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Plant Matter KitchenVegan restaurant coming to London

There is something new comingto Wortley Village.

Plant Matter Kitchen (PMK),owned by Glenn Whitehead, JohnBurwash and Melanie Wendt is afully vegan, plant-based, organicrestaurant opening in the ForestCity.

In the process of obtaining thelast few permits, owners of therestaurant are hoping to open thedoors this week and start servingsmoothies, coffee and baked goods.

Whitehead explained the pro-gression PMK plans to make coffeeand smoothies to full meals.

“We will expand into the lunchmenu and then into the dinner menuand by the time June rolls aroundwe should have our liquor licenceand be fully running dinners and brunches and the whole nine yards.”

The three co-owners feel that thedecision to open a restaurant togeth-er was natural as they all have expe-riences owning or at the very leastworking in the restaurant industry.

“The three of us are all very pas-sionate about food and cooking andhave pursued a life of good quali-ty cooking, great delicious tastingfood and pure natural ingredients. Itwas a match made quite nicely forus. We are all basically foodies youcould say,” Whitehead said.

PMK’s decision to support thecommunity to ensure the freshestand highest quality ingredients isan initiative that more restaurantsshould adopt.

“PMK is as committed to thefoundation of local organic and plant-based as possible,” White-head said. “We are working with anumber of local, smaller and inde- pendent farmers to secure that sortof farm-to-table, as close to freshand as close to its natural state food

experience as we can for the restau-rant goer.”

Whitehead explained that thatthey will be able to successfullyincorporate a wide selection of lo-cally grown ingredients due most-ly in part to the partnership PMKwill have with a local organizationGlobally Local.

“They will be supplying us witha large portion of our food…In thesummer time they will be literally bringing in stuff that was picked thatmorning, and you can get corn thatis still fresh right off the stalk andyou can get other fresh fruits and

vegetables that are literally being picked the day that they are beingdelivered to you,” Whitehead said.“That is our goal, to get that as closeto fresh and ripe picked as we can.”

The local partnerships don’t endthere. PMK is partnering with otherlocal London business that believein similar philosophies of local andorganic.

“We will be working with Boochon some great local kombucha teas;they are a great local organic, Lon-don based [organization], commit-ted to craft tea making, and we will be working with them in making ourown sort of custom tea flavours.”

Whitehead discussed that in ad-dition to Booch, PMK is workingwith a local coffee roaster as well.

“Patrick from Patrick’s Beanswill be making us our own propri-etary roast so we will have a PMKroast that we will be roasting andselling. We have been working onhard on [partnerships] while we are[also] working hard to open”.

If you want to stay up to date onall of the exciting things going on atPMK you can follow them on Face- book, Instagram and twitter. Theirname on Instagram is @plantmat-terkitchen and their Twitter user-name is @PMKRestaurant.

CREDIT: GLENN WHITEHEAD

Plant Matter Kitchen is a vegan restaurant that vows t o only serve fresh, locally grownitems is opening up in Wortley Village.

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International student population continues to grow

According to the 2015 Interna-tional Student Barometer (ISB), asystem that rates the satisfaction ofinternational students, Fanshawehas come out on top yet again.

Over 142,000 students from 172institutions and 18 countries partic-ipated in the survey, according to a press release. About 36 per cent, or650 in total, Fanshawe students re-sponded to the survey, a rise fromthe 23 per cent of students who re-sponded in 2014.

Fanshawe ranked fourth out of

159 global post-secondary institu-

tions for overall student satisfaction.The study ranked Fanshawe at

the top of the survey in Ontarioout of 18 schools and second in theGlobal Benchmark in the categoryfor Learning out of 158.

In 2013 Fanshawe ranked 76th inthat category, making a huge jumpto ranking second.

Fanshawe also ranked second instudent satisfaction for applicationtiming and processing.

The press release stated that thisis a reflection of many quality ed-ucational factors including expertfaculty members and quality lec-

tures and content.

In the press release, international projects and exchange coordinatorCaitlin Smith said Fanshawe’s highscore reflects the quality educationFanshawe offers domestic and in-ternational students.

“Fanshawe continues to do wellin this survey due to the excellentquality of teaching and services provided to our international stu-dents. The college works hard toensure our international studentshave a wonderful educational expe-rience at Fanshawe while living inthe city of London.”

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President for a dayPrashant Agarwal, an interna-

tional student in the Project Man-agement program at Fanshawe,is the first ever student to win the bid to be the president of FanshaweCollege for a day.

Agarwal placed a bid in a silentauction to raise money for Fan-shawe’s contribution to their UnitedWay fundraising campaign.

Agarwal’s bid of $204 securedhis win and led to what he called aonce in a lifetime experience.

“It’s amazing. I’m liking it be-cause I get to see all that the pres-ident does in a day,” Agarwal said.

Agarwal won two bids at thesilent auction: the Fanshawe Pres-ident for a Day bid as well as theFanshawe Student Union (FSU)President for a Day bid. He said hechose the former because he maynever get the opportunity to have anexperience like this again.

He said he was hesitant at the be-ginning of the day, but was quicklywelcomed by Devlin and his staff.

“I was nervous, but as soon as [Iwas welcomed] it was really warm.I was happy, the schedule was sentto me long before so I knew whatthe day was going to be like.”

Agarwal has been the vice-pres-ident of the Fanshawe Lions Cluband already has experience runningan organization, but said he stillwanted to see what it was like to bethe president of Fanshawe, even if itwas just for a day.

Agarwal was accompanied byFanshawe president Peter Devlinto many events throughout the dayincluding the First Nations Centre’sYear End Gathering, the openingceremony for the curling champi-onship hosted by Fanshawe, theBusiness Achievement Awards atLondon Convention Centre andlunch with Devlin in Oasis.

“[Devlin] preferred Out BackShack but I said, ‘Let’s go to Oasis,

many more students will be there’,”Agarwal said.

Fanshawe president Peter Devlinsaid it’s phenomenal that a studenttook the initiative to win the bid thisyear.

“It’s awesome to have a studentwho is the president for a day, and aninternational student,” Devlin said.“Prashant is a marvelous young manand has just embraced the opportu-nity to understand more and to beexposed to a bunch of things that heotherwise wouldn’t be exposed to. Ihope that he finds it an awarding andspecial day, like I find it a reward-ing day to find out more about stu-dent life for an international studentcourtesy of Prashant,” Devlin said.

Agarwal reflected Devlin’s sen-timents.

“What I took away from this daywas learning what a president does,his responsibilities and his roles…and as a student I got to freely get toknow Peter Devlin,” Agarwal said.“It was worth more than the $204.”

CREDIT: KERRA SEAY

Fanshawe president(s) Peter Devlin and Prashant Agarwal attended multiple events on and off campus thanks to Agarwal’s winningbid to be Fanshawe’s president for a day.

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Festival to raise the curtainon London’s lm community.

The city of London is no strang-er to cinematic talent, from high-ly successful actors such as RyanGosling and Rachel McAdams, toaccomplished filmmakers exem- plified by Fanshawe’s AcademyAward winning writer/producerPaul Haggis. What organizers of theupcoming Forest City Film Festival believe London is lacking however,is a proper venue for new and as-

piring filmmakers and film actorsto display their work and get the professional exposure that, for mostartists in this industry, can be thedifference between a career in filmand merely the dream of one. As thefestival’s artistic director DorothyDowns said, “We have tremendoustalent that comes from this regionand it is time that we celebrate this.”

The festival is set to run Nov. 11to Nov. 13 at the Wolf PerformanceHall in the Central Library down-town. Submissions for the eventare being accepted until June 30and must meet one or more of the

following criteria in order to be en-tered. One or more individuals fromthe London area occupying a keycreative role in the making of thefilm, a significant amount of film-ing taking place within the Londonarea or that the city itself take up alarge portion of the film’s narrative.

Downs explained, “It’s a pretty broad canvas when you realize thenumber of industry people that havelived here or gone to school here.We expect to have a great line-upof films for the audiences to choose

from in November.”Submitted films can be narrative

or documentary-based, and prizeswill be given for top selections inthe areas of best short, best feature, best documentary and the audiencechoice award.

More than simply prize money,one of the largest potential benefitsof the festival is the opportunityfor students at Fanshawe to show-case their work to a larger audienceand for the city itself to show whatit has to offer to an industry whichhas seen an impressive and expan-sive rise in our province over the

last decade.As Fanshawe film student Scott

Week stated, “I think it’s a reallyexciting opportunity. There’s somereally great talent in this city thatunfortunately doesn’t often get theexposure it deserves. I think thisfestival will be a great way to helpLondon’s filmmaking communityreach a broader audience.”

This is a sentiment equally shared by another of Fanshawe’s film relat-ed programs, as Fanshawe TheatreArts student Ian Taylor explained.

“It opens up a lot of doors, andregardless of whether it’s paid ornot, I think it benefits us and thecommunity because it’s a greatchance for a larger group of peopleto see our work.”

Those interested in submittingtheir work should go to forestcity-filmfest.ca or contact the festivalorganisers at [email protected] for a complete list of festivalrules and contest guidelines. Tick-ets for the event are set to go on salein August and can be purchasedthrough the festival’s website.

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CREDIT: STEPHEN LEGRESLEY

Fanshawe students hard at work preparing lm projects.

Canada welcomes internationalstudents with open arms

The new government has made iteasier for international students togain citizenship in Canada.

“International students are the best candidates to be citizens ofCanada. We are seeking them outand as are other countries in theworld. It was the stupidest part ofthe previous legislative changesmade under Bill C-24 to revoke 50 per cent credits of the internationalstudents,” said Minister of Immi-gration John McCallum while ad-dressing the media on Feb. 25.

“It makes no sense for Canadato punch them in the nose and takeaway their 50 per cent credit rather

than nurturing them and seeking towelcome them to our midst.”

McCallum has introduced hisBill C-6 to repeal the older BillC-24 and made some liberal chang-es to the rules, which would make iteasier for the international studentsto apply for citizenship in Canada.

There are four changes made tothe rules as per the Bill C-6.

First, the age range for languagerequirement used to be 18 to 54.However, with the implication of

the Bill C-24, the age range was

changed to 14 to 64.Second, the Bill C-6 repeals the

intent to reside provision, whichwas introduced by the previousConservative government, sincethat provision created legitimateconcerns of possible future citizen-ship revocation.

Third, the 50 per cent credit fortime spent in Canada by interna-tional students is restored.

Fourth, the physical presence re-quirement in Canada has changedfrom four out of the past six yearsto three out of the past five years.This will allow individuals to applyfor citizenship one year earlier.

McCallum has also introduceda citizenship book for aspiring cit-

izens in English and French lan-guages called Discover Canada.These books will guide the individ-uals through the process of apply-ing for citizenship in Canada.

Furthermore, for the benefitof the international students, thegovernment has committed to re-view Canada’s Express Entry pro-cess, pledging that, “We will makechanges to the Canadian Experi-ence Class to reduce the barriersto immigration that have been im-

posed on international students.”

Since the introduction of theExpress Entry process to apply for permanent residency in Canada viaExperience Class or any other pro-gram, every individual has to applythrough this program first. All theapplications are scored within thesystem and the applicants that havehigher scores than a certain thresh-old receive an invitation to apply,which will then allow them to pro-cess their applications through theExperience Class.

It has not been decided exactly asto what changes would be made tothe Express Entry program. Howev-er, it seems like any policy changesthat would be made to open greateropportunities for permanent resi-

dency and citizenship for interna-tional students would target severaldifferent categories.

It would target immigration quo-tas associated with permanent res-idency programs relevant to inter-national students and modificationsto scoring systems in order to betterrecognise the experience of living,studying and working in Canadathat international students bring totheir Express Entry applications.

HENCY THACKERINTERROBANG

Fanshawe Photographyprogram launches new show

The Fanshawe Photography pro-gram is about to get some exposurewith its brand new year-end show,

running March 29 to April 2 at theARTS Project in Downtown Lon-don.

The show, called Reflex, willhighlight the results of an imagecompetition among second andthird year students of the program.Judged by industry professionals,six of the best photos will be se-lected from six categories: portrait,commercial, nature, photojournal-ism/editorial, digital manipulationand unclassified.

After the 36 images are hung, thewinning image from each categorywill be voted upon by judges andfaculty. Winners will be officiallyannounced at the show’s openingreception Wednesday, March 30.

The competition has been a tradi-tional component of the program’scurriculum, with an annual awards banquet taking place at the Oasis.However, students’ winning photoshave only ever been displayed for brief periods of time in the college.This is the first year that the resultswill be put onto display outside ofthe school.

“For many years our awards banquet was the only way peoplegot to see our best student work,”said program co-ordinator GillesSweet-Boulay. “It was [full-time professor] Rachel Lincoln’s ideato move away from this model to a

week-long show.”Although photography is also

an aspect of Fanshawe’s Fine Art program, the Photography programhas focused on providing studentswith the necessary skills to succeed

as professionals in the commercialworld since its inception in 1972.Graduates of the program typical-ly find success as entrepreneurs.Those who go on to another art program often credit Fanshawe for providing them with a solid foun-dation in knowing how to run theirown studio.

According to Sweet-Boulay, Re-flex will give the public a first-handlook into what the program fullyentails.

“You’ll see digital manipulation,and some amazing shots of what people are doing with Photoshop,taking simple images and turningthem in something very powerfulto look at,” he said. “There will be

beautiful landscapes and portraitsthat are of a professional qualitythat people aren’t used to seeing.”

Overall, Reflex is a notable mile-stone for the program and for Fan-shawe as it expands its presence inthe downtown core.

“It’s a chance for people to get toknow our students,” Sweet-Boualynoted. “It’s such a boost to the stu-dent’s esteem to know your workmade it out to the gallery, and an-other example of us reminding the public out there that ‘Hey, we’rehere, and we’re doing some amaz-ing things’.”

ANGELA MCINNESINTERROBANG

CREDIT: MELTING THE ICE BY YULIA STAROSTINA (BOTTOM)

Reex will be shown for free at the ARTS Project March 29 to April 2, with openingreception taking place on March 30 from 6 to 8 p.m.


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Two is better than oneLondon Fringe Festival to join Old East Village and Dundas Street festivals together

Summer is festival season, andLondon is rich with events. TheLondon Fringe Festival, known forshowing unique, small theatre pro-ductions and art, is one of the firstthings Londoners look forward toevery summer.

Melissa Tipson-Mohr, the associ-ate producer of the London FringeFestival, said she got involved withthe organization because she appre-ciates their work.

“They’ve made such an im- pact with the arts scene in Lon-don,” she said. “It’s proven itselfto be something that can last.”Around the same time as the Lon-don Fringe Festival, there are also some block parties. Traditionally,the Old East Village Street Festi-val and the Dundas Street Festivalwould block off different parts ofDundas on separate June weekends. Now, the London Fringe Festivalis launching their own block party.Tipson-Mohr explained that theyused to host the Dundas Street Fes-tival with Our Street London, butthey have gone their separate ways.

“Our Street London is taking theDundas Street Festival and puttingit in September,” she said.

The London Fringe Block Partywill work with the Old East VillageStreet Festival instead for part oftheir event.

The Fringe Festival also has an-other spin on a popular Canadian

arts event after the sun goes downand the street party ends.

Nuit Blanche in London?Most people think of Toron-

to when they hear Nuit Blanche.However, it’s not the only city thathas one. Along with the block partyand plenty of theatre and artwork,London Fringe also showcasestheir own version of Nuit Blanche.Kathy Navackas, the executive pro-ducer of London Fringe, recognizedthat even local artists from the For-est City would go to the event inToronto.

“The thought was, ‘Why are

they going to Toronto to do somereally cool contemporary art activ-

ities? They should be doing thosein London. Let’s do one here’.”She added that all of the sights atthe event will all be done locally,which is a mandate for the LondonFringe Festival. She also said that itwill be on a smaller scale in com- parison to the Toronto one.

“Unfortunately we do not havetheir budget, so that makes a hugedifference,” Navackas explained.

She said that crossovers betweenthe Nuit Blanches in the Forest Cityand Toronto all depend on what issubmitted.

“I’m sure there are still some lo-cal artists that do go and participatein the Toronto Nuit Blanche. Wedon’t have that so many coming theother direction because of budget.Budget is the big problem.”

Navackas explained that sinceit fell under the umbrella of theLondon Fringe Festival budget,the $380,000 also has to go to oth-er programs in addition to NuitBlanche.

However, performers outside ofLondon, either out of town, out of province or out of country, will per-form shows for the theatre portionof the London Fringe Festival.

Calling all artistsLondon Fringe is looking for art-

ists to apply for the London FringeBlock Party and Nuit Blanche, andTipson-Mohr said the requirementswill be different.

“The London Fringe Block Party

I would say is more like a marketthat will have some performanceaspects to it, but it’s mostly for ven-dors who make their own goods toshowcase their art and sell it,” Tip-son-Mohr explained. “Nuit Blanchewill be a celebration of contempo-rary art.”

The block party needs artisans,entrepreneurs and crafters who cansell their items such as artwork and jewellery. Tipson-Mohr added thatmusicians, especially those withmore of an acoustic sound, can alsoapply.

She added that Nuit Blanche is

looking for different types of talent,which would be artists who have

contemporary performance or inter-active art pieces.Tipson-Mohr said an artist was

hired by Forest City Gallery to dosand art for the occasion during thelast London Nuit Blanche.

“They actually took stencils and put sand down and would movethat, kind of do that the whole day,so it was a way for the audience towatch the art kind of happen.”

Print London also participatedin the event, by having templatesand asking people to ink the prints.Then, the prints were put togetherto create “a collaborative piece ofartwork”.

Whether you attend the LondonFringe Festival, its block party, NuitBlanche or all events, Tipson-Mohrsaid that you will be supporting thelocal arts scene.

“You really can’t get a lot ofthose local made goods all in one place at one time, so I think it’s justkind of a fun event.”

Navackas added that London’s Nuit Blanche is a unique gem thatcan be found in downtown everysummer.

“There’s nothing quite like theatmosphere that occurs during NuitBlanche. There’s thousands of people downtown, Dundas Street un-til one o’clock, two o’clock in themorning just having a wonderfultime.”

Mark your calendarsThe deadline for the London

Fringe Block Party already passed, but you can still join in on the fun.Applications for Nuit Blanche will be accepted until April 30. For moreinformation, visit londonfringe.ca

The London Fringe Festival runsfrom May 31 until June 11. TheLondon Fringe Block Party will runon June 4 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.,from Dundas Street and AdelaideStreet to Rectory Street, and fromDundas Street between WellingtonRoad and Talbot Street. After that, Nuit Blanche will take over from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. on June 5.

EMILY STEWARTINTERROBANG

Fanshawe welcomes CanadaRead’s nalist Kamal Al-Solaylee

For the final lecture of Fan-shawe’s Letters and Arts SocietyReading Series, journalist and au-thor Kamal Al-Solaylee came tospeak about his 2012 book, Intol-erance: A Memoir of Extremes onMarch 17. Intolerance was a 2015finalist in CBC’s Canada Readscontest, of which the theme was“One book to break barriers”.

Born in Yemen, and then exiledwith his family to Beirut and thenCairo before finishing his PhD inEngland and eventually moving toCanada, Al-Solaylee wanted to give people a better understanding of the

Middle East with his book.“I want them to understand that

the pictures they see of crazy people roaming around the MiddleEast and the Arab world do nottell the full story… It would bekind of nice to goa little bit deeperthan the headlineor the 30-secondnews segment, andto perhaps under-stand that thereare people just likethem over there.”

He feels thatwhile his book waswell received, win-ning the Toronto

Book Award and being nominat-ed for Canada Reads among otherawards, it may not have been what people were expecting. Al-Solayleesaid that people were expecting itto be a history of the Middle Eastas opposed to a personal story, andothers were hoping for more details, but he wanted readers to be able toget through the book in a couple ofsittings.

It was also difficult for him as a journalist to change the focus fromother peoples’ stories to his own.

“That was the hardest thing about

writing both the article that becamethe source for this book, From Biki-ni to Burka in The Globe and writ-ing this book because I’m used to

asking the questions… I’ve been particularly private and almost se-cretive about my family life, I nevershared that even with close friends.”

He added that he is still uncom-fortable with sharing such person-al details with readers that are notonly Canadian, but are all over theworld that will have access to thee-book, but the length of time sincethe book was published has made iteasier for him to say that he’s writ-ten about his life.

“That was the book, but that’s theend of that journey now.”

Al-Solaylee also had some ad-vice for new Canadians arrivingfrom the Middle East, saying thathe would tell them that they’d ar-

rived in one of the best countries,if not the best country in the world,and that it’s a welcoming and safe place. He added that they may haveto make some adjustments.

“If they want others to give themtheir freedomthey also haveto respect other people’s free-doms, and thatincludes gayrights, wom-en’s rights andthe right of ev-eryone to thinkand believewhat they wantto, and I know

this will get me into trouble, butto kind of leave part of the MiddleEast behind, and come here with anopen mind and open heart.”

Al-Solaylee is an associate pro-fessor of journalism at RyersonUniversity in Toronto, and wrote hismemoir after a long time of writ-ing theatre reviews for The Globeand Mail. He has another bookof non-fiction on the way entitled Brown, which he describes as anexploration of what it means to be brown skinned in the world today.

DAN TODD

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I want them to

understand that

the pictures they

see of crazy people

roaming around the

Middle East and the

Arab world do not

tell the full story… ”

“CREDIT: FRINGE FESTIVAL STAFF

The London Fringe Festival is an event that lls the streets of London with excitement; it will be taking place from May 31 to June 11.


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Trudeau attempts to distancehimself from Harper’s isolationism

On March 16, Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau announced thatCanada will be running for a 2021seat on the UN Security Council,which the country has not heldsince 2000. The Harper administra-tion ran for a seat in 2010 but wasdenied. This announcement goesalong with the new government’s

theme of distancing itself from the previous one, as well as party lineslike “Canada is back” signaling ashift in tone and policy.

Fanshawe Political Science pro-fessor Matt Farrell believes thatTrudeau has gone out of his way toengage the dichotomy, or big differ-ence, between himself and Harper.He cited a large state dinner and the pageantry and celebrities that wentalong with it, which Harper wouldnot have held. A number of liberals believed that the Harper govern-ment losing the UN seat signaled ashift in foreign policy, and are look-

ing to get the country back on track.“Trudeau is trying to send that

signal to voters and countries aroundthe world, that ‘look, while Canadamay have been on an isolationiststreak, now we’re not. Now we’reready to play ball’,” Farrell said.

He added that Harper being de-nied the Security Council seat mayhave been due to underlying issueslike the UN’s criticism of the Is-raeli government, while Harpersupported them and was more crit-ical of the Palestinian authority.What all of this comes down to isa shift in narrative while Trudeautries to enforce the fact that Cana-da is doing things differently underhis leadership, including engag-ing multilateral allies and runningfor a seat on the Security Council.The prime minister has also beenvocal on global issues like climatechange, and has attempted to talkCanada up as a country that wantsto participate.

The only outlier is Trudeau’s at-tempts to take Canada out of Iraqand Syria, but people have beenre-deployed. Farrell anticipatesthat the prime minister will keep upwith speaking on global issues and joining in where he can.

“We’ll see Trudeau really signCanada up for international initia-tives. Canada’s always had a repu-tation of being a serial international joiner because we’re a small country

and we can’t do much on our own,so we sign up for these things…Whereas Stephen Harper kind ofshifted away from that, I think we’regoing to see Trudeau continue tosell us as somebody that’s a willing participant,” Farrell said.

He also feels that there are bene-fits to Trudeau’s charismatic media presence, in that it could improvethe global community’s opinion ofCanada as a whole, political rhet-oric and photo opportunities aside.Whether it could spill over into dip-lomatic or economic benefits hasyet to be seen.

DAN TODDINTERROBANG

CREDIT: “FIRST MINISTERS’ MEETING “ BY PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

With Canada back in the running to get a seat on the UN Security Council, Trudeau has proven once again “Canada is back”.

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Into The Wild:Art on the runway

Fanshawe’s Fashion Merchan-dising students are given the chanceto test their skills with the annu-al wearable art fashion show onMarch 30.

This year, the theme is Into TheWild.

“We are not fashion designers,we are the business of fashion andfashion merchandising,” said Fash-ion Merchandising professor Lin-da Jenken. “This is a fun, creative project, it is not ready to wear, youwould never see anyone on thestreets with this, it is art on the run-way.”

Both first and second year stu-dents are involved with the showand preparation starts at the begin-ning of the winter semester.

“The first year students create thegarments in Dynamics of Fashion,which is their inspiration and thenthey execute the garments in Tex-tiles II, they cost everything out,create a mini version of the outfitand then they create the stage out-fit,” Jenken said.

The second year students are in-volved with production.

“The second year students style

and work in committees, and thosecommittees vary from merchandiseand model committee, stage com-mittee, advertising and promotionand fundraising so they are a part of putting the event together,” Jenkensaid.

According to Jenken, the workethic of the students this year has been outstanding.

“The ‘Into The Wild’ FashionMerchandising producers are a cre-ative and hard working group ofstudents who are dedicated to thesuccess of our annual show. Thefirst year students have gone wild

with their creations using recyclable materials creating animalisticand jungle designs for the runway.”

And according to second yearFashion Merchandising studentMeagan Bain, the wearable artfashion show is a truly rewardingexperience.

“We are making the show on ourown, we have mentors and guid-ance from our teacher, but we arereally calling a lot of the shots andmaking a lot of decisions… it isamazing experience.”

Bain is part of the stage commit-tee, which she admits has been a lotof work.

“For awhile we were just gettingtogether inspirations and figuringout what we want to do,” Bain said.“A lot of time was spent on the de-sign and figuring out what materialswe need and sourcing the materialsand now we are rushing to make ev-erything and get everything done.”

According to Bain, the studentshave an extra push to work hard asthe show is for charity. For eightyears, the wearable art fashionshow has been working with Itsy,a grassroots organization that sup- ports families who have infants inthe Neonatal Intensive Care Unit(NICU) at Children’s Hospital in

London, ON.“Children are the future, students

are very good when it comes to giv-ing back and it is nice to support acharity at the grassroots level, opposed to a large charity, where 100 per cent of the money goes to thefamilies and not to administration,”Jenken said. “Laurel [the creator ofItsy] and I partnered over eight yearsago and it’s been great ever since.”

The event will take place at theLondon Music Hall at 7 p.m. andis intended for all ages. Tickets areavailable for $25 at the Biz Boothor in the design office at M3010.

JESSICA THOMPSONINTERROBANG

CREDIT: EMILY HALL & ALIAH JOHNSON

First year Fashion Merchandising students take recyclable items and create uniquegarments for the annual wearable art fashion show, this year’s theme was Into The Wild.


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The Interrobang editor and I weredoing some online shopping when aFacebook ad caught her eye. A simplestrappy-back black dress was retailingfor $17.99, a bargain most people couldnot pass up.

As she was likely fantasizing aboutall the places she would wear her newdress, my skeptical instinct kicked in. I’veseen the same advertisements on socialmedia websites advertising deals onclothing that couldn’t possibly be true,

and I had just found my opportunity tofigure out if these deals were actuallytoo good to be true.

A quick Google reverse image searchgave me my answer right away. Thedress that was on sale for $17.99 onRomwe was originally sold by luxurybrand REVOLVE for $245.36.

You may be asking yourself, how is iteven possible for a designer dress toend up on a website based out of Chinafor less than 10 per cent of the originalcost?

Well, my naïve little friend, the systemis simple: websites gather trendy andfashionable Instagram-worthy imagesand post them on their site. When acustomer makes an order based on thepicture the item in question is replicatedand the counterfeit is delivered as op-posed to the product the consumer wasexpecting.

These counterfeit products are sold atextremely low prices because they areoften made with low quality materialsand with poor craftsmanship out of Chi-na.

There are many of these websitesfloating around the Internet selling allmanner of products. Interrobang is onlylooking at low-cost fashion websites be-cause the ads are almost impossible toresist for cash-strapped students.

Interrobang looked into three fashionretailers: Dresslily, Rosegal and Romwe.A quick Google search of these three re-tailers will bring up a torrent of five-staror one-star reviews, so we asked someFanshawe students about their experi-

ences with the websites.DresslilyDresslily opens its company infor-

mation section with a “Legal Window”.Rife with spelling and grammatical er-rors, the Notice and Takedown Policy ofDresslily does not outright say they aretaking images from other retailers, but itdefinitely dances around the issue.

Dresslily asks for your help in iden-tifying potential Intellectual PropertyRights (IPR) infringements, or stealingother company’s images and profitingfrom their work. While admitting that“Dresslily does not claim to hold legalexpertise on IPR matters”, the websitealso mentions that it is the responsibility

of the intellectual property (IP) ownersto protect their own IP.

Cassie Humber, a pre-health studentat Fanshawe, ordered a bathing suit thattook over five weeks to arrive. When it fi-nally got here Humber said the suit wasextremely small, smelled like paint andwas low quality; she said the underwirecame out within a few days.

“It did not fit the way it did on themodel,” Humber said.

Still, Humber said she would shop at

Dresslily again.“I potentially would if there was some-thing I really, really liked and didn’t needit in a rush, but I definitely wouldn’t reg-ularly order from them,” Humber said.

Kaileigh Gibson, a student in the Ear-ly Childhood Education program, had apositive experience with Dresslily. Sheordered a few shirts and a dress and waspleased with what she got.

“They were what I expected, theylooked exactly like the pictures,” Gibsonsaid. “The only issue was the size of theshirts [which] were a bit smaller than anormal size here.”

On the review website SiteJabber,Dresslily has over 2,100 one-star re-views listed and a 20 per cent approvalrating. On TrustPilot, 47.1 per cent of al lreviews are one-star.

Interrobang reached out to Dresslilyfor a comment but they did not reply intime for print.

RosegalRosegal also has an IPR disclaimer; it is

actually almost identical to the DresslilyLegal Window.

Fanshawe student Cheyenne Allensaid she ordered from Rosegal twiceand was displeased with both her or-ders. She said the first order was forsome bathing suits that were so smallthey fit her five-year-old sister, and eventhough she gave Rosegal a secondchance because she thought the firsttime must have been a fluke, she was just as unimpressed the second timearound.

“I decided one more try couldn’t

hurt so I ordered two simple shirts… [Ithought], how could they mess this up,right?”

Allen said it was the same problem asbefore. On top of that, when she tried toreturn the clothing and get her moneyback they battled her for a while beforefinally caving.

Allen said she would only recom-mend people shop at Rosegal if “theyhave money to throw away or childrenthat can wear the clothes, if and whenthey show up.”

Emily Catalano, a student in the EarlyChildhood Education program, had apositive experience with Rosegal. Shepaid $15 for two one-size-fits-all dress-

es and other than some strings hangingoff one of them (which were easily re-moved) she said she was extremely hap-py with her purchases and that she ac-tually recommends students shop there.

Jasmine Long, a student in the So-cial Service Worker program, ordered adress from Rosegal, and though it didn’tmeet all her expectations she was stillhappy with it.

“It wasn’t the material I was expectingbut I still liked it,” Long said. “I would

definitely recommend Rosegal.”Amanda Murray, a general sciencestudent, also shopped at Rosegal. Shebought a dress from the website andonly found out after she made the pur-chase that the store has received somany negative reviews. Though she waseventually pleased with her purchaseshe would not recommend studentsshop there due to shipping times.

“I wouldn’t recommend it unlessthey’re willing to wait over a month fortheir items to be delivered,” Murray said.

Rosegal has a lower approval ratingthan Dresslily on SiteJabber, only scor-ing at 13 per cent with over 2,800 one-star reviews. It has a 3.3 out of 10 ratingon TrustPilot with 57.5 per cent of all re-views at one-star.

Interrobang reached out to Rosegalfor a comment and they said, “Firstly, atRosegal our top priority is always cus-tomer satisfaction. Each time one of ourcustomer experiences an issue, we willdo our best to solve it. That said, if wehave made any mistake, we will be hap-py to fix it.”

RomweOf the three, Romwe was the website

with consistent positive reviews fromFanshawe students. But that is not tosay that the website does not face com-plaints.

Romwe rates considerably higherthan the other two websites, boasting a64 per cent approval rating on SiteJab-ber and has under 250 one-star reviews.On TrustPilot a notification announcedthe website suspects the page hosts

fake reviews, which makes the higherapproval rating suspicious.

Something appears to be “lost intranslation” in Romwe’s About Me sec-tion; it just seems to be a little off, butthat did not stop some Fanshawe stu-dents from finding great deals.

Taylor King, an Interior Design andDecorating student, appears to be aRomwe queen. She has purchased fromthe website multiple times with greatsuccess. She has been disappointedby the quality of some of the articlesof clothing but overall said she recom-mends students shop there.

“I usually shop when they have freeshipping deals and then I also shop

sales so I get an originally $30-40 itemfor under $10,” King said.

Interactive Media and Design studentKaylee Frechette also shopped on Rom-we.

“Just know that you’re not getting themost amazing quality in the universeand make sure your sizing is right,” Fre-chette said. “Just read the reviews on theproducts and listen to people.”

Interrobang reached out to Rom-we, and when Romwe was questioned

about its practices and business modelthey replied, “Romwe [are] running nor-mally, safe and secure… We choose thebest e-commerce service and also guar-antee secure payment processing in thisindustry. Some customers have somemisunderstanding about our companyas to different reason [sic], but we arenot a scam.”

But wait, there’s moreDresslily, Rosegal and Romwe are just

three of the multiple websites followinga similar model. Sammydress, a subsidi-ary of Rosegal, did not impress one Fan-shawe student.

Victoria Arsenault, a Broadcast Jour-nalism student, said her experience withSammydress was so bad that she justthrew out the shirt she ordered when itarrived.

“The material was cheap and it didn’tfit at all. The size wasn’t wrong or any-thing but it was literally made so poorlythat it just didn’t even fit like a normalpiece of clothing. I didn’t even wear itonce, I literally threw it in the garbage,”Arsenault said.

Thankfully she didn’t invest muchmoney in the experiment.

“I’m pretty good at spotting onlinescams so I just ordered one shirt for $13to test it out,” Arsenault said. “I read a lotof bad reviews on their comment sec-tion on Facebook.”

She wouldn’t recommend studentsshop at Sammydress or ever any web-site that follows the same model.

“I know every so often someone getssomething half decent from them but

it’s so hit or miss that it’s just not worththe risk.”

Shop smartThough there seems to be more cus-

tomers online who have had negativeshopping experiences with these web-sites there are definitely some happyshoppers. The important thing to keepin mind when ordering from websitesthat follow this model is to do your re-search and shop smart. Some websitesare more trustworthy than others, andsome items of clothing may not be thebest to shop online for based on yourbody type due to international differ-ences in sizing.

GREAT FASHION DEALS OR SCAMS?Kerra Seay | Interrobang

Taylor King purchased this red dress from Rowme. CREDIT: AS SEEN ON ROMWE.COM (LEFT), COURTESY OF TAYLOR KING (RIGHT)


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The problem with payingfor post-secondary

Nothing is free in life; unless you live in Newfoundland.

Last year, the Newfoundland governmenteliminated the “loan” portion of post-sec-ondary school funding and turned the entireamount into a grant. In last week’s issue, thissegment addressed some of the issues with post-secondary education, including the factthat a distressing number of programs areessentially useless. I picked on Police Foun-dations as the low hanging fruit, but all you“gen-ed” students out there better get your burger-flipping skills up to date as well.

This week is about the money side of theequation. A substantial number of post-sec-ondary students are there on borrowed mon-ey, a lot of it. Aside from crippling debt, manyof these students also graduate no closer togainful employment than they’d been before.

The Ontario Student Assistance Program(OSAP) is designed to address financial bar-riers, which might prevent someone fromattending post-secondary education. It’s asystem of loans and grants that are intendedto allow students who haven’t saved enoughmoney to pay for tuition and living expens-es. Unfortunately, OSAP is a complicatedframework of seemingly contradictory rulesand regulations that leave many graduates ina precarious financial state.

The framework for determining how muchmoney a student is eligible to receive takes

their parent’s income into consideration. It’sthe equivalent of an 18-year-old trying to geta car loan and only getting half of what theyasked for because their parents have a com- bined annual income that is over $80,000.It’s a bizarre system, which links your loan

amount to your parent’s income up untilyou’ve been out of high school for over fouryears. This results in students seeking a bankloan for their education if their parents areunwilling or unable to pony up the cash. Justwhat every student needs, another loan.

Luckily for students there’s always the op-tion of a part-time job, very part-time. Notonly will a student be docked financial assis-tance if they work two full shifts every week-end, but they also have to calculate in advancewhether this will be the case. In addition to being a bizarre kind of honour system, thisclause essentially encourages students not towork too much or they’ll be penalized.

The argument is that OSAP is provided sothat a student can focus on their studies, andworking too many hours increases the chanc-es of them failing out of school. In reality,students who are dropping out tend to be theones who can’t be bothered to study or showup to class.

The repayment part of OSAP is a wholeother can of worms. Graduating without afull-time job makes purchasing and owninga car impossible. Not owning a car can be amajor barrier to obtaining employment out-side of the graduate’s immediate area. Com- bine a minimum wage job with student loansand you have a recipe for disaster. And nowfor the shitty part.

The Repayment Assistance Program guar-antees that a graduate earning under $1,600 amonth won’t have to repay their loan or ac-crue interest for up to five years. A full-timeminimum wage job pays $1,760 per month. Now you have a choice: you can either worka few hours less and have $1,599 per monthto live on (well below the poverty line) or you

can work full-time and pay about $300 permonth on your loans bringing your incomedown to $1,460 per month (way below the poverty line). Essentially you’re taking homemore money by working less. Thanks OSAP.

VICTOR DE JONGINTERROBANG

Donate your MP3 players to retirement homes

Gone are the days of clunky MP3 playersand those Walkman’s where if you lost the battery cover, it was game over. However,if you end up finding one when cleaning outyour attic, there is an alternative to throwingthem out and it could change someone’s life.

Donating your old MP3 player to a retire-ment home is a great way to give back to yourcommunity.

Senior citizens in long-term care facilitiesand retirement homes deal with daily road- blocks that many students cannot fathom:

isolation, depression, confusion and memoryloss are just a few of their daily struggles.

Now imagine them listening to a small de-vice loaded up with the music that remindsthem of their youth. Common sense can tellyou that this idea will bring joy and happi-ness to the seniors listening, and science isright there to back that up. Music therapyis one of the coolest bridges of interaction between therapists and anyone who is cogni-

tively impaired.The idea that music can be used to ame-

liorate impairments such as dementia andanti-social personality disorder makes under-standing our brains more interesting.

An Alzheimer’s patient may not be ableto remember a shopping list you gave them10 minutes ago, but they can vividly tell youabout their first school dance and what theylistened to with positive and powerful emo-tions. Playing this music for them not onlycreates a sense of wellbeing and happiness, but could also trigger fond memories that weoriginally thought to be gone forever. Musicis almost doing the thinking for you.

Retirement homes all around North Ameri-ca are finding that patients utilizing this formof therapy are sleeping through the night andfinishing their meals, two of the most com-mon setbacks. Listening to music does nothave the power to cure this disease, but do-nating an MP3 player to help someone copeand make their day a bit brighter seems likean idea everyone should look into.

CODY HOWEINTERROBANG

CREDIT: FUSE / THINKSTOCK

Your old MP3 player can make all the difference to a senior citizen in long-term care.

In the wake of terror – love?

The terrorists who just struck in Brusselsmay or may not have known that their attackswere carried out during the most importantweek of the Christian year. It was the weekwhen churches all over the planet celebratedthe death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Ironically, while Islamic terrorists proclaimthe greatness of their god, Allah, true religiousfaith does not demand the killing of one’s en-emies. True religious faith opens the door tothe possibility of being a victim, not a killer.

That is one of the key insights to be gained by reflecting on the death of Christ who died,not flinging his enemies to destruction, butaccepting the death they procured for him.

The world he entered was much like ours.It might not seem like it because today wehave smart phones and great health care while

the people of Jesus’ time had no electronicsand a life expectancy of about 40 years. Butit was much like ours in a more fundamentalrespect: it was home to powers that energizedand shaped the people of the time, powersthat were ready to deal death to the deserving.

Jesus would have seen the centres of those powers. He saw the military garrison in Jeru-salem that was the basis for the glorified Ro-man terrorism that passed for government inhis time. He saw the influence of wealth andknew where the one per cent lived. He hadgone to their dinners and typically offendedthe host or other guests.

The media of his time consisted of theimperial Roman banners, the Roman edicts posted here and there and the allocation ofsites where the Romans regularly crucifiedrebels and miscreants.

He also on many occasions stood face toface with the Jewish religious authorities; hehimself as well as most of the earliest Chris-tians were Jews. They were hostile towardshim, believing that he was offering a visionof Judaism which amounted to a betrayal ofthe faith.

His thousands of Jewish followers dis-agreed, so much so that just prior to his deathhis enemies were looking for the first oppor-tunity to draw his blood but had to bide theirtime. They had to calculate with care because,as the writer Luke puts it, the people hung on

Jesus’ words (Luke, end of chapter 19).Just prior to his death, Jesus came back to

Jerusalem knowing that he was entering thedragons’ den. The powers of the city wouldsee to his death by torture. By week’s end, Je-sus was hunted, arrested, interrogated, tried,

convicted of blasphemy and sedition, sen-tenced and executed.

This would have all been forgotten exceptfor one thing. Within days of his death, he began making appearances. During the nextmonth and half or so hundreds saw him. Weourselves would understand Jesus as just oneof many failed devout Jewish leaders livingin brutal times except for the fact of his resur-rection from death.

So back to the terrorist bombings. Thetemptation is to respond with retaliation, ha-tred and fear. But according to Guardian col-umnist Bleri Lleshi we must not fight terrorwith more terror. He mentioned journalist Nicolas Henin, who was once captured byISIS. But he also does not advocate retalia-tion. He advocates unity.

These two are not far from the truth. Christ

is the most well known teacher of the rule tolove even our enemies (Matthew 5). He fa-mously stated that it is no credit to love ourfriends. Everyone does that. But loving theenemy, that is the real challenge. Yes, it isone that tragically has not always been met by his followers. Nevertheless the commandis there, condemning those who violate it, andinspiring those who seek a new way forward.

Jesus taught in the same breath that weshould pray for our enemies. Perhaps he sug-gested this because when someone attacksme it is hard for me act charitably towardthem. But I can usually, if grudgingly, prayfor the person.

A small start perhaps. But it may changemy heart, my words and my actions. And asJesus said elsewhere, from a tiny seed a greattree can grow.

It is my opinion that Muslims, includingthose who strap on bombs, accept Jesus assomething less than I do, but still, as a proph-et. Perhaps it would not hurt for those tempt-ed to commit acts of violence in the nameof Allah to give thought to the accounts ofJesus’ life and teachings which predate Mo-hamed by 600 years.

He was more than a prophet. And what heintroduced he presented for all. It is not mere-ly a religion, it is a way of life and the onlytrue path to hope for a breaking world.

MICHAEL VEENEMARUMOURS OF GRACE


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Allegiant to what?Everything has changed. The

wall is open for the first time in200 years, the Factions have beendestroyed, Jeanine and the Eruditeare no longer in power and a newcouncil have taken over. Tris Prior,still recovering from her brother’s

betrayal, takes a back seat, finallyresting after her long struggle.Except not really. From the first

moment of Allegiant , where thewalls close on the hopeful citizens,we see that nothing has changed.An old dictator has simply beenreplaced with a new one, who is just as ruthless but much less in-telligent. The Factions are far fromgone, as some still cling to the oldsystem and old lines of hate remain.Any character growth from the lastfilm is undone, with everyone go-ing back to square one.

This is a film full of terrible writ-ing and plot holes. From magically

having enough equipment to get anextra, unexpected person over thewall to yet another big secret revealabout Tris’ mom, Natalie, little inthe movie makes any type of sense.The mom reveal is especially an-noying as it seems like every moviethey have to show something newabout the woman, even if it contra-dicts the last big reveal and completely destroys the idea behind the big experiment.

Which brings up yet another problem Allegiant has, an inescap-

able thread of anti-intellectualism.Of course the Institute is evil be-cause every corporation or scien-tific venture is. It invades privacy, practices eugenics (a practice that islinked to the forced-sterilization ofminorities particularly favoured bythe Nazis and bigots everywhere),kidnaps children for literally noreason and is overtly racist.

This isn’t the first film in the se-ries to play to the “smart people areinherently compassionless robots”cliché, but it certainly takes the ideaa few steps further. Meanwhile, Trisgets the pleasure of finger wavingand telling people off for not learn-

ing from their mistakes while seem-ing to almost go out of her way tonot learn from her mistakes.

Some of the terrible writing might be forgivable if the film was at leastshot well, but it doesn’t even havethat going for it. From awkwardclose-ups to painfully obvious greenscreens, it seems as though Allegiant lost its budget halfway through pro-duction and decided to hire somerandom dude off the street for all itsediting and filming needs.

It would be a stretch to attach

anything positive to the movie at all.For the most part, it feels as thoughthey simply took the terrible endingof Insurgent , completely ignoredthe rest of the series and added insome poorly handled race issues forgood measure. Every character, nomatter how smart they’re supposedto be, repeatedly makes stupid de-cisions that serve no purpose otherthan to drive the terrible plot.

Overall, Allegiant is the worstmovie (so far) in a series that has been getting worse with each in-stallment. At this rate, the next filmwill have all the quality and logicof Troll 2.

PAM-MARIEGUZZOINTERROBANG

CREDIT: LIONSGATE (2016)

If you like little action, clichéd writing and racist undertones, this is the movie for you.

The vital questionon where to live

Students are most often concernedwith only a few things: what’s goingto be on the next test, what they aregoing to eat and what bus is goingto take them downtown. However,there is still one crucial piece ofinformation that can sometimes beoverlooked until the last minute, andthat is where they are going to live.

With the school year windingdown to its final weeks, new and re-turning students need to be focusingon where, and with who they aregoing to be living. “FOR RENT”signs have begun appearing morearound Fanshawe’s neighbouringtownhouses, and with that has sig-nalled for students to begin plan-ning their living expenses, whichcan for some be the most stressful part of a new school year.

Glenn Matthews, the housingmediation officer at Fanshawe, saidthat renting a home in London isa five-step process broken downto costs, roommates, accommoda-tions, leases and lifestyles.

“You need to look at whetherthe place meets your basic needs in... number of bedrooms, location,safety, etc.,” Matthews said.

Generally speaking, studentshave a few options on where theychoose to live, but one of the big-gest deciding factors is on howclose to the school they want to be.

“We are confident in telling stu-dents that you save about $100 permonth per bedroom if you live a10-minute bus ride away from theCollege as you will pay a premiumto be within walking distance of theCollege.” said Matthews.

Taking the bus can often be a has-sle and having a complicated timeschedule full of breaks betweenclasses is where living close to

school can be beneficial.A student on a tight budget can

also save money on food whengiven the option of running homein-between breaks to eat. However,living close to a school isn’t alwaysthe best option, depending on yourlifestyle.

With reference to Fanshawe’sstudent neighbourhood, living closeto the college has become a hotspotfor those who love the 24-hour party lifestyle. With that, one mayexperience late nights full of beersand blasting rave music until theearly morning sun pierces throughthe window. At this point, living awalking distance from the schoolcan feel too good to be true.

This is where most will want toconsider the option of a home fur-ther away from the college, whichmost often entails the use of a bus.

“Since a bus pass is includedin the tuition, many students lookalong bus routes to find their hous-ing,” Matthews said.

Choosing to live further awayfrom the college will support a re-laxed lifestyle by not having to con-stantly worry about what party theneighbours are throwing next. Thisgives more options as to what sur-rounds them.

Living closer to downtown alsogives the freedom of shopping andconvenience, as well as a closerroute to groceries and appliances.However, what accompanies this isthe knowledge of a bus schedule oraccess to a car.

In the end, what a student needsto consider most is where they willfeel most comfortable living andwhat home they feel will fit theirlifestyle. However, for anyone stillunsure about their living quarters,they can contact [email protected] with any ques-tions they may have.

CREDIT: MITCH VOLLMER

“FOR RENT” signs can be seen more than ever since the school year is near its end.

MITCHELL VOLLMERINTERROBANG

Food placement for fresh choicesApril is not only a great time to

commit to a healthy lifestyle, it’salso a great time for spring clean-ing. You can combine the two andspring-clean your cupboards andfridge. I’m referring to the foodsyou stock up on and how you ar-range them. If you want to makehealthy eating easier and more con-venient, then you might need to doa little re-arranging.

Pantry and cupboards• Load your healthy whole grains

(oats, barley, quinoa, brown rice,wild rice, wheat, mixed graincereal, pilaf, etc.), dried beans,lentils and flours ground fromthese foods in clear containersat eye level so you are remindedto use them before using the processed versions.

• Put your whole grain pasta, rice paper, bread, all natural cereal,granola, healthy and homemade baked goods at chest to bellylevel. Kernels for your air-poppercan go here too.

• Cans and jars can be at leglevel. Check for expiration dates

often and put the items that youuse the most, like oils, in front.Large items like jugs of vinegar, potatoes, bags of onion, etc., cango on the bottom shelf.

• Arrange your baking items, likehoney, cane sugar, baking soda, baking powder, yeast and driedegg whites, on the top shelf or just above your head. You canalso put other lightweight items,like supplements, up top.

• If you need a spot for processedfoods like crackers, chips andstore bought baked goods, because, let’s face it, we have the

occasional time where we servethis for parties, stick them up onthe highest shelf possible. Out ofsight, out of mind.

• Spices work well at eye leveltoo, or try convenient spots likea drawer beside the stove or in acountertop organization system.In your freezer

• Put frozen fruits and veggies foryour smoothies, stir-fry, crock- pot meals, etc., at eye level or inthe most convenient spot.

• Healthy homemade leftoversshould be placed at belly level.

• Healthy convenience items and

meats should be kept in the bottom or back of freezer.

• Ice drinks and healthy homemade popsicles should be placed at thetop of the door.In your fridge

• Place nut butters, oils, juice andother condiments that don’t needto be really cold on the top shelfand in the door. You could alsostore bread or baked goods here.

• Left overs or food you’ve prepped to eat in the next coupledays can be placed at eye level.

• Your cold items, like meat, milk,cheese, yogurt, etc., go on the top

shelf and in the door.• Keep your veggies and fruits in

separate drawers and adjust thetemperature so they keep longer.Don’t pack your fridge full allthe time or it will have uneventemperatures throughout.

• On the table and counter place baskets or bowls of fruit,including tomatoes. Use a closed basket for onions, garlic, ginger,squash and big items like melons.It also helps to re-arrange your

dishes so that it’s more convenientfor you to put your healthy itemstogether.

KAREN NIXON-CARROLLINTERROBANG


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New info sheds light on the mysterious Tully Monster

This week we go back to the ageof dinosaurs, with new informationon fossils of a so-called monster and bird legs getting a little prehistoric.

Tully Monster is explained…sort of

In 1958, Francis Tully, an ama-teur paleontologist searching Illi-nois coal pits, found thousands ofthe same odd creature called Tul-limonstrum gregarium but morecommonly known as the TullyMonster. It has baffled scientistssince it was found, with research-ers not even sure what order of theTaxonomic tree it was supposed toinhabit, only knowing it was an an-

imal of some sort.What made understanding the

creature even more challenging wasthat fossils of the Tully Monster,which date back 300 million years,are only found in Illinois.

Partnering with the Field Mu-seum of Natural History, Argonne National Laboratory and the Amer-ican Museum of Natural History,Yale researchers studied over 1,200fossil specimens that were savedin concretions, helping to preservelarge portions of the creatures’ softtissues.

The team correlated anatomicaldata of structures found within the

Tully Monster with morphologicaltraits of animals currently known totry and make a classification.

As a Yale press release stated,concretions are masses of hard

rock that formed around the TullyMonsters as they fossilized, makingit possible to study the creature insuch high detail.

The team used a synchrotron,which is a type of particle acceler-ator that generates powerful beamsof electrons. When the path of elec-trons is bent by sets of magnets,synchrotron light is produced whichis extremely bright.

The synchrotron light was usedto study the chemistry of the fos-sils, buried within the layers of therock and previously unobservablethrough any other means.

Data from the synchrotron re-vealed unknown biological struc-tures within the fossils never before

viewed in any of the thousands ofspecimens, including gills and aflexible cartilage rod known as anotochord.

Notochords are important bio-logically because they allow theanimal to have a semi-rigid internalstructure, allowing for muscle at-tachment.

Both the gills and notochord werecrucial in determining what modernday species might be related to theancient animal.

While previously thought to be atype of snail or sea worm, the paperconcluded that the Tully Monsterwas in fact a vertebrate and an early

ancestor of the lamprey.The conclusion was due to the

notochord, the position and numberof fins, the presence of skull-likefeatures called tectal cartilage, also

found in lampreys, as well as sever-al other morphological features thetwo shared.

Fun fact: the Tully Monster is Il-linois’ official state fossil.

Growing dinosaur chickensA team of Chilean scientists,

building upon research publishedin 2015, have been able to causemultiple species of bird embryos togrow dinosaur-shaped legs.

While it’s well understood thatavians evolved from tetanuran or‘stiff-tailed’ dinosaurs, what isn’tfully understood is how and whythe various morphological changesto body structure happened, trans-forming the velociraptor to youreveryday chicken over time.

The study not only wanted tounderstand the intermediate evo-lutionary steps that took place in bird legs, but also at what phase ofdevelopment the leg bones begin tolose their ancestral shape.

The scientists used genetic modi-fications to a specific gene, regulat-ing how sections of the bone, calledgrowth plates, grew.

Dinosaur legs had two bones,the outer fibula and the inner tibia,which worked together to supportthe body’s weight onto the foot,similar to human legs.

In birds, both bones are still pres-ent, but the fibula is much smaller

than the tibia.In fact, you can see this next time

you eat chicken wings. The smallshard that runs along the main boneof drumsticks is the fibula.

In addition to it being smaller, thefibula doesn’t connect to the heel bone in modern birds whereas indinosaur legs it did.

In the study, the gene IHH wasinactivated which, when activated,would cause the end of the fibulato stop growing. This inactivationof IHH led to the increase of a genecall PTHrP to be present at the endof the fibula, facilitating its growthinto the dinosaur-like shape.

Using embryos from six differentorders, the scientists determined thechicken tests to contain the closest bone formation and shape to that ofdinosaur’s walking limbs.

The final results led the team to propose a new hypothesis of howthe fibula began to shrink throughthe evolutionary timescale, stat-ing that the proximity of the bones

during specific growth phases wasmore important than when individ-ual sections of the fibula stoppedgrowing.

In late 2015, the same researcherswere able to cause the feet of chick-en embryos to form into prehistor-ic dinosaur feet through geneticmodification as well. In early 2015,another team was able to cause theskulls of bird embryos to form intothe shape of crocodilians, which are birds’ closest living dinosaur rela-tive.

Next week we’ll take a look athow bacterial photosynthesis ismuch older than previously thought.

JERROLD RUNDLESCIENTIFICADVENTURES

CREDIT: ILLUSTRATION BY SEAN MCMAHON / YALE UNIVERSITY

The Tully monster, pictured above, is theorized to have been an open ocean hunter,sometimes travelling to coastal areas.


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How to properly dietMarch was nutrition month. Good

nutrition is actually simpler than youthink. What makes nutrition compli-cated is you and your behaviours, beliefs, lifestyle and current state ofhealth. The world complicates goodnutrition further with all their prom-ises, and people around you may notunderstand or be supportive. Hereare some simple nutrition rules tofollow that can help you get on to a path of a healthier lifestyle.

Eat whole foods first.This means eating the natural

part of the plant (vegetables, grain,fruit, oil, etc.), meat and eggs. Youcan liven up your diet with otherwhole foods, including herbs andspices. Depending on how you feelabout milk or milk alternatives andthe dairy products made from them,you can consider them as part ofyour whole foods diet or see be-low. Supplements are secondaryand only work well with a healthydiet. Your doctor, naturopath ordietitian can advise you on whichones you need based on screening;you should never take supplementsunnecessarily, as they can have se-rious side effects.

Eat as little healthy processed

foods as possible.Even whole grains or all natural

versions of whole grains may bemissing things you need (such asfibre or protein), or they may con-tain things you don’t need (such assugar or salt) to make it taste bet-ter. Processed foods include juice,sauce, cereal, pasta, breads, dipsand condiments. Basically, if itcomes in a package of some kindand has more than one ingredient,it has been processed in some way.These still have a great place inyour diet but we don’t always needmuch in terms of portions.

Read and compare nutritionlabels.

Look at the ingredient list; itemsare listed in order based on theirvolume (for example if flour orsugar are listed first, that is what themajority of the product contains).

Next, look at the label. This tellsyou the basic information based ona certain serving size. Make sureyou know how much that servingsize really is. Typically, most labelsonly have room for certain vitaminsand minerals, including sodium,iron, calcium and vitamin A and C.There are many other vitamins andminerals that could have a higherconcentration than what is listed,and you may need to use an onlinesource or ask the manufacturer.

Check out healthycanadians.gc.ca for a healthy Canadian nutri-tion label quiz or use the Canadian Nutrient File to help you find infor-mation not listed on the package atwebprod3.hc-sc.gc.ca.

Drink water.It’s simple, you need hydration,

and water is your best bet. If youhave to drink juice, make sure it’s100 per cent natural (no other in-gredients other than fruits or veg-etables), it’s not from concentrateand it doesn’t contain added sugar.

If you have to drink coffee or tea,

limit the caffeinated versions to oneto two cups and try caffeine-freeherbal teas instead and switch fromheavy creams, butters and sugarto small amounts of honey, lemonand low fat milk. Limit alcohol toone four to six ounce glass a day,including wine and beer as thesecalories add up quick and providelittle in terms of benefits.

Eat when you’re hungry.Eat small amounts. While your

stomach can expand and hold asmuch as two to three litres of food,your satiety level can be reachedwith just a quarter of a litre.

If you eat on a regular scheduleeach day, generally you will be hun-gry at those same intervals. There isalso no need to make yourself eat before a social gathering or goingto the grocery store, unless you aretruly hungry. Most people windup eating about the same amountof food and therefore overeat. Youshould never eat so much that youfeel sick or have to unbutton cloth-ing around your waistline.

Plan and prep healthy mealsand snacks every week.

Make healthy eating as conve-nient as possible, and instead ofsleeping in on Sunday, get up andmake soup, salads and homemadegranola bars. Plan your grocery listfor the meals you will need for thatweek and meals to get you started inthe following week. Make a list onyour fridge of all the healthy mealoptions you can cook and makesomething different for dinner atleast every night for two weeks, atleast six to seven different lunches,four to five different breakfasts andmany options for snacks or to-gomeals.

Out of sight, out of mind.Get rid of unhealthy things; don’t

buy it on your regular grocery trip,even as a treat. You can make treatsout of healthy options and think of

other ways to treat yourself. Checkout sparkpeople.com for 50 non-food treats.

If you must indulge, pick a spe-cific time and stick to it.

For example, only eat a small piece of cake on birthdays. Themore healthy eating you do, the lessyou will want unhealthy options.When you eat things in excess ortoo often, such as salt, sugar or fats,you crave them more. Healthy eat-ing will help to put your hormonesand cravings in balance and you’llknow it’s working when you findunhealthy options less desirable.


CREDIT: SOHADISZNO / THINKSTOCK

Making your meals for the week on Sunday rather than sleeping in can help you stick to a healthy lifestyle. You can even makehomemade granola bars that are yummy to snack on and prevent you from eating preservatives.

Foundation applicationtechniques and tools

Ever wonder why foundation is just never working for you no mat-ter how many brands you’ve tried?Sometimes it’s not the actual foun-dation that could be the problem, itcan be how you’re applying it.

There is always the daunting ques-tion as to what is the best thing toapply your foundation with. Shouldyou use a sponge, brush, BeautyBlender or even your own fingers?Each of these have their own prosand cons and will all achieve a dif-ferent look, you just need to findwhich one works for you.

The most traditional way to applyyour foundation is by using a brush, but with all the new advancementsin cosmetics, the many types offoundation brushes can be confus-ing. The original flat brush is an

easy way to smooth on liquid foun-dations, but it can sometimes causestreaking so applying with an “x”motion will give the best results.

This type of brush also makes iteasy to build coverage by just usinga patting motion.

Kabuki-styled synthetic brush-es are an amazing way to buff onliquid, cream, mousse and pow-der foundations and will create anairbrushed-finish. Unlike a tradi-tional foundation brush, you wantto apply your foundation by usingcircular motions, as this will createa flawless complexion. One of the

downsides to this brush is that itcan be hard to get into the nook andcrannies of the face, depending onthe size of the brush.

Another common applicationmethod is by using a sponge. Tra-ditional sponges may seem like aquicker method, but the downsidesare much greater. These spongeswill consume a lot of your product by absorbing it, making you have torepurchase your foundation muchmore frequently. They also get dirtyquickly and are almost impossibleto clean, so you will also have to re- place these quite often as well.

New age sponges, such as theBeauty Blender, are a whole differ-ent story. They do not absorb near-ly as much foundation, are easy toclean and are reusable. These typesof sponges can buff on foundationto create that airbrush finish, can bestippled to build coverage and makeit extremely easy to blend.

The last and probably most con-troversial method is by using yourhands. This method is by far the

fastest and is okay to use when ina hurry, but is not the most sanitary.Using your hands can also wastea lot of product and can be messy.But after thoroughly washing yourhands and using your product little by little, you can achieve a naturalfinish by letting your skin shinethrough.

Play around with different brush-es, sponges, hands and even combine a few different methods. Youcan achieve many different finisheswith the same foundation by justchanging your application tech-nique and tools.

CREDIT: JOSHUA R. WALLER

Different style of tools can drastically change the nish of your foundation.

JOSHUA R.WALLERBEAUTY BOY


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Cheating vs. treatingTreat as a noun refers to anything

that affords particular pleasure orenjoyment.

To cheat means to defraud, de-ceive and violate rules or regula-tions.

These words are commonly used

by my new clients and those whohave yet to make significant chang-es toward their health and well be-ing. It usually takes me a while to break someone from using thesewords when they’re talking abouttheir diet; some are not successful, but they were not willing to changein the first place. A new acquain-tance and behavioural specialist re-minded me that rewarding yourselfwith a good treat or a special cheatis a way to avoid changing your bad behaviour. You are essentially tell-ing yourself that all the hard workyou are putting in sucks and that

at some point you’ll get to rewardyourself with a treat or cheat. Even-tually, this is what leads to failure.Sure, maybe you can stick it out fora while and you could be better offthan someone who makes no effortto eat healthy, but you’ll still haveall the negative side effects fromyour unhealthy habits.

What to do instead:

Eat healthy all the time.It’s hard at first, but you get used

to saying no and people get used tooffering healthy options. Of course,there are situations where you can’tavoid it, like when you are invitedfor dinner and birthday cake andthere are no or few healthy options.Choose the healthiest and fill up onthat and nibble on the other stuff.It’s not rude and you could arguethat your host is being rude in notknowing or understanding yourlifestyle choices. However, don’tget defensive if someone makes funof your choices and don’t point out

unhealthy things to your host. Just politely say you really love the saladthey made and can’t get enough of it.

Treat wisely.If you reread the definition of

treat, you’ll see that even the actof being healthy is a treat. Onceyou see things like your workouts,healthy cooking and eating and reg-ular sleep as pleasurable and you

begin to enjoy your lifestyle, thoseold unhealthy treats will actuallystart to seem gross.

Don’t cheat. Ever.You can modify exercises, make

a conscious choice to eat healthy ornot, ask for help, but don’t cheat. Italways ends badly at some point.

Don’t set yourself up to fail. Youare the only one responsible foryour choices and have the power tofix them. You may need help some-times and you can’t be afraid orashamed to ask someone you trust.You have to be willing to do every-thing it takes to be successful.


CREDIT: SHIRONOSOV / THINKSTOCKTo cheat or not to cheat? If you train your body to look at salad and a healthy lifestyle as a treat, you won’t be as inclined to grabthat bag of chips.

LG G5 brings innovation backto the smartphone universe

With the slowing down ofMoore’s Law in the smartphoneindustry, there has not been muchinnovation lately. I do not considercurved screens an innovation be-cause that technology is more of agimmick, like 3D TVs. They lookcool at Best Buy, but there is no positive outcome of using them.

LG has come to the rescue withsomething innovative and useful.

The LG G series is innovative. Itis the first phone to offer physical buttons on the back of the phone toavoid accidental side button press-ing, and of course the first phone tooffer a display beyond high defini-

tion. The LG G5 sports a flagshipleading 4 gigabytes of ram, whichare basically 300 mobile browsingtabs open at the same time.

The device also carries a Snap-dragon 820 processor, which againis the best you can get, and its trade-mark quad high definition display.

It also has a duel lens camera,allowing you to take a normal16-megapixel snapshot or a wideeight megapixel, 135-degree shot.The phone will also toggle betweenthe two based on what you are look-

ing at.This all sounds good, but the real

innovation comes when you re-move the bottom panel. The bottom panel of the G5 is the default mod-ule. This means, you can take it offand attach third party modules.

So far there are three modules.The first is called the LG Cam Plus,which when attached gives you a physical button camera base, likeyou are actually holding a digitalcamera. This module actually adds

more battery power to the phone.The second module is called the Hi-Fi Plus. This will turn the G5 intoan audio player that makes musicsound like you are actually at a con-cert.

Finally, and most importantly,LG will be releasing a virtual re-ality (VR) system to compete withSamsung’s Gear VR.

At this time, the phone and mod-ules have no pricing information, but will be released this summer.

CODY HOWEINTERROBANG

CREDIT: LG

The new LG G5 series brings technological advances to a whole ‘notha level.

Mystery shoppingFairy godmother or evil stepmother?

Mystery shopping is an oppor-tunity to go Sherlock Holmes on a business outlet to get free stuff inreturn. This sounds like a win-win,especially for students who havesome time to conduct research andfill out a survey answering detailedquestions regarding their experi-ence at the outlet in order to get freestuff or money in return.

In such a competitive environ-ment, where customers have allthe power to decide the future of a business, organizations seek moreand more customers who would be willing to mystery shop. Today,mystery shopping is not only usedas a feedback or evaluation tool, butis also used as a marketing tool.

Organizations send out mysteryshopping invitations to the shop- pers and they in return get free stufffor answering a few questions. Thissometimes ties these customersto the organization, making them brand loyal.

However, with every fairy god-mother, there is always an evilstepmother as well. With mysteryshopping comes the scams thatare designed to cheat the mysteryshoppers.

One Fanshawe student, whowishes to remain anonymous, gotan email to participate in a mysteryshopping assignment for Money-gram. The mystery shopper wasdrawn in with the promise of being paid $400 when they were usually

only paid around $20 for other mys-tery shopping jobs.

“I got excited and took it. I re-ceived a check worth $1600 fromthem… my instructions were that Iwas supposed to deduct my $400 inmy account, and send the rest of themoney via MoneyGram to anothermystery shopper. I did all of that,and submitted my report.”

A week later, the mystery shopper got a call from the bank inform-ing them that their check bounced.

“I was suddenly out of $1100… being a student, it was very difficultto recover that loss. I informed the

authorities here, but there was littlethey could do, because the mysteryshopper I sent money to was out

of country and they had already picked up the cash.”Another Fanshawe mystery

shopper, who also wishes to remainanonymous, said they received atext message from an unknownnumber reading ‘Become a mysteryshopper

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