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In keeping with our reckless, devil-may-care image, our of-fice has absolutely no concrete information on the Carillon’sformative years readily available. What follows is the storythat’s been passed down from editor to editor for over fortyyears.

In the late 1950s, the University of Regina planned the con-struction of several new buildings on the campus grounds.One of these proposed buildings was a bell tower on the aca-demic green. If you look out on the academic green today,the first thing you’ll notice is that it has absolutely nothingresembling a bell tower.

The University never got a bell tower, but what it did getwas the Carillon, a newspaper that serves as a symbolic belltower on campus, a loud and clear voice belonging to eachand every student.

Illegitimi non carborundum.

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It’s really hard not just type“Sports guy did sports thing” inthis little blurb when we run asports cover. But seriously, thissports guy did some prettybadass sports things. Readabout it on page 18, and checkout some photos from Trackand Field on page 14. Happypage jumping, Carilloners.

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“Idle” needs more. 21

With a changing economic cli-mate, many fear that a liberalarts education no longer hasthe prestige and value it oncedid. As employers demandmore practical skills, and stu-dents become more unmoti-vated to learn, what is thefuture of the university?

The women’s basketball teamparticipated in a tournamentover the Christmas break thatjust happened to be in Vegas.These girls lead an incredibledifficult life and deserved thetrip to tan, swim, shop andgamble while only playingthree games. Must be nice.

An album cover should grabyour attention, but we've donethe diligence of finding albumcovers that not only grab yourattention, but make you won-der how in the hell someonesaid, "Yeah, this one is goodand totally not fucking in-sane."

As continued protests takeplace across the country, themovement is being writtenoff as "a Native thing". ButIdle No More is much morethan that. It is a call to actionfor Canadians concernedabout environment, democ-racy, and Aboriginal rights.

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Students appear to be getting fedup.

Outcry against loomingbudget cuts at both the Universityof Regina and the University ofSaskatchewan are intensifying.Across both campuses, a coales-cence of concerned students haveformed Students AgainstAusterity, a group designed toraise awareness about the cost-cutting measures being imple-mented by both U of R and U of Sadministration.

The U of R is expected to make$3.6 million in cuts to the school’soperating budget after they re-ceive the provincial government’syearly grant – which makes up alarge portion of the U of R’sbudget, and is expected to be lessthan what is needed. The U of S isfacing massive cuts of $44.5 mil-lion. Saskatoon student newspa-per, the Sheaf, has reported thatthe U of S will layoff 40 employ-ees, saving the university $2.3 mil-lion, and further cost-cuttingmeasures are on the horizonaimed at saving the school an ad-ditional $20-25 million.

Here at the U of R, studentsand faculty members alike havecriticized both the provincial gov-ernment and university adminis-

tration about a lack of trans-parency throughout the AcademicReview process. The criticism hasyielded some results, primarily inform of public Q and A sessionswith university brass.

The Regina contingent ofStudents Against Austerity hasarranged an additional meetingwith U of R vice-president (aca-demic) Tom Chase on Jan. 24. Thegroup’s goal is to collect studentconcerns through a series of smallmeetings, after which they willbring those concerns to Chase atthe public forum this week. “Our concerns are about auster-

ity,” said Kent Peterson, who iscurrently doing a Master in PublicAdministration. “specifically atthe University of Regina, and nowat the University ofSaskatchewan, both administra-tions are implementing significantcost-cutting measures. In theUniversity of Regina in particu-lar, those are coming in the way ofacademic cuts. They are not onlylooking at merging and rearrang-ing some departments, but elimi-nating some of them all together.“It is quite concerning,” he contin-ued. “There hasn’t been enoughstudent representation on deci-

sion-making bodies; there hasn’tbeen enough student consulta-tion. So our concerns are, broadly,the austerity measures, but alsothat students are being left in thedark about it.”The group, which currently con-sists of about 20 students on cam-pus, is hoping that thisinformation campaign will helpto flush out some concerns amongstudents that have gone largelyunheard.

“Ideally, we would like to seesome changes to what cuts aremade and how they are imple-mented,” said Ruth Easton, a sec-

ond-year International Studiesand Environmental Studies stu-dent. “But, at the very least, wewould like to see people informedabout what is happening.”

Students Against Austeritywill be holding three meetings be-fore their scheduled open forumwith Chase on Jan. 24. It has beenno secret, whether at APR forumsor interviews with students andfaculty, that liberal arts are be-lieved by many to be the first de-partments to find their heads onthe chopping block.“I think people want the univer-sity to be true to its roots as a lib-eral arts university,” Easton said.“People also don’t want to bespending a lot of money, and Ithink they really don’t like howmuch money is being spent on ad-ministration versus the amount ofspending that’s happening withfaculty and teaching, since it is auniversity and you’d think thepriority would be on teaching.”According to a government-funded broadcasting company, Uof R President Vianne Timmonsmakes an annual salary of$350,000, Chase makes $289,000,and Vice-President (administra-tion) Dave Button makes $234,000.The average Saskatchewan in-come is $45,000.

The University of ReginaStudents’ Union is looking tomake sweeping changes to itspolicies across the board.

The first on the choppingblock: a controversial poster pol-icy that operated under vague lan-guage, and made it unclear whysome posters were blocked andsome were not. URSU announcedJan. 14 that a new policy is now inplace and will be more inclusive.

“One of the things that we no-ticed right away when we came inwas that many of our policies andbylaws were out of date,” saidNathan Sgrazzutti, URSU presi-dent. “It quickly became appar-ent to us that one of the most outof date [policies] was the posterpolicy. The policy was broad.There were issues where wewouldn’t be able to support cer-tain campus events because theydidn’t fit within the old, outdated,policy.”

Under the old policy studentshosting events in licensed estab-lishments outside of The Owlwere not allowed to post promo-tional material on URSU’s posterboards around campus. This cre-ated a conflict of interest: in manycases URSU could not supporttheir students and the bar at thesame time. URSU denied severalposter applications in order to“protect The Owl” and ensure thebar turns a profit – last year,URSU had a $202,484 deficit at

year end, $157,890 of that wasfrom The Owl.

URSU’s new policy willchange the game a bit. Campusclubs and President’s AdvisoryCommittees can now advertiseevents held at licensed and unli-censed non-profit organizationsall over the city, such as the Gay &Lesbian Community of ReginaNightclub. They can also adver-tise events held at for-profit or-ganizations, but the number ofposters is reduced and the club orsociety must pay a fee. Off-cam-pus organizations can also attachposters, but require a fee in mostinstances.

“Our idea was that we neededto make it so that instead of this

black and white thing we hadwhere it was ‘either you’re for TheOwl or against!’ We’ve changed itto reflect our understanding thatthere are a multitude of situationswhere we should be showing sup-port,” Sgrazzutti said.

However, not all students arehappy with the new arrangement.Dane Imrie, a second-year busi-ness student, runs a monthly com-edy show at the CulturalExchange called Pass The Hat.Imrie’s show consists of amateurcomics, several of whom are U ofR students, who take turns tryingout short comedy routines. Imrieadvertised his events on URSUposter boards until November,when he was told he could no

longer do so.The old poster policy created a

dilemma - while URSU is man-dated to support Imrie, as a U of Rstudent, the Exchange was techni-cally considered in competitionwith The Owl, a venue that re-quires URSU’s protection.

Imrie waited months for thenew changes in policy to takeplace, and while he appreciatesthe effort made to resolve pastposter dilemmas, the new changesstill leave Pass The Hat in thedark. The Exchange is a licensednon-profit organization, and Imriemust pay $10 per poster to adver-tise his event.

“I think, based on whatURSU’s needs are, that they are

basically saying that they don’twant bars or nightclubs that com-pete directly with The Owl to putposters up,” he said. “My venue isclassified as a theatre, and hon-estly, it isn’t in competition withThe Owl in any way. We do sellbooze, but so does every place inthis city. I don’t get enough valueoff one poster to pay 10 bucks forit.”

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“Our idea wasthat we needed tomake it so that in-stead of this blackand white thing wehad where it was‘either you’re forThe Owl oragainst!’ We’vechanged it to re-flect our under-standing that thereare a multitude ofsituations wherewe should beshowing support.”

Nathan Sgrazzutti

With talks amongst faculty andstudents continuing around thepossible changes that theUniversity of Regina may experi-ence in the next few years, manyare concerned with what the fu-ture may hold for the liberal arts.

The University of Regina is aninstitution with a very strong ba-sis in liberal arts education sinceits inception in 1909. At that time,the University offered academiccourses alongside a compulsorycourse titled “Human Relations”that encouraged students to un-derstand the rising social issuesof their era, and take responsibil-ity for making their society a bet-ter place. Putting the University’smotto of “as one who serves” intopractice, the U of R’s roots in lib-eral arts continued to grow intothe Wascana campus Regina seestoday.

However, with the global eco-nomic shift in employment, manyfear that liberal arts may no longerbe seen as necessary in today’sthriving society. With higher de-mands for practical skills in thejob market, liberal arts educationhas been marginalized anddeemed unimportant for theworld’s economy. This, argues Dr.Ken Coates, a professor andCanadian Research Chair inRegional Innovation at theJohnson-Shoyama GraduateSchool of Public Policy, is thepainful reality. But, he said, theproblem lies not in liberal arts, butin the unmotivated generation ofyoung people today.

In an effort to create more di-alogue and discussion around thechanges that the AcademicProgram Review may bring to theU of R, Coates was invited tospeak to the University commu-nity about the future of the liberalarts, both in Canada and globally,on Thursday Jan. 17.

In an analogy, Coates de-scribed liberal arts education assitting in an optometrist’s chair,facing the large ocular device. Asthe doctor clicks between differentlenses, the patient’s vision iscleared or obscured - each lensshowing things in a different way.This, says Coates, is the epitomeof a liberal arts education.

“Every single click [is] a uni-versity class - every one of thoseclicks either make the worldclearer or muddier,” he said.“That’s what the humanities, andsocial sciences, and fine arts do.They actually take a muddled,confusing world that you see ...and through these classes, andcourses and experiences, you startto develop for yourself a way toexplain and understand theworld.”

Beyond just developing well-rounded and engaged students,Coates cites that it was the liberalarts that drove the biggest socialmovements and changes of ourtime - from analyzing anti-colo-nialism and environmentalism, todemanding rights for women, theIndigenous population, and theLGBTQ community. At the core ofeach of these movements and so-cietal changes, said Coates, is the“spirit and vitality of the liberal

arts.”Despite its importance, the

changing dynamics of today’sworld have meant a change inhow liberal arts education is per-ceived socially. No longer is lib-eral arts seen as a prestigious areaof study, argued Coates. Rather,with governments pushing for amass education system whereuniversity is widely accessible toany Canadian, liberal arts has be-come a default area of study forthose who cannot succeed else-where.

“Governments picked up onthe fact that accessibility was thenumber one political priority,”Coates said. “Governments veryrarely talk about high quality uni-versity. They like to see universi-ties do well in the grading ratingsystems, but they don’t really talktoo much about making sure thatthere are places accessible to tal-ented students, they want placesaccessible to all students.”

This, according to Coates, isthe problem. With mass educationcame a shift in the rational of whystudents wanted to go to univer-sity.

Studies done in the 1960s and1970s show that students “wantedto learn about the world, that theywanted to discover themselves,they wanted to learn how societyoperated, they wanted to makethe world a better place,” saidCoates. Now, he says, students“want money. They learn to earn.”

Coates message centredaround a shift in student rationale,coupled with the governmentpush for mass education, whichhe believes created a societywhere young people are no longermotivated, engaged, or willing towork. Instead, universities havebecome institutions filled withstudents who are disengaged inclasses, have little work ethic, andcare very little about actually suc-ceeding.

“We have a problem with thecurrent generation of young peo-ple ... they’re the most spoiledgeneration in human history. Andguess what? They come out of asystem where they’ve been toldhow wonderful they are,” saidCoates. “Modern parenting isabout telling kids [that they’re]wonderful. Doesn’t work so wellwith Asian Canadians - their par-ents drive them pretty hard - butgenerally [young people] are toldhow wonderful they are, how ter-rific they are. Their high schoolteachers are told to do that, sohigh school is all about re-affir-mation.”

While there are “brilliant stu-dents” in university they are oftenlost amidst the other studentswho are “coming in for economic

reasons,” he said. Needless to say, it is impor-

tant to open the doors of opportu-nity to students, especially thosewho may be marginalized, butCoates argues that it is naive foreducational institutions to enrollso many students, without ensur-ing that the economy can providejobs for them once they graduate.

“[The] spread of mass educa-tion was tied to, I think, a misap-prehension,” he said. “We areoverproducing the number ofgraduates for the economy wehave ... When I hear Obama say-ing he wants 80 per cent of allhigh school graduates to go touniversity, he is out of his mind.This is a naive assumption aboutwhat the relationship between theeconomy and the university sys-tem is.”

According to a study done by

the Association of Universitiesand Colleges of Canada, over thepast 30 years, the number of uni-versity students in Canada hasmore than doubled. In 2010 alone,there were nearly 1.2 million stu-dents enrolled in Canadian cam-puses across the country, with thenumber growing every year.While many see this as a positivesign of the country’s growth,Coates argues that universities aresimply letting in too many stu-dents that should not be there.

“If you want my honest opin-ion, I think we have way toomany students at university, wedon’t expect the students to beprepared sufficiently before theycome, and we don’t demand ofthem a really high work ethic. Ithink we’ve made it too easy toget in, and now we’re trying tomake it too easy to get out.”

While many Canadian aca-demics do not share Coates’ senti-ments, arguing that this kind ofideology underestimates studentability and devalues student in-telligence, Coates said that thischange, and this conversation isone that Canadians are not “pre-pared to have” as of yet.

When the country is preparedto have the conversation, how-ever, he believes he has the solu-tion that can bring back theprestige and importance of liberalarts education in the academicsphere.

His advice: universities mustbe multi-tiered, offering elite lib-eral arts programs for curious andmotivated students, while allow-ing economically driven studentsto take the practical and voca-tional classes they require to grad-uate.

“We have to embrace the ideathat there are intellectually elitestudents and they deserve intel-lectually elite programs. At thesame time, we have torealize...[that a lot of students arehere] because their parents toldthem to come, governments saidthey should do it, and [they] wantto get ready for a career. Weshould not put those students inexactly the same programs andexactly the same classes as stu-dents who are basically burstingwith curiosity and zeal for learn-ing.”

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The Regina Public InterestResearch Group (RPIRG) held its6th annual social justice confer-ence last week - Apathy intoAction. The conference featuredtalks and workshops that consid-ered both local and global issues,all led by members of the com-munity. The conference was heldover three days, Jan. 17 to 19, andconsisted of two days of drop-inseminars, followed by a full dayof professional developmentworkshops on Saturday Jan. 19.Some of the topics coveredthroughout the three days in-cluded immigration laws, the gen-der binary, Idle No More, and theimportance of local activism in thecity.

Apathy into Action has beenrunning for many years, but someaspects of the conference weredone differently this time around.Halena Seiferling, one of the eventcoordinators at RPIRG, describedsome of the changes.

“This year it’s a longer event,which is the first important thing.I didn’t organize the past fewyears, but in the past it’s alwaysbeen one [full day] on the Friday,which [included] different ses-sions about what’s happening oncampus, and in the communityand globally. This year, our boardof directors for RPIRG decided wewanted to expand it and really tryto include more issues, if wecould,” she said.

And expand the conferencethey did. Altogether, Apathy intoAction hosted ten information ses-sions, and two development

workshops, all covering a widerange of issues.

“We wanted more students in-volved. In the past years, therewere a lot of presentations by pro-fessors or adults who were more‘experts’ in the areas. We wantedto see if there were students thatwould be interested in doing pre-sentations that also have a lot ofknowledge in those areas, andwork with those issues everyday,” Seiferling said.

There were a few presenta-tions done by students and stu-dent organizations this year, suchas the session titled ‘Education,Immigration and Social Justice’presented by Dr. Michelle Stewart,and the student group WUSC onThursday, as well as the session ti-tled ‘Common(s) Rights: OurCommunity Pastures’ presentedby RPIRG executive directorNaomi Beingessner, done onFriday.

“We’re hoping that by includ-ing students, we can see more di-versity in the opinions presented,”Seiferling said.

The presentation on immi-grant’s rights was one of the high-lights, Seiferling noted, due to therecent conflict of two Universityof Regina students who are fac-ing deportation. She also addedthat the session on the Idle NoMore movement was of big inter-est to several of the participants.

“I’ve heard about Idle NoMore, and I took the opportunityto learn about it,” U of R studentKaylee Elfore said.

Seiferling explained thatRPIRG wanted to keep the con-ference current, which was a driv-ing point for many of the sessionsoffered.

“I would say that the themethis year is that everything is re-ally pressing,” she said.“Obviously we want it to bethings that are current issues, be-cause people will recognize themand come, also because then we’remore able to act upon them after-wards. It’s something that’s hap-pening right now, and it’s not toolate. I can join the movement andhelp with it if I want to.”

In past years, there have beenpetitions and activism groupsformed in response to the confer-ence, and this year was no differ-ent. Anonymous evaluations ofthe event included commentssuch as: "Thanks for the opportu-nity to listen to and meet so manyinspiring peeps," and "I get goose-bumps when I think about howfortunate I feel to have met theseincredible women! Wow!"

“We have a diversity of topicscovered, there’s everything fromgender issues, health and poverty,refugee rights and everything in-cluded in there,” Seiferling said.

The general focus of thisyear’s Apathy into Action confer-ence was on things and actionsRegina citizens can do to makechanges in the world aroundthem. One of the features of theconference was the opening pres-entation done by Dr. MarcSpooner, a U of R education pro-fessor, who talked about the im-portance of “being an activistright now in Regina.”

One student, Joylyn Roberts,said “Idle No More was definitelya highlight, as well as Dr.Spooner‘s talk yesterday on beingan activist in Regina ... I’m in-volved in the community a lot, soit was amazing to hear those

things they have to contribute.”Students were not the only

participants to the conference.Many members of the communityalso came out, to keep up with lo-cal activism, and to hear aboutsome new issues.

Brenda Tamaki, commentedthat, “I enjoyed that I could learnsomething for my own use. I likedIdle No More, and although I’mnot Native I’m interested. I likeseeing if I can help with problemsin the community.”

Over the course of theThursday and Friday, many par-ticipants stopped in, and by theend of Friday, all of the spaces forthe weekend workshops werefilled.

More than 250 people at-tended the conference, with IdleNo More being the most popularsession of the three days. Anothersession that drew in a large crowd

was "Health and Poverty inSaskatchewan," which was pre-sented by local doctor, Ryan Meili,and Student Energy in Action forRegina Community Health(SEARCH).

At the end of each session,participants had the opportunityto ask the seminar leaders somequestions and to leave their com-ments.

Students and communitymembers alike were left with asense of purpose, and as oneanonymous evaluator com-mented, most found the event"very enlightening and bringinghope."

While the Saskatchewan win-ter tends to breed a sense of hope-lessness, Apathy into Actionbrought a refreshing perspectivefor students and offered new op-portunities to make changes.

Warm up winter with activism

Kay Neidermayer

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The year 2012 brought innova-tions in many different scientificfields. Physicists discovered whatthey think may be the HiggsBoson, possibly bringing scienceslightly closer to a Grand UnifiedTheory of physics. Biologistsmade advances in stem cell re-search, with the Nobel Prize beingawarded for discovering that ma-ture cells can be reprogrammedback to pluripotent stem cells.Astronomers successfully man-aged to launch the CuriosityRover to Mars, have it parachutedown to the surface with the helpof a sky crane, and conducted themost important research on thered planet to date. The technol-ogy world saw the rapid expan-sion of 3D printing at both theindustrial and the consumer level.And, the world also witnessed theheight of the patent war betweenApple and all things Google.These developments will continueto pique the curiosity of the scien-tific community, but what othermajor scientific developments canbe expected for the year 2013?

Let's start in space. While it will be hard to top the

success of Curiosity, NASA hasseveral important missions beingplanned this year, including an-other robotic mission to Mars tostudy the atmosphere. Alongsidethis mission, NASA has alsoplanned some expeditions to the

International Space Station (ISS),which will soon be commandedby Chris Hadfield, the firstCanadian commander of theSpace Station. Another spaceagency to watch out for this yearis the European Space Agency(ESA) and its GAIA missionscheduled for October. The goalof this mission is to make thelargest and most precise 3D mapof our galaxy to date, by survey-ing a billion stars in the MilkyWay - a representation of less than1 per cent of the stars in thegalaxy. GAIA is especially excitingin light of the constant new dis-coveries of exoplanets.

Other than these planned mis-sions, some experts are predictingthat 2013 will be the year that thefirst 'Alien' earth will be found.

In case there are any leftoverdoomsayers, the 45-metre diame-ter asteroid 2012 DA14 is sched-uled to pass within 35,000 km ofthe earth. This is closer to theearth than the moon, or many ofthe orbiting satellites. The sun willalso be reaching a peak of its usual11-year solar cycle, but NASA ispredicting a relatively quiet yearfor solar flares. So just like lastyear, don't expect to be wiped outby any astronomical events.

While there is a lot going on inthe world of space, are humansgetting in on any of the action?Since the end of the NASAmanned shuttle program in 2011,the private company SpaceX isemerging as the top contender for“manned space travel” in the nearfuture. Last year, they became the

first private company to send aspacecraft to the ISS. This year,they will continue testing and de-veloping their Falcon 9 launchsystem, with the hopes of send-ing more spacecrafts into the vast-ness of space.

Finally, this year will also seesome other major countries mak-ing progress in the space industry.China is planning a manned spacemission, and is hoping to one dayconstruct their own space station,and send astronauts to the moon.And while the Curiosity rovercontinues to scout the surface ofMars, India is planning to sendtheir own probe to the red planetin November.

Decreasing the altitude, andfocusing on the earth, 2013 looksto be a year of major enviromentaland technological highs and lowsfor the planet.

With the world’s populationnow over 7 billion, and energy de-mand continuously increasing,the debate on energy will remainheated for many years to come.Issues surrounding hydraulicfracturing, or 'fracking', werebrought into public knowledgeover the past few years, with the2010 documentary Gasland, andthe recent Matt Damon filmPromised Land. Fracking involvespumping water laced with chem-icals deep into horizontal under-ground wells at a high pressurein order to fracture rock forma-tions, allowing access to valuablegas deposits. While the processhas boosted fuel production, thereis significant debate over how the

practice impacts the environment.Research in the area of fracking,and its enviromental imapcts havegrown, and are likely to continuegrowing in 2013. While many countries are work-ing towards alternatives to fossilfuels, China is investing heavily inan equally, if not more controver-sial, fuel source. The country cur-rently has 16 operational nuclearpower plants and about 30 moreare on the way. The country plansto have 6 per cent of its energyfrom nuclear power by 2020.China will also be exploring andresearching a new type of nuclearpower this year: the Thorium re-actor. Thorium was first experi-mented with in America, butChina plans on furthering the re-search to see if Thorium could beused as a safer and more abun-dant nuclear fuel than the tradi-tional Uranium. Finally, thereare some exciting things plannedfor the world of technology thisyear. Expect cloud computing tocontinue to expand, with the abil-ity of more data, such as musicand movies, being stored on thecloud and accessible from any-where on the Internet. This effi-ciency, however, may also comewith some security issues. As peo-ple become more connected to theInternet, the probability of cyber-crime becomes more prevelant.This may reignite the debate overgovernment regulations of theInternet, and if 2012 is any inidca-tion, such regulations will cause abacklash through the virtualworld.

Despite the fact that many ofthe big-named consumer technol-ogy companies were involved inthe patent wars last year, manyhave managed to release an arrayof devices of all shapes and sizes.

The trend for sleeker, smaller,and faster devices shows no signof slowing down. As everythingbecomes more mobile, the worldmay see a de-emphasis on thedesktop computer, which is start-ing to become more of a nichemarket.

Following the recent release ofNintendo's WiiU, rumours of the8th generation gaming consolesfrom other companies are circu-lating the gaming world. It islikely that both a new Xbox andPlaystation will be released some-time in the second half of 2013.Another one to watch for is theopen-source gaming consoleOuya, which will run on anAndroid operating system. TheOuya project raised over $8 mil-lion on Kickstarter, an internet-based crowd funding company,last summer. The console is ex-pected to come out for $99 inMarch.

So all of this and much, muchmore to look forward to in 2013.And although the world can’t ex-pect a colony on Mars, instantmatter transformers, or efficientperpetual energy machines justyet, it looks like there is enough tokeep busy with for the time be-ing.

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the carillon | Jan. 24 - 30, 2013a&cROUNDTABLEMetallica 3-D: Because they didn’t piss us off enough with the napster shit

Tenielle Bogdan

many of the things in this photo just need to be dead

1. Arcade Fire are selling thechurch they recorded Neon Bibleand The Suburbs for an askingprice of $325,000. What do youoffer them, and what do you dowith your new leaky-roofedchurch?

PB: I would say I’d buy it andrecord an album that will win mea Grammy and then get me hatedon by my fans, but I feel like that’sbeen done before.KL: Sell it back to Arcade Fire forthree times what I paid when, intwenty-five years, they’re stilltouring and trying to recapturethat “vintage Arcade Fire” sound.ED: I offer them exactly what theyare asking because that seems to-tally reasonable for an old church.Plus, wouldn't that make a greatstory? "Yeah, Arcade Fire recordedtwo of their best albums here, nobig deal."DN: They’re selling their church,eh? Obviously their heroin sup-ply is running low.

2. Will Kim Dotcom's new file-sharing service, Mega, suffer thesame fate as its predecessor,Megaupload?

PB: Hopefully not, but I mean,someone somewhere is going tofind a way to bring it down even-tually.

KL: If history has taught us any-thing, you can’t drop the“Upload” from your filesharingdomain name and expect it not tosuffer the same fate as its prede-cessor...or maybe that’s never hap-pened before.ED: Admittedly, I suck at com-puter stuff, but this sounds stu-pid as all hell and another randomservice in a world saturated withstupid services. Does Apple needa maps app? Do we need anotherstupid browser thing like Mega?Is Mega a browser? Is it file shar-ing? Is it both? Is it illegal? The in-ternet hasn't answered any ofthese stupid questions. What hap-pened to Internet Explorer? It hadlike two buttons and did almostnothing special. God, I miss the90s.DN: Anyone who legally changestheir surname to “Dotcom”should probably be removed fromsociety. I don’t care if it is in “hom-age to the technology that ... blah,blah.” Get the fuck out.

3. The release date forMetallica's upcoming 3D movie,Through the Never, has been setfor August 9. How much more oftheir inane bullshit will we allhave to deal with before thesedinosaurs call it quits?

PB: Too long, apparently.KL: Lars Ulrich will live to be 130years old just to spite us all. Andhe’ll be releasing music, movies,and concept albums until he

croaks his last, “like, you fuckingknow?”ED: I fully expect a Metallicatheme-park, Metallica board game(Metalic-opoly?) and eight new al-bums wherein they actually usethe sounds of their joints creak-ing and the pained exclamationsof standing up after sitting for afew hours. The next few years canbe summed up with the phrase"Enter Sandman" - because thisshit is going to put me to sleep re-ally quickly.DN: Did I fucking read that right?Metallica 3D!? Why? Does anyonereally want an ultra-realistic viewof Lars Ulrich’s dentures fallingout of his mouth mid-show, orKirk Hammett’s hip replacementfailing during the encore?

4. Will the Myspace relaunch(seriously we better hope zom-bies don't have the resilience ofMyspace) be enough to restoreits place in online musician pro-files alongside sites likeBandcamp, or will this thing justkeep hobbling along until JTgoes broke?

PB: Myspace has been dead forfar too long for it to ever gain asmuch attention as it once had, nomatter how great the revampcould possibly be.KL: I’m sorry, I can’t move pastthe image of MySpace zombies.That smug prick Tom grinninglike a moron as he begs you foryour brains as Mark Zombieburg

sleeps on beds made out of thesoft, fleshy grey matter of hisusers...what was the question,again?ED: Again, this is like fuckingMega. YOU LOST, MYSPACE!Get over yourself and just stoptrying. It's this sort of shit thatclogs up the internet with uselessservices and extra little buttonswhere I can share to Facebook,Google +, Twitter, MySpace, Digg,Tumblr, and all the other uselesscrap we have now. I don't want tohave to scroll sideways on myscreen to accommodate anotheruseless little button. In closing, no,this is not the fucking rebirth ofMySpace. It's going to be as fuck-ing useless as it always was.DN: I think there is a betterchance that Facebook will simplybecome the whole of the internet.

5. Which Canadian musician isbest suited for the job of Leaderof the Liberal Party of Canada?

PB: Justin Bieber. The Liberalsneed to take back the centre of theCanadian political spectrum, andwho better to lead a populistparty of not taking a stand on any-thing than someone who every-one fucking loves. Justin Bieberwill win you elections.KL: Joni Mitchell, Alex Lifeson,the exhumed Glenn Gould, orpossibly...Wolverine. ED: I'm going to say Sarah Slean,because she is sassy enough togive back her Diamond Jubilee

medal in solidarity with Idle NoMore. Such principles are whatwe should be expecting from theleaders of our political parties. Ormaybe Celine Dion, because shehas a French last name and mightbe related to Stephane Dion. Andif either of them are not willing tolead the Liberals, then I guess theywill have to settle for BryanAdams because both the Liberalsand Bryan Adams were last rele-vant in the 90s. They were madefor each other.DN: I like turtles! [Ed--Dietrichseriously just found out about thisvideo during production night]

paul bogdan, edward dodd,kyle leitch, dietrich neuthis week’s roundtable

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I have a confession to make: thelonger I spent at the CanadianUniversity Press Conference inToronto – AKA the happiest placeon earth – the less I found irri-tated me. Not people, not crowds,not even paying HST on every-thing. Indeed, I felt I was in dan-ger of mellowing out entirely. Itwasn’t until I took a fateful eleva-tor ride that the rageohol cameflowing freely. A friendly newsticker on a TV in aforementionedelevator informed me that ZeroDark Thirty had been snubbedfrom the Oscars for the ever-am-biguous “political reasons.”

“The Oscars?!” I proclaimedto the empty elevator. “Ye Gods, isit that time of the year?!” I dashedthrough the hotel lobby to find acomputer. I kicked a nearby pa-tron off, apologized to theirgrandmother via Skype, and hitthe information superhighwaylike a bat out of hell. Indeed, all ofthe Oscar nominations were out.Furthermore, the Critic’s ChoiceAwards had already given outtheir awards, naming Argo thebest film of the year.

“What kind of motherfuckeryis this?” I asked the fuming ex-computer patron next to me. I feelthat I’ve carved out a pretty pro-

lific reign as the curator of film atthe Carillon. I think that I’veplayed my role of judge, jury, andexecutioner of standardHollywood tripe with aplombover the course of the last twoyears. Yet my clear expertise and

ability to see through sophomorefilmmaking whose only goal is toattain a small bronze statue of anaked dude has been ignored. Myopinions may not always be thepopular consensus, but I wouldthink that the dinosaurs at the

Academy and at the Critic’sChoice would be looking to se-cure a younger demographic, any-way. It worked out fine with RickyGervais hosting the GoldenGlobes, didn’t it?

Over the course of the ten-

hour annual general meeting atthe conference, I got boredenough to actually start myself aTwitter account (@theleitchtweets– hooray for shameless plugs!). So,here’s my proposition: if youwould like integrity, class, and atouch of free floating hostilitybrought to the Academy Awardsor the Critic’s Choice Awards nextyear, mobilize yourselves onTwitter, Facebook, Instagram,Tumblr, et cetera with the hash-tag #INAoscars2014. If the verita-ble army of social media users onthis planet can cause a massiveupheaval of totalitarian regimesas we saw with the Arab Spring,then certainly it can spare someof that influence to secure KyleLeitch a rightful spot on the jury’spanel for some of the finest filmawards ceremonies in recordedhuman history. Come on, youmoral internet crusaders!Together, we can ensure that filmslike Django Unchained and ZeroDark Thirty (I guess) are neverrobbed of their potential forawards greatness!

And to the ladies and gentle-men of the Academy and theCritic’s Choice, I have a very spe-cial message: I’m not angry.Honest.

To set the scene for our Internet-less, cave-dwelling friends, re-cently new music is said to becoming from David Bowie, JustinTimberlake, and the original BlackSabbath lineup (except for BradWilk of RATM/Audioslave famewho’s filling in on drums). So,with three albums due from threeartists who have all had tons ofsuccess in the past, who will havethe best comeback album? And, ifthe world of professionalwrestling has taught me anything,it’s that arguments (no matterabout what) are best settled infree-for-all cage matches.

Hearing the announcer intro-duce Justin Timberlake and hisnew album, The 20/20Experience, as his first release inseven years threw me off a bit,probably because in the odd eventhat I’m somewhere where I’dhear “Sexy Back” or any of theother singles from FutureSex/Love Sounds (i.e. anywherethere’s dancing), I jam out to thatshit like it’s still 2006. And, givenhis recent success on screen, it waslike JT never really left.

However, much quieter dur-ing the past decade was DavidBowie, so quiet JT doesn’t hearBowie sneak up behind him andput him in a belly-to-back suplex,

cackling, “Thought I was done,didn’t you, you sexy little punk?”After not releasing anything for10 years, you can’t really blameJT for failing to see that comingfrom Bowie.

Yet, all this time Ozzy’s beenlaying on the ground in the cornerof the ring, presumablydrunk/stoned, asleep, or dead (noone’s really sure which), when outof the blue he staggers up, climbsthe cage, announces his first re-lease with Sabbath since 1978, and

in his drunken stupor, falls atopan all-too-pleased David Bowie.

But the only reason Ozzy actu-ally got an offensive move in thisfight was because who in theirright minds would think “a newalbum from Ozzy and Sabbath in2013” would ever be a factualstatement. Although maybe weshould have clued in, given thelast album they released togetherwas titled Never Say Die!.Regardless, it’s a miracle thatdude is even alive, but it’ll be a

bigger miracle if Sabbath’s 13 willbe anything but a turd. Bowiemay be older too, but age seems tohave been a fairer muse to himthan his metal counterpart; hemay be older than Ozzy, butBowie’s still got it – at least com-paratively speaking.

And then there’s Justin, look-ing at the other two as blood dripsfrom bleeding, broken, and some-how still dreamy facial features.Bowie got him with the sneak at-tack. Touché. But the glory days of

both Ozzy and Bowie havepassed. The argument could prob-ably be made that they’ve passedfor JT too, but if that’s the case, hecan definitely still feel the warmglow of the stage lights of theearly 2000s.

This is also reflected in thelead singles from both The NextDay and The 20/20 Experience.Bowie’s “Where Are We Now”doesn’t sound like much morethan a mediocre Bowie tune fromthe ‘80s. It doesn’t sound like thereturn of one of music’s mosticonic figures; it sounds like atired, old man. “Suit & Tie”, savefor the banal intro, has a great dealmore vigor, with JT’s playful tenormelodies that sound like they’recoming from someone who can atleast pretend to sound like they’reenjoying the new music they’recreating.

Bowie has put out somegroundbreaking albums in thepast, but unless he can do that yetagain with The Next Day, it’ll beall too easy for Justin Timberlaketo deliver the final blow in thisimagined comeback albumwrestling match and walk off vic-torious, past a defeated Bowie andonce again passed out Ozzy –who never really had any chancein this fight anyway.

The social media revolution to send the Carillon to the Oscars#INAoscars2014

Call it a comebackBowie, Black Sabbath, and Timberlake duke it out for the ultimate comeback album

Kyle Leitch

This is happening, and there isn’t much you can do about it except revel in the awesomeness of it.

Paul Bogdan

Seriously. More hate for Anne Hathaway. Wait, what?

paul bogdanarts editor

i’m not angrykyle leitcharts writer

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Have you ever felt completelystressed out and nothing seems tocalm you down? That’s not sur-prising. You are a university stu-dent, but that doesn’t mean allhope it lost. Shayna Stock and herjournaling event, Write it Out!,just might be the cure students oncampus are looking for.

Stock started giving journal-writing classes a few years ago af-ter taking a course through theCenter for Journal Therapy inDenver that taught her techniquesshe uses and teaches today. InDenver she also learned how tofacilitate classes so she couldshare what she has learned withothers. Typically, her courses arein the evenings and are slightlylonger. Luckily though, she is run-ning shorter events at the CreativeCity Centre located in downtownRegina every Tuesday andThursday until Jan. 31.

“I wanted to create a class thatwas more accessible to peoplewho are working downtown,something they could come toduring their lunch break,” Stocksaid.

This isn’t the first time Stockhas immersed herself in the jour-naling world, though.

“I’ve been keeping a journalsince I was a kid,” she said.“Writing has always been myfavourite way of expressing my-self and has helped me workthrough several difficult periodsin my life.”

Stock mentioned how, becauseshe has experienced the healinggift of writing practice first-hand,“it always feels like such a gift tobe able to offer these tools to oth-ers.” In her sessions she shares the

techniques that can be done easilyenough, usually in the span of fiveto 10 minutes a day – or longer ifyou are so inclined – and alsoteaches how they help us organizeour thoughts, relieve the feeling ofbeing overwhelmed, and can alsoaid us in sorting out confusingand cyclical thought processes.

“We’re focusing on develop-ing a practice of writing – on us-ing writing in some kind ofhabitual way to support our lives– rather than on how the writingsounds or reads in the end,” Stocksaid.

Compared to other ways peo-ple combat stress such as smok-ing, drinking too much,procrastinating, sleeping toomuch, or being on certain med-ications that can have harmfulside-effects, journaling is a safe,easy, and fulfilling way to reducethe amount of stress in one’s life.

For someone who journalsregularly, Stock said these tech-niques are valuable for her ownmental and emotional health ashave others she has taught andgoes on to say that research is al-ready emerging that suggestswhat she teaches is valuable instress reduction – especially con-cerning disorders such as anxiety.This is proven true with the “Let’sCall BS” campaign started lastyear by the youth of Canada whowant to change the way societytalks and treats mental health,such as anxiety disorders andstress.

“As sources of anxiety andmental illness become increas-ingly prevalent in our society, I dothink that more and more peoplewill turn to a variety of tools andpractices, and I hope that journal-ing is one of them,” Stock said.

Many have already turned to

her classes for assistance, such asprofessionals who look for a cre-ative outlet or practice. Artistswho want a writing practice tosupport their work also attendStock’s events. Writers, both pro-fessional and beginners, whowant to be able to write morefreely, use her techniques, as “thetechniques are beneficial to prettymuch anyone who’s able towrite,” she said.

People are already buzzingabout the class. Some who at-tended the first session made no-tice of the physicality that comesalong with journal-writing andhow therapeutic the actual physi-cal task of writing something outcan be. That physicality is whatoften draws people to such a thingas journaling. It is an unlikelysource of mental exercise, but itappears to be gaining popularity.

Ever wonder what your URSUPresident is jamming out to whenhe’s mulling over documents andURSU business or his own home-work? He sat down with theCarillon to share what’s blaringin his headphones in betweenbouts of cat videos and studentunion policy.

“Power” - Kanye West

“Power” by Kanye West is kindof a reminder of how I should notapproach my responsibilities. It'salways on my playlists and re-minds me "don't be like this guy".

“Cinderella Man” - Eminem

“Cinderella Man” is the opposite--I love the whole self-made aspectof life.

“The Other Side” - Bruno Mars ftCee Lo Green

“The Other Side” is a great songand it's also kind of cool how theysing about different sides of peo-ple and how they don't want peo-ple to see some of those sides.

“Cant Take My Eyes off of You”- Frankie Valley and The FourSeasons

Frankie Valley is my freaking hero

Variations on a Theme ofPaganini - Johannes Brahms

I love classical music in the officeeven though it pisses everyone offwhen I leave my door open.

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Arts Radar

Jan. 24Choke w/400Strong &Tomorrow StartsTodayThe Exchange$15 advancetickets

doors at 8

Cyclone ComedyNightThe Artful Dodger$5 at the doorshow at 8

Jan. 25Hannah Georgasw/The Belle GameThe Exchange$13 advance ticketsdoors at 8

Everything All atOnce OpeningReceptionCreative CityCentreno admission7- 9

Jan. 26Rebecca Lascue,Mark Caesar,Michael Paul, andGlenn SutterThe Artful Dodger$10 adv/$15 doorshow at 8

Dubtribe SoundSystem and LukeMcKeehanThe Owl$15 advancedoors at 9

Jan. 27Poetry Workshopw/NathanaëlLarochetteCreative CityCentredonations1– 3 p.m.

Jan. 28Talkies w/JaydenPfeiferCreative CityCentre$5 at the doordoors at 7:30

Jan. 30DalaThe Exchange$20 adv/$25 doorshow at 8:00 PM

What is your Students’ Union president is jamming to?

a&c the carillon | Jan. 24 - 30, 201310

The Carillon takes a look at weird album artwork

If you don’t get it you’re probablylike not deep enough or something

kyle leitch, paul bogdan,michael chmielewskibored-ass dudes

If you haven’t already heard, YeahYeah Yeahs announced the title oftheir new album, Mosquito, onJanuary 14. Along with the album’sannouncement came the subse-quent artwork for the album. Now,by no means do I think art must im-mediately “make sense” or producesomething easily and immediatelyrecognizable or understandableeven, but even this is enough tomake Jackson Pollock go, “dafuck?” In light of this, we’ve doneyou the favour of digging up someother head-scratching album cov-ers over that have surfaced over theyears.

Kanye West - My BeautifulDark Twisted Fantasy

Kanye having kinky relations withsome wingèd goddess with a tail is-n’t even the weird part about thisone. Have you ever actually lookedat the characters’ faces in this pic-ture? For your sanity, don’t. /PB

The Beatles - Yesterday andToday

Veal. /PB

Anal Cunt - 110 Song CD

I don’t know what I was expecting./PB

Wallenstein - No More Love

I guess loving sans genitalia couldprove difficult in certain points of arelationship. /PB

Nicole Dollanger - CurdledMilk

Babies can be kinda weird (RE:Yesterday and Today). Dead babiesare much weirder. And anyonewho’s played Dead Space 2 knowsthat it doesn’t really get muchweirder than dead alien-lookingzombie babies. /PB

Wampire - Curiosity

I think this is likely the perfect al-bum cover for Wampire’s Curiosity,actually. Seeing this, I am left pon-dering the likelihood of Wampire’staking over my soul if I stare at thisfor too long. /PB

Rammstein - Herzeleid

I wanted to do a Cannibal Corpsealbum but that would be too easy,so here’s Rammstein's first album,Herzeleid. Shirtless, jacked bandwith flowers behind them. What inthe hell. /MC

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Pooh-Man - Funky as I WannaBe

If you flip this album upside down,you’ll know exactly where MC Poohgot his handle from. Disgusting. /KL

Black Mountain - WildernessHeart

I’m sorry, but I believe I intended tosubmit this to the coolest album artever competition, instead. /KL

William Shatner - SeekingMajor Tom

Will Shatner badly photoshoppedinto his space suit stares longinglyat the penis rocket blasting offabout a foot-and-a-half away fromhis head. Good times in outer space,folks. /KL

Beverly Massegee - Amen!

I defy you to show me just one al-bum with a ventriloquist’s dummyon it that isn’t horrifying. Someonemade the conscious decision to buy,record an album with, and snugglethat Burt Bacharach looking moth-erfucker. These people exist. /KL

Kidville - Postcards from MyMind

What a bunch of nightmare fuel thisis. Grimace is selling “ice cream” toprisoners locked in disco ball go-gocages.Which circle of Dante’s Hell isthis from? /KL

Primus - Frizzle Fry

Actually, Frizzle Fry could really bereplaced with any number ofPrimus’ album covers from the ‘90s.The claymation thing is pretty rad,but those monsters scared the pissout of me when I was a kid. /KL

Elvis Costello & theAttractions - ImperialBedroom

Okay, to be honest, I have no ideawhat this motherfuckery is allabout. /KL

“Little” David Wilkins - Kingof all the Taverns

Why am I not surprised? “Little”David looks like the living god damnembodiment of Barney Gumble. It’spretty surreal, actually. /KL

Cantigas de Roda - CaRequinha

See Brazil, this is why people are sodeathly terrified of clowns. Look atthat kid: he’s not screaming in de-light, Pennywise. /KL

The Frivolous Five - Sour Cream and Other Delights

Jesus, God, why are those oldwomen slathered in shaving cream?/KL

the carillon | Jan. 24 - 30, 2013featuresThe role of journalism

Michael Ignatieff

I don’t know about my peers, but shoving a microphone in Ignatieff’s face is one of my lifetime goals in journalism, simply so I have the chance to “accidentally” punch him in the face with a mic.

“ It just has to do with continuing to work at it, continuing to educate people about what we do and giving peo-ple more of a chance to get used to the existence of an alternative paper. An alternative newspaper in Seattle wona Pulitzer Prize this past year.”

Stephen Whitworth

The only thing that affects peoplemore than information is presen-tation. How information isframed, what information is em-phasized, and how it is distrib-uted contribute to ourperceptions of the world andhow we develop as people.Journalism in all of its forms —print, television, radio, and inter-net — affect our world views andperceptions of morality. Thispiece will focus on three individ-uals who know the motivationsof the media, its effects, and theensuing consequences on society.

Mitch Diamantopoulos,president of the U of R School ofJournalism, said a diverse andpassionate press can ensure ahealthy democracy.

“In the 19th centurythere was a structural transfor-mation of the public sphere. Lotsof non-commercial presses —feminist, suffragette, abolitionist— gave a voice to marginalizedor emerging thought, and offerednew perspectives and ways oflooking at the world.”Diamantopoulos said. “Themove towards market-driven me-dia and increasing convergencebetween newspaper, television,and radio” is a serious issue be-cause a select few control the in-

formation flow. When a select few con-

trol the work flow, there is in-creasing potential to “turn offwomen, working families, andAboriginals who are not in thecenter of the target which adver-tisers and politicians focus on,”Diamantopoulos said.

“We’re consuming moreand more American media,which presents a very particularview of the world. Their viewsre-shape the views of a non-U.S.audience and creates a ‘new nor-mal’ ”.

But could the problemswith journalism actually be prob-lems with our own culture?

Robert Biezenski, a soci-ology professor at the U of R,feels other nations “sort of see themedia as playing a positive rolein changing society. Westernnewspapers occasionally willfind some little ‘oh this poor littleorphan girl, we must help her,’ orsomething like that, but theydon't really see it as their role tomobilize society; whereas inmuch of the rest of the worldthey do.”

Biezenski points to LatinAmerica’s media as “Very muchan activist political thing, and isexpected to take sides and again,if it goes too far, of course, vio-lence. I mean, journalists getkilled, they get shot, and stufflike this. This doesn't happen somuch in North America. Not, I

would argue, because we’re nicerpeople; simply because journal-ists [here] don’t touch on any-thing that’s worth killing themabout. Everything is, in practice,entertainment news and, youknow, sports. Even when they dotouch on politics and economics,everything is so individualized.You know, ‘this one person didsomething wrong’ or somethinglike that but it’s very rare forthem to attack the system as awhole; to be social critics, in ef-fect.”

Conversely, StephenWhitworth, editor-in-chief of thePrairie Dog, feels shorter articlesalso serve a purpose.

“It’s critically importantto make sure that you connectwith an audience and that youraudience finds your paper some-thing comfortable to pick up andread,” he said. “That generallymeans a mix of both long andshort stories presented in a waythat it’s going to be tactful andreadable, and get attention with-out undermining the facts of thestory.”

Whitworth argues thatjournalism focuses “not just thefacts of the story, but the abilityto form an understanding of thestory as well. So, short stories arenot bad in and of themselves.There’s a lot of stories thatshould be shortened that arestretched out, and there’s a lot ofstories that are really long that

probably could be shorter.” “To some extent, it’s an artfulprocess, right? If you don’t un-derstand the art of communica-tion, reaching people, writing,and just good communication,you’re not going to be able toconnect with people.”

Whitworth certainlyfeels presentation is important toinformation distribution. Hementions “There's definitely astrong subjective element, but atthe same time, there’s profes-sional competence. It’s certainlynot the world of absolutely any-thing goes. There's a quote,‘People are entitled to their ownopinions but they're not entitledto their own facts.’ I'm a big be-liever in that.”

Diamantopoulos wouldbe inclined to agree; he arguesthat engaging journalism is oneof the things that can re-invigor-ate public discourse and interestin politics.

“It has to be interesting.It has to be relevant to people,”he said. “It doesn’t matter howprofound or understanding it is,if you’re putting people to sleepthen it doesn’t count, right?That’s part of the craft of journal-ism, is bringing the drama out,bringing the irony out, bringingthe rhetorical elements out thatwill sell the audience on whythey should give a rat’s ass aboutwhat you’re reporting. That is animportant part of journalism.

What happened today is interest-ing, but what happened todaythat has implications for yourquality of life tomorrow is impor-tant.”

But does engaging, in-formative journalism could ele-vate the public consciousness?

“[I] would agree withthat but the problem is, it’s notthat easy to do,” Biezenski said.“The thing is, in any given pro-fession, you know … doctors,lawyers, journalists, whatever …there’s always a spectrum rang-ing from those that are fairlycrappy to those that are averageto those that are really good.From [Diamantopoulos’] point ofview, from the point of view of ajournalist, the solution may beright there – make it more inter-esting, more engaging, grab morepeople. There’ll always be thatminority of exceptional peoplewho write really interesting sto-ries, but again, they’re always go-ing to be the exceptions. Theaverage person will always beaverage. That's the way it is.”

So where does this ex-ception lie in our media land-scape? Both Diamantopoulosand Biezenski praised papers likethe Prairie Dog. However, theproblem was one of exposure.While Biezenski feels the PrairieDog is wrongly accused of a left-wing bias – “It just tells thetruth,” – he describes its presenceas “A small minority.

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That looks like a busy game.

The overwhelming majority ofpeople don't really care.”

Biezenski went on tonote that “Celebrity trivia web-sites get more hits than every-thing else on the internettogether. Which shows us thatthe average person is much moreinterested in whether Brad andAngie will stay together than inwhat Stephen Harper is doing toour country. There will always bea minority that is more interestedin serious issues but I thinkthey'll always be a minority.”Despite the Prairie Dog’s inde-pendent nature, Whitworth ar-gues that it commandssubstantial influence.

“It’s true, that right now,we’re small but we certainly dohave a large profile,” he said.“We’re one of the top twitterfeeds in the city according to onewebsite. Alternative media hasmade a dramatic impact in othercities around the world andthere’s no reason we can’t make abigger impact on this city and theprovince. It just has to do withcontinuing to work at it, continu-ing to educate people about whatwe do and giving people more ofa chance to get used to the exis-tence of an alternative paper. Analternative newspaper in Seattlewon a Pulitzer Prize this pastyear. Our ability to affect

Saskatchewan andRegina is much larger than theability of an admittedly biggerpaper like Now in Toronto to af-fect just an incredibly huge citylike Toronto.”

Papers like the PrairieDog survive both by dedicatedreaderships and integrating theinternet.

“There’s definitely animpact as far as advertising rev-

enues in some places but that'sprobably hitting daily newspa-pers harder than anything else.The days of media outlets beingable to make enough to continuepublishing, those are not gone,”Whitworth said. “New technol-ogy is definitely a huge opportu-nity to reach people and connectwith people in a different way. Iactually like both internet andprint and think that they havedifferent roles the same way thatbread you get from ShoppersDrug Mart and artisanal breadhave different roles. You can cer-tainly have a product that's moreabout the craftsmanship and thetactile experience and the mediashould be trying to do that.” One issue commonly ascribed tothe internet is credibility.

Diamantopoulos saidthe internet should not be usedexclusively as a source of infor-mation, as it has limitations anddangers surrounding informationcredibility and reliability.

Whitworth feels “It de-pends what you’re doing. PrairieDog can do most of its researchand fact checking on the internet… Before there was the internet,just looking something up in abook was not necessarily the onlyanswer. You might have to phonesomeone or you might have tolook in a book or a magazine. Theinternet is an incredible tool. Youmight be talking to people whoare little leery of Wikipedia, andpeople should be leery ofWikipedia, but you can cross-ref-erence things, right? You havemore access to garbage faster, Iguess. If you know what you’redoing, it’s great.”

Society will face many techno-logical and social changes, but

how will journalism change?What is journalism’s ultimaterole?

Whitworth: “To tell peoplewhat's going on in the worldaround them, what it means, howit affects them and what's impor-tant to them, to give them thetools to live in a better world. It’sall about informing people and Idon't think there's any democ-racy without good journalism.”

Diamantopoulos: “On the onehand, you’re going to see trendscurrently in place and increasing,deepening. So we’re going tohave more layoffs, more down-sizing, more concentration ofownership, we’ll have fewer andfewer people controlling the ma-jor mass media, the narrower andnarrower range of opinion beingheard. On the other hand, I thinkthe people going into journalismnow are less likely to be goinginto journalism for the wrongreasons because they’re prettyand they want to be on TV.Young people now are better ed-ucated than any generation inhistory has ever been. They de-mand more, not less from theirjournalism and so I think thatthat’s the counter-weight here. Itwill be a big mess as we movethrough this transition period, assome media institutions collapseor decline and other forms of on-line networked media emergewhich we can’t yet anticipate.There’s a lot of groping in thedark as people try to find theirway through this crisis in jour-nalism now and in media mar-kets.”

Biezenski: “In the early days,people say that democracy could-

n’t even have gotten going with-out the press because you can’thave a democracy, you can’t havepeople voting for people unlessthey know who they're votingfor. In Europe [the press] had re-ally that messianic thing, ‘our jobis to enlighten the people aboutthe social and political issues ofthe day.’ In North America, it wasalways much more of a business.This is basically information thatis being exchanged for money.It’s just another commodity forsale on the market. And I don’treally know that that attitude isever going to change in NorthAmerica because they don’t havethe tradition.

“That tradition of fight-ing journalists, fighting for some-thing, you can find it in otherparts of the world. In the Englishspeaking world, Europe,Australia, North America, itnever really existed and it doesn’texist, for the most part. Yes, theoccasional isolated individual,not as a general thing. When soci-ety as a whole changes, when thewhole economy goes down thetube, when millions of people aresuddenly unemployed. Then so-ciety will change. Not before.And then the media will change.Not before.”

“When society as awhole changes, when thewhole economy goesdown the tube, when mil-lions of people are sud-denly unemployed. Thensociety will change. Notbefore. And then the me-dia will change. Not be-fore.”

Robert Biezenski

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the carillon | Jan. 24 - 30, 2013sportsROUNDTABLEAs if anyone will be able to actually boycott the NHL

The Province

Wow. You’re an idiot, lady.

Cougars men’s hockey teammember Matt Strueby recentlysigned a deal with the ECHL’sColorado Eagles. How do youthink his absence will affect theteam as they make a run at theplayoffs?

Dupuis: Losing one of your topscorers can’t be easy for any team,let alone one that’s poised to makea run at the playoffs for the firsttime in years, so you’ve got to as-sume it will have some sort of ef-fect. With only three weeks left inthe season and some tough gamescoming up, all bets are off at thispoint.

Klein: First of all, good forStrueby. Couldn’t have happenedto a better guy. The Cougars arenow missing their number onecenter and a leader in the lockerroom that someone is going tohave to fill. Maybe they could seeif Scott Gomez could come play. Idon’t think he is too busy nowa-days.

Kreutzwieser: I wish I could offera logical answer for this but Ican’t. However, I can say I’ve beento Colorado and I’m jealous hegets to live there and I’m stuck inRegina – not fair.

McDowell: It sucks to see a goodplayer, and even better drinker,leave the Cougars. However, hismove away from the team givesthe chance for another boozebagto make his mark with the Greenand Gold – and his name is Drew

Czerwonka. I’m expecting bigthings from this kid – whoclaimed he wanted to go to weld-ing school mere months ago butended up here.

Longtime Montreal Alouette’shead coach Marc Trestman willbe leaving the team to becomethe new bench boss with theChicago Bears in the NFL. WillMontreal fall apart without him?

Dupuis: Did you guys seeTrestman’s greased back hair andextreme discomfort at the Bears’presser? What a douche. It sure isstarting to look like the Al’s are indecline, isn’t it? Trestman’s goneand Calvillo is like, 50 or some-thing. Good riddance, assholes.It’s just too bad the Riders could-n’t beat them on the big stage,when they were at their best.

Klein: God I really, really, reallyhope so. Maybe the Riders can ac-tually beat Montreal for a changeinstead of disappointing me andcausing me to throw my remotethrough my television time aftertime.

Kreutzwieser: When you lose ahead coach who helps a team winsomething like four division titlesand two Grey Cups, it’s hard tosee it not hindering the Alouettes.But they’re a strong team soshouldn’t Montreal be able tohold it together without him?Who knows?

McDowell: I wish. Unfortunately,Montreal is just too good of a teamto instantly flop at the loss of ahead coach. With that talentedasshole still at quarterback theAlouettes will be a force in theCFL next year, even without

Trestman’s immaculately and ob-viously waxed eyebrows. There, Isaid it. I’ve wanted to get that offmy chest for a while.

With the lockout finally over, anda 50-game season set to begin onJan. 19, are you going to be one ofthe people who boycotts theNational Hockey League thisseason?

Dupuis: I was as pissed off aboutthe lockout as anyone, but I neveronce said I wouldn’t watch whenhockey came back. As disgustingas it is at times, professional sportis a business, and soulless moneygrabbing is an unfortunate but in-evitable side effect. I’m just happythe wait is over. Go Habs.

Klein: I can’t, I really can’t. I havemissed it so much that I can’t boy-cott it. What I can do is kill GaryBettman after I buy a Ben Scrivensjersey. Scrivens you’re my boy!

Kreutzwieser: I am actually go-ing to attempt to follow the seasonthis year. Thank goodness it’s ashort one – a regularly sized sea-son would probably lose my at-tention. I’m sure I’m not the onlyone who got really bored watch-ing the Canucks on Saturday.Zing.

McDowell: I’m nowhere nearstubborn enough to followthrough with a boycott. Let therecord show that although I mer-cilessly displayed my undying ha-tred towards Gary Bettman on aweekly basis, not once did I claimI would boycott the NHL when itcame back. For those that do boy-cott, I plan to make it nearly im-possible for them to followthrough with by demeaning their

favourite teams to their face. Sonothing new, really.

Rumours are swirling that TimTebow could be headed to theCanadian Football League. IfTebow was signed to theSaskatchewan Roughriders,what would your reaction be?

Dupuis: I would LMFAO andmaybe even ROFL. Possibly si-multaneously. Then I would getonline and pre-order my RidersTebow jersey because, seriously?That’s just too fucking funny.Tebow-mania comes to Riderville,and Saskatchewan disappears upits own asshole. Metaphoricallyspeaking, of course.

Klein: Burning all my Rider gear,burning down the GM’s house,shooting Tebow at the airport andthen blowing up Mosaic Stadium.Nuff said.

Kreutzwieser: Embarrassment.That’s what I would feel. The poorguy wouldn’t stand a chance. Youthink Jets fans hate him? Try com-ing to Riderville, already beinghated by so many, and playing infront of the CFL’s wildest crowd.It wouldn’t be a pretty sight.

McDowell: I would probablypuke in my mouth a little bit, infact just the thought of that hap-pening made me grunt in disgust.I feel bad for whoever buys aTebow jersey, because they willnever hear the end of it from me.It wouldn’t be quite as bad aswearing a Getzlaf jersey in public,but it’s up there.

Lance Armstrong finally cameclean and admitted to dopingthroughout his career. How have

your opinions of Armstrongchanged?

Dupuis: Who cares if Armstrongdid drugs? He won the Tour seventimes, was the first man on themoon and fronted the most im-portant band in rock history,Green Day. And he did it all withone testicle. Leave him alone,Oprah, you attention-suckingblob. I’m much more concernedabout the future of notorious pot-head Justin Bieber. #CutForBieber#420NO

Klein: The fact is the guy still hadcancer, he still only has one ball,and he is still rich as fuck. I stillthink it’s amazing that he cameback from having cancer to evenriding a bike again. He is still afigurehead in never giving up andis a true survivor. Like BenScrivens.

Kreutzwieser: I saw a picturefrom a library (whether real orfake) that sums up how my opin-ion has changed aboutArmstrong. It read: “All Non-Fiction Lance Armstrong bookswill soon be moved to the Fictionsection.” That’s got to hurt.

McDowell: Part of me thinks thisis hilarious, and the line thatLance Armstrong and I have wonthe same amount of Tour deFrance’s never gets old. However,though a liar, Armstrong did raiseover $500 million for cancer re-search, which would never havehappened had he not stabbedhimself in the butt with a needlefull of drugs on a daily basis.

autumn mcdowell, bradendupuis, kris klein, paigekreutzwieserthis week’s roundtable

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There is clearly no shortage of tal-ent on the University of Reginatrack team this year, and LexEwen proves that.

Ewen secured himself achance to compete in the CISchampionships – coming up at thebeginning of March – by hittingthe CIS standard in long jump of7.09 metres. That is a careerbest, and he is one of only threeathletes in the nation to hit thatdistance this season.

If that isn’t impressiveenough, in the summer of 2011,Ewen decided to have a scopeperformed on a minor knee injury,and even though he said his kneeis right around 100 per cent, it isstill a notable factor that he hadthat procedure done and is per-forming so strongly.

“I feel like I’m 60 years oldwhen it’s cold outside and myknee is sore,” Ewen joked.

But it is no laughing matterfor his opponents, as Ewen is cur-rently the only Canada West ath-lete this season to hit the CISstandard.

Although many circumstanceshave surrounded his strong per-formance, Ewen believes trackand field coach Bruce McCannelcan take some credit.

“He is the best coach I haveever had, that is for sure,” Ewen

said. Along with the help of

McCannel, Ewen stayed awayfrom the track this past summerand concentrated on his own per-sonal training, focusing on gettinghealthy and strong.

“It really wears on a guy when

you are doing something for 12months of the year. So, takingsome time off, that was nice,” hesaid.

Coach McCannel easily no-ticed the difference Ewen’s per-sonal training had on his game.

“The time he put into improv-

ing his strength and fitness overthe summer has combined wellwith his consistency in trainingduring the season,” he said.

But, meeting the CIS standarddoes not make it exceedingly eas-ier for the third-year track andfield athlete. Although he does nothave to worry about qualifyingfor nationals in long jump, hemust train and prepare as if hehasn’t reached the bar yet.

McCannel calculates his ath-letes training so that they peak forCanada West and CIS nationals.

Although Ewen may be happywith his past performance, heknows there is still a lot of work tobe done.

“It’s exciting that I havejumped so far this early becausethe way my training goes Ihaven’t peaked,” Ewen said. “Mybody isn’t prepared, training wise,to jump my furthest until CanadaWest or nationals.”

Aside from personal achieve-ments, the current goal for thetrack and field team is to winCanada West.

Last year, the team came insecond to the University ofCalgary Dinos, so many of theCougar track athletes are lookingfor vengeance on the team thatbeat them, and to regain the titlethey previously held.

Ewen’s achievement does helpthe Cougars overall by bolsteringteam’s CIS ranking, as well as in-spiring his teammates.

“When you see someone onyour team have a big jump or afast time, it motivates you to dothe same because you see their re-action and how it feels,” he said.

With the Golden Bear Open inEdmonton behind the team, itseems as if Ewen’s performancemay have helped.

Second-year Arthur Wardjumped 14.18 metres, just one cen-timeter under the triple jumpstandard auto qualifier. Fellowsecond-year Connor Bloom had apersonal best of 7.06 seconds inthe 60-meter dash, and third-yearMatt Johnson placed first in the1500m with a time of 3:57:61 tobreak the Cougar record of3:58:28.

And although Ewen dubbedhimself the “cheerleader” of lastweekend – since he decided to notcompete – second-year AhmedAlkabary represented the longjumpers with a jump of 7.07 me-tres, just 2 cm shy of hitting theCIS standard himself.

Overall, the Cougars seemwell on their way to being a forceto reckon with at Canada West,and with meets still to come inSaskatoon, Winnipeg, and Regina,they might have a real chance atbreaking some records.

With the curling season alreadyunderway, it is interesting to notethat the University of Reginamen’s curling team has only com-peted once as a unit.

That’s not to say the four teammembers don’t take the sport seri-ously. In fact, most of them dedi-cate significant hours to curling.

Two of those team members,Daniel Selke and Matt Ring, havespent a lot of time on the ice withtheir Junior curling team.

The two have been travellingand competing against other un-der-20 men’s curling teams tryingto vouch for the coveted spot asSaskatchewan’s Junior Men’steam.

Catlin Schneider, the Cougarscurrent skip, has competed in var-ious men’s bonspiels and is alsothe champion of the 2013 Reginamen’s Bonspiel.

With busy school schedules,travelling for bonspiels, andSchneider continuing his trainingwith the Regina Rams, these fourathletes put in their own personalhours as opposed to training to-gether as a group. But, they arelooking into practicing once ortwice a week to get more comfort-able with each other, and to see iftheir playing styles fit together.

However, Schneider, Selkeand Ring are already quite famil-

iar with each other. The curlingworld can seem very small attimes, and the three of them knowthat all too well; they have beencompeting both against and witheach other for quite some time.

Despite their connections,Garret Springer, who plays leadfor the team, was somewhat of astranger to the group before thisyear’s U of R qualifying spiel tookplace.

Springer, who is in his firstyear of university, comes fromFoam Lake. As in most small com-

munities, it is guaranteed he grewup with the sport of curling.

So, when the four boys all metfor the first time at the qualifyingspiel, they were pleased to see thestrong performance by Springer.

“It’s pretty hard to find thatcertain group of people you areprobably going to curl with fromwithin the university,” Selke said.“[Springer] ended up being ashooter. He is not hindering ourteam at all.”

To be exact, Selke calledSpringer “a stud out there.”

When a team has only onebonspiel together it is hard to pinpoint what exactly they need towork on, but as Selke points out“in curling, communication ishuge.” Unfortunately, commu-nication comes with time that youinvest with each other. AlisonFisher, program assistant of recre-ation services, said that based onwhat she sees, the four membersof the Cougars men’s curling teamwill have no problem supportingeach other.

The biggest quality Selke has

noticed with the new team is theirability to play loose, a characteris-tic that will surely help this groupmoving forward.

“We can pull four guys out ofanywhere and say we are going togive this a go and see if it is goingto work for us, and it did,” hesaid.

“We know what we can do,”Selke said. “We know we can playthe shots.” H a v i n gSchneider as a team leader alsohelps. The whole team has confi-dence that Schneider’s knowledgeof the game was the best fit forskipping the team.

The U of R also has seems tohave confidence in the team. TheRecreation Services and StudentUnion have invested more thanthe Schneider team could haveasked for.

Selke explains that most oftheir travelling expenses will becovered, and provided the teamwith uniforms.

“All we have to worry aboutreally, is performing,” he said.

And just like any team, win-ning is their goal.

“We want to come out ofWesterns and have a good run atNationals, and I think this teamwe have put together could take itall,” Selke said.

Both the men’s and women’steams head off to Edmonton forthe Canada West Playdowns fromFeb. 15-17.

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While most University of Reginastudents were savouring theirtime off on the day afterChristmas, the Cougars women’sbasketball team was boarding aplane to Las Vegas, NV.

Their goal wasn’t to gambleor let loose under the desert sun,but to see how they measured upagainst National Association ofIntercollegiate Athletics (NAIA)talent from south of the border.

“It was good,” Cougars vet-eran forward Lindsay Ledinghamsaid of the trip. “It was obviouslylots of fun being able to play inVegas, and it was good just tohave three games over Christmasto kind of shake the rust off andspend some time together as ateam.”

But if there was any rust accu-mulated from the short time theteam spent apart over theChristmas break, it didn’t showin Vegas, where the Cougars wentundefeated through three games.

The Cougars beat MontanaTech 50-47, Carroll College 60-48and Montana Western 65-47 enroute to a perfect 3-0 record.

“It was good competition, it’sjust we had to make sure that weplayed together,” Cougars sec-ond-year guard Kehlsie Cronesaid.

Some slightly different rules,like the lack of a backcourt timelimit, meant the Cougars had tomake some small adjustments totheir play.

“You could have it in the back-court the whole time and it does-n’t matter, so the speed of thegame is way different,” Cronesaid.

Other than that, the style ofplay didn’t differ much from theCIS competition the Cougars areused to.

“There’s not a huge differ-ence,” said Cougars rookie KatiePolischuk. “I think with the teamswe played we had more size overthem, but their bench was all solidplayers. They had 12 deep on eachteam.”

While the primary purpose ofthe trip was to play basketball,that’s not to say that the team did-n’t have time to take in the sightsand sounds of the Vegas strip.

“We’d have one shoot a dayand one game a day, and the restof the time was to ourselves,”Polischuk said. “We could use ithowever we wanted, so we got tosee a lot of the strip and stuff likethat.”

For most of the team, the freetime amounted to “a lot of walk-ing around, a lot of shopping, justkind of seeing all the different ho-tels and stuff like that,” Polischuksaid.

For those over 21, it meant achance to see where Sin City getsits name.

But if there was any indul-gence on the part of the Cougarsveterans, they weren’t letting on.

“For the most part we werepretty good,” Ledingham said.“We’re pretty responsible if weplay the next day. We knew wewere there for basketball, and de-

spite being in Vegas, that was ourfocus.”

But that doesn’t mean theCougars didn’t try their hands inone of the cities’ 122 registeredcasinos.

Ledingham, herself, was theteam’s big winner, pulling in acool $100 on a penny slot ma-chine.

“Everyone put in, I don’tknow, a dollar, and somehow Iended up winning,” she said.“But by the end I think I lost itplaying blackjack and all that. Noone really lost an extreme amountof money. I guess we’re not ex-treme gamblers.”

Besides offering the Cougars areprieve from the Canadian win-ter for a few days, the Vegas tripprovided the team a chance to getgeared up for what’s sure to be anexciting second half to the 2012-13season.

“It’s just good to spend thetime with them,” Ledingham said.“It was good after Christmas be-cause we had a break away fromeach other, so just to get back witheach other and hang out, it helpson the court and off the court.

“It’s our fourth month, sowe’ve been around each other alot. Team bonding isn’t necessar-ily lacking, but obviously we stillwant to stay close together off thecourt because it’s going to affecthow we play on the court,”Ledingham said. “Just to have thetime to be able to do that was cru-cial.”

With the Cougars hosting thisyear’s CIS championship begin-ning on March 15, the team will be

looking to have a strong secondhalf.

“We have six really toughgames ahead of us coming upagainst lots of the top-10 teams inthe country, so these next sixgames are going to be reallytough,” Ledingham said. “We’retaking it one weekend at a timebecause, obviously, every team isvery competitive.”

The Cougars resolve was putto the test on Jan. 18, when theymet up with the University ofVictoria Vikes in Victoria, B.C.

In a closely contested game,the Cougars fell 61-58 to the Vikes,ending their Canada West win-ning streak at 11 straight games.

The following night, however,they were able to rebound againstthe red-hot UBC Thunderbirds,ending a nine-game UBC winstreak with a 63-53 victory.

With just eight games remain-ing in the regular season schedule,the Cougars will be looking to fin-ish strong in the weeks ahead.

Their next action comes Jan.25 and 26, when they play host tothe University of Alberta Pandasat the Centre for Kinesiology,Health and Sport.

While Ledingham remainsconfident in her team’s abilities,she knows that the road to nation-als will not be an easy one.

“It’s going to take a lot of ef-fort from everyone individually,and a lot of effort as a team to beable to keep it going,” she said.“Hopefully we do, but we’ve gotour work cut out for us.”

The women’s basketball team leads a tough lifeViva Las Vegas

Emily Wright

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Cougars

highlights

Men’s hockey:

The Cougars men’s hockeyteam recently said goodbyeto third-year forward MattStrueby who signed a dealwith the ECHL’s ColoradoEagles. However, after los-ing a good player they alsogained one in first-year for-ward Drew Czerwonka,former captain of theKootenay Ice who made hisdebut with the Cougars onJan. 11.

Women’s hockey:

After registering 11 straightwins to close out 2012, thewomen’s hockey teamstarted 2013 on a sour note,rattling off three straightlosses. However, theCougars were able to put astop to their losing skid onJan. 18 with a 5-3 winagainst Mount Royal athome.

Men’s basketball:

Since registering back-to-back wins on Jan. 11-12, theCougars followed theirstrong performance withtwo losses, causing theirrecord to drop to 5-9.Regina now sits seventhout of a possible eight in thePrairie Division of theCanada West conferenceand is 10 points back of thefinal playoff spot with justeight games remaining.

Women’s volleyball:

2013 has not been kind tothe Cougars women’s vol-leyball team, who has fourconsecutive losses. Theyoung team is experiencinga learning curve this yearthat could explain whythey currently sit 10th outof twelve teams in CanadaWest. Though not mathe-matically out of playoffcontention yet, with just sixgames left in the seasonand eight points to makeup, they will need a mira-cle.

Men’s volleyball:

Including a tournament theCougars men’s volleyballteam participated in overChristmas break, they havenow lost nine straightgames and are currentlytied for dead last in theCanada West standings.With six games left in theseason and 12 points tomake up to grab the finalplayoff spot it looks like itwill be another long sum-mer for the volleyball team.

They look tired, best send them to Vegas.

“Everyone put in , I don’t know, a dol lar, and somehow I ended up winning.But by the end I th ink I lost i t p lay ing b lackjack and a l l that . No one real lylost an extreme amount of money. I guess we’re not extreme gamblers.”

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After suffering two tough losses atthe hands of Hayley Wickenheiserand the University of CalgaryDinos on Jan. 11-12, the Universityof Regina Cougars looked to re-deem themselves last weekendagainst the Canada West newcom-ers, the Mount Royal UniversityCougars.

“We were more ready to playthis weekend because of whathappened last weekend,” saidfourth-year forward KendraFinch. “But we sat back on ourheels in our second game. Just be-cause they’re in last place doesn’tmean they’re not going to fighthard.”

The Cougars came out firingon all cylinders Friday night. Afterfighting off two penalties, the girlsgot a bounce that went their wayhalf way through the first.

The puck was sitting on thegoal line when fifth-year forwardGina Campbell took the opportu-nity to poke the puck in for thefirst goal of the night.

The Cougars luck continuedin the first as Mount Royal took apenalty just a few seconds afterCampbell’s marker.

Twenty seconds into thepenalty, fifth-year forward RianneWight was able to capitalize onthe power play opportunity andgave Regina a two-goal lead. However, the end of the first pe-riod wasn’t as promising as it hadoriginally seemed.

The Cougars took a penalty

with just under three minutes leftin the period and Mount Royalwas able to make them pay, get-ting the puck passed second-yeargoaltender Jennifer Schmidt to geton the score board.

And if that wasn’t punish-ment enough, Regina took an-other penalty with a minute and ahalf left in the first. Mount Royalwas on a roll as they got anothergoal on the power play with justtwo seconds left in the first, tyingthe score at two a piece going intothe first intermission.

In the second period, the girlswere able to redeem themselvesas they took control of the periodearly. Finch scored the first goal ofthe period to get the girls up byone.

With less than five minutes leftin the second, the Cougars wereable to get another goal. This time

it was Sawchuk who registeredanother point on the night to putRegina up 4-2 over the visitors atthe break.

Regina was able to keep thetempo up in the third period.Fifth-year scoring sensationsWight and Paige Wheeler con-nected for a two on one chance.

Wight passed to Wheeler andwith quick hands Wheeler wasable to get past the goalie to findthe back of the net, increasingtheir lead by three.

Three minutes later, MountRoyal was able to get one moregoal past Schmidt to make it fiveto three, but that was as close asthe visitors would get as theCougars were awarded with their14th win of the season.

“[Friday night] we had a lotof bounces on our side and wewere capitalizing,” said second-

year goaltender Toni Ross.“[Saturday,] the bounces weren’tquite there so we had a roughertime.”

After their convincing win onFriday night, there were highhopes for Saturday night’s game,but the Cougars did not start offthe way they finished Friday.

Three and a half minutes intothe first period, Mount Royal wasable to get the first goal past Rossto give them a quick lead, whichthey would hold for the remain-der of the first.

In the second period, Reginagot two chances to even up thescore as Mount Royal took twopenalties, giving the Cougars afive-on-three advantage fortwenty seconds.

However, the Cougars wereunable to capitalize on the powerplay, but maintained the momen-

tum they gained from the advan-tage. Seconds after the penaltiesexpired, first-year forward KylieGavelin was able to slide the puckacross to Wight for a goal to makethe game one all.

The Cougars kept up the pres-sure in the second, but thebounces weren’t going their way.This was especially true when as-sistant coach Brandy West-McMaster took a puck in the facewhile standing on the bench mid-way through the frame. But withan ice pack on her cheek shestayed in the game and kept thegirls motivated.

After a scoreless third period,the game was headed to overtime.Unfortunately for the Cougars,they took a penalty with just twoseconds left in regulation, mean-ing that they would start the extraperiod on the wrong side of a fourthree advantage.

Mount Royal came ready toplay in overtime and with aturnover Regina’s own end,Mount Royal found the backmesh in less than a minute.

Saturday night’s game wasnot in the favour of the Cougars.With forty-one shots on net forRegina, they out shot MountRoyal by 13.

After registering the weekendsplit, Regina is currently sitting inthird place in the Canada Weststandings with a 14-7-1 record.

The Cougars look to get theirmomentum back this weekend ina home-and-home series againstthe University of Saskatchewan(8-10-4).

After enduring 113 painful days ofseparation, hockey fans are finallyreunited with their old flame: theNational Hockey League.

Jan. 19 marked the official an-niversary that the players andowners of the NHL took theirheads out of their asses and gavetheir loyal – albeit idiotic – fanswhat they deserve: good old fash-ioned hockey.

The opening weekend was notwithout its share of controversy,but with teams only having amaximum of two games undertheir belts at this point these firstfew games are mostly used for theplayers to get their legs back, andfor fans to rekindle their hatredfor referees, rather than beingused as a measuring stick for a fu-ture Stanley Cup matchup.

With that being said, possiblythe most important part of theweekend is that my belovedPittsburgh Penguins managed toescape with a 2-0 record. I mightas well start ordering my champi-onship sweatshirt right now.

Penguins stud Sidney Crosbyis back to his old ways and al-ready set two new records thisseason. First of all, it only tookroughly two minutes into theirseason opener against the

Philadelphia Flyers for the cap-tain to take his first dive of theseason. I love The Kid, but thatseriously must be some sort ofrecord.

Oddly enough, Crosby hasalso now made it two full gameswithout suffering a concussion, arecord that Penguins fans will beholding on to for dear life as theseason progresses.

However, despite the lack ofhead injuries as of late, Crosbyalso only recorded one assist intwo games, so I think it’s safe to

assume that his ongoing concus-sion problems have caused him tolose his touch. I hope my sarcasmis coming across in this.

To give the Penguins any edgeI could, I texted the Flyers not-all-there goalie Ilya Bryzgalov andtold him I killed a tiger, he wasrattled in the cage – if any of youhave yet to see HBO’s 24/7Rangers Flyers, we are no longerfriends.

Anyways, as a result ofCrosby’s snake bitten hands,teammate Evgeni Malkin was

forced to pick up the slack andregistered four assists in his firsttwo games. Although hewas shutout in the goal depart-ment, after his strong weekend it’sobvious that he was scoring morethat just assists after the game.Let’s not forget that I saw the heatMalkin was packing in the showerlast year, and it’s safe to say hehas no problem wheeling broads.

While the Penguins lighting itup in the NHL is nothing new,there were a couple of surprisingmoments that came out of open-

ing weekend.First of all, previous Montreal

Canadians poison, Scott Gomez,who had been bought out by hisformer team one week prior to thestart of the season – you knowyou’re terrible when a team willpay you to not play for them – ac-tually has some interest fromother teams.

The San Jose Sharks were intalks with the train wreck duringthe past few days and it appearsthat Gomez may be back on theice instead of having his buttwhere it belongs – stapled to thepine. I think I speak for everyonewhen I say, “What the hell arethey thinking?”

The other Ripley’s Believe itor Not moment that was featuredin the first weekend of action wasthat the Toronto Maple Leafs actu-ally won a game.

I had to read that over a fewtimes just to make sure I wasn’tdreaming, and no, it’s not a typo;although spell check seemed con-fused when the words “won” and“Toronto” were used in the samesentence.

With all of that into consider-ation, possibly the greatest part ofthis rekindled romance betweenfans who aren’t stubborn enoughto boycott, and the NHL is that Iwon’t have to endure soccer high-lights every night.

Get caught up on the latest Cougars women’s hockey actionDid you see that?

Back in actionThe NHL’s opening weekend was both meaningless and awesome

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After a strong showing in the 2012season that ended with an appear-ance in the Hardy Cup, theUniversity of Regina Rams are ac-tively recruiting some of Canada’sbest high school football talent.

With 20 Regina Rams ¬– 14 ofwhich are starters – moving onfrom the program, including starquarterback, Marc Mueller, theRams have some big shoes to fill.

As of Jan. 16, 12 new playershave signed letters of intent withthe Rams, agreeing to cease anycurrent or future talks with otherCanadian Interuniversity Sportfootball teams.

Rams head coach FrankMcCrystal is optimistic about hisnew recruits.“The people we recruit are very,very good players,” McCrystalsaid. “They are guys who haveimpacted their leagues and theirfootball teams. Many of themhave been most valuable playersin the leagues, outstanding line-men in their leagues, they’ve beendefensive player of the year,they’ve been all-stars and theyhave gone on and done well at anational level.”

Even after graduating 20 play-ers, McCrystal refuses to call 2013a rebuilding year.

“I think we’re going to be avery competitive football team.

We’re working toward that endand these young guys are alreadyworking hard to be a part of it,” hesaid. Noah Picton, a quarterback fromDr. Martin LeBoldus High School– whose father Dean Picton wasalso a former Rams quarterback –is happy with his choice.

“It’s pretty exciting stuff tocome in as a fan for many, manyyears and be a member of thisteam,” he said. Picton didn’t consider any otheroptions from other schools; heknew right where he wanted toplay next year.

“The Rams was it for me.

From the beginning, right out ofhigh school I figured, I’m stayinghere,” he said. “If they want tokeep me, I’m staying here.”

Also keeping it in the family,Cohen Richards wasn’t shy to sayhe chose the Rams because hisolder brother, second-year widereceiver Addison Richards, al-

ready plays for the team.Addison couldn’t be happier

for his brother. “It’s his moment. He’s worked

hard for this. He put in a lot oftime and it’s going to be a lot offun to share the field with him,”he said.When looking for players, theRams coaches – led by offensivecoordinator Bernie Schmidt – usea number of methods to find po-tential recruits.

The coaches often follow theplayers’ careers throughout highschool and in many cases have al-ready coached or worked withthem at Rams camps and inRegina Minor Football. For out-of-town recruits, thecoaches rely primarily on recom-mendations from colleagues,scouting websites, and highschool coaches. But in some cases,the players will take matters intotheir own hands. For example,graduating wide receiver MarkMcConkey made the team by sub-mitting his own highlight reel.McCrystal speculates the Ramswill need to recruit an additional15 to 20 players beyond the 12they already have. This processwill happen over the next fewmonths with a focus on recruitingnew linemen.The new Rams recruits will takethe field for the first time on May3-5 at spring camp.

From local and national mile-stones to the return of Canada’sgame, the first month of the NewYear hasn’t failed to pleaseCanadian sports fans.

Surely, the first month set thebar high for the 11 months to fol-low, but it should come as no sur-prise that Canada delivered ahandful of memorable sportsheadlines to start 2013.

Why? Note the talent, come-backs, and story lines that weredisplayed in the eventful monthof January.

5. ‘It’s hockey, it’s Canada.’

After 16 hours of negotiations onJan. 6, 2013, the National HockeyLeague and its players associationcame to terms on a tentative col-lective bargaining agreement. Thisannouncement ended the NHLlockout. After both sides ratifiedthe new CBA, a 48-game seasonwas set to start on Jan. 19, 2013.The third lockout in NHL historylasted just under four months.

The return of the NHL re-ceived mixed reception from fans.Angry fans across Canada threat-ened to boycott the new season,while other diehard fans proudlyrejoiced that their homeland’sgame was finally back.

Every Canadian NHL teamhad their arena sold-out for itsfirst game of the 2013 campaign.

4. Nash Dished the Basketball10,000 Times

On Jan. 9, 2013, Los AngelesLakers point guard Steve Nashpassed the basketball for an assistfor the 10,000th time in a Lakersloss to the Houston Rockets.Nash, who was born in Victoria,B.C., was only the fifth player inthe National BasketballAssociation history to reach sucha milestone.

Fellow Lakers teammate KobeBryant tweeted after the game, “Ihave to step outside this frustra-tion and say congrats to SteveNash 10,000. Amazing accom-plishment. Wish we could have

gotten the W.” Other players that have

passed for 10,000 assists in theircareers were Magic Johnson, MarkJackson, Jason Kidd, and JohnStockton. Kidd and Nash are theonly two active players.

3. Ewen Jumped His Way To CISStandard In Long Jump

The University of Regina’s trackand field teams faced off againstSaskatchewan on Jan. 12, 2013 atthe Prairie Dual in Saskatoon. Atthe event, Cougars member LexEwen became the first CanadaWest athlete to meet the CIS stan-dard in long jump this season.

Ewen’s career-best jump was

7.09 metres. He also claimed firstplace in the meet, and was onlythe third athlete in Canada to hitthe standard. Ewen solidified aspot for himself at the CISChampionships at the Universityof Alberta in March.

2. Familiar Faces Returned ToThe Riders

A handful of players were re-signed by the SaskatchewanRoughriders in January. Offensivelineman Patrick Neufeld and re-ceiver Scott McHenry were re-signed on Jan. 8, 2013. Two dayslater, the Riders re-signed re-ceivers Rob Bagg and LimasSweed; but the Green and White

weren’t done yet. On Jan. 15, 2013, the Riders

brought back a pair of veterans.Linebacker Mike McCullough andfullback Neal Hughes resigned forthe 2013 season.

Former Riders offensive coor-dinator George Cortez returnedto the team on Jan. 21, 2013.Cortez was the offensive coordi-nator for the Riders in 2006.

The Riders busy month mostlikely came in proactive prepara-tion for the 101st Grey Cup, whichwill be held in Regina,Saskatchewan in 2013. It is thethird time that the championshipgame will be played in the QueenCity.

1. CFL Head Coach Headed tothe NFL

Former Montreal Alouettes headcoach Marc Trestman was intro-duced as the Chicago Bears headcoach on Jan. 17, 2013. Trestmancoached the Alouettes for five sea-sons in the CFL and led them to apair of championships.

Bears general manager PhilEmery expressed his excitementto work with Trestman, express-ing that he has many attractivequalities to add to the Bearscoaching staff.

The last time the Bears madethe post-season, they finished firstin the NFC North division in 2010with a 11-5 record.

Introducing the future of the Regina Rams We want you as a new recruit

Top five Canadian sports storiesJanuary was a busy month for Canadian sports fans

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the carillon | Jan. 24 - 30, 2013op-ed

A movement for allI’ve heard some criticism of the Idle NoMore movement recently, and it wasrearticulated to me again last week. An in-dividual that I respect said to me, “Youknow the problem with Idle No More isthat it has no focus point; it’s a movementthat is demanding a change in process, andthat is much harder to accomplish.”

Now, obviously as a grassrootsmovement, the Idle No More movement isorganic and always evolving. As more andmore people from across Canada and theworld are inspired to join the movement,their own focuses and demands are natu-rally brought into the movement.Sometimes, this obscures the point, and itdoesn’t help when mainstream media doesnot do justice in covering the movement.So, yes, it’s a little bit confusing sometimes.

I attended one of the first Idle NoMore teach-ins back in November, andhave made a point to attend as many of theevents as I can. I will admit that even formyself, I had started to forget the core pointof the movement. That’s why people havecome to criticize the movement for having“no point”. But it’s not true. There is apoint, and we need to make sure we keepthis point clear in our minds and our heartsas we move forward. That point is Bill C-45.Last week, I had the good fortune to speakwith some of the founders of Idle No Moreat RPIRG’s Apathy into Action SocialJustice Conference, and I was remindedonce again of the core of the movement.

When Idle No More began, it began withteach-ins. Women, Indigenous peoples, andeven some non-Indigenous members of thecommunity were teaching us about an om-nibus bill that no one had heard of. There are two main changes in this bill thatthese people focused on. The first was the

changes to the Indian Act that redefined theobligation to consult and receive consentfrom Indigenous communities regarding“development” projects on their land. Theother was that this bill abolished water pro-tections that were outlined in theNavigable Waters Act, Canada’s first envi-

ronmental legislation. This leaves our wa-terways vulnerable to fracking, industrialuse, and chemical contamination.So while this bill is especially detrimentalto Indigenous communities in Canada, theissues at hand go beyond culture and race.We all need to stand together to let the gov-ernment know that they can’t just sell offthe land beneath our feet and the water weneed to sustain our communities. Thisgrassroots movement belongs to us all. So for those who think this movement hasno point, here is the point: to stop Bill C-45from moving forward. And one more thing.The movement is not demanding a changein process; by coming together as we havebeen, in a spirit of love, education, and pro-tection of the environment, we are inher-ently changing “the process” already. It is aprocess of decolonizing our minds and ourbodies and healing our relationships withone another and with the Earth. This is thefoundation of the movement. And fromhere we will not stop, because we cannotstop. We need land and water to survive,but we need strong and just communitiesto thrive.Idle No More is not only an Indigenousrevolution; it is a revolution of all peopleswho walk this Earth.

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Exploring all optionsFiring our administration is not going tosolve our problems.We have done an excellent job of askingtough questions of our administrators, andwe must continue to do so as the fundingcrisis at the university goes on. But let’s berealistic; even firing all the top-paid ad-ministration positions would not solve theproblem of cash-strapped departments.Yes, ballooning administrative costs andconflicting visions for the direction of theuniversity are responsible for some of thehardship we are feeling, but they are notthe only factors.

When we’ve been examining the prob-lems of funding, the government’s role inpost-secondary education rarely comes up.This is strange, because as Provost Chase’sfavourite slide shows, the government iswhere we receive 59 per cent of our fund-ing from. While it must not be our only av-enue of inquiry, it stands to reason that weshould at least consider the government’srole in the current crisis.

Even as both the U of S and the U of Rstruggle to find “efficiencies” and cost-sav-ings, no one has asked the governmentwhy these supposed “cost saving meas-ures” are required in the first place, espe-cially when departments like English havebeen cut to the bone already and run therisk of being completely devastated.Asking the university to “trim the fat” is allwell and good when the university hassome fat to trim. But when the university isat risk of becoming an emaciated ghost ofits former self, should we not stop cuttingand start feeding? If the government seesus struggling with funding issues, should itnot reach out a hand to help?

And when we are talking about the fu-ture of the university as an institution thatis open and accessible, the reality is that it

must rely on government funding. If we areserious about solving the funding crisis inpost-secondary education, the governmentneeds to be one of the people at the nego-tiating table, and they need to be willing tolisten and explain their decisions. If we cutthem out completely, as has been the caserecently, we are ignoring another potentialsolution to the problems we face.

Perhaps a forum for the government toclarify their goals in terms of post-second-ary funding is in order, with students, fac-

ulty, the administration, and the Ministerfor Advanced Education Don Morgan andthe Premier in attendance to answer ques-tions and provide the rationale behind theirdecisions. In a time of fiscal uncertaintyand anxiety at the university, such a meet-ing would provide people the opportunityto give voice to their concerns and ask anyquestions about the government’s fundingplans for the university, as well as clarifythe reasons for why the government is urg-ing universities to find more efficiencies in

their budgets. We must leave no stone unturned in

looking for solutions to the current crisis inpost-secondary education. It is only ra-tional that the government open channelsof communication between it and the stu-dents and faculty affected by their deci-sions.

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Remember that part time job you wantedwhen you were a first-year student, anddidn’t get because the manager’s half-sis-ter’s cousin’s dead-beat son was given thejob?

How about that time when you wantedto work at a summer camp and were de-nied because some entitled brat happenedto be the brother of the camp coordinator?If neither of these scenarios have happenedto you, can you not empathize?

At some point in our lives we were allprobably victims of nepotism, in someshape or form. Whether it be in school, orin the workplace, nepotism will alwayscome back to bite one in the ass. Maybe it’sbecause I am becoming more cynical as Igrow older, but I become more infuriatedwith the nepotistic behavior of employersand the ass-kissing prospective employeeshave to do, to be able to get an interview.I am not saying that future employees andyouth have to have everything handed tothem, as we need to pay our dues. What Iam saying is that employers should leavetheir neglected egos and family ties at thedoor when they enter a room to interviewprospective employees. People should keepan open-mind when hiring employees,even when it comes to the “no-brainer”hires. If you had your own private doc-tor’s office, would you hire the little sisterof your best friend to be your secretary, orsomeone who has secretarial diploma? We saw it with the mayoral election thispast year when Fiacco endorsed Fougere sothat Fougere could follow through onFiacco’s expensive new stadium, and wesee it all around the province, city, and uni-versity.

Wouldn’t it be nice to be hired for a job,or promoted, when you have worked hardand earned it? Instead of sleeping aroundor kissing up so much to the point you

know what your employer had for break-fast? I realize that this might be a foreignidea to some people, but maybe if one werehired based on their skills and knowledge,instead of the number of mutual friendsyou have, then maybe things at workwouldn’t be so stressful with internal pol-iticking.

To clarify, I am not bashing networking.I think meeting new people is great. One’sconnections should only allow a future em-

ployee to get an interview. Once that inter-view starts, that connection does not mat-ter as it is up to you to secure getting thejob, not your uncle’s stepdaughter’s cousintwice-removed.

I may be coming off as a self-righteous,entitled youth, but I am sure there are hun-dreds of us that are efficient and more qual-ified to do certain jobs than a distantrelative of yours. I fear that Regina, as awhole, will succumb to nepotism to sate

the hungry egos of those in charge of hiringemployees. Which, will in turn, reinforcethe ignorance of everyone when it comes tohiring and applying to jobs. Despite being“young,” I remember a time when peoplewere hired based on what they know, notwho they know.

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Protect our motherThose damn dirty lazy Indians are at itagain! They’re blocking the roads, dancingin public areas, and wanting more andmore and more! Don’t they already get freehand outs from the government? Why arethey so greedy? Those Wagon Burners,those Chugs, those Squaws, those Thugs...We’ve all heard these words; whether itwas coming from our teachers, parents,friends, or even our selves. This is systemicracism in its truest form, and it’s working.It’s working so much that our own fellowCanadian citizens, even our own fellowclassmates, think that Idle No More isabout “Indians wanting more and more.”The biggest threat to this Global movementis ignorance.

So let me be completely clear about this:This is not an Aboriginal issue, it’s not evena Canadian issue, it’s a life and death issue!Idle no more means that we cannot besilent anymore! We cannot stand by andlet bills such as Bill C-45 pass right throughour so-called democratic system of govern-ment!

But this is a global grass roots move-ment, so how can it be only the CanadianGovernment that we’re talking about? Weare talking about our mother! Our mother!Mother Earth! We are talking about all gov-ernments on the globe and every personliving on it! If you think that you won’t beaffected in years, even days, to come, youare sadly mistaken.

In today’s society we value money overour natural resources; over the otherspecies we share this earth with. We takefor granted the fact that we can breathe theair every morning. We take for granted thefact that some of us can still drink rightfrom the tap in our kitchen! S o why is it that we see a majority ofAboriginal People at these Idle No More

rallies? How come we see AboriginalDdnce (the Round dance) at these “peace-ful protests”? It’s because this movementstarted with four Aboriginal women whowanted to be heard, peacefully, and grewgreatly within the Aboriginal populationbecause of shared beliefs. This does notmean that non-Aboriginal people can’t par-ticipate, it is quite the opposite. This move-ment has sprung up in places like London,England and New Zealand and is stillgrowing! We had one of the originalorganizers come talk at the University ofRegina and she herself said she “in no way

saw herself as an activist” when all this be-gan. She was just a human being concernedabout the future of our children. By sayingIdle No More, we are not condemning ourpast leaders who have tried to make astand in the past. We are merely sayingthat by being silent we are being compliant,and so we can no longer be idle.

No man-made laws can protect ourMother Earth. It will have to be the will ofthe people that will protect her. Along theway Humans forgot the natural law ofthings. We forgot how to live in harmonywith all our brothers and sisters and be-

cause of this we will be punished byMother Earth if we continue to ignore andforget natural law. We already see in thedaily news of bigger and worse natural dis-asters, due to things like Fracking, GlobalWarming, and mass pollution. She will re-taliate; and even if we (humans) becomeextinct, the world will regenerate. New lifewill form and we will be forgotten just aswe have forgotten Mother Earth. Wehaven’t inherited the Earth from our par-ents; we borrowed it from our children.And it will be our children who will pay. Itwill be our children who cannot play out-side because of the toxins in the airs. It willbe our children who will hate us, for takingtheir lives.

The biggest threat to our goal of peaceis ignorance! The government bodies andofficials and media will do as they weretaught to do: to cover up our mistakes, totake bribes in place of morals, to twist thestory, to lean heavily on stereotypes, to putup that mask to the rest of the world andsay “nothing is wrong here” but we willknow different! And because we know dif-ferent it is up to us to teach others whodon’t! It is up to us to inform our fellowmisinformed brothers and sisters, citizens,elected officials, journalists, and human be-ings! The biggest threat is ignorance, butwe can fight it!

So the choice is yours. We can useeverything the world literally has to offer tomaintain our way of living today, but thenplague tomorrow. OR we can take the stepsnecessary today to be alive tomorrow. IDLENO MORE!

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the carillon | Jan. 24 - 30, 2013humourfrom the desk of High Chancellor TimmonsTo: Ilene Busch-Vishniac, President, University of SaskatchewanFrom: Vianne Timmons, President, University of ReginaSubject: U of S Projected Deficit

Dear President Busch-Vishniac:

News has reached my office about the projected deficit for the University of Saskatchewan.$44.5 million by 2016. And, I must express my sincere and grave disappointment.

What I mean by that is that I am disappointed in myself. My executive team and I are try-ing our damnedest to run this place into the ground, and the best we could do is less thanten per cent of your expected deficit. How did you do it exactly? We took the classic “let’sgut the fuck out of the liberal arts because they’re all socialist hippies who’ll be servingme coffee anyways, and everyone loves a good leftie-bashing amirite” approach, but youreally, really outdid yourself. But you’re not just going after the liberal arts programs;you’re taking down the entire fucking school! It’s brilliant!

I mean, no one’s actually going to do anything, which was my concern and reasoning be-

hind not taking down Engineering and Business for fear of revolt (given that people ac-tually seem to give a shit about those faculties, like wtf?), but I should have known thata student uprising would never, ever, happen in Saskatchewan.

So, from the bottom of my heart, I’d like to extend my most sincere congratulations. Peoplelike you are an inspiration to administrators such as myself. Maybe I’ll catch a flight toSaskatoon later this week (lmao driving), and we can meet up for a drink and discuss howthe hell you managed to rack up that impressive $44.5 million deficit that says, “Fuck yeah.I made it.”Sincerely,Vianne Timmons

P.S. drinks on me because I’ve obviously got some deficit catching up to do

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Recently, reporters at the Carillon endeav-ored to find out what the Carillon is, in theface of recent accusations of declining read-ership and unawareness amongst the stu-dents.

“I’ve seen newspaper stands around,”said a second-year education student, whowished to remain nameless. “Are there ac-tually newspapers in those? I usually justglance at them and move on.”

“I used to read the paper often,” saidMichael Chmielewski, frequent contribu-tor to the Carillon. “Lately, though, I’ve justbeen using back issues as kindling for myfireplace. Oh, also, if I spill soda, or some-thing, I usually just use an issue of the

Carillon to mop it up.” “Carry-on? What the fuck is that?

Carillon? Never heard of it,” said another.These were amongst the more positive

reactions to our questions. Indeed, evenstaff at the Carillon seemed unaware of theirown presence on campus.

“The Carillon?” asked Paul Bogdan, artsand culture editor for the Carillon. “yeah,that thing’s a piece of shit.” When in-formed, seemingly for the first time, that hewas employed by the Carillon, Bogdan wasastonished.

“Holy shit,” Bogdan said. “We’re theCarillon? Jesus, we’re just awful.”

“Kharillion?” asked Edward Dodd,

opinions Editor. “Wasn’t he an Egyptianpharaoh, or something?”

“It’s clear that we’ve been failing thestudent body at large,” Dietrich Neu, edi-tor-in-chief said. “We need to improve ourquality of work, so – oh, I have to take thiscall; excuse me.” Recently, the Carillon has been holdingawareness rallies in the Administration &Humanities Building. The rallies, generallyheld between the hours of 12 and 2 a.m.,have been marred by poor student atten-dance.

“By the time we finish production onthis fucking thing, it’s like, 11:30,” said JuliaDima, production manager. “So sue us if

we can’t hold these rallies earlier. Now,when are you starting the interview?”

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