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MONTREAL (CUP) — Hey stu-dents, have you read? Quebec has its own Tea Party: student activists.

At least, that’s what seasoned edi-torialist Henry Aubin opined in The Gazette when he wrote “A taste of the Tea Party in Quebec” on Sept. 6.

“Militant members of these student organizations will recoil at being com-pared with the Tea Party, that far-right crusade south of the border,” he wrote.

“The students will see Tea Partiers as stodgy, old and doctrinaire — the reverse of their own cool, youthful, broad-minded selves. Yet the two movements have much in common.”

While it’s true that I recoil at the notion of grassroots education activ-ism being compared to the Tea Party — and will admit to having a cool, youthful, broad mind — I take issue with the tenuous links Aubin makes between us and them.

Tea Partiers demand lower taxes, while students are demanding lower tuition. His argument ceases to make sense beyond the surface financial similarities.

Yet the difference between our pro-spective governments, he writes, is “a nuance.”

But one group is adamant that they are “taxed enough already” — putting their own short-term financial inter-ests ahead of the long-term needs of the many — while the other is saying

that affordable education is vital to the economic future of the whole prov-ince.

Aubin also comments that the Tea Party is similar to students because both groups are “electorally minded” and have “played the political system astutely.”

But have they really? “Astute” is not a word I would choose when describ-ing Tea Party talking heads like Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann or Glenn Beck.

These people also incorporate ho-mophobic and Islamophobic elements into their campaigns, and their dislike for Obama often comes off as little more than thinly veiled racism.

So give us some credit, please; there is clearly more than one glaring differ-ence between both groups and their goals for society.

Aubin seems impressed that student groups are going to “try something extra” and flaunt our “new political sophistication” this year by pressuring elected officials in target areas to start thinking seriously about public edu-cation that is funded through a more progressive taxation system.

But he goes on to write that this agenda will eventually weaken soci-ety.

Students, he argues, could even be responsible for bringing the university and provincial governments to fiscal crisis if we continue our political ag-gression of “ragtag demonstrations” and “war path tactics.”

As Obama told his Tea Partying

critics when the American economy was on the brink of default, “We need to tighten our belts in an intelligent way.”

So do we. We’re talking about access to edu-

cation here; can our government make spending cuts in other areas?

Access to education is a human right; what’s more, everyone benefits from an informed and well-educated labour force.

And though $13,000 in student debt might seem like some paltry sum to a man who has a salary, he should take a hard look at the job market, rising in-flation, austerity measures and many other realities facing university stu-dents as they exit — or fight to afford an entrance into — higher education systems.

Mr. Aubin, education is our only real chance in the real world, or the real job market, which is why we’ve become vocal and more politically savvy to stay in school.

Investing in universities, in educa-tion, is an investment in growth.

These ideals do not make us the Tea Party!

Aubin’s piece has shown a lot of students another side of the tuition de-bate, but comparing our movement to the Tea Party is unfair and verges on willful ignorance.

If we are going to have any real dia-logue, we have to keep our hyperbole in check.

“There’s a word for wanting to hang onto acquired privilege,” said Aubin at

the end of his piece. The word was “reactionary.” It’s an

interesting word, and one you could also use to describe the most basic premise of his piece, which seems to stem from a fear on the part of older, middle-class citizens that if students don’t foot the bill, they will.

But if university attendance drops significantly, or if future generations of young people are all graduating with unmanageable debt loads, every-one loses.

Deepening the divide between the generations and making inflamma-tory comparisons will not solve the problem of tuition funding.

Perhaps Aubin should show up to the planned province-wide Nov. 10 protest against tuition and speak to a few students on the ground floor of life.

Maybe then he’d see that we’re most certainly not like our “Get the government away from my Medicare” friends to the south.

Not our cup of TeaThe Cord (Wilfrid Laurier)Laura Beeston

Some comparisons have been made between student activists looking to lower tuition rates and the Tea Party movement in the US, which some think is ludicrous. (Image by Paku Daoust-Cloutier/The Link)

Demanding lower tuition: not the same as demanding lower taxes

While it is reasonable to be offend-ed by the insinuation that the student-driven movement towards lowering tuition at post-secondary institutions in this country is comparable to the Tea Party movement happening south of our border, I think the main question we need to examine is why do we draw these comparisons in the first place, and why should we even pay attention when they are drawn?

And while it is true that these are two completely separate issues – Ms. Beeston has hit the nail on the head in her assertion that “if university atten-dance drops significantly, or if future generations of young people are all graduating with unmanageable debt loads, everyone loses,” and that there is a significant difference between Tea Partiers demanding lower taxes

and students demanding lower tu-ition – I think the assertion that they are similar isn’t really worth the time it takes to argue about it.

I also can’t help but wonder why we as Canadians are so focused on these American movements when they clearly are not applicable to our circumstances up here — especially in regards to the focus we should have on our access to education or the expense of that endeavour.

These movements come about be-cause of a need — real or perceived — which causes people to rise up to take matters into their own hands, so to speak.

The Tea Party movement down south — as far as I can discern — is mainly about taxation. Specifically, the people want less of that — but are not willing to give up any of the things that are provided to them be-cause of that taxation.

Let me say before anyone starts in

on me that I am in no way an expert on any of this, nor do I clam to even have gone so far as to do any research into the matter.

That’s kind of my point, though.American political movements

don’t even hold enough interest for me that I would even bother to look into them in order to properly incor-porate them into an article to be pub-lished in a reputable news source (if I might be so bold).

So reacting to the comparison made by Mr. Aubin just seems silly to me.

Let him keep his ill-conceived notions of what the students of this country are trying to achieve, and let us focus on what they’re actually try-ing to do.

They are trying to better their own futures by gaining an education.

In doing so they hope that society as a whole will benefit by having a more well-educated workforce.

They are trying to make it so that more people have access to better educational opportunities.

All of these concepts make sense to me.

So while I disagree with the idea that education is somehow a basic hu-man right, I certainly don’t disagree with the notion that more availabil-ity and accessibility to education is something we should strive for.

What we shouldn’t be striving for are comparisons to the US govern-mental systems, policies and move-ments — or arguing with people that are obsessed with making those com-parisons where they really don’t have any merit.

In giving those people more cover-age, we really give them more than our rebuttals take away from them—and yes, I am completely aware of the irony of that statement as I type this.

So let’s focus on ourselves and the movements we believe in up here,

and leave those who don’t to their own devices and interests, shall we?

And after all — I could make all kinds of comparisons that don’t make any sense.

Watch.The Canadian education system is

like a Ferrari — it looks pretty and it works really well, but it’s damn expensive and it tends to bottom-out when it encounters any bumps in the road.

Oops, I made a good one. Let me try again.

The Canadian education system is like a poorly built house — it’s a shitty place to live and it smells like mould.

There.Is anyone going to argue that com-

parison with me, or will you just look at it and realize it doesn’t make any sense?

I kind of thought so.

Why are we even talking about the Tea Party here?Editor-in-ChiefMike Davies

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VICTORIA, B.C. (CUP) — The Ca-nadian Broadcasting Corporation is ap-proaching its 75th birthday. What does it mean to us three-quarters of a decade later?

The CBC was born out of the Canadi-an Radio Broadcasting Commission on November 2, 1936. A whole campaign with a refreshing colour palette has been launched to celebrate and highlight some of the content that has reinforced and connected us as a nation. Even the Royal Canadian Mint is hyping the party: limited-edition commemorative quarters are on the market.

The celebrations have started, and a new logo and slogan remind us that the CBC is “yours to celebrate.” And so it is.

The crown corporation CBC/Radio-Canada is the chief provider of Cana-dian news, music, and storytelling. It’s gone from black and white to colour, colour to high-definition, and is cur-rently transitioning from analog to digi-tal. Our media climate is shifting and our beloved CBC is up against a weak economy, changing demographics, and emerging technologies.

Birthday or not, life slows down for no one.

In March, Canadian finance minister Jim Flaherty announced that the CBC must submit two proposals to meet re-ductions in operating appropriations. The proposals will outline how to meet a five-per cent and 10-per cent cut over three years and will inform the 2012 federal budget. It’s part of a government-wide strategic and operating review of 67 organizations. Sounds like the gov-ernment is asking the CBC to buckle down and not only prepare, but plan, for cuts.

During the weak economic period of 2009, the CBC had losses of $171 mil-lion for which to make up. The public broadcaster shifted its game plan, sold assets, and cut close to 800 jobs. Now, two-and-a-half years later, the federal government is asking the CBC to pre-pare for another round of wallet wring-ing.

What did you get the CBC for its birthday?

Every year, Canadian taxpayers contribute what works out to be $34 per capita to the public broadcasting service. Collectively, Canadians con-tributed nearly $1.1 billion last year.

The CBC is by far the largest public broadcaster in the country, but it’s not exclusively publicly funded. The CBC has four sources of funding. During the first quarter of 2011–12, tax dollars made up 61 per cent of CBC’s funding, while advertising covered 24 per cent. Specialty services and other revenues wrapped up the remaining 15 per cent in the form of subscription and ad sales from specialty programs, real-estate sales, and rentals.

Compared to other industrialized countries, 34 bucks is a bargain. A 2011 Nordicity analysis shows Canadians are ahead of only New Zealand and the United States. Americans pay $4 per year. On average, other Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Devel-opment (OECD) member countries pay $87 annually in support of their public-broadcasting corporations.

And yet we still hear complaints about left-leaning content about our Canadian content provider. CBC Radio freelancer John Threlfall doesn’t necessarily agree with that take on the broadcaster.

“Is it left-of-centre?” says the Victoria resident. “Who defines the centre? If the centre is currently defined by Stephen Harper and the federal Conservatives

then, yes, it’s left-of-centre. If the centre was defined by the mythical alternative universe where Jack Layton and the NDP got into power then, no, it would be more centre.”

Threlfall, also the former editor of Victoria alt-weekly Monday Magazine, doesn’t let his jour-nalism background escape him while analyzing the CBC.

“Is it left-of-centre in that it challenges the government?” he asks. “It challenges things that are being put out there and it doesn’t accept them at face value. But why is that left? And why is that just not inquiry?”

Angus McKin-non, spokesperson for CBC/Radio-Canada, says complaints that the CBC is politically left-of-centre don’t bear themselves out in fact.

“Quite rightly, as Canada’s public broadcaster, our news and current af-fairs operations are held to a higher stan-dard,” he says. “CBC/Radio-Canada strives every day to provide fairness and balance in its news coverage and plat-forms where Canadians can find, and add to, a wide diversity of viewpoints and voices from all across the political spectrum.”

Steven Larsen, a 29-year-old history student at Camosun College, says he’s a fan of the CBC in a lot of ways, but adds that there are drawbacks to being publicly funded.

“The whole idea raises a lot of is-sues for me, in terms of the validity of what they’re telling me,” says Larsen. “I mean, they’re paid for by the govern-ment by tax dollars.”

This quickness to criticize the public broadcaster reveals a certain passion that most Canadians have for the CBC.

What’s a Canadian anyway?

CBC/Radio-Canada connects Ca-nadians across a nation that boasts the world’s second largest land mass. Since 1936, the CBC has been broadcasting Canadian content from coast to coast and beyond.

The 1991 Broadcasting Act states that “the Canadian Broadcasting Corpora-tion, as the national public broadcaster, should provide radio and television services incorporating a wide range of programming that informs, enlightens, and entertains.” It also mandates that the

CBC “reflect the multicultural and mul-tiracial nature of Canada.”

CBC continues to play a key role in reinforcing to Canadians what it means to be Canadian. CBC helped to tell the stories behind maple syrup, beavers, and mounted police. A public broad-casting company has the opportunity, if not the obligation, to tell the stories of the people whom it serves.

Elizabeth Grove-White, an associate professor in the department of English at the University of Victoria, says that the CBC “enlarges our imagination and our understanding to know what’s happen-ing in other parts of our country.”

She moved from Ireland to Toronto in 1973. With no Canadian connections,

Grove-White says that the CBC was a great introduction to this country.

“The CBC has served a very important function in welcoming new Canadians,” she says. “For people like me, who come from other parts of the world, the CBC has been a window into Cana-dian culture and arts and life and politics. I came to know and love Canada through national broad-casting.”

Grove-White eventually came to work for the CBC. She wrote, interviewed, researched and pro-duced several radio programs including Ideas, State of the Arts, and Anthology. She earned a Pea-body Award in 1980 for a program she wrote for the Open Circuit se-ries, “The Longest Journey.” The

documentary shared the experiences of her second pregnancy, exploring the re-alities of childbirth.

“I remember when I worked for Ideas,” says Grove-White. “We’d get letters from all parts of Canada from people who would say, ‘You know, I live 500 miles from the nearest library. I’m the only person around with a university education. I listen to the CBC for the ideas, the intellectual stimulation.’”

It’s often said that the CBC reaches out to Canadian communities, but in the experience of Grove-White, it also reaches out to individual community members.

“My experience was that it really meant a lot to individual people,” she says. “It was not just their way of keep-ing in touch with Canada, but keeping in touch with people who have similar interests.”

Those individual community mem-bers, of course, have their own varying

opinions on what CBC means to them.“I think CBC is a little left wing

sometimes,” says Victoria resident Ev-elyn Mason. “You can tell it’s propped up by government; nobody seems to put any effort into it.”

Her husband David says that when it comes to program selection, there is a bad side to publicly funded media enti-ties like the CBC.

“They’re not at the mercy of who’s going to buy advertising as much as the private networks, so they’re willing to carry stuff just because they like the people who are doing it, or whatever.”

Mason loves Coronation Street, but is tired of seeing the same personalities and programming year after year. But David gives credit to CBC personality George Stromboulopoulos, saying that “he’s smart, a little irreverent.”

What has the CBC done for you lately?

Canadians are a collection of diverse fragments held together by publicly-funded mortar. Not only does the CBC bind us, it showcases us: bright, shapely pieces making up our complex, collab-orative mosaic nation.

Even younger Canadians value the CBC as a platform for exposing them-selves to Canadian content. You don’t have to remember The Friendly Giant to know the CBC is a good thing to have around.

“If there was no CBC, Canadian sto-ries and news would still exist on the internet, but there’s the problem of not really knowing what to look for,” says Josh Driver, a criminal justice student at Camosun. “We’d probably end up dis-connected from the events going on in our local area. We’d end up with just the U.S. media. We’d end up knowing more about them than ourselves.”

A Harris/Decima study released in the spring of 2010 declared that 81 per-cent of Canadians agree it’s important that the Canadian government work to maintain and build a culture and identity distinct from the United States.

In 1970, Pierre Juneau, the first chair-man of the Canada Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission, famously said “Canadian broadcasting should be Canadian.” Canadian content regulations were drafted and have stim-ulated the artistic landscape of Canada ever since.

Under one flag: how the CBC and cultural identity intersectNexus (Camosun College)Carol-Lynne Michaels

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“...the CBC binds us, it showcases us,”

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Editor’s note: This week our own Brendan Kergin wanted to f ind out about what your student union has been up to, so he sat down with TRUSU vice presi-dent external, Jordan Harris.

Omega: “What is the VP ex-ternal?”

Harris: “There’s different mandates for different positions. The VP internal looks over in-ternal things like putting on events, the clubs day, or the back to school barbecue we just had. It’s on campus things.

“The VP external, we look at campaigns and government rela-tions.”

O: “So if it has something to do with the community at large?”

H: “Yeah, like our Drop Fees campaign, I look over it. I design the stuff for it.”

O: “That’s why you went to the Canadian Federation of Students event?”

H: “Exactly, then also with the VP external you’re part of the Provincial Executive and meet up once every three months to give updates and have discus-sions about how campaigns are going, your government issues and how things are going around your campus.”

O: “With the Campaigns Com-mittee, what campaigns is the

board looking at right now?”H: “Over the summer, that’s

when our whole big planning process takes place.

“We passed a committee plan that our campaigns that we’re doing this year are Drop Fees, which also has to do with the Day of Action that’s happening on Feb. 1 which is going to be a big rally for all students and supports affordable education and lobbies the governments to make a better system of afford-able education.

“So, we’re going to f ilter all of our Drop Fees campaign and materials to lead into that Day of Action.

“We also have the Sustainabil-ity Campus. Our main goal of that is to make TRU a bottled-water-free campus, the f irst one in B.C. We’re going to start do-ing that in November.

“We’ll be giving out free wa-ter bottles and getting people to sign these pledges saying they want a more sustainable, green, bottled-water-free campus.”

O: “So those are the two main campaigns?”

H: “Yeah, Drop Fees and the Day of Action are a CFS cam-paign. All schools across Cana-da have a big rally on Feb. 1.”

O: “You met recently with Christy Clark and Naomi Yama-moto, the Minister of Advanced Education. How’d that go?”

H: “It went very well. After her announcement of increas-ing international student seats in B.C. we met with her.

“It was very brief; it was only for about 10 minutes. We just ex-plained to her about how we are still looking to make education affordable for students in B.C. and Kamloops.

“She took it very well, but it was very brief and then she had to leave.”

O: “How about the discussion with Yamamoto?”

H: “It was a lot of giving our ideas and we want to give the perception that we are willing to sit down with the government and discuss options of afford-ability. Affordable education is beneficial to students and the province.

“We wanted to give her the idea that, ‘We will work with you. We want to create some op-tions that will make education more affordable.’ We just gave her ideas on that.

“There’s a sense that afford-able education is a plan that can be worked, but right now it seems like because of the eco-nomic time we’re in sometimes they don’t want to go out and make big plans.

“But that’s where, respective-ly, we talked to Michelle Mun-gall (NDP MLA and Advanced Education critic) and her NDP platform included a grant pro-gram.”

O: “Thanks for your time, we’ll keep watching those cam-paigns. Good luck.”

H: “Yeah, keep an eye out for those. Talk to you later.”

The Omega sits down with TRUSU VPNews EditorBrendan Kergin

Life & Community

Community Calendar

Wednesday, Sept 28

-Heroes Live Concert Series.Show starts 8 p.m.$5 Dollars cover.

Friday, Oct. 7

-Fall convocation. 2-2:30 p.m. TRU gym.

Unable to attend? Watch the ceremony over the internet at www.livestream.com/livetru

Saturday, Oct. 8

-Women’s BasketballExhibition6 p.m.Tournament Capital Centervs Mount Royal Cougars

Sunday, Oct. 9

-Women’s SoccerNoonHillside Stadiumvs UNBC

-Men’s Soccer2 p.m.Hillside Stadiumvs UNBC

See all this empty space in the events

calendar? There’s no way that there’s nothing

happening this week,

but you didn’t tell

us about it, so we can’t

tell everyone else.

Hopefully you learn from this

and get your events to us so we can share them

with the people who

might attend.

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This week I’m just going to make a few announcements in regards to the Omega — all of which are positive.

First I’d like to thank everyone for the in-terest expressed in being a part of what it is we’re doing here.

There’s been an out-standing response to our call for submissions and contributions, prompting a gathering this coming Friday, Oct. 7, at 5:30 p.m. in the TRUSU Boardroom for those that would like to engage their fellow stu-dents and faculty through the student newspaper.

If any of you don’t know where that is, go to the Students’ Union Build-ing (attached to the north side of the Campus Activ-ity Center) and find the TRUSU help desk by the coffee shop.

We’ll be in the big room that’s hiding behind that desk.

This meeting will out-line how to go about sub-mitting content, what kind of content is appropriate and the issues associated with conflict of interest and personal gain.

If you want to know how you, too, can get your words or photos into the paper, I wel-come you to attend the open meeting on Fri-day.

If you can’t attend — I know it’s the start of Thanksgiving weekend so many of you are taking off out of town — but you still want to know how to contribute, send me an email, and I’ll forward you the gist of what we discussed at that gathering.

The second announcement is that the re-sponse to our weekly geocache contest has been improving, so you can thank those par-ticipants for allowing us to continue to show

you some amazing locations in and around Kamloops.

I sincerely hope the level of participation continues to grow.

The best-case scenario for participants is that you win a prize for playing.

The worst-case sce-nario is you get to see some of the beauty that surrounds you here in the middle of British Columbia while getting out and getting a bit of exercise as well.

The last announce-ment is that the position of promotions coordina-tor has been filled.

We are happy to wel-come Amrita Pannu to the Omega team, and are looking forward to hav-ing her out there spread-ing the good word.

We’ll update you on her efforts periodically throughout the year, but hopefully you’ll see them for yourself before we even have to mention

them here.Look for her at various events around

campus and help us make her feel welcome. She comes to us from the University of

British Columbia, so let’s show her how a smaller university community feels.

I look forward to meeting you at our ori-entation session this Friday, and I once again encourage anyone to contact me with any questions you might have about what we’re doing here — even if those questions are lit-erally, “what the hell are you doing here?”

We welcome and encourage reader feed-back — both positive and otherwise, so let’s have it.

editorofomega@gmail.com

Just a few quick announcements

SUMMITMONTESSORI

The Virtue for September is:

Peacefulness: Peacefulness is being calm inside. Take time for daily reflection and gratitude. Solve conflicts so everyone wins. Be a peacemaker. Peace is giving up the love of power for the power of

love. Peace in the world begins with peace in your heart.

Our Trained Montessori Teachers provide a Montessori Pre-school, and full day Childcare program. Studies include world geography, culture, math, language, art,

music and much more! We provide care for Toddlers, 3-5’s and Afterschool.

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Editor’s Note

I’ve always been of the opinion that it’s important to celebrate things both big and small every chance one gets.

This includes convocation ceremo-nies.

In fact, convoca-tion is one of my favourite times of the academic year.

I should explain my particular fondness for con-vocation events.

Before com-ing to TRU, I was fortunate to work with students at the beginning of their post-second-ary journeys.

Teaching f irst-year students was important work for me as much of my time was spent helping students learn to navigate the practices and policies of the university.

Much like a tour guide I spent my time in the classroom showing students the lay of the land.

I explained the important features of the landscape and helped them acquire the language of academia — and then they left my classroom and headed out on their own.

My next formal opportunity to meet up with these students again would be convocation — and what a stark con-trast between the students I’d met four years before and the students walking

across the stage! The graduating students walked and

spoke with a confidence that they didn’t even realize was within them during

their f irst tentative days on campus.

C o n v o c a t i o n now marked an im-portant waypoint on their journeys into careers and active lives in their communities.

Last month TRU welcomed our new students with New Student Convoca-tion —designed to be a mirror of the graduation convocation that students will par-ticipate in at the completion of their studies. The pur-

pose of the event was to inspire stu-dents to work hard and make their way across the stage.

TRU’s next convocation will be held at 2 p.m. this Friday, October 7, in the TRU gymnasium.

I encourage you to take time out of your day and take in the celebration.

Christine Adam, TRU’s dean of stu-dents, writes a weekly column on topics of interest to TRU students.

You can f ind her in person in 1631 Old Main and follow her on Twitter @trudeanstudents.

From the

dean’s desk

Dean of StudentsChristine Adam

Editorial

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A block-long display pro-moting alternative transporta-tion modes within the city and beyond wrapped up the Great Green Transportation Challenge event on Saturday, Oct.1.

2nd Avenue was lined with booths from St. Paul to Seymour Streets presenting transporta-tion options for people of all f i-nancial positions.

A decommissioned city bus had been renovated and turned into what Coleen Lepik, trans-portation co-ordinator with the City of Kamloops, referred to as a “traveling roadshow.”

The bus was decorated with information about the city’s plans for the next 25 years of public transportation, and there was an opportunity for people to take sticky notes and write down their own ideas about what they believe would improve the city’s transportation system.

Another board invited peo-ple to comment on what they thought of the plans that have already been made.

Lepik pointed out the im-portance of f inding out what changes needed to be made to encourage more people to con-

sider public transportation, or at least other options besides “always jump[ing] in the vehicle and head[ing] off.”

Gene Kozowy, a transit op-erator and trainer in Kamloops, greeted me with a smile as I boarded the renovated bus.

He spoke about how the most frequent requests transit re-ceives are for increased service, especially at night.

“Folks that want to go to the movies can get there okay,” he said, “but they can’t get home.”

They also hear requests for in-creased service during the day, because, “Even some of the runs we make during the day, we have to leave some people behind, be-cause we can only take so many.”

Kozowy talked about how ex-tending the service by at least an hour on routes could make the difference between people being able to consider using the tran-sit system to get to places like the wildlife park, for example, where the last bus leaves just af-ter 5 p.m.

Public transportation wasn’t the only option being presented at the event.

A series of hybrid vehicles, electric scooters and the Seg-way — an upright scooter that you stand to use — were also on

display. A group of students from UBC

were showing off a solar-pow-ered car they have under devel-opment as well.

Many of these alternative modes of transportation have

their issues. Some of the hybrid vehicles came with a $30,000 price tag.

The Segway is not legal to op-erate on the sidewalk, and the scooters have questionable up-hill capabilities.

The point of the event was not to sell products, though.

It was to get people to think about more sustainable methods of transportation, in the hopes of reducing traff ic and promoting a cleaner Kamloops for the future.

Kamloops transit: the next 20 years

Arts and Entertainment EditorCory Hope

Life & Community

Find this view at Pioneer Park downtown and win the Omega’s weekly prize. —Cory Hope

A recent bout with being unable to afford the brake repair required to get my car safely on the road left me us-ing my feet as transportation for a few days, but I’m not one to let that get in the way of getting myself outside.

I’m also prone to attempting to do car repairs on my own but I feel there is a differ-ence between being a rank amateur doing things to make my car go, and being a rank amateur doing things that might prevent my car from being able to stop without the as-sistance of the nearest brick wall, or perhaps another car. Maybe toss a pedestrian in the mix to slow down so I don’t get too hurt.

That’s the long way of saying that if you happen to be walk-ing around downtown wishing that you could just get away from the shoe stores without having to summon a mighty Kraken to smite them all out of existence to clear you a path to the nearest place that doesn’t sell shoes, you still have options.

There’s a place called Pioneer Park just off the main drag of downtown Kamloops where you can go to re-lax on a beach, enjoy a cup of coffee (bring your own as they don’t serve) and even watch as the occasional fool runs across the Red Bridge and rap-pels down to the ground.

It’s rare, but trust me it happens.

If you just happen to be hanging out there and find a piece of flagging tape with something written on it, write it down for later.

When you get home email me at cory.hope@gmail.com with the mes-sage on the tape and if you’re the first one to get back to me, you’ll win a

prize.I guess this might be a good time to

tell you where to look. The tape is located at N 50˚ 40’

47.4”, W 120˚ 19’ 30.0” give or take ten metres.

If you don’t own a GPS just type that into Google Earth and it will show you where to look.

If you decide to go for the longer walk to get there, the one that goes through from Riverside Park, make sure you stop by the labyrinth on the right-hand side as you’re walking past.

It’s the large cobblestone circle after

you pass underneath the train bridge. Even if you decide not to walk

through the labyrinth on the desig-nated path I encourage you to do two things:

First, walk into the centre of the cir-cle and clap your hands while stand-ing still.

You can move your arms for the neces-sary clapping move-ments — that doesn’t count against the standing still busi-ness.

Second, email me with an explanation for that noise!

Seriously. I don’t have a clue

why that happens and it really weirds me out.

I hope you have a good time while you’re out there.

Pioneer Park is a nice place to go at any time of year, al-

though there are cer-tainly aesthetic ben-efits to going there in

the summer for people of any prefer-ence, if you catch my meaning.

Editor’s note:Congratulations to Dan & Erika

Byrne who headed out to Cooney Bay last week and found the marker. They won a $20 gift certificate to Fresh is Best Salsa located at 1420 Hugh Allen Drive (across the highway from Ab-erdeen Mall). Check them out when shopping for your next fiesta! Fresh locally-produced chips and dips, as well as a selection of imported Mexi-can fare. www.freshisbest.ca

No wheels? No problemArts and Entertainment EditorCory Hope

Omega’s weekly geocache heads back downtown

“Green” issues and accessibility explored at local event

The “travelling roadshow” bus had almost 200 people walk through it within the first three hours of being on display on Saturday. The week-long event was meant to bring attention to “green” and sustainable future for transportation in Kamloops. —Cory Hope

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The 2010 field school participants pose for a quick photo at the University of Belize. —Submitted

Belize is, odds are, not a coun-try the students at TRU know a lot about.

That can be changed.The small Central American

country is the regular destina-tion of a f ield course run by Dr. Karl Larsen.

The unique feature of this course is that, while designat-ed as part of the department of natural resource sciences, it is open to essentially all students at TRU.

“It’s a multi-discipline course, so students from any discipline can take it,” said Larsen.

“As long as they can say why this is important to [them].”

While it’s common for biology majors to go, past participants have included a math student, economists and tourism majors.

“I’ve got students from differ-ent disciplines and they actually teach other. During the courses they are all looking at things from different directions,” said Larsen.

He actually learns a lot as well, even though he’s been do-ing this for f ive years.

At the end of the trip the stu-dents create presentations to share with the class, and with some of the Belizeans they meet.

The cross-cultural exchange is aided by the fact that while almost all of the nations border-ing Belize speak Spanish, Be-lize is part of the British Com-monwealth and officially speaks English.

It shares a bit of history with Canada, and even more with its Caribbean neighbours.

The tiny nation is tucked in on the western side of Mexico and Guatemala.

With a population of about 300,000, it’s a small, vibrant nation with about a half dozen notable cultures going through some major transitions.

Larsen believes the micro-cosm in a small area going through major changes is an ex-cellent space to study multiple

academic areas.This exchange of culture and

ideas is expanded on in many ways.

There is always an event with the University of Belize and when the Canadians come home again, they bring a student from the U of B back with them for a two-week trip of their own.

Past participant Melany Ros-berg, who’s studying Animal

Biology at TRU, said the trip opened up her eyes to how con-servation works in another coun-try with a different culture.

“Some of the highlights of the trip for me were the exposure to new wildlife and all the Mayan culture in the area,” she said.

“It really is quite different from home and the trip is unfor-gettable, catching crocodiles in a dark lagoon, spending a night

with a Mayan family, hunting for jaguars!”

There are some essential things to know about the trip. It will cost about $3000 all in-cluded. Applications are being taken now until Oct. 21 for the course – which takes place in the spring 2012.

The course takes two weeks and counts for full course cred-its.

Ever wanted to go to Belize? News EditorBrendan Kergin

Field school provides full-credit educational experience

Life & Community

Canadian musicians such as Bryan Adams and Sarah McLachlan have full-fledged careers and international acclaim. You can still hear Rush and The Tragically Hip on the air. The Arcade Fire, Kid Koala, K’naan, Mother Mother, Tegan and Sara, Dan Mangan and so many more Canadian artists are right up there in Canada’s musical mountain range.

Canadian content regulations have created a weird and wonderful filtration system that pulls diverse artists from above the 49th parallel and launches them out on national airwaves.

The CBC benefits Canadian writers and poets, too. Camosun College librarian Sybil Harrison says that CBC radio is “very good at helping define the Canadian character.” Harrison emphasizes its im-portance to the promotion of Canadian literature, storytelling, and poetry. “Our Canadian publish-ing industry would really have huge challenges if it wasn’t for the CBC,” she says.

What’s a world without the CBC?

The CBC’s programming is expansive; it’s touched the lives of practically every Canadian, in some ways more directly than others.

“Honestly, I would be hard-pressed to imagine Canada as we know it today without the CBC,” says Threlfall, who now works at UVic as communica-tions and special projects officer for the Faculty of Fine Arts. “So many peoples’ cultural memories and cultural backbone have been fashioned by or supported by the CBC over the years.”

Having freelanced for CBC and seen firsthand how much work goes into their programs, Threlfall marvels over everything he hears and sees on CBC.

“What we see on TV or hear on the radio is really just the tip of the iceberg. It’s the final product,” he says. “It’s incredible how many people have contrib-uted to or worked for CBC over the years.”

Threlfall notes that Canada is now 144 years old, and that “the CBC has been around for half of that time. That’s pretty strong, right there.”

He says people perceive the CBC to be a great force in Canada. “It’s like the weather; it’s the CBC. If you want to know the opinion of what’s going on in the country, you listen to the CBC, you know; there’s your national opinion.”

The CBC: we love it, we hate it, and we pay for it (some of us involuntarily)

Petitions exist online about it: save it or suffo-cate it. The discussion is there. The fact that every-one has an opinion demonstrates the invisible ties that tangle Canadians with the CBC.

“It’s providing Canadian identity — multicul-turalism, regionalism, all of us together individu-ally and collectively,” says Victoria mayor Dean Fortin. “The CBC is a very important institution. It’s the one that is dedicated to Canadian culture: bringing forward and developing Canadian iden-tity.”

CBC’s McKinnon says that the organization aims to express culture and enrich democratic life. He says that’s been at the heart of their mission for 75 years, and continues to be, with their new five-year strategic plan committing to deepening the CBC’s relationship with Canadians.

“[In the plan] we commit to providing a pub-licly owned, publicly minded space where Cana-dians can meet and exchange with each other and with the country,” he says.

The CBC: we can name its influence when we see it around us, but hesitate when defining it, especially younger Canadians. Our foggy aware-ness of the CBC’s presence is like the ground we walk on every day: we know it’s there and prob-ably enjoy that it is, but not many of us question it — or really think about what it means to our country.

Maybe it’s time we do.

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Puzzle of the Week #4 – More Kittens

Ooooh, kitties! They are so sweet. There are eight of them. Their furcomes in five colours. Five of them have black, four have white, two haveorange, two have brown, and one has purple. (Paint or not, consider it afur colour.) Each kitten has at least one fur colour.

Every kitten is special. That means that no two kittens have exactly thesame fur colours.

How many of these mewing lovelies have exactly one fur colour?

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

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

mit your solution (not just the answer but also why) by noon next Wednesday

to Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net>. Submissions by others are also wel-

come. The solution will be posted the Wednesday after that in the Math Centre

(HL210A). Come visit: we are friendly.

Arts & Entertainment

Slim Cessna’s Auto Club released their new LP called Unentitled on Al-ternative Tentacles earlier this year.

Like every release before it since their self-titled debut album in 1995, it was well worth the wait.

Starting with the driving banjo on “Three Bloodhounds,” “Two Shep-herds,” and “One Fila Brasilla,” Slim Cessna continues in the vein that has been referred to as Country Music’s Evil Twin, Alt-Gospel and Gothabilly — to name a few.

The band has their own brand of country that sells out punk rock ven-ues and keeps the dance floor jumping from beginning to end.

Based in Denver, Colorado, Slim Cessna’s Auto Club formed in 1992 and is hailed as one of the finest ex-amples of Americana working today.

They’ve been described by The Dead Kennedy’s Jello Biafra as “...the country band that plays the bar at the end of the world.”

They have played at Austin, Texas SXSW music festival in 1997, 2001 and 2007, and headlined the Ameri-cana stage in 2000 at the annual Blues Festival held in Ottawa.

They have toured extensively throughout the United States and Eu-rope and have played many shows in Canada over the years as well.

They’re currently on tour in support of the new album in North America, and their Vancouver show was last month.

If I was in possession of a time-trav-eling Delorian I would happily take you there, but tragically this is not the case.

I had the chance to speak to Jay Munly, one of the two frontmen for the band when they played Dante’s in Portland, Oregon in 2009.

The band had suffered a breakdown of the vehicular kind, and rather than miss the show that night, they traded in their old RV and purchased a new one.

When I told Munly that I had come from Kamloops to see the show, he smiled and told me that he remem-bered playing a hockey tournament in Kamloops and had fond memories of the town.

The band’s two frontmen Munly and Slim have a unique onstage pres-ence and charisma, playing off of each other as well as the crowd.

Just as frequently as either of them will pick up an instrument they will burst into theatrics of blessings and ca-maraderie with each other reminiscent of the most flamboyant televangelist.

I spoke to Karl Alvarez, bass player for the Descendents and ALL last year while he was standing-in playing bass for Vancouver’s The Real McKenzies, and he described Slim Cessna’s Auto Club as one of the best stage acts he had ever seen.

Coming from a man with a resume that spans over 30 years of playing with enough bands to warrant his own feature article, this would have been praise enough for me to check them out had I not known of Slim Cessna already.

Unentitled

Arts & Entertainment EditorCory Hope

Slim Cessna and Jay Munly rile up the crowd at Dante’s in Portland Oregon. —Cory Hope

Slim Cessna’s Auto Club worth checking out

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Sports

Despite possessing the ball for much of the 90-minute match, the TRU men’s soccer team suffered their first loss this past week, los-ing 1-0 to the Vancouver Island University Mariners. The Oct.1 game at Hillside Stadium was played in cool temperatures for the first half, warming up by the sec-ond when the sun finally appeared.

Though the field eventually warmed up, the team’s ability to score did not.

Speedy Mariners mid-fielder AJ Kambere scored the game’s only goal at the 46th minute, scoring on rookie keeper Travis Froehlich’s

left side.“We collapsed on the one oppor-

tunity and they capitalized on it,” Froehlich said.

“After they got their goal we played 100 per cent and possession went TRU’s way. It’s unlucky but we are going to forget about it and come back hard the next game.”

Froehlich wasn’t tested often, but had to make two hard saves in the late part of the first half, ston-ing Kambere by challenging the striker away from his net.

The keeper said his confidence in situations similar to that is growing.

“Today was probably my best day of the last three (games),” he said.

“I’m going to keep building my

confidence as a first-year and we are going to get ready for playoffs in the next couple weeks and con-tinue to work hard. We got to work on communication and battling the whole 90 minutes. Today was a good effort.”

The WolfPack had a number of opportunities but came up short each time. Second-year mid-field-er Jacob Kaay came the closest to tying the game on an opportunity at the 32-minute mark in the sec-ond half. He was well-positioned in front of the opposing net but launched the ball too high.

It became a reoccurring theme throughout the game, and it was one of those days when the ball didn’t want to go in the net. The WolfPack exploded at the begin-

ning of the game with an aggres-sive attack, and may have expelled too much energy. By the time game wrapped up, the ‘Pack looked out of gas.

WolfPack co-head coach John Antulov still felt his team gave a good effort despite the loss.

“I think our whole-team game was pretty awesome today,” he said, and once again, held high praise for his goal keeper.

“Travis played really solid and the players battled. We are play-ing against the defending national champions.

“The guys played solid defen-sively, and I think if we keep do-ing that we’ll be fine, we just got to finish on our opportunities.”

Corey Wallis, a rookie defender,

was named leader of the ‘Pack for his play in the backfield and his ability to chip on the offensive at-tack. Another notable event was when veteran mid-fielder Adam Dodgson was pulled from the game near half-time. Coach An-tulov told the media Dodgson was having trouble with his abductor muscles and will need rest.

After the weekend the Wolf-Pack sit tied for second place in the Group B division of the PAC WEST league with a record of two wins, three draws and a loss. Now that the playoff push has begun, the WolfPack’s season post-season hopes will hinge on finishing their chances.

Not doing so cost them an im-portant win this week.

Sports EditorNathan Crosby

Men’s soccer suffers first loss to VIU Mariners

Goals were hard to come by for the women’s soccer team in Sep-tember; but October came and a 3-1 win over the Vancouver Island University Mariners showed the team is starting to click.

The players and crowd sat through a chilly and damp game on Oct. 1 at Hillside Sta-dium. Weather didn’t play a fac-tor though, as positivity rang through the WolfPack’s leader-ship as they battled to improve to two wins, three draws and a loss — two points behind first-place UBCO.

The first goal came early in the game at the ninth minute. Third-year Alanna Bekkering’s corner kick was perfectly executed to give Ashley Piggot her first of two goals in the game when she bumped the ball off her head into the back of the net.

Piggot was named the game’s “Leader of the ‘Pack” for her strong offensive performance.

“For the first goal, everyone was rushing in and left me all alone. I saw it coming across perfectly and the goalie went for it and I was all alone to put it in the back of the net,” she said. Her second goal came at the 57th minute, again from the foot of Alanna Bekkering on a corner kick.

“For the second one, it was just one of those garbage goals, but you got to finish those and I did.”

Piggot’s two goals gave the ‘Pack a comfortable lead, but VIU didn’t concede. Keeper Em-ily Edmundson made a great save on Mariners forward Mariah Robinson, and Robinson then collected her own rebound and

went top shelf on the WolfPack keeper to shorten the lead to 2-1 at the 67th minute.

Three minutes later, TRU re-sponded when they got a lucky bounce off a Mariners defender after a shot by WolfPack rook-ie Emily Oliver was initially blocked.

Head coach Tom McManus said his team is constantly improving on their shooting, and thus, keep-

ing him happy with the perfor-mance and growth of the team.

“We scored three goals this game, which is something we’ve been struggling with all season. We’ve been gelling together and hopefully we can finish,” he said.

“I thought our mid-field did very well, and to be honest, I think it was a great team perfor-mance today. I think we closed everything down that we prac-

ticed all week, and we picked our game up and the girls did what we asked them to do.”

As cold as it was on the field with the rain lasting half of the game, the WolfPack were able to let their aggressive play control the game. With only five games left in the season, the team seemed to play with alertness that every win will be important at this stage.

“We want to keep the goals

down,” McManus said about his defence.

“We’ve allowed five in the first four games and that’s just not good enough. But as long as we’re scoring, I’m happy.”

It seems the offence is figur-ing it out at the right time for the WolfPack, and with the post-sea-son approaching, it couldn’t have happened any later if they hope to be involved.

Sports EditorNathan Crosby

Offence explodes in crucial win for women’s soccer

Ashley Piggot (4) heads the ball to score one of her two goals in a 3-1 victory over the VIU Mariners at Hillside Stadium on Oct. 1. Both goals were scored on corner kicks from Alanna Bekkering. —Trevor Chalifour

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