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Edwards and ornton will be
feeling the pressure of a full house
next September. Housing services
is projecting an increase of 40 more
students living on campus next year,
and in order to accommodate the large
incoming class, more lounges will
be converted into rooms. Although
all residences except Campbell were
designed to be expandable, Windsor,
Edwards, and ornton are the most
aected.
Every lounge in Edwards, except
for the main basement lounge, will
be made into double rooms and the
Presidents room, a former lounge,
will be converted. ornton will
also see renovations, with a planned
conversion of six lounges into rooms
for next September. Second, third
and fourth oor lounges are being
converted in Windsor.
However, many students are
unhappy to be losing the common
areas.
Everyones going to be stuck in
their rooms because theres nowhere
else to go, said Justin Oake, SAC
Science Senator and Edwards alum,
echoing the complaints of many South
Side residents. Its such a small and
squat-up little house.
e university is currently
estimating 730 new students in
September 2009, ten more than
last year. But, its very possible that
enrollment will actually exceed that
number as its a conservative estimate
used for budget purposes, explained
VP International and Student Aairs
Helena van Tol
Argosy Staff
Ron Byrne.
We know that in bad economic
times, traditionally, university and
post-secondary enrolment increases,
said Byrne, who is choosing to be
cautious, commenting that the
economy hasnt been this bad since
the 1930s.
In addition to room conversions,
an entire building will also be
transformed into a residence this
summer. e Anchorage will be
opened for up to 16 internationally-
focused students; the universitys
communications oce, currently
housed in that building, will be moved
to the rst oor of Centennial Hall.
With the opening of rooms in
the Anchorage, there will be a
maximum capacity for 1,113 students
in residence at Mount Allison. is
year, there were only 1,017 students
in residence.
Housing and Student Aairs
made sure to communicate the fact
that more lounges were going to be
converted into rooms before the room
draw this year because students were
upset by the lack of notication last
year.
Students are asking about what
will happen next year but once they
hear the explanation they are little
more understanding, said Michelle
Strain, Director of Administrative
Services. It sucks to lose space but
everyone agrees that the rst year
experience is so much better if you
live on campus.
Byrne agreed, noting that residences
also serve as a tremendous retention
tool.
[Students] get connected and they
get socialized [in residence], he said.
A lot of your friends are in that circle
of residence and the more students
get connected, the quicker they get
connected, the better the retention
rate, and the overall student success
rate.
Also, each residence will continue
to have at least one main lounge,
stressed Byrne.
[ats] very intentional, because
we do want places where students can
gather, he explained.
However, one concerned resident
believes that having multiple lounges
is a key part of social interactions
in residence, and hopes that the
university will leave more untouched.
Russell Donohoe has presented a
complaint to the administration in the
form of 30 responses from students
living in ornton. At the beginning
of the year, all but two lounges were
converted into double rooms, and it
took a long time before the rooms
were converted back to lounges once
they were vacant.
e lounge conversion at the
beginning of the year left very little
common social space for students to
interact with each other, explained
Donohoe. Its important to have
common areas from the very beginning
of the year so students can meet when
they are not yet overburdened with
schoolwork.
Oake agrees, noting that the
lounges in Edwards were used to
the fullest extent during his stay
in residence for studying, birthday
parties, and oor crawls.
I dont even know how you do
a oor crawl when you have one
lounge, he said.
Mt. A is one of the only universities
to oer a space in residence to every
incoming student as well as rooms
for upper years. And, although its a
pain to have less space, students dont
appear to mind actually living in the
lounges at least not in Windsor.
Mike Simpson, Windsor house
president for 2009-10, lived in a
lounge with two roommates for his
rst seven weeks of university because
of overow.
It certainly had its party and
social advantages over regular rooms
because of its size and set up, said
Simpson. eres also a loophole
with the lounge. Normally, you are
only allowed six people in your room
with open liquor. But the lounge is
25 people, I think, and is licensed
because its a private room.
It was fun, but Simpson did not
choose to live in a lounge during his
presidency. Nevertheless, the lounges
converted on second, third, and fourth
oor were the rst ones picked in the
room draw this year.
While students understand the
need for rooms in residence, Donohoe
is hoping that the university only
converts three of the lounges in
ornton, leaving them with at least
one lounge per oor. He also suggests
making more use of the satellite
residences and perhaps purchasing
more.
e universitys long-term plans
include construction of a large new
North Side residence in place of the
octagonal house near the King St.
parking lot. Currently, information
and feedback sessions are being
held, and the plans should be ready
by September. If all goes well,
Byrne believes that building may be
complete by 2011.
e designs are going to be highly
eco-conscious and might make the
new building one of the most energy
ecient residences in the country.
And, even though the satellite
residences are pretty antiquated
when it comes to energy eciency,
Anchorage renovations will include
conversion from oil to natural gas.
This September, residences across campus had lounges converted
into temporary rooms; residences were also expanded in the
academic year of 2001-02.
Jessica Emin
Chrissy LeBlanc
On April 22, Earth Day, all Loblaw stores across Canada - including Superstores and Save Easys - will begin to charge 5 cents per plastic bag. The grocery chain piloted this charge
in Toronto stores this past January with good response. The nominal fee could prove to be an incentive for shoppers to bring reusable bags, or buy the PC Green bags from the
store. The company expects to reduce plastic bag use by half and estimates 1 billion plastic bags will not end up in a landll as a result.
Lounge conversions, opening of satellite house announced for upcoming year
Residence renovations
No boys in Psych?
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2 MARCH 26, 2009 THE ARGOSY NEWS
VPs appointed
After some quick reminders to councilors about
the upcoming elections the SAC went in-
camera, and when it came out, it had selected
the appointed executive members for next year.
Ryan Sargent was appointed to be VP Finance
and Operations, and Anna MacKinnon was
appointed VP Communications.
Club status
e SAC met with the heads of a club being
considered for SAC club status. Two members
of the Aphasia presented that they wish to start
an organization where students could go to
practice public speaking and rhetoric.
e meeting then returned to an in-camera
discussion, meaning all non-SAC members had
to leave the room. After more than an hour,
during which raised voices could occasionally
being heard from the room, the meeting was
opened to the public. Without making reference
to the exact clubs they had been referring to in-
camera, the debate continued on the way the
SAC allocates money to clubs and societies.
Club funding
VP External Mark Brister argued that funding
should be based on the merit of the event being
funded, with charitable and pedagogical events
prioritized, and VP Academic Ryan Robski
echoed that funding should reect the impact
on the greater community. VP Finance and
Operations Dan Wortman was put on the
defensive in a discussion of how funding had
been distributed during the year, commenting
that it is hard to quantify the value of events,
so the funding committee had been treating
everyone equally. Wortman also commented
that it seemed like the SACs expectations
change with every funding deadline. Council
eventually made a motion for new funding
guidelines to be drawn up with Bristers ideas
in mind.
Free compliments
Charlotte Edwards then gave a presentation to the
SAC on behalf of Team Wellness. She requested
their help giving away free compliments during
the exam period to relieve stress. Incoming
SAC president Paul Rasbach commented that
he believed compliments should not be free, but
earned, later clarifying that he was not kidding.
Edwards responded to Rasbachs comments
that everyone has earned a compliment at this
time of the year. Generally, Council seemed in
support of assisting Edwards.
SAC budget
Returning to in-camera for the third time of
the night, Council discussed the preliminary
SAC budget. Later in the meeting senator Erik
Johnson raised the question of why discussions
of the budget were not public. Ryan Robski
replied that the approval process for the budget
will be a multi-week and public process.
Councillor concerns
Cejay Riley complained about raw meat
approaching other food products in the New
Caf. Rachael Betuik said it was not polite that
people smoke near the exits of buildings. VP
Student Life Pat Berry said that the Board of
Regents was working on an ocial smoking
policy that should be out soon. Doug McLean
complained that there were no blue garbage
bags in the students centre.
VP reports
VP Communications Abigal McGillivary in
her biweekly report outlined that Accessibility
Awareness week this year would feature an
intense poster campaign, and various physical
obstructions and demonstrations around
campus to get people thinking. Wortman
reported that the SAC microwave in the New
Caf was broken, but a replacement had already
been found, and that Director of Administrative
Services Michelle Strain would be visiting
Council on April 1.
Chris Durrant
Argosy Staff
SAC it to me: what happened at council on
March 18
Religion and queer sexuality - individuals from a
variety of backgrounds came together on March
17 to discuss these two unusual companions.
e evening was organized by Catalyst, Mount
Allisons Queer/Straight Alliance, to provide
students with the rare opportunity to address
these issues in an open and comfortable
atmosphere.
Around 30 people of all ages and diverse
backgrounds gathered in the Manning Room of
the Mt. A Chapel basement for the event, entitled
Religious Perspectives on Queer Sexuality:
e elephant in the chapel? Representatives
from the Jewish Students Association, EROS
(Earth Religion Organisation of Students) and
the Muslim Student Association, as well as
an individual representing Quakerism, made
short presentations about the general views
of queer sexuality held by their respective
faiths. Participants from numerous Christian
denominations and others with no specic faith
background were also present to share in the
discussion.
Catalyst president Katie Saulnier feels the
event was a great success. It felt like people were
really listening to each other, not just waiting
with a comeback or argument, she remarked.
Reverend John Perkin, who moderated the
discussion, agreed that although the group
stayed at the surface of the issues, there was
a true spirit of respectfulness amongst the
participants, many of whom seemed to be there
simply to listen.
It was not academic, [or] abstract, he
explained. What is going to move us is
the discussion we had, which was open and
experiential.
e fact that the event was held in the Chapel
basement was also something that both Saulnier
and Perkin felt was important. Catalyst has
What elephant?
Queer/straight alliance and religious groups tackle Religious Perspectives on
Queer Sexuality
come under re in the past for holding their
weekly meetings there not from the Christian
community, claried Saulnier, but from queer
community who felt it wasnt a space they were
comfortable in. We wanted to bring everybody
together for a discussion and break down some
of those barriers.
Perkin also wants everyone to feel welcome
in the Chapel, and believes it is indeed the place
to talk about the tough topics. He hopes all
students will view the Chapel as a common
meeting ground and a safe and comfortable
Rebecca Dixon
Argosy Correspondent
place regardless of faith, background, or
experience.
Saulnier believes that there seemed to be
a consensus that this was a discussion people
wanted to be having more often, and hopes that
the people who attended will start conversations
with their friends, families and residences.
One of [Catalysts] mandates is to make the
whole university a really positive space where
people can feel safe and that what they say can
be heard and valued, she said. Mount A is a
place where you can have these discussions.
3 MARCH 26, 2009 THE ARGOSY NEWS
93 Tibetan monks are being held in custody by Chinese police after a crowd
attacked the police station in Lagyab township, Qinghai province. Protests
began in the ethnically-Tibetan town after a monk who had been imprisoned
for speaking in favour of independence disappeared. Chinese authorities state
that he escaped and is still missing, while reports from Tibetan sources say
that he jumped into a river and died. is comes a week after the ftieth
anniversary of the unsuccessful uprising led by the Dalai Lama against
Chinese rule.
Two female American reporters have been arrested and are being held
in North Korea after allegedly entering North Korean territory without
permission. e reporters were investigating the status of Korean refugees in
China. It is unsure whether or not the women were indeed illegally in North
Korea or still in China.
Two people were killed and over 18 others needed medical assistance after a
stampede in a crowd that gathered to see Pope Benedict VVI during his visit
to Angola. Catholics account for 55 per cent of the population, and hundreds
of thousands showed up the day after the tragedy. e Pope is spending a
week in Africa, and has denounced corruption in many of his speeches to the
people.
1,300 Palestinians were killed during Israels three week attack on Gaza,
according to medical authorities. Recently, personal accounts from Israeli
soldiers reveal the extent of the violence unleashed on civilians. Israeli
Defense Minister Ehud Barak rearmed the moral integrity of their forces,
but states that the reports will be carefully examined on a case-by-case basis.
Separately but subsequently, UN human rights investigator Richard Falk
expressed concerns of the legality of the Israeli incursion.
is week in the world
A weekly miscellany compiled by Rebecca Dixon
24 crew members on board the Greek cargo ship e Titan were seized by Somali pirates along with their vessel.
Last month another Greek ship was captured. Piracy in the the Gulf of Aden has been an increasingly serious concern
since last summer, and now accounts for 40 per cent of 293 pirate attacks last year.
A 6.7 per cent budget cut from decreased government spending, and a 20 per cent rise in minimum wage are among
measures proposed by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to counteract decreasing oil revenues. Oil accounts for 50
per cent of the countrys national budget. He also plans to increase sales taxes and cut salaries of senior public ocials.
Opponents, however, have called these steps unconstitutional means of consolidating power in an already centralized
system.
600 Spanish troops will be withdrawing from Kosovo by the end of the coming summer. Fellow NATO allies were
displeased, with the United States expressing its deep disappointment and claiming the Spanish had not notied
its allies through the proper channels. Spain is one of only ve European Union members that does not recognize the
independence of Kosovo, which made a unilateral decision to separate from Serbia in 2008.
Two crew members were killed in a plane crash at Tokyos Narita international airport. e cargo plane attempted
to land amidst extremely strong winds and burst into ame after impact. Many ights have been canceled with one
runway has been closed. is is the rst fatal aircraft accident at Narita Airport since it opened in 1978.
One trillion dollars US worth of toxic assets that form the basis of the nancial crisis will be bought up in a Public-
Private Investment Programme. e US Treasury and the private sector will both contribute to the plan. Investors
are feeling encouraged, with banks forecasted to be less anxious, and stocks already rising.
More than 50 essential medical items were delivered to the last remaining medical clinic in Sri Lankas rebel-held
territory. e Red Cross helped transport the supplies, the rst to be received in over two weeks. Sri Lankan army
forces have backed the Tamil Tiger rebels into their last stronghold, but civilians continue to suer. e defense
ministry claims that 1,000 people have ed the rebel-held region for government safety zones.
You might have seen their posters
on campus, and you might have even
ripped one down. Over the past two
weeks, a small group of pro-life
students have been putting up signs
advertising their group. However,
the posters get torn down pretty fast,
said group member Abdon Cox.
An anti-abortion, or pro-life,
group has existed on campus in some
incarnation since 2006, and has
always been very small. According
to Cox, Since pro-life is such a
minority ideology, its useful to have a
group just so you know you have other
pro-life people around. Beyond that it
depends on what the new people feel
like doing with it.
In the past, the group has
participated in a few days of
silence, put ribbons on trees, and
sent a members to an anti-abortion
conference in Moncton last year.
is past week, the groups signs
have been ripped down, and some
Zoe Williams
Argosy Staff
have been vandalized.
One of the things thats been
written on our posters is, my body,
my choice on one in the Fine Arts
building, which is a bit annoying, but
its better than taking it down, said
Cox.
Cox stated that the Mount Allison
community is generally unreceptive
to the groups message, due in large
part, he believes, to student culture.
[Students] try to be free and
experimental and you always want
more rather than fewer rights,
explained Cox. And students are
more able to imagine themselves
in situations with an unwanted
pregnancy then they are able to
imagine themselves as an unborn
fetus or even as a parent who would
want the child.
However, Cox believes that if
students were willing to engage with
the issue, then some minds could be
changed.
I think a lot of people avoid
thinking about the abortion issue
entirely, he noted.
Mt. A student Chris Ricketts
does not agree with the vandalism
of the signs, but feels the issue is
misrepresented by pro-life groups.
I think there is a problem with
pro-life language. It makes it seem
like if you are pro-choice, you arent
for life. I am pro-quality of life which
happens when children are wanted,
he explained. If women need to have
an abortion for whatever reason, it
should be legal, available, and safe.
Nobody wants to have an abortion. It
is a very dicult decision but people
who choose to have one should be
respected.
Cox said that religious values were
not the primary motivation for his
involvement with the group, but that
they are for some members.
Its a useful medium, its a good
way to connect with other people, he
said. ere is a greater tendency to be
pro-life if you are strongly religious.
e group has held a few meetings
this year, and is currently waiting for
another week or two to see the eect
of the poster campaign.
Pro-life group advertised,
vandalized
Zoe Williams
A pro-life group has been putting up signs around campus. However, these signs have been torn down or
vandalized, including the poster pictured above.
In the gallery, students were the
only ones smiling, said Mark Brister,
VP External of the SAC, describing
reactions to the provincial budget.
Brister and other New Brunswick
Students Alliance (NBSA) ocials
were on hand in Fredericton on Saint
Patricks Day to listen as the provinces
Liberal government handed down the
budget, which among other things,
cuts taxes by 143 million dollars in
the 2009-2010 year alone.
What had the students smiling
was that of the three main points
the NBSA has been lobbying the
government on, there was action on
all.
It was a grand slam for students,
we got everything we were asking for,
and during a recession, said Brister.
He accredited the NBSAs success
as the outcome of the persistent
organized criticism, activism, and
constant legitimizing negotiation
the NBSA has taken on this year.
He even admitted that group had not
expected the result, and had spent
over a hundred dollars on printing
signs with which they were going to
protest.
e individual features of the
budget aecting students includes
the creation of a pseudo debt cap for
students in post-secondary education.
Named the Debt Reduction for
Timely Completion Program, the
program aims to cap student debt at
26,000 dollars by forgiving students
up to 14,000 of the provincial
contribution to a 40,000 student loan.
e stipulation involved is the timely
completion; the loan is targeted
at those who nish their program
within its timeline (e.g. four years for
Chris Durrant
Argosy Staff
a university degree).
In addition, NBs debt repayment
program is now harmonized with
the federal governments, meaning
that New Brunswickers earning low
incomes will never have to pay more
than 20 per cent of their salary in debt
repayment. Additionally, graduates
still paying o their debt after 15
years will have it forgiven by the
government.
Rounding out the education
portions of the budget include the fact
that tuition freeze will be continued
next year, and three million dollars
will be invested in programs to
increase underrepresented groups
participation in post-secondary
education.
e budgets tax cuts have business
organizations pleased as well.
Businesses are expected to save 20
million in taxes this year, and 40
million in the 2012-2013 nancial
year. e reductions will make NBs
2012 corporate tax rate the lowest
in in the country at eight per cent.
Personal income tax will be decreased
as well, with government promising
to introduce a two bracket tax system
by 2012.
ose frowning in the gallery
included those representing organized
labour. e government has said it will
implement a two year wage-freeze on
the civil service, meaning all collective
agreements up for re-negotiation
will receive no wage increases, and
the government is encouraging
municipalities, universities, and all
Crown corporations to do the same.
Seven hundred civil service jobs will
also be eliminated. Other notable
cuts included the court social work
program, free ambulance service,
and river ferry services in Gagetown,
Hampstead, and Belleisle.
Provincial budget
favours NBSA points
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SASKATOON (CUP) While
society expects men to demonstrate
a constant and insatiable desire for
sexual activity, they are limited in
what sexual behaviours they may
exhibit once in the bedroom, a new
study has found.
Todd Morrison, a University
of Saskatchewan researcher and
psychologist, has discovered that men
are more bound by considerations
of sexual normality than women,
turning on its head the assumption
that men have a high degree of sexual
freedom.
Morrison surveyed a group of 104
university students between the ages
of 18 to 25, seeking to nd what they
considered normal and abnormal
behaviour.
Each student was given 33 dierent
written sexual scenarios half of the
surveys with a female exhibiting the
sexual behaviour, the other half with
a male playing out the exact same
scenarios.
We were interested in looking
at university students perception of
reality [...] when they look at sexual
practices which ones would they
deem normal, said Morrison. We
had assumed that if a male target
engages in given behaviour thats
more likely to be seen as normal
than a female engaging in the same
Men more limited in sexual expression: study
Survey nds university students are strikingly conservative about acceptable sexual behaviours
Wendy Gillis
CUP Central Bureau Chief
behaviour.
But, when the surveys were
tallied, the assumption Morrison and
fellow researchers made was proven
incorrect.
While only one of the sexual
scenarios voyeurism was deemed
abnormal for a women and not men,
there were seven examples considered
more abnormal when the genders
were ipped.
For example, participants thought
it was less normal for a man to have
homoerotic fantasies as well as to
receive or desire pain during sex.
Participants also thought it was
abnormal for a male target to be less
interested in sex.
On the question asking about the
relative normalcy of a person never
masturbating, it was considered
considerably more abnormal for a
man than for a woman. ere were
similar results on a question regarding
celibacy.
Also, it was considered more
abnormal if a man didnt achieve
orgasm in a sexual encounter,
Morrison says.
Although admitting the sample of
students was fairly small, Morrison
and his team of researchers have been
able to draw a fascinating conclusion
telling of a blatant societal hypocrisy.
On one hand, society disseminates
the message that men should be
hyper sexual and interested in all
things sexual and whatever sexual
opportunity presents itself, they
should just go for it, Morrison said.
Yet, we argue that it seems that
expectation is channeled in specic
ways, so men are not quite as free as
they may assume they are.
While this is a fairly obvious double
standard, Morrison says the most
prevalent discovery from the study
was what he called a single standard
conservatism.
Contrary to what we thought,
which was that college students would
be very liberal and free spirited and
whatever you want sexually is great,
Morrison said, we found that they
actually had denite parameters in
terms of what constituted acceptable
sexual behaviour and unacceptable
sexual behaviour.
e true intention of the study was
to test a 1980s theoretical model that
claimed there is a charmed circle of
sexual behaviour in western society
that privileges some forms of sexuality
over others. Some types of sex are
deemed to be good, normal, natural,
desirable, while others are considered
bad, unnatural, and undesirable, he
said.
ough the circle in the original
theory did not match up perfectly
with Morrisons participants found
masturbation to be normal, whereas
the theory did not results show
there are narrow limits in terms of
what these university students saw as
being acceptable sexuality.
Morrison says nothing on the test
was obscene, evidenced by the fact that
nothing in the list of scenarios was
considered abnormal by everybody.
Since there was no indication in
the study that the behaviour wasnt
consensual, he says he thinks the
study demonstrates conservatism in
perceptions of sexuality.
He hopes this study will help people
open their eyes to the injustice of
gendered considerations of normalcy.
Expectations that are directed
at men sexually and expectations
that are directed at women sexually,
because these are expectations that
are gendered, they are fundamentally
unfair, said Morrison. Ultimately
people should be free, provided
theres consent, to be as sexual or as
non-sexual as they want.
MONTREAL (CUP) International
tuition hikes for students in four
faculties were outlined in an e-
mail sent to all McGill University
students.
International students currently
enrolled in science, engineering,
law, and management can expect an
eight per cent increase by fall 2009
and a further ten per cent increase by
summer 2010.
Arts students will face a ve per cent
increase by summer 2010, the rst in
change in three years, according to
the McGill web site.
Students who enroll starting in
McGill hikes international tuition
Erin Hale
The McGill Daily (McGill University)
fall 2009, however, will experience
substantially higher changes to
annual tuition. Management will
jump from $16,200 to $23,000, law
from $15,090 to $20,000, and science
and engineering from $16,650 to
$20,000.
When asked how he felt about
the announcement, Andrew Royle,
president-elect of the Engineering
Undergraduate Society, said he
supported the increase.
As a Montrealer, Im not that
opposed to the increase [because
Quebec] taxes are fairly substantial.
My parents pay for international
students to go to school, he said,
predicting that Quebeckers would
likely face a tuition increase in future
years.
Devin Alfaro, VP external of
the Students Society of McGill
University, was not surprised by
the new gures, though he did not
support the hike.
I think this is going the wrong
direction for the university. It will
limit access, he said.
In the fall, the Quebec Ministry
of Education allowed for the
deregulation of international tuition,
giving universities the freedom to
set fees, and seek higher revenue
margins.
e McGill administration has
indicated in the past that they normally
increase international tuition fees by
eight per cent per year.
A new study has found that women have more sexual freedom in the
bedroom than men.
Robby Davis/ the Sheaf
Sasha Van Katwyk
Argosy Staff
I dont like talking about my experiences abroad.
Ive lived an important part of my life in Asia and
was able to have wonderful experiences in both
cross-cultural contexts as well as through service
work in parts of Asia and Africa.
ats my quick and all-encompassing answer
when Im asked about my history abroad, and
Im sticking to it. Anything more than that tends
to land most expats and service workers in the
dangerous waters. Either you end up sounding
like a self-righteous prick who thinks their life
deserves public adulation, or you turn out to
actually be one.
is little fact for expats and service workers
is one Ive discussed many times over with many
dierent people who have come to, more or less, the
same conclusion. Its not something to particularly
complain about, given that the benet of your
life experience being informed and expanded far
outweighs the cost of momentary awkwardness.
ere is something else that often comes up in
conversation with service workers in particular but
also the occasional third culture expat. Its whats
called the refrigerator eect. Alternative names
and categorizations have been given to it, but
thats what I like to call it.
Its what happens when you go abroad for a
long period of time; long enough to immerse
yourself into the day-to-day lives of those you
cant immediately relate to. You even begin to shed
former habits and predilections you had, suddenly
feeling like theyre pass or even wanton. You learn
something about yourself and the world that you
cant fully express, but with every new experience
you have, it becomes all the more self-evident.
You then come home, and you feel so excited
about sharing your granule of enlightened
perspective on life, the world, and everything. You
spill your heart out to your attentively listening
family and friends, and when you nally feel like
it has all come out and a little piece of the world lit
up because you disseminated an important truth
to the unbeknownst masses, they say wow, that
sounds amazing. By the way, did you see our new
refrigerator?!
Obviously the random kitchen appliance can
be replaced by whatever relatively minor shift of
home life has occurred whilst you were away, but
the anecdote remains.
For service workers, the experience isnt simply
one of annoyance when those back home dont
respond with the level of engagement you were
hoping for. Many certainly not most have
been witness to some of the darkest pieces of
evidence that human beings are wretched to
one another, and have been there to deal with
the carnage. When someone comes home after
something like that, the refrigerator response can
drive you quite literally mad.
I absolutely cannot speak with the kind of
authority that some I have been fortunate enough
to encounter can, but there are still things I have
experienced that have convinced me that, if
nothing else, our dark side prevails far too often.
Unfortunately I also tend to fall in the pessimistic
realist corner that nds that the masses choose to
remain in a state of ignorance, and getting angry
about that gets exhausting fast.
I dont want to share stories of my or others
experiences because I believe people can only
truly communicate with one another about the
issues and the marvelously diverse places of the
world when theyve experienced a little piece of it
themselves.
at is not to say that we should stop talking.
We live in a world where the problems we face
are too important to only have one perspective.
But there is a dramatic dierence between hearing
another side of the same story, and living it.
is brings me to the third culture community.
I am a third culture kid. Im a Canadian national
but Ive only lived in Canada for the rst three
years of my life and now at university. I grew up
in dierent places with dierent sounds, dierent
media, dierent ways to give and receive gifts, and
entirely dierent things to eat. My denition of
home is wherever my traveling backpack is; the
fact that Canadians pay $13 for a single DVD
or CD baes me; I can speak with authority to
the varying quality of airliners in four continents;
when Im carded my only acceptable ID is my
passport; and I still feel awkward when I walk in a
room and everyone is white.
In the third culture community, no perspective
is the right perspective because we have no idea
who to associate ourselves with. At the end of the
day, third culture kids, service workers and expats
(who leave their gated communities) nd their
foundation amongst one another. ats why when
we nd out someone has worked or studied abroad,
its like weve found a distant family member. For
those who t in this category, you know what Im
talking about, and for those of you who dont, ask
your internationalized friends.
e purpose of this piece, therefore, isnt to shed
light on my life and become known as the person
who did this or went there. Instead, its to say that
there is a community out here that is brought
together purely by our individual experiences and
the collective feeling that weve been informed by
a worldview that breaks the boundaries of borders,
ethnicities, religions, and conicts.
e world is too spectacular and too terrifying
to only embrace one culture.
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A ai student on
the turmoil in her
home country
page 2
Westernizing the
Middle East
page 3
Persecuting the
Bah in Iran
page 4
A MASSIE
experience in Japan
page 6
Bilingualism in a
German school
page 7
A students
reections on her
time in Ghana
page 8
Speaking the
body language, in
Florence, Italy
page 5
rough Stained
Glass: a letter from
China
page 4
A students
bi-cultural heritage
page 5
Crossing boundaries
e third culture kid experience
2 MARCH 26, 2009 THE ARGOSY INTERNATIONAL
Net (Nutjaree) Chamaplin
Being a ai citizen living outside of my
country is not easy at least ever since
the political unrest that spread through
the country. I am no politician, nor do
I have the knowledge to explain the
political crises to its fullest extent, as the
matters are just too complex. I am only
expressing my views as an observer, and
presenting another point of view that
may or may not aid in understanding
the situation. I hope to clarify some of
the misconceptions about the political
crises that have recently been plaguing
my homeland.
On September 19, 2006, a military
coup against the former Prime
Minister aksin Shinawatra (who was
charged with many economic crimes
such as corruption, avoiding taxes and
more), was staged. Television channels
broadcasted Royal ai Army leaders
speaking of radical changes and
taking over the government. Tanks
and armed soldiers lled the streets
(even outside my house) though there
was no actual resistance from the
people.
I was left with a feeling of unease
and realized that nothing would
ever be completely the same again.
Watching the news at home, it was
military movements signied that
many ais were not satised with the
new system. After his administration
had ended, I felt a sense of hope that
the worst had already passed but I
was wrong.
Samak Sundaravej, a member of the
Peoples Power Party (PPP) then took
the lead. He became prime minister of
ailand in January of last year (2008),
and remained in power until September
that same year. His administration
sparked extreme disapproval, as he was
a aksin supporter.In fact, it seemed
that he was a proxy for the former
Prime Minister (who is now in exile).
e Peoples Alliance for Democracy
(PAD, also known as National
Liberation Alliance or Yellow Shirts),
which was a group of protesters
originally against the aksin
administration, re-established itself
and began a series of protests and anti-
governmental movements. Calling for
the overthrow of Prime Minister Samak
Sundaravej, and the restoration of order
without corruption, protesters (lead by
Sonthi Limthongkul and Chamlong
Srimuang) staged demonstrations and
sieges at the Don Muang Airport,
Government House, and other airports
or administrative buildings throughout
the country.
e Red Shirts, a pro-aksin
group, also staged demonstrations in a
ailand in trouble
PAD Yellow Shirts rallying against former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife.
clear that the military coup was not just
a single event, but rather a spark that
would soon lead to the gunpowder keg,
where underlying problems remained.
Although I do agree that the military
coup signied a historical change
in ailands history, many news
sources around the world merely over-
dramatized the act, and completely
missed the point; these sources
focused on the coup as a violent act,
expanding only on aksins corruption
and other crimes, but failed to address
core setbacks in the ai governmental
system.
After the military coup, ailand
existed in a power vacuum the
overthrow left the ai government
without a leader. General Sonthi
Boonyaratglin, Commander-in-
Chief of the Royal ai Army who
lead the junta remained in power
until the appointment of General
Surayud Chulanont in October
2006. Unfortunately, the new Prime
Ministers policies, such as banning
all alcoholic beverage advertisements,
censorship of many community radio
stations, and economic budget changes
were increasingly poorly-received by
ais by the beginning of 2008.
It appeared that former Prime
Minister Surayud Chulanont was also
corrupt, just like the preceding prime
minister. Protests, bombings, and anti-
A Mt. A students reection on the turmoil in her home country
similar manner. You can imagine what
happens when the two rival groups are
face-to-face violence, bombings and
strikes plagued Bangkok and other
areas. I remember being told to leave
the oce (my summer job location was
in the critical zone near such protests)
immediately due to an announced
state of emergency. It was really
intense, watching the events unfold
and knowing that I was a witness and
a part of events that will forever be
remembered in ai history. Prime
Minister Samaks refusal to resign only
worsened violent acts, until he nally
resigned. In truth, I was very much
relieved.
e next prime minister, named
Somchai Wongsawat, sparked more
violence than before. e fact that
he was former Prime Minister
aksin Shinawatras brother-in-law
only triggered suspicions that his
administration was a proxy. Tensions
heightened, until the last straw the
seizure of Suvarnabhumi International
Airport in November 2008. PAD
demonstrators blocked entrances to
and other areas inside the airport. My
mom works as an airline manager, so I
was deeply concerned for her safety.
Despite being at Mt. A at the time,
it seemed just as real as if I were in
Bangkok and I was shocked, as I
am sure most of the world was. e
country which I was so proud of was
no longer how it used to be. After the
voluntary dissipation of the PAD, the
constitutional court prohibited former
Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat
from political involvements, and
his party was dissolved. Chaovarat
Chanweerakul then became the acting
prime minister until the December
2008 special Parliamentary vote, which
named Abhisit Vejjajiva the new prime
minister of ailand.
Abhisit Vejjajiva is known to be anti-
aksin, and is supported by the PAD.
At this point in time, prime minister
Abhisit Vejjajivas administration seems
promising. Having said that, protests
led by the Red Shirts, with phone-
in rallies by former Prime Minister
aksin Shinawatra continue to plague
the country. Political debate and unrest
are ongoing, and it seems that such
problems will not be resolved any time
soon.
From my point of view, the recent
political crises have created many
problems, not only in the legislative
leaders, but more importantly in the
ai political system itself. Corruption
and fraudulent crimes, which lead
to unequal distribution of wealth,
are an obvious trend with our recent
prime ministers. is already suggests
the loopholes in monitoring funds,
transparency in elections, and corrupt
ocials seeking personal gain rather
than the countrys gain. e fact that
ailand has many dierent political
parties can be problematic, as it further
presents disunity in the legislative
body.
e ai political system requires
that one must invest a lot of money
in running for all types of elections,
campaigns and other political
activities in order to become a part
of the government. It also requires
the candidate to form or be part of
a political party, supported by its
members. is may explain why former
prime ministers were power-hungry
and why they played sides or sought
personal gains. Without the party, one
is not eligible for candidacy, and time
in oce is precious it makes sense
to keep your friends satised whilst
receiving prots yourself (otherwise
they may run against you and win due
to better oers). But thats where the
downfall is evident.
By giving work to companies
associated with you, money is circulated
within a small circle, where you are sure
to benet. is then leads to conicts
of interest, which causes more conicts
with other parties (especially the
Opposition Party) waiting to nd a
single error to expand on.
When asked which side I am on
the PAD or the Red Shirts, I used
to answer that I was neutral, though
perhaps siding more with the PAD,
for I despise corruption and unjust or
fraudulent acts. But after having seen
what each side has done to ailand as
a nation, I have changed my perspective.
I am now of neither side, for I think
that both sides have gotten out of hand.
Protesting for an ideal is one thing,
but violence that causes economic
crisis, deaths, and injuries not only to
the people but to the country itself, is
unacceptable.
Former Prime Minister aksin
Shinawatras ongoing rallies and
criticism stating that ailand has a
double-standard constitution is by
no means justied. When will it be
enough? I suppose being overthrown
and forced into exile is humiliating,
but does that mean that one should
continue trying to get back at each
successive legislative body? What good
will come to the country by trying to
bring each other down?
e country is not a battleeld for
revenge, so I would suggest that we all
accept our faults and move on. Nobody
wants a civil war. I humbly suggest
that His Majesty the King Bhumibol
Adulyadej the King which all ais
respect above all, to whom we are
loyal in uniquely complex ways that a
non-ai would never understand is
more disappointed than anyone else,
watching the country which he built
with such eorts fall into chaos. What
have we done?
Yes, there have been political
uprisings and crises in the past year
but now its time to reect on past
mistakes, and work towards a better
future. Its too late to try to x things
which have already been done, but its
not too late to try to work towards
peace and unity. Change would have
to come from the core of the political
system itself. Its a gradual process that
probably wont be solved in my lifetime
at least.
Strangely, it seems that sometimes
university students like me, who
witness such events both as an
outsider and a participant get a clearer
perspective than leaders and protesters
back home. I eagerly await my return
home in a months time, when I shall
observe and remember all the events
that loom ahead. I still have undying
hope that someday, such problems will
be resolved and order is restored. e
future is unpredictable, but one thing
is for sure the image of ailand has
now been twisted in such a way that I
doubt can ever be xed.
Submitted by Net Chamaplin
Political turmoil in Thailand has led to violent clashes between the PAD and Red Shirts.
Submitted by Net Chamaplin
Susan Rogers
Quick! What is the rst thing you
associate with Dubai?
My guess is whatever just popped
into your mind, if it wasnt oil, was big,
expensive, and probably seem a little
useless. ose of us in the West or
from the West, can really only sit back
and shake our heads at outrageous
building projects taking place outside
of North America, wondering what
in the world is the purpose of a palm
shaped island.
I spent my high school years in
Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United
Arab Emirates. While Abu Dhabi
is not quite as ostentatious or well
advertised as Dubai, there is still an
excessive amount of wealth to be
seen everywhere you look. You see it
in everyday events, like the arrival at
school of kids in Porsche SUVs and
Hummers; the slightly less common,
like buying a white gold graduation
ring or ying o to shop in Japan
for the weekend. Of course the most
blatant displays of wealth are found
in building projects, buildings where
every oor revolves independently,
underwater hotels, and indoor ski
mountains.
e question just begging to be
answered is why?
I dont claim to be an expert, I have
friends who have travelled more than
I have, but I nd it interesting that
everywhere I have been has had both a
unique culture and a huge desire to be
like the West. ey may not want to be
companies, you get a city that looks
like New York with more impressive
architecture, and the implication is that
Westernization has been achieved.
I lived in China for two years; a place
where one-upping Westerners has
become an art form. In a remarkably
short period of time, China has
developed cities, industries, and even
an Olympics to rival and surpass all
Western countries. When climate
change became a highly discussed
issue in the West, China presented
the ree Gorges Dam, Dongtan
Eco-City, and massive river diversion
projects to supply water to their
exploding population.
is extends as far as ideology;
ocially communist, China has
delicately integrated capitalist
principles in order to create a Western
business-friendly economy with
the security that an authoritarian
government oers markets.
It is an indication of their success
that the Western world is now
convinced that to be successful in
Mixing cultures in the Middle East
like us politically, in fact many think
that much western policy is based in
racism. Still however, they want to be
like us, or better than us in their own
ways.
In many countries, Western
education models are emulated. To
put it in simplest context, the worlds
children are all trying to get in to
the same twelve North American
universities. I even would argue that if
it werent for standardized tests being
slanted towards American students,
North American students wouldnt
nd a place in their own universities.
It goes a lot farther than just
education too; it extends to wearing
the clothes we wear in the West,
driving the cars we drive, listening to
the music we like. It extends to dying
your hair blonde and wearing blue
contact lenses; in some countries, there
is widespread use of skin whitener. Its
a huge irony that while most white
women are trying to become more
tanned; women elsewhere around the
world are trying to get rid of their
naturally tanned skin to look more like
white women.
So, with the rest of the world trying
so hard to be Western, maybe it really
shouldnt come as so much of a shock
as to how they choose to spend their
money. One of the ultimate goals is to
show us that they are Westernized,
a term which essentially means that
anyone from the West can head to
that country and not have to worry
about losing any of the amenities from
home, often not even needing to worry
about language. If you can build big,
expensive, and do it using western
Western culture is being exported to the East, and beyond
business you need to know two
languages in addition to English:
Mandarin and Arabic.
All this is not to say that countries
around the world are totally
overhauling their own cultures, but
they certainly are adopting many
aspects of our own. A few of the
lesser known projects are proof of this.
Currently in the works in Abu Dhabi
are branches of the Guggenheim
and the Louvre museum, which will
bring huge numbers of pieces from
the Louvre in Paris to Abu Dhabi for
20-year stints. e Louvre specically
is heralded as being a cultural asset
to the world, though it wont be
representing the past and the culture
of Abu Dhabi.
Its a little sad to think that people
from around the world and the UAE
itself will travel to the UAE to see
the most impressive Western-style
buildings in the world and European
art, and that the beautiful Sheikh Zayed
Mosque and e Abu Dhabi Heritage
Village will pale in comparison.
Above: McDonalds iconic golden arches amongst a more traditional skyline in China.
Below: The Starbucks Store formerly located in Chinas Forbidden City; it has since been closed.
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The Burj Dubai, the tallest
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Commentary
Shabnam Sobhani
Argosy Contributor
e persecution of members of a
religion seems absurd and hateful,
especially when it is done to members
of such a peaceful and unity based
religion.
Last May, in Iran, seven members
of the Bah Faith were arrested and
their houses raided. e two women
and ve men have been in Evin
Prison, which is run by the Ministry
of Intelligence, for almost a year now
and up until a few weeks ago they
were held without charges.
A few days ago they were charged
with espionage for Israel, insulting
religious sanctities, and propaganda
against the system. ey have been
granted visits from relatives, however,
denied access to their lawyer, who is
Nobel Prize winner Shirin Ebadi.
ese accusations are not true
and no proof has been given to
justify them. ose arrested were
only arrested because they practiced
their faith. is is a direct result of
the government of Iran failing to
recognize the Bah Faith, 300,000
Stop religious
persecution in Iran
of which are currently living in Iran
and who form the largest religious
minority.
e Bah Faith was founded
150 years ago in Iran. Since then
its community has experienced
many waves of persecutions before
and after the Islamic Revolution in
1979. Bahais fail to receive equal
rights to a good standard of living,
education, and work. Bahais in Iran
are not permitted to hold religious
ceremonies or to practice their
religion with the other members of
their Faith.
e founder of the Bah Faith,
Bahullh, brought spiritual
teachings that are primarily based
upon unity. ese teachings, among
others, include: the equality of
men and women, that humanity
is one family, and that all forms of
prejudice - racial, religious, national,
or economic- is destructive and must
be overcome. Bahs believe that
humanity has been and is currently
facing a need to recognize and instil
in every aspect of human behaviour,
individual and collective, the over
arching and key belief of the oneness
of humanity.
Rev. John C. Perkin
University Chaplain
As we approach the end of the
semester, proud of our learning and the
role of the university in contributing to
the knowledge of the world, it is nice
to be reminded of the way in which
education is valued beyond the edges
of the Mount Allison campus.
e following excerpt is provided
by Gary MacDonald, who lives and
works in China. MacDonald works for
the United Church of Canada as part
of its overseas personnel; he teaches at
a teachers college in Zhangye, Gansu
Province, a rural province near the end
of the Great Wall and on the old Silk
Route that wound its way through
Central Asia.
MacDonald works in this poorer
area of China in partnership with
the Amity Foundation, a Christian
Chinese voluntary organization which
promotes education, social services,
health, and rural development from
Chinas coastal provinces in the east to
the minority areas of the west. e goal
of this college is to improve the quality
of teaching in Gansu province, so that
the children in the region will have a
better education and a better chance to
break the cycle of poverty.
For many of MacDonalds students,
teaching represents their only career
option other than working in the
elds.
MacDonald is on the last years of
his contract in China, and is preparing
to return to Sackville for retirement. In
recent years he has been a regular part of
the Sunday evening Chapel community
during time spent in Sackville while on
leave from his work.
Currently back in China, his work
is with young adults who come from
rural villages to learn, so that they can
return to their villages and teach others.
He sends this message:
Warm greetings from China! One
of the delights of my work is to visit the
communities from which my students
come. e very best time to do this is
during the Chinese Lunar New Year
when families are reunited in a festive
spirit.
For many, this is the only time that
e week before he begins his classes,
my student will visit some of the homes
in this village. He gives particular
attention to those families he knows
cannot aord his classes. Quietly and
simply he extends the invitation to his
English class. ose children too, he
says, need encouragement and help.
During my time in that village, I was
a witness to something quite beautiful.
My student prepared his lessons well.
e children were eager to learn. As
with any good teacher, my student
knew and cared for his pupils.
On the last day of class, the lessons
came to an end but it seemed that no
one wanted to go home. ere was a
sense of holding on, of knowing that all
this is good. e children stood around,
laughing and joking. No one seemed to
notice the bitterly cold air.
Eventually worn notebooks and
the small stools were gathered, some
strapped to the back of bicycles which
also served to carry two or three
children at one time. Best wishes for
the Lunar New Year were given and
this band of children moved on down
the road.
All this I saw that week in a village
far from any place of academic
organization or structural power. e
chanting of a morning lesson echoing
through the cold mountain air.
Among mountain villages and in the
bare desert towns of this part of China,
this is something that can be found
many times over. College students
home at holiday time. e gift of
knowledge passed on to others.
e fees charged do help toward
next terms tuition. And, if the college
student is to continue his or her own
education, necessary. However, in most
cases, it is never enough. Returning to
college, some students will go without
meals and text books because there is
never enough money. Yet, they give
their gift.eir students, those children,
return to their own classrooms better
equipped to learn in a renewed spirit
of condence.
In so many small villages, in tiny
unheated rooms or even in the out-
of-doors, a group of children come
together. Older Brother or Older Sister
home from college or university stands
among them in the spirit of knowledge
created anew.
the luxury of full meals including meat
and sh are a reality. For students, time
o from classes also means a time to earn
extra money for college expenses that
never seem to end. A privilege indeed
for me this year was the opportunity to
witness one of my students in his work
of English language tutoring in his
home village.
I trust that this account of my
experience it will provide you with an
insight into the life and circumstances
of the students I teach.
During the Lunar New Year holiday
I was the guest of one of my students
in his small village. Mali Village is one
of many small communities hidden
deep in the folds of mountain terrain.
Patches of tired soil serve the continuing
generations of subsistence farmers.
ere, the beauty of nature may well
mask the reality of poverty and daily
struggle familiar to its inhabitants.
On a morning when the temperature
dipped to minus seventeen degrees, I
awoke to meet children with ragged
notebooks in one hand and small
wooden stools in the other, as they
gathered in my students home. ey
had come for an English class given
by my student. In an unheated room
with rough planks balanced on stones
to serve as desks and mud brick wall as
chalkboard, the morning lesson began.
In such a place, this is a familiar scene
each Lunar New Year and summer
holiday. My student, like many others,
returns home to be with family and
friends. As well as a chance to be home
again, this is an important time to earn
money for next terms tuition. Life for
those for whom income has never met
demand does not allow much leisure
time even on this, the most important
holiday on the Chinese calendar.
In the constant struggle to nance
his own education, my student does ask
for a fee for his services as an English
tutor to these children. Some of the
childrens families can pay the full fee
but for others this is simply not possible.
Sometimes payment comes in the form
of a simple meal for my student in
one of the childrens homes. Perhaps
someones mother may give my student
a pair of homemade trousers. Another
might give a bag of vegetables gathered
from the elds. However, money or no
money, a child is never turned away.
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by Europeans of some form, and
immigration has been and still is a
practice in both countries where waves
and waves of people from other countries
bring their unique cultural heritages
to share with the rest of the country.
is includes food, music, theatre,
everyday ways of life, architecture,
even political parties and ideas.
Canada and the US are most similar
in many types of food, architecture,
and city planning, but they are
dierent in their political ideas (even
Canadian conservatives are dierent
than the conservatives in the US), and
their every day attitudes about life and
those around them, to name a few. e
stereotype that Canadians are extremely
nice is extremely true and I love it. In
my humble opinion, people in the US
feel almost forced to be nice, especially
in jobs involving customer service.
I feel that when I go into a store
in Canada, I am greeted warmly, and
when a supermarket checker or a bank
teller asks how I am, I feel that they
really do care (for the most part). In the
US, I feel that most in these jobs put on
plastic smiles, raise their voices a few
octaves higher just to sound cheerful,
when really, in the back of their minds,
they are worrying about how they are
going to pay the mortgage, how they
are going to pay for their husbands
surgery, or that they feel like crap
Erin Jemczyk
Argosy Staff
Two summers ago I went to
Florence, Italy to learn Italian.
I enrolled in a language school
and learned words like quaderno
(notebook), sedia (chair), and
fragola (strawberry). I learned the
grammar: presente, imprefetto, passato
prossimo. I learned how to order an
espresso: Vorrei un espresso, per
favore. But I wasnt learning Italian.
It wasnt until last summer, when
I returned to La Fi and worked
Learning the body language of Florence, Italy
Vivi Reich
Argosy Staff
Robert Frost wrote in his poem e
Death of the Hired Man that home
is the place where, when you have to
go there, they have to take you in.is
is just one of the many quotes that I
have considered when contemplating
where my home actually is.
I was born in the United States, with
a German mother and an American
father. I automatically received a
German citizenship because of my
mother, and an American citizenship
because I was born in the country.
My parents had met in Germany,
so my father was no stranger to
the country, and was uent in the
language. He had been there for
more than 11 years before he and
my mother moved to the States.
Because of this, I grew up speaking
German and English uently, and
have been to Germany more times
than I can count on both hands.
Germany and the United States
had always both been my homes.
In high school, I was fed up with
the situation in the United States due
to six words: George W. Bush and
his cronies. Due to the nancial state
of my family, I considered going to
Canada instead of going to Germany.
And here I am, three years later.
e question of home has been
a dicult one for me. I moved
twice when I was growing up in the
United States (from my birthplace
of Seattle to Massachusetts and then
to Colorado). Ive been to Germany
many times, including the summer
I spent there in 2008, working and
traveling. On top of it all, Canada
has become a temporary home for
me, and will be until at least 2010.
I loved Canada as soon as I set foot
in the Moncton airport for the rst
time (as strange as that might seem
to some). Its everything I thought it
would be prior to coming and more.
I could easily see myself applying for
permanent residency, and then even
citizenship. But, when I spent the
summer last year in Germany, I could
easily see myself living there, too.
When I go back to Colorado, I can
easily see myself moving back there.
While the three countries are
similar, they are also very dierent.
Germany and Canada are more similar
to each other than Germany and the
United States. But Canada and the
United States are not that dierent
either (sorry to burst anyones bubble).
In Canada and the US, the
smorgasboard that has developed
into their respective cultures is very
similar: both countries were settled
A German-American student living in Canada oers her cross-cultural perspectives
Torn between three cultures
because they cant call in sick from
work because they might get red.
Canada values relationships between
people, their employees health
(indeed, the health of their citizens).
Most dont have to worry that they
cant go to the hospital or call in sick
from work, so their everyday attitudes
are generally more relaxed. ere are
obviously exceptions to this. I have
spent most of my time in humble New
Brunswick, but I cannot imagine it
being hugely dierent in other areas.
In Germany, one sees a dierent
side of the spectrum. When I walk
into a supermarket in Germany, the
checker will say, good day, scan my
food, take my money, give me my
change, tell me to have a nice day,
and thats it. In a way, I like this too
Germans would much rather save
their energy and smiles for people
they feel really deserve it, like good
friends or family. I dont feel forced
to have a silly small talk conversation
every time I go to the baker to get
bread, and that is okay with me.
Germans are also very much
conscious of their personal space, and
while we will squeeze together like
sardines in a train or on a bus, when
walking, we keep to ourselves. In cities,
people hardly smile at those who walk
past them, and when speaking to
someone who is older or of the same
age but not a close friend or family
member, we use the polite form. To get
on the bus or train, we push our way on,
elbows and all (I went to London after
being in Germany all summer, found
myself pushing myself onto the train,
and getting some really nasty looks!).
ere is a clear distinction between
private and public life (though women
going topless on the beach, is one of
the exceptions), so one feels that their
privacy is respected. Germans also
grumble about social welfare programs
the country oers, such as healthcare,
and they sometimes dont realize
how great they have it. Canadians
do this, too. Everyone does this.
ere are only some cultural things
I can honestly say I miss in the US,
such as certain types of brands that
I cant buy in Canada or Germany. I
also miss my family tremendously.
Other things, such as this cultural
melting pot, are readily available in
Canada as well as the US. at is
what makes the countries cultures
what they are but at this point, I
would choose Canada over the US.
If I could create my own country,
mixing Germany, Canada, and the
United States, I would be a happy
camper. But for now, I will either have
to go on as the nomad that I have been
for the past few years, or accept the
motto home is where I hang my hat.
Che palle!
What balls! (Exasperation)
as a waitress that I truly began to
grasp the subtleties of the language. I
acquired the language of the service
industry, and ended up being able
to hold decent conversations. I
had one friend who sought out to
teach me every Tuscan parolacci
(literally, bad words) under the sun.
But I found there was another
aspect of Italian that I learned over
the course of the summer that was
essential for communication: body
language. In a language where every
letter is pronounced, requiring an
array of facial movements to say
just one word, it seems natural that
this movement and expression
would spread to the rest of the body.
Heres a sampling of the gestures
I learned in Florence. I must stress
that, as in most countries, language is
regional in Italy, so these gestures might
have a slightly dierent signicance
in, for example, Naples, or Milan.
Jessica Emin Jessica Emin Jessica Emin Jessica Emin Jessica Emin
Per favore!
Please! (Pleading)
Va fa in culo!
Fuck you!
Mah!
Whatever!
Boh!
I dont know.
Claire Kelly
Argosy Contributor
Before coming to MTA four years ago,
my knowledge of Japanese culture was
as much as the next North American
sushi, Mount Fuji, and Domo
arrigatou, Mr. Roboto. My knowledge
of the MASSIE program was even
less.
However, because the program was
lacking a few roommates that year,
they began looking through rst year
student applications and must have
seen that I had an international interest
because I had been an ESL teacher
the opportunity to see many of those
friends again in Japan!
One of the awesome responsibilities
of the program assistant for MASSIE
is that we are the ones that get to y to
Toronto to be the rst MTA contact
they meet upon their arrival in Canada.
We then accompany them to a nearby
hotel so they can take a break from the
long trip and then return to the airport
the next morning to continue on to
Sackville. I had done this once already
for the Fall 2007 group, but when it
came time for planning the Summer
2008 group, I had a dierent idea in
mind.
Because my roommate in rst year
MASSIE & me
Miki, Atsuki, Rachel & I (all from Summer 07) on train in Osaka.
assistant in my high school, so they
requested that I share my room with
a MASSIE student. I still had no idea
what the program was really all about
other than the fact that they were from
Japan, but decided I was denitely up
for the experience, and so I agreed.
Flash forward four years and I have
since been involved with MASSIE for
6 programs longer than Ive been at
MTA as a roommate, conversation
partner, summer RA, and as the
program assistant 3 times. Over that
time I have obviously learned all
about the program, a lot more about
Japan, Ive made over 200 MASSIE
friends, and in April of last year I got
How one Mt. A student found herself in Japan
Submitted by Claire Kelly
(and that whole MASSIE group)
was graduating, I wanted to get over
to see them before they all dispersed
from the Osaka area. With a round-
trip ight to Toronto already covered,
and two weeks between the end of
exams and beginning of the Summer
program, why not take a trip to see
all of my friends on the other side of
the globe and accompany the Summer
group not just from Toronto, but
straight from Osaka?
So I did it. Four hours after my last
exam I was on a 14-hour ight bound
for Osaka. When I arrived, the shrieks
of four of my favourite overjoyed
MASSIE friends greeted me and for
the next two weeks, that joy did not
stop.
Over that time I got to experience
all that I knew and didnt know about
Japan, which included: eating every
type of sushi and other type of food I
dared to try sweet potato ice cream,
raw beef, raw egg & raw octopus and
loving them all; singing Japanese
karaoke three times; visiting the
Golden temple and the Love temple
in Kyoto and a 50-foot tall Buddha in
Nara; riding on a sweet roller coaster
overlooking all of Osaka and then
seeing part of the musical Wicked sung
in Japanese at Universal Studios Japan;
cheering on the Kobe soccer team in a
stadium lled with thousands of people;
getting a Japanese haircut; visiting a
traditional (aka, nude) Japanese spa;
watching as much Japanese TV as I
possibly could, because it is hilarious;
attending two awesome MASSIE
reunions; and staying with almost a
dierent MASSIE friend every night
I was there.
I had so many incredible experiences
over that time, that although the list
above is overwhelming, it is by no way
the full extent of it. However, at the
end of two wonderful weeks, it was
time to go, so I boarded the plane with
39 Summer MASSIEs in tow, but
vowed to return to Japan sometime
in the near future for a lot longer stay
and hopefully a wider vocabulary of
Japanese.
Needless to say, I had an amazing
time. And as wonderful as Japan
is on its own, it would have been
impossible to have as great a time as
I did if had not had the MASSIEs
by my side every step of the way. Not
only because they were my sole link to
communication (because at the time
I did not know a word of spoken or
written Japanese, and very few people
there speak English), but because they
have become some of the greatest
friends in my life.
ey were also all very wiling to be
my personal tour guides and open their
homes because what they continually
reminded me was that I had shown
them the same type of hospitality while
they were in Canada. I guess I had
not thought that taking Hanako (my
roommate) home for anksgiving or
Kyoko (my conversation partner) to
Joeys and Mels had meant that much,
but while I was there and they were
doing the same kind gestures, I felt it
was overwhelming.
So, what I can oer MTA about
my trip to Japan: if you have any
interest in seeing a beautiful, ecient,
traditional, yet modern place, I certainly
recommend it. However, if you do visit,
make sure you get in touch with all of
the MASSIE friends youve hopefully
made over your time here and maybe
you too will be able to experiencing
the eects of an international kindness
exchange.
A group of MASSIEs and Kelly in front of our partner university, KGU.
Submitted by Hannah MacDonald
A wonderful Japanese novelty - very cheap beer sold from vending machines on the side of the road.
Submitted by Claire Kelly Submitted by Claire Kelly
Rebecca Dixon
My nal two years of high school
were spent at a boarding school
in berlingen, Germany. Salem
International College, the upper school
of Schule Schloss Salem, was situated
on the edge of Lake Constance, right
across the border from Switzerland.
Like many young students, my
dream was to go to an international
school and to learn a new language.
My advice for nding such an
opportunity is to look, look early, and
ask for more information even if there
are requirements that you dont have.
I came across Salem by searching the
internet and sending an email to ask
about scholarships. Before I knew it,
I was heading o to a country whose
language I did not speak, and where I
did not know anyone. It was terribly
exciting, and certainly terrifying.
My time at Salem was enriching,
and I was able to travel, make friends
from all around Europe and absorb a
fascinating culture. However, rather
than writing an article about the
wonderful experiences I enjoyed, I
would like to highlight a challenge
that arose, how I tried to deal with it,
and how this might be applicable here
at Mount Allison.
As previously stated, one of the
reasons I wanted to go abroad was
to learn a foreign language. Before
arriving in Germany, I knew only
the very basics: Danke schn (thank
you), Gesundheit (after a sneeze),
and Auf Wiedersehen! (good bye). It
is indeed impressive how much you
can learn in a few months, especially
when you are immersed. While it
does help to have language classes,
the most proactive ways of picking up
a new language include being curious
enough to constantly ask about
words and idiomatic expressions,
using a variety of sources including
newspapers, TV shows, and music, and
mostly importantly, being condent
enough to try to speak, blunder, and be
corrected.
Salem oered both the International
Baccalaureate Programme (in English),
I wanted the solutions to be practical
and not appear to be anglicizing the
school. For example, it would have
been time consuming and frustrating
to repeat everything in both languages
during our assembly, so I recommended
that announcements read in German
would have a corresponding English
power point presentation, and vice-
versa. is would also allow language
skills to develop, because students
would be able to listen in the one
language, and check for words or
meaning they had not understood.
I also proposed that an ocial
position of translator to be added
to the parliament to ensure written
documents coming in and out of it were
bilingual and thus anyone who was
interested in what was being discussed
could at least read a brieng.
e bill was presented to the entire
school through the assembly and
school newspaper, and was eventually
passed with almost full support in
parliament. People were debating the
issue, which, in my opinion, was a sign
of progress in itself.
In my second year, I was able
to observe some improvements.
Parliament elected an ocial translator
and a clear eort was made by both
administrators and students to use
both languages. is was especially
entertaining when our British
headmaster would attempt to make
jokes in German.
While traveling to study in another
country implies immersing yourself
in another language and culture as
much as you can, the rst stages can
be overwhelming and unintentionally
exclusive. I tried to make changes
at my school because I loved it and
wanted to be able to enjoy everything
that it had to oer. I am proud that
Salems community was receptive
enough to listen to the concerns of
a minority of the student body, and
adapt the proposed strategies.
While this story is from my personal
Lessons in bilingualism from Salem
International College
and the Arbitur (the German high
school diploma). Around 20 per
cent of the students had a foreign
citizenship, and most spoke varying
levels of English. Many, however,
were a mix of German and something
else, which made for a predominantly
German atmosphere, which some
of the international students found
somewhat alienating.
We felt that at Salem International
College, everything at the school
should be in both English and
German, the languages of academic
study. As a Canadian, I was very aware
that achieving complete bilingualism
is practically impossible, but that it is
important to strive to be as inclusive
as possible.
e main problem was
miscommunication. e schools two
central forums for information were
the weekly assembly and the internal
email system. Naturally we tried to pay
attention and to translate, but it was
often frustrating to be deciphering
emails when a pile of homework
awaits.
Another area that was hard to break
into as an international student was
school governance, and in particular
the school parliament. I saw the lack
of bilingualism in parliament as a
loss for both sides: the school lost the
contribution of non-uent German
speakers; meanwhile these students
were not informed and denied
leadership positions.
is article is not meant to criticize
my old school, or the German language
I continue to be very attached to
and appreciative of both. Learning
is a process and as I adapted and
immersed myself, language became
less of a barrier. It did take time, and
I felt that the school should be more
open from the beginning for those
who arrive with little knowledge, but
a willingness to learn.
With the assistance of some of
my professors and fellow students,
I prepared a bill for the school
parliament. Much like Mt. A, these
issues and the suggested improvements
have to be presented, discussed and
voted upon on the student level of
government.
experience, it raises the question of
how open we are to international
students at Mt. A. e circumstances
are dierent, as we are not specically
an international institution, and could
not possibly hope to be multilingual
enough to encompass the wide range
of backgrounds and languages of our
international students. However, we
can look at how accepting we are
of the international students in our
community, and remind ourselves to be
patient and respectful of their potential
struggles with English. I think this
includes actions as basic as including
them in meal hall conversations, and
encouraging them to come along
and participate in activities that
arent specically related to anything
international (although these should
be supported).
International students deserve the
respect of being able to understand
and to participate in every aspect of the
schools life and society. Maintaining
the vibrancy that these students bring
to our community takes conscious
reection and eort. e university as
a whole, as well as on the individual
level, needs to be reminded of the
challenges of being surrounded by
a foreign language, and of how we
can be more patient and inclusive of
the students who come here to learn
English and be immersed in Canadian
culture.
Photos of the picturesque Salem International College, offering both the International Baccalaureate Programme (in English), and the Arbitur (the German high school diploma).
Submitted by Rebecca Dixon Submitted by Rebecca Dixon
Submitted by Rebecca Dixon
Kelly OConnor
Argosy Staff
July 8, 2008: It is a hot, dusty day as I
sit scrunched in my tiny plastic chair,
lap overowing with binders, papers,
and pencils. My Ghanaian research
partner, Sandra, is seated in an equally
too-small chair, occasionally fanning
herself with extra interview guides.
It is our rst day of conducting
Yes! followed by an enthusiastic
nod.
How old are you?
e pupil looks anywhere but at us,
Sandra and I look at each other, and
I can tell already this is going to be a
very long day.
is process repeated itself in various
ways over the next two weeks as we
travelled through small cities and rural
parts of Ghana, conducting interviews
with parents, administrators, teachers,
children in school, and children out
of school. With Sandra, Gifty, and
my other Canadian partner Katie,
we interviewed a village chief, talked
to groups of mothers crushing
groundnuts (or peanuts) under the
shade of broad trees, ground entire
schools to a halt with our cameras,
and shooed away curious pupils
hanging out of the windows to listen
to our condential interviews.
We learned about the challenges of
being an underpaid and incredibly
overworked primary school teacher,
heard the struggles of the students
trying to break through the glass
ceiling of primary school and those
still just trying to break in, and the
passion of the illiterate parents (over
90 per cent of parents we interviewed
fell in this category) willing to work to
the bone to ensure their children have
a better future than theirs. We found
teachers trying to lead classes on
computer skills (without computers)
in communities where the kids
had not even seen a TV before. Put
together with the two other research
groups we worked with, we were able
to talk to 314 people over 14 days in
four dierent communities and seven
dierent elementary and junior high
schools. It was exhausting, challenging,
frustrating, and incredibly rewarding
work.
What we found as local barriers
to student retention were not
always very intuitive; the Ghanaian
government, in a laudable move to
More questions than answers
interviews in a primary school fairly
bursting at the seams with screaming
children in northern Ghana. We are
working through the World University
Service of Canadas (WUSC) 2008
International Seminar, trying to
divine the local challenges that were
causing a disproportionate number of
these pupils to drop out of school.
What is your name?
.silence.
Do you understand English?
One Mt. A students experiences in rural Ghana
achieve the Millennium Development
Goal (MDG) of universal primary
education abolished formal school
fees a few years ago (although more
subtle expenses, such as uniforms and
textbooks, still act as a barrier to the
poorest families). is caused a massive
surge in enrolment. In the North
however, which already struggles as the
hinterland of Ghana with decreased
access to political power, resources,
and poor infrastructure, schools were
swamped. In one grade two class we
found over 100 pupils to a single
teacher. It was anarchy, to say the least,
and very little learning went on during
these sensitive foundation years. In
the rural communities, older pupils
would also be taken out of school
during the harvest season to work on
the farm while their younger siblings
took their place in school, much like a
bank balance (one kid in, one kid out).
is introduced huge disruptions to
their education, leading some pupils
to be older than the teachers. Some
teachers would also miss a week of
classes or more as they had to travel to
town to collect their salaries.
While the entire experience
consisted of a very steep learning
curve and I am still processing what
I learned several months after the
fact, there is one gift in particular I
received from the parents that I hope
never to forget:
Do you think it is important for
girls to go to school?
Yes, of course, we want her to be
like you
Suddenly, all of my privileged
worries about grades, assignments,
and extracurriculars fell with a thud
into sharp perspective. Sitting there
sweating in my nice clothes, pencil
poised over paper, conducting this
research project with a foreign NGO
and the Ghanaian Department of
Education, I was struck dumb. How
does one respond to that? You want
your daughter to be like us, really?
What an honour, what a wonderful
honour. is realization, this gift from
the parents of northern Ghana, is
something I wrestle with on a fairly
regular basis and thus far I have
been on the losing side; how do I use
what I have so that your child can
go to school, to university, to have
the opportunities I do? Would this
research have any positive impact on
her life, or yours? Could the money,
time, and resources spent to get me
here been invested more wisely in the
local people? How do I apply what I
have learned here back home?
I am left with far more questions
than answers while the voices, dust,
and rainy season thunder of Ghana
keep me coming back for more.
Kelly OConnor Kelly OConnor
Kelly OConnor
OPINIONS
Jessica Emin, Argosy Staff
What hypothetical statue would you like Mt. A to erect?
Sasha Van Katwyk
Herbert and Muriel the resident swans, one standing on
top of the other.
Alyssa Lebans
Bill Waterman.
Christopher Roberts
I do not think erecting a statue is an appropriate use of
budget.
Timothy Bancroft
e rst woman to graduate from Mount Allison and the
British Commonwealth [Gracie Annie Lockhart].
Natasha Mills
A cattail; it would be representative of Sackville.
Isabel Gertler
It would be nice to have something instead of the swan
pond fountain, perhaps some sort of fancier cup. Charles
Allison would be an obvious choice.
Zoe Williams
Argosy Staff
Last week at the grad banquet, Chris
Durrant and I were challenged by a
fellow graduating student to write
something positive in the Argosy. is
is something Ive admittedly struggled
with as co-editor. Maybe its because
Im an International Relations major
and I spend most of my time reading
about poverty, global warming, human
rights violations and war. Or maybe its
because Im kind of a negative person.
Either way, instead of treating you all
to yet another thing Zoe thinks is
bad, Ive decided to write a response
to my co-editors piece from two
weeks ago on senioritis. It might not
be positive exactly, but as I stare down
the end of my eighth semester, its the
best I can do.
Chris described senioritis as a
product of an awareness that the end
is coming soon, and an ensuing lack of
A Response to Senioritis
motivation. I am certainly experiencing
an acute decline in my willingness to
do any real work as the end draws near.
But I disagree with Chriss prescription
about what to do about the problem,
mostly because I dont see it as one.
Its not that I dont care about my
grades or my future. Ive worked hard
the last four years and I dont want
to nish here on a disappointing
note. I count myself as lucky because
Ive been accepted to my dream grad
program. e problem is, Im not sure
how Im going to nd the $60,000 pay
for it. Not knowing what next year, let
alone the rest of my life, has in store
for me is kind of terrifying. So maybe
its akin to hiding my head in the sand,
but I just dont want to think about it.
Suddenly, the last push to prepare for
that unknown future, whether it be
reading yet another depressing article
about third world poverty, or nishing
yet another essay about the evils of
corporations, does not seem like the
best use of my time.
So what does? Going for a long drive
with friends on a Saturday afternoon
to the ocean, even though its March
and too cold for the beach. Recovering
from a brutal hangover with an all-
afternoon pancake breakfast. Dancing
at Georges, at house-parties, or in my
room-mates bedroom. Going to art
openings and drinking red wine all
night. All the things that have made
my time in Sackville so fantastic and
have absolutely nothing to do with
preparing for a responsible, productive
future.
Chris said the end of our last
semester is a time buckle down, be a
grade-grubber, make this GPA our
best GPA. Of course, this is probably
good advice, but its not advice Im
choosing to take. We have the rest of
our lives to work hard, buckle down,
and grub for something.
Mount Allison has been an
enriching experience academically,
and Im grateful to have had it. But
its also been a hell of a lot of fun. I
think for most of us, Sackville has been
an intense, at times frustrating, but
ultimately rewarding place to spend
four years. I know it has been for me,
and I dont want to regret not taking
full advantage of my last semester,
outside of the classroom.
For those whose last weeks in
Sackville are quickly approaching, I
urge you to take some time out, and
indulge in whatever it is you love
about this place that has nothing to
do with school. Some might consider
it immature, fear induced, or lazy,
but I want to spend as much time as
possible in the Sackville bubble while
I still can.
Sarah Tulk
I nd it safe to assume by their ignorance
towards reality in Newfoundland
that none of the students involved
in the Newfoundliteracy program
are Newfoundlanders. Given this, I
should question as to where they feel
they have earned the right to decide
what books and, even worse, words,
are relevant to these children? How
dare they suggest that a child from
Bonne Bay or Pasadena should not
learn words like city because they
are not their reality? Should we pull
Harry Potter from shelves worldwide?
Also, if Newfoundland students do
not need to learn of concepts outside
from those directly applicable to their
small town-of-choice, what is meant
to be achieved by teaching them how
to write their names in Japanese? I
have been away for a number of years
now, but I am fairly certain that the
Japanese population in Newfoundland
is still extremely small.
As a Newfoundlander I was
raised not only on Dr. Seuss and
e Berenstain Bears but also on
Newfoundliteracys
new found ignorance
Newfoundland classics stories about
my province and heritage. I consider
myself literate, and I do not feel that
this is something that I have achieved
despite being raised in Newfoundland.
I may say that hes half cracked but
colloquialisms do not make me less
intelligent. ey could, however, aect
Newfoundland students performances
on standardized tests which are not
designed with plasticity to regional
dialects in mind.
e fact is that learning simple
concepts like syllables is a major task
for any primary or elementary student
because it constitutes one of the rst
steps of reading. It is something that
children must work at globally, not
simply in Newfoundland. On that note,
do not assume that having the ability
to read constitutes literacy, because the
terms are not interchangeable. You
will have diculty nding a literate
primary student anywhere in Canada,
though you should nd plenty able to
sound out words on a page. I suggest
that, in the future, before you try to
educate others you take the initiative
to educate yourselves.
You can lose in cinema too, if you dont put on a good performance.
- Eric Cantona
Hes talking to you Freddie Prinze Jr.
ericcantona.com becoolsodapop.com
6 MARCH 26, 2009 THE ARGOSY OPINIONS
Graeme Bousada
In 1956, Manley Natland, a geologist
for Richeld Oil based out of
California was seated upon his rump,
under the heavy rays of a hot Saudi
Arabian sun. In an act of greatness,
not witnessed since Archimedes
himself triumphantly proclaimed
eureka through the streets, Natland
realized he had the answer to unlock
one of the greatest energy stores the
world has ever known. His plan was
this: dig a nine kiloton atomic bomb
deep into the ground in North Eastern
Alberta, detonating it thus facilitating
the access to the immense oil stores
that the Alberta tar sands held. His
master plan, declared by many in the
oil industry to be genius (and by many
others to be PSYCHOTIC!), was
never undertaken, though serves well
to metaphorically demonstrate the
Take a stand against the sands
absurdity of Canadas largest industrial
project, the Alberta tar sands.
Many people are well aware that
Alberta has oil. First discovered by
Imperial Oil in Leduc, Alberta does
(soon to be did) have oil in the sense
that most envision with the word. e
reality is though that the oil that now
feeds Albertas bolstering economy
is not in fact the crude that was rst
discovered by Imperial many decades
ago. Instead, it is powered by the tar
sands, one of the largest energy stores
in the world.
Covering an area of approximately
148,000 km/sq (14,000 km/sq
larger than the Maritime provinces
combined), the tar sands are vast
stores of bitumen buried under the
boreal forest in north eastern Alberta.
With estimates from Shell Canada
projecting between 1.5 to 2.5 trillion
barrels of oil total, the enormity of
this deposit has gotten many oil
giants salivating around the borders
of Fort McMurray, the location of the
richest stores that the tar sands have
to oer. To put things into perspective,
ultimate global oil supply is estimated
to be approximately 1.8 trillion barrels
of oil, meaning that if all of the energy
trapped in the sand could be accessed,
global oil supplies would increase
by two fold. e problem though,
recognized by Natland in the 1950s, is
that these sands cannot be treated as
the oil in Saudi Arabia, as rening this
oilto a form that is accessible is a great
challenge. Currently, estimates suggest
that the oil sands house approximately
175 billion barrels of oil, though the
Canadian Association of Petroleum
Producers (CAPP) predicts that this
number will inate to between 300
and 315 billion barrels as demand
increases and technology improves.
With current reserves, Canada has
been endowed with the second largest
oil reserves in the world, after Saudi
Arabias 260 billion. Should CAPPs
prediction become reality, Canada
(and more specically Alberta) will be
endowed with the largest supply of oil
in the world.
So whats the big deal? e deal is
actually incredibly big. e problem
with the tar sands is that it requires
inputs, inputs and more inputs. Inputs
from:
Natural Gas: in 2007, Fort
McMurray burned the equivalent
natural gas that is consumed by
3,000,000 homes in a year. Natural gas
is the cleanest burning hydrocarbon
we have, oil is one of the dirtiest. Gold
into crap.
Water: Fort MacMurray consumed
twice the amount of freshwater
consumed by the city of Calgary.
Between two and six barrels of fresh
water must be consumed for one barrel
of oil. Ninety per cent of this water has
ended up in one of many tar ponds,
currently stretching 80 km/sq. e
biggest tar pond, created by the most
active company there is SynCrude,
who has in fact had to build the largest
dam by mass in the world to hold back
the incredibly toxic sludge left over
from the dicult process that rening
oers. is dam, trumped only by the
ree Gorges Dam when it is nished,
holds back this incredibly toxic sludge
from Canadas largest and the worlds
third largest water shed, the Mackenzie
River Delta, housing many aboriginal
populations already experiencing the
eects of what some call Industrial
Genocide.
Carbon Emissions: In 2007, the tar
sands alone emitted 40 million tones
of CO2 into the air, eight million more
tones than New Zealand emitted in
the same year.
Boreal Forest: In order to gain access
to the tar sands under the ground, the
Boreal Forest, the largest storehouse of
carbon in the world, must be clear cut,
and mined in open pits.
e largest capital project in
the world, the tar sands house
approximately $200 billion, 60 per cent
of which is foreign direct investment
from the largest and most powerful
companies in the world, the oil
giants. Unfortunately for Canadians,
particularly aboriginal populations
downstream from Fort McMurray,
too much is invested in this to cease
production now and Canadians will
continue to be raped of our most
valuable resources in ensuring that US
oil interests are met for several years to
come. With enough proven reserves
to power North America for the next
47 years (that includes Mexico dont
forget), the US Energy Policy Act
of 2005 explicitly stated its intention
on forging an alliance with Alberta,
side-stepping the rest of Canada in
ensuring that the tar sands become the
cornerstone in their plan to ensure that
North America is an energy sovereign
entity by 2025.
Canada is powering the US military
machine, allowing it to continue its 6
decades of hegemonic activities around
the world. Canada is allowing for North
America to continue our economy built
on the wheel of a SUV axle. Canada is
undermining international interests to
put a stop to climate change because
we know we will not be able to reduce
GHG emissions and develop the
tar sands simultaneously. Canada is
streamlining environmental, social,
and even economic interests (billions
of dollars in tax cuts for oil companies
in the last several years) in ensuring
that companies maintain their access
to the tar sands. Canada is not looking
after Canada rst, but in fact thrusting
a middle nger high into the air,
declaring loudly and proudly that the
world can go fuck itself as we receive
the slight benets that we do from this
crazy endeavor.
Perhaps Natland should have just
detonated the bomb. Perhaps he did
not even need to.
Come on out to the Take a Stand
Against the Sands expos and
discussion, Tuesday March 31, 7:30
@ Bridge Street Caf. I am currently
spearheading a campaign with Eco-
Action to raise awareness about the
tar sands. Questions or comments? (as
harsh as you would like): gwbousada@
mta.ca
Emma Davis
7 MARCH 26, 2009 THE ARGOSY OPINIONS
Vivi Reich
Argosy Staff
ree cheers (or one cheer each?) to
Matthew Park, Alex Goddard, and
Owen Roberts for writing to support
a per-course tuition system at Mount
Allison. I would like to share a bit of
my own experience before getting to
the nitty gritty. I am from Colorado,
in the land of the free, home of the
brave (not my favourite quote to
describe the country, but I digress),
where, if one were to go to university
or college outside ones home state, one
would pay up to $50,000 (or more) in
tuition fees per year. I wanted to come
to Canada for a long time, not just
because it would be cheaper than going
to another state, but also to have the
experience of being in a country whose
governmental structure, universal
healthcare, accessible university, etc. I
had admired for so long. I love Canada.
I love Mt. A, but I will readily admit
that it is not perfect, and in one way
it is not perfect is our current tuition
billing structure. I will also admit that
part of my dislike of the structure is
pretty selsh. Let me elaborate I
started at Mt. A as a full time student,
taking ve classes per semester, and
nding myself increasingly becoming
unhappy due to the work load. I am
not someone who learns just by sitting
Tuition fees
An international students perspective
in class, or writing essays, or reading
books, but also through discussion,
collaboration, and my experience
outside of class, and I know that there
are others like this. I also know that no
person learns from just sitting in a class
or writing an essay, we all learn from
the experiences that have nothing to
do with our classes or our assignments.
We learn no matter what we are doing.
So, those of us who have decided to
make those other experiences more of
a priority, or an equal priority, to our
education, should not be punished.
I should not have to pay $7,000
(international student fees) or more
in tuition for taking three classes in a
semester next year.
Heres an open-ended question, in
response to Matthew Parks comment
that [pure per course billing systems]
more eectively serve the Canadian
ideal of keeping post-secondary
education as accessible as possible -
does Mt. A care more about the amount
of money theyre bringing in from
tuition fees, do they care more about
making money than having happy,
relaxed, involved, mature students
who are not freaking out about tuition
bills/loan repayment? Because it sure
seems that way. Even in Colorado,
all tuition is billed according to how
many credits one is enrolled in, and as
far as I know, this is the same in other
states in the US. I say this sarcastically,
but, maybe I should have just stayed
in Colorado to get more aordable
tuition and an equally good education
instead of following my dream to come
to Canada. Im beginning to think
that university and college is more
accessible in the United States (at least
in ones home state) and thats just
not right.
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Sarah C. Smith
I am writing this in response to last
weeks editorial on voluntourism.
First of all, Id like to agree that not all
volunteer organizations and trips are
created equal, and individuals planning
on going on a volunteer trip denitely
need to do their research. However, I
believe that last weeks comments were
over-generalized and did not properly
address the underlying goals of
organizations and individuals in taking
part in these trips. I plan to clarify how
volunteer trips work writing in reference
to Me To We trips because they were
implicated in last weeks article.
In terms of Me To We Volunteer
Trips to Kenya,for example,participants
assist in the building process for one
room school houses, water wells, and
teachers. It should be noted, that the
primary builders on these work sites
are locals who build Free e Children
schools regardless of the volunteer
trips. Participants are given simple
tasks that make the building process
more ecient for the actual builders
(i.e. mixing concrete or white washing
walls). So, local building jobs are not
taken away and moreover, there are
more jobs provided as a result of the
trips. Locals are hired as drivers, cooks,
and guides. e number of sta hired
for trips would simply be unnecessary if
Dear Argosy,
only the organizations personnel were
there.
In terms of tourist activities, about
four out of 23 days on a Me To We Kenya
trip are spent doing tourist activities.
When not building or volunteering in
classrooms, participants usually attend
community ceremonies, help create
community gardens, play with the
children, visit homes, and do household
chores, etc. However, the local economy
is supported in participating in tourist
activities such as safaris and visiting
animal sanctuaries. Participants are
also given the opportunity to purchase
things from local markets and womens
initiatives.
Furthermore, organizations like
Me to We try to counter the carbon
footprints they make by traveling
through initiatives like the Kenyan
tree nursery, which is a two-year-old
facility that nurtures 40,000 indigenous
seedlings each year. ey also provide
environmental education and through
their education programs which reach
more than 10,000 students a year.
Additionally, all of the wood used
in school construction comes from
suppliers certied in forest regeneration
and the cottages for adult and corporate
guests are built entirely from renewable,
indigenous materials.
Yes, people who already care about
what happens in the world go on these
trips but they are not the only ones.
Voluntourism advertising, that was
poked fun at last week, is a part of the
process of attracting as many people that
would benet from the trips as possible.
Organizations like Me to We want their
trips to empower their participants to
change their habits and/or be better
participants when they return home.
Whether you are someone who already
cares, or just wanted to go on a cool
trip, these trips change you. Im one of
the ones who already cared, who had
already been involved with Free e
Children (the sister organization of Me
to We), but after going to Kenya, I shop
dierently, I eat dierently, I use water
dierently, and I see my role as a social
activist dierently.
Traveling is one of the best forms
of education there is. No matter where
you go or what kind of trip you go on,
most people want to travel. You could
travel through hostels and resorts and
see a bunch of tourist attractions, or
you could volunteer somewhere and
really get to know a community, have
a hand in projects helping them, and
likely change your own life. You will
undoubtedly be the largest beneciary
of the experience but at the end of the
day, you can travel and make a tiny
dierence, or you can travel and make
no dierence.
e world is a book, and those
who do not travel read only a page,
(Augustine).
Juliet Manning
Argosy Staff
I would like to respond to the recent
articles that have debated Gardasil and
its relevance for gender issues.
Two weeks ago, an article was
submitted by Mayme Lefurgey entitled
Gardasil: liberating or limiting?, in
which Lefurgey questioned the motives
of the Gardasil corporation in their
ad campaign for women. Stefan Noel
responded to this with a parody entitled
Pornography: liberating or limiting?,
portraying the pornography industry
as an attempt by women to control
men.
Noel summed up his point by writing:
Men are not all out to get women. Of
course I agree with this; what concerns
me is that Noel felt it necessary to write
this in the rst place.
is kind of reaction, this quick
defensiveness, concerns me because it
seems to echo the idea that feminist
concerns necessarily target men as
On Gardasil and gender issues
perpetrators and women as their
victims.
Noels interpretation of Lefurgeys
article makes it appear as though
he only read its title and perhaps
the phrase male-dominated before
forming his rebuke. A more careful
reading of the original article reveals
several valid, logical points. Lefurgey
points out that any new wonder drug
should be approached with scrutiny.
Even health ocials are concerned
about the costly fervor to have every
young girl vaccinated immediately.
And it cant be denied that Gardasils
ad campaign is exactly that an ad
campaign, out to make prot. Whether
or not one disagrees with its message,
it cant reasonably be taken without
a grain of salt (take, for instance, the
Campaign for Real Beauty by Dove,
who are owned by the same company
that markets Axe products.) It seems
to me that Lefurgeys main point was
that Gardasil, like any product, should
be evaluated with caution and careful
consideration, with regards to both its
social and its health implications.
At any rate, I dont believe that the
author implied anywhere, to any degree,
that she believed Gardasil was created
by evil men to control women.
is situation brings to mind a comic
I once read in Archie Digest, of all things,
in which Veronica started attending
womens lib meetings. Afterwards,
whenever Archie tried to do anything
nice for her, she ripped him apart,
growling you men are always such
[insert discrimination here]. Veronica
totally dismayed me the story totally
dismayed me; its author was still
interpreting womens lib (this was
in the late 1990s) as a movement that
hated or blamed men.
Whatever the reality of Gardasils
eect on womens self-images, I think
its always in everyones best interest
to give critical thought to these issues,
and I have been glad to see this matter
debated from dierent sides in e
Argosy. As Noel points out, thinking
is key.
Weekly Grati
Zoe Williams
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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ARTS & LITERATURE
Everyday performance
Talking with John Murchie
Julie Cruikshank
Argosy Staff
eres a reasonably good chance that
most people in Sackville have been to
Struts, the artist-run gallery on Lorne
Street. e centre hosts visiting artists,
sewing bees, music events, workshops,
and houses START, the student-run
gallery in the back. It is also home
to the Faucet media arts centre.
Overseeing all of this is John Murchie.
A Sackville resident since 1990, he
became the coordinator of Struts in
2003 a position he describes as a 24-
hour job. e centre now has several
hundred members, and hosts an active
visiting artist program, to name a few
of its endeavors. But Murchie is also an
artist in his own right, though he has
found little time to practice in recent
years, owing largely to the booming
phenomenon that Struts has become.
Over the years his artistic practice
has primarily involved painting, but
not in the traditional sense. Murchie is
interested in the use of unconventional
supports such as wood, cardboard
boxes, and newspaper basically
recycling. His interest in paint as a
medium is not so much in its ability to
render an image as it is in the physical
materiality of the substance. ere are
two things, Murchie says, that interest
him about paint. e fact that it can
be used to cover a surface, and that it
has a thickness to it. Traditionally one
does not think of paint as a sculptural
medium, but Murchie is interested
in how layers of paint can begin to
take on sculptural form (a bit like the
thick paintings of Eric Cameron).
For Murchie, his use of recycled
materials has less to do with outright
environmentalism, and more with the
recycling of appropriated imagery.
Murchie also does performance art.
His most recent work was a curatorial-
project-turned-performance done
in Calgary as part of the Mountain
Standard Time Performative Art
Festival (a bit like Sackvilles annual
Performance Symposium). e work
was done over two weeks in October
at U of Cs Nickel Art Gallery.
Murchie essentially curated a show,
and turned the curatorial process into
a performance. Over the weeks he put
up and took down works of art from
the gallerys collection that had either
never been seen, or that had not been
seen in a long time. e work was
primarily that of women artists.
e use of humour is often quite
apparent in Murchies work. For
instance, one ongoing performance
piece consists of two tattoos one on
each of his forearms. e tattoos are
straight lines, one black and one blue.
Murchie is interested in how people
notice them, even though there is not
a lot of information to notice. e lines
reference a recurring linear theme in
his work, and the colours reference the
idea of a physical imprint on the body
(the colours of bruising). Murchie views
them as an ongoing performance work
involving his body, a performance that
continues as long as he is alive. Its one
of the more successful works, from my
point of view, says Murchie. He adds,
somewhat wryly, that he has oered
the piece to the National Gallery of
Canada once he dies although it is
up to them how they would choose to
display it.
Interestingly, Murchie does not
have a background in Fine Arts. He
admits quite freely that he cannot
draw conventionally, but adds that he
is not interested in rendering that
way. His work deals far more with
ideas of physical materiality and how
little information is needed for people
to recognize and identify with an
image.
e time he has spent in Sackville is
evident in some of the visual themes in
Murchies work, though he points out
that it has not had a transformative
eect on his practice overall. He
has worked in the past with animal
silhouettes as a continuation of his
interest in minimal visual information
conveying a recognizable, relatable
image. His silhouette of choice since
coming to Sackville is, of course, a
duck. It deals with a language that
is recognizable here, he says. e
biggest eect that Sackville has had on
his work, he says, has been through its
galleries (Struts and the Owens). Both
galleries have instituted a commitment
to performance-based work, which has
prompted him to do much more of it.
rough his work as Struts
coordinator, Murchie is actively
involved in developing a focused
artistic community in Sackville with
links to the art world at large. is
primarily involves maintaining a
connection between the Sackville art
community and the outside world.
Its trying to make a home, in a sense,
for people who choose to be members
here, that helps to represent their
interest in the world, he explains.
rough the visiting artist program a
link to the larger Canadian art scene is
maintained, providing a vital exposure
between Sackville artists and artists
working in the world at large. For
artists in a small town, there is always
the danger of working in isolation.
Murchies work at Struts strives to
counteract this eect, and to provide
an interface for people to connect as
artists. Artists here have to work a bit
harder to be noticed, says Murchie,
referring to the small-town Atlantic
region. e most important part of his
work at Struts is just nding ways of
helping us all to survive.
Murchies ongoing performance piece; two lines on his forearms.
Murchies work engages in a dialogue about the physicality of paint.
Minor in a major way
Graduating Fine Art Minors show at START
The Minors showcase included artwork by Alicia Steeves.
Rory Butlers audio visual installations brought in large crowds. Joel Carrs artwork included sculpture (above) and prints.
All photos are courtesy of Jessica Emin.
Mistakes & Corrections
Julie Cruikshank
Julie Cruikshank
Julie Cruikshank
An error in the article Airport Terrorists
and steel workers take over Olive
Branch referred to Justin Collette as
Jason. The Argosy and the Arts and
Literature section apologize for the
error.
19 MARCH 26, 2009 THE ARGOSY ARTS & LITERATURE
Trying something new
Composition at Mt. A has interesting results
Julie Stephenson
Argosy Staff
Dr. Ian Crutchley teaches composition in the Music department.
I was doing a little count
up the other day [...] I think
that my students have written
something like three hundred
pieces in the last ve years.
Ian Crutchley
Bat Boy metaphorically
ies into our hearts
A review of a wingless but worthy musical
Justine Galbraith and
Argosy Staff
William Gregory
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Outstanding moments were
Spencer Yarnell s abrasive rap
about killing Bat Boy, Erik
Grosvolds magical, mystical
and sexually perverse portrayal
of Pan (complete with shocking
animal love)...
e right mix
Student recital showcases students skills
Julie Stephenson and
Sarah Short
e fourth student recital of the
year showcased Sarah MacDonald,
Jennifer Berntson, and Kerri MacPhee.
Collaborative Pianist Penelope Mark
played alongside MacDonald and
Berntson while collaborative pianist
Lynn Johnson played with MacPhee.
A range of pieces was played, from the
traditional Bach and Mozart to the
more contemporary Francis Poulenc
and Paul Hindemith. e three
performers were received well by the
audience with enthusiastic responses
to the curtain calls.
Berntson, a third-year Soprano and
student of Helen Pridmore, caught the
attention of the audience straight away
with her striking voice. Matching the
more lively pieces well, Berntson
picked up more expression further
into her performances. Her enjoyment
was obvious as with each performance,
Berntson picked up condence and
clarity.
MacPhee, a third-year clarinettist
who studies under the instruction of
Wesley Ferreira, demonstrated her skill
with excellent and smooth transitions
throughout the songs. She moved
from calm to lively with relative ease.
MacPhee re-opened the show with a
solo performance that was moving and
well played. She was clearly the most
at ease on stage.
MacDonald, a fourth-year utist,
began her performances strongly with
lively song choices and clean notes.
Her performances were the most put-
together overall and showed a great
deal of skill. MacDonald moved from
lively to moving pieces beautifully,
and showcased her training and skill
excellently.
All three students performed
beautifully, and their accompaniment
was well suited to each piece and to
their own talents. e strength of
their training was evident. Berntson,
MacPhee, and MacDonald put on an
excellent recital.
Black Tie Productions cements its
status as the best small-scale musical
troupe in Sackville with the delightfully
perverse and absurd rendition of Bat
Boy.
Based on the recurrent National
Enquirer story about a half-bat, half-
boy lurking about in West Virginia,
the musical bills itself as a story about
family, love and acceptance.
e main leads were all exceptionally
strong singers and actors. e duets
were frequently stunning, notably those
including Bat Boy (Brett Martin),
Shelley (Leah Brown), Doctor Parker
(Bruce Muir) and Meredith (Caitlin
Bowers). e chorus was also strong
and cohesive as a unit while displaying
some kick-ass harmonies. However,
there was a tendency for individual
lines to be overpowered by the group
in some of the larger numbers.
Outstanding moments were Spencer
Yarnells abrasive rap about killing Bat
Boy, Erik Grosvolds magical, mystical
and sexually perverse portrayal of Pan
(complete with shocking animal love),
Bat Boys heartwarming plea for the
town to accept him and shake his
hand, and Brian Hawkes hilarious
creation of Mrs. Taylor.
Martins turn as Bat Boy was
really good. He made good use of
his physicality - transforming from
crouching creature to proper person -
and spent a lot of the rst act conned
in a cage and exhibiting the quirks of
an unsocialized bat boy.
e play was set in West Virginia,
requiring an accent from the cast,
which did not disappoint. e show
was carried almost entirely on the
strength of the actors, making little
use of set and props. It was pretty
innovative to use a projector to set the
scene, and it was put to good use for
ashbacks as well.
Perhaps the biggest - and only
- qualm is with the script itself. e
jokes were a little obvious and the
second act was weaker than the rst.
e overarching plot was broken
up, although enjoyably, by Edgar
(Bat boy), Shelley and Merediths
trip to the forest, and an unexpected
yet unsurprising twist at the end
seemed contrived on the authors part.
However, the cast did a good job and
holding our interest until the very last
note.
All in all, it was an enjoyable
evening.
I havent had a single student that Ive
taught in the last ve years that hasnt
had at least one amazing idea about
a piece of music. Dr. Ian Crutchley
smiled as he made this statement,
speaking of his work as a composition
professor in the Music Department.
His eorts will be showcased in the
composition students performances
at the upcoming New Music Concert.
Both faculty and sta will be performing
at the concert, and Crutchley recently
spoke of his excitement of seeing his
students perform pieces they have
been working on over the year.
Crutchley explained that although
the performances for the concerts
are primarily the current work of the
students, composition is a much longer
process. Beginning with dierent
stages of composition studies, the
students eventually form a style that
can range from traditional to a mix of
contemporary ideas.
Once theyre choosing their own
way with the compositions, they bring
them to me and we talk about the
kinds of things that need to be done
in order to make it work the way they
understand that they want it and []
sort of nurture it and make it into
something a bit more developed,
explained Crutchley.
Following contemporary practices,
composition at Mount Allison is
taught restrictive[ly] at the beginning
just to get them to nish things and
eventually aords students a wide
variety of freedom in later years.
Crutchley notes that the teaching
methods are what allow students to
nd a style that suits them and to feel
condent to experiment with dierent
techniques. We get this really, really
incredible variety of pieces that people
who come to the concert will see.
Many of Crutchleys students credit
the growth theyve seen to the professor
himself. One student even indicated
Crutchley as the reason hes stayed at
Mt. A. After the rigid forms of class
structure are left behind, Crutchley
says he tries to have students come out
on a regular basis to discuss their work
and ideas. His students have said this is
what accounts for much of the respect
surrounding Crutchley - his eagerness
and enthusiasm to work with students
and explore their ideas.
Crutchley also credits the
environment at Mt. A that encourages
students to experiment with
composition and try new mediums.
A close-knit community means that
composition students can regularly
have other students perform their
pieces or collaborate on work.
ere can be a lot of excitement
around it and I think that the
opportunity is a very good one here,
explained Crutchley, because theres a
great deal of exibility with what they
study.
e Music Dept. faculty has
expanded the interest in performing
contemporary music, incorporating
improvisation and alternative
techniques into regular performances
and classes.
Crutchleys students have certainly
embraced the experimental atmosphere.
Evan Phinneys performance piece
entitled Dearest Charlie was
inspired by a short story which was
in turn inspired by a postcard bought
at a second-hand store. In that piece,
the piano and voice are completely
independent parts, explains Phinney,
e beauty of it comes out when
parts just line up right. It is a highly
emotional piece. Megan Buett
explained her own composition as a
12-tone piece for Alto Flute with live
eects and pre-recorded electronics.
e third-year has also recently
nished a piece that utilizes a poem
by Emily Bronte. Graduating student
Luke Patterson detailed his use of
snapshot compositions, a singular
experience he compares to writing a
diary entry. I am [also] working on a
collaborative project with a video artist
and a dancer. I will be performing/
composing quasi-improvisatory
percussion parts for this.
I was doing a little count up the
other day and trying to gure it out.
I think that my students have written
something like three hundred pieces
in the last ve years. Some of them
do eight, nine, sometimes ten over the
year. Clearly proud of his students,
Crutchley explains the importance
of his students creativity. I try to
strike a balance in between teaching
them skills that are really concrete,
but not doing that to the point that
their creative impulses are crushed or
suppressed in some way.
Despite the variety of opportunities
the students are given, Crutchley
admits they still face challenges.
Phinney echoed this sentiment as he
spoke of how it can be hard to get
performers to commit or to try new
ideas.
Crutchley hopes to see a decrease
in the resistance to new ideas through
more interdisciplinary interaction
between students and faculties. Ive
always been a very strong proponent
of enhancing the interdisciplinary
parts of the arts here especially, so I
would love to see the [composition]
students more directly involved with
the arts students and creative writing
students, he explained. ese ideas
have sparked interest in Crutchleys
students as their plans post Mt. A have
taken more varied paths. Phinney and
Patterson have both expressed interest
in interdisciplinary elds.
e composition students represent
one more area of exploration and
growth at Mt. A. eir performances
at the New Music Concert will occur
along \side other students and faculty
on Monday April 6 at Brunton
Auditorium at 8:00 pm.
Its all about bringing the backstage to
the centre stage. In Ronald Harwoods
award winning play e Dresser , the
complicated relationships that exist
past the curtain call are brought under
careful scrutiny in an equally daunting
time during the Second World War.
Harwood is well known for his
screenplays e Pianist and e Diving
Bell and the Buttery, but e Dresser
remains one of his most prominent
plays. e relationship driven play
revolves around a theatre company in
the midst of World War Two. Director
Kirsten Good provided some insight
on the play, the Performers Company,
and the importance of relationships.
What made you decide to direct this
production?
I have been involved with the
Performers Company for quite some
time now. After my experience of
Assistant Director in e Importance of
Being Earnest, I have had a desire to
direct a production. e Dresser was a
perfect opportunity to have my rst
essay into managementas Sir, a
main character in the play, would say.
Stephen Puddle is the artistic director
for the Company, but he is an actor
in this production. e show needed
a director and since I have such a
passion for it, I had to take the oer.
e Dresser is a fantastic play that,
despite its dark setting in the midst of
the Second World War, certainly has
its light moments. It has the authentic
British wit and a classic charm.
Why choose Live Bait eatre? What
is your regular venue?
We, as the Perfomers Company,
try to select a venue that is as
accessible to students as well as
Sackville Community members. For
e Importance of Being Earnest, we
performed in the large parlour of the
Marshlands Inn. It was the perfect
venue for Earnest giving it the feel
of a British home and garden. For
Hayfever, we performed in Live Bait.
We were able to set up an extensive set
courtesy of our Master Builder, Monika
Wohlmuth. e experience of working
with Live Bait is wonderful. We like to
reach out with our theatre. We want
to draw ties between the student body
and the Sackville Community, because
connection between the two have
been lacking in the past. We want to
join people together with the joy of
theatreCamaraderie is the hallmark
of this show.
How do you think the play has
relevance to today?
e Dresser takes place in the
1940s, but there is no doubt that it is
applicable to today. e show focuses
on the interactions between each one
of the characters within the company.
e action centers on the relationship
of Sir, the actor-manager of the theatre,
and Norman, his dresser. But each one
of the characters has self-dening
moments when they interact with
Sir. is show shows the backstage
action that normally goes unseen. For
example, we see Sir forgetting the
rst line of the play moments before
he must go onstage. ese intricate
relationships between characters,
whether they are friendships or a
desire for something more, are the
same that we nd ourselves in daily.
Harwoods writing expands past the
time period, and critiques human
nature in a way that makes it applicable
to many generations. One could say
[that] its commentary is timeless.
How has the experience been working
on the production? With the cast?
is has been one wild and amazing
ride. e cast and crew is what makes
the show. Sandy Burnett plays the part
of Sir, and he sinks into character with
an uncanny familiarity. It has been
a privilege to work with a man so
talented. Stephen Puddle is Norman
in the production; and he brings
an infectious eervescence to his
character. Alison Hart is Madge (the
Stage Manager in Sirs Company);
Alison brings a complex character
to life with such an understated
brilliance. Sue Rose is Her Ladyship,
Sirs partner. is is Sues rst acting
experience, but she has taken to the
part quite wonderfully. Jerry Hicks
is another community actor as well.
Jesse Ambler, Doug MacLean, Alisa
Haugen-Strand, and Tim Hall are
also featured student actors that bring
Dress me up
e Performers Company heads to Live Bait with new play
Julie Stephenson
Argosy Staff
individual talents to their roles. e
crew is so vital to the production.
Costumes are done by Melody
Petlock, Set by Monika Wohlmuth,
Lights by Nikita Moriarity, Sound by
Justin omas, and ASM by Hilary
Avery. Each one of the actors and crew
members are such an important part of
the theatre production. Bringing all of
their individual talents together, there
is an unbelievable resulta theatre
production focusing on togetherness
has a cast/crew that emulates that
same camaraderie. I am blessed to
have the opportunity to work with
these talented individuals.
What are your own impressions of the
play?
My impression of the play is that
it is one that is a must-see. I know I
Ronald Harwoods The Dresser shows the relationship between Norman
(left) and Sir (middle) during WWII.
Harwoods writing [...]
critiques human nature in a way
that makes it applicable to many
generations. One could say [that]
its commentary is timeless .
am biased, but the play is certainly

not to be missed. It focuses on the
multifaceted qualities of pride, deceit,
jealously, love, and deep friendship.
It is a play that presents a microcosm
of the world we see around us. Not
only so, but it attempts to nd a
silver lining in a time ravaged by war.
Can we nd optimism in a world so
lled with disappointment? Perhaps.
Perhaps you should see Harwoods
answer to this question in e Dresser.
e Dresser premieres at Live Bait
eatre on ursday March 26 at
7:30pm. Tickets are $10 for students
and $15 regularly. Good promises a
show that will draw you in and possibly
even oer hope for the future.
Where else can you nd music
utilizing the sound qualities of
twister, news reports, and screaming?
If the limits of music were something
akin to the edge of a cli, this little
trio certainly ran right past it; and
took o soaring. Mount Allisons
new music ensemble, consisting of
Derlis A. Gonzalez (piano), Evan
Phinney (Bass), and Jonny Smith
(Percussion) performed their own
student recital on the evening of the
23
rd
. In describing this performance,
the words bizarre, enticing, and
dynamic are what come to mind.
e evening consisted of the trio
performing various pieces from the
works of Cage, Grella, Nobles and
Sculthorpe. e rst piece set the
mood for the night with the ominous
yet alluring Parallel II. Performed
entirely without tempo indications
or measurements, the piece was kept
together by the musicians keen ears
for one another while playing their
own separate notes. ey even added
their own voices into the mix with
the steady humming of dierent
pitches in tune with the piece.
is, however, was only the rst of
the surprises. Many pieces afterwards
incorporated dierent props and
graphics. One such example was the
display of ten of Pior Grella-Mozejkos
25 ovals, containing designs ranging
from squiggly lines to circles. Picking
a circle to play at random, each student
brought their own improvisations
and creative sound eects, using
what some would call untraditional
methods. Each was very expressive
in his own way, whether using sts
and arms on the piano, swerving bow
strokes and twisted coat hangers for
the bass, or hitting drum equipment
not quite on the traditional mark.
e surprises only continued as
the group used more graphic images
to display their piece visually as well
as audibly. ey continued to nd
new ways to create sounds (such as
by playing the inside of the piano
and skimming over the xylophone),
not just from their instruments,
but from the audience as well.
Even playing for each other,
these musicians were completely
enthusiastic and brought nothing
short of a complete expression of
themselves to the audience. One piece
from Sculthorpe entitled Dream
included utist Ali Smith and Soprano
vocalist Jacqueline Logan for another
graphic interpretation, creating more
versatile music containing interludes
of simple sounds. Voices served
as additional playful instruments,
alternating pitches of the sound om.
e nal piece was nothing short
of hilarious. Cages Variations III
is a lengthy musical process, but the
end product comes out as something
having even the musicians questioning
what is music? Incorporating
copious amounts of props, they were
able to make countless sounds in their
own individual actions, yet were able
to stay unied. To summarize the
performance: toys, holiday greetings,
news reports, bouncing balls, opening
doors, booing, strangling, Greek
literature, money and lullabys these
would only cover about half of it.
is group is something to experience
and will denitely be making a lot more
noise in the future if this performance
is any indication. eir sound brings a
whole new dish to the table of music
and can not be done justice with
words alone. One really has to be in
the audience to fully appreciate this
groups capacity and potential, which
is sure to grow stronger in the years to
come.
Mount Allisons new music ensemble
Bright innovations and good sound
Jennifer Musgrave
Kristen Good
Jessica Emin
ENTERTAINMENT
eres productive, and then theres
Kellen Barrett. One of Mount Allisons
most recognizable musicians, Barrett
has been writing and recording music
since high school. In between working
with Conduct Becoming and starting
a new project, Barrett is gearing up to
release his fourth (!) record, Human
Understanding, at the Pub on April 1.
Its a departure from Barretts
previous record, Notes from the Innite
Abyss, which he describes as a concept
album. I focused more this time on
the songs as individual pieces, rather
than working them into a larger
narrative.
e process was much less stressful
this time around: Every time I listen
to [Notes], Im like, God I wish I would
have done this dierent, I wish I would
have included this song instead of this
one, this would have made the story
so much clearer... Here, he was able
to let the songs evolve, yielding an
album of songs, rather than songs for
an album. Barrett has been working
on Human Understanding since the end
of his second year: I feel Ive given it a
lot of time to boil and a lot of time to
build, he recalls. Even now, less than
a week away from the CD release,
Barrett is leaving room for additional
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Argosy Staff
Its no joke
touchups and instrumentation.
Indeed, whereas Notes was a more
acoustic aair, Human Understanding
presents an expanded sonic landscape.
I always had in the back of my mind
that I wasnt going to be playing all the
instruments,Barrett recalls, so it kind
of forced me to leave a lot more space
in what I recorded so it could be lled
in by other people. Players on the
record include Sara-Beth Harrison on
keys, Evan Clark on bass and Shawn
Bostick on drums.
e use of percussion in particular
had a major impact on Barretts music:
It was the rst time Id ever had drums
recorded on any song that Id done. I
was kind of apprehensive about how
it was going to go one of those fear
of change type things. ough the
songs were dierent than what Barrett
expected, he felt a lot stronger about
them with the drums than without.
e full band will also be transferred
to the live setting, with one set being
performed on acoustic guitar, and one
set accompanied by the band.
Lyrically, Barrett uses Human
Understanding to explore major issues
facing our generation. I have been
heavily inuenced by writers, poets and
playwrights who have worked to create
an accurate portrait of their particular
culture within a social time and and
space, he says. I believe that my
generation is going through something
very terrifying and signicant right
now. Weve been pushed from the nest,
but we dont know how to soar just
yet. Weve never had to know before
now. Im interested in documenting
the arching free-fall of our rst ight.
I want to know where we go from
there.
Barrett focused on three songs in
particular. Untitled, which he says is
about me and my friends and all the
stupid things we used to do, and how
we had no sense of responsibility. Its
a song that recognizes all the changes
that are going on, and that were going
on back then, but [that] we just didnt
care about. Valkyries, the last song
written during these sessions, is a
Maritime-type folk song that pays
tribute to the unsung heroes of
mining and shing communities. I
wanted to take that Springsteenesque
focus and really hone in on the
workingman/workingwoman character
and the troubles of their life, explains
Barrett, who adds that he wanted
to play with the Norse myth of the
Valkyrie, coming to take the hero away
after death. Next Year is a poignant
song about looking at your life from
year to year, and the anxiety that can
be there in not knowing where youre
going to be next year. Barrett calls the
feeling at once exciting and terrifying.
I wrote it from the terrifying sense,
he tells me, I think thats a familiar
feeling for a lot of university students
looking at the market economy right
now.
Even though Human Understanding
has yet to be released, Barrett has
already begun writing and recording
a followup. Im actually interested
in going in the opposite direction [of
Human Understanding], back to where
I was in high school a more stripped-
down direction.
Barrett reveals that his next record
Last weeks lm society movie, Wendy
and Lucy is easy to sum up, but
impossible to convey without seeing.
In a single sentence, the lm is the
story of a girl who loses her dog. Its
also a political commentary on the way
we treat the poor in our society, but its
subtle about this. e main character
Wendy doesnt have much back story
and there is a lot about her life that left
to the imagination. What we do know
is that she is traveling to Alaska to
look for work, she doesnt have much
money and the truest most important
thing in her life is her dog Lucy.
Problems arise when Lucy goes
missing. e loss of Wendys dog
happens quite simply she is caught
shoplifting dog food after her car (the
other thing of value she has in life)
breaks down and is stuck in a small
town. e boy who catches her wears a
big silver cross and feels it his duty to
make an example of her. He is clearly
privileged and has no sympathy for or
understanding of Wendy. Little events
like this build up until you get almost a
subliminal sense of what its like to be
underprivileged and thus undervalued
in America. ats whats nice about
the movie. Without a great deal of
Becky Martin
dialogue or heavy-handed symbolism
it manages to convey a great deal of
information. In its subtle way it also
gets audiences quite emotionally
involved.
Michelle Williams performance is
a big factor in this aspect of the lm.
ere isnt a lot of dialogue so a lot rests
on her ability to convey the character,
and she does an amazing job. ere is a
scene after she loses Lucy and is taking
a bus back from the pound, where
through the expression on her face you
can see almost everything that is going
on in her mind nothing needs to be
said.
Another nice aspect of the lm is
that it was made in a true independent
spirit. e crew consisted of about
eight people, including actors, and no
one was paid while it was being made
everyone took a cut of the earnings.
I think that this kind of personal and
tight-knit energy is conveyed in the
lm; there was nothing extraneous in
the production and nothing extraneous
in the lm itself, but its impact is
strong nonetheless. e movie almost
feels like something you can hold in
your pocket, something travel-sized
that someone like Wendy could keep
with her. Its like a keepsake its not
big and its not loud but its a movie
that resonates quite deeply and I think
its a treasure because of this.
Kellen Barrett holds the ocial release of his album Human Understanding April 1 at the Pub
will be heavily inuenced by folk music
from the sixties and seventies real
music about real situations in real lives.
[Im] more interested in character
studies of people from my generation
and generations coming up doing
it in a way that focuses on telling the
story and not making some grandiose
song about it. For the time being,
Barrett is looking forward to letting
the public hear Human Understanding.
After months of preparation, Barretts
goal is simple: I just hope they like
it.
ats not my dog
Wendy and Lucy simple and elegant
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9 MARCH 26, 2009 THE ARGOSY ENTERTAINMENT
Recommended Viewing:
Slumdog Millionaire:
Is that your nal convenient
ashback?
Rachel Getting Married:
Dysfunctional functioning and a
long wedding.
Jacobs Ladder:
All good horror writers are
schizophrenic.
City of God:
Countless people getting shot, yet
good.
Children of Men:
Grim future in very long takes.
e Machinist:
Hes Batman but skinny and
crazy.
Pans Labyrinth:
Great family movie for
misbehaving kids.
Lars and e Real Girl:
No really. ats what its about.
Paris Je TAime:
No French or attention span
required.
Being John Malkovich:
Wait. Hold on. What just
Dylan Cunningham
Blitz-reviews
happened?
Films to Avoid:
Watchmen:
Havent read it? Get out now.
e Bucket List:
Having money makes dying much
happier.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of
the Crystal Skull:
Quick! Everybody get into the
fridge!
Hancock:
No, sorry. Youre still not likable.
e Chronicles of Narnia: Prince
Caspian:
So, all Christians worship cats,
then?
Run Fatboy Run:
Not everything Pegg does is
funny.
Star Wars: e Clone Wars:
e dead horse strikes back.
Animated.
e Happening:
Didnt see that coming. Didnt
care.
Mamma Mia!:
Sorry, Im not that open-
minded.
Twilight:
Havent seen it but opposed
anyway.
Movie reviews in six words
Positions available
- Entertainment Section
Editor
- Entertainment Writer
A spike in absenteeism Monday
morning as well as the hordes of
disheveled, tired and otherwise
hungover students roaming about
with vacant expressions and faded Xs
on their hands can be easily explained:
I was at a rock & roll show last night
bra. And what a rock show it was. In
one of the most anticipated (and well
attended) shows of 2009, the Rolling
Tundra Revue united two big Canadian
bands, Torontos Constantines and
Winnipegs e Weakerthans, on their
cross-country tour that slammed into
Sackville with arctic conditions.
A surprise addition to the billing,
Rebekah Higgs, set things o with
a style and sound much dierent
than that of the Constantines and
Weakerthans. A female singer-
songwriter playing incredibly adorable
songs did not exactly t in with the
two headliners but Higgs did an
excellent job warming up the anxious
crowd. Higgs, who is also involved
with Rebekah Jean and the Humble
Bees, was joined initially by a drummer
then by Constantines guitarist Steve
Lambke, near the end as she played
more complex songs. Looping pedals
and pre-recorded tracks were integral
to her performance which grew in
ambition and scope and closer to her
work with the Humble Bees. For her
fans, Higgs was selling handknitted
dollies at her merchandise table how
cute!
Rock-and-roll charisma oozed
from the Constantines as they
took the stage. By that I mean they
were smammered. e vocals were
frequently unintelligible, but they
blended in nicely with the rest of the
band. Constantines always seem right
at home at Georges Roadhouse their
hardworking bluecollar rock and roll
ts in with the unnished rawness of
Georges at least most of the time.
Since they are frequent visitors to
Sackville, I have had the opportunity
to see them perform on numerous
occasions. However, I found that this
performance was a little lackluster and
didnt have the usual vitality that have
made Constantine shows legendary,
or, at the very least, memorable. To be
honest, I nd most of the bands songs
sound quite similar. e energetic
live show makes the otherwise
William Gregory
Argosy Staff
I was not looking forward to
reviewing this one. e term review-
proof was created for projects like
Conduct Becoming. Since 2001, the
organization has released an album
every year to promote local musicians
and raise money for cancer research.
Its a project that requires passion and
dedication from dozens of people,
the goal of which is nothing less
than making the world a better place.
us it seems unfair for someone
such as myself, whose biggest recent
accomplishment is adding the Pick
Your Five app on Facebook, to judge
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Argosy Staff
it.
Fortunately, the latest album is
pretty good. Its called Here is Me, and
you can pick up a copy this Friday at
the CD release show at the Pub. As
always, Conduct Becoming collects
a handful of new tracks performed
by artists from Mount Allison and
beyond. eres bound to be someone
you know here: Landon Braverman
oers Dear Amelia, a smoky
Broadway-style number; Bottom
by Sara Beth Harrison creates an
intriguing atmosphere with little more
than organ and keyboards; and Kellen
Barrett contributes an alternate take of
Valkyries, from his upcoming record.
e songwriting and recording are
strong across the board.
homogenous assortment of songs
snap. Also, the band did not interact
with the crowd very much, content to
muddle from song to song with an oft-
bored and disinterested air. e sound
quality was rather poor, so most songs
were lost in an unintentional fuzzy
haze. It made for good background,
but was not attention-grabbing. Near
the end of their set, the Constantines
showed a little life with an engaging
performance of Shine a Light one
of the bands better tracks.
Amidst an early spring blizzard,
e Weakerthans took over. e band
played a rolling 90-minute set that
saw them perform most of the bright
spots from their catalogue. e parity
between their recorded material and
their live performance was impeccable
and sometimes indistinguishable. e
crowd reacted warmly and instances
of sing-alongs were common with
Weakerthans favorites Plea from
a Cat Named Virtue, and Left
and Leaving. Despite playing until
2:00 am, the crowd didnt disperse
evidently, the amassed show-goers
appreciated the performance or really
didnt want to study for that 9:30 am
midterm. ere was very little banter or
association between the crowd and the
band, who wasted little time between
songs. e result was a slick and
professional show, good musicianship
and sound quality; they took their
performance seriously, or were at least
committed to putting on a great show.
However, the band showed some
playfulness during a four-song
encore. Lead singer John K Sampson
performed one of the bands most
cherished hits, One Great City
Weaker than Keanu Reeves as Constantine
Rolling Tundra Revue brings arctic conditions and rock & roll to Georges Roadhouse
Conduct Becoming
a heartfelt ballad about the ills of
Winnipeg. At the end of his solo
performance, Sampson was besieged
by calls to nish the songs closing
refrain I hate Winnipeg. Maybe
the band was tired at the end of their
set, since Sampson recruited a guitarist
from the crowd to play a sick guitar
solo (maybe so he could go pee?).
Perhaps the Constantines-
Weakerthans show did not match the
sheer epicness of Plants & Animals/
Wintersleeps January performance,
but does that really matter? e $20
ticket (absolutely astronomical by
Sackville standards) was not wasted
at this event. Many eardrums will be
ringing for some time after the mind/
ear-blowing extravaganza that the
Sackville stop of the Rolling Tundra
Revue provided - hells ya bra.
Review-proof record really good, but not eclectic
The Constantines hang around before the Weakerthans, March 22.
Jessica Emin
But theres a problem with Here is
Me, one that doesnt have anything
to do with the artists themselves.
e majority of the record consists
of melancholy, midtempo folk, played
on piano or acoustic guitar a steady
mix of torch song and porch song, if
you will. is isnt a bad thing as its
well done, but aside from brief forays
into ddle jigs (Kelsey Hastie), east
coast folk (Eric Gallant) and blues
rock (special guest Telfer, who won the
Rising Star Award at the Fredericton
Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival), there
just isnt much variety. Its puzzling
that with so many genres being
explored in and around Sackville only
sixteen songs were submitted twelve
made the nal cut many of which are
stylistically similar. e organizers can
only work with what they receive, after
all, so an eort needs to be made to
advertise the album to a wider array of
artists.
According to Conduct Becomings
website, e album was intended to
be a way of showcasing the quality
and diversity of the Mount Allison
student music scene.ough it isnt as
diverse as it could be, Here is Me aptly
demonstrates the talent at work at the
school, and is denitely worth checking
out. e album launches Friday March
27 at the Pub. Admission is $5 or $3
with the purchase of a CD.
Kelly Jo Phelps performing at Georges for The Blues Society.
Jessica Emin
owce encewconmenc
bwo
ENTERTAINMENT
eres productive, and then theres
Kellen Barrett. One of Mount Allisons
most recognizable musicians, Barrett
has been writing and recording music
since high school. In between working
with Conduct Becoming and starting
a new project, Barrett is gearing up to
release his fourth (!) record, Human
Understanding, at the Pub on April 1.
Its a departure from Barretts
previous record, Notes from the Innite
Abyss, which he describes as a concept
album. I focused more this time on
the songs as individual pieces, rather
than working them into a larger
narrative.
e process was much less stressful
this time around: Every time I listen
to [Notes], Im like, God I wish I would
have done this dierent, I wish I would
have included this song instead of this
one, this would have made the story
so much clearer... Here, he was able
to let the songs evolve, yielding an
album of songs, rather than songs for
an album. Barrett has been working
on Human Understanding since the end
of his second year: I feel Ive given it a
lot of time to boil and a lot of time to
build, he recalls. Even now, less than
a week away from the CD release,
Barrett is leaving room for additional
Neil Bonner
Argosy Staff
Its no joke
touchups and instrumentation.
Indeed, whereas Notes was a more
acoustic aair, Human Understanding
presents an expanded sonic landscape.
I always had in the back of my mind
that I wasnt going to be playing all the
instruments,Barrett recalls, so it kind
of forced me to leave a lot more space
in what I recorded so it could be lled
in by other people. Players on the
record include Sara-Beth Harrison on
keys, Evan Clark on bass and Shawn
Bostick on drums.
e use of percussion in particular
had a major impact on Barretts music:
It was the rst time Id ever had drums
recorded on any song that Id done. I
was kind of apprehensive about how
it was going to go one of those fear
of change type things. ough the
songs were dierent than what Barrett
expected, he felt a lot stronger about
them with the drums than without.
e full band will also be transferred
to the live setting, with one set being
performed on acoustic guitar, and one
set accompanied by the band.
Lyrically, Barrett uses Human
Understanding to explore major issues
facing our generation. I have been
heavily inuenced by writers, poets and
playwrights who have worked to create
an accurate portrait of their particular
culture within a social time and and
space, he says. I believe that my
generation is going through something
very terrifying and signicant right
now. Weve been pushed from the nest,
but we dont know how to soar just
yet. Weve never had to know before
now. Im interested in documenting
the arching free-fall of our rst ight.
I want to know where we go from
there.
Barrett focused on three songs in
particular. Untitled, which he says is
about me and my friends and all the
stupid things we used to do, and how
we had no sense of responsibility. Its
a song that recognizes all the changes
that are going on, and that were going
on back then, but [that] we just didnt
care about. Valkyries, the last song
written during these sessions, is a
Maritime-type folk song that pays
tribute to the unsung heroes of
mining and shing communities. I
wanted to take that Springsteenesque
focus and really hone in on the
workingman/workingwoman character
and the troubles of their life, explains
Barrett, who adds that he wanted
to play with the Norse myth of the
Valkyrie, coming to take the hero away
after death. Next Year is a poignant
song about looking at your life from
year to year, and the anxiety that can
be there in not knowing where youre
going to be next year. Barrett calls the
feeling at once exciting and terrifying.
I wrote it from the terrifying sense,
he tells me, I think thats a familiar
feeling for a lot of university students
looking at the market economy right
now.
Even though Human Understanding
has yet to be released, Barrett has
already begun writing and recording
a followup. Im actually interested
in going in the opposite direction [of
Human Understanding], back to where
I was in high school a more stripped-
down direction.
Barrett reveals that his next record
Last weeks lm society movie, Wendy
and Lucy is easy to sum up, but
impossible to convey without seeing.
In a single sentence, the lm is the
story of a girl who loses her dog. Its
also a political commentary on the way
we treat the poor in our society, but its
subtle about this. e main character
Wendy doesnt have much back story
and there is a lot that is left to the
imagination about her life. What we
do know is that she is traveling to
Alaska to look for work, she doesnt
have much money and the truest most
important thing in her life is her dog
Lucy.
Problems arise when Lucy goes
missing. e loss of Wendys dog
happens quite simply she is caught
shoplifting dog food after her car (the
other thing of value she has in life)
breaks down and is stuck in a small
town. e boy who catches her wears a
big silver cross and feels it his duty to
make an example of her. He is clearly
privileged and has no sympathy for or
understanding of Wendy. Little events
like this build up and domino until
you get almost a subliminal sense of
what its like to be underprivileged
and thus undervalued in America.
Becky Martin
ats whats nice about the movie.
Without a great deal of dialogue or
heavy-handed symbolism it manages
to convey a great deal of information.
In its subtle way it also gets audiences
quite emotionally involved.
Michelle Williams performance is
a big factor in this aspect of the lm.
ere isnt a lot of dialogue so a lot rests
on her ability to convey the character,
and she does an amazing job. ere is a
scene after she loses Lucy and is taking
a bus back from the pound, where
through the expression on her face you
can see almost everything that is going
on in her mind nothing needs to be
said.
Another nice aspect of the lm is
that it was made in a true independent
spirit. e crew consisted of about
eight people, including actors, and no
one was paid while it was being made
everyone took a cut of the earnings.
I think that this kind of personal and
tight-knit energy is conveyed in the
lm; there was nothing extraneous in
the production and nothing extraneous
in the lm itself, but its impact is
strong nonetheless. e movie almost
feels like something you can hold in
your pocket, something travel-sized
that someone like Wendy could keep
with her. Its like a keepsake its not
big and its not loud but its a movie
that resonates quite deeply and I think
its a treasure because of this.
Kellen Barrett holds the ocial release of his album Human Understanding April 1 at the Pub
will be heavily inuenced by folk music
from the sixties and seventies real
music about real situations in real lives.
[Im] more interested in character
studies of people from my generation
and generations coming up doing
it in a way that focuses on telling the
story and not making some grandiose
song about it. For the time being,
Barrett is looking forward to letting
the public hear Human Understanding.
After months of preparation, Barretts
goal is simple: I just hope they like
it.
ats not my dog
Wendy and Lucy simple and elegant
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9 MARCH 26, 2009 THE ARGOSY ENTERTAINMENT
Recommended Viewing:
Slumdog Millionaire:
Is that your nal convenient
ashback?
Rachel Getting Married:
Dysfunctional functioning and a
long wedding.
Jacobs Ladder:
All good horror writers are
schizophrenic.
City of God:
Countless people getting shot, yet
good.
Children of Men:
Grim future in very long takes.
e Machinist:
Hes Batman but skinny and
crazy.
Pans Labyrinth:
Great family movie for
misbehaving kids.
Lars and e Real Girl:
No really. ats what its about.
Paris Je TAime:
No French or attention span
required.
Being John Malkovich:
Wait. Hold on. What just
Dylan Cunningham
Blitz-reviews
happened?
Films to Avoid:
Watchmen:
Havent read it? Get out now.
e Bucket List:
Having money makes dying much
happier.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of
the Crystal Skull:
Quick! Everybody get into the
fridge!
Hancock:
No, sorry. Youre still not likable.
e Chronicles of Narnia: Prince
Caspian:
So, all Christians worship cats,
then?
Run Fatboy Run:
Not everything Pegg does is
funny.
Star Wars: e Clone Wars:
e dead horse strikes back.
Animated.
e Happening:
Didnt see that coming. Didnt
care.
Mamma Mia!:
Sorry, Im not that open-
minded.
Twilight:
Havent seen it but opposed
anyway.
Movie reviews in six words
Positions available
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Editor
- Entertainment Writer
A spike in absenteeism Monday
morning as well as the hordes of
disheveled, tired and otherwise
hungover students roaming about
with vacant expressions and faded Xs
on their hands can be easily explained:
I was at a rock & roll show last night
bra. And what a rock show it was. In
one of the most anticipated (and well
attended) shows of 2009, the Rolling
Tundra Revue united two big Canadian
bands, Torontos Constantines and
Winnipegs e Weakerthans, on their
cross-country tour that slammed into
Sackville with arctic conditions.
A surprise addition to the billing,
Rebekah Higgs, set things o with
a style and sound much dierent
than that of the Constantines and
Weakerthans. A female singer-
songwriter playing incredibly adorable
songs did not exactly t in with the
two headliners but Higgs did an
excellent job warming up the anxious
crowd. Higgs, who is also involved
with Rebekah Jean and the Humble
Bees, was joined initially by a drummer
then by Constantines guitarist Steve
Lambke, near the end as she played
more complex songs. Looping pedals
and pre-recorded tracks were integral
to her performance which grew in
ambition and scope and closer to her
work with the Humble Bees. For her
fans, Higgs was selling handknitted
dollies at her merchandise table how
cute!
Rock-and-roll charisma oozed
from the Constantines as they
took the stage. By that I mean they
were smammered. e vocals were
frequently unintelligible, but they
blended in nicely with the rest of the
band. Constantines always seem right
at home at Georges Roadhouse their
hardworking bluecollar rock and roll
ts in with the unnished rawness of
Georges at least most of the time.
Since they are frequent visitors to
Sackville, I have had the opportunity
to see them perform on numerous
occasions. However, I found that this
performance was a little lackluster and
didnt have the usual vitality that have
made Constantine shows legendary,
or, at the very least, memorable. To be
honest, I nd most of the bands songs
sound quite similar. e energetic
live show makes the otherwise
William Gregory
Argosy Staff
I was not looking forward to
reviewing this one. e term review-
proof was created for projects like
Conduct Becoming. Since 2001, the
organization has released an album
every year to promote local musicians
and raise money for cancer research.
Its a project that requires passion and
dedication from dozens of people,
the goal of which is nothing less
than making the world a better place.
us it seems unfair for someone
such as myself, whose biggest recent
accomplishment is adding the Pick
Your Five app on Facebook, to judge
Neil Bonner
Argosy Staff
it.
Fortunately, the latest album is
pretty good. Its called Here is Me, and
you can pick up a copy this Friday at
the CD release show at the Pub. As
always, Conduct Becoming collects
a handful of new tracks performed
by artists from Mount Allison and
beyond. eres bound to be someone
you know here: Landon Braverman
oers Dear Amelia, a smoky
Broadway-style number; Bottom
by Sara Beth Harrison creates an
intriguing atmosphere with little more
than organ and keyboards; and Kellen
Barrett contributes an alternate take of
Valkyries, from his upcoming record.
e songwriting and recording are
strong across the board.
homogenous assortment of songs
snap. Also, the band did not interact
with the crowd very much, content to
muddle from song to song with an oft-
bored and disinterested air. e sound
quality was rather poor, so most songs
were lost in an unintentional fuzzy
haze. It made for good background,
but was not attention-grabbing. Near
the end of their set, the Constantines
showed a little life with an engaging
performance of Shine a Light one
of the bands better tracks.
Amidst an early spring blizzard,
e Weakerthans took over. e band
played a rolling 90-minute set that
saw them perform most of the bright
spots from their catalogue. e parity
between their recorded material and
their live performance was impeccable
and sometimes indistinguishable. e
crowd reacted warmly and instances
of sing-alongs were common with
Weakerthans favorites Plea from
a Cat Named Virtue, and Left
and Leaving. Despite playing until
2:00 am, the crowd didnt disperse
evidently, the amassed show-goers
appreciated the performance or really
didnt want to study for that 9:30 am
midterm. ere was very little banter or
association between the crowd and the
band, who wasted little time between
songs. e result was a slick and
professional show, good musicianship
and sound quality; they took their
performance seriously, or were at least
committed to putting on a great show.
However, the band showed some
playfulness during a four-song
encore. Lead singer John K Sampson
performed one of the bands most
cherished hits, One Great City
Weaker than Keanu Reeves as Constantine
Rolling Tundra Revue brings arctic conditions and rock & roll to Georges Roadhouse
Conduct Becoming
a heartfelt ballad about the ills of
Winnipeg. At the end of his solo
performance, Sampson was besieged
by calls to nish the songs closing
refrain I hate Winnipeg. Maybe
the band was tired at the end of their
set, since Sampson recruited a guitarist
from the crowd to play a sick guitar
solo (maybe so he could go pee?).
Perhaps the Constantines-
Weakerthans show did not match the
sheer epicness of Plants & Animals/
Wintersleeps January performance,
but does that really matter? e $20
ticket (absolutely astronomical by
Sackville standards) was not wasted
at this event. Many eardrums will be
ringing for some time after the mind/
ear-blowing extravaganza that the
Sackville stop of the Rolling Tundra
Revue provided - hells ya bra.
Review-proof record really good, but not eclectic
The Constantines hang around before the Weakerthans, March 22.
Jessica Emin
But theres a problem with Here is
Me, one that doesnt have anything
to do with the artists themselves.
e majority of the record consists
of melancholy, midtempo folk, played
on piano or acoustic guitar a steady
mix of torch song and porch song, if
you will. is isnt a bad thing as its
well done, but aside from brief forays
into ddle jigs (Kelsey Hastie), east
coast folk (Eric Gallant) and blues
rock (special guest Telfer, who won the
Rising Star Award at the Fredericton
Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival), there
just isnt much variety. Its puzzling
that with so many genres being
explored in and around Sackville only
sixteen songs were submitted twelve
made the nal cut many of which are
stylistically similar. e organizers can
only work with what they receive, after
all, so an eort needs to be made to
advertise the album to a wider array of
artists.
According to Conduct Becomings
website, e album was intended to
be a way of showcasing the quality
and diversity of the Mount Allison
student music scene.ough it isnt as
diverse as it could be, Here is Me aptly
demonstrates the talent at work at the
school, and is denitely worth checking
out. e album launches Friday March
27 at the Pub. Admission is $5 or $3
with the purchase of a CD.
Kelly Jo Phelps performing at Georges for The Blues Society.
Jessica Emin
owce encewconmenc
bwo
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01 PAT LEPOlDEvlN* Blue Tornadoes (lndependentj
02 SHOTGUN JlMMlE* Still Jimmie (You've Changedj
03 JULlE DOlRON* l Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day
(Endearingj
04 THE CONSTANTlNES* Kensington Heights (Arts & Craftsj
05 THE WEAKERTHANS* Reunion Tour (Anti-j
06 THE FlRST AlD KlT* Still Standing (lndependentj
07 NEKO CASE Mliddle Cyclone (Anti-j
08 KELLY JOE PHELPS Western Bell (Black Henj
09 K'NAAN* Troubador (A&Mj
10 WOODHANDS* Heart Attack (Paper Bagj
11 BRUCE PENlNSULA* A Mountain ls A Mouth (Bruce Trailj
12 ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS* Forest Of Tears (lndependentj
13 COREY lSENOR* Young Squire (lndependentj
14 JENN GRANT* Echoes (Six Shooterj
15 WET NOSE HERO* Congratulations Ha Ha Ha (Burnt Oakj
16 GARRETT MASON* Love & Sound (Soul ln Soundj
17 THE BlCYCLES* Oh No lt's Love (Fuzzy Logicj
18 ANNl ROSSl Rockwell (4ADj
19 CONSTRUCTlON AND DESTRUCTlON* The volume Wars
(lndependentj
20 LAURA BARRETT* victory Garden (Paper Bagj
21 ATTACK lN BLACK* Years (By One Thousand Fingertipsj
(Dine Alonej
22 TlMBER TlMBRE* Timber Timbre (Out Of This Sparkj
23 TMDP* TMDP (YYZj
24 WAvvES Wavves (Fat Possumj
25 lSLANDS* Arm's Way (Antij
26 MALAJUBE* Labyrinthes (Dare To Carej
27 DD/MM/YYYY* Black Square (We Are Busy Bodiesj
28 MEAGHAN BLANCHARD* Changing Things (Sand Barj
29 MORELAND & ARBUCKLE 1861 (Northern Bluesj
30 JlLL BARBER* Chances (Outsidej

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JULIE DOIRON - 0*HU>VUKLY>OH[@V\+PK>P[O@V\Y+H`
Julie Doiron's latest release begins with a simple, perky, acoustic guitar
melody. l'm living the life of dreams" Julie sings competently over top. At the
end the vocals pan right, as the guitar pans left; a cheeky bit of studio trickery.
lf 'Woke Myself Up' was a little angry and a lot sad, in a word heavy. 'l Can
Wonder What You Did With Your Day' is fun and relaxed and lighter if not
altogether happy. The album is propelled forward by the steady rhythms
within each of the songs. lf live Julie has a tendency to drag her songs out,
slowing them down till the guitar chords and distortion seem to hang around
forever. Giving them a directionless feel. ln the studio, this time, she has kept
things tight every song moving quickly towards its end. The occasional
distorted riff or sluggish chord progression forced to keep up with the driving
drum line. Offering us a new kind of dissonance, this is still after all Broken
Girl. A dissonance with a difference though, it is abrasive in a more cerebral
and playful way.
This playfulness comes to characterize the album. From that panning at the
end of 'The Life of Dreams', to the car crash in 'Consolation Prize' and the
almost laughter during the chorus of 'Glad to Be Alive' it is clear that Doiron is
having fun with these songs. Accompanied, this time out, by producer Rick
White (former Eric's Tripj and tour drummer Fred Squires (former Shotgun and
Jaybirdj. Doiron is clearly quite comfortable with her material, her collabora-
tors (even doing versions of two songs written by Fredj and the studio itself,
making for an enjoyable listening experience.
The songs themselves are almost childishly simple. Suggesting, it seems at
first, that happiness isn't as compelling for the creator or the audience as
darker emotions. The songs build though, with the aforementioned temporal
dissonance, series of studio pranks, and layered parts. All ways of asking us
to listen more closely to what is going on. Joy may be a child's game but
growing up still allows for a certain adult contented-ness, one that benefits
from having the insight that things are too messy to be all or always good. Yet
that doesn't mean their bad.
Julie has written an album to fall sadly asleep to (Goodnight Nobodyj, an
album for Sunday mornings (Loneliest in the Morningj, an album for Monday
mornings (Woke Myself Upj and now an album for the early afternoon. An
album that get things done, keeps a smile on its face and soldiers on even if
there are setbacks. The titular line from the song 'When Brakes Get Wet' sung
over refreshing rainy pitter patter claps, soft synth chords and a quite guitar
sums up the feel of l Can Wonder What You Do With Your Day; when brakes
get wet/ we'll hope for the best..."Let's.
Hear it now on CHMA 106.9FM
Recommended Tracks: 2,5,6,7,9
http://www.juliedoiron.com/
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SPORTS & FITNESS
Intramural sports teams had a great year,
with the number of registered teams
totalling 115, which was nine more
than last year. Players registered in
nine dierent activities, not including
the individual registrations for golf and
tennis. Ten co-ed softball teams and
17 co-ed soccer teams started the year
o, followed by 18 teams in total for
Below are the winners for the 2008 - 2009 year:
Spirit Night Award (Golden Sneaker): Edwards, Tennis Singles Champion: Art Miller , Tennis Doubles Champions: Art Miller and Dan Wortman
Golf Champions: Greg Stewart with 78, Cory Pothier with an 86, Co-ed Soccer:9/4 & Cup defeated Molson Canadians 3-2
Co-ed Softball: Campbell defeated ornton 7-4, Mens Volleyball: 2KBN defeated Cold Gold 3-0
Womens Volleyball: Harper defeated Golden Girls 3-2, Womens Basketball: Volleyball does Basketball defeated the Long Shots 18-17
Mens Basketball: e Champs defeated Campbell, Co-ed Curling: Team Jack defeated the Rolling Stones
Co-ed Volleyball: not completed at this time, Gold Hockey: Sackville Flash defeated Molson Canadians in a two-game series.
Garnet Hockey: HWS defeated Hunton/ornton in a two-game series.
Head Referees/Convenors: Dan Wortman, Jacklyn Bolivar, Majd Chami, Greg Stewart, Laurie Marchbank.
All photos submitted by Janet Robinson.
men and womens volleyball, 20 for men
and womens basketball, 15 for co-ed
curling, 11 for hockey and 18 teams for
co-ed volleyball.
I would like to take this opportunity
to thank all of the head referees, the
conveners and all sports ocials who
helped out and made the intramural
program a success. ese students give a
great deal of their time and energy and
are vital components to a successful
program.
Intramural Season wrap-up
Janet Robinson
Argosy Contributor
Positions available
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- Sports Writer
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www.argosy.ca
READ IT ONLINE.
EVERYONE ELSE IS.
I would also like to thank the
intramural representatives for each
unit who give of their time on a purely
voluntary basis. anks for keeping your
team informed and thanks for keeping
in touch with the intramural oce.
12 THE ARGOSY SPORTS & FITNESS MARCH 26, 2009
Football
Looking to build o of a playo
appearance in 2008, the Mounties
return several players but will have to
retool their defence in order to make a
run for the championship.
Oensively everything should be in
place; oensive tackle Josh Hamilton
and running back/receiver Colin
Weldon are the only anticipated
departures, while all indications are
that three-time All-Canadian Gary
Ross will be returning for his fourth
season.
Kelly Hughes will likely be back
behind centre for his senior season,
and will likely be protected by ve
returning oensive lineman, including
big Mike Filer, who had an impressive
freshman season in 2008. Jake Maxwell
and Karim Shawwa will return to back
him up.
At running back, the Mounties
touchdown leader Matt Pickett will
anchor a veteran group that includes
Scott Train Brady, Cam Mace, Nick
Big Bad Barra Cuda, and converted
quarterback Tim Archibald. e
reliable Brady will try and bounce back
from a season of which he missed one
half due to injury, and will be a strong
leader in the running back corps.
Ross and AUS All-Star Adam
Molnar will be the two main receivers
once again for Hughes to look to, but
Jarrett King and Jared Collett both
proved themselves in 2008, and it is
anticipated that one or both of them
will be representing the Mounties at
the 2010 East-West Bowl.
On the defensive side of the ball, the
Mounties lose three defensive linemen:
Dustin Timothy, Andrew Blencowe,
and two-time AUS All-Star Scott
Sheer. Newcomer Etienne Dupont
will try and ll the shoes in the middle
of the line, while Taylor Pritchard and
youngster Ryan Downe are expected
to step up their game in 2009.
e linebacking corps lose Sean
Riley and Mike Glover to graduation,
but Ben Mad Dog Halpern and
Akwasi Antwi will pick up the slack.
Something the Mounties are looking
for in recruitment is a big middle
linebacker to complement Devin
Taylor.
e secondary returns all ve
starters, including All-Canadian safety
Callan Exeter. Bradley All Day Daye
and Jermaine Oram will hold down
the corners, and Jeremy Snider and
Luke Ekoh will both look to improve
on impressive seasons at halfback. Not
to be counted out is team Rookie of
the Year Elliott Hicks, who lled in
admirably when Daye went down
with a knee injury halfway through
the season.
Olivier Eddie will return to handle
the punting and kicking duties, and
will look to repeat a surprising 2008
season when he led the AUS in
scoring. Ross will likely once again
be the main returner, and will try and
augment his career total of six return
touchdowns. King, who blocked four
punts in 2008, will look to repeat his
season of terrifying punters across the
AUS.
e Mounties have their head man
in place, with Kelly Jerey being hired
to a three-year contract in December.
Jerey led the Mounties to a 2-6
season, in his rst season as a head
coach in the CIS last season, and will
build o the momentum to make the
Mounties legitimate contenders for
the Jewett Cup.
Men and Womens Rugby
Having swept the ACAA
Championships this year, the bar has
been set for next years squads. e
mens team, which defeated Kings
in a thrilling double-overtime game,
is graduating only a handful of club
members. Players leaving the team
include club President Murdoch Taylor,
Will Russell, Nick Walsh, Jamie Buis
and Des Brail Lockhart. With such a
limited turnover and several up-and-
coming rookies ready to step into the
starting side, the team expects nothing
less than a third consecutive ACAA
Championship.
e womens side, who faced little
serious challenge from their opposition
this year, are losing a large contingent
of their senior players. Nearly the entire
back line, which has dominated the
league for the last four years, is leaving,
as well as a number of key forward
players. Notable graduates include
reigning ACAA MVP Jess Frenette,
and club President Jessica MacKenzie,
only two of the many players who will
be sorely missed. Despite the losses, the
womens team is condent that next
year will see a strong side capable of
once again taking the championship.
Swimming
e swimming Mounties will try and
bounce back from a disappointing
showing at the AUS Championships at
Men and Womens Soccer
On the mens side, the graduation of
ve key seniors will hurt the Mounties
on both sides of the ball. Jules Alie and
Ian Kelly will leave big shoes to ll on
oense while Adam Maxners presence
on defense will be sorely missed.
Mike Walker and Mark Whitmee
also leave holes for the Mounties to
ll. e Mounties are lucky to have
Curtis Michaelis, Trevey Davis, Iain
MacLeod, and Corey Yantha all
return for another season. Next year
will also be the time for many of the
new players to step up. Soccer fans will
have the opportunity to see more of
Stuart McAdam, Matt Wheaton, Alex
Zscheile, Matt Bischo, Tim Boschel
and Tyrone Williams, while many
other third-years will continue their
development as they move to senior
status.
On the womens side, the Mounties
Dalhousie in February. e Mounties
mustered fourth place in both the
Mens and Womens meets with 27 and
29 points respectively, while Dalhousie
dominated with 364 points on the
Mens side and 317 on the Womens.
Rookie Sackville native Missile
Mitch Peters was the most impressive
Mountie this season, setting a pair of
university records in the 50 y and
200 free. He also set personal bests in
those events as well as in the 100 and
50 free. Peters, the son of coach John
Peters, will spearhead the Mounties
team for the years to come, and should
become a force to be reckoned with in
the pool.
e Mounties lose Madeleine
Mackay to graduation, and will try and
challenge the powerhouse Dalhousie
team next season.
As March draws to a close, university teams across Canada are nishing up their seasons. Here in Sackville, the Mounties have had varied success during the fall and winter seasons. Four teams, men and womens rugby, badminton, and volleyball, will have new banners
to hang in the gym in the fall. Overall, twenty-one Mounties were awarded conference honours for their individual eorts both on and o the eld. However, as one year closes, another one is just beginning. Teams are already gearing up in preparation for the 2009-
2010 season with many teams already deep into their intensive o-season training programs. While it is still quite early to be making any predictions about next season, the Argosy Sports Writers, Wray Perkin, Will Russell, and Noah Kowalski, have interviewed
players and coaches and compiled an early outlook for the 2009-2010 season. What will next year have in store for the Mounties? Will the womens soccer team be able to overcome their slump and break out against a tough AUS competition? Will the football team
return to dominance? Will the volleyball and badminton teams be able to repeat as champions against their tough ACAA opponents? Only time will tell.
2009-2010 Sports Preview
13 THE ARGOSY SPORTS & FITNESS MARCH 26, 2009
Men and Womens Basketball
e Mounties lose ve key players to
graduation, but have ve freshmen
returning from 2008 who will no doubt
pick up the slack in a hurry. Catherine
Cox, Jenna Tracey, Natalie Owens,
Shannon Parlee and Sackville native
Sarah Sutherland all graduate, but
ACAA 2008-09 Rookie of the Year
Marlon Smith, another local product,
from Amherst, proved her worth this
past season and will step into the
tough grinder role left by Parlee.
Sophomore Allie Mayberry showed
ashes of brilliance this season, while
a trio of Sackville products will surely
be in the limelight next season. Laura
Chapman, who played high-school
ball in Moncton, Jenny Robinson, and
Danielle Trenholm will all have more
prominent roles next season, while the
Badminton
After raising their 2009 championship
banner to the rafters, the Badminton
Mounties will look to repeat as ACAA
champs. ey lose only two seniors to
graduation, leaving the core of the
team intact. Captain Brent Barkhouse,
ACAA Player of the Year returns along
with brother Justin Barkhouse, ACAA
Rookie of the Year and senior Braden
Freeman. e Murray sisters, Carrie
and Heather, who took fth place in
the national tournament in doubles
Volleyball
e reigning 2009 ACAA champions
will hopefully return the majority of
the squad that advanced to the CCAA
Championships this spring, losing only
three seniors to graduation. Laurel
Carlton will be sorely missed by the
Mounties frontcourt. Expect rookie
Vanessa Gray and ACAA Rookie of
the Year Caila Henderson to step up
and provide stability for the Mounties.
e loss of Sarah MacDonald and
Lori Joyce will be felt as well. e
return of Sarah MacQuaid and Laurie
Marchbank will give the Mounties a
solid presence in the middle. As always,
the Mounties will look to incoming
students to help add the additional
pieces necessary to ensure a return to
the top of the ACAA.
Womens Hockey
After narrowly missing the playos,
the Mounties will look once again to
their goaltending to lead them to a
playo spot next season.
Rookie Meghan Corley-Byrne
set a team record with a .916 save
percentage, and was in net for all four
of Mount Allisons wins in 2008-09.
Alison Heard was also very impressive
in net for the Mounties, giving them a
vaunted one-two punch in net.
e Mounties are in need of an
established scoring forward, as their
leading scorer had 11 points in 22
games, and are going to have to do a
better job staying out of the penalty
box, as they took 343 minutes in
penalties as opposed to 251 by their
opponents.
e Mounties lose Laura Lighthall
and captain Heather Morgan to
graduation, as well as Head Coach Jack
Drover to retirement. Although there
has been no ocial announcement
yet, it is expected that current assistant
Zach Ball will take over the reins next
season.
two big presences down low, Kristen
Atkins and Rebecca Himmelman, will
likely return for their fourth years of
eligibility.
Rookies Megan Plummer and
Christiane Jost saw limited playing
time in 2008-09 but when on the court
impressed many people, including
coaches Al and Doug Hart.
Recruitment will be a big issue on
the agenda for the Harts, as they try
and replace their quintet of graduating
players, who will surely be missed. e
Mounties will probably not be hosting
the 2009-10 ACAA championships,
so they will have to work extra hard
next year to win a championship.
After a disappointing and surprising
loss to UNBSJ in the quarter-nals this
season, the Mens Mounties will look
to bounce back and attempt to knock
o the four-time defending champion
Mount Saint Vincent Mystics.
e Mounties lose Dennis Hopper,
Je Sadler, Matt Sarty, Kent Matheson,
and Ryan Lebans to graduation, but
ACAA Second-Team All-Star Josh
Graham has great potential to lead the
way for the Mounties. Adding variety
in a roster that is largely dominated by
New Brunswickers, Akil Smith from
Bermuda will look to build on his
impressive play down the stretch.
Sackville native Stephen Bohan will
be the main big man down low, and
the 6-foot-6 sophomore will be joined
by fellow Tantramar native Kylan
Estabrooks to be counted on for lots
of oence in 2009-10. Robbie Lebans
and Ryan Clarke will look to get more
playing time, while Kevin Monaghan
saw an increase in minutes this past
season.
Coach Bruce McMillan will have
his hands full recruiting-wise, as he
must try and nd the perfect formula
in order to beat the Mystics and have
any chance of going to nationals in
2010.
only lose senior captain Rebecca
Sutherland to graduation. e team
will build upon their win total from
last year, relying upon a nucleus of
upper-year players. Defenders Allie
MacLean, Nikki McMilan, and Alison
Sutherland will return, as well as
former AUS Rookie of the Year Elissa
McCarron who returns in goal for the
Mounties. On the other side of the ball,
captain Lauren Ledwell returns along
with Hilary Hamilton and Kailey
Bower. Several other players will also
return giving Coach Sherri Gallant
many veteran options on oense. With
the large number of returning players,
the Mounties will look to use the
experience gained in the 2008 season
as a strength for 2009. As always, both
the men and womens teams will look
towards new recruits with excitement
with several interesting prospects
already committed.
this year, return to defend their title.
In addition, several rookies showed
promise throughout the season and
will be essential to maintaining
the Mounties dominance in the
conference.
As March draws to a close, university teams across Canada are nishing up their seasons. Here in Sackville, the Mounties have had varied success during the fall and winter seasons. Four teams, men and womens rugby, badminton, and volleyball, will have new banners
to hang in the gym in the fall. Overall, twenty-one Mounties were awarded conference honours for their individual eorts both on and o the eld. However, as one year closes, another one is just beginning. Teams are already gearing up in preparation for the 2009-
2010 season with many teams already deep into their intensive o-season training programs. While it is still quite early to be making any predictions about next season, the Argosy Sports Writers, Wray Perkin, Will Russell, and Noah Kowalski, have interviewed
players and coaches and compiled an early outlook for the 2009-2010 season. What will next year have in store for the Mounties? Will the womens soccer team be able to overcome their slump and break out against a tough AUS competition? Will the football team
return to dominance? Will the volleyball and badminton teams be able to repeat as champions against their tough ACAA opponents? Only time will tell.
All photos are by Sue Seaborn
Wray Perkin, Will Russell, and Noah
Kowalski all contributed to this
report.
2009-2010 Sports Preview
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Thanks to everyone who signed my petition! We got almost 1100
names. I should also apologize to the people who were asked three
or more times to signcampaigns like this tend to get annoying.
However, as a result of our continued obnoxious campaigning in the
past year, we won a cap on student debt in the budget last week,
along with millions for outreach programs to underrepresented
groups, and harmonization with the federal repayment assistance
program for low-income graduates.
Elections: An Important Breakdown
of Positions
Life Class Positions, Grad Class 2011, and Valedictorian
Life Class Ofcers have
a responsibility to their
fellow alumni, as well
as to the University to
communicate and take an
active role and leadership
position.
Life Class President Lizzie
Dodds, Class of 2004
Each graduating class is
responsible for choosing
a slate of life ofcers.
The president provides
overall leadership for
class initiatives. The
Vice-President supports
and stands in for the
President. The Secretary
takes initiative around
correspondence to the
class. The Treasurer
is responsible for any
nances of the class,
usually at reunions.
Janitors are responsible for
initiatives that keep class
addressed up to date.
As a life class ofcer
the responsibilities will
include: class contact, class
reunions, and university
connections. To elaborate
on each of these things
a little more, the class
contact includes a number
of elements. They must
be a contact for the class,
keeping in touch with
Mount Allison and their
classmates. The Alumni
Ofce helps them send
out letters and e-mails
to their classmates. The
Alumni Ofce maintains
a class web page- it is
up to the class ofcer to
keep new information
and photos coming in.
They need to pass on
address changes and life
updates to the Alumni
ofce. They encourage
their classmates to do the
same. Alumni updates are
published in the alumni
magazine, The Record,
and on the alumni web
site, Alumni Online. They
must also be active at local
alumni gatherings.
As a life class ofcer, the
second responsibility lies
in class reunions. With
the help on the Alumni
Ofce and staff, they
must provide leadership
in organizing their class
reunion every ve years.
They must rally classmates
and plan events.
The third responsibility
that the life class ofcers
are responsible for are
university connections.
They must organize and
encourage others to help
and work with the Alumni
Ofce to complete a
fund raising project that
leaves a permanent mark
of their class on campus.
They must promote
Mount Allison within
their community. Where
possible, they must help
with the help with the
recruiting of new students
and encourage future
generations to attend
Mount Allison.
When I was chosen Life
Class President of the
Class of 75 says Barbie
Smith, I felt honored. I
did not truly understand
the work that went with
the title, but it has been
more than worth every
hour of my time. Being an
organizing force for the
reunions have allowed
me to touch my past and
those who were part of it.
They allowed me to meet
and develop friendships
with those who were only
acquaintances in 1975.
This renewal of personal
Abigail McGillivary
Mount Allison SAC
Vice President of
Communications
Life Class
2IFHUV
Grad Class
2011
The positions that are
entailed within the
2011 executive are
the President, the Vice
President, the Secretary,
and the Treasurer. Their
responsibilities include
to plan their Junior
Prom in third year,
usually held sometime
in October; to fundraise
over their four years to
pay their Convocation
(graduation) weekend, ie.
Pub dances, class crawls,
sell Orientation mugs to
frosh in third year, etc.;
to plan Grad Banquet,
Grad Trip, Convocations
Weekend, etc. Details
of what Convocations
weekend includes can be
obtained from other Class
executives and SAC stuff.
Their jobs are not outlined
individually, rather they
work together as a team
on events.
Valedicto-
rian
The Valedictorian position
is included as part of
the Life Class Election
(President, Vice-President,
Secretary, Treasurer,
Janitor), as only students
of the graduating class will
vote for these positions.
The successful candidate
will give the Valedictory
Address at both
morning and afternoon
Convocations ceremonies.
After the election, the
Valedictorian should
contact the University
Presidents Ofce for
further details regarding
their role in the ceremony
in May.
Students Triumph over Dept
Mark Brister
Mount Allison SAC
Vice President of External Affairs
FEATURES
Sasha Van Katwyk
Argosy Staff
e playgrounds of our childhood were
often battle-elds, and the wars were
frequently boys against girls. Mostly,
it would end with the girls beating
the boys after wed taunted them
endlessly about our sure-re victory.
We sprouting men would wander
o with our heads low, retreating
to our war rooms where we played
video games, something we knew we
were better at because the girls were
thought to hold less interest in them.
While the idea of boys being
pitched against girls isnt so ubiquitous
now, university is not that dierent
from the playground. Its not a rare
occurrence at Mount Allison that
a male student walks into a class
room and realizes hes one of very
few to possess a Y chromosome.
Even with the dramatic tilting of
the schools gender ratio towards
girls, there are also departments
in which girls are a rarer sight.
According to the CAUT 20 Almanac
of Post-Secondary Education, not
only are Canadian women entering
university in greater numbers than
men, but in most departments they
hold a signicant majority of the
graduate degrees. Not so dissimilar
from the playground scenario, men
seem to only hold a substantial and
all-encompassing demographic lead
in the physical math and application
sciences and computer science.
To break it down to what may also
be seen at Mt. A, CAUT nds that
in the areas of Fine Arts, Social and
Behavioural Science, and Educational
Humanities, women are decisively
higher in enrollment. In the areas
of Math, Physics, and Computer
Science, men hold an even larger
know if theres more to it than that
women are less interested physics!
Indeed, to some extent, the gender
disparities dont seem to always run
down lines of behaviour dierences;
the humanities show a mixed set of
demographics, such as English being
thought largely a girls department,
while Philosophy is nearly all boys.
e two programs are relatively
similar, with their scholarly writers
even sharing shelves in book stores.
is also raises questions as to why
certain departments are more even in
their distribution. While Geography,
Anthropology, and Economics are
all perceived to have large gender
gaps at Mt. A, the International
Relations program that draws heavily
on all three show a relatively even
distribution. Perhaps this is due to
the interdisciplinary nature of the
program, but Commerce was also
thought to be rather evenly distributed.
e larger reality now is that
professional departments of study
and even the educational system
itself has been male dominated for
centuries, and now are we seeing
women not only reach an equilibrium
in enrollment, but far surpass men.
While the playground analogy is a
humorous perspective for the child
in all of us, the idea that some skill
sets required by some disciplines are
found in one gender over the other
is becoming increasingly debunked.
Whether the gender disparities exist
here at Mt. A because of dierences
of personal interest, or that interest
being aected by the perceived
notions of there being gendered
departments, theres not much that
can be done by students outside
following the studies they enjoy. So
for the female physicist and the male
anthropologist, keep doing what
youre doing, youre a rare perspective!
Women are from Crabtree,
Men are from Dunn
Is this a 1950s all-girl school, or modern university psychology classroom?
majority in the gender disparity gap.
Human sciences such as
Biochemistry, certain areas of
behavioural sciences such as
International Relations, and Commerce
each have a relatively even distribution
on the national level, though the
story isnt always the same at Mt. A.
Mt. A students, in a straw poll,
identied Physics, Computer
Sciences, Economics, and Philosophy
as predominantly male departments,
while Anthropology, Biochemistry,
Sociology, Fine Arts, and Psychology
are female. e divides say, according
to the generally polled students, that
male interests seem to fall towards
departments displaced from immediate
human relations, while female
departments are quite the opposite.
We have social norms and
constructions about what subjects
girls should study and what are
boy subjects, remarked Dr.
Judith Doyle in an interview,
and these can change.
She pointed out that it can be hard to
present an environment of equality in
gender demographics for departments
when you have to work with the
male-female distribution of PhD
receivers when choosing professors.
Some have argued, she continues,
that some elds, like engineering,
have cultures which encourage
stereotypical masculine behaviour
and assume male superiority and
thereby create chilly climates for
those womenand menwho do
not behave in the expected way.
From the students perspective,
however, the main behaviour choice
that is in play is ones choice of
major, not necessarily the attitude
you take once in that department.
Were just interested in dierent
things, I guess, says Physics
student, Steven Gallant. I dont
shorpy.com
A look at Mt. As gendered disciplines
Jessica Emin
Argosy Staff
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Preparation time: ve minutes
Since this recipe involves very little
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Ingredients:
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- half a red pepper, cut into long
thin pieces
- smoked salmon, enough to cover
two bagel halves
- half an avocado, cut into thin
pieces
- plain cream cheese
- a handful of green onion or chives
- a tablespoon of capers
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is recipe is very simple. Toast
your bagel and cover both pieces with
cream cheese.
Place the smoked salmon, red
pepper, and avocado on the bagel.
Sprinkle a desired amount of green
onion and capers on the sandwich.
is sandwich is served open faced
and could be complimented with a
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wedges.
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16 THE ARGOSY FEATURES MARCH 26, 2009
Emily Bird

e 2009 Spring collections burst onto
runways in orals, rues, neons, cool
colours, and utilitarian accents. It is one
step to be aware of the trends, but it is
another to successfully and proportionally
put together spring ensembles.
Giving each trend equal emphasis
will have the valuable pieces competing
with one another, rather than featuring
a single item in the spotlight. Embrace
a single fancied piece and build around
it with more simple subdued pieces that
wont take away any focus.
e element of the spring does not
have to be an item of clothing, it can
very well be one of this seasons exquisite
slouchy hobo-inspired bags crafted with
elegant details, funky hardware, and
sturdy leather. If the big slouchy look
does not appeal to you, concern yourself
not. Designers including Marc Jacobs
and Tory Burch presented tantalizing
wonders for one to showcase against
simple ensembles. eir dainty textured
handbags and charming clutches will
transform any basic outt from previous
seasons into an exciting new look. e
collage of fabrics including suede, matte,
and textured leather, and chain handles
evoke a luxurious appeal in deep plum
and eggplant, chartreuse green, golden
yellow, saron, and magenta.
Bags are not the only accessories: this
springs collections of heels evoke just
as much power to claim the spotlight
of a simple outt. Designers have
indulged their heels this spring with
an international envisage, a medley of
global patterns, colours, textures and
shapes. Jean Paul Gaultier for Hermes
maintained the lines conservative
image with his cowboy inspired line, but
brought an avant-garde trait with a sole
that doesnt quite cover the entire base
of the shoe.
Betsy Johnsons platform heels were
decked in gold ankle straps and chains.
To elongate your legs, the ankle strap
should sit above the ankle bone. Multiple
collections, including Sergio Rossi,
Coach, Chanel, and Roberto Cavalli,
bedecked their foot accessories with cut-
out pieces dazzling in wool and sequin
detailing, crocheted appliques, textured
and braided leather, and embroidery.
ere are a few features that one should
pay fair attention to while investing in a
new set of luxuries for ones feet. e t
of a shoe is impertinent. Do not endure
pain from wearing the wrong size shoe;
the purchase of a shoe is a purchase of
creativity and pleasure. If two ngers
cannot be wedged between your sole and
shoe, put the shoes away. Not only is it
uncomfortable to force a pair of shoes to
t, but it is also noticeably unattractive.
Again, in order to elongate the legs,
ankle straps should sit above the ankle
bone. Lastly, avoid shoe shopping
with swollen feet, an occurrence in hot
weather and right after exercise; the
dierence may not be noticeable to the
eye, but the t of the shoe will dier
tremendously.
From blouses, tunics, skirts, dresses, to
bangles and totes, designers have swept
up mother natures gifts and garnished
all apparel in small bud prints. e small
size of these prints are not overwhelming
as are large oral prints. e diused
colours reect shades of spring in a
subtle sweet fashion. is fresh look can
accommodate any style: a girlie owy
skirt, a sophisticated feminine blouse, or
a relaxed collared shirt.
Another trend that occupied
numerous designers is rues.
Comparable to the small bud prints,
rues have been furnished onto skirts,
dresses, tanks and vests. For the most
part, rues were paired with soft neutral
creams, beiges, greys, but girlier looks
were approached with pale pinks and
soft aquas. Menswear pieces, such as
vests, were cleverly enhanced into the
rue trend with simple pleat-like rues
such as those on a wool-ramie vest by
Philip Lim.
Colour appears to be the greater
fashion statement; it is dicult for one
not to be aware of the onrush on neon.
ese ashing brights in chic shapes
no doubt demand notice. However,
the trend is simple, to achieve without
seeming ridiculous.
One only needs a single neon piece to
incorporate into a simple muted outt;
take the simple t-shirt and jean look by
carrying a large neon bag. If you are a
bit hesitant to deck yourself out in neon,
opt for small pieces to accessorize an
outt, such as a contemporary geometric
necklace, chunky bangles, a lady-like
Spring fashion trends for 2009
A pair of shoes from the Roberto Cavalli Spring 2009 collection.
clutch or a pair of heels that will make
that plain outt pop.
Conversing with the bright trend
are cool colours of lagoon blues and
sophisticated beiges. Blues, throughout
the history of fashion, seem to be
timeless.e soothing shades of summer
beaches are everywhere this season in
athletic wear, ready-to-wear, and couture.
e shades and fabrics vary, again to
suit the style of all, from an Armani
Exchange dark blue silk tunic, to a pale
sea-green cotton button-down top from
American Eagle Outtters, and leather
sky-blue heels from Nine West. With
the variance of these summer blues,
everyone will nd a hues that will atter
their skin tone.
As for the beiges, they are anything
but dull this season. Designers released
a variety of glamourous pieces adorned
in delicate appliques, soft pleated silks,
attering modern necklines and fashion
forward heels. Simplicity is a quiet
perfection with which one can play
around by pairing it with other trends
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Stabbed, strangled, and trampled
On March 23, 1801 Tsar Paul I of
Russia was stabbed, strangled, and
trampled to death in his bedroom in the
palace of St. Michaels Castle. However,
the tsars death, and even his birth, is still
subject of controversy: the identity of his
biological father is unclear, as is his sons
involvement in his murder.
Tsar Paul I was born in 1796 to the
Empress Elisabeths heir,her nephew,the
Grand Duke Peter (later Peter III), and
his wife, the Grand Duchess Catherine
(later Catherine II, or Catherine the
Great); however, in her memoirs,
Catherine implies that one of her many
lovers, Sergei Saltykov, had actually
fathered Paul. Despite his questionable
paternity, Paul was neglected as a child
and adult, having a bad relationship with
his mother, especially after the murder
of his father, Peter III, as Paul held his
mother responsible for the action.
Catherines relationship with the
Romanov family was shaky at best
(she was not directly related to them).
She felt the need to keep her son out
of her way, thinking he was too much
of an idiot to learn to become a tsar, so
she had him married o in 1773 to a
Prussian princess, Wilhelmina Louise
of Hesse-Darmstadt. eir marriage
was at rst a happy one, but later turned
sour when the princess became involved
with a friend of Pauls and when her
interest in power and politics, like her
mother in-law (although, she wasnt as
skilled as Catherine) became evident.
Unfortunately for her, she died in
childbirth three years later, and Paul, who
had began to dislike his wife, became a
(childless) widower at the age of 21.
Just months after Wilhelmina died,
Paul married a German princess, Sophia
Dorothea of Wurttemberg, with whom
he had ten children over the next 22
years (two of which being future tsars,
Alexander I and Nikolai I,and two future
queens, Charlotte of Wurttemberg and
Anna of the Netherlands, from whom
the present Dutch royal family is
descended). Although he was never truly
faithful to his second wife, he doted on
his children and involved them in his
daily routines, perhaps making sure
they didnt have to put up with the same
emptiness hed felt as a child.
After Catherine the Great died from
a stroke in early November of 1796, Paul
became Tsar, despite Catherines wishes
to have her favourite grandson succeed
her. He intended, as tsar, to undo all
the things his mother had done. Under
Catherine, many ordinary Russians
became enslaved through serfdom. Paul
was the rst tsar to ever limit the amount
of work required of them. He also
instituted free medical care and updated
agricultural technology.
To the lower classes, Paul was a model
landlord and tried to end their suering
and improve their lives; however, to the
nobility, he was a pain. He awarded titles
at random and attempted to reduce the
privileges Catherine had bestowed upon
them, and blinded by his hatred of his
mother, Paul struck out in anger at her
supporters, the aristocrats; so naturally,
they began to plot against him.
A weekly compilation by Sarah Robinson
This week in history
Plots to remove the tsar brewed for
a year before anyone actually acted, and
one of the chief conspirators had been
the head of State Police, Count Pahlen,
and Count Platon Zubov, who had
been the last of Catherines many lovers.
e extent of Pauls son Alexanders
involvement in the plot cant actually be
determined because the Count Pahlen
destroyed many papers and documents
concerning the plot.
On the night of Mar. 23, Pahlen,
Zubov (and his brother Nikolai), and
a Count Bennigsen entered the palace
after having a drink together, and
found Paul hiding in a corner of his
bedroom, from which they pulled him
out and tried to force him to sign for his
abdication. When the tsar showed some
resistance, the men ran him through
with a sword, and in a drunken frenzy
began to strangle him, and eventually
trampled him to death.
Also this week in history:
Mar. 22, 1784: e Emerald Buddha
is moved from onburi (ailand)
to its current place in Wat Phra Kaew
(ailand).
Mar. 22, 1829: Britain, France, and
Russia establish the borders of Greece.
Mar. 22, 1849: e Austrians defeat the
Piedmontese in the Battle of Novara.
Mar. 22, 1894: First playo game for the
Stanley Cup.
Mar. 22, 1916: e last Emperor of
China, Yuan Shikai, abdicates and the
Republic of China is restored.
Mar. 22, 1931: Birth of actor William
Shatner.
Mar. 22, 1960: Arthur Leonard
Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes
receive the rst patent for a laser.
Mar. 22, 1984: Teachers at McMartin
preschool (Manhattan Beach,
California), are charged with satanic
ritual abuse of children at the school
(charges were later dropped due to a lack
of evidence).
Mar. 22, 2001: Death of animator
William Hanna, of the Hanna-Barbera
fame.
Mar. 23, 1775: American patriot Patrick
Henry delivers his famous give me
liberty or give me death speech in
Richmond, Virginia.
Mar. 23, 1857: Elisha Otiss elevator is
rst is installed at 488 Broadway, New
York City.
Mar. 23, 1903: e Wright Brothers
apply for the patent of one of their rst
successful airplanes.
Mar. 23, 1919: Benito Mussolini founds
his Fascist political movement in Milan.
Mar. 23, 1956: Pakistan becomes the
rst Islamic republic.
Mar. 23, 1994: Aeroot Flight 593
crashes in Siberia after the pilots son
accidentally disengages the auto-pilot,
killing 75 people.
Mar. 24, 1603: James VI of Scotland
becomes James I of England as well,
following the death of Elizabeth I,
ending the Tudor line.
Mar. 24, 1911: Birth of animator Joseph
Barbera, of the Hanna-Barbera fame.
Mar. 24, 1923: Greece becomes a
republic.
Mar. 24, 1958: Elvis Presley ocially
inducted into the army.
Mar. 25, 1655: Saturns largest moon,
Titan, is discovered by Christian
Huygens.
Mar. 25, 1805: e Slave Trade Act
becomes law, abolishing slave trade in
the British Empire.
Mar. 25, 1958: e Avro Arrow makes
its rst ight.
Mar. 25, 1969: During their honeymoon,
John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their
rst Bed-In for Peace at a Hilton hotel
in Amsterdam.
Mar. 25, 1996: A ban is placed on the
export of British beef by the European
Unions Veterinarian Committee as a
result of mad cow disease.
Mar. 26, 1931: Birth of Leonard Nimoy,
better known for his role as Spock on
the original Star Trek.
Mar. 26, 1934: e driving test is
introduced in the UK.
Mar. 26, 1976: Queen Elizabeth II sends
the rst royal email.
Mar. 27, 1613: e rst English child
in Canada is born at Cupers Cove,
Newfoundland.
Mar. 27, 1625: Charles I becomes King
of England,Scotland,and Ireland,as well
as grabbing the title of King of France,
upon the death of his father James I of
England.
Mar. 27, 1854: England declares war on
Russia during the Crimean War.
Mar. 28, 193: Roman Emperor Pertinax
is assassinated by Praetorian Guards,
who
later sell the throne in an auction to
Didius Julianus.
Mar. 28, 845: Paris is sacked by Vikings,
probably under the command of Ragnor
Lodbrok (a legendary Norse hero), who
receives a large ransom in return for
leaving.
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Jenna Hoff
Intercamp (Grant MacEwan College)
EDMONTON (CUP) She stands on
the corner, shivering as the late winter
chill seeps through her worn jacket. In her
rail-thin frame and too-short skirt, the
harsh reality of her life is illuminated for
all to see.
Most people ignore her as they whip
past her in their cars, as if she carries an
infectious disease. A few honk at her, their
blaring horns an insult to her humanity.
A group of teenagers roll down their
windows and shout obscenities at her,
before one of them throws an empty glass
bottle that narrowly misses her head.
She squares her shoulders, knowing
that while everyone sees her for who they
think she is, no one sees the person that
she really is, or fathoms the path that has
forced her into this life of degradation.
Eventually, one car stops in front of
her. She forces a smile; her nights work
has begun. She doesnt know where her
journey will lead her she just hopes that
she will survive until the morning.
While this story is ctitious, it could
be the story of any one of the multitude
of exploited teenage girls and women
involved in Edmontons sex trade women
who because of issues such as poverty,
violence, and abuse are often forced into
this lifestyle.
eres not one woman Ive ever heard
say: I want to be here, this is my chosen
eld.eyre out there because of low skill
development, mental health, addiction,
and/ or poverty issues,said Lynn Cysouw,
peer trainer at the Prostitution Awareness
and Action Foundation of Edmonton.
With the high rent now, you cant
make ends meet; there are a lot of reasons
that women have to do this, and I think a
lot of people forget that.
Cysouw says society needs to change its
attitude towards women who are involved
in this lifestyle.
Its really easy for people to drive down
the street and see a woman standing on
the corner and make a comment towards
that person without knowing what got her
there. ats very easy for any of us to do.
Rather than looking at the form on the
corner and assuming this is whats going
on, people need to look at the underlying
issues. eres a lot more going on there
than meets the eye, and I think thats what
people forget.
I would like people to think: My sister,
be safe tonight, chimes in her colleague
Amanda Flamand. Its a lot easier to
commit a violent act against somebody if
you label them. If you look at somebody
as a sister, then youre not as inclined to
commit a violent act against them,because
you will have an endearment for her.
ats somebodys sister, thats somebodys
mother, thats somebodys daughter.ats
a human being.
Both women would like to educate
people about the harm derogatory labels
like the word prostitutecan cause.
We want to get rid of the stigma thats
attached to women who are involved in
that lifestyle, and address the issues that
lead women into that lifestyle, Cysouw
said.
ey prefer terminology such as
experiential, or sexually exploited
youth,or sexually exploited women.
Exploited is a very strong word, you
cant ignore it, said Cysouw. Sexually
exploited is a criminal word, its wrong
across the board, no matter how you look
at it. It doesnt matter if the kid is 12, or if
shes a 40 year-old woman, this person is
being victimized. Its a victimizing word,
and its wrong.
Prostitute is a labeling word, its a
shaming word,Cysouw said.
ats what I did, but its not who I
am. It takes away from everything that
weve achieved now,she said.
I was a former sexually exploited youth,
and I got hooked in escort,Cysouw said.
Its something I did, but you know what?
I wasnt educated and aware of the issue, I
really didnt have a choice. When it comes
to cognitive development in a kid, youre
not fully developed . . . you dont know any
dierent.
Cysouw says the road that led her to
this lifestyle was a very painful one.
ere was sexual abuse in the home,
not from anybody in my family, but by
other people not directly family, said
Cysouw. Its a cycle.
At one point, she was taken into foster
care, which she says played a highly
negative role in her development.
I was placed in a group home with a
batch of kids who were ten times worse
than I was, and I picked up some horrible
behaviours there, which in turn, led me to
the lifestyle that I got involved with.
We got labeled the troublemakers.
Society does that as a whole, too; instead
of taking responsibility in the part that
they play in the lives of women that are
out there ruining their lives, society would
just give them a negative label, Cysouw
said.
Her experience in the sex trade was
somewhat dierent than one might
experience today.
e laws were dierent then. I was
criminalized as a youth, I was arrested,
and I was put in jail. Now there are laws
[and services] to protect youth who are
exploited. ey recognize that these are
not bad kids who should be demonized.
Cysouw is one of the lucky ones; a
courageous survivor, she now works as
a peer trainer and follow-up worker for
PAAFEs Project Hope.
Im training women who all have
former involvement in sexual exploitation
to be peer supporters in the community.
We are going to be starting a crisis
phone line by fall for women who are
currently active in either street-level sexual
exportation or escort massage, she said,
with visible enthusiasm.
Flamands story is also one of triumph
over pain.
I am a survivor of childhood sexual
exploitation,she said.
My grandmother was a teenage
mother; my mother was a teenage mother,
so Im the product of intergenerational
sexual abuse. Im the third generation.
My earliest childhood memories are of
childhood exploitation and sexual abuse,
she said.
It was just a way of life. If I wanted
safety or protection or love, it was equated
with sex.
Working for years with youth at risk in
Manitoba, Flamand came to Edmonton
four years ago. Moving to Edmontons
118th Avenue was a shock to her.
Because Im an aboriginal woman and
Im living in this area, men will pull over
there is this preconceived notion that Im
a sex trade worker and that really angered
me.
Wanting to make a dierence in her
community, Flamand connected with
PAAFE.
Because I want to live, I am living a
life free of fear and violence. ats a very
strong statement for an aboriginal woman
to make, she said. Its a big step to go
from victim to survivor, and it takes a lot
of work. I cant give up.
I have my rst grandchild, and Im
going to have more grandchildren. It cant
just keep being passed on.It shouldnt hurt
to be a child,she added.
Unfortunately, many of those involved
in Edmontons sex trade are exploited
youth not yet old enough to vote.
We dont see everything thats hidden,
especially with the Internet now. We dont
see how much of a problem it really is,how
much of an epidemic it is,said Flamand.
Once [a child] gets involved in
that lifestyle, they stop growing. eir
development stops. eyre not going to
school, theyre in survival mode. eyre
learning how to manipulate, how to
survive, how to go from day-to-day,
Cysouw said.
My s i s t er, be s af e t oni ght
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ARTS & LITERATURE
Everyday performance
Talking with John Murchie
Julie Cruikshank
Argosy Staff
eres a reasonably good chance that
most people in Sackville have been to
Struts, the artist-run gallery on Lorne
Street. e centre hosts visiting artists,
sewing bees, music events, workshops,
and houses START, the student-run
gallery in the back. It is also home
to the Faucet media arts centre.
Overseeing all of this is John Murchie.
A Sackville resident since 1990, he
became the coordinator of Struts in
2003 a position he describes as a 24-
hour job. e centre now has several
hundred members, and hosts an active
visiting artist program, to name a few
of its endeavors. But Murchie is also an
artist in his own right, though he has
found little time to practice in recent
years, owing largely to the booming
phenomenon that Struts has become.
Over the years his artistic practice
has primarily involved painting, but
not in the traditional sense. Murchie is
interested in the use of unconventional
supports such as wood, cardboard
boxes, and newspaper basically
recycling. His interest in paint as a
medium is not so much in its ability to
render an image as it is in the physical
materiality of the substance. ere are
two things, Murchie says, that interest
him about paint. e fact that it can
be used to cover a surface, and that it
has a thickness to it. Traditionally one
does not think of paint as a sculptural
medium, but Murchie is interested
in how layers of paint can begin to
take on sculptural form (a bit like the
thick paintings of Eric Cameron).
For Murchie, his use of recycled
materials has less to do with outright
environmentalism, and more with the
recycling of appropriated imagery.
Murchie also does performance art.
His most recent work was a curatorial-
project-turned-performance done
in Calgary as part of the Mountain
Standard Time Performative Art
Festival (a bit like Sackvilles annual
Performance Symposium). e work
was done over two weeks in October
at U of Cs Nickel Art Gallery.
Murchie essentially curated a show,
and turned the curatorial process into
a performance. Over the weeks he put
up and took down works of art from
the gallerys collection that had either
never been seen, or that had not been
seen in a long time. e work was
primarily that of women artists.
e use of humour is often quite
apparent in Murchies work. For
instance, one ongoing performance
piece consists of two tattoos one on
each of his forearms. e tattoos are
straight lines, one black and one blue.
Murchie is interested in how people
notice them, even though there is not
a lot of information to notice. e lines
reference a recurring linear theme in
his work, and the colours reference the
idea of a physical imprint on the body
(the colours of bruising). Murchie views
them as an ongoing performance work
involving his body, a performance that
continues as long as he is alive. Its one
of the more successful works, from my
point of view, says Murchie. He adds,
somewhat wryly, that he has oered
the piece to the National Gallery of
Canada once he dies although it is
up to them how they would choose to
display it.
Interestingly, Murchie does not
have a background in Fine Arts. He
admits quite freely that he cannot
draw conventionally, but adds that he
is not interested in rendering that
way. His work deals far more with
ideas of physical materiality and how
little information is needed for people
to recognize and identify with an
image.
e time he has spent in Sackville is
evident in some of the visual themes in
Murchies work, though he points out
that it has not had a transformative
eect on his practice overall. He
has worked in the past with animal
silhouettes as a continuation of his
interest in minimal visual information
conveying a recognizable, relatable
image. His silhouette of choice since
coming to Sackville is, of course, a
duck. It deals with a language that
is recognizable here, he says. e
biggest eect that Sackville has had on
his work, he says, has been through its
galleries (Struts and the Owens). Both
galleries have instituted a commitment
to performance-based work, which has
prompted him to do much more of it.
rough his work as Struts
coordinator, Murchie is actively
involved in developing a focused
artistic community in Sackville with
links to the art world at large. is
primarily involves maintaining a
connection between the Sackville art
community and the outside world.
Its trying to make a home, in a sense,
for people who choose to be members
here, that helps to represent their
interest in the world, he explains.
rough the visiting artist program a
link to the larger Canadian art scene is
maintained, providing a vital exposure
between Sackville artists and artists
working in the world at large. For
artists in a small town, there is always
the danger of working in isolation.
Murchies work at Struts strives to
counteract this eect, and to provide
an interface for people to connect as
artists. Artists here have to work a bit
harder to be noticed, says Murchie,
referring to the small-town Atlantic
region. e most important part of his
work at Struts is just nding ways of
helping us all to survive.
Murchies ongoing performance piece; two lines on his forearms.
Murchies work engages in a dialogue about the physicality of paint.
Minor in a major way
Graduating Fine Art Minors show at START
The Minors showcase included artwork by Alicia Steeves.
Rory Butlers audio visual installations brought in large crowds. Joel Carrs artwork included sculpture (above) and prints.
All photos are courtesy of Jessica Emin.
Mistakes & Corrections
Julie Cruikshank
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An error in the article Airport Terrorists
and steel workers take over Olive
Branch referred to Justin Collette as
Jason. The Argosy and the Arts and
Literature section apologize for the
error.
Trying something new
Composition at Mt. A leads to interesting outcomes
Julie Stephenson
Argosy Staff
Dr. Ian Crutchley teaches composition in the Music department.
I was doing a little count
up the other day [...] I think
that my students have written
something like three hundred
pieces in the last ve years.
Ian Crutchley
Bat Boy metaphorically
ies into our hearts
A review of a wingless but worthy musical
Justine Galbraith and
Argosy Staff
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Outstanding moments were
Spencer Yarnell s abrasive rap
about killing Bat Boy, Erik
Grosvolds magical, mystical
and sexually perverse portrayal
of Pan (complete with shocking
animal love)...
e right mix
Student recital showcases students skills
Julie Stephenson and
Sarah Short
e fourth student recital of the
year showcased Sarah MacDonald,
Jennifer Berntson, and Kerri MacPhee.
Collaborative Pianist Penelope Mark
played alongside MacDonald and
Berntson while collaborative pianist
Lynn Johnson played with MacPhee.
A range of pieces was played, from the
traditional Bach and Mozart to the
more contemporary Francis Poulenc
and Paul Hindemith. e three
performers were received well by the
audience with enthusiastic responses
to the curtain calls.
Berntson, a third-year Soprano and
student of Helen Pridmore, caught the
attention of the audience straight away
with her striking voice. Matching the
more lively pieces well, Berntson
picked up more expression further
into her performances. Her enjoyment
was obvious as with each performance,
Berntson picked up condence and
clarity.
MacPhee, a third-year clarinettist
who studies under the instruction of
Wesley Ferreira, demonstrated her skill
with excellent and smooth transitions
throughout the songs. She moved
from calm to lively with relative ease.
MacPhee re-opened the show with a
solo performance that was moving and
well played. She was clearly the most
at ease on stage.
MacDonald, a fourth-year utist,
began her performances strongly with
lively song choices and clean notes.
Her performances were the most put-
together overall and showed a great
deal of skill. MacDonald moved from
lively to moving pieces beautifully,
and showcased her training and skill
excellently.
All three students performed
beautifully, and their accompaniment
was well suited to each piece and to
their own talents. e strength of
their training was evident. Berntson,
MacPhee, and MacDonald put on an
excellent recital.
Black Tie Productions cements its
status as the best small-scale musical
troupe in Sackville with the delightfully
perverse and absurd rendition of Bat
Boy.
Based on the recurrent National
Enquirer story about a half-bat, half-
boy lurking about in West Virginia,
the musical bills itself as a story about
family, love and acceptance.
e main leads were all exceptionally
strong singers and actors. e duets
were frequently stunning, notably those
including Bat Boy (Brett Martin),
Shelley (Leah Brown), Doctor Parker
(Bruce Muir) and Meredith (Caitlin
Bowers). e chorus was also strong
and cohesive as a unit while displaying
some kick-ass harmonies. However,
there was a tendency for individual
lines to be overpowered by the group
in some of the larger numbers.
Outstanding moments were Spencer
Yarnells abrasive rap about killing Bat
Boy, Erik Grosvolds magical, mystical
and sexually perverse portrayal of Pan
(complete with shocking animal love),
Bat Boys heartwarming plea for the
town to accept him and shake his
hand, and Brian Hawkes hilarious
creation of Mrs. Taylor.
Martins turn as Bat Boy was
really good. He made good use of
his physicality - transforming from
crouching creature to proper person -
and spent a lot of the rst act conned
in a cage and exhibiting the quirks of
an unsocialized bat boy.
e play was set in West Virginia,
requiring an accent from the cast,
which did not disappoint. e show
was carried almost entirely on the
strength of the actors, making little
use of set and props. It was pretty
innovative to use a projector to set the
scene, and it was put to good use for
ashbacks as well.
Perhaps the biggest - and only
- qualm is with the script itself. e
jokes were a little obvious and the
second act was weaker than the rst.
e overarching plot was broken
up, although enjoyably, by Edgar
(Bat boy), Shelley and Merediths
trip to the forest, and an unexpected
yet unsurprising twist at the end
seemed contrived on the authors part.
However, the cast did a good job and
holding our interest until the very last
note.
All in all, it was an enjoyable
evening.
I havent had a single student that Ive
taught in the last ve years that hasnt
had at least one amazing idea about
a piece of music. Dr. Ian Crutchley
smiled as he made this statement,
speaking of his work as a composition
professor in the Music Department.
His eorts will be showcased in the
composition students performances
at the upcoming New Music Concert.
Both faculty and sta will be performing
at the concert, and Crutchley recently
spoke of his excitement of seeing his
students perform pieces they have
been working on over the year.
Crutchley explained that although
the performances for the concerts
are primarily the current work of the
students, composition is a much longer
process. Beginning with dierent
stages of composition studies, the
students eventually form a style that
can range from traditional to a mix of
contemporary ideas.
Once theyre choosing their own
way with the compositions, they bring
them to me and we talk about the
kinds of things that need to be done
in order to make it work the way they
understand that they want it and []
sort of nurture it and make it into
something a bit more developed,
explained Crutchley.
Following contemporary practices,
composition at Mount Allison is
taught restrictive[ly] at the beginning
just to get them to nish things and
eventually aords students a wide
variety of freedom in later years.
Crutchley notes that the teaching
methods are what allow students to
nd a style that suits them and to feel
condent to experiment with dierent
techniques. We get this really, really
incredible variety of pieces that people
who come to the concert will see.
Many of Crutchleys students credit
the growth theyve seen to the professor
himself. One student even indicated
Crutchley as the reason hes stayed at
Mt. A. After the rigid forms of class
structure are left behind, Crutchley
says he tries to have students come out
on a regular basis to discuss their work
and ideas. His students have said this is
what accounts for much of the respect
surrounding Crutchley - his eagerness
and enthusiasm to work with students
and explore their ideas.
Crutchley also credits the
environment at Mt. A that encourages
students to experiment with
composition and try new mediums.
A close-knit community means that
composition students can regularly
have other students perform their
pieces or collaborate on work.
ere can be a lot of excitement
around it and I think that the
opportunity is a very good one here,
explained Crutchley, because theres a
great deal of exibility with what they
study.
e Music Dept. faculty has
expanded the interest in performing
contemporary music, incorporating
improvisation and alternative
techniques into regular performances
and classes.
Crutchleys students have certainly
embraced the experimental atmosphere.
Evan Phinneys performance piece
entitled Dearest Charlie was
inspired by a short story which was
in turn inspired by a postcard bought
at a second-hand store. In that piece,
the piano and voice are completely
independent parts, explains Phinney,
e beauty of it comes out when
parts just line up right. It is a highly
emotional piece. Megan Buett
explained her own composition as a
12-tone piece for Alto Flute with live
eects and pre-recorded electronics.
e third-year has also recently
nished a piece that utilizes a poem
by Emily Bronte. Graduating student
Luke Patterson detailed his use of
snapshot compositions, a singular
experience he compares to writing a
diary entry. I am [also] working on a
collaborative project with a video artist
and a dancer. I will be performing/
composing quasi-improvisatory
percussion parts for this.
I was doing a little count up the
other day and trying to gure it out.
I think that my students have written
something like three hundred pieces
in the last ve years. Some of them
do eight, nine, sometimes ten over the
year. Clearly proud of his students,
Crutchley explains the importance
of his students creativity. I try to
strike a balance in between teaching
them skills that are really concrete,
but not doing that to the point that
their creative impulses are crushed or
suppressed in some way.
Despite the variety of opportunities
the students are given, Crutchley
admits they still face challenges.
Phinney echoed this sentiment as he
spoke of how it can be hard to get
performers to commit or to try new
ideas.
Crutchley hopes to see a decrease
in the resistance to new ideas through
more interdisciplinary interaction
between students and faculties. Ive
always been a very strong proponent
of enhancing the interdisciplinary
parts of the arts here especially, so I
would love to see the [composition]
students more directly involved with
the arts students and creative writing
students, he explained. ese ideas
have sparked interest in Crutchleys
students as their plans post Mt. A have
taken more varied paths. Phinney and
Patterson have both expressed interest
in interdisciplinary elds.
e composition students represent
one more area of exploration and
growth at Mt. A. eir performances
at the New Music Concert will occur
along \side other students and faculty
on Monday April 6 at Brunton
Auditorium at 8:00 pm.
Its all about bringing the backstage to
the centre stage. In Ronald Harwoods
award winning play e Dresser , the
complicated relationships that exist
past the curtain call are brought under
careful scrutiny in an equally daunting
time during the Second World War.
Harwood is well known for his
screenplays e Pianist and e Diving
Bell and the Buttery, but e Dresser
remains one of his most prominent
plays. e relationship driven play
revolves around a theatre company in
the midst of World War Two. Director
Kirsten Good provided some insight
on the play, the Performers Company,
and the importance of relationships.
What made you decide to direct this
production?
I have been involved with the
Performers Company for quite some
time now. After my experience of
Assistant Director in e Importance of
Being Earnest, I have had a desire to
direct a production. e Dresser was a
perfect opportunity to have my rst
essay into managementas Sir, a
main character in the play, would say.
Stephen Puddle is the artistic director
for the Company, but he is an actor
in this production. e show needed
a director and since I have such a
passion for it, I had to take the oer.
e Dresser is a fantastic play that,
despite its dark setting in the midst of
the Second World War, certainly has
its light moments. It has the authentic
British wit and a classic charm.
Why choose Live Bait eatre? What
is your regular venue?
We, as the Perfomers Company,
try to select a venue that is as
accessible to students as well as
Sackville Community members. For
e Importance of Being Earnest, we
performed in the large parlour of the
Marshlands Inn. It was the perfect
venue for Earnest giving it the feel
of a British home and garden. For
Hayfever, we performed in Live Bait.
We were able to set up an extensive set
courtesy of our Master Builder, Monika
Wohlmuth. e experience of working
with Live Bait is wonderful. We like to
reach out with our theatre. We want
to draw ties between the student body
and the Sackville Community, because
connection between the two have
been lacking in the past. We want to
join people together with the joy of
theatreCamaraderie is the hallmark
of this show.
How do you think the play has
relevance to today?
e Dresser takes place in the
1940s, but there is no doubt that it is
applicable to today. e show focuses
on the interactions between each one
of the characters within the company.
e action centers on the relationship
of Sir, the actor-manager of the theatre,
and Norman, his dresser. But each one
of the characters has self-dening
moments when they interact with
Sir. is show shows the backstage
action that normally goes unseen. For
example, we see Sir forgetting the
rst line of the play moments before
he must go onstage. ese intricate
relationships between characters,
whether they are friendships or a
desire for something more, are the
same that we nd ourselves in daily.
Harwoods writing expands past the
time period, and critiques human
nature in a way that makes it applicable
to many generations. One could say
[that] its commentary is timeless.
How has the experience been working
on the production? With the cast?
is has been one wild and amazing
ride. e cast and crew is what makes
the show. Sandy Burnett plays the part
of Sir, and he sinks into character with
an uncanny familiarity. It has been
a privilege to work with a man so
talented. Stephen Puddle is Norman
in the production; and he brings
an infectious eervescence to his
character. Alison Hart is Madge (the
Stage Manager in Sirs Company);
Alison brings a complex character
to life with such an understated
brilliance. Sue Rose is Her Ladyship,
Sirs partner. is is Sues rst acting
experience, but she has taken to the
part quite wonderfully. Jerry Hicks
is another community actor as well.
Jesse Ambler, Doug MacLean, Alisa
Haugen-Strand, and Tim Hall are
also featured student actors that bring
Dress me up
e Performers Company heads to Live Bait with new play
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Argosy Staff
individual talents to their roles. e
crew is so vital to the production.
Costumes are done by Melody
Petlock, Set by Monika Wohlmuth,
Lights by Nikita Moriarity, Sound by
Justin omas, and ASM by Hilary
Avery. Each one of the actors and crew
members are such an important part of
the theatre production. Bringing all of
their individual talents together, there
is an unbelievable resulta theatre
production focusing on togetherness
has a cast/crew that emulates that
same camaraderie. I am blessed to
have the opportunity to work with
these talented individuals.
What are your own impressions of the
play?
My impression of the play is that
it is one that is a must-see. I know I
Ronald Harwoods The Dresser shows the relationship between Norman
(left) and Sir (middle) in the middle of world war two.
Harwoods writing [...]
critiques human nature in a way
that makes it applicable to many
generations. One could say [that]
its commentary is timeless .
am biased, but the play is certainly

not to be missed. It focuses on the
multifaceted qualities of pride, deceit,
jealously, love, and deep friendship.
It is a play that presents a microcosm
of the world we see around us. Not
only so, but it attempts to nd a
silver lining in a time ravaged by war.
Can we nd optimism in a world so
lled with disappointment? Perhaps.
Perhaps you should see Harwoods
answer to this question in e Dresser.
e Dresser premieres at Live Bait
eatre on ursday March 26 at
7:30pm. Tickets are $10 for students
and $15 regularly. Good promises a
show that will draw you in and possibly
even oer hope for the future.
Where else can you nd music
utilizing the sound qualities of
twister, news reports, and screaming?
If the limits of music were something
akin to the edge of a cli, this little
trio certainly ran right past it; and
took o soaring. Mount Allisons
new music ensemble, consisting of
Derlis A. Gonzalez (piano), Evan
Phinney (Bass), and Jonny Smith
(Percussion) performed their own
student recital on the evening of the
23
rd
. In describing this performance,
the words bizarre, enticing, and
dynamic are what come to mind.
e evening consisted of the trio
performing various pieces from the
works of Cage, Grella, Nobles and
Sculthorpe. e rst piece set the
mood for the night with the ominous
yet alluring Parallel II. Performed
entirely without tempo indications
or measurements, the piece was kept
together by the musicians keen ears
for one another while playing their
own separate notes. ey even added
their own voices into the mix with
the steady humming of dierent
pitches in tune with the piece.
is, however, was only the rst of
the surprises. Many pieces afterwards
incorporated dierent props and
graphics. One such example was the
display of ten of Pior Grella-Mozejkos
25 ovals, containing designs ranging
from squiggly lines to circles. Picking
a circle to play at random, each student
brought their own improvisations
and creative sound eects, using
what some would call untraditional
methods. Each was very expressive
in his own way, whether using sts
and arms on the piano, swerving bow
strokes and twisted coat hangers for
the bass, or hitting drum equipment
not quite on the traditional mark.
e surprises only continued as
the group used more graphic images
to display their piece visually as well
as audibly. ey continued to nd
new ways to create sounds (such as
by playing the inside of the piano
and skimming over the xylophone),
not just from their instruments,
but from the audience as well.
Even playing for each other,
these musicians were completely
enthusiastic and brought nothing
short of a complete expression of
themselves to the audience. One piece
from Sculthorpe entitled Dream
included utist Ali Smith and Soprano
vocalist Jacqueline Logan for another
graphic interpretation, creating more
versatile music containing interludes
of simple sounds. Voices served
as additional playful instruments,
alternating pitches of the sound om.
e nal piece was nothing short
of hilarious. Cages Variations III
is a lengthy musical process, but the
end product comes out as something
having even the musicians questioning
what is music? Incorporating
copious amounts of props, they were
able to make countless sounds in their
own individual actions, yet were able
to stay unied. To summarize the
performance: toys, holiday greetings,
news reports, bouncing balls, opening
doors, booing, strangling, Greek
literature, money and lullabys these
would only cover about half of it.
is group is something to experience
and will denitely be making a lot more
noise in the future if this performance
is any indication. eir sound brings a
whole new dish to the table of music
and can not be done justice with
words alone. One really has to be in
the audience to fully appreciate this
groups capacity and potential, which
is sure to grow stronger in the years to
come.
Mount Allisons new music ensemble
Bright innovations and good sound
Jennifer Musgrave
Kristen Good
Jessica Emin
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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MONTREAL (CUP) When Lisa
Parks clicks on photos of victims of the
Darfur genocide on Google Earth, she
worries that Googles corporate agenda
may skew the softwares potential to
revolutionize global awareness.
Every technology has the potential
to be used in really progressive ways
and really negative ways, except for
the nuclear bomb, Parks said. I
think Google Earth has the potential
to provide anyone around the world
with access to technology, the ability
to input data, and to have a voice in a
global digital database.
Parks, a visiting media and lms
study professor from University of
California, Santa Barbara, discussed a
project initiated by the U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Museum, in conjunction
with Google Earth Outreach program,
to add a Crisis in Darfur layer to the
explosively popular Google Earth
software, which had been downloaded
over 200 million times at the time of
the layers inclusion.
e Darfur layer provides geo-
referencing information for the
region with stories, photos, and data
aggregated from public domain
sources, such as 900-page Amnesty
International reports.
For example, a photo layer links users
to photos of people and events taken at
the exact GPS location corresponding
to where their cursor lies on the screen,
providing geophysical and political
context.
Mediscene
A weekly leap to the frontiers of medicine
It kills 1 to 2 million people every
year (with 90 per cent of these deaths
concentrated among the children
of Sub-Saharan Africa), is present
in over 100 countries, and is a
threat to roughly half of the worlds
population. Malaria, while a deadly
danger for humans, poses no problem
for the mosquitoes which carry it,
and in the March 5 edition of Science
Express, researchers revealed for the
rst time how this process works.
is discovery opens new doors in
the search to prevent mosquito-to-
human transmission of malaria.
Malaria is caused by the
Plasmodium parasite, which is carried
by the Anopheles mosquito. ere
are four strains of the Plasmodium
parasite, with the most common and
dangerous species being P. falciparum.
Mosquitoes pick up malaria by
ingesting the blood of infected people.
e parasites then reproduce, and
after two weeks, young Plasmodium
are ready to be passed on to the next
person through the mosquitos saliva.
e Anopheles immune system is
no slouch, however; it is able to kill
80 to 90 per cent of the malarial
invaders as soon as they enter the
mosquitos bloodstream. But it only
takes one or two to slip by to begin the
reproduction process.
A team from Imperial College
London has uncovered exactly how
mosquitoes are able to combat the
malaria infection. Plasmodium parasites
trigger two intruder detection proteins
called LRIM1 and APL1C, which
then activate a third protein in the
mosquitos blood called TEP1. is
nal protein binds to the surface of the
invading parasites and punches holes
in its cellular membrane, killing it in
the process.
Researchers hope to rene this
response to kill 100 per cent of all
Plasmodium in the mosquitos blood
stream through genetic or chemical
means, potentially preventing
mosquito-to-human transmission.
With resistance to commonly used
drugs such as chloroquine reaching
over 90 per cent in parts of Africa, the
race is on to nd alternate solutions to
an increasingly virulent disease which
currently kills a child every thirty
seconds.
Mosquitoes are known as the bad
guys that spread malaria, but these
insects are unwilling carriers of the
disease, whose immune systems try
to ght it, just like ours do, explained
Dr George Christophides from
the Department of Life Sciences at
Imperial College London. Now that
Kelly OConnor
Argosy Staff
we know exactly how their immune
system attacks malaria parasites,
we need to work out how a small
number of parasites manage to
evade detection by this system. If we
can gure out how some parasites
manage to sneak through undetected,
hopefully we can nd a way to bolster
the mosquitos defences to catch
them all.
Mosquitoes also act as vectors for
other deadly diseases such as dengue,
yellow fever, lariasis and various
encephalitides. Dr Christophides
believes that proteins like LRIM1
and APL1C, which are specic to
mosquitoes, may trigger a similar
immune response to other harmful
human pathogens; he and his team
are currently conducting research
to determine the validity of this
hypothesis.
Other researchers from Imperial
College London have tried a
dierent tack, using a gene found
in sea cucumbers which produces
the protein CEL-III to kill the
malaria parasite at an earlier stage
in its life cycle as an ookinete (a
motile fertilized egg, or zygote). is
method does not kill all parasites
in the mosquitoes system, however,
making the discovery of LRIM1,
APL1C, and TEP1 all the more
exciting.
What do you and a fruit y have in
common? Not a lot on the surface,
but fruit ies and humans share about
two thirds of their disease genes. is
is why Dr. Vett Lloyd, a geneticist
at Mount Allison, spends her days,
among other things, feeding fruit ies
and cleaning test tubes.
One doesnt really go into science
for glamour, according to Lloyd.
Perhaps its not glamorous, but the
importance of her work is obvious.
Fruit ies, or Drosophila, are burdened
with many of the same diseases as
humans, including neurodegenerative
diseases, accelerated aging diseases,
cancers, and muscular dystrophies.
Fruit ies also happen to reproduce
quite quickly, and so make perfect
genetic model organisms. We can do
breeding experiments with them and
gure out how many genes cause a
disease, which genes cause it, and then
we can go back to humans and know
which are the candidate genes. Its a
short cut for nding out what genes
are responsible for human genetic
diseases, explains Lloyd.
According to Lloyd, due to the rarity
of genetic diseases, It hasnt been
cost eective for the pharmaceutical
companies to go nd a treatment, so
what you are left with is gene therapy.
You cant do gene therapy unless you
know what genes are aected. is is
where her work comes in. Previously,
she has been looking into a suite of
Fruit ies save lives?
diseases called Hermansky-Pudlak
diseases, which aect lysosomal
storage. e lysosome is kind of the
garborator of the cell, so if that doesnt
work, you cant get rid of the used up
proteins, and cells die. ats quite an
unpleasant disease.
Now, Lloyd is looking into
imprinting diseases, which you get
when a gene that should work wont,
or a gene that shouldnt work, works
when it shouldnt, explains Lloyd,
and this includes a number of quite
horrendous childhood diseases. Some
cancers, they are nding, are also due to
defects in imprinting. What happens
when you get a cancer is that your cells
are dividing too fast ... We have two
copies of the cell division gene. Only
one is supposed to work, and the other
one is kept o because its imprinted.
e moment you lose that imprint,
your cells start dividing and thats bad
for you.
e benets of working with fruit
ies are clear. According to Lloyd,
in the past six years, 30 genes that
work to regulate imprints have been
identied. However, despite the
success of the research, says Lloyd,
its not something you can sell to a
company and say here is a new gizmo
to grind your coee and slice your
bananas at the same time. Instead,
as basic research with no immediate
prot attached to it, explains Lloyd,
it has to be funded by someone who
cares about basic research, and thats
the Natural Sciences and Engineering
Research Council of Canada.
Zoe Williams
Argosy Staff
Parks hypothesized that if used
correctly, the burgeoning Google
Earth eect could revolutionize how
the global community reacts to foreign
events, comparing its potential to how
televised news coverage moved the
public to oppose the Vietnam War in
the 1970s.
Some say that CNN has played
a role in shaping foreign policy at
certain historical junctures. Lets see if,
when something happens in the world,
instead of turning on CNN, people go
to their computers and turn on Google
Earth, she said. What would happen
then, is that people could see what is
going on directly from the multitude
of voices who experience the event,
rather than from CNNs single verdict
on the event.
Although Parks recognizes the added
value that Googles service provides,
she criticizes how Google claims
ownership over public information.
She feels its assertion of intellectual
property over public information
and methods of controlling what
information is accessible through
Google Earth usurps the potential to
demystify our planets surface in favour
of corporate prot.
e image may be blurred or
undated, but the Google brand is never
lost, she said. My concern is that
because of the intellectual property
laws and the dominant position of
Google in the global digital economy,
there is a tendency for Google to set
the parameters and structures of who
can participate in Google Earth as
well.
Google Earth changes
news landscape: prof
Joey Coleman
The Silhouette (McMaster)
Flies used to examine human disease
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23 THE ARGOSY HUMOUR MARCH 26, 2009
Q&A with
Noah and Stuart
DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed in the
advice column are not the opinions of the
Humour Editors, the Editors-In-Chief, or
Argosy Publications, and are hopefully
not the opinions of Stuart or Noah.
Dear Noah and Stuart, Sackville has been
getting really boring lately. What can I do
to spice up the last few weeks of the se-
mester? -VS
Noah, Sports Editor:
The end of the second
term always means that
there seems to be a bit
of a lull in activities.
The winter sports sea-
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those residence parties
are done...what else is
there to do? My favorite March/April activ-
ities includes Whats that Meal Hall Food?
Blindfold a friend and then feed them ran-
domly chosen meal hall cuisine. Is it Chick-
en a la King or Chicken pot pie? By now,
you should be an expert! Another fun one
is Wait, When Did I Meet You? This usually
happens on a weekday when you bump into
someone that you encountered on a crazy
Friday or Saturday night. Ive had several
people inform me that weve met three or
four times prior. Remember, dont get awk-
ward and stammer out some excuse, blame
them for not adding you as a friend on
Facebook! Clearly they are in the wrong,
not you.
Stuart, Sci/Tech Editor:
I, too, sometimes grow
restless at the end of
the winter semester.
But theres still plenty
to do! The pub, for in-
stance, regularly puts
on greatly underappri-
ciated events, such as
Tuesdays weekly trivia,
which I occaisionally
enjoy. Any rumours
that a confederate has
been feeding me an-
swers through subcu-
taneous bone-conducting earphones are...
certainly exaggerated. I cant speak for
everyone (and not a day goes by without
someone telling me I dont speak for them
either), but I think part of my late-semester
ennui comes from the passing of the winter
season. The imminent increase in incidence
of high-UV days, all the unpleasant heat,
and the monotony of cool summer nights
following pleasant summer days tends to
get me a little down. Just try and make the
most of your time now - as a break from an
interminable study session, go for a long
walk during one of Sackvilles interminable
windstorms and thus get a good memory of
what youll be missing.
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