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YOU HAVE BEEN

SPOTTED

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Three positions still vacant after by-election Though some positions still re-mained vacant, the UNB Student Union by-election was a success, says UNBSU president Ben Whitney.

Last year’s by-election turnout was high due to the bus pass ref-erendum question. On average, a UNBSU by-election gets around 400 votes. This year’s by-election brought out 553 votes.

“All things considered I thought it went pretty well. We got a good number of positions and the voter turnout I would have liked to be higher,” Whiney said. “But his-torically speaking it was about the average we would normally get in a by-election.”

Positions filled were Renaissance College, LBGTQ, accessibil ity, international and residence repre-sentatives. The student at large, SUB and Brunswickan board positions were also filled.

The nursing, science and educa-tion representative positions remain vacant because no one ran from the respective faculties. They will remain vacant until the UNBSU election next year.

Whitney said the UNBSU did their best to promote the election to fill all positions, including talking with specific facilities, however no

one pulled through.“We did have some interest in

the position,” Whitney said. “We have people coming in to talk to us and the biggest with the people who were initially interested, was just around the time. They were too busy, they didn’t feel they had the time to dedicate to that.”

The new councillors will join the council table on Nov. 3 and Whitney is looking forward to it.

“I’m just really excited to get to work with the new councillors right away,” he said.

Cherise LetsonNews Editor

553 Ballots Cast

9,279Total Registered

Voters

Renaissance College Representative: Emilie ChiassonStudent at Large: Bobby ColeSUB Board Representatives: Liam Guitard and Gordon MihanAccessibility Representative: Jeremy MurrayLBGTQ Representative: Lee ThomasResidence Student Representative: Arielle Rechnitzer International Student Representative: Ajayi OluwaronkeBrunswickan Undergraduate Representative: Bobby ColeBrunswickan Graduate Representative: Maria DavisNursing Representative: VacantScience Representative: VacantEducation Representative: Vacant

STUDENTS UNHAPPY WITH GLUTEN-FREE OPTIONS

Emma McPheeNews Reporter

Meal hall can be a dangerous place and that’s not referring to the raisins lurking in the apple pie.

For students with celiac disease, an allergy that makes people intolerant to gluten, eating anything that isn’t gluten-free can cause illness.

In the UNB/Sodexo Agreement, it is outlined that Sodexo must provide any required special diets to its patrons. Sodexo has written up a gluten-free program that includes specific food items that they must have for each meal.

According to gluten-intolerant students, Sodexo is falling short of the mark.

“Some days they forget to deliver the gluten-free food. At the [start] of the year, the first two weeks or so it was pretty good but then they started to forget to deliver it and then some of it would be left in there for like five days at a time. It would even get blue mold and stuff on it,” said Brooke Day, a student with gluten intolerance.

When there is gluten-free food, it’s not varied.

“It’s kind of like there’s not really

many options,” Day said.Day said she has eaten at both Mc-

Connell Hall and DKT and has had the same experience in each.

For students who fork over $3,900 for their meal plans, some students with celiac disease say they aren’t getting their money’s worth.

“I have the 200 meal plan and so far I’ve only eaten about 25 meals and that’s not even one a day,” Day said.

“I usually just eat in my room or go out and I have to spend more money on it when I’m already paying for [meals].”

Day said she isn’t the only student facing these problems.

“I have two other friends [with celiac disease] and one time one found blue mold in the container,” she said.

Stacie Cougle, the senior residence manager at McConnell Hall, said that she is conscious of the issue and is work-ing to fix it.

“I have been working for a week and a half trying to get the gluten-free issues under control. [The food items] are now dated which is a help to both the staff and students. The manage-ment team is watching and making sure they are changed, or so I’ve been told,” she said.

However, the general manager of Sodexo at UNB, Tim Thorton, said he is not aware of any problems with the gluten-free program.

“We have not received any negative feedback on the gluten-free program that is offered in residence dining ser-vices. The product is made daily in a central location by one of our chefs and

Some students with celiac disease are finding it hard to find quality gluten-free food in meal hall. Adam Travis / The Brunswickan

then distributed to each of the dining halls,” he said.

“We have not experienced any pro-duction issues and we have adjusted our production for this program to ensure that we do not have any shortfalls for customers with gluten-free allergies.”

Day said that the problem isn’t solely caused by Sodexo.

“People use the regular bread in the gluten-free toasters so if a student with gluten intolerance put their bread in there, they’d be sick for like three days,” she said.

“Even the [gluten free] microwaves – some people use them, and even if it’s just a crumb, that could make you very sick.”

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Connor JayThe Brunswickan

Got nothing to do Halloween night? Like watching things explode on im-pact? Enjoy cult-like ceremonies? Fancy yourself a fan of organized pumpkin destruction? Then the Great Pumpkin Sacrifice is the event for you.

The Great Pumpkin Sacrifice is back once again for its 41st year. What started with a Harrison House resident throwing a small pumpkin out of a win-dow many moons ago has become the longest-standing university tradition in all of Canada.

Nicole Deyarmond and Allan Mac-Lean are the loyal guardians for the Great Pumpkin Sacrifice this year and are in charge of directing the entire ceremony. They’ve have been involved with the ceremony in some capacity for the past two years, so they’re experi-enced pumpkin sacrificers, ensuring that this will be a spectacle for the ages.

What in the world is the Great Pumpkin Sacrifice? This long-standing tradition put on by Harrison House features a large pumpkin being dropped from the roof of Harrison House. This year’s pumpkin will weigh in at around 450 pounds after carving, so you know it’s going to be an event not to miss.

Deyarmond said like many trad-itions, the ceremony has evolved and changed over the years.

“All traditions go through small

changes, but as long as well-established customs are maintained, the tradition can maintain its significance,” she said.

The tradition represents the aca-demic harvest for the school year. The ceremony aims to unify the residence, give thanks for the opportunities that are to be had at UNB and to hope for academic success for everyone in Har-rison House as well as across campus.

The event is taken very seriously, with actors dressed according to tradition. The pumpkin is even carved in a specific way. The pumpkin features the face of the Roman god Janus. This Roman god was two-faced, with a happy face, and a sad face. This represents that some students are happy with the “crop reaped from the harvest,” while others are not.

Why should you go to the Great Pumpkin Sacrifice? Well, if seeing a 450 lb pumpkin obliterated doesn’t get your juices flowing, it’s also a fantastic way to support Harrison House and be involved with the residence community. Deyarmond said she is thankful for the support the event has.

“Our residence community is very closely-knit and the continued sup-port from other houses is very much appreciated.”

You must be a Harrison House resi-dent or alumni to be involved in the ceremony, but all are invited to watch.

The pumpkin will drop at 10 p.m. Oct. 31.

Harrison House getting ready to murder pumpkin

The Great Pumpkin Sacrafice is the longest-standing university tradition in Canada. Sandy Chase / The Brunswickan

RLCCS FIXES TIM HORTONS UCARD PROBLEM

Students have been dishing out more money to get their coffee fix, but now they can take it out of their meal cards.

As of Friday afternoon the new full-service Tim Hortons in the SUB, which opened a month ago, wasn’t accepting UNB student UCards as a method of payment.

But as of Monday morning, they were up and running.

“It was always the plan for the new SUB Tim Hortons to accept funds from the UCard as payment,” said James Brown, former executive director of Residential Life, Campus and Conference Services (RLCCS).

“We’ve just run into some unfore-seen complications between the card readers and cash registers, and it’s taking some time to resolve.”

The compatibility issue wasn’t discovered until the retail outlet opened on Sept. 17 and Brown said he has been working with all parties to resolve the issue.

“The readers and registers which were ordered from the transaction provider at the time of Tims con-struction were intended to take the UCard, and the incompatibility was discovered only at the point that Tims actually opened,” he said.

“The transaction provider [was] working with the UCard Off ice, Tims and Sodexo to create a long- term solution, and in the interim,

we are installing readers which will accept the UCard.”

In past years, the Tim Hortons outlet at the SUB has accepted stu-dent cards.

The SUB Tim Hortons is a popu-lar spot for students and its inability to accept UCards caused inconven-ience to many.

“It was just more convenient when they had the UCard because it’s my ID. I have it with me all the time,” said student Jessica Doucette. “You’re so used to using it.”

All students in the residence sys-tem pay for a $3,900 meal plan with the option of having either $100 or $300 dollars in dining cash to spend at the various retail outlets around the UNB campus. Not being able to use this cash at the SUB Tim Hortons means some students were spending money for something they had already paid for.

“Instead of just using money that’s on your UCard you’re using the extra cash that you have on you. I go to Tim Hortons more than I go to any other place in the SUB so [I’ve] probably used more than half of what I have on my UCard,” Doucette said.

“[Students] are already pouring cash out of their pockets instead of the things they could be using out of their UCards.”

Brown said that it was in Sodexo’s best interests to fix the problem as quickly as possible

“Sodexo [is] delighted to be tak-

ing the UCard at Tims as an addi-tional form of payment; providing students with the convenience of using it will increase their revenues

there,” he said.Ultimately, the issue was the re-

sponsibility of the executive director of RLCCS and not Sodexo.

“I’m very sorry that students [were] being inconvenienced in this way,” Brown said.

Emma McPheeNews Reporter

The new full-service Tims opened in the SUB a month ago and only began accepting UCards Monday. Karsten Saunders / The Brunswickan

October 23, 2013 • Issue 08 • Volume 147 • 5BRUNSWICKANNEWS12 Hours for the Homeless happening this weekend

Some Frederictonians will become homeless this weekend – but only for 12 hours and a cause.

The Chrysalis House in Fred-ericton is holding their annual “12 Hours for the Homeless” event this Saturday, where teams set up card-board shelters and spend the night in Officer’s Square from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m.

Julie Daigle, executive director of Chrysalis House, is excited for the event and hopes students will be too.

“It’s nice to see students giving back to the community and volun-teering,” Daigle said.

Homelessness is a serious concern throughout the province of New Brunswick and in the city of Fred-ericton, even for youth.

“Youth are often the underdog, as they are looked upon as not as

vulnerable as a child,” Daigle said.Chrysalis House, located in Fred-

ericton, receives approximately 30-40 referrals per year. They will assist anywhere from 20-25 youth every year, a number that has been steady throughout the years.

Daigle said it’s hard to understand the scope of youth homelessness.

“Homelessness in youth is more prevalent to even capture,” she said.

Dealing with so many homeless youth every year will add up to a costly bill for the Chrysalis House. 12 Hours for the Homeless is one way that the Chrysalis House will fundraise money to go towards their cause.

“Our goal is usually $50,000 but annually we usually fundraise between $20,000 to $30,000 dur-ing 12 Hours for the Homeless,” Daigle said.

12 Hours for the Homeless is

packed full of different events to not only show the effects of homelessness but also to have a good time.

Bobby Gaudet, a social work stu-dent at St. Thomas University who plans to attend the event, said it’s a great cause for the city.

“It’s a really important program,” said Gaudet. “It allows people to see that there is an issue of homeless-ness.”

He said for some it’s hard to fathom that in a city like Fredericton

there are people without homes.“Sometimes we tend to external-

ize the issue and act as if it is not happening in our town or country,” said Gaudet.

The lack of knowledge of home-lessness in the city is just one reason for someone to attend 12 Hours for the Homeless. Daigle said student participation has always been strong in the past and the organizers hope for the same result this year.

“It’s nice to see students get in-

volved in their community and be exposed to the reality of homeless-ness,” Daigle said.

12 Hours for the Homeless takes place Saturday in Officer’s Square from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. To sign up a team, call 451-4767, or email [email protected]. Those who don’t wish to participate are encour-aged to stop by the event.

Brandon RameyThe Brunswickan

This week in council: Oct. 20

Teams will be setting up cardboard shelters in Officers Square this weekend to raise money for Chrysalis House. Hansika Gunaratne / The Brunswickan

Internal committee further exploring academic anonymity

The UNBSU internal committee said they will be surveying students about their experiences with bias, both positive and negative, to see if academic anonymity on midterms and exams should be implemented. If it’s found that 15 or more per cent of students have experienced bias during their years at UNB, they will actively pursue academic anonymity.

Stress Buster Week in the works

UNBSU vice-president internal Jenn Connolly will be organizing Stress Buster Week taking place from Dec. 9 to Dec. 13. Connolly said there are plans to have a dog room, piñata smash, free yoga and arts and crafts. Other suggestions include Student Union flash mob, a nap room, decorating cupcakes and cookies, Cellar trivia and kin-dergarten day.

UNBSU starting Language Portal

The UNBSU is once again creating a Language Portal program where students who wish to learn a different language can meet up with another student who speaks it.

“We’re in the early stages of organ-izing it and we’re looking for volun-teers,” said UNBSU vice-president internal Jenn Connolly.

Students sign up if they’re interested in volunteering to help another person speak a language. They can also list the languages they’d like to learn.

The service was created two years ago, but fell to the wayside last year. Connolly said she’s excited for the ser-vice and has already has 10 students signed up.

The UNBSU is creating a committee to address student concerns about mental health on campus.

The motion to form the commit-tee came out of the discussion about campus mental health services during council Sunday night. The discussion was started by UNBSU vice-president internal Jenn Connolly.

“Mental health is a big issue that us as a union we are pursuing this year because it impacts pretty much every portion of your life,” Connolly said. “It affects your academics, it affects social, so we’re looking to see how you guys feel about how the university is handling student mental health and ways we should go about approaching it.”

Connolly cited statistics from a recently released caucus report which interviewed students from 44 univer-sities, including UNB.

According to the report 20.4 per cent of the respondents said that

anxiety affected their grades and 17.3 per cent said depression affected their grades. 38.6 per cent attributed sleep difficulty to a decrease in grades and 38.6 per cent cited stress.

“Obviously those are very high numbers, and I think it’s really im-portant try to do everything that we can break that stigma of mental health and to promote better living and just helping other students out,” Connolly said.

Council discussed issues that they and other students had with coun-selling service on campus, including wait lists.

“Through experience as a proctor I definitely had students in residence who were on waiting lists for months and months and really needed to get in,” said student at large Andrew Steeves. “It was really frustrating from my point of view just to see all that. From a proctor’s point of view you’re there to help them but you’re not a counsellor and it definitely adds to your stress.”

The quality of counselling received

on campus was also brought up.“I thought that the counselling

here was lacking, at best,” said one councillor. “I was dealing with some stressful situations and they said ‘Oh, you should learn how to breathe’ and I was like ‘O.K., I need something beyond that. I saw two different ones and they were both garbage.”

The councillor went on to say he felt like counsellor was not really listening to his concerns.

“It was kind of like they were com-ing out of a textbook and telling you what you should do and not actually listening to you. Which I thought really wasted my time.”

The motion to create a committee was brought forward by UNBSU president Ben Whitney. The commit-tee will consist of Whitney, Connolly, three general councillors and two ordinary students. The committee will report back to council in two meetings.

Cherise LetsonNews Editor

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STAYING ANONYMOUS

Forget clubs, societies and sports teams: a new Facebook group at UNB has suddenly hooked students into a fun yet arguably addictive – in a good way – sense of community on campus.

The group is called “Spotted at UNB,” and it’s arguably the hot-

test topic among student social media users this semester.

The group is a forum – for lack of a better term – where students can relay anonymous messages through the group’s administrators, who then post the mes-sage on the group and on Twitter for others to see, “like” and comment on.

Messages range from compliments from secret admirers

to criticisms, and from public announcements to

simple shout-outs.But it’s the anonymity of

the group that has made it so intriguing, not only from those

who post on it and those who get “spotted,” but from the group’s administrators who also remain anonymous.

In an exclusive interview with The Brunswickan, the administrators – there are multiple people managing the group – explained that it started as a new “start-up venture” for a group of business enthusiasts.

“During a brief period when one of the admins was attending a differ-ent Canadian university, he noticed a trend that was catching on called Spotted. The concept was still very early at that point in time,” the group said over Facebook’s private messaging system. “He then trans-ferred to UNB. The idea stuck in his head and during one or our meet-ings when we were brainstorming he brought it up and we pursued it. We are very interested in business and are always looking for new op-portunities and love to start up new ventures. It’s a collective passion of ours.”

They launched the group on April 9th, 2013 and three days later they posted a picture from inside the cafe-teria of the Student Union Building wishing everybody good luck on their final exams.

They went on to post 11 more up-dates before going silent for summer vacation, only to resurface on Sept. 13 with a post saying: “To the girl I overheard that suggested skipping stats class to go to buckets . . . you’re doing Friday right.”

The post got 58 “likes” and from there, the group’s popularity skyrocketed. They gained 39 new “likes” on the page in the first week after the post, 187 over the next two weeks and more than 2,000 since the start of October.

The rapid growth in popularity was something they weren’t ex-pecting.

“We had high hopes and expecta-tions for the page and we definitely expected it to grow. However, we

didn’t realize how quickly it would take off at such a rapid pace,” the Spotted at UNB administrators said. “The main thing we have learned is that you have to be very proactive with social media and also have to be prepared for anything and everything that may arise. Also we didn’t know when exactly it would ‘take off,’ we only had a rough idea.”

According to the page’s Facebook analytics, “Spotted” users created 2,597 stories about the page during the week of Oct. 6 – “stories” are created whenever somebody likes, comments, shares, or mentions the page, among other actions.

But along with the group’s popu-larity, it has also generated some criticism and concern. While many posts commend good deeds and accomplishments, along with a few funny chirps and random posts, other users have used the group to check out coeds on campus by referencing their looks and physique.

The group’s popularity has also attracted the attention of UNB of-ficials who have been monitoring the group for inappropriate posts.

Director of Student Affairs & Services, Rice Fuller, issued this statement on behalf of the university:

“We are aware of the page and we have some concerns about it. A few insensitive and inappropriate posts have been brought to our attention; therefore we do our best to keep an eye on what’s being posted. These are open spaces and people are free to express themselves,” the state-ment read.

Fuller said the university encour-

Nick MurrayEditor-in-Chief

Spotted at UNB creators say group is

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STAYING ANONYMOUS ages those who feel their safety or well being has been effected by a post on the page, to bring their concerns to them. He said if the university sees a post that is threatening or harass-ing, they would intervene.

“Everyone should remember that what they post today can haunt them tomorrow. I encourage everyone, not just students, to think prior to posting,” he added.

“Having said all this I wouldn’t want to leave the impression that we think that all (or even most) of the postings are bad or negative. Some postings are downright hilarious and others are very positive and heartfelt and promote the sense of community that we want to have here at UNB.”

The Spotted at UNB administra-tors were made aware of the state-ment through the interview with The Brunswickan, and assured users that they have their best interests in mind.

“We are constantly learning how to improve our standards everyday in hope to create a page that shares the same sense of community that UNB embraces. We are also will-ing to work with student affairs to further ensure we are not offending any students,” they said. “If a post offends a student, we will remove it immediately and will take measure to ensure to offence doesn’t hap-pen again. We also encourage that students review the community standards and the ‘about’ section of our page before posting.”

The group even posted a notice, which they pinned to the top of the page, reminding students of the

Facebook Community Standards and of the expectations of the page.

“All messages that we have re-ceived from students that were in conf lict with our standards were asked to reconsider their post, al-though with the recent overf low of messages, a few may have been missed unintentionally,” the admin-istrators said. “We are always trying to be consistent.”

They’ve only had to hold back a few posts from making it on the page, but their entire purpose of making the group wasn’t for anyone to be offended or objectified.

“We are not trying to create a page where people are being objectified; unfortunately, it is a symptom of the concept. Our members range in the ways they communicate. Most students have good intentions with their posts,” they said. “However, their communication style may still be offensive to some. Not accepting a message based on their style of communication would be offensive to that student. This is a challenge we face when trying to cater to all students. We do our best to read between the lines.”

Emily Carpenter is a fourth year business student who believes she was “spotted” through the group’s Twitter page. The tweet, sent from an anonymous user of course, said: “To the chick carrying the white box in the tight black jeans; I love your ass.”

Carpenter said she’s 97 per cent sure the post was about her because it matches her description and what she was doing on the day it was

posted. But despite the reference to her behind, which some may find offensive, Carpenter said she was flat-tered and didn’t see it as a derogatory comment.

“I guess it was nice to see that someone noticed, or like, someone paid attention. I don’t know. You’re also like ‘Who is it?’ and you want to know who was creeping on you,” Carpenter said. “It’s def initely a compliment but it’s not like a bad feeling. It’s a confidence boost.”

Carpenter said part of the intrigue is not knowing who took the time to write about her. While it would be nice to know, knowing would ruin the “secret admirer” aspect of the group. She said if she found out who it was, and it was somebody she didn’t know, she would be curious about them and look them up.

“[The group] is kind of creepy [in a good way]. It’s kind of weird to know people are watching people. You know it’s happening but now they’re documenting it,” she said. “It’s not creepy in like disturbing creepy, it’s just like Facebook and Twitter [creeping] where everyone is watching everyone and commenting on what they’re doing and everyone gets to see it.”

With all the anonymous crushes now documented in an inbox some-where, it’s safe to say the administra-tors have a ton of dirt on people’s lives. But they say there’s no risk in posting to the group, and people shouldn’t be worried that their posts will see the public light.

“We have ZERO intentions of compromising a student’s privacy

because we have their best intentions in mind,” the ad-ministrators said. “It is always our priority to ensure that students’ iden-tities are safe when they contribute to our page.”

W hi le U NB’s spot ted page launched last April, it’s still one of the newest in Canada.

After a simple Facebook search, The Brunswickan found more than 30 “Spotted at” pages at various universities across Canada – includ-ing one for St. Thomas University that was launched earlier this month.

Acadia, St. Francis Xavier, Dal-housie and the University of Prince Edward Island are among those also in the Maritimes, with the most popular of the 30 pages com-ing from the University of Ottawa which has more than 13,000 “likes” on the page – as of Oct. 20, UNB’s had 2,708.

But after looking into these pages, nine of them showed interesting similarities.

Pages linked to Brock, Dalhousie, Guelph, Ryerson, Simon Fraser, Trent, Windsor and the Universi-ties of Toronto and Victoria were all launched on the exact same day – March 24, 2013.

Along with the date launch, all pages also had similar posts – one was a meme relating to exams which was also posted on the exact same day, Oct. 18, 2013 on each of the nine pages except for Windsor’s. The descriptions in each of the nine pages are also identical.

A request has been placed to Face-book to verify if the nine pages were

launched, and a re being

maintained, by the same user.UNB’s page did not match any

of the similarities shown in the nine groups aside from the first line of the description, and as the admin-istrators said earlier, the idea came from one of them who transferred to UNB.

“The group description is shared among all the Spotted pages,” the Spotted at UNB administrators said. “We have no affiliation with the other pages.”

But like every student at UNB, the administrators too will have to someday graduate like the rest of us. The fate of the page after the admins graduate remains to be seen, but they’re having a lot of fun creating something everybody can enjoy.

“The future of Spotted depends on its success and demand for the page. However, students can be as-sured that we want the best for them and we will remove all content when the time comes,” they said.

“It’s more work than fun but it’s rewarding. Staying anonymous is just an essential aspect to the Spotted concept, however that’s not why we enjoy it. Our fulfilment comes from seeing others enjoy it, as well as ex-periencing the growth of something we created, similar to a parent raising their child.”

For the full Q&A with the Spotted at UNB administrators, visit Thebruns.ca

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An open letter to the “40 Days for Life” protestors

Hello,My name is Richard.

First off, thank you for not doing this during tourist season. It’s hard enough getting people to visit me out here.

Second off, thank you again – this time for making my job so much easier. In all honesty, thinking of things to write about each week is proving a bit more difficult than I had originally thought. One can only make so many jokes about how each night University President Eddy Campbell may or may not strip down and roll around in his mountain of cash while listening to the Atlas Shrugged book-on-tape. But last week when I saw all of your toothless grins (toothless because most of you were born during the Spanish Inquisition) I knew exactly what I was going to write about, as I watched all of you doing . . . well. . . not a hell of a lot.

Because in reality, I’m fairly cer-tain my eel-inspired dance moves do more to reduce unwanted pregnan-cies than all of you standing there like an exhibit in an wax museum. If you ever become actually interested in reducing the rate of unwanted pregnancies in this province and city, instead of just rubbing yourselves up against vague religious principles like sheep in heat, there are plenty of options to choose from.

Instead of standing on the side-walk for forty days, looking like the lost escapees of a seniors home, you could instead stand guard along the various Rapist’s Paradise trails that lead to and from the university, that both the city and the univer-sity have no interest in improving. I know you people aren’t one for

“facts” or “statistical proof,” but did you know that Fredericton has the third-highest sexual assault rate in the country?

Or if nighttime hours aren’t your thing, you could spend forty days volunteering at libraries across the province in order to help improve our deplorable literacy rate, because a well-educated population has a significantly lower rate of unwanted pregnancies than a poorly educated one. You could volunteer at Fred-ericton’s sexual assault hotline. You could even, God forbid, hand out condoms at the various clubs downtown that reek of bathroom stall impregnation.

When you actually begin to think about it, the list of the other things that you could be doing to actively decrease the amount of New Bruns-wick’s unwanted pregnancies is nearly infinite. That’s because your form of “activism” does absolutely nothing. In fact, as far as deterring unwanted pregnancies goes, I’m pretty sure that standing on a street corner holding up cartoon pictures of a fetus only ranks above tying your shoelaces and taking a poop.

Though perhaps the best rebuttal to you is simply consulting your own argument. This morning, when I walked past the section of sidewalk you’ve commandeered like a street gang, I saw one of you holding a sign that declared, “Choose Life!” At first I thought a socially con-scious and intellectually apt mind had finally infiltrated your ranks. Upon talking with the gentleman, however, I was sadly disappointed. Choosing life IS pro-choice! Even half of the words in your sign are against you. Pro-choice is not the equivalent of anti-child, though the longer I talked with the gentle-man, the more I was leaning in that

direction.Do you realize that you are harm-

ful to your own argument because you make the people who think abortions should not be utilized as much as they are in this country (people with whom I identify) look like the sandwich-board fanatics that you are? You are traitorous to your own cause, confusing a moral dilemma with a legal issue.

The one thing I remember my high school debate coach teaching me (before he kicked me off the team for swearing too often) was that an issue is “something that there are at least two valid points with which there is some form of opposition to

each other; it isn’t necessary for you to agree with either point but it is necessary to see the validity of each point.” Whether or not we should invade Syria – that’s an issue. How to reduce deforestation while still ensuring loggers can feed themselves and their families – another issue. Whether dogs are better than cats – even that’s an issue! Abortion is not an issue. It is not an issue because there is no longer a valid legal side opposing it. There is the side based in rational understanding of civil rights and scientific fact, and then there’s the side who can’t tell the difference between the church and the legislature. A woman’s right to

choose is as much of an issue as a woman’s right to vote.

If you are interested in coming down from your ideological ivory tower any time soon, the city would thank you for it. Because you, the protestors outside the Morgentaler clinic, are to free speech what al-chemy is to science: an embarrassing footnote of the stupid shit we used to believe five hundred years ago.

Thanks again and feel free to write me back.

Sincerely,Richard [email protected]

Richard KemickOpinions Columnist

The Morgentaler Clinic in Fredericton is often the sight of pro-life protests. Karsten Saunders / The Brunswickan

October 23, 2013 • Issue 08 • Volume 147 • 9BRUNSWICKANOPINIONRexton protests bring environmental and social risks to light

If you haven’t heard of shale gas at this point, you probably have at least heard its name in the media recently following the events in Rexton. What took place this past week has stirred up a variety of questions not only about shale gas but larger societal issues as well. Such topics range from shale gas itself, civil disobedience, the role of the police, the role of government, aboriginal treaty rights and land claims, just to name a few.

For me, this story further illus-trates what the roles of the police and government are in maintaining the fundamental nature of society: the generation of profits. Although some argue that governments are for the people by the people, this province has seen time and time again how consecutive governments have sold this province out from underneath us in the “hope” of job creation and the generation of wealth.

Well, the jobs have been short-

lived and the wealth has long since left the province. This province has never really seen the benefits of the past get-rich-quick schemes. People only have to walk by the huge and mostly vacant buildings that once housed the call centres that dotted New Brunswick. “Wealth creation” does not mean wealth creation for the people of this province.

Knowing this history, it comes as no surprise that citizens, left with little other recourse, turned to extra-judicial action in an attempt to bring about change, or rather, stop it. They are aware that shale gas is a bell that cannot be un-rung. And instead of making them out to be “haters of development” or “welfare bums” or “privileged Indians,” we should instead understand that their fight is our fight and goes beyond shale gas.

The people who are struggling in Rexton are struggling, yes for themselves, but for everyone else as well. Sure there will be jobs cre-ated by shale gas exploration, but the environmental and social risks associated shale gas will most likely

not outweigh the associated short-term gain.

There has been much research done by neutral part ies (Chief Medical Officer of New Brunswick and professors at UNB) that cast light on, or even illustrate how little we know about, the environmental and societal impact of shale gas. But instead of heeding the warnings of such reports, the government has said “we will take this into con-sideration” while thinking up the regulations needed to “protect” the environment while maintaining profitability for the gas companies. This process neglects the fact that the possible harm caused by shale gas exploration cannot be undone.

A moratorium would be the right course of action. But there are hurdles to this, as Quebec is find-ing out now. Quebec has placed a moratorium on shale gas exploration and extraction while research into its environmental and societal impact is taking place. All companies had to cease their operations. One com-pany, Lone Pine Resources Inc., is

suing the Quebec Government for damages of $250 million through the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). This could and most likely would be the case in New Brunswick.

The laws in this province and in this country and international agree-ments such as NAFTA protect pri-vate property and the generation of wealth from said property. Because the moratorium halted exploration, the company and its investors have lost significant amounts of money. NAFTA gives companies the abil-ity to seek recourse for lost profits even if a sovereign government is protecting the environment and its population. Any government that forgets its role has to pay the price.

Aboriginal people and non-ab-originals in Rexton threatened the very foundation of society and that is why they had to be shut down. The government and the police must protect and enforce those laws.

Again, far too often we have con-fused the role of the government and the police from what their es-

sential role is: the maintenance of private property and profitability. It has been argued by most politicians that a compromise needs to be made between public good and corporate profits. Sadly, most compromises leave both parties unhappy, and one of those parties is much more influ-ential than the other.

With all the mounting inadequacy of the traditional political system, we wonder why some people have turned to ourselves for answers and not the paternalistic voices of politicians. The political system has tied its own hands on this issue. It is time we worked together in solidar-ity with First Nations to bring about progressive change in this province. I am certain that we can find much more creative solutions, to use a jazzing business term, that does not compromise our integrity, our environment or ourselves without bowing to the will of corporations.

Cody JackThe Brunswickan

Protesters in Rexton clashed with RCMP officers who were serving a court injunction. Submitted / Creative Commons

“Zooey Deschanel.”

Shawn G. Rivoire Zach Fitch Butch Mallory“Aishwarya Rai.”“Joseph Gordon-Levitt.“

Niki Brown

“Mila Kunis.” “Jake Johnson.”

Rory Keys Taylor Johnston Chris Barclay

“Selena Gomez.” “Max Greenfield.”

Courtney Williams

“Miley Cyrus.”

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mind this week?

Who is a celebrity in your guilt-free three?

Brianna Morehouse“Robert Downey Jr.”

Katie Bull“Andrew Garfield.”

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October 23, 2013 • Issue 08 • Volume 147 • 11

48 Hour Film Competition “Having fun and making films”

Seb Salazar always wanted to make a movie.

But despite taking some f ilm courses at New York’s Bard College in the late 1990s, life had other plans for the Peru native, who eventually wound up working as a city planner for the City of Fredericton.

Last weekend, however, when Salazar was finally presented with the opportunity to realize his life-long dream – or at least a seven-minute version of it – he didn’t hesitate.

“I’ve always wanted to do the 48 Hour Film Competition but for one reason or another I always had commitments or I was never here. So I finally said, ‘this is the year,’ ” said Salazar.

“It’s on my bucket list.”Salazar was just one of the many

Fredericton film lovers who came out in droves last Friday for the launch

of the sixth annual 48 Hour Film Competition, an event co-producer Robert Gray said has only grown exponentially since its Fredericton debut.

“I started here about five years ago and I had done a similar kind of competition in Vancouver. In that [competition], the entry fee was like 250 bucks, and it was crews of people off TV shows, which is great in a place like Vancouver – but here the point is just people having fun and making films,” said the University of New Brunswick associate professor, adding that Fredericton’s entry fee is just $35.

“We started with nine teams the first year and now we’re up to 21 the last two years, which is quite aston-ishing. We’re not a very big city, but when we decide to do something, we do it.”

Gray said participants range from students to local professionals.

“I just think that in Fredericton, [people] get excited to try new

things and do things together. I think that there are a lot of people here that considered, or thought of, or wanted to make films but just hadn’t made the leap,” he said.

“It’s basically like having a week-long slumber party with your friends and making a film and yelling at them a bit. Yeah, we’re all incredibly busy and we don’t really have time for these things, but it’s a weekend you’ll remember for the rest of the year.”

The concept of the ever-expand-ing event, organized by Film Studies UNB and the New Brunswick Film Co-op, is simple: teams write, shoot and edit a film of seven minutes [or less] in 48 hours. This year’s event began on Friday at 5 p.m., when teams picked up their “inspiration packages” containing one photo-graph, one location and one object.

The contents of the packages, which are assembled by each team prior to the event and then entered into a random draw, must somehow

be incorporated into each team’s final product.

In its first five years, the 48 Hour Film Competition has prompted the creation of 69 short films from a wide range of genres, including com-edy, thriller and even a few musicals. Several of the films have even gone on to be featured in North American film festivals.

Benjamin Dugdale and his team-mates opted for something a little out of the ordinary last year. They created a black and white silent German horror film, and ended up snagging third place. This year, they hope to wow judges once again.

“I’m worried because last year I just didn’t even sleep, but I feel good too because [this year] we have a little bit more of an idea of what we’re doing. I also met people last year that I’m excited about compet-ing with again,” said the University of New Brunswick undergrad, add-ing that his team would like their product to be somewhat surreal once

again, depending on the contents of their inspiration package.

Jessica Allison, a local esthetician, was feeling similarly excited – and concerned about her sleep schedule – at Friday evening’s launch.

“I do makeup and special effects for my team, so I’m here to make everybody look good or bad de-pending on what the theme is,” said Allison, whose team is competing for the third time this year.

“We have a lot of fun. We’re really tired usually by the end of it, but it’s a really great learning experience, and it’s amazing to see everything that goes into it in 48 hours.”

All submissions for this year’s event were judged Tuesday and will be screened on Thursday, Oct. 24 at 6:30 p.m. in Tilley Hall room 102. Awards will also be announced at that time.

Tess AllenArts Reporter

UNB students were among the many competitors in this year’s 48 Hour Film Competition. Twitter / @Wroughterly and @b_thoro

12 • October 23, 2013 • Issue 08 • Volume 147 BRUNSWICKANARTSGetting real with Frontiers in Real Estate

Tess AllenArts Reporter

A 2011 stint as a heritage carpenter in Halifax, N.S. proved to be much more than just a paycheque for visual artist Chris Foster.

“I was learning about how old build-ings fit together and why they last the test of time . . . and what I found is that a lot of contemporary architecture is not built to last,” said Foster.

“It made me start to think about . . . what has happened in Canada in the last 10 years around environmental policy, how the current status quo is not sustainable and we are on the precipice of crisis.”

These themes of sustainability and conservation are what inspired the creation of Foster’s Frontiers in Real Estate, an artwork of prints, collages and sculptures now on display at Fred-ericton’s Connexion Artist-Run Centre on 440 York St.

“The motivation for this work was living in Halifax, this very old city, and trying to develop an understanding of history, and using the aesthetics of that history to discuss contemporary issues and concerns. [These themes] correlate on an abstract level,” said the multidisciplinary artist, who now lives in Toronto.

The exhibit – launched on Sept. 26 and slated to run until Oct. 25 – imple-ments custom-built model wooden homes mounted on the backs of pickup trucks, as well as a series of vivid screen-prints and intricate illustrations in a collection that Foster calls “accessible, detailed and nostalgic.”

“The exhibit [demonstrates] an inter-est in traditional forms and . . . regional vernacular architecture,” said Foster, who graduated from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 2008.

“The screen prints reference colonial-era historical landscapes, the collage

works are from National Geographics from the 1950s and the sculptures use historical architecture from Nova Scotia.”

It’s an exhibit John Edward Cushnie, executive director of Connexion Artist-Run Centre, was thrilled to showcase.

“What he’s talking about in this exhibition is a playful relationship with the idea of the end of the world [with] global warming, and these sorts of concerns about the urban landscape and property values, which is super interesting at this point in time,” said Cushnie, who calls Foster’s work “vi-brant and fresh.”

So much so, in fact, that it was the gallery’s highest-attended opening since its foundation.

Foster believes this is due to the “fun” nature of the work.

“I think some of the work has a dark sense of humour to it,” he said, adding that he hopes to see interest in the exhibit stay strong until its conclusion on Friday, Oct. 25.

“Connexion Artist-Run Centre is a pretty amazing institution and I hope their community support continues to build.”

Connexion Artist-Run Centre is located on 440 York St. and is open regularly Tuesday – Friday from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Frontiers in Real Estate is on display at the Connexion Artist-Run Centre until Friday. Karsten Saunders / The Brunswickan

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October 23, 2013 • Issue 08 • Volume 147 • 13BRUNSWICKANARTSSongs of the week.TDE- BET CypherEvery year, Black Entertainment Television holds the BET Hip Hop Awards,

where trophies are presented, artists perform and pre-taped freestyles from different groups of rappers are aired. This year, the California record la-bel TDE had a few of their artists represent them in a cypher, and though it is not a song, the six minutes of rhyming are some of the most important and talked-about in hip hop this year. Most of this is thanks to Kendrick La-mar, who at first directs a message toward all rappers: “I hate y’all, I’d do anything to replace y’all,” before getting more specific, and firing shots at Drake, saying “nothing’s been the same since they dropped control/and tucked a sensitive rapper back in his pyjama clothes.” To many, Drake and Kendrick are the two most promising young artists in the genre, and Ken-drick is making it clear that he does not want to share the #1 position. He ends his verse by stating “King Kendrick,” and with his universally acclaimed album, good kid, m.A.A.d city, almost a year old, it is hard to argue that 2013 has not been Kendrick’s year. Drake, the ball is in your court.

Shad- He Say She SayAs a socially-conscious indie rapper from Canada, Shad has a lot going

against him, but he knows his role and plays it well. On his fourth album, Fly-ing Colours, the London, O.N. rapper pushes his limits by exploring new top-ics and sounds, while staying true to what has made him so popular in his homeland. On the track “He Say She Say,” the laid-back jazz beat allows Shad to tell the story of a struggling rapper and his girlfriend trying to stay together. “And you would always say wait ‘til I’m the unsigned hype/the best 10 freshmen/the new star,” he says, and though the song is from the per-spective of fictional characters, it is one that could certainly be inspired by the rapper’s life. Although he has been compared to introspective rappers like Talib Kweli and Common, Shad has never found the mainstream success that they have, and when he says “I wanted to do a verse about how they work it out,” you hope that it does – for both the relationship, and Shad’s ca-reer.

Lucius- Turn It AroundSince the release of their self-titled EP last year, Lucius have signed a re-

cord deal, been called a “band to watch” by Rolling Stone, had songs appear on various television shows, and now put out their debut album, titled Wil-dewoman. With two female singers and a group of musicians, the Brooklyn band blends harmony with folk, indie and pop. “Turn It Around” is a catchy track that is sure to have audiences at shows clapping along to the drums and singing along during the chorus. It is not just a simple pop song, though; there is an edge to it that is found in tracks throughout the album. There is a slight reverb to the vocals, and upbeat synths fade into a punk-inspired gui-tar. They are obviously influenced by a lot of the sounds that have come out of New York over the years, and it is not often that you hear a band combine their inspirations so well.

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MONDAY, OCT. 28Monday Night Film Series: Austenland7:30 p.m. at Tilley Hall 102, UNB

Dear Ari –

The boys are leaving the toilet seats up and are pissing all over the floor in the coed bathrooms. How can I get them to be sani-tary?

Love,

Sanitary Stacy.

Dear Sanitary,

I would suggest asking your proctor to make signs or a board about bathroom hygiene and

community living.

I think it’s safe to wager that the majority of people who sprin-kle when they tinkle aren’t doing so maliciously, so don’t take it to heart. Often, calling the action out, and reminding people that custodians shouldn’t have to clean up after preventable messes is enough to create a more con-scious “stream” of thought.

Here’s to a peaceful pee.

Affectionately,

Ari

Dear Ari.If you have a question for Dear Ari, email [email protected] with the subject line “Dear Ari”, or tweet her @AskDearAri

Dear Ari –

You know how some guys just really shouldn’t grow a beard? Yeah, that’s my boyfriend. How do I tell him that his facial hair is awful without hurting his feelings?

Sincerely,

Tactful Taylor

Dear Tactful—

Make sure you don’t criticize his beard, and be mindful of his pride. Regardless of your tastes, it’s still his face and his hair. Don’t stifle his self-expression. If he’s happy with the way he looks, you need to respect that.

Try to instead compliment him on the things you do like. If you like him clean-shaven, tell him how polished he looks and how nice his skin feels. He’ll be more likely to remember that and try to cater to your tastes if you’re being positive.

Affectionately,

Ari

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Do you think they should have built a pool in the Currie Center? Why or why not?

PANELTHEY KNOW WHAT’S UP

Without a doubt. Why should the soccer team have a newer field, vol-leyball and basketball have a new court, but the swim team not have a new pool? The Sir Max Aitken Pool is not regulation size, and if we want the best competition we need the best fa-cilities. For $62.5 million, you should get everything.

I think so. It would have made the Currie Center that much better, not to mention the Sir Max Aitken pool is old, and it shows. I don’t know how much the maintenance on the pool is, but considering how old the building is I can’t see it having much more life in it. But I’m speculating.

Yes – plain and simple. How much long-er till the LB Gym pool becomes a depth of loss memories or filled with high school skateboarding dropouts? Im-proper planning has led to this conun-drum and an uncertain future for swim-ming at UNB.

Bronté JamesSports Editor

cellarpub.caAndrew MartelBusiness Manager

I’d say our swimming facilities do need an upgrade, but there’s always the issue of cost. I don’t want it to be an-other thing where the excess amount is dropped on students unknowingly. A lot of us can’t afford an extra $200 tacked on to our fees. We be poor.

Robbie RoosSports Writer

Nick Murray Editor-in-Chief

Men’s soccer slides into first place with

weekend wins

The men were able to take two victories this weekend, and goalkeeper Brandon Eagle added two clean sheets to his resume.

“I feel really good, it was nice to finally start at home,” said Eagle. “The guys helped me adjust pretty well . . . they didn’t let too many shots through.”

The Reds started their weekend against the Cape Breton University (CBU) Capers, and defeated them 1-0.

“I think the guys worked hard for it, and did what we needed to do con-sidering what it looked like the tactics of the day were going to be,” said head

coach Miles Pinsent. “I thought our boys stuck to our tactics and maybe it wasn’t the most attractive game to watch, but it was good to come out with the three points.”

The three points pushed the Reds to first place in the Atlantic University Sport (AUS) standings. Going into their second game of the weekend they sat one spot ahead of Saint Mary’s University (SMU).

Rookie Robbie Park scored the lone goal of the game at 6:37.

“I think they just had a bad touch . . . and Kenneth [Van Aarle] just ran down the wing,” said Park. “And I was screaming at him, even though I’ve lost my voice I had to square it, and thankfully he squared it and I got the

goal scored.”The men were able to take a 3-0

victory over the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) Panthers in their second game, with all three goals scored in the first half.

Victor Karosan scored the first goal for the Reds at 6:50. Benjamin Law scored a header at 18:50 – his eleventh goal of his UNB career – and got the goal off an assist from teammate Marcus Lees.

Lees scored a goal of his own – the third and final goal of the game – at 26:20 with an assist by Yousuf Moham-mad.

After UNB’s third goal – all within the first half hour – Panthers head coach Lewis Page took out goalkeeper

Brett MacDonald and substituted in Trevor White.

“It was a great start, and when we’re playing that way we’re so dangerous going forward – you can see the op-portunities that we create,” said Pin-sent. “To come out on the second day with that kind of energy and that kind of jump, and really put it to the other team in the early minutes is something we haven’t done at all points of the season, so it was good to see that we did it today.”

Starting goalkeeper Aaron Mc-Murray rested this weekend and Eagle stepped into the net for the Reds. He was able to save all seven shots on net this weekend, taking two clean sheets.

Pinsent says the switch in keepers was to see if Eagle could fill in some of the gaps McMurray may have been missing.

“We’d been giving up goals in certain ways, and we felt that teams were maybe kinda keying in on that

fact, so we felt that Brandon might handle those particular game situations slightly better than Aaron does.”

He also says the switch shouldn’t be seen as a major reflection on Mc-Murray’s capabilities in net, but treat it like any other rearrange on the roster.

“All along we’ve talked about team depth, and having so many good players on this team that can come in in different situations and help us be successful,” said Pinsent. “It’s no dif-ferent than switching our centre-backs or rotating our wingers. We felt that Brandon might handle those particular game situations slightly better than Aaron does, so we thought we’d take a look at it.”

With the first win the men pushed to first place in the AUS standing, and the second win kept them there. They take on the Saint Mary’s Huskies and Dalhousie Tigers next weekend.


Jason Rouse battles a UPEI forward in Sunday’s 3-0 victory. Bronté James / The Brunswickan

The men play two more regular season games this coming weekend, before travelling to SMU for AUS playoffs. Bronté James / The Brunswickan

October 23, 2013 • Issue 08 • Volume 147 • 15BRUNSWICKANSPORTS

UNB students hoping to hit the courtsBronté JamesSports Editor

The recent opening of tennis courts in Fredericton has sparked the interest of students at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) to start a team of their own.

Law school student and former tennis competitor Alex Kinderbater is working with first year student Nick Dempsey, another competitive tennis player, to get a team going at UNB.

“Tennis is just one of those sports where you can start as a child, and you can play up until, well, there are 8o-year-olds playing tennis, so it’s a lifelong sport,” said Dempsey. “I guess we’re just trying to bring awareness in case there are people around campus who are interested. They don’t necessarily have to be competitive – if they just want to come out and play, that’s what we want to do too.”

Kinderbater says she wants to raise awareness for those who might not know this is an option.

“We also [want to] give people the opportunity that don’t want to go down to the U.S., or they don’t want to pursue that, just to let them know that they can pursue something like this.”

The tennis courts, located at Scotia-bank Park South, opened as a packaged deal with the Grant Harvey Centre. Housing six courts, it was built on UNB-owned land. Because of this, the new facility director hoped to give back to the university, and so he gave the students a cheaper rate.

They will also be practicing twice a week – Sundays and Wednesdays – at the facility.

“Everybody wants to get it off the ground, but at this point it’s hard to figure out who’s out there and what they would want to do with it,” said Kinderbater. “[And] whether people would be more attracted to coming to maritime schools if they knew that this would be available.”

Kinderbater said tennis players in Canada only have two real options for tennis when they are done high school – with the exception of major universities

in Canada – go to the States and play National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), or stop playing competitively and play recreationally.

Like so many of her friends, she stayed in Canada and stopped competing.

“During their 20s, when people are in school, unless they do the NCAA athletics thing, people [don’t] get back into it [until] later in life,” she said. “I have tons of friends that were really good that just don’t [play anymore].”

A Newfoundland native, Kinderbater competed since she was six years old – competing at Atlantics, Nationals and Canada Games – and stopped around the time she got to university.

Although she is finishing up her time at UNB law school and won’t see much of the court after this year, first year Dempsey will be seeing the benefits of their work in the upcoming years.

“I’m just basically here to try and start the team,” he said. “I have been playing competitive for eight years. I started off just around New Brunswick and then it went to Atlantic Canada, and then the last two or three years I have been playing around Canada.”

It was when he came to UNB he was approached by James Cress, coordinator of intramural sports and clubs, that he and Kinderbater started to get the pro-gram off the ground.

Cress explained if they can organize a team, raise funds for expenses such as travelling, and remain established as a group for at least a year, they can begin to get funding from the university’s athletic department and become a full-fledged team.

They are also working with coach Rufus Nel, who recently moved to Fredericton from Saskatchewan and wanted to get a team going at UNB.

Nel also coached Dempsey in his time at the Canada Games.

“He was just interested in starting tennis here, starting university tennis, [and] Tennis Canada is starting a univer-sity program now too,” said Dempsey.

The university program Tennis Can-ada is starting will involve all universities across Canada in the hopes of creating more competition in tennis among universities.

“The program . . . provides informa-tion to Canadian players on how to suc-ceed as a ‘student-athlete.’ The Tennis Canada College Program serves three stakeholders: high performance players, their parents and college coaches . . . the opportunity for these student athletes to receive an NCAA athletic scholarship is available as well,” according to the Ten-nis Canada website.

Major universities such as Univer-sity of Alberta, University of British Columbia, University of Montreal and Western University, and a few others, have already started tennis programs and compete.

The Eastern University Campus Challenge hosted in Halifax, N.S., in November is the stepping-stone. At-lantic university teams compete against one another – including Dalhousie University, University of Prince Edward Island and Memorial University – and how well they compete decides whether or not they move on to play teams from central Canada at the University and College National Championship, held in conjunction with the Rogers Cup, a pro-fessional tennis tournament in Canada.

“I think, because they have a lot of tennis schools in the States, it’s not as big in Canada as in the States,” said Demp-sey. “So it would be sweet if we could get it here in Canada so all of us Canadians don’t have to go to the States to play.”

Dempsey and Kinderbater hope to make it to the Rogers Cup, but for now are just focusing on getting the team up and running.

“It’s just a working progress for now, we’re just starting out, so we’re gonna see how this year goes,” said Dempsey. “Hopefully it’ll be a success and then we can keep improving as the years go.”

One word can save you headaches: prioritize

This is the time of year when you have three different assignments due on the same day and a midterm the next. So what do you do? You prioritize.

Many first year students may not have had to prioritize because in high school everything is based on a sched-ule, or you have your parents making sure everything gets done. It is hard to get in the habit of knowing what needs to be done first and what can wait.

Rachel Lowe, a third year arts stu-dent at the University of New Bruns-wick, says sometimes there are reasons why sometimes it’s hard to complete assignments.

“Time and health: nothing like an awful stomach ache when you only left yourself the one evening to com-plete a big project,” she said. “And between classes, work, homework, extra-curricular activities, household work, meals and seeing friends – there’s

never enough time.”Not having enough time seems to be

the main factor in completing school work. Prioritizing can help you with this. Below are a few things to keep in mind!

It is never too early to start: In Sep-tember you see three assignments due on the same day in October. It does not hurt to start them early. It will give you more time to think about the as-signment, ask questions, and edit your work. It will also free up more time for you in the long run to hang out with friends, volunteer or do extracurricular activities.

Plan ahead: If you know you have multiple midterms and assignments due in the same week, plan your activ-ities accordingly. For example, if you have a part-time job, be sure to take off a day or two to put aside for studying.

Another way to plan ahead is to know which assignments will take up most of your time and are worth more marks. You want to do those assign-

ments first. The assignments taking up the least amount of time you can do closer to the due date.

Be organized: Having due dates and events written down somewhere ensures there will be no surprises. You can write them down in an agenda, a calendar or your cell phone.

“I have an app that keeps a running list of what’s due next, and I enter tasks/assignments into it as soon as I get them” said Lowe.

Take advantage of wasted time: That half-hour that you’re waiting for class to start, or the hour you wait in between classes can be perfect times to complete small parts of school work. If you are a fast reader you could even read an article! It gives you the extra time later in the day to get to bed earlier, or hang out with a friend longer.

These are only a few ways to pri-oritize school work. As important as school is, it is just as important to have fun and take time for yourself!

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The Richard J. Currie Center looks great on paper – it houses two gyms, a weight room, a cardio room and a plethora of other athletic facilities for the Varsity Reds and University of New Brunswick students.

One major problem; they forgot a new regulation-sized pool for the swim teams.

“We were more disappointed than anything,” said men’s swim team co-captain Brandon Warren.

“Not quite so shocked, we kind of knew that was coming, but really dis-appointed. It just kinda hurts.”

The Sir Max Aitken Pool only has six lanes, two lanes short of the regula-tion sized eight-lane pools. This means UNB can’t host the Atlantic University Sport (AUS) playoffs, or the Canadian University Sport Championships (CIS).

Head coach Robin Ferdinand said she believes it was just a lack of funding rather than an intentional oversight.

“I think it was supposed to be the next phase,” she said.

Although she does not know the ex-

act details, she believes there is “some-thing in the works for a new pool.”

Warren says he believes a new facil-ity can help with recruiting strong swimmers – compared to the Lady Beaverbook building, which is over 50 years old. “It’s not the most extravagant building in the entire world,” he adds.

But it’s not a regulation size pool that contributes to success, according to Ferdinand.

“I guess one thing that I just always tell my athletes is it’s not about what you’re training in, it’s about what you’re doing in the facility you have.”

UNB hosted AUS championships until Prince Edward Island built their eight-lane pool in 2009 for the Canada Summer Games.

Until the new facility was built, only UNB, Dalhousie University (DAL), Mount Allison University (Mount A) and Memorial University (MUN) were able to host AUS finals – Acadia University wasn’t a member of AUS at the time. They would have six-lane finals and eight-lane AUS finals op-posite years.

“Obviously we would prefer to host more high-level meets, and I know it’s

been inquired into looking into Saint John, just because we have a good relationship,” said Ferdinand. “But it’s quite expensive to get the eight lane swimming pool in saint John, so that’s why – we did used to host AUS until the PEI pool opened.”

Although they can’t host AUS play-offs, the first meet of the year is always hosted by the Varsity Reds. It’s the Amby Legere meet.

“That first meet of the year is always really exciting because you don’t know who’s on the other teams,” said Ferdi-nand. “Or how we see the athlete in practice – some people practice well and don’t race that well, and some people race well and don’t compete that well, so it’s always exacting to get the first meet underway.”

DAL, Acadia, University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI), Mount A and UNB all attend the meet. MUN is the only AUS team not attending due to the distance required to travel, and only goes to two meets a season.

Warren enjoys hosting the meet, and says he’s happy they can’t host AUS, because they are able to do more travelling.

ALL SWIMMERS

“I’d rather go somewhere else than have it at home anyway – kind of the ex-perience of getting out and someplace else,” he said. “But I definitely like that the first meet of the year is always ours, and it’s our home meet, and we like to give a good show.”

The Reds will be doing a lot of travel-ling this season; they travel to Acadia in the beginning of November, followed by a meet in Dalhousie, a fourth meet at UPEI, with AUS hosted at MUN and CIS at the University of Toronto.

Ferdinand said she is looking for-ward to working with the men’s club team and the women’s varsity team. Only losing one male swimmer – but having lost four female swimmers – she still anticipates a strong season from both teams.

Part of this strong anticipation is six of their swimmers having competed at the Canada Games this past summer.

“They’ve trained year-round, and some of them are emerging as leaders, just from their experiences this sum-mer,” she said. “We have great athletes, and they’re all really positive, and we’re looking forward to the team this year.”

“One thing that I just always tell my athletes is it’s not about what you’re training in, it’s about what you’re doing in the facility you have.”

The Reds open their season with the Amby Legere swim meet. It is their only home meet of the season. Bronté James / The Brunswickan

Eyad Albassiouny is used to swimming 50m lanes, but is adjusting the Sir Max Aitken 25m lanes. Bronté James / The Brunswickan

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The Varsity Reds women’s swim team placed second overall in the Amby Legere swim meet – the first meet of the season – and the men finished with a third place rank.

“I think this is the first time in a long time that we’ve had more than just one person consistently in the top three,” said head coach Robin Ferdinand. “Even [Saturday] we had three out of the five separate girls win events.”

Amanda Green contributed to the overall ranking, finishing first in the 100 backstroke with a time of 1:08.10. She also took second place in the 50 backstroke with 0:31.96, and two third place finishes in her 50 fly and 200 back.

Lauren Adam contributed just as much as fellow teammate Green, with a first, second and two third-place rank-ings. Adam’s best swim was her 200 breaststroke with a time of 2:43.22, finishing first.

First year swimmer Eyad Albas-siouny earned his spot on the men’s team, showing the qualities of a sea-

soned swimmer. He put points on the board in each of his events.

Albassiouny placed first in the 100m and 200m butterfly, and earned three second place f inishes in the 50m freestyle and the 100m and 400m individual medley.

“For me, as for my personal stan-dards, I wasn’t so near,” said Albas-siouny. ”But it was a good practice for me as a technique of swimming itself, so I think I made really good progress this time. It was really a good experience.”

“It was a pleasant surprise he won two events, so that was a big deal be-cause we haven’t had top three in the men’s definitely for a long time,” said Ferdinand.

Capta in and sen ior Ju l iana Vantellingen finished fourth in the 400 SC Meter Freestyle, fifth in the Women 50 SC Meter Freestyle, and placed in several other events.

She said the meet is used to work out some of the kinks, prepare for the other upcoming meets, and get a good look at the competition.

“This is the first time that we see the other team, so every year we change, we get stronger, we are different, and this is

the first time we get to see each other,” she said. “We get to show them that we mean business, that we’re a really strong team this year, and I think that we’ve done that. We raced our hearts out this weekend.”

Although she doesn’t think her times reflect what she is capable of, she says it is good groundwork for the rest of the season.

“I’m pretty positive about it,” said Vantellingen. “Obviously the first meet you’re still working out the kinks, and how you swim and how you race, and getting back into your fitness.”

The Amby Legere meet was also part of the Varsity Reds’ Think Pink week-end, involving the men and women’s swim team and men and women’s soccer teams.

Everyone knows someone affected by breast cancer, and the swim team has a personal attachment to this cause.

“One of our consistent volunteers Ruth Hawkes, she just went through breast cancer and is a survivor,” she said. “So it’s very important for us that we can do something for her . . . so it was very important to our hearts, and it’s great the whole school is involved.”

ON DECK

The swim team will be training hard for their upcoming meet at Acadia – the Jack Scholz Invitational – followed by the Atlantic University Sport (AUS) Invitational at Dalhousie University (Dal) on Nov. 16 and 17.

“This one we’re training through, that one we’re really training through – we don’t take any time off,” she said. “Even morning practice the day before, so that’s really part of the training pro-cess to rest up for the Dal Invitational.”

Swimmers have a stronger train-to-race ratio, so if they rest each meet they will only progress in small intervals. Training hard and resting gives their body a sense of being well-rested.

“We train, train, train and then drop it way down for the last meet, then they feel more rested and they can swim faster,” she said. “So we usually do the Dal Invitational in the fall, and then AUS in the winter.”

Juliane Vantellingen is captain of the Varsity Reds women’s swim team for the 2013-2014 season. Bronté James / The Brunswickan

The V-Reds finished off their weekend with second and third place rankings. Bronté James / The Brunswickan

“We get to show them that we

mean business, that we’re a really

strong team this year, and I think that we’ve done that. We raced

our hearts out this weekend.”

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THE BOYS ARE BACK

Nick MurrayEditor-in-Chief

Antoine Houde-Caron and Chris Cul-ligan got the UNB Varsity Reds off to a great start in their University Cup title defense season, picking up five points apiece in back-to-back wins over the weekend against the St. Francis Xavier X-Men and the Saint Mary’s Huskies.

Saturday night before 2,816 fans, the V-Reds raised their fifth Canadian Interuniversity Sport national cham-pionship and their 13th Atlantic Uni-versity Sports conference championship banners to the Aitken Centre rafters.

Both StFX and UNB started off slow, totaling only one shot in the opening 10 minutes, but on the power play Marc-Antoine Desnoyers teed up a slap shot from the top of the circle to

open the scoring. Later in period tied 1-1 Taylor MacDougall crashed the net on a pass from Houde-Caron and beat X-men goalie Drew Owsley with 23 seconds to go in the period.

Nick MacNeil put UNB up 3-1 in the second off a beauty dangle and feed from Tim Priamo, and later in the third up 3-2 MacDougall scored his second of the game again on a feed from Houde-Caron.

Houde-Caron picked up his third as-sist of the game late in the frame, feed-ing Tom Nesbitt on a 2-on-1 as UNB won its 25th consecutive home opener.

“Obviously it’s pretty special anytime you get to accomplish something like that,” said V-Reds head coach Gardiner MacDougall. “But at the same time it’s good to turn the page and focus on a new year and a new goal that we were able to accomplish last year.”

But as much as they wanted to move on from the past, a familiar foe came into their barn Saturday night as UNB and SMU squared off in a rematch of last year’s University Cup final.

SMU jumped ahead 2-0 with goals from Kyle Pereira and reigning CIS men’s hockey player of the year Lucas Bloodoff, but UNB woke up over the intermission and shortly after the draw to start the second, Houde-Caron and Culligan broke out on a 2-on-1 with Culligan feeding his teammate cross-ice, who buried his first of the season.

After going 1-for-3 on the power play the night before, UNB kept it up against SMU going 3-for-8, including a game-tying goal on a sharp angle midway through the second, set up af-ter Jordan Murray threaded the needle with a pass through traffic in the slot.

Culligan later completed the come-

back late in the second drawing a late power play after getting tripped up in the slow by SMU goalie Curtis Black – which probably saved a goal. But Culligan got his revenge, beating Black only 14 seconds into the power play, putting UNB up 3-2 after 20 minutes.

Captain Cully iced the game with a second to go, forcing a turnover in the SMU zone and sliding it into the empty net to complete the hat trick.

With Tyler Carroll out of the lineup indefinitely with an upper-body injury, and Tom Nesbitt forced to leave the game early on, Culligan had to adjust to new linemates – which he’s done before.

“It just shows the depth that we have. To have guys who are willing to rise to the occasion like Cam [Critchlow] and [Houde-Caron], who both played really strong games, you have to give credit to the guys,” Culligan said. “If

we have guys who can pick up the slack, then we’re going to win some games.”

With five points in the opening weekend, Houde-Caron has already halved his totals from last season, and he said it’s great to start off with such momentum. MacDougall has him playing the penalty kill and the power play – at times – and said he’s a guy who can shuffle up and down lines. Houde-Caron is enjoying the extra ice time.

“When you can start a season with a certain momentum, it gives you a certain confidence. So I’m really happy with how I’m playing right now,” Houde-Caron said. “For sure every guy likes to have more responsibility, and I’m just trying to get better every day. My goal when I jump on the ice is to work hard, and it pays off.”

For full V-Reds hockey recap, visit Thebruns.ca.

The men’s hockey team open its regular season with two wins over StFX and Saint Mary’s University. Alex Walsh / The Brunswickan

October 23, 2013 • Issue 08 • Volume 147 • 19BRUNSWICKANSPORTSWomen’s soccer sit seventh in AUS standings


The Varsity Reds women’s soccer team lost 3-1 to the Cape Breton University (CBU) Capers on Saturday, but came back to defeat the University of Prince Edward (UPEI) Panthers 4-2.

“They are a really good team,” said mid-fielder Meggie Spicer. “They battle 100 per cent all over the field. Honestly, the game could have gone either way. Luck just wasn’t on our side today.”

The Capers took an early lead when Kara MacKinnon put a header into the back of UNB’s net at 14:31. Less than two minutes later Karolyn Blain scored again for CBU.

UNB answered with a goal of their

own, 57 seconds after the Caper’s second goal when Meggie Spicer pushed it past the Capers goalie – her second of the weekend.

CBU’s Karolyn Blain scored again at 53:07 – her second and final goal of the game.

“I think it was a good start, for the most part,” said head coach Jon Crossland. “We gave up those couple quick goals right off the bat, but we responded right away which I thought was really good.”

In most cases a goal works in favour of the team, but Crossland said it worked against them.

“We never really recovered from that,” he said. “We had some good chances and didn’t find a way to score,

and that’s as it goes, but the effort was good.”

Despite the loss, the team had a season high of ten shots on goal. They kept up the momentum of shots on net in their game against the Panthers, only this time the outcome was in their favour.

The Reds were able to take four goals, only letting in two against them, and took away three points towards their Atlantic University Sport (AUS) standings.

“It was a good performance today and we needed to get a result, and the girls played well,” said Crossland. “The girls played well right from the get-go.”

Rookie Paige Vincent scored the first goal for the Reds at the five-minute

mark, giving them an early lead.Brianna Ford scored at 9:54, giving

the team hope for at least one victory out of the weekend.

Only two goals were scored in the first half of the game. At 68:50 the Panthers were right back in the game with a goal by Tessa Fudge after she pushed it past goalkeeper Kelsie Hope.

Ford answered the Panthers goal with her second of the game only four minutes after Fudge. Emilie Pelletier tried to get UPEI back in the game finishing the ball off a free-kick from teammate Kelsie Collier, but Meggie Spicer scored for UNB at 86:15, giving UNB the win.

“We talked about some things we wanted to do well – possess the ball,

play quickly, get in gaps – and that’s what we did in the first 15 minutes or so and that resulted in those goals,” he said. “It was good – three points out of six keeps us in it . . . mathematically it keeps us in there.”

The women are in seventh place in the AUS, two spots away from a playoff position – with Mount Allison Univer-sity hosting AUS, the Mounties have an automatic bye to playoffs, taking away one spot.

The Lady Reds take on the Saint Mary’s Huskies (SMU) and Dalhousie (DAL) Tigers next weekend. They have to tie DAL and beat SMU – while hoping Memorial University doesn’t win any more games – to ensure fifth in AUS, and go to playoffs.

Emma Quigley, third year fullback, keeps UNB in the game by assisting goalkeeper Kelsie Hope. Bronté James / The Brunswickan

The Lady Reds wore their pink jerseys in support of their Think Pink weekend. Bronté James / The Brunswickan

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