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After a vigorous and occasionallyheated race, students at the Universityof Regina voted by to replace incum-bent students’ union president KyleAddison and his For Students slatewith the Voice of Students slate – andalthough voter numbers were large,the margin of victory was slim.

In the hotly-contested race for thepresidency, Voice of Students candi-date Kent Peterson won with 964votes, beating Addison by 32.Independent candidate Reid Hill re-ceived 136 votes, and only 89 votersabstained.

Though other races were close –For Students candidate MariahPerkins defeated independent RandyJohnson for the position of EducationStudents’ Director by a single vote –the presidency was the narrowest ex-ecutive vote. The other candidates –incoming vice-presidents Haanim Nur(operations and finance), MelissaBlackhurst (student affairs), and PaigeKezima (external affairs) – saw gaps of50 to 120 votes between themselvesand the For Students candidates.

Voice of Students have already be-gun their transition into the URSU ex-ecutive offices, meeting with eachother and with URSU staffers likeMike Staines in preparation for takingoffice on May 1.

For most incoming URSU execu-tives, May is a transitional month inwhich the stnew executive extends theoutgoing executives’ terms and enliststheir help in order to get up to speedwith URSU’s daily operations. In anunusual step, Voice of Students havechosen to forego this process, insteadenlisting a transition team made up offour prior URSU executives – MikeBurton, Kristy Fyfe, Jenn Bergen, andKathleen Wilson – to help them accli-matize.

“We decided not to [extend the

previous executive’s term] becausethey are available in terms of [VP stu-dent affairs] Tyler Willox and probably[VP external affairs] Kaytlyn Barber;they will be on the board, so they'reclose by to answer any questions wehave in terms of that. So we're notworried about all of a sudden losingthat institutional memory,” Petersonsaid. “And we thought it was a goodopportunity to bring in past URSU ex-ecutives who did good work and whodid a lot of things that we're offering todo now, such as lobbying for a tuitionfreeze. Kathleen Wilson and MikeBurton especially did a lot of work onthat ... We just think we have more tolearn from people who had done it inthe past as opposed to people who aredoing it now.”

Along with the proposed tuitionfreeze, the Voice of Students platformincludes several other planned policyinitiatives, such as green roofs, com-munity gardens, and sustainable andeffective student transit, that Petersonadmits will be difficult for the slate toenact this year. Instead, he says, URSUwill be doing extensive research andreports in the hopes that future execu-tives will pick up and run with these“long-term” projects.

But, Peterson says, the new execu-tive plans to move forward with someof its bigger projects, such as lobbyingfor a tuition freeze, slashing executiveprivileges like Owl discounts, andhalving locker rental fees. The Voice ofStudents had done a cost analysis ontheir platform, he claims; savings fromthese latter cuts will total about$10,000 and will tentatively go to PACgroups and a new fund for residentstudent events.

Some of these ideas were in theVoice of Students’ initial policy docu-ment. However, others were added tothe slate’s platform later, after meetingwith the organizers of and participantsin Vote for Change, a project headedup independently by U of R studentsduring the election.

Vote for Change was run byAlternative URSU Policy (AURSUP),an on-campus group that focuses onURSU policy and advocacy. SoniaStanger, the group’s leader, likensAURSUP to the Canadian Centre forPolicy Alternatives, a non-partisanthink tank with a focus on social justiceissues. She says that the purpose ofVote for Change was to engage stu-dents in a conversation with candi-dates – and, hopefully, with theirelected representatives. The response,she says, was “overwhelming”.

“I think it was great because itshowed that there is a way to havethat conversation about things weneed to change without necessarily theduality or the partisanship that mightotherwise happen, just because wewere a non-partisan students' groupas opposed to supporting either side.”

Stanger says that, despite meetingsome initial hesitation, AURSUPworked with both slates to reach out tostudents and access their ideas. Sheadded that this give-and-take was thepurpose of Vote for Change, and shesuggests that the approach of work-ing directly with students on policy isone the executive should carry for-ward.

“What they need to do is keep thatconversation with the students really,really open, and ask the students whatthey want actively,” Stanger said. “... Ithink that my biggest advice would beto really listen and keep that conversa-tion going with students.”

Peterson said he looks forward toworking with AURSUP. “I made itclear to her that I hope they hold allour feet to the fire, so to speak, and tomake sure we don't stray too far fromwhat we said we'd do in an electionand don't stray too far from what stu-dents said they wanted us to do in anelection.”

Despite both slates working withAURSUP, however, there was never-theless competitiveness between can-didates, and while it manifested itself

in a mostly healthy way during thedebates, things did occasionally getugly. Fine Arts Students’ Director can-didate Jon Petrychyn’s posters werefound vandalized in the hallways ofthe faculty of fine arts; though imagesof the vandalism were posted toFacebook, no perpetrator has beenidentified.

As well, Addison stirred up last-minute controversy by appearing onlocal radio host John Gormley’s talkshow on March 16, ostensibly to talkabout the Canadian Federation ofStudents referendum results, whichwere released on March 11. Thoughthe interview began by discussing theproximity of the results’ release to theURSU general elections, it ended withAddison slamming Peterson for “dis-liking” figures such as Brad Wall andVianne Timmons.

Peterson also drew criticism fromGormley for his involvement as vice-president of the provincial NDP, a po-sition which Peterson claims to haveresigned from prior to the elections.

However, there was some ques-tion as to whether Addison had vio-lated election bylaws by appearing onGormley’s show; as a result, Addisonposted an apology to his blog onURSU’s website. Chief ReturningOfficer Drew Baldock didn’t addressthe incident directly, but he did sug-gest that URSU’s board should clarifyrules and punishments in its electionbylaws.

Another obstacle to the electionproceeding smoothly was the inadver-tent omission of Women’s StudentsDirector candidate Zeinab Ramadanfrom the ballot. While Baldock initiallyattempted to smooth over the mistakeby negotiating with the three candi-dates, he said that “ultimately therewas no agreement so I think the fairestthing to do would be a revote – samehours, just one week later – for that.”

But Baldock was otherwise opti-mistic about the election. Turnout washigh, especially considering that two

blocs of students – co-op and intern-ship students – were allowed to votethis year, when they hadn’t before. Healso pointed out that online voting wascomparatively smooth and uncompli-cated this year, allowing more studentsto vote, and was overall positive aboutthe effects of URSU’s total transition toonline-only votes.

“I'd say less than 10 per cent ofthe people voted at [on-campus]polling stations so obviously peopleare doing it in the computer labs, ontheir laptops at home ... It makes iteasier for them to vote, they don't haveto go out,” he said, before chuckling.“Plus, counting ballots is pretty muchautomatic.”

But the high turnout wasn’t forany one particular individual or cam-paign; although several races weren’tclose, every For Students candidatewho ran for a board position won it.And Peterson said that he’s taking thatinto consideration as part of URSU’smandate. “They sort of set a pox onboth our houses,” he joked.

“What students have told us is,‘Go, you're all URSU representativesnow, you're no longer this slate or thatslate ... Some of your ideas are thesame, some of your ideas are different,but ultimately and at the end of theday you have to work together.’”

For a full list of results, visitursu.uregina.ca/elections/results.php.

[Full disclosure: Kent Peterson was em-ployed by the Carillon prior to the elec-tions, and has returned to fill out his dutiesfor the remainder of the year; however,Peterson took a leave of absence prior to theelection, and the duties he is returning toare strictly financial in nature. TheCarillon attempted to contact the othertwo presidential candidates, as well. ReidHill did not respond to press inquiries asof Tuesday, and Kyle Addison turneddown a request to be interviewed.]

CChheecckkss aanndd bbaallaanncceessVoice of Students sweep executive seats, For Students take 11 boardseats, and voter turnout nears 20 per cent

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Set your wheels in motion and attendthe Bike Clinic on Mar. 24.

Campion College Students Unionis putting on a Bike Clinic in the Multi-Purpose Room on Thursday. The goal,according to CCSU social justice andenvironment co-ordinator MatthewDipple, is to “raise awareness aboutcycling as a sustainable alternative[mode of] transportation, [and to] in-crease bike literacy on campus.”

The clinic, brainchild of Dippleand co-CCSU member Andrea Nelson,was originally planned for the Fall2010 semester. Dipple explained thatdifficulties came up around having theevent too early in the semester.

“[During the fall], everyone’s put-ting their bikes away as opposed togetting them out, so we decided topostpone it to this spring.”

Spring has sprung (sort of), andthe bike clinic is just around the corner.It is an event with many faces – Dipplesaid the event is “going to be: learnhow to fix your own bike, learn someriding safety, and celebrate cycling.”

Planned for 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.,the clinic will be a come-and-go eventwith mini-workshops occurring everyhalf hour. The workshops will be pre-sented by bike technicians fromaround the city and will be on topicssuch as tire changing 101, how tochange gears on your bike, brakes,rider safety, and preventative mainte-nance.

Different cycling groups fromaround Regina will have tables set upthroughout the Multi-Purpose Room,so interested participants can learnmore about organizations like theOffroad Syndicate, the SaskatchewanCycling Association and the MS BikeTour Association.

It won’t all be educational though.

CCSU has invited Jim Wright fromNature’s Best, who will be bringinghis pedal-powered smoothie maker.Students will be able to make and taketheir own smoothie.

“You just provide the pedal powerfor [it] and then you get yoursmoothie,” said Dipple. There will alsobe bike-related prizes given through-out the day for anyone who attends.

Dipple recognizes the difficulty ofkeeping students engaged when theyare coming off a few weeks of heavyevents such as 5 Days for theHomeless and RPIRG’s Apathy intoAction.

“There’s only so much time that astudent can commit to extracurricularstuff,” he said. “So, it’s challenging ifthey’re already burnt out from plan-ning other things or attending otherthings.”

But he hopes that students will atleast pop in for one or two of the ses-sions.

Dipple looks at the clinic as a wayof fostering the cycling community atthe U of R, and getting the word outthat cycling is a fun, cheap way tocommute to and from school.

“People look at cycling as com-muting. And then they say, ‘oh that’s a

hassle’, right? But you know, it makesme get exercise every day. It’s cheaperthan bussing. It’s cheaper than buy-ing a parking pass. You always get aspot right by the door. And it’s actuallyreally beautiful, to ride outside twice aday and to see the seasons change.”

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“ It’s cheaper than bussing. It’s cheaperthan buying a parking pass. You always geta spot right by the door. And it’s actually re-ally beautiful, to ride outside twice a dayand to see the seasons change.”

Matthew Dipple

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JJaaccoobb’’ss ssttoorryyWUSC and U of R “light at the end of the tunnel”

My name is Jacob Panchol and I am 22years old. I came to the University ofRegina in August of this year underthe World University Service ofCanada [WUSC] refugee program. Iam originally from Sudan but lived inKenya for 18 years before coming toCanada. While in Kenya I was living inthe Kakuma refugee camp. I was ableto get an education in the camp start-ing in pre-school and continuing up tohigh school. The living conditions inthe camp were not good, there werepoor health care facilities, lack of ade-quate security with the host commu-nity often looting refugees at night,and a lack of adequate food and water.Some students would go to schoolwith an empty stomach when theirfood that was rationed for 15 days wasfinished. Apart from that, the heat dur-ing the day in Kakuma was intenseand often unbearable with the scorch-ing sun mixed with dusty winds.

I hope that this is not the very firsttime that you have heard aboutKakuma and if it is, then imagine liv-ing in such conditions and you willdefinitely accept what it meant forsomeone like me to come to Canadaand more importantly secure admis-sion to the University of Regina. I per-sonally take it as a once in a lifetimeopportunity. While in the camp, mydreams of getting any higher educa-tion were crushed since there was no

university in the camp. My hopes wererevived when I found out about theWUSC refugee program and I began tosee the light at the end of the tunnel.

Securing sponsorship throughWUSC is a little bit of a nightmare formost of the students in the refugeecamps. This is because it is very com-petitive and there are only 25 success-ful applicants selected out of over 100applicants. This doesn’t mean thatthose who don’t make it through donot have the potential, they do, buteach year there are not enough spots totake all of the applicants. I wish thatthe number sponsored each yearwould be increased to at least 30 toopen the doors for other students.

Although I miss my family mem-bers, it doesn’t matter because whatmatters most now is that I do well in allof my university courses. Being in uni-versity has guaranteed me three things– I will overcome poverty when I grad-uate, I will no longer be ignorant and Iwill no longer be illiterate. These threethings are the cause of pain being expe-rienced in much of the world and thebest way to win the battle against themis simply through education.

I credit WUSC for improving whoI am and contributing to who I will be-come. I am now in my preliminarycourses for my major in engineering.

[WUSC will be hosting a mock refugeecamp on April 4 and 5 to raise awarenessof refugee issie. All students are welcome toattend.]

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news 5the carillonMarch 24 - 30, 2011

“I don’t want to coexist! I want to ex-ist as a human being! And justice willtake care of the rest!”

These were the words of poetRemi Kanazi on Mar. 16, as he ad-dressed his Regina audience. Kanaziwas one of three Palestinian guestspeakers this month for Regina’s firstIsraeli Apartheid Week (IAW).

IAW was established in Torontoseven years ago, and has now becomean annual international event thattakes places in more than 40 citiesacross the world. Over the course oftwo and a half weeks, students at theUniversity of Regina and the Reginacommunity at large were invited toattend film screenings and guest lec-tures raising awareness about theconflict occurring in the Israeli-Palestinian, which organizers say in-volves continuous injustice andhuman rights violations against thePalestinian people.

“The whole purpose and mean-ing behind Israeli Apartheid Week isnot to talk about going against the

[Jewish people] or the faith. It haseverything to do with Israeliapartheid and their apartheid poli-cies, meaning the wall they’re build-ing, the separation, and the[displaced] refugees,” explainedPalestinian student Jameel Rashid.

IAW organizers Brian Gordon,John Mailhot, and Carmen Rollinsagree.

“It’s important to remember that‘apartheid’ is a legal definition, it’snot a subjective [one],” said Mailhot.“It’s when one group of people phys-ically or otherwise dominates [andsegregates] another group of peoplewithin the geographic area.” By legalterms, this defines the struggle inPalestine.

To put it into perspective, Rashidexplained, the occupation and colo-nization of Palestine can be comparedto the Canadian government’s illtreatment of the Aboriginal people.Much like the Aboriginal people,Palestinians have been displacedfrom their own land. With theirhomes demolished, and their rightstaken, many Palestinians end up liv-ing in segregated villages or refugeecamps. The struggle is a daily battleof survival for the Palestinians.

IAW paves a way for the facts tobe told as they are, without makingexcuses for the injustices. It is a directforce going against the occupationand oppressive nature of the Israeligovernment, and its policies towardsthe Palestinian people. And themovement is not solely Palestinian.

“It’s not just the Palestinians whoare raising the awareness, but thereare other people who are supportingthem” IAW organizer Rollins said.

Gordon agrees, recalling thatmany people had come up to himasking if he was Palestinian, and whyhe was supporting this cause.

“What was important for us isthe idea of global solidarity,” he says.“Just because we had not had thoseexact same experiences, does notmean we can’t work and stand in sol-idarity with the Palestinian people.”

Mailhot, Rollins, and Rashidcould not agree more. However, oth-ers have criticized IAW, seeing it lessas a declaration of global solidarity

and more as an inflammatory ges-ture.

In Canada, for instance, IAW hasreceived much criticism. Universityadministrations and the governmenthave denounced IAW labeling it asoffensive, unfair, and disrespectful toCanadian society. Federal Liberalleader Michael Ignatieff has evengone so far as to call the week a “dan-gerous cocktail of ignorance and in-tolerance”.

In response to the criticisms andallegations, Gordon emphasizes thatIAW does not advocate for either ha-tred or violence.

“[It’s about] educating people inCanada to what is actually going on,because they don’t think of it likethat. The picture we are painted inthe mainstream media is that this is awar. And it’s just not. We have tomake the point that apartheid isapartheid, wherever it occurs…wewant to make people aware that thisis ... segregation.”

Rashid and Gordon both stressthis fundamental aspect of IAW – tocritically look at the oppressive Israelipolicies against the Palestinians, andput a stop to discrimination.

“In the end we aren’t attackingindividual people, [but] it’s the gov-ernment. Israeli Apartheid Week isall about the government policy, it’snot about [an Israeli individual] butabout what your government repre-sents, in your name,” Rashid pointsout.

Overall this is the message thatIAW’s organizers echo. The move-ment claims members from theJewish, Christian, and Muslim faiths.And many who’ve protested the con-ditions in Palestine and been killedfor their efforts – from the men andwomen who were attacked and killedon the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, toRachel Corrie, Tom Hurndall, TristanAnderson, and other human rightsactivists, to the many ordinaryPalestinians who’ve been the victimsof violence – have come from diversebackgrounds.

For more information on IAWand the organizers, please visit regi-nasolidaritygroup.com

In an effort to ensure that embattledLibyan head of state MoammarGaddafi is unable to use his coun-try’s air force against Libya’s largelydisgruntled civilian population, theUnited Nations Security Council is-sued a no-fly zone over the NorthAfrican nation last week.

Acting under Chapter VII of theUN Charter, the UN Security Council,adopted Resolution 1973 by 10 votesto zero, with five nations abstainingfrom the vote. Member states are au-thorized to “take all necessary meas-ures to protect civilians and civilianpopulated areas under threat of at-tack ... while excluding an occupa-tion force.”

A no-fly zone is, in essence, anarea declared off-limits to aircraft –especially military aircraft – and al-though there are a number of re-stricted airspaces across the world,no-fly zones are often imposed dur-ing times of war.

In the last 20 years, the UNSecurity Council has, in efforts to pre-vent civilian casualties, issued no-flyzones over Iraq and Bosnia andHerzegovina. Some examples of non-military related no-fly zones includethe airspace above the DisneylandResort in Anaheim, Calif., and, withthe looming threat of a potential nu-clear meltdown in Japan, the airspaceabove the Fukushima nuclear plant.

Although the Libyan air force isless sophisticated than the UnitedStates’ military, last week, USNational Intelligence Director JamesClapper reported that Gaddafi holdsaround 80 operational aircraft, anumber of different helicopters,transport aircraft, and fighter jets athis disposal.

On Mar. 20, at a Pentagon pressconference, Vice Admiral Bill Gortneyof the US military claimed that theinitial stages of enforcing the no-flyzone were a “significant success”. Atthe time of the press conference, theUS had reportedly fired over 120Tomahawk missiles onto strategic airdefence systems across Libya.Additionally, Gortney reported thatthere were neither reports of any al-lied planes being lost nor reports ofany civilian injury.

Although international reportssurfaced that suggested that Canadahad already began bombing Libya,Jay Paxton, a spokesperson forDefence Minister Peter MacKay, re-jected the reports, and insisted thatthe earliest that the Canadian armedforces could join the mission wouldbe on Tuesday, Mar. 22. So far,Canada has pledged to contribute sixCF-18 fighter jets, along with a con-tingent of 140 to 150 pilots and sup-port personnel to the mission inNorth Africa.

Appearing on CTV’s QuestionPeriod on Sunday, MacKay elaboratedon what a no-fly zone over Libyawould ideally achieve.

“The purpose here is clearly todisable the airfields and the use ofLibyan air assets that could bebrought to bear and used againstcivilians,” said MacKay. “So the clearindication is that we want to disabletheir air force and ensure that civil-ians are given the maximum protec-tion.”

Because of the volatile state of thecountry, coupled with the fact thatLibya’s fate is, at this point, largelyunknown, MacKay couldn’t give aclear indication as to how long theCanadian military plans on being in-volved in the North African country’sconflict.

“We certainly hope that this willnot turn into another protracteddrawn-out affair. It’s very difficult togauge the capability of the rebels onthe ground and whether they are, infact, united throughout the country.”

Although it is uncertain what im-pact the no-fly zone will have on theongoing conflict in Libya, many areskeptical as to how effective the UNmandate will be in removing Gaddafifrom office.

In his editorial “Freedom notlikely result of intervening in Libya”in the London Free Press, BrianMacLeod elaborated on this skepti-cism.

“Canada’s six CF-18 fighters arepoised to help enforce a UN-sanc-tioned no-fly zone over Libya, but noone should expect this will be the endof it. This is likely the beginning of along engagement with a despot whois willing to kill or be killed ...Stopping the inevitable slaughter iscommendable, but there are no signsthat what will come of it is freedom.”

“ Just becausewe had not hadthose exact sameexperiences, doesnot mean wecan’t work andstand in solidaritywith thePalestinian peo-ple.”

Brian GordonOrganizer

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MONTREAL (CUP) — The Quebecgovernment announced Monday thatMcGill University will be penalized$2,011,719 for the 2010-11 year afterincreasing tuition in their executivemaster of business administrationprogram by around 900 per cent.

According to a statement releasedby the Ministry of Education, the finecorresponds to the amount of provin-cial funding granted to McGill to train200 students who could have enrolledin the program had prior accessibilitylevels been maintained. The penaltyalso includes the amount of provin-cial subsidy granted for each of the 57MBA students enrolled in Fall 2010.

McGill increased tuition for itsMBA program this year from roughly$2,000 to $29,500.

The ministry press release statesthat McGill’s “decision [to increasetuition] not only violates currentbudgetary rules, but also the principleof accessibility, as new students mustpay tuition fees higher than those de-termined by the government.”

Line Beauchamp, minister of ed-ucation, also said in the press releasethat the penalty “will be applied un-til the situation is corrected.”

“It was a very bold reaction to avery bold move,” said Myriam Zaidi,vice-president external for the McGillstudents’ society. “The principal can’tbreak the law, go against the govern-ment and normal process, and not ex-pect to get any punishment from that.They went against basically Quebec’sconstitution.”

In a statement released the fol-lowing day, McGill said they were“perplexed and disappointed withthe response of the government ofQuebec.” The press release went on tostate that the university has no inten-tion of adjusting its MBA tuition ratesin response to the government’s an-nual penalties.

Peter Todd, dean of the faculty ofmanagement, described McGill’sstated goal to bring MBA tuition up tothe Canadian average, currentlyaround $37,000 a year.

“For next year we plan to havethe tuition set at $32,500 a year,” said

Todd. “Right now our commitmentis 100 per cent. This is what we’re do-ing, we stay the course with whatwe’ve done.”

Pat Tenneriello, president ofMcGill’s MBA students’ association,said students were also disappointedwith the provincial government’s re-action.

“Students are overwhelmingly infavour of the faculty’s position, whichis to move to this self-funded model,because it was necessary to maintainthe prestige and the quality of theprogram,” said Tenneriello.

“We cannot find another casewhere the government has levied apenalty like this against a university,”said Todd.

He noted that in the past McGillhas applied a self-funding model –where a university program funds it-self independent of government sub-sidies – to other programs in themanagement faculty, but that this wasthe first time the government hadpunished McGill for doing so.

“Our understanding at the time,having done a number of self-fundedprograms, is that we create the pro-gram; we inform the government.The decision, as we understood it,was the decision for our board of gov-ernors to take, and that’s what wasdone at the time. The board approvedthis change, and we went forward,”said Todd.

“We put these programs together,and the government certainly acqui-esced to them going forward. Theycertainly didn’t make objections inthe way they are right now,” he con-tinued.

While Beauchamp does not havethe legal power to force McGill tolower its MBA tuition rates, she doeshave the power to determine govern-ment funding to Quebec universities.

According to Todd, McGill hadbeen in discussions with the ministryof education for years over possiblealternatives to the self-funded model,without success.

“We’ve tried over time to workwith the government on this, to ex-plain to them that the funding modelsfor universities – and particularly thefunding models for business pro-grams and MBA programs – inQuebec are broken,” said Todd,adding that the university has been in

“constant discussion” with the min-istry trying to make the case that theMBA was a special program.

“Our curriculum, with our inte-grated management approach that weuse for the management core thatteaches students about how the wholebusiness works together, is not some-thing that’s done. Not just at anyother program in Quebec, but,frankly, not at any other program inCanada,” said Todd.

McGill’s press release also de-scribed how McGill’s new MBA pro-gram provides an average of $12,000per student in financial aid, a “uniquelevel of support for any Quebec uni-versity program.”

Tenneriello said that, though theoverall financial aid situation had im-proved in the MBA program, theprovince’s complete withdrawal ofbursaries for MBA students is a signif-icant financial challenge for studentsin the program.

“From what the school has done,yes, it has improved. From what thegovernment should be offering stu-dents, it’s gone to hell. It’s awful,” hesaid.

“It really is time to start to thinkabout alternative ways of fundingthese programs, and in this case hav-ing the people who are going to mostrichly benefit from the program bethe principal ones to pay for it,” saidTodd.

OTTAWA (CUP) — New DemocratMP Niki Ashton is hoping to betterstreamline federal funding and in-crease general support for post-sec-ondary education through a privatemembers’ bill, introduced inParliament last week.

Bill C-635 would establish “crite-ria and conditions” when it comes todedicated cash for post-secondaryeducation – namely that not-for-profit, public institutions are sup-ported and that betterstudent-to-faculty ratios and im-proved accessibility are encouraged.It also seeks to divide the existingCanada Social Transfer into two com-ponents: One for general social assis-tance and social services programs,the other strictly for post-secondaryeducation.

“The main objective is to reallyset a framework for federal leader-ship when it comes to supporting ac-cessible, affordable, quality educationfor Canadians,” said Ashton, also theNDP caucus post-secondary educa-tion critic.

While education is officially un-der provincial jurisdiction, Ashtonbelieves it’s still up to the govern-ment to provide adequate support toensure colleges and universities aregetting the funding they need.

“Absolutely its part of theprovincial responsibility, but the fed-eral government also has a responsi-bility to ensure that something that’sso integral to the way we move for-

ward as a country is being investedin,” she said.

Ashton also highlighted the im-portance of easing the financial bur-den on students, pointing to therecent increases to the CanadaStudent Loans lending ceiling as anissue that has only continued to leaveyoung people shouldering educa-tion-related debt.

“What we’re saying is, why don’twe deal with it before by investing atthe front end by working with theprovinces – and all the while seeingthe goal of making education moreaffordable and more accessible forCanadians,” Ashton offered.

The NDP has tabled similar post-secondary education-related bills inthe past, most recently in fall 2007.While private members’ bills can con-tinue from one session of Parliamentto another – if prorogation occurs, forexample – they are swept off the tablewhen Parliament dissolves, such asbefore an election.

Ashton knows this reality, andhopes to keep the emphasis on post-secondary education as an attention-worthy issue – whether or not anelection may be right around the cor-ner.

“We’re also calling out toCanadians,” she said. “Bring this upwith your representatives, tell themthat you need this – and not just stu-dents, but people across the board.“We need federal leadership when itcomes to post-secondary educationand working with the provinces, andhere’s a document that providesthat.”

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The U of R Theatre Department is setto produce their fourth and final pro-duction of the year, The Queens. It’sthe fourth-year graduating class’ pro-duction, an accumulation of theknowledge that they’ve gainedthroughout their education thus far.And it aims to end the department’sproduction season on a high note.“There’s only six of us in the fourthyear ... they wanted to pick a playthat would show our strengths wellwith only having the fourth-yearclass,” explained student-actressElizabeth Malnyk.

The Queens is set in England inthe late 14th century, during the reignof Richard III. While women livingthis time period were not the focus ofsociety, they are the focus of the play.

“It’s set in the time of Richard III,and it’s about the women in this pe-riod and their ambition for the throneand power, and the behind-the-scenesand underhanded ways they goabout it,” said Malynk, who playsAnne Warwick, wife of Richard III.“It’s all about their ambition and theirsearching and striving for power, es-sentially.”

The performance focuses notonly on the women’s characters, buton the interactions between them aswell. “That’s probably the most in-teresting thing about them – howthese women act to one another; eventhe sisters in the play have a very oddrelationship that you wouldn’t expect

of sisters,” Malnyk said. “Seeing therelationships of all the women andhow they go about attaining thepower they want is very captivating”.

And part of what makes the playso compelling is the tension betweenthe women. “[The Queens] has a fairlyheightened mood. There’s a lot ofconflicts between the differentwomen ... veiled in a graceful dignityand backhanded compliments and in-sults. I would say it has a fairlyheightened yet ... dreamlike andlethargic quality.”

Their is a distinct factor of realismto the performance, with the cos-tumes being “fairly historically accu-rate”, but Malnyk describes the playas a “fantasy drama”, meaning “theplaywright is kind of recreating his-tory and asking the question of,‘What actually happened to thesewomen?’ And this is one way of look-ing at what happened to them”.

It seems that The Queens utilizesmany juxtapositions – dreams and re-ality, tension and lethargy, grace andinsults. Moreover, Malnyk believesthere will be two types of audiencemembers who leave the theatre at theend of the evening, those who under-stood and those that did not.

“There will be two different takesof this; some people will understandeverything that is going on and thinkit’s amazing, and other people mightnot understand every single every-thing that’s going on all the time butwill still be enthralled by it, and eventhough they don’t know what’s goingon all the time, they won’t care be-cause it draws you in so much. [The

production] is like a dream – indreams there are moments of claritywhere things are very clear and verydistinct, and there’s times wheneverything is a little wavery anddoesn’t make sense, but in your mindat the time, it makes perfect sense.”

A unique feature of The Queens isthe set-up of the stage. This particularproduction will bridge the gap be-tween a fourth-wall style play andtheatre in-the-round. Depending onwhere one is situated in the audiencemay also influence the way one viewsthe characters and actions on stage.

“The stage setting is going to bevery interesting because it is set in analley, so there’s the audience on bothsides of the action; depending onwhere you sit, you can get a very dif-ferent view of the play because you’llbe able to see different people. Aswell, even when characters aren’t onstage, they’re hovering and listeningand behind the audience itself, so youget that feeling of always being sur-rounded by people and never beingalone ... there could always be peoplelistening or ghosting about. You’renever completely alone, and you’renever completely safe.”

Whether you think you’ll an au-dience member who can follow theaction or not, don’t miss out on theTheatre Department’s final show thisyear. Performances start with a stu-dent matinee on the March 29, andevening showings run from March 30until April 2. Oh, and did we men-tion that it’s free with your studentID?

SASKATOON (CUP) –– It’s rare thatpeople can tap into the artistic dimen-sions of a prison inmate’s mind.

Now Creative Escape: Stories andArt from Prison, a publication fromthe Saskatoon Provincial CorrectionalCentre, is altering this reality.

Creative Escape began in 2010 as awriting contest for aboriginal andMétis inmates at the SaskatoonProvincial Correctional Centre. Sincethen, its contributions have beentransformed into a 27-page bookletof vibrant writing and art.

The content ranges from theharsh street life of Saskatoon – drugs,violence, and gangs – to the sorrowsassociated with being locked awayfrom loved ones.

Given the colourful array ofartists the contest has unearthed,SPCC First Nations and Métis com-munity and cultural co-ordinatorDiann Block says she is planning tomake Creative Escape an annual pub-lication.

“They can be honest on paperand get their feelings out,” said Block.“I encourage the men to journal aswell. It’s hard for many of them, asthere is no personal privacy. Projectslike this give the men positive recog-nition – they are used to only gettingnegative recognition.”

“7 Eleven Stranded,” a poem byinmate-writer Cory Cardinal, was thecontest’s first place winner. Cardinalpresents his work through the eyes ofa homeless panhandler outside abustling Saskatoon 7-Eleven.

“I long to sit / At the table ofplenty / And eat the delectable food/ Of wellbeing / I crave for a drag /From the cigarette of happiness,”Cardinal writes.

The striking juxtapositions in thenext stanza are the most poignantcomponent of his work.

“Instead ... I pick the butts ofanger / And grind passers for change/ So I can phone / Pride my onlyfriend / But only depression is home/ And hangs up on my only call.”

Reached via email from the SPCClast week, Cardinal said his contribu-tions to Creative Escape “came fromthe worst time in my life but brought

the absolute best out of me.” Cardinaldescribes himself as “a poetic streetsoldier who has triumphed over thetoilsome gutter of street life.”

“Right now my life is very turbu-lent. I am a very transient individual.I struggle with a lot of dysfunctions;my writing is a reflection of that.Deep, painful, poetic,” addedCardinal.

There is more to Cardinal’s back-ground than just a life of crime – he’salso a talented, resilient writer.

Prominent aboriginal authorsMaria Campbell, Tomson Highwayand a myriad of others overcame sim-ilarly difficult circumstances in theirliterary journeys. Cardinal could verylikely fall into this category too.

The momentum behind CreativeEscape has been mounting; the workhas even found its way into the handsof Saskatchewan’s minister of justice.In the isolated setting that engulfsCardinal, prison bars weren’t enoughto keep the buzz surrounding theproject out of ears’ reach.

“I am surprised it got the reactionit did. I was hearing about [CreativeEscape] from Prince Albert to Regina.”

Cardinal’s poetic voice is one ofmany featured in Creative Escape.Illustrations of wildlife also nicelycomplement the poetry. A series ofhand-sketched portraits depicting adazzling female stranger locking eyeswith a male companion are amongthe most moving of the book’s art.

Block believes Creative Escape is ofparamount importance. The initiativediminishes the stereotype labeling theinmates as one-dimensional, immoralindividuals. Creative Escape personi-fies their existence amidst a justicesystem that has forgotten them.

“The general public need to seeinmates as people, not just as cons.We have so many talented writers,artists, craftsmen, etc. in our centre,each with a unique story to tell,”added Block.

The SPCC has begun a lendinglibrary and currently Block is tryingto recruit experienced writers and po-ets to come work with inmates di-rectly. Block is optimistic the programwill see considerable growth in yearsto come.

“I would love to see a project likethis at all of our adult and young of-fender facilities in Saskatchewan andacross Canada,” she added.

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“ [The production] is like a dream – in dreams there are moments ofclarity where things are very clear and very distinct, and there’stimes when everything is a little wavery and doesn’t make sense, butin your mind at the time, it makes perfect sense.”

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Fact: students like free shit. Fact:students don’t like paying forthings that they used to be able toget for free. The theatre departmentknows it. Every year, the depart-ment puts on between three andfour productions that the studentsare able to go and watch for free.Recent cuts to their budget havebeen pushing the department closerand closer to having to charge stu-dents admission to get into theshows.

Prior to this year, the depart-ment has been a relatively au-tonomous, miniature theatrecompany within the university, re-ceiving funding from the adminis-tration, but not from the Universityof Regina Students’ Union.However, this changed in Februarywhen URSU granted the theatre de-partment $1500 for the current sea-son.

“Pedagogically, that’s how wesee ourselves; we operate as a smalltheatre company and that enablesactors, technical students, and de-signers to feed into that season likea professional artist, which is kindof unique within the university en-vironment – to have a theatre com-pany that operates in that way,”explained department headKathleen Irwin. “We’ve done thisfor the past 40 years really; this istypically how we operate. We arereasonably well supported by theuniversity, but in the past ten yearsour budgets have diminished anddiminished and diminished. Rightacross the faculty there’s been a lotof belt-tightening going on, andwe’re certainly feeling the ramifi-cations of [it] so that our budgetshave not increased in the past tenyears, but the cost of production in-creases.”

The department still has beenable to maintain the usual quota ofproductions per season, but budget

cuts are inducing drastic effects onthe productions. Recently, the de-partment’s policy of allowing stu-dents to view shows for free with avalid student ID was called into se-rious question.

“At this point we looked at ourbudget, and we’re really at the tip-ping point as to whether we canmaintain that open-door policy,”Irwin said. “At that point I thought‘I’m desperate; we’re not going toget any more money from the ad-ministration at the university. Thisis a really great surface, I feel, forthe students; maybe URSU couldhelp us.’”

URSU’s contribution has en-abled the theatre department tomaintain free admittance to stu-dents, although it’s far from a cure-all.

“Starting the ball rolling with$1500 is a ... nice inducement tocontinue the open-door policy,”Irwin said. “For the time being, weare able to do it.”

One of the biggest pressures forthe department is to make back$6000, which is to be remitted tothe Faculty of Fine Arts’ budget.Failure to recoup this money meansthat the deficit is taken out of thetheatre department’s budget for thefollowing year.

“Historically, that was not thecase; [in the past] if we had box of-fice, we would bring it in and recy-cle it into the shows. Now this$6000 is becoming increasinglyonerous and increasing pressure.We’re in a bind ... We don’t want ittrailing behind us because obvi-ously it will continue to reducewhat we do twelve months for-ward.”

While the theatre departmenthas been able to adapt to receivingless money annually, each year hasits consequences: smaller shows,less elaborate costumes, and recy-cled props. Yet, even with all ofthese money-saving strategies, thecost of production rises with eachyear. Combined, these realities have

an effect on the performances thatthe students put on. And the per-formances put on by the theatre de-partment are more than justentertainment; the production sea-son is real-life work experience forthe students involved with the pro-gram.

“Our theatre season is as muchlike a professional theatre season aswe can make it, but part of it is thatthe season is there to serve our ped-agogy,” Irwin said. “We have actorsthat need a good acting experienceon the main stage ... on the small,environmental ... theatre; we havetechnical students that need to learnhow to hang lights and fly flies.[We] have sound design, light de-sign, design students that need tolearn how to paint sets and makecostumes and design on the bigstage and small stage. As we re-duce, we end up not being able toprovide good opportunities for thestudents.”

Hypothetically speaking, if thetheatre department has to startcharging admission for students,what are the implications? Surely,they can’t be too drastic. Irwin be-lieves the contrary.

“If we institute a charge, fee, orticket price to students – even if it’sfive dollars, which is nominal – stu-dents, with everything else theyhave on their plate, frequently willsay, ‘No, we’re busy. I’d rather takethe five dollars and go to the Owl orwhatever.’ And I respect that; stu-dents have a lot of pressure on theirlives. But they do come if it’s free ...We’re obliged to disseminate whatwe do, get it out there, and educatestudents about the fine arts andabout the theatre and keep it attrac-tive for them. That’s what I want todo. If Kyle [Addison] hadn’t comeforward with support, I’m not surewhat we would do.”

For the time being, URSU’s in-jection of funding will have to suf-fice. Irwin doesn’t expect to gainmuch more than what they’ve re-ceived in the short term. Long-term

financial support is dependent onmore than convincing the new exec-utive to continue the funding, saysIrwin.

“Long-term depends onSaskatchewan’s fiscal situation. Weseem to be in good times, and yetthe university is not reaping thebenefit of those good times. As aconsequence, the theatre depart-ment is not reaping the benefits ofthe good times ... We’re in a climateright now where I think increas-ingly, the fine arts are seen as ‘thegravy’ in an education, somethingless than necessary, something thatcan be easily cut. We are a liberalarts institution, and within the lib-eral arts the fine arts play a veryimportant role.”

Part of the problem with fund-ing the Faculty of Fine Arts is theamount it costs to teach the pro-grams. Teaching Theatre 262 ismuch different from a Biology lec-ture where it is possible to fill a lec-ture hall with hundreds of students.These students need spaces towork, and hands-on experience do-ing so.

“In a climate where statisticsare all-important, the fine arts areseen as being a discipline where itcosts a lot to educate a fine arts stu-dent. You have to run a theatre inorder to teach thirty students. Youhave to run an art gallery, or pro-vide computers with fancy softwarein order to teach intermedia stu-dents. It’s expensive to teach finearts students. That’s always lookedat critically.

“You want large numbers; youwant to be able to lecture largenumbers, and you can’t teach anartist about their craft by lecturingto them. They need studios; theyneed hands-on; they need spaces tolearn; they need to be able to main-tain a theatre. Those are expensivesubjects to teach, and that’s what’sgoing to be scrutinized increasingly,unfortunately.”

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“ [The theatre department is] really atthe tipping point as to whether we canmaintain that open-door policy.”

Kathleen IrwinTheatre department head

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“We live in a society absolutely dependenton science and technology and yet have clev-erly arranged things so that almost no oneunderstands science and technology. That'sa clear prescription for disaster. “– CarlSagan, American Astronomer

The advocates of nuclear powerclaim that it is a safe, clean, and anabundant source of energy. Opponentsclaim that there are too many short-term and long-term risks associatedwith using it citing the recent nuclearcrisis in Japan as evidence of its disas-trous consequences. Dr. EdwardMathie, professor of nuclear physics at

the University of Regina, believes thatthe lack of support for nuclear powercomes from a general misunderstand-ing of the science behind it. This articlewill be an in-depth look into some of themain issues surrounding nuclearpower, as well some important back-ground information, and finally a lookinto the future of this controversial en-ergy source.

The constant, looming threat of nu-clear arms proliferation as well as thetragic events in Japan has made the nu-clear debate as important as ever. Withenergy demands always on the rise, thispivotal technology may eventually be-come more and more necessary, as willour understanding of it.

Today there are over 440 nuclear re-

actors operating in 32 countries, ac-counting for nearly 15 per cent of theworld’s total energy supply. The UnitedStates alone accounts for nearly a quar-ter of these reactors, which supply thecountry with 20 per cent of its energyneeds.

France and Lithuania lead the fieldwith over 75 per cent of their energycoming from nuclear power. Along withAustralia and Kazakhstan, Canada isone of the largest uranium producers inthe world, and about 15 per cent of itsenergy is from nuclear power. Canada isalso one of the leaders in nuclear re-search and technology, with Ontario’sChalk River laboratory being one of theworld’s main suppliers of cancer-treat-ing medical isotopes.

NNuucclleeaarr ppoowweerrThe complex issues surrounding the basic building blocks of life

How it worksNuclear power plants work in a verysimilar way to fossil fuels plants. Bothuse some type of fuel to heat water intosteam, which drives turbines. An electri-cal generator then turns this motion intoelectricity. Where the two processes dif-fer is on the fuel source and how it gen-erates heat. Fossil fuel plants burn coalor natural gas to heat up the water.Nuclear plants use a process called nu-clear fission to break the nucleus of aspecial kind of uranium atom, releasinghuge amounts of energy in the form ofheat.

Imagine a very tall, old building onits last legs. All it needs is a slight pushto come crashing down. Now say that afast moving car provides this push. Thebuilding collapses, releasing hugeamounts of stored energy. This is hownuclear fission works. The uraniumatom is like that unstable building. Ithas lots of hidden energy inside, but itjust needs a little push.

In the 1930’s it was discovered thatbombarding a uranium atom with aneutron, ( a neutral subatomic particle,)caused the uranium atom to split up.The amount of energy released corre-sponds to the difference in the energy‘banked’ in the uranium nucleus andthe energy ‘banked’ in the fission prod-ucts. This energy is equal to the mass ofthe atom times the speed of lightsquared ?(Einstein’s famous ‘E=mc2’).While the mass of a single uraniumatom may not be very small, the speedof light squared is quite large, and ifyou get enough uranium atoms, youcan create a lot of energy with a verysmall amount of fuel.

Now imagine that the unstablebuilding is closely surrounded by tonsof other equally unstable buildings. Ifthe first one falls, then a chunk of it hitsanother building, causing it to collapse,and so on. Similarly, when that first ura-nium atom is split up, it emits moreneutrons that go on to split the next ura-nium atom. This chain reaction processis the basis for all nuclear power today. Another process known as nuclear fu-sion involves putting atoms togetherrather than splitting them apart, but ac-cording to Dr. Mathie, who’s worked inthe field for many years, practical nu-clear fusion always seems to be 20 yearsaway.

The difference between using nu-

clear fission to produce energy and us-ing it to make nuclear weapons de-pends on the amount of control youhave over the reaction, as well as thegrade of fuel. Nuclear bombs, such asthe one that hit Hiroshima, are deto-nated by setting off a completely un-controlled chain reaction with ahigh-grade fuel. Huge amounts of en-ergy are released, devastating the sur-roundings.

In a nuclear power plant, however,the chain reaction, which takes placewith a low-grade fuel in a water bath, isregulated by control rods made of boronor cadmium. If the nuclear reactor startsgetting too hot, these control rods arelowered into the water to absorb excessneutrons, effectively reducing theamount of fission taking place, andslowing the reaction.

If the control systems in a nuclearpower plant fail, the reactor can over-heat, causing damage to the core. This isknown as a meltdown. Although nu-clear power plants use a different gradeof uranium than nuclear weapons, anuncontrolled reaction can still lead to adeadly, but non-nuclear, explosion.However, the resulting explosion couldrelease harmful radiation into thenearby environment.

This is why nuclear power plants,like the ones in Japan, are equippedwith several levels of containment incase of such an emergency. These steeland concrete containment structures aresupposedly able to withstand extremeforce; including hurricanes, collisionswith jumbo jets, terrorist attacks, andearthquakes.

The strength of these containmentsand the safety of using nuclear powerwere put to the ultimate test with the re-cent tragedy in Japan. The vulnerablenuclear reactors were automaticallyshut down immediately following theearthquake.

Despite being shut down, the nu-clear reactor continued to produce heat.Cooling pumps are supposed to auto-matically cool the reactor, but the prob-lem with the reactor in Japan was thatthere was no power being supplied tothese cooling pumps. The power gridhad also shut down after the earth-quake, the backup generator was takenout by the following tsunami, and the fi-nal backup batteries only lasted for a

short period of time. Without power, the pumps failed

and the reactor began to overheat onceagain. The last-ditch effort was to pumpboron-laced seawater through the struc-ture to help cool the core. The effective-ness of this is still unclear, as manynews reports seem to contradict eachother on issues of how much radiationescaped through the containment, orhow dangerous the radiation in the areais, and whether or not the plants will beoperation again. Which should be im-possible if seawater is being pumpedthrough the core.

While the nuclear crisis inJapan is the consequence of both natureand human short-sightedness, the nu-clear disaster at Chernobyl, Ukraine in1986 had nothing to do with a naturaldisaster, and everything to do withmanagement and poor engineeringpractice.

Dr. Mathie dismisses the Soviet con-tainment design very substandard.They had poor management, poor train-ing, and poor design, none of whichwould have been accepted by Westernstandards.

Hundreds of thousands had to beevacuated from their homes and per-manently relocated. The death toll atChernobyl varies widely depending onthe source. The World HealthOrganization and the UN put the imme-diate death toll at 31 with about 4,000cancer-related deaths afterwards, whileGreenpeace puts the long-term deathtoll above 90,000. This huge discrep-ancy possibly stems from the fact thatone quarter of us will die of cancer re-gardless of radiation poisoning, whichwasn’t taken into account by the UN.

Seven years before Chernobyl, therewas a meltdown at one of the reactors atThree-Mile Island, Pennsylvania. Dueto a strong, well-designed containmentstructure, there was not a single deathor injury caused by the accident.Chernobyl and Three-Mile Island werecaused by poor training practices andlow operational standards.

Mathie emphasizes that we cannotunderstate the impact of training whenit comes to nuclear power, and welearned from Three-Mile Island by rais-ing operators to a much higher stan-dard.

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Just as with fossil fuels, the nuclearprocess begins with mining the fuel,uranium. Uranium by itself is as harm-less as granite in terms of radiation,but trapped beneath the ground withthe uranium is radon gas, and this car-cinogenic gas is part of what causesopponents to protest nuclear power sorigorously.

They argue that it poses a dangerto the workers as well as contaminatesnearby water sources. It is true thatminers have died in the past from radi-ation poisoning. The advocates of nu-clear power maintain that, as withevery aspect of the modern nuclear in-dustry, the mining process has becomestrictly regulated since then.

Ventilation systems are in place toensure the workers are safe. As for thesurrounding environment – Radon gasis very heavy and has a short lifespan.In the event of a leak, the gas does nottravel very far from the mining site,where it is taken care of by ventilationsystems.

Any gas that does travel far getsdiluted in the atmosphere, rendering itharmless. Mathie reminds us thatradon gas is also a naturally occurringelement that is and has always beenpresent in the earth’s atmosphere, andwe’ve survived just fine.

The unit of measurement of radia-tion dose is the milliSievert. Radiationonly starts to become dangerous atabout 100 mSv per year. Depending onwhere you live, you receive an annualdosage of about 2 mSv per year, whichis all purely natural radiation. A ura-nium miner in a properly regulatedmine will receive a maximum dose ofbetween 4 to 10 mSv per year.Regulations require that miners must

stay under the annual limit of 20 mSVper year for a period of 5 years.

The uranium is extracted from theore and, depending on the application,enriched into a useable form called U-235. These pellets are inserted intotubes, and these tubes are used in thenuclear reactor.

Once the fuel is used up, there isleftover fuel and fission products thatmust be handled very cautiously asthey are also radioactive. While manystorage sites are close to the reactorsthemselves, transporting the materialis another issue surrounding the nu-clear debate.

The transportation of radioactivematerial over land and water happensat every stage of the nuclear cycle. Thecontainers have undergone rigoroustesting to prove how durable they are.

Look up “Nuclear FlaskEndurance Testing in USA” onYouTube to see for yourself. Before anyused fuel is transported from the reac-tor site, it is immersed in water for aperiod of time while the heat and radi-ation levels go down.

There is a concern over whetheror not nuclear waste should be tem-porarily stored, or permanently dis-posed of. Some are wary of disposingof it because it may become a valuableresource at some point in the future.But no matter where the waste endsup, geological surveys must be doneon the proposed site before any wasteis deposited there.

The waste must then be subject tovery strict security measures to makesure that it doesn’t get into the wronghands.

The USA originally had plans ofstoring its nuclear waste at a geological

deposit at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.After being carefully studied and sur-veyed for over 20 years, YuccaMountain was finally declared to be asafe deposit in 2002. This decision wasoverturned by President BarackObama in 2009. Obama says he is notopposed to exploring nuclear power,but he claims he was looking out forthe interests of Nevadans, the majorityof which are opposed to being respon-sible for storing the rest of the coun-try’s nuclear waste.

An alternative to storing all thewaste from a nuclear plant is to re-process a portion of it into fuel thatcan be reused.

This procedure involves extractingthe valuable plutonium and uraniumfrom the rest of the waste. This isslightly controversial because theproducts from reprocessing can accu-mulate into what is called “weaponsgrade material”.

The fuel used for nuclear reactorsis under 5 per cent U-235, while nu-clear weapons grade material is at least90 per cent. Because of this risk as wellas the high cost involved, many coun-tries, US included, do not reprocessfuel.

Other countries such as France,UK, Russia, and Japan have achievedeconomic success from reprocessing.Canada is the only country that uses asystem that does not even require fuelenrichment in the first place. Dr.Mathie says that it comes down to aquestion of what is economical for eachcountry, although reprocessing mayeventually become a necessary proce-dure.

The key issues

ProliferationThis brings us to the final issue, nu-clear proliferation. Most pro-nucleararguments consist of strict policy, or-ganization, and regulation of the entirenuclear process. It is the case with min-ing, operation, transportation, andstorage. Opponents of nuclear powerbelieve that regulations aren’t enough,and that since there is no 100 per centsafeguard against nuclear arms prolif-eration, nuclear power is too danger-ous.

The NPT, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, was enacted in1970 and calls for non-proliferation ofnuclear material, disarmament of nu-clear weapons, and peaceful use of nu-clear technology.

Up to 9 countries may currentlypossess nuclear arms, and only 5 ofthese are part of the 187 countries thatform the NPT. India, Israel, Pakistan,and North Korea are the countries thatare not part of the NPT and either havenuclear weapons or are suspected ofhaving them.

India is strongly in favor of nu-

clear cooperation. However, they havebeen denied membership unless theyagree to disarm their nukes. India seesthis as unfair because neighboringChina is allowed to be part of the NPTas a nuclear weapons country and theirother neighbor, Pakistan, is also sus-pected of having them.

India believes this would leavethem too vulnerable, their governmentbelieves they should be allowed to usenuclear weapons as a deterrent. Notbeing part of the NPT means that Indiadoes not get to trade nuclear technol-ogy with the countries that are signedon.

In recent years, countries likeFrance and the United States haveagreed to trade nuclear technologieswith India based on their clean recordof non-proliferation. The InternationalAtomic Energy Agency, IAEA, is an-other proliferation deterrent created bythe UN that keeps records of all nu-clear activities. They also conduct rou-tine inspections of civil nuclearfacilities. While claiming numerous

successes, they continue to have trou-ble dealing with several non-cooperat-ing countries.

In the event of a nuclear war, mil-lions would be killed instantly; mil-lions more would die soon after due toradiation and the lack of medical atten-tion. The world could then go througha period known as nuclear winter. Ifone nuke goes off, many more nukeswill follow. Dust and smoke would riseinto the air, blocking the sun’s rays,and creating a period of cold and dark-ness.

This would lead to the extinctionof many plants and animals, effectivelydisrupting the natural order of theplanet. Any civilization that doesn’tget wiped out would revert to a prehis-toric state. As Einstein famously stated,if World War III is fought with nuclearweapons, then World War IV will befought with sticks and stones. It is clearthat the peaceful use of nuclear tech-nology is one of the most importantissues today.

A final wordUpon hearing the word nuclear, manypeople might imagine a similar situa-tion to the one described before. Butwe must realize that the word nuclearcan exist without being followed bythe word weapon.

Nuclear technology is present inimportant aspects of everyday life,whether we recognize it or not. Thereis a whole field of nuclear medicinethat uses radiation to diagnose patientsby injecting radioactive isotopes in thebody. These isotopes are used everyday throughout the world, and a largeportion of the world’s radioactive iso-topes is manufactured at Canada’sChalk River Laboratories.

So what does the future hold fornuclear power?

Nuclear reactors typically have alifespan of about 40 years, often withan additional 20-year extension. Sincemost of today’s reactors were made in

the ’80s, many of the new reactors be-ing constructed today will merely bereplacing those due for retirement, andthey will be much safer and more effi-cient.

China currently has the biggest in-vestment in future use of nuclearpower with nearly 30 reactors cur-rently under construction and manymore planned.

The nuclear crisis in Japan hascaused some nuclear power nations toreassess their strategies for using nu-clear technologies. However, the worldpopulation is expected to be as high as9 billion in less than 40 years. In orderto meet the energy demands in thecleanest way possible, there must be abalance of energy sources.

Wind and solar are very clean, butthey can only account for a small por-tion of the energy supply.Hydroelectric and geothermal are

other good contributors, but both arelimited by geological factors. Fossil fu-els will continue to be the dominantenergy source for many more years,and developments are being madewith clean coal and carbon capturetechnologies.

If we want any chance of meetingtomorrow’s energy requirements, nu-clear power may be the only option,whether you like it or not.

Just as early humans used rocks asboth deadly weapons and as tools, sotoo can nuclear power be used for thedetriment or benefit of mankind.

Strict regulations can only swaypublic opinion so far, but it’s ultimatelyup to governments, nuclear energycompanies, and scientists to work to-gether to prevent any further nuclearcrises – preventing disaster and sus-taining society.

“ I know not with what weapons WorldWar III will be fought, but World War IVwill be fought with sticks and stones.”

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Poor managment and design contributed to the disaster at Chernobyl.The effects of the meltdown are still being felt to this day.

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With his dream on the line and all thescouts watching, Marc Muellerstepped up.

The University of Regina Ramsquarterback took part in the CFL eval-uation camp from March 4 to 6 inToronto. Rams receiver BrendenOwens was also invited to the camp,but he was hampered by a hamstring

injury and did not attend. Mueller had the camp buzzing,

seeing as he is the grandson of the leg-endary Ron Lancaster (a former quar-terback for the SaskatchewanRoughriders and CFL head coach).The extra hype around Mueller’sname seemed to only add fuel to hisfire.

Mueller did four repetitions in thebench press, posted a 5.10-second 40time, had a 30-inch vertical, jumpedeight feet two inches in the broad jump

and ran the shuttle run in 4.55 secondsand the three-cone drill in 7.59 sec-onds.

“I was very happy with how theentire weekend went,” said Mueller.“For most of the physical testing, I hadpersonal bests, and I believe that Ithrew the ball pretty well in the indi-vidual drills to the receivers and run-ning backs. Overall, it was a funweekend to get out and compete withthe best of the best from Canada.”

In order for Mueller to be com-

pletely confident with his skills goinginto camp, preparations began early.

“For the evaluation camp, Iworked pretty hard with our strengthand conditioning coach ShawnKuster,” explained Mueller. “He madea special workout and drills for meand Owens to do in preparation forthe camp, and those really helped meknow what to expect and helped meperform to the best of my ability at thecamp.”

The future is still very much up inthe air for Mueller, who is entering hisfinal year with the Rams, but he likesthe prospect of being able to play pro-fessional football one day. The CFLdraft takes place on May 8 and there isalso the opportunity that Muellercould be signed as a free agent.

“I think I could definitely help ateam out,” he said. “If I had time togrow and develop and adapt to thespeed of the game, I believe I couldplay at the CFL level.”

In order for Mueller to make aname for himself and possibly make acareer out of playing football, his foot-ball IQ will have to be extremely high.It is something that Mueller believeshe won’t have a problem with.

“My knowledge of the Canadiangame is pretty high and I believe Icould step in and pick up the offensivescheme pretty quickly,” he said.

While Mueller took advantage ofhis opportunity to go to the evalua-tion camp, the Rams did not do thesame this season. Regina finished thirdin Canada West with a 5-3 record, los-ing 40-33 to the host Calgary Dinos ina semifinal.

“I believe that our season wentpretty well,” said Mueller. “But weshould have won some more games.That’s what’s so tough about football.You only get a certain amount ofchances and you just have to take ad-vantage of them.”

“The major thing that we need todo for next season is to get off to betterstarts. Our offence would start tooslow and, before long, we would bedown two or three scores. We can’t dothat. We can’t go two and out early. Weneed to help our defence out by givingthem more of a rest and not giving theother team good field position.

“My goal as a football player hasalways been to win a Vanier Cup, andthis up and coming season I believe we

have a real good shot at it. To go out inmy last year and play my last game inBC Place (site of the 2011 Vanier Cup),would be perfect for me.”

Other U of R Sport Headlines

Women’s Basketball

Cougars third-year point guard JoannaZalesiak has been named a CIS sec-ond-team all-star.

In the CIS, Zalesiak was secondthis year with 111 assists. She also fin-ished second in Canada West with 16.2points per game. Earlier in the month,Zalesiak was named a conference first-team all-star while teammate LindsayLedingham earned a second-teamnod.

“Joanna is one of the most electri-fying players in the country,” saidCougars head coach Dave Taylor in amedia release. “Her ability to scoreand to be a playmaker was a majorfactor in our team’s success this sea-son.”

Kim Tulloch, a guard for theSaskatchewan Huskies who earnedfirst-team honours, was the only otherplayer from the conference to be recog-nized.

Cross-Country

Kelly Wiebe, a fifth-year member ofthe Cougars cross-country and trackand field team, placed 59th at the 39thIAAF world cross-country champi-onships last Sunday in Punta Umbría,Spain.

Wiebe finished the 12-kilometrecourse in a time of 36 minutes 39 sec-onds. He was the second Canadianrunner to cross the line.

“It’s exciting to have a U of R ath-lete perform at such a high level onthe international stage,” said Cougarshead coach Bruce McCannel in a me-dia release. “He has cemented himselfas one of the top distance runners inCanada and in the CIS. With next yearbeing a slow year on the nationalcross-country circuit, I look forwardto Kelly focusing his efforts to on-trackperformances for us.”

Sports Editor: Jonathan Hamelinsports@carillonregina.com

the carillon, March 24 - 30, 2011sports

WHO GOVERNS NATIVE CANADA?

TUESDAY 29 MARCH 2011

open mindsdebating public issues

The issue of Aboriginal self-government has occupied a large place in public discussion in Canada for decades. Ideas about the Constitution, international law, and traditional forms of Aboriginal government all play a role in this important debate. Join us for an evening of spirited dialogue as university professors and members of the community discuss this HOT topic. Each panelist in this forum will speak for ten minutes before the �oor is opened to debate and to questions from the audience. We want to hear YOUR views - all are welcome to come and share their thoughts!

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University of Regina

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“Overall, it was a fun weekend to get outand compete with the best of the best fromCanada.”

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Mueller now has his sights set on the CFL draft, which takes place on May 8

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UU ooff RR ssppoorrttss mmaatttteerrWe’ve done our job promoting them at the Carillon, now it’s time forstudents to attend

When it comes to university sports inCanada, drawing a crowd is not theeasiest thing to do.

Some of the larger schools candraw around 2,000 fans a game for cer-tain sports, but it is unfortunately justas common to see a team have only a100 or so at a game. Many people havedrawn their own conclusions to whythis is the case. Some feel that the CISneeds to do a better job at marketinguniversity sports to students, whetherit be through more advertising or sim-ply showing more games on televi-sion. Others feel like CIS is simplyinferior to the NCAA.

The later sentiment is definitelyan unfortunate one, and likely oneshared among many students here atthe University of Regina.

However, after attending a sportsevent here at the U of R and viewingthe athletes in action, the quality is un-deniable. While it would be hard toargue that the CIS is superior to theNCAA, especially when it comes tothe talent of the athletes, it is easy toargue that university athletes inCanada are very talented and they reg-ularly produce some very excitinggames. After all, these are athletes whooften continue playing their sport at acompetitive level once university isdone. In football, for example, many ofthe athletes have gone on to play in theCFL, and, on occasion, the NFL.

While the quality of the CIS gameis evident, it is also an attraction thatmakes a lot of sense for university stu-dents. At the U of R, many of the sport-ing events are either free, or verycheap. With the exception of football

and hockey games, which are onlyaround 20 minutes away from the uni-versity, other home games are locatedat the U of R, therefore very easy to ac-cess for students who live in the uni-versity. Attending these sportingevents is great way to get out withfriends, while supporting the schoolat the same time.

Unfortunately, merely statingthese words will not necessarily per-suade more students to attend gamesat the U of R.

That is why the Carillon hasworked hard this year to promote alluniversity sports at the U of R. As thesports editor, I have tried to do thisthrough season previews, game pre-views/recaps, and features. Of course,I have also been helped out greatly byour sports writer Autumn McDowelland other contributors including ColinBuchinski, Ed Kapp, Dietrich Neu,Joseph Grohs, Martin Weaver, BryanSmith, Nathan Liewicki, and the vari-ous roundtable contributors. Our pho-tographers, such as Jarrett Crowe,Marc Messett, Matt Yim, Matt Duguid,Kelsey Conway and Weaver, havehelped illustrate the section.

This year, the Carillon sports sec-tion ran season previews for manyCougar teams: cross-country, men’sbasketball, men’s hockey, men’s vol-leyball, swimming, women’s basket-ball, women’s hockey, women’s soccerand women’s volleyball. While we didnot manage to preview every team’sseason, I feel we gave fans a goodchance to get into sports at the U of Rthis season by providing them with abase knowledge of their teams. Theproblem with CIS sports is that somestudents just do not realize they arethere. I have heard some students con-fess this year that they were not even

aware we had a certain team. That iswhat the team previews hoped to fix:to increase awareness and give impor-tant information to fans who werethinking of attending games this sea-son.

After teeing up the seasons, weturned our attention to covering thegames. During this time, we have cov-ered live events including cross-coun-try, football, men’s basketball, men’shockey, men’s volleyball, men’swrestling, women’s basketball,women’s hockey, women’s soccer andwomen’s volleyball. It has been im-portant to include game reports in theCarillon, because it keeps fans up todate with their team if they cannotmake it to a game. Any homegames/events that we could not cover,or any away events or bulletins, wereincluded in our weekly roundup.

Our attention has also been fo-cused on features. Features go beyondthe game score and give students acloser look at their athletes and teams.While we did plenty of features on theclubs we have already mentioned,meeting some amazing athletes in theprocess, the features also gave oursports section the opportunity to pro-file clubs that do not always get themost attention. Our women’s curlingteam is a perfect example. They wonthe CIS championships last season –the first women’s club at the U of R todo so – and advanced to the worldchampionship. Yet, they had not beencovered in the Carillon before. Wemade sure to do that this season, andalso talked to the current U of Rwomen’s squad, who went to nation-als this season. With the success of ourcurling program at the U of R, theyhave definitely been deserving of thecoverage.

We also talked to the women’ssoftball team, who won a national titlethemselves last season, but had not re-ceived much coverage in our paper atall. The way their program has beenbuilt up from the beginning has beentruly amazing, and they’re now at apoint where they can consistentlycompete each year. We have also in-cluded articles in our section abouthandball, rowing, and intramuralsports. Stay tuned in our next issue fora feature on our successful cheerlead-ing team.

Of course, our sports section hasnot included all local sports. While itwould obviously be nice to have asports section with eight pages of uni-versity content, it is not realistic. Thereare usually only three home events perweek, coupled with the fact that youcan only run so many features. Thebiggest reason, however, is that somecontributors are not willing to coverlocal sports at the U of R. That’s cool,and I have certainly been willing toaccept all contributions this year, localor not. I feel it is important to let writ-ers write about their passion, andsometimes that is not universitysports. We have included articles onthe CFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NFL, andMMA, to name a few.

University sports, however, havealways been my main focus. I thinkthat is the beauty of a university news-paper like the Carillon. Our sports sec-tion is not obligated to cover everylocal, national and international sportout there; we only have to focus onuniversity sports if we want to.

That is what I feel should be done.Instead of complaining about the lackof CIS coverage, a student paper needsto provide the CIS with coverage. It ismy sincerest hope that whoever is thesports editor of the Carillon next yearwill continue to promote universitysports, and encourage contributors todo the same.

As for the students out there whohave read the Carillon sports sectionthis year, I hope we persuaded you totake in a game at the U of R. If not, Ihope you are now considering doingso in the future.

For more information on sportshere at the U of R, visitreginacougars.com and uregina.ca/recservices/index.html. Tolearn more about Canada West, themain conference our sports team com-pete in, visit canadawest.org/. Finally,to get more information on the CIS,check out cis-sic.ca/splash/index.

jonathan hamelinsports editor

“ For the students out there who have readthe Carillon sports section this year, I hopewe persuaded you to take in a game at theU of R. If not, I hope you are now consider-ing doing so in the future.”

Martin Weaver

See those empty seats? It’s time to fill them

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14 sports the carillonMarch 24 - 30, 2011

WINDSOR, Ont. (CUP) —Considered one of the top teams inthe nation for the last three years, theUniversity of Windsor Lancerswomen’s basketball team finally hasthe hardware to prove it.

In a nail-biting matchup againstthe second-seeded SaskatchewanHuskies, the Lancers laid claim to theBronze Baby trophy with a 63–49 vic-tory in front of a capacity hometowncrowd on March 21.

It is the first-ever CIS women’sbasketball title in Lancers’ history. ForLancers head coach Chantal Vallee,who clearly still remembered losingin the finals last year, that offered a lit-tle something extra.

“As sad as I was last year that wedidn’t win, I am so glad that we couldwin our first national championshipon the home court,” Vallee said. “It’sa moment we’ll never forget.”

For others, like departing fifth-year forward Raelyn Prince, therewasn’t much to think about besidestheir emotions.

“This just feels so great. I couldrun a marathon right now,” Princesaid.

Despite coming in as the num-ber-one seed, the Lancers had beenranked behind Saskatchewan in theCIS Top Ten since the early winter,making for an interesting finalmatchup. Both teams are offensivelyrenowned, but play very differentstyles, with Windsor’s patient effi-ciency meeting Saskatchewan’s high-impact style.

While the Lancers opened up thescoring with a series of beautifulplays, the Huskies quickly jumpedahead with a potent attack thatWindsor wasn’t quite ready to stop.

“They’re a very strong, guard-ori-ented team, and we’re a post-orientedteam,” Vallee said of the matchup.“We really talked to our posts aboutstopping the fourth guard and doingtheir job there. Their guards are veryfast. As you could see, we needed tomake some adjustments.”

By the second, the Lancers cameup with some big answers to theHuskies offence, earning numerous

defensive stops and going on a 23–8scoring run in the quarter.

As is typical of Windsor’s of-fence, consistently hitting the markon shooting – 43 per cent from thefield against Saskatchewan – allowedthem to slowly build a lead as thequarter got drawn out.

“We couldn’t quite stay withthem,” fifth-year Huskies player JillHumbert said. “We’re not going towin a game scoring 49 points, that’sfor sure.”

“They’re a momentum team,”added fellow Saskatchewan fifth-yearMarci Kiselyk. “A lot of their scoringcame in bursts. They’d get [8–12]points in a row, and that’s prettytough to kill that momentum once itstarts going.”

In the third, setting up a wall un-der the net seemed to frustrate theLancers and forced them to cough upthe ball to the Huskies. But onceagain, a couple of big scoring playsnear the end of the quarter restoredWindsor’s momentum, and they car-ried it right to the end of the game.

After making two consecutivethree-point shots that began to putthe game in the bag, Windsor’sBojana Kovacevic could be seenyelling in joy, fists clenched and asmile plastered across her face.

CIS player of the year JessicaClemençon had 18 points and sevenblocks in the game, while Kovacevicearned 14 points and nine rebounds.Miah-Marie Langlois, who wasnamed tournament MVP, contributed10 points and three assists.

Clemençon was still able to per-form at the top of her game all week-end, despite teams scouting her welland providing double coverage.

The Huskies did the best job witha more conditional style of coverage,waiting until Clemençon got the ballbefore they doubled up under the net.This stopped her in the third quarterbut still prevented other Lancers frombeing left open, as happened in theopening round game against Laval.

“[Clemençon’s] a good playerand she really battles,” Kiselyk said.

Having mentioned that, it wasclear that the Lancers’ biggest assetover the Huskies was arguably thedepth of their bench. WhileSaskatchewan played only seven oftheir players during the game, Vallee

called to her bench less than threeminutes into the game.

Analysts have been describingthe Lancers as a “ten-deep” team allseason, and it gave them edge duringthe tournament. Who is on the courtoften depends more on strategy thanwho the superstars are.

“This is the first year we have allthe girls on board and accepting theirrole – playing, not playing, substitut-ing, starter, scorer, not a scorer…”Vallee said of her team. “That can behard to accept, but the girls are ma-ture and they had a goal in mind as ateam. They’re very selfless.”

Two Lancers bench players whostood out all weekend were rookieKorissa Williams and fifth-year guardHeather Angus. In particular, theguards seemed to be called on whenthe defensive pressure needed to beturned up. On Sunday, Williamsearned a double-double off the benchwith 11 points and 10 rebounds, aswell as four steals.

The Huskies, on the other hand,only played seven players and, by thefourth, were missing most of theirshots. Their first-half shooting per-centage of 45.5 dropped to 39.1 in thesecond half, and their three-point per-centage dropped from 60 to 30.With files from Kevin Menz, The Sheaf

WATERLOO, Ont. (CUP) — At the2007 CIS women’s hockey nationalchampionship, Rick Osborne andHowie Draper each received disci-plinary messages from HockeyCanada after speaking out about thetournament’s sub-par officiating.

Here we are, four years later, andthe respective Laurier Golden Hawksand Alberta Pandas head coaches –along with all the rest of the coachesand players in the tournament – arestill dealing with the same problem.

This past weekend’s CISwomen’s hockey championship wasmarred by officiating that was cer-tainly not biased, but just downrightbad.

There was missed call aftermissed call and phantom penalty af-ter phantom penalty. The refs inevery game of the tournamentseemed to lose control, thus render-ing them unable to call a consistentgame.

Normally I’m a firm believer thatcomplaining about which penaltiesare and aren’t called should be left tofans looking for a cop-out excuse fortheir team’s play, and rarely signalany real problem.

When the officials start missingclear goals that alter the entire shapeof the tournament, however, then it’spretty clear there’s a problem.

That is exactly what happenedin Saturday night’s tilt between theSt. Francis Xavier X-Women and theManitoba Bisons, a matchup that de-cided the fates of all three teams inPool B, the other being Laurier.

With her team already up 1–0,

Manitoba forward Tammy Brade puta shot over StFX goalie KristyGarrow’s glove, only to have it comeflying back out of the net.

But one thing was missing: theunmistakable sound of a puck hit-ting the crossbar. The puck had actu-ally hit the padded bar in the middleof the net and came back out.

Referee Christine Pellerin, whowas in near perfect position, wavedthe goal off, and with CIS not havingvideo review, play continued andManitoba never got the goal.

StFX went on to win 4–3, puttingthemselves in the gold-medal game,which meant that Laurier, who lost toStFX, but beat Manitoba, played forbronze.

Even in Laurier’s loss to StFX,the referees played a much larger rolethan they should have. With theteams tied at two, Laurier was as-sessed a delay of game penalty thatno one could quite figure out, puttingthe X-Women on a five-on-three. TheX-Women would score and go on towin the game.

Unlike in 2007, the coaches andplayers are trying to say all the rightthings when it comes the officials –however, the frustration is clear.

“The officiating at nationals re-minds me of Groundhog Day. I wakeup every year and start over again,”Osborne said. “But I’m not going toknock on the officials, I think we stillhave to look from within, there wereopportunities [in the bronze medalgame versus Queen’s] and there wereopportunities in the StFX game.”

That same frustration was evi-dent in Laurier forward VanessaSchabkar’s reluctance to discuss thephantom penalty that put her teamdown two players during the gameversus the X-Women.

“I don’t want to go against therefs, but you’ve got three of theirplayers on ours, who’s bent over,”she said.

Beyond the missed Manitobagoal and the questionable call forLaurier, the officiating affected everyteam at the tournament.

From McGill’s Gillian Ferrarirunning a Queen’s player into theboards from behind and not gettingcalled, to the refs calling three penal-ties in the final 1:30 of a 1–0 game inthe bronze-medal match between theGolden Hawks and Queen’s Gaels,to the seemingly endless parade ofplayers to the box for, let's just say,questionable reasons.

These teams work all year to getto nationals and represent the bestthe country has to offer. It’s continu-ously unfair that officiating can havesuch an effect on the outcome of atournament that is supposed to bethe pinnacle of CIS women’s hockey.

josh kolmlance(university of windsor)

“As sad as I waslast year that wedidn’t win, I amso glad that wecould win ourfirst nationalchampionship onthe home court.It’s a momentwe’ll never for-get.”

Chantal ValleeLancers head coach

HHuusskkiieess ggeett llaanncceeddU of S loses to Windsor in CIS women’s basketball final

Josh Kolm/The Lance

The Lancers celebrate their title

justin fauteuxcord (wilfrid laurieruniversity)

“ The officiatingat [women’shockey] nationalsreminds me ofGroundhog Day. Iwake up everyyear and startover again.”

Rick OsborneLaurier women’s hockey

head coach

MMaakkiinngg tthheewwrroonngg ccaallllCIS women’s hockey officiatingneeds improvement

Adam Gagnon

The puck is clearly behind St.FX goalie Kristy Garrow, but the refereewaved it off.

sports 15the carillonMarch 24 - 30, 2011

SSeelllliinngg sseexx ddooeessnn’’tt sseellll ssppoorrttssSports media and organizations often overlook athletic performance forsex appeal

BRANTFORD, Ont. (CUP) — “Let thewomen play in more feminine clotheslike they do in volleyball.”

These were the words that FIFApresident Sepp Blatter uttered back in2004, sparking intense controversy.

“They could, for example, havetighter shorts. Female players arepretty, if you excuse me for saying so,and they already have different rulesto men – such as playing with a lighterball.”

Blatter’s comments caused an out-cry among female soccer players allover the world, but in truth, he was notsaying anything new. Sports organiza-tions and the media have been at-tempting to exploit the sex appeal offemale athletes to sell sports for years.

2009 saw the most blatant exam-ple, when the Lingerie Football Leaguewas created: a professional femaletackle-football league that sees theplayers wearing only bras, panties,shoulder pads and helmets, with clearvisors instead of face masks of course.

Not all examples are this blatantlyobvious, however. In 1999, the ruling

international governing body for vol-leyball (FIVB) standardized beach vol-leyball uniforms to be smaller, evenimplementing a maximum size.

“There really is no empirical proofto prove this assertion,” explainedNicole Lavoi of the Tucket Center forResearch on Girls and Women inSports at the University of Minnesota.“Yes, we know sex sells – it sells jeansand perfumes and God knows whatelse. But nobody has any proof thatsex sells women’s sports.

“It’s a big assumption. And thoseof us that critique that assumption, say,‘Show us the data,’ because we havedata that says otherwise. To those thatactually want to consume women’ssports, it’s quite an offensive assump-tion.”

It’s the media portrayal and cover-age given to women’s sports that putsan emphasis on sex. Each year whentennis’ Rogers Cup rolls around, it israrely the number-one seed that gets tograce the cover of Canadian sports sec-tions, but instead one of the playerswith universal sex appeal like MariaSharapova.

“[This] makes female athletesthink they have to promote this kind ofsexy, hetero, feminine image, whetherthey want to or not,” Lavoi said. “It’skind of like that’s the business, sothat’s what you have to do.

“This is problematic, because ithas nothing to do with athletic per-formance, but it’s kind of seen like youhave to play this game to be promoted,and not all female athletes can con-form to that feminine norm.”

By that same token, however, it’shard to ignore the fact that some fe-male athletes do project this sexy im-age themselves in other forms ofmedia. Last year, U.S. Olympic skierLindsey Vonn famously posed in abikini atop a ski hill for SportsIllustrated, while tennis star AnnaKournikova has posed for men’s mag-azines Maxim and FHM multipletimes.

Lavoi believes one reason for thiscould be the result of poor media at-tention and endorsements towardswomen’s sports, so the athletes are try-ing to take advantage of their fameand make a significant amount of

money to help fund their training andsimple living expenses.

The other side, according to Lavoi,is that these female athletes feel theyhave a choice to show off their bodies,but don’t realize that the choice is cre-ated in an unequal system.

“Yes, they have a choice, but theirchoices are tempered by this whole bi-nary system that female athletes arenever valued as much as male ath-letes,” Lavoi said. “So when they goahead and sexualize themselves,they’re in fact becoming part of theproblem, not the solution. But theydon’t see it that way. And it’s not theirfault they’ve been co-opted into be-lieving this is the way to promote fe-male athletes.”

Regardless of the reasons for sexu-alizing female sports and female ath-letes, it simply is not working inpromoting the sports on the same scaleas their male counterparts.

Looking at basketball figures, theWNBA averaged just over 7,800 fansper game in the 2010 season, while theNBA averaged a whopping 17,520. Incollege hoops, the female Universityof Connecticut Huskies team – whohad a record 90 consecutive wins andwere named third on SI’s “Teams ofthe Decade” – averaged 10,182 fansper home game, comparable to theXavier University men’s team, whofinished 44th in overall attendance.

Lavoi believes the media mustcover women’s athleticism as opposedto the “sex sells” approach and thatfemale athletes must stand up to thisidea in order to get women’s sportsappreciated for the athletes them-selves.

Another possibility, however,could simply be time-based.

Compared to the men’s profes-sional leagues, many women’s prosports are still in their infancy and try-ing to break into the mainstream mar-ket. Coverage and attention have goneup in recent years, so these leaguesand sports may just need to gothrough this rough patch and time willbring them the desired attention.

The worst thing for them would beto be typecast for their sex appeal –that is, if they want to be taken seri-ously.

kyle brown sputnik (wilfrid laurieruniversity-brantford)

“We know sexsells – it sellsjeans and per-fumes and Godknows what else.But nobody hasany proof that sexsells women’ssports.”

Nicole Lavoi

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This 2010 Sports Illustrated cover photo of American skier Lindsey Vonn caused controversy last year

16 sports the carillonMarch 24 - 30, 2011

The WHL’s Regina Pats were hopingto give their hometown fans one finalwin last Friday night, but BraydenSchenn had other ideas.

Schenn, along with the SaskatoonBlades, made the trip to the BrandtCentre for Game 1 of a weekendhome-and-home series. Friday’s con-test also marked the final home gamefor the Blue and White, with everyonehungry for a win.

Surprisingly, Regina got off to agreat start and, even though bothteams remained scoreless after twoperiods, Regina was outshootingSaskatoon 22-12 after 40 minutes ofplay.

Regina was able to strike first, asJordan Weal plotted his 41st goal ofthe season roughly five minutes intothe final frame. Weal appeared tohave the hot stick once again, as hesniped his 42nd goal just four minuteslater.

With the Pats up by two withseven minutes left in the game, itlooked like they may actually pull offthe upset and send the home fansaway happy, but the top team in theWHL was far from done.

Three minutes after Weal’s sec-ond goal, the Pats got into penaltytrouble - a situation with almost guar-anteed dire consequences whenyou’re up against the Blades. Not only did the Pats register onepenalty, but they gave the Blades a 5-3 advantage after a checking-from-behind call sent yet another Pats

player to the penalty box.The Pats were able to kill off the

first penalty, and came close to killingoff the second as well, but with 16seconds left Brett Stovin found theback of the net for the Blades, cuttingRegina’s lead to one.

With just over two minutes leftin the game, the Pats received anotheruntimely penalty, sending the Bladesback on the power-play.

Josh Nicholls netted anotherpower-play marker to even things upwhen he tipped in Schenn’s pointshot with mere minutes left in thegame.

As the final buzzer went, the twoteams were deadlocked at two goalsapiece, sending the game to overtime.

Superstar Schenn put the nail inthe Pats’ coffin as he scored a goaltop shelf with just over a minute leftin the extra frame. Pats players andfans went away unhappy, but this sit-uation is nothing new.

This game quickly went fromhopeful to disappointing, similar tohow the Pats’ entire season has been.

The Pats have been out of therunning for quite some time, andwere mathematically eliminated af-ter back-to-back losses to highway ri-vals the Moose Jaw Warriors early inthe month. Of course, this means thatthe Pats’ streak of missing the play-offs has grown to three years, not ex-actly something to be proud of.

Looks like the early predictionswere right and the Pats will be forcedto chalk this season up as a rebuildingyear.

It isn’t that the Pats do not havethe talent to be able to step above the

basement team level: Weal is fifth inthe league in overall scoring and firstfor assists, while captain GarretMitchell just signed a three-year dealwith the Washington Capitals.

Had Pats general manager ChadLang not made some of his interestingtrades before the Christmas break, itis possible that the Pats could havecracked the top eight and made theplayoffs. But instead, they will have along summer to think about their dis-appointing season once again.

It’s something that fans and play-ers seem to be getting used to. ThePats not making the playoffs is basi-cally expected until something drasti-cally changes in the dressing room.

The Pats were back in action onSaturday night, when they were hop-ing to play spoiler for the Blades inSaskatoon’s last home game of theseason. The Pats dropped their lastgame of the season by a score of 4-2.

Typical.

As we near the month of April, theNHL season is winding down andthe postseason will soon begin. Onceagain, the Toronto Maple Leafs willfail to qualify and their fans will post-pone all plans for the parade.

Since the lockout, the Leafs arethe only Canadian team who hasn’tparticipated in the playoffs at leastonce. Their long history of sacrificingthe future for short-term gain has notproved to be successful. Any wayyou look at it, trading two first roundpicks for right winger Phil Kesselwas foolish and unjustifiable. AddingTaylor Hall and perhaps RyanNugent Hopkins or big Swedish de-fender Adam Larsson would havegone a long way in helping rebuildthis team. Instead, you wonder whenthis team will actually become rele-vant again.

When your team’s leading scoreris Clarke Macarthur, you are indeedin a dark place. On the bright side,Brian Burke has stockpiled manydraft picks this year by trading de-fencemen Tomas Kaberle and for-ward Kris Versteeg, who never reallyseemed to fit with the Leafs. In orderfor the Leafs to become successfulagain, they will have to do it throughthe draft. Let’s face it – what freeagent would actually want to playfor this team?

Meanwhile, Burke’s old team,the Vancouver Canucks, are poised tomake a run for the cup this year. Withthe Sedin twins firing on all cylin-ders and goaltender Roberto Luongoplaying some of the best hockey ofhis life, the team will be hard to beat.As of the end of March, the Canuckshave pretty much wrapped up thePresident’s Trophy for the league’sbest record. The Canucks sport a po-tent offence, fantastic special teamsand likely the best defensive pairingsin the league. If everything goes asplanned, the Canucks will be the firstCanadian team to win the StanleyCup since the Habs did it in 1993.

In Montreal, the Habs have a de-cent roster with a great coaching staffin Jacques Martin and Kirk Miller. Itis miraculous that the Canadiens aresitting sixth place in the EasternConference with a chance to catchthe Boston Bruins for the divisionlead. The Canadiens will lose over300 man games due to injury by theend of the season. Some of theCanadiens’ major stars have missed alot of the season including AndreiMarkov, Josh Gorges, MikeCammalleri, and Max Pacioretty.With many players out for the sea-son, it will likely be a very tough taskto win even a round in the playoffs,but this is a Habs team you can’t evercount out.

In Calgary, the Flames have un-dergone a complete turnaround.Miikka Kipprusoff can now stop abeach ball and Jarome Iginla is get-ting more ice time and is once againdominating. After struggling for

much of the first half, the Flameshave an opportunity to make theplayoffs, but would likely play theCanucks in the first round. With JayFeaster now at GM, the Flames willbe much better off now and in thefuture.

Outside of Canada, there aremany teams to watch leading up tothe playoffs and throughout thespring time.

The Washington Capitals areprobably the hottest team in the NHLright now. Before Christmas, theCapitals found themselves in a majorfunk on an eight-game losing streak.Now, head coach Bruce Boudreauhas really helped the team improvetheir defensive play and, withAlexander Ovechkin, Nik Backstrom,Mike Green, and Alexander Seminup front, they will be one of theteams to beat in the East.

The Philadelphia Flyers are likelythe favourite in the East. After losingto Chicago in last year’s final, theteam has only gotten better. Led bydefencemen Chris Pronger and for-wards Jeff Carter and Mike Richards,the team has the ability to score goalsand play a good defensive hockeygame. With all of their size up front,they are one of the toughest teams inthe league to play against and whenit comes to playoff hockey, that’s agreat quality to have.

The Boston Bruins, currentlyleading the Northeast Division, areanother contender in the East. Withbig defencemen Zdeno Chara andnew addition Tomas Kaberle, theyare solid defensively. Up front, theyhave one of the most balanced at-tacks in the league. David Krejci,Patrice Bergeron and Milan Luciclead the way on a team that has 10players with 30 or more points. TheBruins have the potential to go allthe way this year.

The Detroit Red Wings are goodas always. Goaltender JimmyHoward has really come into hisown, winning over 30 games this sea-son and Henrik Zetterberg is havinga great season. Year after year, theRed Wings are always a threat andmajor credit goes to head coach MikeBabcock and perhaps the league’sbest GM in Kenny Holland.

Elsewhere in the West, it’s an ab-solute dogfight. All but eight pointsseparates fourth place from 10thplace. Several good teams currentlyhold playoff spots including: thePhoenix Coyotes, San Jose Sharks,Los Angeles Kings, ChicagoBlackhawks, and Dallas Stars. Eventhe Nashville Predators andAnaheim Ducks, currently on theoutside looking in, have legitimaterosters and can skate with the best ofthem.

This year’s playoffs are lookinglike they are going to be one of themost entertaining shows in years.Realistically, any team has a shot towin the cup, and that’s what sepa-rates our great sport from the NFL,NBA, and MLB.

Enjoy the ride.

autumn mcdowellsports writer

“ The Pats notmaking the play-offs is basicallyexpected untilsomething drasti-cally changes inthe dressingroom.”

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The Pats just didn’t win the battles this season

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“ In order for the Leafs to become success-ful again, they will have to do it throughthe draft. Let’s face it, what free agentwould actually want to play for thisteam?”

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the carillon, March 24 - 30, 2011op-ed

While reflecting upon what I was go-ing tackle this week, it hit me that thisis probably the last editorial of myuniversity career.

That’s right, at the end of thisyear I will say goodbye to these com-fortable concrete walls, and head outinto the scary world of real life andbig girl jobs. And change is scary.

High school started this idea, andnow university has confirmed it, butfour years is just enough time so thatwhatever you’re doing seems like itwill last forever – even if, while you’redoing it, you know that’s not true.

So, while I have become an ex-pert at being a student and sucky atbeing a real person, I’ve decided totake this final opportunity to givesome pearls of wisdom I’ve learned inmy time, while I still can feel like Iknow what I’m talking about.First, nobody cares about you or whatyou’re doing. I came from a smalltown, where everyone knew every-thing that happened to everyone else.Did you puke at a party once? Enjoythe new nickname “Spew Queen” onMonday. Date someone you’re notproud of? Too bad, not only will yousee them in every one of your classes,everyone you know will make fun ofyou when they see him.The thing about moving away wasthis sudden feeling of anonymity.Anything I did wasn’t worth any-one’s time to gossip about. And whywould it be? Who was I except a typ-ical first year?The strange thing was that I went inthe opposite direction from what onewould expect under these circum-stances. I cut back my partying, be-came a homebody, and got a kitty. Isuppose, in high school, I felt like Ihad to go to every party or peoplemight think I was boring or, worseyet, not invited. But I don’t think Ienjoyed half of them. Mostly becauseI couldn’t stand some of the people Iwas there with – which brings me tomy next lesson. When it comes tofriendship, quality outweighs quan-tityIt took me over two decades to find,approximately, five people I canstand. And one of them is the cat Imentioned before, and I had to buyhim. I call him a person because, well,I have my suspicions.

I’m not as friendly as I thought I wasin high school. Well into my lateteens, I counted my happiness byhow many people came to my birth-day. Now, if half those people werethere, I’d probably leave early. I’dprobably leave early anyway – I havea Beautyrest mattress – but evenmoreso.It takes a while to realize you are justnot going to be compatible witheveryone. Even fewer people are go-ing to be those friends you feel legit-imately bad bitching about behindtheir back. Those are the moneyfriends. Going to those high school partiesand, later, to the bar always soundslike a fun, sexy idea. But the truth is,I had far more fun when I was havingpre-drinks at a friend’s house. A lot oftimes it would have been better to notmess up a good thing and just staythere. Thirdly, somewhere, someone just astalented as you is working twice ashard.In all my adolescent – and, to be quitehonest, early university – bravado, I believed I was something really spe-cial. I thought I was smart and tal-ented in a way that would, of course,get a job handed to me on that basisalone.I’m not.I’ve done well in university, but I’mnot that person who broke that 90 percent barrier. And while I think I havesome talent for reporting and writ-ing, I look around at my peers and re-alize that talent isn’t something thatmakes you different – it just starts youat par.In my college, I’m constantly a com-plainy-pants about how busy I am.The thing is, if I stopped, I know Iwould immediately sink to the bot-tom. The person next to you is work-ing hard, and the person next to themis working harder because they seehow hard the first person is working.And everyone is annoyed at thatslacker spouting, “C’s get degrees.”Hate that guy.It’s a privilege to get to learn. And itsprivilege to get to do a job that actu-ally interests you, a career. And thatprivilege demands a certain amountof respect. There are a billion peoplein the world; do you really believe

you’re the one special enough just tocoast?

Having said that, do what youlove, not just for workWhen I started university, I had a mo-ment. “It’s time to put away yourchildish things, Kim. You must growup.”I quit writing, quit reading for fun,and basically shut the door on a lot ofwhat made me who I was becausethey seemed like a waste of time. Ineeded to be getting a job, not bekeeping my head in childish endeav-ors. I started university with the full intentof becoming a social worker, like myparents.Now, there’s nothing wrong with so-cial work, but don’t kid yourself. It’sa hard career to follow, and there areonly select types of people who cando it. Take for instance my mom. Mymom hasn’t bought herself anythingnew since her kids were born. Evennow, with both her kids out of thehouse and moving into full timework, she is still wary about spendinganything on herself, for fear my sisteror I might suddenly want somethingand she will be unable to provide it.

She’s the type, as one Simpsonsquote puts it, who’d, “instead ofswatting a fly, give it a bath and sendit on its way.”

Yet, I know some days she dealtwith terrible things. Things you’d ex-pect a tender spirit like that to becrushed under. But she kept goingback because she needed to help.

I am not as tender.I live in a fantasy world most of

the time – I love to create. That’s me.But I wasted a lot of time trying

to ignore who I was because youcouldn’t get a job writing. It was onlywhen I started slowly bringing backthose things that I found the career,and college, that I now couldn’t pic-ture my life without. Which bringsme to my final point this year:

Some will have a plan as soon asthey show up. Some need the fouryears to find out who they really are.

BURNABY, B.C. (CUP) — There is afantastic scene in the classic 1964 filmDr. Strangelove where General JackD. Ripper outlines his belief that thecommunists intend to pollute the“precious bodily fluids” of the citi-zens of the United States.

Ripper’s paranoia was born outof the Cold War, but continues todayin many forms.

Earlier this month, a local B.C.politician hosted a public forum on“the effects of wi-fi and cell phonetowers." Meanwhile, in Calgary,councillors have voted to remove flu-oride from their water after 20 years.

Fear of the unknown is under-standably strong, and when thehealth of your immediate family ispotentially at risk, emotions can getunderstandably heated. But afterthousands of years of progress fromour stone-age roots, we no longerhave to fear the darkness.

Astronomer and skeptic CarlSagan said that science is akin to acandle in the dark, and so it behoovesus to approach these discussions ra-tionally and calmly, balancing the ev-idence and weighing the risks.

The fight over water fluoridationhas been going on for a long time,and was a part of the fear that Ripperhad in Dr. Strangelove, believing thechemical was used as a form of mindcontrol.

The truth is far less exciting,however, as fluoride is a naturallyoccurring mineral in all municipalwater supplies, to varying strength.

More is often added to achieveoptimum levels to prevent tooth de-cay, which as a child who grew up onun-fluoridated well water and didnot brush enough, I can only wish Ihad access to. The evidence is verystrong for the benefits of fluorida-

tion, with Health Canada, the WorldHealth Organization and most dentalassociations supporting controlledfluoridation.

European countries that eschewwater fluoridation are often used asan argument against the additive;however, many of those countriesadd fluoride to milk, bread, or otherstaples, to ensure the strength of theirnation’s teeth.

Meanwhile, as newer technolo-gies begin to permeate our increas-ingly connected world, technophobiaor neo-Luddism is spreading. Manypeople have begun to believe theyhave electro-hyper-sensitivity, andsuffer from migraines and othergeneric ill health effects when in thepresence of strong electromagneticsources.

Unfortunately for them, no rep-utable study has yet confirmed theexistence of this condition, and agrowing body of well-researched lit-erature continues to support thesafety of current wi-fi and cellulartelephone technologies. The fewstudies that show the smallest of ef-fects mostly suffer from irrepro-ducibility or lack of blinding, whereeither the researcher or, in somecases, the subjects, know the condi-tions of the experiment.

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The Regina Public Interest Research Group is a student funded resource centre at the University of Regina committed to so-cial and environmental justice – located just past the Women’s Centre and UR Pride. We provide the resources and fundingnecessary to enable students to organize around issues through research, education, and action, and gave out close to$30,000 for student projects this past year! We would like to introduce you to our new Board of Directors for the 2011-2012academic year.

My name is Kelsey Hudym and I am just fin-ishing my second year in the Faculty ofBusiness Administration. My experience atthe University of Regina has made me in-creasingly aware of issues that affect the stu-dent body. It has also helped fuel my owninterest in a few different areas, such as envi-ronmental sustainability, equality, and the so-cial and psychological well-being of people. Ibelieve that being a part of RPIRG will giveme the opportunity to turn compassion andinterest into real change. I want to be able toencourage other students to act and speakout on issues close to their heart. The mostimportant task of all is to inform students thatthere are resources available that can assistthem in making a change in their communityand world.With my leadership, dedication,and open mind, I hope to represent the stu-dent body on the RPIRG Board of Directors tothe best of my ability.

Hello! My name is Ashley Mantei, and I wasrecently accepted to the Masters of PublicAdministration program here at the U of R.My undergrad is also from the U of R, with adouble major in Psychology and PoliticalScience. This year will be my second year onthe RPIRG Board of Directors, and I am look-ing forward to building on some of the amaz-ing things we accomplished in the last year.Included in our successes are a four-daytraining camp, campaigns, speakers, a confer-ence, organizational strategic planning, andbeing involved in funding of many of the so-cial justice and environmental initiatives oncampus. This past year, RPIRG also hired twoCommunity Action Project researchers to doresearch in the public interest, and we plan tocontinue this initiative in the year to come. Ilook forward to seeing even more studentsinvolved with RPIRG in the 2011-2012 term!

Andrea Nelson here, a fifth year CampionHistory student fortunate to have the opportu-nity to integrate a longstanding focus on ac-tive engagement in campus and communitylife with an organization committed to values Ihold dear. To me, being a part of the RPIRGBoard of Directors means serving as an in-volved member of a meaningful and neces-sary agent in our community. I bring activeleadership, student governance experience,and a deep yearning for a sustainable future.In the next year, I would like to see RPIRGcontinue its great work in empowering eagerparticipation throughout our locality and ad-vancing social justice. Moreover, I would liketo see added emphasis in sparking an in-crease in sustainable transportation use,sprouting understandings of food sovereigntyand healthy living, as well as inspiring mean-ingful movement towards a truly sustainablecampus.

My name is Ali Abbas and I am currently inthe Masters of Public Administration pro-gram. This year will be my second year on theRPIRG Board of Directors. I look forward torepresenting the student body over the nextyear the best I can and helping fund excitingnew social initiatives in our community. Anti-oppression and public interest over privateinterest are values I hold near to me, RPIRG isan organization that shares these values. Iencourage all students to use the wonderfulresource that RPIRG is to advocate against in-justices in their community. I look forward tohelping students find and providing the re-sources they need to be active citizens at theuniversity. I hope to see you all at our eventsover the next year!

My name is Jon Petrychyn, and I am in mythird year of study in the Faculty of Fine Arts. Ichose to run for the RPIRG Board of Directorsbecause I am really interested in social jus-tice issues and was looking for a way to bringforward the issues that I think are most impor-tant to the student body. I really hope to bringto RPIRG a new perspective on the use of thearts in social justice. I would also like to rep-resent the queer perspective on social justiceissues and push for more LQBTI-friendly ini-tiatives.

Hi, my name is Carolyn Greve. I am a fourthyear student studying music education with aminor in math education. Since I’ve been atthe U of R I have been on the board of URPride, the Philosophy Students Society andthe Math, Actuarial Science and StatisticsStudent Society. I have also volunteered formany on campus events over the last twoyears. I want to be on the board of RPIRG be-cause I think that there are many importantactivities going on around Regina and thatthey need support to get their message out. Inthe next year, I want to help RPIRG to solicitmore applications from under-representedgroups including LGBTI, women’s groups andnon-native English speakers. If you have anyideas that need a voice, contact me at car-olyn.greve@gmail.com.

My name is Anna Weber and I'm in my thirdyear at the U of R studying InternationalDevelopment. I am passionate about socialjustice and I believe in the importance of astrong community. I am looking forward tobeing on the RPIRG board of directors, andfeel confident that I can help make decisionsthat support the long-term goals of the organ-ization. I would like to see RPIRG continue toflourish in the next year, in providing supportand resources to student groups, and organiz-ing events for the community centered on so-cial and environmental justice.

My name is Amanda Smytaniuk. I am a fifthyear Arts student majoring in Economics andSociety. During my time as a student at theUniversity of Regina I have been very activeas a volunteer and as a student representa-tive. As URSU president I worked with stu-dents, under the guidance of Dr. MarcSpooner, to bring the RPIRG into existence.Since then I have watched RPIRG mature andam very proud of what it has become—an or-ganization with a meaningful presence oncampus. It is my hope that my experience aswell as my passion for the RPIRG will assist inthe continued enhancement of the organiza-tion in the years to come. RPIRG belongs tothe students and is accountable to each ofyou. Please do not hesitate to contact me atamandasmytaniuk@hotmail.com with anyquestions and concerns you may have.Thanks and all the best!Amanda SmytaniukAli Abbas

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