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January 26 - February 1, 2012 | Vol. 54, Issue 17 | carillonregina.com

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Sometimes rad things happen to rad people. Students voted yes in last weeks UR Pride referendum, providing the centre with consistent funding and a stronger sense of stability. What do they plan to do now (besides splurge on UR Pridebranded dune buggies)?

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You know that student journalism conference in Victoria that made the news last week? The one where a suspected outbreak of Norovirus left close to 150 delegates ralphing uncontrollably for days? Funny thing: thats where the Carillon was last week, in lieu of putting together an issue. And we were not immune. Two editors ended up quarantined in Victoria, while our production manager tried in vain not to befoul the Calgary Holiday Inn. Yikes! At any rate, were back, we feel great, and we learned a great deal from the otherwise terric Canadian University Press conference. So put on your reading hats and tighten your enjoyment straps. Youre about to get journalismed.

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In the late 1950s, the University of Regina planned the construction of several new buildings on the campus grounds. One of these proposed buildings was a bell tower on the academic green. If you look out on the academic green today, the rst thing youll notice is that it has absolutely nothing resembling a bell tower. The University never got a bell tower, but what it did get was the Carillon, a newspaper that serves as a symbolic bell tower on campus, a loud and clear voice belonging to each and every student. Illegitimi non carborundum.

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In our Jan. 12-25 issue (Vol. 54, Issue 16), we ran a sidebar alongside the article Queer as votes stating that the per-semester fee to the Carillon is $2.00 for part-time students and $4.00 for full-time students. Our actual fees are $2.75 for parttime and $5.50 for full-time, which we managed to publish correctly on our survey but somehow missed in a big fourth-page infographic. The Carillon regrets this frankly wack error.

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Ready for action
URSU gears up for Feb. 1 campaign that centres around Aboriginal education

News Editor: Natasha Tersigni news@carillonregina.com the carillon | Jan. 26 - Feb. 1, 2012

(Some of) the students have spoken

UR Pride wins referendum with low voter turnout

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news editor taken this past week in preparation for the Day of Action is attempting to engage students on campus through sample letters that will be mailed to the Prime Minister. Those letters talk about First Nations education and tuition, and,the role thefederal government has in both of those, Peterson said. That role, specically, arises in the form of the Post-Secondary Student Support Program (PSSSP). The program provides assistance to eligible First Nations and Inuit students; eligible students are either Registered Status Indians or Inuit students residing out of the Northwest Territories or Nunavut. The program provides support for tuition, travel, and living expenses. But Peterson argued there are flaws in the PSSSP, primarily in that there is a two-per-cent cap in place, which he argued limits the amount of people the program can reach. Its been capped since 1996, meaning fewer and fewer eligible people can attend post-secondary institutions every year, he explained. A thousand people last year were denied funding in Saskatchewan alone, so its a very, very big issue, and were letting the Prime Minister know, via letter, that we think the cap should be lifted. We have to make sure that the PSSSP should exist, that they shouldnt dissolve it into another department, or get rid of it altogether. They should just lift the cap and properly fund First Nations education. The CFS-planned National Day of Action comes almost two months before students in Quebec are planning to strike. Though the CFS event is meant to focus on similar issues as the Quebec strike, the two actions are unafliated, as the CFS and its former Quebec members have been mired in lawsuits against one another since 2010. Canadian University Press Quebec Bureau Chief Sarah Deshaies reports that after a joint meeting on January 21, in Quebec City, the Fdration tudiante universitaire du Qubec (FEUQ) and the Fdration tudiante collgiale du Qubec (FECQ) have reafrmed the intention to strike. Their strike, which is meant to protest rising university tuition fees in the province, will take place on March 22. We talked a little about the different waves of strikes that are going to be happening, said Chad Walcott, vice-president external for the Concordia Student Union (CSU), which is a FEUQ member. Whereas some schools are going to strike earlier in February, and others later in March, [theres] a wave of pressure thats moving toward March 22 and the end of the academic of year for that last push. In Montreal, last semesters day of action saw around 20,000 students march to Premier Jean Charests downtown office. The day was capped off with a handful of arrests and confrontations between riot police and students on McGill Universitys campus. The U of R event is unlikely to come to such a dramatic conclusion, but this means that contributing to the success of the event requires much less dramatic action. The most significant way [students] can help is by coming out to the National Day of Action at the First Nations University and joining us for the rally, joining us for the free lunch that is available, and listening to the guest speakers, Peterson said. With les from Sarah Deshaies (CUP Quebec Bureau Chief) For the UR Pride, the second time was a charm. With a referendum being held at the U of R for the second time in four years, UR Pride got what it wanted: direct, consistent funding via an optional student levy. According to the official count, 409 students voted yes, 65 students voted no, and one ballot was spoiled, meaning 86.2 per cent of voting students said yes to paying UR Pride $1.00 per fulltime student per semester and 50 cents for part-time students. As a staff member, it is really awesome to see the support, said Karli Jessup, project co-ordinator at UR Pride. I excepted to see the referendum go through just based on the positive response we got from the [pre-referendum] petition. Since UR Prides re-branding in 2010, the centre has become more active on campus and in the community, starting initatives such as the weekly safe-space night for queer youth. With an increased program roster and higher visibility, the centres board decided to push for referendum establishing an independent levy this academic year. In order for the referendum to occur, UR Pride needed a petition with five percent of the student bodys signatures. Volunteers gathered signatures between September to December and presented them to the URSU board in mid-December. I am happy that the work we put in to doing the referendum

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news editor Campuses around the country have taken to protesting this school year and the University of Regina is joining in. The Univeristy of Reginas Student Association is planning to hold a National Day of Action, which is also taking place taking place on 79 Canadian Federation of Students-afliated (CFS) campuses, on Feb. 1, URSU has been distributing pamphlets and pledge sheets, trying to raise awareness of student issues at the U of R. With the National Day of Action, the CFS is calling on federal and provincial governments to address what it has highlighted as student concerns. Students union president Kent Peterson believes this sort of activism is crucial for addressing the issues at hand particularly post-secondary accessibility to First Nations people. An outdoor rally at the First Nations University of Canada (FNUniv) on Feb. 1 will mark the start of the week. After what is expected to be a short rally, students are welcomed to go inside FNUniv to listen to guest speakers and respected elders, while watching performances and enjoying a free lunch and hot chocolate. Its very important that we do this because, unless politicians hear us talking about these issues in a very public way, they may overlook our concerns, Peterson explained. We are making a very conscious choice to talk about First Nations education and to rally at the First Nations University of Canada, so that our message is clear. Were telling the federal government to get serious about First Nations education. Another step that URSU has

has paid off, said Dan Shier, external chair relations at UR Pride. Although UR Pride had campaigned for the majority of January, the referendum only had a student turnout of 475, which is approximately a four-per-cent turnout among the student body. Shier said he was not surprised by the low voter turnout. From day one, we didnt expect too many people because it was a referendum-only vote. He went on to explain that other referendums, such as those for the Carillon and the U-Pass, had similar voter turnout. David Hill, a fourth-year year biology student at the University of Regina, was one of the 409 students that showed up and voted yes in the referendum. I [have] friends for whom [the center] is relevant, Hill explained.I frequently heard their frustrations that they cant do what they want to because of funding. With the referendum passing and the student levy coming into effect this fall, every student at the university who doesnt opt out of the levy is now a member of UR Pride. While nothing major changes except for the volume of paperwork involved for the centre, this does mean that any student who chooses can run for a spot on the centres board. Now that the referendum is over, UR Pride can now focus its energy on hosting the 2012 Canadian University Queer Conference from May 2-6. The centre expects between 200-250 delegates representing post-secondary queer service providers from across the country to attend.

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relevant. I frequently heard their frustrations that they cant do what they want to because of funding.
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the carillon | Jan. 26 - Feb. 1, 2012

The numbers dont add up

U of R professor part of a team looking to improve math education in the west
lauren golosky
news writer Three professors from Western Canadian universities are nding that math education in the western provinces is lacking extremely lacking. In hopes of xing the problem, these professors have createdan initiative called the Western Initiative for Strengthening Education in Math (WISE Math) According to their website, The purpose of this initiative is to form a coalition among concerned parents, citizens, employers, scientists, mathematicians, and educators with the purpose of rallying together to improve K12 mathematics education in Western Canada. The goals of this coalition, WISE Math states, are to lower innumeracy and grant students more career opportunities, goals the organization hopes to reach by improving training for math teachers and strengthening curricula for students in primary and secondary school. Fernando Szetchman, associate professor in the University of Reginas Department of Mathematics and Statistics, is one of the professors participating in WISE Math, along with Robert Craigen and Anna Stokke, math professors from the University of Manitoba and the University of Szetchman identified problems with math education at both the elementary and secondary levels that become especially evident when these students come to university. He believes these deciencies are a serious problem. Something must be done to be able to help children realize their potential, which at this point, is not being fullled by any stretch of the imagination, he said. Were not blaming the students, or even the teachers. There are serious problems with the education system. Szetchman is careful to avoid placing blame on anyone in particular for this dilemma. Instead, he believes there are serious systematic aws occurring at the elesecondary, and mentary, post-secondary levels. The change that is needed is extremely deep and complex, he said. Were not blaming the students for showing up to university with these deciencies, or the teachers that are teaching these kids at the moment. They just follow the curriculum . Saskatchewans math curriculum in place has recently been replaced; the current one is called Math Instruction that Makes Sense. Although it has only recently been introduced, to say that Szetchman lacks condence in its capacity to properly teach the young students of Saskatchewan is an understatement. Referring to the new program as an abomination, he said its potential compared to the previous policy is muddled, and that he struggles to determine its relative value. Although Szetchman and the other math professors are more than dissatised with math education, Szetchman worries they are not reaching the public. In order to instigate change in the system, which he reckons has to occur at a deep and complex level, the group must spread awareness. The WISE Math petition has garnered around 600 signatures, and Szetchman estimated that between a third and a quarter of those votes have come from Saskatchewan. Support at this point, relative to the support we need, is minimal, Szetchman explained. If it stays like this, there is really no chance of success. Even though we have been supported by a very large group of people, with this level of support, we wont be able to achieve anything. The public can get involved by joining the initiative online at wisemath.org. If enough signatures from the public, including educators and parents, can be obtained, Szetchman hopes to take the movement to the government. I hope to raise awareness and debate about this, he explained. I think healthy debate ... will be useful.

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Winnipeg, respectively. Szetchman refered to WISE Math as a movement towards bettering the education system, particularly where math is concerned. The professors have found themselves frustrated with the system, believing it is failing students from the get-go. Parents are concerned about

the education of their children, particularly in math, but some are concerned about education in general, he explained. Parents should be very concerned about the level of academic quality of education [their children are] receiving and do everything they can for their children to realize their potential.

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Parking problems continue in 2012

Though students have expressed aggravation, relief is nowhere in sight

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news writer Students are complaining about the parking system at the University of Regina not for the rst time. Last semester, students with concerns over on-campus parking aired their grievances at a public forum hosted by U of R president Vianne Timmons, who promised that the administration would set to work looking at how to turn student suggestions which ranged from clearer parking pass application processes to organizing shuttle transit from an offcampus parking lot into viable initiatives. However, the start of the winter semester looks more than familiar to those students left without parking passes in September. Winter parking passes sold out within 24 hours of going on sale Dec. 6, and while Parking and Transportation Services has implemented new practices to address some of the concerns student raised last term, those changes have left more students unable to park on campus. Parking Services suggests a variety of options for students who did not obtain parking passes for the winter semester. First, they suggest parking at the metres around campus, which ll up shortly after 11 a.m. Secondly,

it is recommended that students park in Lot 8, which has a daily maximum of $7. However, this lot lls up at around 11 a.m. on busy days, too even on the nondescript Monday of this Carillon issues production, the lot was full before noon. The nal option suggested is to park in the neighbourhood surrounding the university, which not only inconveniences students, but also the residents near the university; in a Nov. 4 letter to the Leader-Post, Hillsdale resident Thelma Russell wrote that she was beyond annoyed with the habitual use by University of Regina students of our residental streets as their parking lot. This winter, Parking Services issued 2,700 parking permits, 100 fewer than last winter. The reduced number of permits sold this term is an attempt to ensure lots are not oversold. On campus, there are just under 2,000 M parking spaces, which means there are 700 people just over a quarter of those with passes who will potentially not get spaces. Because there are over 11,000 students at the university, these numbers mean that less than a quarter of the student population has a parking pass. However, not all students drive to the university some take the bus, others live close enough to walk, some cycle and some are dropped off and

picked up. Barb Pollock, vice-president of external relations at the University of Regina, suggests taking the bus or carpooling whenever possible, as it encourages environmentally friendly behaviour. We do work with [the City of Regina] continually on this, and we did have a change to bus routes because of working together and I know the city is very open to continue to work on the issues, she said. The struggle with parking is that the faculty at the university is unable to control what times the campus is busiest. Pollock pointed out the peak period for the university is between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., and unfortunately there are no guarantees for parking spaces. However, this explains the overselling of M permits. The fact remains that there is enough come-and-go, its not always going to hit everybody at the time they wish it, but there normally is enough space in lots for the pass holders and the public to park, Pollock said. Unfortunately, there are sometimes so many students on campus during peak times that the 2,000 M permit spaces are taken. And if the students who have a hallowed parking pass are unable to park, the students who were unable to get permits are unlikely to get even a metred space.

Jessica Bastiaanse, an art history student, drives with her sister, but their carpooling isnt helping them get a space. I went to purchase a pass and no later than a week after they went on sale, and they were sold out, she said. Some of my friends in the same position have also found it frustrating to make it to class on time. I have been walking a fairly long distance in the cold weather, making my way through a neighbourhood in order to get to my class. She pointed out another problem with overow parking heading to the neighbourhood nearby. The side roads have signs indicating that the maximum amount of time you can park is two hours, which makes it difficult for students that have over two classes a day. Paying for meters and parking tickets throughout the semester can amount to more than a parking permit, which can be hard on students wallets. Pollock suggests the same alternatives as Parking and Transportation Services. Unfortunately, we all have the same alternatives, and that is to park off-campus, or take the bus, or carpool, which we would certainly like to encourage, she said. These solutions arent ideal, and with a growing student body,

releasing fewer parking passes is not going to help resolve these problems. While parking will probably always be an issue at the University of Regina, there are several plans that should come into effect shortly to alleviate parking problems. A new parking lot is under construction on the south side of campus, which will create an extra 150 parking spaces, and is expected to be completed before the next school year begins. Similarly, a proposal for a multi-level parking lot has been created, which would come along with a new residence building and extra daycare spaces. On the master plan, we have a number of other parking concepts laid out for the next ve, ten, fteen years if we are successful [in] getting the residence project approved for funding this year, Pollock said. I heard the other day that residence would be ready for occupancy so I cant presume parking, but that goes together in summer of 2015. For anyone interested in tracking the parking situation, there is a forum update on the Parking and Transportation Services website (www.uregina.ca/ancillaries/parking/).

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the carillon | Jan. 26 - Feb. 1, 2012

English gets bigger

Retweet, sexting among words recently added to English dictionary
sophie long
news writer For those students who struggle to understand the differences between formal and informal English, essays and papers will soon become easier to write , thanks to some new additions to the English dictionary. Recently added words include cyberbullying, retweet, bromance, and sexting, and some professors are willing to accept them in essays. English professor Susan Johnston has no problem accepting these new additions to the dictionary, as long as theyre used properly. The whole question of the vocabulary of the essay is: is the language of the essay appropriate to the mode and subject matter of the essay? And is it being used correctly? she said. In other words, dont throw bromance in the middle of your very formal paper on metaphors in a Kipling poem. Cameron Louis, a linguistics professor in the faculty of arts, agrees with this attitude, adding, If you have support for the word, and you can say its in the dictionary and people are using it, thats OK. Dictionaries are not books that are meant to legislate what is good English and what is bad English. Dictionaries are there to record meanings of words so that if people encounter them, they can know what they mean. Johnston has a different idea of what the dictionarys function is. Dictionaries are word museums in a way; they are a record of the history of the language, but they are also a living history of the language, she said. Johnston acknowledged the fluidity of language and she insisted her students are aware of the history of their vocabulary. While the two professors have differing opinions on the function

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of the dictionary, both agree on the reason new words are added. Johnston said, If we have perfectly good words for things, then we dont need a new one. Its a sign of a technological change, Louis said. Sometimes we need a new vocabulary. When it comes to a new technology, you need to invent a name for it. It might not be a need, sometimes its just a search for novelty. He described works like machinery; if there is a void, a new invention can ll it. Johnston suggested that a lot of vocabulary created is in response to changes in society, when there are watershed transformations. As an example, Johnston referenced the phrase knock you up, which currently means to make someone preg-

nant. She pointed out it used to mean to wake someone up, as lamp lighters would knock on peoples windows to wake them up. It was introduced during the switch to factory work, when you would have to be awake and reporting to someone at an exact time, she said. This phrase was created due to the Industrial Revolution, while new words and phrases added now reect the technological revolution we are living through. While the creation of a new terminology is a good sign of change, Johnston gave a warning regarding the loss of archaic vocabulary. Most synonyms dont lay perfectly down on top of each other, she said, You are saying

something different with each word. It is important than we are able to remember older words so that we can always choose the right word. Some of the newer words being added can be written off as celebrity coinage, as Johnston calls it, or as useless words that dont ll any void. However, Louis and Johnston both insist on the importance of other phrases such as cyberbullying. I think cyberbulling is a very good term, he said. Until the invention of social networking, there was no such thing as cyberbullying, but I gather its a huge problem. We really need a concept and a word so people can really talk about it.

Dictionaries are not books that are meant to legislate what is good English and what is bad English. Dictionaries are there to record meanings of words so that if people encounter them, they can know what they mean.
Cameron Louis

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Washed out
UNB looking to improve student dropout rates
colin mcphail
brunswickan (university of new brunswick) FREDERICTON (CUP) The Maritime Provinces Higher Education Commission (MPHEC) reported in a recent survey that post-secondary institutions in the Maritimes lose about 33 per cent of students at the end their rst year. Of that, the humanities, arts, and social sciences faculties endure the lowest retention rate, with only 73 per cent of students returning for year two. Its a trend Scott Duguay is all too familiar with. The special assistant to the vice-president academic at the University of New Brunswick has watched enrolment rates etch a consistent path up and down graphs for the past decade UNB rounding out at just over 12,000 for the Fredericton and Saint John campuses. The rates havent fallen, but more importantly for Duguay, they havent gone up. This is why the university administration has pledged to enhance the student experience and boost retention through a number of initiatives falling under the Student Experience Measurement Plan. Duguay, who is spearheading the project, has scoured the MPHEC database in search of trends and a possible answer to increasing student persistence. However, the gures only tell part of the story. Its the whys that get him. If youre looking at retention, you could say, How many students do I have in a program? and then, How many students do I have in the program next year? he said. But they could be completely different students. Duguay said with universities exchanging transfer students, the numbers can be misleading. He wants to know what prompted the transfer? What made them dropout? What can be done differently? UNBs own research demonstrates the most popular factors in students leaving fall outside the academic realm. Financial planning and time management top the list of many, Duguay said. However, the need for a more indepth and accurate depiction remains. If we can start narrowing it down to the whys and start focusing on the groups with similar issues, then thats when we can start targeting the programs to help students directly, Duguay said. His team has been mining data from the past decade, following student numbers to see what trends exist. He said its important to see where transfer students end up to have a better grasp on what the universitys programming might be lacking. Duguay hopes to start answering questions within a year. As for student persistence, the university enlisted the services of a rm specializing in survey engineering and questionnaire development and assessment to get real time feedback through new media. Duguay said they would be getting the information from the experts themselves. The experts, if you will, on the UNB experience are students, faculty, and staff those who are actually getting the experience, Duguay said. So, this program were launching is getting the feedback back to us. Among the various groupmonitoring situations includes the vice-president groups on student experience led by vice-president academic Dr. Tony Secco that consists of a collection of administrators analyzing student satisfaction. The idea is to bring all the good work that is happening on campus in pockets, if you will, into a strategic focus plan moving forward and communicate back to the community what our retention priorities and student persistence and that sort of thing, Duguay said. The need for stable or increasing retention rates is pertinent to the financial administrators as well. The university uses a predictive number to account for the level enrolment when outlining the annual operating budget. Tuition fees account for roughly 30 per cent of the budget, and a significant drop could lead to a shortfall. Jordan Thompson, president of the UNB students union, said addressing the needs of rst-year students from the start is paramount in producing stronger rates. Its very important to have sessions during orientation week to help transition students to university life, he said. The students union works with the university in planning academic orientation, and despite not having a specific program dedicate to student retention, the union has several members sitting on various groups dedicated to improving the student experience. Duguay offers a transitioning workshop for rst-year students in multiple faculties during academic orientation as well. Bringing expectations and reality together is key to a students success, he said. Although keeping students is at the forefront of the Student Experience Measurement Plan, the core concept is improving student life and services for everyone at UNB. Its one thing to retain students, its another to increase the experience of those who would stay anyway, Duguay said.

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University of Alberta cuts ten faculty spots
alex migdal
gateway (university of alberta) EDMONTON (CUP) The University of Albertas Faculty of Arts has found nearly $500,000 in savings by closing three vacant faculty positions, but must still nd a savings of $1 million elsewhere, Dean of Arts Lesley Cormack announced at a public forum on Jan. 18. This will result in the elimination of fewer support staff positions as determined by the Administrative Process Review Project (AdPReP), which was originally aiming for 15 positions as the result of a two per cent budget cut. The faculty has also found another $1 million in savings by eliminating seven tenured faculty positions from professors who have accepted retirement packages, which will take effect July 1. Those savings will go towards the next faculty-wide two per cent budget cut that will eliminate roughly $1.5 million from the arts budget on April 1. Savings from next years cuts will not be found by eliminating more non-academic and support staff, Cormack reassured. My hope is that next years cut, we can take with a combination of better management of our endowments, being able to use them a little more creatively, fundraising, and the closing of those (faculty) positions, she said. In addition, the faculty will be offering a voluntary severance plan for both non-academic and academic staff, as well as a declaration of interest for those interested in reducing their full-time position to part-time. Cormack also raised the issue of whether the budget cuts are diminishing the quality of education for students in the arts faculty. Of course, anytime you take resources and people out of the system, of course it has consequences for those things, Cormack said. I think it would be foolish to say it does not. Cormacks stance differed from that of U of A president Indira Samarasekera, who was quoted in the Edmonton Journal the day prior as saying the budget cuts were modest and would not have an impact on students. I dont buy the argument that the two-per-cent cut is going to change their experience, Samarasekera told the Journals editorial board. We have not laid off profs; the number has increased over the last five or six years and now its constant and may go down slightly. Recommendations and implementation of the nal administrative structure as determined by the AdPReP process are expected to continue until March 31.

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[Title of Show] Royal Saskatchewan Museum Jan. 26 - Jan. 29 7:30 p.m.; 2 p.m. Sunday $15 for students Cope Globe Theatre Jan. 26 - Feb. 4 7:30 p.m. $20 Reef: New Work by Faith B. Logan Opening Reception Hague Gallery/Creative City Centre Jan. 27 7p.m. Free admission Between Immanence and Permanence Opening Reception First Nations University of Canada Art Gallery Jan. 27 7 p.m. Free admission Unplanned Architectures Opening Reception Neutral Ground Jan. 28 8 p.m. Free admission Nick Faye and The Deputies with Evan Chambers and Third Alarm The Exchange Jan. 28 8 p.m. $10 The Brotones OHanlons Jan. 31 8 p.m. No cover Combat Improv! The Exchange Feb. 1 8 p.m. $5

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FNUnivs art gallery begins offering consistent exhibitions

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paul bogdan
a&c writer Half of the problem is that people didnt know we had a gallery. I barely knew, said Katherine Boyer, research assistant at the First Nations University of Canada (FNUniv) Art Gallery. Its out of the way, even though its really just a skip and a jump from the U of R. I go over to Riddell Centre for lunch every once in a while and it takes me twenty minutes, she laughed. I recognize that its a difcult place to get to sometimes. Despite being as old as the building, the art gallery at FNUniv is in its rst year of consistent programming. It was built into the university, but this is really the rst time that weve had regularly scheduled programming, Boyer said. We could say it started in September. Weve had prior shows in there, but it would be for the six weeks of the show and then nothing for the next four months. This is the rst time that the institution is really giving it an effort. Boyer believes this fact to be related to the gallerys lack of an actual name, something that the gallerys operators are looking to change. Were just starting up a committee, and thats the first thing on the agenda to get a good name. Its always been the First Nations University of Canada Art Gallery, but thats a mouthy, wordy, and unfortunate title, Boyer said. I think [the gallerys presence is] going to be aided when we have a cool name. But the U of R already has an on-campus art gallery that I dont have to walk outside in -30C to visit, so why bother with another art gallery? Sometimes its nice to have a place where you can go and be to yourself and think about art ... and learn, Boyer said with a chuckle. I guess learning is probably pretty important. On a more concrete level, though, the gallerys research assistant, whose job is much more than the title suggests, is quick to

draw distinctions between the First Nations University Art Gallery and the Fifth Parallel Gallery, the University of Reginas other on-campus gallery. Unlike the Fifth Parallel, the gallery at FNUniv is not run by students and instead is more of an artistrun centre. The hard thing about student-run things is that there is a time limitation to any type of devotion that they can give to the projects, Boyer said. Youre always dividing your time between classes. A lot of artist-run centres are volunteer based, so its a similar problem, but a lot of times theres a paid position that can monitor the gallery and make sure the volunteers are working cohesively with their timelines. Another notable difference between the First Nations University Art Gallery and the Fifth Parallel is the audience whom each gallery is structured towards. The Fifth Parallels audience is largely student-based, and the First Nations University Art

ing back-and-forth between emerging and established artists? Its finding what we want to be known for that were exploring right now. Notwithstanding the distinctions from the Fifth Parallel that Boyer has made, she asserted the close working relationship between the two galleries. Im really close with the Fifth Parallel, so were in pretty good exchange of publicity, she said. They tell people that go to their gallery to head over to the FNU[niv] gallery too ... Theres a really nice exchange happening right now. Unique to the art gallery at FNUniv is the ability to display everything in the universe ever. Well, theoretically speaking that is. Every Possible Image is a piece in John G. Hamptons upcoming show at the FNUniv Art Gallery, Between Imminence and Permanence, which theoretically can produce any image that can or has existed in 200 x 120 pixels.

Should we stick with strictly aboriginal artists,

emerging artists, switching back-and-forth between emerging and established artists? Its finding what we want to be known for that were exploring right now.
Katherine Boyer
Gallerys is more aboriginal. Artists work on display here will be seen by a unique, aboriginal audience. [It] feature[s] mostly aboriginal students, Boyer said. Weve reserved a slot at the end of the winter semester for students who have gone through the [ne arts] program to have a show of their own. But the gallery is still in its infant stages, so even that is subject to change. [Were] still trying to nd an identity, and thats the starting point, said Boyer. Should we stick with strictly aboriginal artists, emerging artists, switchIt works by showing every pixel combination on the screen, since an image on a screen is just pixels, and its in grayscale to make it more manageable, Hampton said. It shows every conguration that could exist on that screen in different grays, whites, and blacks. While it usually looks like static on a television set, Every Possible Image has the potential to show exactly what the title suggests. Technically, in this piece, it can theoretically show any photograph that could ever be taken, any text, or any combination of the two. It theoretically contains

an image of everything in the universe or any universe that could exist, Hampton said. Although in practice it looks mostly like white noise because thats the most likely state. Even if Every Possible Image sounds like a complex idea, it is run by a fairly simple cellular automata. You could think of it as a robot organism, Hampton said. Its a very simple program that travels through a system with a series of rules. It doesnt need to store any information, such as all those images, all it needs to know is where it is in a grid and what its neighbours look like. From that, it uses simple rules to create patterns ... What I really nd interesting is that with that one rule exists all of these interesting patterns. Though people may not recognize the fact that theyre witnessing every image that could exist on a screen, Hampton think[s] its liberating to not have to pin down what youre witnessing, but know that you are. Every Possible Image isnt the only piece on display in Between Imminence and Permanence. Hamptons upcoming show is a combination of some previously created pieces and some that were created specifically for this exhibit. Its a selection of recent work that Ive done, some made specifically for this space, Hampton said. Its really a map of ways of ordering thoughts, concepts, and intangibles into some mode of artistic production or visual communication; its experiments in communication. Another one of the works on display encompasses room for audience participation and creation where the viewer can look through a series of prints and rearrange them as they see t. The audience is allowed to wear these gloves that are next to the prints and shuffle through them or rearrange them if they feel the urge ...The viewer can look through them, and in the process of doing that, rearrange them, Hampton said. It creates new relationships that are mapped out through here.

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a&c

You arent being served

Belle Plaine stumbles into Regina after travels as a waitress
paul bogdan
a&c writer Belle Plaine The Artesian Jan. 27 $15

Musical mosaic
Making Love in a Canoe explores what it means to be Canadian

Bigger is better. Or thats the implication the Carillon received from Belle Plaine in discussing her upcoming album release show at the Artesian on Jan. 27. Weve got a full band for that show, and thats a rare thing for me to have on stage, Belle Plaine said. Itll be a nice, full show for everyone to see how the songs were realized more like they were on the album. Belle Plaine (ne Melanie Hankewich) said Notes from a Waitress differs in sound from Hello from Belle Plaine, with the new record encompassing more of pretty much everything instruments, musicians, and influences. The sound of this album is a bit different than the last EP that I did [Hello from Belle Plaine], Hankewich said. That was more of a folky singer-songwriter that featured myself and [bassist] Elizabeth Currie. We recorded everything live off the oor, and this album was a lot more intentional. We hired some old friends of ours from Grant MacEwan College to help us record it, and we got a producer out. We made a collection of songs that goes back to a 1950s jazz feel ... [I]ts a little bit poppy, but it mostly focuses on a mesh between jazz and folk music. While this might be a stylistic change, Hankewich insisted it wasnt forced or intentional, shes simply writing what comes naturally to her. The songs that we chose to record were in a swing feel, and they made a nice collection when

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they were all put together, she said. I dont think there was ever a real intentional choice to it ... Its whatever comes out. Sometimes, its pop. Sometimes, its swing, and sometimes its country. I try not to get too wrapped up in choosing a genre; I get bored quickly. Her experience from her previous EP also allowed her to do more with Notes from a Waitress. The folk album was my rst release, and I wanted it to be a very manageable project for myself to finish, Hankewich said. The approach that I took was to just have the duo in the studio ... so that it wouldnt be overwhelming. You always dream bigger for your next one. Hankewichs newest release in her self-proclaimed bubble-gum swing style is based around a series of travels that led the singer to Australia and back. [Notes from a Waitress] is

based around a travel log when I was making my way out to Australia and back, she said. The title encompasses that time in my life when I was traveling and going from place to place making a living as a waitress. Notes from a Waitress would denitely not have come out the same had Hankewich not partaken on such a journey. There are all of these little points in my travels that inspired songs, she said. Im sure I would have written about something else, but the traveling denitely influenced the type of songwriting I did. Upon returning from Australia, Hankewich stopped in Regina, but she never intended to make the Queen City her new home. I never planned to stay in Regina, but its been a few years now that Ive been here; I think that Ive settled here, she said. Hankewich said the decision to settle here in Regina was heavily inuenced by the arts community in our city. While working at the Globe Theatre, Hankewich witnessed actors devoting all of their time to their craft, And I thought, What if I did that? Hankewich said. Her decision to do music as a full-time career has only further cemented her into the arts community in Regina. In making that decision and starting to play music in Regina, I got to know the community here; the more I played, the more people I met, Hankewich said. Everyone here is really welcoming, and I fell into the crowd with the Lazy MKs and the Lonesome Weekends. That really cemented me into the scene, and I started recording with them and on my own. Before you know it, youve got a whole supportive community around you. Thats difcult to leave once you nd it.

jonathan petrychyn
a&c editor

Making Love in a Canoe The Artesian Jan. 31 to Feb. 5 8 p.m. $20 for students

Despite the provocative title, Making Love in a Canoe creator and performer Kyle Golemba insisted there is no live canoe lovemaking in the show. Making Love in a Canoe is a revue of Canadian musical theatre performed primarily by a fully clothed Golemba with help from Adam White, who acts as the shows musical director. The piece is unlike a traditional narrative play that you might expect from Golden Apple Theatre, which is producing the performance, in that its focus is on the musical content and not on the story. Its a collection of really great Canadian musical theatre songs intertwined with tales from Canadian theatre, both from my own experience and from the shows themselves, Golemba said. [Our] revue is like a great overview, like a birds-eye view of Canadian musicals. I attempt to be the tour guide, and take you through a wide collection of material that has a through line that you might not clue into until the very end. Making Love in Canoe is about Canada, and focuses on Golembas love of Canada. So its tting that Golemba would pick a uniquely Canadian title to go with his uniquely Canadian show. The title comes from the Pierre Berton quote A Canadian is someone who can make love in a canoe, a quote Golemba came across during research for the show. I saw that and immediately thought that would make a really great, like very Canadian title thats also quite eye-catching, which, you know, obviously you want to pique peoples interest, Golemba said.

Golemba hopes that the revue can be a lesson in Canadian musical theatre which, despite his extensive training over the past decade, even he hasnt been exposed to. Ive done Ive been performing for ten years now pretty much professionally, and Ive only done three actual Canadian musicals in that time. I guess four if you count one of the revues I did in Charlottetown, Golemba said. So while I have a great interest in Canadian musicals, I havent gotten much of an opportunity to do much of them, which is part of what the show is about promoting the work that isnt necessarily done that often. Even if the only music you recognize from the piece is the music from Anne of Green Gables, Golemba believes the audience will nd something they will love in the discovery of new music. I think the best thing about the music is that its from a bunch of different shows and a bunch of different writers, so even if theres a song that doesnt necessarily totally appeal to you, the next song might be something that really hit you, Golemba said. I think that kind of collection of tunes is what can be really fun about the show. Theres going to be one song that everyone walks away going, That was something I really connected to. And its that connection that Golemba wants his audience to feel across the piece:a connection not only to the music, but to the very passion for Canada that runs through the entire piece. The real connector is Canadian theatre and the love of Canada. And I think that is what drives the piece for the most part, Golemba said. It kind of feels like this mish-mash of songs and stories, but looking at it as a whole its Canadian, and to me that is Canada, because regionally and the whole mosaic of Canada, its a bunch of parts that just dont t together. But when you look at them as a whole, they do.

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Nostalgic humour
Local stars the heart of the Globes The 39 Steps
kristen mcewen
contributor Director and CEO Ruth Smillie said both Leyshon and Runge are exceptional actors. Both have exceptional skills at the end of the day, she said. Smillie hired director Marti Maradan and consulted on casting and with the local auditions of local artists. While Leyshon and Runge are exceptional actors, it certainly helped that they were from Saskatchewan Smillie said that hiring local artists is always a priority when it comes to a production. [We] love U of R grads, she said. We have a fabulous and unique relationship with the U of R. The Globe Theatre, in partnership with the U of R Faculty of Fine Arts has the Professional Placement Program, which is designed to create a transition from a student to a professional. During this program, students spend a semester at the Globe Theatre where they are able to train in the discipline they prefer. Transition is important, said Smillie. Students are not necessarily ready [to be] professional ... Its quite a leap [to go] from student to stage manager. According to Smillie, these programs are developed so that students will be able to work everywhere. We want Saskatchewan artists to work, she said. The 39 Steps, which premieres this week, is the perfect example of local artists going to work to produce something exciting, suspenseful, and hilarious. Part of the humour [in the play] is that [the actors] are constantly changing characters... Its absolutely astonishing to watch, Smillie said. She said the actors even take on different accents to help differentiate between the multiple characters. The different dialects [are] absolutely hilarious, Smilie said. Its really funny. Under normal circumstances, its impressive when an actor portrays more than one character in a play. Its even more impressive when the play demands the actor to portray more than one character at the same time. Were asking the audience to use their imaginations, Leyshon said. He said the play has its tongue planted in its cheek and is often a wink to the audience. Hitchcock also had a sense of humour; he would often subtly cast himself small roles in his lms. It makes perfect sense that an adaptation of the famous directors lms would be just as clever. Its a zany chase story but it has heart to it, Leyshon said. [The play] allows the audience to come along for the ride. The 39 Steps Globe Theatre Jan. 25 Feb. 12 Various times $25 - $67

Adaptation fever has hit Regina. The 39 Steps, the Globe Theatres latest offering, is not only a tribute to the Master of Suspense himself, Alfred Hitchcock, but an adaptation of the 1935 Hitchcock film of the same name, which itself was based on a book by John Buchan. The play draws from both the novel and the lm, and will be hitting the stage at the Globe Theatre in Regina from Jan. 25 Feb, 12. In The 39 Steps, the main character, Richard Hannay, quickly nds himself in trouble soon after inviting a glamorous femme fatale into his apartment. Hannay is soon forced to run for his life as he is hunted by the authorities and foreign spies all wanting to discover the secret he is hiding. The problem is that Hannay has no idea what this secret might be. Any adaptation of a work to another form of media would be a difcult feat to accomplish on its own. However this play, adapted by Patrick Barlow, requires 140

Kiriako Iatridis

No, this isnt a scene from the remake of Casablanca. characters to be portrayed by merely four actors. Though the cast is small, the production is far from miniature. According to David Leyshon, who plays Hannay, the stage adaptation of the lm is a loving tribute to the style of acting from that period. Leyshon assured there will be many exciting chase scenes, a characteristic iconic to any Hitchcock masterpiece, adaptation or otherwise. In the play, Leyshons character is constantly pursued, whether it is on a train or by a plane. The challenge is finding an inventive way to [portray these

scenes] onstage, to overcome the limitations of theatre, he said. Originally from Swift Current, Leyshon is a graduate of the University of Regina Fine Arts program. Since graduating he has worked on stages all over Canada. His co-star, Andrea Runge also graduated from the U of R with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Leyshon said his education at the U of R laid the groundwork for the things he uses today. Acting is a continual learning process. You need a good foundation. The U of R provides you with the tools to springboard [into the profession], he said. The Globe Theatre Artistic

If youre gay, rep your set

Fat Joes thoughts on queerness prompt inquiry into the possibility of a world run by a gay mafia
cant think straight
jonathan petrychyn
a&c editor There is perhaps nothing more pleasing than the phrase The hip-hop community is most likely owned by gay. Back in November, in an interview with rapper DJ Vlad on VladTV.com, rapper Fat Joe professed his belief that the hip-hop community is most likely owned by gay, and that the industry, despite being traditionally rather homophobic, is filled with gay rappers, gay producers, and gays of all professions. Interestingly, Fat Joes views on gays in hip-hop (and Im only using the term gay because thats what Fat Joe used throughout the interview) are useful in understanding varying approaches to the gay rights movement. Im a fan of Yo, Im gay, what the fuck? 2011, you gotta hide that youre gay? Be real, said Fat Joe emphatically. Like, Im gay, what the fuck? If you gay, you gay. Thats your preference. Fuck it if the people dont like it. Fat Joe envisions a world where people can just be gay and thats the end of it. Theorists have named this the assimilationist point of view. Some queers may not be a fan of this, as it lumps queerness into a space that is may have established their own family, while Marge and Maude established their own. Just think of how heartbreaking Maudes death would have been then. Despite the hilarity of the above prospects (or not, depending on if you nd my mirror universe funny or not), it points to the potential problems of establishing an alternate universe wherein queer groups establish the norms we follow. The prospect of mirror universe Fred Phelps protesting straight marriages sounds delightful, but if we follow it through to the end, then the suggestion is that maybe, just maybe, heterosexual people would have to be the ones ghting for their rights. I know this sounds absurd, and it sounds homophobic, as to suggest that straight people can be oppressed by homosexuality is a sign of ignorance to not only the conditions of oppression, but to the conditions of those who are oppressed. But thats not what Im suggesting. Im suggesting that the establishment of an alternative canon, and alternative universe, prescribes its own set of norms and values, which can have their own exclusionary effect. So maybe Fat Joe is right. Its 2011. If youre gay, rep your set, and maybe my alternate universe The Simpsons can exist alongside its original incarnation.

Im a fan of
Yo, Im gay, what the fuck? 2011, you gotta hide that youre gay? Be real.
Fat Joe
virginmedia.com

markedly heterosexist, and as such forces them into boundaries that may not work for their sexuality. This is considered the liberationist point of view. I may not agree with Fat Joes approach to the gay rights movement, but I have to admit that the phrase I happen to think theres a gay maa in hip-hop is pleasing on too many levels. Moreover, Fat Joes insistence that there is a whole circuit of gays running the hip-hop industry can let us imagine what the world would be like if every major industry was run by a gay maa. Lets take the most recent dilemma to face the federal government: the legality of same-sex marriages performed in Canada

in countries that dont recognize gay marriage. The issue was solved rather quickly, forcing my to put my rallying boots back in the closet (no pun intended), but had the government been run by a gay maa, the Prime Minister just would have told the government lawyer to forget about it as he grabbed the cannolli from the front seat of the car. The previous gay mafia governments would have drafted the original marriage and divorce laws with same-sex marriage in mind, so the problem really wouldnt have been a problem. Or what about the Westboro Baptist Church? If it were headed by a gay maa, theyd spend more time protesting heterosexual mar-

riages and straight funerals. Even the Republican Primaries would be livened up if the gay maa ran the Republican Party. Santorum would no longer be a neologism, Rick Santorums Conservatives Unite Moneybomb would actually be a pun, allowing headlines like Santorum facilitates CUM surge to actually exist without irony. Rick Perry would intentionally be trying to imitate Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain in his campaign ads, and would be decrying the openness of straight people in the military. Or for something lighter, imagine what The Simpsons would look like if it were run by a gay maa. Homer and Ned Flanders

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Bundle up
Six snow-ready pieces to stylize your winter wardrobe

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haute topic
ashley killback
contributor Though it starts with the joyful celebration of a new year, theres always one thing about January that makes us cringe when we begin to think about it. Its unavoidable, unwelcoming, and not to mention extremely cold yes, its the infamous Saskatchewan winter. Its the time of year where that five-minute walk to school feels like an Arctic journey, your windshield scraper becomes a lifesaver, and your visual appearance is more deceiving than usual due to the various layers of clothing you have on. Lets face it; braving the cold is never an easy task, especially without a collection of snow-

ready gear. Looking for this seasons trends to winterize your wardrobe in style? Take a look at these six must-have pieces that will have you warm and cozy in no time. Blanket wrap sweater The blanket-inspired wrap sweater is this seasons hot topic: its taking the cardigan to a whole new level. Find your inner boldness and choose a patterned print. Accentuate the blanket-inspired look with tassels, just like this Quiksilver piece for $108. This long-length cardigan will be sure to bring you warmth on a cold wintry day. Want to complete the look? Pair this sweater with skinny jeans or wool tights. Biker boots

This seasons boots are all about adding a little edge to your winter wardrobe. Buckles, zippers, laces, and faux fur are the essentials to creating a rebellious look. These boots are far from ordinary, but are still versatile enough to mix and match with different looks. Buckle up with these urban-style biker boots from Aldo for just $63. Want to complete the look? Pair these boots with a sweater dress and leopard print jeggings for rocker chic style. Leather gloves Its time to retire those old woollen mittens youve worn countless times and trade them in for this seasons sleek leather gloves. Protect your hands from those blistery winter days by adding a pair of black leather gloves to your wardrobe for any

occasion. Take on the cold in style with these sleek gloves from the Bay for $39.99. Now that youve got leather, bring on the weather. Bright outerwear Want to add a splash of colour to your winter wardrobe? Youre in luck. This seasons outerwear is all about making a statement with bold colors. Your winter jacket will be an essential piece to your wardrobe, so when it comes to planning your personalized look, add bright accents like a scarf or a purse to make your outfit complete. Try this stylish A-line coat in mustard yellow from Forever 21 for $51.80. Turn your winter wonderland into a colourful one. Pompom toque Its a perfect accessory for keeping

warm or even to hide a bad hair day. This season, dress your wardrobe up with a playful pompom toque. Use this piece as an accent to complete your outt or even dress it down for a more casual look. Steal a great deal on Zaras knitted pompom toque in blue for $7.99. Hat attack This seasons head gear is a little on the wild side. If youre in for a more daring look that wont go unnoticed, you wont want to miss out on this piece. The trapper hat is a top pick for this winters must-have accessories. Bundle up with a faux fur hat from Aldo for $19.98. Release your inner animal this season.

sandwich of the week

Sandwich: Midnight Sammy Hungry Student: Kelsey Bohachewski, second-year kinesiology and health studies student.
Whats on your sandwich? I decided to get it because it was late at night and there wasnt that much of a selection at the Safeway deli. It literally was the last sandwich there, kind of like the last kid to get picked in gym class. Do you have anything nice to say about your sandwich? Its a turkey havarti sandwich on white bread with lettuce and tomato, How much did it cost you? It was only $2.99.

What do you enjoy about it?

Honestly the sandwich is a little boring, the tomato made the bread soggy, and the mayo was absorbed by the lettuce. The turkey was plain sandwich meat with no seasoning.
Arthur Ward

Perhaps if it was toasted it could have been better. However, this sandwichs saving grace was the fact that it was super late and I was super hungry so anything I ate would have tasted amazing.

Why in the world would you get such a sandwich?

arthur ward
photographer

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music reviews

Ask the Oracle Ask the Oracle Resonant

Ask the Oracles self-titled album really pushes the boundaries of jazz and improvisation. The bulk of the album is utterly dissonant, strange, chaotic, and unorganized. The first two tracks are the most coherent and accessible on the album. Surng to Canada and Ass Gamelan both have a very interesting combination of upright bass lines and percussion with harmonized sax melodies and individual solos layered over top. After these two songs, the album starts to become weird and

then evolves into utter musical chaos. The improvisation on this album, while technically very procient, is a disaster. Ask the Oracle is a cautionary tale of narcissism taking over musicians; the instrumentalists are basically shouting, Hey! Hey look at me! Look what I can play! No, dont pay attention to what anyone else is playing! Check out what Im doing! The result is extreme confusion and musical disjunction. Trying to be as kind as possible, the listener attempts to pay equal attention to everyone playing, but this only angers the instrumentalists, who want the full and undivided attention of the listener, leading to tracks like Why is the Devil Here and Curse of the Horns, which sound like a big band is right pissed off and screaming at you. Ask the Oracle nishes off as if the band is trying to annoy you, and they want you to leave the room as promptly as possible.

movie review

acforthemasses.com

Sigur Ros Inni Dir. Vincent Morisset

paul bogdan
a&c writer

Though Bob Pollard retired the Guided by Voices name in 2004, he didnt use it as an excuse to catch some rest. Accounting for solo albums and projects like Lifeguards and Boston Spaceships, dude released perhaps eighty hundred records in the last decade. Pollard writes and records the way most people check Facebook compulsively, absentmindedly, probably sometimes while driving. So the lackluster Lets Go Eat the Factory!, the official return of classic-lineup GBV, cant be blamed on rustiness.

Guided by Voices Lets Go Eat the Fa ctory! Guided by Voices Inc.

Thats not to say that its awful. On paper, its almost everything youd expect from these guys: soaring guitars, anthemic vocals, cassette hiss, and songs called The Unsinkable Fats Domino and Doughnut for a Snowman (the latter a seriously delightful jingle for Krispy Kreme). That said, its dull. Its more consistent than even the best GBV albums, but theres almost nothing on Factory! worth a sing-a-long or ying kick, which makes no sense considering Pollards reputation as a hook factory. No one keeps dictionaries around anymore, but if you call up the Wikipedia page for phoned in, the picture will probably be the cover of the Fats Domino single. With Factory!s followup, Class Clown Spots a UFO, already recorded and slated for 2012 release, theres little chance that itll mine any different territory. But Ill gladly take some lower lows next time if it means higher highs.

If I say Iceland, what do you think of? Rolling green landscapes? A football team ranked 16th in the world by FIFA? Dare I say, thorramatur? All of that is ne and well and Icelandic, but if you immediately thought of Sigur Ros, then youre my new best friend. Sigur Ros Icelandic for Victory Rose is a post-rock band that was formed in 1994. They are known for their ethereal style that utilizes atmospheric guitar soundscapes and frontman Jonsi Birgissons falsetto vocals. Their rst album dropped in 1997, and they havent looked back since. Sigur Ros has been topping charts in the UK and North America. Theyve played at venues the world over, and none of their ve studio albums has gone

less than gold. And you thought nothing good ever happened in Iceland. Inni represents the last outing of the band before the hiatus they took in January 2010. The concert was filmed and recorded at the Alexandra Palace in North London, England. Rather than debuting new material, Inni is a retrospective look at Sigur Ros extensive song catalogue. The 75minute concert has songs from all of the bands ve albums, but focuses heavily on the last release up to that point, 2008s With a Buzz in Our Ears We Play Endlessly. The concert footage was directed by Canadian Vincent Morisset, who you may or may not recognize as the director of Miroir Noir, a 2008 rockumentary about Quebec band Arcade Fires album release tour in 2007. Inni was shot entirely on black and white lm stock, which lends itself perfectly to the expansive, melodic rock of Sigur Ros. In an interesting cinematographic decision, certain portions of the concert footage were then projected

and the image reshot. The resulting imagery is grainy, dark, and unstable, but never out of focus. Those who are new to the music of Sigur Ros will get immeasurable joy from discovering this Icelandic rock gem. But for longtime fans, Inni is almost a disappointment. Sure, the band sounds tight as hell, and the cinematography is top-notch, but as previously mentioned, there is a signicant lack of fresh material. The band closes their set with the rst single from their new album, which is scheduled to drop this year, and the concert seems to be a build-up to the great unveiling of this one bit of new material. It works, but I think Sigur Ros fans expected more. But despite all this, Vincent Morisset has carved out a new filmmaking niche: the arthouse rockumentary. If this is where the concert film is headed, then Im fully on board.

kyle leitch
contributor

video game review

mason pitzel
production manager

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NHL 12 EA Games Playstation 3

Being in an NHL arena is something unforgettable; lacing up the skates and hitting the ice for your rst shift of the game is a moment that kids dream about. With NHL 12, kids and adults alike can live their dream without having to deal with the notorious stench of hockey gear. Of course, before you can hit the ice, you have to get suited up for competition. NHL 12 makes it easy with a fantastic team and player selection, not to mention every possible jersey from your favourite teams wardrobe. Once you have the gear, its

time to rally the boys and prepare for battle. After taking your rst faceoff in NHL 12 the latest in a long series of EA Sports NHL games dating back to 1991 the improved graphics make you feel the way Donald Brashear must have felt after Marty McSorely cranked him with a stick, i.e. absolutely stunned. The new graphics are fluid and realistic, with recognizable features on players, and the crowd decked out in the playing teams attire the graphics are all-around unreal. Controls on the game are easy to use and get used to. They are relatively the same as previous games in the NHL series, so experienced players will have no problem jumping right in. However, the controls are so simple that even a rookie can get ice time. The ghting feature on NHL 12 is fantastic; you can finally punch the opposing teams goalie

square in the face or give Maxim LaPierre a hit to that annoying grin of his. Since NHL 12 is imitating the real thing, you have to deal with ridiculous penalties and with your teammates repeatedly going offside; both are just as annoying in a video game as they are in real life. The games only major aw is the excessive number of replays, as they can be distracting and sometimes difcult to click past. These replays are even more annoying when they are showing an opposing teammate undressing one of your defencemen and lighting the lamp. You cant mash the X button fast enough.

autumn mcdowell
sports editor

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ROUNDTABLE
Should hockey players put a lid on it in warm-ups?
autumn mcdowell, jonathan petrychyn, jhett folk, britton gray, colton hordichuk
this weeks roundtable
gerous sport, and its not going to kill them to wear their buckets for a lazy warm up skate.

Sports Editor: Autumn McDowell sports@carillonregina.com the carillon | Jan. 26 - Feb. 1, 2012

If you were a dual-sport athlete at the U of R, which two sports would you choose to compete in and why?
McDowell: I would probably have to go with volleyball and football. Volleyball because I played and coached it for roughly ve years, and lets be honest, Im built like a volleyball player. However, my secret dream is to play football. I was a quarterback and receiver on my football team growing up and still run plays with my brothers and dad daily in the summer. Put me in, coach. Petrychyn: Starcraft and Mario Tennis. Do we have a university Mario Tennis team yet?

Who has been the Saskatchewan Roughriders biggest loss in the off-season?
McDowell: Its got to be the mustache that Nick Hutchins was dawning during Movember. Bring it back, Hutchdown, bring it back.

Petrychyn: Wait, the Riders are still a thing? I thought they stopped being a thing when they sucked ass last year? Folk: The Riders can be even bigger losers?

Gray: Not making a bid for Peyton Manning or trying to convince Favre to come out of retirement again. I hear hes becoming available and Favre can only go shing for so long. Hordichuk: In my opinion, Jerrell Freeman. Last season, Freeman lead the CFL in tackles with 105, was named defensive player of the week in Week 10, and was named defensive player of the month in September.

Folk: Thats easy: basketball and volleyball. When youre lanky like me you have to take advantage of what youve got! Although a close third sport would be floor hockey. That counts, right? Gray: It would have to be football and hockey. Hockeys a big deal here in Canada, and lets face it football is just awesome.

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Which player would you pick rst overall for your NHL allstar team?
McDowell: I think Ill go with Sidney Crosby but, dammit, hes still hurt. OK, Ill take Chris Pronger wait, hes still having trouble walking? Fine then, Ill take Mikko Koivu. No? OK, well, hes young but I like him, so Ill take Ryan Nugent-Hopkins. Oh, wait. He isnt playing either. Might as well just cancel the whole weekend. But seriously, Steven Stamkos. Boom. Petrychyn: Sidney Crosby. Duh. Folk: As a Canucks fan, Ryan Kesler. As a general hockey viewer, Claude Giroux. As a ne I guess I wont hate on the Blackhawks or Bruins for a second though itll kill me, Id go with Jonathan Toews or Tim Thomas.

Dont say anything about his hideous scar

Folk: My favourite moment in particular would be when the 49ers and Saints went shot-for-shot at the end of the fourth quarter. Although an honourable mention goes out to my boy, Eli. Manning family for the win! Heres hoping for a Giants Super Bowl win over the Patriots again! Hordichuk: My favourite moment was watching the New York Giants win. I have nothing against the Packers, in fact I really like them. I just like seeing the underdogs win.

Hordichuk: Ill keep this short and sweet: football and hockey. I just love hockey, and football is popular, and I used to play it years ago.

Gray: The Tebow Mile High Miracle. All he needed was one pass in OT to beat the Steelers and advance the Broncos. It seems that its also going to take a miracle for Elway to actually believe that he can win them games.

Do you think helmets should be mandatory for NHL players to wear during warmup?
McDowell: Lets ask Taylor Hall and the giant gash on his face that is causing him to look more and more like Sloth from The Goonies everyday what he thinks.

Petrychyn: Ive hurt myself warming up for Dance Dance Revolution, so I think helmets should be a thing for NHL players. I mean, they have blades and shit on the ice; all I have is my lawn chair and a bowl of Cheetos in my basement. Folk: Oh yes, absolutely no question. I mean in all honesty these players should be completely wrapped in bubble wrap! I hope you can catch my sarcasm.

Hordichuk: The odds of Halls accident happening are like one in 1,000, but sometimes that one is all it takes. So yes. Even when I played hockey with full-caged helmets, accidents still happened. Hockey by nature is a dan-

Gray: Why not? I dont see it being a big controversy if they were forced to wear them during warm-ups; they wear them during the game anyways. Also, extra safety precautions might not be a bad thing because anything can happen at anytime like we saw with the tragic passing of skier Sarah Burke.

Hordichuk: I dont think it matters who goes first, because no matter what, all the players are going to drag their ass and not try anyway. But for the sake of the question, Id take Claude Giroux because of his breakout season.

Gray: Jonathan Toews for the simple reason I believe he is the most complete player in the NHL, and without Crosby he might be the best player right now.

What has been your favourite NFL playoff moment this season?
McDowell: If by favourite you mean most annoying then it would have to be Billy Cundiff missing that 32-yard eld goal. That moment reminded me all too well of Paul McCallum missing the 19-yarder. People dont forget. Petrychyn: Tebow. (Thats an NFL term, right?)

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Shake it off
Regina Rams team physiotherapist Daysha Shuya weighs in on concussions

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2011 became known as the year of the concussion. explained, this can often be quite difcult to determine. One of the difcult aspects is that the neuropsychological testing only goes after the cognitive functioning of the brain, so it doesnt tell us things with other parts of the brain, she said. That is where our team doctor becomes an invaluable resource to determine how long or how severe the concussion is. If we are trying to determine their return to play, we use whats called the SCAT [Sport Concussion Assessment Tool] 2. What it does is, we go through a series of tests and measures that we perform on the athlete and then the athlete also has a responsibility to go through some tests on their own. Once they go through all the tests and there [are] no signicant findings or we dont find any signs and symptoms that they initially had when they were injured, we start them on [the next step]. The next step on the road to recovery for an injured player is the graduated return to play protocol. Although this method is designed to ease players into activity, it can also be quite time consuming for a player eager to return to the game. The graduated return to play protocol is going to take approximately one week if everything goes smoothly, but if at any time we push them too hard or they push themselves too hard, we have to go back to square one and the rst stage, Shuya said. They have to go through the whole protocol again, so another week. As long as they show any symptoms they cannot start the protocol. In many of the highly publicized concussion stories, its often asked whether the player made his or her return to action to soon something that has Shuya worried. There are lots of different things that can happen that are quite scary, she said. Probably the worst thing is that if the brain hasnt restored itself to baseline functioning or back to its normal state, there is the risk of something called second-impact syndrome. Secondimpact syndrome is a second or repeated trauma to a brain that is still trying to recover from the rst trauma basically in simple words the brain freaks out and swells. When the brain starts to swell it gets pushed through a little hole in the base of the skull. That part of the brain that gets pushed through the hole is the brainstem and that is where the vital life functions are. That is that part of the brain that tells the body to breath, tells the body to pump blood, tells the body the things that it needs to do to stay alive. As it gets pushed through the base of the skull the person will actually die on the eld instantaneously. That is in my mind the most scary thing, but the thing that I am probably afraid of even more than that is that if we put someone back to play when they still have signs of a concussion, we can make it so those signs dont resolve quickly or they can take up to months or years to resolve. We can take a happy, healthy athlete and we can give them signs or symptoms of a concussion that may not go away for a long time. Hockey fans have been following the concussion stories surrounding two of the National Hockey Leagues most well known players, Sidney Crosby and Chris Pronger. Fans will remember hearing the term postconcussion syndrome surrounding any Pronger discussion. Post-concussion syndrome means that the concussion and the brain havent healed themselves or resolved in a timely fashion, Shuya explained. The symptoms

autumn mcdowell
sports editor For Daysha Shuya, team physiotherapist for the University of Regina Rams, the threat of a concussion is always looming. With more and more athletes ending up out indenitely due to concussions, the eyes of the sporting world have increasingly turned toward the physical trauma endured by players. Behind the benches at the U of R, things are no different. Although Shuya and the rest of the Rams medical team do everything they can to prevent a concussion from occurring, the inevitable fate is that they will happen; its just a matter of how to handle them properly. Our protocol with football is if we suspect a concussion, the rst thing that we do is generate a referral to the team physician, Shuya explained. The physician does the assessment and if the physician is concerned that it may be a concussion we send the player to our team neuropsychologist and the neuropsychologist does cognitive testing. The Rams medical program first began requiring players to complete cognitive evaluations over a decade ago as a way to prevent and treat head trauma. We were one of the first teams to start this in Saskatchewan, Shuya said. We have a baseline test of how every player performs before they start football for the season what their normal value would be and that way if we suspect a concussion and we retest and they dont test as well it is often an indication as to how severe the concussion may be. The first question on everyones mind almost immediately after a player gets injured is, How long will it be before he or she returns to game action? As Shuya

If we put someone back to play when they

still have signs of a concussion We can take a happy, healthy athlete and we can give them signs or symptoms of a concussion that may not go away for a long time.
Daysha Shuya
then progress from what they might have immediately felt when they hit their head to prolonged depression, mood changes Some people get headaches that just wont go away; there is a whole list of different symptoms that can be part of post-concussion syndrome and what makes concussions very, very tricky to deal with [because] no two concussions will be exactly the same. When it comes to Crosbys concussion, even Shuya, who admitted to following the story, is not sure about his return to the ice. That is so hard to tell, she said. Sidney Crosby has had the best of the best looking at his case and following it and I dont know to be honest what will happen. I think only Sidney and probably the first couple of doctors that saw him really know whats going on because we only know the details that have been released to the general public, which isnt really a lot to form a good opinion on him. While questions have swirled in the professional leagues about possible equipment and rule changes in order to reduce the number of concussions, Shuya also insisted the Rams are constantly looking for the next best in equipment to reduce the probability of injuries. However, having top of the line equipment can ironically cause the athlete to receive a more severe injury. I know that with the Rams our equipment manager Dan Stark is really on top of the new equipment that comes out and we do have the players in the best equipment that we can get. What we are noticing though is that each year injuries are getting worse in severity. Shuya said. We are questioning if that is because the players are bigger and stronger [or] because we have them so protected they are not getting the small little injuries they used to get. When they get hurt they get hurt really bad. Minimizing concussions, Shuya believes, will take a combined effort from numerous personnel on any team. I think it needs [to be accepted] from everyone on the team; it cant just be the trainers or the medical staff. The coaches have to be a part of it, but even more so the players have to be a part of it, Shuya said. Its also proper technique: using the best equipment you have available, educating the players, the team, and the staff on what a concussion is and how to try to minimize the event. Its an all-encompassing focus. I think that if there was a quicker, easier x, someone would have come up with it by now.

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Dropping like ies

The Cougars mens hockey team loses their offensive juggernauts
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autumn mcdowell
sports editor I thought I would be nice and write the University of Regina mens hockey team a pump-up column and in the time it took to sit down and write it, they lost four straight games. Although captain Russ Nielson gave me permission via Twitter to carve the team, Ill try to refrain from pointing out how the Cougars shit the bed the last two weekends. Instead, I am going to point out the amount of players the team has lost in that same timeframe. Going into the Christmas break it seemed as though the Cougars could be a force to be reckoned with in the New Year. Their top three scorers, Matt Strueby, Lucas Isley, and Terrance DeLaronde, were all poised to enter 2012 healthy and ready to handle the offensive production for the last half of the season. What a difference a month can make. The Cougars have since lost all three of those players thats right, for one reason or another all of their top three scorers are out of the lineup. The rst to go was DeLaronde. After suffering an injury in late November DeLaronde remained one of the teams leading scorers despite playing 10 games less than some of his teammates. Fans hoped that the Christmas break would allow DeLaronde to rest his nagging injuries.

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The Cougars sit three points back of the last playoff spot in Canada West They kind of got that, but not really. Cougars head coach Blaine Sautner suspended him. The rumour mill has not announced a date for his return to the ice, if at all, this season. The next to drop in on the party of three possibly the most surprising was Lucas Isley. Isley had emerged this year as one of the teams go-to goal scorers. Midway through the season, Isley had tied his goal production from last year and bettered his total point production. Isley was get-

ting ample minutes on the ice and things seemed to be going well for the former Bonnyville Pontiac. But to everyones amazement, Isley quit the team. On Jan. 5, just one day before the Cougars were set to take on the Manitoba Bisons in their 2012 opener, Isley told Sautner he would not be suiting up with the boys. Isley said the reason he quit the team was mostly to do with school, as he felt that he was wasting his time in a program that he didnt want to be in. However, the

Twitter world may have gotten a slightly different answer on why he quit. The nal member of the trio to go down was Strueby, who was bitten by the injury bug during the teams road trip to Vancouver Jan. 13-14. Struebys assist on Brett Lefers goal with one minute remaining in regulation last Friday will quite possibly be the last points Strueby registers this year. Strueby tore his MCL in last Saturday nights contest and received word that he would be out

for roughly eight weeks, meaning his sophomore season is wrapped up. These three key offensive losses make room for players like Brayden Nargang or newly acquired forward Sanfred King to step in immediately. However, the process of replacing the three offensive stars will be quite a challenge for Regina. The Cougars will showcase their new offensive look against the Calgary Dinos (10-11-1) this weekend in hostile territory.

Losing their grip

The Cougars mens basketball team desperately holds onto playoff hopes
autumn mcdowell
sports editor The University of Regina mens basketball team has a 17-year playoff streak to uphold, but the streak may not make it to 18. The Cougars are in trouble for the first time in a long time. Currently, they sit last in the prairie portion of the conference with a 3-10 record. The top four Prairie teams qualify for the playoffs, and Regina is in eighth. As everyone knows, we are in tough right now, said Darcy McKeown, assistant coach of the mens basketball team. We have Winnipeg coming up [this] weekend; we have to get two wins, we have to get both of those games. Alberta after that is going to be a tough stretch and we are hoping that we can potentially split with Lethbridge. Really, our goals are, overstating the obvious, to play as well as we can and we are still reaching for that last playoff spot; hopefully we can get it. Even just get some momentum going into the end of the year. [This] weeks games against Winnipeg are crucial. The Cougars took to the court last weekend against two powerhouse teams from Canada West: the Fraser Valley Cascades (8-5) and the Trinity Western Spartans (7-6). The rst home series of 2012 did not go exactly how the team had hoped, as the BC teams proved to be too much for the Cougars to handle. The Cougars became the victim of two back-to-back losses, devastating news for a team ghting for a playoff spot. In his rst game as a Cougar on Jan. 20, Vule Grujic put up 16 points, but his effort would not be enough to tackle a double-digit decit the Cougars found themselves in early in the second quarter. Fraser Valley went on to hand the Cougars their ninth loss of the season, 86-73. Unfortunately for the home team, Night 2 was more of the same. Although the Cougars were able to trade leads with Trinity Western for the better part of the rst half, a third-quarter urry by the Spartans left the Cougars trailing by as many as 33, a hole that was simply too big to climb out of. Trinity Western handed Regina its fourth-straight loss, 104-68. Although the teams the Cougars faced over the weekend were high caliber, that doesnt make the losses sit any easier. This weekend ... we had two tough games, said McKeown. Fraser Valley is ranked tenth in the country. I think once again the guys showed that, over some stretches, they can play with them. We had some tough matchups and that made it difcult. Even [against Trinity Western] we couldnt get it done defensively. Part of that was physical. [Trinity Western] is such a physical team so it was hard to stop them at times. We also had stretches where we just lapsed offensively and couldnt get things done it was tough. Even though the weekend may not have gone according to plan for the Cougars, who are now dead last in the prairies and currently out of the playoffs, there is still time for them to turn their season around. The Winnipeg Wesmen (4-10) are to go toe-to-toe with the Cougars this Friday and Saturday. Game time is 8 p.m. each day.

Arthur Ward

Could this be the rst time in 18 years that Cougars head coach James Hillis misses the playoffs?

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Dual domination
Tevaughn Campbell excels on the track and football field
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sports writer According to Tevaughn Campbell, a defensive back for the University of Regina Rams, theres only one thing he doesnt enjoy about the game of football. I dont like conditioning, Campbell, 18, said with a laugh. Like, I hate it. Given Campbells apparent disdain for conditioning, one might wonder why the Scarborough product, despite having several hours of training a week already devoted to football, recently joined the U of R Cougars track and eld squad. For Campbell, though, there was good reason behind his decision. Basically, after the football season was done, there was a lot of sitting around, eating, gaining weight, and getting slow, recounted Campbell, who participated in both football and track and eld during his time in high school. I wanted to get prepared for next year, so I asked the track coach, Bruce McCannell, if I could join the team to train basically to get faster...I was hoping to really get my 40 time up and, basically, get a good burst for football. According to McCannel, there was little hesitation on his part to make Campbell a part of his squad. He said he wanted to give it a try again, because he had done it in high school, McCannel re-

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counted in a recent interview with the Leader-Post. I looked at his performances in Ontario and he had run fast enough to be on our team, so I didnt have any qualms about inviting him to come out for our practices. So far, Campbell has proven to be a quick study on the track, winning the 60-metre event in the Cougars intrasquad meet in late

Tevaughn Campbell is currently ranked No. 1 in Canada West (60-metre dash)

November and at the Friendship Games in early December. Perhaps more important than his early success in track and eld, Campbell, who is to play his second campaign with the Rams next season, emphasized he believes his transition from the eld to the track has already paid dividends. Its helped me a lot, Campbell insisted. There are

some things that I havent even thought of doing that they do on the track team. Its really tough work, so it gets you in great shape really quickly. Despite the fact that Campbell dislikes conditioning, he emphasized that he is more than willing to do almost anything to succeed in the world of football, as the prospect of one day collecting

cheques as a football player would not only signal a personal dream come true, but also a better life for his family in Ontario. It would mean a lot, noted Campbell, who hopes to someday open his own business. I would be able to get my family a bigger house and get them out of where theyre at now. It would mean a lot to me.

Pressure is power
U of R womens basketball team remains perfect and sets team record
autumn mcdowell
sports editor According to the latest Nike commercial, Pressure is power. The University of Regina womens basketball team seems to be adhering to that slogan. Coming into the 2011-12 season, the womens basketball team was ranked No. 1 in the nation. With star players such as Lindsay Ledingham, Joanna Zalesiak, and Brittany Read set to return to the court the Cougars had everyones attention right from the beginning. Thirteen games into the season, the Cougars have met everyones expectations and then some. The Cougars are currently undefeated. Moreover, they set a school record on Jan. 20, as their 78-61 win over the Fraser Valley Cascades pushed their record to 12-0: the best start in the programs history. With an undefeated record, there isnt a whole lot for head coach Dave Taylor to complain about. He admitted he has been happy with the way his team has been playing. Yeah, obviously [Im happy], he said. Being ranked

I have been to
enough national championships to know that you have got to be healthy and play well and get a little lucky. If we get all of those things then we have an opportunity.
Dave Taylor
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No. 1, there is obviously stuff that we can work on, but we are happy with where we are certainly. While Zalesiak and Ledingham have been forces on the court each and every night for the Cougars, Taylor is quick to point out that rookies Madi Docherty and Alyssia Kajati have also pitched in whenever they got the call to action. Both rookies have done very

The Cougars improved to 12-0 on Jan. 20, the best start to a season in the programs history well, Taylor said. Madi Docherty and Alyssia Kajati have both done what we have expected. They are not going to play tons on our team but they have come in and played well when they have had opportunities. The idea that the womens basketball team will have a legitimate shot at an undefeated season has almost all fans excited. And while the goose egg on its record

would be nice to keep, the team feels no added pressure to keep it there. [Theres] not pressure to stay undefeated, Taylor said. But we have pressure because of our expectations. In order for the team to continue its success down the stretch, Taylor doesnt feel that his best players have to be his best players or that he needs constant contri-

bution from players off the bench; he just wants his players to fulll their roles. To be successful you need your players to do their roles, so we need our scorers to score, our defenders to defend, everybody to do their role, Taylor said. Being undefeated during the regular season is one thing, but being named national champions in March is quite another. Although many fans feel like the championship is Reginas to lose, Taylor isnt so quick to jump to conclusions. Its too early to tell, he said. We dont worry about that, our concern right now is just to play well going in. I have been to enough national championships to know that you have got to be healthy that is a big one for us, because we havent been for a couple of years and play well and get a little lucky. If we get all of those things, then we have an opportunity. The Cougars will look to make it 15-0 when they take on the Winnipeg Wesmen (8-6) at the Centre for Kinesiology, Health and Sport this weekend. Game time is slated for 6:15 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

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The end of an era

Penn State football legend passes away

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JoePas awe-inspiring 409-136-3 record was tainted in his last few months by allegations of a sexual abuse cover-up at Penn State over 400 wins and 24 bowl-game victories over the course of his 46year career all records as head coach of the Nittany Lions. However, Paternos controversial forced resignation from the program this past year has come to overshadow his impressive run at Penn State. On Nov. 5, Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State defensive coordinator, was arrested on more than three dozen counts relating to sexual abuse of eight boys over a decade-and-half long span including alleged incidents that occurred at Penn State. According to a 2011 grand jury investigation, Mike McQueary, then a graduate assistant at the university, told Paterno in 2002 that he had witnessed Sandusky abusing a young boy in Penn State footballs shower facilities. As per the report, Paterno notified athletic director Tim Curley about the incident, and later notied Gary Schultz, the universitys director of business and nance. After news of the incident broke, Paterno was heavily criticized by many including elements of local law enforcement for not personally reporting the matter to the authorities. Within a week of Sanduskys arrest, Paterno announced that he intended on resigning at the conclusion of the 2011-12 campaign. Later that evening, however, the schools Board of Trustees voted to immediately relieve Paterno of his coaching duties. In reaction to the news of Paternos dismissal, thousands of supporters protested on campus to display their anger and frustration, chanting the embattled former coachs name, tearing down light poles, and even overturning a television news van. Nowhere is Paternos mixed legacy more evident than on Twitter, where thousands of users have so far commented on his passing. Please remember all the good, college basketball analyst Dick Vitale offered. RIP Joe Paterno this hero convinced a generation of brainless sports fans that covering for a serial child rapist is a noble act, tweeted Gregory Violet. Joe Paterno He loved college football & coached with commitment to excellence, offered Lou Holtz, a former college football coach. He loved his players & his players loved him. Joe Paterno died? Thats one way to beat the rap, noted Otto & George. Now just his family has to live with the shame of his bad decisions. Joe Paterno you will be remembered for all the good you did and all the young people youve inspired, noted actor Josh Duhamel. Rest in peace. RIP Joe Paterno, Brandon Dunson tweeted. Society, the media, and ESPECIALLY Penn State should feel terrible about what they did to him in his final months. Ultimately as evidenced by the thousands of tweets that were logged almost immediately after his death Paterno will most likely be remembered for both his remarkable tenure as Penn States football coach and his unfortunate involvement in Sanduskys scandal.

ed kapp
sports writer Joe Paterno, who was arguably the most successful coach in the history of college football, passed away from chemotherapy complications at age 85 on Jan. 22. He died as he lived, a statement from the Paterno family read. He fought hard until the end, stayed positive, thought only of others, and constantly reminded everyone of how blessed his life had been. His ambitions were far reaching, but he never believed he had to leave this Happy Valley to achieve them. He was a man devoted to his family, his university, his players, and his community. Born in the winter of 1926 in Brooklyn, N. Y., Paterno went on to attend Brown University and starred as the football teams quarterback for several years under the tutelage of head coach Charles A. Rip Engle. In 1950, Engle became Penn States head coach and made the decision to bring on a young Paterno who had graduated earlier that year as an assistant. More than a decade and a half after rst being hired, Paterno became the Nittany Lions head coach in 1966. Although the schools football program steadily improved under the leadership of Engle, Paterno quickly found success as the squads head coach. Paterno led the Nittany Lions to an undefeated season in only his third campaign as the teams head coach and claimed national championships in both 1982 and 1986. During Paternos tenure with Penn States football program which was home to dozens of future-professional football players also evolved into one of the most popular teams in the sport. Ultimately, Paterno claimed

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GOING FOR BROKE
conversion to be approved. Since 1996, the city has only seen vacancy rates that high a total of six times, in the period running from 2000 to 2006. Before the council got a crack at the proposal, procedure required them to cede the oor to members of the public. Over the course of forty minutes, ve petitioners tore into the council's existing policy and expressed mistrust regarding the timing and the effectiveness of the new policy. Often what we hear about is the price of whats available ... but our bigger issue is not people not being able to afford places, Fraser explained to the council. Its that people come to us and theres no place for them to afford. After hearing from the public (and after encouraging each member of the public to take their concerns to the provincial government as well), the council amended the new policy requiring both a two per cent vacancy average across a one-year period October to October or April to April, encompassing three CMHC reports and a two per cent vacancy rate in the CMHCidentied zone of the condo being converted. But that may not be enough. Average rent in Regina has gone up roughly 43 per cent in the past five years, meaning that a twobedroom apartment that cost $619 a month in 2006 now costs $913 a month. In addition, while the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation reports that 194 rental units were built between October 2009 and October 2011, we lost 358 units in that period meaning we're currently facing a deficit of 164 apartments. The construction of that many units would bring us back to 2009 levels, considerably worse conditions even than those of 2006. And that's assuming that our city doesn't grow an unlikely proposition, given that between 2005 and 2010 our civic population increased by 13,000 people, and that City Hall's lowest growth projections for the city have another 9,000 people living in the city by 2015. Kent URSU president Peterson believes that the council is already too late. This policy should have been in place well before there was a housing crisis, he said and it should have

Features Editor: Dietrich Neu features@carillonregina.com the carillon | Jan. 26 - Feb. 1, 2012

Reginas rental housing market is in crisis and there are no clear solutions

Arthur Ward

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dietrich neu
features editor Theres a lot of public seating available in Henry Baker Hall. Between the city council, members of the municipal administration, members of the press, and the general public, the room can comfortably seat a couple of hundred people. But by the time enough people are galvanized on a single issue to ll the hall, it might be hard to describe anybody in the room as comfortable. The rent crisis in Regina is just such an issue. According to the most recent report from the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), Regina is the only city major city in all of Canada to have a vacancy rate below one per cent, due in large part to a wave of apartment-to-condominium conversions that rocked the citys rental market in the last few years. With the average rent subsequently hovering at nearly 150 per cent of 2006 levels, lowerincome renters and families have found their housing situation increasingly threatened, and middle-income renters are starting to feel the squeeze, as well. As the midwinter sun set on Monday, January 23, concerned citizens including University of Regina professor Marc Spooner, members of the U of R Students Union executive, and local advocacy group representatives like Carmichael Outreachs Shawn Fraser made their way in from the cold Regina air and took nearly every one of Henry Baker Halls cushioned seats in order to watch city council try to address these dire conditions by adopting new, much-needed changes to the civic condo conversion policy. Only a select few can afford to live in this situation, Spooner told the Carillon. The rest of the people have to double-up, or stay in places that are not as wellmaintained as they could be. The centrepiece of the new policy, which the Regina Planning Commission based on a report from the U of Rs Business Centre for Management Development (BCMD), proposed a bylaw that would require the average vacancy rate for the city to be two per cent or greater in order for a

been thought of because we all know that when Regina, and Saskatchewan, started growing signicantly, city council should have foreseen problems like this. They should have implemented the policy then, so they didnt have to do it in the middle of a housing crisis when most of the damage has already been done Even if we were able to return to the supply level for housing as recent as four years ago, it wouldn't be enough to sustain our growth. Something's got to give. The only question is when. The high cost of rent in Regina is a textbook case of supply not matching demand. As recently as six years ago, however, supply and demand were comparatively healthy; from 2005 to 2006, the city saw a steady rate of approximately three per cent vacancy city-wide. But due to a combination of factors, the time was right in the eyes of many of the citys developers to apply for condo conversion. Between the previous regulations not requiring a sustained high vacancy rate, the vacancy rate as established in previous policy having not been reached for years, and a spike in the value of the local housing market, it was a perfect storm. City Hall found itself faced with a glut of condo conversions, the bulk of which had been led while they were still technically in line with municipal conversion requirements. Though it was within its rights to reject any of these applications, council approved all but one of the applications led before City Hall placed a moratorium on new applications. With all of the approved properties being converted into condos at the same time, the number of available apartments began to dry up, leaving us with our current 164-apartment decit. Ironically, the vacuum created by the removal of rental units from the market wound up being filled disproportionately by the very condos that replaced them. According to the BCMD report, one in three condominium units in Regina is currently being rented out as an apartment; the report compares this number with Calgary's, which is closer to

one in four. In other words, it was briey more protable for a developer to turn an apartment into a shortterm condo sale than keep it as a long-term property until it wasnt. At that point, enterprising individuals were able to buy condos and inject them back into the rental market at a considerable prot, due to the rapidly rising rent. More importantly, these were until recently the only new units going on the market, filling a gap left by the lack of new apartment construction. Astonishingly, the BCMD report actually sees this as a chain of events that act in condo conversions favor; its authors write that new condominium properties add to the rental supply and probably help to buffer the loss of rental units due to conversions. The first instance of an Ouroboros appeared in the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. Its a glyph of a snake eating its own tail, representing the cyclical nature of death and rebirth. Apartments being converted to condos, then returning to the market as high-priced apartments it sounds cyclical, all right. But unlike the Ouroboros, which could eat its own tail into innity, Regina is slowly running out of apartments to convert. When we reach the end of our own tail, it could get messy. Will they be effective? No, Peterson said bluntly. I think what a number of other municipalities have done, and what a number of the presenters suggested, and what the CHMC suggests, that three per cent appears to be the appropriate percentage. They'll stop condos from being converted, effectively stopping the bleeding of our apartment stock into condominium stock But while it's a positive step there's nothing to stop developers to continue building condos rather than apartments. And while Peterson outlines several things that could be done to encourage apartment development, it's unclear if those incentives would do any good. Indeed, it's worth pointing out that some incentives for apartment development already exist; as city administrators confirmed on Monday's council meeting, ve-

year tax exemptions provided by the city and matched in dollar value by the province are already in place. The real issue isn't just the condo conversions. It's the fact that the drastic number of conversions isn't being ameliorated by the construction of new apartments. In fact, the loss of apartments to conversion is being compounded by the straight-up loss of apartments. The second contentious item on the city's docket last Monday was a petition to stop the destruction of the apartments at 1755 Hamilton Street downtown, an action city council is powerless to stop. While Councillor Fred Clipsham called on the mayor to write a letter to the government endorsing the idea of rent control, that does nothing to alleviate the demand nor increase the supply. With the loss of the apartments at 1755 Hamilton St., vacancy rates downtown could push down to effectively 0.0 per cent. You read that right 0.0 per cent. As in, none. Which poses serious problems for Regina's future growth. As Councillor Louis Browne pointed out, young people moving to Regina may neither want nor have the money to purchase a home. Spooner also pointed out that this interferes with grad students applying to the University of Regina. This is a huge problem, he said. The school has grad students who want to work here, who want to work with the various professors and research teams, and they are having second thoughts now because they dont think they will be able to nd a place to live. The problem with a bubble is not just the pricing in a bubble. Prices may be astronomically, even disproportionately high within a bubble economy, sure. The real problem is the economic impact when that bubble eventually bursts. Affordable housing is a key component to a healthy community, Spooner added. You have to have places for everybody, and just because you are a low income earner doesnt mean that you are not valuable to a community.

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All graphs and charts are courtesy of the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation

Figure 1 illustrates the vacancy rate activity throughout the province and highlights the drops in vacancy rates across Saskatchewan

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Figure 2 displays the meteoric rise in the housing values through 2006-2008 Figure 3 displays the history of vacancy rates in Regina through 2001-2011 Figure 4 highlights the extraordinary increase in rent from 2006 to 2011 Figure 5a & 5b displays the apartment vacancy rates for each zone in Regina. South Lakeview/Albert Park is the only zone in Regina not experiencing a decline in vacancy rates

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Snowy Bear

Aristobot Edward Dodd

Green Eggs and H.A.M. Paul Bogdan & Troy Jul

Julia Dima

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Op-Ed Editor: Edward Dodd op-ed@carillonregina.com the carillon | Jan. 26 - Feb. 1, 2012

Old-boys club
Did you hear cursing on the night of Jan. 14? That cursing was me, lamenting the end of the Liberal Partys biennial convention in Ottawa. I wasnt lamenting the fact that it was over I mean, even a hopeless political junkie such as myself gets tired of seeing politicians pat each other on the back and look optimistically towards the future. No, I was lamenting the overall impression with which the convention left me the impression of a party unused to being voters third choice and still blissfully ignorant of the fact that serious changes need to be made. The convention was a real opportunity to revive the Liberal Party of Canada, reinventing the perceived old boys club into a much more modern, progressive party that could really capture the imagination of Canadians. The results of the convention, while making it apparent that the Liberals are trying to modernize, also left them looking hopelessly old and out of touch. The two major points that came out of the convention were the promise to legalize marijuana if the Liberals are elected and the plan to choose their leader by primary, somewhat similar to the American method. While each of these changes are steps in the right direction, it leaves one with the impression that the Liberal Party is a very lame father looking to relate to his kids by buying the Backstreet Boys comeback album and wearing an army-print shirt. Arguably, the president of the party doesnt need to be terribly inspiring or charismatic (cf. Brian Topp). However, when an excellent choice such as Sheila Copps is passed over a person who could have brought a unique female perspective to the party and showcased the progressive values of the Liberals far better than voting to legalize pot ever could it demonstrates how lost the Liberals truly are. With Bob Rae increasingly looking like the favourite choice for permanent leader once his supposedly-temporary interim term is up, electing Copps would have demonstrated that the Liberal Party is not just a party of old men, an image it desperately needs to overcome if it wants to become relevant again and lure back the thousands of voters that ed the party in favour of the New Democrats or Conservatives. Michael Ignatieff said in his resignation speech that he hoped the new Liberal leader would be a young woman. While much of what he said in the last election rang hollow, his final wish is one that should resound with all forward-thinking Canadians. The Liberal Party would do well to heed his last piece of advice.

Julia Dima

While you can appreciate the effort, you still know that hell never be as cool as your friends dad. Perhaps the most damning thing, however, was the Liberals choice to elect Mike Crawley as president of the party. While Crawley speaks highly of rejuvenating the party and of bringing new ideas to the surface constantly, he is far from the figure

that most people would see as inspiring or rejuvenating. A Toronto businessman with little prior experience in politics, Crawley narrowly defeated Sheila Copps to become president on a promise to change the Liberal Party from a party of buzzwords into a party of values and principles. Its difcult to miss the glaring problems with that statement.

edward dodd
op-ed editor

opinion

Baby, youre equal

I was recently discussing the issues faced by Canadian women in politics with a friend of mine. Disagreeing with me, he said, I hate to break it to you baby, but youre equal now. This comment struck me for two reasons. The rst was the pure irony of denying sexism while using a sexist nickname. The second and more important was the belief that the question of gender equality is closed. Have women in our society in fact reached a point where they can claim all the same privileges as men? Do we no longer have to worry about fighting to be respected, taken seriously, and given the same opportunities as our male counterparts? While the womens rights movement has made vast improvements, I personally dont think its fair to deny that there is still work to be done. The fact is women continue to be consistently held to different standards than men. Take, for example, the recent Globe and Mail article by Sylvia Bashekvin critiquing female NDP leadership candidates for having style in lieu of substance or Jane Tabers article citing Liberal Sheila Copps age as her reason for retiring from politics. I would love to give an example from the Conservative Party, but with a less than 17 per cent female caucus, female Conservatives rarely even seem to make the news. Ask yourself: when was the last time you heard anyone discussing what male politicians were wearing, or saying that 59 was too old for a man to be in politics? Drawing a blank? Me too. Now consider the fact that women earn, on average, 80 per cent of what men do. Consider the discrimination and harassment that still takes place and many people will attest to. Consider the Government of Canada recently cutting funding to womens groups and Saskatchewan MP Brad Trost attempting to defund Planned Parenthood. The list goes on and on. Please dont get the wrong impression. I am in no way saying that women dont have an important role and a strong voice in our political system, or that the involvement of women in politics isnt increasing. Im saying its foolish to think that complete equality has been achieved when we are clearly still coming up short in many areas. Let me use some simple logic. Men and women are equally talented. Half of the population is female. Therefore, half of politicians should be female. The fact that our current parliament has a record number of female representatives yet women still only make up less than a quarter of MPs speaks volumes to the fact equality has not been achieved. Until we have equal representation, and until men and women are perceived through the same lens, gender parity must remain a pertinent issue. And, in the words of Sheila Copps, Im nobodys baby.

Were going to pay for this

Not since Enron has there been such a gross misappropriation of funds as weve seen in Regina this decade. It seems that Mayor Pat Fiacco has become paranoid about his legacy in this city, and has begun to sink millions of dollars into unnecessary civic construction. Starting with the groundbreaking of Hill Tower III and undoubtedly culminating in a retractable-roofed stadium, the 2010s will be a banner decade for buying shit that we cant afford. Lets start with that garish monstrosity on the corner of 12th and Hamilton, shall we? That big bastard is now the third of a proposed four-tower project. Additional office buildings are going up on 12th and Rose and on Albert St., and all the while, our city council will bemoan the death of our already hobbling downtown culture. If you want the downtown to be a thriving sub-community of artists, then we dont need more office space; we need more places like the Artesian and the Creative City Center. And please, dont insult us by installing kaleidoscopic phalluses down one of the major trafc arteries downtown and saying that you care about the arts community. We never bought that shit and we never will. Continuing with civic monstrosities, can we all stand back and agree that a childrens hospital in Regina hell, even more suitable parking for the existing hospitals should take precedence over a shiny new playground for the Roughriders? Mayor Pat Fiacco has stated that a retractableroofed stadium could come in at less than $500 million. Thats what the folks of Indianapolis, Indiana, thought when Lucas Oil Stadium was green-lit. The most recent retractable-roofed stadium to be built, Lucas Oil came in close to the $775 million mark, and bleeds an estimated $20 million every year its in operation.But thats OK! When we build our new stadium, were going to tear down the old one and put up low-income housing! Problem is, it may already be too late for that. There have been several closures of apartments all around the city this past year, sinking the vacancy rate to an all time low of 0.6 per cent. That sucks. And is any sane human being going to tell me that these recent evictees are just going to stand in line and twiddle their thumbs until city council can maybe get around to rectifying the rent problem? Doubtful. Its high time that the city realizes all of its wheeling and dealing to put Regina on the map is going to cost us. These projects are going to put us into a recession of one magnitude or another. Were going to be paying off these projects over multiple generations, our citizens are going to start buggering off to at least competently responsible cities and provinces, and Regina will once again take up its post as a hick town. And our fearless leader, Mayor Fiacco, will sit atop the shambles of the concrete jungle and laugh. I just hope its not too late for us to avoid being the punchline.

alexandra mortensen
contributor

kyle leitch
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On Jan.19, the students of this university did something weve become accustomed to doing this year we made history. For the rst time ever at the University of Regina and in this province, there will be a completely autonomous, student-run, and student-funded pride centre that, starting in the fall semester, will have nearly 13,000 members. Passing the new student fee for the UR Pride Centre for Sexuality and Gender Diversity demonstrates that the progressive student movement is alive and well at the U of R. Students at this university realize we need to take better care of one another, and funding UR Pride works directly towards achieving that goal. Voter turnout, of course, could always be higher, but the turnout is comparable to similar standalone referenda to establish new fees. The executive and I were delighted to play as big a role as we could in the referendum process. I, personally, put many hours into developing the petitioning process, gathering contact lists, and helping our chief returning officer in any way I could with the details of the voting procedure. However, most of the hard work done to win the referendum was completed by UR Pride Chair Jon Petrychyn, Executive Director Lisa Smith, the UR Pride board members and staff, and the countless volunteers that helped. This is a ne example of a students union working directly with student activists on campus to ensure their positive message is received by members ending with the hoped-for yes result.

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It is my hope that the passage of the referendum will bring about two exciting changes. First, I hope allies on campus those who identify as straight will take full ownership of the UR Pride Centre and participate wholly. It is a centre for all sexualities and gender identities, and so we should all come together for the benet of our friends and classmates. Only then can we take real steps to creating a more vibrant, accepting, safe, and loving place to grow and learn. Secondly, now that UR Pride has stable funding, I hope they it take the opportunity to advocate more, become more vocal, and be a powerful voice for activists seeking equality. Up until this time, the centre has focused mainly on services and education, but with stable funding that third prong of strong activism should be added. The centre will, hopefully, start taking on provincial and federal politicians who still spew homophobic nonsense. With this mandate from students, the centre should demand that governments, the university, and the students union make structural and institutional changes that would make a meaningful difference. Students of all sexualities and genders should raise their voices louder and demand nothing but absolute equality.

kent peterson
ursu president

There is a currently a petition circulating at the University of Regina to require Indigenous Studies 100 as a mandatory class in all undergraduate degree programs. In response to this petition, there seems to be some signicant misunderstandings about how this proposal would function. First off, no student would be forced to take any additional classes beyond the 40 (or in the case of Engineering 46) classes they are currently mandated to take. Practically, this would function by replacing one elective within a students program. Further, I personally took a double major in the Faculty of Arts and was still able to take several electives throughout my time at the University of Regina. Second, some claim this a cash grab by the university. The university isnt the one proposing the idea and no one is sure what they will do in response to the petition. So what these people are really claiming is that these students are trying to create a cash grab for the university. This would not add any additional costs to a U of R degree. It would simply take away one elective students had and replace it with a core-requirement class. Third, a lot of people say this would not help them in their future careers. I would like to posit the argument that it would help students in any of program, especially if they are planning on staying in Saskatchewan for their career. In a province with the demographics of Saskatchewan, it will be important for businesspeople, engineers, social workers and teachers to understand Canadas colonial legacy if we are

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ever going to decolonize our university, our province, and our country. Fourth, take a look where this petition is coming from. Its being proposed by student members of the Indigenous Students Association. If you want to know why its important to them that an Indigenous Studies class be made mandatory, take the time to ask them. I am sure they can give you countless examples of how they have experienced the effects of structural racism within Saskatchewan and on the University of Regina campus. Having this class will not end that structural racism, but it will begin the process of weakening those structures by including differing narratives within our university community. Very few non-Aboriginal students at the University of Regina have a solid understanding of the colonial history of our province and our country. This class would be more than a much-needed history lesson, it would also allow students to thread the needle, so to speak, and see the effect that history is having on our province and our country today. It will give them marketable skills in any profession they choose to pursue, and most of all it will be a small step in the right direction towards decolonizing our school, our city, our province, and our country. Please take the time to talk to one of the students collecting signatures and make an effort to sign this petition.

mike staines
general manager, ursu

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