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The Moo-u miracleGryphons’s overtime victory against Queen’s lands Guelph in the Yates Cup

chris müller

It’s a proud moment to be a Gryphon.In what was arguably the best

game in Guelph Gryphon history, the Gryphons erased an impossible 22-point, fourth quarter deficit to defeat the Queen’s Gaels 42-39 on Nov. 3 in the OUA Semifinal at Alumni Sta-dium. The cool, windy conditions set the stage for the Gryphons’ incred-ible afternoon.

The Gryphons struggled early and often in the first half, allowing Queen’s to score 24 points and force Guelph into foolish penalties and turnovers. Credit the defense with keeping Guelph in the game, scor-ing a touchdown off a fumble and intercepting Queen’s quarterback Billy McPhee on multiple occasions.

The third quarter was more of the same for the Gryphons, as the offense sputtered and the defense played just well enough to keep it close. Down 36-14, the Gryphons needed a spark – it would come on special teams. With

Queen’s backed up deep in their own end, they risked a punt.

A magnificent twist on line of scrimmage opened up holes for the special teamers to get after the punt-er, knocking the ball out of the air moments after it bounced off the punter’s cleat. Defensive mainstay Jake Reinhart pounced on the ball and rolled into the endzone, knock-ing Queen’s lead down to 36-21 after Tropea’s extra point.

After trading punts, the Gryphons found themselves down at their own 30-yard line, with 4:26 remaining in the contest. On a play the Gry-phons have run throughout the year, quarterback Jazz Lindsey held onto the ball on the read-option. Look-ing for running room on the outside, Lindsey side-stepped a defender and dexterously avoided the sideline to stay in bounds – and the footrace began. Lindsey’s display of athlet-icism ended with an outstretched dive for the endzone where he was greeted by an ecstatic collection of teammates.

Following the 33-second drive, the Gryphons kicked off to the Gaels. The second play of Queen’s drive result-ed in a tipped pass that bounced off two Gryphons before landing in the

hands of Zach Androschuck, the CIS defensive player of the week. Andro-schuck’s interception set Guelph up at Queen’s 43-yard line, down by eight with just under three minutes remaining.

Armed with a short-distance pass-ing game, Lindsey and the offense drove down the field methodical-ly until arriving at a critical second and 10. Lindsey looked to use his legs to pick up the first down, but was

brought down by his facemask after a three yard run. The penalty put the Gryphons on the one-yard line, only 36 inches away from scoring.

The goal line offense, operated by

Members of the Gryphon defense salute the crowd following their victory on Nov. 3. The defense forced seven Queen’s turnovers en route to the astonishing overtime victory.

Pablo VadoNe

It’s Mo’ timeMovember has begun , and so has a new addition to the cause

colleen mcdonell

Flavour savour, lip toupee, cook-ie duster. Moustaches come with a multitude of nicknames, but an even greater cause.

Movember is a campaign that

promotes men’s health. For the month of November, men are encouraged to grow moustaches while raising funds and awareness for prostate cancer. New to Cana-da this year is the added focus on men’s mental health – now, 40 per cent of funds will go to male men-tal-health initiatives and 60 per cent will continue to go to pros-tate-cancer programs.

Last year, the campaign

researched health gaps and found that male mental health was a con-cern that needed to be addressed.

“The numbers are staggering: Men are four times more likely to com-mit suicide than women, but are under-diagnosed with depression and anxiety,” Pete Bombaci, direc-tor of Movember Canada told the Toronto Star. “That reflects that we’re not talking about it enough.”

Global to Local: U of G students and

staff on international and national news

Though the Democrats can breathe a sigh of relief as Barack Obama won the 2012 elections, students were not yet aware of the results earlier in the day on Nov. 6. The Ontarion wanted to know if the elections were in their plans for the evening.

The Ontarion: Are you watching the American elections tonight, and why or why not?nicholas Jasons, student: Well, I would, it’s just that I don’t have good Internet access, and I have a night class, but I’m following it for sure…I’ve also been thinking a lot about American friends that I have and some of my professors are American, and they’re really wor-ried too about this election so it’s almost as if I’ve taken on that inter-est in finding out what’s going to happen. I also remember watching the last elections in 2008, so now it’s really interesting seeing how much has changed and how we could not have even predicted this outcome four years ago. For once, it’s something that everyone’s focusing on, but it’s not something mindless like reality T.V., so it’s actually kind of neat to see people enthusiastic about something that’s intelligent.Ziska rajapaksha, student: It’s important to me that it’s happen-ing, and so I probably will at least go on the Internet and check the news, and what’s going on, but I’ve been so into my world, I haven’t been keeping up. Viktor Gazo, intern for Biodiversity Institute of ontario: I’m not watch-ing it because I don’t have enough information to know if it actually matters, and it feels like there’s not much in it for me. I know it influ-ences other people, I just don’t see the results. rosalba Mejia, student: I’m not watching it because I don’t have faith in the U.S. government any-ways so it doesn’t really matter. Ilias ettayebi, student: Yeah, I’m going to watch the American elec-tions tonight. I’ve been following since pretty much the first debate was going on, and I’m interested in who wins. I go to the States quite a bit, so I want to know what’s going on. Helga Paschetto, t.a. for the school of Languages and Literature: I think I’m going to watch the elections because I’m curious [since] the system is completely different from the system in my country, Italy…In Italy, you vote for your president. There are so many problems now with the crisis in Europe and the United States, and I want to know if something is going to change, but I don’t think so. Obama, Romney, it’s the same, just too many problems.

trudeau’s early years revealedBiographical writers speak about renowned Canadian politician they thought they knew

alicja grzadkowska

A few weeks after Justin Trudeau made public his decision to run as a Liberal candidate, two authors of his father’s biography visited the university to dis-cuss their research and experience with Pierre Elliot Trudeau.

Max and Monique Nemni had close contact with the former prime minister, who encouraged the then-university professors to write his biography, and to become the di-rectors of the publication Cité Libre, a significant political journal based in Quebec. They spoke to a group of students and faculty at the U of G on Nov. 5 about their experiences writing their controversial and thought-pro-voking portrayal of Trudeau in the two-volume biography, Young Trudeau: 1919-1944: Son of Quebec, Father of Canada and Trudeau Trans-formed: The Shaping of a Statesman, 1944-1965.

Monique Nemni began the discus-sion by introducing the paradoxes that the researchers had found when ex-amining the depiction of Trudeau in previous publications, biographies, articles and media sources, and their own personal experiences with the politician.

While they found Trudeau to be “shy, considerate, and great to be with,” intellectuals in Quebec saw Trudeau as the province’s number one enemy be-cause of his supposed disconnect with his identity as a francophone. How-ever, this did not align with the fact that francophones in Quebec loved

Trudeau, and why he went into poli-tics and devoted himself to Canada if he really was an arrogant, self-centered man who hated Quebec, as these in-tellectuals said.

“These paradoxes have to be ex-plained,” said Monique Nemni.

Because of the Nemni’s relationship with Trudeau and their findings–par-ticularly boxes of documents provided by Trudeau himself from his early years that showed him to be anti-Semitic and a pro-fascist–the project was not an easy one.

“This is, without a shadow of a doubt, the most difficult research we have ever done,” said Monique. “It’s also the most fascinating, and the most emotionally challenging.”

According to the researchers, Trudeau was in actuality not always

“against the current,” as they suspected. “Everybody has preconceived ideas

about him, and we did too,” said Monique Nemni. In their findings, Monique and Max discovered that Trudeau was not always supportive of democracy, and believed strongly in a government who worked alongside the Catholic church. Monique Nemni says that this information, nonethe-less, had to be put into the context of Quebec in the 1950s.

“To understand Trudeau, is to really understand French-Canadian society of that time.”

Max Nemni focused on the second volume of the biography that dis-cussed Trudeau’s conceptualization of nationalism and the transforma-tion of the politician into a federalist. After Trudeau had finished his stud-ies and returned to Quebec, he found that his long-standing ideas and the knowledge that he developed during his time in university were not effec-tive for the province. He adapted his Christian values in a way that secular-ized them, according to Max Nemni,

and transformed them into univer-sal values.

The authors also spoke about the biography’s reception in Quebec and the rest of Canada. Their experience in the Anglophone regions of the country has been primarily positive.

“People want to discuss these ideas,” said Max. “It’s not that they necessarily agree, it’s that they think what we’re presenting is valuable and should be discussed.”

In contrast, intellectuals in Quebec have said nothing about their book.

Max and Monique attribute this to the general policy of these intellectuals to ignore issues that they don’t agree with, rather than fight them publically.

During the question period, one student posed an interesting question, asking whether the authors spoke with him about their research. Trudeau passed away before they began work-ing on the biography, though they said that his death made the book easier to write.

“We were more detached from [the information],” said Monique.

Max Nemni speaks to students about his research on Trudeau’s nationalism.

Pablo VadoNe

22 years fighting impunity…and countingHelen Mack Chang speaks at 2012 Hopper Lecture

emma wilson

On Nov. 6, the 2012 David Hopper Lecture took place at the Universi-ty of Guelph. This year, Helen Mack Chang, the president and founder of the Myrna Mack Foundation, gave a presentation on the human rights atrocities of the Guatemalan civil war (1960-1996), which personally af-fected her.

Helen Mack Chang’s foundation pays tribute to her sister, Myrna, a Guatemalan anthropologist assassi-nated by the Security Division of the Presidential General Staff for docu-menting their massacres of civilians in the Mayan highlands. The foun-dation makes efforts to bring human

rights violations to light, and to bring justice to the perpetrators. Helen’s lec-ture, entitled, “22 Years of the Fight Against Impunity,” reflects that al-though her sister was killed in 1990, it wasn’t until 2002 that the high-ranking military officer responsible for ordering Myrna’s assassination was finally sentenced.

At the time of Myrna’s assassination, many people didn’t know about the massacres. Helen worked as a pro-fessional in the city, and only realized the atrocities through the death of her sister. She began to seek justice for her sister, but was greatly hindered by the fear that surrounded her.

The military state was very intimi-dating, and no one dared to question them. When Chang was seeking in-formation about her sister’s murder, people would say to her, “leave it in God’s hands as God has divine justice.” The investigators, lawyers, witnesses,

and others involved in the trial all re-ceived threats and some had to leave the country.

One of the police officers investi-gating the case, Jose Miguel Merida Escobar, was murdered in 1991 in relation to his involvement. Helen’s determination to not to be dissuaded by the multiple threats was so great that she decided not to have a family of her own. This speaks to the incredible personal choices Helen had to make in order to relentlessly pursue her cause.

Helen’s determination went beyond just bringing her sister’s murderers to justice. She now pursues other causes such as investigating the murders of some 200,000 people by death squads during the civil war.

Other achievements included con-tributing to reforms in Guatemala such as judicial independence, new witness protection laws, eliminating “death squads,” new access to information

laws, and many others. Despite this, there is still much corruption and the government is still dominated by the army.

“Those who participated in the mas-sacres are still expecting complete amnesty. In this sense we are going backwards,” said Chang.

The President of Guatemala, Otto Perez Molina, is a former general and denies the civil war genocides.

“He has been very careful as pres-ident not to bother the attorney general, who is a human rights ad-vocate,” noted Chang in her speech.

Helen continues her struggle against the political and judicial structures in Guatemala, and the sad aftermath of the civil war. During her speech, she lamented that, “Guate-mala has lost three generations of intellectuals, academics, and lead-ers. We need to break this cycle and be very creative.”

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. . .movember continued

Since its inception in 2003 in Australia, Movember has grown to inspire more than 1.9 million Mo Bros and Mo Sistas globally. In 2011, over 854,000 participants around the world got on board, raising $125.7 million.

However, some critics feel that the idea of growing a moustache for a month has become con-ceptualized as more of a fashion statement rather than a real pro-gressive movement for men’s health.

“Does asking people to do some-thing as silly as grow hair trivialize the real, scary issues the Movem-ber movement is trying to elevate?” asked Amberly McCateer of the Globe and Mail.

On the other hand, the numbers show many participants are per-sonally impacted by the campaign. In Canada last year it was report-ed that 75 per cent of participants discussed their health with fam-ily, friends or colleagues, 66 per cent of participants had had a re-cent general check-up, and 48 per cent carried out personal research on men’s health issues during the month of November.

Last year, The Canadian Movember

organization, Movember & Sons, had 245,000 participants and raised $42 million — more than any other country. Why are Canadians so enthusiastic about Movember?

“Part of the reason why I think Mo-vember has been so successful in Canada is that Canadians have a good sense of humour…they don’t tend to take themselves too seriously,” said Jesse Hayman, community manager of Movember Canada. “That’s why we can have everyone from bankers and lawyers growing moustaches even though they are wearing suits to work everyday…to firefighters challenging other fire houses in their provinces…to university stu-dents across the country. It’s all about having fun and doing good, which I think is something Cana-dians can strongly identify with.” While many men at the Univer-sity of Guelph have started to sprout moustaches, others have opted not to grow the ’stache due to lack of ability, grad pho-tos, or job interviews. There is also the question of how women can get involved in Movember.

“For us, the role [of women] is sort of three-fold – it’s one, every-thing a Mo’ Bro can do, registering

and all that stuff,” said Hayman. “Two, letting Mo’ Bros know that you love their mo’, cause it might be a little bit tough during those couple weeks especially for those who haven’t participated before. Three, and really most impor-tantly, don’t just tell a guy you love his moustache, but ask him if he’s had an annual health check. If he hasn’t, encourage him to go.” Many participants are raising funds officially through their own “Mo Spaces.” Joshua Tremblay, student and College of Biological Scienc-es Student Council president, is the captain of growing Movem-ber team, the University of Guelph Mo’s and Beaux’s. He is also in-volved in the project on campus that is silk-screening moustaches on sweatshirts and ties bought at Value Village. He said that on cam-puses the focus should be more on advocacy than fundraising.

“The big thing on a university campus – because we are such an influen-tial group – is to raise awareness. The more people who are walking around with a moustache on their shirt, that means they know what’s going on and it means they are a walking billboard for Movember.”

Whether you are going for the Fu Manchu or the handlebar, keep in mind that there is more to this month than giving your upper lip some extra warmth.

“That’s the biggest thing,” said

Tremblay. “To get everyone on campus to know that Movember isn’t just about growing a mous-tache, it’s about raising awareness for prostate cancer and men’s men-tal health.”

Nov. 1 marked the beginning of a long month filled with all kinds of moustaches.

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Making a small green space even smallerThe downsizing of Rouge Park

jordan sloggett

Nature enthusiasts of the GTA will want to take notice. Rouge Park, a provincial park located within the city of Toronto, is facing an un-certain future. Recent efforts have been made to nationalize the park, which if successful, will make it Canada’s first national park within a municipality.

The federal legislative committee released the draft Rouge National Urban Park Concept in June 2012, which shrinks the study area proposed to less than 57 square kilometres, down from 100 square kilometres in the 2010 proposal and 160 square kilometres in April 2009.

Friends of the Rouge Watershed (FRW), a non-profit community-based conservation group, has spoken out about how this new park concept is on the wrong track. Jim Robb, general manager of FRW, was in Ottawa on Oct. 31 to voice these concerns to the Federal Standing Committee on Environ-ment and Sustainable Development.

Aside from the shrinking size of the park, the greatest concern for the FRW was the omission of cru-cial ecological corridors in the new proposal. The former corridor con-sisted of a 600 meter wide strip of land, connecting the main body of the park to Lake Ontario, provid-ing a crucial water source.

University of Guelph Professor

Dr. Merrit Turetsky, an ecosystem ecologist, shared her thoughts on the future of the park, and what it means for ecology.

“Size matters; every time you see shrinkage of protected areas, problems will arise. You’re taking a relatively modest park to begin with and making it even more modest.”

Rouge Park was established in 1995 by the province of Ontario after being home to resorts and cottages from the late nineteenth century into the 1950s. The Rouge River, named from the red colour of the clay in its banks, remains the healthiest river that flows through Toronto.

“We know there are a lot of spe-cial species that require an aquatic corridor to survive and embracing a variety of habitats within a pro-tected area is a strong philosophy, so I believe that corridor will have a big impact on what the entire park can provide in terms of ecosystem services,” said Turetsky.

Turetsky continued by com-menting on the importance of aquatic corridors.

“Corridors are a very important component of species protection and conservation ecology. Size alone isn’t as important as the con-figuration and what’s included in the protected area.”

The park is home to 762 plant species, 225 bird species, 55 fish species, 27 mammal species, and 19 reptile and amphibian species. There are 12 kilometres of hiking trails, and the park is accessible by

public transport by TTC busses and GO trains and buses.

“Another issue is not really eco-logical,” Turetsky said. “It’s the human value and human im-pact. This is a park right outside the biggest city in Canada and it’s not easy for Torontonians to ex-perience nature. By removing or downsizing a park like this, people lose the opportunity for experi-encing the outdoors. Even as an ecologist, that seems like the big-gest impact, removing a national park in such close proximity to a city. Protecting land in the arctic for example, can be very important in terms of protecting species, but if no one ever experiences it then it

has less value in terms of human-environment interaction.”

What does the downsizing of this park mean in terms of the gov-ernment’s attitude on ecological protection?

“When we hear the word pro-tected, we like to think that it’s set in stone, that it’s not just out of convenience, and at the drop of a dime, at some hint of potential for development they won’t shrink the boundaries of the park. If this park can be affected then what’s to say other parks aren’t under threat of change as well?” said Turetsky.

Turetsky says that she under-stands government decisions like this are complex, and while

often well-intentioned, have to strike a balance between what benefits industry, people and the environment.

“I can’t pretend to know all the reasons that go into policy deci-sions like this. I’d hope that there’s some permanence to how our na-tional parks are structured. I can certainly understand minimizing protected areas in some regions if it means we could make larger parks. That has been a strategy because of research that has shown that a big park has more value than a smaller one; a park is more than the sum of its parts.”

The park is open with free admis-sion to visitors year-round.

despite its role as a vital urban park, rouge Park in Toronto is slowly getting smaller.

VaNessa TiGNaNelli

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new helpline tailored to aboriginal womenTalk4Healing accommodates cultural needs

emma wilson

On Oct. 19, the Ontario Native Wom-en’s Association (ONWA) launched Talk4Healing, a new helpline oriented towards the specific needs of Aboriginal women. No similar service has existed previously in Ontario.

Talk4Healing is backed by the Gov-ernment of Ontario’s Ministry of Community and Social Services, and developed with input from Aboriginal elders, community leaders, policing or-ganizations, and survivors of violence.

“It is designed, developed and

delivered by and for Aboriginal women,” John Milloy, the minister of Community and Social Services, has said.

Aboriginal women are one of Can-ada’s most vulnerable demographic, with many living in remote regions and having little access to other help lines.

“Statistically, we know that the rates of spousal violence are three times higher for Aboriginal women than for non-Aboriginal women and that eight out of ten Aboriginal women have expe-rienced some form of violence in their lifetime,” Robin Haliuk, a Talk4Healing coordinator, said.

Talk4Healing is a free, accessible link to other Aboriginal women, with ser-vices available in English, Cree, Oji-Cree, and Ojibwa. It is available all day and

night, weekdays and weekends, and it is highly personalized.

Another interesting new element in Talk4Healing is that it introduces the innovative concept of a “culturally ap-propriate service,” which is used to explain why this help line is targeted to aboriginal women.

“The line is manned by Aboriginal women counselors who have traditional knowledge through the use of tradi-tional languages, but also have a good understanding of the spirituality of the Aboriginal culture. We are also familiar with the realities for life on many North-ern Reserves,” said Haliuk.

The term “culturally appropriate” may be controversial to some, the rem-nant of an old debate making its way into modern discourse. Some may think

that, though it’s fine to offer this service in more regions, in a more safe and ac-cessible way, and in more languages, it might not be fair to suggest that this ser-vice is only for Aboriginal women.

It could also be suggested that the name “Talk4Healing” not only augments the perception that the de-mographic to which it is tailored is one of victims constantly requiring “heal-ing,” but it also suggests that the help line only assists with a narrow variety of women’s needs, such as those women who are experiencing violence.

It might be pertinent for a future change in the name to reflect a more approachable and relatable resource, such as the University of Guelph’s Stu-dent Support Network (SSN). Women who may need the help offered by a free

talk line want to feel empowered and confident calling that line. They don’t necessarily want its very name to re-mind them of something they’re trying to get away from.

Nonetheless, the government of Ontario has taken a step forward by in-creasing access to social programming, and extensively consulted with those for which this service is intended.

However, a more thoughtful con-sideration of the consequences and implications of this new helpline might be required. For instance, just as Aborig-inal women may not feel comfortable calling a help line other than Talk4Heal-ing, women of other ethnicities and cultural backgrounds may feel equal-ly unwelcome in calling Talk4Healing, even if their crisis is very severe.

Diving into dumpsters for a good causeAdopt-a-Bin kicks off this week

alicja grzadkowska

Not many people at the University of Guelph regularly check the state of the dumpsters on campus. However, a new initiative is encouraging volunteers to do just that, and the results may be rewarding.

Adopt-a-Bin is a project designed by Paul Caruso, the recycling coordinator at the Sustainability Office, and organized with the help of Erin Roberts, the com-post coordinator, as well as a small group of environmentally-focused students. The initiative is unique to universities in Canada. In fact, no other university sustainability offices have organized a similar project.

“It’s fairly innovative,” said Roberts. “And by innovative, we mean insane.”

Volunteers will be taking part in the project for two weeks, starting on Nov. 5 until Nov. 18. Caruso detailed the spe-cific outline of the initiative.

“There’s approximately 130 dump-sters on campus in about 60 different locations, so the plan [was] to recruit volunteers to adopt a set of dumpsters at a location for two weeks,” explained Caruso. During this time, the volun-teers will be checking the dumpsters in the morning, mid-afternoon and at midnight. The information will be gath-ered into a final report that will then be studied by the group.

“We have two goals with [Adopt-a-Bin],” said Roberts. “One is the community engagement role, so the initiative is trying to give [volunteers] a closer connection with their dump-ster because it seems like a lot of the time, garbage is invisible.” Roberts says that people are not always aware of where dumpsters are located, even if they seem to be fairly present, cit-ing the dumpsters at Alexander Hall as an example.

“Once someone puts something in the trash, it gets sent away, and it’s out of sight, out of mind,” said Roberts.

“We’re trying to foster some kind of con-nection [with the initiative], hence the

whole adoption idea.”The analytical aspect of the project

will also be beneficial to the university, and to the Sustainability Office.

“What we get out of it is that the vol-unteers are looking in the dumpsters, they’re getting a volume measurement from the markings on the side of the dumpster, and a qualitative idea of how many bags there are, and what kinds of items are in there,” said Caruso.

“There’s no way right now to get in-formation breaking down into ways that waste is generated,” added Roberts.

“We know that, probably, the UC pro-duces more waste than Rozanski, but how much, we have no idea. So this is a way to gage the distribution of waste generation.”

The initial plans for Adopt-a-Bin came from brainstorming Caruso’s did in the summer.

“We were struggling with trying to come up with a model to be [able to say], ‘Aha, this is how much waste we generate in a year!’” said Caruso. “So I was thinking about that, and off-cam-pus stuffing problems we’ve had, and

community engagement, and I thought that we could put it all together.” Stuff-ing occurs when residents around the campus, and people who are not part of the campus throw out their garbage into university dumpsters. According to Caruso and Roberts, this causes the problem of contamination and a lack of proper sorting, which affects the ability

of the city to recycle garbage that may have been contaminated effectively.

The initiative will also be a positive experience for the Sustainability Of-fice itself.

“By having the Sustainability Office attached to all the Adopt-A-Bin pro-motion, this may help get our general message out there,” said Roberts.

Volunteers are adopting a dumpster on Nov. 5 for a new initiative.

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newsology: scandals in Hollywood and realityReporting on nude celebrity photos and the average person’s naked images

alicja grzadkowska

It’s not uncommon to see headlines excitedly declaring, “Oh My God! Ce-lebrity’s Naked Photos Leaked on the Internet!”

In fact, “uncommon” no longer de-scribes the present state of celebrity nudity scandals. The excess of nude photos of celebrities has created Top 20 lists that compile and organize the photos based on the celebrity’s repu-tation and level of attractiveness.

Leaked photos become much

less amusing when the subject is an average person who may have acci-dentally or naively posed for a photo that they then lost control over. In October, Amanda Todd’s story be-came a prime example of how naked photos affected a regular teen’s life. Her embarrassment and shame from these photos was illustrated in a video Todd created describing her experi-ence with an online harasser, and her suicide was a result of the bullying and alienation that she faced in fol-lowing months.

Why then, do celebrities rarely ex-perience the same emotions, or news coverage, over their leaked photos as Todd and other young victims of this type of harassment?

Concepts of nudity and nakedness,

as outlined by the art critic John Berg-er in his film Ways of Seeing provides some answers. While being naked is simply being without clothes, nudity is the positioning of a naked body as the focal point of a particular gaze. When famous people are the subjects of nude photos, their status as actors, singers or dancers creates the sense that the photo is another performance for a set viewer. Their photos function as nudes to be enjoyed, instead of naked pho-tos to be ashamed of, particularly in today’s culture where overexposure is encouraged.

Along with this assumption comes the belief that a leaked celebrity photo is rarely unintentional. Though some celebrities are caught in the act of ex-posure and photographed unwillingly,

there is a general consensus among the public that celebrities are rarely unaware that a photo has been leaked, like Chris Brown’s supposed “leaked” shots.

On the other hand, non-celebrities, like Todd, are often forced into taking naked photos, or have these photos abused by other individuals who they may have contact with, rather than a nameless public on the internet.

The seriousness of Todd’s experience is seen in the way that her story was re-ported in the media. Top news sources covered the development of events surrounding Todd’s suicide, and she was featured on the front pages of mul-tiple newspapers and journals.

In comparison, the experiences of celebrities are typified as scandals, and

these stories are redirected to tabloid magazines. Their stories are under-stood as less important since these individuals are seemingly protected by celebrity status, though famous people are often subjected to hateful criticism that appears alongside their photos, nude or not, on the internet.

Celebrities might be significantly differentiated from the average person, but the underlying message of the re-porting of their naked photos signifies that society thinks it’s appropriate to approach any type of accidental over-exposure with a judgmental and harsh attitude. This type of reaction to nude photos might have been the reason be-hind the extreme bullying that Todd faced when her images were made public.

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we be dumpsta divingStudents create a rap about dumpster diving in Guelph

michael long

We all livin’ in a wasteful nation / y’all be slaves to the date of expira-tion / people see me dive, they like,

“man he’s a hooligan! / divin’s outta style” – well I just made it cool again.

– Eli WinterfieldOn Oct. 29, a trio of Guelph stu-

dents, Dan Kruger, Matt Little and Eli Winterfeld, uploaded their homemade rap video about dump-ster diving to YouTube. Since then, the video has become an online hit with roughly 5000 views at the time of writing. The video brings a heavy dose of humour and irony – as well as a dope beat – to the often misun-derstood subject of dumpster diving.

The video sees the trio storm-ing through the streets and alleys of downtown Guelph, raiding dump-sters and generally being ridiculous

– reminding one in equal measure of NWA and Flight of the Conchords.

The three friends, who lived to-gether in the spring, were regular dumpster divers – Eli especially. As Kruger recalls, when they would go diving on Monday nights, they would sometimes freestyle rap while doing it. One night Winterfeld suggested that Kruger, who is a music major and hip-hop buff, should create a beat for these rhymes.

“Things just snowballed from there,”

said Kruger.Filming began in April. David Law-

less, who had experience working on other YouTube projects, was the man behind the camera. During the sum-mer, he and Kruger put the finishing touches on the video’s production. In September, they were still polishing the final edit.

“We just wanted to make sure [the video] would be fun to watch because it was so much fun to make,” Kru-ger said.

While it’s no secret that friends and family are often made uneasy when someone admits to going dumpster diving, countering that reaction was one of the goals in making this video.

“We thought that making an ironic or comedic portrayal of dumpster diving kind of breaks down barriers. Peo-ple embrace a foreign concept easier when there’s humor attached to it,” said Kruger.

For him, the irony comes from the fact that hip-hop “is a genre where you are supposed to be really confi-dent; it becomes ironic when you’re being excessively confident about something that is generally seen as a pretty low-down activity.”

Kat MacGregor, who makes an ap-pearance in the video as a woman in a babushka scorning the boys, is also a regular dumpster diver. For her, the waste generated from Western con-sumption habits is a strong motivator for diving.

“Best-before and expiry dates are not equivalent whatsoever. We toss tons and tons of food each day that could

be used to feed literally hundreds of people, even within Guelph, just be-cause we think it isn’t perfect,” said MacGregor.

While the waste of perfectly good food is the reason why dumpster diving can exist, the practice would arguably not occur were it not for the incentive for a free meal.

“I think people would be misunder-standing us if they thought we were saying that dumpster diving is a way you can counter waste in society. It’s not the type of thing where you can call a city together to all dumpster dive and then we’ll all be less wasteful. That’s not the way it works. But I think the

philosophy behind [dumpster diving] is really what needs to be promoted,” said Kruger.

That philosophy can be described as a desire to reduce one’s personal con-sumption and waste.

For Kruger, the practice of dump-ster diving helps draw attention to this waste of good food; the rap, by extension, is an accessible, creative extension of that message.

However, dumpster diving is ille-gal by city by-law and store owners are fearful of being subject to lawsuits should a dumpster diver get sick from eating their waste. Thus, dumpster

diving is not something to be under-taken lightly – there are risks involved. If you are interested trying it, Mac-Gregor recommends that you get an experienced friend to show you the ropes.

“A lot of the stuff is kind of dirty, so you have to take the time to clean it. And you have to take the time to go online and make sure that if you have a really good haul of something it’s not infected with E. coli,” said MacGregor.

But for seasoned dumpster divers these risks are all part of the game.

“It’s a real community,” MacGregor said. And it is clearly one which is not lacking for creativity.

Lasagnafest 2012 brings in big crowdThe fifth annual Lasagnafest brought food and charity together to support the United Way

kelsey coughlin

The University of Guelph has once again combined a love for food and a love for charity with the fifth annual Lasagnafest. On Nov. 2, community members and students were invited to the Science Complex for a lunch consisting of lasagna, salad, and all the fixings. A donation of ten dollars was required, with all proceeds going to United Way.

Toni Pellizarri and Margaret Tim-mins, both University of Guelph staff members, have organized the event for the last five years.

“We came up with the idea because no one had ever held a Lasagnafest for United Way in the past,” said Pellizar-ri, so it was a creative and innovative way to benefit the Guelph community.

All the lasagnas were prepared for free by University of Guelph staff members, to ensure that all possible

funds go to the United Way. Due to the generosity of donors,

the Guelph-Wellington chapter of the United Way funds more than eighty programs in the community. These programs include: Big Broth-ers/Big Sisters Guelph, Canadian Red Cross, Guelph Independent Living, and Project Serve. The ability to fund these programs is largely dependent on donations from the community, so all the money received from the event was greatly appreciated.

“Over the past three years, we had sold over 100 tickets to Lasagnafest,” Pellizarri pointed out, and this year was no different.

Fifty tickets were sold in advance with a sufficient number of drop-ins. Among those drop-ins was University of Guelph student Tori Dougan.

“Without initiatives like this, all of the programs offered to the Guelph community would vanish. Combin-ing food and charity is the best way to get people to open their pockets,” said Dougan, when asked about the importance of Lasagnafest.

University of Guelph student Valmy Assam also attended the event. Assam believes that “targeting [her] stom-ach was the best approach [and that]

students are much more likely to do-nate their money and time when they get something tangible in return, like food.”

These students are unanimous in their thinking: targeting students’

taste buds is the best way to obtain donations. It is precisely this think-ing that has made Lasagnafest such a success for the past five years.

The University of Guelph, partic-ularly Toni Pellizarri and Margaret

Timmins, are greatly thanked and congratulated by the United Way for their volunteer efforts.

The event was ultimately a success and next year’s Lasagnafest is already well on it’s way.

students, staff and faculty came out to support the united Way and enjoy lasagna.

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Three students wrote an ode to dumpster diving, one of their favourite hobbies.

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Machomer combines two classicsWhat Shakespeare and The Simpsons have in common

nick revington

At first, one might think the con-nection between Shakespeare’s classic tragedy MacBeth and television’s long-running series The Simpsons is tenuous at best. After all, one was written about 400 years ago and involves a whole lot of killing, while the other is a cartoon that has been bringing audiences laughs for a relatively paltry 24 seasons. Nevertheless, MacHomer, a one-man show by actor Rick Miller, manages to bridge that gap.

Performed at the River Run Cen-tre on Nov. 2, MacHomer tells the tale of MacBeth through Simpsons’ characters. Each role in the play is voiced by Miller’s imperson-ations. Homer, of course, is the titular character, Ned Flanders takes the role of Banquo, Mr. Burns plays King Duncan, and so on. All in all, it is not unlike The Simp-sons’s Halloween specials, but it maintains about 85 per cent of the original script. Instead of a com-plicated set and costume changes, a multimedia screen behind Miller portrayed the scenes being voiced out.

Since its inception as a party trick at a cast party in 1994, the joke has evolved to a small-time show that debuted at the Montreal Fringe Festival and eventually the much bigger production it is today. MacHomer’s success, which has brought it to the Stratford Festival and over 170 venues internation-ally and across Canada, is at least in part a result of the enduring na-ture of the shows it is based upon, said Miller.

“The reason people keep

performing [MacBeth] is not only because it is Shakespeare and he was good, probably in the words of the comic book guy, ‘the best writer ever,’” said Miller, break-ing into a convincing imitation of the popular secondary character.

“That’s Shakespeare. Why Mac-beth? It’s the shortest Shakespeare tragedy, it’s one of the bloodiest, it’s the one everyone studies in school, and it’s very straight-forward… Hamlet is all over the place.”

The Simpsons’ popularity, mean-while, rests on the fact that in its early days, it represented something unique in the world of television.

“I’m not a cultural analyst of television, but The Simpsons, to me – as opposed to what came be-fore, and maybe what’s come after

– they represented a period in his-tory, [from the] late ’80s to early

’90s, where American pop culture was dominant. There weren’t many things to watch on TV, so you could still be the show everybody watched. Now you can’t,” said Miller. “They were the first to really take the cartoon and turn it into satire, in a similar way that Shakespeare was a satirist. He took what he saw and reflected it to the people to look at

themselves and laugh and make fun of each other, but also be horrified by the things we do.”

Miller feels that the direction newer TV shows have gone to achieve humour has been more random, and has allowed for less connection to the characters than The Simpsons. Beneath the satiric-ally funny surface, the characters of The Simpsons have been developed in a way that makes them not so dif-ferent from those in Shakespeare’s tragedy.

“The Simpsons at first had real-ly coherent, well-structured plots. And I think you had an emotional connection to a lot of these charac-ters…. You watched The Simpsons and even though these people were pathetic you kind of loved Homer. You wanted him to fail and then succeed. Whereas [with shows like] Family Guy, they aren’t like-able in that way. They’re funny, but there’s no heart,” said Miller.

“[The Simpsons] have a kind of tra-gic heart beating underneath the show. It’s not just silly, and it’s not just obnoxious.”

The longevity of the show MacH-omer is based on has passed on to their offspring. Miller has been performing the play for an aston-ishing 17 years. It has been kept fresh by adding in references to local news or current events. For example, Miller worked in a men-tion of the Guelph Storm game taking place concurrently at the Sleeman Centre across the street, the American election, and Dalton McGuinty. Adding to the humour were shout-outs to other celebri-ties and non-Simpsons characters. The banquet scene, for instance, had Sean Connery and the Loch Ness Monster as prominent Scot-tish guests, and in one particularly major departure from the Bard’s original script, O.J. Simpson and Jessica Simpson appear to pitch a

reality show called Being Simpson to MacHomer.

After all these years, however, Miller has decided to call it quits on MacHomer. The Guelph show was the third-last on the present tour, which debarks next to the United States. Instead, Miller will focus on his numerous other projects as well as his family in Toronto.

One of those projects is BOOM!, another solo play about the Baby Boom.

“I’m exploring everything that that generation meant in a way to try and get young people, young Canadians specifically, interested in history by creating a really en-tertaining performance of it,” said Miller. “I’ll be playing hundreds of characters and singing dozens of songs to recreate an era in a short amount of time.”

If it manages to be half as enter-taining as MacHomer, it will still be a must-see.

actor rick Miller practices getting into character in advance of a Nov. 2 performance of solo play MacHomer at the river run centre.

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“[The Simpsons] have a kind of tragic

heart beating underneath the

show.” – Rick Miller

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what if Harry Potter were Harriet Potter?Guelph Festival of Moving Media inspires, provokes thought

mira beth

Would the Harry Potter series have had as much success with a female lead character? This, and many other ideas relating to the portrayal of fe-males in the media, were key points addressed in the documentary Won-der Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines, screened Nov. 3 as a part of Guelph’s Festival of Moving Media.

The film starts with a history of the Wonder Woman character and how she came about, noting her de-scent in popularity around the end of World War II when women were en-couraged to go back to their domestic work at home. It then focused on more modern female “superheroes” in the media such as Buffy and Ellen Ripley from the Alien franchise and why this kind of portrayal needs to be continued and encouraged. There was even some focus on other media outlets such as women in music and

the feminist movement in general, which helps to relate all of these fic-tional characters to the real world. Overall, the movie put out a power-ful message to both men and women, highlighting the need for stronger fe-male characters in the media.

After the screening, Jennifer Haines – owner and manager of Guelph comic book shop The Dragon – and Amy Chop hosted a question and answer period about the film. They consider themselves to be both feminists and comic lovers and were very knowl-edgeable and helpful in answering the questions of the rather passionately opinionated audience.

The film festival itself is in its first year of being an independently run project in the 30 years of its existence. On the festival’s website, Festival Co-ordinator Carolyn Meili said that the films this year focused on “humour, empowerment, and the individual.” The theme of empowerment was evi-dent in Wonder Women! as well as other films shown throughout the festival. From Trash Dance, a docu-mentary focused on the daily lives of garbage men who are convinced to take part in a choreographed number

with their trucks, to Ping Pong, about an inspiring group of octogenarian men who are participating in a table tennis tournament, there really was a film for everyone with every interest.

There was even a Spanish film called L’equip Petit (The Little Team) that fol-lows a soccer team of 14 children who have never scored a goal throughout an entire season of playing together.

While such movies may not be breaking box offices records, their ability to inspire with real life stories of real life people is what makes them so special and invaluable.

Jennifer Haines and amy chop host a question and answer period on the role of female characters in popular media following a screening of Wonder Women! The Untold Stories of American Superheroines.

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Movie review: Stories We Tell kim stemshorn

Tabloids, gossip and reality tele-vision indicate how much our society enjoys prying into other people’s lives. These many differ-ent manifestations of voyeurism vary in degree of credentials, as it seems we’ve grown exhausted of shows featured on Slice (former-ly Life) and Much Music. For good reason, documentaries haven’t lost their credentials; a documentary is the art world’s way of capturing history, making observations and teaching others, often in an acces-sible fashion. Toronto has both its own documentary festival titled Hot Docs and a theatre dedicated to screening documentaries – two great gems worthy of the one and a half hour trip into the big city from Guelph.

I spent a good chunk of the last six years living in Toronto, a set for many films that turns into a star-studded environment a few times each year with the com-ing of the TIFF and music festival, NXNE. While these attractions come and go, Toronto has its share of longstanding famous residents. For instance, both Rachel McAd-ams and Ryan Gosling were voted best local female and male actors respectively in Now magazine’s Best of Toronto issue. Auteur Sarah Polley, a finalist in the rat race, is madly in love with Toronto and is the true winner, in my opin-ion. Born and raised in the city, the thirty-three year-old got

her started on the CBC program Road to Avonlea. Polley slowly built a higher-profile reputation in films like Go, Dawn of the Dead and Splice. Meanwhile, Polley has written and directed works such as Away From Her, Take This Waltz and most recently, the feature Sto-ries We Tell. Amongst the buzz, Polley has always resided in To-ronto. For the few precious years

I resided in Toronto, I often saw Polley doing regular-people things around the city such as riding the streetcar or shopping at a Kensing-ton Market grocer. With each time I crossed paths with this Canadian gem, my heart fluttered.

Polley’s latest Stories We Tell is an interesting take on a docu-mentary-style film. I appreciate documentaries that do not cod-dle the audience by telling them

too much; this documentary elo-quently shares stories from many different people that Polley does not once acknowledge as her family, but you know from their appearance and comfortable hu-mour that they are related.

The film’s pastiche nature weaves together a number of memories through home movies, interviews, and a very delicate story style account that was writ-ten by her father. This account was read throughout the entire film to serve as the narrative for the inter-views Polley conducted and home movies she showed.

Countless reviews spoil the ending, but I won’t ruin your experience in my account here. I will, however, gush that Pol-ley, beyond being a thoughtful and brilliant actor, director and writer, has created a simple fea-ture that will make you think. While this documentary pries deep into the Polley family his-tory in a revealing and invasive fashion, many intricacies of fam-ily, history and gender roles are touched upon.

The film is bookended by two lovely contemporary tunes that are dear to me. The first tune played in the film was “Skinny Love” by Bon Iver, which caught me off guard as it wasn’t suggest-ed in the film’s trailer. The tune that was used in the trailer and at the end of the film was the haunt-ingly eerie tune “Demon Host” by Toronto artist Timber Timbre.

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from a to ZavitzSolo print show examines embodied narratives

nadine maher

Sarah Cordeaux’s solo show Limn, shown in Zavitz Gallery the week of Oct. 29, presented a series of wood panel paintings, small scale prints in lithography and silk-screen, and large scale monoprints. All of Cordeaux’s work is focused on an obsession with the body.

In Cordeaux’s monoprints and paintings, nude figures are the focus. Part of the interest Cordeaux has in the body has to do with body language and methods of nonver-bal communication. Cordeaux began studying at Guelph tak-ing psychology classes but found it impossible to integrate entire-ly into that world. An interest in psychology still remains how-ever, and Cordeaux has directed aspects of it into artworks, where the nudes seem to communicate a recoil from view.

A number of unique processes are employed in Cordeaux’s work, such as the monoprints, which are made by painting onto a three-by-four-foot sheet of copper and then pressing a piece of paper onto it, facilitating a slight loss of infor-mation through the transfer. In the wood panel paintings, each layer of paint is completed by pressing paper into the wet paint and pull-ing some of the paint away. The result is a flat, often chalky surface, and an unusual pattern of texture.

Cordeaux’s smaller prints

present a loose narrative featur-ing a figure with a woman’s body and a spider monkey head. The fig-ure seems to imply a Guerrilla Girls reference to women’s empower-ment, but Cordeaux asserts that there is much more to them than

that. The spider monkey woman is set into abstracted landscapes and follows through the conventional path of telling a story: introducing the character, rising action, cli-max, and conclusion. There are

aspects of Cordeaux’s work that are completed instinctually and without being exactly sure why, so Cordeaux felt the need to put the spider monkey woman in a narra-tive to make the motivation clearer.

Cordeaux feels strongly to-wards using only original images in works. The prints are collage-like and composed of photographs Cordeaux has taken personally, save for the monkey head itself (although Cordeaux hopes to one day soon collect these too). Jux-taposition of unusual subjects is something Cordeaux likes to include.

“I love pulling in random ob-jects that on their own people can recognize, but there is a lot of con-fusion when it’s placed beside, for example, shriveled up grapes with a limb beside it. It creates con-trast,” said Cordeaux.

Cordeaux also reuses parts from past works, extracting what worked best in them and insert-ing that into a new work. One print contains a spider monkey woman whose body was taken from an image of a nude painting Cordeaux completed in an earli-er painting course. Other bodies are quick sketches, creating a range of figures that are similar but unique, maintaining interest across the representations of this repeated figure.

Having mastered the technical aspects involved in these works, Cordeaux can continue experi-menting with the subject matter.

“There are a lot of things I enjoy that I feel like I can move forward with and push,” said Cordeaux.

sarah cordeaux’s exhibit at Zavitz Gallery, titled Limn, focused on the human body, with nude figures often appearing to recoil from view.

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Poets covered in body paint held a flash mob in the uc courtyard Nov. 6 to promote the upcoming

ontario international Poetry slam to take place in Guelph on Nov. 10.

“I love pulling in random

objects that on their own people

can recognize, but there is a

lot of confusion when it’s

placed beside, for example, shriveled up

grapes with a limb beside it.”

– Sarah Cordeaux

Poetry sLaM

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singer rose cousins visited Guelph to put on a show at dublin street united church on Nov. 2.

album review: cardboard nationals – Its Wonderful Light in PicturesGuelph band celebrates new release

mira beth

One of the hardest things for any band to do is distinguish themselves from every other band out there. However, the Cardboard Nationals seem to

be taking their first steps in this process with their new full length album Its Wonder-ful Light in Pictures, launched at Jimmy Jazz on Nov. 3.

The four-piece band was formed in Guelph in early 2009, with two members of previous local band Beautiful Senseless, and has since gained a respect-able spot among other indie rock bands in the area. Their first re-lease Sad Hips and Hymnbooks was a seven-song EP, while their most recent release is their first full-length consisting of 12 songs.

Their new release shows much growth from – as the band says on their website – practicing in a basement that acts as a “hub of hipster silverfish, daddy long-leg and centipede sub-culture.” The first song on the album, titled “Ordinary Birds,” is an upbeat, steadily-moving piece that incorporates irregularly timed drum beats and strong cymbals. The vocals and har-monies in this piece, however, are not as strong as one would expect considering the power of the instruments behind them. This theme is also present in many other songs on the album.

It is the songs on the album that include the vocals of Kelly Steadman that truly sound full and complete. Late on the track listing, “Petals Anymore” and

“Falcon In Me” are the most memorable and impressive off the album, as the voices of the two vocalists compliment and complete each other’s, as well as the rest of the band. “Petals

Anymore” is a rock ballad, building from simple guitar picking and vocals to strong drum beats and passionate vocal harmonies. “Falcon in Me” has a lot more of an indie feel to it and includes some sweet-sounding piano and tambourine.

Despite all of this, the most impressive track on the album is the finale, entitled “Ally-Bit-ten and the Maximum Fatness.” This is an instrumental tune

that builds on a wobbly, off-time synth frame and takes it in every direction one could imagine it to go. More often than not, it is accompanied by a slow, sorrowful piano melody which keeps anyone listening emotionally in tune with the track as a whole. Drums and guitar fade in and out, some-times throwing themselves in unexpectedly yet still manag-ing to compliment the overall sound. It builds and falls as if

documenting a story and ends uncomfortably with the guitar whining and marking the end of a truly emotional experience.

It is clear that The Cardboard Nationals have an immense amount of musical talent. With the release of Its Wonderful Light in Pictures, they will hopefully be given many more opportunities to express and share it with not only the lo-cals in Guelph, but indie rock lovers everywhere.

Guelph band The cardboard Nationals celebrated the release of their album Its Wonderful Light in Pictures at Jimmy Jazz Nov. 3.

VaNessa TiGNaNelli

“The four-piece band

was formed in Guelph in early 2009…and has since gained a

respectable spot among other

indie rock bands in the area.”

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what the tech?Are 3D movies taking away from cinematic art?

colleen mcdonell

If you have gone to the theatre in the last few months, it’s likely that you had the option of throw-ing on those big, dorky glasses and seeing a 3D movie. The last few years have seen an explosion of 3D films, however, this is not a new phenomenon. The earliest con-firmed 3D film shown to a paying audience was The Power of Love, which premiered in L.A. in 1922.

So why has Hollywood become so lately infatuated with 3D?

“We actually have the technology, not only in the theatres, but also at home to benefit with the experi-ence of 3D films,” said David Shaw, U of G-Humber film studies grad-uate and boom operator. “In the past, people could only experience 3D at the theatre, and now you have both. The potential for it to be successful is two-fold at least.”

The first full-length 3D film made in Canada, Dead Before Dawn, was released in 2012. The zombie comedy-horror was also directed by the first female direc-tor of a 3D film, April Mullens, and features actor Christopher Lloyd.

Shaw, who worked on this film, noted that 3D technology is particularly beneficial for family entertainment, such as action and animation genres.

“That’s what 3D is in [and] of

itself; pure entertainment,” says Shaw. “You don’t go to a 3D film to walk out of the theatre to think about it and have discourse with your friends. The thrill-ride and the joy and the experience is liv-ing in the moment of 3D.”

Like other films made in 3D, Dead Like Dawn used stereoscop-ic technology, which involves an additional camera oriented per-pendicularly on a rig in a way that catches the reflective image from the first camera. This technology has become increasingly refined in recent years. Some films are made specifically in 3D, such as Ava-tar, while others are reconfigured years later to reappear in the for-mat, such as Finding Nemo or Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.

Along with the recent resur-gence of 3D films comes the unleashing of the critics. Walter Murch is an Academy-award win-ner for his work on Apocalypse Now, and is deemed as one of the most respected film editors and sound designers in the modern cinema. In a letter to movie crit-ic Roger Ebert, Murch described the fundamental problems with 3D film.

“The biggest problem with using this technology is the “conver-gence/focus” issue,” Murch said.

“The audience must focus their eyes at the plane of the screen which can be far away (i.e. 80 ft), but their eyes must converge at perhaps 10 feet away, then 60 feet, then 120 feet, and so on, depending on what the illusion is. So 3D films require

us to focus at one distance and con-verge at another. And 600 million years of evolution has never pre-sented this problem before.”

Murch added that 3D films pres-ent the problem of immersion; they remind the audience that they are in a certain “perspective” relation-ship to the image.

“So: dark, small, stroby, headache inducing, alienating. And expensive. The question is: how long will it take people to realize and get fed up?” Many moviegoers agree with Murch that 3D technology can alter your experience watching a film. A

common complaint is headaches, and another is that it can distract the viewer from the storyline or the acting.

“I feel 3D is almost more of a su-perficial experience,” said Shaw.

“You’re actually paying attention to things that are coming out at you, so you are emotionally involved in actual superficial and visual ef-fects…which is taking away from your concentration from the story, from the narrative.”

Yet there is still something about 3D that seems to draw people in. Professor Paul Salmon, film stud-ies and English professor at the U of G, compares the 3D technology with other new technologies that cinema has experienced in the last century, such as widescreens or colour and sound.

“Like any other interesting tech-nological aspect of cinema, it’s got

the capacity to be very integral to the narrative and to the depth of the experience of the film,” said Salmon.

Despite the potential of 3D films, Salmon noted that often when he sees a 3D film, he feels it has not added much, beyond novelty, to the experience.

“It’s a Hollywood phenomenon. So far, with few exceptions, it’s been a way to make super-hero films more spectacular; I’m not sure if it’s necessarily made them any better.”

Should filmmakers deem 3D as a receding fad, or explore new ways of using the technology?

“It’s contextual,” said Salmon. “I would say that too few films have exploited the creative possibilities of 3D and have actually been just satisfied with it being an added spectacle dimension.”

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local musician ben doerksen serenades a couple as they dance at a Nov. 3 performance at the cornerstone.

recently, popular 3d films such as avatar have used stereoscopic technology to make images pop off the screen when wearing the appropriate glasses.

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h Trick or Eat Guelph yields 30,000 lbs of foodMeal Exchange program making Halloween (and the rest of the year) a little less scary for those in need

Tom Beedham

Every Halloween, children and their parents put on costumes and some comfy footwear to pound the pavement of their local neighbourhoods on an annual treat beat. It’s taken for granted that one’s surround-ing community can open its doors to shell out edible delights for a night. The glaring reality is that hun-dreds of thousands of Canadians can’t afford staple foods of their own, let alone a night of showering the costumed with candy.

In March 2012, Food Banks Canada conducted its annual HungerCount survey. Findings revealed that in that month, 882,188 people received food from food banks in Canada. Of those numbers, nearly 413 thou-sand received food from food banks in Ontario alone.

One of many, Meal Exchange is a youth-driven na-tional charity geared towards supporting food banks, helping to keep their shelves stocked by fundraising and donating cash and food it collects throughout the year.

One of the biggest fundraising efforts spearhead-ed by Meal Exchange is the annual Trick or Eat effort.

A national Halloween tradition that has been wide-ly embraced by those who might be considered “too old” to trick-or-treat, Trick or Eat involves organizing groups, dressing in costume, and going door-to-door during regular trick-or-treating hours, collecting food

instead of candy.The Guelph chapter of Meal Exchange has gained

quite the notoriety for its participation in the pro-gram in recent years.

“The unique thing about Guelph is that there’s a re-ally established Trick or Eat program, so there’s lots of people that know about it and sign up,” Liz Woodside, education and promotions coordinator for Meal Ex-change Guelph told The Ontaion following this year’s event.

Along with a reliable volunteer turnout, the program has gained a reputation in the Guelph community at-large.

“We try and let the community know as much about it so they can have food ready. And people are pretty supportive of the program, so often people do have food ready,” said Woodside. Preparation for the event involves an awareness campaign that canvasses the campus and surrounding community for the month of October. Simultaneously, drop-bins open to food donations are left at local grocery stores and the com-munity is directed to make cash donations online.

The main event is preceded by a kick off ceremony, held in the University Centre (UC) courtyard through-out the afternoon of Oct. 31. This year’s ceremonies included guest speeches from Tracy Marchesich, opera-tions manager for the Guelph Food Bank at Spiritwind Christian Centre, Guelph MP Frank Valeriote, as well as specially prepared videos from NDP MP Olivia Chow, and television personality Rick Mercer. U of G Presi-dent and Vice-Chancellor Alastair Summerlee was slated to speak at the event, but was prevented from

doing so because of traffic. The ceremonies boost participant morale, but they

are also effective at raising awareness to the campaign and its goals. Of this year’s total participants, Wood-side estimates that about 200 signed up throughout the kick off ceremony alone.

Following ceremonies in the UC, costumed volun-teers divide into groups and their team captains are issued route maps. With about 800 volunteers par-ticipating in this year’s Trick or Eat, Meal Exchange arranged for 12 busses to drop off and pick up partic-ipants off at their routes. Groups are given shopping carts for collection purposes, which are collected and sorted at the Guelph Food Bank at the end of the night.

Woodside says this year’s sorting process ran until around 3:30 a.m.

Loblaw Companies, a sponsor of Meal Exchange Na-tional, has also set up a form accessible on the Trick or Eat website that allows donors to indicate how much and what they donated to the program. For every participating donor, the corporation has pledged to donate $10 to Meal Exchange.

At the time of press, drop-bins at grocery stores had still yet to be collected by Meal Exchange Guelph.

Although numbers are still rolling in, this year, Meal Exchange Guelph reported Trick or Eat collection totals of 30,000 pounds and about $3000 in cash donations.

Once collection totals are finalized, the intakes will be directly distributed amongst 19 agencies in the greater Guelph area, including the GFB, which report-ed assisting over 73.6 thousand individuals in 2011 – a number that Woodside notes is considerably high when

it’s taken into account that the Guelph population (as evinced by 2011 census data) is around 121,668. Last year, over 1,075,310 pounds of food was distributed in Guelph through 33 local agencies, neighbouring food banks, and pantries.

While food donations are essential to such support services, cash donations play a critical role in helping provide for those accessing them; while donated food allows services to stockpile non-perishable items, the flexibility of cash is just as non-perishable in the sense that it allows agencies to purchase produce and other goods as needed throughout the year.

Generally Meal Exchange Guelph aims to top its col-lection totals from the previous year, something it’s been fairly successful with in the past. In 2011, Meal Exchange Guelph even earned the title of biggest na-tional Trick or Eat contributor. This year, however, saw a drop.

Woodside attributed this to a smaller volunteer contribution this year. Whereas approximately 800 offered their help this year, last year’s Trick or Eat had about 1,100 participants.

“The difference in volunteers makes a difference in the number of routes we can cover,” Woodside explained. She attributes the smaller turnout to combined factors like midterms, night classes, and weather conditions – yet another reminder of the impact of Hurricane Sandy.

Still, Woodside remains positive about this year’s collections.

“It was a really good night. We’re really proud and happy of everyone who came out.”

. . .football continued

Gryphon wide receiver A’dre Fraser (6) splits the Queen’s defense on a great kick return. Guelph won the Nov. 3 OUA Semifinal in dramatic fashion, coming back to beat Queen’s in overtime.

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Men’s Rugby upset in the OUA Semi FinalThe Gryphons drop a close semifinal to Western

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On Nov. 4 the number two-seeded Guelph Gryphons Men’s Rugby Team took on the number three-seed West-ern Mustangs in the OUA semifinals at Guelph’s Varsity Field. The Gryphons looked to repeat their regular season 12-5 defeat of the Mustangs and halt a second straight appearance of West-ern in the OUA finals. However after a hard fought game Guelph fell to the Mustangs 21-15.

Guelph started the game on the defensive end, quickly establishing a strong presence on the field that would last throughout the first half. Both teams were able to create pen-etrating offensive drives, however both defenses stood firmly, not al-lowing any tries in the first half. The Gryphons were able to score a penalty kick off the boot of winger Joe New-man. The half ended with Guelph in the lead 3-0.

In the opening moments of the second half the Mustangs’s Jeremy McCarty was able to break a tack-le and by-pass the Gryphons backs

scoring a try and putting Western up 5-3. In the following play the Gry-phons looked shaky and conceded a penalty to Western who were able to covert to extend their lead to 8-3.

However the Gryphons were able to rally themselves and make a number of trips deep into Mustang territo-ry culminating with a quick pass to center Branden Stuble for Guelph’s first try of the match, tying the game at 8 apiece.

In the following play the Mustangs were awarded another penalty on which they converted to take the lead 11-8.

The Gryphons again rallied in the face of adversity with a strong of-fensive drive breaking inside the Mustangs 22-meter line. Gryphon fullback P. Sinel was able to punch in Guelph’s second try to raise the Gryphons to 15-11 after a successful point-after attempt by Joe Newman.

On the ensuing kick off, West-ern was able to penetrate deep into Guelph territory, driving the ball right down to the Gryphons goal line. What followed was a heroic defensive stand taken by the Gryphons, a style of play that has characterized this team all season long. The Mustangs battered the Gryphons again and again, like waves crashing on rocks, but not one

step backward was taken by the Gry-phons defense. Relief would come in the form of a Western knock-on to give Guelph control of the scrum, which led to a quick kick to give the Gryphons some room to breathe.

The Mustangs were again able to

attack the Gryphon goal-line but Guelph could no longer keep Western out of the try zone, giving the Mus-tangs a 16-15 lead with less than two minutes left in regulation time.

Guelph could not answer with a try, instead they conceded another

try to Western to end the game 21-15. Western now goes on to their sec-ond straight OUA finals appearance against Queen’s. All is not lost for the Gryphons however who will host the Brock Badgers for the Bronze medal on Nov. 11 at noon on Varsity Field.

Guelph evades a would-be Western tackler during the close-fought OUA Semifinal game on Nov. 3. Guelph lost a heartbreaker, 21-16.

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backup QB Luke Nangle, took the field. After a run for no gain by Rob Farquharson, Nangle dropped back, rolled right, and found Saxon Lindsay on the corner route to score the critical touchdown with only 44 seconds on the clock. Nangle’s only pass attempt of the day was perfect, and on came the regular offensive unit to try to con-vert the two-point attempt, and tie the game.

The offense returned to the suc-cessful short-passing game as

Lindsey hit Carl Trivieri in the en-dzone to tie the game up at 36. 22 points in nine minutes and 24 sec-onds against one of the best defenses in the OUA. Incredible.

Overtime began with Queen’s marching downfield to score a field goal to open up the period of extra time. In Canadian university, both teams are presented an opportunity to score points in overtime. Guelph would have to kick a field goal to ex-tend overtime, or could win it on a touchdown.

Guelph took the ball, and

Farquharson’s short run amount-ed to no yards, and a critical second down materialized for the Gryphons.

Lindsey received the shotgun snap, and surveyed the defense. He looked off the safety to the left, and quick-ly threw 20 yards downfield to the right. Michael Fortino, a normally quiet member of the offense, turned around at the tail end of a comeback route and made the grab. Effortlessly, he evaded a Queen’s tackle and ran into the checkerboard endzone. The game was over; Guelph had com-pleted the miracle.

His coaches and teammates stormed him in the endzone; the fans in the stands stormed the field, and the Gryphons had earned their spot in the OUA final.

In a game wrought with turnovers for both teams, extensive penalties, and unrelenting pressure, the Gry-phons found a way to win.

An emotional Coach Lang was found amongst his team after the game.

“When people say they’re speech-less, now I know what they mean,” said Lang. “[The team] never got

down, they never got discouraged, they knew it was a struggle to come back, but they just did it; they found a way to win.”

The Gryphons face their toughest matchup all year in the 105th Yates Cup. McMaster is undefeated, and is the only OUA squad that’s beaten Guelph all year. The Sept. 3 season opener saw McMaster crush Guelph 50-9, but that was a long time ago, and these Gryphons are a much bet-ter team. The battle for the Yates Cup begins at 1:00 p.m. on Nov. 10 at Ron Joyce Stadium in Hamilton.

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Field hockey takes CIS bronzeBrittany Seidler scored twice, leading the Gryphons to their third consecutive CIS bronze medal in a 3-1 win over Western

Jeff sehl

After an upset loss in round robin play to Western on Nov. 3, dropping the Gryphons out of the gold medal game, it was Guelph who was able to get a measure of revenge on Western as they defeated them the next day in the bronze medal game by a score of 3-1 at U of T’s Varsity Stadium.

The Gryphons were lead by a two goal performance by fourth year forward, Brittany Seidler, who also lead the national tournament in goals. Prior to the start of the tournament, Seidler was also named the CIS play-er of the year, becoming only the second Gryphon in the program’s history to do so. However, Seidler was quick to praise her teammates for their contribution towards her personal success.

“It’s an honour to be recognized as player of the year, but to be hon-est I could not have done it without every single girl on our team,” said Seidler. “Day in and day out we pushed each other to be the best players we could be. Without them I would not have had the success I’ve had in my years at Guelph.”

For the Gryphons, the win was their third consecutive CIS bronze medal, their fifth consecutive ap-pearance in the bronze medal match, and their sixth consecutive year competing for a CIS medal after winning silver in 2007, solidifying their reputation as perennial con-tenders according to Seidler.

“It’s an honour to go to CIS as many as three times in a row. The fact that we have gone every year since 2007 shows just how strong the program here at Guelph is.”

With many players graduating this year, the Gryphons will now look to their youth to continue the success they’ve had over the past six years. However, according to Seidler, the youth of their team is one of their biggest strengths, and following this year’s national

tournament and bronze medal victory, they have the necessary experience to continue the pro-gram’s winning tradition.

“Our team now is a young but very strong team. All of our rookies are skilled enough to be start-ers next year, and most of them

started this year,” said Seidler. “I am confident that the field hockey program here at Guelph will con-tinue to have success.”

The Gryphon field hockey team works the ball past the Toronto defense on Nov. 2 in the cIS championship tournament hosted by the University of Toronto.

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Gryphons out of CUFlA finalA heartbreaking loss in the semifinal ended Guelph’s hope at a CUFLA championship

chris müller

The men’s lacrosse team partici-pated in the annual Baggattaway Cup, the championship tourna-ment for the Canadian University Field Lacrosse Association, held at Trent University from Nov. 2 to Nov. 4.

After defeating Laurier in a wild-card game to grant the team entrance into the tournament on Oct. 27, the Gryphons seemed poised to be serious contenders in this year’s championship affair.

Their first game of the tour-nament, a quarterfinal matchup with Trent on Nov. 2, was a dom-inant effort by the Gryphons

– outmatching the Excalibur in every facet of the game. Guelph’s 15-7 victory was due in large part to the outstanding offensive play of Jordan Critch, a third year midfielder. Critch was named the game’s most valuable player for Guelph.

Nov. 3 would tell an entirely different tale than the previous day, as Guelph played the Mc-Gill Redmen in the first of the tournament’s semi-final games. Guelph and McGill were very well matched, trading goals through-out the course of the game. The Gryphons entered the fourth

with a 7-5 lead and were twen-ty minutes away from punching their ticket to the championship game. That ticket would never be punched.

Late in the fourth period, the score then at 8-6, things fell apart for the Gryphons. The de-fense uncharacteristically gave up two quick goals, tying the game and preparing the crowd for overtime. With less than a min-ute to play, the Redmen moved quickly off the draw to set up in Guelph’s end. Working the clock down, the Redmen waited for only a few precious seconds to remain before making their last strike on net.

Working from behind the net, McGill’s Brandon McLean took a few choice steps towards the front of the net, and buried the ball into the back of it. The goal came with its fair share of con-troversy, as several Gryphons believed McLean to have placed his foot on the line of the crease

– a foul that instantly awards the ball to the non-offending team. There was no call on the play, and a subsequent check for an illegal stick would prove fruitless – the game, and the season, were over.

“It’s a tough pill to swallow when you lose in the last second like that, especially when there’s so little time on the clock,” said fourth-year midfielder Connor Deuchars.

“It feels like we managed to pull defeat out of the jaws of victory,

and its rough especially since we lost in a similar manner last sea-son,” said fifth-year defensive player Jeff Sehl. “I hope the guys returning next year will take this as a lesson and take no lead for granted.”

McGill went on to win the CUFLA title on Nov. 4 in a 7-6 double-overtime contest with Western.

The loss marks much more than just the end of the season for the Gryphons; several of the players, Sehl included, were on the 2008 iteration of the team when they won the Baggattaway Cup. The last few years have re-sulted in much frustration: the team has made the tournament every year since, but has not been able to lift the trophy – a moment many retiring players were hop-ing to end their careers with.

Sehl finds room for optimism amidst this trying edition of the CUFLA championship.

“It seems like every year we graduate a lot of key players, but every year we’re still right there atop the CUFLA standings, and I think that will be no different next season,” Sehl said.

Optimism aside, it was a dis-appointing finish to a season that showcased several Gry-phons as league-leading scorers and an impressive 10-2 record in the regular season, only to conclude with a heartbreaking, last-second loss to the eventual champions.

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50 / 50 weekend for women’s hockeyThe Gryphons won and lost a game in their weekend action

chris müller

Ten games into the season the Gryphons have looked sharp, notching a 6-2-2 overall record so far in 2012. Nov. 3 showcased the Gryphons playing host to the Waterloo Warriors, a matchup that is quickly becoming one of the more intriguing rivalries in the OUA.

Goals by Jenna Lanzaratta, Ta-mara Bell, and Jessica Pinkerton led the Gryphons to a 3-2 victory over the Warriors. It was another day at the office for Brooke Siddell in net, stopping 14 of 16 shots on goal. The Gryphons jumped out to an early lead, but soon watched Waterloo even it up before the eventual game-winner by Pinker-ton early in the third period.

The women continued play on Nov. 4 when they travelled to

Waterloo to take on the Laurier Golden Hawks. The Golden Hawks scored a goal with only a minute left in the third, forcing overtime.

Despite the 28-save perfor-mance by Siddell, Laurier made no mistake and improved to 8-1-1 on the season, now tied with Queen’s for the best record in the OUA. Bell, Christine Grant, and Aman-da Parkins scored a goal apiece in the loss.

In spite of the tough overtime loss to Laurier, the season has been good for the Gryphons so far. Parkins, Pinkerton, and Grant are three Gryphons in the top ten of OUA point-getters. Parkins – a former professional hockey play-er and current Guelph rookie – is tied for the league lead in goals with 7.

Goaltending, a strength of past Guelph squads, continues to be a strong asset as the Gryphons move ahead in their season. Siddall has started every game for Guelph, accounting for 608 minutes and posting a .899 save percentage

in that time. While those num-bers suggest strong play from the

defensive end, one has to wonder how much longer Siddall can keep it up, as the minutes played are sure to be taking their toll.

Siddall and the rest of the Gry-phons will continue their season at home on Nov. 10 when they host the Western Mustangs.

Gryphon captain Tamara bell celebrates a goal during the women’s hockey team’s weekend matchup against laurier on Nov. 4. The Gryphons lost the game 4-3 in overtime.

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Gryphon rowing makes wavesRowing team back from B.C.

chris müller

The University of Guelph row-ing team recently returned from the Canadian University Rowing Championships in Burnaby, BC. The relatively young Guelph pro-gram returned to Ontario satisfied with the men’s seventh place fin-ish, and the women’s sixth place finish as well.

On the men’s side, Brock defeat-ed the University of Victoria in the overall standings by the narrow-est of margins – a single point. The women’s side was won by anoth-er close margin, this time of two points, with the University of Vic-toria edging out the University of British Columbia.

Mark Henry highlighted the Gry-phons’s performance at the meet, accruing two silver medals to add to his OUA gold and bronze from the provincial championships on the weekend of Oct. 28. Henry’s silver medal performances came in the heavyweight men’s singles and the lightweight singles events. The two events were held within a span of an hour and a half, truly testing Henry’s endurance and stamina in the windy and wet conditions.

The national event, spanning Nov. 2 to Nov. 4, showcased a young Gryphon squad looking to gain some footing amongst the na-tion’s rowing elite.

“We did very well,” said third-year rower Jackson Wittig. “We’re a growing program, and for one this young, we’re doing very well.”

Pointing to the well-maintained strength of older programs like that

of Brock and Western, Wittig ex-plains that while sixth place might not seem like much to some, it’s a step in the right direction for the program.

The training-intensive squad will take a couple of weeks off to let their bodies rest, and will continue training with weights and exten-sive use of the rowing machines in the athletic centre.

Gryphons Emily Jago, Mark Henry, and Tani Weber have re-mained in BC, awaiting the National Rowing Championships (open to competitors from outside the uni-versities) running from Nov. 9 to Nov. 11. The event will host po-tential future Olympians, and the level of competition Gryphon row-ers will see could be incredible – an experience that will surely benefit the Gryphon program in the com-ing years.

congratulations to Mitch Allan, Tanner Thompson, brett Mackenzie, Tyler McGregor, and dan VanderPol on being selected this week’s Fans of the Game. Spotted enjoying the Gryphons dramatic victory of Queen’s on Nov. 3, the group of five all received free tickets to a future Gryphon home event of their choosing. congratulations guys, and Go Gryphons!

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Gryphons medal at CIS women’s rugby championshipsWomen bring home the silver

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The Guelph Gryphons women’s rugby team failed to repeat last year’s success in the CIS Cham-pionship gold medal game as the St. Francis Xavier X-Women romped past them 37-0 for the win on Nov. 4.

The tournament host, X-Women, turned the tables on the title-holding Gryphons with the shutout at the St. Francis Xavier Oland Stadium in Antigonish, N.S. The two teams previously met in the 2011 final where Guelph shut out the X-Women 28-0.

The Gryphons drubbing by the team ranked number one in the country all season long, came as a little bit of a surprise after the solid showing of the title-hold-ers in their first two games at the four-day tournament.

In the pool A opener on Nov. 1, the Gryphons faced the Acadia Axewomen and won decisively by a score of 45-7. Center Shan-non Spurrell scored a try three minutes into the game for Guelph. Teammate and CIS women rugby player of the year, center Britt

Benn added three more tries in the game while Dominique Monaghan, Caitlin Beaton and Samantha Roy added one apiece. Fly half Steph-anie Tebelius contributed five conversions.

The win secured a spot for the Gryphons to play in the last match of pool A on Nov. 3 against the Al-berta Pandas.

The Pandas made the Gryphons work for the win. Tebelius scored a penalty goal in the fifth minute of the game but Guelph trailed 5-3 at the half. Tebelius had two conver-sions in the second, contributing a total of seven points. Benn scored two tries to contribute 10 points in the 17-10 win. The win sent the Gryphons to the gold medal re-match against the X-Women.

The X-Women on the other hand dominated throughout the tour-nament. The tournament opening game on Nov. 1 saw the team trounce the Queens Gaels 53-10. They followed up that win with a 40-0 shutout against the Concor-dia Stingers on Nov. 3 to win pool B. The formidable X-Women moved on to face the Gryphons.

In the final game, the Gryphons were unable to put any points on the scoreboard. Six different X-Women scored seven tries in the gold medal game: Asya Bartley,

Tyson Beukeboom, Tina Hansen, Amanda Thornborough and Allie Munroe and Lisa Gauthier scored two. Magali Harvey added a con-vert to seal the 37-0 win.

St. Francis Xavier’s Amanada Thornborough and Gryphon Cait-lin McNally, a Guelph native, were named the players of the game.

Tournament all-stars includ-ed four Gryphons: lock Caitlin Beaton, center Britt Benn, lock Morganne Linthwaite and full-back Caitlin McNally.

The Alberta Pandas beat the Concordia Stingers 34-15 for the bronze. Fifth place went to Queens Gaels with a 36-22 win over the Acadia Axewomen.

caitlin McNally of the women’s rugby team throws a stiff-arm on an Acadia University defender. Guelph went on to win the game 45-7.

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listen up, MovemberDon’t let your new-grown mo’ go to waste

chris müller

Ah, November. The chill of win-ter is creeping in, the Grey Cup is on its way to Toronto, and you’ve got a new nose-neighbour to keep you warm in these malicious winter months. The Movember campaign has grown exponen-tially since its inception nearly a decade ago, but facial aesthetics aside, the campaign’s movement is a positive one – albeit one that’s often abused.

For many, the appeal of grow-ing the ultimate accessory of masculinity is enough to throw down the razors for a month, but this is not the ultimate goal of the organization. Awareness of men’s health issues, most notably prostate cancer, is at the heart of Movember, despite their relent-less glorification of male facial hair during the month.

Prostate Cancer Canada sug-gests that one in seven Canadian men will contract some form of prostate cancer during their life-time. While the cancer generally materializes in men over the age of 40, the purpose of an awareness campaign is to make you aware of the potential for the disease to af-fect each person, regardless of age.

With the odds pointing to-wards a legitimate possibility of

developing prostate cancer later in life, it might be worth consid-ering turning that brand-new moustache in the general di-rection of your doctor’s office. Growing the moustache is one thing, but raising funds through the organization’s campaign and getting checked out by a doctor might be the best course of ac-tion. This isn’t a fresh idea either, as the Movember website points to their intent in inspiring im-proved awareness in the realm of men’s health.

“No matter the country or city, Movember will continue to work to change established habits and attitudes men have about their health, to educate men about the health risks they face, and to act on that knowledge, thereby increasing the chances of early detection, diagnosis and effective treatment,” the website states.

The intent of the organization is to change the culture surround-ing discussion and awareness of men’s health – to open the dis-cussion up and allow men to feel comfortable talking about health issues unique to men. If that’s going to happen, perhaps No-vember should mean a doctor’s appointment before the barber-shop. That way, there can be no doubt as to the effectiveness and authenticity of personal involve-ment in the movement – grow a mo’ and get yourself checked out: your life could depend on it.

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Gryphons in History – Déjà vu?sasha odesse

Published in The Ontarion on Nov. 9, 1960.

“REDMEN UPSET MAC 15-9” reads the headline below this photo of Redmen, Bob McKenzie twisting past the Mac defense for the win-ning touchdown.

After losing to McMaster earlier

in the season the OA-VC tied Mac for second place in this convincing rematch. Mac, the favourite to win the game had in the past year re-claimed the President’s Cup, which had “been housed in Guelph for the past two years.”

Down 9-8 entering the final quar-ter, the Redmen “took charge and marched the length of the field with Wright [the Redmen QB] hitting

McKenzie on the one yard line be-fore spinning over for the score.”

The highlight of the game actually took place earlier in the match with a “fifty yard pass and run effort […] that took the ball into McMaster’s fifteen yard line.”

Will it be déjà vu next weekend in Hamilton when the Gryphons take on the McMaster Marauders for the Yates Cup?

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This Week in History:U.S. Election Edition

nixon Wins by a thin Margin, pleads for Reunited nationWhile the 2012 elections come to an end, looking back on the outcomes of past elections underlines the importance of this week. In 1968, Nixon beat out Hubert H. Humphrey in what was called, “one of the closest and most tumultu-ous Presidential campaigns in history.” Though his goal was unity, an analysis of voting regions showed that he was not as popular in urban areas, where the article identifies, “he must perform his works of unity and redevelopment.” The most interesting aspect of the elec-tions addressed in the article was Nixon’s overwhelming unpopularity in Black communities. In fact, Governor Spiro T. Agnew, Nixon’s running mate and vice-president, was seen as “a kind of symbol of white annoyance with the restiveness of the [these communities].” Nixon’s presidential run came to an end in 1972 with the well-known Watergate scandal. (The New York Times – Nov. 5, 1968)

the presidential election; Astounding triumph of Republicanism Abraham Lincoln’s term began on this day more than 150 years ago. The newspaper reported that he won with a majority of the popular vote, and that this was, “by far the heaviest popular vote ever cast in the city [of New York].” Unlike today’s American election map, which shows a country divided almost equally between Republican and Demo-crat supporters, the 1860 vote resulted in Republican majorities across the coun-try. Lincoln’s presidential term ended abruptly on April 14, 1865, when he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. (The New York Times – Nov. 6, 1860)

Additional $38,000,000 Sought in Fed-eral Grants to UniversitiesSimilarly to students in the modern day, the Canadian Universities Foundation proclaimed in 1960 that tuition fees were too high. Though this was not directly related with the elections that were taking place at the time between Nixon and John F. Kennedy, this headline was the focal point of the issue, which dem-onstrated the significant weight of the concerns for tuition aid. A correspondent was, however, sent to cover the day’s elections, and reported below the first article that, “Betting on landslide hardly a gamble as long as you don’t say which way,” which doesn’t really make much sense. The photo printed with the article explains the sit-uation better, showing a group of polling booth administrators in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, holding signs that read, “Kennedy—0” and “”Nixon—9.” There were only nine eligible voters in the village. In 2012, the now-ten eligible voters were split 5-5 for Romney and Obama. (The Globe and Mail – Nov. 8, 1960)

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Supporting your breast assetsWhy 85 per cent of women are wearing the wrong bra, and how to fix it

Jessica avolio

I’m sure you’ve heard the sta-tistics before, that a majority of women are wearing the wrong bra size. Maybe you thought “That’s definitely not me,” but statistics say you may be off base.

If you’ve ever been fitted at a lingerie store at the mall, you’re probably wearing the wrong size. The first issue is that they always measure you with your bra on. What this means is that they are measuring your bra and not your breasts, and this isn’t very help-ful in figuring out your true size. The second issue, and this is a huge one, is that most of these bra stores only carry a very nar-row range of bra sizes, generally starting at a 34-inch band and ending at a DD cup. Now we know that breasts, like women in gen-eral, come in all shapes and sizes. Clearly there are many women who have band sizes that are smaller than 34 inches and larg-er than 38 inches, and a proper fitting underbust is the pinnacle of a supportive bra. These stores also seem to place a social stig-ma on large breasts and instead of labeling cup sizes properly as E and F, you get silly sizes such as DD and DDD.

Part of this issue also stems from the lack of standardization of cup sizes in North America, where al-ternatively, places such as the UK do standardize bra sizing. These commercial American bra chains fail to cater to the wide variety of shapes and sizes of women’s breasts, which contributes to the statistics that claim, “most women are wearing the wrong bra.”

The following sizing informa-tion is based on a bra fitting guide by a very informed Reddit user named “MyWifesBusty,” who has helped hundreds, if not thousands of women find the right bra size.

Finding the right bra size is actually a fairly simple equa-tion. You’ll need a tailor’s tape measure, a pen and paper, and maybe a friend or significant other to help you out. Make sure you aren’t wearing a bra or any clothing to get the most accurate measurement.

For the under bust measure-ment, wrap the measuring tape snugly around your torso, direct-ly under where your breast tissue stops. This will be your band size, and you’ll write down this mea-surement in inches.

Next is your bust measure-ment, and the best way to do this

is to lean forward so your back is parallel to the ground. This will help push all your breast tissue forward, especially if you have pendulous breasts. Measure around your bust putting the tape over the fullest part of your breast and keeping the tape as straight as possible (this is why a friend may be helpful!). You want it to be

only so snug that it won’t nudge off the skin, and not so tight that it deforms the breast. Write this measurement down.

You can also measure your bust in the upright position and take an average of the two bust mea-surements, but it is best to go with the larger measurement because it is very common for women to be wearing cup sizes too small.

With this information, sub-tract the band size from the bust size and use that number to ref-erence chart 1. For example, if your underbust was 34 inch-es and your bust was 40 inches, that would give you a six-inch difference. This difference of six inches would equate to a cup size of F, and knowing your under bust is 34 inches, you would be a 34F in UK sizes. As you can probably also see from the chart, US sizes are wildly inconsistent.

Another way to figure out your size is to try the bra size calcu-lator at sophisticatedpair.com/bracalculator.htm. Don’t be too surprised if you get a size radically different than what you are cur-rently wearing; our preconceived notions about breast size are ter-ribly incorrect. We always think a D cup means huge breasts, but it is actually all relative to band size. A 36A will actually have the same volume of breast tissue as a 30D, and this is called a “sister size”, see chart 2. for reference.

After calculating, keep in mind that nothing will beat an in-per-son fitting. If you are in the Guelph area, visit Dalia Elegant Lingerie at Victoria and Grange. They are, in my experience, the only qualified bra-fitting specialists in the city.

Once you have the correct bra on, try the “scoop and swoop” method which includes scoop-ing all the breast tissue from your sides and armpits into the cups. This will help all the fat that has been pushed out of your breasts

and into your armpits and back from poorly fitting bras of the past. It’s not uncommon to increase a cup size after wearing the right bra since the “back and armpit fat” will have migrated back into its proper place (your breasts).

Here is a quick troubleshooting list:- Make sure the band is snug and sits parallel to the floor.

- If the band feels too tight, increase the band size. If it’s riding up in the back, decrease band size.

- If the gore (fabric between the two cups) isn’t sitting flush against your breastbone, either the band is too large or the cups are too small.

- If breasts are spilling out of the cups (at the sides or top), the cup is too small. If the cup is wrinkly, you either have to go down a cup size or the bra isn’t right for your breast shape.

- If the straps are digging in, loosen them. If your bra no longer supports your breasts, you need a tighter band.

Lastly, remember that band and cup size are not independent of each other, and if you adjust the cup you need to also adjust the band, and vice versa. Most of all, make sure the bra is flattering to your breast shape and size, as well as your body type. For more in-formation, visit reddit.com/r/ABraThatFits or bratabase.com. To purchase bras online for sizes not found in store, visit brastop.com.

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Thank you letters about more than praiseFollow-up thank you letters are a powerful way to land the job

wayne Greenway

Emilia is searching for an entry-level position with an advertising agency. She seems to be doing everything right, but she still has not landed a job in six months of highly disciplined searching.

Emilia has a B.Comm in Mar-keting Management, with four summers of excellent progres-sive experience with advertising firms. She has spent the last three years travelling across Asia and then wound up teach-ing English as a second language in Spain for the past year.

Before she left on her journey, she spoke to a career develop-ment professional, who helped her to realize how her travels might diminish the value of her education to potential employ-ers upon her return.

To manage this risk, she has steadily taken online courses to-wards an advertising and media certificate and she has stayed in touch with her employers from her summer experiences. She occasionally sent them warmly received emails about her trav-els and sought their input into two important assignments for her courses.

So far, she has had inter-views with three employers, one of whom shortlisted her for a second interview. The inter-views have gone well and she felt sure she would have been select-ed from the short list, but she is still waiting to hear back. It has been about six weeks, with no response to her inquiries, so it is likely that someone else was selected for the position.

Her strategy is sound. Her in-formational interviews are still giving her leads. A review of Emilia’s resume, cover letter and answers to interview questions were all strong.

She thought it could have been just her “fit” with the jobs, until a friend asked her about her thank you letters. Emilia had assumed that “surely, they did not need another email thanking them for the interview,” yet this might be the key reason that Emilia has yet to be successful.

According to data released by CareerBuilder, last year, more than one-in-five hiring managers are less likely to hire a candidate if they don’t receive thank you notes after an interview.

A press release from Career-Builder goes on to say, “Of those who would dismiss a candidate for the faux pas, 86 per cent say it shows a lack of follow-through

and an additional 56 per cent say it sends the message that they aren’t really serious about the opportunity.”

Career development profes-sionals across the field describe how thank you notes should not be taken lightly. They are as im-portant as the resume and cover letter!

Effectively structured thank you notes can serve several purposes. A letter thanks the employer for their time and nat-urally references the position, date, and time of the interview. It then highlights the applicant’s strengths, as they correspond with what was learned in the interview. The next section of the letter clarifies any unan-swered questions and address concerns expressed by the inter-viewer. The final section of the letter expresses the candidate’s enthusiasm for the position; re-iterates the agreement about what the next steps are; thanks the employer again and finishes with a sincere closing.

Job seekers are wise to get the name and position title of the people on the interview panel prior to the interview. This allows for a rough draft of the let-ters to be crafted before going for the interview. Then the letters can be quickly customized after the interview, so that the em-ployer receives the letters within 24 hours of the interview. Each person on the interview panel should receive a personal letter of thanks.

Some career development pro-fessionals will advise clients to send a handwritten note, but a recent study of 500 human

resources (HR) managers at com-panies with 20 or more employees by Accountemps indicates that email may be the best route to follow. Eighty-seven percent of managers in this survey said email is an appropriate way to express thanks after meeting with a hiring manager.

Emilia’s research on the value of thank you letters also opened a completely new understanding of the kinds of questions she is going to ask in her next interview. She is definitely going to ask a question like “Let’s assume that

I have been in this position for one year and you are very pleased with my performance. What ac-complishments would you hope to be giving me positive feedback on during that meeting?”

She is also going to follow that question with “What additional information can I provide about my qualifications?”

This allows Emilia to follow up briefly in the interview and in her thank you letter with specific ex-perience that would strengthen her ability to succeed at the stat-ed accomplishments.

For her thank you letters, Emilia will be sure she has the correct contact information of each of the people at the table during the interview. She will also ask about the next steps and when would be an appropriate time to follow up so that this can be reiterated in the letter.

Using this approach the whole idea of the thank you letter changes from being just a seem-ingly trivial polite response to a powerful vehicle for strength-ening the candidates chances of being selected.

Jordan Vallis, member of the Guelph engineering Movember team. Jordan is going for the burnside cross-stache. his team’s motivation is, “We’re here to raise money and awareness for men’s health, with hairy faces.”

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AdWatch: pittfallHigh profile Chanel No. 5 advert is the Pitt’s

tom beedham

From a creative standpoint, market-ing a scent has to be one of the hardest jobs out there. The product you are pitching is invisible; what you have to sell is the container.

The first perfume created by Pa-risian fashion designer Gabrielle

“Coco” Chanel, Chanel No. 5 has ap-proached this challenge since May 5, 1921, mostly achieving success.

A scent compounded by Russian-French chemist and perfumer Ernest Beaux, No. 5 came on to the market at a time long before the celebri-ty endorsement was in vogue, and Chanel’s original marketing strategy hardly dressed up the product at all. In fact, it established a reputation for neglecting to do just that: armed with a simple bottle, the fashion designer invited a group of elite friends to her

boutiques on the fifth day of the fifth month of the year and simply intro-duced them to the square bottle and its scent.

According to Tilar Mazzeo, whose 2010 book The Secret of Chanel No. 5 tells the story of the brand, in the 1940s, when most perfumes sold poorly, Parfums Chanel – the cor-porate entity in control of No. 5’s brand – decreased advertising when the industry standard involved in-creasing brand exposure. The simple, low profile approach to the product’s branding established No. 5 as an idol of exclusivity.

Despite an endorsement from Marilyn Monroe in 1954, Chanel was able to maintain this image because the endorsement was unpro-voked by Parfums Chanel; Monroe namedropped the fragrance in an interview.

Mazzeo says that the ’60s saw the company approach mass-marketing in earnest for the first time, releasing print ads in glossy magazines. Still, it

branded itself as an item reserved to an exclusive market, calling itself the scent “Every woman alive wants.”

By the ’70s however, the brand realized that all its campaigning had wound up reducing the fragrance to an audience of “sweet, proper co-eds whose style bibles were teen-age fashion magazines.” As a result, it sought to return to its elite roots and it turned to television commercials and pulled its products from drug stores and similar venues.

What followed was an age of “high-art” mini-films.

The history is what makes the brand’s latest branding decision in-credibly confusing.

Although the scent is market-ed towards women, the latest No. 5 campaign features a bearded Brad Pitt breaking the fourth wall and inco-herently philosophizing: “wherever I go, there you are – my luck, my fate, my fortune. Chanel No. 5. Inevitable.”

In his films, Pitt has established himself as an image of confidence,

delivering some of the most focused and memorable lines in film history. Here, he seems completely lost, and the ad doesn’t seem to do anything to cover that up.

Besides being an objectively bad ad

to sit through, in effect, Chanel comes off as if it’s doing nothing more than making a desperate attempt at min-ing a popular and widely-recognized celebrity – so much for that exclu-sivity thing.

brad Pitt is the new spokesperson for chanel No 5. perfume.

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tech tattlesTuition payers should choose how class time is spent; “snitch culture” sanctions disengaging teaching

carleiGh cathcart

Recently, the Toronto Star pub-lished an article about a university professor who requires his students to agree to limit their electronic use during class to relative mate-rial only. The rule also includes a promise to truthfully report to the entire class what another student’s

screen is showing if suspected of abusing the dictum. Violators are asked to leave for the remainder of the lecture. In my opinion, this professor’s mandate is unhelpful, if not well-intentioned.

Ironically, this article was

printed at a time of great dis-satisfaction with the seemingly perpetual tuition hikes. Though the two subjects may seem only weakly linked, I personally believe there is more of a connection than seen at first glance.

The arguments for the benefit of technology in modern educational systems are endless. Computers, e-readers, smartboards, i-click-ers ... there are many advantages of applying these interactive tools to enhance education, in ways we may never have even thought pos-sible a mere decade ago. However, as with essentially any novel de-vice (especially in the hands of our youth), there are drawbacks as well.

Without getting into the issues of the environment, technological dependence, and ergonomic dan-gers, the presence of these gadgets provides an excellent opportunity for distraction. Music, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter; these are just a few of the countless alternate uni-verses that can take us to a world entirely different from the material a teacher or professor is encour-aging you to engage with.

In public school, students use computers during class time for education; some classrooms have smartboards. Generally, cell phones are banned or highly dis-couraged. High school brings slightly more freedom, where the custom is to keep iPods and cell phone use restricted to out of class times only. [Note, the devices used in my childhood are begin-ning to differ from those actually used today, thanks to the constant

evolution of technology.] University, though, is a dif-

ferent story. Post-secondary education is not a publicly fund-ed service. When you choose to attend a college or university, you do so knowing that there will be fees to pay. And obviously, those fees are not cheap. It is here that my argument comes into play: if we are aware that we pay our tu-ition regardless of how we use it, shouldn’t we have the freedom to employ our education as we see fit?

As university students, we know full well that nobody is taking our attendance, no one is peering over our shoulders to see if we’re

doing it right, and no T.A. is going to hound us over a late assign-ment. The school has our money, and it becomes our decision on how to use the service we’ve paid for. And if that includes missing important clues in lectures or pri-oritizing texting over learning, so be it. We’re big kids now.

Another point to consider is that asking students to “tell” on each other, especially at the supposedly higher-education level of univer-sity, is an unfortunate idea. The uncomfortable atmosphere that a “snitch culture” creates does not promote an ideal learning envi-ronment. The best way to promote

the lecture material is to engage the (willing) students and contin-ue providing hints and additional information that can only be re-ceived if paying attention.

Though I don’t foresee a rehab centre opening for addicts any time soon, I cannot deny there is an over-reliance problem with technology. All this being said, we at university are now adults, and must learn for ourselves the con-sequences of our actions (or lack thereof).

Some might say, “You snooze, you lose,” but maybe a more ap-propriate saying would be, “On screen for days, bye-bye to ‘A’s.”

It’s difficult for professors to monitor what students are utilizing their laptops for without assistance from his or her pupils.

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Inordinate Ordinancechris carr

Let me paint you a picture. Imagine an antiseptic room,

bathed in artificial light. Be-tween pictures of people you’ve never and will never meet are artifacts, each waiting to grow old, obsolete, and turn to stone. All around, cabbage-headed mouth-breathers snatch and grab at these artifacts, slashing them and pawing at their catch. They drone on about the artifacts too, trying to give meaning to this new thing, like a fake history, aimed at adding significance to the present. Once their fiction is concocted, they hand you piec-es of paper that mean nothing, you punch digits into a machine that mean nothing, and they take their artifact home, to pine over its nothingness until they replace it for another, newer, meaning-less thing.

Welcome to customer service. As the holiday season grows

nearer and the innocence of capitalism shrinks in the dis-tance, many of us will be stuck in this hell of nothing everlast-ing. Stone Road Mall is full of the working students, each with their own set of useless trinkets to push. But they do it (and I am

there with you – come visit me at the Apple store in the mall. I’ll sell you lots of nothing), be-cause they have to do it. We need to buy presents for those buy-ing presents for us, forever and ever perpetuating this hell, over and over, until we quit, get fired, or the zombie apocalypse hap-pens, amen.

Am I exaggerating? Maybe. But consider, objectively, the phenomenon of the customer/employee dichotomy. On one hand, we have the employee, paid to ease the customer into the warm waters of consumer-ism. On the other, we have the customer, like cattle, stamped-ing and suffering to buy things they don’t need in the first place.

“What do you mean you don’t have the new [insert mundane product here]? How will I ever get to own something I’d never actually need and will only upset me in six months when the new one comes out? What do you mean it doesn’t come in breast cancer pink? I need to feel better about my selfish and superfluous purchase!” The cattle say, with gaping maw of booster juice and ignorant self-indulgence, smack-ing and spitting.

The customer service industry

hinges on shit-given and for the ones employed by it, shit-giv-en is in low supply. I may not be talking for all of us – the mighty folders, wipers, ushers and in-dulgent caddies, the customer service workers – maybe they are new at their job and they “like talking to people.” Maybe there are a few good people in it to make some money and believe in the products they are selling. To those people, I say, you have my envy, I wish I had faith.

But for the rest of us, who understand the soul-sucking, hellish ideals of the customer ser-vice Reich, please, know you have brothers and sisters who are here for you, suffering like you. We need a brotherhood (sisters, you are with us here) of the burned and prodded customer service workers, sympathetic to the ills of the Christmas season worker. You can join too, temporary/sea-sonal help, but you’ll have to buy your own decoder rings.

Consider this a public service announcement for the we-who-are-the-consumer (as we all are). For anyone who has ever thought of a mall employee as a servant, or any lesser being, know this: you are the worst type of person there is, and you should feel deep

shame. Where does this sado-masochistic relationship between master and slave (read: customer and employee) come from? Are we not people? If you prick us do we not bleed? We share the food court, can we not share a common decency toward one another?

In closing, with the Season of the Gift soon upon us, consider the workers in your travels from happiness to possession. We give you the opportunity to fill your lives with things you don’t need and we can easily take them away.

“Sorry, we’re out of stock – maybe next week.”

Be nice to the people who work at the mall this season. Or else there will be a revolution. But first, we’ll have to buy ski masks from the mall. Then, we’ll totally have revolution.

Chris Carr is Editor-in-Chief of The Cannon. “Inordinate Ordnance” publishes every Thursday in The Cannon and in The Ontarion. The opinions post-ed on thecannon.ca reflect those of their author and do not nec-essarily reflect the opinions of the Central Student Association and the Guelph Campus Co-op, or The Ontarion.

Ho ho hold off on the Christmas musicIt is November, and for many businesses, that means one thing: time to gear up for the holiday season. For most retail outlets, that includes switch-ing the store sound system from light rock and Top 40 to Christ-mas music.

The crass consumerism that surrounds Christmas has always been a controversial topic. The early promotion of the holiday has been derided for taking away from the “true meaning” of Christmas (we will leave exactly what that true meaning is to our readers to define for them-selves) and has drawn the ire of those weary from the excesses of preceding holidays such as Thanksgiving and Halloween.

Recently, this premature pushing of a commercialized Christmas took a critical blow. On Nov. 2, Shoppers Drug Mart announced that its stores would suspend Christmas music until further notice, citing customer complaints. There are a considerable number of reasons other stores should follow suit. There is of course the aforementioned argument that pushing holiday shopping excessively early devalues the

actual holiday itself. There is the view that playing Christmas music before Remembrance Day is somehow a disservice to vet-erans. Some might even argue that playing Christmas music overshadows the consider-able number of those of other faiths who do not celebrate that holiday.

None of these are particularly strong arguments. The busi-ness of retail outlets is to sell merchandise, and if that means marketing sooner for the sea-sonal boom, they will do so. Saying that playing Christmas music in advance of Nov. 11 is disrespectful somehow implies that the status quo is not – but the argument can hardly be made that the likes of Maroon 5, Justin Bieber, and Taylor Swift make a morally superior soundtrack for the lead up to Remembrance Day. Finally, the playing of Christmas music in no way precludes those of other faiths from celebrating their holidays as they see fit, and in a society that values freedom of expression and freedom of wor-ship, business owners can play seasonal tunes accordingly if they so choose.

A more compelling reason to hold back on Christmas music has to do with the music itself. Make no mistake; The Ontar-ion’s editorialists are not a bunch of Grinches. Rather, the problem is that there are but a handful of Christmas songs that get played ad nauseum for an entire two months. And, unlike Top 40 radio, which gradually turns over as new hits come out, these seasonal songs have been pretty much the same for half a century. Indeed, as popular webcomic xkcd has pointed out, of the 20 most-played Christmas songs, 16 were written in the 1940s and ’50s (all the remain-ing songs rounding out the top 20 were written in the 1930s, 60s, and 70s). “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)” was penned in 1944, as was “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.” “White Christmas” in 1940. “Silver Bells” in 1950. And so on.

Certainly, new festive music is written every year and con-temporary artists have offered up re-imaginings of the long-standing holiday favourites. Among others, Justin Bieber, Michael Bublé and Barenaked

Ladies each have notable holi-day albums and The Killers even released the rather bizarre song “Don’t Shoot Me Santa” in 2007. The issue is that most Christmas albums contribute nothing more than covers of the pre-existing songs, and when a new song such as “Don’t Shoot Me Santa” comes along, it is more often than not relegated to obscurity.

Hence, shopping mall holi-day playlists fail to evolve. As xkcd points out wryly, “Every year, [North] American culture embarks on a massive pro-ject to carefully recreate the Christmases of Baby Boomers’s childhoods.” It’s wax-museum creepy.

But more importantly, by the time Dec. 25 rolls around, the limited selection of Christ-mas songs on stores’ musical rotations become drastically overplayed. What makes the songs special – their connec-tion to a special time of year – is lost.

Shoppers Drug Mart has made the right decision in ceding to customer complaints about the early onslaught of Christmas music. Hopefully other retail-ers follow suit.

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thursday november 8Thursday At Noon Con-cert Series. Concerts start at 12:00p.m. Thursdays in Mack-innon room 107 (Goldschmidt room). Admission free – dona-tions gratefully appreciated. Everyone welcome!

Guelph Field Naturalists. Meet-ing: 7:30pm at the Arboretum Centre. All welcome. Dr. Brent Patterson (research scientist with MNR), is speaking on Wolves and Coyotes in Ontario.

Women and Trans Night: Empowerment, Bicycle repair knowledge and FUN. The CSA Bike Centre, 620 Gordon St. Thursday eves until Decem-ber 6. Information: bikevol@uoguelph.ca, csabike@uoguelph.ca

Friday november 9Guelph Country Dances monthly contra dance series 8pm at St. James Anglican Church, S/W corner of Paisley Rd/Glasgow Street. No part-ner or previous experience necessary. Band: Relative Har-mony. Caller: Judy Greenhill. Admission $10 ($8 students/members). Free parking. Absolutely No Street Shoes on the dance floor!

Saturday november 10Guelph Spoken Word Pres-ents... Ontario International Poetry Slam. 11am-11pm. River Run Centre - 35 Woolwich St. An all-day performance poetry competition featuring up to 72 world class performance poets competing for their share of $10,000. $45 Full-Day audience ticket, poet bios & schedule available at www.oips.ca

Sunday november 11Guelph Hiking Trail Club: Hike Everton’s “Valhalla” 4-5 km, Level 2. Speed Moder-ate. We promise two fordings of the Eramosa River…bring wading shoes and a towel! Lim-ited bushwhacking. Meet 1pm at Guelph covered bridge lot on Gordon St. All welcome. Leader: Bill Mungall wmun-gall0809@rogers.com

Come celebrate the Foundation of Guelph General Hospital’s 25th Anniversary! Enjoy cake, refreshments, & interactive displays., 2- 4 pm at Guelph General Hospital Lobby, Level One. Remarks at 2:30. FREE admission & parking! Contact: www.gghfoundation.ca or (519) 837-6422

tuesday november 13Macdonald Stewart Art Centre Artist Talk and Book Launch. Janet Morton will discuss her current exhibition The Ravelled Sleeve. Book Launch: A major publication on Morton’s art, featuring essays Co-published by Macdonald Stewart Art Centre and Museum London. 4pm at MSAC, 358 Gordon St. 519-837-0010 | www.msac.caBuddhist Meditation

Class- Simple, practical meth-ods to improve the quality of our life and develop inner peace. Each class consists

of two guided meditations and a teaching. Drop in class 7-8:30pm at St. Matthias Anglican Church, 171 Kortright Rd. W. $10. http://medita-tionintoronto.org/branches/meditate-guelph/

Wednesday november 14Guelph Guild of Storytell-ers. Concerts for teens, adults, 7pm, 2nd Wednesday each month, Guelph Public Library Main Branch, 100 Nor-folk. New tellers welcome. Call if longer than 5 min-utes. Planning/rehearsal 1st Wednesday. Location varies. guelphstory@gmail.com, 519-767-0017, www.guelpharts.ca/storytellers

Friday november 16Save a life! Canadian Blood Services is looking for donors at the UoG. Clinic held in Peter Clark Hall (UC basement) from 9-4pm.

Monday november 19As part of Mental Health Awareness Week Standup for Mental Health will be per-forming at 6 pm in Peter Clark Hall. A standup comedy troupe made up of individuals who have all faced mental health challenges will share the humorous side of their stories of recovery. www.facebook.com/WellnessUofG

tuesday november 20A Stress Management Work-shop will be hosted by Kathy Somers from the High Perfor-mance Clinic 10am in UC 442. Learn to manage stress through behaviour, healthy eating and little lifestyle changes and choices. www.facebook.com/WellnessUofG

Saturday november 24 Macdonald Stewart Art Centre

Beyond the Frame Art Auction. A Collection of 45 Stunning Works by Canadian Artists. Tickets $70. Auction party 5:30pm, live auc-tion 7:30pm. Exibition preview until Nov 24th. 358 Gordon St. For information contact: aware@msac.ca or visit www.msac.ca/.

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VOlUnteeR OppORtUnItIeSStudent Volunteer Connections is looking for volunteers at the Green Legacy Tree Nursery to help with tree transplanting, filling contain-ers, and transferring seeds. Nov 24th, 9:30am-3pm. Transporta-tion and light lunch provided . A short discussion on environmental sustainability will follow. Contact Ian at projects@dosomuch.ca for more information.

The 2012 Guelph Commu-nity Santa Parade needs energetic volunteers to join this fun event. Taking place on Sunday November 18 in downtown Guelph, the parade is looking for mascots, clowns, crowd control and parade mar-shalls. Email santa@downtownguelph.com to get involved.

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