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Anti-semitism felt on campus

Israel Apartheid week: Free speech or hate speech

hcsjp.wordpress.com

martin weaver
contributor
It’s an event that some federal leaders
have condemned and even Prime
Minister Stephen Harper recently
spoke out against, yet for the first time
this year Israeli Apartheid week was
held at the University of Regina.
The event has taken a lot of criti-
cism and has even been labelled “hate
week” by some who argue it targets
Jews. A March 9, 2009 article in the
National Post states it “leaves Jewish
and Israeli students wary of express-
ing their opinions, for fear of intimida-
tion.”
And intimidation is felt first hand
by first-year linguistics student Falene
McKenna. McKenna is from a small
“ All that matters
is that there’s free
speech, and if not
on a university
campus then
where else?”
Jacqueline Perlin
Assistant News Editor,
Excalibur at York
town and grew up being the only
Jewish family that she knew of, often
leaving her out of activities. Prior to
her arrival at the University of Regina
she was excited to be part of a welcom-
ing environment only to be disap-
pointed. McKenna felt that the
university could have presented a
more balanced point of view at the
event.
Dr. George Maslany, VP of aca-
demics at the U of R, said the univer-
sity did not share the views expressed
by the event. “The university simply
provided space for someone who was
presenting an event like that.”
Maslany added he supports the
idea of free expression and “even un-
popular [events], as long as they don’t
cross the lines in terms of becoming
treasonous, seditious or illegal.”
What added to McKenna’s issue
was an email she received that was
sent by assistant professor Dr. Emily
Eaton. “Regina is proud to be joining
more than 50 cities around the world
in raising awareness about the system
of apartheid in Israel, and building the
growing international movement of
Boycott, divestment, and sanctions
(BDS) campaigns,” Eaton had written.
McKenna was disappointed to see
faculty members take sides in on-cam-
pus issues.
Jacqueline Perlin, assistant news
editor at the Excalibur at York
University in Toronto, has covered the
events that have gained national expo-
sure during Israeli Apartheid week at
York University in the last few years
and feels that faculty members should
remain unbiased.
well received at York University.
“Based on the history of York
University I would expect that there
would be strong student opposition to
that, especially from the students who
believe that Israel is not an Apartheid
state.”
Dr. Maslany, who had been un-
aware of the email, said, “We do have
policies that prevent people from mak-
ing political statements and using our
email systems for that purpose.”
Maslany adds that it’s difficult to pre-
vent them from being sent. “We sim-
ply don’t have resources to monitor
those types of emails.”
This isn’t the first time McKenna
has felt disappointed by the univer-
sity. In September 2010, a guest lec-
turer sponsored by the sociology
department at U of R, Dr. Michael
Keefer from Guelph University, came
to U of R for a presentation on anti-
Semitism and his book Anti-Semitism
Real and Imagined.
Dr. Keefer’s book states that there
is “an imagined new anti-Semitism”
in Canada that is used, “as a justifica-
tion for stigmatizing and even crimi-
nalizing criticism of the state of Israel”.
Ian MacAusland-Berg, the coordi-
nator for harassment, discrimination
prevention, and conflict resolution
services at the University of Regina
and a member of the Jewish commu-
nity in Regina, said that often the uni-
versity does deal with controversial
issues that not everyone may like. “In
a university you have to have a free ex-
change of ideas. Is it discrimination to
bring a guy like that in? The university
would say no and while we might not
moral values from a universities point
of view that’s part of the open and fair
debate.”
Perlin said that whether people
would have opposed the speaker at
York University or not it’s still impor-
tant let these speakers talk.
“A university campus is grounds for
political state, whether one agrees with
an opinion or not. [It] doesn’t matter
on a university campus. All that mat-
ters is that there’s free speech, and if
not on a university campus then where
else?”
Concerned about Israeli Apartheid
week MacAusland-Berg sent a letter
to the university on behalf of himself
and other members of the Jewish com-
munity, but also on behalf of his posi-
tion at the university.
“The essence of the letter was that I
disagree with it. I think that calling
Israel an apartheid state is beyond the
definition of apartheid.”
The university did get back to
MacAusland-Berg’s letter, “I didn’t get
a bad response from the university.
The response I got was ‘Thanks, we
still think it’s part of a free and open
debate of ideas. If anything illegal oc-
curs appropriate action will be taken’.”
MacAusland-Berg thinks that a
free and open debate was important
for the event, however he suggested
that there were other alternatives that
the university could have taken.
“In regards to Israeli Apartheid Week,
Lloyd Axworthy, who is the president
and vice-chancellor of the University
of Winnipeg, took the approach where
he mandated the university to take a
balanced approach, and he organized
A balanced approach that may be
absent on a broader spectrum than just
the university.
“Saskatchewan’s not an easy place
to be a Jew. I accept that. I don’t know
if the university is even more a place to
be uncomfortable to be a Jew. I think
the university mirrors its location. It’s
not a racist place,” said MacAuskand-
Berg attributing much of it to the low
Jewish population in the province.
“We end up being the ambassadors for
our own beliefs, religions, nationali-
ties, sexual orientations. So I don’t
think the university mirrors anything
malicious.”
Next year McKenna plans to start
a group on campus in hopes to bring a
different perspective to the university.
“ I think that
calling Israel an
apartheid state is
beyond the defini-
tion of apartheid.”
Ian MacAusland-Berg
coordinator for harass-
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Positive spaces
UR Pride Centre plans campaign to make campus space more inclusive
Kim Jay
devin r. heroux
contributor
Some call it the hall of shame. The long
walk up 28 stairs towards the dimly lit
hallway is considered daunting for
those who dare to do it. At the end of
the dark hall sits the UR Pride Centre.
A small sign hangs above the door:
UR Pride Centre, Director Lisa Smith.
Dan Shier remembers the first time he
made the long walk.
“You were either heading to the
Women’s Centre, Pride Centre, or
Health and Dental,” recalls Shier. “The
Women’s Centre was clearly visible,
so once you passed that you knew you
were going to the Pride Centre because
nobody goes to Health and Dental.”
Three years ago Shier entered the
“ We’re not pushing anyone to join the gay
parade yet. We’re just here to provide a safe
place, and a feeling that they can belong.”
Centre mainly out of curiosity. He
knew that places like this existed but
never had the chance to visit one at
his high school in Regina. After his
first year at the University of Regina
studying visual arts with a focus in
print media, Shier stumbled upon an
advertisement on Facebook alerting U
of R students about an opportunity at
the Pride Centre. They needed a
graphic designer. Shier didn’t think
twice.
“That was the real reason I first
came in. Then once I realized it was a
safe place with great people I started
coming every day,” said Shier. “I took
a big breath and popped into the
lounge.”
Since then Shier has been updat-
ing the UR Pride website and has be-
come a social media master, tweeting
Lisa Smith
UR Pride director
and Facebook updating everything the
Pride Centre is doing. He even has sta-
tistics that show how many users are
on the UR Pride Facebook page on a
daily, weekly, and monthly basis.
And his social media campaign
seems to be working. In December
fewer than 200 people viewed the
Facebook page. As of Mar. 20 over 500
people had viewed the page. The Pride
Centre Twitter has 226 followers, is fol-
lowing 384 people, and has made 218
tweets. The message is getting out
there.
“A lot of people are starting to
know who we are through our social
media. It’s about marketing,” said
Shier. “In the end I want this to be a
place that isn’t thought of as that room
down the hallway.”
Busy trying to change the Centre’s
atmosphere and influence is director
Lisa Smith. But it isn’t easy. Between
answering anywhere from 30 to 50
emails daily, sitting in board meetings,
and speaking to classes around the
University, Smith’s time is limited.
“It’s really sad actually. I’m always
working,” says Smith. “When I go out
to the gay bar I usually end up in a
work situation. I just don’t go out
much anymore.”
When Smith first started coming
to the Pride Centre four years ago
there were a lot of things she didn’t
like about it. The Centre felt restricted
to a small group of people, a feeling
shared by many in the Gay and
Lesbian community at the university.
“In the past there was definitely a
hierarchy. It was cliquey and hard to
break in,” says Smith. “So when I be-
came director that was my goal, to
make it accessible to everyone.”
Lately “everyone” isn’t all that
much. Anywhere from two to 15 peo-
ple will visit the Centre daily. And
while Facebook numbers are going up,
actual attendance is going down.
Fifteen people at the Centre daily is
considered good attendance these
days, with seven to 10 of those people
regulars. Smith is concerned about the
perception of the Centre on campus.
“There’s a stigma, I’m sure. I mean
there has to be. If there wasn’t, there
would be more people here I’m sure.
So there must be.”
With over 1,300 books with titles
like Our Right to Love, Straight Jobs –
Gay Lives, and Lesbian Ethics, the room
is a walking encyclopedia of gender
identity information. There are over
300 different pamphlets people can
pick up ranging from safe-sex prac-
tices to issues relating to STIs. While
there are many resources, Smith real-
izes that the Centre is a different place
for difference reasons to everyone.
“There’s people here that just need
support,” says Smith. “We’re not push-
ing anyone to join the gay parade yet.
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We’re just here to provide a safe place,
and a feeling that they can belong.”
As a part of that belonging UR
Pride is launching a campus-wide
Positive Space Network this semester.
The PSN bring together a network of
allied individuals and organizations
that support gay rights on campus.
The program is certificate-based and
requires individuals and groups wish-
ing to display the logo to participate in
sensitivity training workshops in order
to qualify. Smith is optimistic about
the spin-off this might have for the
Pride Centre.
“We’ve got support from every-
one. The president wrote a letter of
support, the students’ union is on
board, and professors have had noth-
ing but good things to say.”
And both Shier and Smith hope
the support continues. In the mean-
time they will both continue to make
that long walk up the stairs and down
the hallway. A click of the mouse can
provide the same sense of belonging
but it will never replace that personal
connection people feel when they visit
the Pride Centre.
“It’s a fun space, safe space, with
great people,” says Shier. “There are a
lot of misconceptions that this is just a
gay place but it’s for everyone under
the rainbow.”
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Getting your bearings
New online app accused of leading voters astray
biosweekly.com
ed kapp
news writer
With an upcoming federal election
getting closer by the day, a new on-
line application has many prospec-
tive voters becoming more engaged
in Canadian politics – one click at a
time.
The Vote Compass, which is
available through CBCNews.ca,
gives participants 30 statements –
ranging from financial to environ-
mental, to immigration, to a whole
host of other prominent issues in
Canadian politics – to which they
respond on a spectrum from
“strongly agree” to “strongly dis-
agree”. The answers are then tabu-
lated and used to determine which
party platform most closely aligns
“ Vote Compass
is something we
have introduced
as a means for
people to en-
gage with the
issues on the
election.”
Jeff Keay
CBC
we made it, you guys, we totally did it
since 1962
with the participants’ answers. The
answers are then automatically
plotted in a four-quadrant grid la-
beled with “economic right”, “eco-
nomic left”, social liberalism”, and
“social conservatism” in relation to
the platforms of Canada’s five most
prominent political parties.
As explained on Vote Compass’
website, “The selection of state-
ments is based on a scientific
methodology known as content
analysis. Based on the assumption
that the issues that are frequently
emphasized by parties are obvi-
ously important to them, the aca-
demic team extensively analyzes
the issues parties emphasize in
their platforms and other policy
proposals, on their websites, and
elsewhere. A parallel analysis is
conducted on media content pub-
lished since the previous Canadian
federal election in order to assess
which issues have featured promi-
nently in Canadian political dis-
course.”
Vote Compass, which is mod-
eled after a similar online applica-
tion available in Europe, is an
academic project developed by a
team of Canadian political scien-
tists – including an advisory panel
comprised of, according to Vote
Compass’ website, “the country’s
most prominent scholars in the
study of electoral politics.”
“What we’re trying to say is,
based on these 30 questions, here’s
where the parties fall,” explained
Clifton Van Der Linden, a
University of Toronto political sci-
ence PhD candidate and executive
director of Vote Compass. “You can
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be a Conservative, an NDP, or any
ideological stripe. The tool is not
meant to tell you to change that
stripe at all.”
Despite the intentions of the
creators of Vote Compass, the appli-
cation has garnered its fair share of
controversy since being introduced
last week.
While most of the controversy
surrounding Vote Compass is a re-
sult of participants misinterpreting
the purpose of the application, a
perceived Liberal-bias in the Vote
Compass has many up in arms.
Kathy Brock, a political science pro-
fessor at Queens University, was
one of the first to denounce Vote
Compass on grounds of a Liberal-
bias in the application.
After completing the quiz a
number of times with varying
strategies, Brock said each strategy
led her to the Liberal designation.
Over the course of five attempts,
Brock first answered all 30 state-
ments with “somewhat agree”.
Then, on a second attempt, with
“somewhat disagree”, then again
with “strongly agree”, then with
“strongly disagree”, and finally, she
responded with the neutral re-
sponse of “neither agree nor dis-
agree.” For the final portion of the
quiz, where users rank leaders
based on competence and trustwor-
thiness, Brock said she consistently
answered with “I don’t know.”
“Each time, I came up in the
centre, so I would be labeled a
Liberal,” she said, “There’s a prob-
lem with having only the Liberals
in the centre, because I don’t think
that’s a fair representation of how
news 5
Five reasons you
should vote
pc.gc.ca
5 The obvious
reason
You have a say in who makes the laws in our
country. Why would you not want to give
your input?
4 Your vote counts
While you may feel like your single voice
may not be heard amongst thirty plus mil-
lion, MP races have come down to less than
the parties are putting together
fifty votes in the past.
their platforms for this campaign,
or even generally.”
“Vote Compass is something
we have introduced as a means for
people to engage with the issues on
the election,” said Jeff Keay, a
spokesperson for the CBC. “There
is [no bias] – not as far as we know.
We have a high level of confidence
that the methodology is sound.”
3 Silence is assent
If you don’t vote, you’re complacently agree-
Although both the disclaimer ing with every piece of legislature that’s
and Frequently Asked Questions passed, ever dollar that’s spent, every deci-
pages on Vote Compass’ site con- sion that’s made no matter how outlandish
fess that the application is by no it can be and you have no reason to complain
means comprehensive, there is a because you didn’t speak otherwise.
noticeable lack of questions regard-
ing issues many Canadians find im-
portant. For instance, any mention
of Aboriginal issues.
While Vote Compass isn’t
meant, as the disclaimer on the ap-
plication’s website claims, to pro-
vide voting advice for anyone, the
tool has be used to generate interest
and discussion of the election and
2 People die for
this right
Literally. This isn’t some WWII reference
from your grandpa about fighting Nazis ei-
Canadian politics more generally –
ther. This is happening right now all over the
exactly the intention of its creators.
world. Don’t throw away an opportunity
“If people are engaging with
that people are willing to lose their life for,
this discussion on Canadian politics
and that you are lucky enough to have.
and the ideological structure of our
landscape, then I think that’s part of
the idea of the tool,” said van der
Linden.
As Jeff Sallot, a former bureau
chief for the Globe and Mail who Make politicians
currently teaches journalism at
Carleton University, put it in his
April 2 article in the Ottawa
Citizen, “In its limited way, Vote
Compass is using new digital tools
1 care about the
youth vote
Voter turnout for the 18- to 24-year-old range
to spark a bit of old fashioned polit- was roughly 37 per cent last general election.
ical talk around the water coolers of Do you want education spending to be an
the nation. Not a bad thing.” election issue? Prove it.
paul bogdan a&c writer
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6 news

Researchers link Two Prairie provinces

unemployment to
longer life
switch roles with
budget releases
Alberta playing second fiddle to Saskatchewan in
post-secondary funding

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driving as much, they don’t go out

bree mantha
cord (wilfrid laurier
university)
WATERLOO, Ont. (CUP) –– Despite
the apparent downsides to unem-
ployment, two Wilfrid Laurier
University professors have found
that unemployed Canadians may in
fact live longer.
Hideki Ariizumi and Tammy
Schirle of the university’s economics
department have compiled a study
based on over 30 years of data. The
study will appear in a report by the
Canadian Labour Market and Skills
Researcher Network next month.
“The project was actually done
very quickly,” Schirle said. According
to Schirle, the two had already been
working on a project examining the
correlation between unemployment
and mortality.
“No one had touched on the
Canadian side yet,” Ariizumi said.
When the pair discovered this, they
turned their attention specifically to
Canadian statistics. Schirle and
drinking that much, they don’t go
out partying that much,” Schirle ex-
plained. “All these things lead to
lower mortality rates.”
Other contributing factors in-
cluded individuals tending to spend
less money on fast food and ciga-
rettes and finding more time for
leisurely exercise. Numerous studies
have also found that unemployed
persons sleep more.
In other countries, research has
shown that heart disease decreases
during times of recession.
“The biggest difference between
the U.S. and the Canadian data we
found was that while in the U.S., in
seniors, mortality rates drop during
recessions,” Schirle explained. “We
don’t get that in Canada.”
She and Ariizumi attributed this
to Canada’s health care system.
“It brings light to the importance
of Canada’s health care institutions,
keeping Canadians healthy regard-
less of what kind of economy we’re
in,” she said.
Ariizumi emphasized that while thruthout.org/Flickr

Ariizumi found that during times of
recession, mortality rates of middle-
aged Canadians were exceptionally
low.
When asked to identify a cause,
the professors named numerous fac-
tors.
these results show a correlation be-
tween recession and mortality, it is
obviously better to seek employment. Administrators at the U of A de- tastic.”
“I’m a little afraid that people
tannara yelland
clined to be interviewed, but board of “The budget addressed nearly
will take this as ‘unemployment is governors meeting minutes that dis- everything students asked for,” he
good for health,’” he said.
cup praries & northern
cussed the university’s 2011-12 said.
“Obviously, being unemployed is not
bureau chief
budget said, “The cumulative effect of Shumlich said he would have

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omy. It was only a few years ago that fulfill its research mission is at risk.” Despite this continuing need, the

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Saskatchewan was able to proclaim Last year, students at the U of A U of S seems to be in a competitive

t e rd o u c h e b a g sth o se
itself a “have” province. were upset to find they would be position compared to schools across

s sh o le s w h o g i
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But now the two provinces have charged a $290 non-instructional fee the country. U of S vice-president fi-

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switched places. for common student space, sustain- nance and resources Richard

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n o f s t u d e n ts
main universities, while Alberta ex- pected to run a significant deficit, but ahead since the beginning of the re-

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crease over two years due to infla- is capped to increases by the con- University of Saskatchewan compares

u to t u n e r e c e s sio n
tion. The provincial operating grant sumer price index. That is not the case favourably with other provinces.”

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universities of Alberta, Saskatchewan, been increasing at an average of five tion in terms of tuition, even with the

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Calgary, and Regina the bulk of their per cent each year since a five-year tu- increases of the past few years.

t e rd o u c h e b a g sth o se
funding. ition freeze ended in spring 2009. Florizone explained there is some
For the 2011-12 year, however, the confusion sometimes about how tu-

s sh o le s w h o g i
v e y o u
Aden Murphy, a students’ union
Saskatchewan government has of- ition should be ranked. Statistics

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vice-president at the University of
Alberta, said that he understands the fered the University of Saskatchewan Canada measures only the tuition

th n
province’s budgetary constraints and
has “mixed feelings” about the finan-
cial news.
“There weren’t any cuts [to U of
A funding] and there weren’t any big
restorations, so we kind of just main-
tained the skeleton of a student finan-
cial aid system that we already have,”
he said.
a larger operating grant increase than
it was expecting — five per cent
rather than four per cent — in ex-
change for securing a three per cent
average tuition increase for students.
Blair Shumlich, a vice-president with
the U of S’s students’ union, said his
union is pleased with the budget and
what it offers students, calling it “fan-
schools charge, which leads to the U
of S appearing to be more expensive
than the national average.
But Florizone said the U of S
takes pains to avoid charging stu-
dents extra fees like the U of A’s new
fee. Consequently, if one measures
both fees and tuition, the U of S is
“well below the national average.“
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aandc@carillonregina.com
the carillon, April 7 - June 2, 2011

Tough as needles
True Knit Art Show lets crafting guerillas go wild

Cassie Ozog

True Knit crafts ain’t nothing to fuck with

paul bogdan
a&c writer
“I already lost my Post-It note,” said
Kaeli Madill. While this may seem like
an insignificant matter, that tiny piece
of paper contained some fairly impor-
tant information to Madill. On it was
information regarding the True Knit
Art Show business meeting. “We’ve
already lost our agenda. I no longer
know what’s on the agenda.”
Business is something that is quite
new to Madill. She and fellow busi-
ness partner Cassie Ozog started the
True Knit Art Show earlier this year. “If
you could see the Post-It notes we
have our agenda written on for our
business meeting and the Blackberry
messages we have back and forth from
each other, our entire business is based
on that. It’s really just two people
[who] have never done this before,”
chimed in Ozog. “Our business model
[is something] that you would not
teach in a business class.”
Madill notes, “I think it was writ-
ten on her kitchen to-do list”.
The True Knit Art Show is an art
and craft show for “renegade crafters
wanted to kind of create a place that’s
fun and accessible for people who
don’t have a big enough craft business
to be in the big time craft shows. It’s
kind of a little different; we looked for
as many artists as we could who are
doing really different things that were
stuff that you don’t traditionally see at
craft shows,” responds her partner.
The creations in the show range
from jewelry made from found objects,
feather headpieces and earrings,
sewing, knitting, photo prints, hand-
died and spun yarn, crochet, paint-
ings, and everything in between. The
show looks to give a place for people
who create things that would likely
not fit with the other works in a large
craft show or store.
“I know people who knit baby
sweaters with skulls on them. You’re
not going to see that in Sears,” said
Madill.
“[There’s] so many bizarre and
fantastic things,” added Ozog.
Another aspect that the show of-
fers is its affordability to the artists,
says Madill. “We are small-time
crafters ourselves, and we were think-
ing that it would be so great to have
this place to sell things that we sew in
into some of the bigger craft shows,
and tables range from $300 to $1700;
it’s just completely unaffordable for
both of us. I’d never sell enough. Even
the two of us combined would never
sell enough to cover the table, but we
wanted that option to have somebody
who doesn’t have that big of a time
chunk to make [crafts] and somebody
who doesn’t have to commit for the
whole summer like the Farmer’s
Market.”
The two did some research and
found that many others felt that they
were in the same situation as Madill
and Ozog. “I think there’s so many
here, but there’s not a space for them,”
Madill said.
Once the word about the show got
out, it spread quickly. “[At the start] on
the Facebook group, [I] was our forc-
ing all of our friends to be in the ‘True
Knit Group’, and now I login there,
and someone I don’t know has added
three more people I don’t know, so it’s
growing. That creative community is
in there; it’s in the city, and we’ve
found it,” said Ozog. “We literally
found the business cliche, ‘find a need
and fill it’. We actually did that. The
demand is there; hopefully, we can
to become a regularly-occurring outlet Knit Art Show is Saturday, April 9th at
for artists to display their work. There St. Paul’s Cathedral on 12th and
are outlets in the city for artists to have McIntyre starting at noon and running
their work seen, such as the Cathedral until six. If you’re an artist/crafter and
Village Arts Festival, but they are gen- are interested in being in the next True
erally on an annual basis. True Knit Knit Art Show, you can contact Kaeli
hopes to become regular staple in the Madill or Cassie Ozog at truekni-
arts and craft show scene with events tartshow@gmail.com or find their
occurring every few months as op- Facebook page.
posed to every year.
“This is kind of nice because if we
can make this a regular thing, which is
the goal, then we can give these artists
something to always being looking
forward to or building their stock to- “ We wanted to
wards.”
Being crafters themselves, Madill
kind of create a
and Ozog understand the needs of the
place that’s fun
artists in the show. Madill believes
they can help the artists by “giving and accessible for
them that advertising because a lot of
people are great at crafting, but when
people who don’t
it comes to marketing yourself, con- have a big enough
necting with your customers, even just
getting the word out that you even craft business to
make something is so difficult for peo-
ple. I think we can really help people
be in the big time
by advertising, having a regular show, craft shows.”
and having a regular group of people
that come to every show and check it
out.”

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the carillon
8 a&c

Cleaning house
The Carillon goes through its stack of promo CDs, one jewel case
at a time
Every year, the Carillon gets way thing pithy about each one.
more promo CDs than it can possibly The good news is that, if you
mason pitzel,
rhiannon ward, john hand out to contributors. It’s become want any one of these albums, all you
a tradition to go through them at have to do is come to the Carillon of-
some point in the year and take a fice and claim it.
cameron, paul bogdan
curmudgeons cursory enough listen to say some-

The Almost Amos Lee Us & Others Jimmy Zee These Kids Wear Crowns
Monster Monster EP Mission Bell Patchwork Devil Take Me Down Jumpstart
(Tooth & Nail) Bluenote/EMI) (self-released) (self-released) (EMI)

MP: This is the last vestige of Tom
DeLonge-voice.
MP: If I put this on a CD and gave it
to my dad, he would like it.
JC: If I put this on a CD and gave it to
my duvet, it would like it.
MP: There’s a band that this reminds
me of. [face lights up] Vertical
Horizon!
JC: I’ve never heard that band.
RW: You have.
MP: You have. In supermarkets.
MP: [pulls up clip of Blues Hammer
from Ghost World on YouTube]
RW: I don’t understand how that
league of bands that started as hard-
core bands wound up as this.
MP: Like Stereos. Like any band that
was on Disband.

Underoath B.D. Gottfried Ice Cube Mark Haney Final Flash

Ø (Disambiguation) The Warden’s Picnic I Am The West Aim for the Roses: The Ken Carter Homeless
(Tooth & Nail) (Self-released) (Lench Mob) Story (EMI)

RW: Underoath is still a band.
MP: That’s about the only thing you
can say about this record.
MP: This just sounds like leprechaun
blues. Not this part, it sounds like
Styx. But this part sounds like lep-
rechaun blues.
JC: “You see, the Old West is kind of
like the original hood...”
(self-released)
JC: This is just crazy enough for me
to care about it.
MP: This could totally be on Ipecac.
RW: I dunno, it sounds commercial-
y to me. Like, it’s just jangly enough.
MP: The bounce is perfectly correct.
PB: [pause] Telus commercial.

Sick Puppies The Constellations Killinger Emma Hill Mindil Beach Markets
Tri-Polar Southern Gothic s/t Clumsy Seduction s/t
(Virgin/EMI) (Virgin/EMI) (self-released) (self-released) (self-released)

PB: The only thing keeping this from
being full-on douchebag rock is the
lack of an unnecessary double conso-
nant in their name.
MP: Would you be happier if it was
like, Sikk Puppies? With two Ks?
JC: [holds up photo of Sick Puppies]
They already look like this, Paul,
what more do you want?
RW: This sounds like Gorillaz, but
not good Gorillaz.
JC: I like what Mason said about it
being “circus-rap”.
MP: This is like if you gave control of
Gorillaz over to Billy Corgan.
MP: Death, taxes, and Dean Marshall
guitars.
MP: This is corndog folk. JC: Broggae.
RW: Corndog folk? MP: Remember that covers album,
MP: It is 12:30, she is the first act at Macha Loved Bedhead? This is Michael
the Regina Folk Fest, I am off in Franti Loved Creed.
search of a corndog. It’s lunchtime.
Why would I be at this workshop.
RW: For me, that’s go-to-the-mall-
and-get-a-Booster-Juice folk.
April 7 - June 2, 2011
the carillon
Just push play
Playbutton lets you wear your records on
your sleeve
playbutton.co
john cameron
editor-in-chief
Vinyl record, eight-track, cassette
tape, CD, MP3.
And now, button.
Playbutton is trying something
different. The New York-based com-
pany manufactures buttons, about an
inch in diameter, that you can pin to
your clothes – and that has five tiny
buttons and a headphone jack.
Playbuttons are, after all, portable
MP3 players, and they come pre-
loaded with albums. Like the xx’s
self-titled debut, which is being re-
released on Playbutton this summer.
Or like the new Pains of Being Pure at
Heart record, Belong, which is being
released on CD and vinyl as well.
They’re admittedly kind of
dorky, the first time you see them.
After all, who wants to carry their
record collection around on their
jacket? But then, after holding one, it
becomes really clear – you do.
“It’s certainly something that’s
not going to appeal to everyone.
There’s a few online forums where
people have made this extremely
“ The thing that
people latch on
to the most,
which is nice to
see, is this under-
standing of music
as a tangible ob-
ject.”
Jon Colvill
clear, that they have no interest in it,”
laughed Playbutton’s Jim Colvill in a
phone interview. “But I don’t think it
was ever meant for everyone. It’s
meant for serious music fans, and it’s
meant for people that really identify
with their music. And that slightly
nostalgaic way in which Playbutton
operates in general is going back to
something that’s almost an identity
connection with music.”
Colvill isn’t just talking about be-
ing able to wear your record – al-
though, to be fair, it is kind of
self-indulgently fun to show off your
taste in music in a semi-practical way.
He’s mainly referring to how
Playbutton operates: pre-loaded, un-
modifiable, and without a shuffle but-
ton.
“Nostalgia” is the right word. It’s
conceived and delivered in a way that
makes digital media weirdly tangi-
ble and self-contained. Without the
ability to modify what’s on the button
and without a function that lets you
switch around the order of tracks, the
listener is basically railroaded into
thinking as the album on her jacket as
just that – the album as a whole.
Switching up the order of your music
is nothing new; hand-dubbed mix-
tapes and burned CDs have let peo-
ple make their own playlists for
decades. But it’s so easy to do so with
digital media that it’s automatic, and
it seems somewhat anachronistic that
Playbutton doesn’t let the listener do
that.
But for Colvill, that’s part of the
point.
“[The album] does seem slightly
devalued at this time. Which is com-
pletely fine, but it just seemed nice to
really focus on that, make it some-
thing that couldn’t be changed ... it
was really just about listening to an
album from beginning to end,” he ex-
plained. “It’s almost akin to how it
was with cassette Walkmans a long
time ago. You could skip tracks, but it
was a slightly labourious process. You
would really walk around listening to
the album as a whole.
“I feel like that’s been lost on
some level, now.”
That’s not to say that people
aren’t listening to albums as a whole;
iTunes constantly touts album sales
figures as well as singles sales figures
as evidence that people are still buy-
ing music, while websites like
Bandcamp are designed around the
idea of listeners buying whole al-
bums. But sales, especially in brick-
and-mortar shops, are down enough
that a band like, say, Arcade Fire is
able to win a Grammy.
Playbuttons aren’t cheap – Colvill
says they’ll cost between $20 and $25,
which is the higher end of what vinyl
might cost you at an independent
record store – so it’s unlikely that
they’ll singlehandedly overturn the
way people think of records. As well,
Colvill claims the company is work-
ing on Playbuttons that let the lis-
tener download MP3s without
uploading new ones, an action that
doesn’t suggest the company is made
up entirely of strict, hard-line album
enthusiasts.
With an impressive slew of
records from bigger indie bands on
the way via Playbutton, as well as
more obscure projects like a planned
Playbutton from photographer and
musician Mark Borthwick that will
be accompanied by a book of pho-
tography, the company has plenty of
ways to at least give listeners a chance
to experience music in a way they’re
not quite used to. And Colvill says
that, as far as he’s seen, Playbutton’s
enthusiasts have got that figured out.
“The thing that people latch on to
the most, which is nice to see, is this
understanding of music as a tangible
object. With digital distribution and
downloading, music has become
quite devalued and impersonal, and
that was really a lot of the idea behind
Playbutton. Putting music back into a
physical object. Putting value on mu-
sic again. And it’s been gratifying to
see how many people take that from
it as an idea.”
Recognizing
genius
Trash Talkin’ unearths local
literary diamonds
jason vinck
contributor
Last month, I had the good fortune to
attend the better part of the student-
run conference Trash Talkin’ 2011, the
sole mandate of which is to provide a
forum for students to present aca-
demic papers on popular culture and
contemporary writing to their peers.
As a self-identified cynic and all
around curmudgeon, I was pleas-
antly surprised to find that the con-
ference was both inspiring and
encouraging. Some of the work pre-
sented was brilliant and humbling,
and the comments and feedback pro-
vided by those in attendance only
continued to demonstrate the quality
of thought present in the auditorium.
I could not help but think of each
individual who was in attendance as
a hungry brain looking to satisfy its
appetite on the intellectual banquets
provided by each speaker. Some pre-
sentations were prepared as appetiz-
ers, some as entrées, and others as
purely desserts. Each had their place
in the meal proper, but those that did
not seem aware of their position on
the menu failed to properly cleanse
the palate before serving their dish.
Luckily, the overall quality of the pre-
sentations was high, and the feast on
display was very satisfying indeed.
It was amazing to see several
younger participants deliver their
presentations strategically, with the
live audience in mind. There were a
number of editorial decisions, ad-
libs, and revisions that one might ex-
pect from good writers performing
their art at such a venue, but certain
presentations were exemplary. One
in particular strategically used self-
denigrating humour to tear down in-
tellectual barricades, and coupled
with a well-placed cheap shot at aca-
demics in general and an innocent
and honest preamble to start the
whole thing off, this presenter man-
aged to sufficiently disarm the audi-
ence. We were expertly tricked into
appreciating the story on its own
terms.
While observant and often quite
correct, the academic criticism be-
tween sessions seemed to me the low
point of the whole affair. The point of
Trash Talkin’ is to provide construc-
tive criticism and feedback for people
who want to improve their work and
identify weak areas in their papers,
so I acknowledge that I might simply
be the person who goes to Seaworld
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splashed. But if you’re not particu-
larly proud of your intellectual
grandeur, this is a forum where size
does matter.
The final presenters delivered
such a poetic hammer blow to the
soul that even the most critical were
impressed. If earlier presentations
had disarmed the analytic audience,
these obliterated them. The mixture
of sincerity and imagination on dis-
play was enough to make even the
most cynical and too-cool-to-partici-
pate-but-cocky-enough-to-show-up-
and-judge-others sit forward and
listen. And I mean really, listen. One
doesn’t expect reclusive, artistic shut-
ins to speak with confidence or grace,
nor to provide real, bona-fide litera-
ture that elicits a wide range of emo-
tional and intellectual reactions, from
down-in-your-bowels-harrowing to
choked-up-in-your-throat-beautiful.
These people were only just starting
to become the writers they will even-
tually be. They are unassuming stu-
dents who, at this very moment, are
walking amongst you and sitting
within earshot.
It’s for this reason that Trash
Talkin’ succeeds. Critics aside, it’s a
reminder to students that the work
they do at university, even in a liberal
arts program, is not done just for
grades but is actually rather mar-
velous and worth the recognition of
one’s peers. Not everyone who at-
tends university is a genius, but there
are certainly more than you might
reckon. Amidst all the stress, procras-
tination, self-loathing, obstinance,
empiricism, and untold quantities of
Tim Horton’s coffee consumption
one routinely encounters at univer-
sity, there is also passion, drive, am-
bition, and inspiration.
For a day and a half each year,
Trash Talkin’ reminds us that ordi-
nary people might have something
extraordinary to say. Trash Talkin’
provided the forum necessary to rec-
ognize this, but it also encouraged
attendees to recognize this at any
given day spent at the university.
Take another look at the eccentric
hurriedly scribbling something down
in a notebook, or the individual
whose scattered study materials on a
table juxtaposes the immaculate or-
der they’re enforcing on the page be-
fore them. This person, at this very
moment, might be creating some-
thing capable of silencing an audito-
rium full of hungry, critical, academic
brains that, if only for a moment, be-
come truly inspired by someone who
sits next to them in class.

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Black metal is Montreal musical
fun for the celebrates smoked
whole family meat
Even among metalheads, this
subgenre is controversial
Hervé Girod
When not singing the praises of Satan, Gaahl enjoys fashion design and
quality time with his significant other
tomas borsa
sheaf (university of
saskatchewan)
SASKATOON (CUP) — What differ-
entiates one subgenre of metal from
the next is a combination of lyrical
themes, the style of guitar work and
the vocal style — from low growls to
wailing falsetto screeches.
Among the more popular of
these countless offshoots are thrash
metal (fast, unrelenting and with
lyrics concerning social issues); death
metal (brutal, cacophonic and with
lyrics concerning violence or gore);
and doom metal (with heavy and
droning instrumentation and lyrics
generally concerning grief and suf-
fering), as popularized by Black
Sabbath.
But there exist some subgenres
that, even among metalheads, are
considered a bit much. None are as
divisive or notorious as black metal.
Black metal’s lyrics revolve
around anti-Christianity, Satanism,
and death. The songs often follow an
unconventional structure, production
value is frequently low, and the vo-
cals are shrieked, terrifying and grat-
ing. The few black metal bands that
perform live also place a heavy em-
phasis on theatricality, and it is not at
all uncommon for shows to include
mock crucifixions, impaled animal
heads, lashings of blood and corpse
paint — the odd WWF-style face
paint that guitarists with made-up
names like Hellhammer or Abbath
Satanicus are especially fond of.
All things considered, it’s safe to
say that in terms of subtlety, black
metal ranks somewhere near the bot-
tom of the musical scale – just above
bagpipes and line-drumming.
It’s misanthropic, it’s nihilistic,
it’s evil as piss, and it can really creep
people out.
In Scandinavia, the birthplace of
black metal, an admission of appreci-
ation for black metal is usually con-
sidered serious and legitimate
grounds for re-evaluating a person’s
character. Mind you, there’s a reason
for that.
Varg Vikernes – a pioneer of the
Norwegian black metal scene under
the stage name Burzum – sprung to
fame after being sentenced to 21
years imprisonment for burning
down 14 churches, plotting to blow
up a building and killing his band
mate Øystein Aarseth. He’s also fa-
mous for being a bit of a dickhead on
matters concerning “race purity.”
So yes, there is some merit to the
belief that black metal is a morally-
corrupting, soul-rotting, quasi-
melodic path to hell.
But I can’t help but feel that this
is – for the most part – a gross mis-
conception, a wrongful conclusion
many reach as a result of its glossy,
provocative image.
Every subcultural movement has
its tag-alongs — outliers who use
their respective movement as a pre-
text to violence or personal notori-
ety. Punk had them. The G-20
protests had them. Even the civil
rights movement had them.
Black metal is no exception. But
off-stage, only an exceptionally small
number of black metal musicians ac-
tually embrace the nihilistic ideals
they espouse through their imagery
and lyrics.
Vikernes, described as “the most
notorious metal musician of all time,”
donated all of the funds from his
newest album, Belus, to victims of
the Haitian earthquake. As wildly
contradictory as this might be for a
guy who openly embraces Germanic
Paganism, it illustrates an important
point. Like the people who listen to it,
the culture of black metal is hardly
homogenous.
For another salient example, con-
sider Gaahl, lead singer of one of
black metal’s most un-Godly acts of
all, Gorgoroth. Sure, he’s a virulent
anti-Semite, Satanist (duh), and a fan
of torture – having been accused of
assaulting a man, collecting his blood
and threatening to make him drink it
(charming!) – but he’s also a vegetar-
ian, and his boyfriend, Robin
Jakobsen, is a prominent Norwegian
fashion designer.
Any child of the ’90s with a
memory of Goosebumps, Spawn, or
The Crow can attest to the fact that
the occult, death, mysticism and the
macabre all carry a strange sort of
universal intrigue that will never stop
being cool.
In the majority of cases, the lurid
imagery, gruesome lyrical content
and thundering sound of black metal
are used for nothing more than
shock-value. A quick listen to
Triptykon won’t dissolve your soul,
but it will expand your musical
repertoire and knowledge of a fasci-
nating underground culture. And if
nothing more, it’s a great conversa-
tion starter.
Renowned delicatessen Schwartz’s gets
the star treatment
Centaur Theatre/CUP
adam avrashi
cup arts bureau chief
MONTREAL (CUP) — “Smoked
meat: Can you write a play about it?”
That’s what everyone in
Montreal has been asking themselves
for the past week while scratching
their heads in awe. It also happens to
be the opening remarks in
Schwartz’s: The Musical.
Schwartz’s is one of the most fa-
mous eateries in Montreal, world
renowned for its smoked meat sand-
wiches. Smoked meat is one of the
city’s gluttonous staples – along with
poutine – but this past week it was
brought to a whole new level of rev-
erence as the sandwich made its way
to centre stage.
“A lot of people were skeptical
at first, “said Holly Gauthier-Frankel,
one of actresses in the show. “People
don’t know what to make of it, but
it’s one of those things you have to
see to really get.”
Schwartz’s has been a local
hotspot since it opened in 1928. The
Hebrew delicatessen is known for
serving smoked meat on rye with a
bit of mustard, and a pickle and
coleslaw on the side. The no-frills
restaurant is always crammed full, so
much so that patrons are usually
seated at tables with complete
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strangers. It’s that hard to get a table.
With such a rich history, and
enough kooky customers to draw in-
spiration, no wonder the delicatessen
was chosen as the subject for a full-
fledged musical, reportedly costing
nearly a quarter of a million dollars to
produce.
The musical is loosely based on a
series of short stories written by local
newspaper columnist Bill
Brownstein, who had been frequent-
ing the delicatessen since the age of
five.
The short stories were then
adapted by musical-comedy duo
Bowser and Blue, who wrote 18 orig-
inal songs, mostly dealing with
smoked meat, Montreal living and
the city’s everlasting competition
with Toronto. For instance, there is a
cheerful Act 2 number called “Like
Smoke Meat and Rye” as well as a
comparison song, “What’s Toronto
Got?”
The plot of the show is as simple
as they come. A businesswoman from
Toronto is looking to buy the popular
Schwartz’s, hoping to make a nice
turnover when she turns the joint into
a Canada-wide franchise. But before
finding out the secret to the delicious
meat, she succumbs to the charm of
the greasy spoon and its patrons. Not
to mention a bit of a love connection
with the head waiter.
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Although the actors eat fake
smoked meat sandwiches on stage,
the real question is whether the actors
have been indulging in the real thing?
“It’s funny, I was a vegetarian
[or] vegan for years, but for medical
reasons I’ve been incorporating meat
back in my diet,” revealed Gauthier-
Frankel, who plays many characters
within the show, including an elderly
Jewish grandmother who loves
smoked meat. “The month before we
started rehearsal I started eating meat
again and then suddenly we were be-
ing taken out to Schwartz’s all the
time. So I nibbled a bit on smoked
meat, and it was exactly how I re-
membered it from when I was a kid.
“But I’ve probably eaten my
quota for smoked meat. It’s lovely,
but my stomach is kind of like,
whoa.”
Even though it’s only played a
few performances, the four-week run
is nearly sold out and there is talk
that a cast album is potentially in the
works.
As for the query regarding writ-
ing a play about smoked meat, the
question should be rephrased to: Can
a musical about smoked meat be suc-
cessful?
As of right now, all signs point to
yes.
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Wasting Light is definitely one of the more rock-
ing albums that the Foo Fighters have released,
and probably the most since their self-titled de-
but in 1994. Harsh vocals and dissonant riffs on
tracks like “White Limo” give the songs a simi-
lar feel to earlier Foos tracks like “Weenie
Beenie”. The acoustic direction and element that
the band had incorporated into more recent re-
leases like In Your Honor and Echoes, Silence,
Patience, and Grace is now more or less com-
pletely gone. Wasting Light is fairly one-dimen-
sional, but it handles that dimension quite well.
As always, this Foo Fighters record has hooks
that the listener can easily grasp. With that said,
Wasting Light employs some of the more techni-
cal arrangements and instrumentation than pre-
viously seen such as some more technical guitar
playing on “Rope” and the switching metres on
“Miss the Misery”. Wasting Light is a satisfactory
Foo Fighters album. By no means is it their most
diverse, but the electric aesthetic that has al-
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ways been prevalent in the Foo Fighters’ music
Wasting Light
and that the album employs is done acceptably.
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Artists Karli Jessup and Teiji Wallace-Lewiscompete in high-stakes mind games during the closing reception for Rock, Paper, Scissors.. The show pit artist against artist, with the victor taking
home artwork. (Jessup won this round.)
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Spears is back! (You thought I’d say Britney did-
n’t you?) Femme Fatale is her latest album and it’s
pure genius. No matter how crazy the woman
can be, once you listen to this album you’ll com-
pletely forget any of her past antics while you
start partying hard to her repetitive lyrics and
strong bass beats. Her past album, Circus, was a
good start. Femme Fatale seals her return. This
disc is all party, all the time, with the song
“Criminal” being one of the few you’ll find close
to something of a slower song. Her hit single
“Hold It Against Me” is nothing compared to the
other tracks on this disc, such as “Till the World
Ends”, “I Wanna Go”, and “Trip To Your Heart”,
just to name a few. She has considerably less
AutoTune than most artists these days and you
can hear the strength of her natural voice shine
through. If you’re up for a night of after exam
partying, pre-exam partying or, maybe even an
I’m-screwed-so-lets-party-anyway party, put on
this album. Britney is back and she’s definitely
Britney Spears
a force to reckon with.
Femme Fatale
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The Carillonys
Handing out some hardware to U of R athletes and recapping each
team’s season
jonathan hamelin
sports editor
The sports scene at the University of
Regina has wrapped up, but we here
at the Carillon feel like the athletes and
coaches still deserve some recognition.
Therefore, what better way to recog-
nize those involved at sports here at
the U of R than handing out some
awards. Read on to find out who was
the best of the best this season.
Following the awards is a brief recap
of each team’s season.
Most valuable male athlete – Adrian
Charles (football): Charles simply tore
it up on the ground this season, pow-
ering the Rams’ offensive attack.
Everyone knew the Rams would have
a decent passing game, but Charles
provided a potent running attack that
the team did not enjoy last year.
Charles rushed for 972 yards and nine
touchdowns on 139 carries, finishing
second in the CIS in yards and touch-
downs. He broke the team record for
yardage in a season, which was held
by current Saskatchewan Roughrider
Neal Hughes (953), and tied him in
the touchdown department.
Most valuable female athlete –
Chelsea Valois (track and field):
Valois finally captured a CIS gold
medal in her final year of competition.
Not only did she capture a gold, but
she did so in the grueling pentathlon
event, which is made up of five differ-
ent events. Valois, who up to this sea-
son had won a CIS silver medal and
one Canada West gold medal, one sil-
ver medals and six bronze medals, had
an outstanding campaign all-around.
She won two silver medals (pen-
tathlon, women's 4X200-metre relay)
at the conference meet, broke a school
record with the 4X200m relay team
twice during the season and was the
first athlete to hit the CIS standard in
long jump.
Most valuable male rookie – Mark
Ballon (wrestling): Ballon showed lit-
tle fear of the competition in his rookie
year. He won a bronze medal in the 68-
kilogram division as the Cougars won
a Canada West men’s title. He fol-
lowed this up with an impressive
eighth place finish as the CIS champi-
onships, an event in which the team
placed third. He has tremendous po-
tential for the future.
Most valuable female rookie – Trisha
Elliott (wrestling): Due to injuries and
Team of the year – Cheerleading: This
is a team certainly worthy of some
cheers. Under new head coach
Thomas Rath, the team’s collegiate
group stunt team finished first at the
USA nationals, helping the U of R pick
up its first international title ever. The
collegiate group stunt team added a
national title at the university and
open national cheerleading champi-
onships, as did Regina’s collegiate
small co-ed team. Regina achieved all
of this with 15 rookies on the squad
and a rookie coaching staff.
Coach of the year – Bruce McCannel
(cross-country and track and field)
and Thomas Rath (cheerleading): Ties
are such a cop-out, but both men are
very deserving of the award.
McCannel helped the men’s track
team pick up its second consecutive
Canada West title and second ever.
They picked up an impressive third-
place finish at the CIS championships.
The men’s cross-country team finished
third in Canada West and seventh in
CIS. He did all of this with a smile on
his face. Rath, who we only talked to
once over the phone, seemed happy as
well – and with good reason. His team
picked up an international and two
national titles this season.
Most memorable quote of the year –
Michelle Anderson (women’s soccer),
“Without a team to give it my all for
and a coach to make proud, I’m just
another goalie between the posts”:
While she was named a first-team all-
star and put up some incredible num-
bers this season, the Cougars women’s
soccer goaltender remained humble
throughout it all. Whenever asked
about her accomplishments, Anderson
was quick to give credit to her team-
mates and say that it is all about the
team. Entering her final year,
Anderson is confident the team can fi-
nally make the playoffs. This quote,
which was beautifully worded, shows
how lucky the Cougars are to have
Anderson on their team.
Most interesting quote of the year -
Leo McGee (men’s wrestling), “A
mistake like that is really elementary
– it’s like having a goalie in hockey
who skates to the other end of the ice
after the puck”: This quote, uttered
by the men’s wrestling head coach,
aimed at explaining how one of his
wrestlers lost his match. While we
think we get what McGee is trying to
say, bringing up a hockey reference,
especially regarding the goaltender, to
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inexperience, the Cougars women’s
wrestling team had it share of strug-
gles this season. However, Elliott rou-
tinely put up solid performances in
her rookie campaign. The Canada
West female rookie of the year picked
up a gold medal in the conference
meet in the 48-kg division and ad-
vanced to nationals along with three
other Cougar women. She placed
fourth in this division at nationals. At
the team’s home event, the Cougar
Open, she placed first in her division
and helped Regina finish first.
Most inspirational athlete – Paul
Gareau (men’s basketball): After be-
ing suspended from the Cougars
men’s basketball team during the
2008-09 season, Gareau’s future was
up in the air. However, instead of giv-
ing up, Gareau focused on cleaning up
his grades and made his triumphant
return to the team this season. While
the fact that he returned is impressive
enough, his numbers are even more
remarkable. Gareau averaged 18.7
points per game and 6.4 rebounds per
game this season. He finished second
in Canada West in scoring. According
to Gareau, his grades have also im-
proved greatly.
to say the least. Is he saying that the
wrestler tried to go after the puck?
Does the goalie ever skate to the other
end of the ice during a game in
hockey? McGee must know what he is
talking about, however, as he was
named the Canada West male coach of
the year.
TEAM RECAPS
Cheerleading
MVP: N/A
Though they were an inexperienced
team all-around this season, the U of R
cheerleading squad did not act like it.
At the 2010 university and open
national cheerleading championships,
the team’s small co-ed team and colle-
giate quad groups picked up national
titles. At the USA nationals, Regina’s
collegiate group stunt team picked up
the school’s first international title ever
and their small co-ed team earned the
school’s highest team international
placing with a third-place finish.
The U of R cheer squad has also
raised a record amount of money this
season, fundraising by hosting cheer-
leading competitions, carwashes, and
steak nights.
The team hopes to expand on its
That's right athletes, we’re honouring you!
success with more experience next sea-
son.
Cross-Country
Men’s MVP: Kelly Wiebe
Women’s MVP: Lisa Benz
It was a good ending to the season for
the Cougars cross-country team.
At the CIS cross-country champi-
onships, Regina’s men’s team finished
third in Canada West and seventh in
the CIS. The men’s team had two first-
place finishes leading up to the meet.
Regina did not send a women’s team,
as this group is still building.
Cougars star Kelly Wiebe finished
third in the overall standings, was
named the conference runner of the
year and earned a first-team all-star
nod. Wiebe, who competed in a few
national and international meets after
the season, was also named a CIS first-
team all-Canadian. Iain Fyfe, who fin-
ished eighth at the championships,
was also named a conference first-
team all-star and a CIS second-team
all-Canadian.
Rookie Matt Johnson topped off
his impressive rookie year by finishing
32nd and earning a conference second-
team all-star nod. Other men compet-
ing for the Cougars were Dale Wig
(42nd), Michael Middlemiss (94th),
and Marc Beaton (102nd). Lisa Benz,
the lone woman competing for the
Cougars at the meet, finished 87th.
Curling
MVP: Brooklyn Lemon
Women’s curling teams at the U of R
made a lot of headlines this season.
Brooklyn Lemon’s squad, also
consisting of third Chelsey Peterson,
second Ashley Green, lead Nicole
Lang, and alternate Sarah Watamanuk,
traveled to the Winter Universiade to
represent Canada in curling. The team
earned the honour after winning the
CIS championships last season, be-
coming the first U of R women’s team
to do so. At the world championship,
Lemon’s team finished sixth.
Then, this year’s women’s team,
comprised of skip Alexandra
Williamson, third Kelsey Michaluk,
second Stephanie Gress, lead Jade
Ivan, and alternate Chantel Martin,
earned a berth into the national cham-
pionship, looking to help the U of R re-
peat. Regina’s men’s team failed to
advance. At nationals, Williamson’s
rink failed to advance out of the
round-robin.
With all the success of the curling
program at the U of R lately, it can
only lead to more involvement in the
future.
Football
MVP: Adrian Charles
In a season that had so much more
promise than last year, the end result
was the same for the Rams: a Canada
West semifinal loss.
This season, it came at the hands
of the Calgary Dinos. Looking like
they would host a home playoff game
for much of the season, Regina ended
up finishing third in the conference at
5-3, behind the Saskatchewan Huskies
(6-2) and Calgary Dinos (6-2). Regina
was forced to travel to Calgary for a
conference semifinal and suffered a
close 40-33 loss.
There were many question marks
heading into the season from the
Rams, like how would the Rams’ pass-
ing game fair without Jordan Sisco?
Who would step up and become the
featured back? How would the de-
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Charles tore it up on the ground this season and has been named the most valuable male athlete
fence play? There turned out to be
fairly positive answers to all of these
questions.
Marc Mueller threw for 2,437
yards and 14 touchdowns, hooking up
often with receivers Brenden Owens
(596 yards, five touchdowns) and
Mark McConkey (509 yards, one
touchdown). Adrian Charles emerged
as a dominant running back for
Regina, piling up 972 yards and nine
touchdowns. The defence forced many
turnovers and led the CIS in defensive
touchdowns with five.
Next season, expect another suc-
cessful campaign from the Rams if
they can get some repeat performances
from their players.
Men’s Basketball
MVP: Paul Gareau
The Cougars proved the critics wrong
on almost every level this season, ex-
cept when it came to the playoffs.
After finishing 10-10 last season,
critics were predicting around eight
wins this season for the Cougars.
Regina ended up nearly doubling this
with 14 victories. However, the
Cougars still could not advance out of
the Canada West semifinals, getting
swept by the Huskies in a best-of-three
series.
Regina was led by Paul Gareau,
who returned to the team after being
suspended during the 2008-09 season
with an academic suspension. He led
the team with 18.7 ppg, 20 blocks and
also pulled down 6.4 rpg. Jeff
Lukomski, who plays both football
and basketball, averaged 15.1 ppg and
3.5 assists per game while breaking
the U of R’s all-time scoring record.
Marek Downarowicz (10.8 ppg, 6.5
rpg) and Kris Heshka (10.2 ppg, 6.3
rpg) also stepped up their game.
Unfortunately, with many key sen-
iors graduating, it could be a transition
year for the Cougars next season.
Men’s Hockey
MVP: Dillon Johnstone
Where is the offence?
That was the major question the
plagued the Cougars this season.
Regina finished dead last in the CIS
with 1.86 gpg and none of Regina’s
players came close to cracking the top
50 scoring list. Because of this lack of
offence, the Cougars finished last in
Canada West at 8-18-2.
Regina’s goaltenders did all they
could: Adam Ward posted a 4.25 goal-
against average and a .901 save per-
centage while facing 26 shots a game
and A.J. Whiffen had a 3.43 GAA and
recorded a .909 save percentage while
dealing with 27 shots a game. The of-
fensive leaders for the Cougars were
Dillon Johnstone (nine goals, 17
points), Terrance DeLaronde (eight as-
sists, 14 points) and Cody Thoring (10
assists, 11 points).
With few players graduating, and
five fifth-year players next season,
Regina will hope that more experience
will be beneficial to them.
Men’s Volleyball
MVP: Jamie Wilkins
After finishing 0-18 last season, things
could only go up for the Cougars this
year.
While the Cougars did pick up
two wins, they still finished tied for
last in Canada West, sporting an iden-
tical 2-16 record with the Winnipeg
Wesmen. Not only did Regina struggle
to win games, they only won nine sets
all season.
Jamie Wilkins tallied 177 kills, 82
digs and 27 blocks for the Cougars,
while Leon Dyck had 127 kills, 61 digs,
and 38 blocks, Brody Waddell regis-
tered 111 kills, 77 digs, and 20 blocks,
Joel Colter piled up 90 kills and 72
blocks, Caleb Eschbach and Matt
Hender teamed up for 531 assists, and
Lindsey Isaak notched 125 digs.
It is hard to be too optimistic for
next season, because these losing sea-
sons unfortunately seem to be a reoc-
curring theme for the organization.
Soccer
MVP: Michelle Anderson
The Cougars finished 5-7-2 in Canada
West this season, easily missed the
playoffs and failed to reach the six-
game win total they had aspired for.
However, it is hard to view the
season as a complete failure.
The Cougars easily shattered their
previous victory total in a season of
two games and at times played like a
team destined for the playoffs.
A big reason for Regina’s improve-
ment this season was the play of goal-
keeper Michelle Anderson. This
season, Anderson boasted 98 saves
(conference-best), a .845 save percent-
age (conference-best) and a 1.29 goals-
against average.
Instead of getting focusing on her
personal accolades, however,
Anderson insisted that the Cougars
will be a much more competitive team
next year with few players graduat-
ing.
Softball
MVP: Shirrae Muhr
Coming off a season in which they
were named the Alberta Intercollegiate
Women’s Fastball Association cham-
pions and competed at nationals, the
Cougars were looking to build off the
success.
This season, the team finished
third in the division at 11-6, rattling
off an eight-game winning streak to
finish off the season. In the conference
playoffs, the Cougars lost 5-1 to
Saskatchewan in the final. Then, at the
Canadian collegiate softball champi-
onships in Saskatoon, Regina lost 2-1
to Saskatchewan in the final.
All season long, the Cougars were
led by the stellar pitching of Shirrae
Muhr and the hitting of Jillian Huber,
who was named league’s top offen-
sive player and a first-team national
and conference all-star. Kelsey
Gullickson was also named a confer-
ence first-team all-star for Regina,
while Amanda Foraie and Tory Gillis
earned second-team conference nods.
Muhr received the Claude Deschamps
Memorial Award, which recognizes fe-
male softball athletes who have
achieved excellence in the sport,
helped out in the community, and
maintained a high academic standing.
Swimming
MVP: Jessica Winter
Taking over as the head coach of the
Cougars this season, Sylvain Pineau
knew he had to work hard to change
the attitude of the historically strug-
gling program.
Through a lot of hard work, the
team has taken strides becoming a suc-
cessful program.
Regina ended up sending three
women (Jessica Winter, Maggi Pettit
and Erika Brown) and two men
(Hector Fukushi and Craig Soutar) to
the Canada West championships.
Winter’s best finish at the meet was
ninth, Brown’s best was 11th, and
Pettit’s best was 14th.
Winter was the only swimmer at
the U of R to compete at the CIS cham-
pionships. Her best finish in an event
was 10th, but she had bigger meets on
her mind. The impressive rookie is still
to compete at the World Aquatic Trials
in Victoria this April and the Olympic
trials next year.
Track and Field
Men’s MVP: Jeremy Eckert
Women’s MVP: Chelsea Valois
The Cougars track team put up some
amazing individual and team per-
formances this season.
The men picked up their second
Canada West title ever. It was also their
second consecutive victory. At the CIS
championships, they finished third.
The women’s team, more in the devel-
oping stage, placed fourth at the con-
ference meet and 12th in nationals.
On the individual level, Chelsea
Valois picked up a national gold medal
in pentathlon and Jeremy Eckert took
home silver in the same event. When
all was said and done, Regina took
home three national medals and 18
conference medals.
During the season, the Cougars
broke a number of records and had
numerous first-place finishes.
Women’s Basketball
MVP: Joanna Zalesiak
It is an odd thing to see at the
University of Regina: the women’s
basketball team not competing at na-
tionals.
However, after losing to the
Huskies in the Canada West champi-
onships, the Wilfrid Laurier Golden
Hawks in a regional final and failing to
earn an at-large berth, the Cougars did
not make it to the dance.
Though, seeing as all-star post
Brittany Read fell to an injury before
the season started, the success of the
organization is amazing. Regina fin-
ished third in the conference at 19-5.
Joanna Zalesiak really stepped
into a leadership role this season, aver-
aging 16.3 ppg and 6.5 rpg. She was
named a first-team conference all-star.
Lindsay Ledingham, who was named
a conference second-team all-star,
stepped up with 14 ppg and 7.6 rpg.
With Read back next season, ex-
pect a more dominant performance
from the Cougars.
Women’s Hockey
MVP: Lisa Urban
After starting off the season with four
wins in six games, it all went downhill
for the Cougars.
Regina ended up finishing the sea-
son 9-13-2, fifth in Canada West, and
missed the playoffs.
The Cougars got offensive fire-
power this season from three main
players: Paige Wheeler had 16 assists
and 26 points, Rianne Wight had 16
goals and 25 points, and Kelcie
McCutcheon earned 15 assists and 19
points. Wight was named a conference
second-team all-star.
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Lisa Urban was stellar in net for
the Cougars, sporting a 3-6-0 record, a
3.99 GAA and a .876 save percentage.
She faced nearly 30 shots a game.
Next season, Regina will need to
work on maintaining their early sea-
son momentum throughout the sea-
son.
Women’s Volleyball
MVP: Meagan Onstad
The Cougars had to wait until the last
week of the season to determine their
playoff fate.
Tied with the Winnipeg Wesmen
at 6-10 in Canada West heading into
the final week of play, Regina had to
better Winnipeg’s performance. The
Wesmen ended up being swept in its
two games, while Regina won twice
against Saskatchewan to make it to the
finals.
Unfortunately, they had to face the
top-ranked Trinity Western Spartans
in a best-of-three quarterfinal. Trinity
Western swept the Cougars. Despite
the loss, it was still impressive that
Regina managed to make it into the
playoffs.
The well-rounded play of the
Meagan Onstad guided the Cougars
this season. Onstad had 188 kills, 173
digs, and 14 assists. Michelle Sweeting
recorded 127 kills, 54 blocks, and 31
digs, while Tiffany Herman had 642
assists.
Wrestling
Men’s MVP: Connor Malloy
Women’s MVP: Trisha Elliott
Regina’s men’s team picked up a long-
awaited victory this season.
The team finished first at the
Canada West championships, picking
up its first title since 2002. They were
able to do so thanks to five gold
medalists, three silver medalists, and
two bronze medalists, while head
coach Leo McGee was named the con-
ference’s male coach of the year.
Then, at the CIS championships,
Connor Malloy picked up the lone
gold medal of the meet for the
Cougars in the 76-kg division. Regina
had three second-place finishes at the
meet and finished third as a team.
The women’s team, who had in-
jury problems all season and were in-
experienced, finished fourth at the
conference meet with four medals.
Trisha Elliott, the conference female
rookie of the year, picked up the gold
in the 48-kg division. The women’s
team had no medalists at nationals and
finished 11th.

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Time to say goodbye
Fifth-year U of R athletes reflect on their journey
Jarrett Crowe
For the U of R fifth-year athletes, the days of competing with their respective U of R team and entertaining the fans is over
jonathan hamelin
sports editor
As the end of the winter semester ap-
proaches, students at the University
of Regina are eagerly anticipating
summer and the freedom that comes
with it. For some, however, it is a time
of great change. This year, many stu-
dents will be graduating from the U of
R and moving on to new things. It is
not only students, though. Many ath-
letes, even if they will still be in univer-
sity, are finishing up their university
sport eligibility.
With the end near for many ath-
letes, the Carillon caught up with a
handful of fifth-year athletes and
asked them about to reflect on their
career and discuss what the future
holds. Devin Hillier (football, kinesiol-
ogy and health studies), Gabrielle
Gheyssen (women’s basketball, busi-
ness administration), Kris Heshka
(men’s basketball, education),
Catherine Lukan (soccer, education),
Maggi Pettit (women’s swimming,
Campion science) and Amanda Ruller
(women’s track and field, kinesiology
and health studies) all took the time to
talk about their journey.
What was it like competing in your
final game/meet?
Hillier: The final game was a weird
feeling. You put in so much time and
effort over your career. With it being in
the playoffs, you are so excited to play
the game. We were down big early
against Calgary and we started to
“ I will definitely
look back on my U
of R athletic
career as some of
the best years of
my life.”
Catherine Lukan
come back late, so you get caught up
in the emotion of the game. It didn’t
set in until about 30 seconds left in the
game and there was no chance of get-
ting on the field again. Once it hit, I
just sat on the bench and thought of
everything I have gone through since
’04. It’s a hard feeling to describe.
Gheyssen: I was not anticipating my
final game to be, in fact, my last game
as a Cougar. We lost in the regional fi-
nal and missed out on getting the wild
card to advance to nationals. Looking
back, it is not a game I would like to re-
member, as our team did not play to its
potential and it cost us a trip to na-
tionals.
Heshka: We were playing U of S at
home in the first round of the play-
offs. We were confident and played
well, but they beat us in two games. I
was mostly trying to enjoy my last two
games, even though I knew they
would likely be the last of my career.
And at that point, I was trying to beat
the shit of out of the Huskies, within
the rules of basketball, of course.
Lukan: Competing in my final game
was somewhat surreal. It was hard to
grasp the fact that this was the last
time I would wear a Cougar jersey.
After five years, it’s tough to imagine
anything else. However, finishing up
with a back-to-back wins on the road
was the best possible way I could
imagine finishing up my five years. I
was so proud to have been a part of
the team and see it progress so much.
Pettit: My final meet was difficult, but
exciting at the same time because I
knew that it was the end of a chapter
in my life. We had a really great group
of people who went to CanWest and
that made the meet really memorable.
I just focused on making every swim
the best I could, because I knew it
would be the last time I competed in
that event.
Ruller: Competing at my last compe-
tition in Sherbrook, Que. with my
track team was an amazing experi-
ence. I have been lucky enough to be a
part of such a talented team for the
past five years now and it all came to-
gether at our last CIS meet where we
had some great results.
How will you look back on your ath-
letic career at the U of R – favourite
memories? Regrets?
Hillier: I will look back on my career
at the U of R as some of the best days
of my life. I already miss just hanging
out with the guys, playing crib, and
just getting away on the road with
nothing to worry about but playing a
football game. I’ve been there for
many seasons, and each one was better
than the last. My only regret was not
sitting back and taking more of it in. It
seems like forever when you’re there
and then it’s just gone.
Gheyssen: I have been able to meet so
many incredible people playing with
the Cougs. The friendships I have built
with some of the swamp donkeys on
my team will last a lifetime. Our team
is extremely close, and the abundance
of pranks, inside jokes, and constant
beaking will be something I will al-
ways remember. My favourite memo-
ries would be our three back-to-back
trips to nationals. Playing in that at-
mosphere is so exciting. Off the court,
my favourite memory was probably
when I hid a fart machine under one of
the girl’s seat on the bus and she
thought her chocolate milk was “moo-
ing.” She thought she won a huge
prize.
Heshka: I just remember all the boys
I’ve played with. They have become
some of my best friends and have
helped me with a lot of obstacles along
the way. I’ll miss working out with
them and playing cards on road trips.
Regrets are for the weak.
Lukan: I will definitely look back on
my U of R athletic career as some of
the best years of my life. It’s almost im-
possible to pick a favourite memory,
because there isn’t one that I don’t
cherish. Although there were a lot of
times when my team struggled, I got
to meet some of the most inspiring
young women, really see the team
grow, and be a part of the success we
experienced this season. I think my
only regret is that I won’t be able to
continue to be part of the team’s future
success.
Pettit: I will look back on my time as a
U of R Cougar as one of the best times
of my life. I have met some wonderful
people that I hope to remain friends
with after I graduate and have had the
opportunity to compete in the sport I
love while going to school. My only re-
gret is that this time had to come to an
end.
Ruller: Looking back on my athletic
career at the U of R as a track and field
athlete, I’m really happy about it. I
have run over 200 races, met so many
new people and broke a few Cougar
records. One of my favourite memo-
ries has to be from this year, when our
women’s 4x200m relay team ran in the
Golden Bear meet in Edmonton and
ran the fastest we ever have run in our
lives and just crushed the competition.
We not only broke the Cougar record,
but achieved CIS standard and were
ranked second in CIS. We were on fire.
My second favourite memory would
have to be in my first year, when no
one thought a little 5-foot-nothing girl
could run so fast and I broke the 60m
Cougar record! I have no regrets about
my five years running for the U of R. I
worked really hard and had an amaz-
ing time.
What’s next for you?
Hillier: Next? Next is just moving on
with life, starting a career and enjoying
the free time.
Gheyssen: I will be graduating in
April with a bachelor in business ad-
ministration, major in accounting, and
then I leave the first week of May to go
backpacking through southeast Asia
for 6-7 months. I have family in
Bangkok and Vietnam. Right now, the
plan is to start in Vietnam and work
my way through Cambodia, Laos,
Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and fin-
ish probably in Indonesia. I want to
go to a surf camp, and go surfing
everyday and eventually surpass the
girl from Blue Crush. When I get back,
I’m going to get my CMA and ideally
work for the company I worked for
this past summer.
Heshka: I started rowing recently, so I
am going to see how the first couple
months go and, if they are successful,
I will look further into training for
more competitions. I am also starting a
landscaping business focusing on
paving stone. I will be running this
company until it freezes in November.
I then plan to substitute teach for the
two months before Christmas break.
Then, I plan to travel down to Chile
and the rest of South America for a
few days before New Years, until it is
time to come back and start my com-
pany again. Then possibly apply to do
my MBA from the U of R.
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Lukan: I will likely join my women’s
soccer team back home in Saskatoon
and hopefully make it to nationals this
fall with them. After that, I’m looking
to teach for a year in New Zealand, so
we’ll see where that takes me.
Pettit: This summer I will be complet-
ing my final co-op work term in Fort
Vermilion, Alta., and in the fall I have
one more semester of classes to take.
After that I will probably take a year
off and look into a master’s programs
in microbiology.
Ruller: I am going to be moving to
Calgary and competing with the
Canadian team for bobsled. I was com-
peting at track and field nationals last
summer and, after running my races, I
was approached by the team and
asked to come compete for them. I am
also finishing my degree in kinesiol-
ogy and health studies and hope to
find a career working with athletes
and designing athletic programs as
well as personal training. I will con-
tinue to compete in track and field and
help work with the U of R team as
much as I can!
Due to time and space constraints, the
Carillon was not able to interview every
fifth-year athlete. Also finishing up their
eligibility this year are Bruce Anderson
(football, kinesiology and health studies),
Lisa Benz (women’s cross-country and
track and field, arts), Kelly D’Autremont
(men’s volleyball, kinesiology and health
studies), Marek Downarowicz (basketball,
science), Caitlin Fowler (women’s track
and field, education), Lynn Gee (basket-
ball, education), John Hashem (football,
engineering and applied science), Jill
Huber, (softball, social work), Cale Inglis
(football, graduate studies and research),
Lindsey Isaak (men’s volleyball, engineer-
ing), John Kanaroski (football, kinesiology
and health studies), Chris King (football,
business administration), Jeff Lukomski
(football and men’s basketball, kinesiology
and health studies), Billy McConkey (foot-
ball, business administration), Kelcie
McCutcheon (women’s hockey, kinesiol-
ogy and health studies), Shirrae Muhr
(softball, kinesiology), Rae-Lynn Somogyi
(women’s hockey, education), Jenna
Tanner (softball, FNUC education),
Chelsea Valois (women’s track and field,
science), Adam Ward (men’s hockey, kine-
siology and health studies), Dale Wig
(men’s cross-country and track and field,
engineering and applied science), and
Matt Yausie (football, arts).
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Taking a trip down memory lane

Carillon sportswriter Autumn McDowell reflects on her 10 favourite U of R sports
memories from the past year

sportsshooter.ca

Lukomski broke the U of R men’s basketball all-time scoring record this season

autumn mcdowell
sports writer
It has been a record-breaking year for
University of Regina sports teams.
With numerous teams and individuals
having success in their respective
sports, a list of top 10 memories is not
an easy task. Every player on every
team represented the U of R with
pride. Everyone can hold their heads
high as they did the school proud.
1. U of R wrestler owns the podium
Connor Malloy became a CIS cham-
pion when he earned victory over Jake
Jagas in the 76-kilogram division. The
national medal was Malloy’s third in
as many years, as he placed third in
2009, second in 2010, and finally first
in 2011. To go along with the gold
medal, Malloy was also named the
male recipient of the R.W. Pugh Fair
Play award.
2. Jeff Lukomski sets another record
on the court
Lukomski played his final games, both
on the basketball court and on the foot-
ball field, this year, and left an impres-
sion on everyone. In basketball,
Lukomski became the school’s all-time
scoring leader after hitting a trade-
mark fade away three against the UBC
town crowd. Lukomski also holds the
Canada West title for all-time three-
pointers with 292 over five seasons
with the Cougars.
3. Jeremy Eckert excels in track and
field
Eckert was rewarded for his abilities in
track and field by being named the
CIS and Canada West field athlete of
the year. He was the first track athlete
in U of R history to earn the national
honour. He captured a silver medal at
nationals in pentathlon (3,618 points).
Eckert managed to score 21 of the
teams 106 total points at the Canada
West championships, allowing the
team to secure another title. Eckert was
able to capture the gold medal in both
high jump (2.11 metres) and pen-
tathlon (3,680). He also placed third in
long jump (6.97m).
4. Jamir Walker has a record-breaking
season
As a member of the Rams football
team, Walker quickly became an inter-
ception specialist this season. Walker
set a school record by registering five
interceptions on the season, three of
which he returned for touchdowns.
Walker set another school record for
the longest interception return, taking
one back 87 yards for a touchdown.
dominate on the court
The Cougar women’s basketball team
had one goal all season: a national title.
Although their dreams did not come
true this year, Joanna Zalesiak and
Lindsay Ledingham registered per-
sonal victories when they were named
Canada West all-stars. Zalesiak was
named a first-team all-star and sec-
ond-team all-Canadian and
Ledingham earned a second-team
nod. The two were dominant on the
court all season and were the team’s
top one and two point scorers in nearly
every game. Both will be back for an-
other shot at a title next year.
6. Men’s volleyball team earns a
much-awaited victory
On Nov. 19, the Cougar men’s volley-
ball team was able to register their first
victory in roughly 30 games, dating
back to 2009. The Cougars went five
sets with the Thompson Rivers
WolfPack, but eventually came out on
top thanks to strong play by Matt
Hender and Joel Colter. The victory
wouldn’t be the last one in the
Cougars season, as they finished off
with a 2-16 record and are looking to
better that next season.
7. Rams have an all-star season
The Rams may not have reached their
but the talent on the roster this season
was undeniable. Seven members of the
Rams were named all-stars after an in-
credible season. Bruce Anderson, Chris
Bodnar, Adrian Charles, Akiem Hicks,
Brenden Owens, Jamir Walker, and
Matt Yausie were all named confer-
ence all-stars.
8. Adrian Charles runs at a record
Charles was literally running for a
record with the Rams this season, as he
was hoping to crack 1,000 rushing
yards, something that a U of R player
has never been done before. Charles
came close to the record, but finished
off the season with 972 yards. Even
though Charles didn’t break the 1,000-
yard barrier, he still managed to set a
new school record by surpassing Neal
Hughes record of 953 yards set in 2003.
9. Michelle Anderson named a
Canada West first-team all-star
Although the women’s soccer team is
not known for having a lot of success
as a team, Anderson stood out as a
force between the goalposts. This hon-
our marked the first time that a
Cougars women’s soccer player had
been named a conference first-team
all-star. Anderson also registered four
shutouts this season, breaking her pre-
vious record. Anderson is the school’s
career leader in all major goalkeeping
against average (1.83), and shutouts
(seven).
10. Matt Strueby’s shoot-out winner
The Cougar men’s hockey team did
not have the greatest season, but they
did register some very intense games.
In one of the final home games of the
season, the new recruits came to play.
Brett Leffler scored a regulation goal
with just 10 seconds left to send the
game to overtime. A scoreless over-
time meant a shootout for the Cougars,
an area they had been struggling in
this season. Strueby’s fourth-round
goal in the shootout proved to be the
winner, giving the Cougars their last
win of the season.
“ With numerous
teams and individ-
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R] having success
in their respective
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18 sports
Meet Miles
Anstead
Saskatchewan’s rising MMA star
bleacherreport.com
Anstead, who has already found success on the national and interna-
tional stage, expects big things in his MMA career
ed kapp
news writer
Although Canada as a nation is home
to some of the world’s top mixed
martial artists, the province of
Saskatchewan is yet to produce a
high-level athlete in the sport.
Regina’s Miles Anstead is look-
ing to become the first.
Since he started training four
years ago, Anstead has established
himself as arguably the province’s
most promising amateur mixed mar-
tial artist. A high-level blue-belt in
Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Anstead boasts a
resume that includes a third-place
finish in the Rio International Open
in 2009, a gold-medal performance
at the same tournament in 2010 and,
most recently, a third-place showing
at the Abu Dhabi World Pro Trials in
Montreal, Que., earlier in March.
Despite dropping his first bout as
an amateur mixed martial artist – a
blemish on his record Anstead attrib-
utes to nerves – the A.J. Scales-
trained middleweight has since
notched a victory on Canada’s ama-
teur-circuit and is working hard to
ensure he doesn’t fall short again in
the future.
“I usually go, jiu-jitsu on
Monday and Tuesday, Muay Thai on
Wednesday and Thursday, jiu-jitsu
on Friday and then both on Saturday
and sometimes I box a little bit on
Friday. Then I lift – my weight rou-
tine always switches around – but I
lift four days a week before I train,”
said Anstead. “That’s one of the
downsides of having a job in the
sport – I don’t have much of a life. It’s
a good life, but no life.”
“ Once I started
training at other
gyms and started
training with pro-
fessionals, I
thought that I
might be able to
make a living in
the sport.”
Miles Anstead
While many aspiring mixed mar-
tial artists are either content putting
in hours at their hometown gym or
aren’t blessed with the opportunity
to travel and train, Anstead has taken
full advantage of every travel oppor-
tunity – and he has the passport to
prove it.
Thanks in large part to his
Brazilian jiu-jitsu trainer Scales,
Anstead has flown to Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, to train at the legendary Nova
Uniao Brazilian jiu-jitsu academy
twice, has traveled to Montreal to
train at Firas Zahabi’s TriStar gym
and is currently in Coconut Creek,
Fla., to train at the American Top
Team training facility – one of the
most respected gyms in North
America.
“I like to go and see other gyms,”
he said. “Mixed martial arts is one of
the few sports where if you’ve got a
plane-ticket, you can pretty much go
train anywhere. Your options are
pretty open. It’s good to keep it fresh.
I train with new guys all the time.
I’m a guy that likes traveling, so if I
can get a vacation out of it and travel
at the same time, that’s nice.”
Coincidentally, while most
young mixed martial artists are hum-
bled when they train with the sport’s
elite, sparring and rolling with some
of the best in the business has had a
different effect on Anstead.
“Once I started training at other
gyms and started training with pro-
fessionals, I thought that I might be
able to make a living in the sport,” he
said. “It’s one thing to see them on
TV and put them on a pedestal –
don’t get me wrong, they’re amaz-
ing athletes –but when you go to an-
other gym and train with those types
of guys and roll with professional
athletes and you’re not that far off
from them, it kind of hits you.
“Don’t get me wrong, they still
kicked my ass, but it’s not unrealistic
for me to be that good. It’s not like
they roll with you and you think,
‘Oh, I’m never going to be there.’ It’s
definitely not unrealistic to be that
good.”
Although it’s too early to tell
what the future holds for Anstead,
who will be competing against a yet
to be determined opponent on May
21 in Regina, the 22-year-old aspiring
mixed martial artist isn’t shy about
voicing his intentions.
“I hope to one day hold a belt in
a professional league,” said Anstead.
“As far as jiu-jitsu, I’d like to become
a world champion some day. I want
to push it as far as I can go and I
think I can go pretty far. Expect big
things.”
Student-athlete
senator
Cougars women’s basketball player
Megan Chamberlin prepares to serve on
URSU senate next year
Marc Messett
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With school, basketball, work, and think I will be able to balance them
now senate, Megan Chamberlin has a accordingly.”
lot on her plate. Chamberlin plans on bringing a
The University of Regina slightly different perspective to the
Cougars women’s basketball player is senate.
currently working towards a kinesiol- “I feel like I can bring an athletic
ogy and health studies degree, with a perspective on academic issues,” she
major in human kinetics. She also said. “Being an athlete, I will also
works in the school’s equipment keep in mind if the things being pro-
room. By running for senate, posed will benefit athletes, as well as
Chamberlin decided to take her academics.”
school involvement to a new level Along with her athletic perspec-
Chamberlin was the last member tive and team-oriented mindset,
to be elected to the senate with 598 Chamberlin will have an important
votes and will be working alongside role as a member of the senate.
Haanim Nur, Paige Kezima, Kent “My role as a member of the sen-
Peterson, Kaytlyn Barber, and Melissa ate will consist of bringing the con-
Blackhurst, who make up the other cerns of students regarding
five positions on the senate. academics to light,” explained
“[Outgoing URSU president] Chamberlin. “Whenever something
Kyle Addison had told me that he is proposed on the senate, I will have
thought I would be a good candidate to think if it is something that will
to run for senate,” explained help or hinder students in their aca-
Chamberlin. “I decided from there to demics.”
look into exactly what it was and, Chamberlin was running as part
once I got background information, I of the “For Students” campaign team,
decided it would be something I whose main competition was “Voice
would be good at and would like to of Students”. Many members of “For
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“I was a little surprised that all of
the executive positions went to the
Voice of Students slate, but that just
might be because I ran with the For
Students slate, so I was a little biased
towards what I thought would be the
outcome of the election,” said
Chamberlin. “I fully congratulate
Voice of Students for their win in the
elections and I am excited to see what
they are going to do next year.”
Next year could prove to be an
exciting one for Chamberlin. Going
into her third year as a member of
the women’s basketball team,
Chamberlin is still looking for a na-
tional championship, which has been
something that the whole team has
struggled to achieve lately. With the
scoring and rebound help of
Chamberlin, the team looks to be a
strong contender once again next
year.
Playing a successful basketball
season, while on her way to improv-
ing the student body, would be all
too perfect for Chamberlin.
Attempting to balance school, work,
basketball, and senate is something
she is looking forward to.
“It may take some getting used to
at first, but I am used to being busy
and I love it,” Chamberlin said. “I
think it will be fun for me.”
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 features
The students’ advantage?
2011-12 budget comes with positives and negatives
dietrich neu
features editor
It’s that time of year again – budget
time. Aren’t you excited? Although the
release of the 2011-12 provincial
budget is an inconsequential event for
many students, the budget plays a
very influential role in our lives as stu-
dents. After all, the budget lets us
know how the government is planning
to spend its money on post-secondary
education to make our lives a little eas-
ier, hopefully. Thankfully, The Carillon
has had the enormous pleasure of por-
ing over all the dry numbers and gov-
ernment documents for you, and
breaking down the more interesting
matters into a package that wont take
you four hours to read. And although
the budget does increase the amount
of money flowing towards post-sec-
ondary facilities, it would be a stretch
to say that it will leave you feeling
completely satisfied.
Post-secondary education has re-
ceived a small funding increase from
last year, approximately $18 million,
and although it’s not a monster gain
considering the total post-secondary
budget is $609 million, the thought of
more money pouring into post-sec-
ondary education is a welcome one.
The 2011-12 budget does provide some
excellent new programs to support
First Nations and Métis students, as
well as plenty of money for student
loans, grants, bursaries, and the new
Saskatchewan Advantage Scholarship,
but there are several key issues that
the budget handles undesirably. Many
students will be disappointed to hear
that the budget fails to provide satis-
factory solutions to the issues of tu-
ition control, on-campus childcare,
and affordable housing opportunities.
First off, the good stuff. For years,
according to Statistics Canada, the
First Nations and Métis populations
have been lagging behind the non-
First Nations and Métis in terms of ed-
ucational attainment and employment.
The 2011-12 provincial budget tries to
address this issue on several fronts.
The 2011-12 Advanced Education,
Employment and Immigration plan
states that “with a young and growing
First Nations and Métis population, it
is essential that supports are in place to
ensure an increasing number of First
Nations and Métis youth are success-
ful in post-secondary and enter the
workforce.”
The government has allocated $7
million for an Adult Basic Education
and Provincial Training allowance tar-
geted at First Nations and Métis stu-
dents, helping to make the cost of
education a little lighter. The budget
also gives $2 million to develop a new
First Nations and Métis employment
and education task force that is de-
signed to close the employment gap.
On top of that, there is another $2.2
million allocated to other initiatives
with the goal of helping the First
Nations and Métis population reach
success in employment and education.
“We want to ensure First Nations
and Métis people have every opportu-
nity to succeed in the new
Saskatchewan,” Rob Norris, Minister
of Advanced Education, Employment
and Immigration, writes in The 2011-
12 AEEI Plan document. “First Nations
and Métis people will play a key role
in maintaining Saskatchewan’s eco-
nomic momentum now and in the
years ahead.”
Next, and arguably the most im-
perative issue to students, is the mat-
ter of tuition. This was a hot topic in
our recent URSU election. Many stu-
dents, including our soon-to-be URSU
president Kent Peterson, want to see
an outright tuition freeze.
Unfortunately, it seems like the gov-
ernment has other plans. The
Saskatchewan 2011-12 budget has
pledged around $24.6 million towards
tuition control – an increase of $8.3
million. Their plan is to keep tuition
increases down to three per cent,
which would be a two per cent de-
crease from last year. However, this is
a far cry from the outright freeze that
most students wanted, and under-
standably many students are disap-
pointed.
Peterson, who will become the
URSU president on May 1, isn’t im-
pressed with the government’s budget
offering this year. “Two years ago tu-
ition increased three per cent, last year
it increased five per cent, this year it is
projected to increase another three per
cent,” he said in an interview. “It’s not
a tuition freeze. Students are being
squeezed from every angle; we are in
an affordable housing crisis, utility
rates are skyrocketing out of control,
and we have no on-campus childcare
commitment from the provincial gov-
ernment. All of that coupled with an-
other tuition increase means that many
people won’t be able to continue their
post-secondary education, and more
than that, it means that many people
won’t be able to get here in the first
place”
Although it seems like the chances
of a tuition freeze this year are dimin-
ishing, Peterson and the other execu-
tives at URSU are planning to keep
fighting for an outright halt in tuition
increases when they take office.
“We would’ve liked to see one this
year, just like we would’ve liked to see
one the last year and the year before.
But this is a provincial election year, so
we will be lobbying, starting May 1,
for a tuition freeze, and we will carry
that lobbying effort all the way
through the campaign until Nov. 7.”
If the government still doesn’t bite,
the plan is to keep campaigning.
“If they still don’t pledge to freeze
tuition, we’re not done yet. The new
budget comes in March of next year
and we will be campaigning for a tu-
ition freeze all the way through the
November elections until March when
the new budget is released.”
While slowing the increase of tu-
ition is a step in the right direction, it
means that tuition will still be on the
rise. Many students, such as Peterson,
are withholding their ovations until
they feel that the government has cre-
ated a budget that makes students
more of a priority.
Another problem that students
want the government to address is the
issue of affordable childcare. The U of
R currently has two day-care facilities
on campus. Last year, the provincial
government spent roughly $780,000
on maintenance of the facilities and
subsidies for the parents. Although
more money is always welcome, the
two day-care centres here at the U of R
are full to the brim, and it’s not
enough. Students with children need
affordable spaces that are convenient
for them, economically and geograph-
ically.
In this year’s budget, the govern-
ment has allocated $4 million to “sup-
port development” of 500 new
childcare spaces around the province,
claiming that it will increase the num-
ber of licensed spaces by just over four
per cent. Although the budget has
promised to develop new spaces,
which are much needed everywhere,
the fine details are very foggy. “We
don’t know where those childcare
spaces are going,” Peterson noted. “We
don’t know if they are going to be sub-
sidizing private childcare providers,
or if they are going to be public child-
care spaces. We don’t know which
cities are getting them, and even if
Regina does get some of those child-
care spaces, we don’t know if any of
them are going to be on campus.”
Getting childcare spaces on-cam-
pus is only one piece to the puzzle.
Those new spaces need to be afford-
able. Expensive on-campus childcare
just creates a new problem. “Are [these
spaces] going to be subsidized? Or, is
it going to be just as expensive as any-
where else, forcing students to not
only pay for the childcare, but then
get another job just to afford it, even
though the government is funding the
space.”
Subsidization reduces the prices
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of childcare from around $500 a month
to a much more student-friendly $150
a month. Obviously, if you are a stu-
dent and a parent, subsidized child-
care on-campus is a top priority.
Currently, the waiting list for the two
day-care facilities at the U of R is
standing at about 300 people, 250 of
them are students, and the other 50
are faculty members. During their
peak times of the year, the day-care
centres can receive around 20 to 40
calls per day requesting spots, and
sometimes it can be years before some-
thing opens up. Sheila Pelletier, the di-
rector of one of the on-campus
day-care centres, has put in a proposal
to build 90 more spaces on-campus;
she is hoping to be approved within
sometime in the coming weeks. The
need for more on-campus child-care
couldn’t be more obvious, and hope-
fully, the government will recognize
that.
Affordable housing is a key matter
for many students on a day-to-day ba-
sis. Just like tuition and childcare, if
students have to pay absurd amounts
of money to pay for their living ex-
penses, it means more time working
and less time going to school, or pos-
sibly not going to school at all.
“There are three dimensions to
this issue,” Peterson said. “The first is
that we want to see some kind of rent
control. We need to protect renters,
many of whom are students, from
overly burdensome rent increases. The
second dimension is supply, there
needs to be, on the whole, more af-
fordable housing units. Ideally we
want lower rent, but also, we need to
make it easier for students to find a
place to live. The third dimension is
that we would like to see those afford-
able housing units built on campus so
that it would then be incorporated into
the U of R’s strategic plan and partner-
ship with the provincial government
to not only build those housing units,
but to make them truly affordable.”
The government has provided
somewhat of an outline for the con-
struction of new housing units. The
2011-12 budget does provide private
contractors with grants for each new
rental unit they build, to a maximum
of $5000 dollars. But the contractors
have no incentive to make units that
are practical to students. “While there
are incentives for contractors to build
rental units, there is nothing that
makes them affordable, there is no def-
inition of affordable, and there is no
pledge whatsoever to have them on, or
near, the University of Regina.”
The uncertain future of affordable
housing is frustrating in and of itself.
But when you take into account that
the provincial government has essen-
Features Editor: Dietrich Neu
features@carillonregina.com
tially lined liquor vendor’s pockets
with a massive tax break masquerad-
ing as subsidies for beer, the issue of
affordable housing seems to be on the
government’ backburner. “I think that
it is shameful when a provincial gov-
ernment, who is running a surplus and
refuses to freeze tuition, gives more
money to private liquor vendors than
to affordable housing initiatives.”
The government is planning to
give around $5 million in subsidies to
off-sale liquor vendors. The idea is that
this will allow these vendors to lower
the price of beer without feeling the
sting in their pocketbooks. “But many
vendors are saying that they are just
going to take the subsidy and not
lower the price of beer,” Peterson said.
“So it’s basically a tax break for the
private liquor vendors in
Saskatchewan to the tone of $5 mil-
lion. This shows you where the gov-
ernment’s priorities are, and we would
like to see those priorities reversed.”
Failure to control the affordable
housing crisis would have a devastat-
ing ripple effect for all students living
on their own. The worst-case scenario
would be unaffordable housing pre-
venting students from making it to
school in the first place. University is
expensive and time consuming; stu-
dents need affordable housing to help
them along economically. “That is
what we would like to see,” Peterson
said. “We think that it’s not only
doable, and financially responsible,
but also socially responsible. In the
current economy that Regina find itself
in, housing is a huge barrier to entry
when it comes to post-secondary insti-
tutions. So we want to see those hous-
ing units on-campus so students can
actually come here, live here, and learn
here.”
Obviously no budget is ever going
to cater to the needs of one group of in-
dividuals completely. The 2011-12
Saskatchewan provincial budget pro-
vides some extra cash to post-second-
ary, helping us to keep tuition to down
to three per cent, providing money for
scholarships, and new programs to aid
First Nations and Métis students. But
the budget also comes with a great
deal of disappointment and uncer-
tainty. Tuition will continue to rise,
and there is still a big question mark
on the key issues of childcare and af-
fordable housing. Until those looming
question marks are erased, there will
be many students that come away
from this budget unsatisfied.
We attempted to contact Rob Norris’ office.
He did contact us for comment, but unfor-
tunately it was past our publishing dead-
line.
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editorial
See you in
September
Have we thanked you yet?
I mean you. The person reading
this on the bench just beside the
doors in Riddell Centre while wait-
ing for the bus. The person sitting
down and flipping to this page while
drinking your morning coffee at
Henderson’s in Campion. The per-
son picking this up at Pita Pit on
Kramer while you grab the late-night
study binge snack you need just be-
fore the place closes. The person
bringing this back to their office and
browsing through it to get an idea of
what students across campus are do-
ing before you head to the classroom
to teach.
I mean you, the member of the
University of Regina community.
At the start of the year, the
Carillon’s goal was fairly simple. We
just wanted to deliver the news. But
as the year went on and important
things started happening – like
October’s Canadian Federation of
Students referendum, which we were
hearing about even into March – our
bigger goal became clear. We wanted
to inform you, sure. But we also
wanted you to get engaged.
Did you ever.
Turnout for the CFS referendum
was massive – 25 per cent of students
taking a break outside Riddell as the
Sunday night performance of The
Queens ended, watching as the doors
of the auditorium opened and a few
people trickled out. My slight disap-
pointment turned quickly to surprise
and excitement, however, as dozens
of people began to crowd the theatre
lobby.
There are events like these going
on all across campus, and this year
we’ve watched you get involved
with them. And that’s why we’re
grateful.
Writing a newspaper is, at a basic
level, about telling stories. For a com-
munity like the U of R, that means
telling the stories of people in the
community – their struggles, their
triumphs, their concerns, their hopes.
This year, we’ve tried to capture as
many of those as we could. But this
editorial, like those stories, isn’t
about us. It’s about you. Without you
getting engaged and having those
stories, the paper you’re holding in
your hands wouldn’t be anything
close to what it is today.
You care about your community.
You’ve gone out and proven that
you’re interested, you’re informed,
and you’re engaged with what’s go-
ing on around you. You’ve given us
opinion
Quit your
complaining
WATERLOO, Ont. (CUP) –– If there is
one thing that we can promote about
university education, it’s the fact that
we are taught to be “critical thinkers.”
In job interviews, discussions
with concerned relatives and any
other situation where we’re reduced
to grasping at our defences, critical
thinking manages to come up in one
form or another.
However, next time you sit down
with a group of people, stop to ob-
serve the topics of conversation. Who
knew that critical thinking equals
complaining? We are excellent at an-
alyzing issues. It seems to be the com-
mon thread that binds us; simply
watching a television program turns
into a contest of who can spot the
biggest flaw.
We are not willing to accept any-
thing as it appears, or we will not ac-
cept any explanation except the most
critical. An outrageous celebrity state-
ment must be traceable to drugs and
an unseasonably warm day is
shrugged off to global warming.
Political unrest in the Middle East?
Figures.
We search for negativity, convinc-
ing ourselves that negative fates are
deserved and anything uplifting must
be temporary or a joke.
strong convictions and we should
voice our opinions. We live in a coun-
try that will not persecute us for rais-
ing our voices about issues,
something that we should fully ap-
preciate.
We can talk politics, gender
equality and find humour in a child
lobbying for “more cookies for kids”
at the G8 summit last June. We idolize
satirists and comedians who can call
out the leading figures in the ridicu-
lous spectacle we live in.
What I wish to call attention to is
complaining for the sake of complain-
ing. Perhaps social media aids it – we
can instantly share our opinions in
140 characters or less to those follow-
ing us through Twitter. We can post a
link on Facebook of a ridiculous state-
ment made by anyone from Charlie
Sheen to Stephen Harper and then
proceed to find fault in every aspect
of their being.
We have no problem anony-
mously posting accusatory state-
ments on online discussion boards,
which may turn out to be the perfect
medium for our generation. An argu-
ment posted without an author to
blame, just another criticism offered
by a faceless, untraceable voice that
others can feed off of. We want our
the freedom to be increasingly harsh.
Internet posts are read, dismissed
and replaced so quickly that there is-
n’t enough time to evaluate argu-
ments made before they are replaced
with haphazardly formed responses.
I see the problem resting in re-
search and accountability. We can
make statements in the seconds it
takes to type or text message a few
words, without considering the full
background story. We easily dismiss
information as characteristic of an in-
dividual’s usual behaviour.
In psychology it is known as the
fundamental attribution error: We
tear people apart, because any hard-
ness that has befallen them must be
due to individual factors and not en-
vironmental or background causes.
In today’s society, critical think-
ing is an invaluable tool. Without it
we would be swallowed by the bar-
rage of conflicting messages we re-
ceive every day. Complain all you
want, but validate your arguments
and treat each post as representative.
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Newly-”elected” Ed Director: I
guess integrity won’t be a part of
your future classrooms.
Did you know there is a youth hos-
tel in Regina? Here is your chance
to get involved in governance and
make a positive impact!
(Governance experience great, but
not required.) Hostelling
International - Saskatchewan
Region is looking for new potential
board members! For more informa-
name student number tion, check out www.hihostels.ca
or leave a message at the Regina
email address hostel at 791-8160.
message To the cute girl who opened the
doors in Campion for me: Thanks
again, I hope I see you again one
day.
So what’s up with whatserface tak-
ing the URSU Ed Students
Director? I thought she wasn’t run-
ning?
As if I cannot access my student
account because someone has de-
cided to hack the university's web-
site . . wtf?!
Today, someone said to me, "wow
this is gayer than AIDS". Are you
the most ignorant person in the
world?! Go fuck yourself, douche
bag.
To the people who keep writing
'work' under the options for the
homeless on the posters: I've
known people with full-time jobs
who were homeless. My friend in
Ontario has been unemployed for
two years. Get educated.
Hello U of R, Where Art Thou
RedBull! In need of my wings here.
To the girl who tripped the guy at
kegarama who ended up shatter-
ing his knee in 6 places: that xray is
now being used to show nursing
students at siast what a severely
broken kneecap looks like, he will
eventually have to go to rehab to
learn how to walk again, and he
gets to enjoy his family reunion in
a wheelchair. STILL waiting for an
apology....
So are you actually going to play
some country at this supposed
barn dance this year? I felt pretty
wrong fist pumping to techno next
to hay bales last year. Not like any
actual dance in a barn I have ever
had. .
If I only had ten minutes to live I
would spend it in a geography
class because it feels like an eter-
nity
Overheard in Tim’s line: “I’m go-
ing to vote for Ralph Goodale.
He’d make a good premier.”
Get involved in creating meaning-
ful projects to help the community
next year by joining SIFE! Check
out www.siferegina.ca

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