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NEWS “Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.”

– Howard Zinn

October 13, 2011 MARTLET 3

Stuart SharpeFifth year, History

What do you think of the inner-campus smoking ban?IN MY HONEST OPINION

Milan GaidaFourth year, Anth. and W.S.

Jon HarrisFirst year, Psychology

Sylvia AlvesThird year, Political Science

“It’s a bit crazy, the idea of grouping people together on benches away from everyone else. It’s a bit strange. I mean, I thought the 15-yard or whatever rule was OK. I don’t really know enough about it to go behind the politics.”

“I mean, I understand it I guess. It doesn’t fit into my lifestyle, to go outside Ring Road. I used to be re-ally against it. I was all for smokers’ rights. But now I understand it … but I’m not really following it.”

“It sucks. ” “I’ve had a security guard stand right beside me while I was smoking, and he didn’t say anything about it. I’m not going to smoke around small children. If someone has a problem with me smok-ing next to them, I’ll walk away.”

> BRANDON ROSARIO

While the demonstrations in New York’s financial district continue to generate media coverage and popular support, activists from around the world are busy hammering out plans on how to make the occupation move-ment explode internationally on Oct. 15.

Since its conception on Sept. 15 with a handful of dissidents pitching tents in front of the New York Stock Exchange, the “Oc-cupy Wall Street” protesters have swelled in numbers and are now entering their fourth consecutive week of demonstration.

In solidarity with the New York movement, activists in cities throughout the United States have organized similar occupations, using networking and information websites like occupytogether.org and 15october.net as platforms to express the cohesive, non-vio-lent goal of “ending the greed and corruption of the wealthiest one per cent of America.”

In Victoria, demonstrators plan on occupy-ing Centennial Square this Saturday, Oct. 15 as a means to bring both local and large-scale political issues to the forefront.

“This is becoming more than a protest about the failure of global capitalism — rather, this is a moment where people all around the world are coming together and beginning to global-ize democracy,” says the People’s Assembly of Victoria (PAOV) — a diverse collective of local activist groups — via their Facebook page.

At the assembly’s second general meeting on Oct. 7, representatives from various work-groups — specialty committees designed to plan details like first-aid services and legal procedure — met with the public to discuss the logistics of their upcoming Saturday demonstration.

However, the discussion format, based on a four-step consensus process aimed at fa-cilitating direct democracy, had a rocky start — leading to several periods of prolonged discussion over preliminary procedural is-sues, which aggravated several participants.

“We have no idea what the hell is hap-pening on the 15th,” says Shane Calder, an employee at AIDS Vancouver Island, “I mean, we’re talking about tools, composting, stages and posters right now.”

“It’s been five hours of meetings without a single mention of what’s going to happen . . . that being said, I think solidarity is fantastic and people are learning how social justice works. It’s clunky and uncomfortable, and if you want to do it right it takes time. I respect the people for stepping up and doing it,” he says.

Cody Bergerud, a fourth-year philosophy stu-dent, worries that the multitude of platforms brought forward by PAOV groups may prevent an overall coherent message in the media.

“We have a bandwagon — a potentially pow-erful bandwagon — and this could go the dis-tance if a lot of people get on it,” says Bergerud.

“At the same time, a lot of people are bring-ing their own issues to the table . . . when this generally is very much an economic issue with social justice implications,” he says, add-ing that in taking a more focused approach, he doesn’t mean to degrade other people’s right to their own reasons for demonstrating.

As a part of PAOV’s legal team, Bergerud is trying to create a framework with the police for the multi-day protest that will keep the demon-stration safe from potential provocateurs.

He also acknowledges the obvious complica-tions that are sure to arise from the “tent city” factor that may violate certain Victoria bylaws.

“Tents are surviving in Boston, but for now it’s because of bad weather and the police not acting,” he says. “In New York, people are bringing out their mattresses and so far they’re getting away with hanging tarps in between trees . . . for local options that tarp and sleeping-bag thing [may be considered] for the square. There was also a proposal — though I don’t know how likely it will be — for camping in Beacon Hill Park and a march in between the two locations.”

Like the movement in New York, PAOV, as a collective, maintains a conscious lack of in-

dividual leadership. Participants are encour-aged by organizers to speak for themselves until an official statement is developed to represent the group as a whole.

The demonstration, anticipated to span the course of several days, is scheduled to begin Oct. 15 at 7 p.m. in Centennial Square.

For more information visit www.paov.ca.

‘Occupy’ movement slowly comes together in Victoria to challenge global capitalism‘Ending the greed and corruption’

KELTIE LARTEROccupy Victoria will be joining a global solidarity movement on Oct. 15.

NEWS 4 MARTLET October 13, 2011

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> KAILEY WILLETTS

The UVic Students’ Society’s (UVSS) Students of Colour Collective (SOCC) is hoping to increase access to food while reducing stigma through a new food bank that officially open oned Oct. 11.

“I think that a lot of people within the SOCC community had been having a lot of conver-sations around food, and a lot of them were centred around issues of accessibility and food on campus and the way we interact with different spaces,” explains SOCC member Megan Quigley, who is helping to organize the food bank.

Quigley recognizes not only the importance of food banks, but also of addressing larger issues of access to food and barriers to access that students may experience both on and off campus.

“I think one of the things that comes up a lot in SOCC is we have a lot of conversations about the barriers that racialized people face, and they are complex and layered and they do differ according to people’s experiences — but as a collective our mandate is to help challenge those barriers and challenge spaces of hegemony, especially on campus,” she says.

Quigley says food banks in general are im-portant because access to food is a fundamen-tal right, but adds within SOCC’s particular context “not only are there barriers as far as employment and space and economic bar-riers, but there are also barriers for access-ing other resources and so our food bank particularly is creating a safe space for people of colour to access food, removed from any stigma.”

While the UVSS currently offers an emer-gency food bank, SOCC is hoping their service will be able to address unmet needs and concerns of its membership. The SOCC

food bank will be for self-identified students of colour on campus.

“This is again to serve the purpose of trying to create a safe space,” says Quigley. “It will also be challenging some of the other issues of stigma around the food bank.”

One major concern for Quigley is the sur-veillance of the food bank.

“It’s already a really stigmatized space and the fact that you have to register and sign in, while I understand it’s important for book-keeping and for accounting purposes, can often deter people from using the food bank, especially people who already feel like they have a marginalized experience,” she ex-plains. ”So one of our hopes is to make it re-ally a friendly and open space and really kind of de-stigmatize need around food. We’re not going to be surveilling it.”

SOCC also hopes to have increased hours of accessibility.

“It will also be open a lot more,” says Jessica Humphries, SOCC co-ordinator. “Our office is frequently open all day, Monday to Friday, unlike the Food Bank, where often there’s no one in there and you have to go upstairs and have the awkward conversation with some-one letting you in. Since SOCC’s door is pretty much always open Monday to Friday, there

won’t be that same problem.” The type of food available in the UVSS

food bank is another thing SOCC is hoping to expand on with their service. They plan to offer a variety of dried foods in bulk, as well as fresh produce.

“We’ll be doing most of our produce through the Good Food Box program, through [the University of Victoria Sustain-ability Project] on campus,” says Humphries. “We had lots of conversation about how we thought it was very important to be getting our produce as locally as possible and that

program allows us to do that as well as help-ing out other programs and making students aware of those programs on campus.”

SOCC will also be adding a fridge and searching for foods like tofu, which serves as an alternative protein, to accommodate many dietary needs.

“We’ll also have a suggestion box,” adds SOCC member Katie Fukuda. “So if people are feeling like we’re not meeting some of their needs, they can suggest we get some of those things in — foodstuffs and anything, really. We’ll see what we can do.”

In keeping with their goal of food accessibil-ity and de-stigmatization, SOCC also hopes to build community around food.

“It’s our hope to create communities and relationships, not only with our own commu-nity at SOCC, but also with other advocacy groups on campus,” says Quigley, “and one of the things that we are hoping to organize within the next few weeks is a community dinner.”

Fukuda suggests community dinners are a more accessible alternative to community-building potlucks.

“It’s a really fun thing to have potlucks with your friends and also with different communities that you’re trying to build, but sometimes it’s hard for people to take part in them or feel welcome in those spaces because maybe they can’t contribute,” says Fukuda. “We thought that having really great dinners that people pay maybe a loonie for would be a really nice way to share food with people and start to build greater communities; to begin with advocacy groups, but hopefully opening that up to everybody.”

SOCC and other advocacy groups are still sorting out potential venues for community dinners, but hope to have them up and run-ning soon.

Students of Colour Collective opens food bank

One of our hopes is to make it a friendly and open space and really

de-stigmatize need around food.Megan Quigley

food bank co-organizer

SOCC hopes to address food accessibility and build community with new services

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> BROOKE ENGLISH

Have you ever run into a stranger who man-aged to brighten one of your most stress-filled days, simply by listening with a few kind words and a smile? The Peer Helping pro-gram, a free service offered to all University of Victoria students, is a place where sunny, genuine people abound.

“As a psychology student, I’m very aware of how other people’s moods can affect our own, even indirectly,” says Joe Savidge, student co-ordinator of the program. “I have observed the good-vibes of Peer Helpers translating to others across campus.”

Oct. 6 marked the 25th anniversary of the Peer Helping program at UVic , a testament to how long these “good-vibes” have been spreading. From 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., Peer Helping student volunteers and their program co-ordinators celebrated by handing out free drinks, snacks and smiles in front of the fountain on the UVic campus, making their presence known to the student population.

The program is co-ordinated by two counsel-lors from UVic Counselling services: Emma Ma-son, who has co-ordinated since 2008, and June Saracuse, who has co-ordinated since 2005.

“Students can access peers for help and information if they are not comfortable with or in need of professional counsellors,” says Saracuse. “Peer Helpers can educate students about resources and referrals, and share some of their own learning as a student to normalize some of students’ fears and anxieties.”

In fact, many Peer Helpers are motivated to be a source of support for other students after hav-ing gone through their own personal struggles.

“I transferred to UVic in 2009. My classes were difficult, the campus and city [were] unfamiliar and although I tried to deny it,

I was pretty homesick — to the point that I really struggled to focus in my classes,” says Savidge of his own UVic experience and how difficult the transition to a new city can be.

The Peer Helping program enables student volunteers to have the opportunity to help other students. On campus since 1986, this program has expanded over time, and is hosted in two offices that are constantly occupied on week-

days by one of more than 50 trained Peer Helpers.

“Although Peer-Helping is a confidential service, we do keep track of the number of students we see, and I was blown away to realize that, by the end of the year, Peer Helping had directly helped hundreds of stu-dents, and perhaps even more indirectly,” says Savidge.

“Students who might otherwise be isolated can access our services, in the offices and through committee work,” says Mason. “And therefore, the students connect, become a part of campus life and succeed academi-cally.”

The committee work that Mason is referring to includes various outreach programs. The Coffee House offers students free coffee and snacks in a social environment, every Thursday from 4:30–6 p.m. in Clearihue D132. Morning Munch offers students a healthy breakfast on Thursday mornings in the Student Transition Centre located on the second floor of the Uni-versity Centre. Anyone is welcome stop by for as little or as long as they like.

Savidge says, with regards to how unique this program is, “I’ve travelled around the world and seen many other universities, and I feel certain that UVic is lucky to have such an incredible program. I would encourage all students to be aware of it, and to make use of it whenever they need to.”

Drop-in office hours are from 10:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. on Mondays to Fridays, in SUB B005 or the McPherson Library Learning Commons room 135e.

Peer Helpers celebrate 25th anniversary

By the end of the year, Peer Helping had directly helped

hundreds of students.

Joe Savidge student co-ordinator

NEWS October 13, 2011 MARTLET 7

Students of Colour Collective will be having our Annual General Meeting at 4pm on Monday October 24th, 2011. There will be food provided. **Please Note: This meeting is for all self-identified students of colour**

Students of Colour Collective will be having our Annual General Meeting at 4pm on Monday October 24th, 2011. There will be food provided. **Please Note: This meeting is for all self-identified students of colour**

> BRANDON ROSARIO

The UVic Students’ Society (UVSS) has received the green light from its Board of Directors to begin gradually phasing out the sale of bottled water on campus.

In a motion proposed by Chairperson Tara Paterson, the UVSS hopes to halt all sales of bottled water in the Student Union Building (SUB) by April 2012, with the Health Food Bar and Been There food outlets expected to go bottle-free by Dec. 5, 2011.

The proposal was passed on the basis of a March referendum that found 85 per cent of students to be in favour of eliminating plastic bottles and instead receiving better access to clean and free drinking water.

“I think this is both an environmental and a human-rights concern,” explains Paterson.

Paterson views the privatization of water as a means to monetize a basic human right while also acknowledging the impact dispos-able water bottles have on climate change — specifically the use of various toxic chemicals that go into their production.

In addition to eliminating bottled water in the SUB food outlets, the UVSS is to enter dis-cussions with Coca-Cola and Ryan Vending about replacing bottled water with reusable bottles in at least two of the building’s vend-ing machines.

In 2009, the University of Winnipeg became the first Canadian institution to implement a campus-wide ban on bottled water. Since then, other schools like Ryerson, Queens, Ot-tawa and most recently Toronto have jumped on board thanks to student initiatives.

The City of Victoria is also in the process of banning bottled water at its civic facilities as part of a new “blue community” project led by Councillor Marianne Alto.

As a part of the effort to extend the ban be-yond the SUB, Paterson will be writing a letter to the vice-president of Student Affairs request-ing that the University Executive Committee

develop a position on the sale of bottled water that includes its elimination by April 2012.

“We have agreed that it makes the most finan-cial sense for us to move forward with the uni-versity on this issue so that neither operation has a competitive advantage,” says Paterson. “And also that we do it gradually so that it’s not a one-time major hit to the SUB’s revenue.”

“Part of the idea of doing it gradually and concurrently with the university is to mitigate any financial cost,” says Paterson.

The SUB is currently under contract with Coca-Cola, while the university maintains its own separate agreement with Pepsi.

UVic Director of Purchasing Ken Babich, who would be charged with the contract negotiations with Pepsi should the univer-sity decide to follow suit with the UVSS ban, did not voice his stance for or against the proposal to eliminate bottled water outside of the SUB. However, with bottled water being one of the most popular-selling beverages on campus, he acknowledges that the ban could carry potentially nega-tive financial impacts.

“From a contract point of view, [the univer-sity] takes away large amounts of revenue from bottled water that is used to fund stu-dent events,” he says, adding that a reduction in the back stock of Pepsi products may prove troublesome in earthquake scenarios.

“Choice, with more education, might lead to a better situation [than an outright ban].”

Babich is in the process of writing a report to the VP of Financial Operations about how to support the consumption of bottled water in a more environmentally-conscious way through more stringent recycling initiatives.

However, Paterson feels students knew what they were voting for in the referendum.

“I think students understand the implica-tions of what they’re voting for and they understand that bottled water is an industry and in that respect it’s going to be profitable in one way — but at what cost?” she says.

SUB starts phasing out bottled water

> DAVID BAKVIS

On Oct. 6, the Conservative government released the estimated cost of its omnibus crime bill: $78.6 million over five years. The bill, known as the Safe Streets and Communities Act, is a package of nine crime bills the Conservatives were unable to pass before the last federal election.

However, both the cost and effectiveness of the bill has come under scrutiny feder-ally as well as locally.

Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page criticized the $78.6 million estimate, claim-ing it provided no methodology or support-ing information and did not account for the costs to provinces.

“There is actually no information to support the estimates in the press release today,” he said in an interview with CBC. “Where else can you imagine yourself going to a bank and saying ‘I want $2.7 billion and here’s one piece of paper. Can I have my money now?”

Mandatory minimum sentences and the elimination of house arrest for serious crimes are two aspects of the bill that are expected to increase the intake of Canada’s

criminal justice system. More people will be incarcerated and many of them for longer periods of time. Many of the prisoners will be awaiting or serving sentences in provin-cial jails.

“We have a jail bloat problem in Canada already. And this [crime bill] is going to in-tensify it,” says Dr. Kevin Walby, a sociolo-gist at UVic and Prisoners’ Struggles editor for the peer-reviewed Journal of Prisoners

on Prisons. The federal government has not yet indi-

cated that it will reimburse the provinces for the costs of implementing the new crime laws. If the federal government does not

reimburse all of the added costs incurred by the provinces, many are wondering where the provinces will find the money.

David Johnson, executive director of the John Howard Society of Victoria, will not go

so far as to say that the money will come from post-secondary education. All he will say is that “it won’t come from healthcare.”

Wherever the money comes from, Johnson warns that the new measures “will not neces-sarily make our communities safer.”

“This bill seems to be about locking people up, but not for making them better,” he says. Incarcerating more people does not lead to safer communities, Johnson argues, because people who get out of jail are not necessarily better citizens because of the experience.

As Walby explains, “prisons and jails, in addition to being schools of crime, are places of victimization. It’s where people victimize each other and are victimized by guards and the system at large, so I can’t see how sending people to prison or jail for longer, making it tougher for them to get out of the system, making it tougher for them to demonstrate that they are ready to make amends, is going to lead to safer communities.”

Because the Conservative Party holds a majority in both the House of Commons and the Senate, passage of the Safe Streets and Communities Act is all but assured. And, as Dr. Walby points out, “there are three more [Conservative crime bills] coming.”

We have a jail bloat problem in Canada. And this bill is going to intensify it.

Dr. Kevin Walby editor, Prisoners’ Struggles

Crime bill may cost province money

Businesses like Bean There and Health Food Bar will stop selling bottled water by Dec. 5

JOSH THOMPSONThe UVic Students’ Society is hoping to move from bottled water to more free, clean tap water on campus.

OPINIONSEDITORIAL

LETTERS

THREE KESLER MOONMissing Women Inquiry perpetuates problems

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8 MARTLET October 13, 2011

Hearings for the Missing Women Inquiry began Oct. 11 — with a protest outside and over a dozen groups less than when the inquiry was announced.

The inquiry was commissioned to investigate how cases of missing women from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES) were handled by police and the legal system, as well as make recommendations for change.

However, the groups that have dropped out — including the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, Amnesty International, a coalition of sex trade workers, the Assembly of First Nations, a coali-tion of the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre and the Feb. 14 Women’s Memorial March Committee — suggest there is something seriously wrong with the inquiry process.

The mainstream media will tell you it’s about funding — the government and police have a publicly funded team of lawyers, while 13 groups who were granted status in the hearing received no funding — but this is a partial truth. Yes, it’s about funding, but the funding is a small manifestation of a much larger problem with the inquiry.

The Downtown Eastside Women’s Coalition lists seven reasons for dropping out of the inquiry on their website. One of these refers to funding. So why is funding being made the crux issue in the mainstream media?

Perhaps because the larger implications are a little harder for the much of their readership to digest. The entire system is broken.

The inquiry is perpetuating the same systems of racism, sexism and colonialism that led to its conception in the first place. Vulnerable populations from the Downtown Eastside are expect-ed to arm themselves with lawyers and undergo interrogation when what they’re trying to do is share valuable information and stories of survival. These women should be supported, not treated like criminals. Women are also granted no confidentiality or ability to support anony-mous, written affidavits when it comes to police treatment. When interactions with the police are a daily reality for many living in the DTES, how are women expected to be able to share their stories when there is fear of retribution, whether real or perceived?

Instead, the inquiry will be conducted by lawyers, lawyers who likely have no understanding of the daily realities and experiences of people living in the DTES. Lawyers who are meant to “represent” these populations when their lived experiences are so far removed it is impossible to see how they could begin to understand. Because the inquiry is set up like a trial, lawyers for the police and government attempt to undermine the credibility of the women.

This whole “sham inquiry,” as many have called it, could be seen more in the context of public relations than a legitimate, honest attempt to combat violence against women. Groups have been included, yes, but within a colonial process where they are underfunded and underrepre-sented, it’s hard to see it as anything other than tokenism. It’s an attempt to pacify the wom-en’s, indigenous and sex trade workers’ groups who have been calling for this much-needed inquiry for more than 20 years, without creating any significant change or placing any blame. It’s a battle of discourse instead of a search for justice.

In order for justice to occur, there needs to be an inquiry that values the voices of women from the DTES and creates spaces for these voices to be heard. The systems of racism, sexism and colonialism being recreated in the process of the inquiry need to be identified and addressed.

But it’s easier to pretend it’s just about the money, isn’t it?

DON’T DISPARAGE LEARNING

Re: “Indigenous studies means colonial stud-ies, too,” Sept. 29

As a frequent reader and fan of opinion pieces in the Martlet, I could not help but be disappointed with this article. The authors (it seems) are trying to offer suggestions for non-Indigenous students’ learning in Indigenous-content classes. Unfortunately, the authors fail in their attempts, offering little more than a rant against “settler folks’ ” interference with the authors’ learning expe-rience at UVic. However, more disturbing is the disrespect for the hard work of professors and students who are genuinely interested in Indigenous-content courses.

The choice they made to write this unpro-fessional and poorly conceived article not only reflects negatively upon themselves and the Martlet; it also can make people defensive and less inclined to engage in a mutual or cross-cultural process of learning — some-thing which is sorely needed if we are to help learn from Canada’s colonial past and transform our imperial future.

Drew Davis UVic Student

BENCH THE VIOLENCE

Re: “Hockey hits necessary,” Sept. 29

I played hockey every day from Grade 3 to Grade 8 and then continued to play until I got too old (I’m 85). No one wore helmets or any protective gear. If anyone deliberately ran into another player, he went to the penalty box. I played on the same school team as the famous goalie Johnny Bower. He never wore face protection. I attended all the pro-hockey games in my hometown. If anyone hit

another player, he went to the penalty box. The violence that team owners introduced into today’s game caters to the hidden desire of the mob to watch violence. This was well understood in ancient Rome. Remember the violent contests in that era.

Ron MacIsaac community member

STOP THE FLIM-FLAM

Re: “ The neo-colonial avaricious treaty orga-nization,” Sept. 29

I would like to thank Graham Briggs for his brutally frank and honest article about what has really been going on in Libya recently.

Wouldn’t it have been wonderful if even one Member of Parliament from any party had had the courage to stand in the House of Commons and make the same kind of state-ment outlined in this article instead of all the flim-flam and bullshit we’ve been hearing for the last several months? 

Gordon PollardUVic Grad, 1966

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October 13, 2011 MARTLET 9

> COLIN EDGE

Evidence suggests Greater Victoria’s resi-dents would likely benefit from B.C. Transit’s proposed light-rail transit system, yet this is obstructed by B.C.’s policy of municipal self-determination reinforced in the Com-munity Charter by former premier Gordon Campbell. Section 279 of the B.C. Community Char-ter, “No Forced Amalgamations,” legally prevents the provincial government from amalgamating municipalities. The result is 13 independent municipalities lacking a regional vision. With each municipality distracted by its own interests, citizens in the region are forced to endure a lack of trans-portation infrastructure as evidenced by what residents refer to as the “Colwood Crawl.”

Meanwhile, citizens of Calgary benefit from the perks of an amalgamated city and its sup-porting infrastructures. Working closely with the Alberta government, Calgary is progres-

sively expanding what has become North America’s second busiest light-rail system, commuting some 280 000 passengers daily. Operating emissions-free by wind energy, light rail has also strengthened environmen-tal awareness within the city. Calgary started LRT in 1980 when its population was similar to Greater Victoria’s today.

The key to Calgary’s success is its provincial government’s ability to intervene in regional affairs. Alberta’s Municipal Government Act says, “The Minister may initiate an amalga-mation of two or more municipal authorities if the Minister believes that the operation of the municipal authority to be formed by the amalgamation will be more effective or efficient than the municipal authorities to be amalgamated.”

Federal funding grants are often based on the size of a municipality’s population, with smaller municipalities getting less priority. Large infrastructure projects need federal funding and our 13 small municipalities

might obstruct our region’s opportunity to receive these funds.

While Greater Victoria’s municipalities fo-cus on self-determination, its citizens struggle with larger issues including multiple police forces, lack of infrastructure and inconsistent development and building processes.

The solution is amalgamation, like Calgary. However achieving this goal is unlikely under the Community Charter. Municipalities must collectively agree to forfeit their self determi-nation rights, and mayors must step aside in favour of the Capital Regional District as sole municipal authority.

The divide caused by 13 municipalities pursuing self-interest, with provincial govern-ment unable to intervene, undermines the CRD’s regional planning for the future.

Until the CRD amalgamates, citizens scat-tered across 13 autonomously operating municipalities are left twiddling their thumbs in the Colwood Crawl, waiting for things to move forward.

Amalgamate for a faster commute

> ADAM GAUDRY

Adam Gaudry is Métis and a PhD Candidate in Indigenous Governance.

An Occupy Wall Street poster circulating on the Internet reads, “We are the 99 per cent, and we are taking this country back from the one per cent who stole it.”

This rhetoric, along with a slew of other slogans, has been uncritically imported across the border to many Occupy Together events in Canada. However, as the organizers of these events send out their callouts and have their meetings, there has been markedly little attendance, and a great deal of criticism, from Indigenous activists.

It’s not simply the sloganeering, or the ignorance of the much older occupation of Indigenous lands, (including occupation by the much exalted 99 per cent), but there is a total lack of understanding of whose lands we are on. Some friends who went to the People’s Assembly of Victoria meeting, an Occupy Together event without the problem-atic language, tell me that participants at the meeting had fundamental disagreements about the recognition of Indigenous land, or even acknowledging the centrality of colo-nialism in Canada’s political structure.

While Victoria has a whole group of sea-

soned activists who understand colonialism, much of the rest of Canada has tended, as usual, to pursue goals of social justice inde-pendent of addressing the greatest injustices in our shared history: the theft of Indig-enous lands and the genocide of Indigenous peoples.

In fact, genocide puts our current numbers of population at roughly one per cent across North America. Indigenous people are, thus, the other one per cent. But to invert the slogan, we are the one per cent who had this country stolen by the other 99 per cent, rich and poor alike.

My point is not to condemn Occupy Wall Street, but simply to point out the general ambivalence such broad-based movements evoke in Indigenous people. Any Indigenous activist who has attempted to navigate “broad-based social movements” can tell you that these movements are broad-based only in that they successfully mobilize the youth of the middle class. These young, reasonably well-off (and very often white) people have the power of numbers and are a drain from the people who rely on apathy to wield eco-nomic and social power. In broad-based social movements, the organizers (and those with pretensions to be organizers) spend a good deal of time attempting to appeal to them and keep them on-side because of their numerical

supremacy. Groups who cannot command these kinds of numbers—Indigenous peoples, people of colour, women of colour — tend to find that what is important to them — colo-nialism, racism, sexism — takes a back seat to the desire to keep the young, middle class crowd on-side. In the end, more dependable and committed activists either leave these social movements and form their own, or, like me, just stay home when the call-outs are circulated.

In fact, most non-Indigenous activists that I can think of who have been successful allies to Indigenous people have done so by supporting Indigenous struggles that are led by Indigenous people, not by inviting Native folks to pre-existing events like Occupy Wall Street.

I’m not suggesting that anyone ignore the Occupy Together movement as it spreads across the globe; what I am suggesting is that rather than occupying Victoria (again), we can all work to decolonize Victoria, or wher-ever else you happen to live.

This doesn’t need a critical mass of Indig-enous people to attend, but can be accom-plished by a group of critical-minded non-Indigenous people who allow their principles of social justice to trump the desire to avoid contentious issues within the “broad-base” of the Occupy Together crowd.

Indigenous, the other one per cent

Our generation’s great depression> STUART ARMSTRONG

The problems our grandparents faced in the Great Depression are back, but worse. Instead of just high unemployment, Canada faces a polarized political system, politicians that take supply-side economics as gospel rather than a tool, and a demographic time bomb that can’t be ignored. We have high national youth unemployment, at 17.2 per cent. G20 finance and labour ministers declared this persistent international problem a threat to global economic recovery. The math is simple: if young people don’t have jobs they can’t become consumers, which derails hope of returning to pre-2008 levels.

Connected is Canada’s demographic shift. Experts warn that Baby Boomers will retire and leave a diminished work force and tax base, coupled with increased healthcare and pension costs. Parliament’s Public Budget Officer Kevin Page (civil servant in charge of examining Canada’s economy) told the Globe and Mail, “Policy makers will need to address the aging demographic issue… it should be part of the discussion leading up to the 2012 budget.”

So Canada won’t have enough tax revenue to meet its obligations. Page’s solution is

$46-billion in cuts or tax increases on both the provincial and federal level. But cuts in education and work placement programs may create a perfect storm of students un-able to get paid internships, waiting for Baby Boomers who can’t quit their jobs due to diminished retirement savings and invest-ments. When Boomers do retire they’ll leave a massive hole in the labour market and the nation’s finances. That means tuition hikes, budget cuts and personal income tax increases.

The current mantra of cutting debt and spending in every financial quarter is fine in times of private sector growth and out-of-control government programs (what econo-mists call “crowding out”), but right now we’re facing economic stagnation. Canada’s outgoing Auditor General Sheila Frasier (Par-liament’s official accountant) told CBC that government spending will have to increase to solve some of the problems that are coming. “There [are] massive infusions of money that are going to be required,” she said.

Will this government do something? Not publicly, because it’s scared to death of debt and believes in being economically non-inter-ventionist. Economists from the major banks (TD, RBC, CIBC, BMO) say the government is

doing exactly the wrong thing by not creating more stimulus projects and not acting to curb or eliminate unemployment and poverty.

Current Canadian politics resemble the ‘30s too, as the May 2011 election polarized Canada’s right and left. During the Great De-pression the political spectrum was sharply divided between the right (a collection of conservatives, nationalists, monarchists, and fascists) and the left (dominated by social democrats, democratic socialists, commu-nists, and labour-farmer parties). The mod-ern polarization of the House of Commons leaves little room for compromise. This is what happened in many European nations in the 1930’s; a battle between nationalist and socialist parties with no room for consensus, moderation, or cooperation. We may have to rely on the Supreme Court to check the more excessive acts of this parliament.

What can we, the average plebeian do? Vote in every coming election, demand that governments deal with the situation, and get used to the idea that things may get a lot worse before they improve. If that fails, we should join our American cousins, and protest the Toronto Stock Exchange on Bay Street, the House of Commons in Ottawa and the Legislature here in Victoria.

INDIGENOUS IDEAS

FEATURE 10 MARTLET October 13, 2011

THE OLD TIMEFor $32, Julie Gubisch will transform

someone into a Mexican bandit. For 44, she’ll make a couple into swashbuckling pirates — eye

patch optional. For 60 she’ll turn three young tourists into saloon girls. For eight people or more, see pack-ages. Dogs, add $10.

So reads the price list of Tony’s Old Time Portrait Studio, nestled downtown Victoria on Broughton Street, where Julie works alone.

As they descend the steps into the shop, unsure and curious, Julie entices her potential customers from behind her desk with snapshots of who they can be. “This is a formal scene. That’s a saloon. You guys can be saloon girls. You can be a Mountie.” They’ll shy away, or make subtle head nods of agreement, and Julie will welcome them in, brush her dark hair back across her bronzed skin to rest in its bob. She’ll ap-proach them in suede hiking boots. “Come on in. Let me give you a fishnet stocking first.”

The studio, founded 1975 in Prince George by Tony Bohanan, specialized in traditional portraits. It was something of higher quality than, but comparable to, what you’d find in the back corners of Sears and the Bay. The business moved to Vancouver and evolved from catering exclusively to children to incorporat-ing adults, who in a way were required to be children themselves. In the city, the studio departed from tradition. Julie volunteered there and met Tony. Once a week she helped costume customers into Victorian dresses, hillbilly overalls and naval uniforms. Black men became suit and tie passengers of the Titanic. Freckled white women became feather crowned-In-dians. Julie would jump into the frame to place a pad under an elbow propped on a bar, or sculpt a lady’s hair back with curled fingers, and Tony would stand behind the camera with a boyish smile, ready to flash. Julie moved with Tony and the studio to Victoria in 1985. After finalizing the residual divorce paperwork that’d followed him from the mainland and setting up shop, Tony married Julie. She’s now in her fifties. Tony died a year and a half ago.

Julie comes through the jungle of hanging ponchos, corsets, and sombreros to the bar, atop of which sits a woman from the U.K. Her Romanian husband leans against it, pistols in hand: it’s a holdup.

“Hokay! Hang on.” Julie’s not ready. She crosses overlapping red patterned rugs and carpets, passes tripods and light stands and comes to the prop wall. Not an inch of any surface is left to breathe in Tony’s studio. The wall is smothered by whips, horns, cowboy hats, lanterns and feathered belts. I watch, overwhelmed. Julie knows where any prop is like it’s a carton of milk in the fridge.

“Here you go.” She hands a pistol to the couple’s two year old, sitting between them.

In front of the bar is a table Julie tops with two square jarred mickeys of Jack Daniels. “Booze on the tabe-ull. You want a shot, ten bucks!” She mixes different candle gels for the right colours of her fake alcohol. The backdrop showcases a country sign that reads: “Rooms: 50¢/Hour. $3.00/Nite.” Empty bar-rels, labelled in print-out box letters: “WHISKEY” and “RUM,” rest atop either side of the bar.

The woman sits in fishnets and black boots; Julie cuts the back of them so they’re universal in size. One leg rests over the other, wrapped with a garter belt that straps down a wad of fake five dollar bills. Her dress hangs off the side and over the bar. A tight-strung push-up top accentuates her bust. A thin leather necklace is clasped tight about her neck. Her head is adorned with a headband holding a feather.

Her husband sports a cowboy hat, bow tie, and black jacket that hangs past the back of his knees. His hand’s on his holster. His lips and facial muscles

rigidly contort to a smirk.Western shots like these are the most popu-lar at Tony’s Old Time Portrait Studio.

Second are the Civil War photos and third the Victorian style.

Julie stands behind the camera. She slides a lighting stand over an inch. To the side of the bar stands a bear with a beret. It won’t be in the tight square of the frame. The shot is complete — except for the toddler.

The two-year-old cries, piercing wails, not sobs. Maybe it’s that her parents are dressed as bandits, that there’s a foreign metal toy in her hand, or that when she spins in protest she sees a deer head mounted on the wall, or the bear four feet over.

Julie stands behind the camera clapping like a mon-key to hold the child’s focus. At last she’s quiet. The sound of gulls met by pop radio is audible again, and Gwen Stefani sings: “this sh— is bananas. B-A-N-A-N-A-S.” Julie’s been snapping away, but now she’s ready.

“Okay,” she calls, “this time, for serious.”

Before the digital age, in the prime of Polaroid, paper was slid into the back of the camera. The image was pulled out and put through a roller. A protector was peeled off and the photo then hung in a dark room.

Things have changed in the business though, and Tony has passed away. She tears up at mention of it. “This —” she says with a spastic expansive gesture that reaches out to curtains, muskets, feathers, drums, lanterns, a model boat and hilted swords, “this was all his ideas.” For her and Tony it was about detail. Faux sleeves thrown onto the ends of wrists to simulate cufflinks for men wearing t-shirts under Victorian jackets. Incisions made on the backs of gun holsters so that they’re easy to slip on. They shared a dream of having the shell of a 1920’s Ford Model A for mafia photos. Maybe even a horse drawn caravan. “There’s so much you can create,” she says. He did, and she does.

Julie snaps off twenty shots and pulls them up on a monitor at the front desk for the customers to view in full-colour, sepia, black and white, or retro tone.

She moved from the Philippines twenty-two years ago. She breezes over the “where are you from” ques-tion without importance, or disdain. “This is my home now. But, originally, the Philippines.” Her answer satisfies the Romanian cowboy.

She steps back to the camera, observes her frame, and shoots.

Julie looks at the square screen to see that every-thing’s shown well: light shadows from the right angles, no one’s chin or shoulders have blurred into background or been swallowed by the oblivion of shadow. But something’s not right. She steps into the country bar, walks up to the pistol-toting cowboy and with the light cradling of two fingers, moves his chin up an inch and over to the right. With a palm over his shoulder she eases his stiff posture. He becomes less wooden and more cowboy.

Julie takes her shots, snapping with paparazzi rapidity — but still allows herself contemplation. She has the energy of an enthusiastic school girl happily involved in a play. Her black hair, devoid of grey, springs in its bob as she moves to and from the

camera. From behind her perfectly circular glasses she takes in all the camera shows.

“Mom, your head a little that way — hold it.” She snaps a shot. “Now one more time a little that way — hold it.” Flash. “Now I’m going to give you a gun — hold it.”

There are more complicated shots than these. The bathtub requires precision. No one is actually photographed naked, but the shot suspends disbelief. If a model rests too high out of the porcelain, the shot’s spoiled. Large group shots are especially tricky. Julie can handle up to ten people herself. Any more and she calls in help, assistants like she once was in Vancouver, to dress customers in costume. “A really big shot? Twenty-five people. Two and a half, three hours.”

What complicates things is people’s increasing tendency to be picky about how they look. “Men often give double chin,” she says. The double chin is a result of the head being angled too far down in pose, a tendency, Julie explains, increasingly common in men, self-aware of how they look on camera. A decade ago this was a non-issue.

“Very seldom, very seldom, people still com-plain,” she says. “Sometimes I like it” — the photo — “but people don’t like it themselves.” Much of her time is eaten up while customers gab from the other side of the desk, fingers pointed at the moni-tor discussing which shots make them look best. Occasionally Julie is accused of making someone look fat. She refutes this: “You brought fat to me!” — at least that’s what she’d like to say. According to Julie, while people are becoming more concerned with how they look, they’re also getting larger. In the last ten years she’s had to order in new cos-tumes and dress children in adult sizes. She points to the picture of a pudgy boy in a Victorian suit. “Extra-extra-extra-large!”

Julie’s computer saves photos on file indefinitely. But Julie remembers faces, the country a cus-tomer visited from, and sometimes whether they were a mobster or a Mountie. A couple from Spain revisited the studio after fifteen years. Another man brought his wife for a wedding photo. Years and a divorce and marriage later he returned with his second wife for the same western stick ’em up shot. He joked about cutting out his ex’s half of the picture and replacing it with hers (he liked his previous pose better).

A teenage girl enters with her father, hands waving. Her voice raises pitch, brings to mind a Disney prin-cess. “I want like — a big giant dress.” Her Dad’s just off work from a construction project. His thumbs tuck into jean pockets, eyes scan over lassos and bullet-hole stickers plastered against a crate. His lips shift to the side. He can be a boy again. “Howdy,” he says, “I want guns.”

Over the years Julie’s had customers invite her home with their families for dinner. But she stays put in the studio 11 a.m. – 7:30 p.m., 364 days a year, closed only on November 11 for Remembrance Day.

In the gallery, accompanied by tens of the thou-sands of pictures he’d taken, Tony is framed in black and white, 20-something, trekking through the Malaysian jungle in cargo pants and a military issue helmet. It’s the one “real” photo.

The sound of gulls squawks in from Broughton Street and its brick buildings. Julie had wanted to travel across Canada before Tony died. She takes a Civil-War jacket and gown left in the dressing room and hangs them back in the jungle of costumes.

There’s no dark room with its red aura to pin pic-tures in. Julie comes to the desk, her boyfriend sit-ting behind the computer. He plays YouTube clips of jazzy singers that bring to mind Edith Piaf. She leans across his lap and bookmarks the webpage of a prop she’s found on eBay. She waits for the next customer to stray in, to wander back, to, even if for a moment, slip into the make believe.

“Mom, your head a little that way—hold it.” She snaps a shot. “Now one more time a little that way—hold it.” Flash. “Now I’m going to give you a

gun — hold it.”

FEATURE BY GEOFFREY LINE — PHOTOS BY SOL KAUFFMAN

FEATURE October 13, 2011 MARTLET 11

CULTUREDo you like theatre? Victoria has a plethora of

playhouses — the Belfry, the Metro and the Phoenix to name but a few — and we want you to review

their plays! Email culture@martlet.ca.

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We have all heard the phrase “One person’s trash is another person’s treasure.” On Oct. 14 at UVic Pride’s clothing swap, one per-son’s unwanted accessories and clothes will become another person’s treasure.

This will be the second clothing swap hosted by UVic Pride, an advocacy group supporting sexual and gender diversity. The event proved to be fairly successful last year — about 50 people attended.

“We were able to do-nate leftover clothes to Out Of The Closet queer boutique and the UVSS clothing bank,” says Kenzie Hawksworth , one of the swap organiz-ers.

UVic Pride will be collecting clothes and accessories donations from students up until the day of the event. If you have anything in your closet that may no longer be your favou-rite, feel free to drop off the items in the UVic Pride office located in Room B010 in the SUB. 

Since UVic Pride is hosting the event, there is also great support for people who are trans-gendered. 

“We are asking for bras, actually,” says Hawksworth , “because particularly for people who are transitioning, that can be a real-ly nerve-wracking thing — to go out and buy your own bra; that’s generally not accepted in society.”

Last year, there were some shoes and jew-elry donated, but most items were clothing. Hawksworth says people are welcome to bring hats, scarves, gloves and shoes.

“Shoes would be great, actually,” says Hawksworth . 

A special aspect of this event is that the clothing items will not be sorted by gen-der, but by upper and lower body, and then by size.

“This is to encourage people to take the

clothes that they feel the most comfortable in, not the ones society restricts them to wear,” said Hawksworth .

Hawksworth says the event has a couple of goals.

“One is purely to have a social environment that is welcoming and inclusive of all sexu-alities and genders,” says Hawksworth , “and another goal is to raise donations for Out Of The Closet Queer Boutique and the UVSS clothing bank.”

Entrance is free, and students do not have to donate clothes in order take some home with them. They will be asked to sign a safer-space agreement at the point of entrance.

“It’s just to make people aware that this is a safer space, and homophobic or trans-phobic comments will not be tolerated,” said Hawksworth .

The clothing swap not only benefits individuals and chari-ties; it also supports the concept of reusing and reducing, making UVic a more sustain-able environment.

“Having a cloth-ing swap encourages the use of second-hand clothes, with the added bonus of being free,” said Hawksworth. “New styles come out every season which can be a drain on our planet’s resources; using second-hand clothes is a way to tell

corporations that you’re not into consuming new clothes just for the sake of consuming. The more you reuse clothes, the fewer you buy and the fewer end up in our landfills. Clothing swaps are also a great way to get free fabric for creating or patching your existing clothes.”

UVic Pride clothing swapOct. 14, 2011Vertigo, UVic SUB6–8:30 p.m

UVic Pride to host clothing swap

We are asking for bras, actually,

because particularly for people who are

transitioning, that can be a really nerve-wracking

thing — to go out and buy your own

bra . . . Kenzie Hawksworth

Swap organizer

VANESSA ANNAND

Micah Jodoin and Kenzie Hawksworth model layers of clothing that have been donated for UVic Pride’s clothing swap on Oct. 14.

CULTURE October 13, 2011 MARTLET 13

> JENNY BOYCHUK

Have you ever thought about the possibility of a real-life superhero? Seems impossible, doesn’t it? UVic neuroscience and kinesiol-ogy professor Dr. E. Paul Zehr discusses how it might be entirely possible in his new book, Inventing Iron Man: The Possibility of a Human Machine.

Zehr, whose book came out last month, signed copies of Inventing Iron Man at Curious Comics on Oct. 9. The book examines what the under-layers of an Iron Man suit might look like, and how one could be constructed for real-life purposes such as physical rehabilita-tion after a stroke or spinal cord injury.

So, is this a comic book or a scientific proposal?“I tried to use a pop culture icon as a medium

to explore science,” said Zehr. “Because we live in an age of technology, what can we do to try to amplify biology with technology? That’s sort of the theme with Inventing Iron Man. In particular, an area of amplification is the idea of using the brain to control devices.”

Zehr has a philosophy about education and educating the public, which is to use a com-mon ground.

“There’s a lot of science in here, but I’m trying to put it in a way that’s interesting for people,” said Zehr.

Although a seemingly unlikely duo, Zehr says that science and comics complement each other well. He discovered this thanks to his last book on a similar topic, Becoming Batman.

“One of the really unexpected things that came from Becoming Batman was that I took a piece of pop culture and I tried to talk about it [scientifically], but it made its way back into pop culture,” said Zehr. “[Comic book writer] Grant Morrison was writing a Batman run and

he was talking about reading my book and how it influenced how he was writing Batman.”

Zehr says, in some cases, earlier comics fore-shadowed what we have in the real world today.

“When I was thinking about brain-machine interface and where we are now, if we go back to early ’90s comics, there’s some imagery around brain ports and things that actually look a lot like what we have in real brain-machine interface now,” said Zehr. “These same kind of connections actually go into real people now, but were thought and written about in Iron Man comics in 1993.”

While the idea of an Iron Man suit is exciting, there would also be many risks.

“It leads into all areas of discussion on reha-bilitation — there are probably some negative things could happen to your brain if you were connected to a machine,” said Zehr. “When we think of a superhero like Iron Man and of being connected to the suit to use it, we also have to realize it’s connected to us.”

Zehr notes that part of the book’s purpose is to make readers realize that Iron Man’s armor is not just an article of clothing.

“A personal Iron Man suit doesn’t exist cur-rently, but if it did, how could you control it? You wouldn’t be able to use it just like wear-ing clothing — you would have to actually use it in a direct connection with your body,” said Zehr. “And if, for example, the computer system was hacked, you would also be hacked — not just the suit.”

Zehr says that the key to scientific advances is that they often change people’s perspectives.

“I think the biggest thing about advances in science is that we get constrained by our para-digms and the normal things we do,” said Zehr. “This [book] kind of helps break those molds a little bit — it makes you think outside of it all.”

Could we cast an Iron Man?UVic professor’s new book, Inventing Iron Man, gleans from comics and science

JENNY BOYCHUK

Dr. E. Paul Zehr signed books and discussed cerebral suits at Curious Comics.

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On Oct. 5, Open Space gallery presented lit-erary luminary Lee Henderson to kick off this year’s Open Word: Reading and Ideas series.

Henderson was recently appointed to UVic’s writing department. He is a contributor to both Border Crossings and Contemporary, author of the widely praised anthology The Broken Record Technique (Penguin Canada 2002) and winner of the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. His debut novel, The Man Game (Penguin 2008), was awarded the 2009 B.C. Book Prize. Henderson has also won a Western Magazine Award for his short fictional stories.

The pine-coloured wooden floors filled the gallery with the aroma of young timber, and the bright halogen lights bounced off the crisp white walls, highlighting Henderson. An audi-ence member described Henderson’s writing as “sprawling, brilliant, playful and heart-breaking.” He read the story “Bison Burgers,” which was published in Border Crossings (Issue 118), with great passion and poise.

Memorable turns of phrase from the reading included the following: “The two middle-aged children walked softly through the graceful inches;” “the creature studied Shannon carefully, heavily” and “the sight of her milk-gurgling teeth made Shannon think of her pearl-white silk pyjamas.”

After a 15-minute intermission that allowed Henderson to sign autographs, former Mon-day Magazine editor John Threlfall inter-viewed the writer.

Apart from writing, Henderson has a strong interest in both music and art. He even has a mini art gallery contained in one metal brief-case. Henderson showcases these original artworks by various local artists at pubs, restaurants and parties.

“I love writing about art, because it is so hard,” said Henderson, “and most of the time, I’m very selective about the art that I write about. I love writing about vocal artists, people that I can meet and talk to, people that I feel like I can support . . . I am looking

to not write critical.” Henderson says he listens to music while he

writes. As a child, he wanted to be a car-toonist, and has “always been a very obses-sive doodler.”

Henderson majored in writing at UBC, where he also obtained his MFA. He still doodles on his UVic students’ papers and stories without realizing it.

“I do really enjoy reading first drafts,” said Henderson, “which maybe some people think is crazy, but I really enjoy working with writ-ers, and first draft stories, and trying to figure out what their intention was and how far away are we from that separation, that gap, the challenges of that second draft. And the conversations we have are so interesting.”

Henderson believes workshops are impor-tant for both professional and young writers.

“They really help you learn,” said Henderson. “I took a huge learning curve when I started doing workshops. I learned so much, and I still feel like I’m learning a lot from workshops.”

Henderson doesn’t believe the Internet or technology will take over print journalism. In fact, because everything is tighter and there is so much to fish through, when people find a treasure of a story, they share it and pass it along. He says people are always searching for new things, ideas and works.

“We always want to know what some young kid thinks of the world, because it is different from what some old guy thinks of the world,” said Henderson.

Henderson reminds future writers that it is their responsibility to work hard. It is essential “to focus on the quality, depth and concentration [of] the piece; the digital world will not give us any slack.” When asked, “What is the cure for writers’ block?” Henderson says, “Write.” To make your story successful, “you just have to be specific, more specific and even more specific.”

Henderson tries to keep his students’ spirits up and ensure they are putting effort, confi-dence and time into their writing. Both this reading and his teaching point to the huge open space out there for young writers.

Opening Open Word

> MIA STEINBERG

If you’re up to date on your Pixar films (as all good people should be), you might be familiar with the 2007 release Ratatouille and the character of Auguste Gusteau, the chef who jovially proclaimed “anyone can cook.” The life lessons absorbed by a cartoon rat can most certainly apply to poor college students.

When we live at home, dinner is a magical entity. It’s conjured from seemingly nothing to appear, fragrant and delicious, on the stove. When we leave for university, we are confront-ed with the startling realization that cooking is a vast realm of possibilities, overwhelm-ingly stuffed with variations, substitutions, bizarre measurements and tiny blowtorches. With exams and papers to worry about, it’s too easy to call in for pizza or reach for the ramen noodles. Those weekend marathons of Top Chef, while entertaining, won’t be much help when you realize that your monthly food budget is easily blown on just one helping of seared scallops and fennel purée. And if you come from a multi-sibling family (as I do), your perception of how much food to buy in one grocery run can be grossly overestimated. Even if you know the basics of a few good meals, the transition from cooking for many to cooking for one can be tough to swallow.

I’ve been there. In my first year in Victoria, I spent over $125 each week on groceries, wandering the aisles of Safeway, making lofty meal plans. Then the middle of the week would come, and I’d remember the huge pa-per I had due — or I’d go out with my buddies one night, or chip in on a roommate pizza order — and my groceries would languish in my fridge, uneaten, loved only by the fuzzy mould they’d spawned. When exams came around, my focus would narrow to the point where the only dinner that could possibly ex-

ist was pasta. Or maybe yam fries. But in quieter times, I’d peruse cookbooks.

Trips home became a reminder that you could make fish that wasn’t out of a can. And over the summer I banished all campus food from my diet, invented a home-cooked meal plan, and lost 20 pounds.

Cooking as a student can be overwhelming, but I believe that there is a delicious middle ground between ramen and roast ducklings. Everyone can become a kick-ass cook with a stash of a few healthy, delicious, impressive recipes that work with a student’s lifestyle.

That brings us to this column. In it, I hope to share some of my recipes, as well as tips, tricks and general cooking hints to help you develop your own delicious ideas.

To start, here is my recipe for delicious lunch tortilla wraps that are easy, portable, and quick to make.

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CULTURE

> SARAH CASEY

Legendary ’70s rock group Pink Floyd recently released remastered versions of several of their best-selling albums.

A Momentary Lapse of Reason consists of hits that are electrifying and almost soundtrack-like; the instrumentation makes them sound like backing tracks for a movie. Each song is easy listening and suitable for all ages.

Wish You Were Here is the most relaxing of the new releases. It consists of old hits that are now blended together to create an unforgettably beautiful album. Wish You Were Here shows the dark side of Pink Floyd. The album has the fewest songs, yet it is the longest because the songs are all over four minutes each. The lon-gest is the 12-minute song “Shine on You Crazy Diamond” written by Roger Waters, Richard Wright and David Gilmour. The song is a tribute to Pink Floyd’s former band member Syd Bar-rett, who died from heavy drug use.

Obscured by Clouds was based on Pink Floyd’s soundtrack for the French film La Vallée. Many will argue that this album was the band’s best, although it isn’t as famous or well known as Dark Side of the Moon. This album consists of 10 mellow songs. Sure, Pink Floyd is known for psychedelic rock, but this album takes that talent to a new level. The guitar serves as the words throughout this album; it weeps in the songs as a singer would. The new remastered tracks take the original songs and perfect the overall quality nicely.

Ummagumma, which means “sex” in slang throughout the U.K., is Pink Floyd’s most exotic, instrument-heavy album. The album isn’t Pink Floyd’s best work; it is more focused on the sounds than actual melody and lyrics. The songs showcase some of Pink Floyd’s more abstract ideas.

Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Pink Floyd’s first studio album, brings back some of the band’s earliest work with the digital remaster. Neither the original album nor the re-release sounds much like Pink Floyd. Both albums have more of a rock (Beatles) feel rather than Pink Floyd’s psychedelic sound.

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> DANIEL LEBARON

If you believe in the old adage that “nothing beats the original,” you’ll agree that Tokyo Police Club’s new album is a risky venture. 10 Songs, 10 Years, 10 Days is an album encom-passing 10 hit songs from the last decade, covering artists from the hard-hitting Queens of the Stone Age to contemporary pop queens Kelly Clarkson and Miley Cyrus.

I have long been a fan of Tokyo Police Club’s high-energy indie rock, so I was surprised and disappointed to hear tracks that would typically fit the pre-teen girl market. But the lacklustre renditions of “Party in the U.S.A.” and “Since U Been Gone” are countered by in-spiring performances of LCD Soundsystem’s 2007 epic “All My Friends” and Phoenix’s 2006 upbeat track “Long Distance Call.”

Don’t be surprised if you pick up this album and are less-than-satisfied with a number of the track listings. But make no mistake: you will be ecstatic with at least a few of them. Only after I escaped my initial preconceptions could I really enjoy this record for the wide assortment that it is. It may be easy to deride the appearance of pop songs that would be scoffed at in the world of true rock music, but we must also acknowledge the courage that frontman David Monks and co. exerted in making this album. It’s never easy to leap outside of our comfort zones, but Tokyo Police club did exactly that on this album, mixing genres, taking chances and probably both gaining and losing fans in the process. Check out this album if you want to hear a new twist on old songs. It has something for everyone.

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LISTENING CORNER This club ain’t exclusive

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On Oct. 6, The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (AGGV) hosted a lecture by Camosun College resident artist Caleb Speller. Speller, a young Canadian artist, spoke about modern do-it-yourself art and showcased three of his works as part of the lecture series for The Modern Eye exhibition, which runs until Nov. 22.

“[Canadian design] is all around us,” said Speller. “It is an inspirational source. Sometimes it is revered and other times it is tossed away.”

The Modern Eye showcases craft and design in Canada from 1940 through 1980. During this time period, art took a modern form, mov-ing away from classical ideals into the uncon-ventional. The objects on display are modern in every sense: tapestries in bright blocks of co-lour, ceramics with varying designs and shapes as well as industrial or household pieces.

Speller’s work was featured for one night only as a more contemporary take on modernism. He focuses on Canadian-made objects in his art.

“Canadian Muscle” began as a drawing exer-cise but turned into a drawing series featuring objects from Canada’s industrious past. Speller drew objects that were created in Canada for consumption. One of the compelling drawings from this series was a sketch of Scripto Cana-da’s eraser-refill box. Scripto makes pencils for school children — the classic yellow pencils with pink erasers on their tops. The box had contained the eraser head replacements for the pencils, and the sketch illustrated how society no longer uses materials until they are depleted, but consumes constantly.

Speller’s “Special Stones” was privately commissioned and featured arrowheads that were passed down three generations. Speller’s sketches of the arrowheads were

passed around for the audience to feel. The sketches had a three-dimensional quality that was readily apparent to the touch. To Speller, “Special Stones” represented a pre-indus-trial age. The artist imagined the speciality needed to create the arrowheads. Arrow-head quality was connected to the skill of an individual, and the artist imagined people travelling great distances to learn the skills and create these useful tools. Arrowheads are industrial items of Canada’s past that fit with the artist’s theme.

The last project, tentatively named “Public Domains” or “Karsh Series,” was a series of collages that featured Speller’s take on famous Yousuf Karsh photos. Pictures had been cut up and placed in various ways to create an entirely different image. All parts of the original image were used to make the collages; any aspect of white space came from a Karsh piece. “Public Domains” was a visual reinterpretation of the past for Speller. The idea of taking an old item and renewing or reusing it to create a whole new interpreta-tion fits with Speller’s idea of celebrating and utilizing the past in modern art.

The Modern Eye includes works by prolific designers from many decades. Walking into the exhibit, viewers are greeted by a wall-mounted coat rack made of simple metal with wooden knobs by Court Noxon of Metal-smiths Company Ltd. in Toronto.

Another piece of interest is a green hoop chair from 1955 by John Hauser of John Hauser Ironwork Ltd., built in his original workshop in Kitchener. The chair consists of steel rod, plywood and upholstery and looks as if it could be purchased at NOOD (New Objects Of Desire) downtown. The chair is simple but futuristic with its fuzzy, moss-like green upholstery.

A Glo-Up Lamp from 1969 looks like a dog

sitting up on its hind legs, waiting for a treat. The lamp is bright red with a huge white, circular bulb and was created by Douglas Ball and John Berezowsky for Danesco Montreal out of acrylic and plastic.

The lamp seems to embody the purpose of the exhibit. Odd shapes and colours, espe-

cially during these earlier time periods, were out of the ordinary and spoke to the change in society.

To learn more about the exhibition or view a schedule of lectures and walking tours per-taining to The Modern Eye, visit the website: aggv.ca/exhibitions/modern-eye.

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> JENNY BOYCHUK

Two recent UVic graduates and former Vikes debuted at the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. Though they finished fourth in their pool, Andrew Tiedemann and Ryan Hamilton hold memories, experiences, and excitement in place of a trophy.

“[It was] pretty incredible. New Zealand is a great country and it was amazing to be involved in the World Cup,” says Hamilton.

“The most amazing experience — I’m never going to forget it,” says Tiedemann.

The teammates both acknowledge UVic rugby and their former head coach Doug Tate for helping shape them into the players they are now.

“I came to UVic because of rugby, not school,” says Tiedemann. “I got a lot of opportunities and experience [through the program].”

“Initially, I came to UVic because I wanted to play rugby and I heard about how Doug ran his program — I liked the sounds of it,” says Hamilton. “Doug puts big emphasis on physi-cal fitness and the program has so many good players. It was pretty instrumental for me play-ing at the World Cup and getting me ready.”

Tate says he is pleased with his former players. “I think it’s just fantastic. Ryan had setbacks

with injuries over the last few years and An-drew went through Kinesiology and so he was always really busy,” says Tate. “They didn’t get tons of playing time [at the World Cup], but it was nice to see them playing against full professionals — these guys were from our uni-versity and they were playing against athletes

with five or six-digit contracts.” Tiedemann and Hamilton note the ups and

downs of their World Cup experience. “It was extremely positive, but there were

highs and lows like anything. We won that first big game against Tonga,” says Hamilton.

“We lost four days later to France, and that kind of brought us down — then we tied Ja-pan,” says Tiedemann. “We needed to come third in our pool to automatically qualify for the next World Cup, but we came fourth.”

Hamilton says the positives of the competi-tion overshadowed the losses.

“We played with the All Blacks (New Zea-land) — it’s like playing against your idols. I’ve seen them play hundreds of times,” says Hamilton.

Canada will have to train and compete over the next four years to earn a spot in the 2015 World Cup in England.

“I think they played better than people anticipated,” says Tate. “It gives them a good

understanding of what they have to work on to try to get to the next World Cup — then they’ll be veteran guys.”

Hamilton and Tiedemann are best friends as well, which played a big part in their over-all experience.

“It was unreal having Andrew there — we’ve been best friends since we met on the U17 Canada team,” says Hamilton. “Travel-ling with a best friend makes everything more fun. It also really helped to know other guys there who I also played with at UVic.”

The team didn’t have any problems being around each other for long periods of time.

“We don’t get on each other’s nerves unless we want to — Andrew will tell you I get on his nerves all the time, but it’s not serious,” said Hamilton. “It was a really cool thing to see, because often cliques will form on long trips — but we got along really well.”

“Out of all the teams I’ve played on, this was by far the best. I could happily sit down

and have a meal with any of the players,” says Tiedemann.

Both players say they received immense support from family, friends and previous teammates and coaches.

“Doug sent us emails all the time, and I had uncles, aunts, and friends that I hadn’t heard from in a long time sending their support,” says Hamilton.

“My dad came to all the games — it was awesome having him down there. The teams were really supportive as well. And the kids down there loved talking to us. It was just a really cool experience,” says Tiedemann.

Tiedemann is enjoying his time off before he and Hamilton resume their training for the 2015 World Cup.

“It’s so good to just chill after being away. I’ve gone fishing a few times and I’ve gotten to do stuff I couldn’t do when I was training or in classes,” says Tiedemann.

“When you’re down there, your days are full — it’s a long time to stay concentrated. It’s a grind,” says Tate. “I’ve been on a lot of those trips and it takes a lot out of you.”

“It’s the best job in the world, though — I just get to lift weights and play rugby,” says Tiedemann.

Professional rugby is hard work, but Hamil-ton and Tiedemann fit the job description.

“They are very similar in the sense that they never complain and they are hard work-ers. They just go out and do the job — they don’t make any excuses. They were dream guys to coach, and we’re certainly going to miss them,” says Tate.

Former Vikes return home from Rugby World Cup

ARMANDO TURABurly Andrew Tiedemann (left) and bearded Ryan Hamilton (right).

> PATRICK CWIKLINSKI

Although fuelled by a fresh influx of youthful vigour, the UVic men’s hockey club still has a lot to prove this season.

UVic head coach Harry Schamhart says that while his team might be the youngest com-peting in the British Columbia Intercollegiate Hockey League (BCIHL) this year, hard work and discipline will be the keys to improving on last season where they finished third in playoff standings.

“Going into the year, we want to win,” says Schamhart. “We have a winning tradition at UVic and we’ve won the provincials twice in the past. Last year we ended up the season really well. I’d like to improve on that.”

Schamhart isn’t alone in that goal and is joined this year by two new assistant coaches in Cole Byers and Sean McNeil. They bring a renewed feel to the coaching staff while providing invaluable experience.

“What I expect them to bring, and they al-ready have, is a new energy,” says Schamhart.

“Cole Byers brings experience and knowledge and respect. He’s a really good communicator and he expects a lot from his players. Sean McNeil, he brings experience and knowledge. He has really good ability to organize and communicate.”

Among the returning veteran core will be Matt Schultz, Brent Sutherland, Brett Campbell, Philip Barter and defending BCIHL scoring leader Matthew Bell, who is excited about the new direction of the team.

“I think last year the voice in the room got a little bit old, a little tired,” says Bell. “Espe-cially with some of the veteran guys who had been here for five years. A lot of those guys have moved on and I think it’s a youthful movement.”

New acquisition Cam McWilliam, who joins UVic from the Alberta Junior Hockey League’s Grand Prairie Storm, is expected to make an impact. He has already caught the attention of his coach, who believes the 6-foot-3 forward will be a definite asset in team’s future.

“He brings a lot to this team that we didn’t have,” says Schamhart. “He’s got great lead-ership. He’s quiet but he just kind of leads by example and having his experience added to this team is going to help.”

The BCIHL is also expanding into the United States for the first time ever this season as Eastern Washington University joins the league from Cheney, Wash.

“It’s a huge step going to the States,” says Bell. “It’s a good thing, it just brings a little more notoriety to our league. I’ve been around this team for the last three years and you can see it from the first year until now it’s gone up exponentially: the level of talent, the commitment — everything.”

UVic opens its regular season on the road against Selkirk College on Oct. 14 and makes its home debut against Okanagan College on Saturday, Nov. 12, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 13, at 4 p.m. at the Ian Stewart Complex.

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Have you ever thought about what might lie in other galaxies? Kim Venn, an Associate Professor in UVic’s Physics and Astronomy Department has, and she’s using stars as tools to try and solve some of these big mysteries.

Venn, who is also a Canada Research chair, wants to search for clues about how our galaxy was formed by finding and observing stars containing relatively low amounts of metals. But while she says locating these ‘metal-poor’ stars is like find-ing a needle in a haystack, Venn hopes new technology will help.

“If we have the right tool, we could double our chances of hitting it,” says Venn. “We’re looking for the oldest stars — so maybe the ones which formed when the galaxy formed. And that maybe tells you about the universe right after the Big Bang—how the universe formed.”

Venn and other astronomers hope that tool will be RAVEN, an optical instrument being designed by members of UVic’s Mechanical

Engineering department. It was requested to be built for the Subaru telescope in Mauna Kea, Hawaii.

“Suddenly there was an opportunity for this great science and telescope and engi-neering all involved together,” says Venn. “And we went for it — I’m excited about this because they got the grant to build RAVEN and I’ve put together a science case that I’m excited about.”

As Venn explains, RAVEN works by using a new technology in adaptive optics, the pro-cess in which astronomical observations are corrected for the visual distortion created by the Earth’s atmosphere. The new technology corrects two separate parts of the sky about five arc minutes (one-twelfth of one degree of sky) apart.

“This hasn’t been done before — people have only corrected one part of the sky and they’ve tried to make the area bigger and big-ger, but that’s probably not the way the next- generation telescope will work,” says Venn.

While Venn is trying to determine the story of how our own galaxy was formed, she notes

every galaxy has its own unique story to tell. “What I am specifically interested in is that

every galaxy we can see has led an indepen-dent life — more or less. This means that ev-ery galaxy you look at has not been in contact with our galaxy,” says Venn. “So our galaxy had to go through its own generation of stars and star formation to form something like the sun, and then the sun formed planets and we live on this planet. But, what exactly did the chemistry have to be for it to make our sun? And to make something like our Earth that we live on?”

However, before Venn can get started on solving this mystery, RAVEN needs to be com-pleted, which Venn believes will take about two years.

“It’s forefront science — we don’t know that it can be built; we don’t think there will be problems that we can’t work around; but you don’t know until you try, and when it’s right at the cutting edge, we just don’t know,” says Venn. “That’s pretty exciting, I think.”

SCIENTIST OF THE WEEK

UVic prof looks to the stars for answers

> ALAN PIFFER

This week I’d like to take a look at a home video game console you probably have never heard of — the TurboGrafx-16.

The TurboGrafx-16 was arguably the first 16-bit game system released in North America (while it had 16-bit graphics, it actu-ally had an 8-bit CPU). Its 1989 release set it up to compete not only with the highly-estab-lished-but-less-visually-impressive Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), but the new, up-and-coming, and slightly more powerful Sega Genesis.

The Turbografx console featured a sleek, black design similar in size and shape to a laptop PC. It came with a single controller very much like NES’s, but its most interest-ing feature was its games, which came in a special “Turbochip” format that essentially looked like a credit card with a chip on top.

While the TurboGrafx initially showed some promise, gaining a small share of the

home video-game market with a number of quality games, it was doomed to failure. One of its main disadvantages was its hard-ware — playing multiplayer games meant not only buying more controllers but also buying an external “Turbotap” device that extra controllers had to be plugged into. And while the TurboGrafx actually had the first CD-ROM device available for a home system — beating the Sony Playstation by six years — not only was the CD add-on twice as expensive as the system itself, but only a trickle of games were ever released for it.

But while hardware is important, what typically makes or breaks a game console is its software. Besides a low-key marketing campaign that didn’t help matters much, the TurboGrafx simply couldn’t compete with the sheer number of quality games available for the NES or Genesis.

Nintendo, besides boasting the hugely suc-cessful Mario and Zelda series which remain

popular to this day, had a lot of third-party companies developing great NES games.

The Genesis also secured a strong early foothold due to Sega’s selection of classic arcade titles and firmly entrenched itself as the dominant system in North America throughout the early ’90s with mega-hits like Sonic the Hedgehog and NHL Hockey.

With few popular titles available for it, TurboGrafx soon fell behind in the market. By the time Super NES was released in 1991, it was pretty much all over for TurboGrafx.

Fortunately TurboGrafx-16 lives on via Nintendo’s Virtual Console service. Many of these games, now two decades old, still stand the test of the time for the avid retro-gamer.

Some personal favourite TurboGrafx games include Bonk’s Adventure and Bonk’s Revenge (Mario-style platformers), Neutopia 1 & 2, (essentially well-done Zelda clones), Blazing Lasers, Splatterhouse, R-Type, The Legendary Axe, and the amazing turn-based strategy game Military Madness.

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SEEING STARS HOROSCOPES FOR THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 13TH – BY CANDACE O’NEILL

Capricorn (Dec. 22 - Jan. 19): If you’ve been sitting around waiting for the right oppor-tunity to present itself to you, then you may end up waiting longer than you think. You will need to be more proactive than ever this week in order to get what you want.

Aquarius (Jan. 20 - Feb. 18): Now is the time to make new friends and new potential connections that will help you tremendously in the weeks to come. You will need to pay careful attention to how you carry yourself this week — you don’t want to seem unapproachable!

Pisces (Feb. 19 - Mar. 20): When we become wrapped up in our day-to-day lives, we some-times lose sight of the bigger picture. Take the time to re-evaluate things this week, Pisces, to see if you are still heading in the direction you had originally intended.

Aries (Mar. 21 - Apr. 19): The problem for you this week won’t be in seeking a new opportunity — the challenge will be picking just one or two from the many that will be presented to you! Consider the pros and cons carefully to avoid overlooking the best pos-sible choice.

Taurus (Apr. 20 - May 20): You’ve got big plans for the future, and that’s great Taurus, but you’re missing a key part of the equation: the present. Don’t overlook what needs to be done right now in order for you to achieve everything that you would like to in the weeks to come.

Gemini (May. 21 - June 20): It isn’t necessary for you to constantly carry the weight of the world on your shoulders, Gemini. Focus on asking for help this week, or delegating work to others to alleviate some of the burden before you burn out completely.

Cancer (June 21 - July 22): The key to al-leviating your stress this week will be finding a balance between the different areas of your life. Devoting all your time and energy to one aspect of your life will cause you to neglect other equally important areas.

Leo (July 23 - Aug. 22): Don’t discourage yourself from trying something new or more complicated than you are used to this week, Libra. You just might surprise yourself, and everyone around you, at how well you really thrive under pressure.

Virgo (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22): You’ve been hid-ing from the answer to a very simple question for quite some time now. The real question, Virgo, is why? You can’t hide forever, so you might as well face it sooner rather than later to avoid complicating matters any further.

Libra (Sept. 23 - Oct. 22): The world doesn’t revolve solely around you this week, Libra. Not everyone has the means, ability, or desire to drop everything when you feel that you need them. Be wary of expecting too much from those around you this week.

Scorpio (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21): As much as we would like to leap ahead in life and achieve all of our goals in a timely fashion, it rarely works out that way. Focus on the steps that will get you to your where you want to be instead of just the end result.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21): You can’t expect everyone to know exactly what you’re thinking or how you are feeling at any given moment, Sagittarius. If you want something done, then focus on clearly communicating your needs. A little communication will go a long way this week. 

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