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Emma McPheeNews Reporter
UNBSU talks hiring VP finance At Sunday’s council meeting, the UN-BSU discussed whether a restructuring of their organization should include changing vice-president finance and operations from an elected to a hired position.
UNBSU president Ben Whitney said that many universities hire a financial director instead of having an elected vice-president in charge of finances.
“It’s essentially because of what the position is responsible for. It’s a multi-million dollar budget. It’s a way for them
to mitigate some sort of financial risk and a lot of these schools see fit to hire them,” he said.
Computer Science representative Andrew Martel said that the main focus of the vice-president of finance and oper-ations is more on clubs than the budget and that it should be an elected position.
Nursing representative Laura Carr said that hiring it as a long-term pos-ition could create continuity in budgets from year to year but Marc Gauvin, vice-president finance and operations, said that continuity currently comes through the UNBSU general manager Karen Miner.
Martel proposed a motion that the advancement committee of the UNBSU research and review the possibility of hiring the vice-president finance and
operations. The motion was passed unanimously.
At the moment Whitney said they have no plans implementing this pro-posed change. It is just a topic they want to consider when the UNBSU undergoes a review.
Motion passes for gender-neutral washrooms at UNB
LGBTQ representative Lee Thomas put forward the motion at council on Sun-day to have the UNBSU support having single-stall, gender-neutral washrooms on campus.
Thomas said that the washrooms at UNB exclude people who do not iden-tify as male or female and that private, single-stall, gender-neutral washrooms
are the best option for all members of the university.
However, not all buildings on cam-pus have single-stall washrooms and Thomas said the university has not made any clear move towards changing this.
Accessibility representative Jeremy Murray said that the best way to get single stall washrooms is through the renovations being made to accommo-date the need for accessible washrooms.
Nursing representative Laura Carr asked if all washrooms couldn’t be changed to co-ed to simplify the process.
Thomas said that with the difficul-ties she has faced for simply wanting to change some of the washrooms to gender-neutral, she didn’t see that moving forward. Instead, it’s having organizations such as the UNBSU show
support that will push for change.“If we can move forward to support
it, then it will help when we have a more specific thing we’re aiming to do,” Thomas said.
Thomas’s motion for UNBSU sup-port passed unanimously.
UNBSU president Ben Whitney said the UNBSU will use their resources to advocate for gender-neutral washrooms now that the motion was passed.
“We’re going to just be in support of the students who need gender-neutral washrooms. We’ll be advocating through capital budget planning and teaching,” Whitney said. “Accessibility and I think just being comfortable, be-ing able to thrive in your environment is key.”
Bailey elected president uncontested Board of Governors voting extended
The UNBSU general election may be over, but due to technical errors the online ballots, voting for the board of governors positions has been extended until March 14.
Technical errors aside, the elec-tion brought in a voter turnout of 17.7 per cent – a 0.2 per cent drop from last year. Current UNBSU president Ben Whitney said the voter turnout results were expected due to the voting period falling over the March break.
“I would’ve liked it to be higher but with the voting period taking place right now we expected it could be a bit lower. All in all it’s not a bad turnout and we’re looking for-ward to working with the new exec members.”
Current UNBSU vice-president external Greg Bailey was elected next year’s president. Though he ran un-contested, he’s grateful for the win.
“I’m just happy that I have the chance to stick around and apply all of the lessons I learned this year,” Bailey said.
“Probably the thing I enjoyed most about being VP external was interacting with other student or-ganizations and seeing how they do things differently; I’d like to spend the next year trying to implement them.”
Lee Thomas, who also ran un-
contested, was elected vice-president internal. Nicole Saulnier won over Stephen Likely for vice-president external. William MacMackin beat Justin Lee for vice-president f i-nance and operations and Elizabeth Teague was elected vice-president student services over Kasra Tamjidi.
Bailey said he was encouraged by the “calibre of candidates” this year, and looks forward to working with the new executive.
“Being on the executive is a time-consuming job. It takes up more of your life than other jobs,” Bailey said. “I’m glad to see that the people who ran took the job seriously, and I think we’ve got a good year ahead.”
Though the voter turnout was lower proportionately due to high enrollment, there were actually more ballots cast this election than last. He said the UNBSU needs to try a new approach for next year.
“Looking at the demographics, the three faculties with the voting percentages above 10 per cent were Renaissance College, kin and sci-ence,” Bailey said.
“I think we need to start tailoring our approach by looking at how we could can get the other faculties in-terested in what’s going on. It’s not about more communications, which is the most overused election prom-ise ever, it’s about communicating a message that actually sticks.”
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Renaissance College Representative: Travis Daley
Nursing Representative: Emily Jackson
Science Representatives: Sydney McAdam, Luke LeBlanc
Business Representatives:
Wade Williams, Samantha Michaud, Ajayi Oluwaronke
Law Representative: Josh Toombs
Kinesiology Representatives: Hailey Rendell, Alyssa Whelan
Engineering Representatives:
Elizabeth Calvin, Kelsey Morrissey, Andrew Russell
Arts Representatives:
Marc Gagnon, Samantha Irma Sapi, Kevin Collins
Computer Science Representative: Jesse Reid
Education Representative: Emily Ripley
Student-at-large: Alec Boudreau, Kurtis Layden
Accessibility Representative: Jeremy Murray
Women’s Representative: Jessica Dobson
Aboriginal Students Representative: Kastina Inman
Off-Campus Student Representative: Sarah Rouse
Residence Student Representative: Arielle Rechnitzer
SUBS Inc. (1 year): Wade Williams
Student Undergrad Senator (1 year):
Edward Choi, Tyler Coffin, Mark Vangel
SUB Board of Directors:
James Tibbetts, Thomas O’Mahony
Brunswickan Publishing Inc. Board of Directors: Johanna McPhee, Bobby Cole
Board of Governors: VOTING EXTENDED
Council Updates
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Humanitarian brings new perspective on volunteering
In his 27 short years, Navonel Glick has seen and done more than most will in an entire lifetime.
As program director of the hu-manitarian non-governmental or-ganization IsraAID, Glick spoke to UNB Fredericton students on March 10 about the experiences that have shaped his life for the past seven years.
He explained how he went from apathet ic chemistry student to dedicated altruist; seeking a change of scenery from the freezing McGill campus, he decided to embark on a four-month volunteer stint in Nepal.
“I thought I’d come back and keep working, like going on sabbatical,” he said. “But instead I ended up staying for 4 years. And that led to a change of career.”
Glick eventually found himself working for the Israel forum for International Humanitarian Aid (IsraAID), a group whose efforts range from disaster relief in places like Kenya and the Philippines, to f inancial and medical projects designed to provide long-term sus-tainability – something they believe is the key to real change.
“You want to find someone in a crisis situation, who doesn’t have the mental space to able to address to-morrow, and really help them build a situation where they can think about how to make their own lives better,” he said.
The goal of Glick’s presentation was to address the misconceptions that exist around humanitarian aid, and that well-intentioned volunteers can sometimes do more harm than good.
While Glick feels that humanitar-ian work is something that everyone should experience, he emphasized that activists should focus on sus-tainability, as opposed to “feel-good” short-term aid that often does not last. Instead, he believes that donations made to reputable charities or NGOs can be the most effective way of providing lasting change.
“If they choose to go volunteer
somewhere they [should] have an idea of what they’re doing and ask ‘is it sustainable?’ ” he said.
“Would it be better, instead of spending thousands of dollars to go volunteer for a week and build a hut when you’re not a construction worker, would it be a better idea to spend the summer working and send the equivalent amount of money to an organization?”
While his work with IsraAID has put him face-to-face with human suffering in places like the Sudan and Haiti, Glick said that the positive experiences in his work more than outweigh the bad.
“When people from different cul-tures get together and try and help, it’s amazing the positive feedback you get. In the US, I was recently in Colorado after the floods. There was this woman who almost fainted when she saw from how far we had come to help, she started crying,”
he said. “I had a similar one in NYC after
Hurricane sandy, where an American family asked where we came from, and the mother was shocked and couldn’t stop hugging us – she wrote us back a few months later, saying thank you.”
Naomi Rosenfeld, director of Hil-lel of Atlantic Canada and organizer of the event, said that Glick’s pres-entation was meant to give students a different perspective on volunteer work.
“I think that it’s important to get out of your own life and mundane problems,” she said.
“We all get very involved in our own lives, and that perspective of really seeing what’s going on in the world is an important lesson for us all – especially during midterm season. I hope people take away just a little bit of inspiration.”
Marc GagnonStaff Reporter
Navonel Glick, program director of IsraAID, spoke on campus last week. Submitted.
Finding your nicheGraham LeuppThe Brunswickan
Take a walk through the King’s Place Mall and you’ll see many things: stores, a kiosk and a food court.
At some point you may notice a pleasant smell wafting from one of the stores. And it’s not a candle or perfume shop, either. It’s the Sham-porium, where Ruth McLellan runs the place smoothly with a combina-tion of hard work and expertise.
McLellan opened the Shamporium back in 1997. She said it’s been inter-esting working in the soap business, a field where people don’t always know what’s right for them.
“A big part of running the store is educating my customers on what’s good for their skin and for the en-vironment,” McLellan said. “Some-times it’s an adjustment for them, but the right kind of product is good for your skin and your pocketbook.”
McLellan was inspired to open the Shamporium after having her own struggles finding the right soap prod-ucts. She wanted to provide close, easy access to the products people need for their skin problems.
“I’ve always struggled with skin sensitivities and respiratory issues from the environment,” McLellan said. “And if it was hard for me to find products that worked or me, then everyone else with skin sensitivities was having a hard time as well. It’s easier to find those kinds of things now.”
There were a few things to consider when deciding to open up the soap shop, one of them being the location.
“I like the approach people have down here,” McLellan said. “People down here aren’t just hanging out at
the mall . . . they have jobs, and that’s where business truly is.”
However, there have been a few stores that have closed in Kings Place recently and there is a lot of empty space.
“Vacant stores are a downside, since every vacant store is one less that’s bringing people in. And I also lose the f lexibility of my hours,” McLellan said “But I have a lot more security in here, and hey, I don’t have to shovel snow.”
As far as costs, McLellan had to find the money to get started, but it wasn’t too hard for her.
“Being a more mature person, I had a good relationship with a bank,” McLellan said. “I went to then, and got a loan. I didn’t have a whole lot of problems in that area.”
Getting start-up money was easy; the soap business has become ex-tremely competitive. With hundreds of companies both big and independ-ent, it can be hard to stand out. McLellan has figured out her edge, in the form of both convenience and expertise, not to mention a superior product.
“I have more of a captive market here, being in the mall,” McLellan said. “And for a lot of people today convenience is big. They’re always on the move, and they’ll get things where it’s easy, which is where my location comes in.”
McLellan has come a long way since 1997, becoming not only a store owner, but also very knowledgeable in her chosen field.
“The best advice I can give is to find your niche,” McLellan said. “Figure out who your customers are, and then provide your service accordingly.”
The Shamporium is an example of how a small business can find its niche. Graham Leupp / The Brunswickan
Brief Cases:
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Andrew MartelBusiness Manager
UNB’s Rock and Ice Climbing Club wants to reach new heights this year.
The club, dedicated to indoor and outdoor climbing, has introduced new programs for students and community members.
“We’ve developed a few new pro-grams, like Beginner Hour,” said club president Magda Celejewski. “Beginner Hour is a good time because you meet other beginners, so other people at the same stage as you are. That’s the whole basis of that program is to not intimidate others.”
The Rock and Ice club, which has been around since the 1970s, has grown its outdoor programs as well, including Rock Schools.
“In the fall, it’ll be more of a beginner Rock School where we introduce rock climbing outside to those who haven’t done it before. In the spring, it’s more advanced Rock School,” said Dominic Caron, club secretary and community member.
“We also have Ice School which hap-pens in February. This year it occurred in Sussex. [It’s like] climbing giant ice pillars, like waterfalls that have frozen over.”
This year, the club has around 180 members. These are students and com-munity members who have paid the membership fee and participate during some of their climbing hours. However, this is a drop from their peak years, where they used to have 300 members.
“Part of our decreasing membership is because of the access fee that community members now have to pay. It is $100 for non-students to have access to [the LB Gym],” said Celejewski.
However, the club is strongly sup-ported by a core group of volunteers who monitor climbers and create new routes so it is never the same experience.
“[The club] helps form a community of cooperation, of helping each other out, and figuring out the sport. It’s very tight-knit,” said Caron.
The club also organizes events throughout the year for students and the community, both as a form of sport awareness and as a fundraising tool. One of these events is the adrenaline-filled Banff Film Festival.
“One of the new things we did this year was the Banff Film Festival at the Playhouse,” said Celejewski. “We’ve been hosting it for 20 years, and it’s usually at MacLaggan Hall and it always sells out. So we thought to move it to the Play-house and it worked really well.”
To climb at the LB Gym rock wall, it costs $3 for non-members, and $2 to rent shoes. The money raised through this fee, as well as their other fundraisers, is used to repair walls and fix holes. Last year, the club put some of the money raised towards ice-climbing boots for their Ice School. Membership is $50 for the year,
“But if you’re interested to start, come down and talk to one of the monitors,” Celejewski said. “If you’re keen to climb, just come on by. Your first climb and shoe rental is free.”
For more information on the club and climb times, check out their website at UNBrockandice.ca, or contact them at [email protected].
GATHERING PEOPLE, GATHERING IDEAS
For some, the thought of a large group of people meeting to discuss and reach consensus on varying issues in a community is daunting, but Fredericton’s Great Gathering proves that not only is this possible, it can bring concrete change.
On March 15, the Greater Fred-ericton community will be wel-comed to the Fredericton Capital Exhibition Centre to partake in the third Great Gathering – an open space forum that tackles the ques-tion of “How can we work together to make Fredericton better?”
The event is hosted by Greater Fredericton Social Innovation Inc. (GFSI) of which UNB is a member.
“[The Great Gathering] is a large-scale consensus decision-making model. It brings together all the different energies of the commun-
ity into some kind of harmony,” said Dennis Atchison, co-chair of the event.
“People choose which topics they want to discuss. It’s an opportun-ity to get the community together to discuss their different passions.”
In the spirit of an open space forum, the agenda is created by the participants. All discussion is based on what the participants bring to the table.
“No agenda, no expectations – whoever comes are the right people, whatever happens is the right thing and so we don’t really know what’s going to come out of it. It’s up in the air,” said Jamie-Leigh Haughn, volunteer and community develop-ment coordinator of GFSI.
Topics of discussion can range everywhere from food and afford-able housing to strategies for pre-venting homelessness.
This will be Fredericton’s third
Great Gathering. Past events have resulted in the creation of organiza-tions such as the Greater Fredericton Volunteer Centre and the New Brunswick Community Gardens. The Bulk Food Bag Program intro-duced to UNB this year is also a direct result from a Gathering.
As members of the community, students are encouraged to par-ticipate.
“This is an opportunity to give them a voice because they are going to have the chance to speak in front of people important in Fredericton,” Haughn said.
“It really does level the playing f ield and push towards concrete change,” Atchison said.
Students will also have the chance to learn something too.
“The students who’ve been in-volved [in past events] have had an opportunity to see community development in action and be a
part of a large movement and feel that they’ve made an impact on the community,” said Shirley Cleave, UNBF’s associate vice-president academic and the university’s rep-resentative on the Great Gathering planning committee.
“I think it’s a good chance for the university to be present in the community.”
Participating in the Great Gather-ing is simple as showing up with a willingness to share ideas and John Coates, the other co-chair of the event, said the event works best when people from all walks of life are involved.
“The more variety we can get in the room, the more effective the outcome,” he said.
The event will run on Satur-day from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Registration can be done online at Frederictongreatgathering.com or at the door.
Emma McPheeNews Reporter
College hill implementing more polling stations for provincial electionCherise LetsonNews Editor
Fredericton students may find it easier to cast their vote in September’s prov-incial election.
Expanding on a pilot project from the 2010 election, Elections New Brunswick is rolling out new campus polling stations across the province, in-cluding more for college hill students.
“We’re going to try to serve a lot more campuses and we’re going to set up in areas that are high traffic and very apparent and obvious,” said Mike Quinn, chief electoral officer for Elections New Brunswick.
In the 2010 election, there was
only one campus polling station in Fredericton, which was located in a secluded office in the UNB Student Union Building (SUB). But this fall, there will be one located at St. Thomas University and NBCC. The polling at UNB will be moved from an office to the busy SUB cafeteria.
There will also be more campus polling stations added in the Saint John, Edmunston and Moncton areas. Students who claim residence in New Brunswick will be able to vote the candidate in their campus riding, or at their home riding.
“We’ll have all of the same services that we had before, but this time we’re going to concentrate on the
high-traffic areas and do them in the last week of the election.” Quinn said.
Quinn said the 2010 campus polls brought in 2665 votes. He hopes to see this number increased with the new stations.
“[Youth] have a certain point of view that should be put forward and I think that the more people that take part in the democratic process, the stronger it is,” he said.
UNB Student Union president Ben Whitney said bringing UNB’s polling station to the SUB cafeteria is a good move.
“Necessary privacy measures will obviously be in place, which should alleviate many concerns,” Whitney
said. “Making voting more visible and easier for students is a great way in which to encourage folks to get out to vote, and I’m excited this is happening in the provincial election.”
With more polling stations planned for campuses across the province, he hopes the new system will get students more engaged in government.
“This is a great way to help get students out to vote and have them get more involved and interested in provincial politics,” he sais. “Voting is incredibly important and any way we can make it more accessible for students is great.”
Fredericton’s third Great Gathering happening this Saturday
The Great Gathering brings people together from all walks of life to discuss ways to improve community. Andrew Meade / The Brunswickan
CLUB SANDWICH:
Showing students how to rock (climb)
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During the strike/lockout, Sodexo food services reduced its hours and laid off staff.Karsten Saunders / The Brunswickan
The UNBSU isn’t the only union on campus
Richard KemickOpinions Columnist
We get mad when the administration doesn’t consult students. We get mad when the administration doesn’t care about student debt. We get mad when the administration views the student body as President Eddy Campbell’s own personal safari.
So it was no surprise to see our ab-solute elation upon the announcement that, in response to student demands, the administration was giving each student a whopping $200 for the class time missed during the strike. Yes, it was great to see the Student Union and Graduate Students Association do something other than plan sock-hop socials.
There is something odd, however, about the $200. No, it isn’t the fact that $200 for three weeks of missed school means that the administration considers one week to be worth $67, therefore meaning that a semester of 13 weeks should cost $871. No, it wasn’t even the fact if the administration did not go G20 and hire its own private security firm that the refund would be significantly larger.
What is odd about the $200 buyout was how gleefully the student body has accepted it without ever considering others who were affected by the labour disruption.
During the strike, due to the inabil-ity for both sides to reach an agreement, many employees of UNB’s food service union were unable to work the hours to which they were entitled.
While it is impossible for Student Union president Ben Whitney to write about the $200 refund without the excessive use of OMGs, ROFLs and heart-shaped emoticons, there has been no talk of support for the food service union. If food service workers expected fellow unions to act in solidarity with them and in a socially-conscious way within their own communities, they had better go somewhere else.
The Student Union is, after all, a union – at least theoretically. When the word “union” takes up half of your name, you have to anticipate the fact that many people will confuse you with some sort of organization. And a part of being a union is buying in to the belief that not only is our influence greater collectively than separately, but that we can use that influence to aid others, particularly other unions. In other words, the Student Union and GSA can act as the university’s ethical barometer, something against which the rest of the university’s various unions and administrative bodies can measure themselves.
Can we really fault Eddy Campbell’s administration for being entirely selfish and narcissistic when we ourselves are as equally self-interested? The short an-swer is yes, of course we can. The long answer, however, is (as long answers are wont to be) slightly more complicated.
The Student Union and GSA have been pathetically silent on the injustice done to UNB’s food service union by the administration. While students lost class time, food service employees were losing paycheques. Although it is difficult to say which one was more important, the fact remains that both the SU and the GSA stayed true to their self-serving nature and have turned a blind eye towards the strike’s many detrimental effects that did not immediately affect students.
I understand that students are in-credibly busy people – especially with all the sock-hop socials we have to choose from. I also understand that it is not our responsibility to take every injustice within this university upon ourselves. But when our elective bod-ies actively ignore the attacks on other unions, our own union is seriously compromised.
The Student Union and Graduate Students Association must invest them-selves in fostering a vibrant, equitable campus and not just trying to convince people to take one of their crappy stu-
dent agendas. A little while ago, the Brunswickan
hosted the Student Union election debate. The best candidate, by far, was Lee Thomas, running for vice-president internal. Thomas is a good candidate because she said something other than the knee-jerk catch phrases of “we need to consult students” and “reduce tuition.”
We all know student consultation is an empty promise since our president-in-waiting, Greg Bailey, has actively campaigned and voted against a student referendum. Furthermore, we all know reduced tuition isn’t going to happen and has turned into the “Support Our Troops” of this campus: nobody’s really
sure what it means exactly or how it will actually work, but it sounds like a neat enough idea.
Thomas was the best candidate be-cause she has a tangible idea that will better this university’s culture: gender-neutral washrooms. Sure, it isn’t an incredibly sexy idea, and it doesn’t allow for the endless running and rerunning of photo-ops, the kind Mr. Bailey and his bullhorn are always on the hunt for.
But Thomas’s idea isn’t ideological pablum; gender-neutral washrooms force this university to drag itself out of its industrial revolution mindset. Gender-neutral washrooms will remove barriers that inhibit the cultivation of a campus culture that welcomes a larger
amount of people. I grew up in Alberta during the Klein
years and like the rest of us Albertans, I gleefully accepted my $400 cheque when the province was giving away money for the hell of it.
But what Albertans, myself included, have come to realize is that everybody has a price and ours happened to be quite low. The $1.4 billion payout came at the expense of our province’s schools, hospitals, and infrastructure. UNB’s payout has come at the expense of our unions, and that should have been worth at least $400 too.
“Where is the Ukraine?”
Evan Landry
Alex Phillips Emma Thomson“It’s very concerning . . . Cold War
round 2?”“It sounds like a
good movie plot.”
Danyelle Arsenault“They need help. Whether or not
it is Canada, US or UK or even Russia. Diplomatic solution not
military.”
“Russia is not happy but it will hopefully work out.”
Alex Nadeau
Ian Phillips Jordan Thorne“Maybe $52 billion can buy them
Ukraine too?”“What the hell is happening in
Ukraine?”
Shayna MacDiarmad“I think Russia is just
Putin’ on a show.”
VIEWPOINTWhat’s on
YOUR
mind this week?What are your thoughts on the current situation in Ukraine?
Byanka Simon“Dicks.”
Jonathan Bunn“I think the whole thing is being
blown out of proportion.”
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Crosses and closets on campusTess AllenArts Reporter
When John Staples got wind of the news last semester that a St. Thomas University student was asked by his church leaders to stop volunteering due to his sexuality, he was brought back in time 11 years.
“I’ve known since the age of eight that there was something different about me,” said the Fredericton native and vice-president of Spectrum, UNB and STU’s LGBTQ resource group.
“Having grown up in the church for 20 years, my pastoral staff were informed that I was hanging out with members of the gay community. . . and essentially I was asked to no longer volunteer. It really took its toll on me.”
With this in mind when he heard of the similar plight of STU student Co-lin Briggs last semester, Staples finally concluded that “enough is enough.”
The result of this conclusion? The Cross and the Closet, an evening of educational discussion about the LG-BTQ and Christian subcultures, what and why each demographic believes what they do, and the impact it has on those caught in the middle.
The event – slated for Thursday,
March 13 and open to all – will bring together members of the local LGBTQ and Christian communities, featuring an expert panel with representatives of STU Campus Ministry, Counselling Services and Spectrum, among others.
Staples hopes to have these worlds get to know one another in a respectful and open atmosphere – as well as de-bunk some of the myths and rumours surrounding both demographics.
“Respect, education, acceptance, and progression in our own society – that’s what it’s all about. We live in 2014; there’s no reason homophobia or religion-phobia should exist. [Learning to] get along would improve the quality of life for so many people,” said Staples.
“It’s recognizing that you might not be the same as me and that’s okay. At the end of the night we want to have a respectful, ‘get to know each other’ time where we can agree to disagree agreeably.”
Staples plans to let each demographic voice their own opinions and engage in an educated discussion, before opening up the floor to questions and comments from the audience. He will make a point of reminding those in attend-ance that this is to be an environment of acceptance.
“Some people – it doesn’t matter what the demographic is – have been brought up [a certain] way and really embrace that and when it gets chal-lenged, they tend to get more passion-ate than others,” he said.
“I will start the evening with a strong emphasis on [that fact that] we are here in an atmosphere of respect, an atmos-phere of learning, and we’re not here to offend anybody.”
Looking to the future, Staples hopes events like The Cross and the Closet will encourage more open dialogue be-tween both demographics, especially in the event of an incident like that which happened to him and Briggs.
“If something like this did happen in the future, it would be great not to hear all the snap judgements and the comments against either the LGBTQ or the Christian organization,” he said.
“Hopefully in the long run, it will foster a better understanding of why a group does what it does, and why that’s okay. If you don’t believe that way, that’s alright too.”
The Cross and the Closet will take place at STU’s Brian Mulroney Hall in room 101 on the evening of Thursday, March 13 at 7 p.m.
“Where are you from?”Arun BudhathokiThe Brunswickan
Everyone becomes a racist at least once in their lifetime, knowingly and at times unintentionally. Racism is a global, social, human, inherent problem. The sudden urge to dislike someone different than one’s group is not a new phenomenon. It comes naturally – we fit easily in our group, but struggle to mingle with a differ-ent one. Perhaps it is psychological or natural, I do not know, but I strongly feel that human beings are generally hostile to the outer groups. There are exceptions, however.
Last week while talking with a friend about how people here mistake you as a part of another group I coined a new phrase: “mismatched racism.” She lived in Norway and England prior to emigrating here with her parents who have roots in Iran. I bring this up because she said people ask her if she’s from Pakistan or Saudi Arabia rather than asking where she is from. If you listen her speak, one cannot assume she’s from that region.
Not all Asians are Chinese. Not all Europeans are British. Not all western-ers are Americans.
My argument here is that there
are hundreds of people in Canada who have moved from one country to another, have different accents and certainly do not belong to a visible ma-jority group like Indians, Bangladeshis, Sri Lankans and others. So why are there people here, even international students, who bluntly tell me (not ask), “Are you from India?” I understand that most people do it unintentionally but again the majority of the people make a false assumption.
The first problem with mismatched racism is when someone asks a person if they are from a particular group instead trying to acknowledge their real origin that person can turn hostile, exasperated and knackered. When that happens there’s possibility that they try to reinforce their own identity through various means – forming groups or associations and staying away from the majority group. This enfeebles the in-tegration process and even complicates the progression of multiculturalism. In Europe, it is already failing.
The second problem is that such events instill hostile feelings in the person against the groups that they are matched with. But being human being and from the land of Mt. Everest I do not like people assuming that I’m
from one so-called particular group. Such assumptions do in fact abate the possibility of making new relationships with others. Immediately I assume that people who ask such questions are not broad-minded and hence do not require my friendship. I’m work-ing on this and next time if anyone asks me that way I’m going to fire back with question if they are from another country and observe their reaction. I’m jesting.
The third problem is since I’m new here it is difficult for me to give up my origin and past. If I settle here only the second or third generation will be able to integrate completely, which means, I have to deal with this issue for life. Even while trying to enter the Social Club and Cellar I have to show them my passport because there’s no birthdate on my UNB identity card and feel harassed as I neither have driving license or other IDs with a photo and birthdate despite telling them I’m a grad student!
I love Canadians and international students but whoever reads this I hope when you meet someone different next time you’d start conversation in a proper logical manner by saying: Where were you born?
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March 12, 2014 • Issue 23 • Volume 147 • 9
UNB Art Centre celebrates World Water Day
Alanna Baird was on the cusp of fin-ishing her engineering degree at the University of New Brunswick in 1977 when she realized she was more inter-ested in the drawings in her lab reports than their content.
She dropped out of the program and instead took up roost at the New Brunswick College of Craft and De-sign, where she quickly discovered her true passion and launched an illustrious fine arts career.
Now, she’s heading back to school – but not in the way you might think.
Baird will showcase her latest body of work, a scintillating school of fish made out of recycled materials, for the UNB Art Centre’s World Water Day exhibit starting on March 14.
“[My work] is very unique. Unique is one of those overused words, but this is truly unique in that there isn’t anyone else doing it,” said the St. Andrews artist, who has been “redefining the art of recycling” for the past 21 years.
Baird’s solo exhibition, entitled Plenty of Fish, incorporates everything from cat food tins to old copper roof-ing to create a series of ocean-dwelling critters that both astonish and inspire.
This is the first time it will be show-cased in New Brunswick, and Baird can’t imagine a better venue. It’s a per-fect fit for the university’s celebration of World Water Day, a United Nations initiative held annually on March 22 to recognize the value of water globally
and to advocate for the sustainable management of water resources.
“People will walk into the gallery and the first thing they’ll see is bright, shiny metal fish. But then they’ll realize that the fish are made out of a waste material and start making connections . . . It comes as a surprise because you don’t associate something you throw away regularly with something beauti-ful and sculptural,” she said.
“My pieces have nothing to do with the kind of stuff that washes up on the beach, but there is an awful lot of rub-bish out there floating up. [You’ll get] the association of waste material and water, which is very precious to us, and how that translates into an object that is precious in another way.”
Baird’s Plenty of Fish will be pre-sented at UNB’s Memorial Hall in the fashion of a real school of fish, by dangling from the ceiling and moving with the air ducts. She can’t wait to see her work outside of the confines of her small studio by the water in St. Andrews.
“There is something very creative about taking individual pieces and combining them, through grouping them together in such an exhibit, and making something more,” she said.
“The exhibit becomes more than the individual works. I am not only taking tin cans to make a fish, I am taking fish to make a school.”
But Baird’s school won’t be swim-ming alone in Memorial Hall from March 14 to May 2.
Nova Scotia artist Wilma Needham
will bring her exhibit Souvenir to the UNB Art Centre from a recent show-ing at the Dalhousie Art Gallery in Halifax.
The exhibit provides multiple per-spectives on Niagara Falls through a selection of photos, mixed media and new media, and aims to engage viewers in an examination of environmental, political and social issues that have played out around the falls.
“Individual parts of the exhibit speak about the emotional and vis-ceral experience of this powerful place but also about the history and social relations that develop around such a phenomenon,” said Needham, who is a native of Niagara Falls, Ont.
“Having experienced World Dater Day every day of my growing up life, I have known the wide implications of disrespecting and working care-
fully with such a vital element of our environment. My work gives a very personal perspective on this.”
Baird and Needham’s exhibits will be on display from March 14 until May 2 at the UNB Art Centre at Memorial Hall. The galleries are open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays and for special events. Admission is free.
Tess AllenArts Reporter
Alanna Baird’s Plenty of Fish, along with Needham’s Souvenir, is on display at the UNB Art Centre. Karsten Saunders / The Brunswickan
Guitar show with a twistMemorial Hall will be hosting a guitar jam on March 12, but you won’t be hearing “Wagon Wheel” or any other classic campfire songs.
Steven Peacock and Gerry van Wart are a duo of classical guitarists who are always busy. With the release of their upcoming album, entitled Luminosa, this is an opportunity for them to show their variety of music, ranging from baroque to 20th century works.
“Of course we will be playing contemporary South American stuff but then because of the new CD, we find the music quite affirming,” said Peacock.
“We found we could get that type of sound from different areas too, so we will play a baroque piece, some folk pieces and a couple of our own arrangements of Irish songs.”
The free show is put on by the Arts Centre at Memorial Hall as part of their Music on the Hill series.
Peacock was once a music and English professor at UNB. He has now recently moved up the hill to St. Thomas, where he teaches in the fine arts department.
Peacock loves collaborating with artists like van Wart.
“Collaborating with another clas-sical guitar, there’s a lot of independ-ence and freedom. We both get to be soloistic, but at the same time we’re
part of a duo. Two guitars can play twice as many notes, we can extend the range.”
Peacock thinks it’s important for students and the public to come out to shows like this around campus.
“They’ll be captivated. We have two guitars playing at the same time. It’s a chance to hear slightly more orchestral textures,” he said.
“Mem Hall is a great place to play acoustically; the
colors and the frequencies go out quite nicely. They get to see a great variety.”
Varieties for Two Guitars takes place at Memorial Hall on Wednes-day March 12 at 12:30 p.m. Peacock promises you’ll be out within 50 minutes.
Kevin LemiuexThe Brunswickan
10 • March 12, 2014 • Issue 23 • Volume 147 BRUNSWICKANARTSImaginary games, real art
To Sarah Petite, games aren’t just enter-tainment – they’re art.
In her new exhibition at the Char-lotte Street Arts Centre, Game Theory, Petite has taken familiar board games – checkers, chess, backgammon – and turned them into striking pieces that seem drawn from the fevered mind of an insane mathematician.
Painted on wood with encaustic (hot wax) paint, the works in Game Theory take the motifs & geometric shapes of board games and radically deconstruct them, using vivid colours and rough-hewn strokes to focus on the clash between order and imagination. Feeling like a collection of century-old relics pulled out of a grandparent’s attic, the exhibit contains everything from slabs of wood that resemble cave paintings to pieces that have a 3D isometric effect like Q-Bert on acid.
Fredericton-based Petite says that the inspiration for the show came from her lifelong love of board games and abstract expressionism, and her desire to integrate the two.
“If I look back in my journals I’ll see the phrase ‘imaginary games’ popping up,” she said.
“When you’re working on an ab-stract painting, you’re playing chess against yourself. Every time there’s a move in the game, it realigns things. It makes things more complicated, and you try to work towards this balanced
image of the final painting. So the games and the abstract painting and the encaustic all finally came together.”
Petite has been using encaustic for 25 years of her 30-year career. A tricky medium to handle which requires a complex heating rig to keep liquefied, she claims that encaustic gives a unique effect that no other paint can.
“The fellows in New York, the ab-stract expressionists, experimented with it,” Petite explained.
“You can do all kind of things like paint on a thick layer, dig into it, fill it with another color, take a scraper and scrape it off. There’s all kinds of varia-tions on that particular technique.”
While the title of the exhibition might make you think otherwise, Petit claims that she doesn’t actually understand the concept of mathematical game theory.
“I have to confess it’s probably just a nod, because I don’t have the brain-power to do that,” she said, laughing.
Marc GagnonStaff Reporter
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Petite went on to say that while the finer details of math might elude her, she did integrate some notable aspects of game theory into her show, such as the famous prisoner’s dilemma.
Ultimately for Petite, the appeal lies in the interplay between knowledge and artistic interpretation.
“I see artists as kind of amateur experts. You read about something, it fascinates you, you distill it down and it comes out in your art. So it’s a kind
of communication of your wonder and fascination.”
Petite said that while she’s been work-ing on Game Theory for at least three years, she still has more pieces waiting to surface.
“I’m still thinking on the next thing I want to do. I’m thinking about fractals . . . I might be getting in too deep.”
Game Theory, at the Charlotte Street Arts Centre’s Glencross Gallery, runs until April 14, 2014.
March 12, 2014 • Issue 23 • Volume 147 • 11BRUNSWICKANARTSSongs of the week.M83 – I Need You
March 11 will see the release of the soundtrack to the upcoming film Di-vergent. A$AP Rocky, Skrillex, Kendrick Lamar and Tame Impala are all set to be featured on the album, as well as M83, with their track “I Need You.” The song starts off soft, with vocal distortions more similar to what Bon Iver has been doing lately than to recent M83 tracks. The track soon crescendos into a dramatic second half, even featuring a saxophone so-lo. This isn’t the first time M83 has helped scour a film, as they also com-posed the soundtrack for 2013’s Oblivion.
Rick Ross – Sanctified (feat. Big Sean and Kanye West)
When Kanye West released his latest album, Yeezus, a common knock on it was that people wanted his old music, with the soul samples and laid-back melodies of his early work. Rick Ross’s “Sanctified” might be as close as Kanye will come to that. With Betty White providing a screeching har-mony, the song is more reminiscent of “Otis” or something off Cruel Sum-mer. The song itself is one of the best from Ross’s recently released Mas-termind, with Kanye even addressing people’s problems with his new mu-sic (“when Ali turn up and be Ali, you can’t ever change that n**** back to Cassius”) and Ross doing his best drug dealer stunting (“soldiers all in ga-tors, new Mercedes for cadets”). Overall, though, it is the beat that steals the show.
Smoke DZA – Hearses (feat. Ab-Soul)
On April 1, Smoke DZA will be self-releasing Dream.ZONE.Achieve. When speaking about his decision not to go with a record label, DZA ex-plained that he wanted to make sure that “you, the kid somewhere, that kid anywhere, is getting it how I want you to get it.” With that we have a song off the upcoming release, featuring TDE’s Ab-Soul. The track has the two MCs “giving out hearses,” with Soul singing a catchy chorus and both rappers delivering impressive verses over a smooth DJ Dahi production.
THURSDAY, MAR. 13
FRIDAY, MAR. 14
SATURDAY, MAR. 15
SUNDAY, MAR. 16
International Women’s Day Snack ‘n’ Chat. 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. at the University Women’s Centre.Bread & Roses with the Alex Bailey Swing Band. 7 p.m. at Connexion ARC, 440 York St. $10.
The Cross And The Closet presentation. 7 p.m. at Brian Mulroney Hall, STU campus. Free. Check out the article by Tess Allen in this week’s issue!
World Water Day at the UNB Art Centre, with artists Wilma Neeham and Alanna Baird. 5 p.m. at Memorial Hall, UNB campus. Free. Check out the article by Tess Allen in this week’s issue!
Cinema Politica presents Carré rouge sur fond noir. 7 p.m. at the Conserver House, 180 St. John St. By donation.
Kate Leth signing Adventure Time. 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Strange Adventures, 68 York St.
UNB Relay for Life. 12 p.m. to 12 a.m. Lady Beaverbrook gym, UNB campus.
Donna Washington – Storyteller. 2 p.m. at the Fredericton Playhouse. $15.
MONDAY, MAR. 17
Monday Night Film Series presents Le Weekend. 7:30 p.m. at Tilley Hall, UNB campus. $7.
Dear Ari,I have a co-worker who doesn’t do
his fair share of work, and it both-ers me because I actually give a shit about my job. I can’t talk to my boss about it though because he adores this co-worker. How do I stop this from driving me crazy?
Sincerely,Frustrated Frank
Dear Frustrated,While it can be extremely difficult
to ignore when a co-worker doesn’t seem to be pulling their weight the way you are, you need to make sure that your focus stays on yourself. You can only control what you yourself do, and so it’s not exactly your place
to determine whether or not your co-worker cares about their job.
That being said, if you have specif-ic evidence of your co-worker per-forming poorly, you can bring that to the attention of your superiors. Where you feel uncomfortable speaking directly with your boss about the issue, if you have a super-visor or manager who works “below” your boss you may want to approach them first.
Consider the fact that your boss may have a faulty idea of who exactly your co-worker is. As front-line staff, you have a different perspective and different circumstances in which you deal with this person as compared to your boss. They may actually
Dear Ari.If you have a question for Dear Ari, email [email protected] with the subject line “Dear Ari,” or tweet her @AskDearAri
appreciate your point of view if you bring something to their attention of which they had been unaware. You should attempt to stay neutral, and let your professional evaluation of your co-worker have more resonance than your own personal opinion.
Shifting your focus back onto yourself and putting your energy and effort into your own performance will ultimately benefit you much more than allowing your co-worker to drive you crazy. Don’t let your co-worker have that much power over you. At the end of the day, you only have yourself to worry about.
Affectionately,Ari
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WEDNESDAY, MAR. 12Varieties for Two Guitars performance by Steven Pea-cock and Gerry van Wart. 12:30 p.m. at Memorial Hall, UNB campus. Free. Check out the article by Kevin Lemieux in this week’s issue!
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March 12, 2014 • Issue 23 • Volume 147 • 12
V-Reds veteran wrestler Shawn Daye-Finley (top) glances up at the scoreboard as he takes down Connor Hodgins of the University of Calgary in the 76kg gold medal match. Sarah Badibanga / The Brunswickan
Daye-Finley golden again at CIS nationalsThe Canadian Interuniversity Sport Championship was a mixed bag for the UNB wrestling team at the Currie Center two weeks ago.
Three V-Reds wrestlers withdrew on Day 1 due to injuries which quickly ended any hope for a team title.
Brock University swept both the men’s and women’s team titles, but head coach Don Ryan said if UNB didn’t have so many injuries so early in the tournament, the men’s team could have possibly finished second in the rankings.
Despite their team’s woes, the V-Reds did manage to claim two medals
at the tournament: a bronze for rookie Allyssa Cleaves and gold for fifth-year veteran Shawn Daye-Finley.
“I’m happy [with] the athletes who won [a] medal,” said Ryan. “We came in here with higher expectations, and the results at the end of the day weren’t what we expected.”
Ryan also said the tournament is very emotional.
“The highs are high and the lows are low,” he said. “Some of the athletes who win aren’t expected to win, and some of the athletes who are expected to win don’t do as well, but that’s why we compete in the sport.”
Daye-Finley concluded his final year of CIS competition on a high note, winning a gold medal in the 76 kilo
division against Connor Hodgins from the University of Calgary.
“I came out here to win, nothing else seemed acceptable,” said Daye-Finley. “I probably could have wrestled a better final, but I played it safe and just did what I had to do to get the job done.”
The Dartmouth native is in his first year of a Master’s degree in sport and exercise science. He’s wrestled for UNB for six years, and plans to remain with the team as he trains to qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Daye-Finley credits his success to his family, coach Ryan and his pre-tournament ritual.
“Every tournament I have in New Brunswick, I make a point of getting a hotel room and treating it just like any
other tournament on the road and my family helps to provide that,” he said. “I definitely look to my mother. She was a single mother growing up and paid for me to go on all those trips before I was fortunate enough to have funding from the university.”
But Daye-Finley wasn’t the only V-Red to medal at the championships.
Allyssa Cleaves is a rising star on the women’s team, winning bronze in the 51 kilo division in her first year of CIS competition. The second-year civil engineering student transferred from Brock last year, but didn’t intend to wrestle at UNB.
“After having that much time off [from wrestling], I just started to miss it again and I was ready to get back on the
mat,” said Cleaves. “Still, coming back into it I wasn’t sure how competitive I wanted to go . . . but as the season went on and I was continuing to go along with the training and everything, and I decided I did want to do CIS and Junior Nationals.”
She credits her success at the tour-nament to her decision to wrestle in a higher weight category.
“I normally cut to 48 kilos, but we decided I would go 51 . . . I was intimi-dated about that because I normally wrestle 48 so it was a little bit out of my comfort zone,” she said. “But just the fact I wasn’t cutting weight, I was
Lee ThomasArts Editor
What was the best game, of any sport at UNB, to watch this season?PANEL
THEY KNOW WHAT’S UP
Easily the men’s soccer team’s bronze medal game at CIS. Not only did every game go into OT, and two in-to a shootout, but the anticipation to place top in the country on home turf, well, you definitely felt the pres-sure. That was probably one of the more stressful and exciting games I’ve covered this year.
I’m going to go back to November to the men’s soccer team’s CIS bronze medal win over the York Lions. Three games in a row they went to double-overtime, and this time UNB won in penalty kicks after losing by the same fashion the night before.
I’d have to say the early November match for men’s basketball between UNB and UPEI where Javon Masters went on to put up 44 points. He started the rest of the month raking up games with 25 to 42 points. Though it was an amazing season for Masters and the team, that 44-point game against UPEI has to stand out for the V-Red nation.
Bronté JamesSports Editor
Nick MurrayEditor-in-Chief
cellarpub.caAndrew MartelBusiness Manager
The best game of the year by far, was the men’s first basketball game of the AUS Championships against X. I know it was a loss, but they showed the most heart and determination I saw out of them all season, and def-initely made a statement for future years to come in the Metro Centre.
Peter RyanSports Fan
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March 12, 2014 • Issue 23 • Volume 147 • 13BRUNSWICKANSPORTSSomething worth dying for | One step at a time
It took 24 years of hell to understand. Even if it killed me, it became an
obsession to pursue the goal which I was born to succeed. My dream out-weighed my doubts, and I stepped to-wards something I owed my younger, overweight and depressed self.
One day, you will live a dream worth every minute of your life - it’s why you were born. Every dream is entirely possible, and I needed to prove that.
I wanted to run a full 42.2 kilometer marathon, despite never running more than 12 km at a time. My doctor not only believed I couldn’t do it, but ap-parently my life was partially at risk by doing this.
I’ve never spoken of that until now.If you find something you are willing
to die for, you know the quality of life.For 70 days, all I thought about was
the finish line.It was more than weight loss, or just
proving everyone wrong – the ones who spat in my face. It was a respon-sibility. No one was going to do this for me. I ran the longest miles of my life, melting the weight off. I couldn’t fail this time, despite the death I felt with each step.
My body was tortured, people were malicious to me and yet courage
existed. I received messages from stran-gers begging me to run this marathon. People had read about me losing 100 pounds, and said they needed me to do this for them. People with obesity, heart problems, or who simply believed they couldn’t do it were messaging me. Emotion overtook my training.
It was much more than a marathon at this point.
In those months, I was harassed, contemplated suicide once more, and had my heart broken yet again. I was spat on, laughed at, mocked, tormented, doubted and I even quit at one point. And damn if it wasn’t the best time of my life.
For every doubt I had, there was a small voice deep in my mind saying I couldn’t quit. The voice in your heart is more powerful then the one laughing in your face.
I was down 114 pounds overall in the weeks prior. I couldn’t walk most days, and the map of the marathon course cost me a perfectly good set of pants. Losing count of how many times I crossed the walking bridge to a dying sunset over the Fredericton skyline, I found the belief I was willing to die for.
For my final run, I went back to where it all went wrong for me. During my first ever attempt at a long run, a car of teens pulled over to harass me. I cried my way home and attempted to
take my life once more. Now here I was, 114 pounds lighter, with less than 2 km in my final run of marathon training. Within 500 meters of the exact spot it happened: someone pulled over to throw garbage at me.
In a weird way, I needed that. It reminded me why I was doing this. Pursuing a dream means overcoming a lot more than a few simple minds.
I approached the start line more terrified than I had ever been. The moment had come. So much was riding on these next few hours. I had no idea I had already won, regardless of how the next 26 miles went. There is much more to life than adversity. We were born incredible. We just focus so much on the end result we overlook what it takes to get there.
So much pain was about to happen to me. But for the first time I was not only ready, but knew the quality of life was worth dying for.
“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” – Bill Cosby
And in case you think about giving up, here is another piece of motivation.
“The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possi-ble” – Joel Brown.
Scott HemsThe Brunswickan
Inner peace and outer strengthKenya MarcellineThe Brunswickan
Deep breaths fill the lungs as yoga en-thusiasts inhale the brisk air, and slow exhales lead to automatic relaxation. Muscles relax, and the mind takes a plunge into a deeper realm.
A feeling of vibrancy flows through the body, and a revival of energy is found. This is a feeling Rachel Barrett experiences more often than others.
Barrett is an avid yoga enthusiast, and is also a yoga instructor at Moksha Yoga on King Street and at UNB, and holds classes for kids throughout the community.
But she hasn’t always felt a connec-tion with her mind and body.
“When I initially started practicing yoga I was overweight and uninspired,” she said. “Each and every time I stepped onto my mat I felt increasingly more peaceful and connected to my inner truth.”
Barrett has remained in control of her mind and body over these past couple of years and has changed herself for the better. Growing up, she discov-ered she had scoliosis in two places of her spine and she has fused vertebrae, which caused her an extreme amount of discomfort. She had very limited mobility and aggravated pain often. All these problems, not to mention the many psychological limitations she faced when she was younger.
Being overweight, Barrett felt her body couldn’t do what others could.
“A consistent yoga practice enabled me to touch my toes for the first time in my life and complete many half and full marathons,” she said. “The physical experience of change cultivated the understanding that mind and body are always in a state of transformation – whatever I believe to be possible, is.”
To her, yoga is the connection to all
life. It really doesn’t matter how flexible one is, and if they can physically hold a pose, but it’s the practice of setting all attention to the present moment.
“My passion is to demonstrate through my life that yoga is everything. Yoga is the awareness you bring into your life as it is happening,” said Bar-rett. “Yoga is how you listen and what you hear, yoga is noticing how it feels to see others with love, yoga is the refinement of the senses or the way in which we relate with ourselves and the world around us.”
She encourages her students to take normal yoga practices into the real world.
“What use is the peace and loving kindness you feel on your mat if the mo-ment you leave you dive immediately back into action/reaction judgment mode?”
Yoga has taught her to always be true to herself, honour her body and listen to her heart while letting go of the concern of other people’s viewpoints.
Maintaining a clean diet with an ex-cessive amount of dark chocolate has also helped her feel much more at ease with her body.
Her progress helps her feel more present in her life, eat cleaner foods and stay away from foods that don’t agree with her – but she always has time for a lot of dark chocolate.
“The biggest thing I would say yoga has taught me is that there is always more room to love, always more space to grow, always another opportunity to practice kindness, and the world needs it,” she said. “When we leave to love ourselves fully, completely and without conditions the way in which we come to our friendships, our work, our relationships, everything changes.”
Barrett has learned through the practice, “The most important thing I take from yoga is how my body is always teaching my mind how possibility is infinite. Today’s courage is tomorrow’s strength.”
Though sometimes painful, yoga can actually help you relax. Kenya Marcelline / The Brunswickan
Running a marathon can be emotionally rewarding. jop.ct / FlickrCC
14 • March 12, 2014 • Issue 23 • Volume 147 BRUNSWICKANSPORTSThe final whistle for women’s basketball Bronte JamesSports Editor
The Varsity Reds women weren’t able to make the top six spots for the Atlan-tic University Sport (AUS) finals, and so they finished their season with their 58-49 loss to the St. Francis Xavier X-Women.
It wasn’t their only loss of the season. The women finished the year with a 5-15 record and had no winning game streaks.
This year was an improvement, however, over their staggering record last season of two wins and a high of 18 losses – their only two victories over Cape Breton University (CBU) and the University of Prince Edward Island
(UPEI). Both wins were at home.But the trouble started from the
very beginning when to-be third-year Claire Colborne quit the team before the regular season began.
In an article in the Daily Gleaner by Bill Hunt, Colborne is quoted saying she “was not happy with basketball and [hasn’t] been happy for a while.”
Colborne had gone through the pre-season training and games, but neither head coach Jeff Speedy or her teammates knew she was leaving.
It wasn’t all bad though, as they were able to defeat each team at least once – taking two wins over CBU and Acadia and one win over UPEI and Dalhousie.
Against the Axewomen first year Awo Farah was five-for-five in her free
throws, assisting in the 85.7 percentage in free throws of the game. Katelyn Mangold gave her team 15 points and teammate Rachel Cleary was close behind with 12 of her own.
Twenty days later, against the CBU Capers, Farah led her team with 12 points and Cleary was in second with 10 points.
The women were able to improve their record, winning three more games this season than last, but it’s just the beginning. They need to put up a strong defence to keep leads as well as put more in the net to help take the lead. If they keep improving at the rate they are, a few seasons from now they will be a real threat in the AUS league.
Men’s basketball team fall in AUS playoffsBronte JamesSports Editor
The Varsity Reds went 10 for 10 this season, topping their 7-13 record last season.
Missing Atlantic University Sport (AUS) playoffs last season, the men snagged fifth place in the top six standings and met with Acadia, Saint Mary’s, UPEI, StFX and Cape Breton for the Atlantic title.
They were unable to move past the first day, falling to the St. Francis Xavier (StFX) University X-Men 89-88 at the Metro Centre in Halifax, N.S.
The X-Men trailed the Reds for the first half, but Will McFee and StFX’s
Julius Antoine went back and forth with three-pointers, ending the third.
Antoine led his team in points, get-ting the game high for the X-men with 22 points.
With only 0.4 seconds left in the fourth quarter, V-Reds’ Ryan Smith was able to draw a foul and was on the free throw line with two points to tie the game and pushed it to overtime.
Smith would only hit one of his free throws and the X-men would take the game 89-88, ending the Reds’ season in the first game of the playoffs.
Masters had a game-high 25 points and teammate Will McFee added 18 points, while Daniel Quirion added 13 and Ryan Smith scored 10.
Despite the one-point loss, first-year Javon Masters received Rookie of the Year award, second team All-Canadian as well as a spot in the first team all-star – the only V-Red to take away an award this weekend. He also leads the CIS in point scoring.
The men played StFX on Feb. 8 and Feb. 22, losing their first game 81-66 and winning the second one 91-78, meaning the AUS game could have been anyone’s.
Overall, the men were only able to take a two-game winning streak during the regular season. Their home stats were 6-3, proving to play better with the home court advantage as they only had a 4-7 average away.
The men’s basketball team lost a heartbreaker to StFX in the AUS quarterfinals. Alex Walsh / The Brunswickan
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stronger and healthy and I could wrestle the way I normally do at any practice.”
The tournament was one of the first major university competitions to operate under the new wrestling rules, which changed the scoring system as well as the length of rounds. Instead of three two-minute rounds per match, there are now two three-minute rounds.
Ryan said that the new rules af-fected the outcome of the tourna-ment for many athletes.
“[With the new rules], your con-ditioning has to be a lot better . . . We saw this over the weekend: near the end of each round, people lost matches because the fitness wasn’t there,” said Ryan. “And you have to actually wrestle, whereas before the rules allowed for a lot of stalling and going to clinches.”
Ryan added the new rules also make the sport more spectator-friendly.
“We’re seeing higher scores be-cause people are actually wrestling a lot more, so it’s a lot more exciting. Before 1-0 you could win a match, or a 1-1 tie, and now there’s like 18-16 scores.”
Ryan also said it’s a lot more fan-friendly and easier to understand, making it a lot more exciting.
Daye-Finley encourages anyone thinking about joining the UNB team to give it a shot.
“[Wrestling is] the one sport that I’ve ever played that what you put into it is what you get out of it,” said Daye-Finley. “There are many other sports where that’s not the case, sometimes the scout doesn’t see you, and if you don’t get that break you don’t make it. So I’d like to encourage just any-one to try it, and to try to have fun doing it.”
In addition to Cleaves and Daye-Finley, the final results of the tour-nament saw UNB athlete Amanda Eng place 7th in the 48 kg division, Brittany Dillman place 6th in the 55kg division, Mario Tran place 6th in the 54 kg division, David Gillis place 6th in the 57 kg division, Vin-cent Cormier place 7th in the 61 kg division, Erik Joy place 6th in the 65 kg division, Jordan Townsend place 8th in the 68 kg division, Sean Isnor place 7th in the 72 kg division, Gray-son St. Laurent place 4th in the 82 kg division, Alex Thomas place 4th in the 90 kg division, and CJ Thoms place 7th in the 130 kg division.
The Black Bears Wrestling Club will be heading to Edmonton for Junior and Senior Nationals March 20 – 23.
FROM WRESTLING PAGE 12 Pickard-Tattrie is taking off for Thailand Bronte JamesSports Editor
Three of UNB’s students are heading to Bangkok, Thailand for the Right to Play (RTP) Global Youth Summit.
First year track and field and cross country sprinter Aly Pickard-Tattrie is one of those three.
“I am really excited,” she said. “This is something that I’ve always really wanted to do.”
The Global Youth Summit is a leadership conference which hosts about 50 delegates – 30 of which are Canadian – as well as 20 youth from RTP programs in Asia, and representa-tives of RTP national offices.
The conference works with RTP, which is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing sports to those who cannot afford it on their own.
“Play is NOT a luxury,” says the mission statement on the RTP website. “It is a tool for education and health . . . a game of football can teach children about tolerance and peace, and a game of tag can teach about malaria. Play helps teach important life lessons and develop skills like cooperation, leader-ship and teamwork.”
Their slogan is “when children play, the world wins.”
The program started in 1994 as “Olympic Aid” in Lillehammer, Nor-way, at the winter Olympics, and was only extended to Thailand in 2006.
“Sports was a big thing to me growing up, I played a lot of them and I know that they can teach you
life skills,” Pickard-Tattrie said. “So to be able to use those to teach kids who don’t necessarily get to play in their de-veloping countries, it’s just something that I felt was really important.”
Pickard-Tattrie is only in her first year at UNB. A Varsity Reds member, she is heavily involved with RTP UNB. She is also a part of Habitat for Humanity Fredericton and a first year representa-tive for Bridges House.
She went to the first RTP meeting to see what it was all about and decided it was something she really wanted to become involved in.
“Our varsity athletes are very in-volved in our Right to Play organiza-tion, so it’s very much promoted for us to get involved,” she said.
She went through the application process, had her interview and was one of the 30 Canadian delegates chosen.
Vaccinations and seminars on what to expect, what their roles are and other details of the trip come later on in the year, but what Pickard-Tattrie and the other delegates need to focus on is individually raising $3000 before they leave – giving UNB representatives a grand total of $9000.
Acting as a coach for her high school’s track team, she is used to the leadership role.
The kinesiology student used to be the running track coach at her high school, North Colchester High in Nova Scotia, as well as an athlete herself, focusing on the 100 metre and 200 metre races.
“I was a coach and a participant, so it
was interesting coming here and finally getting that coaching, instead of having to coach myself.”
She said it was definitely interesting, but hard at times.
“I actually found when we went to our first meet, I was more nervous for my kids to run than I was about my-self,” she said.
Pickard-Tattrie said she is looking forward to going to Thailand for RTP, but isn’t looking forward to the exhausting trip.
“It’s going to be a very exhausting trip because I move back into residence the day that I get back,” she said. “Two days of travel, six days there and you’re going half way around the world.”
The RTP program has helped more than 56,000 children and youth, with a participation rate of over 45 per cent females and over 1,000 coaches. UNB holds various fundraisers throughout the year including coaches going bare-foot during games to raise awareness, flag football tournaments and other events.
“Right to Play’s mission is to use sport and play to educate and empower children and youth to overcome the effects of poverty, conflict, and disease in disadvantaged communities,” ac-cording to their website.
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