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Students’ Union General Election

RESULTSPRESIDENT

Hardave Birk

VP ACADEMIC

Kenya-Jade Pinto

VP STUDENT LIFE

Hayley Wade

VP EXTERNAL

Raphael Jacob

VP OPERATIONS

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Carol Yan

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Tyler Fischer

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Marvi Cheema

Tyler Pentland

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MARCH 15 2012

Editor-in-Chief:Eric [email protected]

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Golden Spatula

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basement-dwellingness. Thisweek we, the Gauntlet , wouldlike to thank for the secondtime Taylor McKee for all ofhis game attending, sportsscribbling, driving toEdmonton-ness, being sickyet powering through it-nessand other special powers hehas yet to reveal. Thanks Tay-lor, we wouldn’t be surprisedif in the near future we dis-cover a sub-reddit with yourname on it!

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sports comics

SU election results, pro files on awesome U of C students and

Arabic courses coming to the U of C, maybe . . . page 4.

Scientific breakthroughs,internetflirting, business

students just dressed up

as apes, talking balloon

animals and more,

page 24.

Women win the CISchampionship for the

first time ever, men’s

hockey heartbreak and

Jenna Kaye is a first

team all-star, page 20 .

Discussing a plus-sizedproblem, the trouble

with quotes, engineering

future humans and a

violent merry-go-round,

page 16.

Mom’s meatloaf, comingout, Race, Indian films

that aren’t Bollywood, a

shirtless, muscular hero

and some CD reviews,

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c o n t e n t s

In July, the Ultimate Fight-ing Championship will makeits debut in Alberta. , the

largest mixed martial arts promo-tion company in the world, willhost a ght at Calgary’s ScotiabankSaddledome on July . Te Sad-dledome can accommodate rough-ly , people, and is expected to

be sold out or the event.Calgary is consistently in thetop-ve markets in the world inpay-per-view per capita or ghts. oronto, Montreal andVancouver are the three Canadiancities that have hosted the ,each successully. Over millionwas made on ticket prices alonein oronto in April, and Montrealhas hosted our events, all withsignicant monetary gain and rec-

ognition or the city.Te trip to Calgary will be a rst

or the . Not everyone, howev-er, is thrilled with the venue choice.

Since the option or hosting anevent in Calgary was announced,the Canadian Medical Associa-tion has come out with extremeopposition to and is call-ing or an outright ban across thecountry. Currently, is legal inmost o Canada — it is still illegal

in Newoundland and Labrador,Saskatchewan, Prince EdwardIsland, Yukon and Nunavut. InAlberta, regulation is overseen bythe municipal government.

Te majority o concern stemsrom the very core o what en-tails: violence.

“It’s the commercialization o violence, it sets a very bad example

or children,” said presidentDr. John Haggie in a City News o-ronto report. “It’s not a sport in my

book.” has a long history, the roots

o which can be traced back to theancient Olympics. It was broughtto America in , and the was born. Initially, was ‘any-thing goes,’ but the danger soon be-came evident and strict rules cameinto place. Te implemented rulesbanned the ollowing: eye goug-ing o any kind, biting, grabbing aclavicle, skin twisting and throat

strikes.But are these rules enough to

stop the supposed physical and so-cial dangers o the ?

Te doesn’t think so. has a reputation or brutality, onethat is probably deserved. But whenit comes to stopping two consent-ing individuals rom “pummel[ing]each other,” as Haggie puts it, who

are we to stop them?While the concerns against the

are logical, the same argument

could be made or numerous othersports, including hockey, lacrosseand ootball — the core o Cana-dian sports culture. While violenceis not the purpose o these sports,it is still a huge part. Violence isa constant actor in the world osports — it is also what appeals toaudiences.

For ghters, the game goesbeyond ghting in the ring. Tis iswhere the real problem lies. Tere

is a reason the is called a “pro-motion company” rather than aleague. While ghters continue toshed blood and tears, Dana White,’s president, continues to takein royalties — he is the pimp o ghters. Although most ght-ers have strict contracts moderatedby White, they generally do notreceive a salary. Fighters are paid

per ght. Monetary gain dependon how well-known they are, cor-porate sponsors o the ght andwhether or not they win.

White eliminated ghter Miguelorres rom the afer he madea sexist comment, but did not takethe same measures with two otherghters o greater market value or

making similar remarks. It is clearthat White is careully objectiy-ing his prospects. It’s not about theghters and has never been.

Te only shot that ghters haveto make a decent living is throughTe Ultimate Fighter , a reality showwhere the winner is determinedthrough a series o ghts and thetop ghter receives a contract,with a salary. But the very idea isexploitative in nature. In a world

where one must spend his lietimetraining or ghts, sometimes to noavail, the opportunity to make adecent living doesn’t exist.

Te way is marketed puts iton the same level as World Wres-tling Entertainment. providesa spectacle or viewers, a orm oentertainment where they can in-dulge in sadistic voyeurism. Likethe Lingerie Football League, noone watches or their love o oot-

ball. But at least the used togive players a cut o its net revenue.

As long as ghters under-stand what they are getting into,they should have every liberty topunch and kick (but not spit at)anyone they please. But you prob-ably won’t see us watching a match.

Gauntlet Editorial Board

Calgary’s ultimate failure

“Tose little pukes on Reddit have nothing on me.”

Taylor“two-times” McKee


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4 M A R C H 1 5 . 1 2 G A U N T L E T n e w sEditor: Amy Badry—[email protected]

c a m p u s q u i p s

Michael Grondin

News Assistant

We see smiles, we seetears, but I want togive the utmost re-

spect to anyone who put them-selves out there. Te is ingood hands,” said current Stu-

dents’ Union president DylanJones afer the – representatives were announcedon March .

Over , students voted inthe election this year, down oneper cent rom last year’s turnout,but still beating the previous yearby six per cent.

Chie Returning Offi cer Rabi-ya Mansoor attributes the turn-out to less candidate engagement

with students.She said voter turnout waspositive, regardless o the actthat it was less than last year.

“I hoped more students wouldhave voted because the Students’Union works or them and itwould be better i more studentswere involved,” she said.

Diversity was reected in therepresentatives, and accordingto Jones, a range o hard-work-

ing individuals with differentbackgrounds and attitudes cam-paigned and were elected thisyear.

“Every year you get a differentavour, and either way it’s some-thing good — a bunch o peopletrying to do the right thing orstudents and the university com-munity,” said Jones.

Hardave Birk grabbed theposition o president, beating

Matt McMillan by just our percent. Birk is advocating to keepMacHall in students’ hands.

He plans to battle tuition in-

creases and introduce a smart-phone application to encouragestudent engagement on campus.

Birk was the external in the– school year, and lostthe presidential race to Jones last

year.“Te students are usually nev-er wrong in who they pick to puton the , and what we have isa really diverse set o people onthe team who have a lot o differ-ent backgrounds,” said Birk. “Wehave a diverse group who canrepresent a diverse university,and it’s the different perspectivesthat make a difference.”

Kenya-Jade Pinto and Mi-

chelle Huie ran a close race orthe academic position. Pintoreceived per cent o the vote,beating Huie by votes.

“We’re lucky because all thecandidates this year were up tothe job, and it would have beengreat any way it turned out,” saidPinto.

For external, Raphael Jacob

will be replacing Matt McMillan.Jacob is a current representativeor the aculty o arts. He attri-butes his success partially to hiscampaign video, which receivedover , views. He thinks stu-dents connected with the video,as well as his Ninja urtle per-sona. Jacob’s platorm consists omaintaining a high standard olearning or students while ght-ing against mandatory non-in-

structional ees. He believes thatit was his visibility that allowedhim to win.

He won per cent o the

vote, beating Kourtney Pratt andMaral Kiani.

Scott Weir will be next year’s operations and nance. Hebeat Jason Hong with per cento the vote. Weir is also a current

representative or the aculty oarts, and he wants to improvesustainable practices, as well asincrease student engagement.

student lie was taken byHayley Wade, beating KevinKempe and Mike Rines with per cent o the vote. Her cam-paign was the most controversialo all the candidates this yearwith her “great dick, bro” post-ers, but it paid off in her avour.

She wants to diminish the com-muter-campus attitude at theUniversity o Calgary.

According to Mansoor, the

only issues that occurred wereposters put up in illegal areasand dealing with the attentiongarnered rom Wade’s controver-sial poster.

Vincent St. Pierre will be thestudent representative on theBoard o Governors, beating outChris Skappak and Kyle Bly.

Kelsy Norman, Hana Kadri,Sarah Damberger and Jack Millswill be next year’s representativesor the aculty o arts.

Justin Pon and Carol Yan willbe representing the HaskayneSchool o Business.

Te engineering reps will beyler Fischer and revor Best-wick.

Olabode Adegbayike, MarviCheema and yler Pentland are

next year’s science reps.Te medicine rep is SteanaPancic, and Riley Simister willrepresent nursing.

According to current aca-demic Ola Mohajer, it is alwaysdiffi cult to measure how effect ivea team will be, but she believesthat next year’s staff are capable.

“I think all o the people whohave been elected are respon-sible, and I think they are hard-

working and will have, or themost part, the best interest ostudents in mind,” said Mohajer.

Mohajer says valuing the diversity o opinions, are having abalance o approaches and view-points to see all the angles is im-portant i the leaders o the want to be effective.

“As long as they value that diversity, they’l l be able to bringeverything back to the middle

and nd the best course o actionor any situat ion.”

Te elected representatives willbe sworn in on April , .

SU election results announced2012–2013 SU representatives will be sworn in April 27

The newly elected SU executive team celebrated after the results were announced March 8.Courtesy Gene Baines

“

Did you vote in the SU election?

“I voted because myfriend was in theelection.”– Emma Li,second-year EastAsian languagestudies

“I voted because youcan’t complain aboutsomething if youdon’t vote.”– Brittany Scott,rst-year law andsociety

“I didn’t because Ididn’t like any of thecandidates.”– Dahlin Williams,fourth-yeareconomics

“No. I didn’t thinkit mattered. Tereweren’t any postersup in Murray FraserHall.”– Reid Yester,rst-year law


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Erick Maleko

Gauntlet News

Most university studentsspend time stressingover job prospects,

but -year-old Zakir Husseinalready operates a company withsales in the six digits.

Tird-year University o Cal-

gary petroleum geology and environmental management stu-dent Hussein won the westernCanada Student Entrepreneur othe Year award this February.

On May , Hussein will go onto compete or the national title.Te national winner will receivea cash prize o , and theopportunity to represent Canadain the world championships.

Hussein originally launched

Organo Energy in as abiotechnology research com-pany. For the next two years, thecompany did not generate anyincome until May whenOrgano’s research results led tothe creation o a subsidiary com-pany, Alberta Clean echnology.

Alberta Clean echnology o-ers ree waste collection servicesto restaurants in Calgary. Its cli-entele list has rapidly expanded

since the launch, going rom ser- vicing restaurants to inthe span o ve months.

Afer only months in busi-ness, Alberta Clean echnology

currently employs ve peopleand is projected to nish itsrst scal year in good nancialstanding.

Alberta Clean echnologycollects the waste and ships it tocompanies across Canada. Tewaste is then recycled into re-

newable products and uels.“We collect everything rom

plastics, cooking oil, cardboards,and much more,” said Hussein.Coming rom a non-business

background, Hussein encoun-tered obstacles rom the start.

“I was always araid o busi-ness, but then I approached Stu-dents in Free Enterprise Calgary.I had this idea or Organo Energyand was really ascinated by al-gae and biotechnology. However,I didn’t know how to go about it

and turn it into a business,” saidHussein. “So I went to talk to oneo the people at and theywere very pivotal in turning thatidea into a real business.”

Tis year Hussein is serving aspresident o Calgary.

Hussein is passionate aboutreducing companies’ ecologicalootprints and it is one o the ma-

jor actors that led him to choosehis current line o business.

“It was not about the money

— it has never been about themoney. Our three main pillars

are to help reduce environmen-tal pollution, create jobs and giveback to the community,” he said.

Social entrepreneurship is amajor part o Hussein’s busi-ness model. In February, AlbertaClean echnology helped donateour computers to the CalgaryHomeless Foundation. In addi-tion, or every gallon o cookingoil they collect, two cents goes toCalgary Homeless Foundation.

“Another thing that really mo-tivates and inspires me is thepride and joy o being able tocreate something out o noth-ing,” said Hussein.

With a , loan rom hisparents, Hussein launched Al-berta Clean echnology in May. Te early success o thebusiness enabled him to repay

his parents within two months.rying to minimize costs at rst,the company originally rented awarehouse in Acme, Alberta.

“Having our warehouse in

Acme essentially meant thatwe were spending an hour anda hal driving back and orthor a job that only took min-utes.”

Beore winter, Hussein secureda warehouse acility in the city.“I realized that rental costs

would go up, but in the end safety

Ever wonder why it’s so muchcheaper to eat salty noodles thanto satisfy your belly with hearty

fresh vegetables and proteins? SU VolunteerServices and Meal Exchange have teamedup to present Hunger Week: What’s in

Your Fridge? , a week of fun and educationalevents about food security and nutrition oncampus.

Join us on Monday between 11 a.m. and 2p.m. in the MSC north courtyard to build

a “wall of hunger”. Answer a question,decorate the wall, and enjoy a free plate ofmac and cheese.

Vegetarian? Omnivore? Carnivore? Vegan?Drop by the Cassio room in MacEwan EventCentre on uesday at 2 p.m. for Te DietDilemma and gure out what lls you up.

On Wednesday, let Meal Exchange take youon a volunteer venture eld trip to check outCalgary’s “growing” food initiatives. See www.mealexchange.wordpress.com for details.

U of C student expert Scott Weir presentsUrban Gardening: Dirt to Dinner onTursday at 12 p.m. in Tat Empty Space.

Finally, it’s Ask a Foodie Friday ! Dawn andLisa, our favorite campus food enthusiasts,

return with tasty tips for quick and easymeals. Drop by Tat Empty Space at 12 p.m.

Hunger Week runs March 19 - 23 inMacEwan Student Centre. Visit www.su.ucalgary.ca/hungerweek for these eventdetails and more!

Would you like to be moreinvolved in the campusvolunteer community? SUVolunteer Services has a

number of (paid) coordinator positions available:

Summer positions are available for CampusFood Bank, Dr. Seuss in the Park, and

the Information Centre/ Lost & Found.Summer program coordinators work fromMay through August. Applications are dueMarch 23.

Fall/winter positions are available forCampus Food Bank, Q Centre, theInformation Centre/Lost & Found, Into theStreets/Alternative Spring Break, Studentsfor Literacy, and the Volunteer ax Program.Fall/winter program coordinators work fromSeptember through April, 2013. Applicationsare due April 6.

Make a difference in your communityand gain valuable experience in humanresources, administration and planning.See www.su.ucalgary.ca to apply.

Matt DiteljanVP Student Life

What’s in your fridge? SU Volunteer Services’ Hunger Week begins March 19 in MSC

Turning your trash into cashU of C student wins western Canada student entrepreneur of the year award

Hussein was given an award for his entrepreneurship.

Courtesy Zakir Hussein

It was not about the money — ithas never been about the money. Our

three main pillars are to help reduce

environmental pollution, create jobs and

give back to the community.

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H2O club at U of C

The University of Calgary Sikh community meets every Wednesday to practice Simran — the realization which is the

highest aspect and purpose in one’s life. This week — March 12–16 — is Sikh Awareness Week, part of the Students’

Union’s Culture Month initiative. Sikh Awareness Week promotes Sikhism through film, music and conversation. Events

during the week included the movie “Ocean of Pearls” and a lecture on Sikhism, culminating with Sikh Cultural Day on

Friday. It is presented by the SU in association with the Sikh Students’ Association.

Sikh Awareness Week Aly Gulamhusein /the Gauntlet

Emily Macphail

Gauntlet News

When students are ll-ing up a water bottlein MacHall or brush-

ing their teeth at home, they don’tstop to consider where that water iscoming from or how lucky they areto have access to it. For the roughly members of a new Students’Union club, Hope Opportunityor HO, this isn’t the case.

“We were all really invested in

doing something about water is-sues — most people don’t reallystop and think about the impor-tance of water, especially here inCanada where we have an abun-dance that is cleaner than most na-tions,” said vice-president publicityCharleen Salmon.

With a mission of contributingto efforts that provide developingcountries with safe drinking wa-ter, the club hopes to raise aware-

ness about water issues and to helpbreak the cycle of poverty throughproviding access to clean water.

HO has teamed up this yearwith Te Water Project, an orga-nization which builds wells in im-poverished communities in Africa.Tey hope to raise enough moneyto fund the construction of theirown well in Sudan. According topresident Bohyung Min, the club

isn’t restricting itself to partneringwith a single organization, because

they don’t want to limit their im-pact. “We teamed up with Te Wa-ter Project because they’re doingsuch a great job of providing safe,potable water for developing coun-tries, but it’s not just about whichcountry we want to work in, it’sabout which country has the mostneed,” said Min.

From March –, HO is hop-ing to increase awareness of waterissues, both at home and in low-to-

middle income countries, throughholding a Water Awareness Weekin honour of World Water Day onMarch . Te club will host a booththat includes games and interactiveactivities. Troughout the week, thebooth will feature presentations bythe Rotaract Club and the Centrefor Affordable Water and echnol-ogy, as well as a collaboration with, a photography club on cam-pus, to display images depicting wa-

ter issues and student commitmentto solving these issues. Te club willalso hold a lecture night featuringexperts in a variety of elds discuss-ing the issue of water from different

viewpoints, as well as a screening ofthe award-winning documentaryWater on the Table.

For more information on the H2O or Water Aware-

ness Week events, visit the club’s website at

ucalgary.ca/~h2o.


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So it allgoes to shit

Eric Mathison

Editor-in-Chief, or is he?

Well, we’re all fucked.Just when youthought it was safe to

trust student journalism again, anew round of editors gets elect-ed with the platform of screwingeverything up as much as pos-sible.

Erin Shumlich will takeoverfrom Eric Mathison as editor-in-chief at the beginning of May.

Shumlich was last year’s sportseditor, and although she dili-gently ran her campaign, nowthat the job is hers she’s eagerto correct some of the un-truthsshe mentioned during her cam-paign.

“First, I wasn’t serious aboutthe waterslide. Well, at first I wasserious, but when I mentioned itto the Quality Money committeethey were skeptical,” she said.

Shumlich also regrets telling volunteers about the wet barshe intends to set up in the darkroom. “This doesn’t mean I’mnot going to install the wet bar— I just wish I had kept it a se-cret,” she added.

Michael Grondin was electednews editor. Grondin, a gradu-ate of ’s journalism pro-gram, switched to the Universityof Calgary in September to get a

communications degree.“People love me here,” saidGrondin of his relationship witheditors and volunteers.

“I can’t wait to see you fail,”said bitter outgoing news editorAmy Badry, who said exit pollsshowed that voters were moredepressed after voting thanusual.

Grondin hopes to get rid of allthe other sections. “We’re called

a newspaper, after all,” he said.“And besides, I don’t see whyanyone would want to read any-thing else.”

Another goal of Grondin’s isto make all volunteers wear jean

jackets , boots and cropped hair.

Sarelle Azuelos/the Gauntlet


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Trash to cash, cont’d from page 5was the number one concern,” hesaid.

Nicknamed “Te GarbageMan,” Hussein regularly works

with his employees to collect gar-bage.“I want to be out there getting

my hands dirty alongside my em-ployees. I don’t want to be the guysitting in the offi ce,” he said.

Born in east Arica, Hussein’sparents moved to Canada withhim and his sister when Husseinwas young.

“When we got here we didn’thave a lot o money. I remember

at one point my parents only had and they could not afford toput ood on the table or my sisterand me,” he said.

oday, because o the success ohis business, Hussein is nancial-ly able to put both his sister andhimsel through university.

Hussein’s vision o the compa-ny is to eventually take it publicon the stock market and developit into a major company in the

waste services industry, such asWaste Management Inc. Husse-in’s current target is to have salesaround million in three years’time. Not having solicited inves-tors, so ar Alberta Clean ech-

nology has been growing solelyon retained earnings.

Hussein’s work ethic is some-thing that his colleagues ofen

praise.“I don’t know how he does it. Heputs in crazy hours. Basically it’s aull-time job running a companyand he’s doing it while also being aull-time student at the same time,and he’s also president o too,”said project director NaomiCheng. “He’s always super busy. Idon’t know how he handles it ormanages it but we all denitelylook up to him in that way.”

Te Student EntrepreneurCompetition consists o a panelo judges who review each othe businesses presented basedon our criteria — presentation,business undamentals, the ideaand uture plans. Te panel o

judges are business leaders rom various parts o Canada.

“Te biggest thing is that Zakiris a natural entrepreneur. He’s nota business student and nor does

he come rom a business back-ground, but what he has is a natu-ral passion or what his companydoes,” said Advancing CanadianEntrepreneurship Project coordi-nator Preston Aitken.

High winds close down Kinesiology building Michael Grondin

News Assistant

Harsh winds rattled the University of

Calgary campus on March , dis-lodging the roong material on Ki-nesiology A and posing a hazard to pedestri-ans on the south and east sides of the building.

Te south and east entrances o thebuilding were closed, and work crews werecalled on site to eliminate the hazards. Teywill be working or the next ew days to en-

sure Kinesiology A is sae or people walk-ing by.According to Campus Security director

Lanny Fritz, the situation has stabilized and

no one has been hurt. As o March crewshad nished.

“As a result o the potential hazard, wedecided to cordon off that whole area to

eliminate the potential or pedestrians to behit by the metal roong material and otherdebris rom the building,” said Fritz. “Testructure is intact, and inside the building

we are back to business as usual.”Fritz says the building is now sae or

people to pass through, but anyone walkingnear the building must exercise caution.

“We want to secure all the insulation thathas been exposed, and all o the other loosematerial up there. We don’t want anyonegetting hurt.”

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Crystal Gleeson

Gauntlet Entertainment

I you happen to be years old and arereading this while seated at your par-ents’ kitchen table, mid-spoonul o your

mom’s delicious meatloa, don’t be offendedi you identiy with the “loveable-loser”

protagonist in Jeff, Who Lives at Home.I’m going to point out the obvious hereand tell you that this movie is about a mannamed Jeff who still lives at home with hisparents — I bet you didn’t see that onecoming. “Cool story, bro,” you might say,sarcastically implying that the subject mat-ter o the lm is ar too simplistic and dullto possibly make or an interesting movie

or story. But let’s ace the cold, hard truthhere — everyone knows that one personwith seemingly no direction in lie whocontinues to mooch off their parents. Andtruth be told, we’ve always been curiousabout them, maybe even inquisitive regard-ing what goes on inside their heads as theychow down on Mom’s meatloa. Jeff, Who

Lives at Home takes viewers into the mindo a -year-old man patiently awaiting theuniverse’s deliverance o his purpose.

One may think that the character o Jeff,played by How I Met Your Mother ’s JasonSegel, was diffi cult or the actor to relate to.Segel asserts, however, that he too knowswhat it’s like to be a “loser.”

“I had a really unpleasant out-o-work

period rom like to where I was justwaiting around — and I was smoking aair amount o pot during that period aswell. You’re kind o bopping around andyou have a sense that your destiny is to dosomething.

“[My destiny] was to be an actor, but Iwas waiting or the world to present that

opportunity to me — and so I was able torelate back to that period.”Mark Duplass, one hal o the lm’s di-

rectorial team, categorizes the movie as a“tragic comedy, which is that comedy thatis rooted in inherently seemingly sad situ-ations.”

Despite the pathetic nature o the lm’stitle character, humour is not sparse

throughout the lm. Tis can be attributed,o course, to the impressive roster o unnyactors — Ed Helms, Susan Sarandon andJudy Greer all make appearances — but alsoto script improvisation. In act, accordingto Duplass, “the take you see in the lm isactually . . . about per cent different romwhat was in the script, because we kind o

crafed this thing in the moment and that’s per cent the spirit o collaboration.”So, basement-dweller, nish that meat-

loa and mark March on your calendar.Not only is that the day you can rst see Jeff,Who Lives at Home or yoursel, but perhapsit will also mark a day o change or you.

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to basement-dwellers

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Who Lives at ome Home

Coming Out Monologues open closets at U of C for third timeAndrea Llewellyn


Calgary does not have a long history ofsupporting the -Ally community, butthe University of Calgary is making up forlost time. With ’s highly successful PrideParade, featuring Naheed Nenshi as the rstCalgarian Mayor to be Parade Marshal, Cal-

gary is coming out as a progressive city.Te university has been a leader in diversityover the years, with the long-active Queers onCampus student club, initiatives like the “ItGets Better” campaign led by the Student Suc-cess Centre, and the opening of the Q Centrein November .

University of Calgary alumna Aleesha Brayhas been ghting this ght on various projectslike It Gets Better, and will be the producerand lead organizer for the Tird Annual Uni- versity of Calgary Coming Out Monologues

happening March and .“It is really being produced by the wholecommunity,” explains Bray. “We have hadpeople step in to help with poster design, andto do photography, and to build the event, andto do art installation pieces, and we are giv-ing the proceeds of our tickets to Camp fYre-

y [Canada’s only summer camp for youth] as well, so everyone has really cometogether in support of the event.”

o promote the event, community organi-zations such as the Q Centre, the Students’Union, and GayCalgary magazine have beenrallying on their behalf. Tey have also beenengaging with students through classroomtalks, especially to large rst-year courses.

Fourteen U of C professors requested presen-tations in their lectures.However, it’s a little-known fact that the

U of C was the rst Canadian university tohold a performance of the monologues in. Based on Eve Ensler’s popular work TeVagina Monologues, the Coming Out Mono-logues is a community-based theatre projectcreated by University of California, Riversideundergraduate Rodrigo Hernandez in .

“I think it is so important to share stories,”says Bray. “Tere is obviously a lot more work

to do in terms of social movements. I think areally important part of that is sharing storiesof the individual as well, and realizing that ev-eryone does have really different experiencesand yet there are some similarities and there isstrength in that.”

While there are scripted stories organiz-

ers may draw from, what makes the ComingOut Monologues unique is that the originalcreators suggest each campus use their ownscript. A statement on the Queer Alli-

ance website says, “ students have madethe script available for use, but eachcampus has the opportunity to empower theirown community to share their own stories.”

Keeping with this tradition, performancesat the U of C have changed each year. Te event, however, will certainly shake

things up with twice as many performers asthe previous year and two unique nights ofperformances that treat the topic in newer,edgier ways.

“We really wanted to have a cross-genera-tional approach, so we have performers rang-ing from the age of to . . . we are reallyexcited about that because we think it shedsan interesting light on the different experienc-

es that people have had coming out over theyears . . . especially in Alberta,” Bray remarks.Part of this new approach involves using

multimedia throughout the performance, witha special focus on young emerging talent. Tiswill include an art installation, audience inter-action, professional hula-hooping, live musicand comedy performers. Te edgy side of thisyear’s performance is the addition of criti-cal material regarding acceptance within the community and the experience ofcoming out.

“I think those stories are important, too,because I think we need to see where these is-sues are arising and look for solutions,” says Bray.

The U of C Coming Out Monologues are March 15 and 16 at7:30 p.m. at the Boris Roubakine Theatre. Tickets are $10 through the

Campus Ticket Centre. E-mail [email protected] for more information.

Jeff, Who Lives at Home opens in Calgary March 16.

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Race on trial in Calgary

Tamara Cottle


On the surace, race nolonger appears to be anissue in North America.

People o colour are respected andsometimes idolized while occupy-ing many positions o authorityin society, including some o thehighest offi ces in government.aking a closer look, however, re-

veals things about our culture andeven our own thoughts that aren’tquite so amicable. Te play Race by David Mamet explores the lieswe tell each other and ourselvesabout racism.

Mamet, a Pulitzer Prize-win-

ning and Oscar-nominated dra-matist, rst created dialoguethrough Race with its Broad-way debut. Te one-act play takesplace in the law offi ces o Lawsonand Brown, a black and whitelawyer, respectively. Tey areapproached by a wealthy, privi-leged, middle-aged white manwho has been accused o rapinga poor, young black woman in ahotel room. Te story takes manytwists and turns, unravelling per-spectives o gender, class, and, ocourse, race.

Te provocative poster eatur-ing the body o a woman in ascintillating red sequined dressinvites audiences to Vertigo Te-

atre, where Kevin McKendricko Ground Zero Teatre and Hit& Myth Productions directs Cal-gary’s version o Race.

“In Canada, we tend to believethat racism isn’t as much o an is-sue here as it is in the States,” saysMcKendrick on the pertinence oa production like Race in Calgary.“Racism certainly exists in thiscountry. It’s a part o the systemswe have, it’s something we havebuilt into us because o the waywe’ve been raised or the mediawe’ve been exposed to, and it’s im-portant or us to keep this conver-sation out in the open.”

McKendrick, who has beenworking in theatre or the last years, has received many ac-colades, including eight BettyMitchell nominations, an awardcelebrating outstanding achieve-ment in Calgary’s proessionaltheatre community.

Tough he is a white male,McKendrick recognizes the exis-tence o racial barriers in the Cal-gary theatre community, wheremost theatre companies are runby white people who tend to castriends and amily, also white. “Idon’t think it’s because anybodyis practicing racism, or is actively

biased,” says McKendrick. “It’slack o imagination.”

When asked what approacheswill help shif the current stateo white-dominated theatre inCalgary, McKendrick replies,“At Hit & Myth we’re trying topractice what we preach, andi we use non-traditional cast-ing techniques, over time notonly will those stages be morereective o the community, butthe people running the theatrecompanies will be people rommore visible minorities.”

On the rst day o rehears-al, the racially mixed cast andcrew o the Calgary productiono Race brought with them ac-counts o times when each hadbeen both victim and perpetra-tor o prejudice. “Members sharedall kinds o stories I never wouldhave thought would have takenplace in a city like Calgary,” saysMcKendrick.

Questions of legal power intermingle with personal stories in locally produced play

Race, a Broadway play about perspectives of gender, class andrace, is at Calgary’s Vertigo Theatre until March 17.

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Heather Rideout


Sixty years afer the death oMahatma Gandhi, art is stillproduced in his honour.

Te docu-drama Road to Sangam reminds us that Gandhi’s mes-sage o non-violent conict reso-lution is still relevant today. AsAlbert Einstein once said aboutthe philosophical and politicalleader, “Generations to come willscarce believe that such a one as[Gandhi] ever in esh and bloodwalked upon this earth.”

Road to Sangam portrays thestory o a devout Muslim named

Hashmat Ullah who embracesGandhi’s teachings when orced tochoose between political pressuresand personal convictions. Ullah,an excellent mechanic, is commis-sioned to reurbish an old Ford Vengine by his government — theengine just so happens to havetransported Gandhi’s ashes yearsbeore. When a workers’ strikeerupts in response to wrongul ar-rests in his town, Ullah is orcedto choose between deying hispolitical order and supportinghis town’s belies. Tis decision isurther complicated by the stronginuence o Gandhi, representedby the engine. Does Ullah reuse

to work on the engine, support thestrike and by extension Gandhi’s

values at the risk o causing harm

to him and his amily, or doesUllah side with his governmentand reuse to strike?

Te lm might be a personalaccount about what God and per-sonal morals means to Ullah, hisamily and his community, butthe message is universal — thecharacters make us think aboutwhat we would do, given the sameset o circumstances. Te moviehighlights Ullah’s acts o patrio-tism and religious convictionsbecause he has been entrustedwith the incredible task o serv-ing Gandhi, albeit in death, onelast time. Although this is a c-tional account o Gandhi’s last

wishes, the drama is real and thecharacters are believable. Road toSangam offers a thought-provok-ing message about the power olove.

Te docu-drama was rst shownin Calgary by the Hidden GemsFilm Festival, which was oundedby Niru Bhatia. She hopes to bringmany more such lms about EastIndian lie to Calgary. When askedhow Road to Sangam made it toCalgary, she replies, “I saw it andwrote to the director requestingthat it be shown here. He and theproducer were thrilled that it wasthe rst time it was to be shown inCanada.”

Originally, Bhatia screenedmovies or the Calgary Interna-tional Film Festival. She cameacross small independent mov-ies rom India that weren’t Bolly-wood, but lms that she says “blewmy mind a bit.” Afer accumulat-ing some lms, volunteers sug-gested that she host a lm night athome so everybody could watchthem. Bhatia invited peopleto attend and when many moreshowed up, she realized that sheneeded a bigger venue.

Te Hidden Gems Film Festivalhas now blossomed into a regis-tered lm society. Last year alone,the organization screened Indian lms. Bhatia hopes to getpeople “addicted” afer they comeout or the rst time, and manyhave. A couple o moviegoers romthe society are so passionate aboutwhat they have learned rom theselms that they are planning a tripto India in the near uture.

Te estival promotes Indiancultural values but, as Bhatia says,“the values that are there are uni-

versal . . . and why can’t we learnrom each other?” Road to Sangamin particular may be spiritual, butit reaches viewers no matter whattheir religious convictions are. A-ter all, Gandhi did walk the earthand encouraged us with his inspir-ing endurance. Hidden Gems aimsto be this change in their com-munity by showing lms aboutIndian culture to those otherwiseunable to access it, and these pro-

vocative lms provide somethingor everyone to learn.

India invades Calgary with Hidden Gems Film Fest

The next Hidden Gems film screening is Via

Darjeeling on March 17 at Cardel Theatre. Find out

more about Road to Sangam and annual festival

passes at hiddengemsfilmfestival.com

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name. Te double-disc album eaturesaddictive techno and trance beats cou-pled with Kreesha’s Jamaican-inuencedstyle, aunting her music-making ver-satility. While Tropic is predominantlyreggae and techno, Electric gravitates to-wards R&B with sof, shimmering synths.

Te rst track on the Tropic disc, “RockPaper Scissors,” blasts out club beats withhypnotizing Caribbean murmurs andpercussion rhythm. Tis vibrant combi-nation can urge even the most adamantnon-dancer into a hip sway.

Electric may be more subdued thanTropic, but both boast songs that have thepotential to be chart-toppers. In “I CouldStay,” Kreesha lets her voice (instead othe mainstream techno beats) take theoreront. Te light, showering synthsmake the song transcendent, lending awhimsical and oaty eeling to the song.

Tropic Electric holds a special mean-ing or Kreesha, who wanted to showcaseher Jamaican heritage alongside the R&Bstyle that won ans over in her debut al-bum, Passion. Tis album is not nearly asindulging and catchy as Passion, but theconscious inusion o her cultural rootsmakes Tropic Electric sexy and excitingall the same.

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Lake Forest is the solo project o WillWhitwham, singer and songwriter or Cana-dian chamber-olk band Te Wilderness oManitoba. Te debut album Silver Skies waswritten last winter while Whitwham waschallenging himsel to write a new song ev-ery day, in an attempt to capture the eelingo the season through his songwriting.

Tough his nal project does convey theessence o winter, it also manages to suc-cessully capture a time o introspection

Lake Forest

Silver Skies

February 14, 2012, Vérité Recording)

(February 14, 2012, Vérité Recording)

Tere are a couple o things you shouldknow about Kreesha urner. Te 26 yearold is hal-Canadian, hal-Jamaican andshe lives right next door in Edmonton.With her ollow-up to 2009’s Passion,urner decides to place emphasis on herJamaican heritage, both musically and ar-tistically — partly shown in how TropicElectric’s cover has her sporting a naturalhairstyle instead o her usual weave.

Tropic Electric denitely lives up to its

and imagination. Te 11 tracks are brilliantlycomposed, eaturing emotive melodies andskillully crafed lyrical measure.

With nature-themed track titles and a cov-er photo o a orest, Silver Skies is not araidto aunt its rustic theme. Te intro track,“Cathedral,” sounds just like it was written inone — a bold and alluring song to begin thealbum, inviting the listener into a world lledwith cozy cabins in the woods and late-nightcanoeing.

Tis eeling o returning to a simpler timeis present throughout the album. Particularlynotable is the song “Ohio,” which melds mel-low guitar with Whitwham’s wistul croon-ing, conjuring up images o driving throughthe prairies with only the wind and the sky atyour side.

“Te Autumn Sun Will Set the Land onFire,” is the perectly placed nal track. Anearly seven-minute song with repetitive lyr-ics and a wistul eel, it stands as a wonderulcherry to top off Whitwham’s contemplativealbum.

Whitwham has created an album that suc-cessully balances dreamy instrumentals andmeaningul lyrics, leaving just enough spaceor listeners to insert their own experiencesinto his well o emotions. Silver Skies is surelyworth a listen.

Rheanna Houston

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Film review: John Carter Action-fantasy flick never quite reaches the epic scope it wants and needs

Matthew Parkinson


Afer watching John Carter ,it’s diffi cult not to eel un-derwhelmed and disap-

pointed. Here is a lm that hasbeen in on-and-off productionsince the s, is based on a well-received novel, eventually was giv-en a million budget, and hasthe director o - and FindingNemo at the helm. Te resultinglm is a bit o a mess, even thoughit’s also consistently entertainingand is chock-ull o great ideas.

Te lm stars aylor Kitsch asthe eponymous hero. Te plot be-gins sometime in the late swith John being tracked down bya colonel who wants him to joinanother war. John claims that heno longer ghts or anyone, and

is in search o a cave ull o gold.Upon nding the cave, he shootsa mysterious man inside, touchesa medallion, and is transported toa desert wasteland which we soonlearn is actually Mars. Somehow,the Civil War veteran has oundhimsel on the Red Planet.

Afer adjusting to Mars’s gravity,John nds himsel approached by-oot, our-armed green alienswith tusks coming out o theiraces. Tey don’t speak English, hedoesn’t speak their language, andafer a humorous exchange, theycapture him, give him a magicaldrink, and the rest o the lm isconducted in English. It’s here thatwe learn about Mars, its warringactions, and how there’s one per-son who was given magical pow-ers to rule everyone. Tere’s also aprincess, Dejah Toris (Lynn Col-

lins), as there needs to be a loveinterest or John to awn over.

From what we understand aboutour protagonist, he just wants toget home, get his gold, pay off hisdebts and live a lie o luxur y. He’sa very sel-obsessed character —one who is tired o war and justwants to keep to himsel. Unortu-nately, it quickly becomes clear tous — although not necessarily tohim — that he’ll need to partici-pate in this war or control o Marsin order to get himsel home. Andi he can save and all in love withthe princess while he does it, thenthat’s just great. Or so we assume.

See, we can never be sure othis, thanks to aylor Kitsch andhis unmoving acial muscles. His

voice is also monotonous, andi we’re supposed to be learningabout his emotional responses

to what’s going on around him,Kitsch doesn’t help us out. LynnCollins also has no idea how tohold down a aux British accent,but at least understands that emo-

tional responses are good to haverom time to time.

While there won’t be any prooo this until John Carter comes to (and maybe not even then),this is a lm that plays like itwants to be an epic with a run-ning time akin to the Lord of theRings trilogy. It has enough ideaswithin to ll up three hours ospace, but it seemed as i a timelimit was imposed by the studio,which stopped the lm rom hav-ing the scope that it so desperatelyneeded.

Because o this, many o thethings that John Carter brings updon’t get the time, space or devel-opment that would make them en-tirely satisactory.

Taylor Kitsch plays the protago-

nist of John Carter, out March 9.

Read the rest of this story at thegauntlet.ca. John

Carter is playing in theatres city-wide.

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Females everywhere, re-

joice! Te cultural arbitershave loosened the shack-les and chains, allowing a

little more body mass to t intoashion’s cuffs. Curves and ull-gures may nally be welcomein the hallowed halls o ashion,health and beauty. But there area ew conditions: don’t get toocurvy, and you damn well betterbe pretty.

All too ofen we construct ourideal selves along the lines o thesupercial imagery with whichwe are inundated daily. Andwhile many o us will be some-what amiliar with the inoculat-ing role held by media and adver-tising — their powerul effect onpeople’s sel-images — ar too ewo us understand that things canand ought to be different. It painsme to point out the gross prob-lem surrounding the inclusiono ‘ull-gured’ models into theold. Most o us understand thatthe ‘normal’ rom which curvymodels are categorized as ‘plus-sized’ (“ull-gured,” “extended-sized,” “outsized” or “curvy” asthe labels go) is a sick valuation.And yet we nd this barbie-looklogic and its stigmatizing lan-guage around every corner. Teemaciated and contorted womensplayed out in every lm and ad-

vertisement are quite ar romany serious measure o normalcy.So while it is certainly comortingto nally see a ew women withslightly more realistic bodies be-ing showcased, the language andsymbols that capture them (andus along with it) do nothing orconceptions o beauty and sel-worth, and do nothing to limitthe prolieration o rape culturethat inects the abric o society.

From the point o view o thesystem in which we live it, makes

sense to impose the demandso ashion and beauty upon us.As ashion ever changes, so toomust our wardrobes. As thestringent demands o beauty andhealth weigh down upon us, sotoo must we continue to pushour bodies and budgets to theirlimits. I need not even mentionthe abhorrent effect that the de-mands o ashion and beautyhave on our psychology and sel-worth — afer all, we all knowmore than a ew people suffer-ing rom eating disorders, per-ormance anxieties, mental bodydistortions and related varietieso depression. With the expecta-tion on us to achieve the ‘look’— the toned, well-groomed andwell-dressed body, the ‘technolo-gies o the sel,’ as it were — wespend our time in gyms, mallsand salons. Such pursuits havethe appearance o improvementor betterment, but their primaryeffect is to distract us rom the ar

more important task o genuinepersonal growth. Tere is littlemoney to be made off o moraldevelopment, as the more onegrows and renes the strengtho their own presence, the lessreliant one is on the exchange ocommodities and the systems osubmission. Plus-sized doesn’tlet any o us off the hook romthe system’s coercions, nor doesit open up the suffi cient space orresistance to its demands, it justtricks us into thinking that some-thing is being done to make thesystem better.

With the disgured bodieso both men and women on thecover o every magazine, in ev-ery advertisement and in everylm, I can sympathize with thosewho eel hopelessly distressed bythe crushing dissonance betweenappearance and reality. Yet weall have the capacity to shake offthe shackles that call our healthysisters, brothers, mothers, athers

and riends overweight. Te in-clusion o curvy is, despite ourbest wishes, not a real start toconstructive dialogue. We oughtnot lay down our guns, nor takeour ngers off the trigger. Tink-ing that plus-sized models are anacceptable start to a genuine met-ric o health is as disappointingas saying that hate literature andharlequin romances are positiveor literacy on the grounds thatthey get people reading. Whilethe trappings o ashion and

beauty’s discourses are certainlyimmense, creeping into everyconceivable corner o our dailyexperience, the more we developand learn — enhance ourselves,not our looks — the more webegin to see the possibilities ogenuine possibilities. oo muchis still at stake or us to considerthis change as being anythingmore than a small skirmish ina brutal war o attrition oughtover the meaning o health andwell-being.

Curve appealRemi Watts

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W hen historians lookback on the earlyyears o the stcentury, it’s likely

that they will conclude that hu-manity waited too long to addressenvironmental problems. Teywill also point out, as we are al-ready aware now, the longer theEarth’s degradation continues, themore extreme the solution willhave to be.

In February, I wrote an article oncognitive enhancement. I arguedthat compared to drug use in ath-letics, in academics there is reasonto promote the development anduse o drugs that make us smarter.My case was romantic and prag-matic: smarter people will notonly cure diseases and improvequality o lie, they will increasewhat we learn about our place inspace and time, which adds valueto lie o a different kind.

Matthew Liao, AndersSandberg and Rebecca Roachelook at engineering o a differenttype, and or a different purpose, ina paper published in Ethics, Policyand the Environment . Faced withthe prospect that geoengineering(using chemicals and other meansto alter the environment on a widescale) and human will-power willpotentially be insuffi cient to stopclimate change, the authors lookat engineering humans to save theplanet.

Te authors assess the risksand benets o human engineer-ing — changing humans to beless environmentally destructiverather than changing the environ-ment itsel — and their primaryproject is to evaluate just how e-ective human engineering canbe. Both cognitive enhancementand human engineering involvechanging people biomechanically.Indeed, cognitive enhancement is

best understood as a subset o hu-man engineering.

Liao et al. begin with behav-ioural changes like “encouragingpeople to drive less and recyclemore.” Tey note that such tac-tics are unlikely to do enough. Iknow I should drive less, but I nddriving really helpul. Te authorsare concerned with voluntary ac-tivities only, so they ocus on waysthat we can choose to increasethe likelihood that we’ll be able to

succeed at protecting the environ-ment.

Te United Nations Food andAgriculture Organization es-timates that livestock armingcauses per cent o the world’sgreenhouse gas emissions. So, re-ducing meat consumption wouldconsiderably reduce environmentdegradation. But the problem isthat like driving cars, people en-

joy eating meat. Lots o peopleattempt to reduce their meat con-sumption, but many ail becausethey are “weak-willed.”

In principle, it’s possible to cre-ate a patch or a pill that, when ap-

plied, causes intolerance similarto lactose intolerance. I such aproduct were created, weak-willedpeople trying to stop eating meatcould use the product and woulddevelop a negative associationwith eating meat.

Another possible type o humanengineering is using a methodcalled pre-implantation geneticdiagnosis already in use. cur-rently allows embryologists toscreen or a variety o conditions

when they implant embryos, butit’s possible to use to implantembryos that will turn into hu-mans who are smaller than theyare presently. Smaller humansbenet the environment by con-suming less ood, less material orclothing and less uel or trans-port.

aking a pill with the goal oquitting meat-eating sounds like astrange cure to a problem like en-

vironmental destruction. But arethere reasons or prohibiting suchpharmaceutical development? Be-cause Liao, Sandberg and Roacheare only concerned with voluntary

solutions, we can put aside worriesabout putting nausea-inducingchemicals into our drinking sup-ply.

What types o ethical questionsare raised by such solutions? It’shard to think o problems withusing a patch to quit meat-eatingwithout having similar qualmswith a patch or quitting smok-ing. Similarly, i it were possibleto create a pill that would make uswant to drive less or bicycle more,

should we object?Many people have the intuition

that using a pill takes away romthe achievement. Mountaineersrank climbing Mount Everestwithout supplemental oxygen asa much greater accomplishmentthan using oxygen bottles. Perhapseffort is the same with saving theplanet — perhaps effort is goodregardless o the outcome.

Te risk, o course, is that wemight be unable to save the planeti we don’t use human engineer-ing, and i that ends up being thecase, all the effort in the worldwill be pointless. Effort supporters

should be willing to be let down alittle or the sake o a much greatergoal. Afer all, even with supple-mental oxygen climbing Everest isstill an accomplishment.

One difference between a pill(to quit meat-eating or to improvecognition) and other techniques isthat the latter can be permanent,while the ormer is reversible. Iwe end up capable o engineeringhumans with cat-like eyes so thatwe can see better in the dark anduse less energy (one o the sce-narios the paper considers), theoff taste such possibility leaves inour mouths might be the lack oreversibility once a person getscat-like eyes.

o cross the reversibility thresh-old means that we have perma-nently changed that person’s lie— permanence is why we take tat-toos and sterilization so seriously.It might be that what’s underlyingour revulsion at any kind o hu-man engineering — or those o uswho have such revulsion — is theworry that we’ll one day realize wehave gone too ar.

Tis isn’t, o course, the wholestory. Many nd reversible engi-neering like cognitive enhance-ment worrying or different, ofenhard to articulate reasons, butreversibility might be part o thepicture. And even i procedurescan be reversed, it doesn’t meanthat it’s permissible because o thatact. Te procedure itsel might bepainul, expensive or in some oth-er way unwanted.

We can’t deny, however, thatsuch procedures are on the hori-zon. In the end, we will be acedwith a decision, and whether thatdecision means putting giant mir-rors in space to reect the sun orhaving physically smaller people,at some point something will needto be done.

A different solution to

environmental problemsEric Mathison

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f you want to say that Iwas a drum major, saythat I was a drum major

for justice. Say that I was a drummajor for peace. I was a drum ma-

jor for righteousness. And all ofthe other shallow things will notmatter,” said Martin Luther KingJr.

Tere has recently been somecontroversy over the inscriptionthat paraphrases this quote on theMartin Luther King Jr. Memorialin Washington, .. Many com-mentators have argued that theparaphrased version of King’squote is a misrepresentation ofwhat he actually said. Te para-phrased version reads “I was adrum major for justice, peace andrighteousness.” According to theauthor Maya Angelou, this makesthe great man sound “like an ar-rogant twit.”

Tis is an indication of a wider

trend where quotations harbour-ing great thought are shortenedfor the sake of brevity. Tis usual-ly takes the punch out of the origi -nal version. Sometimes the quotesare also taken out of context andsometimes simply misattributedto famous gures.

Gandhi’s most popular line,

“Be the change you wish to see inthe world,” is perfect for a bum-per sticker or a coffee cup, but itturns out there is no evidence thathe said it. In an op-ed for the NewYork imes, Brian Morton sug-gests that the closest veriable re-mark from Gandhi that could re-semble this quote is: “If we couldchange ourselves, the tendenciesin the world would also change.As a man changes his own nature,so does the attitude of the worldchange towards him . . . We neednot wait to see what others do.”Here Gandhi seems to be suggest-ing more than just changing one-self to change the world, ratherhe suggests we need to changeto change the tendencies of theworld.

In America, it has become com-

monplace to falsely attribute re-marks to the founding fathers.Te far right in America likes topromote historical literacy and at-tend rallies armed with placardsadorned with such lines. One ex-ample is the following quotationattributed to James Madison: “Wehave staked the whole future of

American civilization, not uponthe power of government, farfrom it. We’ve staked the futureof all our political institutionsupon our capacity . . . to sustainourselves according to the enCommandments of God.” Tisremark is used by people to al-lege America’s Christian heritage.Te editors of Te Papers of James

Madison have publicly stated theyhave not found anything writtenby Madison that remotely saysanything like the alleged remark.Despite this the attribution canbe found on many websites. It hasalso been used by Rush Limbaughon his radio show.

Te Bible is ripe for misquota-tions. Some of them have beeningrained in our vernacular. Forexample, “spare the rod, spoil the

child,” and “Do unto others as youwould have them do unto you,”but neither line can be found inany translation.

One of the most vexing ex-ample of misattribution is usingAlbert Einstein’s quotes by peopleof religious inclination to con-

vince other people that Einstein

believed in a god. Einstein schol-ars have demonstrated again andagain that Einstein did not believein a personal god, and when hedid use the word ‘god’ he used itas a rhetorical device or meant inthe sense that deists (like Spinoza)used it.

It is unfortunate that somethoughts are misquoted in popu-lar imagination. Quotes contain-

ing complex thoughts are watereddown and shortened and theirmeaning is changed or just simplymisattributed.

Misquotes reinvent a person,so that he can t the mould ofwhat people expect a great personwould say. Why would NelsonMandela tell us to feel, “Brilliant,

gorgeous, talented, fabulous?” (afamously misattributed quote).

Politics has made an art of thepractice of misquotes. Tey areusually an attempt to use or an-nex a person for some purpose.It illustrates the intellectual dis-honesty and sheer ill will of thepeople who use false attributionto advance their purpose or tomisrepresent a person.

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W

hile we have beenbusy with mid-terms, exams and

the ridiculous scan-dal, little attention has beenpaid to the Feb. incident inAfghanistan, where ve soldierswere caught burning copies of theQu’ran. Outrage and riots ignitedin response, leaving at least Afghans dead and over

wounded. Now, in this pastmonth, there have been twosuicide bombing attacks at theAmerican-run Bagram AirBase where the Qu’rans wereburned, and this Sunday anAmerican sergeant killed Afghan civilians, nine of themchildren. Tis merry-go-round

of violence must stop.I use the term merry-go-round

because whoever commits theseacts of violence appears to do soin pleasure. Tis pleasure, obvi-ously, is derived from the pas-sionate response to previousoutrages, which is an expected

response. I myself am passion-ately raging against this issue —the most common belief regard-ing why the Qu’ran was burnedin the rst place is because of aYouube video of Afghans uri-nating on American soldiers’graves. But the only way to stopthis violent ride is to stop the

outrages — for people to real-ize that both groups are in thewrong.

Currently there is an imagegaining interest on the internetoriginating from Te RepublicanRevolution Facebook page de-picting a burned Afghan woman

and a burned Qu’ran. Te captionreads: “It’s to burn a woman . .. But it’s to burn a book.Something is wrong with your

.” What should be obvious to everyone is that neitheroption is okay. I’m not sidingwith the practice of acid burning,nor am I supporting the burn-ing of a religious — or any —book. Just because the “enemy”does something wrong does not

mean you are in the right. If a fewAfghans urinate on graves, itdoes not make burning their re-ligious book condonable. If a fewsoldiers burn a precious book, itdoes not make bombing their airbase correct.

Te only solution to solve thecompounding issues is a naïveone: to understand the others’situation. Strangely, Americafails in doing this, even though

their whole constitution is basedon the belief of freedom — of re-ligion, of government, of coun-try.

When it was a British colony,America fought for its freedom.Afghanistan is, arguably, doingessentially the same thing againstAmerica.

A lot of criticisms toward therogue American sergeant attack-ing Afghan civilians have beenblamed on exhaustion of war, ex-haustion of this violent merry-go-round. Many journalists arecalling these last remnants of theAfghanistan war doomed, likingit to the opinions surroundingthe Vietnam War. Understandingdid not end the Vietnam War —a resounding American defeat bythe Viet Cong did. Currently theAfghan War is in a similar stale-mate. Instead of waiting for morelives to be lost on both sides,the invading force should be re-moved. Only then can the seedsof understanding be planted, andthe merry-go-round ride of vio-lence can come to an end.

Two wrongs don’t make

either of you rightSarah Dorchak

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s p o r t s2 0 M A R C H 1 5 . 1 2 G A U N T L E TEditor: Erin Shumlich—[email protected]

Taylor McKee

Gauntlet Sports

he mantra chosen by the– Dinos women’shockey team was “Go o

It,” a phrase that evokes a no-nonsense style o play and a de-

termined work ethic. Beore theirnal matchup in the CanadianInteruniversity Sport nals,the Dinos head coach DanielleGoyette was proud o what herteam had accomplished.

“Did we cause some surprisehere? Yeah, I think we came in herean underdog. We showed that iwe work as a team and don’t counton one or two players, we have achance to be successul,” she said.

o say their perormance dur-ing the championship this pastweekend lived up to the coach’swords and the team’s motto wouldbe an enormous understatement.Te Dinos entered their rstever national championship inEdmonton rom March – as athird seed afer capturing the Can-ada West conerence or the rsttime in history. Te team continuedto break records and captured the

top spot in the nation in a stand-outperormance last weekend.

Te schedule rst pitted the Di-nos against deending championsand perennial powerhouse the Mc-Gill Martlets. With only two regula-tion losses in the entire regular sea-son and playoffs combined, McGillwas a uniquely ormidable oppo-nent. Te Martlets entered the gamearmed with our rst all stars in theRéseau du Sport Etudiant du Qué-

bec conerence, including Olympicgold medalist goaltender CharlineLabonté. However, in what wouldbecome a amiliar theme in thistournament, it was the Universityo Calgary’s netminding that wouldsteal the show. Tird-year arts ma-

jor Amanda app backstopped theDinos to a – victory over Mc-

tween the Pandas and the Dinoswas a spirited affair marked byphysicality and one o the larg-est crowds o the tournament. TePandas went in as the underdogs —their – deeat at the hands o Mc-Gill meant their gold medal hopes

were likely over by the time thepuck even dropped against the U oC. Te result was a – win or theDinos that saw Dinos ourth-yearorward Elana Lovell pot two goalsand third-year deender StephanieRamsay collect player o the gamewith a goal and two assists. Lovell’stwo-goal effort was especially stir-

Afer the game, Zubick, a ourth-year arts major and assistant cap-

conerence all-star this season, thethird all-star nod o her career.

the nals. Tey packed a serious o-ensive punch with goals in theirrst two games in the tournament.

However, there is one acetto the Dinos team that loomedover the proceedings at the ClareDrake arena in Edmonton —

Hayley Wickenheiser. Playing wellin the rst two games o the tour-nament, Wickenheiser wasn’t singlehandedly leading her team by anystretch going into the gold-medalmatch. But when her team neededher most, she came to play in abig way. Simply on another levelin the nal game, Wickenheiser

2009–10 7–15–2The first year the women’s hockey

team became a part of the CIS

league.

The record for the women’s hockey

team in the regular season in their

first year in the CIS.

20–4–0The record for the women’s hockey

team in the regular season this year

in the CIS.

$500,000The amount of money Joan Snyder

donated to the women’s hockey team

in the inauguration of the Joan Snyder

Program of Excellence in 2011.

Women’s hockey team takes home gold

The Dinos are the best team in the nation after first trip to nationals

The Dinos celebrate their first ever national championship after defeating the Montreal Carabins 5–1.

Taylor McKee /the Gauntlet


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ERIKA ROMANOW

Women's Basketball

TEIGAN ZHAN

Men’s Hockey

Rookie guard Erika Romanow wasdeadly from three-point land in a

pair of games for the Dinos, helping

them to a sweep of Alberta and a

season-ending split with Winnipeg.On the season she hit nearly 36 per

cent of her trey attempts, finishing

second-best on the team in that

category. Romanow and the Dinos

close the season this weekend as

they host the CIS Final 8 in the Jack

Simpson Gym

Named the Canada West rookie ofthe year, Zahn joined the Dinos this

season after attending the Los Angeles Kings' rookie camp.

Brimming with confidence, Zahn

became a stalwart on the blue line

for the Dinos early in the season and

played consistent hockey all year,

recording three goals and 12 assists

in 23 games with the team in his

freshman year. He was also nameda First Team All Star on defence

Erin Shumlich

Sports Editor

he University of Calgary

men’s hockey team’s sea-son ended in heartbreak

on March . In a three-gameseries against the University ofSaskatchewan Huskies, the thirdand nal game ended at : inthe third overtime.

With the U of C winning the rstgame – on Friday and the U of Swinning the second – on Satur-day, the Canada West nal boileddown to one goal. In an evenly

matched series, the winning teamalso gained a berth in the Cana-dian Interuniversity Sport cham-pionship in Fredericton. MarkHowell, the Dinos head coach, saidthe game was especially critical be-cause Canada West only had onespot for nationals.

“It’s hard when you’re in gamethree in a deciding game for aleague trophy and a chance to goto the national championship,”

said Howell. “Tat next shot is socritical and every play is so criti-cal that it is just a very intense,emotional game. I mean, it’s ev-erything you want from a cham-pionship series. We just ended upon the wrong side of the score-board.”

Te team nished the sea-

“It was a great series,” Howellexplained. “Going into triple over-time in game three — it was heart-breaking for everyone to watch the

goal go in because we had lots ofopportunities to score.”

Two out of the three gamesfinished in overtime. During thefirst game, the Dinos were ableto capitalize : into overtime.Luke Egener shot the puck pastthe U of S net from the blue line.

In the second game, the U of Sgot on the scoreboard early andnever gave up the lead.

“he rink was great, it was

loud. he atmosphere was great.hey had home ice, but we haveplayed there enough that the guyswere comfortable,” Howell said.

Te third game stands as thelongest in the -year history ofthe Rutherford Rink in Saskatoonand is the longest game in the his-tory of the Dinos program.

Howell said the nal game waspacked and both teams had tre-

mendous scoring opportunities.“We played really well and had

lots of opportunities to score,”said Howell. “Teir goaltender

made some really good saves, asdid [Dustin] Butler.”

Te last time the Dinos won achampionship was in , andHowell said that, although manykey players will be leaving theteam, they will continue to recruitin order to put themselves in a po-sition to win the championship.Tis year, captain Reid Jorgensenand defencemen eigan Zahn andJoel Eisenkirch will be among the

players nishing with the team.“It’s always hard to lose those

guys, they have been such a bigpart of our program for so long,”said Howell. “Tey are reallyproud [to be] a Dino and losingthose key pieces is always hard,but that’s part of the process. Youhave to continue to recruit to llthose pieces — that’s just the evo-lution of the program every year.”

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Aspot on the Canada Westrst all-star team is noeasy eat — the last time

a Dino won this honour was in. When fh-year point guardJenna Kaye transerred to theUniversity o Calgary this year,she stepped onto the court withthe women’s basketball team and

immediately strengthened theDinos’s deence and pushed herteammates to succeed.

Kaye nished in the top inthe conerence in eight differentcategories, including most points,rebounds and assists per game. Shewas also the team’s leading scorer

with an average o . points and. assists per game. She played anaverage o . minutes per game.Kaye was recognized with the rstteam all-star award or her accom-plishments.

Te Dinos women’s basketballteam had a tremendous year, witha record o – in the regularseason. Veteran Kaye credits a loto the recognition she received tohow the team played during the

regular season.“It’

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