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the carillon | Aug. 2 - Sept. 5, 2012newsNew stadium raises concerns

for citizensConcerns arise over new stadium’s ability to revitalize anything at all

“I can’t remember the last time Iwas approached by so many peo-ple regarding one issue,” saidCouncillor Sharron Bryce whileaddressing a crowd of spectatorsduring the last city council meet-ing on July 23.

The hall was unusuallypacked that night. Abuilding that

normally sees a field of emptyseats, with a small smattering of regular onlookers scatteredthroughout, was now filled to therafters with people from acrossthe city. So much so that many of them were forced to stand forclose to three hours while citycouncil debated what might bethe most polarizing issue to strikeHenry Baker Hall since the demo-lition of 1755 Hamilton Street – anaffordable housing unit withstructural issues that was demol-ished instead of repaired, forcing46 people to relocate.

The issue at hand: Regina’s joint agreement, called the memo-

randum of understanding, withthe Provincial Government andthe Saskatchewan Roughriders to

build a new stadium by the year2017. The topic has generated atremendous amount of buzzaround the city of Regina after itwas announced July 16.

The people of Regina have been split on the question: are youfor the stadium or against it?However the city hall meeting thisnight was not filled with a 50/50split of generally interested citi-zens. On this night the bulk of theonlookers were representing asteadily growing opposition to thenewly planned football stadium,

estimated to cost the provincearound 675 million dollars in total.

The night featured 14 dele-gates who spoke to city council,and all but one spoke out againstthe new stadium. The massivecollection of people was not bychance, however. The majority of them had been mobilized by aFacebook group that started a fewdays earlier, calling for anyoneconcerned about the issue to jointhem in city hall to show theirsupport.

The Facebook page appearedto do its job. Although well over a

hundred people showed up forthe meeting, their concerns weregenerally the same: the city is notgetting enough feedback from thecitizens, they are not even tryingto get it, or that the money would

be spent else ware.“Like you all, I want our city

to be the best in the country,” Said John Klein, a U of R IT support an-alyst who is also running for Ward1 in the upcoming municipal elec-tion. “However, many people donot know your plans for how thatvision will become a reality. Nowthat we know what your plan forprofessional sports and recreationis in Regina, what is your plan for

fixing the affordable housing crisisthis year? Where is your plan toaddress the infrastructure deficitin Ward 1?”

The general consensusamongst the evening’s delegateswas that the city was not listening

to the needs of the people, rathercatering to a mere “want” thatmany citizens have.

“The recent announcement onSaturday of plowing ahead withthe building of a new football sta-dium shows the priorities of thisCouncil as it relates to fully fund-ing our civic employee’s pensions,a 238 Million dollar deficit, build-ing affordable housing for currentand future Regina residents, andrepairing the city’s infrastruc-ture,” Said delegate Jim Elliot.“All of the other priorities seen asimportant by the citizens of this

city will be underfunded or left tofend for themselves not to men-tion all of the other expected costsif the city is allowed to proceedwith this Fiacco legacy.”

The city insisted that there isno other course of action for themto take. According to many of thecity councillors, who spoke to thecrowd after the delegations,Mosaic Stadium has “reached theend of its useful life.” They be-lieve that there are two options,renovate the old stadium, or builda new one. They estimate that thecost to fix Regina’s current sta-dium would be upwards of 150million dollars.

“Weapproached the city, withthe Roughriders, in regards to ren-ovating Mosaic Stadium,” saidCouncillor Louis Browne. “Theyturned down the idea and havenever wavered from that posi-tion.”

On the surface, a deal with theprovince to build a new stadiumwould seem to be the better op-tion. The council reported thatwith the help of the province,Regina would only be required tocontribute 78 million dollars to theconstruction of a new facili ty. Thepeople who attended the meetingon that day were told that contri-

butions from the provincial gov-ernment and the Roughriderswould allow the city to reducetheir costs, and therefore allocatemore money to projects such asaffordable housing. Sounds like a

good deal.However, over half of the

Provincial Government’s contribution to the project comes in theform of a 100 million dollar loanto the City of Regina, bringing our

bill to 178 million dollars beforeinterest. The city’s proposed solu-tion: create a “facility fee” incor-porated into ticket prices thatwould pay for the loan over thirtyyears.

“Since this fee is estimated toreturn approximately $100 millionover thirty years, one wonderswhether this sum alone, alongwith contributions from theRiders, could not have been used

to upgrade the current stadium,”Said delegate Paul Gingrich. “Thiscouncil does not appear to haveseriously explored this option.”

City council also noted thatthe construction of the new sta-dium is part of a larger project

called the Regina RevitalizationInitiative. The hope is that withthe construction of the new facil-ity a space for land developmentwill open up, and with the buzz of a “state of the art” facility coupledwith a surge of development fromthe private sector, Regina’s northcentral area could see a massiveturnaround.

That turnaround is not set instone. In order for the old stadiumsite and surrounding areas to see

a rejuvenation, the private sectorwill need to step in and throw mil-lions of dollars into the project.The city has estimated that 90 percent of the funding for new de-velopments in that area will haveto come from private investors.

When looking south of the border, the examples set byAmerican cities that build newstadiums under the premise of community revitalization are notencouraging.

A study conducted by econo-mist Robert Baade discovered thatafter 30 cities across the UnitedStates who had built new stadi-ums none of them had “any mea-

sureable impact on the economy.”“It is likely that other factors,

such as the tax environment andthe existence of a skilled laborforce, determine business locationto a far greater extent than thepresence of professional sports.”Baade writes. “The findings areparticularly clear in suggestingthat public funding of profes-sional sports stadiums is not asound civic economic investment.If the opportunity cost is includedin cost-benefit considerations,public investment in new stadi-ums may be less than insignifi-cant; they may be negative.”

Detroit English professor

Frank Rashid echoed Baade`scomments in an interview withThe Nation.

“Public subsidies for stadiumsare a great deal for team owners,league executives, developers,

bond attorneys, constructionfirms, politicians and everyone inthe stadium food chain,” he said.“But a really terrible deal foreveryone else.”

The city has been openly crit-icized in the past for rushingthrough the process of creatingthe stadium plans, and many can-didates in the upcoming electionhave asked for more communityinvolvement in the decision mak-

ing process. Unmoved by this, citycouncil voted unanimously infavour of the memorandum of un-derstanding that night.

“Public subsidies for stadiums are a great deal for team owners, league execu-tives, developers, bond attorneys, construction firms, politicians and everyonein the stadium food chain, but a really terrible deal for everyone else.”

Frank Rashid

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The Arab Spring made history asEgyptians took to the streets inearly June of this year to vote inthe first ever democratic presiden-tial elections. This comes after

past president and dictator HosniMubarak had ruled the countryfor 30 years. Mubarak now faces alife sentence in prison, and thecountry is now eager to move onand rebuild.

After a fierce and close battle between the two top candidatesin the election – MuslimBrotherhood’s Mohammad Morsiand the former regime’s PrimeMinister Ahmed Shafiq – the peo-ple have spoken and Morsiclaimed victory on June 18th, 2012as Egypt’s first democraticallyelected president.

Born in 1951 in the Al SharqiaGovernorate, located in northern

Egypt, Morsi studied engineering,earning a PhD from theUniversity of Southern California.After his return to Egypt in 1985Morsi became involved in politicsand joined the MuslimBrotherhood’s guidance bureau.Morsi served as a Member of Parliament from 2000 to 2005, butwas forced to run as an independ-ent because the MuslimBrotherhood was forbidden fromrunning candidates under the of-fice of President Mubarak. As theArab Spring erupted in Egypt, hewas appointed head of theBrotherhood’s Freedom and

Justice Party. The June elections

saw Morsi winning more than 50per cent of the people’s votes.

Egypt’s June elections mayhave passed, but the road ahead isa long and grueling one for Egyptand for Morsi. Egypt’s economyhas been in chaos since the revolu-tion, with nearly half of Egyptiansliving under the poverty line of $2 a day. Fears of currency deval-uation as the country’s foreigncurrency reserves fall from $36 bil-lion to $11 billion coupled withyouth unemployment sitting at 25per cent compounds the problemof rebuilding what was once oneof the most economically stablecountries in the Middle East.

On top of the economic crisis,Egypt has also seen an increase instreet crimes since the revolution.Reports of murders, rapes, rob-

beries, carjackings, and looting insome neighbourhoods have de-creased the overall sense of secu-rity and justice in the area.

With these two major battlesahead, Morsi’s job will not be one

of comfort or ease – but manyEgyptians still have hope thatchange will come.

Mariam Rassem is a Reginanative currently studying medi-cine in Saskatoon. Originally fromEgypt, Rassem and her familywere one of thousands of Canadians who voted in the Juneelections. The Carillon spoke toRassem about her reactions to theelection, the results, and the fu-ture of Egypt.

The Carillon: Describe your feel-ings as you were waiting for theelection results.

Mariam Rassem: It was a mixtureof emotions for me. I went fromfeeling surprised, to worried, tono longer caring, to feeling re-lieved. Surprised by what the firstround of elections had revealed,which was that the two worst can-didates had somehow (with theassumption the elections had runwithout corruption) risen to the

top. It was something I could notunderstand. I was worried bywhat was to come. With all thegrowing arguments over “Shafiqvs. Morsi” I then started to feel asthough I could care less aboutwho would win the elections. Ineither case, I believed Egyptwould get what it asked for andquite possibly what it deserved –whether it was a change for the

better or for the worse.Finally, I was relieved to know

that we could say we had our veryfirst, very own President electedfor the people by the people atlast. That, at least, seemed to be astep in the right direction.

How was your family’s rhetoricaround the elections?

My family and I [voted] in the

elections and were quite adamantto do so. Many Egyptians sacri-ficed their lives for the sake of thisopportunity, to have the freedomto have a voice and a choice in theaffairs of their country. Such a sac-rifice should be honoured and theleast we can do is make an in-formed decision and go out andvote.

What was your opinion of thetwo front-runner candidates – Morsi and Shafiq?

I was shocked to discover thatquite possibly the two worst can-didates would somehow be in thelead in this race. Simply put,

Shafiq was one of Mubarak’s lead-ing men and would always sym-

bolize the old, tainted regime theEgyptians so desperately wantedto be rid of. He was not going to

bring the dire change Egyptneeded and would just kill therevolution. I was displeased withShafiq in every way possible, butI was also displeased with Morsi.It was kind of a choice betweenthe lesser of the two evils Ithought. I only wanted Morsi towin because I didn’t want Shafiqto win, not because I was in sup-port of Morsi. I wanted Morsi towin because he would hopefully

bring a wave of change to Egypt,

something we haven’t seen in thepast 3 decades. Whether that

change would be for the better orfor the worse, only time will tell.

What hopes do you have for thenew president of Egypt? Do youthink he will follow through?

I hope that he brings Egypt somemuch needed change. It is, afterall, a country that lies on the brink of either greatness or an unfortu-nate downfall. I cannot speak towhether he will follow throughwith his promises or with our ex-pectations of him, but at least he’son the road to laying down somechanges, which is a sign that therevolution will not have been fornothing.

With the elections over and theresults announced, can we saythat this is the beginning of theend, or the end of the beginningof the uprising in Egypt?

Hopefully it’s not the beginning of the end! I don’t think the revolu-tion has come to an ending. Infact, I think it’s far from that. Noone who truly partook in the “rev-olution” is in a position of powernow and so as they say, the showmust go on. This revolution hasserved as a power surge in theMiddle East and has acted as aspark to fuel the Arab nations torise against those who oppress,

who murder, and who spew cor-ruption. The “conservative” pathcan no longer be tread upon, afterall the revolution didn’t rise byfollowing along the footsteps of someone else. It’s all just a processin the end – beautiful and yetheart breaking. It will be one thattakes time.

Where is Egypt headed now?

Egypt is now like an infant. It’sfragile and needs the time to becared for, to be nourished, and to

be supported until it can hope-fully grow and flourish one of these days.

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“Egypt is now like an infant. It’s fragile andneeds the time to be cared for, to be nourished,

and to be supported until it can hopefully growand flourish one of these days.”

Mariam Rassem

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newly elected Egyptian president, Mohammad Morsi



newsthe carillon | Aug. 2 - Sept. 5, 2012 5

Young activists in Saskatchewanare getting a boost in the right di-rection. The Regina PublicResearch Interest Group and theSaskatchewan Council forInternational Cooperation haveteamed up for the third year in arow to host a project titledGenerating Momentum, a four-day retreat aimed at mobilizingyouth to take an active role in thesocial and political issues thatmatter to them.

In previous years around 50young individuals, some studentsand some not, have made the tripto an isolated location around theprovince to engage in an intensive

series of workshops and seminarsthat work on educating themabout specific issues, or buildingskills that they can use once thecamp is over. The goal is to pro-vide youth with an accelerated

journey towards becoming an ac-tivist.

“A lot of the time young peo-ple don’t have the skills or infor-mation they need to becomeactivists,” Said Helena Seiferling,Outreach and Events Coordinatorat RPRIG. “Sometimes it takes alifetime of doing things in yourcommunity to learn all of thesethings. Whereas when you cometo a camp like this you get a crash

course in all of these things.”The retreat began three years

ago after current SCIC ExecutiveDirector Vicki Nelson felt that

there was a gap in this kind of training that needed to be filled.

“It came from a need,” SaidNelson. “Once you graduate highschool and you are in university,you go to class and get all of thiscritical thinking knowledge, youare passionate about certain issues

but have no outlet. So we saw thatand wanted to provide an outletfor young people that neededone.”

This year the event is takingplace at Cedar Lodge in Dundurn,

just outside of Regina. Both or-ganizers at RPIRG and SCIC agreethat an isolated location is an im-portant part of the retreat, taking

young people away from theirnormal environments and provid-ing them a new location to accom-pany their new learningexperience.

According to organizers, theretreat breaks down into two maincategories: skills training and in-formation training. During infor-mation training the participantsare educated about specific socialand political issues through a se-ries of documentaries, guestspeakers, and presentations from

experts in the relevant areas.Generating Momentum’s skillstraining is about putting knowl-edge to use in the form of non-vi-

olent direct action, understandinghuman rights, how to establish acooperative, or looking at alterna-tive models for activism.

“At the end of the camp wehope that the people involved will

be able to put all of that knowl-edge and those skills to work andto make their communities a bet-ter place,” Seiferling said.

It would appear that the pro-gram has achieved that goal sofar.

“We have definitely seen it

happen,” Nelson noted. “We haveseen a lot of GeneratingMomentum alumni getting in-volved in campus politics, serv-

ing on the board of directors forvarious activist groups, or gettinginvolved with SCIC and RPIRG.”

“There have been lots of proj-

ects that we look at and say ‘oh, Iremember those people talking atGenerating Momentum, and nowthey are in this campaign,’”Seiferling added. “You can see thepeople around in the city. That isreally great and I hope we can seethat continue.”

Although both RPIRG andSCIC were modest while talkingabout the future, and honestabout its uncertainty, they bothagreed that an ideal future wouldlead to Generating Momentum

becoming a self-sustaining entity.“That might mean a

Generating Momentum founda-tion that runs the camp every

year, it might mean somethingelse,” Nelson said. “That would

be the dream: to have an au-tonomous organization that canself-perpetuate.”

As for the present, RPIRG andSCIC are focused on one thing:giving young people the toolsthey need to become active in thecommunity, social, and politicalissues they care about.

“A lot of people need to findtheir issue and find their passion,”Nelson continued. “Even thoughthey might not realize it at thetime, I think the skills that theygain at Generating Momentumpush them to stay involved.”

While many recent high schoolgraduates entering university are

just wondering how they’re go-ing to survive on Kraft Dinner forthe next few years, Conrad Hewittis out campaigning and spread-ing the word about his platform.Hewitt is running for city councilin ward one for the upcomingcivic election occurring onOctober 24, 2012. He also happensto be just eighteen. He will be theyoungest person to ever run forcity council in Regina, and willalso be starting at the Universityof Regina this fall entering into

business administration.

Hewitt is not completely new tothe world of politics. He grew upin a politically aware householdwith both parents being politicalvolunteers. He first stepped into apolitical campaign office at theyoung age of four years old, andhas been swept up by the politicalworld ever since.

“I was born to be a candidate,”said Hewitt. “I can’t see myself doing anything else… at heart I’llalways be a politically mindedperson.”

His past experience with poli-tics and the community include arun as high school president atCampbell Collegiate, membership

on the Campbell Collegiate com-

munity council and his Church’svestry for three years.

Hewitt doesn’t think being astudent will harm his ability to bean effective city councillor, citingthat most of the city council mem-

bers already have other full time jobs. Do not think that he underes-timates university life though, ashe sees that it will be a challenge,

but he is confident he can seek and achieve a good balance.

After only a few sentences it becomes clear that Hewitt pos-sesses political knowledge thatwould rival most people in thecity, not simply other eighteen-year-olds. His platform includes

three main focuses: Striking a bal-

ance between taxes and services by focusing on sustainable growthand development, restoring andmaintaining our aging infrastruc-ture, and working towards a moreengaging and accessible city gov-ernment.

Having a young person runfor city council does bring up theissue of ageism in politics andhow age can affect one’s ability tomake governing decisions. Hewittfinds himself running against peo-ple who have many more yearson him, but he is not concernedwith that.

“Politics used to be an old boys club,” He said. “But now, the

standard has shifted to interest,passion, and caring about what’sgoing on.”

Hewitt has created a buzz in

this civic race, which is sure toadd to the already interesting up-coming election. An individual hisage running could help bring thenotoriously apathetic younger de-mographics to the polls. In the lastfederal election, according toStatistics Canada, only 55.9 percent of Canadians between theages of 18 and 24 voted, and theturnout for municipal elections isoften quite lower than that.

Hewitt believes he can bringthe idea of the political system

back to the younger generation of voting citizens, and hopes thisopens the door for more youngpeople to enter into politics.

“[It is] important for people toremember that politics is theprocess about working towards a

better society,” he said. “Everyoneis working towards the ultimategoal.”

While Hewitt might be mostnoted for being the youngest per-son to ever run for city council, areputation that could hurt him, orhelp him, it is clear that he looks atthings differently.

“I don’t see myself as a youngperson involved in politics. I seemyself as a citizen involved inpolitics.”

RPIRG and SCIC work together to get young activists startedBuilding some momentum

Age is just a number Conrad Hewitt is the youngest person to ever run for city council

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Previous Generating Momentum camps have helped youth become involved in their communities

rikkeal bohmanncontributor


“ I don’t see myself as a young person

involved in politics.I see myself as acitizen involved inpolitics.”

Conrad Hewitt



U of R student Meka Okochi is inthe running for mayor of Regina.The 34-year-old Nigerian-bornCanadian student is currentlypursuing a PhD in water infra-structure at the University of Regina. Okochi, who came toRegina in 2004, is also employedat the Regina RegionalOpportunities Commission as thehead of economics development.

Okochi, one of four city coun-cil candidates affiliated with the Uof R, made his announcement torun for mayor in early April of this year.

Like many politicians beforehim, Okochi has focused his cam-paign on maximizing opportuni-ties for the people of Regina andengaging them in civic gover-nance.

“‘I dream of Regina as a work-ing class city,” Okochi said. “Acity diverse in terms of culture,the economy, and career opportu-nities. A city with easy access toaccommodation.’’

Okochi believes that througha diversity of new ideas he will

be able to capture the creativity of the public and get them engagedin the election process.

In order to avoid the typical

low voter turnout of previous mu-nicipal elections, Okochi plans to

use communication and socialmedia to boost public participa-tion. One of Okochi’s ideas, he hasdecided, is to engage in a series of

house calls where people invitehim to their homes and talk to

him about the challenges theyface. He claims that it also hasthe added benefit of allowingother people to get to know him.

In regards to how he intendsto get students involved, Okochi

is looking to devise different tac-tics to get students interested in

voting. One such tactic revolvesaround getting URSU involved inthe municipal election process;however, he is still waiting on

their response. If he gets URSU’shelp Okochi plans to engage stu-dents in debates with the candi-dates so as to create a dialogue

between the students and their fu-ture leaders.

‘’This will help to create a gov-ernment that listens,’’ he said.

In addition, Okochi feels thereare ways that the city could be

getting involved to improve post-secondary education in Regina.

‘’education is an experiencethat ought to be enjoyed by every

individual,’’ he said.According to Okochi, the city

should do more to help studentshave access to affordable housing

by providing them with more op-tions.

‘’the people of Regina should be given sustainable soluti ons both for the long term and shortterm.’’

The new football stadium hasclearly landed itself as the numberone issue in the municipal elec-tion. Many advocates of afford-able housing are claiming that themoney for the new football sta-dium could be better spent on de-veloping new homes for low

income individuals. Although heis not opposed to the stadium,Okochi believes the city’s deci-sions were made with too muchhaste.

‘’I would have done it differ-ently,” he said. “I would have notmade any decisions until the issuehad been critically looked at andhad the engagement of citizenswith more discussion about theissue.’’

Although he is a new candi-date, Okochi is full of optimismand believes that this could be hisyear.

’’No matter the outcome, Ihope I can inspire a new genera-

tion of voters.’’

VANCOUVER (CUP) — Twolabour groups are taking to theB.C. Supreme Court to challenge acontroversial bill that bans unionexecutives from serving on the

boards of post-secondary institu-tions.

The Federation of Post-Secondary Educators (FPSE) andthe B.C. Government and ServiceEmployees’ Union (BCGEU) filednotice Monday that they werechallenging legislation that bansfaculty from sitting on a univer-sity or college board of governorswhile serving on the executive of a union.

They argue that the legisla-

tion, known as Bill 18, under-mines union members’ Charterrights.

“[Bill 18] says you have tochoose between whether you aregoing to be active in your union oron the board of your institution,”said Philip Legg, communicationsdirector for the FPSE. “Youshouldn’t have to make thatchoice. Being active in your unionis a right that you have. It’s calledthe freedom of association.”

Bill 18 was brought to the leg-islature in late 2011 by Minister of Advanced Education NaomiYamamoto and became law inApril 2012. The court challenge

was brought after the legislationwas used to remove a union-affil-iated faculty member from theVancouver Island University

board.Yamamoto argued that allow-

ing union executives to serve onpost-secondary boards is a con-flict of interest.

“The legislation guardsagainst the conflict of interest thatresults if an individual is — at thesame time — representing an in-stitution as a board member andsitting at a bargaining table as aunion executive member,”Yamamoto wrote in a statement.

But according to UBC Boardof Governors faculty representa-tive Nassif Ghoussoub, theProvince is sending universities amixed message on what consti-

tutes a conflict of interest. He saidthat if the provincial governmentis going to start declaring conflictsof interest for union executives,they should also examine whether

a conflict exists for those in man-agement positions as well.

“The University Act doesn’tspecify who can represent [stu-

dents and faculty] and who can-not,” he said. “Now they want toadd that people who are on theexecutive of faculty associationscannot. But in the same vein, theyshould add that faculty membersin management are also in a con-flict of interest.”

The challenge is expected tohave far-reaching implications forother controversial aspects of the

bill. Another provisi on gives a board the ability to remove anelected representative with a two-thirds majority vote. Ghoussoubpointed out that two-thirds of theUBC Board of Governors is ap-pointed by the Province, enabling

appointed members to removeelected representatives.

Legg said they expect the con-stitutional challenge will be“lengthy and expensive.” But hesaid that their members felt theyhave no other choice.

“We met with the minister inDecember, and we asked a very

basic question: What is the prob-lem this legislation will fix? Andshe couldn’t point to any examplethat we felt justified the remov-ing of union activists from a

board,” he said.“We’re quite resolved on this

one.”

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Meka Okochi shares his plans for Regina

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Gathering a group of people whotend to annoy you to insanity andsomehow have conflicting viewson everything should be consid-ered cruel and unusual punish-ment, but such is the nature of thefamily reunion.

The best way to deal with afamily reunion is actually quitesimple. Don't show up. Howmuch fun can a bunch of familiar,

skin-covered creatures, all gath-ered up celebrating their own col-lective stink with (and with only)their own kin-folk be anyways?You've got a duty, kid, to yourfamily, and that duty is to get laidand procreate. To prolong and di-versify your bloodline. Since thechances of this happening are al-ready infinitely minute and for-ever undetectable in theirproportion, the best interest of your entire family lies in your ab-sence. Honestly, you'll need to useevery moment you have in life inorder to achieve reproduction.After all, even if you do end upprocreating at your family re-

union, it's quite probably underthe pretenses of incest. You andyour reproductive junk (and yourpotential putrid progeny) best begetting along elsewhere, yourgrandfather would say, fiddlingwith his new colostomy bag.

If, even despite your adamantrefusal to attend, you find your-self thoroughly convinced of yourobligation to this familial affair --perhaps finally swayed by yourMother's sound argumentationand profound rhetorical swagger-- then the situation has growntruly dire. Bring along your walk-man, your iPod, or whatever mu-

sical-brain-injection device youhave that is inter-cranial in its op-eration and convenient to carry.iPods traditionally have moregames, apps, and pornographythan your walkman, even thoughit has that barbie sticker on the

back that you used to wank itover. If, even though one bringsalong the preferred musical-play-

back-contraption-device, one stillfinds the family reunion unbear-able, other easy options remain.

Pursue a crystal meth addic-tion. Fortunately, they say, addic-tion is prone to arise from merelya single dosage, and if you time it

perfectly, your three-day weekendwill hastily dissipate from exis-tence with a veritable, heretoforeunfathomable,speed.

Furthermore, if you show upto the family reunion on meth, do-ing meth, and carrying meth, you

will be the life of the party!Perhaps, though, you'd rather nottake up meth for just a single, self-ishly beneficial weekend. It seemsimmoral to be so non-committal.

So, meth’s not your thing. Trydoing the opposite of what you’d

be doing on meth then, and sleepas much as you can. You alreadydo this anyway, so the behaviour

should be familiar. Doing so at thefamily reunion will not only speedup the passage of time, but yourfamily will all learn of your mostintimate nature and true identity,through first hand experience.And this, in some sense, is the true

purpose of the family reunion.You can sleep on the way there,when you're there, and on theway back. Tell them you're justtired, from old age, or diphtheriaand diarrhea or something, likemore than half the people there.

But, even you can only sleepfor so many hours (and count somany sheep), why not do whatreally should have been your firstidea and just be yourself. Yourwhole family is there, being and

becoming itself, together. You cando your part, just like any of them,

in creating the whole. Your familywill not be as robust or full in itspotential if you are not there, orsimply do not try. They don’t careif you are a drug addict or if youhave failed the greater portion of your university classes since youspend most of your free time onthe internet watching scat porn.Your family does not mind thetremendous gaping hole in your

being – they will fill it, or at leasttry to fill it, with love. For free.

The best way to enjoy yourfamily reunion is to remember, inadvance, that it is an opportunityfor positive energy, good experi-ences, and beneficial develop-

ment, not a complete onslaught of the opposite. Enjoy the time, thecompany, and the sunshine, since– sooner or later, and sooner thanyou think – we'll all be dead.

Prairie Skies Musical Theatre’s in-augural production is underwaywith the company’s take on TheWizard of Oz. New to Regina,Prairie Skies does outdoor theatreon a farm just outside of Edenwold, SK.

The production doesn’tchange much from the original,and is more or less what you’re

expecting from this classic.Disappointing to hear wererecorded backing tracks to accom-pany the singers. Songs like “Overthe Rainbow” which pull themelody ever so slightly before orafter the beat would have bene-fited greatly from a live accompa-niment. Recorded backing tracksmay be created with live musi-cians, but a backing track willnever be able to do the things alive musician can. Backing trackscan’t slow down slightly if thesinger is really pulling on the beat;they can’t play louder or givemore if the moment calls for it;they can’t repeat a part if a singer

misses his or her cue. Moreover,live musicians are human andprone to error, but can often savethemselves -- or have a bandmatesave them -- quick enough thatthe audience may not even notice;

backing tracks cannot, and if theyskip or screw up (which did hap-pen once briefly), the conse-quences are often worse.

At least though, the only liveaspect to the music was donewell. All of the singing was donerather well, but even JudyGarland would have been satis-fied with actress Noelle

Antonsen’s singing.In place of the traditional

painted backdrops was a largedigital screen that made scenechanges much smoother andquicker. However, the back-grounds displayed on the screenlooked somewhat cheesy. Ozlooked like some weird alienoverlord, and I’ve seen gif fileswith better animation.

Even if the show ended up be-ing a complete disaster and every-thing had gone inexplicably butentirely wrong, it would have

been saved by Pebbles the dog

who played Toto. I’m not muchon small dogs, but every time shecame on stage, I had to resist run-ning on stage and stealing thatdog for being so damn cute. Shedidn’t even do anything! She hadno lines and was either carried,led, or told where to go on stage,and she still managed to be a starsimply because she was thatadorable.

Prairie Skies Musical Theatreis a simple idea that attempts to begrandeur with a large stage, manylights, lots of smoke, and a bigdigital screen. The company’s first

production would have had atruly grandeur performance if thissimple idea of outdoor theatre

been done in a simpler matter. If you’re going to perform outside,you may as well have a simplestage on the ground and utilizethings like trees and shrubs in-stead of having an image of a treeon a screen, especially if the playis set predominantly outside.

The best part of the perform-ance lies in the theatrecompany’stitle. It was an absolutely gor-geous evening outside, with thesun setting behind the stage andthe sky gradually fading darker

until the stars decided they toowanted to come out and watchthe performance. Being removedfrom the city also added to theplay’s rural setting, but quite sim-ply it’s hard to argue with beingoutside on a quiet summerevening in the prairies.

The production of The Wizardof Oz wasn’t spectacular, but byno means was it done poorly. Thewhole experience is where PrairieSkies Musical Theatre excelsthough: a sunset drive out of thecity, watching a classic story, andcounting stars during scenechanges.

The Carillon’s survival guide to getting through family reunions

You Can’t Choose Family

Tornado, scarecrows, witches, andlions strike Saskatchewan farmPrairie Skies Musical Theatre takes on an old favourite

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The more I think of how much better Munchkinland is than Regina, the sadder I get

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frankly, I can’t think of anything more riveting than having my hair pulled by that annoying kid who’s name I forgot

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Christopher Nolan hasmade the superhero moviecool again. His spin on theBatman mythos (and hope-fully the upcomingSuperman mythos) has

been breathtaking, heart- breaking, and all-togethermind-blowing. Followingthe death of Heath Ledgershortly before the premier

of 2008’s The Dark Knight,serious doubt was cast onwhether or not Nolanwould continue on withthe third movie in what has

become the highest-gross-ing superhero movie fran-chise of all time. On July20, the long-anticipatedThe Dark Knight Rises hittheatres like a rocket fromthe Tumbler. I was just asexcited as anybody. The fi-nale of ChristopherNolan’s Dark Knight tril-ogy promised to be the bestin the series. I thought thatNolan’s gritty realization of

Batman and the seedy un-derbelly of Gotham would

be outstanding. Instead, I

got an epilogue that sank like a Bat-Anchor.

The movie opens withthe villain du jour Bane,

played by Tom Hardy, hi- jacking a CIA plane. Andmight I be the first to say,what in the blazing bluehell is up with Bane? Iknow that monstrosity of apainter’s mask on his faceis supposed to be savinghis life, but why does ithave to muddle his voiceto the point of incompre-hensibility? He soundsabout as intelligent as thatlittle imbecile fresh out of oral surgery on YouTube.This is going to be a longthree hours if I can’t under-stand the evil half of the di-

alogue throughout.Cut to Bruce Wayne,

reprised by Christian Bale.Since the events of the lastfilm, Wayne has taken theHoward Hughes approachto billionaire reclusiveness.Batman has disappearedafter becoming public en-emy number one, andBruce Wayne hasn’t beenseen for years. Bruce has arun-in with AnneHathaway’s Selina Kyle,who, although never beingmentioned by the nameCatwoman is, in fact, justCatwoman. After this brief

encounter, Bruce Waynedecides that he needs todon the cowl once more

and bring Batman back toGotham. Just because.

Bane shows up inGotham because of thepossibility of the existence

of a failed nuclear genera-tor funded by WayneEnterprises under the city(just roll with it). Bane fig-ures out that this generatorcan be turned into a four-megaton nuclear bomb if itwas given the right encour-agement. Batman showsup, and he and Bane throwdown. Batman fails,Batman has a trainingmontage, Batman—waitfor it—rises, Batman andBane throw down again,Batman wins. Then theending, a screw-job, cop-out ending that practically

announces that everyoneinvolved stopped giving ashit, and shot the first thing

that the most uncreative bloke on set suggested.

The primary problemwith this film is that itdoesn’t bring anything

new to a series that has been so dependent on char-acter evolution and stun-ning set pieces. Everyreview I’ve read thus farhas loudly touted charac-ter development. There isno character developmentthroughout the film.Whiny Character A getsless whiny in three hours.That isn’t character devel-opment. That’s puberty.Character development iswhat we saw in AaronEckhart’s Harvey Dent inthe last film. There was anincorruptible ray of hope

for Gotham City that was broken by the Joker andturned into what could

have been a very cool vil-lain and a very real threatto Gotham for this movie.Instead, he’s killed off

about as quickly as he ap-pears, and we’re stuck withsomeone who mumbleseven worse that the titularDark Knight.

The “stunning” setpieces, too, left somethingto be desired. The thingsthat made me “ooh” in theslightest were the samethings that made me sit inslack-jawed wonderthroughout The Dark Knight. Gunfight? Check.Freeway chase involvingthe Bat-Cycle? Check.Gunfight in a financial in-stitution? Check. The only

newness came when a football stadium literally opensup and swallows two en-tire football teams. Andeven then, that scene wasshown in every teasertrailer and TV spot, so bythe time the scene came inthe movie, I was anxiouslychecking my watch andyawning loudly. Whatshould have been one of the best films of 2012 justleft me glaring at the screenin silent fury. This film wasa let-down from beginningto end.

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FiveThings I Could

Have Done

Instead of

Watching The

Dark Knight

Rises

Take up

crocheting5Crocheting is an activity thatmore people under the age of 102 should take up. It’s a greatwrist workout, and think of the pride you’ll feel when youwear the ugly-arse sweaterthat you made for Christmasdinner this year.

Drive toMoose Jaw

5.4 times4Yup.

Walk 10 km3The average brisk walkingspeed in a marathon is fourmiles per hour or six-point-five kilometres per hour.Anyone who knows meknows I’d be going slowerthan that. 10 kilometres at my

average walking speed would be no problem over the run-time of TDKR.

Go see

Marvel’s The

Avengers

again

2I know I was harsh on super-hero movies last year —in factnaming them to my worstfilms of 2011. But Joss Whedonand company really steppedit up with The Avengers.Thanks to Whedon’s gen-uinely great movie, I believein Marvel, again.

Anything

else in the

world1Yes, I could have done liter-ally anything else on the god-damn planet, and beenhappier than I was watchingThe Dark Knight Rises. I canhandle being disappointed bygenuinely bad films, but beingdisappointed by films that hadso much to live up to is all thatmuch worse.

This is probably the angerstage of the five stages of grief.Thanks a lot, Batman. I’mgrieving.

The Dark Knight Rises Dir.ChristopherNolan

StarringChristian Bale,Michael Caine,AnneHathaway

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While Canada is about as wellknown for its rap as Alabama isfor its tolerance, both do exist. I’veheard good things aboutBirmingham, but I digress. As oneof Canada’s forefront rap artists,Shad’s latest EP, melancholy andthe infinite shadness, takes arather experimental turn from hisprevious recordings, all the whilespearheading a blatant attack atcapitalizing letters and traditional

grammar.As a white male in my early

20’s, and this clearly being myarea of expertise, there’s no mis-taking Shad’s signature 90s-erastyle; it hasn’t left. What hasthough, is typical song structureand all that comes with it, which,depending on what you like, can

be a welcome change. With onlyfive songs and a running time of around 11 minutes, it starts off in-credibly strong with “a milli

vanilli” and “out here (cannon- ball)”, but seems to fade as the EPprogresses. It’s not as if it evergets bad though, just more tame.

With that said, it’s certainlyworth a listen. Whether thismarks a dramatic turn in Shad’ssound or not is to be seen, but ona scale of chain restaurants, go-ing from Arby’s to Earl’s, this is aBoston Pizza through andthrough. If you’re a fan of Arby’s,stop lying to yourself.

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Toronto’s BADBADNOTGOODare the epitome of everything thatWynton Marsalis hates, and I’msure if he ever heard their secondalbum, BBNG2, he would sponta-neously combust in fiery rage.Any proponent of classic-sound-ing jazz would, given the songsoff BBNG2 figuratively paralleldrummer Alex Sowinski’s wordsabout a favourite Coltrane pieceamong many jazz musicians:“Fuck that shit”.

BBNG2 fuses complex song

structures, traditional jazz play-ing, individual virtuosity, and

hip-hop grooves to create a jazzalbum that pushes the genre for-ward despite the love for retro-spective thinking commonlyfound with jazz musicians.

Instead of including a coverof a well-known jazz standard, aninstrumental version of KanyeWest’s “Flashing Lights” comesnear the album’s end and is defi-nitely one of BBNG2’s highlights.

Another standout moment is theten-odd minutes shared betweenthe songs “Rotten Decay” and“Limit to Your Love”, the formerswitching between lethargic andspasmodic tempos and the latterfeaturing an extended bass solounder a straightforward, hip-hopgroove.

BBNG2 is an example of how jazz can be new and exciting in2012. It’s refreshingly new for agenre that can sometimes over-look over forty years of innova-tion.

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The Craven Country Jamboree isDickensian in more ways than theliving conditions. It’s really a taleof two cities. One being the fes-tive, free spirited, sinful city that isthe general camping grounds, andthe other the more refined, anddedicated grandstands area. Thegrandstands area houses theartists, families, and employeesthat work hard to provide thegreat party that is Craven Country

Jamboree for themselves as wellas those who brave general camp-ing. The existence of these two

distinct areas at Craven allowspeople from all walks of life to en-

joy a good time.As I walked through the gen-

eral camp grounds, it became ob-vious that the picnic table slip ‘n’slide was a favourite pastime of nearly everyone, public nuditywas openly accepted, and the longstanding tradition of burningcouches was alive and well.Venturing into the general camp-ing grounds is not for everyone,

but those who do are treated to aunique experience to say the least.Inhibitions are nearly non-existentamongst the sea of people,labyrinth of trucks, trailers, and

$17 Walmart tents that have beenpurchased regardless of their

likely three-night survival limit.What happens in the general

camping grounds is highly unpre-dictable from night to night.When returning from the grand-stands I often found that I was hitwith a wave of excitement as Iwalked into the unknown.

“All you know is that your brain begins to hum, and you feela tingle down your spine when

craven comes around,” said onecamper at the grounds. “You can

feel the vibe driving into thecampgrounds and you know,something wild, and possibly ille-gal may happen, and it’s going toinvolve you. The details reallydon’t matter out here.”

Obviously beer is in no shortsupply. Most campers live off aliquid diet of whiskey and Pilsner—leaving a little room for hotdogs, hamburgers, and the odd

taco-in-a-bag of course. For many,the next beverage was never far

out of reach. However, I noticedthat the campers at the generalgrounds were—more often thannot—very generous and weren’tput off by a request for a drink.Considering the majority of campers buy enough booze to killthemselves, you might argue thatthey are doing themselves afavour by sharing.

When I asked several people

why they bring so much alcohol Iwould get a similar answer every

time, “Always over prepare, neverunder prepare.”

The only thing preventing thefestival from being completelyover thrown by legions of stum-

bling partiers are the committedemployees alongside countlessvolunteers and paramedics thatgive hours of their time to pro-vide everyone with a safe and funCraven experience.

From what I saw, these peo-ple are truly the backbone of the

jamboree. It was this small com-munity that sacrificed their week-end to keep the masses of

booze-fuelled fans under controland try to maintain an equilib-rium between the controlledcountry fans and superfluous

shenanigans.Swaying the balance too far onone side would tear Craven apart.The combination of true countrymusic fans and reckless excite-ment from an unruly crowd iswhat keeps everyone coming

back. The bigger the festival gets,the bigger the show.

Craven is a festival that hitshome on both Saskatchewan’sprairie country spirit and its un-deniable drinking culture. Withthe show that increases in scopeevery year, the Craven Country

Jamboree is becoming solidifiedin Saskatchewanian culture.

HAMILTON (CUP) -- “Acoupleof years ago, there was a situationwhere a busker got arresteddowntown for busking,” recalledCody Lanktree, director of HamiltonSeen, a promotionalcompany that seems to involve it-self in all things media creation,marketing and design.

“The musicians of Hamiltonwere all, ‘Oh, we can’t have thishere. This is a place where musichappens and artists are loved.How could this happen here, of allplaces?’” said Lanktree about the

public response to the busker’s ar-rest.

Lanktree, like many otherslooking to set injustices right, cre-ated a Facebook group, which hecalled “Busker Crawl.” More than80 musicians performed on JamesStreet in Hamilton, he said. Thecity ultimately changed its bylawsto allow busking.

The public reaction to the busker’s arrest seem to show thatmusic is a (perhaps surprisingly)significant part of Hamilton’sidentity — significant enough thatLanktree has decided to make adocumentary about the city’s mu-sic scene.

Lanktree’s film, Seen — ADocument(ary) of the HamiltonMusic Scene, almost didn’t hap-pen.

“I was considering leavingHamilton,” said Lanktree.

“A relationship had ended,and I was thinking maybe this ismy time to take a step out intosomething else, and I was think-ing about making travel docu-mentaries,” he recalled. “I waslooking at prices to fly to thePhilippines. I’d gotten that far,and it was way too expensive,which was part of my decision not

to leave yet.“I realized that I’d spent the

last three and a half years here inHamilton making a lot of reallygreat friends in the music scene,and I was like, ‘I should do some-thing with that before I go,’ andthis is me doing something withthat before I go,” said Lanktree,who was quick to modesty.

“I don’t want to say that I’mgiving something back or any-thing like that. That would bekind of silly.”

Today, it seems like the inter-net has made the idea of a local

music scene seem outdated;, butLanktree believes that local sceneswill always be important.

“In Hamilton, if you go to anyshow, half the audience is musi-cians, so what could more directlyinfluence you than the people thatyou’re seeing every Saturdaynight?” he said.

“There’s an immediacy relatedto how direct your relationship isto something. If the woman thatyou love writes a beautiful songfor you, that’s the greatest songyou’ve ever heard.”

There’s been big support of

Lanktree’s film fromHamiltonians, and on June 30, a

group of the city’s musiciansplayed a fundraiser show at theCasbah for Lanktree’s documen-tary.

“There was just a certain pointlast Saturday night at thefundraiser I looked around theroom and I recognized half thepeople there, and just thought thatthe rest of these people are here

because they believe in what themusic of Hamilton is. Very rarelyin life do you get opportunities to

be filled with hope about what itis that you want to accomplish.”

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Sports Editor: [email protected]

the carillon | Aug. 2 - Sept. 5, 2012sportsFive athletes to watch this year If you’ll be watching U of R sports this year, look out for these guys

The fall semester is just under a monthaway, bringing with it a new year forUniversity of Regina athletics. For our sum-mer issue, the Carillon has comprised a listof five university athletes that sports fansshould keep their eyes on during the schoolyear. Some are coming back from injurywhile others are looking to follow up dom-inant seasons. Whatever the reason, these

athletes are sure to have all eyes on themwhen their seasons get underway.

1. Marc Muller – Rams Quarterback To the chagrin of Rams fans across the U of R, Muller suffered a season-ending injury tohis throwing shoulder during the first pos-session of the Rams 2011 season, forcingthe CFL prospect to watch from the side-lines as the Rams struggled during the restof the campaign. Now the Rams signalcaller is back for his final year with theteam. Considering his talent and immensevalue to the university’s football team, it isfair to say that everyone, CFL scouts in-cluded, will be watching Muller this year.

2. Andrew Nelson – Men’s Volleyball

Nelson caught the eyes of the entire coun-try during the 2011 men’s volleyball season.

Despite being a fresh-faced rookie, Nelsonhelped the Cougars put up four wins –be-lieve it or not, that was actually a huge stepforward for them. He picked up the CISrookie-of-the-year award along the way.Last season he became the only player inthe history of the men’s volleyball squad toregister 25 kills in a game, and he did it notonce but twice. Considering he was a firstyear, is it safe to assume this kid is going to

reach some impressive milestones duringhis career.

3. Jessica Winter – Cougars swimming teamFormer Carillon sports editor AutumnMcDowell once said “she is basically a fish”when describing the outstanding perform-ances of Jessica Winter last year. Winter,who recently spent time in Montreal at theCanadian Olympic trials, set two schoolrecords last season and was the only mem-

ber of the Cougars swimming team to make

it to the CIS championships final round.She has been voted team MVP in both her

rookie and sophomore seasons, there is avery good chance she will continue thattrend.

4. Kirk Ackerman – Men’s wrestlingAckerman is one of many outstandingwrestlers that this university has produced.He placed first in four tournaments lastyear, and snagged a silver medal at the CISchampionships –although he admits thatanything other than gold was a disappoint-ment. He is coming off of a fairly bad kneeinjury and it will be interesting to see if hecan keep up the impressive form that hasallowed him to dominate virtually all of

his competition thus far. Knee injuries arean interesting thing though; sometimespeople come back 100 per cent, sometimesnot. We will have to wait and see.5. Kelly Wiebe – cross countryTalking about Kelly Wiebe is beginning tosound like a broken record. But as long ashe keeps dominating on the cross countrycircuit we have no choice to mention, yetagain, how damn good this guy is at run-ning really, really far. His coaches all believethat he will be in the Olympics someday;hell, he already beat a pair of formerOlympians in a race this past April.


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1. The new stadium is all thebuzz in Regina at the moment.City council recently agreed tomove forward with the project. Itseems like the entire city is polar-ized on this issue, where do youstand? Do we need a new sta-dium or are there other things weshould be spending taxpayermoney on?

Jonathan Hamelin: I like the ideaof getting better seating - it's not

pretty trying to make your wayto your seat when others are al-ready seated; I even stubbed mytoe pretty bad once - but I'd still befine with the current stadium. It'sa great place to watch the gameand the money should go else-where.

Dietrich Neu: I’ve talked a lotabout this issue in the past. Themoney would clearly be spent bet-ter spent on fixing this city, whichis falling apart at the seams.Instead the province decided topurchase 675 million dollar penisextension.

Julia Dima: We need to spendthose tax dollars on other things.The primary concern at that citycouncil meeting was housing. Forthe cost of the stadium we could

build just about 2,600 low incomehousing units, enough for almostall of Regina’s homeless. Thequestion of whether we need thisstadium is like standing in be-tween a Tiffany’s and a Safewaywith your welfare check.

Dustin Christianson: Where Istand in relation to the new sta-dium is (and forever will be) out-side the gate, shouting into amegaphone and waving a sign

which reads "stop! Ye foolishspend-thrifts, the end is nigh!" We

certainly do not need a new sta-dium, and it is barely clear that amajority of the population evenwants a new stadium. There aremuch better things to spend tax-payer money on.

2. The 2012 Olympics are wellunderway at this point. Do youwatch the games or even care? Ifso, which events are you mostlooking forward to this year?

JH: I don't watch the Olympics. If I did, it would be Canadian eventsand Canada usually under-achieves so much that I don't see

the need to tune in. As an exam-ple, the Canadian women's bas-ketball team came close to losingto Britain, ranked 49th in theworld.

DN: I’m a pretty big combatsports fan. Usually when I tuneinto the Olympics I do so casu-ally. But I like watching the Judo

bouts, speaking of which,Canadian Antoine Valois-Fortierwon recently won bronze. Iwouldn’t mind watching boxingeither.

JD: I never watch SummerOlympics, because quite frankly,

all the sports bore me. I sometimestune in to hear tennis playersgrunt.

DC: Watching the Olympic eventsrequires, first and foremost,watching television. This is a be-haviour that I purposefully tendto avoid, regardless of the popu-larity of the contents. Radio-newsraved recently that over a billionindividuals would watch theopening ceremonies – however,two billion eyes transfixed onsome televised event is probablyenough people to render my “notcaring enough” irrelevant.

3. Greek triple jumper Voula

Papachristou was banned fromthis year’s games for an incredi-bly racist tweet earlier thismonth. We can all agree thatPapachristou’s comments weredespicable and deserved punish-ment, but in a more global sense,do you think the Olympic com-mittee should monitor and repri-mand athletes for theircomments?

JH: Voula Papachristou deservedto be suspended and the Olympiccommittee should definitely mon-itor and reprimand athletes. TheOlympics is all about represent-ing your country through your ac-

tions and your words. But don'tworry Papachristou, you too canenjoy some home cooking ... whileyou're at home watching theOlympics.

DN: Athletes at this level are rolemodels to so many people aroundthe world. If you want to be a shithuman being, fine, but do it in pri-vate, not on the world’s biggeststage for everyone to see.Unfortunately Papachristou hasalso used her Twitter account todisplay her support for GoldenDawn, the Greek neo-nazi party.What a piece of garbage.

JD: My mom-style advice is“never post something youwouldn’t want your boss, yourgrandma, or a cop to see.” Likeany of us follow that. But whenyou’re representing your country,you should probably not be racist.And yes, Olympic committeesshould reprimand hurtful com-ments. The spirit of the Olympicsis about acceptance and comingtogether, right?

DC: I think the Olympic commit-tee would be better off to refrainfrom muzzling the speech of theircompeting athletes, from anycountry. I do not condone (or even

know of) what was said, but it isup to an individual to take re-

sponsibility for their own claims.The Olympic committee need notplay Kindergarten Cop amongstthe good and bad sports of sport.

4. The National Football Leaguehas recently stated that they are“closer than you think” to mak-ing gridiron football an Olympicsport. Do you buy this, is thereany point? Would any countryother than the United State everwin gold?

JH: Not only would the U.S.Athoroughly dominate, but I don'tsee how it would be feasible.Football games take a lot of effort

and time. I don't think footballplayers could play so many gamesclose together. There would haveto be some changes to the set-up.

DN: I don’t know what the hellthe NFL is thinking with all of these “coming soon,” and “whowould be the United States’ quar-terback for our Olympic dreamteam?” posts. It’s pointless. Thereis literally no international compe-tition. Canada is probably theonly other country that couldeven field a team, and we wouldget our asses kicked.

JD: After looking up gridiron foot-

ball on Google, and being embar-rassed with myself for being sooblivious, I can now state that Ididn’t even know it wasn’t anOlympic sport. Do any other ma-

jor countr ies play this style of football besides Canada and theUS? If so, sure, why not? It’s apretty popular game, my sportsfriends tell me.

DC: If American-style football isto become an Olympic sport, itwill hopefully fail miserably indoing so. I do not see the point,though if football players wouldlike to compete at a world-levelthen they should, ideally, be al-

lowed the opportunity to do so. Iam not sure that the United States

would completely dominate thecompetition, perhaps Canadawould have some sort of chances– but where else, outside of NorthAmerica, is gridiron football ac-tually popular?

5. Are there any sports omittedfrom Olympic competition thatyou think should be on the bill?This could be for either the win-ter or summer Olympics.

JH: I saw that tug of war used to be a thing. While it might soundsilly to some, in my mind thatwould be the perfect way to judgethe strength of the competing

countries. It would be fairer thanother events that some countriesfocus more on than others. Youcan't really train more forstrength.

DN: I would like to see Brazilian Jujitsu in the Olympics. A lot of people argue that it is basically asubset of Judo, which might befair. But I think the style of compe-tition would fit right in with theOlympics. Also, the athletes don’tsuf fer a tremendous amount of damage during their fights so set-ting up a legitimate tournamentwould be easy.

JD: Roller Derby!

DC: The Olympics should widenthe foray of events it presentstremendously to allow for morecompetitors and a larger audi-ence, as well as a more generallypleasing competition. Such newevents may include: synchro-nized coffee consumption, Jimmy-legging, potato salad sculpture,yodeling, and of course – every-one's favourite – breathing!Imagine, being crowned theworld's greatest breather! Theglory, the fame!

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WINDSOR (CUP) — It’s Canada’sother national sport.

Cricket recieved that distinc-tion from none other thanCanada’s first prime minister, Sir

John A. Macdonald, in 1867.At that time, it was quite a

popular sport in the Dominion,with the first recorded gameplayed nearly 100 years earlier, in1785, at Ile-Ste-Helene inMontreal.

The Toronto Cricket Club wasfounded in 1827 and, arguably, thefirst modern-era internationalsports competition was a cricket

match between Canada and theU.S. played from September 24-26, 1844.

The sport lost favour with theadvent of baseball, but it’s never

been decommissioned as a na-tional sport. And while it’s popu-larity is currently on a low ebblocally, it is still enjoys success inthe Toronto area.

The Windsor cricket scene is-n’t what it used to be according toCurtis Springer, former captainand current president of theWindsor Cavaliers Cricket Clubof the Southern Ontario CricketAssociation.

There are currently seven

teams in the league, but whenSpringer arrived from theBarbados in 1996 there were

roughly 16-17 teams vying for thechampionship.

“Most of the cricket in thisarea is played in Toronto and theprice of gas now — expensivetravel,” Springer said. “Also, theystarted a league four years ago inDetroit that is drawing playersfrom here. Most of the players [inDetroit] can’t come [to Canada]due to the effects of 9/11. It’stougher to cross the border.”

In a waning period, perhaps, but the sport in Windsor was

enough of a draw for first-yearUniversity of Windsor studentKudzaishe Matare. Matare, a fast

bowler in his second year with theCavaliers, hails from Zimbabwewhere he played at a professionallevel.

He would love to see the gamegrow in Windsor. So much so, thathe and otherCavaliers/University of Windsorstudents are trying to drum up in-terest in establishing a Lancerscricket team.

It’s just in the talking stage, but the group of hopefuls envi-sion getting a team together for

the 2013 season of the CanadianInter-Universities and CollegeCricket League.

“We’re just talking about itand hoping people respond possi-

bility to it and have something for

next year … something competi-tive. We hear there is a lot of com-

petition in the league.”Okay, so what is cricket, you

say? It’s known as little more thana strange form of baseball to mostCanadians.

“Cricket is similar to baseball,” explained Springer.“Baseball originated fromcricket.”

One of the senior members of the team, Oswald Ward, has beenwith the Cavaliers for the past 35years. He feels the simplest way tolearn the game is to simply watchit in action.

“The first step is to come onout,” Ward said. “We have a lot of guys here that are willing to help.

We have practice nets here — wehave pretty good facilities here at

Jackson Park. And anyone that isinterested, we always have guyshere like myself, a lot of seniorguys that are willing to help out.

FREDERICTON (CUP) —Crossing the ocean on a 33-hourplane ride, Melissa Foster of theUniversity of New Brunswick'swomen's basketball team is travel-ing to Lilongwe, Malawi, in hopesof improving nutrition and sportin the small village of Kuma,Africa.

Foster will be traveling toAfrica through the Centre forProperty Studies on the UNBcampus, and will be working withthe Active Youth Organization.

“Our main goals are to organ-ize a soccer tournament for thewhole community, and workingon gender equality to try and getthe girls and boys to participatetogether,” Foster said.

“We will be working a lot onnutrition, have a communitycooking class, eating healthier andhave energy-efficient stoves.”

Foster and the other internswill not only discuss proper nutri-tion, but will also be traveling toschools to help educate aboutHIV/AIDS, as well as alcohol-abuse and other forms of sub-stance abuse.

“I’m just interested to see

what goes on during a daily basis,

especially child-related because Ifeel like it’s going to be so differ-ent from here.”

“The kids here are used to go-ing to school Monday throughFriday and in a community-basedchild care [system], it is going to

be completely different.”Going on a three-month long

internship, Foster said she is ex-cited to be surrounded by an en-

tirely new culture.“I’m looking forward to being

in another culture and being im-mersed in it, and just learning atotally different perspective andnew experiences. Hopefully I’ll beable to share some of my experi-ences with them.”

Having heard about the pro-

gram from a girl who had been

on the nine-month internship, andworking with the Centre forProperty Studies through Right toPlay, Foster says one thing just ledto the next and she was acceptedinto the internship.

With three groups spread outin Malawi, Luangwa and Mizzou,Foster says people are placed

based on how they responded totheir application.

“We can specify what we’dlike to do. I said that I’d like to bewith kids, and involved in sportsand physical activity,” Foster said.

“Depending on what youwant to do they place you in aspecific spot and I was placed inMalawi.”

Getting three vaccinations —

including one for Yellow Fever —

and taking Malaria pills to pre-pare for the trip, interns are ex-pected to take every precautionnecessary for foreign travel.

Interns have to prepare phys-ically and mentally, too. A three-day course in April will teachthem the community’s religion,culture and everyday routines. Aswell, Foster says she is required totake online courses and read mod-ules before her trip.

With limited communicationavailable, Foster says she is nerv-ous about the distance she has totravel away from home.

“I mean, if you’re homesick it’s not like you can just pick up

the phone and call home. I’m a lit-tle nervous about the whole ex-perience in general, but I knowthat Malawi is a really safe coun-try and I’m going to be in a groupwhich will help too.” At the end of her trip, Foster will be traveling toRwanda for 10 days for a GlobalYouth Summit.

Having helped organize theRight to Play fundraising, Fostersays she is looking forward to be

being able to travel to these placesand seeing first-hand the poverty,and knowing she is helping tomake a difference.

“Youth from all over the worldwill be going to the conference in

Kigali, Rwanda, so I’m very ex-

cited,” she said.“We’re going to learn about

sport for development and basi-cally we’re going to be looking atwhat Right to Play actually doesin the field. We’re going to facili-tate a play day and see how theyactually use their tools and theirsports and their games to teachkids.”

Although Foster originallywanted to practice medicine, herprospects have changed. Since she

became involved in athletic or-ganizations whose goal is to helpunderprivileged children, Fosteris starting to focus onInternational Development.

“This will definitely allow meto see if I enjoy it, and if it is some-thing I want to pursue.”

Foster says she can read andprepare herself to an extent, butthings may be completely differ-ent once she gets there.

“I do know a lot of peoplewho have been on the trip, andhearing their stories has helped;it’s already been a little eye open-ing,” she said.

“I think it’s one of those thingsthat you can try to prepare for, butno matter how much you prepareit’s still going to hit really hardonce you get there.”

Sir John A. Macdonald thought it was cool. Apparently no one else did

Anyone for Cricket?

UNB basketball player to travel to Africa for Right to Play

Melissa Foster will spend time in Africa with the Active Youth Organization

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bronté james

The Brunswickan(University of New Brunswick)

John DohertyThe Lance

(University of Windsor)

“The first modern-era international sportscompetition was a cricket match betweenCanada and the U.S. played from September24-26, 1844.”

John Doherty

“ I think it’s one of those things that you cantry to prepare for, but no matter how much you

prepare it’s still going to hit really hard onceyou get there.”

Melissa Foster



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the carillon | Aug. 2 - Sept. 5, 2012op-ed

Fuh’baw

Well, it finally happened: the disease that is known as ‘Rider Pride’ has finally infected the brain of social consciousness, and green and white zombies have swamped the streets,groaning about “FUH’BAW!” Meanwhile, the paranoid social pariahs such as myself havearmed ourselves to the teeth, and shut ourselves in the nearest shopping mall. You know,the one without the Rider Store.

Recently, the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Company, the provincial government,and Mayor Pat Fiacco came to an agreement on the new home of the Riders. For the lowly

sum of $278 million, or $675 million if you count lifetime costs, the Roughriders will geta 33 000-seat stadium that is comparable to ours in every way imaginable. The City of Regina will jack the cost of football tickets and bring in national cheerleading competitionsto pay up its share of $173 million (with interest!) and the provincial government isponying up another $80 million.

Wait. Hold on just a god-damned minute. What in the flying fuck? $80 million? Is thatnot the exact sum to be saved by the provincial government after ten years for cutting theSaskatchewan Film Employment Tax Credit? The same government who posed the hypo-thetical – and I quote – “If an industry cannot survive without constant taxpayer subsidy,should the public subsidize indefinitely?” I guess so long as that industry involves foot-

ball, it’s ok to subsidize the shit out of it.Those of you who know me know that I'm rather outspoken on this issue. It’s no se-

cret that I thought a children’s hospital in this backwards-ass province should have taken

precedence over a new football stadium. But that, it seems, was wishful thinking.As for the Rider’s being an important and profitable industry as opposed to film, do

I have to remind everybody that the Saskatchewan Roughriders weren’t exactly the eco-nomic juggernauts they are now? Do I need to remind people that a few short years ago,such “important” games as the Labour Day Classic were blacked out on TSN because of poor live attendance? It wasn’t until the miracle season in 2007 that the vast majority of these bandwagon hicks started disrobing and painting their gargantuan tits with uraniumpaint and whale spunk.

I can safely say that I am disgusted with the actions of this government. Well, Mr. Wall,I got the message loud and clear; if I play professional sports or work in the potash mines,I am worth the province’s time and money. If I do not, I can take a fucking hike. And thatis exactly what I plan on doing. Enjoy your run at the top, you phony bastard. If your ma-

jority government continues on this way, everyone who would reasonably vote against youwill be voting NDP in neighbouring provinces. Something tells me that’s just fine by you.


Democracy now

The other night, Regina City Council votedto move forward on proposed plans for anew, roofless stadium on the grounds of

Evraz Place. While this obviously caused afuror among many citizens opposed tosuch reckless spending of public money, italso revealed something much more con-cerning than just whether or not Regina

builds a new stadium. Democracy as it ex-ists currently in our city and country isquickly becoming obsolete, and withoutsome action, it might simply disappear in ameaningful form.

It is not an overstatement to say thatevents in the world are happening more

rapidly than ever before. With the internet,communications can be sent around theworld instantaneously. We can have reports

from India or Syria broadcast instantlyaround the world, and the 24-hour newscycle ensures that a huge section of thepopulation can scrutinize every disaster,every political gaffe, or every scandal assoon as they happen. In the corporateworld, companies demand that their work-ers become more efficient, finishing morework in less time or shipping jobs over-seas where labour standards are not nearlyas strict as in Canada.

And amidst this rush, our government

ploughs ahead faster and faster each day.Our city councils refuse to take the time toput hugely expensive projects that willplace a burden on citizens for decades to avote because we need to build a stadiumnow. Our Federal government pushesthrough huge reform bills along with budg-ets because in an uncertain and ever-chang-ing world, they don’t have time to listen todebate on their policies, nor do they havetime to seriously consider any amendmentsthat opposition might want to suggest. If questioned, they respond that there is no

time in today’s uncertain economic and po-litical atmosphere to waste on debate thatcould possibly derail the fragile economy.

But if we are entering an uncertain fu-ture where events will happen rapidly andserious decisions with severe consequencesneed to be made ever more rapidly, thenwhy is our democracy still operating on asystem designed for the realities of theNineteenth Century? Why do we embracea system designed by rich people to en-sure that they maintained power over theirworkers? It is no longer good enough toput our politicians to the test every fouryears because so much happens in fouryears that it’s impossible to hold the gov-ernment to account for everything.

Plus, within those four years, it’s likely

that several big decisions would be madethat the people were never consulted on.Without finding a way to increase demo-cratic feedback between elections, peoplehave less and less power to make changethrough democratic means. Eventually,democracy in Canada will become a mock-ery where we elect a dictator every fouryears. Some would argue we are alreadythere.

There are no easy solutions to this prob-lem, but certain changes to the structure of

our governments would certainly be a stepin the right direction. At a municipal level,ending the excessive formality of councilmeetings, where the neither the gallery noranyone presenting can ask questions of council, would open up the process to con-cerned citizens and get more people in-volved in important decision making. If nothing else, it would make council moreaccountable.

At a Federal level, lessening the powerof the party whip would be a good start sothat Members of Parliament could vote

more often in the interests of the peoplethey represent rather than just obedientlytoeing the party line would hold the gov-ernment directly accountable to the repre-sentatives of the people. Elections byproportional representation would alsoforce politicians to form coalition govern-ments that would more accurately reflectwhat the majority of people really wantfrom their country, rather than which partyhad the proper concentration of votes inkey ridings.

Will our current system ultimately bethe death of democracy? Not likely. But thesystem we have in place now is beginningto look like the demise of meaningfuldemocracy in which the people actuallyget a say in how their money is spent be-

yond elections every three or four years. If the world is moving so much faster and im-portant decisions are being made everyday, then maybe it’s time that democraticinstitutions reflected that new reality.

edward doddop-rd editor

opinion

Funding a new stadium just shows how backwards this province truly is

julia dima

julia dima



op-ed the carillon | Aug. 2 - Sept. 5, 201214

By summer 2013, all single-family house-holds in Regina will be using individualroll out garbage carts. This, of course, is incomparison to those 30,000 households cur-rently sharing large metal bins.Furthermore, multi-family buildings

(apartments and condos) will be converted by 2015. This is the most noticeable changethe City of Regina has made to its servicedeliverance since that meter reader stoppedcoming into my house to read my watermeter. The reason is a combination of thenew economic factors available and thepersonalization of garbage.I will start with the latter as it leads to theprior. By reorganizing waste collection toan individual household style, it allowseach property to become responsible fortheir contribution to the ever burgeoninglandfill in this city. Instead of possessing theability to pass blame onto that “polluting

jerk” you call your neighbour, trash be-comes a part of your house. By seeing howfull you fill a cart that is roughly half the

size of an average fridge, weekly, you be-come fully aware and liable for your ac-tions. Immediately, environmentallyconscious people will begin to take proac-tive measures to reduce their contributionto the problem. Simple options include en-suring to recycle and beginning to com-post.Radical options, for the more serious peo-ple out there include boycotting commer-cial packaging by unwrapping one’s goodsand leaving all the waste in the store to letthe business assume responsibility for theirwastefulness. When this was attempted inGermany in the 1990’s it received mixedreviews, but, nevertheless, made a strongpoint.If solving your pollution problem to protect

your “street cred” just isn’t a good enoughreason to reduce waste production perhapsfinancial incentives could do the trick.Currently, waste collection is factored intoyour municipal property tax. However,what if, similar to the highly anticipated

2013 release of individual curbside recy-cling, garbage was billed as a monthly util-ity? Now this wouldn’t cause much of astir if you had to pay it regardless of yourefforts. I believe that the City should, andwill, introduce varying sizes of roll-outcarts. Unlike Tim Horton’s and 7/11 coffeecups, the smaller size will be the best deal.The current ballpark for biweekly recyclingcollection is $8 to $10 a month, or $4 to $5per pick up. Say that the current, half-re-frigerator sized carts cost $4 to $5 per pick up; an annual cost of $200 to $260 would beincurred. If that cost dropped to, say, $2per pick up for half the size, would youtake the smaller garbage cart? As a univer-sity student, the benefits of an extra hun-dred dollars does not go unnoticed: 100

boxes of Kraft Dinner, 100 dollar drafts, 50steals at a garage sale, 33 Big Macs, 25 BigMac meals (without Upsizing), a one yearsubscription to GQ, The Economist, Cosmo,Time, and Sports Illustrated or that newpair of shoes you have been ogling all year.Whether you are currently that rotten, pol-luting neighbour or you operate a net-zerohouse, the City has provided the groundsfor the most revolutionary change in wastemanagement history: paying for exactlyhow much trash you produce. Well playedCity of Regina, well played.

Work hard for the money

todd blythecontributor

Summer has gone by far too quick.

No, I haven’t been partying, taking longtrips to Hawaii, or doing anything overlyadventurous to take up my time. I’ve beenworking – 3 jobs to be exact, 2 of which are

jobs I picked up for the summer. The crazything is, I wouldn’t trade it for anything. Ihave had a lot of fun forming connections,

building myself as a person, and preparingmyself for life through my work. Every stu-dent should apply for a summer job oncetheir break from school starts. Aside frommy personal standpoint on summer jobs,whether people like to admit it or not, sorryanti-capitalists, but the first and most no-table benefit of summer employment isthose beautiful dollar signs that everybodyloves to see grow in their bank account.We live in a world where almost every-

thing costs something. Someone who sits athome and plays Call of Duty: ModernWarfare all day and night will generallymake less money than someone who works40 hours a week - unless you’re DonaldTrump’s kids, but let’s get back to realityhere. Money is clearly one of the greatest

benefits of a summer job and is most no-tably at the root of almost every summer

job. But there are plenty of other benefits tosummer jobs than just those multicolored

bills in your pocket.When most students finish their post-sec-ondary education, they will begin theirlong-awaited career of full-time employ-ment, thus arguably taking their final stepinto adulthood. A summer job is an excel-lent taste of what real life is like. Summer

employment is a way of preparing yourself

for the real world, and the earlier you par-take in summer employment, the more op-portunity you have to build yourself as aperson, get the most out of your summer

job, and prepare for that big event called‘life’.Whether it’s being friendly, working harderthan expected, or just coming into your jobwith a smile on your face and displayinggreat charisma, getting the most out of asummer job lies solely on a positive atti-tude. This kind of attitude can lead to fur-ther job opportunities, making new friends,and many other positive benefits like per-haps continuing to work with your summeremployer through the fall and winter, thatone can achieve through their 3 to 4 monthwork term.

The rewards of a summer job run deeperthan just money; they can help you developas a person. It takes initiative, motivation,and maybe a kick in the ass to put down theXbox controller, get up, and get a job otherthan trying to achieve the 80th level of pres-tige in Call of Duty.

Garbage accountability

colton hordichukcontributor

No girls allowed

On the heels of the San Diego Comic-Con, the internet has been buzzing about “fake” geek

girls and how these attractive women, usually in skimpy costumes or photographingthemselves posed provocatively with their console controller, are supposedly ruiningthings for the real geeks (read: the boys). Because really, there is no way that an attractivewoman would be interested in anything nerdy like comics, video games, or sci-fi movieseven though those things now dominate a good chunk of popular culture, right?

I mean, come on, ladies belong in the kitchen making sandwiches, not participatingin things that are objectively fun! If you read some of the posts on “Fat, Ugly, or Slutty”,a website devoted to seeing the humour in the abuse and unwanted sexual advanceshurled at mostly female gamers, then you have to believe that there are boys out there whoreally think that a girl, actively engaged in a videogame or part of nerd culture, is not therefor the fun of it; she is there because she clearly wants some dick.

This ‘boys’ club’ attitude that girls can’t be geeks is still a major stumbling block forfeminerds and girls who want to break into geek culture. The idea of ‘geek cred’ that per-meates the culture is an arbitrary distinction on some sort of nerdiness hierarchy system,and it helps no one. Maybe these girls aren’t “fake”, they simply haven’t been involvedin geekery for all that long so they don’t know as much as you. Chances are if they werea man, they wouldn’t get called a fake, just given a light joshing for being a noob beforegenerally being accepted anyway. I’ve seen pictures of guys at cons wearing little more

than body paint and a loincloth and no one that I know of has ever accused them of be-ing fake.

Nerd culture is changing; gaming is now something your grandparents do and thereare graphic novels to suit anyone’s tastes. Everyone is embracing a more diverse and ac-cepting fandom where hopefully one day we can stop talking about gender in geek cul-ture because we will all just be geeks geeking out together. All those little boys desperatelyclutching their ‘no girls allowed’ signs and harassing or degrading any woman they comeacross while hiding behind their gamertag will hopefully be in the very small minority in

just a few years time.With the rise of famous nerd girls like Felicia Day, more and more women are getting

into the geeky game and more men are realizing that this is a really good thing. Don’t younerdy guys want girls who share some of your interests and can hold a conversation aboutwhy the Mass Effect 3 ending was just. So. Bad? Stop judging, stop qualifying, stop mak-ing every conversation a geek cred inquisition, just treat us like human beings so that wecan all get along, pull together and push out the real threat to geekdom – the Twihards.

jessica bickford

contributor feministtruths.blogspot.comGirls just wanna have fun and not be treated like outsiders

Girl geeks are often shut out of nerd culture

Summer jobs provide much more thana paycheque



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While Mayor Pat Fiacco is taking a break from city politics and spending some timeat the Olympics as deputy technical dele-gate at the London Games, let’s take a look at some of the six individuals who are vy-ing for his position, one of which will winthe hearts of the people of Regina comeOctober 24th. Well, maybe that’s a little op-timistic.

Michael Fougere is the favourite candi-date and probably most preferred by theelectorates to succeed Fiacco. He knows hisstuff and obviously has an advantage overhis opponents. However , he’s been criti-cized for not releasing his platform andplans for the city when he becomes mayor.He cannot be blamed. He is currently a citycouncillor. He has Ward 4 to worry about,

a position his opposition Jim Elliott haspublicly asked that he resign from citing aconflict of interest”. Elliott might be righton one hand because Michael Fougere hasan upper hand, as he is at the center of at-tention, and at a better position to put him-self out there. However, one would expectFougere, with a masters degree from theLondon School of Economics, to better dealwith the economic challenges that willarise as a result of the proposed new sta-dium.Another fascinating candidate is MekaOkochi who is taking a stand and askingthe city to release more information to en-sure transparency on the proposed new sta-dium. In his platform, he mentions that hewould create what he calls the “Regina

Transparency Office”. The key question is,are the people of Regina entitled to knowall the business that council undertakes?Sometimes, what people do not knowwon’t hurt them. I'm not one hundred percent against Okochi’s plan, but not every-one agrees on the city plans.Regina psychologist Liz Brass has also ex-pressed her intention to run, and she hasmainly listed her platform around three ba-sic components: sustainability, attainablehousing and complete neighbourhoods.However, Regina needs a mayor whoseideas go beyond the vital infrastructure thathas already being put in place, someonewith more than general ideas to run thiscity. Marian Donnelly, another candidatewho is totally against the idea of the new

stadium, was quoted as saying “My limitedexperience in the world of construction hastaught me that it is always cheaper to ren-ovate and rebuild than it is to build new.”Considering that this city desperately needsa new stadium, and renovating is only ashort-term solution, she is not the best can-didate for mayor.Other candidates running are CharlesWiebe and Jim Elliot. Let’s also not forgetabout Chad Novak who dropped out a cou-ple of weeks ago. What a joke!

Who will build our stadium

In ‘god’ we’ve trusted, and now look at theworld – it’s fucked.

The more time politicians spend pray-ing to, and blaming things upon, ’god’ themore public time and money is wasted.

Every time our government, or any govern-ment, says a prayer we might as well bepaying them to simply stroke their owngenitalia on national television.

It is fine if our political representativeswould like to believe whatever they preferon their own personal time. However, be-cause Saskatchewan and Canada’s popula-tions are growing increasingly morediverse, we should certainly not allow ourgovernmental bodies to be permeated andunderpinned by the monolithic dogma of Christianity.

Whether or not these religious cere-monies are an untouchable part of our her-itage, as some may claim, this sort of sentiment is most prevalent simply as anappeal to tradition, to the status quo, aris-

ing out of a fear of change, and a fear of thetruth. Thinking of our heritage as some-thing untouchable, as if it itself is utterlyrighteous and sacred, is foolish – especiallyif one considers the global history of reli-gious oppression and other injustices per-petrated by not only Christianity, but alsoreligious fanatics of every imaginableflavour. While our heritage is undoubtedlypart of who we are today, and who we will

become, it is imperative to consciously re-flect on the real meaning and value of ourheritage, and what real lessons can belearned therein for application toward thefuture. When we look back and reflect, itshould not be simply to say “yep, that’show we did it then and that’s how we’ll doit now”; rather, we should pay more atten-

tion to the evolving climate of modern be-lief and continually adapt ourselves to newknowledge and experience. It is inherentlycounterproductive to continually reiterateand reify habitual aspects of the past which

we know are not in everyone’s interest.To put our trust in an old, dying, or

dead ‘god’ is to immediately, in cowardiceand with shame, surrender the immensepower of the free human will. It is to searchfor excuses, and to eschew our own veryreal responsibility for the creative evolu-tion of humanity. It is to forego the truly in-finite power we have for evoking changeand progressing towards betterment, andto instead place all faith in some imaginary

being.Wherever we can, we should encourage

the separation of personal religious beliefsfrom the political goings-on of ourprovince, of our nation, and of our publiceducational institutions. Especially consid-ering that all levels of governments are of

course publicly-funded and mandated torepresent the voice and interest of its con-stituency, which is today more increasinglypluralistic and diverse than ever before.

If anything, the presence of religionwithin the political stage only serves tomake politics into more of a silly, expensivegame-show than it already is. Canadashould not garner its beliefs from some oldarchaic texts. Canada should be scientificand modern in her present understanding,and continue to adjust its ever-changingheritage into the future.

In us we trust

Study smarter

We live in imperfect world were things of-ten don’t go as planned. Projects miss theirdeadlines, people don’t achieve what theywant to achieve, we fail exams, the list goeson. For some students, it seems like it’sonly a dream to be successful.But success doesn’t come to you, you go toit. And to be successful you must learn tocultivate the habit of learning when othersare sleeping, playing, laying about, or

wishing their lives were better.

There are several ways to get the mostout of your university experience. For ex-ample, the dean of the Stanford UniversitySchool of Education, Dr. Deborah Stipek,states “Researchers have shown decisivelythat when children study because they en-

joy it, their learning will get richer and be-come long lasting. They are also morepersistent, more creative and more eager todo challenging work.” Finding a way to

make your classes fun can go a long way.

Another way to maximize your enjoymentis to relate what you are learning toyour own life. Author and educatorRichard L Wearer writes that “when thereis a direct connection between classroomlearning and practical experience, there isan electrical spark that turns on the light

bulb of understanding.”In order to do well in class, students mustalso concentrate. While we live in a society

where concentrating for more than a few

minutes on any one thing seems impossible, individuals can learn to concentrate.

Once mastered, concentrating for long pe-riods of time will improve any student’sgrades noticeably.And finally, it is crucial to be aware of howyou are interacting with the informationyou are receiving. It’s impossible to takenotes verbatim, so it becomes critical thatyou are good at paraphrasing what yourprofessors tell you. This will make the in-formation you are learning easier to graspand to recall later. It is also important to as-sociate new information with informationyou already knew before the lecture, thuscreating a narrative through which to un-derstand the new information. While doingall this, visualizing what you are thinkingcan create memory aids when it comes timelater for exams. But most importantly you

need to review what you have learned.Within 24 hours, we can forget up to 80

per cent of what we studied. By doing aquick review session a day or a week later,we vastly improve our information recall,even raising it to near 100 per cent.

Following these steps might seem likecommon sense, but to many they are diffi-cult to master. Once students start follow-ing these simple suggestions, their gradescan be vastly improved and their schoolexperience can be greatly enhanced.

bethel vopnu

contributor

julia dima

dustin christiansoncontributor

osiyale damilolacontributor

We need a mayor with vision andlong-term planning

Placing faith in an all-powerful beingignores our own power to makechange

How you study is more important than how much you study



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