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VOLUME 22ISSUE 5

OCTOBER 3, 2012

TRU’s Independent Student Newspaper

TRU ties to Tahrir Square

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ON THE COVER:Many celebrate the downfall of the Mubarak regime. This man perches precariously atop a statue, flag in hand, expressing his joy.

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Mohamed Abdel Rehim is a 6’8” WolfPack volleyball player, a Muslim student from Egypt and has experienced a national revolution first-hand.

He has stood with five fellow TRU squad members opposing another Ca-nadian university volleyball team and with one million fellow citizens oppos-ing corrupt leader of 30 years.

He is working towards his bachelor of science and shares with millions TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year of 2011: The Protester.

He comes from halfway around the world, a country of rich history and rough political transition.

Rehim arrived at TRU in September 2011, choosing the school over scholar-ship opportunities in California and Calgary. He said head coach Pat Hen-nelly was quick to recruit him and has been supportive all along. Volleyball has always been a skill. Even his older brother plays professionally in home-town Cairo.

Transitioning to Canada has had its good and bad aspects, Kamloops fall-ing short of the liveliness to be found in Egypt’s capital city.

“[Kamloops] is the place I want to go to escape the 30 million people outside my door in Cairo,” Rehim said, but added that the pictures of campus online didn’t show any snow or ice.

Now beginning his second year of study and second season with TRU Athletics, Rehim has three on-campus classes, one co-op course, one online-learning course, a part-time job, one or two practices every day and two games nearly every weekend from October to February.

“If you saw my schedule, you would cry,” he said.

A revolution first-hand

Mobilizing a nation and uniting all citizens in a country of nearly 90 million people happened in large part because of social networking.

Only a year and a half ago, it was through Facebook and Twitter that the first protest was orchestrated. On Jan. 25, 2011, formerly an annual holiday commemorating the police force in Egypt, Tahrir Square in the centre of the

city filled with protesters, signs, slogans and demands. At the top of the list was the resignation of longtime leader Hosni Mubarak.

Mubarak took presidency in 1981 when President Anwar Sadat, sitting right next to him, was assassinated dur-ing a Cairo parade. When Mubarak moved from vice president to the top job, he declared a state-of-emergency, which allowed authorities to search, question and detain people without cause and it remained in place for the length of his rule.

“He stole our rights for 30 years,” Re-him said.

It was three days later, on Jan. 28, 2011, then called Day of Rage and now referred to as the Day of Revolution, that the streets of Cairo and other cities around the nation, filled with protesters, in every direction all headed to Tahrir Square, all with a purpose, a mission and without any intention of failure or doubt.

“I thought, ‘I’m going to move with them,’” Rehim said. “It was the first time for me to take action.”

On that morning, Rehim heard com-motion outside his home and he went to join the masses. The sight was hard to comprehend.

“I’ve seen the most number of people I’ve ever seen in my life.”

In all likelihood, it was more people than anyone will ever see in their life-time.

Rehim was still a two to three hour walk away from his destination, but as the streets began to converge the people were packed tighter.

“These people, it’s Egypt going out from their buildings,” he said.

The number of protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square numbered more than a million people, according to Al Jazeera.

No matter where the people came from, what they did for work, their age, gender, religion or status, Egyptians achieved equality that day. In that as-pect, one demand was already achieved against an oppressive regime that the people no longer recognized as legiti-mate.

“That’s where I felt at this point in

Tahrir Square everyone is welcome. We are making the change right now,” Re-him said.

But he never made it to the square on that first voyage. Tear bombs deployed by Egyptian police took over his lungs, forcing him and many other protesters to return home. But he was lucky. He wasn’t shot with a rubber bullet -- or a real one.

Eighteen days after the initial conflict in the streets, Hosni Mubarak resigned. The announcement made by newly ap-pointed Vice-President Omar Suleiman caused an eruption of celebration in Tahrir Square, once again completely packed.

The celebration lasted all night.

Tensions maintained

On Feb. 1, 2011, ten days before Mubarak’s resignation, the army re-leased a statement that they would not fire on peaceful protests.

Rehim said it is because the military chose the people over the president that Egypt did not match the timeframe, vio-lence or death tolls of Libya or Syria.

A report released by the Arab Net-work for Human Rights, estimated 841 people in total had been killed during

the revolution, not includ-ing 26 Egyptian police force members.

Hosni Mubarak faced trial for failing to halt the killing of protesters. On June 2, 2012, he avoided the death penalty. Now an 84-year-old inmate with failing health, he is serv-

ing life in prison. Minister of the interior Habib Adli also received a life sentence but Mubarak’s two sons and six other officials were acquitted.

“Change doesn’t happen overnight,” Rehim said. After power was handed over to the Armed Forces, unrest and dissatisfaction infected the country. Riots, protests and demonstrations con-tinued in several cities. At its height, the violence took the lives of nearly 80 people at a soccer game in Port Said on Feb. 1, 2012.

“What’s going to happen eventual-ly… maybe five [years], the whole Mid-dle East will be belong to the people,” Rehim said. “I’m optimistic about this, but it needs time.”

Hisham Qasim, a newspaper publish-er and prominent human rights activist in Egypt, agreed.

“Starting five years [from now], when you’ve began to build the instruments of good government, democracy and prop-er judiciary parliament, establish civil-ian rule, the military will have to give up their privilege,” he said in an interview with Al Jazeera.

On June 16 and 17, 2012, Egypt held its first legitimate democratic election and with 51.73 per cent of the popular vote, Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood became the country’s leader.

The brotherhood’s most frequently used slogan, according to BBC, “Islam is the solution,” is cause for concern among non-Muslims in the country (al-though Morsi has announced the official slogan has been developed into “Renais-sance Project” for practical purposes).

Archbishop Anba Pachomius, act-ing Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church, has criticized the new president

for expanding the number of portfolios in government while keeping Christian representation low, according to local newspaper Al-Shorouk.

From the brotherhood’s perspective, it’s a story of perseverance and patience leading to ultimate success. The Ikhwan (the Arabic translation of Muslim Broth-erhood) was established in 1928 and has long reported support from the people. It was banned from running in elections in 1954 after being blamed for an assas-sination attempt on then Prime Minister Gamal ‘Abd al-Nasser. Mubarak al-lowed candidates from the party again in the 1980s, but scattered throughout elections of the next three decades were boycotts from the party in protest.

According to the Encyclopedia Bri-tannica, Mubarak thwarted the political efforts of the Ikhwan with arrests of the candidates and restricted voting in areas of strong support.

In 2011, the ministry of the interior issued a statement blaming the Ikhwan for encouraging the beginnings of the revolution.

Many see today’s situation in Egypt as Morsi against the Armed Forces.

According to Al Jazeera, Morsi sacked seven top members of the mili-tary and rearranged the constitution to give himself much of the legislative and executive power that once belonged to the military.

Rehim pointed out that the media in Egypt has been no friend to Morsi. Between the state-owned media and the private outlets, many formed post-Mubarak, much coverage has been ac-cused of being in favour of the military over Morsi, according to Al Jazeera.

“[Some] people think, ‘He’s going to make women wear the veil, he’s going to stop alcohol, he’s going to make no beaches, no swimming,’” Rehim said, adding none of those things have come to be.

“The thing is, [the same people] they are in control of our media still.”

Innocence of Muslims

Threatening the development of peace and equality in Egypt is the video Inno-cence of Muslims, not only depicting the Prophet Muhammad, which is against Is-lamic principles, but also showing him as a fraud and a womanizer.

Egypt has issued warrants for eight people reportedly responsible for the film, seven Egyptian-American Coptic Chris-tians and Florida pastor Terry Jones.

Coptic Christianity in Egypt comprises 10 per cent of the population, the largest religious minority. Clashes and violence have been reported between this group and Muslims in Egypt for years, well be-fore the revolution.

Last month, reports circulated about nine Christian families leaving their homes in the Sinai Peninsula after receiv-ing death threats, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency, but different accounts varied of whether fami-lies left voluntarily or left at all.

Egypt has reported more than 200 inju-ries through this most recent wave of riots, where the United States Embassy walls were scaled and the American flag was torn down.

Rehim condemned the violence. “I, myself, and probably my family are

opposing the idea of attacking or protest-ing in front of the American Embassy or trying to break into it or burn it.”

Coptic Christians in the United States and Egypt, as well as Muslims, have all publicly condemned the Innocence of Muslims video as well as the resulting violence.

“The Egyptian people, both Muslims and Christians, refuse such insults on sanctities,” was Morsi’s public statement.

“I don’t care if you’re Shia (Muslim), Sunni (Muslim), Christian, Jewish, Athe-ist— we are all equal,” Rehim said.

Much like in the first moments he en-tered Tahrir Square, Jan. 28, 2011, with no importance on background, religion, job or status, “… we are all equal.”

Ω Roving EditorSamantha Garvey

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An article published Sept. 26 in the Vancouver Sun proclaimed that the Insurance Corporation of British Co-lumbia (ICBC) — the Crown corpora-tion that provides auto insurance and vehicle operation licensing — “has been ranked the worst automotive insurer in the country - by its own customers.”

Is this seriously a surprise?Picture, if you will, this hypotheti-

cal situation: you like McDonalds more than you like Wendy’s, A&W, Subway and all the other fast-food joints available as options. You prefer the products and prices at the iconic golden-arched establishment to those of its competitors.

Now picture a world in which Wendy’s, A&W, Subway and all other competitors didn’t exist. Would you still like McDonalds?

Of course you wouldn’t. You’d say “that’s cheap, crappy food and terri-ble service,” because you have noth-ing to compare it to that would make it look good.

Now add to that picture the idea that McDonalds itself is the com-pany that causes this lack of options for you. Would you maybe like it a bit less? Perhaps that level of dislike for its products and services becomes a situation of resentment, annoyance or anger?

Might you perhaps be less im-pressed with the constant cost-in-creases that would surely arise at Ron-ald’s eatery if it didn’t have to keep its prices down due to similar products being offered just down the street at competitive prices — especially if that company itself was causing such a monopoly to occur?

In an article from the free-market proponents, The Fraser Institute, the lack of competition with ICBC causes numerous problems, from the man-agement structure of the organization itself right down to the products and services — and the cost of those prod-ucts and services — that the consumer receives.

“Unlike private companies in com-petitive markets, government pro-tected monopolies are not required to constantly innovate, compete for consumers, ensure efficient and ef-fective staffing levels and pay, offer competitive prices and/or high qual-ity services including more options,” according to the article released Sept. 18, 2012 by Mark Milke and Niels Veldhuis.

So in this hypothetical situation where McDonalds is the only fast-food option, it has been increas-ing the cost of its products (but not the quality of those products) and it doesn’t let any competitors enter the market to provide any comparison for the consumer.

Now picture the government (the owners of McDonalds in this hypo-thetical situation) making it illegal for you to eat food unless you periodically bought some food from McDonalds. (It is illegal to operate a motor vehicle in B.C. unless you purchase insurance for that vehicle and ICBC is the only provider.)

Now picture that the company in question is also supposed to be using its revenue to serve the public good (as Crown corporations are designed to do) but instead spends its revenue on huge severance and compensation packages.

Art Kirkner, who was hired in 2008 to cut costs at ICBC, was compensat-ed $88,500 for the loss on the sale of his home in the United States; $18,780 for real estate commission; more than $13,000 for moving and storage; more than $10,000 for temporary ac-commodations, plus other expenses in 2010, according to documents ob-tained by CBC.

A total of $188,681 were filed as “expenses” compensated to Kirkner in 2010 on top of his salary and bo-nuses of over $315,000.

He “left” the corporation soon af-terward and was given 12 months sev-erance.

Would you maybe not be a huge fan of McDonalds if all these hypotheti-cals came true?

If you were the company in ques-tion, would you wonder why people’s opinion of you was so low?

I completely understand. Personally, I want the option for my

dinner to be a chicken sandwich from Wendy’s, a poutine from A&W and a box of Timbits for dessert.

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Editor’s Note

ICBC is “the worst”

October is typically a month where students become consumed by stress, assignments, papers, mid-term exams and presentations.

I know all too well about this be-cause as I write this I find myself running on a mere three hours of sleep with a stack of work so high I can’t even see the top.

While it might seem like a diffi-cult thing to put all of the commit-ments and deadlines aside, I hope that students remember to take a breather this coming weekend. After all, this weekend is a time to give thanks for all that we have.

I’m not intending to be preachy here, but let’s be real — each and every student on this campus has something to be thankful for — whether that happens to be the privilege to attend classes or the good fortune of having friends who are there to carry them through the storm.

Despite all of the complica-tions and unexpected speed bumps along the road towards an educa-tion, students have an awful lot to be thankful for.

I know I take those things for granted far too often. That’s why around this time of year I try to make time within my frantic and hectic schedule to stop and think, if only for a moment.

I think about all that I have, from my friends to my family to my professors and the opportunity to gain an education. It can be re-ally easy to allow assignments and projects to consume and frustrate you while you fail to acknowledge everything in your life that is on the upswing.

Why is it important to do this? Because you never know when any of this could be snatched from our grasps, either temporarily or per-manently. Life is truly short and good things don’t always last so it is important to appreciate them while they’re within our reach.

Speaking of being thankful, how grateful am I for the conversations that exist within my life? Let me tell you...

How important is it to have good conversation? The simplicity of this concept is perhaps lost on some.

I’m not necessarily talking about a contentious political de-bate — though that could apply. I’m not necessarily talking about a riveting discussion about history and how it has impacted our world — though that could apply. I’m not necessarily talking about passion-

ate banter between two fans of ri-val sports teams, though….

I’m talking about simply sitting and having a conversation about nothing in particular with some-one who holds a place of impor-tance in your life.

I like to think that I’ve always valued good conversation in my life, but I have reached the con-clusion that I have just recently discovered how amazing good conversation is and how it can con-tribute to my well-being.

As students, I think it is more im-portant now than ever before that we come to this realization. While you may not spend as much time with your classmates or university friends as you have with your high school pals from back home, these are times in your life that will stick with you forever. The people you study with could very well end up being people you work with when you move on from this institution and establish yourself in what your life will become.

For many reasons, having these good conversations is an important thing at this stage of any student’s life. Whether you build the connec-tions that will foster future profes-sional networks or whether you build relationships that will result in a lifetime of friendship or something more, this is a critical time to estab-lish longstanding strong connections.

Make sure you don’t take those conversations, relationships or friends for granted because they can disappear just as quickly as you discovered them.

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TRUe Thoughts

NEW WESTMINISTER (CUP) — I like to be appreciated. Whether for do-ing well or doing good, it’s always nice to be acknowledged. Yet although I’m a firm believer in showing gratitude for acts of kindness, there is a difference between gratitude and adulation. There comes a point where my eyes cannot stop themselves from rolling. That point was crossed in the aftermath of an eight-year-old girl returning $4,000 to its rightful owner.

I know what you’re thinking: “It’s a little girl! Let her have her praise! It was very nice of her to return the money!” The applause Abbie Jacobson of Maine received on her first day of school was adorable. Perhaps the front-page article detailing Abbie’s good will and deep moral character was a bit over the top. The sold-out Justin Bieber concert tick-ets that were given to her by the Bank of Maine were definitely excessive.

First off, the money wasn’t hers, so she returned it to the rightful owner. This is not a novel concept. Why should people be rewarded for doing the decent thing? Granted, if I lost $4,000 and it was re-turned to me, I would learn to be more careful with my possessions — I might not be so lucky next time. Not everyone returns money that isn’t theirs, but it’s not so special that she did. There’s no moral dilemma here: you either do the honest thing, or you don’t.

She did the honest thing. Let’s move on with our lives.

Not to say that kids are stupid, but they don’t necessarily think to do something wrong. It may not even occur to them to keep something that isn’t theirs. This isn’t the sign of an ethical spine of steel. If someone refrains from doing me wrong because they’re oblivious to other op-tions, I don’t think of them as the most moral peas in the pod. Besides, she’s an eight-year-old kid: what’s she going to do with $4,000?

Now, a little side note on the Bank of Maine, which generously donated Justin Bieber tickets to Abbie and her family. John Everets, Chairman of the Board and CEO of the bank, after reading of Abbie’s Bieber-love in the Portland Press Herald, reportedly said that this was “a chance to do something nice for a beautiful little girl.” More like it was a chance to get some much-needed good press.

I’d be more impressed by Everets if he were focused on improving the lives of those he serves, namely his banking customers. It’s interesting that the Bank of Maine has chosen to do something nice for a little girl following a stint of bad press. They’ve been in trouble for “unsafe and unsound banking practices,” and faced criticism from Occupy Maine protesters on their foreclosing of people’s homes.

Suddenly, their name is in the news for a reason other than unsafe banking prac-tices — they’ve diverted attention to a superficial act of supposed kindness, and now everyone loves the Bank of Maine.

Trust me, I appreciate what Abbie Jacobson did, and I think it’s wonderful if she’s encouraged to be a good person. What I hate is this mind set whereby do-ing something decent gets you a massive, disproportionate reward.

Abbie Jacobson’s story, while sweet, distracts from the truly relevant matters. Too often we ignore those bigger issues in society, preferring to focus on super-ficial stories.

I’d rather ignore the little acts of de-cency that should be expected and focus on the important issues.

Why is being decent

worthy of adulation?

The Other Press (Douglas College)Natalie Serafini

…but maybe because we can’t compare it to anything?

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News

New Student Senator Welcomed

Controversial former student sen-ator Adrian Miller’s senate seat has been filled by another person.

Chrystie Stewart, a law student and former vice president of the TRU Society of Law Students, will be occupying the seat until the term ends in December.

Before the senate meeting Sept. 24, the seat was listed as vacant on TRU’s website.

Stewart was among the seven students that ran in an online elec-tion held between Dec. 8 and Dec. 22, 2011 for the four student sena-tor positions and received the fifth-highest number of votes.

Of the people who received seats, Miller got 160 votes, Dylan Rob-inson had 67, Jordan Del Giudice received 46 and Chris Albinati brought in 45. Stewart received 42 votes.

Before being elected to the senate and the board of governors, Miller filed a lawsuit claiming TRU failed to reasonably accommodate his dis-ability and medical problems, the nature of which was left unspeci-fied.

That lawsuit is still unresolved.He was sworn in as a member

of the senate, but was unable to be sworn in as a member of the board of governors due to being in jail at the time for a charge of violating a probation order stemming from a mischief conviction.

New Research Centre Proposed

TRU is one step closer to es-tablishing a new research centre that will look at making better real-world decisions through mathematical models.

Senate voted to support a pro-posal to establish a Centre for Optimization and Decision Sci-ence at its Sept. 24 meeting. In TRU nomenclature, a research centre isn’t necessary a physical place, but a formally structured organization of researchers.

Examples of problems the cen-tre would tackle by producing mathematical models include the design of efficient work fa-cilities, the optimization of pro-cess to achieve a minimum cost, balancing conf licting interests and using limited resources ef-fectively.

The centre would build on re-search strengths TRU already has, wrote Rick Brewster, the chair of mathematics and statis-tics, in a memo.

“We have researchers with experience solving real-world problems from industry and gov-ernment,” he wrote. “In creating the centre we can leverage this capacity in more opportunities for our faculty, our students and the surrounding communities.”

The board of governors must approve the creation of the cen-tre before it gets off the ground.

News Briefs

But where has the compromise gone?

Western society finds it hard to compromise because of its his-tory — and it’s getting worse, TRU’s founding dean of law Chris Axworthy told a public seminar.

According to Axworthy, when people compromise to find a so-lution, everybody is better off.

“To me, it’s a process and an outcome,” he said. “I don’t see compromise as the lowest common de-nominator, I see it as the product of working hard to get to a solution which could be beneficial to everyone.”

Yet, there seems to be less compro-mise today. In the United States, Re-publicans that prom-ise not to work with Democrats win their primary elections. In Canada, the conservative govern-ment uses omnibus bills to mini-mize legislation.

“The reason I’m puzzled by this is it seems to me that we all com-promise: with ourselves, with our families and friends every single day of our lives,” Axworthy said. “Yet somehow, when we reach out beyond that fairly close network, we lose all sense of what makes sense and we don’t compromise as much as we used to.”

For most of the speech, Axwor-thy compared European approach-es to the approaches of Aboriginal Peoples. The subject of crime was one example he used.

“You know, the euro-centric response to crime is to punish, to be driven by revenge,” he said. “That’s what we do — we take a criminal and punish them.”

But in general, Aboriginal Peo-ples take a different approach.

“For the most part, what Ab-original people do is they at-tempt to restore the victim, the community and the perpetrator,” Axworthy said. “They attempt to make things better after this breakdown in social behaviour.”

In European culture, a crimi-nal is sent to an adversarial court where a judge is supposed to de-termine the truth after hearing arguments from both side, while in some Aboriginal cultures, a sentencing circle is used where the criminal faces the victims and community he or she harmed.

At one sentencing circle Ax-worthy attended in Regina, it was found the perpetrator was acting out and stealing credit card num-bers because he didn’t like his mother’s boyfriend.

“If he had gone to the judge, been given probation, that would have never arisen,” he said. “No-body would have known why he was acting out in that way.”

Axworthy also mentioned a letter given to Prime Minister Wilfred Laurier in 1910 when he visited the chiefs of the local Secwepemc, Nlakapamux and Okanagan nations.

The letter described how set-tlers took ownership of their lands away and pushed them into poor, unproductive lands.

Despite this, the letter asked the government to compromise with the nations and work to es-tablish treaties.

As of today, there are still none.

Despite our at-tempts to escape our euro-central-ism, it still grips us today with part of that being an unwillingness to compromise.

Axworthy was a Saskatchewan New Democrat

member of parliament from 1988 to 1999. He was also a cabinet minister in the Saskatchewan provincial government from 1999 to 2003.

He then ran twice unsuccess-fully for the federal Liberals before becoming the dean of the University of Manitoba’s law school in 2008.

Axworthy spoke on Sept. 27 in the environmental sciences de-partment’s seminar series, which is held every Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in room S203 in the science building during fall semester.

The next seminar features Da-vid Green, a biology professor at Simon Fraser University, in S203 on Oct. 11.

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VANCOUVER (CUP) – B.C. has a new captain at the helm of the Ministry of Advanced Edu-cation.

John Yap, who is also the min-ister for multiculturalism, took over the advanced education portfolio in early September as part of a major cabinet shuff le by Premier Christy Clark. He replaced Naomi Yamamoto, who had held the position since March 2011.

In an interview with the Ca-nadian University Press, Yap made it clear that he is intent on ensuring more trades training is available at post-secondary in-stitutions.

“If I were to sum up the focus in the short-term, it is to ensure we have the facilities and pro-grams to do trades training.”

This aligns with the Liberal government’s promise to priori-tize job creation. Yap said there should be about a million job openings in B.C. in the next ten years, with 43 per cent of these requiring some trades training. Beefing up trades training pro-grams and facilities now will help to train the workforce for those job openings.

“It’s important we offer British Columbians the opportunity to fill those positions and encour-age those that are in school and thinking about career options that they consider, if it’s right for them, a career that is well paying and rewarding, in the trades.”

His plans are already under-way. This week he announced $29.2 million will go towards two new trades buildings at Camosun College. One building will focus on marine and metal trades, while the other will be for mechanical trades.

The portfolio he is taking over saw $70 million in cuts over three years in the last budget and was the only major sector to see an overall funding reduc-tion. Yamamoto, his predecessor, also came under attack earlier this year for a confidential email from a reporter that leaked from her ministry to a Liberal donor.

Yap, however, said that he has confidence in B.C.’s higher edu-cation system.

“I am myself a product of a university here in B.C. I [got] a degree in science and then a Masters in business administra-tion, which helped me appreciate the immense value of a post-sec-ondary education because it pre-pared me for work life.”

When asked about the prov-ince’s increasing dependency on tuition to fund post-secondary institutions, he said now is not the time to reduce dependency considering the economy. B.C. is the province increasing its de-pendency on tuition at the fast-est rate in Canada.

And as for other tenants of af-fordability — in trades or other-wise — Yap thinks the current system is affordable enough, so long as the tuition cap of 2 per cent remains in place.

“We’re confident that with the caps on tuition fee increases and the supports that are pro-vided by student aid programs, whether it’s bursaries or grants or student loans or scholarships — we’re making our system of colleges and universities acces-sible for British Columbians.”

Despite criticisms about the increasing cost of higher educa-tion in B.C., Yap defended the province’s schools, that two of his children went through.

“Millions of dollars have been put into supporting our colleges and universities to prepare our students,” he said. “It’s a great college and university system and I’m looking forward to working with the many people who make it work so well.”

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Foxconn Riot in China

Chinese-based electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn, which sprang into infamy after a series of suicides among work-ers in 2010, is again facing la-bour problems after a riot broke out Sept. 23.

The riots began when work-ers from Henan province be-gan f ighting with workers from Shandong province.

Guards then moved in to stop the f ighting and severely injured one of the workers from Shan-dong, causing other workers to f ight back.

As China moves further along the path of human rights, riots like these seem bound to hap-pen.

“It’s a mess,” Wang Zhiqian, a recruiter for Foxconn told the Washington Post, “The guards often abuse their power over the workers.”

Foxconn is one of the largest electronics manufacturing com-panies in the world. It’s respon-sible in part for the production of many popular electronics de-vices from well-known manu-facturers including Apple, Acer,

Sony and Microsoft.

Where you can f ind out more: www.nytimes.com

Google Executive Detained

Google was forced to remove a defamatory political video after off icials arrested their Brazilian head of operations.

Brazilian laws prohibit public criticism of political candidates, so when Google refused to re-move YouTube clips accusing mayoral candidate Alcides Ber-nal of illegal activities, the Bra-zilian courts struck back.

A 24-hour ban of Google and YouTube was issued and Google executive Fabio Jose Silva Coel-ho was arrested.

He was questioned and then later released.

Google representatives have disavowed responsibility for the video.

“Being a platform, Google is not responsible for the content posted on its site,” an email state-ment to CBS said.

After seeking all possible av-enues for appeal, Google ceded to the demands of the Brazilian courts and removed the video.

Google’s policies with their videos have always put a primary focus on freedom of speech.

For instance, it refuses to re-move the inf lammatory “Inno-cence of Muslims” video in coun-tries outside of the Middle East.

Requests to remove videos for political purposes are not new. Between the U.S. and Brazil, Google claims to have received 381 requests to remove content in the final half of last year.

Where you can find more: www.cbsnews.com

Controlling Brains With Lasers

Researchers hope by manipu-lating the nervous systems of simple creatures they will gain a better understanding of our own.

A group of researchers from the Howard Hughes Medical In-stitute discovered that by using lasers to trigger individual neu-rons in the brain of a microscopic worm, they were able to manipu-late its behaviour and senses.

Researchers were able to make the worm turn in any direc-tion of their choosing and trick the worm’s senses into thinking there was food nearby.

Researchers hope their work will lead to a better understand-ing of the ways neural pathways work. This knowledge could then be applied to animals with a more complex nervous system, such as humans.

Where you can find out more: www.sciencedaily.com

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A new particle has been dis-covered that could be the elusive Higgs boson scientists have been in search of for around 50 years, a Simon Fraser University physi-cist told TRU students.

Dugan O’Neil, who worked at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) where the particle was discovered, was the speaker at a seminar hosted by TRU’s sci-ence department Sept. 27.

The current particle physics model states all things are made of particles, but doesn’t explain why they have mass.

One theory is particles gain mass by interacting with a theoretical particle called a Higgs boson.

The newly discovered particle could be that the-oretical particle.

“We haven’t proved [it’s] the Higgs boson yet, but it’s not just a really cool new particle,” O’Neil said.

The particle was discov-ered during an experiment in the LHC, a 27-km long super structure buried 100 meters beneath the Swiss–French border.

In the LHC, single par-ticles were f ired at each other at the speed of light where they collided inside the 7,000-ton ATLAS par-ticle detector.

“Think of it as a 100 megapixel camera, with very fancy pixels taking 40 million pictures a sec-ond,” O’Neil said.

The scientists are moni-toring for the particular Higgs boson reaction between the two colliding particles, which occurs once every second.

Other reactions are taking place at a billion times per sec-ond, which makes f inding the reaction the scientists are inter-ested in diff icult.

The immense amount of data is sorted out using computer al-gorithms.

“Now all we have to do is close our eyes and imagine [the data] in 10 dimensions” O’Neil said jokingly.

His audience was mostly sci-ence students and professors who eagerly listened.

Steve Sadler, a third-year TRU physics student, attended the talk. Sadler shared his excite-ment for this new discovery.

“People always say that every-thing in physics has been discov-ered,” he said. “Something new is happening.”

“There’s different opinions of the signif icance [of the f ind-ings],” said Mark Paetkau, a TRU physics professor who or-ganized the event, “but it will help explain the universe.”

There could be practical ap-plications to f inding the Higgs boson decades in the future, O’Neil said.

“Those who invented lasers didn’t envision DVDs and scan-ners,” he said.

The researchers at the LHC are still working to confirm their f indings.

“We’re preparing the experi-ment by November for analysis to rule out the Higgs boson,”

O’Neil said.The LHC was built by the Eu-

ropean Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and went fully operational in 2008. O’Neil told the audience Canada has con-tributed $70 million to the proj-ect so far.

The LHC also has a website where a live feed of the experi-ments in the LHC can be watched at http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/

The talk was the f irst of a sci-ence seminar series being held on Thursdays at 12:30 in room S273 of the science building. The next seminar will feature Peter Mahaffy, a chemistry pro-fessor from King’s University College on Oct. 4.

Ω ContributorLuke Henderson

The central part of the Compact Muon Solenoid barrel with the vacuum tank, at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

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The name Kamloops comes from the Shuswap word Tk’əmlúps, which means meeting of the waters, in reference to two rivers meeting. Now know as the North and South Thompson, the two channels inter-sect becoming the Thompson River. This waterway comprises the sub-ject matter for a new exhibit at the Kamloops Art Gallery created by Ernie Kroeger, a photographer and assistant professor in the visual and performing arts department at TRU.

Confluence, an exhibit at the Ka-mloops Art Gallery, is a collection of historical and current photographs Kroeger has gathered with one, se-quential subject matter over time; the confluence of the Thompson Rivers.

The show also displays a text por-tion looking at the different iterations of Kamloops discovered by Kroeger during his search through the city’s history.

While Kroeger has put on shows before, Confluence didn’t come to fruition like other projects.

“This time it came more out of teaching. I teach a history of photog-raphy course and so I sometimes use all kinds of images, like world histo-ry,” Kroeger said. “I thought I would put some Canadian content over the years, into my history class and then B.C. content and then Kamloops con-tent. Give students a local flavour.”

He was able to collect the photos from a variety of sources, primar-ily scouring archives in Kamloops and online archives in major Cana-dian cities such as Calgary, Victo-ria and Ottawa.

“That was really interesting, to re-alize that these images of Kamloops were everywhere,” Kroeger said.

His inspiration came somewhere a lot closer to TRU.

“I would say some of the inspira-tion came out of teaching this class,” Kroeger said. “I started using some of those images in my PowerPoint presentations.”

The photos range in age with the earliest taken in 1865 just 25 years af-ter the birth of the medium in Europe and eastern North America. To get the pre-Canadian picture the photog-rapher would have had to travel great distances by horse, carrying bags of equipment.

“At the time they had to carry all this equipment,” Kroeger said. “They had to carry chemicals and glass plate negatives and they had to make their negatives.”

The first few photographs of Kam-loops were taken as part of an expedi-tion by a colonial administrator. The city wouldn’t see another photogra-pher for six years.

Confluence takes these histori-cal pictures and allows the viewer to compare the same section of land-scape over time, up until the late-1960s. From that point in time there are only a couple more photographs, including a recent picture of Kroeger taken by his wife while he walks on the riverbed during a period of low water and images taken from Google Earth, staring down on the intersec-tion from orbit.

For those interested in compar-ing the landscape and human in-teraction with such a central point of Kamloops, Confluence will be flowing on until Nov. 3 at the Ka-mloops Art Gallery.

Passage of time: a passage of water

Ω Arts & Entertainment EditorBrendan Kergin

TRU assistant professor and photographer looks at Kamloops over time

The international public art phenomenon of yarn bombing will soon take Kamloops streets by storm.

This contemporary style of street art involving yarn wrapped around statues, posts and other public structures is a new wave in the public art scene, changing the traditional views of knitting and crocheting.

The Ka-mloops Art G a l l e r y (KAG) and City of Kam-loops will be collaborating to transform d o w n t o w n K a m l o o p s through the art of yarn bombing. A total of 148 trees to be yarn bombed on Victoria Street from First to Fifth Avenues. The KAG will work with a variety of knitters, stitchers, crocheters and fabric artists to create this array of art.

It’s not just senior citizens taking on this art form, youth of all ages are beginning to expand

on the yarn bombing sensation. At an informative session at

the KAG on Sept. 29 Leanne Prain, author of Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graff iti, said “Yarn bombing is something youth and teenagers are starting to get passionate about.”

The KAG needs volunteers. With no experience necessary, participants of all levels and ages are welcome to join, leaving this a great opportunity for TRU

students to get involved and decorate d o w n t o w n Kamloops.

“This is d e f i n i t e l y s o m e t h i n g TRU stu-dents should take notice of and par-ticipate in,” said Stepha-nie Patsulsa,

a visual arts student at TRU who attended the information session at the KAG.

This community-based proj-ect will be f illed with pub-lic knit ting opportunities and workshops, allowing ar tists of all skill levels to share tech-niques while working to cozy

up Victoria Street. Those interested can join

the online community of yarn bombers “Yarn Bombing Kam-loops” on Raverly- www.raverly.com/groups/yarn-bombing-kam-loops.

The KAG also leads “Knit n’ Sip” at the Noble Pig Brewhouse

on the f irst Monday of the month from 5 to 7 p.m. starting the f irst week of October.

Want to help in another way? KAG is in need of unused wool, yarn, crochet work or old knitted blankets. Drop off donations at the Kamloops Art Gallery at 465 Victoria Street.

Ω ContributorCatherine Fortin

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The campus was treated to more live music tied to aware-ness campaigns as JobFest, a provincial government initia-tive to inform youth about to-day’s job market, took the stage, Thursday, Sept. 27.

Arranged by the Career Edu-cation Department on campus and third-party marketing com-pany Inventa, JobFest parked it-self outside the west entrance to Old Main, with a stage and tents for information, swag and inter-active job-related activities. The event was completely funded by the provincial Ministry of Jobs, Tourism and Innovation.

The event kicked off at 2 p.m. and lasted until 8 p.m. Event or-ganizers estimated 350 students visited and accessed the tools.

Featured was the headliner Vancouver band, Halfway to Hollywood, as well as local tal-ent Jodi Doidge and Mohsin Za-man.

Throughout the musical acts were speeches from Kamloops workforce leaders including Mike Miltimore, president of Lee’s Music, Todd Stone, presi-dent and CEO of iCompass, and Kevin Cudmore, manager of development and assessment of Automotive Training Standards Organization.

The provincial government was highlighting its online tools and resources for job seekers.

“We hope it’s fun as well as informative,” said Shawn Read, student employment coordinator with the Career Education De-partment at TRU.

While he admitted there are many challenges within the job market, there are ways to over-come and land a rewarding ca-reer.

He said in order to successful-ly f ind a job, it is important for students to connect their learn-ing objectives with employment goals and often students have too narrow a scope.

“The more f lexible and more mobile [graduating students] are, the more successful they’ll be in transitioning to the world of work,” he said.

Read said raising awareness of the methods to land a job was the goal, as well as promoting the Career Education Department and the services it offers.

Although a large crowd never formed, the performers had zeal and the campus had more energy because of them, whether or not TRU students came in search of career advice.

JobFest will be visiting more than 50 locations throughout the province this fall.

For more information and to access the online tools and re-sources visit:

http://jobfest2012.ca/

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Ω Roving EditorSamantha Garvey

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Sam the Record Man at Yonge and Gould in its heyday. —PHOTO COURTESY THE RYERSONIAN

Fifteen years after his first record and former Juno-nominee Danny Michel still knows how to create a pleasantly unique sound.

Danny Michel and the Benque Players released their latest album, Black Birds Are Dancing Over Me, on Sept. 18.

His tenth studio album has a beachy, reggae, folksy feel.

If you’re already missing the long, hot days of summer, this album brings back the feeling of lounging in the sun, beverage in-hand.

Michel worked with Ivan Duran in Belize, bringing the raw Central-American culture to life on this eight-song mix. The album features members of the Garifuna Collective - a local Belizean group that is quite talented.

Though the album is similar to some of his other work, Michel uses diverse instrumentals to keep the sound fresh.

Through the album, traditional Garifuna drums, turtle shells, saxo-phone, cowbells and even donkey jaw-bones are heard. It may seem gross, but donkey jaw-bones are a regularly used instrument in Beliz-ean music.

Black Birds Are Dancing Over Me is authentically Belizean while still

appealing to Michel’s Canadian audi-ence.

The backup vocals from the Gari-funa Collective made this album dif-ferent from anything heard in North America.

“Into the Light,” the fourth track, has a Maroon 5-esque quality about it, but that shouldn’t fool listeners. This song features the most traditional Garifuna instrumentals on the album.

“The First Night,” the second-to-last track on the album, sounds like it should be sung around a campfire on the West Coast.

The backup vocals make an oth-erwise low-key song sound like a big, group production.

If nothing else, this album will give listeners a greater apprecia-tion for the use of a unique Mayan guitar.

Ω ContributorCourtney Dickson

Album review: Black Birds Are Dancing Over Me

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OTTAWA (CUP) — Innovative folk music may sound like an oxymoron to some, but for Folk Music Canada, it is a reason to celebrate.

In November 2012, the organization will hand out its first ever Innovator Award at the 2012 Canadian Folk Music Awards, to be held in Saint John, N.B. The honour will be given to a pioneer of the folk community.

“The purpose is really to underline things that people are doing that set a new mould in the folk world,” said Ta-mara Kater, executive director of Folk Music Canada.

While folk music is usually described as traditional, Kater in-sists that it should not be considered stagnant.

“Even though folk is based on tradition, it’s something that really comes from the people,” she said. “The music of the people never really stands still.”

It’s sort of ironic, then, that the sector of music that’s been given the “traditional” tag would reward innovation, while the ma-jority of the mainstream music industry has fought tirelessly — and often il-logically — against it. One might recall earlier this year when the Recording In-dustry Association of America (RIAA) sued LimeWire for $72 trillion, which is almost all the the money that exists in the world economy.

Ridiculous claims like these are part of major labels’ vehement refusal to adapt to the age of technology and the free culture movement. But over at Folk Music Canada, the kind of innovative thinking that could straighten out the music industry — without trying to force a new generation of consumers to conform to an old school of business — might actually be rightfully rewarded.

Unlike most music awards, the inno-vator award is not centred on the art form

or on a musician’s recordings. Instead, Folk Music Canada wishes to focus on the development of the folk community as a whole.

“What we’re looking for is something that is new,” said Kater. “[This] can come from any aspect of the folk community. It could be an artist manager who found a new way of having management rela-tionships with their artist, or it could be a festival that found a new way of operat-ing, and who, for example, is not reliant on government grants.”

Ottawa, which just came off its 18th annual Folk Festival, has a thriving folk community. But, as far as innovation goes, it’s hard to tell how the city fares.

There are two main institutions that promote and celebrate folk music in Ot-

tawa, other than the Ottawa Folk Festival.The Ottawa Folklore Centre, founded

in 1976, acts as a hub for local talent and developing musicians by selling instru-ments, hosting events, and providing les-sons for an array of unique instruments such as the Sri Lankan drum and the djembe. Spirit of Rasputin’s, an event cre-ated in 2009 after a fire burned down the iconic Rasputin Folk Café, also provides opportunities for locals to showcase their talent.

In 2010, these two organizations came together to create a series of “folkcasts,” an online concert series that could be ac-cessed through YouTube or the Ottawa Folklore Centre website.

These “folkcasts” are the kind of effort that could be nominated for the Folk Music Canada innovator award. Unfortunately, they stopped being pro-duced in 2011.

Although not the focus of the award, musicians can also be nominated. Artists who have found new ways of approach-ing the music or who have created a new model for collaboration are examples of potential nominees.

Vancouver-based singer-songwriter Dan Mangan, who played at this year’s Ottawa Folk Festival, is a prime example of a Canadian musician who stands on the fringe of folk. On his third album, Oh Fortune, Mangan truly pushes the enve-lope by collaborating with many impro-visational and experimental musicians to create a refreshing sound.

In many ways, the award itself could be considered innovative; according to Kater, not only is it the first award cre-ated by Folk Music Canada, but it’s also

the first of its kind.“There are other like-

minded organizations that give out awards as well,” said Kater, “but we don’t really know of anyone who is giving out recogni-tion to a new, cutting-edge, or innovative aspect of the community.”

The nomination pro-cess is also different from

most awards; nominees are chosen by members of the folk community, in the hopes that this will draw attention to ef-forts that may otherwise go unnoticed in such a large, decentralized body of fans.

Due to the broad nature of the award, Kater admits that she has no expecta-tions when it comes to the list of nomi-nees.

“It’s the first year that we are opening up to the community to bring in nomina-tions,” she said. “So in many ways, we’re as curious as everyone else to see what is going to come in and we’re asking the community around us to identify things that they see as innovative.”

Due to the media attention, and in the hopes of receiving a greater num-ber of nominations from the commu-nity, the deadline for nominations — originally set for this week—has been extended to Sept. 30.

The Fulcrum (U of Ottawa)Michelle Ferguson

Folk Music Canada introduces award for industry innovators

“The music of the people never really stands still”

—Tamara Kater,

executive director, Folk Music Canada

TORONTO (CUP) — In her cur-rent life, Julia Hanigsberg helps man-age one of Ryerson’s newest projects, the Student Learning Centre, set to be built on the site of the old Sam the Record Man store.

But as a teenager, the university’s vice-president administration and fi-nance got her first job at a Sam’s store in Montreal in 1982, selling records to eager music lovers.

Hanigsberg recalled that early brush with the famous Canadian company Tuesday, as she reflected on the death of its founder. Sam Snider-man died in his sleep on Sept. 23. He was 92.

“While I was a student, I was a part-time cashier,” Hanigsberg said. “I loved the job, particularly the dis-count on records. I remember the day when staff was invited to preview this crazy new technology — the compact disc. None of us thought it would catch on because each disc cost about $40.”

Hanigsberg recalls working on Boxing Day, which was a monumen-tal occasion at all Sam’s stores be-cause of its famous annual sale.

“The lineup was around the block and never got any shorter all day,” she said.

She didn’t meet Sam Sniderman until she arrived at Ryerson, but Hanigsberg remembers speaking with him about her experiences at his store.

“Sam was wonderfully friendly with lots of great stories,” she said. “I shared my memories of working at Sam’s and we enjoyed talking about it.”

At its peak, Sniderman’s once-thriving family business had 130 retail locations across Canada. The flashiest, most legendary was the flagship location on 347 Yonge St. that lit up downtown Toronto with its in-your-face sign that consisted of two gigantic LPs made of 800 lights.

“He was certainly iconic,” said Ry-erson president Sheldon Levy. “He was the one that could be credited with creating the energy and what I’d call the eclectic nature of Yonge.”

Sniderman, the Toronto-born en-trepreneur, was also a champion of Canadian music with a particu-lar penchant for the obscure. In the 1960s, he tried to jumpstart the Ca-nadian music scene by starting an all-Canadian recording company.

Sniderman was always willing to

part with both his money and his time in order to help fledgling homegrown talent.

Sept. 24’s Polaris Music Prize gala was dedicated to Sniderman, to hon-our his contribution to Canadian mu-sic.

Joni Mitchell, Gordon Lightfoot and The Guess Who were just a few of the up-and-comers who were guided by Sniderman, who told The Toronto Star “everybody” had sat on his sofa at some point.

“The Guess Who were there when they couldn’t get a record made,” he said to The Star.

“Anne Murray sat there saying: ‘Sam, if this record doesn’t work, I’m going back to Nova Scotia to be a gym teacher.’”

For all his efforts, he became known by some as the godfather of Canadian music. He was also award-ed the Order of Canada in 1976 and inducted in the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 1997.

After his illustrious, decades-long career, Sniderman called it quits in 2001, passing ownership of the busi-ness to his two sons, Bobby and Ja-son, and his nieces, Lana and Arna. The record business had taken a hit as both Internet downloading sites like Napster and stores like HMV and Wal-Mart came to prominence.

After attempts to revitalize the business were unsuccessful, Snider-man’s family eventually dimmed the lights on the Yonge Street store and sold the historic building to Ryerson University in 2007 for $23 million. It has since been demolished to create space for the planned Student Learn-ing Centre, which coincidentally is one of Hanigsberg’s projects.

“I’m very proud now to be work-ing on a project that sits on the site of that flagship Sam’s store on Yonge Street,” she said. “We will certainly be doing the site justice with our new Student Learning Centre.”

Ryerson spent $150,000 to have the iconic sign carefully dismantled piece by piece for its preservation. The sign has been in storage since then, but to honour Sam the Record Man — both the man and the store — Ryerson has promised to hang the oversized neon record in the new building.

As for Sniderman’s legacy, Levy said, “he certainly deserves all the credit for what he did for the music industry, particularly the Canadian music industry. In our community, I think Yonge Street and its vibrancy (has) a lot to do with Sam — he was a character.”

Ryerson executives remember Sam the Record Man ownerThe Ryersonian (Ryerson)Rachel Phan

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Two Polaris Prize Short List appearances, regular criti-cal acclaim, recordings with Justin Vernon of Bon Iver and Jim Cuddy, praise from Roll-ing Stone, Blender and the New York Times, performances from David Letterman to SXSW, Juno and CCMA nominations and no hit songs.

Kathleen Edwards is arguably the least-known music star in Canada. She’s had success off the major charts, but for some reason hasn’t crossed that line, not that she should for any rea-son.

Country-style with indie-rock credibility and an edge, Edwards has been around for more than

10 years and built up a strong portfolio with smart lyrics from a smoky-sweet voice.

A guitarist as well, she’s an incredible songwriter, creating accessible gems.

With her most recent work, arguably her strongest album, she explored a more rock arena, leaning away from the twang of previous work, but she hasn’t left it completely.

The track to check out from her right now is no doubt “Cha-meleon/Comedian,” which starts off light with some haunting vocals and amazing lyrics. It builds to beautiful landscape production with her still central guitar strumming along.

It was a short drive-by, but boy was it worth the ride.

Edmonton’s Drive By Punch might not be making any new music or playing shows right now, but when it did, it captured an audience that would stay loy-al to the group long after it went on hiatus.

A pop-punk act with an edge, Drive By Punch engaged a sig-nif icant audience within Ed-monton, par ticularly at the Uni-versity of Alber ta, where I f irst discovered the band at a show in the fall of 2006.

I immediately fell in love with the angst-f illed and emo-tional lyrics.

As quickly as I fell in love with Drive By Punch, my hear t was broken by the band as they

called it quits in April 2007. There is no telling whether or

not the high school friends that comprised the group will ever return to the stage or studio to-gether, but one can only hope.

Despite being together for 10 years, Drive By Punch only released one full-length studio album, A Good Start to a Bad Day, in 2005.

While the entire album is worth a listen from star t to f in-ish, a few par ticular standout tracks include “A Good Start to a Bad Day,” “60 Seconds” and “Take This Finger As Goodbye.”

Also worth a listen is the 2002 six-song EP, Dear Flanna-gan which includes the tracks, “Your Loss,” “Breaking Point” and “Ten or 12.”

Ye Olde Canadian Music Corner

Ω Copy/Web EditorTaylor Rocca


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Indie pop-rock’s The Belle Game released its f irst full-length album Ritual Tradition Habit yesterday, hoping to satis-fy its growing fan base.

Unlike its previous EPs Inventing Letters and Sleep to Grow, lead singer Andrea Lo takes complete vocal leader-ship.

Her dark tone and ability to perfectly compliment the musi-cianship speaks vol-umes to their growth as a collective.

The Belle Game has a similar sound to that of Florence and the Machine, and listeners will enjoy the sounds of piano, drums, guitars and even the trumpet on occasion. It’s Lo’s voice that steals the show however, deliv-ering beautifully upbeat lyrics on every track.

On the album’s second song “River,” Lo chiefs instrumen-tal direction with her powerful voice, making it one of the al-bum’s strongest songs.

The album’s single, “Wait Up For You,” does a good job of striking a balance between lyri-cal rhythm and percussion. The song lingers in your ears long after it’s over. Although “Salt + Water” seems out of place amongst stronger vocally-led

tracks, the overall feel of the al-bum indicates a budding future for these indie art-rockers.

Hailing from Vancouver, B.C., The Belle Game recently opened for international pop icon Go-

tye and has found increasing popularity on the Canadian West Coast, playing festivals such as Vancouver’s Summer Live in 2011 and Canadian Music Festi-val this past March.

The six-member group has been building momentum over

the past two years and after being named one of the best bands of Van-couver by The Georgia Straight, a path with no destination but success seems laid out before it.

In the end, it’s an en-joyable album, consis-tent in both sound and feel. With upbeat melo-dies, strumming guitars and beautiful piano riffs, it will leave people in a good mood.

Fans who are delighted with the 12-track list will also get a chance to see The Belle Game at the Rio Theatre in Vancou-ver next month.

The challenge for this group will be maintain-

ing its characteristic sound while continuing to grow artisti-cally, creating something that is uniquely its own.

Nevertheless, the new album suggests a step in the right di-rection.

Ω ContributorKassandra Mitchell

Album review: Ritual Tradition Habit

Puzzle of the Week #4 – Fall Leaves

That backyard of yours is just full of leaves: abcd of them to be precise.Given the clues following, how many leaves are there?

1. There is exactly one pair of digits that is the same.

2. Every digit is evenly divisible by every smaller digit in the number.

3. The solution’s arrangement of the digits is the fourth-highest valuearrangement.

4. None of the digits are prime.

5. The sum of all of the digits is even.

Special grammar question: Is the first clue grammatically correct, orshould it be “There is exactly one pair of digits that are the same.”?

This contest is sponsored by the Mathematics and Statistics department. The

full-time student with the best score at the end of the year will win a prize.

Please submit your solution (not just the answer but also why) by noon next

Wednesday to Gene Wirchenko <[email protected]>. Submissions by others are

also welcome. The solution will be posted the Wednesday after that in the Math

Centre (HL210A). Come visit: we are friendly.

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EDMONTON (CUP) — Dani-elle Cousineau had never writ-ten a book before. She had writ-ten and directed short f ilms and even made it to major f ilm fes-tivals. But writing a book was something she’s never done. So when she decided to set her mind to writing, it only made sense for the Edmonton-born author to write about the one thing she knew: her own life.

“The person I was most inter-ested in telling a story to was me, and I think I just needed to wrap my head around these big things that happened in my life at such young points,” said Cousineau, on the phone from her new home in B.C.’s Lower Mainland.

Writing the book was an outlet for Cousineau. While she struggled with health issues and problems in her personal life, being able to sit down at the keyboard for hours at a time and write about her life was a form of catharsis.

“I reached a point where I needed to look at the things that had hap-pened to me in an honest and ap-proachable light,” says Cousineau. “It was a lot easier for me to delve into looking at these really difficult things if I could mix in something I was comfortable with, which is sex.”

Given that sex is a comfort zone for Cousineau, the title of her new book is unsurprising. She’s called it A Book: of Sex and Little Else. Cousineau doesn’t hold back much when it comes to her sexual esca-pades. While many of the names in the book are withheld for the sake of those involved, many of the details are not.

That doesn’t mean it’s an auto-biographical form of Fifty Shades of Grey. There are some graphic details in the book, and Cousineau wanted to alert people to the sexual nature of the writing. But the title is also meant as a form of irony.

“The book screams irony,” says Cousineau. “At a certain point, I was getting quite risky. I was do-ing things I wouldn’t have otherwise done.”

While her book delves into some of the problems she faced growing up, she also ran into issues in the publishing world. Getting the manu-

script in front of a publisher proved to be problematic, since few accept unsolicited works. She had to fight to get an agent to represent her, and sent the book to eight different pub-lishers, hoping for the best.

That’s when she turned to online publishing. As a graduate of the Vancouver Film School and still an avid filmmaker, Cousineau has many contacts in the entertainment industry. They were telling her to try to publish the book online, on her own. One of the first places she checked was Kindle.

The online book giant has a self-publishing arm, something Cousineau thought she would try out.

She submitted a manuscript, thinking it would again take a while to hear back. Less than two days later, her book was being distributed through the Kindle store.

“It was all kind of haphazard and fluky. It’s what happens when any-one writes a book.”

A businessman in Australia loved it so much he helped her to pay for a small initial print of the book, which she is now touring with.

With her first foray into the publishing world now behind her, Cousineau is already working on her next piece, a work of fiction.

“It’s a way for me to write about the things I wanted to write about, without it having anything to do with me,” she says with a laugh.

The Griff (Grant MacEwan)Justin Bell

Novice author pens unlikely autobiography about sex, and little else

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In the movie world, sports f ilms often hold a special place for fans, taking the side of the underdogs and raising them to great heights. Feel the Wind, a Japanese production based on the book of the same name, starts at that bottom rung and takes the audience right along to the top.

The story follows a ragtag band of students at Kansei Uni-versity as they work towards their goal of competing in a na-tionally televised marathon re-lay.

The race is the Hakone Ekiden and takes place just after the new year with 19 schools and one col-lected team competing for glory in front of their country.

The Kansei team doesn’t start out as a team. They’re house-mates f irst, 10 young men shar-ing cheap rent near school. Leader Haiji Kiyose collects them with the hopes of building a team for the Hakone Ekiden but doesn’t tell the group of his intentions until he’s recruited the f inal housemate and former high school track star, Kakeru Kurahara.

Together the group works through individual issues, against rivals and to overcome the past.

Of the 10 members, everyone has something to overcome in some way and this is the strength of using the marathon relay. Un-like other team sports, it’s an in-

dividual battle, but at the same time each teammate is working for the greater good. This solo battle/group responsibility cre-ates an interesting balance for the plot to revolve around.

The directing is solid, though there may be too many shots of people running. Some of the voice-overs can be confusing but the technique does allow for character expansion, so the issue breaks even.

The acting is Japanese-esque, with a few moments over-wrought, edging on cheesy. The good natured-ness of those scenes and the overall earnest-ness of the characters allows some give in that department. For f ilms of the genre, the plot can be predictable, but it doesn’t make the f ilm less enjoyable.

The will-they won’t-they of the f inal competition does build up proper tension, especially since the race takes up the f inal act. It is a two-day race though.

Plots aside from the central struggles take a back seat and can feel stapled on, with a ro-mance that is never really ex-plored and a coach with a his-tory.

These are likely due to the plot being taken from a book and making allusions to areas more fully formed on the page.

The f ilm was shown Thursday night as part of the Kamloops Film Society’s series of f ilms in collaboration with the Consulate General of Japan and The Japan Foundation as part of a double feature on Sept. 27.


Film review: Feel the WindKamloops Film Society collaborates with the Consulate General of Japan and The Japan Foundation for a free series

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Deadmau5’s new album re-f lects a major change in electron-ic dance music.

Fans were left in the dark with new release Album Title Goes Here. For starters, the album was leaked on the Internet before its official release date (Sept. 25), which significantly impacted the anticipation of the new album.

Sonically, most songs seeme to lack the climactic buildups and goosebump-inducing melo-dies he’s known for. Songs like “Fn Pig” have the listener wait-ing for minutes, which seem like hours, for some kind action. This leaves listeners wanting to change the song rather than wait for the money-shot.

Album Title Goes Here is a more experimental approach to electronic dance music as it is nothing like previous work from deadmau5.

Joel Zimmerman, better known as deadmau5, expressed his genu-ine hatred in Rolling Stone for the mainstream turn in which elec-tronic dance music was headed. The genre has become a multi-million dollar industry with the hit single “Levels” by Avicii be-ing played in every clothing store, bar and club around the world.

Electronic dance music was once the true definition of “un-derground.” The late-1980s gave rise to a trend known as acid house, which was performed ille-gally in abandoned, government-owned warehouses with 808 sys-tems and Roland synthesizers. Now electronic dance music has become a mainstream genre with the likes of Madonna hopping on the bandwagon.

Album Title Goes Here ref lects Zimmerman’s frustration towards this recent direction within the electronic dance music scene. He has even taken his misgivings to Twitter, telling Madonna off for her recent album MDNA, as it seems to make a stark reference to the drug MDMA.

He has also begun collaborating with artists outside of electronic dance music including Imogen Heap, Cypress Hill and the Foo Fighters. Zimmerman is also one of the first electronic dance music artists to cover a Radiohead song.

Despite all of the controversy, it’s quite clear that deadmau5 is not a fan of the mainstream, even though a lot of his tracks have appeared on top-40 charts. Al-though he’s a blatant hipster, the end result of his previous work has been mainstream success.

There’s no label for Zimmerman, which may work to his benefit or be the beginning of his demise.

Ω ContributorMatthew Pflugfelder

Album review: Deadmau5’s Album Title Goes Here

Secret Broadcast – Oct. 3 Heroes Pub, doors @ 7:30 p.m.,

$5 cover.Friendly Calgarian guitar-led in-

die-rockers will make a trip across the Rockies to play some crash-ing drums and bouncy guitars. They’re aiming for a double set. The show is the first of Heroes’s planned Live Music Wednesdays.

Wide Mouth Mason – Oct. 16The Dirty Jersey, doors at 8

p.m., $25Long-time white-boy bluesmen

Wide Mouth Mason will be taking another pass over the Thompson Rivers, playing songs spanning from a 17-year career. They played an enthusiastic set in Kamloops last year and there’s no reason to believe they’ve changed.

Matt Mays – Oct. 22 (with Glo-ryhound and The Meds)

The Blue Grotto, doors at 8 p.m., $20 advance sale.

Juno-nominee and fan of the jean jacket, Matt Mays will bring an eclectic mix of rock. He’s toured with Blue Rodeo, been featured on fellow denim-devotee Sam Robert’s songs and featured rapper Buck 65 on his own work. A shaggy-haired Mays is touring to support his new album Coyote.

Revolvr – Oct. 25 (with The Hunter and dj virtue)

Cactus Jacks, doors at 9 p.m., $7 advance.

Rising electronica DJ and so-cial-media sound-effect sampler, Revolvr, will drop some bass on CJs. A fast-paced style has had Revolvr catch the ear of superstar Tiesto and is leading to his fast rise over the past year. For fans of electronic dance music this could be a chance to see a star on the rise (remember when Skrillex played here?).

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With a 1-0 win over the Univer-sity of B.C. Okanagan (UBCO) Heat on Sept. 30, the WolfPack men’s soccer team has matched their win total from last season.

The match sat tied at zero for the majority of the 90 minutes, as both teams traded chances and goalkeeper Travis Froehlich was forced to make a few keys saves.

Though they were unable to come out to an early lead, the WolfPack were happy with their start.

“Well we came out in the first half and we controlled a lot of the play,” said co-head coach Sean Wallace. “It’s against a team like this, they don’t have a win yet, so they’re very dangerous.

“They don’t have anything to lose and at the end of the first half it was 0-0 and we said to the guys, ‘we gotta come out and take it to them. We can’t let them hang around.’”

The Heat managed to hang around in the second half but it didn’t end up costing the Wolf-Pack.

In the 82nd minute TRU pot-ted the go-ahead goal. Austin Schneebeli worked the ball into the box on a lengthy throw-in from the corner and Oriol Torres

fought off the Heat defenders to net his third goal of the season.

It’s a play that the ‘Pack have been working on in practice, in an effort to make use of Schneebeli’s exceptional throw-in abilities.

When he was unable to play due to injury, Schneebeli spent last season working to improve that aspect of his game and his hard work paid dividends Sunday.

“We’ve been working on that long throw play for a while and

got it to work this time,” Sch-neebeli said. “It’s the first time that’s hap-pened all year and it worked out pretty well.”

Heading into the second half of the season, the WolfPack currently sit in fifth place in the PACWEST standings, two points back of the Langara College Fal-cons.

While the team isn’t cur-

rently in a playoff spot, there is still plenty of time to work their way into the top four. Wallace cited one area in particular that he hopes his team will be able to improve in the second half of the season.

“We just need someone to step up and score a few more goals and it won’t be so tense,” Wal-lace said.

The Wolf Pack will return to Hillside Stadium Oct. 13, to face Quest University and Langara College.

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The WolfPack women’s soccer team returned to Hillside Stadium on Sept. 29 to face off against their interior B.C. rivals, the University of B.C. Okanagan (UBCO) Heat. The teams played to a 1-1 draw, with the Heat scoring in the 80th minute to tie the match. The goal came on a WolfPack defensive breakdown, but head coach Tom McManus was quick to point out the outcome of the match wasn’t due to just one mistake.

“I just thought that we played poorly,” McManus said. “I think the first half was probably the worst 45 minutes we’ve played all year.”

The match drew yet another large crowd to Hillside Stadium and all proceeds from the after-noon were donated to KidSport Canada in honour of Sports Day in Canada. Though the game ended in disappointment for the WolfPack, a few players put to-gether outstanding performances.

The ‘Pack’s only goal came on a great individual effort from Alan-na Bekkering, who chased down a loose ball just before it went out of bounds and crossed it to Courtney Daly who netted her third goal of the season.

“Fantastic,” said McManus, when asked about Bekkering’s play.

“Alanna is such a great wing-er, she’s got the strength and speed and just whipped a beauti-ful cross in and Courtney, what a great volley to f inish it off.”

With the draw, the women still sit comfortably atop the PAC-WEST standings. They’ve domi-nated individually thus far as well, as Blair MacKay was named PAC-WEST Player of the Week for the week of Sept. 26.

MacKay said she was excited to receive the honour but cared more about the fact her team was able to shut out both of their opponents last weekend. A fifth year co-captain of the WolfPack, MacKay echoed the sentiments of her coach after Saturday’s match.

“I think it was a tough fight, UBCO is always a really good fight,” MacKay said. “They push really hard. I think it was unfortu-nate that we tied, obviously we’d have rather gotten the win.

“I think we just need to win the knock-downs and be first to the ball right from the get-go [Sunday].”

The WolfPack played to a tie on Sunday as well, coming back from a one-goal deficit in Kelowna.

Though the result was similar, McManus was much happier with his team’s effort in the rematch.

“We kept going strong after UBCO in the second half,” said McManus, in an interview with TRU Athletics. “To their credit, they came back and tried to push us. I’m definitely impressed with our character. These were two tough matches with our in-terior rival.”

The Wolf Pack will play Doug-las College and Kwantlen Poly-technic University next week-end, before returning to Hillside Stadium Oct. 13.

Ω Sports EditorAdam Williams

Argentina’s national under-21 squad schools the ‘Pack, who continue preparations for season

Alanna Bekkering streaks down the sideline during the Wolf-Pack match against UBCO on Sept. 29 at Hillside Stadium.

—PHOTO BY ADAM WILLIAMS

WolfPack Scoreboard

WolfPack men narrowly defeat UBCOΩ Sports EditorAdam Williams

Women’s Soccer

Saturday: 1-1 drawSunday: 1-1 draw

Men’s Soccer

Saturday: 1-1 drawSunday: 1-0

Men’s Volleyball (Exhibition)

TRU WolfPack vs. College of the Rockies: 3-0 WolfPackTRU WolfPack vs. UofC Dinos: 3-1 Dinos

Hockey (Exhibition, Eye-Opener Tourna-ment at SAIT)

WolfPack vs. Innisfail Eagles: 6-2 EaglesWolfPack vs. SAIT Trojans: 4-3 Trojans, Double OT

Baseball

WolfPack vs Langley Blaze: 4-0 WolfPackWolfPack vs. Victoria Eagles: 12-2, 4-0 Wins for WolfPack

Golf

7th place team finish (654)

Top TRU golfer: Chase Broadfoot 28th (161)

Winners:

Individual: Jarred Cailback of Camosun (143)

Team: University of Fraser Valley (588)

That’s what you saidFor this week’s issue, we patrolled the grounds looking for your answers to this question:

“No. Not this year. I haven’t had the time because I’m busy studying. I want to go though.”

“I went to the first basketball game in September. It was exciting. It was my first basketball game. It’s not as popular in Ukraine.”

“I haven’t been to a WolfPack game yet. I’m really hoping to get to one soon.”

Have you been to any WolfPack games this year?

First-year sciencesDaniel Antuluv

Post-baccaleurate accountingKaterynaChorna

Third-year tourismJeromy Spence

‘Pack goaltender Travis Froe-hlich goes up for the ball vs. the UBCO Heat on Sept. 30. —PHOTO BY ADAM WILLIAMS

WolfPack forward Alanna Bekkering (Photo courtesy of TRU Athletics)


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