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Thursday, September 6, 2012Vol. 83, No. 5

EST. 1930

MCMASTER UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER

Fighting for our right to party like it’s 1986 since 1930.

www.thesil.caThe Silhouette

INSIDE THE SILTHIS WEEK

Opinions Editor Kacper Niburski reminisces and looks forward, now in the golden age of his university life. See page 5.

Olympic Games silver medalist Jerry Brown re� ects on his university career as a Marauder. See page 8.

No good stories to tell about your summer? Why not bend the truth? See page 10 for a little advice.

ANDY chats with Mac prof Alex Sévigny about social media and the future of the arts. See page 11.

Read more at www.thesil.ca.

The MacPass mandateIt’s that time of year again. With a new group of rst-year students and a fresh team of reps, Wel-come Week is once again in full swing. � e di� er-ence this time is that every rst-year student has bought a MacPass.

Halfway through the week, MSU President Siobhan Stewart was already happy about the re-sults. “I would say it’s better,” said Stewart of this year’s Welcome Week. “I think it’s too early to say one hundred percent, but my perception at least is that it’s better.”

� is positive response comes in the wake of last year’s MacPass policy change. Following a campaign run by former MSU president Matthew Dillion-Leitch, quorum was reached at the MSU’s general assembly, where students voted in favour of a motion to impose a universal Welcome Week levy on rst years.

Rather than paying separately for the ticket to Welcome Week events, all incoming students are now charged the $110 though their student ac-counts with no chance to opt out.

� e intentions behind this change were both “ nancial and philosophical,” explained MSU Vice-President of Administration David Campbell.

Julia RedmondAssistant News Editor

SEE POSITIVE, 2

Student wins national award

Kyle Edward-Salter, a third year combined honours political science and labour studies student, has been awarded the Duke of Ed-inburgh Award - one of Canada’s most pres-tigious youth leadership awards. He is one of only 8,012 recipients of this speci c Gold level award in the program’s 56-year history.

Edward-Salter will be travelling to Ot-tawa on September 12 to o� cially receive the award from His Royal Highness Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, KG, GCVO, SOM, ADC.

� e award was founded in 1956 by HRH � e Duke of Edinburgh. � e Duke of Edinburgh Charity aims to empower youth ages 14-24 to become involved in the com-munity, develop practical and social skills

and be physically active. � e award itself requires substantial commitment and per-severance to meet the necessary volunteer and tness requirements. � e program has three progressive levels that youth can work towards, which result in Bronze, Silver or Gold Awards.

Kyle began the program at age 14, ini-tially focusing on attaining the Bronze lev-el. Eventually he set his sights on the Gold Level award, which he completed at age 20. � e Gold Level requires participants to commit to leading an expedition and devel-oping a residential project, which will enrich the community in the long-term. � ese two components are on top of the already rigor-ous tness and community service require-ments.

One of only eight thousand to receive royal honour Aissa Boodhoo-LeegsmaSenior News Editor

SEE AWARD, 2

Universal levy increases student registration for Welcome Week events

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Gold Level award winner Kyle Edward-Salter

First-year students gather in Ron Joyce Stadium despite the rain for Faculty Fusion on Tuesday.

Kyle was guided towards the Duke of Edinburgh program through his early in-volvement in the Air Cadets. Many of his community projects, including debating coaching, outdoor expedition trips and participation in the Around the Bay Race have involved other members of the Air Cadet squadron.

But he was also quick to point out that the Duke of Edinburgh Award is open to all youth and has the potential to be an especially powerful way to harness youth leadership in universities and in ur-ban areas such as Hamilton’s downtown core.

“Youth in cities really need this. The Duke of Edinburgh Award is a huge per-sonal achievement that is open to any and I would like to introduce it to as many people as possible.”

Kyle was supported throughout the process by his mentor and coach, Captain Mike Lacombe.

Cpt. Lacombe has known Kyle for several years through the Air Cadets Pro-gram.

Lacombe noted that in general, Duke of Edinburgh Award recipients typically stand out from the average young person

in terms of their commitment to commu-nity service.

“Kyle in particular had 400-500 hours of service, well above the 100 re-quired hours. And no one told him to do that…he just did.”

Lacombe, a former recipient and alumnus of the program described the excitement surrounding the upcoming awards ceremony.

Kyle will be the second Hamilto-nian after Lacombe to receive his award from a member of the royal family. Cpt. Lacombe received his award from HRH Prince Andrew while Kyle will receive his award from HRH Prince Edward.

Looking back upon his success in the program, Edward-Salter stated he wants to continue to be an ambassador for the award into the future.

There is currently no Duke of Edin-burgh program or affiliated clubs at Mc-Master but Edward-Salter remarked that this would be an interesting endeavor to begin.

However, Kyle sees a greater demand in simply promoting the entire Cana-dian program. which is less established and does not have the same mainstream recognition in Canada as does the initial program in the United Kingdom.

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“In my ideal world, it wouldn’t be that we’d introduce an opt-

out, but it would just be that every student was getting some-

thing out of [Welcome Week].”

David CampbellMSU VP Administration

FROM 1In previous years, Campbell said, some

students who wanted to purchase MacPasses on site were turned away. “[Dillon-Leitch] saw that this wasn’t right,” he said.

Furthermore, he described the prices of past years as being “artificially low,” due to a subsidy from another university source.

“The problem that we were faced with…was do we want to jack the prices up, or are we going to find another solution? Because we need some sort of sustainable model.”

The new MacPass levy has translated to increased registration for Welcome Week.

Although the fee is automatically ap-plied, students were given the opportunity to register online in advance, explained Michele Corbeil, First Year Transition Program Coordinator at the Student Success Centre.

She described the response as “posi-tively overwhelming,” citing an increase of 500 students in registration before the week began.

By Sunday, a total of over 4600 students had picked up MacPasses—roughly 800 more than in previous years and still rising throughout the week.

“The majority of that increase happened in off-campus students, which is really key,”

said Campbell. “We were really pleased with that, because that was one of our big targets.”

Though the registration overall was up, it was difficult to say if attendance increased at specific events.

“It’s a growing year for SOCS,” said Stewart. “They’re really motivated and…ex-cited about it.”

Both Campbell and Stewart empha-sized the expansion of programming for off-campus students, as well as other margin-alized groups. “The programming is fairly

diverse…and we’re always looking to ex-pand that.”

The no opt-out policy doesn’t appear to be a major issue, for either off-campus or residence students.

Said Stewart, “I haven’t heard any com-plaints from any first

year that I’ve talked to, but that’s just my ex-perience thus far.”

Campbell notes that the no opt-out pol-icy is something the MSU is still working on.

“In my ideal world, it wouldn’t be that we’d introduce an opt-out, but it would just be that every student was getting something out of it,” he said.

And in the end, that’s what Welcome Week is all about, said Stewart. “My sincere hope is that students find something to con-nect to during this week.”

FROM 1

Response positive Mac student achieves gold level award

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News Editors: Aissa Boodhoo-Leegsma,Julia Redmond and Anqi Shen

news@thesil.caNEWSThe Phoenix reopens

As part of the City of Hamilton’s backflow prevention program, four water lines on campus have been undergoing construction, including one out-side the Engineering Technology Building facing Main Street West (shown above).

Pipeline enhancements will prevent the university’s wastewater from entering pipes throughout the city.

The initiative is in compliance with a by-law passed in May affecting all commercial, industrial and institutional buildings over four storeys high.

MORE PHOTOS AND NEWS BITES ONLINE AT WWW.THESIL.CA

Anqi ShenOnline News Editor

The Phoenix Bar and Grill reopened at the Refectory Rathskeller on Tuesday to a busy crowd eager to size up the new venue. The relocation of the 43-year-old campus bar from Wentworth House to the Refectory has been an ongoing project since summer 2011.

The Phoenix runs on reduced hours this week and will host an of-ficial ribbon-cutting ceremony on Monday, Sept. 10. President Patrick Deane will attend the event along with members of the university ad-ministration, Graduate Student Association representatives and MSU executives. VP (Administration) Roger Couldrey will kick off celebra-tions.

Second-floor expansion of the Psychology Building has reached the structural steel stage. The ad-dendum will be home to a Large Interactive Virtual Environment (L.I.V.E.) performance labora-tory. The lab will be dedicated to research bridging music and neuroscience, and will include a small concert hall. Construction is expected to finish by spring 2013.

Installation of a new $3 million outdoor track with a turf field nears completion after 4 months of construction during the sum-mer. The eight-lane track, to be used by students and possibly rented for public use, has a new high-tech synthetic surface. The facility is expected to be ready for use in mid-September.

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to football blow-outs. let’s just play the vanier cup match already.

to limp dixon.

to lines at the phoenix. you’re too popular for your own good.

to trust falls.

to 18-hour contact lenses.

to complaints.

to another week gone by without getting a haircut.

to deadlines at reasonable hours.

to moles.

to classes.

to parades cut short.

to real life. keep away!

to rips in the space-time continuum.

to soggy sandles.

to shelves that take down walls. wow.

to football blow-outs. it ain’t bad being the best.

to howard elliott, managing editor of spectator. thanks for the inspiration.

to jacques, provider of coffee, rain or shine, store closed or not. she’s a champion.

to ‘no-pants’ yoseif.

to diversifying your multimedia portfolio. oh baby.

to club nights in tents on the bsb lawn. a crowd of silhouetted heads, appearing and disappearing with the flashing lights, surrounded by fog? i thought it was pretty cool.

to the deathly hallows symbol on so many rep suits.

to the good ol’ days of deadlines at dawn.

to andy kaufman.

to careful driving.

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The Sil started printing 82 years ago. With that same, curly, Old English font across its front page, it was hitting shelves in Hamilton Hall and Univer-sity Hall, which stood alone among a few roads and empty fields. McMaster moved to Hamilton that year from To-ronto, where it had operated as a Baptist college.

We still make our newspapers in broadsheet format, which will be the format of next week’s issue. That makes us a rarity among student newspapers in Canada. Most of them have gone down to a smaller size, either because of shrinking budgets or a lack of student interest.

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People don’t get their news like they used to. They get it online. They interact with it. It’s fast. It comes in a variety of media platforms.

Broadsheet or no broadsheet, the Sil has lagged behind in those respects. But this year, with your help, we want that to be different. We’ve got a new web site. Throughout the year, we’ll be post-ing videos, holding online polls, en-couraging comments, integrating social media platforms and generating web-exclusive content.

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A call to first yearsHaving fun? I’d hope so, because this is one expensive party.

The pool of money allocated to Welcome Week this year is about half a million bucks. Events, swag, bands, food and all the other hoopla adds up quick.

And whether you’re involved in the Week or not, you’re invested. A mandatory fee of $110 is pulled from every first year pocket. That’s new, and a little problematic.

Some Muslim students, for example, have expressed concerns over the inclusivity of Welcome Week, given conflicts between their religious observance and getting their mon-ey’s worth. It doesn’t seem fair to force that choice upon them.

But when you make exceptions for one group, do you extend it to others? Eventually it defeats the purpose of the mandatory fee, which was selected by popular student vote at last year’s students union general assembly.

And even if participation wasn’t an issue, how about enjoyment? Yeah, it’s a good time being a rep. But the Week is for you, first years, and it’s up to you to tell the McMaster Stu-dents Union and the Student Success Centre what you liked and what you didn’t.

Re-imagine the week. Eliminate this, add that. The money’s there, so do the class of 2017 a favour by making sure their Welcome Week is a blast.

• Sam Colbert

Thursday, September 6, 2012 • The Silhouette 5

Opinions Editor: Kacper Niburskiopinions@thesil.caOPINIONS

One day, these will be the days

If you don’t design your life, some-one else will. is circumstance, essentially, is the legacy of devel-opments in marketing.

Initially, marketers were try-ing to make a product more ap-pealing so that it would sell more. But two things have changed: there are many more people doing it, and they are doing it at a very � ne scale.

In other words, a lot of smart people working on a project get it right more o� en than they get it wrong. As a result, there are subtle cues in everything that we experi-ence that are designed to convince us to make a decision.

Marketing has gone from guiding to controlling the user ex-perience. is is bad because the people designing your life don’t know you and their guess is not as good as yours.

Moreover, you’re targeted by thousands of di  erent people sub-tly persuading you to do di  erent, sometimes con­ icting things. If you have ever received mixed mes-

Kacper NiburskiOpinions Editor

sages before, you know that this amounts to a mind fuck.

To clarify, this is not just about massive marketing divisions of big business, or even mini market-ing teams of small businesses. e people screwing with your head might not even call what they do marketing and they might have your best interests in mind.

It’s open source persuasion, because anyone can add some-thing to it, and, to a certain extent, everyone does.

Anyone who takes your views into account when they want you to do something has a hand in your grand design. In other words, anyone with empathy and motive - and that’s a lot of people.

Here’s why you should care: they’re not just a� er your money. You are young and have resources to burn, including time and enthu-siasm. Even gap years and volun-teering are a marketable experi-ence. Here’s how:

Travelling: You set out to Eu-rope, Australia or Asia with thou-sands of dollars to spend. It’s your great adventure, so being informed about what you do before you start

From marketing to mark-everything

Michael HewlettThe Silhouette

Monopolies have gone from guiding consumers to controlling themto travel takes away from the spon-taneity of the moment. As a result, you have money to lose and are easy to convince that an experi-ence isn’t shit; it’s authentic, and it’s culturally insensitive for you to call it shit.

‘Voluntouring’: You went there, you helped out, you did not get drunk and stumble through ailand. You became a better person, and since the experience changed your life, it is fair game to post pictures of yourself with smiling kids on Facebook. But life changing means that your day-to-day changes somehow. Are you planning on using what you learned in Ecuador back here?

To be fair, maybe it was not about you, but the village or the orphans. Consider this: some vol-unteer destinations maintain low living standards so that groups will keep coming and giving capital to their village. Moreover, orphanag-es, with or without you, are statisti-cally damaging institutions, which is why Canada does not have them anymore.

Nowadays, companies shake your hand only to take your wallet. JAVIER CAICEDO MULTIMEDIA EDITOR

SEE PERSUASION, 6

It’s hard to believe you got here. You – that massive mix of sweat and nerves, with those blue-green-brown eyes and that murky yet blonde-orange-black hair. You’ve done it. Congrats. No one expected you to make it this far. ere was a time long ago where you couldn’t help but poop your pants or you couldn’t feed yourself or you cried about both those things, and some people still hold you accountable for that.

No longer. Don’t expect peo-ple to wipe up your mess, scatolog-ical or otherwise. is is university. A place where boys become men, girls become men (especially in Engineering) and men become sleep-deprived, morally broken semblances of what they once were. Really, it is a place where men wish they were boys again.

is is because, although sur-viving the ironclad grip of your mother’s tearful goodbye embrace,

breezing through your father’s chastising lessons and laments and making it through the games of beer-pong be-coming beer-pangs-in-my-stomach, the breakfasts of un-dercooked burri-tos and Cheetos and the crush-ing gravity felt both on your wallet and vertebrates from car-rying 600- dollar text-books, this is both the beginning of the end and the end of the begin-ning.

You, with that beer stain smeared onto your shirt and in-defatigable grin plastered on your face, are at the very edge of a circle. On the inside is ev-

erything you once knew and cher-ished. ere are days of inno-

cence and sunshine, Lego and Barbies. ere are

games that felt like hours and that

replay in your mind again

and again and again. ere is that time you peed in Lake Ontario.

T h e outs ide , t h o u g h , is entirely

dif ferent . I n s t e a d

of warmth and comfort,

there is the cold, hard reality of ev-

erything you don’t know. Ignorance, ambi-

guity, a future as blurry as you were during Frosh Week –

it all stares you in the face. It is life you could never call your own nor a life you ever imagined yourself living. At times, it feels coerced. You never asked to be here. You never asked to be born.

And yet right before your eyes, there are things that you were told to eschew for as long as possible. Ahead in the fading light of com-fort you felt, there is an actuality of eventual debts, early mornings, late nights, lifelong memories, midterms, assignments, exams, � ghts, responsibilities, children, insurances, braces, old-age and, eventually, death. All and all, there is a lifetime that is sandwiched be-tween two milestones that are no more signi� cant than a fart in the wind.

is is the beginning of it all – debts, disappointments and dilapi-dating disasters. But there is more than that. Because on the precipice of a circle, on its very edge, where the light of the middle has dimmed

SEE FIRST, 6

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School is once again upon us even though we’d all probably enjoy another couple of weeks be-fore we get back to the grind.

Yet despite this wish, there is something that can be felt in this place that makes us come back each year. When I came to campus last week, it was all so familiar.

Many of us were away for part or most of the summer, while Mac had been preparing and con-tinuously changing. The grounds were well taken care of (despite the massive drought that much of our continent had been experienc-ing). The sun was shining brightly and the sky looked blue and clear as I walked down the path in front of BSB.

I thought to take out my cam-era and take a picture if only to capture the moment as serene as it was, but as so often happens with technology, it fell short of experi-encing the moment in the present sense.

So instead, I thought to take it – the beauty, the weather, the unquestionable spirit – all in fully and enjoy just being completely in the present.

Everywhere I went every-thing was gearing up for the year ahead, while seeming serene due to most of the students still being away. Fridays are always the much quieter day on campus, and due to the heat, I’m sure some must have gone to the beaches for a quick swim.

As critical as I can be, it nev-er ceases to amaze me how ideal the university experience is.

In a way, as I looked out on at the August picturesque scenery, it felt as though the promise uni-versity represents must still exist in a much palpable and recogniz-

able form. If this were not the case, the positive energy that pervades a stroll across campus would simply not be there.

Every organization likes to toot their horn and I am not one to jump on the bandwagon, but I am incredibly proud of being a part of McMaster. School is what you make it, and ours is brimming with resources.

Staff, students and faculty are so incredibly generous with their time and help, making this uni-versity something of which to be proud. That we have been recog-nized globally owes much to the fact that so many of us are will-ing to engage ourselves and get involved.

It’s these little things that add up and show us that from here, we all truly can create a better society - probably never the ideal, but at least better, and often that’s a lofty enough yet measurable and attain-able goal.

Much luck and success to you all this year.

Born to bleed MaroonRob HardyThe Silhouette

Business persuasion means coercion

First steps on the longest journey

FROM 5

McMaster is made better by everyone coming together.KAREN WANG GRAPHICs EDITOR

FROM 5

Voluntouring is not bad and you’re probably still a great person - key word: probably.

But if you are spending your time, money and enthusiasm to help others or to change your life, building a well while playing with orphans is no guarantee.

People are not smart or dumb; they’re informed or they’re not. Some argue that the road to self-discovery or self-improve-ment needs to start somewhere.

It’s an appeal to randomness and chance. But with open source

a very fine line and where you are surrounded on all sides by an en-vironment you didn’t quite choose, you can see things you could never see in the centre.

What they are differs for ev-eryone. Some only see success. Others are inevitably doomed for failure. Yet we all share the un-known and more importantly, we are all fighting against it together.

It is an indistinct feeling per-vasive here at McMaster. I won’t deny that some people think oth-erwise. They see success only when the light of someone else crashing and burning flickers. Even some of the administrative staff, who

persuasion, others have plans for you, even if you don’t plan for yourself. Shit doesn’t happen, shit is planned. Since you can’t avoid someone’s designs, make your own. If you put thought into what to do, you are more likely to be successful and get an enriching ex-perience.

Doing this in every part of your life has a lot of overhead, but for things like your career or your personal development, the investment is worth it. Ask “Am I really getting what I want out of this?” If the answer is no, ask “Am I at least getting something useful?”

with the precision of lasers, do as much.

But while there is the inevi-tability of sadness and dismay, there is also an opening for un-bridled happiness. We are all taking the first few steps of the longest journey of our life. Some will leap, some will crawl, and others will stop the journey all together.

Yet all of us – from the frosh to the seventh-year bedraggled scholar – will look back on these days, and although we’ll never understand how we survived that Organic Chemistry exam or that one night at the bar, we’ll one day say, “Those were the days.”

Thursday, September 6, 2012 • The Silhouette 7

Sports Editors: Brandon Meawasigeand Scott Hastiesports@thesil.caSPORTS

FOOTBALL

With 26 seconds left in the first half of the Marauders 2012 season debut against the Guelph Gryphons, Kyle Quinlan jumped over a sideline advertisement after one of his sev-eral first down runs on the day.

What would normally be a highlight reel play sealed with a glare at the record-setting opening day crowd has become the show that Marauder fans and the OUA have come to expect from Saturdays at Ron Joyce.

Rushing the ball ten other times for a total of 109 yards, the nation’s best passer asserted both McMaster’s and his own poise to defend the title of national champions - a task made to be imperative for the Maroon and Grey.

Even the national anthem was drowned out by the buzz in and around the stadium, which featured a large line waiting to enter until well through the first quarter. No pressure at all.

However, with a target on their back and the weight of an entire campus resting on their shoulder pads, the Marauders demonstrated what all the hype was about.

After giving up an early score to the visiting team, Mac settled down on both sides of the ball.

Two-and-outs turned into efficient drives, which soon became an onslaught of Robert Babic receptions for six. The fourth year slot back from Oakville, Ont. who scored three touchdowns in last year’s regular season, caught the ball eight times for 165 yards and two scores on Saturday.

As a result, Babic received player of the game honors - an accolade for which several Marauders could have made a case. One of those players, linebacker Ben D’Aguilar, earned himself a spot as the OUA defensive player of the week recording five tackles and three sacks.

The final score of the game was 50-9 in favor of the #1 ranked Marauders whose next game comes against the Waterloo Warriors on Saturday September 8 in Waterloo, Ont.

What appears to be an easy start to the schedule for Mac will quickly escalate as only a week later the nationally ranked Queen’s Gaels will come to town.

All things considered, Saturday was an excellent start to what is surely to be the most closely followed season in program history.

The national spotlight seems to bring out only the best of not only the football team, but also the entire community.

By the looks of it, the Marauders are at the forefront of the growing popularity of Cana-dian university football.

With exciting performances on the field and competitive title races, maybe one day the Vanier Cup and Hec Creighton will share the same buzz as the same awards south of the border. It’s a good place to start.

Record attendance set the stage for a new season at Ron Joyce Stadium.

Quarterback Kyle Quinlan showed off his mobility in Monday’s game against the Gryphons.

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Brandon MeawasigeSenior Sports Editor

Marauders make statement in debut

8 • Sports The Silhouette • Thursday, September 6, 2012

BRINGING HOME THE TORCH

Scott HastieAssistant Sports Editor

Jerry Brown discusses his time wearing Maroon - with a touch of silver

YOSEIF HADDAD SENIOR PHOTO EDITOR

Brown credits McMaster coaching staff in his journey to an Olympic silver medal.

Olympian re� ects on Mac career

On Monday a� ernoon, in front of a ca-pacity Ron Joyce Stadium, the McMas-ter Marauders began their 2012 football season.

� ere to help the team start their season was Jerry Brown, a 2012 Olym-pic Silver Medalist who helped Canada win a silver medal in the men’s eight rowing. Brown, an o­ ensive lineman for the Marauders from 2004-2007, made an appearance to perform a ceremonial kick-o­ at his alma mater.

Marauder athlet-ics holds signi� cance in Brown’s journey to the athletics, as Brown cred-its the football program with giving him the tools to succeed at a world class level in rowing. “� e Ma-rauders gave me a train-ing foundation… it set me up with a discipline in training that I brought into rowing that I wouldn’t have been able to do without that kind of exposure to an intense training program.”

� e No. 7 seat man from the sil-ver medal team only began his rowing career four years prior to becoming a decorated Olympian, but starting a sport late is not a new concept to Brown. Before coming to McMaster, he had not even played football before.

“I didn’t play football in high school so I came into the program and I spent two years just training hard, putting my head down, and it set me up with a dis-

cipline in training that I brought into rowing.”

Brown also gave credit to members of the coaching sta­ for instilling a work ethic in him. “All of these guys build your character and you go through ex-periences; training hard, hardships, winning, losing and everyone just rubs o­ on you and shapes you a little bit.”

Larry Riley, entering his 19th sea-son on the sideline for the Maroon and Grey, was Brown’s o­ ensive line coach for his career. Riley played a major role in Brown’s career and the Olympian had high praises for Coach Riley. “Ja-

son Riley helped me out through some tough times in university. On a per-sonal level, Jason was always very good for helping me

get through some of that.” Brown’s teammate, Doug Cheem,

also hails from McMaster and the pair shares a pride for Mac athletics. “Doug and I are both extremely proud to be Marauders and it’s great to come back. We’re always talking about the Maraud-ers.”

Jerry Brown is a walking example of how taking part in Marauder athlet-ics is more than just a � ve-year experi-ence; it is a journey that begins in Ham-ilton and continues on for the rest of an athlete’s life.

The Marauders gave me a training foundation… it set me up with a

discipline in training that I brought into rowing that I wouldn’t have

been able to do without that kind of exposure to an intense training

program.

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InsideOut Editors: Sam Godfreyand Amanda Watkins

insideout@thesil.caINSIDE OUT

Amanda WatkinsAssistant InsideOut Editor

Snuff the flame of a summer fling

Summer Fling: a popular warm weather sport played between the months of May and August. An average match lasts 8 to 12 weeks (give or take a few) and involves two people in a commitment-free form of human interaction, sharing prolonged eye contact and tender moments.

During the summer months it’s always fun to have a little adven-ture. Whether that be traveling to a new destination, cleaning out your closet, and for some, sparking the fire of a quick summer fling.

Summer romances can be a great way to pass time and feel loved for a few months before the bustle of school starts up again. But what do you do if September comes around and your temporary sig-nificant other just won’t let go? Is it possible to break off a summer fling without somebody getting hurt?

“If you’re having a summer fling, you should treat it just as that,” explains second year English student Jamie. “You can’t expect anything more from it, it is what it is.”

That being said, if you have somehow managed to land yourself in the predicament of a summer fling that just can’t be flung, there are a few steps that can be taken to cool the hearth of a heat wave love affair.

If at the start of your relation-ship you let your partner know that you were not ready for a com-mitment then thumbs up to you, because you’re already one step ahead! When keeping a casual rela-tionship, it is important to let your other half know what you plan on getting out of this arrangement. If you didn’t let them know up front that for you this was just a four month free-for-all, sit down and let them know that quite simply, it would not be a good idea for you to

continue your relationship. If need be, bring up all the commitments that you are already tied to come September - school, work, sports, your Sims family, whatever it is that could potentially cause problems when trying to maintain your rela-tionship.

“It’s when people start antici-pating something more from the relationship that problems develop. I personally don’t think summer flings are a good idea or that they can last because someone will al-most always end up getting hurt,” stated second year Linguistics stu-dent Jenna.

No one should be getting hurt in this situation. There should be no need for you to abruptly end the relationship or suddenly start ig-noring the person. Take the time to talk through what is going on and slow things down. And when I say slow things down, let’s make this obvious: I mean between the sheets. Give it a week or two and gradually work your sexual encounters down to a glacial pace, making them as few and far between as possible. It will soon become obvious that you aren’t interested anymore or that you just don’t have the time. Don’t suddenly leave them high and dry (so to speak) after four months of a pretty wild schedule; no one likes feeling used.

Summer flings can be fun and manageable, so long as you make sure not to rush into a relationship you aren’t prepared for. Try to keep the commitment light and airy, es-pecially when it’s nearing its natural end. If in a role reversal you are the one having difficulties letting go, try not to take the blow too hard and understand that in most cases summer flings are just that, nothing more. Reminisce about the good times you did have and rethink how you might handle a similar situa-tion next summer.

If you like it, then you shouldn’t put a fling on it.

SEX andthe STEEL CITY

10 • InsideOut The Silhouette • Thursday, September 6, 2012

You had a job pressing orange price stickers on discount bottles of shampoo, a nametag pinned to your

shirt tucked in to your bellybutton-high pants. In your free time, you re-organized socks at home and read your mother’s copy of 50 Shades

of Grey. And be honest, you liked it a little. This is how you spent your summer.

But your friends don’t have to know that.

Successfully fool those around you into thinking you spent a rocking four

months with these simple tips:

Your mind-numbing job has left you with a glaze over your eyes - use this to your advantage. By nodding slowly when your friends talk about their summer adventures, your now-per-manent look of boredom will make you appear blasé, nonchalant and other vaguely French words.

Buy something unnecessarily expensive to flaunt during your friendly reunions. The gaudy items will make it seem as though you’ve been living large all summer. Your old friends will assume you befriended celebrities in Silicon Valley, and you might make a few new ones, attracted by your shiny baubles. You can afford to splurge this one time, seeing as the only thing you spent money on this summer was clearance-shelf chocolate.

Somehow, the flickering fluorescents and perpetually-closed blinds have left your skin pasty and white. This is a problem, because if there’s one thing that says “bikini babes and beach volleyball,” it’s a tan. Actually: tan lines. Take some self-tanner and apply it around your sleeve, shorts, and watch edges. It doesn’t have to be perfect, heck it doesn’t even have to be good. It just has to show everyone how much time you spent soaking in the rays. If you’re feeling real crafty, put self-tanner on your face, outlining those Ray-Bans you totally lost on that girl’s sailboat.

“Well Venice was alright, I found it rather droll compared to the rich culture of Malaysian villages.” “The yacht was at least as big as BSB, I swear, when you include the dolphin sanctu-ary out the back.” “Interestingly enough, it turns out the hot-tub could hold another three people.”

“It was great.”All these lies and more are at the tip of your cortex. Just make sure you keep your stories

straight: was the redhead the one you skydived or snorkelled with?Remember: as you spew these tales, just keep smiling. It’ll guard their trust.

At the end of the day, you’ll have spent a productive, useful summer avoiding skin cancer, but your friends will think you’re pretty much Batman. Batman, who spent his summer fan-ning himself with hundos in the British Not-Quite-Virgin Islands.

Sam GodfreySenior InsideOut Editor

Work It

Waste Money

Fake It

Lie Through Your Teeth - Literally

Summer lyin’ had me a blast

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A how-to on

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summer stories

11 • The Silhouette • Thursday, September 6, 2012

ANDY Editors: Nolan Matthewsand Bahar Orang andy@thesil.ca

Caught in a strange and insu� erable case of wanderlust, I embarked on a journey through Europe this past sum-mer in search of inspiration. I wondered if the trip would ful� ll my clichéd expectations. I felt like Woody Allen, wandering through the streets of Europe with a mental camera, daydreaming entire novellas and feature-length � lms with each city as the main character. I found history and culture in Paris. I found fresh air and the bluest pos-sible waters in the French Alps. But my heart expanded a million times over when I stumbled into East London.

When I arrived, I immediately noticed how di� er-ently Londoners were dressed from Parisians. In Paris, life is all about elegance, subtlety and an aversion to pri-mary colours. But in London, everybody looked like a rock star. It was refreshingly diverse, from the girls in Air Max 90’s wearing eight shades of gold, to the English gen-tlemen stepped in tweed, to the London gangster with the buttoned up polo and the pinky ring. Everyone looked like an extra for a Strokes music video or a modern day Blondie or a non-cracked out Amy Winehouse. It was an overwhelming display of strange put-togetherness. I was instantly inspired by everything I saw, and I felt creativ-ity with an understated brand of rebellion all around me.

I was staying with my cousin, sleeping on a pullout couch in her music studio. She works as a producer and

DJ and thus gave me a four-day tour of East London’s underground music scene. We commuted from place to place using a metro system that put Toronto’s only two subway lines to shame. She spent the better part of each trip telling me about the arts in London. She explained that artists were regarded with the highest respect and admiration. She insisted that those who graduated with the best grades in high school went on to be accepted into fashion design and graphic arts programs. She outlined the hugely popular phenomenon of the gay, black rap-per in London. She spent the better part of my short stay bashing Skrillex, accusing him of commercializing the deeply cultural dubstep that originated from the UK un-derground. But I was most fascinated by what I learned and saw of “Grime” – an untamable beast of a music genre that formed in East London.

When we visited a � ea market in Brick Lane, we were greeted by an Asian female street musician, who could not have been more than 18 years old. Her music was an aggressive, angsty, intense and occasionally humor-ous combination of hiphop, dancehall, rap and thudding drum patterns that I couldn’t quite shake o� for the next few hours. I asked my cousin, “What is this?”

“Grime,” she responded.As we walked through fresh produce markets, vin-

tage record booths, and handmade tie-dye shirt sales she tried to de� ne Grime and ended up going o� in tangents with words like “8 bar,” “tension” and “2005.” Once we were home, we indulged in some Youtube digging and she played me Dizzee, Danny Weed, Eskimo, Spartan and P Money into the wee hours of the morning. We were no closer to a de� nition but I was le� with Grime as a feeling, an ethos, a kind of gut reaction.

It was my � rst time in London and I had very limited knowledge about British history and politics. My research tells me that Grime developed as a direct response to the sociopolitical tensions being felt by interstate teenagers of East London. As a fairly ignorant Canadian in England, I still felt strangely moved by this music and addictively engaged by its raw energy. ¡ ose same deep, thudding drum patterns reverberated in my ears on the plane ride home and like whenever you experience the best forms of art, I felt inexplicably reassured by its power and rel-evance. ¡ is totally foreign musical genre had somehow been the last key step in � nally curing me of wanderlust; it de� nitely le� me inspired.

• Bahar Orang ANDY Editor

Starting a new year at school seems as good a time as any for a good, old life reevalua-tion. It’s probably because it’s my last year here at Mac, but I’m � nding myself wonder-ing why things matter. It’s like some kind of mid-student-life crisis. Right now I’m writ-ing about art, and why should that matter?

I asked Dr. Sévigny, a Mac professor in communication studies and multimedia, and he explained that art, and the humani-ties in general, have probably never mat-tered more than right now.

“I think the world is changing, in a pretty serious way,” he said. “¡ is is some-thing Marshall McLuhan predicted, that we’re moving away from a literate, alpha-betized world and moving towards an oral culture.”

Moving away from a literate culture doesn’t mean that people have forgotten how to read. It means that information used to be stored in books, where it was unchangeable and has now moved to the Internet, where nothing is sacred. And the Internet has now moved into our pockets, which, along with social media, is moving us to an oral culture.

“Oral culture is much more � uid and it’s driven much more by principles, it’s driven much more by persuasion, by rheto-ric, for which there was a lot less room be-

fore,” said Dr. Sévigny. “¡ ere’s a bene� t to that, and the ben-

e� t is that the world is a lot more human, people are a lot more persuadable,” he said.

People are more persuadable because information is presented as a conversation in an oral culture. If someone shares their views through Facebook, another person can quickly comment and disagree, link-ing to articles written by experts to back up their opinion.

“¡ e downside to it is that it is harder to get to the truth of things - it is harder to understand what really happened. It’s al-ways this game of broken telephone,” said Dr. Sévigny.

¡ e truth isn’t necessarily important though, because it’s not the information that matters, it’s how it’s presented. And art-ists win when it comes to presentation.

In an oral culture, artists are able to control what information people believe is important.

“I think that the ‘humanities is useless’ nonsense that is going around would evap-orate if we ditched all the layers of jargon and theory that we’ve opposed upon our-selves, because none of it is real,” said Dr. Sévigny. “What’s real is gaining a deeper un-derstanding of human motivation and not from a neuroscience perspective, but from

an aesthetic perspective. Or what people � nd beautiful or true, or not true. And that’s visceral stu� .”

If facts on their own are less able to make us feel something, there’s more room for the artists to have their way wwith our thoughts and feelings.

“In an oral culture, this is our century. I mean, McLuhan said it - it’s the century of the pattern-� nder, the artist, the critic who can have this massive impact, because we are back to this world of human experi-ence.”

• Nolan MatthewsSenior ANDY Editor

Oh, the humanitiesThe eff ect of social media and smartphones on art

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12 • ANDY The Silhouette • Thursday, September 6, 2012

Steve Angello brings down the house

Tune in to ANDY next week for a steamy interview, where we cut through the fog of Welcome Week’s hottest artist.

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