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tHeMUseUM pays homage to survivors.Page 9

Holocaust Remembered

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exotic animals can be interesting pets.Page 2

Not-so-furry new friends

By NATALEIGH MCCALLUM

One person’s trash is anoth-er person’s treasure, especial-ly when it comes to old chairs. Students in Conestoga’s inte-rior decorating program know this well. They refurbished old chairs and auctioned them off at their fourth annu-al “Chairity” Gala on March 10, raising $5,000 in the pro-cess. The event was held at the Waterloo Region Museum and was sold out.

The gala showcased chairs “up-cycled” by students, fac-ulty and local designers.

Each year proceeds go to a charity of the stu-dents choice; this year it was Habitat for Humanity Waterloo Region.

Leslee Squirrell, the inte-rior decorating program co-ordinator, said that organi-zation is getting an added bonus, because it has been selected to be the recipient for the next three years as well.

“The funds are going to go toward the purchase of home décor products for the families who are getting the house,” Squirrell said. “So rather than our funds buy-ing shingles and lumber, doors and trim, as a pro-gram we kind of thought having the funds go towards making the house a home would really resonate with our program.”

Habitat for Humanity Waterloo Region believes that affordable, safe hous-

ing is a basic human right. They work toward a world where every person has access to adequate hous-ing. Celebrating their 25th anniversary this month, the organization could not do what it does without the partnerships within the community.

At Conestoga, the Chairity Gala is integrated into the program; students get marked on their work then auction off their chairs at the end.

Cassondra Phagu, a second-year interior decorating stu-dent and chair decorator, said that it’s the opportunity to construct the chairs and work

with her peers as a team that is the biggest take away from the project.

Even though the chairs are a marked assignment, the students don’t look at it from a grades point of view. It is about knowing their hard work is going toward some-thing greater for someone

else.“I think it’s the sense of

doing something good for the community,” said Nicole Ruthardt, a second-year inte-rior decorating student and chair decorator. “It’s nice knowing where the money is going and who it’s going back to.”

PHOTO By NATALEIGH MCCALLUMInterior decorating program co-ordinator Leslee Squirrell (centre) poses with students Paige Vanderley (from left), Young Ha, Natalie Kusicki and Taylor Roberts, who designed chairs for the fourth annual Charity Gala on March 10. For more photos see Page 6.

‘Chairity’ gala raises $5,000

By CARMEN PONCIANO

It’s that time of year again where student candi-dates have handed in their Conestoga Students Inc. (CSI) board packages and are preparing themselves for the board of director elec-tions that run from March 23 to April 3. It is an excit-ing time as students have the opportunity to interact with the candidates and vote for the ones they think will best represent them.

Candidates were required to hand in their packages,

which consisted of 100 signa-tures showing student sup-port and a transcript stating that the applicant had at least a 70 per cent program average, by March 13. Last year CSI broke a record by having 15 students run for the seven director positions as well as having one of its highest voter turnout (eight per cent which is about 900 students).

This year a new record was set. Sixteen students returned their packages out of the 30 who picked one up.

“I am really excited for this

year’s election,” said Alfred Karatha, CSI primary elec-toral officer. “This shows that students are well aware about the elections and that there’s an eagerness to participate and voice student concerns.”

However, despite the increase in voter turnout over the last couple of years, it is still a challenge that CSI faces every year.

“It’s a mix of students not caring, not being aware and not having the time,” said Jeff Scherer, CSI president.

Having said that, this year CSI will be changing the

voting process a little bit. In addition to online vot-ing, they are also going to offer ballot voting to try and eliminate some of the con-cerns raised last year. In 2014 some students did not receive CSI emails about voting because they didn’t check their Conestoga email account, while others unsub-scribed from receiving CSI emails.

“What we are looking at is having an advance polling day and a polling day dur-ing voting week,” Scherer said.

To increase student aware-ness, CSI’s current board of directors set up a table in the F-wing to engage students and talk about the board of director elections as well as hand out election flyers. An election video has also been playing in the CSI spaces where students congregate to further raise awareness about the elections.

“Our communication team is doing a wonderful job of let-ting students know about the elections through our website and also via social media,” Karatha said.

Voting begins today in CSI director election

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Now deep thoughts... with Conestoga College

Random questions answered by random studentsWhat was your first alcoholic drink?

“In Canada it was water.”

shao Tong,first-year

IT support services

“Probably a Vex when I was younger, with my sister.”

Jessica Dion,first-year

event management

“Probably beer.”

Ryan Watt,second-year

broadcast – television

“Probably a sip of beer from my mum when I was 13.”

Marion Di Palma,second-year

broadcast – journalism

“I’ve never had any alcohol.”

Norman Khan,first-year

business administration accounting

“Wine.”

Courtney Pomeroy,second-year

interior decorating

Smile Conestoga, you could be our next respondent!

FILBERT CARTOONS

PHOTO BY JOsH KENNEDYJasmine Armstrong, an employee at Petculture, holds a ferret. The animals have been domesticated for at least 2,500 years.

BY JOsH KENNEDY

When people think of a pet, they mostly think about ani-mals like dogs or cats. But there are people who own animals that are a little more exotic.

These include small reptiles, like geckos and chameleons, and exotic birds like parrots. Mammals such as chinchillas and ferrets are also consid-ered to be exotic.

Ken, an employee at Petculture in Waterloo, said he has a large number of exot-ic animals at his home, includ-ing leopard geckos, bearded dragons and small pythons and boas. Lemieux enjoys having these pets around.

“I think owning these types of animals is more rewarding than owning a dog or a cat,” Lemieux said. “I find it so much fun to watch my geckos eat crickets.”

Although owning these kinds of pets may sound excit-ing, they actually require a lot of maintenance. Each animal needs to be on a special diet. For example, people who have pet lizards have to buy them bags of live crickets since 80

per cent of lizards are insec-tivores. For a pet snake, you have to buy frozen mice and rats that need to be thawed for about 40 minutes before feeding them to a snake. Snakes have small appetites and are only fed one mouse once or twice a week.

Some exotic pets need a spe-cial living area. An employee at Petsmart in Waterloo, who asked that her name not be published, said reptiles need to be kept in a heat-controlled pavilion due to their cold blood and should be provided with a UVB heat lamp.

“The pavilion must have no living things in it, except the reptile,” the employee said.

The most important thing about owning an exotic pet is to make sure its living quarters are clean, espe-cially if the creature is a reptile. Cleaning should be done almost every day with a full clean being done once a week. You must also wash your hands before and after handling your reptile. If not fully cleaned, bacteria will begin to grow in the area and it will spread diseases

like salmonella poisoning. For example, the Petsmart employee said if you own a Chinese water dragon, the water in its tank must be cleaned everyday or else it will be contaminated due to the lizard swimming around in it.

Owning a furry animal, like a ferret, can also be a lot of work as you must “fer-ret proof” your entire home. You have to make sure that the ferret is nowhere near anything like electrical wir-ing because it can bite right through it with their sharp teeth. This cannot only kill the ferret, but can also cause an electrical fire.

Despite all the extra work that comes with owning an exotic animal, it can also be very interesting to have one in your home.

“Exotic pets are different from other pets and they are not too common or popu-lar like dogs and cats,” said Petculture employee Shannon Cabrera. “But giving the prop-er care and the right diet, you will grow to love them like any other pet.”

Owning an exotic pet often more work

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Workshop revives ancient art formby NicolE NEmEth

Moccasins were the tradi-tional footwear of the First Nations and on March 14 stu-dents at Conestoga College were able to make their own pair.

Christine Lefebvre, also known as Karonhyakatste, her First Nations name, teaches moccasin workshops at multiple universities, high schools and elementary schools as well as courses in Native culture. She has done five workshops at Conestoga College to date, including the workshops she did on March 14 and March 21.

“I do moccasin-making work-shops and in the high schools I teach experiential knowl-edge. I teach cultural things, steeped in the teachings, and usually I use human diagrams for them to understand the difference between nations. I teach them the differences between the different nations because they have this precon-ceived notion that we are all the same,” Lefebvre said.

Moccasins have been around for centuries. They’re made with soft leather that has been

scraped and smoked to soften, colour and waterproof it. They are then sewn together by hand and decorated with fine beadwork.

But there were more to these moccasin workshops for the students who participated than just creating a pair of shoes for themselves; it’s also about creating community, remembering Native culture and sharing themselves.

“I think it’s imperative because moccasin making is a dying art, but a lot of people started making moccasins in the last decade. It was like an influx of people but for a long time nobody made moccasins or remembered how. Every opportunity I have to share about our culture or to pass that knowledge on, I do that so that it always stays alive,” Lefebvre said.

There were seven students who sat around a large table covered in pizza boxes, leath-er and beads. Traditional Native music played in the background, mixed with chat-ter and laughter. Not all of the students had a Native background but chose to par-ticipate for the experience.

“What we’re doing is build-ing community here and it’s not about being First Nations, it’s about being a human being, learning from one another and sharing. And it teaches you about imperfec-tion. What have we learned about imperfection?” Lefebvre asked her students.

“It can be corrected,” Britney Chordash, a second-year office administrative executive stu-dent, answered, laughing.

Lefebvre said, “We learn in making moccasins about patience, even when we think we don’t have any. These peo-ple have been sitting here for over four hours and have diligently been working away, have been laughing and shar-ing with one another ... It’s great, so yeah, I love it.”

Aboriginal Services hosts a variety of workshops and events throughout the year including weekly workshops, elder visits, annual pow wows and monthly full moon cer-emonies. For more informa-tion students can stop by the Aboriginal Services office located in Rm. 1A-103 or check out their page on the Conestoga College website.

Photo by NicolE NEmEthConestoga students spent March 14 making their own traditional First Nations moccasins during a workshop held by Aboriginal Services.

Page 4 s SPOKE Monday, March 23, 2015COMMENTARY

There is a trading card game called Magic: The Gathering. It is the most popular TCG in the world, and I am beginning to think it is developed by crazy people.

Some background: Magic was first published in 1993 and skyrocketed in popular-ity. Since then, it has main-tained its status thanks to a combination of smart design and the developers under-standing the gamers who play the game.

But lately the second part is slipping.

Wizards of the Coast (WotC), the company that publishes Magic, has a num-ber of psychological profiles for their customers, each with a name. These repre-sent the different things gamers want to do when they play Magic. For example, Timmy likes playing cool cards, even though they might lose him the game. Johnny likes showing off interactions between cards. Spike likes winning. Vorthos enjoys the art. Melvin likes the numbers that make

up each card – how many resources it takes to play, for instance.

These names have been in place for roughly 15 years and do a great job inform-ing WotC of the different types of players they should design the cards for. But that changed two weeks ago.

In the name of “inclusion” and “representation,” the old names were joined by three new ones: Tammy, Jenny and Melinda, which are girl-Timmy, girl-Johnny and girl-Melvin respectively. Spike and Vorthos remain unscathed. According to WotC, the previous names were exclusionary because they were all male, and the three new names will let female players feel more welcome in the “hostile, male-dominated” environ-

ment of Magic.There are many things

wrong with this line of rea-soning, but one stands out: the idea you can make some-thing appeal to everyone.

Yes, Magic and most gaming communities are male-dominated. That’s because hard-core games appeal more to men than to women.

A study done at Oxford a few years ago observed newborn infants to see which they focused more on: a mechanical object or a human face. Newborn boys spent more time looking at the mechanical object and newborn girls spent more time looking at the human face every single time. Men and women are hard-wired biologically to like different things, and we should not be terrified of that.

The majority of the people who play Magic are male. If the game uses words and images men like, that is not misogyny, just smart business. It’s high time Wizards of the Coast real-ized that.

Company being too politically correct

New $500 fee upsets students

BY CASSIE TULECKI

College students in Ontario will now have two extra months to pay their full tuition, but this comes with a catch. There has been a change in the fee schedule, resulting in all new and returning students having to pay a mandatory, non-refundable $500 tuition deposit by June 15 to hold a spot in the program they plan to attend in September.

The new tuition deadlines are August or September (depending on whether you get OSAP or not). This appears to be good for students, but not for those return-ing this fall, because they have to come up with $500 by mid-June, and were only given three months’ notice.

“I work a full-time job, live on my own and have to pay all my bills” said Ashlyn Thompson, a first-year community and justice services student. “I always need OSAP (Ontario Student Assistance Program) to get through my schooling. It’ll be really hard for me to come up with $500.”

Students are already stressed about the cost of tuition when entering college, especially when they have to pay the fees themselves. Add to that books, housing, park-ing or bus passes, food and other bills.

Pushing back the tuition fee due dates is great, allow-ing students to earn money in the spring and early summer to help pay for it, but some students are not going to be able to come up with the new deposit.

This will be particularly difficult for students who are supporting themselves and others. Single mothers who are full-time students will be particularly hard hit.

“I came to school so I could better my life for myself and my daughter,” said a student who did not want to give her name. “Money is tight. I don’t have $500 laying around. I have bills to pay, so I might not even be able to come back to school for a while.”

The $500 deposit does make it easier for colleges to plan for classes in September, but the fee is too steep, and could result in fewer students attending college in the fall.

“That’s way too expensive,” said Tyler Walkinshaw, a second-year woodworking technician student. “This is ridic-ulous, they should be paying us to go to school instead.”

We urge colleges to delay the new fee until next year, thus giving students more than three months’ notice.

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Chairity raises $5,000 for Habitat for Humanity

Faculty and students in Conestoga’s interior decorating pro-gram held their fourth annual Chairity Gala March 10 at the Waterloo Region Museum. They raised $5,000 for Habitat for Humanity Waterloo Region, their charity of choice this year. Above, second-year interior decorating students Brenna Dacosta (from left), Steph Clemmer, Nicole Ruthardt, Cassondra Phagu and Cerrisa Veldjesgraaf pose with some of the chairs before the event. Left, “The Kenya” chair was created by second-year students Minja Milicevic, Young Ha and Courtney Pomeroy. Bottom left, “The Scottish Hippie” was created by local design-er Pamela D’ettoree.Right, “Pretty Vicki’ was created by second-year students Brittany Potvin (bottom photo, left to right), Maygn Jamieson and Jessica Kampen.

photoS by NatalEigh mccallum

Monday, March 23, 2015 SPOKE s Page 7entertainment

BY JUStin FOrD

The Shot – a Kitchener-Waterloo talent competition – is back for its second sea-son, riding on the overwhelm-ing success of the first, and I decided to dust off my beat-up guitar and test my chops in the competition held on March 14.

“I’ve always been a huge advocate of emerging talent,” said C.J. Allen, executive producer of The Shot. “We started putting together the program in July of 2014, (and now) some folks are looking to us to provide them with advice about engaging the population.”

So, after deciding to enter the competition, which is open to Kitchener-Waterloo college and university students, I picked out two songs – one cover and one original – to practise in the short time I had to prepare. I had never been in a compe-tition this serious with such gravitational implications. The winner of The Shot receives a professionally recorded music video, a professionally recorded single and a slot on the bill at KOI Fest. It was safe to say I was beyond nervous.

“When you walk into a room as a musician, you know with-in the first five or six sec-onds whether they’re going to go somewhere in music,” Allen said. “There’s a fine line between being arrogant and being humble.”

As I was also doing a story for Spoke on the competition, I showed up early to see the staff and volunteers prepar-ing for the competitors to arrive. I hung around chat-ting while trying to mask my nerves by talking to anyone and everyone. The volunteers were mostly enrolled in the event management gradu-ate program at Conestoga’s Waterloo campus.

“Today I’ll be doing the pre-game interviews,” said Scott Glaysher, MC of The Shot. “Tomorrow I’ll be more involved and there for morale.”

Glaysher went on to say that there was almost a family vibe between the contestants last year, and I could already feel it. I was making friends fast and it was helping to calm my nerves. Then, just when I thought my heart rate was back to normal, they called my name. I was first to see the judges.

I walked into the room lit-erally shaking. I believed in myself, but the seriousness of this competition had my nerves shot. After a brief chat with the judges – Juneyt Yetkiner, Stacey Zegers, Joni NehRita and Allen – I dove right into my original song,

Pick a Problem. It didn’t go well and the judges imme-diately asked me to put the guitar down, shake off my nerves and sing something a cappella. I chose to sing The Grand Optimist by City and Colour. After about 12 sec-onds of singing they stopped me. I was terrified of what they were about to say.

The competition functions like American Idol. Each of the four judges gets a vote, and you need a majority to be considered for the next round. Zegers said yes, then Yetkiner said yes, then Nehrita said yes and finally Allen rounded out the voting with a fourth yes. I was honestly in shock as they called me up to get my “golden ticket.”

Another competitor, Katie Owens, a 25-year-old event management student at Conestoga, said, “I’m hoping (to get a callback). It’s been a while since I picked up my guitar.”

When Owens came walk-ing out of the audition room she had a big smile on her face and a golden ticket in her hand. She said she was excited to see what the road ahead had in store.

I was relieved to be advanc-ing to the next round, and so were the other five recipients of callbacks for Sunday, March 15. The second round was to take place the following day at 9:30 a.m. and run until 7 p.m. at The Waterloo Inn.

The Shot isn’t your aver-age talent show. The staff, judges, camera crew, sound-board operators and volun-teers all work like a well-oiled machine. You could tell this wasn’t their first rodeo. The contestants starting roll-ing in around 9 a.m. and the engine was quickly put into gear. We were welcomed by Mary D’Alton, the president and managing director of the Waterloo Inn, who generously

donated a vast majority of her hotel’s space to make day two of The Shot possible.

“It’s not only about your talent, but also about your impact on others,” D’Alton said. “All this nervous energy, just enjoy it, and seize the opportunity.”

After Allen gave a brief over-view of how the day would go, we were told to pick a group of five to perform with later on in the day. I was extremely nervous about this because I truly am a solo act, but I guess I had to take a huge leap out of my comfort zone. I sought two other people I had met the previous day, and then we recruited two other ringers. Our group consisted of Owens, Johnny Rumig, Ashley Proctor, Matt Giblin and myself.

“If you don’t learn something today, something is wrong with you,” NehRita said.

Each group was assigned a staff member to escort them to their room, help with musical selections and really just be there for anything the group needed. We were escorted downstairs to our practice room, where a sheet of paper was located on a table with 14 songs to select from for one performance at 1:50 p.m. We

all agreed upon Stay with Me by Sam Smith, and started seeing what the five of us could do with it.

While each group was in their designated area prac-tising, the judges were peri-odically visiting each group, making suggestions, providing help and ultimately trying to get the best out of every single individual. This is where The Shot raises the bar. It seemed with each passing hour, this well-oiled machine was accel-erating and becoming some-thing so much more than a talent competition.

“The talent is a lot better this time around,” Zegers said. “There’s not many music stu-dents, but they still turn out to be surprisingly amazing.”

We had roughly three hours to learn the song, figure out how to make it our own, memorize it and utilize each other’s strengths for a gravely important one-time perfor-mance. Three hours later –and about 25 times running through the song – we were pretty pleased with the final product we were about to per-form in front of a full crowd and the four judges.

There were cameras almost everywhere you went, record-

ing each step of the process. People were perpetually being pulled aside for interviews as the day went on, but not to the point of distraction. The seriousness of the competi-tion was building, as was my heart rate, then it was our turn to perform. I felt as if this opportunity was the most important shot of my life.

We performed Stay with Me to the best of our potential, with me playing guitar and using no backing track. We all agreed it was the best we had performed the song all day and were pretty impressed with the way it turned out. The other four groups all chose different songs, and the overall talent was undeniably incredible.

“I had my top eight picked out yesterday,” Zegers said. “Now, some other people brought it and shined.”

Contestants were then instructed to go to a waiting room and prepare a song to sing in case the judges wanted one last look at you. All 30 con-testants headed down to the waiting room, which quickly turned into one massive jam session. Thirty musically gift-ed young adults were all play-ing and singing in harmony. The beauty of this big musical family for the day was nothing short of amazing. The camera crew were quick to grab their cameras and hit record.

After what seemed like an eternity, the MC of The Shot came down and listed 12 sing-ers the judges wanted to see sing again. I was one of them. I sang an NSYNC song with my own little flare in an attempt to catch the judges off guard, then they started to grill me with questions.

The judges then debated for an eternity as to who they felt deserved to be in the top eight. We all knew 22 of us would be going home empty- handed, but extremely rich from the overall experience. Giblin from our group was one of those eight, I was one of the unfortunate 22. (The name of the person who won the com-petition was not available by Spoke’s press deadline.)

This amazing competition made an incredible impres-sion on me and reignited my passion for music. Beautiful things happen when the right talent is in the room, and that type of talent absolutely lit-tered The Shot.

“Be humble, be determined and work your ass off,” Yetkiner advised the singers.

Hopefully Yetkiner’s words will be engrained in the minds of the eight finalists, and those lucky enough to compete in the third season of The Shot.

The Shot seeks emerging talent

PHOtO BY JUStin FOrDContestants of The Shot participate in an impromptu jam session while waiting for the judges to pick the eight finalists for the final competition on March 21.

Spoke reporter Justin Ford takes a photo of Ashley Proctor (from left), Katie Owens, Johnny Rumig and Matt Giblin, the members of his group who performed Stay with Me by Sam Smith on day two of The Shot.

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PHOTO BY iaN mcBridEShemora Davy (left) and Cliff Van Dincten, co-owners of Rise N Grind Training Facility, stand by some of the gym equipment. Rise N Grind is a new fitness centre in Waterloo that opened on Feb. 1. For video story, go to www.spokeonline.com.

PHOTO BY maTT HOWELLVibraphonist Frank Wright showcases his skills with his group, the Canadian Jazz Quartet. The band performed at the Jazz Room on March 14. For video story, go to www.spokeonline.com.

new training facility oFFeRS MaNy opTioNS FoR GeTTiNG FiT JaZZ MUSic iS aLiVe aND WeLL

Exhibit honours Holocaust survivorsBy Alex Riese

Max Bornstein’s lungs filled with frigid cold water as he swam across the river to unoc-cupied France in 1940. His breath became laboured, his limbs fought his every move, but he knew he had to keep going. His freedom depended on his persistence.

Seventy-five years later, and 70 years after the liberation of Europe from Nazi control, THEMUSEUM is honouring the struggles of Bornstein and millions of others with its new Holocaust Remembered exhibit.

The exhibit, which opened March 11, is a collection of portraits, artifacts and sto-ries of various Holocaust survivors. Its opening also featured a buffet of kosher food and speeches by mem-bers of the Jewish commu-nity, including Rabbi Moshe Goldman. He appreciates the effort THEMUSEUM put in to make sure these stories live on.

“People say THEMUSEUM could have gotten away without commemorating the liberation of Europe and Jews shouldn’t still be talk-ing about the Holocaust,” he said during the opening ceremony. “Yet we live in a world where genocide is still practised and anti-Semitism is still fashionable in some parts of Europe.”

The centrepiece of the exhib-

it is a collection of black and white portraits by Toronto-based photographer Jason Schwartz. He worked with the Florida Holocaust Museum to connect with 188 Holocaust survivors, interviewing and photographing them, and gradually putting the exhibit together for display at the

Florida Holocaust Museum. Schwartz’s great uncle was a Holocaust survivor, so he has a personal connection with the work.

“I knew about (my great uncle’s past) when I was a teenager, and I wrote a school paper about him in high school,” he said. “When I

started taking photos of him, one of the pictures was so powerful that I decided to keep working with this sub-ject matter through univer-sity.”

The artifacts featured in the exhibit were bor-rowed from the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre.

David Marksell, the CEO of THEMUSEUM, is excited about the unique mix the exhibit brings.

“Together it’s a pretty pow-erful show, and it’s never been together as a show before,” he said.

Holocaust Remembered will run until May 31.

PHOTO By Alex RieseThe Holocaust Remembered exhibit at THEMUSEUM is a collection of black and white portraits by Toronto-based photographer Jason Schwartz, artifacts and stories of Holocaust survivors. Above, one of the patrons of THEMUSEUM looks at the photos on opening night.

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PHOTO By jORdAn jOHnsTOneThis uniform was worn by prisoners at the Aushwitz concentration camps during the Second World War.

PHOTO By jORdAn jOHnsTOneHolocaust Remembered was made possible through collaborations between THEMUSEUM, The Stratford Festival and The Stratford Perth Museum. This photograph-based installation features black and white portraits which are accompanied by oral histories from survivors and original artifacts from the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre, including this identity card of a Jewish woman from an Aushwitz concentration camp. For video story, go to www.spokeonline.com.

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You have been experienc-ing so many adventures that you have been forget-ting your main purpose. Come back from your fan-tasies and get back to work.

You have been so worried about things last week, take a deep breath and let someone else lead for a while.

You have been rebelling against something you feel strongly about. Don’t lose faith in what you truly believe.

You’re being lazy again. Stop it. Take charge, come up with ideas and go for it.

It’s been a difficult week for you and you have been fight-ing back full fold. You will soon see results.

You have been open to peo-ple’s suggestions lately and it’s been giving you peace of mind. Don’t overthink it.

You have been very helpful toward the people who have needed you most. Don’t for-get your own needs as well.

Astrology is a language. If you understand this language,

the sky speaks to you.

Horoscope Week of March 23, 2015

You have been short tem-pered as of late but don’t worry, you will be given the chance to relax very soon.

You have been a part of a large group project and you have been possessive about it. Take a step back and you will see what you were look-ing for.

You have been obsessing about something this week. Don’t forget about your to do list, Scorpio.

Can’t decide something? Don’t worry, put your thoughts into a hat and pick one out. Maybe that will help you plot your next course of action.

Your last assignment was graded, but you weren’t too happy with the result. Don’t take it personally, look at it again with an open mind.

Useless FactsOh Cliff!

Sudoku Puzzle

Word Search

Fill in the grid with digits in such a manner that every row, every column and every 3x3 box accommo-dates the digits 1-9, with-out repeating any.

Most American car horns honk in the key of F.

A pig’s orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.

Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto.

Caesar salad has nothing to do with any of the Caesars. It was first concocted in a bar in Tijuana, Mexico, in the 1920s.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

For every human on Earth there are 1.6 million ants.

Monday, March 23, 2015 SPOKE s Page 11NEWSCharity event for heart and stroke

PHOTO BY racHEl rOYConestoga event management students at the Waterloo campus put together dancing through the decades, a charity danceathon and class project. Proceeds of $700 went to the heart and stroke foundation. Participants, including kathrine and Joel robinson, above, danced to music from the ’50s to the present in an attempt to win the grand prize for dancing the entire six hours.

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PHOTO BY kali caudlEPaul osborne, associate vice-president and registrar at Conestoga, recently discussed the new tuition and fee payment schedule at ontario colleges for video story, go to www.spokeonline.com.

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