By Rosie HalesAssistant News Editor

A proposal to knock down five houses on Johnson St. to build townhouses for students has been met with mixed reviews from local residents.

If given permission from the city Planning Committee, the buildings will be constructed and rented out for Sept. 2013.

The proposed properties, which would be located between Toronto and MacDonnell Streets, will be built by Golden Dragon Ho, an Ottawa-based developer. Each townhouse building will have 27 units, with an average of four bedrooms each. The housing would bring an additional 108 students to the area.

Johnson St. resident Corinne

By Vincent MatakAssistant News Editor

A new city bylaw limits each household to one garbage bag per collection day.

The bylaw was passed 7-6 at City Council on July 17 in its first reading and was put forward in order to encourage recycling and limit household waste. A third and final reading is scheduled for Aug. 14.

The hope is that residents will further separate recyclable waste into green bins for food and blue bins for plastic containers. Prior to the motion passing, residents were allowed to put up to two bags on the curb without needing extra tags.

The bylaw will apply to all residents with access to green recyclable bins, but tenants and homeowners will be allowed to purchase tags for every extra garbage bag for $2 each.

Tags are currently available at a number of convenience stores, as

well as the AMS front office.If it passes at the final reading,

the limit will be effective Sept. 1, but residents will be permitted to put out two bags on the garbage day after Labour Day, as well as New Year’s Day and Victoria Day.

Kye Andreopoulos, ArtSci ’14, lived in a house of eight last year and said he thinks the idea is unrealistic.

“It’s ridiculous, especially in the

student ghetto area where there is a very dense population per household,” he said. “Even last year when houses were allowed two garbage bags, we had to store our extra garbage, that sometimes added up to six or seven bags, in the basement.”

Andreopoulous said the stored garbage made the area unsanitary and led to a bug infestation later on in the school year.

On July 27, the AMS released a statement denouncing City Council’s decision to limit garbage bag use and asking City Council members to vote against the motion at the final reading.

The statement criticized the policy’s flawed “practical considerations, its awareness initiatives and the undue burden it places on students, who often live in high-density housing.”

Mattie Sergeant, PheKin ’13, is currently pushing for a spot on the Canadian national team. See page 23 for the full story.

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FeatureA look into the revitalization of upper Princess St.

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DialogueDebating the merits of tech in the classroom.

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artsA conversation with Sam Roberts.

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sportsCalgary Stampeders visit Queen’s.

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Council passes one garbage bag limitFinal reading scheduled in August for bylaw that would force all households to comply

Flowers lined a makeshift memorial to Emma Purdie in her hometown of Peterborough within a day of her death. Tea light candles were arranged in the infinity symbol, a reference to a tattoo on Emma’s arm.

The tattoo was comprised of the infinity sign and the word ‘young,’ representing the phrase ‘forever

young’; according to those who knew Emma, it was a phrase that perfectly characterized her.

Emma, ArtSci ’15, died on July 13 after a fall from a parking garage in Peterborough. She was 20.

Her mother, Barb Purdie, said Emma was always optimistic and was passionate about “anything that was fun.”

“She really loved dance and she loved theatre and she really liked to be involved, to be busy and doing something all the time,” she said.

“She taught dance to really little kids and she loved that as well.”

Emma took up dancing at age three and had tried many styles, including jazz, ballet, hip-hop

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School of English instructor Kelly Goode said the School has students from Japan, Korea, China, Saudi Arabia and around the world.

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By Rosie HalesAssistant News Editor

When the Queen’s School of English (QSoE) opened its doors in 1942, it was a summer program with 30 staff and students altogether. Only students from convents and monasteries in Quebec attended.

Since then, the program has instructed thousands of domestic and international English as an additional language learners.

Instructor Kelly Goode has been at the QSoE for 19 of its 70 years.

“I just love it so much,” she said. “[The students] are so motivated and open to new things and sharing things about their culture.”

The QSoE kicked off the anniversary celebrations with a barbeque on June 29, which was attended by current and former students and staff of the School.

On Oct. 4, the QSoE will open its doors to the public for an open house.

Goode said she thinks the anniversary events will increase awareness of the School at Queen’s and hopefully abroad.

“It would be great if an international student came in, learned more about the School, and then recommended the program to friends and relatives back home,” Goode said.

The open house will showcase the school’s history and programs. On the School’s website, tributes and photos from former students have been posted to honour the anniversary.

The instructional staff will also be hosting a “brown bag” session to introduce some of the courses and services that the School offers.

The QSoE, formerly known as the Queen’s Summer School of English, moved to Richardson Hall in the 1950s to accommodate growth and moved to its current Albert St. location in the 1990s.

By the 1960s, the School had an average of 100 students.

“We have about 90-100 students right now, but we’ve had up to 180 at certain times,” Goode said.

Now a part of the Faculty of Arts and Science

at Queen’s, the School offers Canadian English Experience programs in the summer and winter, as well as a 12-week English for Academic Purposes course and a 13-week Business Internship Program. Students are instructed in reading, writing, listening and speaking.

Also included in tuition fees are trips to Ottawa, Quebec City, Toronto and Niagara Falls, as well as guided excursions to sites in Kingston.

Goode said many students who come to QSoE intend to go to Queen’s after completing the program.

“We have activities just for the School of English students to get them familiar with campus so that after they’ve taken some courses with us they are ready to do their Queen’s program or graduate studies,” she said.

Students can stay on west campus for fall and winter semesters and main campus in the spring and summer. They can also choose to live with a

‘homestay family’ from the Kingston community.Goode said the School has many students

from Japan, Korea, China and Saudi Arabia. “I think that the School of English helps to

put ‘universe’ in university because we do have students here from all over the world,” she said, adding that she would like to see more students from other markets, including Europe and Latin America.

For some students, the School has provided more than instruction; it offers an

“international family.”That’s how Mohammed Alnakhli describes

the friends he’s made at the QSoE. Alnakhli came to Queen’s after receiving a scholarship from the Saudi Arabian government that allowed him to study at a Canadian school.

“My favourite memories in [the] School of English are impossible to count,” Alnakhli, ArtSci ’12, said. “I have made many great international friends. We have shared happiness, sadness and stressful nights with our homework.”

He said he never felt homesick at the School because he was surrounded by such close friends.

“We were like a real family by the end of each session.”

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Williamsville looks to attract studentsA Main Street Study passed by City Council in February looks to revitalize the west side of Princess St. By Jessica FishBeinStaff Writer

The upper side of Princess St. may be getting a facelift if developers are quick to act on the City’s recommendations for redevelopment.

Under the Williamsville Main Street Study, new transportation and parking infrastructure, more student housing and revitalized commercial spaces were passed by City Council this February.

The target area is the 1.7 km stretch of Princess St. that runs from Bath Rd./Concession St. to Division St., and borders the Student Ghetto. The strip bears little resemblance to its neighboring thriving downtown core and currently features a long stretch of defunct commercial space.

If the plans come into effect, students will see the first of the new housing settlements along Victoria, Nelson, Alfred and Albert Streets.

According to Varsity Properties President A.J. Keilty, the company jumped at the chance to develop more student housing, including a 30-suite townhouse development at Albert and Princess Streets.

“Queen’s University is unique in that there are many barriers [for] development close to campus,” Keilty told the Journal via email. “There is a lake [at] the south, a heritage district to the east and small, hard to assemble lots to the north of Princess.

“That means that Williamsville (specifically Princess Street) is our best option to develop large buildings.”

The Williamsville District, which has just over 10,000 residents, encompasses Bath Rd./Concession St. and Sir John A. MacDonald Blvd. to Johnson and Division Streets, which includes the Memorial Centre, Kingston Frontenac Public Library and much of the University’s student housing.

Williamsville properties have been in the works for a while, Keilty said, and despite the current state of the Princess St. strip, Varsity, a company that targets Queen’s students and offers mainly apartments for rent, is confident that students will be interested in their properties.

“During planning stages we can only make educated guesses as to who would like to live in the development,” he said. “While we prefer students, if they weren’t interested in our development, we would absolutely rent to non-students.”

The strip currently has few housing options for students. Keilty said housing more students along it would benefit local residents.

“We believe that it is best for students to be housed in large developments on main arterial roads, so as to leave the quiet, less trafficked streets for downtown families and their young children,” he said.

Sue Bazely, a Williamsville resident, said a mixed housing environment can be better for the city than one made up solely of students.

“When we’re looking at new development, the key is to keep that diversity,” she said.

But while the Williamsville Main Street Study recommendations were approved in February, it remains unclear just how much physical change will occur in the future.

Williamsville resident and member of Williamsville Neighbourhood Association, which sits on the the Near Campus Neighbourhood Advisory Committee, John Grenville said he believes businesses could remain absent on the strip due to the student population’s fluctuating presence in the city.

“Part of the problem is that there’s a lot of people that are students … that creates its own dynamic and its own source of problems,” Grenville said. “It’s a good market to draw on but it’s

also a market that’s only there for maybe seven months of year.”

“It’s a tough environment as a retailer to do business in — it’s tough when half your clientele goes missing for four months.”

In 2011, Statistics Canada reported that Kingston is home to 123, 363 residents. The majority of Queen’s 25,000 students opt to leave Kingston during the summer months.

Grenville, a longtime Williamsville resident who lives near the Memorial Centre, said it’s difficult to deny the need for improvement in the area’s Princess strip. The area contains an obvious stretch of unappealing, empty space — formerly home to businesses including car washes and gas stations.

“If you drive or walk or bike through that section you’ll see clearly there’s a lot of vacant and underutilized land. There’s quite a few buildings that are underutilized as well,” he said. “They’re on the main street of the city — that in and of itself points to need for attention.”

These vacancies pose a problem to both students and permanent residents, Grenville said.

“I think it’s something that we share,” he said. “We have a desire for good accommodation and good commercial space in walking distance from where we live, particularly for those who don’t have vehicles.”

Despite receiving City Council approval, students may not see new development in Williamsville during their time living in Kingston.

“I would say a minimum of 18 months, more likely two to three years … it may seem nothing is happening but the plan provides framework for things to happen.”

And, despite glaring vacancies in one of the largest streets in the city, students have been slow to indicate interest in the revitalization. Public meetings were held in April, May and October of last year to gather feedback for the Main Street Study, but they

largely attracted business owners and permanent Williamsville residents, Grenville said.

Before the area is fully redeveloped, the City needs to finish work on their comprehensive zoning bylaws – something that has prevented them from actively approaching businesses about the rejuvenation.

In the meantime, interested developers, like Varsity Properties who already meet zoning bylaws have informed the city of their intentions. Williamsville Councillor Jim Neill is confident that Varsity’s combined residential and retail development will prove alluring to both current and future students.

“It’s been a model that’s been successful,” he said, citing ground floor commercial development with above-ground retail in cities such as Calgary as examples.

“You can revitalize the core of the city by bringing in residents,” he said, citing the temporary nature of student’s time in Kingston as a problem. However, there are advantages to combined residential and retail development.

“You move in a bunch of students above you and you have virtually eight hundred consumers living in your building,” he said, adding that he estimates the Williamsville district is made up of 80 per cent students.

Aside from student housing, Neill has high hopes for the future of the strip.

“Downtown is distinct but its very much kind of entertainment/restaurant/tourist kind of area,” he said. “I think there’s place for things like … a butcher shop, green grocer.”

Whether the strip will attract these businesses remains to be seen, but according to Neill, the area’s aesthetics need it.

“There are huge vacant concrete lots. The result is frankly a stretch that reminds of Detroit after the riots.”

— With files from Rachel Herscovici and Vincent Matak

Bike lanes could also be part of the revitalization project if the City is able to appease local businesses’

Bike lanes weren’t included in the original Williamsville Main Street Study. After Neill approached the consulting firm, an amendment was made and bike lanes were included in the study’s recommendations.

The city’s challenge in implementing bike lanes in Williamsville lies in accommodating neighbouring businesses’ interest in parking.

“That’s the problem cities give to engineers,” he said. “The problem right now is the pushback we get when you take parking off the street.

“Parking … is something the business district never want to give up, but right now they have less than 40 per cent usage.”

It’s not just the current businesses oppose bike lanes, — some student and city lobby

groups think cyclists should be treated as vehicles on the road, Neill said.

“If a cyclist wants to respect the rules of the road … people should be respectful of that. But for families and young riders, I want a bike lane,” he said.

Neill said he sympathizes with cyclists who use the sidewalk, despite difficulties they may pose to other pedestrians.

“If there’s somebody riding on the sidewalk slowly and carefully because the city hasn’t given them a bike lane on the road … I can see the rationale for not wanting to take their life into their hands,” he said. “There are some belligerent, road-rage drivers.”

A decision regarding the creation of bike lanes in Williamsville will be made in September.

— Jessica Fishbein

An accessible pathway

The strip West of Princess and Division Streets is currently home to mostly defunct commercial space. The City approved plans for the revitalization of the area in February. Photo by Gina EldEr

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By Holly toUsiGnantNews Editor

A new draft for an updated Queen’s alcohol policy is slated to be developed this fall.

Tristan Lee, AMS vice-president of operations, said he is “cautiously optimistic” about the upcoming draft after joining the Alcohol Working Group in May.

Lee took over former Vice-President of University Affairs Kieran Slobodin’s role as AMS representative on the working group, which was created in 2007 to review the University’s current alcohol policies and recommend improvements.

“I think the tone of the group has changed from how it was in the semester previous to this summer,” Lee said. “I found that most of what I said so far has been received quite well, I would just hope that that’s actually reflected in the policy itself.”

The 17-member working group is currently working off of a discussion document that was created in January by the Alcohol Working Group in consultation with campus bar and pub stakeholders. The document was developed based on best practices research, which was directed by the Coordinator of Health Education and Health Promotion.

The working group added comments to the document over the winter. The Journal obtained a Feb. 14 edition of the document in which group members had added comments, suggestions and questions in the margins.

The current working group has discussed many aspects of the document, but a subsequent edition hasn’t yet been created, Lee said.

In April, former Alcohol Working Group member Kieran Slobodin told the Journal he was concerned the draft would

be implemented over the summer when students were absent from campus, without allowing them to provide input.

“If the changes are too restrictive then it won’t bode well … students are going to feel blindsided and ambushed,” Slobodin said.

But Lee said since he joined the working group in May, the discussions have been productive and open to input from its student members.

The Alcohol Working Group is divided into three subgroups: Advertising and Sponsorship, Liquor Licenced Establishments and Events. Lee said he is the only member to sit on all three groups.

The entire working group has met monthly over the summer, Lee said, and he’s met with the Advertising and Sponsorship group twice and the other two groups once.

He said the information they discuss regularly flows up to the main group.

“And then what is sort of proposed right now is that there would be a draft finished by September/October this year,” he said.

The biggest challenge of the working group is its size, Lee said, as it’s sometimes “difficult to get a lot accomplished because there [are] so many people talking at the same time.”

Queen’s current alcohol policy was created in 1997 and was last revised in 2004. The working group’s discussion document states that in the future, a “full policy review and revisions will occur after 1 year of policy implementation, and then every 2-3 years following.”

After the new draft is developed in the fall, the Working Group will seek feedback. There isn’t currently a timeline for implementation of what will ultimately become the new alcohol policy.

ALCOHOL WORKInG GROUP dIsCUssIOn dOCUMenT

The Alcohol Working Group is currently working off of a discussion document that was created in January. Sections include Education and Training, General Regulations, Residence, Athletics, Advertising/Sponsorship and Policy Violations.

Here are some of the recommendations of that document:

• Service is restricted to one drink per person per order after 12 a.m. • Shots must be served at the bar or in the presence of service staff• Spirits must contain no more than one and a half ounces of alcohol (comparable to Carleton’s one and a half and the University of Toronto’s two ounce policy)• The time to stop serving alcohol has been left blank, with a comment asking “What is a reasonable time?”

— Holly Tousignant

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Emma Purdie, ArtSci ’15, was passionate about “anything that was fun,” her mother said.

and lyrical. “It was really part of who

she was.”Emma also loved the outdoors;

she attended Camp Kawartha and had participated in their Leader in Training program to become a camp counsellor.

Emma planned on majoring in politics and Barb said she was particularly interested in the social determinants of health and poverty.

She was set to move into a house in Kingston in the fall with friends.

“The three girls just gelled amazingly,” Barb said. “She was an amazing person. She touched so many lives.”

Emma’s impact was especially felt on the Queen’s Dance Pack. In the week following her death, members of the group posted tributes to their beloved teammate on the Queen’s Athletics and Recreation website.

The tributes spoke of a girl who loved life, brightened any room she entered and had a “contagious laugh”; it’s that laugh that runs through most of team

captain Samantha Dick’s memories of Emma.

“It was so distinctive and she was so carefree. She would laugh louder than everyone just because she enjoyed laughing so much,” Dick, ArtSci’13, said.

Dick said her teammate and friend, who also participated in the Vogue Charity Fashion Show, was the most outgoing member of the Dance Pack.

“That’s saying a lot considering we’re a dance pack,” she said. “She was hilarious, the funniest girl in the world.

“Everyone on the exec panel, we all remember her audition. She was right in the front and she had her hair back, and she had these big blonde curls and the biggest smile you’ve ever seen, and she knew the dance right away,” Dick said.

Dick remembers a time close to competition when stress levels were high, the team was exhausted and overworked and a couple of the team members were fighting. She arranged for the group to meet under the guise of a practice and instead took them to see the film Footloose.

“I just remember Emma being

so, so excited,” Dick said. “She was like, ‘everyone is so stressed and it’s just such a good opportunity for everyone to just love each other again.’

“I had to keep telling her to laugh quieter because she kept laughing so loud at some parts and everyone kept looking at us.”

In September, the Dance Pack members will put the infinity symbol and the number 87 on the sleeves of their uniforms. 87 was Emma’s uniform number.

“The tattoo fit her perfectly. She just loved her youth, loved to explore and experience,” Dick said. “She was definitely the type of person who liked to really live every day, to squeeze every last drop out of every day.”

A memorial was planned for Emma on July 28 in Peterborough.

— Holly Tousignant

Students can contact Health, Counselling and Disability Services at 613-533-6000 ext. 78264

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By Vincent MatakAssistant News Editor

The University is in the planning stages of a new campus master plan that will outline future development plans as a reflection of a number of construction initiatives on campus.

The plan will act as an updated version of the 2002 campus plan and will address ongoing development concerns at Queen’s, including student housing on and

off campus and the construction of new buildings on main and West campuses.

“The Campus Master Plan should be completed by December 2013 and will guide the physical development of Queen’s over time. The CMP will be regularly reviewed and updated on a five-year cycle,” Vice-Provost and Campus Master Plan Advisory Committee member Jo-Anne Brady told the Journal via email.

A Request for Proposals for a planning partner was issued by CMP’s advisory committee in July.

Brady said the new plan will aim to connect Queen’s various hubs.

“The primary focus of the campus master plan will be on intensification opportunities on the ‘main’ campus and development opportunities on ‘West’ campus while creating linkages among the four learning hubs – main and West campuses, the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts and Innovation Park,” Brady said.

Accessibility will also be addressed by the new plan.

“Queen’s has a Queen’s University Comprehensive Strategic Framework for Accessibility which includes a working group on the

built environment which will provide advice to the planners on accessibility,” she said.

The planning partner will make proposals for the new campus plan, and the CMP’s advisory committee will oversee and review the proposals according to an integrated planning framework.

The 2002 Campus Plan stipulates principals and strategies for development that include identifying a campus core while integrating buildings and streets to encourage vibrancy on campus.

This included the redevelopment of University Ave. in 2006 in order to accommodate heavy pedestrian traffic by creating wider sidewalks and designated areas for landscape development.

The 2002 plan also saw the

creation of the Lazy Scholar in Victoria Hall and Stauffer Cafe, as well as renovations for Gordon Hall, Richardson Hall and McNeil House in 2006 and the erection of the Queen’s Centre, New Medical School and the forthcoming Bader Centre, among other major capital projects.

The decision to create an updated Campus Master Plan came in January after Queen’s senior administration and Board of Trustees noticed the 2002 Campus Plan was outdated and in need of revision.

A preliminary copy of the Campus Master Plan will be made available in September 2013.

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Admin aims to link campus with new planMaster Plan will address physical changes to the University over the past decade

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Farber has lived in the area since 1983 and was one of many residents to express concern over the project at a city planning committee in June. Farber said she knows people who have already put their houses up for sale.

“I just think it will hurt the area to the point where what happened on Aberdeen will happen,” Farber said.

While many in the area are already used to living near students, residents worry that a higher student population could pose problems for the community.

“This is equal to one ginormous student residence,” Farber said. “I was a fulltime student when I was young, and I know they don’t mean anything, but I’ve also had to chase kids up the road for smashing bottles.”

Sandy Wilson, the project’s architect, said there’s a “definite need for good quality student housing in Kingston.”

“The number of students being admitted to Queen’s is increasing by about 100 places a year and those students are going to need some good accommodation.”

The project requires approval from the Planning Committee because the plans are one metre higher than zoning currently allows.

Jim Neill, Kingston city councillor for Williamsville District, said a decision could be reached by the fall. He added that he thinks the issue is more about the density of residents than the height of the buildings.

Neill said the proposed site for the project is underutilized.

However, the density of the people moving into the area could pose a problem due to the lack of proposed amenity space,

he added. “With that number of students in half a

square block area, I think potentially you’re going to have to have a little bit of amenity space in the back,” Neill said. “They’ve squeezed in too many bedrooms and not enough common living space in my mind.”

Neill added that he applauded the plans to provide a parking space for each apartment.

“I think that this is very much a transition area. There is still a real mix, and a comfortable mix, of students and non-student residents,” Neill said.

“I don’t think people are necessarily opposed to students – this is Queen’s. It’s a reality. I think that people see a tipping point sometimes.”

Queen’s student and Johnson St. resident Andrew Cantarutti agreed that the density of students appears to be too high.

“Students are not necessarily strange to that area, but obviously it’s going to introduce a lot more of them. It does seem very dense for that small amount of property,” Cantarutti, ArtSci’13, said.

He said that the balance between student and non-student residents of the area can help students be better behaved.

“I find that, especially with the people I know, we tend to be more respectful of our neighbours,” he said of his friends that also live in the area.

Cantarutti added that there needs to be a change in the relationship between students and non-students.

“I think the problem is that a lot of the local residents tend to have a view of ‘themselves versus the students’ as opposed to one big happy community,” he said. “There’s always been almost an opposition between the two groups.”

Area is in transition, councillor saysContinued from page 1

Cold beverage Contract expires in august

The University’s Cold Beverage Exclusivity Agreement with Coca-Cola expires in August, and a decision about whether Queen’s will re-enter the agreement is forthcoming.

The exclusivity contract was signed in 2000 and originally expired in 2010, but was forcibly extended by two years. The contract gives Coca-Cola exclusive rights to sell their beverages on campus, such as in vending machines, cafeterias and in AMS services.

The University’s contract with Coke has been criticized in the past by groups like Queen’s University Against Killer Coke because of alleged human rights abuses in Coke’s factories.

Coke has provided Queen’s with over $5 million funding for the contract, $4 million of which went toward the construction of the Queen’s Centre. The remainder is split 30/70 between the library and student organizations, about $100,000 per year in total.

If the University doesn’t enter a new exclusivity agreement with Coke, it can either sign an agreement with another supplier or allow a variety of beverage companies to supply their products.

A request for proposals has been issued, but Queen’s is still in the negotiation process.

See queensjournal.ca for updates once a decision is announced.

— Holly Tousignant

New copyright services

Queen’s won’t be signing an agreement with Access Copyright – a decision that has led the university to develop new copyright services in its place.

The new services include helping faculty access materials in compliance with copyright laws. Professors who wish to reproduce materials must report to the on-campus Copyright Advisory Office, who will then look into purchasing clearance.

The requirements for scanned copyright materials to receive clearance will be reviewed by the University on a case-by-case basis.

Queen’s chose not to sign with Access Copyright in June after campus groups including the AMS, the Society of Graduate and Professional Students (SGPS) and the Queen’s University Librarians and Archivists (QULA) released statements condemning the agreement.

“We really considered all this very carefully,” University Librarian Martha Whitehead said.

“The University believes the decision not to sign is in the best long-term interest of the university.”

The agreement’s associated fees would have cost each full-time student up to $22.50.

Queen’s has been operating without a copy license agreement since December 2010 when the previous Access Copyright agreement expired.

— Rachel Herscovici and Holly Tousignant

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hanK xu Tuesday, July 31, 2012 • Issue 3 • Volume 140

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Terence Wong

All or nothing

What do cheating on a test, washing your hands and a

donkey have in common?They all involve some element

of half-assery. I’ll try not to be too crass, but

how else do you describe actions that don’t involve a level of care without using overly academic language like incompetent, haphazard or uncaring?

You don’t because that would probably sugar-coat it.

For some reason or another, people all over the world seem to ignore the very examples of complacency that seem more and more indicative of a decline in quality in just about everything, ranging from academics to social graces.

“In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do,” was said by radical aristocrat and hedonist the Marquis de Sade. It seems that everyone has taken his words to heart, as half-assery tends to appear everywhere you look.

Cheating on tests and assignments is essentially still a common practice, even with an emphasis on avoiding academic dishonesty. A 2006 study indicated that 53 per cent of Canadian university students had cheated in some form of written work.

While this behaviour may be completely reasonable for those that succeed and make it into the workforce, would you honestly want to be treated by a person who made it through medical school by cheating?

It’s like shaking hands with a person who just left the toilet without bothering to wash their hands.

The American Society of Microbiology found through surveys that anywhere from 25 per cent to 42 per cent of individuals don’t wash their hands when using the washroom.

This entails the lesson for those who choose the path of mediocrity. We shouldn’t aim lower than perfection — we shouldn’t just give up and say “Oh I’m going to die in x number of years therefore I shouldn’t give a crap about anything as long as I get by.”

We need to take the high road in life, even though working without cheating and doing things by the book can be hard and time-consuming — because, like washing one’s hands after using the washroom, it’s the right thing to do and ultimately worth the effort.

Terence Wong is the Opinions Editor at the Journal.

Kingston’s new garbage bag policy is helping to move the

City in a more sustainable and environmentally-conscious direction, but without adequate student consultation, the bylaw lacks crucial concessions to accommodate students.

The City’s aim to reduce waste is an honourable one, but for those who live with a large number of people, namely students, the bylaw can be impractical.

The timing of the decision is also highly inconvenient for students, with most out of Kingston for the summer and unable to adequately share their opinions on the switch.

However, city councillors alone can’t be blamed for the lack of student consultation or awareness on the issue.

While the AMS put out a press

release voicing its disapproval of the bylaw, it did so only after the proposal had been passed through Council. Although the third reading for the bylaw has yet to happen, the AMS should have taken a more proactive role earlier on to prevent the bylaw from coming this far.

The AMS should have advertised this new policy proposal to students at its conception. It also should have argued more vehemently for the consideration of high-density housing that is particular to students in meetings with city councillors.

Because these measures weren’t taken, it’s up to the AMS to do damage control and prevent the bylaw from passing at its final reading.

Students will undoubtedly be

upset when they suddenly find out upon their return that they can only use one garbage bag, especially if they have to share it with six other housemates.

With a reduced limit on garbage, some may take more drastic and environmentally harmful measures to dispose of their excess waste.

While the bylaw may positively influence students to develop more sustainable habits, some will simply be unable to abide by it due to their living situation.

Now that the bylaw has come this far, it’s the responsibility of the student government to take action and come up with a solution for students.

—Journal Editorial Board

garbage

Too little, too late

religion

Irresponsible reportingA recent investigative news piece

conducted by David Menzies, a journalist employed by Sun News media, was a poor and dangerous example of journalism that ignored the complexities of the issues it raised.

In the stunt, a 14-year old in a niqab was sent to three different LCBO locations with the goal of purchasing alcohol. He succeeded at doing so at every location without being asked for identification.

While at first glance it appears that the stunt was designed to display how easy it is for minors to purchase alcohol in Ontario, the inclusion of the niqab, which Menzies incorrectly identifies as a burka, adds another complicated element.

It’s unclear what Menzies is trying to say with this stunt.

Is he trying to show that the burka creates problems with identification? Is he implying that, if it were not for the burka, the minor would not

have been able to get away with the issue?

By creating so much room for speculation instead of directly stating his purpose, the stunt inevitably could be interpreted to be of an islamophobic nature.

If Menzies’ piece was simply about the underage buying alcohol at LCBOs, he could have used facial coverings without religious implications or minors who looked much older than their age.

The question of identification and religious head coverings in a multicultural society such as Canada is inarguably an important one to address.

Currently, everyone must have their head and face completely uncovered in all pieces of identification issued in Ontario. In order to be identified with their respective piece of ID, women wearing head coverings must uncover themselves, usually in private and in front of a female employee.

The LCBO too has this policy in place, which shifts the blame away from the company and over to the individual cashiers for not knowing the appropriate action to take.

Their errors point to a larger societal problem in which people fail to appropriately and thoroughly address issues of multiculturalism in Canada.

Done properly, investigative journalism does play an important role in our society. It can uncover truths that help to create change or answer valuable questions.

Menzies’ story, however, wasn’t responsible investigative journalism because it didn’t succeed in educating the public or in answering valuable, important questions.

The only thing it succeeds at doing is creating room for simplistic and potentially racist interpretations of this staged event.

—Journal Editorial Board

IllUSTRATION By hENRy lIU

“City councillors alone can’t be blamed for the lack of student consultation or awareness on the issue.”

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Talking heads

Thinking back, what would you tell your

first-year self?

“Don’t nap between classes.”

Sammantha DunSeath, artSci ’13

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“Don’t be afraid to reach out and ask for help.”

anujan PoologainDran,artSci ’14

“Don’t be nervous about class.”

Katie SKyvington, coneD ’13

“Prepare for your life to change in a positive way.”

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“Don’t eat too much caf food.”

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Jonathan Rose

Dunning Auditorium may not be the Lyceum, but lectures haven’t changed much since the days of Aristotle.

Some people believe the professor talks and therefore teaches. Students listen and therefore learn — why mess with a proven formula?

The answer is that the amount of knowledge and the tools of knowledge dissemination have changed drastically.

The kinds of students who come to university and the ways they learn have also changed.

Having said that, there’s a few things that Professor Cox and I agree on about teaching.

First, in a perfect world, small classes where student and professor know each other are the ideal.

Second, there’s no substitute for inspiring lectures and a professor who cares about the material, students and their learning.

Where we might see things differently is the role that technology can play in both student learning and good pedagogic practice.

I use technology in the classroom because it facilitates learning. Most of us post our PowerPoint slides or use overheads to communicate complex ideas more simply.

In an environment where our undergraduate population is becoming more diverse in terms of learning styles, technology offers a way to respect that.

In my courses, links to videos, photos of political events or leaders respond to visual learners.

E-books and digital articles are quickly supplanting photocopied versions because they fit the needs of students and the way they use technology. They’re cheaper and easier to use and are much more portable than their non-digital alternatives.

I video capture my first-year course because it allows students to listen to what they’re hearing and fill in details later. It also allows them to focus more on understanding — rather than furiously copying everything they hear.

It’s not just my hunch, but end-of-term surveys I’ve done confirm this.

Colleagues warned me that lecture capture would provide an incentive for students to skip my lectures. It hasn’t because the lecture is now an opportunity to engage in the material in ways that

might not have been possible.However, technology is not a

panacea and if used improperly can be a liability.

All of us have sat through mind-numbing slides packed with words too small to read or lectures where the presenter merely read the slides. This isn’t a flaw of the technology, but a criticism of teaching.

I have taken to using one-word slides or simple metaphorical images that encapsulates the idea I’m trying to communicate.

If I do it well (which is not all the time), the image is different enough to encourage reflection and focus attention by providing a visual cue to the content.

In this sense, technology is merely an instrument, and like many instruments, needs to be in tune and learned how to be played well.

In the social sciences and humanities, we want students to learn how to write, read and think critically. Many courses expect students to demonstrate this through one lengthy term paper.

Ideally, students would write more frequently. Unfortunately, large classes make frequent essays difficult because of the labour cost of grading hundreds of papers is prohibitive. But there’s a technological solution.

Two years ago, Professor Brendan Gurd from Kinesiology and I conducted an experiment in our respective classes.

We used a web-based product that allowed for peer-evaluation. We had students write, submit and evaluate short weekly papers. Both the grader and the paper were anonymous — a process that’s used in peer evaluation for academics all the time.

A graduate student grader was hired also to grade the papers and found no discernible difference in grade between the grad student and peer evaluation.

Online peer evaluation, which I am using this year, allows for students to write more frequently, graduate students to spend more time helping students write rather than grading and perhaps most important of all — allows students to read others’ work.

If used carefully, it is a great example of how technology can enhance learning.

The basic model of university teaching hasn’t changed much since the days of Aristotle.

Some might say that this is proof the traditional lecture has stood the test of time.

I say that it might be time for a technological tune-up.

Jonathan Rose is a professor in the department of political studies.

Wayne Cox

I was an early convert to computers and technical gadgets. I once worked in IT and at the Royal Military College I was one of the first professors to use PowerPoint and electronic devices in the classroom.

In the past 11 years at Queen’s however, I’ve only used a computer in the classroom twice and have banned all electronic devices in my classes (except for those who need them for legitimate reasons). Heck, I don’t even use a microphone anymore.

We in the business call this teaching naked.

So what happened? The answer is simple: these technologies were slowly teaching me how to un-teach, and they were teaching my students how to un-learn.

Aside from their distractive potential in the classroom, my students had become passive and expectant of pre-formulaic lectures.

Devices had become a barrier between teacher and student — rather than the revolutionary learning tools that everyone was claiming them to be.

Perhaps what irked me the most is that I’m now convinced that many university administrators have promoted the use of teaching technologies not because it enhances the quality of university education, but because of its potential to service vast numbers of paying students with fewer and fewer expensive faculty members.

Those very tools that could make your learning experience better, have become tools used to water down your education to nothing more than a virtually-enhanced, impersonal, assembly line education system.

Technology allows universities to ‘do less with less’. To be fair, technology can enhance education and some subject matters make it a necessity, but the study of politics is mostly the study of ideas and arguments so I have no guilt whatsoever in going the naked route.

Professor Rose is correct to point out that often the problem is not the technology, but how it is used.

That said, I feel no guilt. When presented with a visual

display during lectures, students become passive. Most simply sit and wait for the next slide, taking their cues as to what is important from the slides and images presented.

When I first banned laptops,

panic set in. Students claimed that I spoke too fast and that they couldn’t write fast enough. When asked what they were writing down, to my horror the response was ‘everything’.

It was clear that many students had become completely disengaged and had never learned how to take notes properly.

Engagement is about using your analytical skills to listen carefully and critically, and to make key decisions as to what is important and what is not.

It’s not just listening to a presentation, but interacting with it.

Lectures aren’t just the passing of information, but are exercises in inspiring thoughts of your own.

Not only has a dependence upon technical devices caused students to disengage, professors are equally at fault for losing their skills to inspire, engage and mentor.

Often, their lectures conform to pre-formulated presentations that are nothing short of a series of bullets.

Many once skilled lecturers have slowly lost their ability to speak with personality, passion and throw ideas around in impromptu ways that leave heads buzzing with ideas for hours afterwards.

This is tragic, and my sense is that the technologies many professors use force a type of conformity that diminishes their ability to think on their feet.

Nothing unexpected can happen, no new idea can develop, no interaction can begin if it is not on the next slide or image.

As the industry standard is now to use technology, we have a new generation of scholars entering the system who are products of techno-presentations not lectures.

Unless they can develop an analytical sense and lecturing style on their own, they are destined to be mere presenters of information.

What is worse, those students who sit in their classes awaiting the next slide will be hard-pressed to develop the sorts of critical and analytical skills that universities are supposed to be teaching them.

I’m not normally known as a conservative, but when it comes to technology in the classroom the traditional method of interpersonal engagement has yet to be surpassed.

Going with the flow of technological progress might not be that ‘progressive’ after all.

In the end however, the goal is quality education no matter what individual route we take to get there.

Wayne Cox is a professor in the department of political studies.

Point/CounterPoint

Technological divide in the classroomTwo professors with opposing styles debate the merits and drawbacks of teaching unplugged

PHOTOS By TERENCE WONG

OpiniOns — YOur perspective

Photo by tiffany Lam

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Fair dealing protected at Queen’s Legal reform and Supreme Court cases support the University’s argument to not sign agreement

LaURa MURRay

“I made it, so I control it.” Whether this statement is

repulsive or attractive to you, it’s probably the way you understand the logic of copyright.

But according to the Supreme Court, in five major cases handed down in July, and according to the Parliament of Canada, in Bill C-11, passed in June, it isn’t correct. And this might make your life a little easier at university.

Copyright is in fact a balance between the rights of creators (or the labels, collectives, publishers and so on who represent them) and the rights of users.

This isn’t some new notion: the fact, for example, that copyright has a limited term shows that it isn’t like property.

After a certain period where the creator is compensated, artistic creations enter the public domain.

And since 1911, the Canadian Copyright Act has also featured “fair dealing,” a provision by which “fair” use of copyrighted material for the purposes of research,

private study, criticism, review, or news reporting doesn’t have to be paid for.

Fair dealing is necessary to academic work: it’s what allows us to quote people or books without permission, to take notes and keep records and to show readers where we got our information.

This year, Bill C-11 added education, parody and satire to this list of eligible fair dealing purposes.

The recent Supreme Court cases insist that fair dealing is a robust element of copyright. They ruled in SOCAN v. Bell that 30-second iTunes clips don’t trigger copyright payments, because people use them to research what to buy. They’re fair dealing.

you pay when you buy, not when you try.

In Alberta (Education) v. Access Copyright, the court said that it is “not reasonable” to expect schools to pay for every little photocopy.

While it remains the case that systematic or wholesale copying must be paid for, some more limited copying is fair dealing because it facilitates study and research.

These developments are good for Queen’s, because the University decided this summer to not buy into the license that Access Copyright was offering.

Access Copyright represents writers and publishers, and in the past, Queen’s as used it to clear rights for photocopying. However, the new deal Access offered on digital copying had many flaws and strings attached. It also would have increased costs for students.

Based on the Supreme Court’s 2004 decision in CCH v. Law Society of Upper Canada, many have argued that most copying done on campus — chapters and articles copied by students in the process of writing essays for example — is fair dealing.

To have the Supreme Court and Parliament confirm the weight of fair dealing even further is a good thing for universities.

But what does this have to do with you?

Well, in the abscence of the Access license, Queen’s is working hard to keep things simple for students.

Prices for photocopied course packs will include copyright fees (the Publishing and Copy Centre is run by the AMS and the Campus Bookstore by EngSoc, and they have licenses of their own with Access, apart from the university). This way, you only pay copyright clearance for the courses you take.

If your courses use digital materials, Queen’s will pay behind the scenes for access to those, either through a subscription with their publisher, or as cleared through the library’s Copyright Advisory Office.

So basically, when it comes to course materials, you don’t have to do anything: librarians, profs, and the copy shop and bookstore take care of it for you.

Of course not all the copies you may make are official course readings.

So remember, the Supreme Court and Parliament have affirmed that as a researcher and learner, you can do limited amounts of copying as you need to without paying the publisher.

Need to copy an article or a graph or chart so you can work on your term project? That’s okay.

Queen’s has very specific guidelines for fair dealing, since without “fair,” it doesn’t exist. But, sorry to say, this situation confers on you a responsibility.

If copyright isn’t as bad as you thought, if it includes rights for users, it’s incumbent on users to respect the rights of creators.

It’s a relationship, or a bargain. In the words of Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, copyright is about balancing “the public interest in promoting the encouragement and dissemination of works of the arts and intellect and obtaining a just reward for the creator.”

So think about it: would you think it was fair if somebody used your song or essay or video in a certain way? If not, maybe hold off.

We don’t want anybody sued around here: your parents might not appreciate the legal bills.

Laura Murray is a professor in the departments of English and cultural studies

30-second iTunes clips don’t trigger copyright payments, because people use them to research what to buy ... You pay when you buy, not when you try.

For more informati on regarding Queen’s policy on copyright use, go to: library.queensu.ca/

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Protect your personal information.

Learn the Golden Rules of Safe Computing:

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Always use a strong password, and do not share it

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Fair dealing is necessary to academic work: it’s what allows us to quote people or books without permission, to take notes and keep records and to show readers where we got our information.

By Megan Cui Features Editor

When they graduate, many students will leave Queen’s with a diploma in one hand and thousands of dollars of student debts in the other. For those in faculties like Commerce and Engineering, their debt will be nearly double that of their peers in other faculties.

The practice of charging university students more for certain majors is known as a differential tuition plan and is a common practice across Canada. For example, last year’s tuition for Commerce students was almost $15,000, Engineering’s was just over $11,000 while Arts and Science students paid about $6,600.

Alistair MacLean, dean of Arts and Science, said the disparity in tuition between faculties doesn’t generate an excessive profit for the University. Instead, it’s in place to offset the expenses of providing highly technical or resource-intensive classes.

“In the current fiscal environment it appears it will continue to be an increasing challenge for the faculty and University to generate sufficient incremental resources to keep pace with rising operating costs,” he said.

Queen’s faculties differ in

priorities and philosophy, he said. This accounts for a variation in costs corresponding to students’ willingness to pay for those services.

Shannon Goodspeed, associate director at the Queen’s School of Business points to the success of the University’s Commerce program as indication otherwise.

“Interest in our program is increasing and applications are on the rise. This year, we received around 5,000 applications for 450 spots,” she said.

If Commerce students take Arts and Science courses during the summer, they are required to pay nearly twice as much than an Arts and Science student for the same course.

Goodspeed wouldn’t speculate as to why this is the case.

Yvonne Chung, Comm ’14, believes charging extra for summer courses is excessive. But, it’s a pill she’s willing to swallow.

“The funny thing is no one is complaining. I wouldn’t either. Queen’s Commerce can increase their tuition three-fold and I’m sure they will still have many applicants knocking on their door,” she said.

Chung, who said she doesn’t come from a wealthy family, wasn’t deterred by the program’s higher cost.

“To some extent the higher tuition is justified. Arguably the top business program in Canada,

Queen’s Commerce students pay for extra luxuries to complement the demands of our program. For example, nicer facilities, IT services, a business career center, small class sizes, and networking opportunities,” she said.

The Commerce program has a 96 per cent placement rate for students pursuing employment post-graduation. This means an increased likelihood that its graduates are able to quickly earn back money spent on their tuition.

“Accounting for the lump-sum money my parents saved up for my education, my part-time and summer work money, bursaries and scholarships, as well as considering the average estimated salary for a

TUITION

Debts determined by choice of faculty Some programs have significantly higher tuition rates than others, but applications are still on this rise

ALCOHOL

The cost of a kegger Both frosh and hosts must be aware of risks involved

FIRST-YEAR IN FOCUS

By niCk FarisAssistant Sports Editor

This September, scores of first-year students will set out to explore the streets of Kingston. Many of them will drift away from campus and into the Student Ghetto, searching for their first university kegger.

Although most first-year students can’t legally drink, keggers have become synonymous with the university experience.

For some, keggers are all about the camaraderie.

“Most of the time, going to a kegger is worth it, because everyone I know is there,” said Paul Wernick, ArtSci ’15.

Unlike regular house parties, keggers typically have an entry fee involved — usually $10.

Wernick is adamant there are ways to get in without paying, such as wearing Queen’s branded clothing to show school spirit and displaying enough confidence to finagle your way in.

He estimates he avoided paying for half of the keggers he attended in first-year, usually by pretending to be a member of the Queen’s football team.

But not all student keggers are driven by the bottom line.

Beryle Foster-Roach, ArtSci ’13, throws an annual Halloween kegger with her six housemates, and their largest return has been a mere $100.

“Our main goal is to break even, because the keg is the only expense we really have,” she said.

“As far as making someone pay,

I don’t have a problem with it. [But] we generally don’t go for the whole profit thing that I think a lot of keggers do.”

Foster-Roach and her housemates relied primarily on word of mouth to advertise their kegger.

“Last [Halloween] started off really slow, and we didn’t think that anyone was going to come,” she said.

“Suddenly, there were maybe 50 frosh that came through the door, and our house was full of people.”

Foster-Roach acknowledges the dangers and responsibilities the hosts assume upon packing their house with inebriated students.

“Things can easily be stolen,

See Students, page 18

See Maximum, page 17

PHOTO BY COLIN TOMCHICK

Tuesday, July 31, 2012 queensJournal.ca • 11

Bans span century: Frosh Week rules tightened over time

1930s and 1940s

Tomato pelting and the moat

Initiation activities, even after the ban of the 1920s, became a standard during Orientation Week. In the 1930s, Queen’s Engineering freshmen would be painted black and sent to the moat at Murney Tower, forced to climb a ladder while being pelted with tomatoes.

1920sThe Rush

An event called the Rush, that began in the 1920s was considered to be one of the first organized activities to greet new students. It involved upper-years on one end of a field and first-years on the other lining up and running at each other. This was one of the initiation events banned when Queen’s Senate and Principal R.B. Taylor attempted to get rid of all forms of physical initiation in 1926.

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1950s-1980sMakeup-free Freshettes and the Grease Pole

Freshettes, or female first-years, were told not to wear makeup and were evaluated by their male peers based on their physical appearance. This tradition continued from the 1920s to the 1970s, at which point it was banned.

Today’s incarnation of the Grease Pole is substantively different from the one of the past. During the 1960s and 1970s, Engineering freshmen would be pelted with rotten tomatoes, while cow organs, feces and other rotting vegetables were thrown into the pit. It was only in the 1980s that women were allowed to partake in the event as well.

Nowadays, many precautions are taken to ensure the safety of those participating in Orientation Week activities, especially the Grease Pole climb. The use of rotting vegetables and cow organs is no longer allowed.

1990sThe Jackson Report

Released in two parts between 1990-91, the Jackson Report changed many orientation traditions at Queen’s. The report, written by the administration in conjunction with students and Senate, aimed to distance the University from the reputa-tion of binge drinking and hazing that Orientation Week had acquired.

It was with this report that orientation leaders were no longer allowed to drink as a part of orientation events, nor could they have obscene slogans on their coveralls. It was also with the Report that students could no longer yell out profane, sexist, racist or homophobic chants.

2000sBeer Cheers and Alcohol

As one of the major issues that the Jackson Report aimed to address, drinking has continued to be discussed today. From 2005-06, many students entered university underage when grade 13 was eliminated. As a result, alcohol-related chants, such as the Arts and Science beer cheer describing drunken frosh and orientation leaders were promptly banned by the administration.

TodayAlcohol banned in residence and more

The administration and Orientation Week continue to move away from alcohol-related activities today. Just last year, all alcohol was banned from residences in an attempt to downplay the drinking culture that surrounds the week.

Other bans put in place in recent times include not allowing FRECs to slam their jackets in front of residence on move-in day and stopping students from hanging signs over the 401 on move-in day.

By Joanna PluCinskaEditorials Editor

12 •queensJournal.ca Tuesday, July 31, 2012In Focus

RESIDENCE

No double dutyDons should focus on mentorship, not discipline

adaM grotsky, ArtSci ‘15

If you’re living in residence, or even spending a few minutes in one, you will likely come across a don — the upper years in bright red vests.

According to the job description, a residence don is meant to mentor, support and compassionately challenge residents, while also serving as a resource to them.

While the description provided makes a don appear to be the ideal friend, their role as a rule enforcer creates a tricky conflict of interest, often leaving first years feeling double-crossed.

Whenever I’m asked about my don from last year, I can’t say enough good things about her. She was the don every floor wished they had — easy to talk to, understanding of what we were going through, and most importantly, she never got us in trouble.

This relationship created comfort and allowed us to trust her as someone we could go to whenever we needed advice. However, this also meant that she was only fulfilling half of her job description, as a don can’t enforce and support effectively without a conflict of interest.

Many of my friends who lived on other floors had radically different experiences. They had rule-enforcing dons, who wrote students up for the smallest of noises during the week, and put a quick end to their nighttime hangouts. All of a sudden, this person who was put in place to be a mentor

became someone my friends looked to avoid whenever possible.

The current vision of the idealistic don who is “tough on crime” yet friendly and approachable is flawed. Even the friendliest, most amicable dons that I met became backstabbers once they reported rule violations. You simply can’t trust someone as a mentor to the same extent when they are meticulously evaluating your behaviour.

At the very least, dons shouldn’t be writing up their own floor for rule violations. When they patrol residence, I would recommend that dons trade floors with one another to avoid playing “bad guy” with the students they are serving as a mentor to.

Without question, there’s a need for both rule enforcers and mentors in residence — they just shouldn’t be the same person. The University should create two separate positions: one for rule enforcement and another for peer support.

The ideal of the “super-don” — one that both enforces and supports is something that other universities have realized is unrealistic. Western University’s system contains three residence staff positions, including a “Learning Community Leader” (their terminology for a peer support don) and a “Behaviour Management Don.”

Building a strong, positive relationship with your don can make all the difference in your residence experience. Being stuck with a don who places greater value on maintaining order than being an approachable mentor can negatively affect a first year’s integration into our university.

By institutionalizing the separation of a don’s roles, residences at Queen’s will become even more welcoming for all first-year students.

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INTRAMURALS

Community over competitionNearly 6,000 students played intramurals at Queen’s last year

By sara MurPhy and alison shouldiCe Journal Staff

For intramural athletes, forging strong bonds with teammates is often more important than winning.

Nick Roy, ConEd’14, has played several intramural sports over the last two years, playing on mostly faculty-specific teams.

“Being in ConEd, we take a lot of pride in having such strong faculty teams overall,” he said. For him, the highlight of intramurals is the connections he’s made with teammates.

Currently, intramural sports are offered at Queen’s in basketball, curling, dodgeball, ice hockey, indoor soccer, innertube waterpolo, outdoor soccer, touch football,

ultimate frisbee and volleyball. Almost 6,000 Queen’s students

participated in at least one intramural sport during the last academic year.

Although Roy had a positive experience with intramurals overall, he said he found the structure of the innertube waterpolo matches last year, to be frustrating due to the different levels of skills participants had.

“I still have not won a single game for two years, which is sad,” he said.

His team voiced their concerns with Queen’s Athletics. Starting this year, the innertube waterpolo teams will be tiered, along with volleyball, ice hockey, men’s basketball and men’s soccer.

Student activity fees provide the majority of the funding for

intramurals and therefore students generally don’t pay extra to participate. The sports that do require extra fees are hockey and curling, due to the use of outside facilities.

While Athletics and Recreation oversees the program, student involvement is an important aspect of its operations, with both paid operational and referee opportunities available.

Those interested in playing on an intramural team should register early because leagues fill up quickly.

“Many students last year ended up on waitlists,” Duane Parliament, the intramural coordinator said.

Intramural sports at Queen’s are designed to balance competition with community, Parliament said. “It’s about spirit. It’s not all about winning.”

How green is frosH week?

Whether it’s refilling a metal water bottle or registering online, there’s a growing green mindset towards orientation activities at Queen’s.

“There’s an overall attitude of sustainability that has really permeated all the way through and throughout Orientation Weeks,” said Orientation Round Table (ORT) Coordinator, Dmitri Tchebotarev.

The Orientation Round Table (ORT) is the central coordinating body for all undergraduate orientation weeks at the University.

In line with the University’s 2011 decision to ban the sale of bottled water on campus, no Frosh Week event is allowed to distribute plastic water bottles.

Each Orientation Week event is planned through a “Green Events Checklist.”

A form with a section on sustainability must be submitted and signed by the president of the faculty society, the faculty dean, and Tchebotarev, ArtSci ’13.

A new Sustainability Fund this year given by the Queen’s Sustainability Office could also help Orientation Committees make their events more sustainable, he said.

$2,000 a year is allocated or distributed between Orientation Committees.

A Sustainability Office representative, the ORT Sustainability Director, and the ORT Coordinator, will together choose the recipient of the fund.

Money will be given to the orientation initiative that is the most environmentally sustainable.

The recipient of this year’s fund has yet to be chosen.

So far the Arts and Science Undergraduate Society (ASUS) Orientation Committee has applied for the grant, as well as the Engineering Society Orientation Committee.

This year, ASUS Orientation Week requested funding for their USB initiative, which involved loading over 2,000 USB keys with information from the frosh handbook, saving 46,000 pages from being printed.

The USB keys were then sent to Arts and Science students along with a condensed version of the frosh handbook, said Aanjalie Collure, Head Gael for Orientation Week 2012.

Collure, ArtSci ’13, added that a continued initiative from last year will be to give Sidewalk Sale vendors the opportunity to upload any pamphlets they wished to distribute online.

This year, under 20 vendors opted to put them online.

“Obviously not all of the vendors took that opportunity, but a lot of them did and we saw a reduction of pamphlets and a reduction of garbage,” she said.

—Rosie Hales

Many students looking to play intramurals last year ended up on waitlists, according to Duane Parliament, the Intramural Coordinator at Athletics and Recreation.

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MENTAL HEALTH

Centre seeks help for students in crisisPeer Support Centre partners with mobile response team from a community organizationBy alison shouldiCe Features Editor

The Peer Support Centre is turning to an outside organization to manage crisis situations.

The Centre has formed a new partnership with Frontenac Community Mental Health and Addiction Services (FCMHS) for students seeking counselling who are at risk of harming themselves.

The PSC is an on-campus support centre run through the AMS. Its office in room 34 of the JDUC is staffed with trained volunteers who offer support for students dealing with mental health issues.

According to PSC Director Lindsay Reynolds, student volunteers aren’t equipped to deal

with serious crisis situations, which led to an agreement with FCMHS.

As of September 2012, if a volunteer on duty believes a visitor to be at risk, they will call FCMHS’s mobile response team

who will send two workers to the PSC, Reynolds, ArtSci ’12, said. Although the Centre’s 50 volunteers are trained for suicide awareness, the main focus of the Centre is on social support. It can’t

provide diagnosis, treatment or long-term support for any mental illness, and isn’t a replacement for professional counselling services, Reynolds said.

The Centre has seen a drastic

increase in visits since its inception in 2007. That year, only a handful of students visited. The 2011-12 school year saw over 300 visits.

“In a broad sense, I would say there has been a recent awareness for mental health issues [on campus],” Reynolds said.

Since the 2010-11 school year when Queen’s was shaken by an unprecedented number of deaths, several mental health initiatives have appeared on campus, including last year’s Queen’s Wears Green initiative and Project Chickpea, a group that raised funds for the PSC.

Expenses at the Centre have also soared. Much of this can be attributed to the director’s role, which changed this year from a volunteer role to a salaried 20 hour per week position.

Between the 2009-10 and 2010-11 school years, money spent by the PSC grew by over $8,000. Exact figures are not available for 2011-12, but the Centre had a budget over $16,000 for the year, almost twice as much as the year before.

The Centre, run through the AMS’s Social Issues Commission, is funded primarily from AMS student fees.

—With files from Terence Wong

The Peer Support Centre, located in the JDUC has recently seen a large increase in visits. PHOTO BY TIFFANY LAM

Summar Bourada’s dreams of becoming a student at Queen’s wouldn’t have come true if it weren’t for OSAP.

Bourada, ArtSci ’15 is among 40 per cent of Queen’s students receiving financial assistance, and paying for her education hasn’t been an easy task.

OSAP, the Ontario Student Assistance Program, is a government funded student financial assistance program used

to supplement costs based on the financial need of the student, determined by parental income.

In order to receive OSAP, a student’s combined parental income must be $160,000 or less.

The amount that students receive can fluctuate depending on need and how much students are able to contribute to their education from other sources like savings.

For Bourada, OSAP only covers

between 10 to 40 per cent of her education costs. She’ll have to work during the school year to cover her other costs.

“I think it’s really stressful to be honest. It’s kind of a burden just because I need the money,” Bourada said.

According to the Student Awards Office, there is an expectation that parents will contribute to their child’s education if they can.

Bourada thinks the government needs to be considerate of a variety of situations that could arise among students struggling to fund their education.

“If it is a situation like mine or a situation where the parent is not really in the picture and they’re not willing to contribute, whether they have money or not, then I definitely think OSAP should be available to them,” she said.

—Rachel Herscovici

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especially when you have speakers or iPods or phones around,” she said.

“We just keep an eye on everyone, make sure everyone’s having fun.”

“ Suddenly, there were maybe 50 frosh that came through the door, and our house was full of people. ”— Beryle Foster-Roach, ArtSci ’13

The allure of throwing or attending a kegger is often mitigated by the possibility of police intervention.

Keggers become illegal when they contravene the Ontario Liquor Licence Act, which prohibits any person from selling liquor without a license or permit.

“Sometimes, students say that they’re not selling alcohol,” said Constable Steven Koopman, media relations officer for Kingston Police.

Even if alcohol is provided for “free” upon the payment of an entry fee, a host could be held civilly liable for the actions of any person to whom they provided alcohol.

Selling or supplying alcohol to anyone under the age of 19 is also an offence under the Act, carrying a maximum fine of $200,000 and up to one year in prison.

Last year, the police only had two

confirmed keggers they broke up that were attributed to Queen’s students.

Koopman said that the police are usually averse to breaking up smaller gatherings, but will act accordingly if a party spirals out

of control.“There’s a fine balance between

making sure you guys enjoy yourselves and maintaining the peace, allowing other homeowners to enjoy themselves as well.”

Maximum fine for selling alcohol $200,000

Even if alcohol is provided for “free” to guests after paying an entrance fee, the hosts could still be held liable.

PHOTO BY TIFFANY LAM

Check out the Journal’s blogs in August for off-the-list packing essentials, info on cooking on a student budget and more tips on how to start your

year off right.

queensjournal.ca/blogs

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Queen’s Commerce grad, it should take me about three years to pay [my tuition] off,” Chung said.

For Yuchen Wang, ArtSci ’13, her less expensive tuition compared to Chung’s more extravagant costs doesn’t necessarily mean a lesser education.

“It doesn’t make much sense to charge students uniformly for vastly different academic pursuits. Arts students require traditional examinations which are simply less costly whereas Engineers and Commies tend to rely on practicums and presentations,” she said.

Wang, an economics major, receives OSAP in order to help pay

her tuition costs. At the moment, she is approximately $27,000 in debt. She expects these debts to go up as she plans to pursue graduate studies.

Although she hopes to pay off her debts within five years of graduation, she isn’t confident in her job prospects with an undergraduate education alone.

“I’m applying for law schools in the fall and once I graduate, I should feel a lot more confident. I think a lot of undergrads these days understand that their bachelors degree is simply not enough to guarantee a great job.” — With files from Alison Shouldice

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Students worry about costs

The Personal Statement of Experience (PSE) is unique to Queen’s and is also vital to the application process, according to Stuart Pinchin, associate university registrar of undergraduate admissions.

In a few exceptional cases, it’s possible that one student’s PSE will put them ahead of another student in gaining admission to Queen’s.

“If their PSE was stronger, then that’s what the admission decision is based on. We recognize that a student might have

sacrificed a few grade points in order to contribute to the community at large,” he said.

The PSE is an application process unique to Queen’s. Applicants give a brief description of themselves and why they are right for the University’s community in the space of 300 words.

According to the Registrar, the PSE is mandatory for all students.

For the Queen’s Commerce program, the threshold grade is 87 per cent and the program receives over 5,000 applicants.

“3,000 of those students submitted their PSE and their supplementary Commerce essay

and achieved the 87 per cent threshold,” Pinchin said. “The PSEs and essays are then taken to the Queen’s School of Business where they are read by a minimum of two readers and an admission decision is made.”

Pinchin added that PSEs are graded on a scale of one to three.

“When the deans and associate deans are reading the PSEs, they already know that these students are academically admissible, but we only have so many spaces available.”

—Savoula Stylianou

pse: does iT make a difference?

Commerce has the highest undergraduate tuition at Queen’s.

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Wolfe island Music fesTiVal

African allusionsSam Roberts headlines the Wolfe Island Music Festival for the first time

arT gallery

Student artwork shut outPopular downtown Kingston art gallery Modern Fuel will no longer be exhibiting student work on its walls

By Brenna OwenStaff Writer

If you visit Modern Fuel, you may notice something missing.

While it’s always been the gallery’s policy to restrict programming to professional artists, only in early June was a provision regarding student eligibility added to the submission guidelines posted on Modern Fuel’s website.

The policy states explicitly, “Undergraduate students enrolled in a fine arts program at a school, college or university are not eligible to apply.”

Graduate students, however, are still allowed to show their work at the popular downtown gallery.

Modern Fuel Artistic Director Michael Davidge said the decision was made in an attempt to adhere more strictly to the gallery’s policies that were already in place.

“We want to make it known that it’s our priority to support professional artists, and so we don’t want there to be a misperception that that’s not the priority,” he said.

Davidge added that this sudden change in adherence to the gallery’s policy comes after another change was made at Modern Fuel.

“In the State of Flux Gallery, we have begun paying a professional fee. In the past, it was an experimental, non-juried space that was for members and also students’ work,” he said.

That change was made in late 2011, Davidge said.

“We’ve opened it up so it’s no longer a members-only space, and it’s meant to support artists in the

region of Kingston,” he said. “It’s really just one of the means

that we use to provide more opportunities to local and regional artists here at our gallery, to pay them.”

Even though it has always been in Modern Fuel’s guidelines to not accept student work into the gallery’s art exhibits, artwork by

two Queen’s Fine Arts students was featured in Modern Fuel’s Juried Members’ Exhibition in August 2011 — an annual curated art competition held at the gallery.

Davidge was unsure about the exact number of times that students have shown work at the gallery in the past.

Davidge explained that in the past, Modern Fuel made selections based on the quality of the work.

“It’s hard to restrict submissions — we want to be as open and accessible as possible and supportive of emerging artists, so it’s difficult to be restrictive,” he said.

Davidge added that these new changes to Modern Fuel are part of the “professionalization” of the gallery.

The decision to cut out student art from the gallery is also a result of the gallery’s desire to now be in line with the people who fund it, Davidge said.

“To be in keeping with the policies that are set by the funding bodies that we receive money from.”

Since Modern Fuel is an artist-run gallery, it gets funding from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the City of Kingston Arts Fund — all three major levels of government.

According to the Ontario Arts Council website, in order to apply for a grant, one must

“be recognized as a professional, practicing artist by other artists working in the same field.”

It also says, “if you are a student, you are not considered a professional artist yet” but adds that some exceptions apply.

Davidge explained that even though it went against the guidelines of the gallery’s funding bodies like the Ontario Arts Council, the number of students who were allowed to show work was “in the minority.”

“We haven’t been penalized in any way,” he said.

70 per cent of the artwork exhibited at on-campus art gallery Union Gallery, located in Stauffer Library, is student work.

Sam Roberts Band is currently on tour with their fifth studio album Collider. Roberts says most of the album was written while he was sitting in his basement in Montreal.

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I was in a car in downtown Toronto and had to pull over on a side street to call Sam Roberts for an interview. Turns out family man Sam was in his car as well in his hometown of Montreal driving to pick up his kids from school.

“We just got back — we were playing in Edmonton last weekend and we got to stop at home,” he said.

Sam and the rest of the members of Sam Roberts Band are currently on tour with their latest album Collider going from Montreal to the West and back to Toronto — almost going in circles.

“It makes no sense whatsoever! There’s sort of an element of insanity to what we do, but we willingly participate in it,” Roberts said.

Collider is a step away from the band’s last album Love at the End of the World with its allusions to African jazz beats.

“It’s just going out on a limb rhythmically or maybe getting closer to the kind of music that I really love and listen to on my own time,” he said.

Roberts said the songs on the band’s fifth studio album were written while he was sitting in his basement, but that’s not the strangest place he’s ever played his music.

“We’ve played in churches and I always find playing rock and roll in a church to

be — especially for somebody who grew up in a Catholic family and was an altar boy for a good part of my childhood — borderline sacrilegious.”

While they’re on their latest tour, Sam Roberts Band is making a stop in Kingston in August to perform at the Wolfe Island Music Festival as the headlining act.

It’s the band’s first time playing the festival and Roberts said he has been waiting to get the chance to perform at the annual show.

“It’s always been on the radar, but it’s like not getting invited to a birthday party,” he said. “It’s kind of a legendary festival among musicians.”

Since it’s the band’s first appearance at Wolfe Island, Roberts said the group has a few surprises in store for the audience.

“TVs for everybody, absolutely. It’s like Ellen you know — we’ve got Playstations and televisions for everybody who comes,” he said.

All jokes aside, Roberts said he is looking forward to taking part in some activities Wolfe Island is known for.

“I will bird. I’ll even bring my own binoculars! I’ve got a bird feeder at the back of my house here in Montreal, but I just don’t think we’re quite as close to nature,” he said. “I just want to see a nice heron. Something that’s not a seagull or a pigeon would be great.”

Sam Roberts Band will be performing at the Wolfe Island Music Festival on Aug. 11.

Artistic Director of Modern Fuel Michael Davidge says they stopped accepting student submissions to adhere with funders’ guidelines.

“ We want to make it known that it’s our priority to support professional artists, and so we don’t want there to be a misperception that that’s not the priority.

” — Michael Davidge, artistic director of

Modern Fuel

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While Modern Fuel will no longer exhibit student work, Union Gallery still relies on student artwork for most of their programming.

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BY siErra MEgasCONTRIBuTOR

What does Theatre Kingston have in common with the Kingston Lapidary Club?

They are both going to be moving into the J.K. Tett Centre together, along with

eight other local Kingston arts groups. The City of the Kingston purchased the

Tett Centre space in the 1970s to house cultural and arts groups. In 2006, the City of Kingston sold two thirds of the property — the Stella Buck building and the stables — to Queen’s for the development of

the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts, with the J.K. Tett Centre being left to the City’s discretion.

Construction is now underway on renovations to the J.K. Tett Centre, the only portion of the centre that Queen’s doesn’t own, with an expected completion date of September 2013.

Cultural Director for the City of Kingston Brian McCurdy said the City is leasing the J.K. Tett Centre to a non-profit organization comprised of the new tenants and locals called Tett Centre for Creativity and Learning.

There’s a chance for cross-fertilization between the Queen’s and Kingston art scenes, McCurdy said. “There’s the potential for us to hopefully draw on the expertise of the faculty at Queen’s that are involved in the arts and will be using the Isabel Bader Centre.”

Students would also have the chance to pursue arts classes outside of Queen’s.

“The more craft-based tenants also have classes,” McCurdy said.

“There will be a gallery with regular rotating shows and three spaces that are publically available for rent.”

The Davies Lounge of the Grand Theatre was the setting for the Kingston School of Dance, The Potters’ Guild, Salon Theatre/Macdonald Project, and Joe’s Musical Instrument Lending Library among others, came together and discussed their plans for the space they’re all about to jointly inhabit.

The eight artist groups gathered together on July 12 for an evening of pecha kucha — an informal meet and greet.

Pecha kucha, a Japanese term for the sound of chit chat, limits artists to showing twenty images for twenty seconds each.

With only 20 seconds to speak per slide, some good-natured humour ensued. Audience members chuckled as presenters struggled to keep up with the fast-paced slides.

The Kingston School of Dance reminded attendees that dance is for everyone and to the audience’s delight, Joe’s M.I.L.L. told their story with live accompaniment on guitar and violin.

The tenants of the space will be able to move into the space after construction is done next year.

The J.K. Tett Centre is the only portion of the larger Tett Centre that is still owned by the City of Kingston — the other two thirds were sold to Queen’s in 2006.

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Wolfe island Music fesTiVal

‘I’ll always be writing music’Mike O’Neill makes a triumphant solo return to Kingston

Playing the Wolfe Island Music Festival isn’t O’Neill’s first time visiting Kingston — he attended Queen’s in the 80s where he started his first band, The Inbreds.

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By Mark lOuieAssistant Arts Editor

“I’m kind of very excellent at math.” For Mike O’Neill, an aptitude

for numbers belongs to a collection of traits that serve his individuality.

It’s clear that the Halifax dweller puts his own spin on classic rock rhythm beats.

“I can’t read music and I write music in kind of a scrappy way, so if I want to remember ideas, I just sing them into a tape recorder.”

Some of O’Neill’s songs like “Mr. Carvery” and “Henry” are hauntingly reminiscent of popular Beatles tunes like “With a Little Help from my Friends” and

“I Will”. Originally from Oshawa, Ont.,

O’Neill met Dave Ullrich while doing his undergrad at Queen’s in 1992 and the duo later formed the indie-rock band The Inbreds. They went on to release seven albums together until they broke up in 1998.

“I’m in my forties now and I’m still making music. I just think that I’m done, but I’m never done though — I’ll always be writing music,” O’Neill said.

He’s released three solo albums since his days as half of the Inbreds. His latest album, Wild Lines, was released in February.

On the album, O’Neill did all his own writing and sound mixing.

“For me it’s like now I know I could record an album anywhere and I wouldn’t have to go into a studio to get the sound I wanted because I know how to do it,” he said.

O’Neill said he is excited to be returning to Kingston to play at the annual Wolfe Island Music Festival this year.

“It’ll be my biggest solo act to date that I’ve played, so it will be extra exciting,” he said.

O’Neill’s third solo album was six years in the making. In the meantime, he made his foray onto television as the hot-tempered Thomas Collins on the final

season of Trailer Park Boys in 2008. He also sound mixed for the show and the first two movies.

Next for O’Neill is a step away from his successful solo music career and onto the silver screen as he pens the third Trailer Park Boys

movie, due to come out in the fall.

Mike O’Neill will be performing at the Wolfe Island Music Festival on Aug. 10.

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Eight and a Half is a new addition to the Canadian alternative scene, composed of musicians from the familiar and disbanded rock bands Broken Social Scene and The Stills. However, it would be a mistake to place Eight and a Half’s self-titled debut alongside its members’ previous efforts; instead, the album represents a marked stylistic departure.

It initially consists of brooding ambient synths and programmed drum samples, bur the album isn’t all doom and gloom. It rewards repeat listenings and has its lighter moments. Eight and a Half has shown more than enough here to warrant a listen.

— Clark Armstrong

If you crave the feeling of returning from a long journey, you’ll love this album. Similar to greeting an old friend, this album plays to the band’s strengths of

folksy-punk blends. There’s growth evident in this

album – that much is certain. This album is worth a listen, but it leaves you wanting more, like a return to the days of “Oh, Alberta”. Songs like “Lindsay” display a perfect lyrical craftsmanship, however the high notes don’t match the shortcomings. The backstory to the album — an homage to the band’s visit to the WWI burial sites — although enticing, results in an ending that feels forced.

— Labiba Haque

“Please don’t listen to Hollerado/ ’Cause if you listen to Hollerado/ Somebody else might hear it” — those are the opening words to the unique form of self-promotion that Hollerado brings in their album Margaritaville 2: The Reckoning.

The tongue-in-cheek advice is typical of the Ottawa group, who clearly doesn’t have a problem taking themselves too seriously.

When they’re on, with shout-back choruses and nifty guitar work, Hollerado are reminiscent of Tokyo Police Club’s frenzied energy. This is dance-like- nobody’s-watching rock — just don’t tell anyone else about it.

— Clark Armstrong

Rather than featuring the typical 12-odd songs of most pop-rock albums, Aucoin’s has 22, separated into distinct song trios. There’s a prelude to set up the main track and a postlude to carry you out of it and blend into the next set of songs.

The whole album is a sing-along dance party and is overflowing with exuberance. With crowd call refrains and clapping rhythms, it’ll rope you in and make you feel like you’re part of the armada who made it.

— Andrew Stokes

In a sea of indie-rock music where many boast a charming ode to the past, this quartet from Kelowna, B.C. manages to accomplish that and stick to their roots. The progression from their 70’s style into a fast-paced, shoes-off dancing-in-your-living-room rock appears seamless in this album.

The electrically attention-grabbing tunes like “Stairway” and perfectly lovesick jangle pop “My Girl” are treats for your ears.

The freeing tempos and harmonies are refreshing, especially on a scorching summer day, and are sweeter than a glass of freshly made iced tea. The band’s album is evidence to their success and is a gem waiting to be rediscovered over and over again.

— Labiba Haque

Reach into the grab bag of Zeus’s Busting Visions, and you’re bound to get something different each time. With band members taking turns writing each track and cycling through instruments, each song has a dynamic that’s different than the one before.

The track “Messenger’s Way” has the upbeat tone of Paul McCartney, while “Let it Go, Don’t Let it Go” has a harlequin piano melody that sounds regretful and dejected.

When you close your eyes and delve into the album not knowing what you’ll get, sometimes you get a bouncy dance song, and sometimes it’s a bittersweet love song. If you don’t like a song, just wait a few minutes — the next one will have you on your feet.

— Andrew Stokes

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By Nick FarisAssistant Sports Editor

Three years ago, Mattie Sergeant burst onto the Canadian gymnastics scene by winning a national championship. After watching his country fall agonizingly short of the London Olympics, the Queen’s student is focused on an even loftier goal.

Sergeant, PheKin ’13, clinched first place in the 2009 National Open Championships during his last year in high school. The win put him on the shortlist for the Canadian senior men’s team. Since then, he’s vied alongside Canada’s top gymnasts — including veterans of multiple Olympics — for coveted spots in international competitions.

His rise to the top began 11 years ago, when Sergeant started competing with the Loyalist Gymnastics Club. He rebuffed his parents’ initial attempts to steer him towards hockey, instead choosing to follow in the footsteps of his older brother Mike — a national-level gymnast himself.

Without a selfless act from his older brother, Sergeant’s career may never have progressed past an early stage. Mike stopped competing in 2003 to become the head coach at Loyalist for a year before heading off to university.

“If Mike hadn’t dropped his own career, we wouldn’t have had a coach,” Sergeant said. “He allowed the rest of us to keep training.”

In Canada, competitive gymnasts are sorted into one of two streams: provincial and high-performance. While there’s limited movement between streams by the time gymnasts reach early adolescence, there are some exceptions.

With nearly a decade of steady progression through the provincial circuit, Sergeant was admitted to the high-performance stream after winning nationals in 2009.

Due to his advanced age, he was placed in the senior men’s program — the highest level of gymnastics in the country.

Sergeant’s coach at Loyalist is Sasha Jeltkov, a two-time Olympian and former World Cup gold medalist. Boasting nearly 30 years of gymnastics experience, Jeltkov has managed to push Sergeant’s burgeoning career to new heights

By Josh BurtoNContributor

Canadian football fans were treated to a rare sight at Queen’s West Campus earlier in July.

Around 700 fans were in attendance to watch the CFL’s Calgary Stampeders practice on July 9 and 10, in between Toronto and Montreal road games.

Gaels head coach Pat Sheahan viewed the practices as an opportunity to market the league to football fans unfamiliar with the Canadian game.

“One thing that’s painfully obvious is the CFL has the ominous monster to the South — everything it does is compared to the NFL,” Sheahan said. “Until you see them live … you don’t realize how the big the players are — how fast, how athletic.”

“This is elite level football. This is what [the players] do to earn a living.”

The Stampeders featured a familiar face in former Ottawa Gee-Gees quarterback Brad Sinopoli — the only current Canadian-bred quarterback on any CFL roster. In 2010, his final season with the Gee-Gees, Sinopoli passed for 324 yards and three touchdowns in a 27-25 overtime win over Queen’s at Richardson Stadium.

After starting quarterback Drew Tate was injured in Calgary’s July 7 loss to the Toronto Argonauts, Calgary signed Brad Sinopoli to serve as their third-string quarterback.

Selected 29th overall by the Stampeders in the 2011 draft,

Sinopoli dressed for all of Calgary’s 18 games in 2011 but only took the field as a field-goal holder. The Stampeders cut him after training camp this past June.

“In a very short time at training camp, [a Canadian quarterback] must be able to compete with their American counterparts, and actually outperform them,” Sheahan said. “There’s no question their backs are against the wall.”

While the CFL requires each team carry at least 20 non-import players on its active roster — a mandate aimed at preserving the amount of Canadian talent in the league — there are no such restrictions on the quarterback position.

Sinopoli’s situation is similar to that of former Queen’s quarterback Danny Brannagan, who was released by the Toronto Argonauts in June 2011 after just one pro season.

Sheahan proposed a potential solution to the problem — one that would afford more opportunities to players like Sinopoli and Brannagan.

“I think the league has to protect the Canadian quarterback,” Sheahan said. “Secure a roster spot for a Canadian quarterback so he can develop ... when he gets the chance, he is capable of winning the job with his performance.”

“If the league doesn’t protect a roster spot for a Canadian quarterback, at this time, it’s going to be very difficult for one to overcome all of the obstacles.”

—With files from Peter Morrow

FOOTBALL

Stamps in townSinopoli’s CFL journey demonstrates challenges for Canadian quarterbacks

GYMNASTICS

Sergeant’s national ambitionQueen’s student aiming for spot on Canadian men’s squad

By adriaN smithContributor

Having lost nearly its entire core to graduation, the men’s volleyball team has brought in a strong five-man recruiting class — one with a distinct international flavour.

Ivo Dramov, a native of Plovdiv, Bulgaria, will be the first international player to suit up for Queen’s in Brenda Willis’ 25 years as head coach. Dramov, a 6’3 libero, played for the Bulgarian youth national team in 2010 and 2011, leading the team to a 6th place finish at the 2011 Youth World Championship.

“I’ve always wanted to combine

university and high-level volleyball.” Dramov said. “Hopefully I can play a key role on the team next year.”

Eight players are departing from the team, which advanced to the semifinals of the 2012 CIS national championships. The group includes the five members of Willis’ celebrated 2007 recruiting class: outside hitters Bryan Fautley, Niko Rukavina and Joren Zeeman; middle Michael Amoroso; and setter Dan Rosenbaum.

Dramov will be joined by outside hitters Jackson Payne, Markus Trence and Matt Golas, and middle Will Hoey.

Payne said he is very excited to

VOLLEYBALL

Filling the voidIvo Dramov part of long-term solution to replace core of OUA champions

Brad Sinopoli (above) practices with the Calgary Stampeders at Queen’s West Campus on July 10. He’s the only Canadian quarterback currently on a CFL roster.

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Middle hitter Michael Amoroso is one of eight players not returning for the 2012-13 season.

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By PEtEr morroWSports Editor

Two male rowers are building the Queen’s rowing team’s Olympic pedigree.

The last Olympic medal won by a former Gael was Diane O’Grady’s bronze in rowing at the 1996 Atlanta Games. Morgan Jarvis and Michael Wilkinson trained years ago at Queen’s under rowing head coach John Armitage, before qualifying for London.

“Focus like a laser beam,” Armitage said. “It’s that very unique ability to focus and block out distraction which made them successful.”

Armitage has been a Gaels rowing coach since 2000. He remembers the first week Jarvis and Wilkinson showed up on campus.

Jarvis, ArtSci ’05, MSc ’08 and JD ’10, graduated from the Gaels rowing program in 2005. He’s made his Olympic debut competing in the men’s lightweight double sculls.

“I didn’t know we had an Olympian on our hands, but I knew right from the get-go we had a special athlete,” Armitage said.

“[Jarvis] would like to have a beer the night before a race — that’s the New Zealander in him … [but] he’s got that ability to avoid unnecessary distractions, and concentrate fully on the task at hand.”

Wilkinson, ArtSci’08 and Sci’08, is competing in the men’s four boat. His sister Lauren is also competing in the Games, in the women’s eight.

“There’s a rowing pedigree in the Wilkinson family, so we knew we had a kid with rowing in his blood,” Armitage said.

Wilkinson’s father David earned a spot on Canada’s Olympic rowing team in 1980, before Canada joined an international

boycott of the Games.The Canadian men’s eight boat at

the Olympics also carries a distinct local connection.

Six out of its eight members hail from Eastern Ontario. Armitage said the boat’s nickname in the rowing community is “the 416-613 crew” — representing the two area codes stretching between Ottawa and Toronto.

In the preliminary stage of competition in London, Jarvis’ boat placed 3rd in their heat, failing to qualify automatically for the semifinal. They’ve advanced to the

repechage stage, where they have another chance to secure a semi-final berth.

Wilkinson’s boat races in the heats stage on Monday, July 30. The men’s eight are in the repechage stage after finishing last in their preliminary heat.

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‘Focus like a laser beam’Former Gaels rowers aiming for Queen’s first Olympic medal since 1996

Morgan Jarvis is currently competing in the 2012 London Olympics.

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Willis aims for playoffs

since they began training together in 2008.“As soon as he came [to Loyalist], I got

into nationals,” Sergeant said. “He basically took me from a provincial-level athlete to a high-performance athlete.”

Although Sergeant’s national championship remains his proudest achievement as a gymnast, he’s furiously pursuing a higher honour: suiting up one day for Canada.

Getting there, he said, is a matter of executing his routines consistently.

“It’s not enough to do big skills — you have to be able to hit them when it counts.”

The Canadian men’s team missed out on the London Olympics by the slimmest

of margins, finishing less than half a point back of the final qualifying spot at a test event in January. Nathan Gafuik, a Calgary native that competed for Canada at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics, will be the team’s lone representative in London.

Four of the six men who represented Canada at the qualifier are 27 or older. Sergeant believes that the next generation of Canadian gymnasts has the potential to make an even greater Olympic push.

“We’ve got tons of work to do, but the younger guys are getting there, for sure,” he said.

Most male gymnasts peak in their mid-20s, due in part to the reliance on upper-body strength and to the demand that years of rigorous competition has on the body.

By the time the 2016 Olympics begin in Rio, Brazil, Sergeant will be 25.

“If I can get on the national team, [the Olympics] have always been a dream, right?” he said. “You have to make the national team first. Once that happens, then you gotta hope.”

By JordaN cathcartContributor

Kingston FC began a new chapter midway through their debut season.

New ownership and management was revealed in a press conference held by Kingston FC at the Invista Centre on July 6.

Jimmy Hamrouni stepped down as head coach and majority owner of the Canadian Soccer League (CSL) franchise on June 28, after coaching just eight games. Hamrouni cited that his decision to step down was best for his family and his business — the Ottawa-based Soccer Prospect Academy.

“We thank Jimmy for the contribution he made to the club,” said club chairman Lorne Abugov said at the press conference. “But this is the start of a new chapter for Kingston FC.”

The new majority owners are Abugov and Queen’s graduate Joe Scanlon, both of whom were initially minority owners alongside Hamrouni. They are currently in search for Kingston youth soccer organizations to be part of the ownership group and want to build a youth academy that would put local players on a pathway to the pros.

“Every kid has a dream to play professional soccer, and every kid has to know that the logical place for them to play high-

level soccer in this region is Kingston FC,” Abugov said.

“If we cannot make that happen, professional soccer in Kingston will not survive.”

The search for a new coach was painless for Abugov.

Colm Muldoon expressed interest in a coaching position to Abugov in early June, once he heard word of the new pro soccer franchise. With an extensive background in coaching elite soccer, he was Abugov’s first choice once the position opened three weeks later.

Muldoon’s qualified as an A-level coach and managed an under-21 men’s team in his hometown of Athlone, Ireland. He recently had a stint managing in the NCAA with Middle College in Cochran, Georgia, before moving to Belleville in 2011.

“Before Colm arrived, the boys were pretty much coaching themselves.” Abugov said.

“Now they’re buying into [his] system, and it’s been refreshing.”

Kingston FC has gone 1-4 since Muldoon took the helm on June 28. They currently sit 14th in the 16-team CSL with 10 points.

—With files from Peter Morrow

SOCCER

Kingston FC rebootsNew head coach boasts international experience

attend Queen’s in the fall as an athlete, as well as a student.

“When Brenda showed interest in me at OVA Provincials during my grade 11 year, I was determined to work hard to get the marks that would get me into Queen’s,” Payne said. “As a rookie, I hope to bring a lot of leadership and energy on and off the court.”

Willis expects a great deal of competition within this group for the vacant starting spots.

“There will be tremendous internal competition for starting positions,” she said. “That kind of rivalry and youthful enthusiasm will make for an intense and exciting practice environment.”

Willis’s goal for next season is to qualify for the OUA playoffs, while having her young players gain experience for years to come.

“A goal for me with this group is establishing the way we want to play and getting better at it,” she said. “It’s sort of like a bank account — every time we invest in a match, we want to benefit from our investment later on.”

—With files from Peter Morrow

Lorne Abugov (seated, in black) and Joe Scanlon (standing) announced the hiring of new head coach Colm Muldoon (seated, second from right) on July 6.

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Striving for peak performanceMattie Sergeant trains year-round at the Loyalist Gymnastics Club and with the Canadian senior men’s program.

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Multi-sport athlete picks Queen’s rugby

Heralded prospect Miranda Seifert has committed to the Gaels’ women’s rugby program.

A Regina native, Seifert excelled in several sports at Athol Murray College of Notre Dame in Wilcox, SK.

Named to Canada’s national teams in both rugby and tae kwon do, she helped her school qualify for provincial championships in rugby, hockey and basketball. Seifert’s efforts earned her the 2011 Saskatchewan Youth Female Athlete of the Year award, and a halftime introduction at a recent Saskatchewan Roughriders CFL game.

She competed for Saskatchewan at the 2011 U19 National Rugby Championship and suited up for Canada’s U18 and U20 teams. Seifert led her high school team to victory in a Rugby 7’s tournament in Las Vegas.

In tae kwon do, she’s a five-time national champion, winning a silver medal at the 2011 world championships in New Zealand.

—Clark Armstrong

Football recruits key Canadian upset

The Gaels football team is set to welcome Doug Corby, Emilio Frometa and Erick Lessard, three members of the Canadian team that defeated the United States 23-17 in the gold medal game of the 2012 World Junior Football Championship in Austin, Texas.

Corby, a wide receiver, was selected to the All-Tournament Team after catching 12 passes for 290 yards and two touchdowns. Corby was named MVP of Canada’s 63-0 opening-round victory over Sweden, hauling in a tournament-record 78-yard touchdown reception.

Frometa and Lessard played a significant role on Canada’s vaunted offensive line, which conceded just three sacks in the tournament and anchored an offense that averaged 171.7 yards rushing per game.

Several NCAA Division I recruits suited up for the second-place Americans. The championship game marked the first time Canada has ever topped the United States in international football competition.

—Adam Grotsky

Gaels competearound the globe

Gillian Pegg, entering her second year with the women´s rugby team, played for Canada in the FISU Rugby Sevens Championship in Brive, France. Canada finished sixth out of the eight teams.

Men’s volleyball recruit Will Hoey competed at the Beach Volleyball Youth World Championships in Larnaka, Cyprus, tying for 25th overall.

Fellow Gaels volleyball players Mike Tomlinson and Tyler Scheerhoorn won gold with Team Ontario Black at the National Team Challenge Cup in Gatineau.

Men’s basketball head coach Stephan Barrie was an assistant coach for the Canadian national Cadet team, which placed fifth at the FIBA U17 World Championships in Kaunas, Lithuania.

Bert Kea, the head coach of the golf team, served as assistant coach for Team Canada at the FISU World Golf Championship in Liberec, Czech Republic. The men´s team finished ninth out of 19 teams, while the women were 10th out of 16.

—Lauri Kytömaa

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The great search for hidden goldGPS enthusiasts can share geographical coordinates online for an outdoor or urban adventure

By Janina EnrilEPostscript Editor

Dr. Bob Connelly just might prove himself.

Standing on the edge of a field 20 minutes northwest of Kingston, we’re trying to find a geocache — a hidden item at a specific location.

Connelly is 15 minutes into the search for a cache that eluded him an hour before.

As a modernized scavenger hunt, geocaching makes use of social networking and GPS technology — it reaches across the globe.

I joined Connelly on a Sunday morning to observe what it takes to be a geocacher.

Connelly’s son Luke dives into the tall grasses while the rest of us search under garbage cans and behind metal signs for fake screws that could be well-hidden cache containers.

Connelly, an assistant professor in the department of pediatrics, checks an electrical box on a telephone pole for the second or third time. He tells me how there was once a geocacher who would fashion fake electrical boxes to hide his caches. We keep searching.

The activity is done through Geocaching.com. People register online with geocacher aliases, using the site to keep track of their finds and to place their own caches. With the exception of North Korea, there are geocaches all over the world — even on the International Space Station.

Started in 2000 as a mailing list for a group of GPS enthusiasts, geographical cache coordinates were sent for people to follow. The mailing list eventually became a website which now boasts over four million users.

Caches are containers that can range from the size of a watch battery to a large bucket. According to the website, they always hold a logbook for geocachers to record

their find. In some cases, the containers hold small, inexpensive items that make the search like a treasure hunt.

Connelly’s not after treasure — he only wants to record his name in the logs.

With Luke and his dog Jax accompanying him most of the time, Connelly has found almost 2,000 geocaches.

“It’s fun,” he said. “[With] a good friend of mine, when we get together it’s always a competition between the kids and the adults.”

Nowadays, he prefers to leave Kingston’s urban sprawl where geocaches are easy to get to.

“Typically the ones we do now are the ones that are harder to get to or take more effort,” he said, referring to the five-star rating system the website employs.

Today’s series of five geocaches, chosen for their distance outside of the city, are all rated two stars for difficulty and terrain. This means that they’re supposedly fairly easy to access and locate.

At the start of the trail, Connelly turns on his GPS device to see which direction we should head. It’s already programmed with the caches’ coordinates.

We can’t fail to find our first cache located a mere 14 metres away, so we move on to the next cache where our luck might be better.

Some metres later, the GPS beeps.

“That’s an indication we’re close,” Connelly says.

Luke walks into a geotrail, something Connelly points out as a beaten looking path off the gravel road. We all follow him to a little alcove of trees.

While I hesitate about where to look, I can’t help but wonder what this looks like to non-geocachers — people who have been nicknamed Muggles by those in the community.

“You’re always worried about

people seeing you trying to find [geocaches in case] they’ll discover them, and they’ll take them,” Connelly said.

According to him, it’s become common now that geocaching is gaining more popularity.

So the onus is placed on the geocacher who initially hides the cache. Their challenge, Connelly said, is to put enough thought into its concealment so that only a true geocacher could locate it.

Thankfully, the geocache under the alcove of trees is found in a wooden stump. It’s a film canister covered in camouflage tape. Connelly shouts of joy when he finds it, and now I think I understand the satisfaction of locating a find.

I ask him how long it took us to find the cache.

“Too long,” he says, as he writes his name and the date into the cache’s logbook.

Geocaching seems to appeal to something beyond a simple scavenger hunt, I notice. It’s the success of the hunt — that knowledge that you were clever enough to find something that no one else could.

It’s usually just fun and games, but sometimes it becomes something more sinister.

This past May, a geocache thought to be a bomb was found in Toronto’s west end. Emergency units were tied up for more than three hours, according to an article

in the Toronto Star.We move through the rest of

the geocaches with relative ease. Connelly, whose farthest geocache was in Costa Rica, offers me tips and tricks as we search for each one — be sure to look in trees where caches can be suspended up high, keep an eye out for unusual rock piles that can conceal caches, watch out for snakes.

Geocachers are known to go to great lengths to hide a cache. Connelly found one geocache in a fake deer dropping. He had only noticed after returning to the location multiple times over several days.

Connelly’s geocaching cleverness pays off when he finds

this cache hidden in a fake rock. Celebratory and relieved to find

it, we move on to the final cache.Luckily for Connelly, he still has

many more geocaches to explore in the Kingston area. There are over 550 geocaches within 16 km of Kingston.

Today’s search, however, demands that we gather clues from each one to find a final cache.

Compiling the clues, we get coordinates for our last find — the “End of the Rainbow.”

It’s another ten-minute walk away, but the find is well worth the wait. Located in the crook of a tree, it’s our pot of gold.

So You Want to Geocache? 1) Sign up for a free membership with Geocaching.com.

2) Search for caches in your area on the “Hide & Seek a Cache” page.

3) Choose a geocache. Each one has a different level of difficulty and terrain. Choose wisely!

4) Enter the coordinates into your GPS device. Before heading out, be sure to bring equipment appropriate for the terrain. Depending on the weather, these might include hiking boots or snowshoes.

5) When you find the geocache, write your name and the date into the logbook. If you want to take an item from the cache, make sure you have something of equal or higher value to trade it with.

6) Log back on Geocaching.com to record your find and share your experience.

— Source: Geocaching.com

Geocaches can be found in containers as large as a bucket or as small as a film canister. This find holds a clue to our final cache.

photo by tiffany lam

Using clues from five other geocaches, we find GPS coordinates that lead to the final cache of the day.

photo by tiffany lam

“ You’re always worried about people seeing you try to find [geocaches in case] they’ll discover them, and they’ll take them. ”

— Dr. Bob Connelly, associate professor in the department of pediatrics

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