison Leslie, wrestling: No, I’d probably stay in Canada if I wanted to compete. Canada has one of the strongest wom-en’s wrestling programs. We’re actually ahead of the United States, and we did pretty well at the Olympics– we got a gold and two bronzes at the so that’s pretty decent.

What are your own personal goals for after graduation?

Jasmine Douglas, basketball: I will probably take a year off, work, potentially travel or play in Europe. I’m from Guelph and I’ve gone to school in Guelph so I want to kind of spread my wings.

Kerith Gordon, rowing: I’m going to go do more school and continue to row in the school cir-cuit and the club circuit in the summer.

Christine Fraser, golf: Well, I’m in my masters in landscape architecture so eventually I want to design my own golf courses. I actually know Kirsten Brown, [a recent Guelph grad who received national recognition for her golf course designs], and she was a huge inspiration for me to come here and take this program.

Tamara Bell, hockey: I would love to continue playing compet-itive hockey either in the CWHL

or play in Europe and experi-ence traveling as well.

Genevieve Lalonde, cross country: I’m going to try this summer [to make the Olympic

team] and then 2016 is my big year so I might not stick around Guelph until then, but definitely for a few years after the [2012 Olympics].

Melissa Corso, soccer: As a [female] soccer player this is what you aim to do– you play at the university level and that’s pretty much it. I tried out for a semi-pro league a few years ago but the commitment is so much.

Jacey Murphy, rugby: There’s two world cups between [the 2016 Olympics] and now for 7s and 15s so I’m just going to take it one step at a time, and if I’m still doing rugby in 2016 then the Olympics will certainly be a goal of mine.

Allison Leslie, wrestling: I

did really well when I was a ju-nior, I went to Junior Worlds a couple times and won Nationals but seniors is a different game. My goal this year is to win CIS again and we’ll see from there.

What do you think of fan sup-port at games/competitions?

Jasmine Douglas, basketball: I feel like this year [fan support] has been decent in comparison to other years, because normally we can name everyone in the stands, like “oh, there’s my dad, that’s my friend.” Our coach has said that he’s had people come up to him and say “we’re going to start going to your games earlier be-cause you guys are playing some exciting basketball,” instead of just catching the tail end of our game before the men’s game. I think people’s preconceptions have changed. When we play basketball, we’re not girly-girls, we’re going to go out there and if we have to be physical then we will be physical.

Kerith Gordon, rowing: Well it’s poor. It’s hard because we train out in Guelph Lake and it’s difficult for people to get [there]. We have our own regatta every fall, which more and more people have come too and it’s re-ally great to see people cheering you on. Any athlete will tell you that. In terms of other regattas we go to, especially at the Head of the Trent, it’s just packed– it’s also their homecoming– but the banks are absolutely crowded with people and it gets you ex-cited. So it would definitely be nice to see a little more support on the Guelph side.

Christine Fraser, golf: That would be a big fat zero. It’s a bit different for golf, because we have one competition a year, plus golf isn’t the most exciting sport to watch, so I don’t know if we’ll see an increase [in fan sup-port] at all.

We do have a good team here, but do people know that? That’s the thing– probably not. Half of the people don’t even know that Cutton Club is right there, and people are always asking me “where do you play, where do you practice?” and I say “right across the street.” We made it to nationals this year, so hope-fully with the fundraising events we’re going to have to do to get [to Victoria] it will create some more awareness.

Genevieve Lalonde, cross country: The running commu-nity itself is pretty close-knit so you get a lot of fan support from them, although it’s not the easi-est sport to watch because we’re running in and out of the trails and so you just see glimpses of the race. A lot of people don’t know that we have transformed the arboretum into a national cross country course, and plans are almost finalized for an inter-national class track around the football stadium and then we have that new indoor track that’s being built, so we’re growing. I think with those new venues it will help [increase our fan base].

Melissa Corso, soccer: It’s re-ally sad, but I can’t really blame them either. The program in the past hasn’t been very strong so we haven’t been able to build that fan base and there’s really no advertisement for [soccer games either]. Now that we have the new facilities there’s been a lot more support, even just this year.

Jacey Murphy, rugby: It could be a bit better. I don’t know if a lot of people on-campus know that the games are going on or if it’s lack of knowledge or just lack of interest, but it would be really superb to have a lot more people there especially when we’re com-peting for an OUA final on our home pitch.

Allison Leslie, wrestling: Wrestling is not the most popu-lar sport and a lot of people don’t get it, so they don’t bother com-ing out to watch. Other than that, it’s just my friends and family that come out to support me.

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gryphons don’t sweat the holidays The women’s hockey team celebrates back-to-back wins while finals steadily approach

sasha odesse

Coming back after a long and gameless break can be an issue for some teams, but not the Gry-phons women’s hockey team who followed up their break with a double-header winning week-end on Jan. 14 and 15. The wins over Western and Windsor give the Gryphons a four-game win streak which interim head coach Carly Haggard is quite pleased with, and rightfully so.

“I’m extremely happy with how the team is performing,” said Hag-gard. “I was a little nervous before the games this past weekend as we had six weeks off [between games] which is quite a long time, but they came back strong and I think they were probably our two best games of the whole season.”

“I think that they know we only have eight regular season games left and it’s kind of getting down to crunch time so everyone has re-ally stepped up their game.”

The team was given off December 14- December 28 until practice re-sumed throughout the remainder of the holidays.

“The biggest thing that I was try-ing to focus on [over the break] was conditioning, “ said Haggard.

“It’s kind of hard to do systems when you still don’t play for an-other month, so we really, really worked on our conditioning and I think it showed this past week-end. To come back and be able to play two hard, physical games was great. “

With the quarterfinals quick-ly approaching, the Gryphons must hang on to their second place ranking behind the Lauri-er Goldenhawks, whom they will most likely face in the finals. Hag-gard, however, remains firm in her belief that you can never be too confident.

“Our four losses right now are to the bottom half of teams in the league so you never know what can happen. Right now we’re just taking it game by game and just trying to get better individually and as a team [in the meantime].”

Coupled with this attitude, the Gryphons will also have to gain more confidence in their own abil-ities if they are to overcome the Hawks.

“Laurier has always been our nemesis and Queens having beat us just last year in the finals has developed a good rivalry too. I think that for the girls, especial-ly with Laurier, it’s all mental,” said Haggard. “[Laurier’s] been a powerhouse for the past seven or eight years and we are just as

good. If [the team] can just get past that mental side then we will be able to compete with them 100 per cent. “

In terms of the fluctuating fan support at home games, Hag-gard says it all depends on who the team is playing and what other activities are going on on-campus.

“Come playoffs, we always get a big crowd and the girls love play-ing in front of that,” said Haggard.

“I don’t think it really matters to students on-campus in regard to us being a women’s sport, students just want to see a good sporting event and that’s what we produce.”

outdoors club thrives in cold weathersusannah riPley

This is the time of year when it’s easy to stay inside all day, brav-ing the cold only when absolutely necessary. Between the negative temperatures, raw wind and icy pavements, even the five-minute walk between classes can seem daunting. However, the Univer-sity of Guelph Outdoors Club is not discouraged by the cold season. To these intrepid students, winter of-fers a whole new set of adventures.

Club president Henry Chen wore snowshoes during the interview as he described the Outdoor Club’s winter offerings.

“Our big trip is usually a dog-sledding trip,” he said. “We have fishing, some hiking, camping trips in the winter time. For the past three years we’ve had win-ter wilderness survival – it’s very popular. Ice climbing, some day trips – snowshoeing, skiing...”

“I wish it would be a little bit colder here,” added fellow ex-ecutive member Abby Menendez.

“We need snow if we want to go snowshoeing!”

The club cannot advertise this semester’s expeditions until it has approval from the Central Students’ Association, but many trips are being planned. They could

range from day trips to a nine-day hike during winter break. The dis-tance the club travels also varies: proposed excursions include the Bruce Peninsula, Killarney Pro-vincial Park on the north shore of Georgian Bay, and Banff Nation-al Park.

The club’s website states that it ”[runs] trips for people with vary-ing experience levels, and most trips are great for beginners.” It’s a good opportunity to meet peo-ple, try something new and get some exercise. The club even rents out equipment to its members, so they can try a new activity without having to invest in their own gear.

Students who wish to partici-pate in this semester’s activities can sign up on Club Days, Jan. 19-20. Last semester the club had about 200 members, which is normal.

“We always have a lot of exchange students,” said Menendez. “They like to see the ‘rugged Canadian outdoors’”.

“But numbers always go down in the winter time,” said Chen.

“Some people are afraid of the winter.”

Not everyone can handle the cold. But if you can, get outside.

Fan of the gamesasha odesse

This week’s Fan of the Game is Tayne Hewer, a recent Guelph graduate of biomedical science and a Gryphon hockey fan.

“I’m an ex-player, so I just came to support my roommate who still plays on the team. I graduated, so now I come to watch [them] play.”

Nowadays, Hewer’s passion for hockey continues, but is displayed by her enthusiasm in the stands rather than on the ice. Fan support like Hewer’s is no doubt important to the team, who are continuing to work hard while also celebrating a four-game winning streak, the past two of which were home games.

“I [attend a lot of Gryphon events], I’m pretty much at all of the men’s and women’s hockey games.”

While watching the Guelph–Western game on Saturday Jan. 14, Hewer expressed her faith in the continuing success of the Gry-phons women’s hockey team.

“I have high hopes for them and I think they’re going to go all the way this year.”

Hewer correctly placed her bets on the Gryphon team, who finished with a 5-2 win over the Mustangs.

The Gryphons currently sit in second place, tailing close behind their number one rivals, the Lau-rier Goldenhawks.

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Women’s curling prepping for provincialsduncan day-myron`

This February, the Guelph Curl-ing Club will be host to both the OUA and CIS championships, and the University of Guelph wom-en’s curling team has their sights set on both of them.

The curling team is a bit differ-ent from some of the other teams on campus, and while they do compete both provincially and nationally, it doesn’t have the same varsity status as many other sports.

“We’re kind of in limbo right now, [between being a club and a varsity sport],” said head coach Jason Rice. “But we are able to compete within the OUA cham-pionships and at the CIS national level.”

Although not recognized as a varsity sport right now, Rice does hope that the team will be there one day– but it will take some work.

“The program at the University of Guelph is in its infancy and as the years go on we want to help develop the curling program, and our future goal is to obtain that varsity status down the road,” he said.

Last year they finished in the middle of the pack at the CIS championships, so this year they’ve spent some time re-building and working on what might have been weaker last year, both to help get the team to that varsity status as well as placing higher nationally than they did last season.

“This year has kind of been a building year for us. We’ve mostly been focusing on team dynamics,” said Rice. “From the start of the season we got togeth-er as a team to develop both our long-term and short-term goals, both from an individual athlete to a team standpoint.”

While most competitive curl-ing teams have four players, many university teams carry more than that to accommodate the busy schedules many students have.

This years team has six players, with four returning from last year and two first year students join-ing the ranks.

Clancy Grandy is one of the four returning players and the team’s skip, responsible for call-ing many of the team’s shots, or directing where the other players should aim their stones.

Grandy also cites team dynam-ics as being important for the team to be able to outdo their performance last year.

“Team dynamics were some-thing that we worked on a lot this year. [We met] with a sports psy-chologist, which we didn’t do last year in preparation,” she said.

“Team dynamics are something that I think, if you have them, can set you apart from other univer-sity teams.”

Team dynamics aren’t the only areas in which the team is focus-ing though.

“We’ve each committed to a nutrition plan through meeting with a nutritionist on campus and then we have a fitness plan [as well],” said Grandy.

Hopefully the extra work and initiative will pay off. The team seems to be staying positive.

“The sport of curling is just like any sport, whether its baseball or football or any other sport at the university level, they all take time and dedication and these girls have it,” said Rice, a senti-ment that Grandy echoes.

“Our goal for the team would be to win CIS and that’s definitely my personal goal as well because I feel that we have the talent and the team dynamics to do it this year.”

The team has a few opportu-nities to prepare for the OUAs, which take place from Feb. 16 to 20 here in Guelph. They play in a league every Monday at the Guelph Curling Club, but also have two tournaments on the horizon. The Brock University Tournament takes place on Jan. 21 and 22, and the Wilfrid Lau-rier Tournament on Feb. 4 and 5.

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Published on Feb. 12, 1980. “The gryp-hons become electric!” The Ontarion photographers tried out a new darkroom technique on this photo to create realistic looking lightning bolts to illuminate the gryphons women’s basketball team win over the laurentian “vees”. The gryphons’ “impenetrable defence” allowed the vees only seven points in the final quarter. With a final score of 51-36, the gryphons claimed the oWIAA divisional championship title. ontArIon ArchIves

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chicken paprikas with dumplingsaBiGel lemak

Chicken paprikas easily makes it into my top ten favourite foods. This traditional Hungarian meal brings comfort with its creamy sauce, sweet aromatic smell and won-derfully fluffy dumplings. There’s a serious amount of nom packed into this dish.

IngredIents

For the Paprikas:2-3 pounds of chicken (in thigh and/or leg form)2 large onions, chopped2 cloves of garlic, crushed2-3 heaping tbsp of sweet pap–rika (watch out for the hot and smoked kinds)1-2 cups sour cream (you can sub - stitute this with plain yogurt)oilsalt pepper

For the dumplings:1 egg beaten1 cup of flour1 cup of lukewarm waterpinch of salt

1. Heat a large saucepan to medi-um-high with some oil, then add the finely chopped onion. Add a pinch of salt and pepper.

2. Just as the onions start to cara-melize, add the crushed garlic and stir.

3. Once the garlic starts to turn co-lour (don’t let your onions burn) add the chicken thighs and legs into the pan (I like to leave the skin on mine). Note: make sure the chicken breasts and legs are roughly the same size so that they cook evenly.

4. Thirty seconds after adding the chicken turn the pan to a medium heat. Add salt and pepper.

5. Making sure the onion doesn’t burn, let the chicken pieces cook for roughly five minutes before flipping them over.

6. After another five minutes, sprinkle the paprika over the chick-en and mix it evenly.

7. Once the chicken is coated, add the sour cream and give the chick-en another good mix. Turn the heat down to Low and put a lid over the pan. Let it sit while you make the dumplings.

8. In another pot, add water with a pinch of salt and bring to a slight boil.

9. In a bowl beat the egg and add the flour gradually as you continue to stir. Don’t freak out if it starts to look clumpy.

10. Add lukewarm water to the mixture slowly, stirring as you go. You’re going to want a consisten-cy similar to that of a pancake mix.

11. Once you’re happy with the consistency (add flour and water as needed) take a tablespoon and scoop a spoonful of batter into the hot water. Note: if you dunk the spoon into the water, the dump-ling batter will slid off. Once the dumpling is cooked, it will float to the surface.

12. Once they are cooked, pour carefully into a strainer waiting in your sink.

13. Check your chicken and give it a good stir. If it’s been twenty min-utes on the stove give it a taste and add salt and sour cream accordingly.

14. Once the meat starts falling off the bone you know the dish is cooked and ready to serve over the dumplings.

Garnish with a dollop of sour cream (as you can never have enough) and enjoy.

boiling up some pig canklesduncan day-myron

The pig is a very versatile animal meat-wise, even for people who are never very adventurous with what they eat. Bacon, ham, pork chops, sausages and hot dogs are all different bits and pieces of the same wonderful little fat pink ani-mal. So when you’re looking to eat a part of the pig that you might not have had before, you don’t have a lot of options. (Tail, snout, ears and genitals are all presumably contained in hotdogs.)

Ham hocks are part of a pig’s leg, between the ham and the trotter, or if they were people (or Porky Pig), the thigh and the foot. There is generally a fair amount of meat on the hock, but they aren’t that popular because they also contain a high amount of fat and bone and can be difficult to handle.

Like most of the other garbage parts of animals you’ll read about in this column, ham hocks have their origins among the work-ing poor, in this case mostly in the American south. Once all the

fatcat One Percenters have taken their breast and loin or whatever it is rich people eat, the peasants are left with little more than the ankles. And probably like the teeth or something, for calcium.

I’ve prepared it here with col-lard greens, another southern American staple. Collard greens are easy to find and easy to cook, but make sure you inspect and wash them thoroughly because what if there’s a spider in there. It won’t get you on Food TV, but they are also way easier to dis-mantle and prepare with scissors rather than a knife, unless you’re great with knives.

They are generally available two different ways: fresh or smoked. Either works for this recipe. Fresh ham hocks will generally cook down and fall off the bone easi-er, while smoked ham hocks will sometimes need to be removed from the pan and have the meat removed manually. Smoked hocks are also already quite salty, so compensate with the amount of salt you add to the cooking water.

ham hocks and collard greens

1 ham hock2L water1 bunch collard greens1 medium sized onion, choppedButterSaltPepperChili flakes

1. Salt the water and bring to a rolling boil. Place the ham hock in the water and keep on medium heat for about two hours, checking periodically to ensure the water level doesn’t drop too low.

2. Increase the heat during the last half hour to reduce the water level by about half. At this point the meat should be coming off the bone.

3. To prepare the greens, remove the thick spine of the leaves and chop into inch-wide ribbons. Add to the water with copped onion and continue to cook uncovered for another half an hour.

4. Remove hambone from the water and remove any meat left on it and return the meat to the pot.

Serve in bowls straight out of the pot with some bread and hot sauce.

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guelph’s great gift guidejulia hiGGinson

Buying a great gift is hard. You go to the mall thinking you’ll just see something that jumps out at you. You start by browsing through some clothes but realize you don’t know their size, you look at books and can’t remem-ber what they’ve read lately. Gift cards are socially unacceptable to give to someone even remote-ly close to your own age, and you don’t want to give out cash. Buying a gift, whether it’s for a birthday, anniversary or holiday, is a difficult task that takes fine tuned gift buying skills and some creative thinking. Luckily, this Great Gift Guide has you covered!

This week we’re going to look at the perfect gift for the geek in your life. The website thinkgeek.com is a great place to find funny, collectible gifts that are unique and interesting. You want to give something that shows you’ve put some thought into what you’ve picked out. Whether it’s a pi ice cube tray, a Darth Vader USB hub or a universal gadget wrist char-ger for your on-the-go charging, these gifts are unique, unexpect-ed and fun. You can be sure the person you’re giving to won’t

already have one of whatever you choose from this site.

My gifting suggestion this week is the “iDuck Bathtub Music” iPod adapter for $29.99. Appro-priate for anyone over eight years old, this gift has the cuteness factor and is suitable for the girl or guy on your list. I know I’ve thrown out many broken shower radios and worry about ruining my iPod dock in the humidity of the bathroom. The iDuck gives you the choice between listen-ing to your playlists, podcasts or FM radio. iDuck is a waterproof, floating ducky that fits any MP3 player with a 3.5 mm headphone jack. All you have to do is plug your iPod or MP3 player into the egg transmitter and place it in a dry place, turn on your iPod and float the iDuck in your tub or place him on your shower ledge. The inner workings of the iDuck are designed not to get wet, but if it does, ThinkGeek will replace it for you without question.

ThinkGeek has several ship-ping options and they’ll try their best to get it to you in three to five business days. With door-to-door tracking you don’t have to worry about your iDuck swim-ming off along the way.

beth’s craft cornermake your own earring organizer

Beth Purdon-mclellan

Jewelry is like Tupperware: it is impossible to keep organized. Bracelets get tangled, necklaces knot themselves, and it usually takes some digging to come up with a matching pair of earrings. Jewelry boxes can help keep ev-erything separate, but a box with enough dividers can be very ex-pensive. This craft is a simple way to keep track of your earrings.

you will need:

A vinyl recordA hammerA nailA piece of cardboardGlueA pop can tab

how to make it:

Place the cardboard on your floor or table and then place the vinyl record on top. The cardboard not only protects your work surface, but also absorbs some of the force from your hammer and will pro-tect the vinyl from cracking.

On the vinyl, you will notice darker circles going around the record. These are good to follow as you mark where your earrings will go.

Starting closer to the centre, nail two holes approximately one cm apart. Follow the circle all the way around. You can create as many

layers as you want depending on how many earrings you want to hang. Just make sure you don’t nail too close together as you risk split-ting the vinyl.

Once you have enough spaces, check and see which side of the record is nicer. Sometimes when nailing vinyl, a small flap can ap-pear on either side.

Place a drop of glue on the re-cord label. Take your pop can

tab and gently press it into the glue. Pop can tabs usually have two holes– make sure you do not cover both holes with glue. When the glue has dried you can hang the record on the wall so that your earrings are neat, or-ganized and out of harm’s way.

“yo did you see that coachella lineup?” If charlie asks you about it, don’t think that he actually wants to hear your thoughts on it. It’s just time for him to list the bands in the smallest writing on the poster, talk about how great they used to be, and then how he wishes he was going. he isn’t even going. shut up about coachella, charlie.

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It’s not a choice. It’s not a habit, a lifestyle, or a phase. It’s a disease.carleiGh cathcart

Mental illnesses are some of the most stigmatized conditions with-in our society, and yet so prevalent. Despite the fact that one out of every five Canadians will experience a mental health disorder at some point in their lifetime (according to the Canadian Mental Health As-sociation), these are issues that may seem uncomfortable to approach, and we often shove them to the backburner. Though some people prefer to look the other way, pre-tending these illnesses don’t exist, it only exacerbates their nega-tive effects. This impacts not only the patient in question, but their friends and family too. Addressing mental health issues serves to raise awareness, promote discussion of potential treatment, and reduce the suffering caused by both the illness itself and the resulting stigmatism.

Stephanie Bartsch, a counsellor who serves men, women, and youth in the Peterborough area, stresses the importance of trying to recog-nize signs of mental illness before they worsen.

“Check in often with yourself about how you are feeling. Every-one has emotional ups and downs and we have to remember that that is a normal part of life. Howev-er, pay attention to any unusual behavior that has become notice-able,” says Bartsch. As examples of such unusual behaviours, she lists significant changes in sleeping and/or eating patterns, reliance on alcohol or drugs as a coping strategy, and a loss of enjoyment in activites that used to be fun and fulfilling. One or any combination of these ‘symptoms’ may indicate a deeper problem that needs to be addressed.

Of course, it isn’t just your own mental health that you should look out for. It’s also important to pay attention to the behaviour of friends and loved ones who may be afraid of seeking help or un-aware that an illness is developing.

“As a friend, don’t remain silent. Gently explain your concerns and encourage the person to seek help. You may offer to go with them if you feel able to do that,” said Bartsch.

In approaching a loved one sus-pected of developing or having a mental health disorder, a common problem is the fear of being per-ceived as insulting or accusational. Without undermining the difficul-ty these concerns can cause, it is crucial to place health and well-ness above a tough conversation. If you truly feel there is no way you can approach the issue, at least explain your worries to a parent, relative, or close friend who can respond to your concerns. Often, those suffering from these illnesses are reluctant to seek help or even acknowledge their condition, and your concern lets them know you are not judging, but reaching out (even if they don’t outright agree with your observations).

Remember, isolation and stigma are factors that erode the founda-tion of willingness to seek help. By reaching out, asserting care and concern over judgement, and just making yourself available for sup-port when it is needed, you can help ease the loneliness and suffer-ing caused by misconstrued mental illnesses. You may even save a life.

In the next few weeks, I will be touching on some misunderstood mental health disorders that I feel need to be brought to the forefront. Anxiety, depression, eating disor-ders, and schizophrenia are all on the list of disorders to be addressed.

Questions, comments, or sugges-tions for illnesses not mentioned, I would love to hear from you. I can be reached at ccathcar@uoguelph.ca. I will do my best to respond to any mail received.

Fire Away: unfair tuition rebate calls for students to take action stePhanie rennie

Last week, students experi-enced a bi-annual blow to their

pocket book as they paid for an-other round of tuition fees. The cost of attending post-second-ary education has been steadily

increasing, and has bombarded the average undergraduate stu-dent with around $35,000 of debt. At the end of this term I will final-ly get to wear a robe and wave my diploma around, but I have accu-mulated almost $37,000 of debt and still have to enter into another program next year to gain any job prospects.

Tuition fees were a hot topic during the provincial election last October. The victorious Liberal Party of Ontario is now intro-ducing a supposed plan to live up to their promise of addressing the issue of rising tuition costs. A tuition rebate was recently intro-duced and has resulted in mixed feelings about the overall effec-tiveness of this policy. The rebate is designed to give qualifying students 30 per cent off of their tuition this semester. Although this rebate is seemingly beneficial to students, it quickly loses its ap-peal after you read the fine print.

Upon further examination of these specific requirements, many students in need of financial aid are being left out. The qualifica-tions for the rebate are extremely exclusive and leave the major-ity of students in the dark. Such restrictions result in a complete isolation of mature students, stu-dents taking longer than four years to complete their undergraduate degree, or those enroled in pro-fessional studies.

Demetria Jackson, CSA external affairs commissioner, suggested that it is a good thing that the

provincial government is “rec-ognizing something needs to be done,” but that this is just a

“band-aid solution on something that needs an overall fixing.” The CFS has actively opposed the 30 per cent rebate for selected students and has proposed that 13 per cent rebate for all students would be a better alternative. Jackson agrees that this alternative would reach the entire student body instead of isolating those in need, such as students with divorced parents, those not supported by parental incomes, and others that slip be-tween the cracks.

In response to rising tuition fees, CSA commissioners Drew Garv-ie, Demetria Jackson, and Jessica Carter have established a campaign entitled “Fight the Hikes” to get students involved with this on-going issue.

As co-founder of the campaign and an active voice in student politics, Jackson passionately

expresses that one of the major mandates of this upcoming cam-paign is “to recognize that the University can do things.” Jackson encourages student participation in this campaign and acknowledg-es that “students need to push the government and decision makers to make proper decisions on our education.”

This isn’t the first time that student leaders at the University of Guelph have rallied together against the rising cost of educa-tion. During my time as a U of G student, there have been “Drop Fees” movements that mobil-ized students to rally in solidarity with secondary school students against overwhelming tuition fees. I remember gathering around the cannon and preparing to march downtown, yet feeling confused as many students just walked by, not phased by the protest and its meaning in their immediate lives.

This issue affects every single student that is feeling unsure about affording rent for the rest of the semester or where money for next week’s groceries are coming from. Student participation is required for any change to be possible. In-stead of robotically paying higher fees each semester with no overall improvement to the level of educa-tion being offered, students need to recognize that they have a say in their education and that educa-tion is a right.

Stephanie Rennie is the editor-in-chief of thecannon.ca

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I’d like to say that I really appre-ciated the article in the Ontarion about the Liberal Party’s 30 per cent tuition fee reduction. The article was great at pointing out the policies flaws. It is reassuring that the CSA is voicing its con-cerns with the policy, especially when two thirds of students will not benefit from the rebate.

The CSA is starting a campaign called Fight the Hikes that I am

happy to be involved in. Students participating in the campaign realize that the Ontario Govern-ment is providing a band-aid solution that is dangerous for the accessibility of education. The tuition rebate is discriminatory and does not tackle the root of the problem which is skyrock-eting tuition. In fact, tuition has gone up by more than 30 per cent under the McGuinty Liberals. The

Fight the Hikes Campaign will be working to get students involved in the fight for a tuition fee freeze and ultimately a tuition fee reduction. The campaign needs numbers if it is to be successful. Fight the Hikes is organizing a tuition fee panel for Monday Jan. 30 at noon and is organizing to participate in a Cross-Canada Day of Action on Feb. 1, in solidar-ity with many other universities

in Canada that are fighting for accessible education. It would be great to have more students get involved to help with organizing and recruiting for the campaign. If you are interested you should email Demetria Jackson, the CSA’s external affairs commis-sioner, at csaext@uoguelph.ca.

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viral ProtestAt midnight on Jan. 18, the white pages of Wikipedia’s annals went dark, a sight that users of the peer-edited ency-clopedia have not known since the website’s inception 11 years ago. The “blackout” prevented users of the sixth most popular destination on the Internet from accessing information on every-thing – from particle physics to Eiffel 65’s discography and beyond – for a total of 24 hours.

The measure was announced Jan. 16 by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales as part of a strike against the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and sister bill the Protect IP Act (PIPA).

Over 7,000 other websites took part in the protest on Jan. 18, and while many of the web-sites participating in the protest would signal their disapproval of SOPA and PIPA by drawing thick black lines through their

banners, sites like Wikipedia and popular social news website Reddit were of the few to pre-vent their users from accessing their content.

While there were sev-eral routes around the Wikipedia blackout, Wales was not attempting to disable users from accessing his website as much as he was attempting to raise awareness about the cause.

“Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge,” a header on the blacked out page of Wales’s site read, going on to state its stance on SOPA and PIPA. “U.S. Congress is considering legisla-tion that could fatally damage the free and open Internet.”

If the site’s visitors clicked a link to read more about the strike, they were directed to a FAQ-style page that offered fur-ther information on Wikipedia’s stance, and also encouraged American users to contact their

local representatives by phone and tell them about their per-sonal oppositions to SOPA, PIPA, and any similar legisla-tion. Users outside of the United States were encouraged to con-tact their State Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, or similar branch of government and do the same.

CNN analyst Julianne Pepi-tone has said that SOPA’s intended targets are foreign-based sites like Pirate Bay, which enable illegal donw-loads and unauthorized access to copyright-protected digital content. What the bill counts as enabling unauthorized access to copyright-protected content, however, is vague.

The language allows for the bill to require editors and facili-tators of sites like Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook, and so many more to closely monitor the many links cited in articles,

linked to friends, and other users to make sure none of those links infringe on copyrights. If they don’t, responsibility falls on the shoulders of those editors. With all the time and money involved in the lawsuits that could bring, sites like Wiki-pedia could be forced offline.

From all of the information available, it appears that if SOPA and PIPA should pass, a blacked out Wikipedia is just a taste of what is about to come.

The Internet is a resource the world has worked hard to cul-tivate, and to criminalize sites like Wikipedia, and with it our access to free information seems like a major step backward.

The staff at The Ontarion supports the strike against the SOPA and PIPA bills, and encourages all readers to spread the word and do what they can to prevent these bills from passing.

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