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Investing in student spaceVolume 30 Issue 10 October 30, 2012Independent student newspaper at Concordia University. Since 1983.

opinions

Matthew GuitéAssistant news editor

The Concordia Student Union unanimously agreed on a motion to sign a $97,000 contract with MHPM Project Managers Inc. for their ser-vices in planning and preparing for a new student centre during a regu-lar council meeting Wednesday.

The contract would also allow MHPM to aid the CSU in negotiat-ing with the university should there be another round of student centre contract negotiations in the future.

Nadine Atallah, VP clubs and internal affairs, said that hiring MHPM was an important step in the long-term plan for the student centre.

“The whole idea behind this is to keep the option open for students to decide if they want to move for-ward with the university, indepen-dently or with another party,” said Atallah. “Should students decide they do want to move forward with the university, then at least we’ll have started the process of putting together an agreement that is a little

more representative of the students’ interest.”

Two representatives from MHPM were present at the CSU meeting to explain their proposal and to answer any questions. Council had very few questions upon the conclusion of the presentation, but Atallah told The Concordian that council mem-bers received the proposal weeks

in advance and many had already had their questions answered by her. Council voted unanimously to accept the motion, but after the representatives left, councillor Ramy Khoriaty raised concerns about what had specifically been voted on minutes before.

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City in brief

Kalina Laframboise

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>>Watch out, white collar criminalsPremier Pauline Marois will address corruption when the Quebec National Assembly opens a new session this Wednesday. As one of its top priorities, the provincial government plans to close loopholes in Bill 35 following the revelations of corruption and collusion with the construction industry during the ongoing Charbonneau Commis-sion. A new bill could be presented as early as this week, in order to fight corruption and force contractors to be more honest by implementing stricter rules and mechanisms in order to win a contract from municipal authorities. >>Time to invest in a train passCommuters, prepare for more traf-fic headaches. The Honoré-Mercier bridge, which connects Châteauguay and the Island of Montreal, will un-dergo more construction for an unde-termined amount of time. The Gazette reported that while work continues on the federally owned side of the bridge and is slated for completion in 2014, the provincial side expects an addi-tional five years of work and has no target date for completion. Construc-tion started in 2008 to fix the decrepit bridge that is used by 80,000 commut-ers daily. Repeated lane closures often snarl traffic on the bridge, extending to the west and downtown.

>>...Or notPublic transit users will see their monthly passes rise from $75.50 to $77.75 in January 2012. The Societé de Transport de Montréal will increase the costs of a three-day pass to $18 from $16, and offer a new option for a weekend unlimited pass for $12 that will cover commuters from Friday evening until Monday morning. The express bus to Montreal’s Pierre-Elliot Trudeau airport will cost nine dollars as will the unlimited day pass. The STM has steadily increased monthly rates since 2002, when a pass was $50.

>>Say goodbye to your employee dis-countPharmaceutical company Pfizer an-nounced it will cut 300 jobs nation-wide, but mostly in Montreal. The company’s headquarters, located west of Montreal in Kirkland, will see a large number of employees dismissed due to restructuring process. The lay-offs account for nearly 11 per cent of the company’s total number of em-ployees. Pfizer has 2,700 employees in Canada and approximately 1,800 in Quebec. The company recently under-went a multimillion dollar renovation, with a $2.7-million contribution from the provincial government.

Councillors and executives clash over several motions at CSU meetingKalina LaframboiseNews editor

The Concordia Student Union dis-cussed student appointments, the up-coming byelections and the ongoing issues with information technology services during a regular council meet-ing Wednesday.

Two weeks ago, Councillor Ramy Khoriaty announced his resignation from Senate in light of the lack of undergraduate representation from the John Molson School of Business. Contrary to his statement however, Khoriaty did not officially step down from his spot by sending a letter of resignation to the council chair. Citing midterms, Khoriaty said he simply for-got to submit the letter and would do so soon.

Schubert Laforest, president of the CSU, expressed interest in appointing

VP academic of the Commerce and Administration Students’ Association, Tuan Dinh, but council immediately voiced their concerns regarding his re-peated absence during interviews.

Chairperson Jean-François Ouel-let then refused to allow a motion to appoint JMSB student and applicant, Melissa Lemieux, to Senate. According to Ouellet, a student cannot be nomi-nated for the position until Khoriaty submits his letter of resignation to the chair. Therefore, Senate will not have a JMSB student representative for its third meeting, this coming Friday.

Furthermore, a contentious council disagreed over the suggestion to open the executive position of VP academic and advocacy next month. Many councillors expressed discomfort with the current situation of dividing the position among the current execu-tive, while those same executives felt

it was crucial to help them function as a whole.

“Keep in mind we’re asking some-one to work full-time and this is not an easy task. It takes time, and it doesn’t mean it’s going to happen,” said VP external Simon-Pierre Lauzon. “The other risk is that this person comes on the team, and does not actually work with us.”

Senator Chuck Wilson argued that “one portfolio is enough” and that Lauzon would be unable to fulfill his own duties if he was also taking on ad-ditional work.

The motion to open the position for applicants during the byelections passed.

Council also addressed the recur-rent problems with the information technology service and went forward with the decision to hire councillor and former VP finance, Jordan Lindsay, to

investigate the hardware issue.Council was divided over the no-

tion of hiring a company to do a mas-sive overhaul of the IT services, some-thing that a visibly frustrated Laforest argued was necessary for his executive to function.

“You’re asking us to do all this stuff with our hands tied behind our back,” said Laforest. “The fact of the matter is that a decision needs to be made immediately.”

Laforest explained that waiting another two months to choose which company will remedy the situation will only cost the CSU more since it is losing money on funding a dysfunc-tional system.

It was decided that an open-tender process would be used for the website documents and management despite the wishes of the executives to hire a company immediately.

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CAMPUS

Students and bus drivers worry about curves, speed, visibility on the road

Amanda BrinStaff writer

The newly reopened St-Jacques exit ramp off the westbound Ville-Marie Expressway , which is extremely curvy and potentially dangerous, is raising concerns for Concordia Univer-sity’s students and staff.

“You enter the ramp quite vio-lently when you’re doing 70 kilome-tres or more on the highway so it’s scary when you see that curve,” said Mathew Pizzanelli, a Concordia stu-dent who uses the ramp to get to the Loyola campus. “Suddenly you realize that you have to reduce your speed significantly.”

The St-Jacques St. exit reopened in late August after its reconstruction to make way for a vehicle entrance for the McGill University Health Centre super hospital, which is in the process of being built. The exit has been closed since February.

According to an article published in The Gazette, the new ramp is not a typical loop normally used for exit ramps but a reverse curve which forc-es drivers to take a steep right, a steep left followed by another right.

Concordia University’s shuttle bus service that transports students from the downtown campus to the Loyola campus in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce uses this exit daily. According to university spokesperson Chris Mota, Concordia has not received complaints from stu-dents or bus drivers about the new ramp, although shuttle bus driver Vince Torchia immediately noticed the potential dangers of driving too fast.

“It’s a big difference from the old one,” said Torchia. “As soon as you get there you really, really have to slow down or you can hit the wall.”

Yet, the main purpose of the ramp is to force cars merging onto St-Jacques St. to reduce their speed.

“It was a request by the City

of Montreal,” said Caroline Larose, spokesperson for Transport Québec. “They wanted drivers to slow down before entering a residential area.”

While it is understandable that the city would want vehicles to slow down, Luis Amador, a Concordia Uni-versity civil engineering assistant pro-fessor, believes this is an inappropriate measure.

“What do you do when you’re back on a street that is straight, if these curves have forced you to slow down? You will accelerate again, so it’s not going to help,” said Amador. “If they want vehicles to slow down on St-Jacques, they need to bring proper measures on St-Jacques.”

Amador suggested placing little poles or markers on the side of the road to give drivers the sensation of going faster than they actually are and said widening the sidewalks to produce more narrow lanes will force drivers to slow down when approach-

ing the intersection.He also explained that drivers only

have about six seconds from the time they see the 45 kilometre speed limit sign that also indicates a curve. It then takes about three seconds to react.

“You see the sign indicating 45, you decide to slow down, you take the foot off the gas, and three seconds after you are on the curve,” said Amador.

This becomes more of a problem when drivers may miss the road signs due to poor visibility because of blow-ing snow, hail or fog. However, Ama-dor emphasizes that the ramp is still under construction and more signs may be added.

Transport Québec hasn’t reported any accidents, though it’s been open for two months and typically accidents are looked at over a three-year period.

Amador advised caution to all drivers, including the Concordia shut-tle bus, and encouraged those taking the ramp to fully follow the curves.

Concordia student council remains divided

New St-Jacques St. exit ramp raises concerns

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Nation in brief

Robin Della Corte

>>Losers in CanadaAfter its fourth draw, no one has claimed the winning ticket for the $50-million Lotto Max jackpot in Canada. “Fifty MaxMillions prizes of $1-mil-lion each were up for grabs in Friday night’s draw, and there are winning tickets for 24 of them,” the Canadian Press reported. There were nine win-ning tickets sold in western Canada, six in Ontario, four in Quebec, and one in Atlantic Canada. The next jackpot for Lotto Max on Nov. 2 will remain at $50 million and, again, there will be 50 MaxMillions prizes for the taking.

>>Bar refuses toserve black patronsA group of individuals claim they were refused entrance at a bar in Gatineau, QC because they were black. According to a video posted online, the bouncer at Le Fou du Roi can be heard telling the group that black people who were not regulars could not be admitted in-side. Brigit Vanhoutte, co-owner of the bar, apologized for the incident and told CBC that the bouncer has been suspended due to the situation that oc-curred and that the bar does not ban black customers from the premises. >>I’m stealin’ itInvestigators in Moncton, N.B. said a man walked into a McDonald’s at around 3 a.m. last Saturday morning claiming he had a weapon and de-manded money. Eyewitnesses claim no weapon was seen, but saw the accused leaving with food and an un-known amount of money. Police re-ported that the description of the sus-pect was vague and confirmed no one was hurt at the scene of the robbery.

>>Punch drunk loveThe Royal Canadian Mounted Police were called to the Halifax Stanfield International Airport last Friday night after a passenger punched a flight at-tendant. Police reported that a 24-year-old male passenger became aggressive during the plane’s descent. According to Sgt. Mike Lidstone, several passen-gers stepped in and subdued the indi-vidual until police were able to detain him allowing the plane to land with-out further incident. The accused will undergo a psychiatric assessment.

>>No laughing matterA San Diego costume manufactur-ing company called Incharacter drew criticism this week for an offensive product made for young girls. It’s not what you think, though. According to CBC North, the costume, called “Sassy Squaw,” was inspired by the Nothern Canadian aboriginal look, and not sur-prisingly some natives found it pretty offensive. In case you didn’t know, the word “squaw” is believed to come from different Algonquin words to de-scribe a woman. The company, which also makes “Indian Brave,” and “Spirit Warrior” costumes, apologized for the offence and pulled it off their site after complaints were received. “We are discontinuing this style for future production,” they wrote in an emailed statement.

University plans to implement measures regarding international students

Marilla Steuter-MartinEditor-in-chief

Concordia’s VP Services Roger Côté announced six new measures Monday afternoon, which will be taken to address concerns raised about the experience of interna-tional students at the university.

Côté sat down with student media to discuss initiatives the administration will enact, in re-sponse to an article published in The Link on Sept. 25. The article stated that some Chinese interna-tional students have had negative experiences with the Concordia China Student Recruitment Part-nership Program and the Premier Homestay program.

“It came to light that some stu-dents were experiencing difficulty with the homestay program,” said Côté. He went on to explain that while the university administra-tion was concerned about stu-dents who had bad experiences in a homestay, the program is not run by Concordia.

“Students elect to do that on their own,” he said. It is arranged “independently” from Concordia and Côté emphasized that it is a

“private arrangement” which in-ternational students are in no way required to do.

Peter Low is the director of the CCSRPP via the university’s agree-ment with his company, Orchard Consultants Ltd. The company is authorized to represent ConU at educational fairs and presenta-tions as well as accept tuition and fee payments from international students.

On Oct. 2, a letter was sent out to Concordia’s 5,200 international students encouraging anyone who had complaints or concerns to come forward.

“While some students may hesitate to launch complaints for fear of compromising their aca-demic or immigration status. We assure you that is not the case,” read the letter. “We urge you to take advantage of Concordia’s stu-dent services or contact the Dean of Students office for immediate assistance.”

Members of the administration spent the next few weeks review-ing the situation and coming up with six measures to help clarify the CCSRPP’s information and in-vestigate complaints further.

“Given the fact that there were few responses [to the letter], we wanted to proactively reach out,” said Côté.

One of the main focuses of the initiative was to call for the translation of all relevant docu-ments into Mandarin as well as English. The pre-departure guides created by the International Stu-dents Office, the documentation provided by the CCSRPP and homestay applications will all be made available in Mandarin in the future.

University spokesperson, Chris Mota, explained that while the university can ask to have these changes made, it is not in the “parameters of the contract” with Orchard. Côté, however, said that he was optimistic these changes would be made nonetheless.

“It’s in the interest of all par-ties to be as helpful and support-ive to students and make things as clear as possible,” he said. “We’re interested in working with indi-viduals that have the best interests of our students at heart. Those are the kind of partners that we want to have.”

This fall, a survey will be cre-

Students will be refunded the difference of the cancelled tuition hike

Marie-Josée KellyAssistant news photographer

Quebec universities can expect to receive official directives from the provincial government regarding the reversal of the tuition fee increase, ap-plied to student accounts at the begin-ning of the fall term, by the end of the week.

Concordia University has been

awaiting formal instructions since Pre-mier Pauline Marois announced last month that her government cancelled the tuition hike. The increase amounts to $254 per student for the academic year, assuming a student is attending university full-time.

Following Marois’ decision, the university stated that the tuition struc-ture in place at the start of the term, which included the increase man-dated by the outgoing Liberal govern-

ment, would remained unchanged until further notice.

Joël Bouchard, spokesperson for Pierre Duchesne, the minister of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology, confirmed with The Concordian last Thursday that an of-ficial letter, detailing the formal proce-dures to follow, would be sent out in a matter of days.

“We will confirm in writing the amount that will be charged and re-

funded and the document should ar-rive shortly,” said Bouchard.

Concordia spokesperson Chris Mota confirmed that as soon as the university receives formal instruc-tions, students will be informed im-mediately.

“The minute we have the official notification, the tuition hike will be re-versed,” she said. “As soon as we get those instructions, all of our students will receive an email. Everybody will be alerted to the fact that their ac-counts have been changed and what options will be open to them.”

Mota re-affirmed that students will be able to request a refund if there is a credit balance on their accounts and will also have the choice of crediting the amount to account for the follow-ing term.

McGill University spokesperson Julie Fortier confirmed that McGill is also waiting on formal directives in order to know what amount will be refunded and that students will also have similar options available to them.

Schubert Laforest, president of the Concordia Student Union, said that he hopes that because the university has had time to accommodate the tuition freeze, the transition will go smoothly.

“It would pain me to see students penalized because of an inability to cope with the situation appropriately,” said Laforest.

ated to gain a better understand-ing of “student needs relating to university residence with a focus on international students.” Stu-dent enrolment services will also conduct annual interviews with a random sampling of 15 per cent CCSRPP students.

“We’ll be asking students to come in and talk about their ex-periences,” said Côté. “We want to be responsive and supportive of the needs of students, especially those who travel halfway around the globe to get here.”

The last measures will be to establish an online orientation session for new international stu-dents in not only Mandarin, but Arabic and Farsi as well, and up-date all references to the CCSRPP on the Concordia website.

Earlier this week, at the Con-cordia Student Union meeting on Wednesday, a motion was passed to formally review the situation. Côté explained that he had already met with student representatives to discuss the issue and hoped to collaborate with them further.

According to Côté, the contract with Orchard is almost up and is currently under review.

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ConU addresses foreign recruitment

GOvERNMENT

Ministry of education to issue formal directives

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briefMatthew Guité

>>A different kind of WoodstockA New Zealand woman has admit-ted to feeding her three-month-old baby cannabis through her breast milk. The mother, 29, plead guilty to giving a controlled substance to an individual under the age of 18. She was sentenced to six months supervision, and her partner was also sentenced for crimes relat-ed to the same police raid. The Whanganui District Court said her actions amounted to child abuse. “People often believe drug-related activities are victimless,” Acting Senior Sergeant Andrew McDon-ald said, “But it affects the people around them.”

>>Can I have some more, sir?Undergraduate students of Magdalen College, a member of the Oxford University group, are boycotting their dining hall’s ser-vices over new plans that would see students paying more than £150, or $241, annually to eat there. Students would pay the fee to use the canteen and would be required to buy a food card for another £150 which, if not spent by the end of the year, would not be refunded. Students have set up food kitchens and organized home cooking sessions to help feed oth-er students.

>>To serve andprotect?An A New York city police officer has been charged with conspiring to kidnap, cook and eat women. Gilberto Valle III kept the names, locations and personal informa-tion of women he had been sur-veilling on his computer including pictures as well as the locations and personal details of some of them. The accused officer had be-gun surveillance of the homes and places of employment of some of the women, and compiled a docu-ment titled “Abduction and Cook-ing: A Blueprint”. In an online conversation, reported by Reu-ters, with an unknown conspira-tor, Valle described how he was “thinking of tying [his victim’s] body onto some kind of apparatus ... cook her over a low heat, keep her alive as long as possible.” The maximum sentence could be life in prison.

>>Killer litAn employee at the Porter Coun-ty Public Library in Valparaiso, IL, opened a book to find an in-teresting story inside. The book, Outbridge Reach by Robert Stone, was hollowed out and a handgun was tucked neatly away inside. Valparaiso police said the old weapon was a gold, A.S.M. brand black powder gun with a wooden handle . As the the library receives several donations, employees were unable to identify who gave the handgun and book. However, police said the gun wasn’t reported as stolen.

The university will be the first in Quebec to do so

Erin HudsonCUP Quebec Bureau Chief

By next fall, Concordia University is hoping to be making history as the first university in Quebec to offer a bachelors degree with a major concen-tration in First Peoples studies.

A major in First Peoples studies has been available to students since September 2010, however approval from the Ministry of Education, Lei-sure and Sport must be granted before the program is official, meaning no student can graduate with the major until then.

The major is offered through Con-cordia’s School of Community and Public Affairs, along with a minor that is both available and officially sanc-tioned — minors do not require min-isterial approval.

Daniel Salée, the school’s current principal, has been working on imple-menting the major and minor pro-grams since the 2001-02 school year.

“We’re really in the very final stage now of having it approved, it took a lot of time,” said Salée. “But we’re confident that this year should be the year where we’ll be able to finalize the whole thing and have it approved of-ficially.”

Along with Manon Tremblay, now senior advisor on Aboriginal initiatives at the University of Ottawa, Salée and his colleagues took two years to form the program proposal together. Passing Concordia’s internal governance pro-cesses, the major and minor programs were approved by the university’s sen-ate in 2006.

The final hurdles for the major program involved gaining approval from the Conférence des recteurs et des principaux des universités du Qué-bec and then the ministry. Each of the external reviews involves answering a series of questions and recommenda-tions concerning matters such as fi-nancing the program, projected enroll-ment, and content of the curriculum.

Although this final stage of approv-al typically does not take a long time, Vice-Provost Ollivier Dyens expressed

uncertainty over how the ministry of education will function now under the newly elected provincial government.

“Right now, in Quebec, we’ve split the ministry of education in two differ-ent ministers, so there’s a brand new one who’s in charge of university and I don’t know what the process is at that point right now, so it might slow down a bit,” he said.

Salée said the major program received a lot of support within Concordia and from the government bodies, though he noted that he and his colleagues had to “justify more what we’re doing or what we’re

trying to do.”“Really the biggest problem was

that when you make certain claims with respect to epistemologies and methodologies you get all these people who raise eyebrows: ‘What do you mean? Why aren’t Western ways of knowing good’?”

For Salée, part of the reason for the nearly decade-long approval process was due to the major in First Peoples studies being the first of its kind in Quebec.

“No other university in Quebec has a similar program ... so there was a lot of discussion internally,” explained

Salée. “For example, one of the big is-sues was how do we integrate Aborigi-nal methodologies into a Western-type curriculum.”

With the exception of Bishop’s University’s minor in Indigenous Stud-ies and Université Laval’s certificate program, no other Quebec univer-sity has a structured program offered through the institution.

Throughout the last 20 years, many universities across Canada have developed a variety of programs, de-partments and faculties dedicated to the expanding field of indigenous studies.

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“Is this a proposal or a contract?” Khoriaty asked. After being informed that council had agreed to a contract, not simply a proposal, Khoriaty asked if the contract had been reviewed by a lawyer. Council then reconsidered and amended the motion to have a lawyer review the contract before its approval.

The student centre, which has been an issue for students and the CSU for nearly a decade, would pro-vide free space for students and clubs near the downtown campus. An ac-count set up for student space has

amassed more than nine million dol-lars to date, according to VP finance, Keny Toto, mostly from fee levies and interest accrued over the years.

Alex Callard, a second-year com-munications student, said he was cautiously optimistic when he heard of the agreement.

“It really depends on what specif-ically the consultants are helping out with,” he said, “Because if they’re professionals and can actually do a better job, then I think it’s a reason-able investment.”

Justin Banks, a second-year mar-

keting student, said that he had been hearing about the student centre for as long as he’s been at Concordia, but is still wary about paying a proj-ect management firm so much for their services.

“If they’re going to be drawing up the blueprints and planning ev-erything that needs to be done before construction takes place, then I sup-pose it’s a necessary evil,” he said. “The CSU doesn’t know anything about what the building needs other than what they want for students, so it could be worth it.”

According to Atallah, once the contract has been signed, a financial feasibility study will be conducted followed by the creation of a project implementation plan.

“The first step is consulting with students on what they need from the space, on what space we have and what we might need in 10 years,” Atallah said. “Once you get the re-sults from the space study, then we put together a financial feasibility study, which is basically looking real-time at what’s available to us and what are our options.”

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CSU votes on project management firm

CUP

ConU to offer indigenous studies degree

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McGilliLeaked reveals university practicesNew website issues documents related to McGill

Robin Della CorteAssistant news editor

A McGill University student launched a website containing numerous docu-ments obtained by

requests filed under the Access to Information Act about the univer-sity, including contracts, invest-ments and security reports.

McGilliLeaked features con-tracts with security, the univer-sity’s dealings with the company

MIR3 that is in charge of mass emergency text messaging notifi-cations as well as documents from McGill University Non-Academic Certified Association, the universi-ty’s labour union for non-academ-ic support staff. It also includes security reports and reports from the sixth floor student occupation and Service de police de la ville de Montréal’s reports from the Nov. 10 protest against the tuition fee increase and brief occupation at McGill.

Christopher Bangs, an honours economics student at McGill, is the creator behind this newly launched website. Bangs explained that he received various documents from concerned students and some

Montreal university newspapers, which he put online.

“Over the last year or so, a lot of students submitted access to in-formation requests to McGill, and we got interesting documents,” Bangs said. “After getting the re-sponse, people took what they got home, and none of us had copies of the others’ documents. This site is supposed to fix that, so that ev-eryone has access to everything we have gotten from the university.”

In contrast to McGillLeaks, a website with a similar name that was closed down due to documents being retrieved illegally and then uploaded afterwards, McGilliLe-aked is a website with documents obtained legally and has no rela-

tion to McGillLeaks. Furthermore, Bangs said he didn’t come up with the name for the site himself.

The online initiative has gar-nered support from students like Lisa Bartczak, a first-year educa-tion student at McGill, who be-lieves that this website will “help shed light on the fact that McGill really mismanages its money and resources.”

First-year biochemistry stu-dent, Kyle Acton, said he believes that this website is based on rea-son, allowing anyone to verify the university’s expenses and actions. This is just the reaction that Bangs had hoped for.

“The site benefits everyone at McGill University, because we de-

serve to know what our university does on our behalf,” Bangs said. “That includes where it spends money, what it invests in, who funds its research, and how it gov-erns its own activities.”

Bangs stated that “feedback was overwhelmingly positive, and [he] will keep on publishing any documents people want.”

There are times where the uni-versity can refuse documents be-ing uploaded onto the site, such as those concerning serious se-curity issues, The McGill Daily reported.

“I hope that we can use these documents to better understand our school’s place in Quebec,” Bangs said.

LECTURE

Suzuki discusses environmentalismCanadian legend, David Suzuki, hits the stage in front of thousands at John Abbott College

Alyssa FourneauxContributor

David Suzuki presented a lecture in front of more than a thousand students at John Abbott College in honour of the official inaugura-tion of the new science building Wednesday.

The college cancelled classes to allow students to watch the speech, entitled The Challenge of the 21st Century: Setting the Real Bottom Line. The lecture was also available through a live webcast to more than 13,000 high school stu-dents as far away as Gaspé.

Throughout the lecture, Su-zuki imparted his wisdom to the attendees.

“The planet is not in trouble,” he said. “The planet will be just fine, with or without us. We’re the ones who are in trouble.”

Suzuki said he often gets asked how the planet can be saved but expressed it was not the planet that needed saving, but the people inhabiting it.

“Environmentalism is not a speciality, it’s not a discipline,” he explained. “Environmentalism is a way of seeing our place on the planet.”

Suzuki referred to himself as an “elder” and shared his belief that it is up to elders to pass wis-dom onto the next generation but that it is up to the youth to take action.

Suzuki told the students the most important difference they can make is to see the world through an environmentalist’s eyes.

Suzuki emphasized that wealth was not defined by money, but, as his father said, relation-ships are what constitute prosper-ity. He went onto explain that the last weeks of his father’s life were some of the happiest they shared.

John Abbott student Jeremy

Pizzi said that while he didn’t learn anything new, the lecture was still enlightening. Pizzi found the most effective part of Suzuki’s lecture was when he held up the 1992 document World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity in which leading scientists warned against the impact of environmental de-struction and global warming.

“If not checked, current prac-tices put at serious risk the future we wish for a human society,” read Suzuki. “No more than one or a few decades remain.”

John Abbott College inaugu-rated their new science and tech-nology building after the presenta-tion. The building is heated with geothermal technology and the college is hoping it will be certi-fied gold in the Leadership in Environment and Energy Design, a ranking system for eco-friendly buildings.

Suzuki finished by speaking about the economic market as a major factor in the environmental debate today. “If it’s not working we can change the market, we can’t change the laws of nature but we can sure as hell change the things that we invent.”

The planet is not in trouble. The planet will be just fine, with or without us. We’re the ones who are in trouble.

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- David Suzuki


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What’s not to love about zombie culture?

Saturn De los angelesContributor

It’s past midnight. You get off the metro and walk out the door. You encounter a pale-skinned corpse covered in wounds with blood dripping on the floor. Worn in ripped clothing, messy hair and an axe to boot.

The poor creature is mumbling, grumbling and walking towards you. You want to freak out, you scream and turn around. And guess what, a mob of possessed nobodies welcome you from about. Your legs start to shiver, you scramble in fear. You find yourself in a dead end. Where do you go?

And cut! That’s a wrap, folks.That’s a common scene you find in your av-

erage horror film, and let’s face it, there seems to be a huge demand lately for our dear friend, the zombie. The questions is why are they so popu-lar and so beloved?

“Zombies, they’re everywhere,” said Donato Totaro of Concordia’s Hoppenheim School of Cinema. Totaro is a part-time film studies pro-fessor and the editor of the online film journal Offscreen.

He explained that zombies have been around for a while and spanned various waves of popu-larity.

“Cinematically, zombies go back to the ‘30s. The first wave weren’t like the bone eating, bone crunching ones we know now, but more to the voodoo, witchcraft and slavery kinds,” said To-taro.

He explained that zombies trace their roots back to Haitian Creole culture. He attributes the significance of slavery, where people used witch-craft to possess one’s physical body.

“The dead are brought back alive as slaves. They’re the working class monster, the anti-es-tablishment monster. They’re the allegorical ex-ploitation of the working class,” said Totaro.

The most recent wave, Totaro said, spawned from director George Romero’s horror film, Night of the Living Dead. Released in 1968, the plot cen-ters on a group of people seeking refuge in an abandoned farmhouse from an invasion of the walking dead.

Totaro attributes how director Romero orches-trated the adrenaline-induced fear from getting eaten by a walking corpse as a defining moment

for the mass popularity of zombies today.To further understand this phenomenon, I

spent a day immersing myself among thousands of walking corpses - sort of.

The annual Montreal Zombie Walk was held on Oct. 20 at Place des Festivals. People strut out their creepiest zombie costume outdoors to gather and walk together through the streets of downtown to the delight of spectators.

Walking along with five thousand undead beings was a dream, or in this case, a nightmare come true. Their bodies were caked in chalk-white makeup, faces smeared in cornstarch-di-luted red blood.

As I endlessly followed these undead crea-tures, I bumped into Alex Marotte, a spec-tator taking photos with his friends. I also discovered that he was a hardcore zombie enthusiast.

“Ever since I was a kid, I’ve always been fas-cinated with the idea of zombies. Unlike most children, I didn’t get scared at all…I was so excit-ed about being a zombie. I wanted to eat brains, raw brains,” said Marotte with a laugh.

Marotte credits the ‘80s horror punk band

True Sounds of Liberty for his immersion into zombie culture. Ironically, T.S.O.L. music was featured in the 1985 film Return of the Living Dead, a film which was also one of the many spin-offs from director Romero’s Night of the Liv-ing Dead.

He also explained that a good part of ‘80s music was zombie-oriented, from music to album covers and even music videos. Does Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” ring a bell?

So why do people love zombies? Going back to Totaro, he elaborates on this fascination with the walking dead.

“Look how they’re dressed, very poorly... the stereotype of the working class person,” said Tota-ro. “Modern people we can relate to…not appre-ciated by the elite, but by the disenfranchised.”

In essence, zombies represent the attack of the masses - the low-class monsters, compared to more socially elite creatures, such as vam-pires.

“I love the whole thing, like what’s not to love? Everybody’s having a good time getting to-gether with it, all united in death. It just blows me away,” said Marotte.

Zombie walkers lurk through the streets and show off elaborate costumes at Place des festivals during the montreal Zombie walk on oct. 20. Photos by mallika guhan

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eat all your fears away with this sweet and healthy dessert

nathalie laflammeContributor

It’s that time of year again. As we get closer and closer to Halloween, people are decorating their homes, picking out costumes, stocking up on tons of candy and, of course, carving pumpkins.

So, what better way to get into the Hal-loween mood than by making a pie with the holiday’s official vegetable? Here is a simple recipe for pumpkin pie, made from scratch.

Instead of simply buying my pumpkin at the nearest market, I decided to go to Quinn Farm, located on l’Ile Perrot. They had a huge selection of pumpkins; from small ones, to flat ones, some with a wart-like tex-ture. If you are making a pie, the best kind is a sugar pumpkin, but a regular one will do the trick too (that’s what I used).

At Quinn Farm, pumpkins cost $0.40 per pound for pumpkins and $1.00 per pound for squash. You must also pay an admission fee, which is $2 a person between October 15th and 31st. It’s a really fun way to spend the day, especially with your family.

Pumpkin pie is a great way to eat des-sert without feeling guilty. You are just get-ting your portion of veggies! According to the Huffington Post, the bright orange color is a sign that the vegetable is full of beta-carotene, an antioxidant which helps the

about 5-10 minutes, then let it out to cool.Now for the filling. Beat the eggs, then

add all the dry ingredients. Add the pump-kin purée, then the cream. Once the mix-ture is homogenous, pour it into the crust. Cook for 30-40 minutes at 350°F, until the filling is a jello-like consistency. It is best to refrigerate the pie overnight, but you can eat it once it has cooled. Throw some whipped cream on there and you will be in for a treat!

Overall, it took me about two hours to make the pie, from cutting up the pumpkin to taking my first bite. It is totally worth it; the Halloween-inspired pie was incredibly tasty, and nutritious too!

body retain vitamin A. Current research shows that a diet containing high amounts of beta-carotene can help reduce someone’s chance of having certain types of cancer, and also helps protect from heart disease. So don’t be shy, help yourself to another serving!

Here are the steps to making the pie. This recipe was inspired by Mark Bittman, the au-thor of How to Cook Everything: The Basics.

Pie crust ingredients One packet of Graham crackers, crushed3/4 cup of melted butter Filling ingredients 2 eggs 1/4 cup sugar 1/4 cup brown sugar 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger 1/8 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg 1 1/2 cups fresh pumpkin purée (made from a fresh pumpkin, not the can!) 3/4 cup of cooking cream Whipped cream (for topping)

Baking the pumpkin will take about an

hour, so make sure to start with that. Cut off the top of the pumpkin and empty out the seeds (but keep them for later!) Once the pumpkin is empty, cut it in quarters. Place them with the flesh side up on bak-ing sheets. Cook the pumpkin in the oven at 350°F for about an hour, or until the pump-kin is soft. Once the pieces are cooked, take

off the skin and make the purée with your food processor, or with a potato masher.

While the pumpkin is cooking, you can start making the crust. Crush the Graham cookies until they make a powder; a few chunks here and there is fine. Slowly add the butter and mix with a food processor or electric mixer. The dough should be moist, add more butter if needed. Remember that it has to stick to the plate. Then, flatten out the dough on your pie plate with your hands or a fork. Make sure that there is a lot of dough on the sides of the pie plate, because it will shrink the first time you put it in the oven.

Put the dough in the oven at 350°F for

PumPkin Pie made from scratch takes a while but is worth the effort. Photo by writer

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All around the world on All Hallows EveCasandra De MasiStaff writer

It’s that time of year again. The time where slop-py-faced pumpkins adorn lawns and balconies across the city, where chocolate bars and can-dies are shrunk and sold in mini-formats by the dozen, and children dress up while adults dress down.

The actual origins of the Halloween we know are always a topic of dispute, with roots in both Christian and Druidic religions. One thing we do know for sure is that Halloween has become a huge deal in North America for commercial pur-poses. Stores sweep in over $8 billion in sales, ac-cording to the National Retail Federation, putting it second on the list of American holiday money-makers. However, not everyone around the globe can be seen donning Nicki Minaj costumes and chowing down on candy corn on Halloween.

euroPeIn France the holiday is not celebrated much at all, and only really found its place in the late ‘90s thanks to commercialism. Those who do cele-brate organize parties, but nothing as grandiose as us Westerners.

Trick or treating is rare, but Dawson College student Karl Ussakowsi, who spent some time as a child in France, said some stores give out treats. “A considerable amount of people don’t celebrate it because it is not a French holiday,” he explained.

Italians are known to celebrate All Saints (Nov. 1) and All Souls Day (Nov. 2); the two

Christian holidays that many say Halloween originates from. In Sicily, the holiday is treated much like Christmas Eve, where children wake up on Nov. 2 to find treats left for them by the dead souls who raised from their graves.

The English have given into the pull of Ameri-can culture, and children find themselves going door to door on Halloween.

In Sweden, Norway and Germany, the holi-day has been increasing in popularity over the last 10 years. Just like in North America children and young adults dress up and trick or treat in some areas, as well as decorating their houses and storefronts.

AsiAAsian celebrations have taken on a twist of their own. In Japan the Obon Festival takes place in July and is a time of year where it is believed that the souls of the dead return home. Lanterns are hung, food is prepared, and their houses are dec-orated to welcome the spirits. It is believed that the dead return to their birthplace during Obon.

In China and Vietnam, celebrations are also centered on welcoming spirits home. During the celebration of Yue Lan (Festival of the Hungry

Ghosts), people believe that the spirits have 24 hours to roam free. “It is a holiday or rather a festival for spirits. We pray for the dead,” said Université de Montréal student Nathalie Nguyen-Pham. According to Nguyen-Pham, some larger cities have taken on a more Western approach to celebrating.

Middle eAst And AFricAIt is not every country from around the world that has traditions linked to Halloween or spirits. Halloween is rare and not very widely celebrated in Middle Eastern and African countries.

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Latin America and Spain’s celebrations go on for three days. El Dia de los Muer-

tos, or the Day of the Dead, begins on Oct.

31 and ends Nov. 2 on All Souls

Day. During these three

days people pay their respects

to their dead ancestors and reflect on the joys of life. Families build altars in their homes and sur-

round them with flowers, candies and water; all offerings to comfort

their dead relatives. On the last day, they make a trip to the gravestones and have picnics in the cemetery. They are celebrating those who have passed on, recognizing the circle of life.

Despite many countries having their own spiritual celebrations, American culture has trav-elled across borders and overseas, which is why those living in metropolitan areas can be seen donning Iron Man and Hulk costumes and going door to door asking for treats.

Essentially, Halloween in North America is what you make of it, and has no actual mean-ing for most. Nevertheless people have fun with the holiday. It’s one day in the year where you can dress as a giant baby without being frowned upon. Just know that there really isn’t much rhyme or reason as to why you are wearing a diaper!

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Travel to naples a little bit more with every bite

George MenexisOpinions editor

One of the main reasons I adore the Italian culture is for their wonderful, diverse cuisine. The pizzas, the pastas, the meatballs; I’ve fallen in love with it all. Some may say that you haven’t really lived until you’ve had an authentic nonna, that’s grandmother in Ital-ian, cook you an authentic meal; because that’s what the nonna does, she cooks, and she cooks well.

Montreal has become a haven for Italian restaurants, some good, some not so good. Bevo Bar and Pizzeria has done something that many other restaurants have failed to do - bring authentic Italian food into a 21st cen-tury setting.

Bevo Bar and Pizzeria isn’t easily describ-able. It’s a mix of two distinct decors. An Ital-ian trattoria, worthy of a Sicilian village, and a supper club in the heart of an urban city. However, they’ve clashed together to create something quite special. This is the core of Bevo. We see it in the decor, and most impor-tantly, we see it in their cuisine. Bevo has be-come the modern day nonna, who could give any master chef a run for their money.

Now as you sit in this chic setting, you see beautiful dark oak floors and an amaz-ing glass bar, serving up some innovative martinis. The tables are dressed with classic red and white tartan cloth napkins, and what looks like century old lanterns are creating a dim lighting worthy of a scene in The Godfa-ther. All in all, an amazing atmosphere.

Now, I’ve been into the deepest confines

of Naples, and entered the smallest looking trattorias, on my quest to finding the best pizza ever made in the town where pizza was once invented. I succeeded, as I entered a small alley and sat at a tiny trattoria, run by a joyous looking old Italian man. It was a pizza that changed my life. I had given up hope of ever tasting pizza that good again.

I’ll say one thing about the menu. If you don’t order a pizza your first time at Bevo, then you should kindly step out. An enor-mous wood oven run by chef Giovanni Vella is creating pizzas worthy of the trattorias in the confines of Naples. For the first time since that day in Naples, I was brought back to that small trattoria. This was a pizza. Add bocco-ncinis, Italian sausage, fresh parsley, Italian cold-cuts, and you have a masterpiece. Rang-ing from $13 to $21, there is a pizza to satisfy anyone’s taste. from the vegetarian Giardino to the Bosco in Bianco topped with roasted mushrooms and black truffle.

Needless to say, the menu was filled with a variety of Italian hors d’oeuvres and main dishes that will make your mouth water. Juicy, massive, Italian meatballs dressed with a fresh tomato sauce definitely makes the honour roll. Perfectly cooked veal scallopini with home cooked potatoes definitely makes the cut. An aromatic pesto sauce with fresh clams makes the list as well. All in all, a sim-ply amazing menu.

It isn’t easy finding a restaurant like this in Montreal, where you can appreciate both the food and the nightlife experience a great city like Montreal has to offer. From Thursday to Saturday, Bevo has a DJ spinning the hits into the wee hours of the morning.

Bevo Pizzeria is located on 410 saint-Vincent st.bevo bar and PiZZeria is where modern and traditional meet. Photo by madelayne hajek

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Costume shopping doesn’t have to be scary Discover three great places in Montreal to find the perfect disguise for halloween

anne-Darla lucia D.Contributor

For many university students, Halloween could not come at a worst time. Midterms have us los-ing sleep, hallucinating because we’ve been star-ing at empty word documents or gigantic text-books for too long, and drinking coffee like it’s nobody’s business. If that’s not enough, in the middle of it all, we then have to find the time to buy a Halloween costume.

In a last minute attempt not to be that person who shows up at a party without a costume and uses the boring one liner “I’m dressed as me,” you may be tempted to shop at some random Halloween store opened just for the occasion. I suggest you think for a second before you go, because you can find better, right in our city, for similar prices and way better service.

Johnny Brown is one of those sweet deals. For 80 years now, Johnny Brown has been offer-ing costumes ranging from theatre to dance all year around and is a true Montreal landmark. Luba Lapierre, self-proclaimed jack-of-all-trades at the store, explained that service, dedication and passion is what makes it one of a kind.

At Johnny Brown, you will be assisted step-by-step in your costume creation process from the minute you walk in. The store and its staff are truly dedicated to give clients what they need.

“If you can’t find a costume, we’ll help you find it, and if we can’t find it, then we’ll start twisting something to make it happen for you,” said employee Luba Lapierre.

While many stores are open on Halloween

just to push sales and make money, Lapierre says that Johnny Brown is more about giving good service. Most of its employees have been work-ing there for years and love what they do.

“When people walk out of here well-served and happy, that’s my Halloween,” said Lapierre.

Moreover, Imagine Le Fun and Malabar are worth checking out as other stops on your jour-ney to find the perfect costume. Imagine Le Fun impresses you the minute you open the door. It’s

absolutely massive. It has a diverse and incred-ible amount of costumes, wigs, accessories and makeup covering all walls from floor to ceiling.

Malabar has been in the business since 1923. It offers everything from dancewear to opera costumes. They are also open year around. An interesting aspect about Malabar is that you can buy a costume or rent one. The store has a seam-stress available on the top floor and any costume can be tailored to fit you perfectly. Some of their

rental costumes can be found online as well.So, you’re probably thinking that all this

sounds expensive. It’s not necessarily. These stores can satisfy any budget. Whether you want to spend $30 or $100, they have options for you to pick from. Most importantly, they will give you great service regardless of what you spend. Of course, if you decide to shop on Halloween day, expect some hecticness and a little less individual attention.


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Sing the night awayCEO Karaoke Lounge: a hidden karaoke gem

If you love to karaoke your heart out but haven’t consumed enough alcohol to keep your knees from knocking on stage, have no fear! CEO Karaoke Lounge offers a fine selection of private party rooms for groups of any size.

Located in one of the more well-hidden nooks of Chinatown, CEO is below the famous Ruby Rouge restaurant, in a basement veritably riddled with karaoke caves. It might be easy to miss, but if you’re in the know of where to look, then you’re in for a treat.

Descending into the open lounge, a fine selection of liquor catches the eye, as do the multiple wall-sized projections of kara-oke videos to get newcomers in the singing mood. The couches are arranged in a square, intimate and comfortable, and are excellent for those who just want to drop in spontaneously when out with a couple of friends.

Where CEO KTV really hits their stride, however, is with their private rooms. While the small ones are cozy and can squeeze in six to 10 people, the largest can easily accommodate more than 30, if not 40.

After talking to the staff about what makes a night here particu-larly memorable, they answered that hands down, it’s the friendly atmosphere.

“Customers always come here and feel they know the rest of the rooms by the end of the night,” said one employee with enthusi-asm, explaining how the parties seem to always end up merging to-

Marta BarnesStaff writer

gether. So for those who are social butterflies, this is the place to meet strangers and enjoy a quality glass of wine, whisky, or sake!

Except for soft drinks and beer, which are fairly standard prices, drinks are sold by the bottle. Wine ranges from $45 to $65, while hard liquor can range between $120 to $180. Renting rooms go according to how much the fi-nal tab comes to. The small rooms are free if more than $100 is spent on alcohol. The bigger rooms can go as high as $500. Although, keep in mind this is the total cost divided among possibly more than 30 people.

Hope is not lost though. Students get a happy hour discount between 6 p.m. and midnight on weekdays and 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. on weekends, which is the very decent cover charge of $10 includ-ing a drink. The staff advises big groups to make reservations on weekends, but welcomes spur-of-the-moment drop-ins during the week.

The kitchen offers a very basic selection of instant noodles, pork dumplings, dried squid, and chips. It’s recommended to eat beforehand, particularly if more than $100 will be spent on drinks that night. With that said, Chinatown is literally on the doorstep, so it’s easy to run out for a midnight snack.

The song listings themselves are displayed on impressively new touch screen computers and are easiest to search through by artists. There are selections in English, Japanese, Korean, Manda-rin, Cantonese, and Vietnamese.

Check out their Halloween spirit this week for their seasonal decorations and costumes!

ceo Karaoke lounge is located on 1008 clark st.

Chinatown offers a top dollar experience

Pang Pang hits all the right notes

So you’ve thought of doing some karaoke, but can’t bear the thought of being jeered on stage. Too many times you’ve said, “There’s no way I’m singing in front of all these people.” Do

not fret. Pang Pang Karaoke Bar satisfies all of your vocal cravings without the need for public embarrassment.Pang Pang is two steps away from campus, making it convenient for after-class meetups. It may look small from the outside, but inside you’ll find it new and beautifully furnished, and who can ignore the immense mural in the entranceway? I’m talking golden Grecians frolicking. Once you’ve felt the touch of Bacchus, you’ll gleefully join the chorus.Pang Pang has an impressive number of private booths available, from a cozy smaller rooms to spaces large enough to accommodate up to 22 people. Each room has its own flat-screen television, leath-er couches or benches, and in the larger rooms, your own coin-operated peanut dispenser. No matter what size, the rooms are comfortable enough you could easily kick back for a few hours.“I like it because it’s intimate,” says Rosi Lutchman, a third year John Molson School of Business student and frequent Pang Pang customer. Lutchman says she likes “being in a room with friends as opposed to singing in front of a crowd full of strangers.”Once seated, you never need to leave the room. if you want to place an order, simply press the button on the wall and a waitress will come to you. However, if you’re shy of the mic, I highly recom-mend a stroll down the hallway. The drunken howling of other

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guests will always cheer you up! Drinks are nothing fancy, but reasonably priced at $4 to $6 for beer, $4.50 a shot, and $6.50 for mixed drinks. There are two types of rental rates, room rates and Happy Hour. The cheapest rate de-pends on how many people you are and the time of day. Small rooms of one to four people are rented for $25 an hour, large rooms of five to 12 people go for $30 an hour, and V.I.P. rooms of 13 to 22 people are $50 an hour. Fridays and Saturdays are $15 an hour per person. The karaoke system can be somewhat difficult because the con-troller’s keys are all in Korean, but with help from the staff, you’ll get the hang of it. Most impressive was the range of songs avail-able, with 25,000 to choose from in English alone. It isn’t all Queen and Shania Twain either. Songs are as new as PSY’s “Gangnam Style.” Although reading the lyr-ics is another story. Add to that a plethora of Japanese, Ko-rean, and Chinese songs, and you’re set.Snack offerings include chips, nachos, and fried dumplings, but with the amount of res-taurants on campus, it’s more satisfying to eat elsewhere. That being said, Pang Pang is cozy, clean, and conveniently placed. Whether it’s a casual get-together or a birthday event, you’ll have a good time!

Pang Pang is located on 1226 MacKay st.

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Horror in film and literatureWhat makes a great scary movie

books that give you goosebumps

Colin McMahonStaff writer

Colin McMahonStaff writer

Imagine seeing the face of the Frankenstein monster in theatres for the first time. Imagine that you were one of the first to see the haunt-ing image of Dracula’s castle or hear the howl of the Wolfman. Those images, now so mun-dane, were at one point considered frighten-ing. The Frankenstein monster was grotesque, the castle was rich in haunting atmosphere and the werewolf’s howl sent chills down people’s spines.

These horror movies inspired fear in their time but one would argue that they no longer have that same power. A lot of the techniques of horror from the age of Frankenstein are still employed today but to a different degree.

For one thing, the advent of technology has greatly increased the realism of horror movies. Also, film standards are less stringent

Can words on the page be truly scary? While some choose to read the classics like Lovecraft, and others enjoy the pulp of Clive Barker, there is only one King.

It is hard to argue the impact that Stephen King has had on the horror genre. For the past 40 years, King has contributed dozens of works to the realm of horror, including such influential classics as Carrie, Salem’s Lot, The Shining, Misery, and It. If you haven’t read King, you’ve heard of him, and even if he isn’t your cup of tea, you still have to respect his talent.

“Stephen King has done a tour of just about every horror concept that you can imagine. He might be kind of a dirty word in the world of ‘literature’,” said Jessica Marcotte, a graduate

than they were in the 1930s when movies like Frankenstein and Dracula were released. The Motion Picture Production Code of 1930, also known as the Hays Code prohibited the por-trayal of brutal killings in detail or murder in a way that could spark imitation. This is not the case today, as exemplified by such brutally violent films as Saw, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre or The Human Centipede.

The older films were about the atmo-sphere; the horror of the unnatural in unnatu-ral places. They featured uninhabited castles with dripping stone walls, locked rooms, se-cret dungeons, abandoned and overgrown graveyards, creaking staircases, clanking of chains, swirling mists and sudden shrieking winds.

Atmosphere still plays a key role in modern horror films such as Paranormal Activity and The Silence of the Lambs but is enhanced with help of technology. The atmosphere of modern

horror movies are less about the supernatural and more about the everyday gone wrong. As technology has progressed so have the techniques of terror. An increase in the qual-ity of sound, costume and visual effect serve to make the horror all the more realistic, and therefore more terrifying, for viewers. Dracula or Frankenstein are no longer as terrifying to modern audiences because we’ve come to ex-pect horror films to be incredibly realistic and engaging as a result of technology.

In movies of old, evil creatures and mon-sters were supernatural beings, they were costumed to resemble nothing remotely hu-man. These days, evil is more likely to have a

student at Concordia. “But when you write as much as he does, you’re bound to write some-thing good - he’s a master of the short story and novella. Different Seasons is one of the best collections of novellas I’ve ever read.”

What Marcotte points out is arguably King’s greatest strength. His sheer prolific na-ture has forced him to be recognized. While much of King’s work is still outside the realm of academia, he has become such a presence in the world of fiction that it is impossible not to encounter his work, whether it be in their original literary form or in the film adapta-tions.

Many authors are lucky if they can have one book or series become a successful film. King has enjoyed so many quality adaptations of his work that even his short novellas like The Mist and Secret Window have become major Hollywood films. Currently, King’s Dark

Tower series is undergoing the film treatment, which has the possibility to set him alongside the likes of J.K. Rowling and J.R.R. Tolkien.

While King’s reputation is unquestionable, how did one author from Maine become an international name in horror? The answer is that his novels and consequently his movies employ three techniques of horror that never fail to frighten; the gross-out; severed body parts, mysterious green goo dripping on some-one’s arm, the horror; huge spiders, zombies, something grabbing you in the dark, and at-mospheric terror; “when you come home and notice everything you own has been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It’s when the lights go out and you feel something behind you, you hear it, you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around, there’s nothing there...” BOO! you jump a foot in the air.

human resemblance, suggesting that modern viewers find the idea of evil that looks human scarier than evil in a mask.

In a sense, the fundamentals of hor-ror have not changed all that much over the years. As human beings, we still find the same fundamental concepts frightening but, thanks to our imagination and technology, there will always be new methods of conveying those fundamental fears and new frights are to be had from them. In the words of Edgar Allan Poe, “Perversity is the human thirst for self-torture.”

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Top five scariest movies amanda l. Shorearts editor

What films are constantly tout-ed as being the scariest of all time? Lists come out every year from various media and

no two are ever the same. Out of 10 differ-ent lists, the following five classic films have appeared the most frequently and these old-school scares are guaranteed to send a chill down your spine.

5. Alien, 1979 A science fiction horror film about a mur-

derous alien who stalks and kills the people aboard a spaceship, very much resembles a haunted house type film, only it takes place on board a spaceship and has an alien instead of monsters and ghosts. The most common element of horror in haunted house type films is when things jump out unexpectedly or when the audience is waiting for something to jump out, which this film has lots of and where it derives most of its horror appeal.4. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 1974

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times called it “as violent and gruesome and blood-soaked as the title promises,” and American film critic Rex Reed said it was the most ter-rifying film he had ever seen. This gruesome film about a group of friends who fall prey to a murderous family while visiting their grandfather`s old farmhouse, was banned outright from some countries and removed from theatres after various complaints. None-theless, the film grossed $30 million dollars and inspired a re-make in 2003. Loosely based on the story of real life murderer Ed Gein, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre inspires fear as a re-sult of its desolate Texas setting; broken down homes and hardly a soul around, the charac-ter of Leatherface with his mask made out of human skin. And just when you think it can`t get any worse, it does.

3. The Silence of the Lambs, 1991A blending of crime and horror, this film

centers around the need for FBI trainee Cla-rice Starling to consult with cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter, in order to ap-prehend another serial killer, “Buffalo Bill.”

Roger Ebert called The Silence of the Lambs a “horror masterpiece” and describes the fear in this film as inspired by the “terrifying qualities” of Hannibal Lecter, especially when he is first seen by Starling. “His speaking voice has the precision of a man so arrogant he can barely be bothered to address the sloppy intelligence of the ordinary per-son. The effect of this scene is so powerful that it underlies all the rest of the movie, lending terror to scenes that do not even involve him.”

2. Psycho, 1960Sometimes called the first psycho-

logical thriller, the fear in this filmed is inspired by the character of Norman Bates, a lonely motel owner who lives with his mother. Fear is created through the suspense of trying to discover what’s really going on and the idea that no one is safe as the unknown murderer might appear at any moment.

1. The Exorcist, 1973 In February 1974 Stanley Kauffmann

wrote in The New Republic, that this was the scariest film he’d seen in years, “... If you want to be shaken... then The Exorcist will scare the hell out of you.” Based on William Peter Blat-ty’s novel by the same name, The Exorcist is concerned with the demonic possession of a young girl and her mother’s desperate attempt to free her daughter by having her exorcised by two priests. The power that the demonic presence wields is particularly frightening especially as it gets stronger and stron-ger, transforming the young girl into a terrible monster.

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Film adaptation reignites interest in novelMidnight’s Children, based on Salman rushdie’s novel, introduces itself to a new generation

“At the precise instant of India’s arrival at in-dependence, I tumbled forth into the world,” said Saleem Sinai in the 1981 novel Midnight’s Children written by acclaimed author Salman Rushdie. These words are just a sampling of the prose and story that enchanted millions when the book was first released. The book has since been adapted into film by Oscar-nominated director Deepa Mehta and is set to be released in theaters Nov. 2.

Midnight’s Children is an allegorical re-counting of the historical events of India’s independence and its partition into two re-ligious states: the Dominion of Pakistan and the Republic of India. It is told by Saleem, who was born exactly at the stroke of mid-night on the day of India’s independence and is therefore exactly as old as the Republic. In this fictionalized and fantastical rendering of India’s history, Saleem represents the entirety of India. His telepathic conference with the other children born at midnight the day of In-dia’s independence reflects the political and personal conflicts that consumed citizens of India at the time. Saleem attempts to imbue his personal narrative with all the themes and stories of his country eventually overwhelms him and he disintegrates, much like the unit-ed country of India disintegrated during the partition.

According to Dr. Jill Didur, the chair of the department of English at Concordia, Saleem’s telepathy is meant to play on the Western idea of Indian mysticism.

“Saleem’s telepathic powers have been seen by critics as a gesture by Rushdie to ap-propriate Orientalist assumptions about In-dian culture and satirize them through exag-geration [while] signaling them as a creative choice rather than simply reproducing a ste-reotype about India.”

The novel was extremely popular during

its initial release in 1981 garnering itself the Booker Prize, the English Speaking Union Literary Award and the James Tait Prize. Fur-thermore it was also awarded the Best Of The Booker in 2008 when the Booker committee was celebrating the 40th anniversary of the award.

Midnight’s Children is considered ground-breaking in its use of an imagined form of Indian English — a mix of accented English

nicole YebaContributor

and Hindu, its employment of magic realism to relate historical events and its postmodern literary style. The novel integrates the past and the present and spans a great number of years, beginning in 1915. It will be interesting to see whether the master craftsmanship of Rushdie’s writing can be effectively translated into the medium of film.

With files from Amanda L. Shore

Midnight’s Children recounts the story of saleem sinai and india’s independence.

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The problem with theatre audiences todayStudents are in high demand at theatre productions but it seems that they’re hard to come by

amanda l. Shorearts editor

The average university student, es-pecially those who are studying English literature, will most likely have read more plays than they

will have seen performed. It’s definitely not for lack of shows; Montreal has more than 70 English theatre companies and hosts the Fringe Festival, a month long festival featur-ing more than 500 shows. University stu-dents simply aren’t interested. Out of 50 stu-dents surveyed by The Concordian, only 13 acknowledged that they like to go to plays.

The general response as to why these students didn’t see plays was that television was easier to access and they didn’t have the time or any particular interest in seeing a theatre production. Some students said they attended Broadway musical-type shows such as Wicked and The Lion King, but hadn’t gone to see any Montreal-produced shows of the non-musical variety.

Despite school, work and social obliga-tions, many students still find the time and money to see movies in the theatre. On av-erage, the price of a student ticket to see a

theatre production is not much more than the price of a movie ticket, but students are more likely to attend a movie rather than a show.

Quincy Ar-morer, the artistic director of Black Theatre Work-shop believes it’s because students

have an idea that theatre is vastly differ-ent from seeing a film. And it is different. Theatre is live, the actors are mere meters away from you and anything can happen; if an actor flubs a line or loses a prop there’s no ‘re-shoot’. Some would say this makes it all the more exciting and impressive. In terms of genres, theatres offer similar selec-tions as movie theatres. Montreal offers a range of productions in the genres of drama, comedy, romance, tragedy, mystery and ad-venture. On the other hand, theatre produc-tions rarely have special effects, high speed car chases or dramatic gun battles; things that only the medium of film can pull off. However, a film can still be enjoyable with-out these elements and therefore, logically, so can theatre.

Joseph Shragge the Co-Artistic Director of Scapegoat Carnivale, feels that one reason that students don’t attend shows is because of “a lack of outreach on the part of the com-pany.”

“I’ve felt that the more effort we put into letting students know about our plays, the more attendance we’ve gotten,” he said. Companies often find it difficult to get in-formation out to students. Armorer notes that his company relies heavily on student

media. His company has tried to get permis-sion to post promotional material in schools but the bureaucracy involved often makes this difficult.

Would more students attend theatre pro-ductions if they were inducted with the same media campaigning that films use? After all, promotional film material is everywhere; television, online, on public transportation, in restaurants, even in our washrooms. The-atre companies, on the other hand, don’t have a large enough marketing budget to blitz students the way films do. What can be done then?

Theatre companies have to be more cre-

ative and thrifty by doing things such as school tours, social networking and using student press. But perhaps it would be use-ful for Montreal theatre companies to band together and try campaigning to dispel the myth that theatre is boring or not worth a student’s time. After all, students are the new blood, without them theatres will have no fuel once older generations pass on. Instead of 70 different theatre companies spread all across Montreal, maybe resources should be combined to offer students easier access and to cultivate their interest in the productions on offer.

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Rockabilly bands, Halloween Rock ShowGo retro at L’Absynthe with good old-fashioned rock and roll

Why settle for the “Monster Mash” this Hal-loween season when you can high-tail it over to l’Absynthe, a local hotspot showcasing Montreal talent new and old, for their very first Halloween Rock Show?

The event features an eclectic mix of groups such as Café Racer, Rocket ’56 and Trade Se-crets. Rockabilly group Rocket ‘56 highlights a genre quickly gaining momentum in the music world. A potent mix of the fresh and the familiar, rockabilly transports audiences to that hazy point in time where past meets present. A fitting sound-track for a Halloween-style shindig, the genre lets ’50s style rock take on a more modern interpre-tation while still coming across as authentic. We can also look forward to hearing from Trade Se-crets, a fresh group who will be opening the night with some crowd-pumping Indie-pop.

The band headlining the event, up-and-comers Café Racer, are sure to please audiences with their versatile sound. When asked what influences we can expect to hear through their music, frontman and fellow Montrealer Myles Hildebrand replied simply, “Everything. Labels don’t really mean much to me. We have a great time onstage and a lot of people have a good time listening.”

It was difficult to categorize Café Racer’s sound. While their penchant for that old school sound, notably Elton John and the Beatles, defi-nitely shines through in their work, it’s impossible to ignore the progressive perks laced throughout each track, creating a crossover between the retro and the modern.

The band admits they always feared making music that does not pertain to their generation and that keeping a suitable amount of modernity

was a definite necessity. This is especially appar-ent in their song “Circus Girl,” a lively, upbeat tune featuring a dangerously catchy guitar riff, a smooth yet complicated drum intro and strong vocals. Taken separately these aspects might seem old-fashioned, but combined they offer an original mix different from anything our parents ever listened to.

One thing they can tell us for sure, however, is that they’re loyal to their roots. “We’re a true Canadian rock and roll band,” said drummer Josh Grant, originally from Ontario, while fellow member Shawn Forbes hails from Manitoba.

“Canadian music has a distinctive sound. You see that with Yukon Blonde, Zeus and The Sheep-dogs. We know Canada very well, and I hope that shows in our music,” added Hilderbrand.

Café Racer may be new on the circuit (formed just over a year ago), but its members are no strangers in the music biz. Hildebrand recently released his debut solo album Myles from Home, a light and classy homage to all things folk, avail-able on iTunes. Hildebrand describes his solo project’s trademark sound as “Sunday afternoon music,” while his exploits with Café Racer are “Friday night music.”

As for when we can expect some fresh online tracks from Café Racer, they hope to be in the stu-dio this upcoming year.

“I think we’re all, to some level, perfection-ists,” explained Forbes, “While it’s a priority for us, as a band, we’d rather have nothing than something poorly done. With recording, you only get one shot.”

In the meantime, they’ll be keeping busy with shows booked for November and December, building a fan-base around Montreal, with their sights set on gigs in Toronto, Boston and New York this summer.

The Halloween Rock Show starts at 8 p.m. at L’Absynthe (1738 Saint Denis St.) on Tuesday, Oct. 30. Tickets are $5 in advance or $7 at the door. https://www.facebook.com/events/195752527226554/ (L-R) Josh GRant, shawn FoRbed and MyLes hiLdebRand oF CaFe RaCeR.

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By Paul “El Monstro” TrauneroStaff writer

Halloweenparty songs

10. “My Body’s A Zombie For You” - Dead Man’s Bones: Founded by hunky movie star Ryan Gos-ling, Dead Man’s Bones released their monster-themed, self-titled debut in 2009 to critical ac-claim. Is there anything more creepy than a choir of children shouting, “My body’s a zombie for you!” Unless you’re into that ... not judging!

9. “Poor Edward” - Tom Waits: This is a song about Edward Mordrake, a 19th century heir to English nobility. He supposedly had a second face on the back of his head, which would laugh, cry and whisper to him in Satanic language. Poor Ed-ward was driven to suicide at the age of 23.

8. “Sally’s Song” - Fiona Apple: Originally writ-ten for Tim Burton’s stop-motion masterpiece The Nightmare Before Christmas released in 1993. Sally was a rag doll and desperately in love with the film’s protagonist, Jack Skellington. In “Sally’s Song,” she laments her unrequited love for Jack. This song is perfect for a slow dance or a bump-in-the-night. 7. “Monster Mash” - Bobby “Boris” Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers: The song is narrated by a mad scientist whose monster arises to performs a new dance called “Monster Mash.” This 1962 novelty

“mash” is sure to catch on in a flash, and be a graveyard smash!

6. “In A Gadda Da Vida” - Iron Butterfly: “Wait a minute, this sounds like rock and or roll.” This 17-minute jam was famously covered in an episode of The Simpsons, as Bart exchanges the sheet music in church during Sunday mass from their usual hymns to this pipe organ-driv-en psychedelic rock number. An instant classic! 5. “I Put A Spell On You” - Bette Midler: Origi-nally by Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, “I Put A Spell On You” was performed in the 1993 Halloween-themed comedy Hocus Pocus. Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy are witches ex-ecuted during the Salem witch trials, who come back to life on Halloween night for one purpose: to boogie!

4. “Ghostbusters Theme” - Ray Parker Jr.: This was the theme song for the 1984 cult clas-sic, Ghostbusters. The film features Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Sigourney Weaver as unem-ployed parapsychology professors who create a ghost removal service — with hilarious results. This catchy tune is sure to haunt even the most skeptical.

3. “Time Warp” - Motion Picture Cast of The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Dust off those fish-nets and corsets boys, because we’re doing the “Time Warp” again! This song was featured in the 1975 cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The film stars British actor Tim Curry as a sexu-ally ambiguous and flirtatious ‘Sweet Transvestite’ from the planet Transsexual in the galaxy of Tran-sylvania.

2. “Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565” - J. S. Bach: Although there is nothing inherently spooky about a pipe organ, the pop culture refer-ences transcend Bach’s original intention for the piece. With references ranging from Dracula to Phantom of the Opera, this melody is definitively Halloween. (Bonus: It also makes an obnoxious ringtone!)

1. “Thriller” - Michael Jackson: Composed by Rod Temperton and produced by Quincy Jones, “Thriller” is one of Michael Jacksons’ lasting mu-sical legacies. This song has it all: a killer beat, catchy hooks and a dance-ability that lands this song at the top of my list. All we need is Michael to come back from the grave this Halloween to don his red leather jacket and re-enact the infa-mous music video.

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>>>Isn’t he a musIcIan too?In an interview with the A.V. Club last week, Noel Gallagher was his usual frank self. When asked why he doesn’t hang out with musicians, he said, “Because they’re fuck-ing idiots.” Gallagher went further, explain-ing his reticence at the thought of forming a new group with British artists: “Oh, fuck that. I don’t fucking mix with anybody—British or any other musicians.” The inter-view also revealed the singer’s sentiments on his increasingly popular Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere tour blog, which he ad-mitted he only started at the insistence of the people who run his website: “Let’s be under no illusions about what this actually means. It’s just a way of drawing people to the web-site so I can sell them some shit. That’s all it is.” In response to the mandatory Oasis reunion question, Gallagher acknowledged that a lot of his old band’s contemporaries were reforming, but that didn’t mean it was a good idea for them. He said he knew from experience the one way to get people to stop asking about a reunion was to do it, but he still was not interested. “I’m afraid I won’t be getting involved in any of that. There’s no need for me. I’m not interested in that kind of a thing.”

>>>Bon Iver’s Been scrapIng a lot of Barrels lately

Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon has de-signed a new guitar made from old Bush-mill whiskey barrels and built by fellow Eau Claire resident Gordy Bischoff. The guitar, named “The 1608” after the year Bushmills was founded, will be auctioned off on eBay, with proceeds going to Eau Claire’s Conflu-ence Project, which hopes to build a com-munity arts center in Vernon’s home town. “The goal is to put art back on the map in Eau Claire. Far too many artists from this area have had to leave because what we want to do with our lives just isn’t possible here. That’s what the Confluence Project is: to build a center that can be a nucleus for art here in Eau Claire,” said Vernon. Interested in owning The 1608? The auction closes Nov. 1 and the latest bid as of this writing stands at more than $8,000.

>>>“Better run, run, run, faster than the Bouncer”Foster The People frontman Mark Foster was kicked out of a Prince gig in Los Ange-les last week for using his cell phone. Prince has strictly forbidden the use of phones with recording capabilities at private shows, a rule Foster had apparently disregarded, which got him escorted out of The Sayers Club. The frontman begged security to let him back in, claiming he had an unpaid bar tab and promising that he wouldn’t use his phone to take photos, at which point they acquiesced and allowed the singer back in after checking his phone at the door. Foster was very understanding of the security’s re-action and said of the incident “It’s cool ... Prince doesn’t play in front of 100 people every night.”

Andrew GuilbertStaff writer

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1. MA ReMix - ARIANe MOFFATT (2012; AuDIO-GRAM)

Not an easy task, but Montreal’s Miss Moffatt has managed to seduce Quebec’s French and English audiences and bridge the gap with 2012’s MA. Moffat told CBC that she wants “to master the essence of each kind of groove” and that she feels “more creative when mak-ing stylistic clashes.” In the spirit of chasing something different, the singer-songwriter is set to release MA Remix on Nov. 6. If MA showed Moffat dipping her toes in electronica, with MA Remix she’s completely submersed. The album’s six tracks are straight-up dance-hall thanks to a collaboration with Montreal’s DJ Poirer, who she chose to lead production. MA tracks were reworked by several DJs, so that MA Remix stands as an entirely differ-ent record on its own. Moffatts voice is slowly stretched out over jumbled, intoxicating elec-tronica — “Hotel Amour” and “In Your Body” are transformed from pop into slow, sexual dance. This album will likely make heavy rota-tion in Montreal clubs after the official launch on Nov. 5 at her 5925 Park Avenue show.

Three of the latest discoveries

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2. “SPLITTeR” - CALexICO - NPR’S FAVORITe SeS-SIONS

In the latest installation of their ‘Favor-ite Sessions’ series, NPR published a clip of Calexico performing their new single, “Splitter,” at Minnesota’s 89.3 The Cur-rent studios. Electronica is seeping into almost every strain of music — even Tay-lor Swift is dabbling in dubstep — so it is surprisingly refreshing to see a band perform raw acoustics. Vocalist Joey Burns leads two additional guitarists and a pianist in what NPR called ‘a beauti-ful breakup song.’ Burns’ husky, south-ern soothing voice comforts the listener with “One hand on the hammer, one foot by the door/Pushed by the wind, fed by the need for moving on/Moving on to no-where.” If the lack of actual instruments in popular music leaves you lost, reassure yourself with Calexico’s live “Splitter” footage.

3. “BReAKeRS” - LOCAL NATIVeS - HuMMingbiRd (2013; FReNCH KISS)

Remember Gorilla Manor? Hard to believe it has been almost four years since Local na-tives released their debut album. Last week, straight out of the blue, the Cali afro-pop rock band released “Breakers”, the first single off their anticipated 2013 sophomore record. With reference to their new material, Local Natives told Pitchfork that it “feels like our band, but we’re not doing the same thing again.” If “Breakers” serves as an indicator of what direction the band is moving in, they are rounding out their young, catchy pop tunes in favor of a louder, darker and venue-absorbing sound. The track begins with their signature, light toe tapping drum beat, then ascends into something new for them — loud, victorious vocal harmony. This change from innocent pop to emotional rock sounds like maturity, but the lyrics instead reveal a state of limbo, in between adolescence and adulthood. “Stare down my nose, watching/the color change from my eyes/Cold cereal and TV/Before I go to sleep.”

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Coup de coeur: a proper homage to francophonie

Annual music fest presents French culture from all across CanadaVeronique ThiviergeStaff writer

The Coup de cœur francophone festival is back for its 26th edition with an outstanding palette of francophone artists. The goal: to celebrate French music in all of its creativity, forms and shapes across the country. From Nov. 1 to 11, Montreal’s heart will be pounding to the rhythms of doz-ens of francophone artists. The festival provides unique support to rising artists belonging to fran-cophone minority communities, and most impor-tantly, brings the festival on the road, giving these same communities access to musical discoveries. Coup de coeur features blues, rock, indie, folk, country, bluegrass, poetry…you name it!

The lineup is so impressive, it’s difficult to

find where to start; Richard Desjardins, Marie-Pierre Arthur, Chinatown, Bernard Adamus, Pascal Lejeune, xavier Cafféine, Julien Sagot, Madame Moustache and much more. Emerging artists, such as Les Hay Babies, Simon Kingsbury and Klô Pelgag join the already established tal-ent in this diverse mosaic of francophone music. You will have the opportunity to discover and rediscover winners of industry prizes such as Festival en chanson de Petite-Vallée 2001, Prix Fe-lix-Leclerc, Prix France OFF, Prix Rapsat Le lièvre and le Gala de l’ADISQ.

Another important aspect of the festival is ‘Les Escales Coup de Coeur’, which offers an open window to artists from outside the province and the opportunity for them to interact with the Québec audience. Bratsch, La Grande Sophie,

Alexis HK and Suarez are among these out-of-province guests. At the Théâtre Outremont, ‘Danse Lhasa Danse’ will be presented in tribute to singer songwriter Lhasa de Sela - who died in 2010 after being diagnosed with cancer.

CIBL will host live public recordings of the radio show “4 à 6” with numerous artists. Fran-cophonie Express and Live at La Quincaillerie will also be recorded on Nov. 6 and 7 with select francophone artists. All 10 days of the festival are packed with album launches, prize presentations and free lunch shows at Bistro in Vivo.

The icing on the cake: a pyjama party with Bia, a Brazilian artist living between Québec and France, on Nov. 11. In brief, Montreal’s Coup de coeur is an array of events to fill your ears, make your soul soar and your heart burst into song.

aLex navsky (LeFt) and aMyLie aRe two oF the dozens oF aRtists pLayinG MontReaL’s Coup de CoeuR FestivaL FRoM nov. 1-11.


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Genre-bending hip hop artist, Cadence Weapon, returns home for the final stop on his six-month tour

Cadence Weapon’s Dirt City state of mind

Michelle pucciContributor

DJ-rapper extraordinaire and Montreal trans-plant Rollie Pemberton, a.k.a Cadence Weap-on, has had all three of his LPs nominated for the Polaris Prize and is already a Canadian music veteran. At 26-years-old, he has already served a two-year term as Edmonton’s Poet Laureate and learned to transcend the limits of the hip-hop genre.

Pemberton grew up in Edmonton and be-gan rapping at the age of 13, describing his in-terest in music as “inevitable.”

“I grew up around rap music so it seemed like a foregone conclusion that I’d end up try-ing it out,” he said. His father, Teddy Pem-berton, was a campus-radio DJ who intro-duced hip-hop to Edmonton with his show

‘The Black Experi-ence in Sound’.

Pe m b e r t o n also cited Nas as a huge inspiration,“I became obsessed with the song ‘Half -Time’ by Nas. I got an instrumen-tal of it and taught myself how to rap by rapping over that beat.”

His eclectic approach to hip-hop is a result of his musical influ-ences. His uncle Brett Miles — a saxophonist and the frontman of the Magilla Funk Conduit — en-couraged him to

perform at a young age. Pemberton also cited Edmonton’s thriving punk scene as an inspira-tion.

“The only bands that were around were hardcore bands and punk bands so I would go to those shows, and there are elements of that that have influenced me,” said Pemberton.

After a year of journalism school in Vir-ginia, he decided to move back to Canada to pursue music.

“I had all these ideas for songs and I’d been working on music the whole time and I wanted to put something out before someone stole the idea out of my head,” said Pember-ton.

But he didn’t completely distance him-self from journalism. The rapper reviewed music for Stylus and Pitchfork before he be-came known as a musician. Now that the

roles have changed, he tries not to think about what critics say.

“If I have a bad review, it feels like it’s karmic retribution for the sins of my past life,” he said with a laugh. “I’m going to make the music I make, no matter what.”

Pemberton described his latest al-bum’s title, Hope in a Dirt City, as a state of mind. “Colloquially we refer to Edmonton as ‘dirt city’, but it’s not just an Edmonton thing,” the rapper said. “When you’re in a dirt city state of mind, it’s like making the most out of your circumstances or rising up against the darkness.”

He had a specific process in mind for the album, saying that he “wanted to have more of an organic sound.” After making demos of the beats for the album, he took them to a live band in Toronto. “We jammed them out and we replaced all the samples with live instru-ments. It’s kind of a mix of different styles that came together naturally.”

His music is considered a cross between electronica and hip-hop, and the rapper tries to

RoLLie peMbeRton, betteR known as CadenCe weapon, wRaps up his 2012 touR, the bLaCk expeRienCe in sound, in MontReaL at MusiC venue iL MotoRe on satuRday, nov. 17.

convey this in his performances. “[The show] features all these different

genres of music and goes out in all these differ-ent directions,” he said. “It’s definitely unlike any rap show I’ve ever seen.”

Cadence Weapon’s show at Il Motore with DJ Co-op is the last date of his Hope in a Dirt City tour. He’s been touring mostly non-stop since the album dropped in May, support-ing Vancouver rock-duo Japandroids and the three-piece band Liars along the way. Pem-berton is looking forward to the show, which will feature fellow Montrealers and a few of his personal favourite artists, Mozart’s Sister and Karneef.

But ‘vacation’ isn’t part Pemberton’s com-prehensive vocabulary. “I’ll probably hang up-side down in my closet for a week straight after the tour,” he said, but then it’s right back to the drawing board.

Cadence Weapon plays Il Motore (179 Jean-Talon W.) on Saturday, Nov. 17. Tick-ets are $12 in advance or $15 at the door.

if i have a bad review, it feels like it’s karmic retribution for the sins of my past life. i’m going to make the music i make, no matter what.

“-Cadence Weapon

- A.J. Cordeiro -Flora Hammond

Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city (2013; Interscope)

Ten years later, GY!Be sparked back to life re-leasing an album just days after announcing it.Those fortunate to have caught one of God-speed’s five, near-consecutive concerts in Mon-treal last year may be familiar with two of the al-bum’s four tracks, “Mladic” and “We Drift Like Worried Fire.” The other two tracks are new offerings, and a clear nod to the Maple Spring protests, with “Strung Like Lights At Thee Print-emps Erable.” “Their Helicopters’ Sing” runs with a hiss and a haunting undertone; it’s eerie, invasive, and certainly meant to take you out of your com-fort zone. The track is reminiscent of the nightly helicopter patrols, used by Montreal police to intimidate and dissuade protesters during the 100 days of nightly student marches last spring. The song’s tones eventually converge with a cacophony of sounds, a chaotic situation that cannot be controlled until it eventually subsides and lulls into nothingness.

Trial track: “Mladic”

- Jamie Klinger

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! (2012; Constellation)

Quick spins

Sinkane - Mars (2012; DFA Records)

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Former of Montreal member and current Yeasayer member Ahmed Gallab debuted his solo electro-pop project Sinkane with the al-bum Mars. The album is a soulful collection of world beats, vocals and sounds effects, result-ing in a mélange of genres —from electro-soul, to hip-hop and afro-beat. Prominent in almost every song is the use of funk guitar. The sonic textures and fabrics that Gallab patches together are truly unique, in that they are able to intro-duce unusual sounds yet simultaneously seem familiar to the listener. At just 34 minutes and 11 seconds in length, the album definitely leaves the listener yearning for more, which may be one of the few drawbacks to this album. Sinkane will perform on Nov. 8 at Cabaret du Mile End, alongside Yeasayer.

Trial track: “Runnin’”

Produced by rap mastermind Dr. Dre, good kid, m.A.A.d city, Kendrick Lamar’s second studio al-bum released on Oct. 22, has undoubtedly earned the Compton native the respect he deserves. Mak-ing his major label debut, Kendrick draws inspira-tion from his profoundly troubled adolescent life. The result; nothing less than sheer lyrical genius from beginning to end.Differentiating himself from most other artists in the rap game, Kendrick takes hip hop back to its origins, going back to the art of storytelling as he gives a vivid, emotional account of his adolescence. His struggles with gangs, drugs, and violence ex-perienced in his 25 years are evident throughout the 12 tracks, his diction and complex, descriptive choice of words. The original, captivating sound of the album makes it one of the best hip hop al-bums of the year. The highly anticipated good kid, m.A.A.d city certainly delivers and earns Kendrick Lamar a spot alongside the rap legends he once could only dream of becoming. “What more can I say?/Welcome to L.A.” Trial track: “m. A. A. d city”

Boys Noize - Out of the Black (2012; INgrooves)

Listening to Out of the Black, Alexander Ridha a.k.a. Boys Noize’s third full-length album, is like rocketing through deep space in black latex hot pants with a mug of tequila in your right hand and a grenade in the left. From begin-ning to end, each track sounds as if blenders and machine guns are being artfully played as instruments, all to the rhythm of a choppy yet pleasantly consistent backdrop.“Rocky 2” and “Stop,” among others, feature variations of Boys Noize’s signature robotic voice interspersing each pulsing track with a droning mantra. “Missile,” a slow-building song reminiscent of gunfire, is sure to coax the big-gest of downers out of their housecoats and onto the raunchiest of dance floors. Look for Snoop Dogg’s sultry pipes on “Got It,” a suc-cessful union of smooth rap and gritty synth beats. For your hard-hitting electro fix, Out of the Black surely delivers.

Trial track: “Missiles”

-Stephanie Ullman7.3/10

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SIDe A: Hauted House Horrors

1. “Bleed The Freak” - Alice in Chains - Facelift2. “… And We All Have A Hell” - From First To Last - Heroine3. “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” - Bauhaus - Single4. “Forty Six & 2” - Tool - Aenima 5. “Pray For Plagues” - Bring Me The Horizon - Count Your Blessings6. “Scream” - Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold 7. “Head Like A Hole” - Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine8. “The Beautiful People” - Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar9. “Seven Devils” - Florence & The Machine - Ceremonials 10.“Spellbound” - Siouxsie and the Banshees - Juju

Halloween: the only night of the year when just about anything goes. Dracula rides the metro with Superman, people spoil themselves with an abun-

dance of candy (or booze) and babies are invariablycute, dressed as little pumpkins or ghosts. As the

weather gets gloomier, everyone needs the excitement that comes from being scared (or drunk) out of their wits. What better a time for that than Halloween? Side A of

this mixtape includes songs that will give trick or treaters the heebie-jeebies. Side B is for you and

your friends as you plan an evening of dressing up or down, whether you’re going to a friend’s party

or a midnight showing of Rocky Horror.

Compiled by Andria CaputoStaff writer

C’est L’Halloween

SIDe B: Monster Ball

11. “Meet Me On The Dark Side” - Me-lissa Auf der Maur - Out of Our Minds 12. “Monster” - Kanye West ft. Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Bon Iver & Nicki Minaj - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy13. “Gold Lion” - Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones 14. “Switchblade Smiles” - Kasabian - Velociraptor!15. “Tear You Apart” - She Wants Re-venge - She Wants Revenge16. “Monster Hospital (MSTRKRFT Remix)” - Metric - Single17. “Boys Wanna Be Her” - Peaches - Impeach My Bush 18. “Get Some” - Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes 19. “Zombie” - Natalia Kills - Perfectionist 20. “Intimate” - Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles II

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Pre-Game rituals and superstitions from your Stingers

Kevin DuarteSports editor

For as long as there have been sports, there have been pre-game rituals and superstitions to go along with it. No sport in the world is immune to these types of strange antics done by players, coaches and fans alike.

Every year, different media outlets pub-lish articles compiling all of the strangest pre-game rituals or superstitions from around the world of sport. Some of the best athletes in the world make the lists with their quirky habits.

In the hockey world, Wayne Gretzky, considered to be the best hockey player of all time, had a number of pre-game superstitions that included putting his equipment on in a particular order, firing his first warm-up puck in the same spot, and putting baby powder

on his stick before the game started. Former Montreal Canadiens goaltender Patrick Roy, considered his posts to be his best friends. During the national anthems, he would have a regular conversation with his metal friends and tap them for good luck.

Concordia women’s hockey team shares some similar pre-game rituals. Like Gretzky, many players put their equipment on in a special order. It is also fairly common to see some of the players dance before and after the game in the dressing room.

Forward Veronique Laramee Paquette said that she makes a point to never touch the goalie at all on game day. Whether this works or not, she has scored in four straight games.

Soccer players are no strangers to super-stitions and rituals either. One of the most common ones includes grabbing the grass when walking on the pitch and making a sign of the cross right after.

“I have a little turtle around my neck and I kiss it before a game,” said men’s soccer striker Andrew Bryan. “And I usually put

white socks over black.”Defender Enos Osei turns to technology

to get himself ready for matches.“I like to watch soccer games on You-

Tube,” he said. “That gets me pumped be-fore, and it gives me an idea of what I can do on the field.”

Although they could be seen as a pre-game ritual, many athletes will always have the same meal on gameday. Pasta dishes seem to be the food of choice, but the profes-sional sports world has seen some weirder snacks. Baseball Hall of Famer Wade Boggs went out of the way to eat chicken before games, while current Montreal Impact de-fender Zarek Valentin always eats gummy bears before taking to the pitch. Other ath-letes turn to soft drinks like NBA player Caron Butler. Butler drinks half a two-liter bottle of Mountain Dew prior to games and finishes it at halftime.

Members of the Concordia Stingers foot-ball team related to this. Some players stuck to the same pre-game breakfast, while anoth-er would only drink coffee on game days.

Pre-game rituals are not only subject to individuals. Professional teams in any sport will do team events hours before the game. Whether it is a team walk around the city or mini-games inside the locker rooms, the Concordia men’s basketball team also have their way of preparing for games.

Last season, before every game, the entire team would do some yoga to get in the right mindset. Fourth-year forward Taylor Garner confirmed that the team still does this regu-larly. He says the group does it more for the mental aspect of it.

Athletes are a crazy breed and it is no secret. Players at all levels, be it professional, varsity and even every day recreational ath-letes have their own unique ways of prepar-ing for games. Whether these pre-game ritu-als and superstitions actually work remains to be seen, but one thing is certain — every athlete will do whatever it takes to get Lady Luck on their side.

With files from David S. Landsman and Vanik Kechian.

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Two late goals lead to loss against McGillStingers women’s team puts up a fight against nationally-ranked rivals

David S. landsmancontributor

Ending the month of October on a high note was almost accomplished, as the Stingers were just two minutes away from pulling off an upset to send their game against the cross-town McGill Martlets to extra time. It was all for nought, sadly, as the Martlets pre-vailed 5-3 on two late goals. The game was a huge contrast compared to the season opener which McGill won 8-1 at Ed Meagher Arena.

Playing their second game in 18 hours, the Concordia Stingers women’s hockey team came off their first win of the season, a tough fight, winning on the road against the Ottawa Gee-Gees 3-2 in a sudden-death shootout in the ninth round.

McGill started the game with a power play goal by Melodie Daoust, barely three minutes in. Less than 10 seconds later on the next faceoff, the puck went deep into the McGill zone and goaltender Andrea Weckman mis-played the puck, landing right in front of the net. After a couple of whacks, Stingers rookie

Kim Boismenu potted the puck into the empty cage, tying the game less than three minutes after the start.

Midway through the first, on a Concordia powerplay, McGill took over the puck and Bianca Della Porta spotted an open Erika Pyke who gave them the lead. A little more than a min-ute later, Leslie Oles gave McGill a two-goal lead with her first of three on the afternoon.

Stingers goaltender Caro-lanne Lavoi-Pilon seemed off her game, but quickly got back on her feet, finishing with 39 saves.

“It’s always hard [versus McGill], but you learn to challenge the player with the puck and follow them, give them a mental read,” said Lavoi-Pilon. “Once you have that down, then it feels easier with the reflexes. You have the fire to stop everything.”

Midway through the second period, Con-cordia was playing with immense pressure. McGill was unable to capitalize or get their plays together, and the Stingers got one back when the top line of Emilie Bocchia, Alyssa

Sherrard and Veronique Laramee Paquette connected yet again with Laramee Paquette netting her fourth goal of the year.

Seven minutes into the final period, Sher-rard connected off a back-door pass behind the net from Bocchia, tying the game at three and sending the fans at Ed Meagher into a frenzy.

“Lately we’ve been too passive, but today we were aggressive, fighting for loose pucks, [winning] battles,” said Bocchia, who had two

Find out what your Stingers are doing before the game starts


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assists on the afternoon. “Tying the game and creating turnovers was excellent.”

Very late in the game, with the crowd on their feet, a faceoff in the Concordia defen-sive zone was won by McGill’s Daoust who passed it to teammate Katia Clément-Heydra who spotted an open Oles who wristed a goal past Lavoi-Pilon with only 1:55 left in the game. Fourty-eight seconds later, she com-pleted her hat trick, jumping into her team-mates arms as they avoided a near upset.

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Concordia defeats Laval in RSEQ women’s rugby finalStingers head to nationals vying for the cIS championship

christine beatoncopy editor

“We played like it was the last 80 minutes of our lives. If that doesn’t sum it up, I don’t know what does.” After defeating Laval 35-34 on Saturday in a heart-racing game, Bi-anca Farella sums it up pretty nicely.

Concordia knocked the McGill Martlets out of the semi-finals last week as Laval de-feated Ottawa, giving the Stingers a second

chance against one of their big-gest competitors.

“It feels amazing to win and beat a good team like Laval,” said head coach Graeme Mc-Gravie. “I thought our coach-ing staff did a tremendous job of getting this team ready every week and [Saturday] was the pinnacle of that.”

The game started off strong in favour of Concordia; two of their first attempts at tries were held up in the try zone by La-val. Halfway through the first, Laval scored the first try but did not score their conversion kick.

The Stingers came back and scored a penalty kick, a try and a conversion, bringing the score to 8-5 with less than 10 minutes to go. Farella then scored once more before the end of the first half and two consecutive times in the beginning of the second, bringing the score to an impressive 27-12 for the maroon and gold.

In the nail-biting second half, the scores got closer and closer to each other, even-tually reaching 34-30 for the Rouge et Or. With less than five minutes left, Concordia scored the final try bringing the final score to 35-34.

Concordia showed off their strength and determination the whole length of Satur-day’s match. No matter how close the score got, they kept their head in the game.

“All in all, we knew what was at stake and we weren’t ready to give that up with-out a fight,” said Farella.

The first half was seemingly in the hands of the forwards, who capitalized on their strength in the rucks and scrums. Compared to their last game against Laval, the Stingers stepped up and hit them a lot harder. The second half was dominated by the backs who executed skillful offensive plays and took advantage of the gaps in La-val’s usually solid defence. Line-outs were strong for both teams but Concordia shone when they attempted to throw the ball to the jumper, back to the thrower and then out to the wing. Even though it is late in the season, they aren’t afraid to diversify their plays.

As for next season, coach McGravie said

he’ll start worrying about that next week. He looks forward to next season but made it clear that this was a year to remember in women’s rugby.

“I thought our real strong point this year was that we played as a team, no one in-dividual had to carry the load for the team this year,” he said. “When we needed some-one to step up, multiple players did.”

The Stingers will now head to St. Francis Xavier University as the RSEQ champions to take part in the national CIS champi-onships. Five other teams will join Con-cordia in the tournament that runs from Nov. 1- 4. Photo by Pierre Bonenfant

Photo by Pierre Bonenfant

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Stingers fall to the Laval Rouge et Or

Vanik Kechiancontributor

WOmen’S SOccer

The men’s soccer team loses 7-2 in final game of the season

“We lost focus,” lamented defender Enos Osei, as the Stingers were handed a heavy loss at the hands of the Laval Rouge et Or. The Sunday afternoon match at Concordia Stadi-um officially brings the season to a close.

Concordia started the match well defen-sively. The team pressured Laval which re-sulted in a slow offensive game for the visi-tors and some counterattack opportunities for the Stingers. The good defensive play lasted until the 16th minute when Samuel Georget scored his first of his four goals for the Rouge et Or.

Concordia’s loss to Sherbrooke on Friday night ensured the team would not make the playoffs. This resulted in an uninspired per-formance on Sunday according to defender Christopher Mirasyedi.

“You don’t play as hard, or you’re not fo-cused until the end, when you know there’s nothing to play for,” he said. “After a couple goals go in, you start to lose focus and start giving up. I think most of us were playing for fun.”

After going down 4-0 two minutes into the second half, Andrew Bryan scored the first goal for the Stingers in the 50th minute. Quick passing and an excellent through ball led the Laval keeper to a failed attempt at reaching the ball, leaving Bryan with an open net and an easy finish.

Their first goal gave the Stingers a shot of energy, as they began playing similarly to what was seen at the beginning of the game.

Only 10 minutes after the first goal, Sting-ers midfielder Amadou Lam scored from 45 yards out, when his cross from a set piece went untouched and bounced into the top corner of the Rouge et Or net.

The persistent Stingers were reorganized, and assistant coach François Bastien’s en-couraging yells were heard from across the field.

Concordia’s hopes for a comeback were smashed when the official awarded Laval with a questionable penalty kick. Georget stepped up and converted the spot kick with ease.

Laval added a few more goals to make the final score 7-2. This was the most amount of goals conceded by the Stingers in one game this season.

Everyone fell silent, as disappointment rang through the players, coaches and fans. Hopes for a comeback were crushed much like hopes for reaching the playoffs were a

men’S SOccer

couple of days earlier. With a majority of the players return-ing, the team hopes to see better chemistry and consis-tency next year.

“We just got to be consis-tent,” said Bryan. “That’s all it is.”

Concordia officially ends the season with a record of two wins, eight losses and two draws for eight points. This is two points worse than last year’s total of 10.

Concordia falls to Laval in must-win gameThe women’s soccer team’s 2-0 loss leaves them out of playoffs

Kevin DuarteSports editor

It’s been years since Concordia’s women’s soccer team made the play-offs. This season, it came down to the final game on Sunday to officially eliminate the team from playoff con-tention.

The Stingers lined up with the same 4-4-2 formation as usual. Melissa Kedro partnered with the team’s leading goal scorer Jennifer Duff up front. Shauna Zilversmit, Elizabeth Allard, Valerie Ishak and Gabriela Padvaiskas formed the midfield. At the back, Alexandra Dragan, Shannon Travers, Philippa Lyttle and Kayla Myre played ahead of Saby Dagenais in goal.

Laval were the stronger side from the start. The visitors forced Concordia to defend for most of the first half. The Stingers were able to defend well by staying organized and by staying compact.

The Rouge et Or had the first real chance of the match. In the 18th minute, a corner kick from the right bounced inside the six-yard box. Concordia’s Ishak made two great blocks with her body to deny a goal.

Five minutes later, Laval would get the opening goal. From another corner, the ball flew to an unmarked Frédérique Paradis. Her header towards goal was tipped in by team-mate Gabrielle Lapointe.

In the 28th minute, the Stingers were close to grabbing the equalizer. Duff controlled a

through ball and set off towards goal. A last minute slide tackle by a Laval defender inside the penalty area, thwarted the attack.

Before the first half was over, Laval had a few more quality chances to double its lead. With one minute remaining, Dagenais had to make a massive save by denying a Laval player from point blank range. She ended up making a total of eight saves in this encoun-ter.

In the second half, knowing only a win would save the season, the Stingers came out firing on all cylinders. In the 60th minute, Duff had a chance to tie the game with her shot from outside the box. The ball bounced by everyone, including the Laval goalkeeper,

but ended up hitting the right goal post.Seconds later, on the other side of the

pitch, Laval would make Concordia pay for the miss. After making a good run, Léa Chastenay-Joseph was able to receive a long ball and dribbled alone on a breakaway. She made no mistake sliding the ball under Dage-nais and into the Stingers’ goal.

The rest of the match was very physi-cal, but the maroon and gold was unable to get back into the game. This loss in the final game officially ended the Stingers’ season.

“We’ve overcome a lot this year in terms of injuries and players learning new posi-tions,” said head coach Jorge Sanchez. “We got some results, but we just ran out of steam

at the end.”Concordia played an organized match,

but a few slip-ups cost them two goals. Hav-ing a bit of luck would have also been nice, as Duff’s shot off the post would have complete-ly changed the game if it went in the net.

“We hit a post, and 30 seconds later, they scored. I think that was the game right there,” said Sanchez. “We would have had momen-tum and we would have been one mistake away on their behalf from getting a goal to go ahead.”

With the loss, Concordia ends their season with six wins, five losses and three draws, good enough for 21 points. This fifth place finish is the Stingers’ best since 2007.

after a couple goals in, you start to lose focus and start giving up. I think most of us were playing for fun.“

- Christopher Mirasyedi Stingers defender

Photo by Marilla Steuter-Martin

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Last Monday, student journalists cov-ering a protest march taking place in the downtown core were stopped by

police and ticketed. These Concordia stu-dents argued that they were covering the event for a class and tried to show their passes, but their explanations fell on deaf ears.

This is the type of thing that really makes us mad. While the journalists ticket-ed were not on The Concordian’s masthead, they were journalists nonetheless and being tossed in with the rest of the protesters is extremely unfair.

Young reporters often have a hard time proving to Montreal police that they are covering a protest, rather than participating

in it, and the last thing any journalist wants is to be arrested or ticketed for doing their job.

This is a problem many reporters faced covering the Maple Spring last year and into this summer and it can make for some close calls. Police seem to think that just because the student press isn’t as high profile as oth-er mainstream publications, it isn’t “real” or “legitimate.”

The same thing can happen with free-lancers and young people trying to break into the field itself. Often they find them-selves alone, taking photos and getting quotes, until all of a sudden, the police are surrounding the area.

The tickets people can be given for

participating in a protest that doesn’t give a route beforehand, or doesn’t respect the flow of traffic can run pretty high, with one Concordia student getting charged almost $500.

How is the press supposed to effectively cover demonstrations like this and inform the public when we have to worry about getting arrested? The Service de Police de la Ville de Montréal is becoming more infa-mous than ever for brutality and reporters should not have to be scared to be out in the streets at a non-violent protest.

The other concern that comes to mind is ‘why now’? Why is the SPVM choosing to crack down on student and journalists now when protesters flooded the streets nightly

Student press has just as much a right to cover demonstrations as the mainstream media does

only a few months ago. Now that demon-strations have become rare, and the energy of the student movement has ebbed, what message are they trying to send?

As far as we are concerned, it feels like the SPVM is trying to silence people who are simply exercising their right to protest and have their opinions heard. Our staff re-porters covered dozens of demonstrations this year and it is worrying to us that police are back to treating students like dirt now that the Maple Spring has come to an end.

Rest assured, though, we have no inten-tion of stopping anytime soon. Where stu-dent interests are at stake, student reporters will be there to cover it, and a few unfound-ed tickets and SPVM scare tactics aren’t go-ing to change that.

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Climate injustice in Canada

Harper’s environmental record needs to change

robin SasContributor

Whether it be pulling out of the Kyoto Proto-col, the gutting of federal environmental reg-ulations or the muzzling of some of our top climate scientists, the Harper government has done irreparable damage to our interna-

tional reputation and, more importantly, to our ecology.

That’s not to mention an unprecedented and secretive trade deal being negotiated with China that would all but ensure the unbridled expansion of the tar sands. This would also increase Canada’s direct role in the release of GHG emissions which threaten to push the global concentration of CO2 over the edge and into dangerous territory.

It’s no secret that Harper is a friend to big oil. After all, this government continues to hand out subsidies to the tune of $1.4

billion to the fossil fuel industry even as energy companies take in record profits.

If there was ever a time for Canadians to come together to stand up and tell this government that we oppose its policies and want an end to these subsidies, this is it.

It is true that climate change will most negatively impact the world’s poorest; but the regressive environmental policies of the current government will also be felt here at home. They will also be felt in communi-ties most vulnerable to the effects of climate change; such as Indigenous communities who have lived and depended on the land for generations, ranches and farms which depend on streams and water tables, and yes, eventually the rest of us.

This is why now, perhaps more than ever, we need a new generation of climate leaders to converge and create meaningful opposi-tion movements. Climate injustice is another form of oppression, inextricably linked to all other battles in social justice. Whether it’s the destruction of the environment, access to education or vast economic inequality we must hold our leaders accountable and ensure equity and justice for all of our citi-zens. Ending the fossil fuel subsidies and re-committing to the protection of our climate and environment more generally could be a first step.

This week saw historic action taken against the future oil pipelines, and the pros-pect of more tankers on the B.C. coast ship-ping tar sands bitumen to global markets. The movement, aptly called “Defend Our Coast,” has rallied thousands of concerned citizens across British Columbia to mobilize and take action against the proposed North-ern Gateway pipeline. As I write this, citizens all across the province are linking arms in front of their Member of Legislative Assem-

bly offices to show they are united in opposi-tion to this pipeline.

This has left me thinking. After a year that saw an incredible mobilization of stu-dents in Quebec to defeat the tuition increas-es and ultimately the Liberal government, why not learn from that success? Let us link our common struggles from coast to coast. Radical grassroots activism has proven to work. It’s time to take direct action against the environmental record, or lack thereof, of our federal government.

This weekend, I will be attending a con-ference called Powershift, in Ottawa. There, 1,500 youth from across the country will meet to discuss the future of climate change activ-ism and how Canadians can mobilize practi-cally to fight for our country to start taking it seriously. Speakers such as Naomi Klein, Bill Mckibben and Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois will be making key note addresses throughout the weekend. Participants will be lobbying MPs, taking it to the streets and getting out their message to end big polluter handouts in every way we can. After all, Harper did promise at the G20 to do so. It stands to be one of the most important convergences of young activists and environmentalists that we’ve seen in the past decade.

We now have a chance to come together and show the Harper government we will no longer let them tarnish our reputation internationally, nor will we let them tram-ple the ecological rights of our most at risk communities while providing subsidies to companies with soaring profits. As Naomi Klein aptly put it,“ We are part of a ground-swell, a global movement against all forms of dirty energy. It is a movement on a roll. The beautiful truth is that we have fossil fuel companies surrounded, and they’re running scared.”


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He said, she said: Halloween costumes in 2012The Concordian is cracking down on the vastly different costume choices for men and women, grasping at relevant stereotypes and offering advice where need be. We want you to remember what Halloween costumes are all about, so here’s our take on

the difference between men’s and women’s costumes.

Women’s costumes: slutty is the new sexy

Paula rivasmanaging editor

Y ou’ve seen it in all the teen mov-ies, Halloween is that one time of the year when it’s socially accept-able for ladies to dress down and there is no doubt that it gets worse

and worse every year. It feels like girls nowa-days are looking towards Halloween costumes that are more and more outrageous. I have seen it all, from the emergence of touchy costumes that mock cultures to the creation of sexier and sexier costumes for young women. Let’s not forget how some girls will compare and judge each other even more than is already happen-ing in the ferocious jungle of the girl world.

Don’t get me wrong, women do occasion-ally come up with hilarious and innovative cos-tumes. Unfortunately these costumes aren’t on display anywhere. Upon entering a Halloween store, all we can see is different characters in slutty outfits.

Lena Haddad has been working at a Hal-loween store in Montreal for the last three years, seasonally. She says that she sees the same pat-terns in costume buying for women.

“Look at the wall, it’s every costume pos-sible, made into a slutty dress,” she said. “I’d say about nine in 10 women looking for a cos-tume here end up picking one that shows a lot of skin.”

My question is this: why do we insist on squeezing into skin-tight, thigh-high stock-ings and tiny dresses in the freezing autumn air, spending $60 or more on a piece of cloth that you will only wear once? Girls, it’s time to change it up.

I once entered a party exactly like the one portrayed in the movie Mean Girls, where the guys dressed up as beer kegs, political figures and one even came as a penguin! Meanwhile, the girls primped, plucked and stuffed them-selves like turkeys on Thanksgiving only to show up as sexy police officers and sexy nurs-es. At this party a catfight broke out over a girl (dressed as a sexy firefighter) insulting another girl (dressed as a sexy boxer) for looking too “skanky.” Talk about ridiculous. They spent about half an hour analyzing and yelling at each other over what they were wearing while the Halloween party went to waste . . . all be-cause of a costume.

On a tireless search for originality in wom-en’s Halloween costumes, the other day I was browsing costumes online when I stopped in shock to see a new costume which has been created for us girls. To my horror, I was looking at a “sexy burka” costume sold for $49.85. A girl was dressed in the traditional style black burka, but everything else was a different story — she was wearing a tiny black matching dress expos-ing cleavage and legs but only leaving a slit for the eyes on the face. This is not only offensive, but makes me embarrassed to say that this is the western culture of today, mocking other cul-tures through this candy-crazed festivity.

I think it is time to step away from the herd and try something different this Halloween. This year let’s try to lay off the racy costumes and embrace original and hilarious costumes such as Princess Leia or Veronica Corningstone. Trust me, you will win more high-fives wearing these classic costumes than if you show up in an outfit that looks like it could fit a toddler.

men’s costumes: go creative or go home

George menexisOpinions editor

Even as we get older, students somehow still feel the need to dress up on a frosty Halloween night. It’s a part of our child-hood that we are slow to let go

of. Because it is such an important part of the year, we need to learn to do it justice. Halloween is a time of imitation and creativ-ity. It’s a time to think of the extreme and to try and find a costume that really exceeds all expectations. It’s a time to be competitive with your friends as to who can come up with the dumbest costumes. To dress up as something original instead of wasting $100 at overrated Halloween stores. As a Hallow-een admirer and costume-lover, I’ve been bitterly disappointed by what I’ve seen the past few years. Men, like their female coun-terparts, are lacking imagination.

Let’s not lie to each other boys, we’ve been doing the same thing year after year. It’s no wonder we find doubles and triples of stupid characters these days. “The Situ-ation” from reality T.V. show Jersey Shore, a cowboy or a nerd. It’s getting way too re-petitive.

Look around you. The world is filled with inspirational people, objects and ideas.

Here is one of my favorite Halloween cos-tumes that would stick out in 2012: the other day, I saw a kid in a ice cream truck that was made out of cardboard, with the kid walking in it acting as the ice cream man. If a toddler can do that, imagine what us young adults would be able to do.

I think the secret to a good Halloween costume is to make it yourself. You just can’t find what you want at a Halloween store. Also, making your costume at home is much more fun than it sounds. Imagine walking around your house, looking at pieces of clothing and random objects you see every-day, inspiring yourself to make a costume out of these. It’s a project everyone should attempt once in their lives. You’ve become an artists attempting to do this, and I tell you, it’s a great feeling trying on your somewhat ridiculous looking work of art. Lena Haddad has worked at a Halloween store seasonally for three years and said that most of the cos-tumes stay the same year after year.

“People are always interested in the same stuff, from what I see,” said Haddad. “It’s always the same costumes that sell out fast, and the same ones that stay on the shelf year after year.”

There’s been a lack of imagination, it’s no secret. That being said, I do think men’s costumes have become the pioneer of inno-vative, new Halloween costumes. Year after year, party after party, I find myself laugh-ing at something a guy was wearing. From bananas to parisiens to presidential candi-dates, variety is something that is somewhat present in men’s costumes, but there’s still a long way to go.

My advice to all: Halloween is a time of invention, so this year go out there and be different. Start by looking in the deep confines of your closet to see what you could whip up. I swear you won’t be disappointed.

TOP 5 HALLOWEEN COSTUMES IN 2012

1. Get a cardboard box and cut it round. Big enough so that your is smaller than the circle. On the circle, write 25 cents on the top. This is the good part. You need to dress as the Queen of England. That’s right, the Queen of England. Take the cardboard, stick it behind your head and there you go, you are the Queen of England’s face on a Canadian quarter.

2. This one’s going to make you giggle inside. Get an enormous white paper and cut a square hole in it for your face. You’re going to become a Youtube clip. Write YouTube on the top, or print it for a more legitimate look. As for the caption, get imaginative. You can write stuff like “sexiest man on earth” or “the honey badger, ‘Gangnam Style.’”

3. Who has become one of the biggest symbols of manliness to our generation? That’s right, the Dos Equis man. Get an empty Dos Equis bottle and walk around with it all night. The rest is simple: fake white beard, nice suit and you’ve become a legend.

4. One of the better ones I’ve seen in a while, and also very simple to make. Dress as a woman if you’re a man, or dress normally if you’re a woman. Get a fake baby and either carry it or attach it to your stom-ach. Now, print a face sized picture of Angelina Jolie’s face. Genius!

5. Let us go to the extreme here. This is especially crazy for those of you that have a full set of hair and want to go a little bit crazy. Shave your head, I don’t want to see one stray hair. Shave it. Get red and yellow drapes and cut them in the form of robes. Simply put, you’ve become a monk.

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Things may be looking up for Concordia Conu’s transition from a culture of “contempt” to “respect”

Jenna CoculloContributor

Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. After Concordia University’s administrators spent $2.4 million buying out two former presidents and five other senior administrators, many students feel that they have lost confidence in the institution.

“Once was a mistake, but twice is too much,” said Concordia student Ryan Chyzen-sky. “What really upsets me about the situation is how the students [were] fighting against tu-ition hikes and there was our governance just blowing our money on payouts because they couldn’t get organized.”

In 2007 former president Claude Lajeu-nesse received a $1.4 million buyout, and three years later ex-president Judith Woods-worth received a severance pay of $703,500 to leave. According to James Bradshaw of The Globe and Mail, this resulted in “an imbalance of power in the senior ranks and a culture of mistrust, and a $2-million fine from Quebec’s government as punishment for being too gen-erous in doling out severance to some depart-ing administrators.”

Needless to say things were looking grim for Concordia.

However, despite all this doom and gloom, things are looking up for Concordia under the reign of new President Alan Shepard. Many students who were interviewed expressed feelings of hope toward the new leadership and some students never even saw a problem to begin with.

“If they wanted someone out that bad it’s obviously because they [were] not doing a good job and in the end it’s better to just hire someone else altogether,” said John Molson School of Business student Vanessa D’Amico.

Those students who did see an issue with Concordia’s past mistakes say that the Univer-sity is slowly coming into a new era, shedding all the baggage that preceded it. The Gazette has called this new era a “culture of respect and hope” for the university.

It is still too premature to say that Con-cordia has suddenly shifted to a “culture of respect.” Maria Peluso, president of the Con-cordia University Part-Time Faculty Associa-tion told The Gazette in an interview that “a culture takes years to develop and years to dismantle.”

Many students are finding themselves somewhere between contempt and respect. They find themselves in a transitional culture of hope. Shepard’s first weeks at Concordia have been without any major hiccups so far.

He’s managed to renew the dialogue with students, fac-ulty and staff and connected with the external community that supports the university.

“After two costly mistakes, a penalty fee, a disappointed faculty and students and some recom-mendations from the External Gover-nance Committee, I think Concordia has finally got the mes-sage and are starting to learn from their mistakes,” added Chyzensky. “But that does not mean that I am ready to start trusting them with my money and important decisions again.”

While there is definitely a more positive vibe on campus, Concordia’s governance still has to prove that they are learning from their mistakes and can

be trusted. For now it appears that Concor-dia University’s governance has been put on academic probation.

ConCordia’s Webster library building loCated on the sgW Campus.

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Malala Yousafzai: Pakistan’s unsung heroShooting in Pakistan will hopefully raise awareness for dire conditions

anne Kingma-lord Contributor

“In the world, girls are going to school freely. And there is no fear. But in Swat, when we go to our school, we are very afraid of Taliban. He will kill us. He will throw acid on our face. He can do anything.’’

Malala Yousafzai pronounced these words when she was only 11 years old, when she was still able to attend her private school in Swat Val-ley, Pakistan. Now, at 15, Malala is an icon and encourages people to fight for girl’s education all around the world.

Last Tuesday, Malala was attacked on her way back from school. Why? Because she showed up for class. Because the Taliban wants girls in schools to wear the burka, a veil that cov-ers the whole body and only leaves a grating for eyesight. Because she defied the Taliban by say-ing things like: ‘’they cannot stop me,’’ and ‘’I will get my education if it’s at home, school or anywhere else.”

People in Pakistan need to be inspired by this young girl. In a country where women are seri-ously oppressed, she stepped up and defied the Taliban. This 15-year-old girl has brought a coun-try to its knees.

“This is a turning point. In Pakistan, for the first time, all political parties, Urdus, Christians, Sikhs, all religions prayed for my daughter,” said Ziauddin Yousafzai, Malala’s father.

“She is not just my daughter, she is every-body’s daughter.”

Countries like Pakistan, that are terrorized day after day by groups such as the Taliban, need to find their voice, just like Malala did. More importantly, it is imperative that the rest of the world take action as well.

I am deeply moved by this young girl. I feel ashamed for taking my education for granted, at times. As educated and free university students, it is our duty to take a stand against this injustice.

‘’Why should we let a bunch of uneducated cowards and thugs be the press secretaries of Is-lam when the faith, much like Western secular values, is an illustrious enabler of women educa-tion? Please. Understand that we have a shared enemy here,” said Dr. Faheem Younus, clinical associate professor at the University of Maryland and the founder of the website www.muslimeri-

can.com. He said he was shocked by the Taliban’s actions and argued that Islamic belief and values have nothing to do with these fearful men.

Fortunately, Yousafzai did not die, she is still being treated in the UK.

The state of things in Pakistan are seriously deteriorating. Children are woken up by the sound of gunfire at night. People receive daily Taliban threats via FM radio and the list of refu-gees in camps is growing. Worst of all, teachers and children (especially girls) don’t go to school because they are afraid of being beheaded,

whipped, or publicly humiliated.Populations living in fear is what drives or-

ganizations like the Taliban. People need to start defying fear mongerers; Yousafzai has done it, and despite threats from the Taliban that she will be killed if she returns, she’s insisting they return home and she’s already started preparing for her exams. Talk about inspiring.

I can only hope that Malala’s shooting will wake people up and expose the horror of what is happening, not only in Pakistan, but in other countries experiencing violent unrest as well.

a young pakistani girl, muCh younger than malala, trying to ConCentrate on her Work at a sChool. photo from fliCkr

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Hurricane Sandy is ravaging the East Coast as we speak, and it’s made it’s way to the Big Apple. Naturally, the Twitter world had many humorous things to say concerning this potential natural disaster. Here are this week’s tweets of the week!

@krstina_saylor “i think hurricanes would be scarier if they gave them ghetto names. shanaynay > sandy.”

@pro_failure: “You now have a few days off to just sit at home and masturbate, but your internet is down. Sandy giveth, and Sandy taketh away.”

@FakeOrioleBird: “HURRICANE SANDY IS GIVING @SNOOKI A FEW NIGHTS OFF FROM BLOWING THE JERSEY SHORE”

@BigBirdRomney: “Everyone in the Hurricane’s path should immediately make their way to their second or third home” - Mitt Romney. #Sandy”

@nerddad: “#Sandy’s beginning to remind me of the Kardashians. Big, wet, and willing to blow the entire East Coast just to get on TV.”

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A fun cocktail to enjoy after university midterms and upcoming winter break. It’s very easy to make and tastes great afterwards. If you’re a huge fan of Oreos (or any chocolate for that matter) then you’ll become addicted to the greatness of this easy cocktail. Mix together in a blender and enjoy!

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Events of the weeK: Oct. 30Tuesday+ THEATRE - Trench Patterns - 20h - Infinitheatre

Wednesday +THEATRE - Harlem Duet - 20h - Segal Centre Studio

+THEATRE - Rocky Horror Picture Show Halloween Ball - 20h - Imperial

THURSDAY+THEATRE - Harlem Duet - 20h - Segal Centre Studio

+TRAVEL TALK - ASIA TIPS BY LAUREN FRASER , BURRITOVILLE 3RD FLOOR, 18H

+DANCE - Hofesh Shechter, “Political Mother” - 20h - Place des Arts

+music - Coup de coeur francophone 2012

Friday +THEATRE - Harlem Duet - 20h - Segal Centre Studio


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SATURDAY+THEATRE - Harlem Duet - 2030h - Segal Centre Studio


+music - Sugar Sammy, Theatre Des Deux-rives

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