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Did SHAC quell the controversy?

A new center to address student needs has been up and running since

the beginning of the semester. SHAC, Student Help and Advocacy Center, is a student-run advocacy and referral center that provides assistance in an array of areas including academic, fi nancial, housing, human rights and legal issues. Th e decision to establish SHAC was not without controversy, as it meant shutting down the Human Rights Offi ce (HRO), which had previously been a separate entity of its own. So now that SHAC is fully operating, how do students feel about its one-stop service?

Yvonne Su, Coordinator of SHAC, explained that while things are still coming together in the offi ce, SHAC has been able to reach out to many students.

“Th ings have been going great. It’s defi nitely gone better than we expected. A lot of students have

Th e new Student Help and Advocacy Center hopes to support students in more ways than one

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Forecasts of our future: disconcerting but not impossible

There’s a rampant worry about the state of the planet and the conditions

of our environment sweeping through communities and the world of academia alike. Some say we’ve already crossed a ‘no-return’ point, in which recovery will be diffi cult, if not impossible. Others say that if we change our economic structures and day-to-day practices, there’s still hope. Th e U of G recently held a conference

Conference looks at environmental crises and their implications for all of humanity

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entitled, “Our Environmental Future,” which featured a wide range of speakers who talked about major environmental crises and their implications for the health of the earth.

To Dr. Evan Fraser of the Geography Department, food is an integral component of all the environmental problems facing societies throughout the globe. Fraser spoke about his book entitled, ‘Empires of Food: Feast, Famine and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations.’ By turning to history, Fraser believes we can better understand our future.

“[Th e book] explores societies like ours, where large numbers of people live in cities and are

therefore dependent on farms scattered all over the place for food, how over history those sort of societies often emerge, developed, complicated trading networks, sophisticated technology, and how over periods of time, those kinds of societies do quite well, and then ultimately sometimes they don’t do so well,” said Fraser.

While there are uncertainties about how the future will pan out, Fraser is convinced of one thing; that change is coming.

“Th e world faces some major challenges,” said Fraser. “Th ere’s no getting around that. Th e combination of climate change, soil erosion, population growth

and urbanization are going to mean in the next generation or two, demand for food is going to rise and probably the supply of food is going to go down. So the current food system is going to change, I don’t think there’s any question about that.”

Transition Guelph, a local group that shares a vision of building resilience and sustainability into the Guelph community in response to the challenges of peak oil, accelerating climate change and global economic instability, also participated in the event. Chris Mills, co-founder of

already come up to talk to us...People are coming in because they know there is a place they can seek help for, so it’s good we are still providing students with help when they really need it. At the same time we’re not overwhelming our volunteers and taking on more capacity than the offi ce can handle,” said Su.

SHAC volunteers develop cases for each student they consult with using the FILAC model – Facts, Issues, Legislation, Analysis and Conclusion. After going through all of the components of a case, volunteers then provides students with their best options in handling the confl ict. Su further explained how SHAC approaches each case.

“We feel that our role is not necessarily to tell you what to do,” said Su. “Our role is to help you with the situation and kind of walk you through it, and make sure you have all the information you need to make the best choice.”

Anastasia Zavarella, Local Aff airs Commissioner of the Central Student Association is impressed with how SHAC has been operating.

“I think the staff , all of them, every single one of them, are doing a fabulous job, in running the place,

the absolute best that they can with the time that they have and the resources they’re allowed,” said Zavarella.

Zavarella emphasized the need however to expand the number of coordinators and paid hours granted to SHAC employees.

“I think they need more hours, I think they need more staff . Right now we’re working with less staff than we had previously…We now have 19,600 some students. We need more paid staff advocacy hours, not less, that’s so clear to me,” said Zavarella.

Th ere is still some concern from the student body over the dismantling of the HRO. But Su explained how SHAC has been very vocal in regards to human rights related issues.

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as students organized a winter clothing and paper product drive on Nov. 10 to 12. Students and community members dropped off winter coats, scarves, hats and a multitude of paper products, such as tampons and rolls of toilet paper by the cannon in Branion Plaza.

“Paper products are something we take for granted too often, but we have to realize that it is not easy to afford everyday items such as toilet paper under financial difficulties,” said Farahbakhsh. “Since the project is new this year, we are trying things out as a pilot. We hope to make Beyond Project Serve an annual offering to students that can help them build on-going relationships and provide satisfying ways to give back to the community.”

LCE welcomes students who wish to begin or continue their learning through community service volunteering and have two events on the way – a Holiday Hamper food drive and a community kitchen workshop at two neighborhood groups.

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NewsThe will to serve others from global to local

The University of Guelph is well known for many things – a green campus,

caring staff, renowned faculty, delicious food, and of great importance, the level of student involvement in volunteer activities. Volunteerism is extremely important for many students who wish to make a positive impact on the community and beyond.

Oct. 2 was a big day for hundreds of student volunteers. Project Serve Guelph, an initiative executed by Leadership and Community Engagement (LCE), was an opportunity for students to engage in helping out a community organization as well as to learn about the local issues and problems that exist in various neighborhoods of the city. Volunteers set out in

A look at ‘Beyond Project Serve,’ a new ongoing community volunteer initiative JIHEE PARK

groups to placements across Guelph, working on different projects such as cleaning windows, painting walls, and sorting food items.

Project Serve Guelph was an excellent opportunity for students to sample unique volunteering activities in a way that enhances the student-community connection. Rachel Farahbakhsh, one of the organizers behind the initiative explained that “these projects often help students to explore different career paths that they would not in other circumstances.” Indeed, serving others helps students to reflect on personal priorities as well as to provide insight on the contemporary societal issues of the community in which we live.

Many students often pursue further involvement by taking the next step and participating in Project Serve Canada and International, which involve several overseas organizations over the winter and summer breaks. Applications have closed, and groups are currently

preparing for their trips abroad. Two Canada projects deal with local issues on HIV/AIDS and street involved youth in Guelph; another group is heading to Hattiesburg, Mississippi and another to the Chippewas of the Nawash community in Ontario, learning about race and aboriginal issues, respectively. This year however, LCE is introducing another way for students to continue their local involvement and the connections they may have established

through Project Serve Guelph. The goal of Beyond Project Serve is to implement a system in which students are given the opportunity to commit to on-going local volunteer efforts throughout the city.

Currently, Beyond Project Serve has partnered with four neighborhood groups. These local organizations are public agencies that serve to help individuals and families with low-income status, housing difficulties and immigration issues, through accessible food shelves and social support. Near the end of October and earlier this month, volunteers engaged in various activities at these agencies, such as a boot drive and soup social at the Grange Hill Neighborhood Group, and a food drive for the Two Rivers Neighborhood Group. The work of the volunteers led to amazing results. “We collected enough food for the food cupboard to last for five months!” exclaimed Farahbakhsh.

The volunteer effort to help these groups continued last week,

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“SHAC,” continued“A lot of our events are really

human rights oriented. Like this month we’re collaborating to do genocide awareness month and before we did queer identities week, which was very successful and a lot of people came out. So I think we’re really upholding the

human rights aspect.” While Zavarella is proud of the

work being carried out by SHAC, she still believes that a separate HRO would be beneficial for students.

“I think one of my arguments for having a separate autonomous body dealing with this, is look where the

The smell of newsprint, crisp and yet somehow earthy, fills your nose as

you leaf through the latest edition of your local paper. Black ink smudges decorate your hands, leaving traces of your morning reading. Well informed and ready to go, you head out for the day, news in mind.

Canadians have turned to the newspaper for a reliable source of news since the advent of the first newspaper in 1792. Die-hard newspaper fans across the country have since been enamored with the news, flipping through the paper over a morning coffee, on the commute to work, or to wind down from a busy day. Of course, in the changing media landscape

of the past few years, the internet has become an increasingly important source of news for today’s technologically-minded individuals. But even with the sheer amount of information available at the click of a mouse, are students taking the time to get informed?

No one is more aware of the potential behind reading the news than those who make the news a career.

“Reading the news keeps people informed about their community, be it the university community or the community at large,” said Guelph Tribune editor, Chris Clark. “News, in its many forms, tells people about a full range of issues, opportunities, events and more. Police crackdowns in the core area, volunteer opportunities, Just for Laughs performing at the River Run Centre are but three examples.”

Still, it can be hard to find time in a busy day to stop and smell

the newsprint. Between midterms to sit and papers to write, where does the news factor into our lives as students and as citizens?

“I think that some students are very well informed, either by personal interest or because of their programs, but it is easy to get caught up and live just within the university bubble,” said Sionaid Eggett, a fourth year student in Child, Youth and Family Studies. “It’s easy to get caught up on important issues in our campus community, but taking the time to delve into news that concern the larger society in which we live can be a bit more difficult.”

Technology can be a key resource in accessing the news, and some students make copious use of this convenient news source.

“I read the news online everyday, generally during my classes although often at home as well throughout the day. It’s fairly constant. I’d say I’m checking for

new articles at least once every two hours,” said a second year vet student. The news is almost constantly available on iPhones and Blackberries, devices owned by many students.

“I find that myself and most people I know use the internet to get a lot of news today; anyone with a Wi-Fi device or mobile internet have even easier access,” agreed Eggett.

So while students today might not be flipping through hard-copy news, it would seem that most still care about what’s going on in the world. Contrary to the view that students are apathetic about the goings-on in the Canadian and International communities, there is a general understanding that taking a little extra time to read the headlines can be beneficial to a well-rounded point of view. In fact, it’s not uncommon for students to post interesting headlines on Facebook or Twitter, making use of social networks to

spread the news. Whatever it is that draws you

in, reading the news can be a key factor in engaging in your campus, your community, and your world. As Clark said, “Reading the news keeps people informed. If informed the more likely people will become engaged. The more people are engaged, the greater the sense of community – be it at the University of Guelph or the City of Guelph.”

HREO (Human Rights & Equity Office) is relative to the rest of campus. It’s out of the way, and that’s a strategic thing. It’s to protect people who use the services of the HREO and I think there’s something to be said for an office that works solely on political issues and issues related to human rights…I think it’s good

to have sort of a laser-sharp focus on these issues.”

While there are some mixed feelings that endure, there seems to be a general consensus that SHAC is optimally assisting those students who need help, and will hopefully grow stronger as its capacity expands.

“We hope to make Beyond Project Serve

an annual offering to students that can help them build on-going relationships

and provide satisfying ways to give back to

the community.” – Rachel Farahbakhsh,

co-organizer of Beyond Project Serve

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NewsMulti-faith event promotes peace through understandingPlaces of Worship Tour invites students to learn the value of encountering various faiths

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Wars persist today in many parts of the world. We hear word

of the ‘mission’ in Afghanistan being extended and watch as the ever-failing negotiations between Palestine and Israel continue to unravel. A clash between diff ering religious beliefs is etched into the history of many of these modern-day confl icts.

To end this year’s ‘Peace Week,’ which took place Nov. 8 to 13, the Multi-Faith Resource Team led the Places of Worship Tour. Students who attended the event boarded a bus for the day and headed off to visit a Sikh Gurdwara and a Muslim Mosque. Th rough seeking to understand others’ beliefs and lived experiences, Margot Feyerer, Ecumenical Campus Minister at the U of G, believes that one

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can work towards establishing justice and peace. Feyerer sees the worship tour as a great time to do this kind of intentional learning.

“Who we are is tied to the whole human being that we are – rational, emotional psychological, spiritual.   How can we hope to bridge the great divides that wound the world without understanding one another?   To do so necessarily includes how we have dealt with questions of faith and trust and the meaning of our lives…We don’t know what we don’t know – and this is the kind of event that opens us up to what we don’t know,” said Feyerer.

According to Feyerer, it is easier to ask questions and visit places of worship outside one’s own spiritual beliefs by doing it with a group of people.

“Even though I identify with one particular faith tradition, I have not experienced all forms of worship even in that tradition.  I have a curiosity about how others gather and worship. I wonder what they believe.   However, without the worship tour, I would

be apprehensive about doing this ‘touring’ on my own.”

After attending the worship tour, Psychology student Chantal Huinink believes it’s an opportunity that all students can benefi t from. “Th at our school is willing to support and encourage the awareness and exploration of diff erent faith traditions by off ering trips without cost is something to celebrate. Th e more students that partake in these multi-faith-based events, the greater the opportunity to learn from one another will be.”

Michelle Ball, Multi-Faith Resource Team Program Facilitator, described the enjoyment of gathering with others while visiting diff erent spiritual temples.

“Th is year we visited a Sikh Gurdwara, where we were made to feel very welcome, especially through an amazing meal which was cooked in the temple,” said Ball.  “I think there is something very holy about sharing a meal with people of many faiths, as we gather together and share in something we all have in common and give and receive hospitality.”

Ball encourages students not to forget the value of taking the time to establish deep and meaningful connections with others, even

if it requires some courage. A highlight of the worship tour for Ball was being able to develop these kinds of relationships.

“Th e only way, in my opinion, to counter injustice, ignorance, or apathy is through making connections with other human beings at a very personal level. We can learn about the basics of other religions from a textbook, but there is something much more meaningful in visiting a place of worship and meeting honest followers of that faith...It is my hope that every student can realize that there is more to their education than midterms and facts, that university can also provide opportunities to grow as an individual.”

“Th e only way, in my opinion, to counter

injustice, ignorance, or apathy is through making connections

with other human beings at a very personal

level.” - Michelle Ball, Program Facilitator

of the Multi-Faith Resource Team

Megan VerheyStudents visited a Sikh Gurdwara on the Places of Worship Tour, organized by the Multi-Faith Resource Team.

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Hip-hop rock talk after a surprising show from Gregory Pepper

If you were at eBar last Thursday, Nov. 11 for Common Grackle’s

performance you caught an event that may one day become historically significant. This was the Gregory Pepper-fronted indie infused hip-hop collaboration’s first live performance. The album Great Depression consists of Pepper and a few welcome guests rapping and singing over loops and samples, making Pepper’s arrival on stage Thursday with a four piece band something of an unanticipated feature. Performing the songs as a sped up, cattle ranch concerto could never have been foreseen.

“It seems like a cop-out to play with a loop, because it really is just glorified karaoke,” said Pepper of the decision to step away from the original form for Thursday’s show.

“But in order to recreate the album with all the elements, the strings and the horns, and the harmonies you would need 25 people on stage. The rockabilly version was kind of the first official Common Grackle show ever, and will probably be the only one of that sort. I kind of just chose what I thought would be the most fun, which was sort of country, 1,2 step, basic rootsy music. When we tour it properly it’s probably gonna be mostly loops,” said Pepper.

The show fulfilled its aim of being lighthearted, with Pepper proving he can keep a crowd alive even with completely experimental material. And while you might say the show was Common Grackle, it was missing the essential party of its

Pepper sheds some light on he and producer Factor’s experimental hip-hop effort, Common GrackleJOSH DOYLE

“ENVIRO,” continuedTransition Guelph, explained why oil scarcity is a real concern.

“There are very compelling indications that we’re at the point that globally oil production is going to start to taper off. And because we’ve built this huge, very very intricate, but very fragile, globalized community based on the easy availability of cheap energy, having that energy become less abundant and more expensive is going to have a really profound impact,” said Mills.

While doom and gloom talk

often sabotages the prospect of envisioning a better future, Mills believes that there is still a great deal of hope for life ahead.

“At the most pessimistic end of the spectrum we have people believe that the end of fossil fuels will mean the end of civilization which I think realistically we have to say that’s not far from impossible, that could happen,” said Mills. “I certainly think it’s not the only possibility. If I did think so, I wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing, which is trying to prepare my community. If I really

thought there was no hope, I’d be out in the woods. I’d be two tanks full of gas away from the nearest population center.”

Fraser understands why many people fall into the gloomy,

apathetic trap when it comes to discussing the planet’s future, but like Mills, he also opts for a more positive outlook.

“It’s easy to get very defeatist and fatalistic and all those things, and that’s exactly the wrong attitude in my opinion although it’s a natural one, and it’s one I think everybody probably shares at some point,” said Fraser.

Mills explained the logic in choosing to be hopeful, a choice he encourages others to make, regardless of the challenges that are bound to surface along the way.

“It really is going to be a race to the finish line,” said Mills. “But when you get up in the morning, you don’t know if you’re going to be dead by the end of the day. You have a child, you don’t know if that child is going to be healthy but you do it anyways because that’s where hope is. Hope is getting up, and doing whatever it is that you do. As well as you can. Hope is in raising a child, to respect the planet, to love the planet, and to want to work to do whatever they can, to leave this world a better place than they found it.”

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other half. Hip-hop production mastermind Factor resides in Saskatoon, which barely affected the making of Great Depression, but has played a role in their limited performance presence so far. But while their distance geographically creates problems for personal collaboration, the distance between their approaches is steadily shrinking, and has worked to blend very different genres.

“Factors trademark is he does a lot of crate-digging, he goes through a lot of obscure, prairie vinyl and finds these psychedelic

elements or these folk elements and builds loops out of them. But I’d also be kind of picky about chord progressions and having the bridge and building more musical narrative out of a song. A lot of hip-hop is literally just a two or four-chord loop just built up. I fought pretty hard to have a bit more movement in the songs,” said Pepper of he and Factor’s developing ability to mesh. Despite their stylistic differences, they both walked into Common Grackle with the same thing in mind.

“We both liked the idea of

a sad song being presented in an optimistic way,” said Pepper. “A sad song that doesn’t sound sad until you listen to it a little closer. That sort of Brian Wilson, hopeless optimism.”

The records title might take away any early notions of optimism, be it hopeless or not, but that only means you’re reading it wrong.

“Even the title was meant to be a play on that, like an awesome depression. The most stoked depression ever. Like, grrreat Depression, Tony the Tiger great,” explained Pepper.

Listening to the album will definitely present this idea in greater clarity. Its title track has a strikingly upbeat sound, remarking on Pepper’s unorthodox employment of the phrase. This relationship is made more apparent as the chorus asks you to “get down with the times,” in a way that the invite actually sounds appealing. The track Down With the Ship maintains this formula of upbeat gloom, even having it’s origin in the relationship between sunshine and rain… or in this case hot dog wieners.

“I was contacted by some people from Oscar Meyer about creating a jingle for them, and that song originally started off as an Oscar Meyer wiener promo jingle. They sent me these notes back like, ‘you can’t use the word rain, you can’t use the word down,’ they wanted everything to be just summer, happy, family bullshit. I was so sick with myself by the time I was done, and they didn’t even end up

licensing it… so I turned it into a filthy, dirty, Gregory Pepper song,” said Pepper. Yes he did. With lyrics like “called to give my blessing, but I don’t give a shit” as the course, backed by a melody that once formed a potential hot dog song, its one of the most contradictory and interesting songs on the album.

It’s lyrics like these that will strike a chord with most listeners, who are probably so used to hearing about depressions that they won’t be able to turn down the most awesome one yet. While Pepper and Factor’s latest effort is not your average hip-hop record it’s got the essential elements, including a better ability to blend lyrics than most rappers can lay claim to, the production value of a quality hop record, and Kool Keith. Yes, Kool Keith is on the first song of Great Depression. Still not convinced? Then keep your eyes peeled for upcoming tour dates, or give the record a listen. Odds are by the end you’ll be calling it Tony the Tiger Great.

“Even the title was meant to be a play

on that, like an awesome depression.

The most stoked depression ever.” Gregory Pepper

Gregory Pepper

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Arts & CultureLa Bohème retakes the stageRiver Run Center hosts Kitchener Opera’s performance of La BohèmeJOSH DOYLE

Monday Nov. 15 saw the River Run’s hosting of La Boheme, as

performed by the Kitchener Opera, and their ensemble brought Giacomo Puccini’s Italian performance to life with utter brilliance.

Th e story of La Bohème is a tragic one, which probably surprises no one at this point as opera’s most often are about something deeply saddening. For what could we sing so deeply about but love? And what is love without pain? What’s nice about the story of La Bohème is that this sadness takes its time getting to you. Instead of jumping into the thick of misery it begins with soft, simple tones, in a cool house without heat, in the midst of a cold winter in Paris, in the Latin Quarter. Th ere are many “ins” in the last sentence, but that’s the only way you can describe this story’s setting, which truly

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is nestled in among so many diff erent social barriers.

Th e location is so very specifi c that it tells of a time truly unique, a distinctive section of the social quilt. Rodolfo and Marcello, the poor patrons of a rental home that we’re presented to at the opening

are (what else) artists, namely a poet and a painter, struggling to stay warm on Christmas Eve. Th eir love of life is expressed through their carefree nature, and their willingness to bring new meaning to the idea of paying bills on passion, heating

the house with the pages of Rodolfo’s script. But their blithe nature is challenged by love, with both of these characters meeting women that bring great joy to their lives, and perhaps more melancholy. As Rodolfo and Mimi carry out the love aff air that forms the backbone of the show, it seems doomed from the beginning, as Mimi’s health struggles to hold up against the cold winds of poverty.

It was diffi cult to say whether having subtitles for La Bohèmehelped or hindered your appreciation of the rest of the performance. Certainly it was a distraction to draw your eyes away from the performers every couple of seconds to examine a few words overhead. But given most modern Canadian audiences are more or less oblivious to the romance languages, they served a necessary purpose. Indeed you could do without them if you were just to enjoy the singing and acting, but all jokes and probably any concept of the characters would elude you. Th ere exists an interesting contrast between the words on the subtitles screen and those being sung by the actors,

more in their translation than their presentation. Th e words you read are so plain and dry, simple dialogue without much life. But when you hear them delivered with such romantic passion and angst, drawn out at times for what seems like an eternity, you scarcely believe they can be the same words. So goes the magic of opera, giving life in amiable degrees to a story that could otherwise fall fl at. Each, “how are you,” and every “where’s the rent money,” sound as though they’re the fi nal request of a devoted companion.

Th e story is told beautifully, and the talent within the Kitchener Opera’s lineup truly feels second to none. Even with a lengthy ending, the singing and acting are enough to keep you committed. I’m yet to see an opera performed in Southern Italia, but I’m just fi ne without. La Bohème certainly satisfi ed my craving for classic Italian story, and went beyond my expectations with its delivery of song. Performances can still be scene in Kitchener on Nov. 21 and Mississauga Nov 26.

JukeboxKid Cudi, Man on the Moon II: Th e Legend of Mr. Rager

PATRICK MCEACHNIE

Kid Cudi, the artist not known as much more than a Cleveland, Ohio native as

little as two years ago has offi cially released his second major label, full length LP on the budding G.O.O.D. Music label. It was said in early reports that Cudi wanted to move past his major label debut Man On Th e Moon: Th e End Of Day with his newest Man On Th e Moon II: Th e Legend Of Mr. Rager, citing infl uences from every genre imaginable. While idealistic, Cudi has since fallen short of that goal, sticking to a more habitual (yet still commendable) mix of modern infl uences. It’s not a far cry from his original style, but the content is of topical importance.

Th e record does have a number of highlights, such as diverse guests, talk boxes (opposed to autotune, thanks for that one, Cudi), and some top-notch production (that we’ve all rightfully come to expect of G.O.O.D.). But when you release a 17 song, hour-long record, you’re asking for a signifi cant amount of fi ller; unfortunately this simply comes with the territory. Cudi got his start with mix-tapes, a format known for being concise and, by defi nition, without fi ller. Considering Kid Cudi was signed to G.O.O.D. Music after his fi rst

mix-tape, it’s pretty obvious where he’s most comfortable.

Cudi has said in interviews that he would sample any song from the 90s before he’d touch one from the 80s. While this is admittedly ignorant, it really makes sense of what I said about Th e Kid sticking to a number of modern infl uences. Most importantly, this strong 90s infl uence is responsible for the fi rst single released, “Erase Me,” easily the most important song on this record. “Erase Me” is directly infl uenced by early 1990s pop punk, a seemingly taboo subject in the world of mainstream rap and hip-hop. “Erase Me” might as well have been sampled from Th e Off spring’s Smash, Blink-182’s Enema Of Th e State, of even Weezer’s Pinkerton. Well, that’s not very fair; maybe Th e Green Album is a more fair comparison. It’s also not surprising that label honcho Kanye West made his only appearance on the obvious single. It’s moments like these that really show how Kid Cudi is fl exing; he is pushing limits and fi nding new

comfort zones. Most importantly, he’s doing this in front of the masses.

While it’s commendable of Kid Cudi to approach music with such wide-eyes, his over aspirations and sporadic infl uences lead Man On Th e Moon II to a lot of places, none of them really working as a full album. Rather than using his megaphone for a unifi ed cause, Cudi puts love songs next to club fodder next to an ode to marijuana. Th e eff ort is obvious, but the end result becomes scattered and misguided. All we’re left with is a collection of singles where an LP should be.

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Arts & CultureJason Collett at Dublin St. ChurchJason Collett was joined by some of Canada’s most impressive song writers last Friday night in Guelph

JOSH DOYLE

Filling the Dublin St. Church with people and song last Friday, Nov. 12 was a gang

of rebel rock singers from around the country, who held hostage an audience without the need of ropes or locked doors from eight until 11. Headlined by none other than Jason Collett, the show was opened by Bryan Webb, lead singer of Guelph-born Constantines, followed by a performance by Al Tuck of P.E.I. The three artists shared several commonalities in their music and performance style. Through an outward abandonment of restrain, what they each offered above anything else was themselves. They came across as genuine and exposed, as only an acceptance of self and a strong relationship with honesty can allow from someone on a stage. Jason Collett commented on this aspect of solo performance, marking it as one of the biggest separations from performing with a group.

“There’s a particular intimacy that you can achieve with an audience that you can only really do when you’re playing solo. And part of that is the sheer vulnerability that you have when you walk out and don’t have that comfort of having your mates on the stage with you. There’s nothing to hide behind, so it does feel kind of naked. But through the songs being stripped down and people responding to them this intimacy starts reciprocating nicely,” said Collett.

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this intimacy along comes from the involvement of story in his sets, which he weaves in and out of like a sewing needle that doesn’t catch. The audience welcomed his humorous tales of rolling joints amidst tobacco-happy European’s and accidentally setting fire to his new pullover at a high school dance. Collett’s tales are told in a way that they help him to introduce the songs, which is by no means a new trick. The difference perhaps is that it doesn’t feel like a trick at all when Collett does it, but a part of the transaction that becomes inseparable from the songs.

“It’s an opportunity to tell more stories,” he said of performing solo. “I think that really allows the audience a whole different perspective into my work, the songs themselves, but also the stories that reflect different light on the songs, and light on what it is I do,” added Collett.

Collett began the tour that will become his first cross-country effort as a solo performer back in October, which you might call only half true considering he was barely through with his previous one before setting off again. On the tails of his tour for Rat A Tat Tat in September Collett released the album Pony Tricks, a reworked compilation of several previously heard tracks with the addition of two unreleased ones. Its aim to capture the essence of live performance in its solo acoustic manner makes Collett’s latest album a logical addition to a growing collection. An artist who spends so much of his time on the road performing acoustically can only be expected to want to see some of that music pressed and released. After working as a carpenter for much of his life, Collett has the advantage of knowing the difference between making music and labouring, even

through the countless mundane moments that touring life offers.

“I really regard it as a privilege. I know it can be monotonous and it can be a drag for some people, but I have a suspicion that most of those people have never sanded dry-wall before,” Collett said.

Collett’s career has gradually developed as he’s gotten older, and a large amount of his fan base has done the same. While many of his fans are the college and university attendees that create part of the draw to perform in cities like Guelph, Collett is more thankful for those dedicated souls that have paid their dues as music fans.

“A lot of people cease to be music fans when their college days are over because it was really about the lifestyle. So a lot of older people that you see coming out to shows, they’re the hardcore ones, they’re the lifers that actually still buy music and become loyal fans. I’m quite appreciative of seeing that shift in the last few years,” said Collett.

An honest love for live performance, and a respectable catalogue of records seems evidence enough that Collett won’t be halting progress on either of these fronts any time soon. His name allows him the accompaniment of Canada’s most talented singer/songwriters, like Al Tuck and Bryan Webb, the latter fitting into Friday’s set nicely after he recently renewed his membership as a Guelphite. Collett’s music may sound different performed live; it becomes slower and more soothing, but what it loses in momentum it gains in intimacy. He adjusts his playing to suit the audience and mood, and to connect with his crowd on a more personal level,

making him a valued performer on the Canadian circuit.

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Collett closed a show with other renowned Canadian performers Bryan Webb, and Al Tuck at the Dublin St. Church, Nov. 12

Jason Collett laughs off one of many well loved tales at his performance Friday

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Arts & CultureLike Really Slow Bungee Jumping at Zavitz HallThis week, Zavitz gallery hosts Monte Burman’s off the wall sculpture showKOSTA GLIGORIJEVIC

Styrofoam stacks stand precariously on makeshift pedestals. Opaque, cocoon-like

tapecasts lie strewn about the clay-grey gallery floor. Coffee cups, masks and painting trays litter the room.

Monte’s work resembles scenes from the run and gun Sega Genesis game Vectorman. Sharp edges, synthetic colours, and the ambiguous interplay between the artificial and the organic all echo the 16-bit environments of classic video games.

Much of the likeness is probably due to the matter-of-fact practical and unapologetically artificial materials he uses. Duct tape, scotch tape, aluminum foil and styrofoam all give the work a kind of familiarity and common-sense coherence, while the shapes and the arrangement of pieces assert themselves as menacingly fresh.

“I want to get things just wrong,” the artist Monte Burman explained, revealing an approach both whimsical and daring.

The styrofoam stacks are like explosions in bullet-time: raw, dense, and with planes pointing every which way. The mood is

of pent up energy and halted momentum. Smooth and porous factory-cut facets, rough and crystalline cleavage points, glossy and reflective tape.

The cooler and less conspicuous typecasts are a different species altogether. These accretions of tape bear vestiges of an arbitrary collection of objects without betraying their identities. With smooth, inanimate planes and sharp corners, biological curves and natural bulges, they are ambiguous and puzzling, luxurious and impoverished all at the same time.

The resulting impression points outside everyday experience. The casts at times resemble asteroids, cocoons, shed skins and single cells. They could just as well be orbiting celestial bodies as lie pressed against microscope slides. Whatever the imagination makes of them, however, the tapecasts certainly engender the perennial issues of the relationship between form and matter, emergence and deterioration.

Among these semi-mysterious, semi-silly exhibits, everyday objects acquire a distinctive air of displacement and eeriness. Styrofoam sheets straddle a sawhorse simulacrum. A standing centipede cast wears a black vigilante mask. A strange sea-foam agglomeration supports a Christmas edition Tim Horton’s cup.

Such mix of the menacing and the whimsical, the plain and the flamboyant, gives the exhibition its hallmark mystique. And while Monte’s aesthetic seems irreverent and untraditional, it is certainly not irrelevant.

The ambivalent aesthetic not only stimulates the senses but also points to a number of tantalizing intellectual tensions. The strong sense of completion without any sense of purpose, the emergence of complexity out of the everyday, and the mutual displacement of commonplace objects permeate the exhibition, placing it in the midst of recent artistic debates.

Like Really Slow Bungee Jumping speaks directly to recent currents in contemporary sculpture. The two flagship events that come to mind are the New Museum’s 2008 exhibition Unmonumental and The Power Plant gallery’s Nothing to Declare.

Both shows aimed at probing the distinctive character of the 21st century object, and both did it by expanding the sculpture’s jurisdiction beyond the art-historically defined conventions and into the flux everyday life. Accumulation, assembly and the excessive, nearly indiscriminate choice of medium gave the exhibitions an undeniable and almost baroque glamour.

The participating artists

remarkably both added to the chaos of modern living and introduced a new kind of convoluted and luscious order. In New York, bicycles, faux animal pelts, and celebrity images came together in Rachel Harrison’s nonchalantly surreal Huffy Howler, while multicoloured venetian blinds intertwined into giant perforated forms by Toronto’s James Carl.

What Like Really Slow Bungee

Jumping adds to the mix is further amplification of what curator Anne Ellegood termed “sculpture’s ever-expanding field.” The exhibition intensifies and captures the flair and the gloom, the beauty and the abjectness, the order and disorder of contemporary life. To see it, visit the Zavitz Hall gallery between Nov. 15 and Nov. 19, with the main exhibit Thursday from 7-10pm.

An amalgamation of art and history through the second oldest building in GuelphRACHEL SCAPILLATI

Change is a natural occurrence in history and to view that through artistic

eyes offers a wider perspective.The Spirit of Change: One Building

Tells the Story of Guelph is an ongoing exhibition taking place at the Guelph Civic Museum on 6 Dublin St. and through this exhibition, art and history become one.

Guest curator and contributing artist, Kathleen Schmalz, instigated the idea over a year ago to create this exhibit about the mosque on 126 Norwich St. E., to curator Bev Dietrich and director Kathleen McCracken of the Guelph Civic Museum.

“I have been involved with the museum as an artist on and off for years,” said Schmalz. “When I instigated this idea to Bev, she was very open minded, as was Kathleen McCracken, to seeing this exhibition through different eyes. They were very open to arts-based exhibition for history.”

Hanging in the exhibit are various paintings by Schmalz and different contributing artists, depicting the

history behind the mosque on 126 Norwich St., E. As well, there are many historical artifacts aiding in the telling of that history and the past of Guelph.

The building was recently purchased by the Islamic Society of Guelph, but was originally a Christian church for over 125 years. Schmalz’s interest in the building was sparked first from her living in the same neighbourhood as the structure and walking by it everyday, as well as the change of religion in the building.

“We’ve all seen so many public owned buildings torn down or made into a private area, so it was nice to see this building remain public domain when the Islamic Society purchased it,” she said.

“Now the building represents a demographic change we are seeing in Guelph and in Canada.”

Dietrich’s involvement in this exhibit was to present history differently, and she embraced Schmalz’s approach to this.

“I think it was a different approach to telling the history. It explored different topics and themes about

the history of the church and all through the perspective of the artist’s eye,” said Dietrich. “I found it to be a unique opportunity to approach an exhibit using an arts-based research method instead of the history-based research method. It was an opportunity to learn about

a different process in order to create an exhibit.”

The method of arts-based historical research is a recent development and Schmalz having just completed her Doctorate of Visual and Performing Arts from Charles Sturt Australian University,

found the opportunity to explore this branch of history helped in shaping the direction the exhibit would go.

“Arts-based research in history is a fairly new venture and typically history has a central way of looking at the world,” she said. “In the 1970s and 1980s, the way we look at history started to change. Historians realized all voices were not being heard in the telling of history. When an artist curates an exhibition, it is another way of looking at the world and looking at history.”

Dietrich also sees the importance in applying new thought patterns and creativity behind this innovative approach.

“This was an opportunity to learn a different technique and watch it evolve, grow and be implemented,” said Dietrich. “It was also an opportunity to explore a topic that has a ‘now’ relevance with something that happened a long time ago. It’s a great concept and worked well.”

The exhibit will be running until Jan. 9, 2011 and admission fees remain the same.

Rachel Scapillati

Megan VerheyMonte Burman’s sculpture exhibit offers a lot to look at, and an opportunity to talk about contemporary sculpture with the artist.

The Spirit of Change: One Building Tells the Story of Guelph exhibit located in the Guelph Civic Museum, guest curated by Kathleen Schmalz. Her artistic works are hanging in the exhibit, along with other artists’ contributing art and artifacts.

as travelling to musical hotspots like New York were also integral moments that helped developed Avery’s sound.

“I wanted to make a homage to Charles Bukowski, even though he hated rock music,” Avery stated as a motivation behind his musical creativity.

“I formed Th e Legal Tender String Quartet, [and] traveled with them with for two years,” Avery mentioned as part of the tribute to the American writer. He also cited inspirations from rock and roll legend Chuck Berry. Th is project, alongside being in and out of rock bands is only a small part of the extensive music career that fortunately shows no signs of slowing down.

“I’ve been working on an 11 song album with a 57 piece orchestra, which we will be recording in the middle of December or beginning of January,” Avery said of his plans for the near future. A project of over three years work, this endeavour will be a crowning achievement for the artist, who has put in countless hours of hard work over a long music career.

Never missing an opportunity to

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Arts & CultureC. R. Avery makes music over dinnerTalented and Diverse Vancouver artist plays a show at the Carden St. Café.

OLIVER DZUBA

A fully packed Carden St. Café played host to the multi-talented C.R. Avery

on Th ursday Nov. 11. Th e Vancouver native stopped by in Guelph on his Cross Canada Rock N’ Roll Bandit tour and talked about his past, present and future with his music career in an interview after his show.

A traditional rock ensemble of guitar, bass and drums with the addition of a keyboardist backed Avery during the near two hour show. Front-man Avery added his personal touches to the show with well integrated additions of harmonica, beat-boxing and even a keytar, making for several enjoyable songs.

“Well it makes me feel good,” Avery said automatically when asked about the writing process behind his songs. Inspired by and commenting on “madness, jealousy, poverty and broken hearts,” the song writing ability of Avery is no doubt spectacular. As a singer-songwriter, Avery merges his songs with his poetry, often starting a song with spoken word before his band gets the signal to turn a poem into an all

“When I feel I’m losing the audience I do

whatever I have to do.” C.R. Avery

out rock song.It’s this formula that creates the

one-of-a-kind concert experience when seeing Avery perform his music live. A captivating combination of well charged poetry and the familiarity of a catchy rock song makes for a highly entertained crowd.

“I get bored, people get bored if it’s a movie, ballet or rock show,” Avery explained as the reasons behind his energetic and charismatic stage presence. Asking the audience to sing along, and even sing entire choruses, the connection between the audience and this artist is undeniable. “And when I feel I’m losing the audience I do whatever I have to do,” Avery added, regarding his on and off stage antics, which either way appears to be working by the amount of attention he received on Th ursday.

Th e musical talent of C.R. Avery is a culmination of years of experience, and is also due to what he refers to as his low attention span.

“My music teaching mother said I was tone deaf, probably right,” said a laughing Avery, refl ecting on his musical origins. His love of music fl ourished in his youth, fi nding new creativity in beat-boxing while writing rhymes at age ten, and also receiving a harmonica at 16 for his birthday. Attending Mohawk College to study music as well

do it diff erently, C.R. brought 38 Bar Blues, a book he wrote that he feels “kicks every books ass.” Avery was very excited about the book, and commented on his writing experience.

“I needed that. I make albums, and I deal with it, and I didn’t want to go into that process of writing a book unless I knew it was gonna be put out,” he said. Very thankful

to his publisher, ‘Write Bloody Publishing,’ Avery was pleased as a writer with the end result.

A diverse crowd thoroughly enjoyed C.R. Avery’s performance, and many were able to personally thank Avery for the night. If you ever want to see a perfected blend of music infl uenced from many various sources, C.R. Avery should not be missed.

What are you reading?

JIHEE PARK

When I picked up Th e Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, I expected

it to be no more than another work of pulp fi ction with the typical elements of any mystery novel. Th is indeed was true, at least for the fi rst few chapters, which were written plainly to set the stage - introducing the major personalities and depicting the Sweden of Larsson’s description. Soon enough however, what began to pull me into the story was the intricate way in which Larsson developed his characters. Th e actors of the story, who in reality were no more than printed words on the pages of the book, soon began to feel as real as people in a real world.

Enter Lisbeth Salander; social outsider, extrovert, expert private investigator, and the girl with the dragon tattoo. Although by societal standards seemingly incapable of

Th e Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

doing anything of productive value due to her outright refusal to fi t into today’s norms, Lisbeth has an unfathomable talent for digging into the deepest darkest secrets of the most elusive people. She works for a corporate security company, yet unconventionally; her abilities are employed for unusually diffi cult cases. Th e character of Lisbeth is at complete odds with the other major player, Karl Blomkvist; investigative journalist and public icon whose personal aims are to expose the corrupt in the corporate world to the world at large. His career has followed an ideal path and he plays within the lines when it comes to his work.

Th e novel, through two polar characters, shows that all people have an inherent quality of knowing what is morally right and following their intuitions. Although Salander and Blomkvist diff er in a vast majority of aspects, they share the commonality of recognizing that certain issues - such as the case of a girl who went missing for 16 years without a trace – should not be left unsolved. Th eir conviction to solve the mystery leads the reader through an exciting and thrilling journey

that exposes the themes of sexual violence and exploitation of women.

What sparked Larsson to write this book? It is uncommon for a pop novelist to write a major novel on the ills of society, of which many are uncomfortable discussing. It is a risk for any author to write on such a sensitive topic as rape and sexual assault. Th e fi re that started the Millennium series was Larsson’s own experience of an event that became so engrained in his consciousness it transformed his life goals. Aged 15 years, he witnessed the gang raping of a girl. Disgusted at society for letting this occur, and at himself who did nothing at the time to prevent the raping, Larsson went on to write the series, naming the heroine after the girl he did nothing to help.

Th e Girl with the Dragon Tattoois more than just hype. Th e book delves deep into the problems that plague community – sexual violence, corporate corruption and inability to follow societal norms - through an engaging and interesting plot. Unlike other bestselling fi ction these days (as it does not involve blood-drinking and beautiful people), this series is an eye-opener to the world in which we live.

Megan VerheyC.R. Avery played a show at the Carden St. Café, Th ursday Nov. 11

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A secret fertile breeding ground exists on the campus of this stellar university.

Th e Guelph Landscape Architecture program has graduated a list of impressive and successful golf course designers. Unfortunately, we cannot focus on all of the great architects, but their accomplishments should not go unnoticed.

Th e LA program at the U of G has produced golf course designers that have crafted six out of the top eight courses on ‘Score Golf ’s Top 100 Canadian Golf Courses.’

Five of the top eight courses, in Score Golf ’s rankings, were designed by legendary golf course architect, the late Stanley Th ompson.

Th ompson attended the Ontario Agricultural College, now known as the University of Guelph, for one year before going off to serve in the Canadian military during World War I. Th ompson paved the way for future bright golf design minds to hone their craft at Guelph.

“To be a successful golf architect you have to think about the two main things, the playability of the golf course and the aesthetics on the course,” said U of G Professor of Landscape Architecture, Robert Brown.

Th ompson’s design principles included selecting the best property for a course, a piece of land with unforgettable views, natural features and a nice surrounding environment with an easy aesthetic start to the course.

“We teach design and the aesthetic part of design,” said Brown. “How do you do things so that when people are standing at the tee and look out the fairway they see something that is not only interesting to play, but a beautiful or interesting view.”

Th e Th ompson designed, St. George’s Golf and Country Club, hosted the 2010 RBC Canadian Open from Jul. 19-25. Th e views and aesthetics on the St. George course are spectacular.

Th ompson was not the only former Guelph grad to host the world’s best golfers this year. Neil Haworth’s design, Sheshan

International Golf Club in Shanghai, China hosted the World Golf Championships from Nov. 4-7. Haworth was very proud to have the professionals play his course.

“Th e players really like [the course] and the hard work put in by everyone has made it extremely successful,” said Haworth.

Some notable golfer had good things to say about the Sheshan course.

“Lee Westwood says it is a great course and [Phil] Mickleson says the 16th hole is one of the coolest he has played,” said Haworth. “Even Tiger [Woods] used the word ‘awesome.’”

Th e Guelph Landscape Architecture graduate strove to create a unique design not really seen in the Shanghai region.

“We pushed the technical limits of the soil type to create an undulating and hilly course,” said Haworth. “We also created a really exciting fi nish to the round [holes 16,17 and 18] which all the players really like and is exciting for the fans.”

Th e LA program taught Haworth how important the design process is whether he is detailing a vest pocket park or laying out a whole golf course community. One of the most important things learned during Haworth’s time at Guelph was sticking to an idea and seeing it through.

“Make a decision and believe in it. I saw so many fellow students doing all nighters because they could not decide on a design,” said Haworth. Th en they had no time left to graphically sell their ideas and were too tired to present.

Evidenced by his unique Sheshan design Haworth is not afraid to make the great ideas come to life.

“If you follow the process then you must have confi dence in yourself and the passion to make a decision,” said Haworth. “And now having worked with some of the top international architects and planners, I see the same in them.”

Brown can see the knowledge learned in the Guelph LA program being applied to the course designs by the graduates.

“I see something in their view, the aesthetic part of it. I see some real terrifi c composition,

both in terms of the layout of the elements so that it’s pleasing to the eye,” said Brown. “Also the composition in terms of how it fi ts into the natural environment. You don’t see a lot of really artifi cial landforms. Th e courses tend to take advantage of the land forms that are there.”

Golfers all over need to be informed about the importance of preserving the environment.

“Th e future for golf courses lies in educating golfers that green is not necessarily best and developing grasses that require zero chemical use and minimal water,” said Haworth.

Th e LA program at Guelph really puts an emphasis on shaping golf course designs around the natural land and disturbing the existing wildlife as little as possible.

Th e Wayne Carleton designed, Shadow Mountain golf course located in the Kootenay area of British Columbia, is a perfect example of letting the land dictate the design of the course.

“Th e goal with that course and all my courses is to try and let the land dictate what the design is all about,” said Carleton, a Guelph LA graduate in 1991. “Th e key is when you’re routing a golf course you can pick out the natural attributes and let the holes fl ow with the land.”

Brown has seen Carleton’s Shadow Mountain course with his own eyes.

“He has not only taken advantage of opportunities in the landscape, but he has not really disturbed the landscape very much,” said Brown.

Another Carleton design, Dakota Dunes golf links, located just south of Saskatoon, is ranked 45 on ‘Score Golf ’s Top 100 Canadian Courses’ list.

“When it did open, [Dakota Dunes] it was ranked best new course in Canada by Golf Digest,” said Carleton. “Dakota Dunes was very natural links type site. Basically we just cut the golf course right out of the natural sand dunes. Didn’t really move any dirt at all, used all existing site materials and preserved as much as we could with the environmental characteristics of the site.”

Recently, golf enthusiasts have

been taking a bad rap for having lots of chemicals poured on the courses and taking up land that could be used for other things.

“With the golf courses designed by Guelph grads what I see is courses that are really sensitively fi t into the landscape,” said Brown.

Th e LA program really gave its graduates the tool to be able to succeed in their careers today.

“It pointed me in the right direction and basically the program gave me what I needed to become a golf course architect,” said Carleton. “Th rough the diff erent courses that we took, the great thing about it is we always had an opportunity to do individual projects which allowed us to focus on what we really wanted to do in the future.”

Haworth also credits the program with providing him the proper tools to become a successful golf course designer.

“I applied to LA program at Guelph specifi cally to become a golf course designer and I was able to set up the perfect program for me,” said Haworth. “I was able to take turf grass courses, select a golf course design subject for my fi nal year thesis and was also fortunate to participate in the semester abroad program at Guelph House in London.”

Save for a few famous architects, golf course designers fl y under the radar, even by the university they attended.

“I don’t think that the University of Guelph has been very good about recognizing the designers themselves,” said Brown. “As they’re [the LA graduates] out there for a while their memory of Guelph sort of fades a little bit and they’re not maybe as likely to mention Guelph themselves.”

Brown would like to see all course designers get more recognition for their great designs.

“I’d like to see a sign outside every course that identifi es the designer,” said Brown.

Many people play a golf course and might never ask the question, who designed this course?

Next time you play a round, ask and you might be surprised to hear that a University of Guelph graduate designed the beautiful piece of golf land.

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Wayne Carleton

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Robert Th ompson

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Banff Springs Golf Club located in Banff , AB. designed around the natural environment by Stanley Th ompson.

A great shot of the rolling hills and dunes at the Wayne Carleton designed Dakota Dunes Golf Links in Saskatoon, SK.

A scenic view at the Stanley Th ompson designed Jasper Park Lodge Golf Course, located in Jasper, AB.

Hole number 13 on the Wayne Carleton designed Shadow Mountain golf course in British Columbia.

Th e Stanley Th ompson designed St. Georges Golf and Country Club in Etobicoke, ON.

One of the undulating fairways at Sheshan International Golf Club designed by Neil Haworth.

A beautiful par three at the Th omas McBroom designed, Raven Golf Club at Lora Bay in Th ornbury, ON.

An aerial shot of Capilano Golf and Country Club located in West Vancouver, BC. Designed by Stanley Th ompson.

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Arts & CultureThe video’s you definitely haven’t seen yet, at Ed VideoToronto based visual artist Jean-Paul Kelly exhibits his videos and images at Ed Video until Dec. 16

JOSH DOYLE

If you were to ask Jean-Paul Kelly about his work, he’d offer you a detailed reply that

would either answer all the other questions you had in mind or lead to a whole line up of new ones. Of course, before that happened you’d need to know who Jean-Paul Kelly is. Kelly is a London grown multimedia artist who garnered a Masters degree in visual studies from the University of Toronto. He’s since had his work exhibited many times in the city, where he is currently the Programming Director for Trinity Square Video.

Kelly’s done international work too, exhibiting at festivals in Japan and Europe, but for the time being he’s putting the suitcase aside and letting little old Guelph host his work. Kelly opened his exhibit last Saturday, Nov. 13 at Ed Video in the downtown core, where it will stay until Dec. 16.

“I’m interested in the commonalities between images of world events,” Kelly said of his work, which is focused namely on video, but also hosts a surplus of different still images.

“I’m interested in those because they’re a site of collective consciousness, they’re for people to concentrate on at one time. But there’s a different analysis throughout different kinds of media of the same image, and I’m interested in those analyses, and

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Pam DuynsteeA keen onlooker enjoys one of Jean-Paul Kelly’s artistic videos at Ed Video, featured until Dec. 16

working with them and how I can correspond as one individual.”

This plainly explains Kelly’s interest in presenting his art in several different forms. The incorporation of drawings and photos between the large projection screens for his video work adds an effortless flow to the exhibit. While the combination provides both scenes to settle on for a few minutes as well as pieces to gaze upon as you drift by, his videos are themselves enough to hold up the exhibit. With their elaborate imagery and comical music, you’ll be left with an open ended answer to the question of “what’s going on here” that likely everyone will come up with a different answer to. However unlike some artists, Jean-Paul didn’t just throw these videos together and ask you to figure it out for yourself.

He had an intention, which he offers openly. The first film you’re likely to see at Kelly’s exhibit is done in two parts, one of them showing a smashed flowerpot

lying on the front walkway of a residential home. The camera moves back and forth between the fallen sunflowers and the overhead window, from which the blinds blow in the wind like a guilty perpetrator. All the while the scene is backed by a comical “who done it” sort of audio. The second part of the video trades the humorous soundtrack for aggressive snow filled wind, which is also what we see, as the cameraman marches through an endless field of faceless rocks in the middle of a blizzard. This is where you should realize the open-ended nature of the work.

“You can’t really situate yourself, so it just seems like

these rocks go on forever. Because there’s no positioning of it in a geographic location it becomes anywhere,” Kelly said. On his video’s first segment he cited the recently deceased literary critic Frank Kermode as an influence.

“We have a sense that in our right hand [when reading] the end of the book is here. You know it’s coming, you can sense the ending, and it’s the authors purpose to try and defeat that end in some way. So it’s a complex relationship with apocalypse. A flower… has fallen from a window, and the act is left gone, it’s just the residue, the aftermath.”

Kelly’s exhibit also features

a very original video with three characters living on a farm, while a menacing storm fast approaches. Though clearly a study on human drama, the narrative’s characters consist of a cat and dog as the mother and father, and a ghost that becomes visible after wrapping himself in the traditional white sheet drying on a line. Seeing the storm on the horizon the ghost imagines his mother and father (the cat and dog)’s demise, and seeks a more appropriate means to that end.

“It’s a mercy killing, but there’s also this vagueness that happens through the animations. What is he doing, is he malicious or is he trying to save these things?” Kelly asked.

Despite its dark sounding nature, this video too comes off more comical than anything, marking the artist’s ability to stir emotions of whatever sort he intends.

Kelly has a capacity for metaphor that can also be seen in his drawings. His fascination with animals carries over to his still work in the form of more cats and dogs, and a rabbit that’s become the poster boy for his exhibit. The work could be explained for all it’s splendor and thorough planning for many more words, but words were not the medium Kelly chose for his work. His art is best experienced up close and personal, which you can take full advantage of at Ed Video on Baker St. until Dec 16.

“ You can sense the ending, and it’s the author’s

purpose to try and defeat that

end in some way. So it’s a complex

relationship with apocalypse.” Jean-Paul Kelly

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Guelph picks up the slack during weekend home opener

The men’s basketball team got to walk away from their home opening weekend on

Nov. 13 with their first two wins of the season, evening up their record at two wins and two losses.

This year the team is playing with 10 fresh faces on the roster and right now the Gryphons have six rotation players out with injuries, leaving Head Coach, Chris O’Rourke, in a position not many varsity level coaches would be jealous of. But as for bringing together a new team, he knows that above all it’s going to be a process of time.

“You just gotta get that experience playing together. It’s just constantly practicing and watching film and playing games and hopefully we’ll gel and peak in January and February,” said O’Rourke.

The weekend got off to a shaky start against Queen’s Gaels with Guelph trailing 36-31 at the end of the first half. After taking the lead in the third quarter thanks to

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outstanding performances from Jonathan Moscatelli and Dan McCarthy, the Gryphs managed to secure their victory in the fourth

quarter by owning the boards and shooting phenomenally from the free throw line.

For Kareem Malcolm, this

weekends’ success is thanks to getting together and playing a physical game.

“We just started playing tough. A lot of teams come out and push us around and we’re starting to fight back now and play tough,” said Malcolm. “Especially on your own court, you gotta be the aggressors.”

The Saturday Nov. 13 game against the Royal Military College was a great opportunity to put in a lot of minutes for Guelph’s bench. O’Rourke played 11 of his 12 players and said he knows the value of having a deep bench and wants to take advantage of that over the season.

“We need to get guys out there and bring energy and try to wear them down. I mean we got five or six rookies off the bench and still won by 30, it’s a great opportunity for those young guys,” said O’Rourke.

One of the things the team doesn’t have yet, which hurt them throughout the weekend is a strong inside presence. Despite out-rebounding both teams with

help from Jerald Greenidge, a lack of both inside help on the defensive end and bringing the ball to the basket on the other side is a weakness they’re going to have to address to improve this season.

Top scorer throughout the weekend, Moscatelli, recognizes their reliance on outside shots.

“We need to get the ball inside. We’re all shooters, we shoot the ball well, but we can’t get it inside and we’re going to need to because you have to balance out your scoring,” said Moscatelli.

Both of these games were must-wins for the 0-2 Gryphons who now get to use this weekend as a rallying point to build up the momentum they need to push them into the season. Both Moscatelli and O`Rourke know that on-court communication is going to be what brings this team to the next level defensively and that’s what they say they’re going to be working on over the next week as they rest up and prepare to take on Ryerson and Toronto next weekend.

Throwing it down with Dunk: Supporting homegrown talent

The oldest football trophy in North America was awarded Saturday Nov.

13 in Ottawa. The 103 Yates Cup came down to a last second field goal. Canadian boys playing the Canadian brand of football, what more can you ask for?

Two talented teams matched up in the 2010 Yates Cup, the Ottawa Gee Gees and Western Mustangs combined, only lost two games during the OUA football regular season. One of the two losses between the teams was a close finish in their regular season meeting, Ottawa scored a touchdown in the final minute to pull out a one point win over the visiting Mustangs.

Let’s lay it out there, we had two great teams squaring off, a perfect fall day, no rain and fairly warm by Canadian standards. A close game was in the offing, if the regular season meeting was any indication. Ottawa gunslinger, Brad Sinopoli, who happens to be the OUA MVP and favourite for the Hec Crighton trophy,

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was going up against the always tough and well-coached Western defense.

That’s just a start, the father-son, coach-quarterback tandem, Mustangs pivot, Donnie Marshall and OUA Coach of the Year, Greg Marshall were trying to win their first Yates Cup together, I mean the storylines were endless. Not to mention the calibre of football players on the field was very high.

Get this: there were 16 OUA first team all-stars on the field, including kickers. Whether you count them as football players or not, is your call. I could go on and on about the talent on the field squaring off to hoist the oldest football trophy in North America no less.

Sounds like a game worth seeing in person no? The announced attendance was 7194. Some would say a great number, meh not so much. I mean what else can you ask for in a sporting matchup? I have laid out just a few of the reasons to catch this great sporting event and on Saturday miserable weather was not an acceptable excuse for wanting to relax to watch the game in the comfort of your own home.

Where is the fandom surrounding the game? The OUA provides a great football product and Ottawa is a big city with currently only one pro sports team and the city is hopeful to have a CFL franchise return to their city in the near future. Maybe instead of whining and moaning about what your city doesn’t have you should support and get behind the sports teams that play in your city.

The Gee Gee football program has been very successful and always puts a talented product on the field. Most people would rather stay home and watch the College football played south of the border on Saturdays during the fall, but why not go out and support, not only football, but all university athletics and hype our talented Canadian athletes like the Americans do.

Personally, I would love to see the level of hype around Canadian university athletics increase every year, but I am preaching to the converted. The OUA and CIS can only do so much to promote the university sports product. In order to take the next proverbial step, we need to support, pump, promote and hype our homegrown talent.

Rashaad BhamjeeThird-year Gryphon, Dan McCarthy, catches a breath at the free throw line.

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Sports & HealthGryphons come together to place third in Campbell Division swim meetFifth-year veteran looking to go out in a big waySARAH DUNSTAN

You would swear they were inhuman they way they cut through the water. Their

speed and strength likening to them aquatic spirits over mere flesh and blood, as they use their mastery of water to level the competition in the underwater arena.

The Gryphons placed third in the Campbell Division Championships, behind aquatic powerhouses McMaster and Toronto. Captain Chantique Payne dominated the competition without a wink of rest, winning gold in 50 fly, 100 free, and silver in 50 free.

“We did really well, everyone was really happy,” said third-year swimmer Hayleigh Conway. “We placed third, but we still beat McMaster and Toronto in some races, which is huge.”

Conway may not have placed in the top three this time around, but

Megan VerheyDerek Bush of the Gryphons swim team competes in the butterfly race at the OUA invitational in Oct.

she still certainly didn’t walk away from the meet empty handed.

“I swam my best time since first year,” said Conway. “I was really

close to making CI’s in my first and second years, so hopefully this year will be the one.”

The team, consisting of 18 male and female swimmers, has a whopping 14 rookies on it this year, many of them beaming with talent. First-year Alisha Harricharan cut through the water like a hot knife through butter to finish first in the 200 fly, second in the 100 fly, and third in the 50 fly. Rookies David Nowicki and Derek Quick placed third in the 50 breaststroke and 1500 free, respectively.

Despite being a great weekend for some swimmers, others, like five-year-veteran Jordan Duggan had his plans to conqueror derailed by illness.

“This weekend had its ups and downs. I caught a cold and was feeling achy all week, which is always going to hurt your performance,” said Duggan. “Saturday was okay, but by Sunday, I was really tired.”

Duggan was unable to make a CIS time due to his aliment at the championships. He’s made CI’s every year, but his best time was back in second year, and last season

was easily his worst. He’ll head to Puerto Rico with Conway and other teammates for winter training camp, hoping to iron out any technicalities in his performance and get his best time in meets to come.

“I’m hoping to go out with a bang,” said Duggan.

The OUA championship in February is the biggest meet of the whole year, full of swimmers who can turn water to steam with their scorching fast times. Guelph usually does better at CI’s than at OUA’s because of their time standards, instead of accumulated points.

“We’ll have a few swimmers get second and third, and the rest of the team make 15th or 16th place,” said Duggan. “A lot of the top teams get those top places, but then also win fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh to rack up a ton of points.”

Payne and Harricharan were only two of five Gryphons to qualify for the CIS championships this weekend. Payne refuses to back down from her winning streak, and will be racing at the Canada Cup in two weeks time.

Gryphons extend their CIS winning streakCross country team makes winning look easyJUSTIN DUNK

Wasn’t it always fun to beat up on your younger siblings when you were

kids? It probably felt good to win and know you were going to win every single time no matter what the name of the game was, winning never gets old.

The Guelph cross-country teams are like the older siblings of the CIS family, always winning and beating up on the rest of the competition.

Winning is all the Gryphon cross country teams do, race in and race out, every single year, for the past five years anyways.

The men’s team captured their fifth consecutive title Nov. 13 in Sherbrooke at the CIS championships, while the women collected their ho hum sixth CIS title in a row. On the individual side of things, fifth-year captain and star Kyle Boorsma won the race held in Sherbrooke, Que. claiming the individual gold medal.

“It was amazing, I can’t really describe it. After coming second

two years in a row it really meant a lot to finish it [my career] off with a victory,” said Boorsma. “I knew I had to be on my game.

The men’s team took the individual silver medal as well with OUA champion, Alex Genest finishing just 14 seconds behind Boorsma.

“The difference is so small, any given day one or the other could take the win,” said Boorsma. “It’s really just who is going to be the toughest on that day. It could of gone either way.”

The women’s race came down to the two athletes who had placed one and two at the OUA championships. Guelph’s Rachel Cliff, finished second and took the individual CIS silver medal, she could not fend off McMaster’s Jessica Pearo for the second straight race. Pearo had beaten Cliff two weeks earlier for the individual OUA crown.

“I felt really good with 1500 [metres] to go, I started making a move on her and I felt fantastic,” said Cliff. “The hill came and it’s never really been my strength and I kind of fell off a little bit.”

Despite the Gryphons not claiming women’s individual gold, the team still picked up their sixth CIS title in a row.

“Every year it’s [winning] like the first time it happens,” said Cliff. “Each year it’s a journey and we go through it together and we come out of it together.”

The Gryphon men are right behind the women as they claimed their fifth CIS team title in a row.

Sometimes the team aspect of the results gets lost in the glory of the individual triumphs.

“I’m proud of all the guys,” said Boorsma.

A lesser-known member of the men’s team, Tommy Mosher, actually quit the team for two years only to come back and set his targets on competing for the Gryphons at the CIS championships in his fifth and final year.

“[Mosher] was out there long hours in the dark, the middle of winter putting in the miles all by himself, just so that he could be ready to help compete for the team,” said

Boorsma. Mosher finished 27 for the

Gryphons at the CIS race, but every team member is essential in bringing home a team title.

“Every score plays a role because all the points add up,” said Boorsma. “Everyone is factoring in and you can’t do without anyone.”

The Gryphons broke the modern era team points record with a tiny score of 24 points.

“Back in 2008 we set the modern era record with 28 points,” said Boorsma. “Then we broke it again on Saturday [Nov.13]. It was pretty exciting.”

James MacDonaldCIS silver medalist and Gryphons cross country team member Rachel Cliff.

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Sports & HealthTrack and fi eld prevails allGryphons thinking positive

CATHERINE NORMAN

The Gryphon Dome is beloved by many students – it serves

as our indoor track, soccer and football training facility and it also hosts intramurals. However, since Sept. 28, it has been temporarily closed for precautionary reasons and will be shutdown for the rest of the academic year. The University of Guelph commissioned a review of the dome and immediately closed it when they received the results in order to address some issues; mainly the dome’s resistance to wind, snow and ice loads. In light of this, the track and field team has been without a place to practice and have been essentially left out in the cold.

Team captain and long jumper, Guyson Kuruneri said, “Most of us on the team would have moved into the dome by now at this time of the year, fortunately the weather has been good for us so we’ve been able to stay outside.”

Despite the closure postponing the team’s training schedule, the team was prepared and made the

Living the pure life: What if I told you ‘sugar-free’ could really = weight gain?

It is often believed that there are two contributing factors to weight gain: sugar and fat.

And while yes, in some cases this can be quite true; it isn’t the end-all-be-all for leading a healthy lifestyle. In my experience, I fi nd that most of my clients look at fi ve main categories on a food label: fat, sugar, sodium (salt), calories and carbohydrates. Th is is a good place to start, however it doesn’t tell the whole story. 

Th e media has done a brilliant job at brain-washing us to believe that ‘sugar-free’, ‘low-cal’ and ‘fat-free’ will lead us to health and our ideal body weight. But there is so much more to a label you need to learn when choosing the best quality product for your body- which you should do, after all, what you consume is what you are built from. 

Let’s look at this logically, using pop as an example. One can of Coke has approximately 39 grams of sugar, an astonishing amount for one small beverage. Now compare this to the same amount

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of Diet Coke, which contains only 0.5grams of sugar. But wait! Diet Coke tastes just as, if not sweeter than regular-coke how is this possible? Well in order for this to happen naturally, it is impossible... enter Aspartame. 

Aspartame- a completely man-made ingredient found nowhere in nature. In fact, it comes second

on my list of ‘items which are only safe for us when left on the grocery shelf ’- followed closely behind margarine. 

Th e detrimental health consequences of aspartame can be an endless list, however the point I’m trying to make in this article is the link between ‘sugar-free’ and weight gain.

Dr. James Brown explains,Th e reason aspartame so

strikingly stimulates the appetite is it provides over half of its content in a form of a phenylalanine isolate.

  Th e amino acid phenylalanine outcompetes all the other at enzyme sites in the body. Th is suppresses the formation of dopamine from tyrosine and the formation of serotonin from tryptophan. Th e serotonin is the neurotransmitter that reports carbohydrate metabolism. When your serotonin levels are not allowed to raise as they normally do when you eat carbohydrates you crave more and more food. Th e dopamine is the neurotransmitter that lets you feel satisfi ed, so when you use aspartame you have unsatisfi able cravings. Th e aspartame also poisons your metabolism so you cannot burn calories.

One of the major components of the aspartame molecule is methyl alcohol. Methyl alcohol has long been recognized in medicine for its ability to block metabolism. For this reason when doctors see somebody who has been poisoned by ingesting methyl alcohol or methyl esters they can accurately predict the patient will develop a severe acidosis because the food

cannot be metabolized in the normal manner and the breakdown products of the methyl alcohol in addition to the acids developed from the blocked metabolism gravely endanger the patients life. NutraSweet, is a very aggravated form of methyl alcohol poisoning.

Moreover, the neuroexcitotoxins act in the brain to stimulate appetite. Th is is why manufacturers put it into foods. It does not actually change the taste of food at all, but the food tastes better to you because your appetite has been stimulated.

So what is left to do? In my opinion (and this is strictly an opinion not suited for all individuals) it is better to consume the whole food in its natural form. I despise chemical ingredients and feel the labels should clearly state health consequences, much like the do on cigarette packages- since coincidentally (or not) many of the conditions which arise are the same. 

I feel it is better to minimize the amount of the foods we are eating rather than attempting to take shortcuts and compromising our health in the end. And if you are following proper portion control guidelines, this should promote, not deplete your health.

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necessary adjustments.“Th e jumpers would have

been jumping by now, the pole vaulters would have been pole vaulting by now; but we’ve just adjusted our training to make that conditioning period a bit longer, so we can train outside and still get a good workout in,” said Kuruneri.

While not having the dome is upsetting to many athletes and students, the track and fi eld team is taking it in stride.

“[Th e dome’s] not safe and I think [the university] might have a possibility of opening it, but they just really don’t want to take that chance, it’s not worth it to them. Th e track team saw that

and has actually gone to Marden, which is a brand new sports complex half - way to Fergus,” said men’s weight thrower, Dustin McCrank. “But not all the fi eld reps can be there, so they’ve been searching for the last two months for somewhere to throw and high jump. Th ey found a warehouse on Massey Road, so we’re going to go into a big warehouse that’s heated, [and] it’s well-lit.”

Kuruneri seemed to be positive about the situation as well.

“Not having a facility has its consequences and its good parts to it. What’s fortunate for us is that where we’re training is going to accommodate us quite well. Th ey’re going to be warm, they’re going to be well-lit, and I mean the dome isn’t usually well-lit, [and] the dome isn’t warm.”

According to McCrank, “It’s probably better for us than the dome, because the dome is always hovering around zero degrees. It’s really cold. Last year we’d break so many implements and you have to dress a little warmer.”

However, not having the dome does have its negatives for the track and fi eld team, namely the lack of a convenient area to practice.

“You have to pick and choose what days you know you are going to be up there for rides and stuff like that. I don’t think we’ve quite fi gured out how we’re going to get there yet,” said McCrank. “It’s not like they’re just going to grab a bus and say go up there every day because there aren’t enough kids.”

Th e lack of a dome has impacted the team’s training.

“Th e training schedule will be aff ected, but at the same time we have somewhere to throw or jump for the other fi eld athletes,” said McCrank. “We look at it as this –it’s too bad the dome is here on campus, but we have another great space.”

In terms of training, there seems to be no doubt that the team will still achieve great results, despite the minor set back.

“I think we’ll still be very eff ective,” said Kuruneri. “We have a good group of kids that can take the reign and that diversity and take it with us. As a team we’ve always had some kind of issue with the dome.”

Whether or not the Gryphons will be hosting the Tenke Field Classic is up in the air.

In their meeting last week, the

team discussed the Classic.“[Coach] said we need to

take some lights down in the warehouse to get it set up for our fi eld events, and then he’s all for running the fi eld classic in that warehouse. As long as everything is up and running and looking good in there, then we’re going to hold it,” said McCrank. “We’re not going to host it if it’s not going to be how it should be. He seemed pretty excited to run it, if we can get everything together.”

Th e Tenke Field classic is scheduled for Nov. 19.

“We were talking about running it a bit later than usual, but I mean I think most of the team is ready to go for it or willing to do it, so it should happen if time allows for it,” said Kurneri.

Overall, the outlook for the team is good and there’s no doubt that they will take this as another challenge to overcome.

“Th e warehouse thing is kind of cool because we’ve always been known as the team that kind of just deals with what comes to us, so we kind of like it,” said McCrank. “We’re almost the underdogs, but we’re really good.”

“It’s probably better for us than the dome,

because the dome is always hovering

around 0 degrees. It’s really cold. Last year

we’d break so many implements and you have to dress a little warmer,” - Dustin

McCrank.

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LifeHow to reuse your garbage in five different ways

Believe it or not, there is so much potential in the contents of your garbage

can. Most people do not think to save the relics of the trashcan to create something entirely new and useful.

For example, you may find yourself overwhelmed with DVDs and no shelf space to put them in. You may think to yourself, it is time to pony up and buy a DVD rack, but I have a better solution. Lying around somewhere in your home is a cardboard box, desolate and waiting to be used. Here is where you will find a DVD rack in the making.

To start your creation, cut the cardboard box in half vertically to keep the length of the box as long as possible. Keep two sides intact and keep the bottom so you have a base. Next, measure the thickness of an average DVD case and draw in pencil on the box where you want to cut your slots. Then grab either a pair of scissors, or an

RACHEL SCAPILLATI x-acto knife for more precision and cut out your slots. Place a weight on the base of the box so it does not tip over once you have the DVDs in the slots. If you want to jazz your DVD rack up a little, you can paint it your favourite colour, as I did with mine. Now you have a DVD rack and it did not cost you a penny.

Do you find your cupboard space being taken up with plastic bags? Even if you put all the other bags inside one, it is still using up precious space that could be used for something else. There is a solution. First, fold up your bags together, leaving a flap open at the top. Then find an empty tissue box, place the bags inside and you have yourself a plastic bag dispenser. It takes up the space of a tissue box and the great part is you can keep refilling it.

If you look in one of your dresser drawers, you will probably find a small pile of mismatched buttons, long parted from their original garment. What you actually have

is a small pile of potential vintage jewelry. Take two of your buttons, whether they match or not, and attach a pin to them. You now have a pair of earrings that no one else has. Or, you can take all you buttons, string them together and you have a unique necklace.

When you are done with that jar of jam or salsa, do not throw it out. Instead of purchasing containers for your spices, you have some ready made. Jars can be used to contain sugar, salt, tea bags and an endless assortment of household spices, keeping them fresh with a seal tight lid for a long time.

Before you think of throwing out that egg carton, consider this: an egg carton has many potential uses; a jewelry box, an organizer or a starter pot if you are growing spices, or a baby plant.

These are just five things you can do with your garbage that save you money and make your house greener. I challenge you to think of five more ways to reuse your garbage.

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Weekly drink recipe: Apple pie cocktail

RACHEL SCAPILLATI

If you are looking for a drink that is easy to make, looks pretty and is yummy, I have the

perfect beverage for you.

The Apple Pie Cocktail consists of cinnamon, apple cider, whipped cream and rum. I used Bacardi Gold Rum, but that is up to preference.

Pour a shot of rum into your glass. Fill the rest with apple cider leaving an inch of room at the top. Swirl your whipped cream on top and finish with a sprinkle of cinnamon. Add a straw and you are ready to go.

The apple cider adds a lovely tangy flavour, muting the rum and making for a delicious fall drink.

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Rachel ScapillatiA homemade DVD rack created from cardboard and paint, and a plastic bag dispenser made from an old tissue box.

The Apple Pie Cocktail, a delicious and easy to-make beverage for the autumn season.

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OpinionLoose cannon: There’s no choice but pro-choice on some campuses

As a campus club, Carleton Lifeline has made headlines for all

the wrong reasons. In October, four members of

the Ottawa institution’s pro-life group, including its president, were arrested and fined for trespassing after they set up a “Genocide Awareness Project” display in the main quadrangle on campus featuring pictures of aborted foetuses.

The university administration, citing the graphic and offensive nature of the photos, had offered the club a private room to put up the display, plus a table in the main university centre to invite students to come see it.

That apparently wasn’t enough for Carleton Lifeliners, who wanted to expose all students to their message – not just the ones who wanted to hear it.

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Open Content: Academic town square

Their follow up stunt involved an event called “Echoes of the Holocaust.” According to Carleton University paper The Charlatan, the presentation by Jose Ruba of the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform “compared statistics, graphic images and video footage from past genocides in Bosnia, Cambodia and the Holocaust to abortion.” Fewer than 40 people attended the event, and the administration required Carleton Lifeline to pay for security.

The use of in-your-face campaigns and dubious slogans isn’t likely to endear Carleton Lifeline to many students. So I am baffled as to why the Carleton University Students Association would cede the high ground to the group by effectively banning all clubs with a pro-life message.

On Monday, CUSA decided to decertify Carleton Lifeline as a campus club. In a letter, CUSA Vice-President of Internal Affairs Khaldoon Bushnaq said the club’s constitution, which

sees abortion as “a moral and legal wrong, not a constitutional right,” was in contravention of CUSA’s bylaws.

Bushnaq cited the Discrimination on Campus Policy, which states that “CUSA and CUSA Inc. respect and affirm a woman’s right to choose her options in case of pregnancy.”

The policy goes on to read: “CUSA further affirms that actions such as any campaign, distribution, solicitation, lobbying, effort, display, event etc. that seeks to limit or remove a woman’s right to choose her options in the case of pregnancy will not be supported. As such, no CUSA resources, space, recognition or funding will be allocated for the purpose of promoting these actions.”

The second part of that policy was added in 2006, when a similar row erupted over whether to certify Carlton Lifeline as a club.

Despite the wording of the policy, student representative voted to give the pro-life group

club status in 2007. Four years later, the same policy has been used to deny the same group access to funding and other benefits.

Nor is Carleton alone in making their student spaces into exclusively pro-choice venues. In 2008, York University voted to ban resources and support from any group “if that group holds any aim, principle, belief, goal, etc. that is anti-choice.”

Contrast this with universities that have learned to live with their pro-life elements. In October 2008, the Central Student Association withdrew the club status of Life Choice, a pro-life group at the University of Guelph, after a controversial Life Fair that was hosted in the University Centre drew complaints.

The CSA backed down a few months later after discussions with the group, and Life Choice has operated without much fuss ever since.

The same arguments to pop when arguing in favour

of keeping pro-life groups off campus: students need to be protected from nasty images and harsh rhetoric; pro-life students represent a radical minority on campus; pro-lifers cause distress to women, particularly those who have had abortions, and want to take away their rights.

Universities and student unions are well within their rights to protect students from harm, but blanket bans like the ones at York and Carleton go too far, banning opinions and viewpoints rather than policing specific actions.

Such bans are not only unwelcome in an environment that is supposed to foster debate, they’re also counterproductive to pro-choice supporters because they embolden pro-life groups to battle against discrimination and provide them a platform to voice their opinions to the media.

Rather than silence the pro-life choice movement at Carleton, I suspect CUSA’s foolish decision will make it a whole lot louder.

Libraries are many things to many people: repositories for books and journals;

places for contemplation and study; somewhere quiet; somewhere to learn with peers; somewhere to chill between classes.

We think they should also be places of celebration. A party place—sort of. Not a kegger exactly, but a place where we can indulge in the joys of discovery and creativity. Cool. Nerdy cool perhaps, but cool.

We call this vision of the library the Academic Town Square; and it’s your space, everyone’s space. The Academic Town Square concept builds on the traditional role of the academic library as a place where knowledge and thought from across the university’s academic disciplines can meet, be debated, preserved and celebrated.

If, as Robert Pritchard, former President of the University of Toronto, said “learning is a contact sport” then the Academic Town Square is the appropriate arena. This means not only committing to meet the academic needs of the students, but providing an environment that will challenge them, provoke thought and dialogue, and strengthen their social framework.

MICHAEL RIDLEY Where is the Academic Town Square? It probably should be the entire library because the celebration of the life of the mind infuses all we do. Practically, it is the area on the first floor by the coffee shop. You can’t miss it.

So, what happens in the Square? Lots.

Very recently we hosted a cooking demonstration to highlight the impact of local food sourcing and the extraordinary culinary book collection held by the library. Even more food in the library! A reading by award winning writer Lawrence Hill, author of The Book of Negroes, packed the place and inspired all who attended as we celebrated black history month.

Two Human Library events have been held. The Human Library allows students, faculty and staff to take out “books” that are actually people who belong to groups that are often typecast, prejudiced or subject to misunderstanding. Watch for the next Human Library in March.

The Academic Town Square has hosted an Open Forum event where a panel made up of students, faculty and staff engaged in an interactive dialogue on copyright issues with library users. An annual Campus Author event and display celebrates books written

by our faculty, students and staff. This year over 119 books were recognized.

We seem to be very interested in music. An exhibit of musical scores from the improvisational jazz field was particularly engaging. These visual scores were suspended from the ceiling forming a maze that visitors walked through. Navigating the maze revealed the scores and allowed access to sound stations where the music represented could be heard. Going even further, the Academic Town Square hosted a jazz performance in conjunction with the Guelph Jazz Festival. The 3 drummers involved beat out a wonderful noise. I did think for a moment

that this would disturb users too much and become a career limiting decision. However, just the opposite occurred as users gathered around and enjoyed the performance.

Other events have included numerous art shows featuring both international artists and local community artists, talks from visiting scholars of various disciplines, and informal, impromptu gatherings of all types. Who knows what is next.

We do all this stuff on the first floor in the open. Not behind closed doors, not in some room far away, not hidden. We want the celebration to be visible. Perhaps even unavoidable. In your face (in the nicest possible way).

And that brings us back to the many things to many people. Users want the Library to be different things at different times. Quiet. Noisy. Solitary. Engaging. Open early and open late. The library is not a singe thing. It is not just a place, or a collection, or a source of helpful people. The library is an attitude. And part of that attitude is celebration. The Academic Town Square is one way we can celebrate, explore, challenge, and, I hope, surprise.

Michael Ridley is the Chief Information Off icer (CIO) and Chief Librarian at the University of Guelph. Contact him at mridley@uoguelph.ca or www.uoguelph.ca/cio.

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EditorialBullying: it’s not a dormant issue

Recently, nine young people in the United States (U.S.), between the ages of 13 to 26, have been outlined in the media for having committed suicide due to extreme bullying for being identified as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Transsexual or Queer (LGBTQ).

This number does not account for the amount of suicides or attempted suicides in both Canada and the U.S. relating to this issue every year, but these nine suicides occurred closely together over the past couple of months and have sparked the attention of the media. While most of these victims encountered bullying at the high school level, the problem also exists in post-secondary education.

A YouTube campaign, spearheaded by many American and Canadian celebrities and politicians, entitled ‘It Gets

Better,’ was established to support LGBTQ youth confronted with bullying. Although this campaign is positive in spreading awareness to thousands of people, the editorial staff of the Ontarion wonders if that is enough.

Suggesting to youth that ‘it get’s better,’ does not provide a solution to the real trauma experienced inside and outside of classrooms due to homophobic sentiments and bullying. The focus should not be on reassuring a better future, but instead on what can be done to fix this now so it doesn’t happen in the future.

As students in Guelph, and citizens of Canada, we may feel distanced from the issue. But it happens. And it happens everyday. For anyone assuming Canada has a better grasp on this situation than our neighbours to the south, read the statistics below.

In a CBC article dated Oct. 30, 2010, the Climate Survey on Homophobia conducted in 2009 on Canadian students, found “59 per cent of LGBTQ high school students reported they were verbally harassed, compared to seven per cent of non-LGBTQ students. 25 per cent of LGBTQ students indicated being physically harassed due to their sexual orientation, compared to eight per cent of non-LGBTQ students.”

In addition to these startling facts, the survey also found 73 per cent of Canadian students reported they felt unsafe in school because of their sexual orientation, compared 61 per cent of American students.

As demonstrated by the nine recent suicides in the U.S., bullying victims are finding a fatal solution to this problem. Hundreds, maybe thousands,

have severe depression because of the bullying they face each day. The prejudices they are experiencing are infringing on their rights as human beings. As was once stated by General Roméo Dallaire, former Force Commander for the United Nations peacekeeping force during the Rwandan genocide, “Not one of us is more human than another.”

This week, we’re asking you to worry. We all need to be troubled by the acts of hate committed against the LGBTQ community. Bullying in any capacity should not be tolerated. History has seen great changes in the vanquishing of discrimination. But our work isn’t done. Let these suicides disturb you, and create within you a purpose to resolve one of the many appalling social stigmas of our time.

Letters to the EditorI’d like to thank Denise Martins

for her article ‘Why I’m Not Contributing to the Better Planet Project’ in the last issue of the Ontarion. This fundraising project is raising money for the teaching, research and infrastructure goals of the university; the types of things our tuition fees go towards. So while some students will want to give more to the university, many others feel that the thousands of dollars we already pay the university each year is enough.

Roisin Lyder

I was saddened by Denise Martin’s opinion piece last week. It speaks to her unwillingness to meet with “student leaders” to discuss possible ways in which students can get involved in the BetterPlanet Project. Guelph students have consistently shown a compassion for others, even when they themselves have to bear the costs of a university education. It is, I believe, one of the hallmarks of our community. Guelph students have taken a leadership role in so many areas - establishing programs

like the universal bus pass and the food bank; supporting clubs such as Habitat for Humanity. They have contributed to scholarships that have enabled others to attend university, to an energy retrofit plan that focuses on environmental sustainability. They do so because they have a commitment to supporting others, to making a difference. What saddens me most, however, is Denise’s unwillingness to even engage in the conversation. The outcome is less important than the dialogue. The BetterPlanet Project is designed to engage our community in many ways, not just financially -- dialogue, debate, action, time. I commend the “student leaders” who are meeting to discuss ways in which, collectively, Guelph students can contribute to a Better Planet. I also thank the many donors who have already contributed millions of dollars toward advancing scholarships, bursaries and educational opportunities for our students.

Brenda Whiteside Associate Vice-President (Student Affairs)

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It is with deep sadness that we inform you of the passing of Christopher Luke Zweerman, on Sunday Nov. 14, as a result of a motorcycle accident in New South Wales, Australia. Christopher attended the University of Guelph for his Environmental Sciences degree from 2003-2007 and for his masters in Biomedical Science from 2008-2009. He was in Australia attending medical school at the University of Wollongong.

A Facebook group has been created in honor of Christopher. He will be brought back to Canada on Dec. 10 and a service will be held soon after. Details regarding the service will be posted online.

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