By Clare ClanCy and Jake edmistonEditors in Chief

An off-campus attack on a Queen’s Bands member was reported to Campus Security last week.

University officials say the incident was one of four “acts of intimidation” on Bands members since the Nov. 17 suspension of Bands performances for the remainder of the fall term.

Campus Security director David Patterson confirmed that the Kingston Police Major Crimes Unit is currently investigating the assault. It was reported that the assault occurred at 2 a.m. last Friday.

Kingston Police media relations didn’t respond to interview requests from the Journal. Patterson didn’t provide further details on the assault.

The reported assault on the female Bands member is the only known instance of physical violence against Bands members. The other three reported incidents were cited as verbal assault.

A member of the Queen’s Bands executive said the female student was hospitalized for head injuries and has physically recovered.

“Some of our membership have been afraid to leave their homes,” said the executive member who chose to remain anonymous for

safety reasons. “Queen’s Bands as a whole feels isolated and ostracized due to the reaction of the Administration, AMS and the media.”

The AMS and University administration suspended the Bands after uncovering materials

circulated by the Bands that were deemed offensive. The Journal published a story on Nov. 18, quoting from an internal Bands newsletter and the Queen’s Bands Songbook.

Bands executive members said publishing of the newsletter,

“The Banner,” was discontinued in September.

The executive member told the Journal the assault victim wasn’t wearing any clothing to indicate her affiliation with Queen’s Bands.

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Catherine owsikAssistant News Editor

Tea Room officials say the campus coffee shop is now the only café in Canada with zero

consumer waste.Head manager Andrew Dean

said consumers can recycle all packaging or hand it back to the café to be composted.

The final step in achieving this

goal was implemented on Nov. 21 after the Tea Room found a compostable alternative to plastic wrap. Now the service uses a cellulose-based polymer sheet to wrap food. Dean said it took over

a year to find a California-based supplier of the product.

“It’s a very new technology that’s just kind of being rolled out, it’s definitely not main-stream yet,” Dean, Sci ’12, said. “It looks exactly the same as plastic wrap but it’s different in that it isn’t self-adhesive.”

The café has used compostable coffee cups since it opened in 2006. Since then, the Tea Room implemented compostable stir sticks and cutlery.

Any biodegradable material handed back to the Tea Room is either composted in vermicomposter bins, located on site at the Integrated Learning Centre, or taken to a local composting facility.

Dean said it takes several months for the worms to fully degrade

Tea Room

Café produces zero consumer wasteAll products purchased from the Tea Room have recyclable or compostable packaging

FeaturesSocialist writer Richard Dufour speaks on the Occupy protests.

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sportsMen’s hockey struggles through November.

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postscriptThree homemade recipes for the holidays.

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Vic Hall fire alarms decrease

The number of fire alarms pulled in Victoria Hall residence has significantly decreased from last year.

In the fall term of 2010 there were a total of 26 fire alarms pulled from September to November. So far this term there has been one malicious fire alarm.

Bruce Griffiths, director of Queen’s Housing and Hospitality Services, said this decrease resulted from many new initiatives including the installation of video cameras in the Victoria Hall lobby and stairwells.

“Cameras are a useful tool along with safety education, additional locks in stairwells, the hiring of a Security Supervisor, the campus safety website, etc,” Griffiths told the Journal via email.

Last year, a malicious fire alarm meant Kingston Fire and Rescue was delayed from an emergency incident that led to a death.

Griffiths said an investigation into applying these methods to other buildings around campus will begin in the new year.

“A broader assessment [of] some of our initiatives, including cameras and lighting, will take place in the coming months,” he said.

— Catherine Owsik

The Ugly One, a one-act play by 5th Company Lane Productions, is the story of a man who has had plastic surgery and struggles to find himself. See review at queensjournal.ca/arts.

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AMS to announce retailers in Queen’s CentreAMS to finalize retail spaces in the Queen’s Centre at Board of Trustees meeting on FridayBy savoula stylianouAssistant News Editor

The AMS will finalize the two retailers to fill the empty spaces in the Queen’s Centre at a Board of Trustees meeting Friday.

Due to negotiations taking longer than expected, the new retailers will open in March 2012.

“Both contracts are for five-year terms with renewal clauses,” AMS President Morgan Campbell said.

On Sept. 16, the Journal reported that an agreement was finalized in August to put two new services in the spaces in the Student Life Centre in October and December.

The AMS took control of the Student Life Centre (SLC) buildings on May 1 after the Operations and Management agreement received approval from the Board of Trustees.

The SLC is comprised of the JDUC, Grey House, MacGillivray-Brown Hall and portions of the Queen’s Centre not including the Athletics and Recreation Centre.

The services will have no effect on the other food vendors currently offered to students, Campbell, ArtSci ’12 said.

“The Farmer’s Market and other food services will continue to operate as usual,” she said.

Campbell said the two new vendors will fit the mandate of the Queen’s Centre very well. She declined to specify what kind of retailers will move into the Queen’s Centre.

“Both tenants are going to satisfy the AMS’s mission for supporting a healthy student lifestyle,” she said.

AMS vice president of operations Ashley Eagan said taking control of the SLC buildings has been a smooth process for the AMS.

“Now that the AMS manages the space, we are able to actively program activities, performances, fundraisers and give back to students with ease,” Eagan, BFA ’11, said.

In September, the Journal reported that construction on MacGillivray-Brown Hall would be complete by mid-October. Eagan said construction was actually completed during the first

week of November.“Mid-October was our set

timeline. Generally during construction or renovation projects you can give or take a few weeks,” she said. “Prior to this year, the gymnasium floor was occupied by permanent cubicles from Student Affairs,” she said.

“In September, we had the cubicles demolished, the floor patched, and then a solid refinishing.”

Eagan said the total cost of renovations for MacGillivray-Brown Hall would come to around $30,000.

“I can confirm that the estimate for the fall term is $12,500 for the floor, $11,500 for the cubicle demolition and $3,200 for the installation of the door,” E a g a n s a i d .

Additional costs will be incurred in the winter term, but the project looks to be on par with the budget for the construction.

“The only cost that will be incurred next term for renovations will be $2,275 for the installation of a water fountain and possibly $800 for the renovation of the downstairs bathrooms.”

Eagan said the AMS will be completing the partnership with Athletics and Recreation in December and that the space will be shared come January.

“The gymnasium will be shared between the AMS and Athletics and Recreation to maximize the space to the most student groups possible,” she said.

Since the AMS has taken control of the SLC buildings, the JDUC has been “rejuvenated” at a total cost of $26,000, she said. Sixteen new pieces of lounge furniture in the lower ceilidh have also been added.

“Trees and plant life have been infused throughout the building and a new PA system has been installed, allowing the office to communicate to students throughout the building or [play] music throughout building hours.”

According to the Student Life Centre Constitution portion of the Operations and Management agreement, the Student Life Centre Council was mandated to meet a minimum of five times a year. Eagan said the council has

decided to meet more frequently.“For this year, and I believe for

the next two or three, it will be necessary for the SLC Council and the by-law and policy committees to meet once a month in order to ensure a smooth transition,” she said. “We needed to increase the meetings due to the volume of work that needs to be completed during this transitional year of the Student Life Centre from the management of Student Affairs to the AMS.”

There are 16 members who sit on SLC Council, including the dean of student affairs, the AMS and SGPS presidents, an alumni representative and three undergraduate students at large.

At the Mar. 4 and 5 Board of Trustees meeting, it was decided that if the University and the AMS could not reach an agreement on the AMS’ capital contribution to the Queen’s Centre that their control over the SLC buildings would be revoked.

“It is very unlikely that this would happen,” Eagan said.

Eagan could not comment on the AMS’s capital contribution to the Queen’s Centre because resolution talks are still ongoing.

By savoula stylianouAssistant News Editor

Visits to the Queen’s Peer Support Centre have drastically increased this year.

This semester the Peer Support Centre has seen 150 visits so far, compared to 100 visits over the entire 2010-11 academic year.

Evette Yassa, a marketing and outreach co-ordinator for the centre, said in 2009-10 there were only seven visits during the entire year. The centre was created in 2007.

“A major factor has been the increase in outreach this year. We distribute a lot of promotional materials,” Yassa, ArtSci ’11, said.

“To add to our outreach, we’re

using social media.”The number of student

volunteers has also increased from about 30 to 50 this year, she said.

Yassa said the awareness surrounding mental health issues at Queen’s has been a positive step forward for the university.

“All of the awareness about mental health issues on campus can only foster an environment where people can ask for help if they need it.”

The centre is funded from the budget alloted by AMS Assembly to the Social Issues Commission.

Yassa said the Peer Support Centre is a supplementary to professional care like Health, Counselling and Disability Services (HCDS).

“We are not trying nor could we replace professional care.”

The Peer Support Centre made management changes this year.

“Part of what we did was to create a permanent infrastructure, including the creation of management positions,” she said.

Yassa said everyone who works at the centre must undergo a minimum of 27 hours of training.

“There’s been a huge difference in the amount of training in terms of hours and the kind of things we’re trained in,” she said.

Volunteers must go through positive space training, equity and anti-oppression training from the Social Issues Commission, training from disability services and training from the Four Directions Aboriginal Centre.

“We have also received training from [Kingston General Hospital],

specifically the sexual assault and domestic violence unit,” she said.

Yassa said as the centre has expanded, there has been more opportunity for different kinds of training.

“This is the first year we’ve been able to have training from Four Directions and Learning Strategies. Last year was the first year that it was even remotely fully functional,” she said.

Yassa said she sees a wide variety of people come in to use the centre.

“Sometimes we don’t necessarily need the information of what year they’re in. From what I’ve seen, I’ve had a various range of different people come in,” she said.

Though the peer support centre is an AMS service, Yassa said there are still programs specifically tailored to helping graduate and professional students even though they don’t contribute fiscally to the centre.

“We’ve also had training from Society of Graduate and Professional Studies representatives to train us about issues that are specific to those students,” Yassa said.

The SGPS doesn’t financially contribute to the Peer Support Centre.

Mike Condra, director of HCDS, has also led mental health awareness and response training for the volunteers.

“He does delve into specific issues that are prevalent in the Queen’s community,” Yassa said.

“He’s discussed anxiety, depression and eating disorders.”

Construction on MacGillivray-Brown Hall included tearing out cubicles in the gym and refinishing the floor.

photo by Justin Chin

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““Increasingly,“the“state“is“taking“on“new“powers“to“...“take“measure“against“those“who“are“protesting“their“policies.“

By Janina EnrilEAssistant Features Editor

A representative for an international socialist group visited campus last week, dubbing the Occupy movement the new socialist struggle.

Signs in the auditorium read “Jobs for everyone!” and “For socialism!”

The event garnered the most attention a socialist club has seen on campus this year. The Queen’s chapter of the International Students for Social Equality (ISSE) hosted the public meeting called “Occupy Movement and Beyond” last week.

The meeting attracted 12 people to Dunning Hall to hear Richard Dufour’s address.

Dufour writes for the World Socialist Website, an online publication of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI).

The ICFI was founded by Leon Trotsky in 1938. Sixty years later, the ICFI founded its website, soliciting Dufour to help with the launch.

The Kingston ISSE is one of 10 chapters of the Socialist Equality Party and ICFI.

“The ISSE is a student movement of the ICFI. This organization traces its roots to the movement founded by Leon Trotsky ... expelled from the Third International and the Communist Party around the world after Stalin came to power,” ISSE executive Graham Beverley said.

“Subsequently, our political movement [the ICFI] and life was subjected to a campaign of physical violence that culminated in hundreds of thousands of killings in the USSR.”

Beverley, ArtSci ‘12 wouldn’t disclose the exact number of group members, but estimated the figure to be “a couple dozen.”

“Our movement takes the security of its members very

seriously,” he said. “In that sense it doesn’t willingly provide a lot of organizational information.”

He said the group of six executive members will host 12 more meetings before the end of the school year.

“We go through specific historical and political issues,” he said, adding that they are hoping to facilitate discussion on issues through the public meeting structure.

Beverley helped ratify the Queen’s chapter of ISSE as an AMS club in 2009.

“Fundamentally, the political options that we have offered to students at Queen’s is insufficient and the ISSE is here to fill that political vacuum in the left,” he said, citing a lack of information regarding Marxist and socialist theory in the classroom.

“We wanted to propagate those ideas and form an organization to act on that perspective,” Beverley said.

ISSE meetings typically gather about six people. Beverley attributes increased attendance at the latest meeting to Dufour’s discussion of the Occupy protests.

After nearly two months of protest, a decision on the eviction of Occupy Kingston protesters in Confederation Park will be put to vote at city council on Dec. 6.

Eviction of groups in the worldwide movement began in mid-November.

According to Dufour, the

Occupy Wall Street movement is the beginning of a new socialist struggle.

“It raises very critical questions, in particular the question of massive growth of social inequality today,” Dufour told the audience at Dunning.

“The socialist movement is all about the struggle for social equality to the extent that social equality [is] carried out.”

He said the older, working class generations are important in the Occupy movement.

“Those who have perhaps gone through the experiences in the past ... will bring the lessons from those former struggles,” Dufour said, adding that energetic youth will play a central role in the new movement.

It’s this energy that can make or break the movement as its various chapters face eviction, he said.

Around 200 protesters in Zuccotti Park, New York, were evicted by city order on Nov. 15.

Dufour said that incidents like this, when the governing body seems to turn against its citizens, are related to events like the riots at the 2010 G20 summit in Toronto. Police violence at the riots continues to be heavily criticized.

“Basic democratic rights were basically violated,” he said. “People were shocked to see things like that could happen in Canada.”

Dufour said “anti-democratic measures” are gaining prominence in society.

“A number of laws have been passed under the cover of the anti-terror struggle,” he said. “Laws have been passed to allow the state to drop eaves on conversations, on telephone conversations, emails and so on.

“Increasingly, the state is taking on new powers to ... take measure against those who are protesting their policies.”

In 2005, the American government extended their Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA)

to apply to public broadband networks. CALEA allows the government to pursue lawful interception for the purpose of law enforcement and criminal investigation.

“All these measures taken together represent ... the turn of the ruling establishment away from key democratic principles,” Dufour said. “The problem with that approach is society is still divided into various classes with various interests ... One cannot evade the class issues and class struggles.”

A lack of clear leadership caused the Occupy protests to fizzle out, Dufour said, adding that it was misguided for protesters to focus on appealing to their government.

“There was no real attempt to go into working class neighbourhoods, workplaces, factories, offices where workers work, and try to appeal to those and raise the issues of inequality, of the anti-democratic measures and so on,” he said.

Dufour said the people who should have rightfully pursued this

cause couldn’t afford to leave their jobs for the protest.

“Of course, it is a complex issue,” Dufour said. “But we do believe a new period is opening up where the working class will again come into struggle, notwithstanding the complexities and difficulties.

“[They will] risk involvement in terms of jobs, but we do feel the spirit of self-sacrifice and solidarity will again re-emerge and play a dominant role in the outlook of everyday working people.”

Looming threats to Occupy Kingston are telling of an unsteady future, Dufour said, adding that smaller protests can add up.

“Obviously those who are involved in the Occupy movement, even in those smaller places like Kingston, have the right motivations to take action,” he said. “At the same time, we believe the movement or these issues go way beyond these small Occupy movements.

“The extent that they limit themselves to small protests [by] not looking outwards in particular to the general working population ... [means] connecting the issues of inequality with the everyday problems then becomes difficult.”

According to Dufour, socialism’s future will be marked by struggle. He said he predicts a fight against international demands for less funding in healthcare, education and social programs.

“[The class of] working people should develop its own social demands, its own advocates, its own rights — the right to a job, the right to healthcare, the right to education — their social rights,” he said.

“That’s why a political party is required to advocate those rights and fight for them and organize the struggle for them.”

— With files from Terra-Ann Arnone

Occupy KingstOn

Socialist writer speaks to studentsRichard Dufour discusses the Occupy movement with students and Kingston locals in Dunning Hall last week

Graham Beverley helped ratify the Queen’s chapter of the International Students for Social Equality as an AMS club in 2009.

Photo by Justin Chin

““Obviously“those“who“are“involved“in“the“Occupy“movement,“even“in“those“smaller“places“like“Kingston,“have“the“right“motivations“to““take“action.“““““““““““”

— Richard Dufour, writer for the World

Socialist Website

Protesters occupied St. James Park in Toronto this month as part of a wider movement advocating for global equity. Photo by Justin Chin

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Feature

Thursday, Dec. 1

Queen’s West Africa AIDS Foundation flash mobOutside Queen’s CentreNoon

PEP TalksKinesiology Hall, room 1005:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Friday, Dec. 3

Photos with SantaCommon Ground11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Queen’s Dance Club mini recitalDuncan McArthur Hall7 to 9 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 5

Ban Righ speaker series:

making heavy industry a bit lighterBan Righ Centre, 32 Bader LaneNoon to 1 p.m.

Tuesday, Dec. 6

Lunch and learn: women and moneyMackintosh-Corry Hall, room B176Noon to 1 p.m.Free

Workshop: mental health helping skillsGordon Hall, room 325A4 to 5:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 7

Adventures in active learningSchool of Medicine, atrium

4:15 to 6:30 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 12

Education abroad:opportunities and experiencesMackintosh-Corry Hall, room B1769 a.m. to noon

Thursday, Dec. 15

QUIC English Conversation GroupQueen’s University Interna-tional Centre, JDUC5 to 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 31

K-Town New Year CountdownK-ROCK Centre5 to 9 p.m.

CaMpuS CaLENDaR

fundRaisinG

PhysEd students fundraise to save courseAn outdoor education course requires $20,000 of fundraising in order to remain an option

Steve Gillies, PheKin ‘13, says the loss of the PACT 338 course would be detrimental to the ways in which Physical Education and Kinesiology students interact with each other.

photo by Justin Chin

By meaGhan wrayAssistant News Editor

Physical Education (PHE) students held a Camp Day fundraiser on Nov. 25 in an attempt to save a half-credit course.

PACT 338, nicknamed Camp School, lost full funding two years ago due to University budget cuts.

The course takes PHE students on a weeklong trip during Frosh Week to Camp Oconto.

In 2009, a Save the Camp committee raised the $20,000 necessary to keep the program in operation for two years. Now, the committee will need another $20,000 to ensure the course runs until at least 2013.

Steve Gillies, co-chair of the committee, said the committee sold T-shirts, baked goods and homemade bookmarks, raising approximately $400 at the Nov. 25 event.

“We set up a bunch of banners, played music, just tried to raise awareness about what Camp School was and why we’re trying to save it,” Gillies, PheKin ’13, said.

Gillies couldn’t provide an estimate of how much more needs to be raised.

“A lot. There’s $20,000… that we need to keep it going for the

next two years,” he said.The program, once funded by

the department, has PHE students participate in two days of basic camping training, learning skills like how to set up tarps and start campfires.

Gillies said the loss in funding is similar to other course cuts, like the most recent admissions suspension to the Fine Arts program.

“They figured that it’d be an easy one to just cut and save some money and no one would really notice,” he said. “But it’s a big part for the students that do get to take it.”

The last five days of the trip includes a canoe trip, during which students travel in boats 20 kilometres for a day.

At the end of the trip, each student must complete a test and an essay based on their experience.

Alumni have been financially supportive of the fundraising committee, Gillies said, adding that the outdoor education course is a highlight for many alumni.

“We had a couple [of alumni] go by on Friday and they were kind of shocked that it was no longer [being funded] and they gave us some pretty big donations.”

The loss of PACT 338 could result in losing the connection with Camp Oconto, Gillies said. The loss would impact both Kinesiology and Physical Education students.

“Because they’re both kind of there, [Camp Oconto] knows that we … will be coming back every year,” he said. “Once we lose that, then it would be on campus.”

Cancelling the camp would negatively affect how Physical Education and Kinesiology students bond, Gillies said.

“It’s something that the students are passionate about,” he said. “We feel that strongly about it and we’re going to … make sure that future generations can keep having the same experience.”

“ [Queen’s] figured that it would be an easy one to just cut and save some money and no one would really notice, but it’s a big part for the students that do get to take it. ”

— Steve Gillies, PheKin ’13

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neWs in briefdancers win bronze

Flow Dance Club placed third in the Nov. 26 Ontario University Competition for hip hop (OUCH).

Flow executive member Jamie Jia Shen said this is the first year the club — comprised of 16 performing members — has placed at OUCH.

“Queen’s was never part of the competition until last year,” Shen, ArtSci ’12, said. “This year’s really the first time we knew what we were doing.”

Shen said she was surprised the group placed this year.

“We weren’t expecting any placement because it’s only our second time, so we’re pretty happy,” she said.

The competition included 12 teams of college and university dance teams that performed routines in front of five judges. Durham College placed first followed by Carleton University. The competition provided no monetary awards.

Shen has been involved with Flow since her second year at Queen’s and said the group helps foster a hip-hop community in Kingston.

“It’s not to win medals, it’s more for the love of dancing, the love of community,” she said. “Flow is a family.”

— Katherine Fernandez-Blance

Profs win research award The National Haemophilia Foundation recently awarded two Queen’s pathology and molecular medicine professors the title of Researcher of the Year.

Dr. David Lillicrap and Dr. Paula James have worked to improve the lives of patients with bleeding disorders, such a haemophilia and von Willebrand disease. Both disorders cause abnormal bleeding due to a lack of blood clotting.

Queen’s research has been conducted

at the Kingston General Hospital and the Molecular Haemostasis Laboratory.

A team of 20 researchers working with Dr. Lillicrap have been trying to develop a cure, using gene therapy, for haemophilia.

Von Willebrand disease, Dr. James’ specialty, isn’t as well known as haemophilia but affects a greater number of people.

The research hopes to improve the identification process of people affected by either blood disorder.

-— Meaghan Wray

Residences save energy

Harkness International Hall won this year’s annual Residence Energy Challenge (REC). The REC encourages students in residence to decrease their energy use.

Some green methods implemented included turning off lights more often, taking shorter showers and using drying racks for washed clothes.

During a three-week period the energy consumption of each residence building is measured and then compared to last year’s three-week total.

Together all of the residences decreased a total of 21,845 kilowatt hours during the competition.

Harkness decreased the most amount of energy use. The money saved will go towards installing sustainable features in the building.

Students living in Harkness also won free entry into a glow in the dark party hosted by the Main Campus Residence Council (MCRC).

The competition aims to teach students about sustainable lifestyles.

— Catherine Owsik

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An era of ‘disappointment’Event discusses Canada’s role in global human rights issuesBy Jordan rayContributor

Canada has been regressive with human rights in recent decades, says the Canadian Secretary General for Amnesty International.

Alex Neve spoke on campus at an event hosted by the Queen’s chapter of Amnesty International on Nov. 27.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the human rights organization.

Neve said Canada had earned a reputation as a human rights champion by participating in peacekeeping missions and ending the apartheid regime in South Africa.

Unfortunately after 50 years of progress there are still challenges that need to be addressed, he said.

“The laurels grow distant,” he told the crowd of over 25 people in Dunning Hall. “If the past has been an era of leadership, sadly I have to say that we have now moved into the era of, to say the least, disappointment.”

Neve said one example is Canada’s role in dealing with matters concerning the Middle East.

“For several years now we have voted consistently against any and every UN resolution that in any

way criticizes Israel’s human rights record,” Neve said. “Sometimes we have been the only country to vote no, isolated even from our traditional European allies.”

Neve said one of the challenges Amnesty International currently faces is motivating people to act on important human rights issues.

“A hallmark of Amnesty’s activism always has been, and even in this era continues to be, trying to make it as human and personal as possible,” he said. “It’s crucial to come back to people with good news.”

Neve joined Amnesty International in the mid-1980s while attending law school at Dalhousie University. He said human rights in Canada has changed over the years.

“You might argue that as a human rights organization you don’t want longevity,” Neve said.

“But 50 years has been a time of considerable ups and downs within human rights activism.”

Amnesty International was founded in 1961 after British lawyer Peter Benenson started a campaign in response to the arrest of two Portuguese students advocating for freedom in Lisbon.

“He was confident that there would be millions of people around the world that would feel exactly that same sense of outrage [that he was feeling],” Neve said. “If you could gather up that collective outrage ... wouldn’t it become a tremendous and irresistible force for change and for justice?”

Alex Neve, Canadian Secretary General for Amnesty International, spoke to students about Canadian human rights activism.

photo by Justin Chin

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No perpetrators have been identified

the materials into fertilizer. Once this occurs, the Tea Room donates the fertilizer to local farmers or vendors at the Farmer’s Market.

He said it’s inherently more expensive for the Tea Room to be a green establishment — coffee cups cost two to three times as much as a non-biodegradable cups and direct trade coffee, meant to ensure farmers earn fair wages, costs about $3 more per pound.

Dean said sustainability has been one of the Tea Room’s mandates since it was established by the

Engineering Society in 2006. “Our environmental mandate

is a big differentiating factor for us,” he said. “It’s always been something we push for.”

The Tea Room’s current operating budget is about $200,000. For the past few years, the business has incurred a small annual loss due to the expansion of the Common Ground café, Dean said last year they had a net loss of $5,350. He added that currently the Team Room is up $14,000 in net income compared to this time last year.

Dean said the logical next step

for the Tea Room is to become fully waste-free, expanding green measures to the suppliers’ side.

“Right now we only produce about one grocery-bag worth of landfill waste per day,” Dean said, adding that this mostly included supplier’s packaging.

The Tea Room has four managers and 46 staff members. Dean said the zero consumer waste goal was the work of the managers and a group of staff in charge of environmental innovations.

“We have to continually push the envelope to stay on top of green trends,” he said.

Adam DiSimine, the AMS commissioner of the environment and sustainability, said the AMS food services, Common Ground (CoGro) and the AMS Pub Services (TAPS), are also working to become more sustainable.

“The Tea Room is kind of leading the way in sustainability on campus with regards to student services,” DiSimine, ArtSci ’11, said.

Currently CoGro uses biodegradable cutlery and cups, which decompose faster than

non-biodegradable varieties. However, both CoGro and TAPS currently lack composting services.

DiSimine said the AMS has spoken to Housing and Hospitality Services about implementing compost at CoGro.

“They compost in the cafeterias currently and they said we may be able to bring in those customized

[composting] bags,” he said. The AMS implemented

composting at CoGro two years ago, DiSimine said, adding that they encountered problems with the bags being too small and breaking with the amount of waste they were generating.

Andrew Dean (second from right), head manager of the Tea Room, with other staff members (from left to right) Sarah Ferguson, Dorothy Yu and Allister Smith.

Green cups cost moreContinued from page 1

CaMpuS CatChup

alcohol ban in residence

An alcohol ban has been placed on a residence at St. Thomas University, a Catholic university located in Fredericton, NB. The ban took effect on Nov. 28 in co-ed residence Harrington Hall.

Macleans on Campus reported on Nov. 29 that several incidents led to the ban, such as broken glass in residences and washroom paper towels being set on fire.

Fire extinguishers had also been discharged, which constituted a health and safety risk.

The ban will continue indefinitely.

— Savoula Stylianou

blair speaks on faith issues

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair attended a symposium at the University of Toronto to discuss the role of faith in health issues.

University of Toronto’s campus newspaper, The Varsity, reported that Blair spoke about creating an interfaith dialogue. He said things that threaten people all over the world, like illnesses, can be worked on by people of different backgrounds.

Blair also spoke about his foundation, the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, which looks to create

a global interfaith movement.Blair said Canada is a perfect

example of how different people with different beliefs come together to coexist.

— Savoula Stylianou

e-book partnership signed

Canadian Campus Retail Associates (CCRA) has signed a new partnership agreement with Google eBookstore to provide digital copies of books to students.

The new initiative from Google books is available to almost 20 Canadian post-secondary institutions under the CCRA, a network of Canadian university and college stores, including Queen’s.

Thirty per cent of the online eBooks are course reading materials, while 70 per cent of the eBooks are general books, reported the Gateway, University of Alberta’s student newspaper.

Students can use their school ID or personal Google account to purchase eBooks, which vary in price. They can then upload the eBook to their laptop, smartphone or electronic eReaders.

Queen’s uses the service along with Brock University and York University.

— Savoula Stylianou

Queen’s Bands has been suspended for the semester by the AMS and University administration because of internal publications.

photo by Catherine owsik

Journal file photo

prominent and visual student organizations on campus, our membership can be [and] has been identified without wearing bands clothing or discussing Queen’s Bands in public,” the executive member said.

“A number of members have been verbally assaulted both on and off campus … intimidation has come from students, employers, professors and community members.”

Following last Friday’s incident, members of the administration and the AMS met with the Bands executive on Friday. University Provost Allan Harrison was among the administrators who met with the Bands.

“We will not tolerate this,” Harrison said in an interview.

“We find it inappropriate and unbecoming of what we believe the Queen’s community should be about.”

The Provost said no perpetrators had been identified as of Tuesday. Harrison said incidents of verbal aggression towards Band members were indirectly reported to Campus Security through friends of the effected individuals. He said anyone who has encountered aggression is encouraged to report to Campus Security or Kingston Police.

“We can only do as much as we are able to do with the information we have,” Harrison said.

Counselors from Queen’s Health, Counselling and Disability services have made themselves available to Bands members, he said.

AMS president Morgan

Campbell said that on Friday, two members from Queen’s Bands executive came to her to raise concerns about Bands members’ personal safety.

“We were dealing with it within an hour,” she said. “There’s really no rationale or tolerance of that kind of action on campus so we took immediate action.”

Both the Provost and the AMS president sent emails to the student body on Friday stating that instances of harassment towards Bands members weren’t acceptable.

“The real purpose of the message was to say ‘This is a community and while there is a lot of anger circulating about the materials, the conditions are imposed on the bands as a group was for their actions as a group,’ ” she said.

Campbell said the AMS and University have collaborated in

all decisions regarding Queen’s Bands suspension and the subsequent fallout.

“No matter how the University and the AMS decided to act, it was going to be an uncomfortable situation but I think that we really did take a very middle-ground approach,” she said.

In addition to human rights and equity training, Bands members are

working on an action plan to be presented to the University.

Campus Security officials say that anyone with information pertaining to the assault case should contact Detective Clint Wills 613-549-4660 ext. 6266.

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““It“makes“more“sense“to“eliminate“costs“from“the“processes“of“the“University“rather“than“the“product“students“pay“for.

Queen’s decision to suspend admissions to the Bachelor

of Fine Arts program has left a significant number of questions unanswered. Students deserve a thorough explanation that includes the administration’s plan for the program’s future.

Students weren’t consulted on the suspension. An email appeared in their webmail inboxes on Nov. 9. It’s inexcusable. Suspending admissions to an established program warrants an in-person meeting to effectively field questions and concerns. The administration mismanaged the situation, perpetuating student frustration by issuing vague statements.

While the suspension was set for one year, there’s been no guarantee from the administration that the program will be brought back in its current form. If the intent is to transition into the program’s cancellation, the administration

needs to be upfront. With the University’s financial woes, the future of Fine Arts is uncertain.

It’s unfair and inaccurate to say the administration is targeting Fine Arts. More should have been done to seek the program’s preservation.

Donations should have been aggressively pursued to try to keep the program functioning.

Cutting costs is a necessary step when there’s a deficit, but it makes more sense to eliminate costs from the processes of the University rather than the product students pay for.

Student-artists have been unfairly dealt with, especially those in their first year of the Fine Arts program.

Given the highly creative and personal nature of the program, students are an excellent resource to one another, trading tips and techniques. The current class of first years will be short-changed because new students won’t be

enrolling, meaning fewer students to share collected wisdom.

AMS assembly struck a committee on Nov. 10 to investigate the suspension of Fine Arts, comprised of ASUS executive, AMS executive and the Queen’s rector. They need to do more.

While the committee brought an initiative to Senate on Nov. 22 that sought to create guidelines for the future suspension of programs, it’s done little to deal with the clear problem at hand.

Senate stalled the initiative, stating that there wasn’t enough time to discuss it. This was unacceptable. For an issue that directly affects 107 Fine Arts students as well as the campus population as a whole, time needs to be made.

Fine Arts students were the most recent victims of University budget cuts. The least they should be able to expect is a little transparency.“

Fine Arts

Suspension needs explanationMeaghan Wray

Occupy not overSince it reached Confederation

Park on Oct. 15, I’ve continued to frequent Occupy Kingston.

At first, I didn’t understand what the occupation was for, or how my life experience fit into the equation.

After attending the first official occupation and speaking to a variety of attendees, I soon realized that this is a complex movement — it isn’t simply black and white.

According to Trish Hennessy’s Index at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, in 2009 the average income for Canada’s top 100 best-paid CEOs was $6.6 million. This is compared to an average salary of $42,988 for full-time employees.

This is only one statistic that demonstrates the societal gap we face as Canadians. Capitalism assumes everyone can be successful if they choose to be ambitious. But, not everyone is born with equal opportunity.

Class division is the product of a society where a small portion of the population owns the production and distribution of goods. The majority, at different levels of exploitation, sells labour in return for a salary.

Ambition has very little to do with monetary success. There are societal barriers and privileges, embedded in the capitalist structure, that prevent or allow individuals to work their way up the financial hierarchy. Becoming wealthy, or the prospect of it, isn’t a choice. This is something the Occupy movement seeks to demonstrate.

One of the strongest aspects of Occupy is that there’s no hierarchy. Decisions are consensus-based. Having a leader would defy the very essence of the fight.

Occupy isn’t asking for specific enough changes. The movement asks for a paradigm shift in thought that can’t be remedied by a changed law or a new politician. We seem to forget that although this movement has shared feelings about corporations and governments, protesters have individual motives.

There may not be a single answer, but that doesn’t mean the movement hasn’t been successful. It has shown the world that everyday injustices, like inadequate health care and inaccessibility to education, are no longer accepted norms.

Don’t assume occupiers are stereotypes (pothead, homeless et cetera), go to Confederation Park and have a conversation with one of them.

Occupy, as seen from my angle, displays the importance of freedom of expression and democracy. I hope Canada can keep proving these trairs.

Prince Arthur herAld

Herald needs to be betterOn Nov. 18, the Prince Arthur

Herald published an opinion piece called “Same sex adoption is not a game.” The piece was highly critical of same-sex couples adopting children. The McGill Daily reported that the piece prompted the resignation of four editors and 10 writers at the Herald.

The author, Rick Fitzgibbons, director of Comprehensive Counseling Services in West Conshoshocken, Pa. and a psychiatrist of 35 years, referred to same-sex couple adoption as “a cruel social experiment.”

He stated that children suffer from having parents of a single gender. The article’s evidence was shaky and failed to address arguments from the other side’s perspective. It fell far below the Herald’s principle of “hearing all sides, cherishing intelligent and well-informed dialogue.”

The Prince Arthur Herald occupies a unique and particularly

important niche. It’s an entirely student-run online paper based at McGill University that reports campus news on a national scale.

It’s been criticized as having a conservative slant but given the general liberal atmosphere on university campuses, the Herald offers a much-needed viewpoint.

That said, publishing a radical argument is never appropriate unless there’s solid evidence to back it up.

In the Nov. 26 article from the McGill Daily, a former member of the Herald said the paper’s business model included using controversy to build a base of readership, but that this has come at the cost of balance and integrity. He also stated that he’d been instructed to remove articles with a liberal slant.

There’s an argument to be made for changing an organization from within, but the editors and writers who resigned were perfectly justified in doing so.

An opinion piece has every right to be controversial, provided it’s substantiated with fact.

“Same sex adoption is not a game” simply didn’t meet this standard. In making sweeping generalizations about homosexual couples, the piece had an angry tone that bordered on hate speech. It was also built on poor research, citing a 1985 study to justify the claim that homosexuals are indelibly promiscuous.

Free speech is a guaranteed right, but a newspaper is accountable for what they publish. Because of the article’s basis in poor evidence and omission of contrary fact, it should be retracted from the Herald’s site.

The Herald needs to re-evaluate its policies and process to try to repair the problems that saw 14 staff to resign. It’s a new paper with obvious growing pains. If the Herald takes the events of the past week in stride, it can emerge a stronger publication.

The Journal’s Editorial Illustrator, Janghan Hong, is a fourth-year BFA student.

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EdItorIalsThe Journal’s PersPecTive

... around campusPhotos By Brendan Monahan

Talking heads

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Queen’s Bands reaffirms its sincere apologies to the Queen’s community. the Queen’s Bands executive takes full responsibility for its actions and the actions of previous Bands generations. Queen’s Bands vows to institute organizational change in concert with the University administration and the alma Mater society.

Currently, Queen’s Bands is concerned with the conflation of content in the internal Bands publication, the “Banner,” and content in the songbook.

It must be known that the “Banner” was proactively banned by the Queen’s Bands executive on sept. 9, 2011. It’s unfortunate that this has not been recognized in coverage of the situation to date, as the executive has been actively reforming the internal dynamics of the organization for several years.

therefore, the Queen’s Bands executive regards any coverage which associates the now-defunct “Banner” with the actions of Queen’s Bands since sept. 9 to be misleading.

Queen’s Bands’ vow to reform its practices must not be mistaken. as an organization, we agree that the content of the songbook is inappropriate. to rectify this, Queen’s Bands will undertake the completion of conditions which have been imposed by the aMs and the University.

these conditions include, but are not limited to, mechanisms to ensure that such issues do not arise again.

We must reiterate: coverage of this issue has not reflected the process of reform within the organization which has been ongoing for some time, as demonstrated through the proactive discontinuation of the

“Banner” several months ago. We’re concerned with

this imbalanced coverage, as it has manifested into a hostile environment on campus which has compromised the health and safety of many Queen’s Bands members.

In the last week, various members of Queen’s Bands have endured physical and verbal assault. It’s resulted in some of our members seeking counselling, while forcing others into hospital.

We’re also concerned with the targeting of other Queen’s community members who have been falsely associated with our organization. We wish to work with the university administration, the aMs and the student body to ensure that campus remains a safe environment for everyone.

Queen’s Bands in its conception and mandate is an organization that represents the spirit and camaraderie that defines the Queen’s community. It’s been

doing so since 1905. We represent Queen’s

University at various parades across north america including, but not limited to the toronto santa Claus Parade, the Montreal st. Patrick’s day Parade, the south Boston st. Patrick’s day Parade and previous appearances with Mardi Gras in new orleans and the Macy’s thanksgiving day Parade in new york City.

We are the largest and oldest university marching band in Canada and the only one which maintains a pipe section and cheerleaders. Queen’s Bands also performs at all Golden Gaels football games and many basketball and volleyball games in the winter semester.

Locally, Queen’s Bands can also be regularly seen at the Kingston, Bloomfield and Brockville Christmas parades.

Queen’s Bands is active in many other charitable endeavours including the recent trick or eat

campaign, and free lessons for anyone interested in learning the bagpipes and highland dancing.

Queen’s Bands will return in January as a reinvigorated and recalibrated organization. We are actively implementing a series of reforms which will open a new chapter in our history, and enable Queen’s Bands to return as a positive, inclusive vanguard of your Queen’s traditions.

Queen’s Bands has represented this University for more than a century, we look forward to representing the University with pride in the new year.

Andrew Loucks is Queen’s Bands operational and finance manager, Quartermaster and Pipe Sergeant. Chelsea Randall is Queen’s Bands operational and finance manager and Drum Major.

DIALOGUEPersPectives from the Queen’s community

What do you think of recent social media

startup Joysper?

“It’s inspiring that a student at Queen’s helped create it.”

NiNa WiNWood, artSci ’12

“It furthers our reliance on technology rather than

face-to-face interaction.”

tom PettigreW, KiN ’08

“It might take the fun out of having a crush.”

elizabeth lightbody, artSci ’13

“It has the potential to be the next big thing.”

coNNie lo, comm ’15

Queen’s Bands

A statement from Queen’s BandsBands operations managers comment on recent suspension Andrew Loucks And cheLseA rAndALL

Bring back Fine Artsdear editors,

numerous students in the Queen’s Bachelor of Fine arts (BFa) program are reasonably outraged by the process of administering the recent suspension of admissions to the program.

as a result, we’re rationally seeking as much information as possible about all issues related to this suspension and we’re garnering support from the Queen’s and Kingston community.

But why has this become a student issue at all? the administration is placing the onus on BFa faculty and students to solve their fiscal problem. this, being an administrative decision, should have come with a proposed solution for the future of Fine arts at Queen’s.

there are numerous other issues and unanswered questions relating to the suspension of admissions.

Program graduates report that the BFa has been up for suspension at least two times in the last decade. some say the professor intending to retire has been considering so for quite some time. If both of these items are true, it leads us to ask: how truly sudden was this decision?

some students also wonder about the so-called “disagreements” between faculty members. Many individuals within and outside the program can attest that our professors do not get along as a faculty unit, and have great difficulty in making decisions.

But is the faculty truly split down the middle on action items? or, is it split top-down? are the voices of our leaders truly reflecting the voices of all BFa staff and students,

or are they merely reflecting their own visions for the future of the BFa?

over the years, the administration has continuously deprived our program of resources, and they’ve withheld the information we seek time and time again. In the end, a lack of resources and information leaves students and faculty looking incompetent and foolish, even though it’s the administration that has shaped the situation.

BFa students are open to change, but we don’t want to see the quality of our program sacrificed as a result. the Queen’s BFa program is unique within Canada and therefore is deserving of preservation. Leaving the program in its current state of suspension creates irreversible damages, even if admissions are reopened in the future.

If dean alistair MacLean committed to temporarily hiring an adjunct professor for one year following the upcoming retirement, the program would have the time it deserves to regroup and plan for the future. do not let Queen’s administration sacrifice this sought-after program for the cost of an adjunct professor!

We call on Principal Woolf, dean MacLean, the Board of trustees and the Faculty Board to give the program another year for consultation with the entirety of the BFa program.

as Kathleen sellars said in her Journal article last week, “if we work together,” we see a bright future for the Fine arts program.

Kaisa MoranChair of Fine Arts

Departmental Student Council

LETTErs ThE TO EDITOr

Joysper uses Facebook to connect

with those you’re interested in.

Visit site at joysper.com

“It provides a way to connect more meaningfully.”

graNt SchelSKe, artSci ’11

BooHoo the Bear is the official mascot for Queen’s Bands.

“Bands will return in January as a reinvigorated and recalibrated organization.”

Journal File Photo

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By Caitlin ChoiAssistant Arts Editor

A guitar secured in concrete was stolen from an outdoor art exhibit on Monday night. Jocelyn Purdie, curator for the Swamp Ward Window Project, said she woke Tuesday morning to discover the piece was gone from the gallery’s location on the front lawn of 448 Bagot St.

The replica of a Gibson Flying V was the only piece in Kingston artist Matt Rogalsky’s exhibit Flying V Down. Buried in the ground at Swamp Ward Window, its concrete base weighed approximately 25 kilograms.

Swamp Ward Window exhibits artwork on the lawn and porch of Purdie’s house. Purdie has mounted over 20 exhibits since opening the space to artists in 2001. Since then, there has only been one other case of theft — Kathleen Sellar’s Point

in 2003. Purdie said prior to the theft

there were several attempts to move the guitar. She never saw the perpetrators, but noticed that there was damage done to the ground around the piece.

“You can tell because it was buried in the ground and the grass was covered up around it, it’s been exposed,” Purdie said. “That’s been off and on over the last three weeks or so but nobody’s ever actually been able to lift it out.”

Minimal security measures are in place on site.

“We did have signage up that said it was not a functioning guitar, but it’s kind of the nature of that sort of artwork,” Purdie said. “If you put it outside, you do run the risk of people coming along and for whatever reason damaging it or vandalizing it or, in this case, taking it.

“The venue is what it is and

people recognize that when they put in an application to put a piece there.”

Rogalsky’s guitar was put closer to the sidewalk than most of the site’s past exhibits. The guitar

was grounded about 3 feet from the sidewalk.

By Caitlin ChoiAssistant Arts Editor

Rob Moir was stranded at a bus stop in St. Catherines until 1 a.m last week. Travel delays are a touring reality for the singer-songwriter and that’s how he likes it.

“It happens sometimes,” he said, adding that he doesn’t own a car and refuses to get one. “I guess in my mind it’s easier and cheaper, to take Greyhound and Via [Rail], and usually it is. But you never know when you’re going to

get surprises.”He brushed off the travel

debacle, putting a positive spin on his sometimes unreliable method of transportation.

“It’s definitely an open forum for people to discuss all the things you never want to know about their lives,” Moir said with a laugh. “But it’s good.”

And this is what Moir does. He takes what seems unappealing and turns it into something enviable and romantic. He listed a woman’s unheated attic in Münster, Germany as one of his favourite

shows he’s played so far. “She decorated it with all this

crazy taxidermy and lights and just all these interesting antiques. It was cold and she made cider and everyone was just sitting around in blankets, drinking this cider,” Moir said.

The Toronto native returned from his European tour last month, where he spent five weeks playing every offbeat music hub that he could find. You’d be hard-pressed to find a venue that the alt-folk musician won’t play. As his own booking agent, he’s constantly on the lookout for alternative spaces.

“You know, it’s amazing what you can find on the internet,” Moir said. “I think the more interesting the space, the more likely you’re going to introduce your music and have an experience for the audience. It’s going to be a bit more memorable than just seeing a band in a big, half-empty club.”

After the January 2011release of his debut EP, This Is The Lie, Moir started a slew of tours, playing in California, across Canada, throughout Europe and back again.

This Is The Lie is Moir’s first solo record. The album has sincerity and soul, from its title track — a young-love, folk tune — to the worldly outlook of “A Love With No Past.” Moir’s cool-and-casual voice floats over his

acoustic guitar. The album may come as a shock

for Moir fans, who spent five years listening to him as the frontman of Toronto alt-punk band Death Letter Dept. The musician split from the band in 2008.

“People kind of move on and tastes change and writing changes,” Moir said. “Bands are like relationships with anybody, they should only last as long as they’re good and everything has a time limit.”

He said his musical transition came naturally — from Dead Letter Dept’s edgy pop-punk to his own folk style.

“I’ve always thought of myself as a musician that was constantly

writing varied material,” he said. “I don’t think it was so much an enormous change as much as it just sort of felt like the right time.”

Despite the pressures of headlining his own shows, whether in an attic in Münster or Toronto’s popular Horseshoe Tavern, Moir’s decided he prefers performing solo.

“It taught me how to even be a much better musician than I was before,” he said. “I like the idea of stepping out in front of a brand new audience by myself and knowing that I can’t suck or I won’t eat that next day.”

Rob Moir plays the Mansion on Dec. 2 at 9 p.m.

The guitar from Flying V Down was stolen along with its 25 kilogram cement base. It had been buried in the ground at 448 Bagot St.

Art

Artwork stolenMatt Rogalsky’s new installation explores the electric guitar, but now that guitar has gone missing

interview

Solo and strandedAfter a year of touring, Rob Moir is back on familiar ground

Arts

LiterAture

Short and fastThe Artel’s Night of Dark Literary Arts will have a punk rock and heavy metal feel

Playing in Toronto, Rob Moir is backed by The Great Lates, featuring former bandmate and Dead Letter Dept. drummer Mike Leblanc.

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By alyssa ashtonArts Editor

Black bras and broken glass create the atmosphere for Amphetamine Heart. Liz Worth’s new poetry collection explores the urgency of paranoia and self-harm and is appropriately dedicated to her “old friend insomnia.”

“[It’s] kind of peeking into someone’s journal or getting a sense of things they dreamed of last night,” Worth said of the collection. “I think that really is what poetry is, little flashes of someone’s life. It comes out short and it comes out fast.”

Amphetamine Heart is Worth’s

second release, following 2010’s Treat Me Like Dirt: An Oral History of Punk in Toronto and Beyond. Worth said she realizes that many people are turned off at the thought of reading poetry.

“I think sometimes people hear the word poetry and get a little scared off,” she said. “I think they think, ‘I don’t read poetry’ so it won’t apply to them or they won’t understand it. But with this I keep telling people ‘Think of it as punk or heavy metal that you read instead of listen to.’”

Worth will read her poetry tomorrow night at the Artel for the Night of Dark Literary Arts

See Musical on page 17

photo by asad chishti

See Tempting on page 17

“ Bands are like relationships with anybody, they should only last as long as they’re good. ”

—RobMoir

Thursday, december 1, 2011 queensjournal.ca • 11

Art review

Music between the leavesA review of what Flying V Down offered before the central piece was stolen

By Brenna owenContributor

To the exam-consumed passerby, a black Flying V electric guitar protruding from the ground at 448 Bagot St. could go unnoticed. The guitar, nestled amongst the fallen leaves, is a new art installation by the Swamp Ward Window project. Flying V Down is a tribute to the history and culture of the electric guitar and its musically groundbreaking sound — this guitar literally breaks the ground.

Flying V Down is a part of a larger series that Kingston-based artist and musician Matt Rogalsky is planning on creating. The Flying V Down series in its entirety would incorporate over 20 guitars.

The way the guitar pierces the ground is reminiscent of meteors falling from the sky, ending their descent deep in the earth. The stiff positioning of the guitar

screams that it is ready to be found and revered.

First released in 1958 by the Gibson Guitar Corporation, the Flying V model became iconic for its V-shaped body design. The model has been used by rock and roll legends including Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards, Eddie Van Halen, Neil Young and Johnny Winter.

It’s telling that Rogalsky chose the recognizable Flying V for his installation. The guitar faces the street proudly and defiantly, as if showing its readiness to take on any guitarist, any song and any palpitating riff.

Rogalsky currently plays the electric guitar, bass and mandolin with Kingston-based band the Gertrudes.

The single fallen Flying V on Bagot Street seems to capture the essence of the electric guitar, whose sound revolutionized the music scene in the 1940s and 1950s.

Rogalsky’s installation calls to mind the musical fervor and moral panic caused by rock ‘n’ roll. The guitar’s V-shaped body juts up from a typical suburban front yard, with its stark black and white colouring emphasizing its foreign placement.

The iconography of the electric guitar is storied; it seems to comprise broadly the rock ‘n’ roll state of mind. Looking at Rogalsky’s piece, it isn’t hard to imagine being at the first concert where, to the outrage of devoted folk music fans, Bob

Dylan plugged in, and left behind his acoustic sound.

Artist Matt Rogalsky says the guitar used in his exhibit is not an original Gibson Flying V but a replica.

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ONLINE

ONE-ACT PLAYSOnline today the Journal gives its review of Fifth Company Lane’s A One Act Series.

The guitar is fi lled with silicone to weatherproof it.

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Q&A

Don’t be afraid to turn out the lightsWith the release of their album Creep on Creepin’ On, Timber Timbre talks about their European tour

Timber Timbre’s self-titled album was hailed Album of the Year in a nationwide critics’ poll by Eye Weekly in 2009. supplied

By alyssa ashtonArts Editor

Folk trio Timber Timbre was on tour in Europe until two weeks ago, but their presence was still felt in Canada when their fourth album Creep on Creepin’ On was shortlisted for the 2011 Polaris Prize. Lead vocalist Taylor Kirk updated the Journal via email on band antics, including Movember attempts and skinny-dipping in Switzerland.

What’s the creepiest thing in the world?

Facebook.

Exclaim warned listeners to keep the lights on when listening to Creep on Creepin’ On, do you have any advice for listeners?

Don’t listen to Exclaim — turn the lights off.

You’ve said the inspiration for the album was “to make music we love and therefore embrace the risk of sounding like all the music we’ve ever loved at once.” What is the music you love?

Otis Redding, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Roy Orbison, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, Nina Simone, Dolly Parton, John Coltrane, Miles

Davis, Chet Baker, Alice Coltrane, Morton Feldman, Bernard Herrmann, Ennio Morricone and Godspeed You Black Emperor. Stuff like that.

that inevitably leads to the question, what is the music you hate?

Hmm, I don’t know. Blues-rock. Country-rock. Folk-rock. Roots-rock. Indie-rock. Cock-rock.

You just recently wrapped your European tour, what will you miss most about Europe?

The bread and cheese.

What was your best and worst tour moment on any tour?

Best moment was skinny-dipping post-show in Düdingen, Switzerland behind the Bad Bonn club, in a river below a lemon grove and between two gothic castles. Worst tour moment … I don’t know — being seasick very early in the morning on a particularly rough ferry somewhere in the U.K.

You and bandmate simon trottier participated in Movember this month. Who had the best moustache? Will you be happy to see the facial hair go?

Simon has the best moustache by far. I think he is responsible for most of the donations. Yeah, it’s a strong stache — it even has its own personality. As much as I like it, I’m looking forward to having the old Simon back. A moustache like that can change a man.

What is the first thing you think of when someone mentions Kingston?

Sarah Harmer.

Describe the band’s journey so far in three words?

It’s pronounced “Tamber.”

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interview

Prairie cover premiereDespite winning a Rolling Stone cover, the Sheepdogs aren’t just an overnight success

All three of the Sheepdogs’ full-length albums have appeared on Earshot’s national monthly top 200 chart.

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By laBiBa haQUeProduction Manager

Few Saskatchewan bands make the cover of Rolling Stone. The Sheepdogs are an exception.

The band was announced as the winner of Rolling Stone’s Do You Wanna be a Rock and Roll Star contest in August, beating out 15 other unsigned musicians. Their victory marked them as the first unsigned band to be on the magazine’s cover.

“It’s a big honour. I think the strangest thing about it is seeing yourself on the cover when you’re in a grocery store, or at an airport. It’s a very strange feeling,” said bassist Ryan Gullen.

Gullen said he and his bandmates, lead singer and guitarist Ewan Currie, drummer Sam Corbett and guitarist Leot Hanson, started playing together in 2006.

“We went from people who could barely play instruments to writing songs. We toured the country and did it all on our own before the competition,” he said.

The Rolling Stone competition was held from February to August and included four rounds of eliminations before a winner was announced. More than 1.5 million votes were cast online. The long process required serious commitment from the

band members. “One morning I woke up at

9 a.m. and I got a call telling me that I needed to be in New York,” he said. “I got up right away, threw my clothes in a bag and was at the airport by noon.

“It was very stressful and you’re thrown into a fire a little bit, but [it’s] well worth it. By the end we were like, ‘Thank god it’s over, now we can just focus on playing music.’”

After the competition, the band was signed to Atlantic Records, performed on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and opened for Kings of Leon on their Canadian tour. But all this exposure doesn’t guarantee the band’s success.

“The biggest misconception that people have of us is that a lot of people think that we just started playing and are somewhat of an overnight success,” Gullen said. “But that’s not true; we’ve toured all over the country and lost money for six and a half years.”

Prior to the Canadian leg of their tour, the Sheepdogs were

touring the U.S. “We’re from Saskatchewan

so we’re used to travelling five or six hours one way to play a show,” he said. “When we were in Denver, we stayed in the same hotel because the three shows that we played were 30 minutes from one another.”

The band’s last album, Learn & Burn, was produced independently in 2010. Following their Rolling Stone cover win, the Sheepdogs collaborated with their new record label, Atlantic Records, to produce the EP Five Easy Pieces in four days.

“I think it was a progression between the two,” Gullen said. “One was recorded over a long period of time while the other was trying to capture what we had in a limited amount of time.”

Their feel-good rock ‘n’ roll sound is often compared to likes of the Guess Who and the Libertines.

“We’re a big fan of old rock ‘n’ roll and that’s the kind of music we listen to and the kind of music we end up playing,” he said. “I think it’s hard for people to place us because we’re a little different than modem music and are a little obscure. So we don’t exactly fit into that mould.”

The Sheepdogs play Ale on Dec. 7 at 9 p.m.

“ We’ve toured all over the country and lost money for six and a half years. ”

—RyanGullen

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By alyssa ashtonArts Editor

Jill Barber’s ability to pull at my emotions in French — a language in which I can barely understand — speaks to the strength of Mischievous Moon. Each song offers a catharsis, whether it’s a release of pent-up aggravation in “Tell Me” or an outburst of hope in “A Wish Under My Pillow.”

She will most likely be on every Best of Music list this year and with good reason. In a top-40 world obsessed with creating sex symbols and catchy lyrics, Adele brought heart-stopping melodies and impassioned lyrics to the top of the charts — it was about time.

Having an up-and-coming, noise-rock band take on a cover of the Queen of Pop, Madonna’s,“Where’s The Party” was bound to create musical heaven. Add in an appearance by glamour pop singer Diamond Rings on “Leftovers” and you have a whole other side of PS I Love You.

Michigan Left is the reason the repeat button was invented. Addictive beats and even more addictive lyrics in “Book Club” and “Where U Goin” get you dancing along. The music is so consuming that you find yourself uncontrollably pulling the worst dance moves — but that’s just where the music takes you.

It may have taken them years to make, but who can complain when they produce such an indescribable sound, truly representative of their live performance. “House Built Around Your Voice” puts you in a musical coma that you struggle to come out of.

By andrew stokesEditorials Editor

Dustin Kensrue isn’t content to sing about anything less than the big questions of life and the fervour with which he writes spills over into his singing. The drum lines are irregular and ensnaring — it’s heavy without getting messy.

Eureka is synth-heavy pop-rock that drives like a getaway car. Tracks range from toe-tapping sing-alongs to moody, dragging confessions. Incredible vocal work from the band’s front man Ryan Guldemond is almost dwarfed by the awe-inspiring pipes of the band’s newest member, Jasmin Parkin.

They’ve defined their sound by creating highly personal songs around front man Andy Hull’s battles with bipolar disorder, alcoholism and physical abuse. Simple Math is no different, with catchy guitar riffs that barely cover the rage and pain beneath the surface. Evocative lyrics like “I want to rip your lips off in my mouth” will send a shudder through your body.

Off-kilter time signatures provide the backdrop for the electronic meditations of James Blake’s self-titled album. Songs are melancholic, bitter and haunting. Tracks like “I Never Learnt To Share” build slowly from a single lyrical phrase into a digital breakdown.

Fleet Foxes’ flawless harmonies paint the background for a battle between idealism and acceptance of the paralyzing ambiguities of the adult world. This aurally lush album is beautiful from start to finish, despite reaching an uncertain answer to all its questions.

By JessiCa FishBeinPostcript Editor

“Pumped Up Kicks” gained overwhelming popularity, but the rest of Foster the People’s debut album doesn’t disappoint. Filled with MGMT-inspired electronica gems, Torches is a successful infusion of indie and dance-friendly beats.

Take Care shows a vulnerable and sensitive side to this hip-hop star. Even with the overdone theme that deals with the plight of sudden celebrity, Drake still elicits sympathy. But the R&B inspired Take Care isn’t just a solo effort — appearances by pop favourites Rihanna and Nicki Minaj give a refreshing female flavour to the work.

The release of Adele’s 21 saw the creation of a common public enemy through the damning portrait of her ex, in songs like “Rolling in the Deep” and “Someone Like You.” While lyrics should probably not be taken literally, her stunning vocals provide a backdrop to universal themes of devastation, heartbreak and rejection.

Any Strokes fan is well aware of the challenges the band has faced. But after a five-year hiatus, the band’s fourth release finally restores hope in their ability to be alternative-rock legends. Guitar riffs and Julian Casablanca’s snarling vocals are ever-present, recalling the brilliance of their game-changing debut, Is This It?

You’d think it next-to-impossible for her to top the brilliance that was Florence and the Machine’s Lungs, but Florence Welch’s new release contains the combination of powerhouse vocals and melancholia we’ve come to expect. With a slightly darker thematic tinge, Ceremonials confirms that Florence and the Machine’s not going anywhere.

Music

A year of albums worth reviewingJournal editors pick their favourite albums of 2011, both mainstream and indie

S i m p l e M a t hM a n c h e s t e r O r c h e s t r a

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The way the Good Lovelies originated is unclear; Sue Passmore remembers meeting during a limbo competition, Caroline Brooks recalls meeting at a chess tournament and Kerri Ough thinks it was during a bar fi ght.

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Limestone tribute On the Good Lovelies tour, fans can expect both original material and holiday classics

By Carolyn FlanaGanAssistant Blogs Editor

Folk-country trio the Good Lovelies released their new album, Let The Rain Fall, in February with a special track entitled “Kingston.”

Caroline Brooks wrote the song when she way away touring with the band while her husband was living in Kingston.

“She was dreaming and thinking of Kingston, where her heart was, and this song was born,” said Kerri Ough, the band’s vocalist, guitarist, banjoist and bassist.

A video for the song has been recorded and should be released in the next few weeks. In the meantime the band is preparing to embark on their Christmas Tour, with a stop in Kingston on Dec. 14.

The band released Under The Mistletoe in 2009, featuring holiday classics and three original songs.

“The first time we played together was in the month of December and people kept asking us if we would be recording them,” Ough said. “When we play Christmas shows people get a little bit more into that loving,

holiday spirit.”But concert goers shouldn’t expect only

Christmas carols at the Good Lovelies show. Ough said the set list will also include original material from 2009’s Good Lovelies and Let the Rain Fall.

“We can’t help ourselves,” she said “We’re a band that writes our own music so we really want play some of those tunes as well.”

After a busy year with tours in the U.S., U.K. and their first tour in Australia, the band is happy to be back in Ontario.

“It’s great because we get to have a homecoming and thank everyone for supporting us while we’ve been away,” Ough said. “All the places we are stopping in Ontario have a special place in our hearts.”

The band will bring a full van to Kingston. Ough, Brooks and Sue Passmore will rotate between acoustic and electric guitar, mandolin, percussion, banjo and keyboard. Bassist Ben Whiteley, of New Country Rehab, will join them.

The Good Lovelies play Chalmers United Church on Dec. 14 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door.

event. The event will feature a reading from Worth and a question and answer session with Liisa Ladouceur, who just published the Encyclopedia Gothica. Music will be provided by DJ Bill Gillespie.

“I think music is something that is really important for Liisa and I,” Worth said. “She has a book that is a gothic encyclopedia and that’s all about subculture. For that subculture music is a huge factor.

“In terms of my own writing, music’s always played a big part. My first book is an oral history of punk in Toronto. Even though this time around I’m coming out with a poetry collection, that poetry collection is very influenced by punk rock and heavy metal.”

Despite Amphetamine Heart being a work of poetry, Worth’s reading tomorrow night will be set to music.

“Instead of just doing a straight reading I have a theremin, which is an electronic instrument that kind of makes

really weird noises,” she said. “I set some pieces to that so there’s kind of an ambient sound happening.”

After her reading, Worth said she hopes to connect with some of the audience members.

“That’s really the most you can ask for in any kind of author event,” she said. “It’s a really good chance to get to talk to people face to face because when you’re an author you don’t always get, to see a lot of people. It’s quiet work and its lonely work.”

A Night of Dark Literary Art at the Artel is tomorrow night and features Liz Worth, Liisa Ladouceur, Bill Gillespie and local poet Barry King.

Musical poetryContinued from page 11

Liz Worth’s new novel Amphetamine Heart was realeased by Guernica Editions on Sept. 15.

supplied“ Instead of just doing a straight reading, I have a theremin, which is an electrinic instrument that kinds of makes really weird noises. ”

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“The closer you get to the sidewalk, the easier it is for people to actually damage things,” Purdie said.

Rogalsky, who was notified of the theft Tuesday morning via email, speculated that the art object was stolen because it looked real. A Gibson Flying V is an iconic electric guitar. But the piece wasn’t a functioning guitar.

“It’s a tempting looking thing because it’s a real guitar, but I think if anyone stopped to really think about it, it’s not a playable instrument anymore,” he said.

To weatherproof the guitar, Rogalsky used chemicals to hold all the guitar’s controls and hardware in place and filled the cavities with silicone.

Rogalsky said he hasn’t notified the police because he doesn’t see it as a pressing issue. But he does plan on reporting it to the

authorities this week. “It’s attached to a big block of muddy

cement, I think anyone who’s taken it might get tired of it really quickly,” Rogalsky said. “I think I stand a pretty good chance of getting it back, unless somebody completely trashes it or hides it forever.”

Rogalsky declined to disclose the material value of the piece, but said his selling price for the guitar would have been at least $1,000. The object was never put up for sale.

Flying V Down at Swamp Ward Window was a study for a larger outdoor project, involving a couple dozen of the grounded guitars, which Rogalsky plans to organize over the next couple of years.

“One of the unfortunate things about losing it [is] I wanted to see how it weathered through the winter,” he said.

He has no plans to replace the Swamp Ward Window exhibit.

Tempting artworkContinued from page 11

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By Peter MorrowContributor

Last weekend, men’s hockey head coach Brett Gibson tweeted,

“Whole month to stew over last night’s debacle! Recruiting starts today... to find guys that want to compete.”

Gibson’s tweet on Sunday followed the Gaels’ 10-1 loss to the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières Patriotes on Saturday night at the Memorial Centre. The blowout loss capped off a disastrous November that saw the Gaels go 1-5-1. Backup goalie Steele De Fazio quit the team and the number of players on Queen’s injury list rose to nine.

Gibson was on a recruiting trip in Newmarket on Sunday.

“We’ve got a month now ... and all I’ve got to think about is this 10-1 loss,” he told the Journal. “This job never ends because now I’ve got to find players that are willing to compete.”

At the halfway point of the OUA regular season, the Gaels are ninth-place in the Eastern conference with a 6-7-1 record, ahead of only the Royal Military

College Paladins. According to Gibson, the team is struggling to overcome injuries.

“It’s not my grinders or third-liners who are injured, it’s my top players,” Gibson said.

“Once they’re healthy, things will get better.”

The Gaels’ top 10-point scorers from last season are all on this year’s roster — but five are currently out of the lineup.

Forwards Jordan Mirwaldt, Payton Liske, Jordan Soquila,

Brock Ouellet and Joey Derochie are missing. Defencemen Robert Stellick and Patrick McEachen

— the team’s only two defencemen with Ontario Hockey League (OHL) experience — are injured.

“We have guys playing positions they probably shouldn’t even be playing right now,” Gibson said, adding that defenceman Keenan Murray is currently playing on a forward line with captain Jon Lawrance.

“With the amount of guys we

have out of the lineup, we have to play near-perfect hockey.”

Certain healthy players aren’t producing like they did last season.

Defenceman Alexi Pianosi — who led Gaels defencemen with 20 points last season — has been scoreless in 14 games this season, while Lawrance is on pace for only half of his 25-point total last season.

The goaltending position has also seen major changes from last season. Even though De Fazio and David Aime are both returning players, Gibson recruited Riley Whitlock — a first-year law student who played junior hockey in the

By Jerry ZhengContributor

The women’s basketball team was one shot away from a perfect weekend.

With the Gaels trailing 71-69 to the Brock Badgers in overtime last Saturday, leading scorer Brittany Moore needed to sink a three-pointer with 2.8 seconds left on the clock — but she missed.

Both the Gaels and the Badgers traded leads throughout Saturday’s game. Wing Jenny Wright missed a game-winning half-court shot in the last seconds of regulation. In overtime, Brock forward Nicole Rosenkranz sealed the win, scoring her team’s final three points.

Gaels post Sydney Kernahan recorded her first double-double of the season with 10 points and 12 rebounds. Moore led the Gaels with 21 points, making three of six shots from three-point range.

“[Kernahan’s] really stepping up her game for us,” Moore said

“There’s no way we would’ve been in the game if it wasn’t for her rebounding and put-backs.”

The Gaels gave up 34 turnovers, while the Badgers gave up 23.

“Turn the ball over 34 times in a game [and it’s] very difficult to win,” head coach Dave Wilson said.

“[But] if you look at the statistical categories, we were better or equal in all categories with the exception that they took more shots.”

The loss to the Badgers came a day after the Gaels beat the McMaster Marauders 94-65 on Friday.

The Gaels led the Marauders by over 30 points for most of the game. They out-rebounded the Marauders 40 to 25 and kept turnovers below 15.

Taylor Chiarot, the Marauders’ leading scorer and rebounder, posted only two points and zero rebounds in the first half, unable to overcome Gaels centre Hanna Koposhynska’s strong defensive play.

Starting guard Liz Boag sat out both games after sustaining a concussion against the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks on Nov. 18. Wilson said he’s trying to get her ready to play next weekend.

The Gaels will take on the Western Mustangs in London on Friday and the Windsor Lancers in

Windsor on Saturday. Both games are at 6 p.m.

men’s hockey

Nine-goal loss caps off a November to forgetMen’s hockey goes 1-5-1, sees backup goalie Steele De Fazio quit and watches injury count rise to nine

Gaels forward Brandon Perry skates away as the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières Patriotes celebrate during their 10-1 win at the Memorial Centre on Saturday.

women’s basketball

Last-second loss to BadgersWomen’s basketball beats McMaster, falls to Brock in overtime

InsIde

power rankings

The Journal Sports Editors review the fall teams.

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vanier cup recap

Gord Randall comments on Friday’s classic game in Vancouver.

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Guard Brittany Moore scored 21 points in Saturday’s loss to the Brock Badgers.

photo by jeff peters

“ We’ve got a month ... now and all I’ve got to think about is this 10-1 loss. ”

— Brett Gibson, men’s hockey coach

photo by corey lablans

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By Peter reIMerContributor

The men’s basketball team blew two early leads at the ARC last weekend, extending their losing streak to six games.

The Gaels led the McMaster Marauders 18-17 after the first quarter on Friday, but the Marauders went on a 12-0 run in the second quarter to end the half with a 13-point lead. The Gaels outscored McMaster 21-20 in the third quarter, but struggled to score in the fourth quarter and lost 89-62. Mackenzie Simpson and Nikola Misljencevic led the Gaels with 16 points each.

On Saturday night, the Gaels scored 14 unanswered points for a 34-28 halftime lead over the Brock Badgers. Despite another 16-point night from Misljencevic, the Gaels couldn’t break the Badgers’ zone defence in the second half, losing 69-60.

Misljencevic has averaged 20 points in the team’s last three games, but he said he doesn’t need to produce offensively.

“It’s just who’s scoring on any given night,” he said, adding that Gaels forward Bernard Burgesson and guard Ryan Golden are both capable of posting 25 points a game.

Burgesson and Golden combined for 26 points over the weekend.

The Gaels are tied for last place

in the OUA East with an 0-6 record.“There’s no question we’re

getting better,” head coach Stephan Barrie said. “We had fewer bad stretches than in some previous games.”

The Gaels hadn’t faced a zone defence this season until Saturday’s game against the Badgers.

“When teams play zone, you just have to be aggressive,” Barrie said. “For the first several minutes, we just weren’t attacking it. We have to be quicker in adjusting to that next time.”

This Friday, the Gaels play the

1-5 Western Mustangs in London. Barrie coached the Western women’s team for five years before coming to Queen’s. He won an OUA Championship when he played for the Mustangs men’s team in 1999.

“I’m looking forward to … getting back in that environment and competing against my home team,” he said.

The Gaels close out 2011 on Saturday night against the Windsor Lancers. The Lancers (3-3) are ranked 10th in Canada.

men’s basketball

Gaels still winlessMen’s basketball is tied for last place in OUA after two home losses

By eMILy LoweStaff Writer

The women’s hockey team no longer has a perfect home record. The team fell 4-3 to the Guelph Gryphons in a shootout last Saturday at the Memorial Centre.

Forward Shawna Griffin said it was her team’s most consistent effort so far this season.

“We’ve played a lot of one-period, two-period games,” she said. “But this was one where we had a lot of spark in all three periods.”

The Gaels entered the second period down 1-0, but responded with two quick goals. Winger Brittany McHaffie scored her seventh goal of the season and centre Kristin Smith scored on a breakaway just over a minute later. The Gryphons added another goal to tie the game before heading into the third period.

Both teams added goals in the third, leaving the game tied 3-3 at the end of regulation.

After a scoreless extra period, Gryphons forward Jessica

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Shootout lossWomen’s hockey falls to Guelph at home

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1. Women’s soccer

No one came close to the women’s soccer team this season.

The Gaels won their second consecutive national championship and lost only one game all year, finishing 19-1-2. They even improved on last season, when their record was 19-3.

This team was clutch. Three of its playoff wins went to penalty kicks, including both the provincial and national championship games. Goalkeeper Chantel Marson came through with crucial shootout saves and earned the CIS MVP award.

The team had depth too. When co-captain and defender Brienna Shaw missed the first nine games of the season, OUA East rookie of the year Jessie De Boer filled the role. When co-captain Kelli Chamberlain sat out for the OUA championship with a knee injury, rookie Breanna Burton filled in.

Chamberlain, Marson and Shaw are all set to graduate, but the Gaels still have OUA scoring leader Jackie Tessier, OUA East MVP Riley Filion and OUA all-star Melissa Jung. A three-peat is a possibility.

— Benjamin Deans

2. Men’s rugby

After last season’s bronze medal, the men’s rugby team brought back some old players to form a much stronger lineup this season. Forwards Tim and Pat Richardson returned for graduate school after a year away and flyhalf Liam Underwood was back after missing 2010 with an ankle injury. With the emergence of George Gleeson and Myles Dingwall as key players, the Gaels often looked as good as the 2009 OUA gold medal-winning team.

A 13-7 loss to the Western Mustangs was the only blip in a 7-1 regular season that included a 47-3 blowout against the McMaster Marauders, the defending OUA champions. Underwood led the OUA in total points, while Dingwall, Gleeson, Matt Kelly and Dan Moor joined him on the OUA all-star team.

The Gaels beat the Marauders for a second time at Tindall field in the OUA semifinal, but they couldn’t overcome the Mustangs in the final, falling 21-15 in London.

A silver medal was an appropriate result for the Gaels.

With team Canada player Conor Trainor and OUA MVP Mike Penczak, the Mustangs were clearly the best team in the province.

— Gilbert Coyle

3. Cross country

Going into the season, the men were expected to challenge for the national podium and the women were expected to rebuild. That’s pretty much how it ended up.

The men should be satisfied with a bronze medal at the OUA Championship and a fourth-place finish at nationals. After an injury-plagued season, the team saved its best race for when it counted, only missing out on a national medal after a surprising performance from the Victoria Vikes.

Transfer student Maxime Leboeuf, MA ’13, was the team’s top runner, while second-year Jeff Archer posted a surprising 10th-place finish at nationals. Rookie Dave Cashin showed potential by leading the team at the Queen’s Invitational, while Clay Patterson led at the Paul Short Run and the Guelph Open.

Captain Oliver Hatheway is the only key runner set to graduate, so the men’s team is expected to reach the podium in 2012.

The women’s team earned a surprising OUA bronze medal, but came 10th at nationals. Captain Steph Hulse was the team’s leading runner at every meet, while Alecia Kallos was the second-best runner at the OUA and CIS meets. With Hulse, Kallos, Lauren Prufer and Colleen Wilson also set to return, the women should be a better team next season.

— Gilbert Coyle

4. Football

They weren’t close to the Vanier Cup, but the Gaels improved from last year.

Their new starting quarterback Billy McPhee guided the team to a 6-2 regular season finish. A rib injury prevented McPhee from starting in the playoffs, but Queen’s still reached the OUA semifinal. That’s a better ending than last season, when the Gaels lost to McMaster in a quarter-final.

The Gaels relied on defence all season and it worked for them against mediocre teams. But to compete against the top teams in the OUA, the Gaels needed a more powerful offence.

When McPhee was at his best, the team could rely on him to pick up first downs and throw the occasional long bomb for a touchdown. Even though he had turnover troubles against better defences, he has the potential to be a major OUA passing threat by next year.

It’s not clear which veterans will return, but the loss of graduating lineman Osie Ukwuoma — the Gaels best defensive player — will hurt the team. If the offence can improve enough though, the team should make it to the Yates Cup.

— Benjamin Deans

5. Rowing

Both the men’s and women’s teams failed to meet their own expectations this fall. The women aimed to repeat last season’s OUA title, while the men looked to improve on their bronze medal. They finished second and third, respectively.

The women only narrowly missed out on OUA gold. Rookie

Erin Snelgrove won the lightweight single race and the lightweight eight also finished first. Snelgrove also won a silver medal in the lightweight double event with Sean Peterson. The lightweight four and the heavyweight eight also finished second.

On the men’s side, the lightweight four- and eight-person boats both won bronze medals but the heavyweight boats all missed the podium.

Even though the rowing program underperformed this season, 16 of 20 men’s rowers and 19 of 27 women’s rowers were first- or second-year students. After being named as a training development centre for the Canadian Olympic program this summer, the Gaels’ crews were selected by coaches who work for the national program. With that strategy in place, improvements are expected for next season.

— Gilbert Coyle

6. Women’s rugby

Only one game separated the women’s rugby team that clinched its first-ever national championship appearance last season from the team that won an OUA bronze medal this season.

In 2010, the Gaels beat the McMaster Marauders in the regular season to win the Russell division and earn an easy route to nationals. This season’s 5-3 loss to the Marauders meant the Gaels had to beat the Guelph Gryphons — unbeaten against OUA opposition since 2007 — in the OUA semifinal to qualify for the CIS tournament. They lost 50-0.

But with head coach Beth Barz leaning on several young players,

there was some silver lining this season. Second-year props Claragh Pegg and Taylor White were named to the OUA all-star team. Second-year lock Bronwyn Corrigan was the team’s highest scorer with 20 points, second-year forward Kayla Roote scored a last-second try to beat the Trent Excalibur in the OUA quarter-final and rookie Lauren McEwen scored last-minute game-winning tries in two games this season.

As long as the Gryphons dynasty continues, the women’s rugby team’s only realistic goal will be second place in Ontario. But its young players are good enough to make it happen in 2012.

— Gilbert Coyle

7. Men’s Soccer

The men’s soccer team was supposed to have a rebuilding season. With six first- and second-year starters and injuries to veteran players, the team finished the regular season at 7-4-3, down from 8-5-1 last year.

The Gaels were wildly erratic. They showed potential in their upset over the Carleton Ravens and the University of Toronto Varsity Blues — the OUA East’s two best teams. But they often looked like an inexperienced team, blowing late-game leads four times this season.

Early in the season, the Gaels beat the sixth-place Trent Excalibur 3-0 at home, but lost to them 1-0 in Peterborough the following week.

They were inconsistent when it counted most. They conceded late goals to the Laurentian Voyageurs in both regular season games. When the Gaels played the Voyageurs in the first round of the playoffs, they gave up a late goal again and ultimately watched their season end on penalty kicks.

But the future looks bright for the Gaels. Rookie midfielder Peter Christidis was the team’s leading scorer, rookie midfielder Henry Bloemen started almost every game this season and second-year captain Joe Zupo is already a two-time OUA all-star.

Despite the loss of fifth-years Andrew Colosimo and Jordan Brooks, the team should be better next year.

— Benjamin Deans

Women’s soccer tops varsity power rankingsSports Editors Gilbert Coyle and Benjamin Deans evaluate the Gaels’ performances this fall

Flanker Matt Kelly and the men’s rugby team went 8-2 in the OUA regular season and playoffs.

Quarterback Billy McPhee was injured for the playoffs.

The women’s soccer team won provincial and national gold medals this season.

Captain Susan Heald was an OUA all-star.

Rookie Peter Christidis was the team’s top scorer.

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By gorD rAnDALLCFRC commentator and former Queen’s football player

VANCOUVER — Friday’s Vanier Cup between the Laval Rouge-et-Or and the McMaster Marauders was an instant classic. The underdog Marauders flew out of the gates at B.C. Place, riding a virtuoso first-half performance from quarterback Kyle Quinlan to take a 23-0 halftime lead.

Quinlan — who finished with 588 all-purpose yards — picked apart the top-ranked Laval defence while the Marauders held Laval’s receiver Julian Feoli-Gudino and running back Sebastian Lévesque to a combined 75 first-half yards.

The second half was all Laval. A punt return touchdown from receiver Guillaume Rioux and an interception by safety Frédéric Plesius engineered a comeback that saw the Rouge-et-Or take a 24-23 lead in the fourth quarter.

Quinlan threw two interceptions in the third quarter, but responded with a seven-play, 69-yard scoring drive to put McMaster ahead 31-24 midway through the fourth. Laval answered three minutes later to tie the score 31-31. In the final play of regulation, Marauders kicker Tyler Crapigna missed a 30-yard field goal to set the stage for overtime.

The second-half fireworks paled in comparison to the overtime. The teams traded touchdowns on their first possessions to push the game into double overtime. Rouge-et-Or quarterback Bruno Prud’homme was intercepted by Marauders defensive back Steven Ventresca on the first possession of

double overtime. A few plays later, Crapigna redeemed himself with a successful 20-yard field goal to give McMaster its first-ever Vanier Cup title.

As the Marauders celebrated in front of 24,953 fans at B.C. Place, I wondered where the Queen’s football team stood in Canadian Interuniversity Sport.

I covered every Gaels game this season for local radio station CFRC. Two resounding losses to the Marauders — a 26-2 season-opening defeat and a 40-13 OUA semifinal blowout — proved they weren’t ready to hang with the big boys this season. But they were close.

In that Sept. 5 home loss to McMaster, Queen’s fielded a completely revamped young team against a veteran squad with the best quarterback in the country. On Nov. 5, they travelled to Hamilton without the services of emerging star quarterback Billy McPhee and were pummeled.

This season, McPhee proved himself as one of the better quarterbacks in the OUA — without him, the Gaels had little hope against a healthy Marauders team with Quinlan at the helm.

The 2009 Vanier Cup-winning Gaels and this season’s Marauders both proved that the OUA is a league where you must have experience at quarterback to be successful.

Two years ago, fifth-year quarterback Danny Brannagan led the Gaels to a national title and was named offensive MVP of the Vanier Cup. This season, fourth-year Quinlan did the exact same thing.

McPhee can be that good.At times this season, McPhee was playing

the best football in the OUA. As he continues to cut down on mistakes, there’s no reason why he can’t be as good as Quinlan or Brannagan by his fourth or fifth year.

But experience isn’t just important at quarterback. McMaster and Laval had a combined 28 fourth or fifth-year players on Friday night. Queen’s only played six veterans this season. While the Marauders and

Rouge-et-Or used a combined 18 rookies for the Vanier Cup, the Gaels had 21 in the lineup for the Nov. 5 loss in Hamilton.

But the future looks bright for the Gaels. With head coach Pat Sheahan having to replace only six graduating players over the

winter, Queen’s will be ready to improve on this year’s 7-3 season that ended at the hands of the national champions. Anything less than a Yates Cup appearance next November will be a disappointment.

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McPhee can be as good as QuinlanWatching a classic Vanier Cup in Vancouver shows Queen’s can compete in the next few years

McMaster quarterback Kyle Quinlan was named Vanier Cup off ensive MVP. journal file photo

Thursday, december 1, 2011 queensjournal.ca • 21SportS

Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. Whitlock also played with the Ottawa Gee-Gees for the past three seasons.

Whitlock has started 13 of 14 games this season. Backup goalie De Fazio — who started in 20 games last season — played his only game for the Gaels this season against the Brock Badgers on Oct. 8.

“He’s decided to leave the team because he didn’t see himself as a backup goalie and he wanted to concentrate on school,” Gibson said. “If that’s the decision he made, than who am I to go against it?”

De Fazio declined to comment to the Journal.

Lawrance said the team was surprised that Whitlock started so many games.

“We thought maybe there would be a three-man rotation,” he said.

“We definitely did not expect things to work out like they have.”

Lawrance said it was tough to see De Fazio quit after having played with him since 2009.

“He’s pretty good friends with everyone and he’s been a great teammate,” he said.

In 13 starts this season, Whitlock has a .907 save percentage, a 3.43 goals against average and one shutout.

“[Whitlock]’s given us stability back there,” Lawrance said. “We’ve hung him out to dry a couple times, but he’s been good, and whenever we’ve had to call on Aime, he’s been great too.”

Second-year backup Aime said his role has been reduced since Whitlock joined the Gaels.

“Last year, [De Fazio and I] split the games about 65-35,” Aime said. “This year, [Whitlock]’s playing really well, so it’s tough to get minutes.”

Whitlock was pulled after

allowing five goals in the first two periods of a 5-3 loss to the Ottawa Gee-Gees last Friday. Aime recorded a scoreless third period. But when Whitlock allowed five goals against the Patriotes the next day, Aime let in five more when he came in.

Aime also declined to talk about

De Fazio’s departure from the team.Even though the Gaels ended

2011 with three straight losses, they have over a month until their next game. When they play the Paladins on Jan. 3, up to five injured players should be back in the lineup. Gibson said his team won’t have any more excuses at that point.

Three straight lossescontinued from page 18

Gaels forward Taryn Pilon controls the puck during her team’s shootout loss to Guelph at the Memorial Centre on Saturday.

photo by jeff peters

Pinkerton scored the only goal in the shootout.

“Guelph is a good team and [Savage] stood in there,” head coach Matthew Holmberg said. “[But] that was a heck of a move in the shootout.”

The loss bumps the Gaels’ record to 8-3-2, tied for third place in the OUA.

“The girls played well enough to deserve a win,” he said. “You

can never be too happy with a loss, but […] there were stretches of that game where we outplayed them.”

With only one win in their last four games, the Gaels will look to head into winter break on a positive note this weekend.

They play the 10th-place University of Ontario Institute of Techology Ridgebacks and fifth-place York Lions this Friday and Saturday at the Memorial Centre. Both games start at 7:30 p.m.

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By Megan CuiContributor

Homemade treats make memorable gifts, perfect for letting someone know you care. If you dread the mall crowds and long lineups, homemade desserts are a thoughtful alternative that even the glitziest store-bought gifts struggle to match in the charm department.

A parcel of baked goodies adorned with ribbon is the perfect solution for those with whom you are too acquainted to just get a card and not familiar enough to buy a gift. Make sure to leave enough time to make and wrap your treats.

Find a recipe for holiday cookies in a jar online at queensjournal.ca/postscript.

PePPermint mocha macarons

These little ganache-filled cookie sandwiches are perfect for someone who loves to eat with their eyes. Macarons might seem like an ambitious recipe, especially in a student kitchen, but it’s surprisingly easy. The particularly festive colour and flavour combination — green shells and mint chocolate ganache — will be perfect for sharing over tea and lattes this holiday season.

Ingredients

For the macarons

•¾ cup almond flour• 2 large egg whites• ½ tsp cream of tartar • 1 cup icing sugar • ¼ cup granulated sugar•Green food colouring•Piping bag or ziplock bag

For the filling

• ½ cup whipping cream• ½ cup semi-sweet chocolate• 1 tbsp unsalted butter at room temperature•Extract of peppermint •Piping bag or zip lock bag

Makes 40 macarons.

Preparation

For the shells

Preheat oven to 160 C (325 F).

Sift together almond flour and icing sugar. Mix until combined and sift mixture once more to remove lumps.

Whisk together egg whites until soft peaks are formed. On a high speed, add granulated sugar and whisk until stiff peaks form (for approximately five minutes).

Gently fold egg whites, along with flour mix and three or four drops of food colouring until the mixture looks uniform and shiny.

Transfer shell batter into a piping or zip lock bag with a ½ inch opening snipped into a corner.

Pipe the shells onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.

Lift the baking sheet and

let it drop approximately one foot above countertop. This funny maneuver will help form the famous crinkly bottom of macaron shells.

Bake for five minutes and allow to cool untouched for five minutes on wire rack.

For the filling

Heat up whipping cream in a saucepan without bringing to boil. Place chopped semi-sweet chocolate into bowl and pour heated cream. Allow mixture to sit for a minute before stirring in approximately two to four drops of peppermint extract. Stir until mixture forms a smooth ganache.

Allow ganache to cool for about a half hour in fridge. Stir in butter until well mixed.

Assembly

Fill piping bag and put a loonie-sized dollop of ganache onto a shell. Sandwich with another shell. Refrigerate for at least two hours before wrapping.

Festive cake PoPs

Cakes on a stick have been incredibly popular lately and for good reason. They’re conveniently bite-sized and visually appealing, making a perfect treat for gifts. If you’re short on time, you can take advantage of premade or leftover cakes and cupcakes. Cake pops can be decorated and personalized, so don’t be afraid to show off your creativity.

Ingredients

• A cake of your favouriterecipe (red velvet, vanilla, etc)• 1 can buttercream icing or homemade recipe• Lollipop sticks• 12 ounces white chocolate• Colored icing, sprinkles anddecorative trimmings of your choice

Makes approximately 15 cake pops, depending on size.

Preparation

Completely cool your cake. Crumble cake finely with hands into a large mixing bowl. Mix in buttercream icing with electric mixer on medium until mixture is moist and easy to squish into balls.

Refrigerate for one hour. Take bits of cake mix to roll into smooth, ping-pong sized balls. Place onto parchment lined baking sheet.

Coat lollipop sticks in a little extra icing (this will help them stick to the cake balls) and stick one into the end of each ball. Place tray in freezer for half an hour or until firm.

Melt white chocolate in a microwave safe bowl or over boiling water (double boiler method). Remove cooled cake balls and dip into chocolate until covered. Decorate to your liking and stick into a block of Styrofoam to prevent flattening. Wrap only when hardened.

GinGerbread truFFles

Chocolate is versatile. When moulded into lumpy shapes, it can be used as a whimsical stocking stuffer. This recipe can also be a holiday classic by forming the truffles into balls instead of coal shapes.

Ingredients

• ¾ cup whipping cream• 1 tbsp maple syrup• Salt • Ground cinnamon•1 ½ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips •½ cup finely crushedgingerbread cookies • 2 cup dark chocolate • Cocoa powder for dusting

Preparation

Heat up whipping cream, with maple syrup, salt and cinnamon on medium to low heat (without bringing to boil) for approximately eight minutes. Allow to cool for half an hour in fridge.

Place chopped semi-sweet chocolate chips in a microwave safe bowl and microwave for three minutes until melted, pausing every 30 seconds to stir. Add cooled cream mixture and crushed gingerbread cookies. Place back in fridge for 15 minutes.

Remove chocolate filling from fridge and spoon and mould a

ping-pong sized amount into coal shape with the help of a picture. Use latex gloved hands to prevent body heat from warming up the chocolate.

Place moulded chocolates on a parchment lined baking sheet and place back into fridge to chill for one to two hours.

Heat dark chocolate with the microwave method.

Prepare a bowl of cocoa powder. Dip cooled chocolate shapes into melted chocolate and immediately roll in cocoa powder to coat. Place on baking sheet and let sit for at least one hour before wrapping.

Peppermint mocha macarons will not disappoint the lucky recipient. photo by justin chin

Cake pops are not a difficult endeavour for a gift. photo by justin chin

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