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Fun-ding for breast cancer<br />
Photo by Mike Terminesi<br />
BREAST FRIENDS: Chris Hinton, director of the Innovation Centre, gets chucked down the hall by Lisa Kerr, administrative professional. The aim<br />
was to get the person into a little box for your chance to win a GPS system. Ticket proceeds went towards breast cancer research.<br />
Campus tickled pink by events<br />
By Jayme Quinn<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
Power of Pink has hit <strong>Durham</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>UOIT</strong> with splashes of<br />
pink <strong>and</strong> boobs everywhere!<br />
On March 11, staff <strong>and</strong> faculty<br />
on campus got up nice <strong>and</strong> early<br />
to set up their booths to help raise<br />
money for breast cancer research.<br />
This is the fifth year that the<br />
event has been held, <strong>and</strong> the Oshawa<br />
campus, Whitby campus,<br />
Campus Corners <strong>and</strong> staff <strong>and</strong><br />
students have been involved.<br />
The event has offices competing<br />
in three categories: most creative<br />
display, most money raised<br />
<strong>and</strong> most informative display.<br />
In total, not including this year,<br />
the campaign has raised over<br />
$21,000, in an effort to raise awareness<br />
for breast cancer <strong>and</strong> to help<br />
breast cancer research.<br />
Cancer is a disease that starts<br />
in our cells. Our bodies are made<br />
up of millions of cells that group<br />
together to form tissues <strong>and</strong> organs.<br />
Sometimes, the instructions<br />
in some cells get mixed up, caus-<br />
By Edith Zikmann<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
VOLUME XXXV, Issue 15 March 17, 2009<br />
The Student Association (SA)<br />
winter election campaign is set<br />
for this week but it looks like<br />
there won’t be many people to<br />
vote for.<br />
Students were scheduled to<br />
vote for the SA members of their<br />
choice from 9 a.m. on March 18<br />
Trent shows its colours Ridgebacks awarded<br />
Story on page 10 Story on page 29<br />
ing them to act abnormally. These<br />
cells grow <strong>and</strong> divide uncontrollably,<br />
<strong>and</strong> after a period of time, form<br />
lumps or tumours.<br />
There is no single cause of<br />
to 5 p.m. March 20.<br />
Students usually vote on who<br />
will be the next president, which<br />
is a full-time paid position that<br />
supervises <strong>and</strong> manages all of<br />
the executive roles of the SA. The<br />
president also acts as the official<br />
spokesperson of the SA. That position<br />
has been acclaimed.<br />
Also acclaimed is the position<br />
of vice-president of Internal,<br />
breast cancer, but some factors<br />
that appear to increase the risk<br />
of developing it are: age, personal<br />
history of breast cancer family history<br />
of breast cancer, never having<br />
Your SA elections<br />
which is also a full-time paid position<br />
whose role is to ensure operational<br />
policies of Your SA are<br />
updated <strong>and</strong> implemented.<br />
Other executive positions<br />
were also acclaimed, except for<br />
VP of <strong>Durham</strong> <strong>College</strong>, which<br />
had no takers.<br />
The SA will seek nominations<br />
for that position again.<br />
See No contest Page 6<br />
given birth or giving birth for the<br />
first time after 30, beginning menstruation<br />
at a young age, reaching<br />
menopause later than average,<br />
taking hormone replacement<br />
therapy for more than five years,<br />
<strong>and</strong> dense breast.<br />
The most common symptom of<br />
breast cancer is a painless lump in<br />
the breast or armpit.<br />
Tammy Peacocke, a nurse at<br />
the campus health centre, said it<br />
is best to do a self-examination before<br />
you get your doctor to take a<br />
look.<br />
“You get to know your breasts<br />
the best, so doing the exam yourself,<br />
you learn what to look for <strong>and</strong><br />
what to feel for,” said Peacocke.<br />
The campus health centre was<br />
one of the many offices that set up<br />
a display around campus.<br />
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Pink<br />
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The display was set up in Vendor’s Alley,<br />
<strong>and</strong> had pamphlets, shower hangers for<br />
self-examinations <strong>and</strong> a “guess the number<br />
game”. Eight jars set on the table were filled<br />
with things like rockets, caramel c<strong>and</strong>ies,<br />
licorice, gum balls, chocolate, <strong>and</strong> because<br />
it is the health centre, there was a jar full of<br />
condoms. It was 50 cents per guess <strong>and</strong> if<br />
you guessed right, you won whatever is in<br />
the jar.<br />
Another display that was more about informing<br />
students than making money was<br />
from the Learner Support Centre. Right outside<br />
their office, above the computer commons,<br />
they had a poster board set up with<br />
information about breast cancer <strong>and</strong> where<br />
it comes from, how to detect it <strong>and</strong> the treatments.<br />
Kathy Bryers said they were the only<br />
display that had any information on male<br />
breast cancer.<br />
“A lot of people focus on female breast<br />
cancer, but men can get it as well,” said Bryers.<br />
The centre also had a c<strong>and</strong>y sale, a white<br />
elephant sale (lots of toys) <strong>and</strong> a new/used<br />
jewelry sale for the fundraising portion of<br />
the event.<br />
The Career Services/Student Life office<br />
set up one display that was mainly focused<br />
on having fun <strong>and</strong> raising money. They had<br />
an office fun house equipped with a clown,<br />
piñata <strong>and</strong> a bobbing-for-fish game. They<br />
also had c<strong>and</strong>y apples <strong>and</strong> popcorn for sale.<br />
Other events that were there to entertain<br />
were a children’s art show done by the<br />
Early Learning Centre, a breast cancer trivia<br />
game done by the Provost Office/Associate<br />
Provost, Teaching <strong>and</strong> Learning Office, <strong>and</strong><br />
the Chuck-a-Colleague-for-Cancer, done by<br />
the Innovation Centre.<br />
But the most popular event of the day<br />
was the Jail n’ Bail, put together by the Centre<br />
for Students with Disabilities. Teachers<br />
Lisa’s Beads leave<br />
a lasting legacy<br />
By Jayme Quinn<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
The Power of Pink Campaign hit campus March 11, <strong>and</strong> to<br />
support the day, Lisa’s Beads was there to lend a helping h<strong>and</strong>.<br />
Lisa’s Beads is a fundraising project run by Doug McBride, his<br />
two daughters <strong>and</strong> three nieces.<br />
In 2003, Lisa McBride passed away after a her five-year battle<br />
with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. She left behind husb<strong>and</strong> Doug,<br />
<strong>and</strong> daughters, Spencer <strong>and</strong> Taylor.<br />
“Within weeks of her death my niece Shannon was inspired<br />
to make <strong>and</strong> sell bracelets to raise money for cancer research,”<br />
said McBride.<br />
Spencer, Taylor <strong>and</strong> two cousins, Kristine <strong>and</strong> Hannah, joined<br />
Shannon in the endeavour.<br />
The girls decided to name their bracelets Lisa’s Beads, in memory<br />
of his wife, their mother <strong>and</strong> their aunt. Each bracelet carries<br />
a tag describing the project <strong>and</strong> where the money is donated.<br />
On Dec. 29, 2003, the girls h<strong>and</strong>ed over their first cheque to<br />
the Canadian Cancer Society in Newmarket.<br />
“The girls raised over $1,000 from their bracelets in just a few<br />
months,” said McBride.<br />
Lately they have slowed down in the sales <strong>and</strong> promotions<br />
but still participate in events such as the Breast Cancer Walk <strong>and</strong><br />
Power of Pink.<br />
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<strong>and</strong> staff from <strong>Durham</strong> <strong>College</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>UOIT</strong><br />
were “convicted” <strong>and</strong> thrown in a jail cell,<br />
<strong>and</strong> were not allowed out until they posted<br />
their bail.<br />
Some of the jailbirds were John Burt,<br />
Margaret Greenley, Jane Davis, Ralph Aprile<br />
<strong>and</strong> Scott Barker.<br />
Barker, the athletic co-ordinator for <strong>UOIT</strong><br />
<strong>and</strong> <strong>Durham</strong> <strong>College</strong>, was approached <strong>and</strong><br />
he was excited to participate.<br />
“It was a fun way to get involved in a<br />
very important campaign,” said Barker. “<br />
The progress made over the years in raising<br />
money for this research has been astounding,<br />
so when I was approached to be involved<br />
I was happy to help out.”<br />
Barker raised just over $100 <strong>and</strong> was set<br />
free.<br />
At 3 p.m. there were some “special” arrests<br />
being made. The president, Don Lovisa,<br />
was the first to be convicted. He was<br />
charged with many things, including overuse<br />
of technology <strong>and</strong> loitering in the hallway<br />
after business hours.<br />
Lovisa had his “lawyer” present through<br />
the proceeding, which helped him get a<br />
lesser sentence, but in total he was to raise<br />
$400 for his bail. To help his defence, he<br />
raised $275 before he was even sentenced.<br />
SA president Amy Engl<strong>and</strong> was also<br />
charged.<br />
Her lawyer, a fellow student, helped her<br />
plead her case to the judge, who was quite<br />
fond of the students. Engl<strong>and</strong>’s lawyer requested<br />
the bail be set at $50.<br />
“Because success matters here <strong>and</strong> the<br />
students come first, I will accept your request<br />
of a $50 bail,” said the judge.<br />
The event gathered students from the college<br />
<strong>and</strong> university, professors, <strong>and</strong> support<br />
staff <strong>and</strong> raised a hefty amount of money for<br />
the worthy cause.<br />
“I thought it was an excellent event <strong>and</strong><br />
very well organized <strong>and</strong> carried out,” said<br />
Barker.<br />
The Power of Pink committee will be donating<br />
half of the proceeds to the Heather<br />
Griffith Breast Assessment Centre, which<br />
In 2008, after slowing down, the girls raised $12,000, bringing<br />
their total to $116,000 in five years.<br />
“I’m quite proud of my girls,” said McBride. “They reached out<br />
<strong>and</strong> made that difference. Not only did it affect themselves but<br />
(they) supported others.”<br />
Photo by Jayme Quinn<br />
LADIES WITH HOPE AND STYLE: From left: Joyce Marshall, Patty Lea, Barb Logan <strong>and</strong> Carolyn McCutcheon<br />
proudly wear the T-shirts they were selling in Vendor’s Alley March 11 during the Power of Pink celebrations<br />
on campus. The money from the shirts goes towards cancer research <strong>and</strong> supporting the annual<br />
Gala of Hope charity event.<br />
Photo by Jayme Quinn<br />
BEADS FOR A CAUSE: Taylor McBride with the<br />
bracelets made in memory of her mom.<br />
will soon be located at Lakeridge Health in<br />
Oshawa.<br />
The centre will provide patients with coordinated<br />
timely access to breast assessment.<br />
“The primary goal is to provide reassurance<br />
as quickly as possible to those without<br />
cancer, <strong>and</strong> to those who have been diagnosed,”<br />
said Carolyn McCutcheon, from the<br />
Oshawa Hospital Foundation.<br />
The assessment centre will also bring<br />
necessary procedures (mammography,<br />
ultrasound <strong>and</strong> breast assessment) to one<br />
area.<br />
With the support of the school, the Power<br />
of Pink committee is sure they will reach<br />
their final goal of $25,000 to receive gold ribbon<br />
status from the cancer society.<br />
“I don’t know what our financial result is.<br />
Right now it doesn’t matter,” said Liesje de<br />
Burger, as a final thought for how the whole<br />
day went.<br />
“What I do know is that the campus enjoyed<br />
the day. That’s huge!”<br />
Brush up on your<br />
breast cancer<br />
knowledge<br />
By Lauren Thomas<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
Breast cancer is the most commonly<br />
diagnosed cancer in women in Canada. It<br />
is also found in men, but is less common.<br />
Breast cancer can affect women of all<br />
ages, but most cases occur in women over<br />
the age of 50.<br />
An estimated 170 men will be diagnosed<br />
every year with breast cancer, 50<br />
will die of it.<br />
On average, 431 Canadian women will<br />
be diagnosed with breast cancer every<br />
week.<br />
On average, 102 Canadian women will<br />
die of breast cancer every week.<br />
One in nine women is expected to develop<br />
breast cancer in her lifetime. One in<br />
28 women will die of it.<br />
The percentage of women affected by<br />
breast cancer has declined since 1969 in<br />
women aged 20-39.<br />
Source: Canadian Cancer Society
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The Chronicle March 17, 2009 3<br />
Photo by Rachael Coombs<br />
VOLUNTEERS LOCK IN THE NUMBERS: (From left) Kyle Hird, Taryne Haight, Kaitlin Elsmore, <strong>and</strong> Aneesa Shaik take the time out of their busy<br />
accounting student schedule to help <strong>UOIT</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Durham</strong> <strong>College</strong> students save some time off their own schedule, with a cash bonus.<br />
It’s that time: get your tax on<br />
By Rachael Coombs<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
Tax season is here. Hooray. And<br />
you probably already filed away<br />
your taxes for a fee, but next year<br />
go to the tax clinic for free.<br />
The tax clinic is put on by the<br />
Accounting Association, which<br />
started about five years ago, is pri-<br />
marily made up of students.<br />
Unfortunately, the tax clinic is<br />
closed for the rest of the year now,<br />
as it was only for the two days,<br />
March 10, 11, but if you are interested<br />
in filing next year for free or<br />
would like to see the process, go to<br />
the tax clinic next March.<br />
Trained by the Canadian Revenue<br />
Agency, these accounting students<br />
know how to do the process<br />
effortlessly in 15 minutes or less,<br />
unless faced with problems.<br />
And not only are students saving<br />
on accounting fees, they are<br />
helping promote the school’s clubs<br />
<strong>and</strong> activities.<br />
“It’s good for the school, it’s<br />
good for the club <strong>and</strong> it’s good for<br />
the students,” said third-year Accounting<br />
student Aneesa Shaik.<br />
“We are trying to do this for the<br />
BYOB: be your own<br />
boss this summer<br />
By Lynn Wayling<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
Tired of working for the man? Want to be your<br />
own boss? Well, the Business Advisory Centre of<br />
<strong>Durham</strong> (BACD) is giving students age 15 to 29 the<br />
chance to call the shots.<br />
The 2009 Summer Company Program is open<br />
for applications until April 4 <strong>and</strong> will give 15 young<br />
entrepreneurs the chance to run their own business<br />
over the summer months.<br />
The program is sponsored by the Ontario government<br />
<strong>and</strong> is co-ordinated by the BACD. Eligible<br />
students can apply at www.ontario.ca/summercompany<br />
<strong>and</strong> submit their business plan. Successful<br />
c<strong>and</strong>idates receive $3,000 towards their business<br />
venture.<br />
“We are looking for businesses, ideas that are viable<br />
to start with $3,000 <strong>and</strong> that can actually get<br />
up <strong>and</strong> running <strong>and</strong> produce an income for the<br />
individual over the course of the summer months,”<br />
says Wenda Abel, young entrepreneur program<br />
manager at BACD. “Also we’re looking for the kind<br />
of person who is committed to this as their summer<br />
activity, to generate an income for themselves.”<br />
In place since 2001, the program has seen many<br />
different business ventures, from goaltending clin-<br />
ics to web design businesses, swimming lessons to<br />
sewing lessons, lawn care <strong>and</strong> even concert promotions.<br />
“A young fellow operated a music promotions<br />
business whereby he got the local b<strong>and</strong>s, created<br />
venues <strong>and</strong> concert gigs for them, <strong>and</strong> the proceeds<br />
were his income,” explains Abel.<br />
A student from a couple of years ago – Heather<br />
Frize – managed to turn her summer business into<br />
a full-time endeavour, selling jewelry online <strong>and</strong> at<br />
stores in Toronto.<br />
Given the current economic climate, Abel thinks<br />
it’s the right time to try out the program. And considering<br />
small businesses generate 90 per cent of<br />
the Ontario economy, learning how to run a business<br />
is a valuable tool.<br />
“It’s a great time to try out the program,” says<br />
Abel. “Students are not risking their own money,<br />
they’re risking someone else’s. Summer jobs may<br />
be a little difficult to come by this year. This is a<br />
grant, so they don’t have to give the money back.<br />
It is theirs to do the best they can with it. The other<br />
thing is, this is a really great time to develop the<br />
knowledge <strong>and</strong> skills of operating a business if they<br />
have any inclination towards that in the future.”<br />
An information session will be held March 21<br />
at the BACD or you can email youth@bacd.ca for<br />
more information or go to www.bossmaker.ca.<br />
students.”<br />
The tax clinic started when the<br />
club began. Members of the association<br />
saw it being done at other<br />
schools <strong>and</strong> thought that it should<br />
be introduced here at DC/<strong>UOIT</strong>.<br />
All you need to do is bring in<br />
your SIN card; some sort of identification<br />
<strong>and</strong>, of course, your T4 slip<br />
<strong>and</strong> school receipts, which you can<br />
print off my campus.<br />
If you have also given to charity<br />
in the tax year or have rent receipts,<br />
you can receive a portion back.<br />
And don’t worry about confidentiality;<br />
volunteers need to sign<br />
a confidentiality form, to keep your<br />
finances private.<br />
“No matter what field you are<br />
in, you have to file your taxes,” said<br />
Shaik.<br />
Help finding a job?<br />
By Shenieka<br />
Russell-Metcalf<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
It may be only March but it’s<br />
never too early to start your summer<br />
job search. Job Connect resource<br />
centre is offering a summer<br />
job service for students aged 15 to<br />
24 planning to return to school in<br />
September.<br />
“Summer jobs is a provincial<br />
program that runs every day from<br />
April 1 to Aug. 31 funded annually,”<br />
said Kim Lutes-McKay, manager<br />
of community employment<br />
resource services at <strong>Durham</strong> <strong>College</strong>.<br />
“The program has been running<br />
for 11 years <strong>and</strong> there’s a<br />
wide range of opportunities available,<br />
from entry level jobs to sector-<br />
specific jobs.”<br />
Also to be eligible, you have<br />
to not be currently employed by<br />
the employer, eligible to work in<br />
Canada <strong>and</strong> not related to the employer.<br />
“They’re subsidized positions<br />
<strong>and</strong> employers receive a $2/hour<br />
wage subsidy for hiring a student,”<br />
said Lutes-McKay. “Sometimes<br />
employers save the subsidy money<br />
<strong>and</strong> reimburse it to the student<br />
when they are done working.”<br />
Students can come into the<br />
resource centre to work on their<br />
resume, participate in workshops<br />
<strong>and</strong> get tips from the resource coordinator<br />
on what employers are<br />
looking for.<br />
“There’ll be a variety of full-time<br />
<strong>and</strong> part-time jobs,” said Lutes-<br />
McKay. “We really encourage employers<br />
to give students as many<br />
hours as possible.”<br />
To register, students need to<br />
come into the resource centres<br />
at either the Port Hope, Oshawa<br />
North or Uxbridge campus. They<br />
are then given information about<br />
the job postings.<br />
As well, there’s a summer job<br />
camp geared towards the younger<br />
job seeker held over the span of a<br />
week that teaches them skills they<br />
can apply in the workplace, <strong>and</strong><br />
hopefully will help them find employment,<br />
says Lutes-McKay.<br />
Given the economic times, everyone<br />
needs a jump start,” said<br />
Lutes-McKay.<br />
“The employment advisers will<br />
help job seekers sell themselves to<br />
employers.
4 The Chronicle March 17, 2009<br />
Publisher: Robin Pereira<br />
Editor-in-Chief: Gerald Rose<br />
Ad Manager: Dawn Salter<br />
Over 500 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer<br />
every year <strong>and</strong> many aren’t aware of it until the later<br />
stages. Cervical cancer is the cancer of the neck of the<br />
uterus. Symptoms include abnormal<br />
bleeding, unusual heavy<br />
discharge, pelvic pain <strong>and</strong> pain<br />
during urination.<br />
Getting a Pap test could potentially<br />
lower the chances of<br />
getting the cancer, as the test<br />
will allow doctors to detect precancerous<br />
cells. Now ladies, pap<br />
tests aren’t only for those that are<br />
sexually active. It is recommended that you go for a pap<br />
test before the age of 25.<br />
Recently in the UK, Jade Goody was diagnosed with<br />
Cervical Cancer. She is best known for being the outspoken<br />
member of Big Brother 3, as well as being involved in<br />
E ditors:<br />
Am<strong>and</strong>a Allison, Paul Bates,, Melissa Bies, Matt<br />
Bird, Artem Boykov, Jonnel Briscoe, Shayna Brown, Rachael<br />
Coombs, Thomas Cranston, Robyn DePratto, Josh Dillon, Asmahan<br />
Garrib, Andrew Huska, Jaspinder Jassal, Ryan Joseph, Didier<br />
Kalonji, Khadija King, Beth Lafay, Nicki Lamont, Alistair Lowe, Sarah<br />
Manns, Jamilah McCarthy, Patrick O’Connor, Tyler Olhew, Tabitha Olliffe,<br />
Krista Paxton, Am<strong>and</strong>a Press, Jayme Quinn, Shawntee Russell,<br />
Shenieka Russell-Metcalf, Liisa Sahamies, Krystin Spittal, Samantha<br />
Stewart, Mike Terminesi, Lauren Thomas, Lynn Wayling, Edith Zikmann<br />
<strong>Durham</strong> <strong>College</strong>-<strong>UOIT</strong> Chronicle<br />
EDITORIAL<br />
the racism controversy involving Bollywood actress, Shilpa<br />
Shetty.<br />
Now in it’s final stages, her cancer has officially been<br />
diagnosed as terminal.<br />
Goody only has a few weeks to live. She had<br />
stated during a live interview on a British morning<br />
news show that her cancer could have been<br />
prevented, if only her docter had detected the<br />
pre- cancerous cells earlier.<br />
In the UK, women are sent letters for m<strong>and</strong>atory<br />
Pap tests at the age of 25. It used to be 20<br />
but had been increased.<br />
In Canada, women have to book their own<br />
tests <strong>and</strong> at times don’t get it done until after the age of 25.<br />
I don’t believe this is right. Women should be sent out letters<br />
just like those living in Britain. That way, women can<br />
be regularly checked for pre-cancerous cells to avoid any<br />
sort of illness.<br />
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Advertising: Room L-220; Ext. 3069<br />
E-mail: Chronicle.News@dc-uoit.ca<br />
Dawn.Salter@durhamcollege.ca<br />
Students left str<strong>and</strong>ed again<br />
As campus grows,<br />
student housing<br />
developers are still<br />
held back by region<br />
An already sticky housing situation at <strong>Durham</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
<strong>and</strong> <strong>UOIT</strong> might get much worse, thanks to the Regional<br />
Municipality of <strong>Durham</strong>.<br />
On March 4 the <strong>Durham</strong> Region finance committee refused<br />
to defer the development charge for the company set<br />
to build the new student-housing village on Simcoe Street<br />
South. Because of that refusal the company, Dundurn Edge<br />
Developments, was unable to secure financing for the project.<br />
So Dundurn’s owner Carlo Di Gioachhino has said that<br />
he will start work on a project in Thorold, a job that he was<br />
willing to put on hold if the region gave him some financial<br />
relief.<br />
That leaves the planned 556-unit complex on the drawing<br />
board.<br />
The region’s decision is disappointing to say the least.<br />
The campus continues to grow every year, with plenty of<br />
students coming from all over the province to enrol at two<br />
top-notch schools, so naturally there are going to be more<br />
students coming from communities too far away to commute<br />
to <strong>and</strong> from.<br />
Also, if this complex is built that means a great number<br />
of students can move into this residence instead of moving<br />
into rental homes in the neighbourhoods surrounding the<br />
campus, something that local residents would be all too<br />
happy to see. In fact, development of new residences was<br />
something that the Student Housing Task Force has recommended.<br />
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Oshawa recently came under fire when a volunteer<br />
cameraman, Billy Steel, who worked for Rogers<br />
Television while working at an Oshawa<br />
General’s hockey game, approached<br />
Don Cherry to ask him<br />
about his tie.<br />
This indiscretion as Rogers<br />
called it, led to the company removing<br />
the cameraman from his position.<br />
Celebrities are constantly being<br />
approached by people, whether<br />
it be at their job or just on the street, so why should<br />
this be any different.<br />
The fact that makes this story even worse is that<br />
Steel was removed from the position <strong>and</strong> is only 17.<br />
According to his father, Billy has a learning disability<br />
<strong>and</strong> has been in trouble with the law for many years,<br />
that is until a year ago when Billy befriended the Generals<br />
<strong>and</strong> turned his life around.<br />
The company that runs the General Motors Centre,<br />
Global Spectrum, angered Don Cherry when the<br />
Toronto Star ran an article with his name in it that<br />
made it seem like he agreed with what Rogers did.<br />
Cherry said he loves it when kids come up <strong>and</strong> talk to<br />
<strong>Durham</strong> <strong>College</strong>-<strong>UOIT</strong> Chronicle<br />
OPINION<br />
He just wanted to<br />
shake his hero’s h<strong>and</strong><br />
him. “That is the reason that I wear these goofy ties.”<br />
I feel if a person in the media has been approached,<br />
it is their decision whether or not<br />
they will answer someone’s ques-<br />
tions.<br />
As a result of the incident the<br />
father of the young cameraman is<br />
looking at the option of suing the<br />
city as well as the General Motors<br />
Centre for punitive damages <strong>and</strong><br />
any wages the youth might have<br />
earned. I think if the case gets to court there will be<br />
a lot of empathy for the youth, as most people would<br />
find it hard to do what this young man did. Even I<br />
have a couple of stories of going up to celebrities <strong>and</strong><br />
wanting to talk to them, not just because I am in the<br />
field of journalism, but because it is just human nature<br />
to want to be around successful people <strong>and</strong> for<br />
that brief moment in time feel like we are a real somebody<br />
to someone.<br />
The greatest thing I can see coming from this is that<br />
even though the youth does not get to cover the Oshawa<br />
General’s games, no one will ever be able to take<br />
away the feeling of meeting someone he admired.<br />
Paul<br />
Bates<br />
Not all chicks like lame flicks<br />
I don’t like chick flicks. You<br />
would think that all women love<br />
them, but that is just a cliché.<br />
Why don’t I like chick flicks?<br />
Nothing against them personally,<br />
they usually have decent story<br />
lines <strong>and</strong><br />
can get you<br />
a little teary<br />
eyed, but<br />
they are just<br />
so disgustingly<br />
sappy<br />
<strong>and</strong> unrealistic<br />
when it<br />
comes down<br />
to it. Sometimes it makes me want<br />
to throw up. I watched a movie<br />
the other night called He’s Just Not<br />
That Into You. The characters had<br />
their rejection, one guy cheated on<br />
his wife, <strong>and</strong> the other girl left her<br />
boyfriend of seven years, but in the<br />
end most of it worked out <strong>and</strong> they<br />
were happy.<br />
In all chick flicks, someone<br />
usually falls in love <strong>and</strong> lives happily<br />
ever after, blah blah blah. Well<br />
where is my prince charming to<br />
come sweep me off my feet so I<br />
Shayna<br />
Brown<br />
Is it just me or has dating become<br />
more impersonal in recent<br />
years? I mean I don’t find it hard to<br />
meet men, <strong>and</strong> I’d be lying if I said<br />
I can’t garner<br />
my share of<br />
attention from<br />
the opposite<br />
sex, but what<br />
I do find difficult<br />
is dealing<br />
with this<br />
modern technology<br />
that is<br />
now dictating the happenings of<br />
my love life. I remember being 12<br />
years old <strong>and</strong> getting a phone call<br />
from my first boyfriend every day.<br />
My mom of course hated it, <strong>and</strong><br />
can live happily ever after?<br />
They make it so damn believable<br />
<strong>and</strong> put false hope in your<br />
head. Life isn’t as sweet <strong>and</strong> d<strong>and</strong>y<br />
as it appears on the big screen.<br />
Sure the characters fall for each<br />
other <strong>and</strong> realize that they want to<br />
be together. Good<br />
for them. But what<br />
about five, ten years<br />
down the road? Are<br />
they still together?<br />
Are they happy?<br />
Of course they are<br />
in Hollywood, but<br />
what about in reality?<br />
The opposite sex is complicated<br />
enough without adding sex<br />
<strong>and</strong> dating into the equation. It’s<br />
human nature to be horny <strong>and</strong><br />
want to fornicate with the opposite<br />
sex. You will find yourself attracted<br />
to numerous people in your life.<br />
It’s when the attraction becomes<br />
more, that it poses a problem.<br />
Dating is a lot more complex<br />
than it appears in movies. There is<br />
no script in life. It doesn’t always<br />
work out. There is no predetermined<br />
outcome. It is all based<br />
I of course loved it. But ten years<br />
later I think my mom is the one<br />
smiling because where the boys<br />
are concerned my phone doesn’t<br />
ring quite as much.<br />
Though that<br />
doesn’t mean they<br />
Jamilah<br />
McCarthy<br />
don’t contact me.<br />
My headaches<br />
are a result of the<br />
constant beeping<br />
sounds from the<br />
hundreds of text<br />
messages I re-<br />
ceive a day.<br />
I used to love bragging to my<br />
girlfriends about how my boyfriend’s<br />
voice sounded when he<br />
said he loved me. Now I get excited<br />
on the decisions you make. And<br />
people make bad decisions all<br />
the time: date a jerk, cheat, have<br />
a one-night st<strong>and</strong>. Quite often<br />
there is the one that ‘got away’ or<br />
you find yourself wondering well<br />
what if? So what do you do when<br />
you find yourself questioning your<br />
life <strong>and</strong> the decisions you’ve made,<br />
whether you’re going in the right<br />
direction or if you’re with the right<br />
person? Do we always want what<br />
we can’t have? And do we want it<br />
simply because we can’t have it or<br />
because we really want it?<br />
It is after watching these movies<br />
<strong>and</strong> seeing the characters that<br />
you can start to question your<br />
decisions <strong>and</strong> question the whole<br />
dating <strong>and</strong> relationship scene. Is it<br />
just Hollywood glam or does Mr.<br />
Right really exist? Are we just settling<br />
for Mr. Right-now?<br />
The opposite sex causes so<br />
much drama. Mix in sex, dating<br />
<strong>and</strong> relationships <strong>and</strong> you’ve got<br />
one hell of a concoction. Love.<br />
Sex. Relationships. Those three<br />
words hold so much meaning, <strong>and</strong><br />
power its almost scary.<br />
if in the text message he spells love<br />
the correct way instead of “luv”.<br />
There was a time when guys<br />
would ask for my phone number,<br />
now they ask for my MSN or<br />
even worse my Facebook. Instead<br />
of a phone call I get a notification<br />
from a website telling me I’ve been<br />
poked. It’s like I’m dating a computer<br />
screen. There is an emoticon<br />
for every emotion. When I tell my<br />
friends “We got into a huge argument<br />
last night,” I don’t mean there<br />
was a lot of yelling, what I mean is I<br />
pressed shift, colon <strong>and</strong> @ a lot.<br />
I used to get phone calls. Now<br />
I’m lucky if a guy says hi to me<br />
when I sign online. And if he says<br />
hi to me, does he really like me<br />
The Chronicle March 17, 2009 5<br />
Save the<br />
drama for<br />
your mama<br />
Finally. I was free of all the high school drama, all the immaturity.<br />
I couldn’t wait to start my first year of college. I was becoming<br />
an adult.When I walked into my first class at <strong>Durham</strong> <strong>College</strong>,<br />
I was thrilled. No more desks with metal chairs attached. Most importantly,<br />
no more acting like<br />
children!<br />
Krystie<br />
Spittal<br />
I couldn’t wait to see how<br />
the next few years would unfold.My<br />
first year of college<br />
was spent living in residence.<br />
I was under the impression<br />
that residence was a good<br />
way to meet friends, a conve-<br />
nient place to live on campus <strong>and</strong> teaches you a sense of responsibility.<br />
Well that all sure backfired.<br />
Instead, I went through more drama than I can even begin to explain<br />
because of the friends I had in residence. I began to take my<br />
time getting to class since the school was so close, <strong>and</strong> ironically,<br />
that usually made me late. And as for responsibility… lets just say I<br />
was 17 <strong>and</strong> living on my own.<br />
I did learn my lesson by my second year though. That’s when I<br />
began to question if it was just me, or if a lot of people were still acting<br />
as if they were in high school. That’s when I realized that college<br />
is just the same as high school.<br />
Since I failed four classes in my second semester of first year, I<br />
had to retake them with a new group of first years. When I got to the<br />
first class I couldn’t believe it. Everyone was sitting in their cliques<br />
with no room for one more. I kept thinking to myself, this would<br />
never happen in the “real world” that college is supposed to prepare<br />
us for, if a new employee walks in <strong>and</strong> everyone just stares <strong>and</strong> then<br />
looks away… how childish! To top it off, since I did not have a set<br />
seat I sat at different tables every day listening to all the classmates<br />
talk behind each other’s back. I could not believe I was in a college<br />
classroom.<br />
As I left my high school graduation, I remember talking about all<br />
the differences between high school <strong>and</strong> college. Three years later,<br />
in my last year of college, here I am. And if I have discovered anything<br />
about college, it would be that college is just high school with<br />
more comfortable chairs.<br />
In the bathrooms, I sometimes see girls gather by the sinks <strong>and</strong><br />
gossip about friends <strong>and</strong> enemies, as they carefully look over their<br />
hair <strong>and</strong> make-up. They will repeat this until perfection is achieved,<br />
<strong>and</strong> the gossip has run dry. In the hallways as I walk past, I hear bits<br />
<strong>and</strong> pieces of so-<strong>and</strong>-so sleeping with whoever’s boyfriend. Apparently<br />
college does not free you from drama.<br />
The maturity level of college students seems to be no better than<br />
high school students. In my opinion, college is the period in a person’s<br />
life where they should not only be shaping their future, but<br />
growing up. Are we ready to grow up?<br />
If you like me, don’t poke me, call me!<br />
or is he just saying hi because<br />
no one else is online <strong>and</strong> he’s<br />
bored?Furthermore, I’m starting<br />
to feel extremely weird about the<br />
fact that I can tell what a guy is<br />
thinking by the way he types.<br />
It used to be that I could tell<br />
a guy was upset if he paused<br />
or sighed while we were on the<br />
phone, now I know he’s upset or<br />
confused if he takes longer than<br />
30 seconds to type his response.<br />
When friends ask, “How could you<br />
tell he was mad?” my response<br />
isn’t, “I could see it on his face,” my<br />
response is, “Because he typed in<br />
all caps.” The truth is you can never<br />
really tell what a guy is doing behind<br />
that computer screen.I’m sad<br />
that computers now run the world<br />
more than people do. I feel as if my<br />
computer is the real me.<br />
I feel like I don’t operate my<br />
computer, my computer operates<br />
me. I think dating would be a lot<br />
easier if things went back to the<br />
old days, when communication<br />
was face-to-face or at least ear-toear.<br />
A real relationship cannot be<br />
based on Internet conversations<br />
<strong>and</strong> anyone who believes it can is<br />
living in denial.<br />
So boys, next time you think of<br />
approaching a girl get your phone<br />
out, <strong>and</strong> although this is a crazy<br />
notion, put her phone number<br />
in it, instead of her Facebook, or<br />
email address.
6 The Chronicle March 17, 2009<br />
SA ELECTION 2009<br />
No contest for new SA<br />
President, VPs acclaimed to positions<br />
By Sarah Manns<br />
<strong>and</strong> Edith Zikmann<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
Amy Engl<strong>and</strong> will continue her role as<br />
president of the Student Association because<br />
no other nominees submitted their<br />
By Ingrid Saravia<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
Name: Amy Engl<strong>and</strong><br />
Program: Women’s<br />
Studies<br />
Position: President<br />
Name: Ian Ngaira<br />
Program: Health<br />
Science<br />
Position: Director for<br />
<strong>UOIT</strong> Faculty of Health<br />
Science<br />
Many students will soon have a few extra<br />
dollars in their pockets.<br />
As of March 31, the McGuinty government<br />
is raising the minimum wage to $9.50<br />
an hour from $8.75.<br />
The province of Ontario started raising<br />
minimum wage in 2004. It went from<br />
$6.85 in 2004 to $8 in 2007. By 2010, Ontario<br />
will further increase the minimum<br />
wage to $10.25.<br />
Increasing the minimum wage is part<br />
of a program called Breaking the Cycle,<br />
Ontario’s poverty reduction strategy. The<br />
initiative is intended to reduce the number<br />
of children living in poverty by 25 per cent<br />
over five years by boosting benefits for<br />
low-income families <strong>and</strong> enhancing publicly<br />
funded education.<br />
names for the position.<br />
They didn’t have to fight for their positions<br />
at the March 12 all c<strong>and</strong>idates meeting.<br />
Nicole Robichaud will be VP Internal<br />
<strong>and</strong> Anthony Bol<strong>and</strong> will be VP of Campus<br />
Life.<br />
Name: Adedoyin Odukya<br />
Program: Mechanical Engineering<br />
Position: Director for Graduate Studies<br />
“I love the minimum wage increase,”<br />
said first-year business commerce student<br />
Danny Takla, who is a part-time sales associate<br />
at The Bay Oshawa. “Any extra money<br />
will be really helpful.”<br />
However, there is a prickle of fear in<br />
Takla because since January, sales at The<br />
Bay have not been going well <strong>and</strong> his hours<br />
have been drastically cut.<br />
“My hours have gone way down,” said<br />
Takla. There were a couple of weeks in<br />
February when no one in his department<br />
got any hours.<br />
Satinder Chera, director of provincial<br />
affairs at the Canadian Federation of Independent<br />
Businesses, thinks that raising the<br />
minimum wage will have a negative effect<br />
on students.<br />
“With the way the economy is going<br />
right now, increasing the minimum wage<br />
will not only make it difficult for businesses<br />
to hang on,” said Chera. “It’s going to make<br />
it difficult for them to hold on to their employees.”<br />
He believes students’ jobs are some of<br />
the most vulnerable. He said if employers<br />
start struggling they will try to hold onto<br />
their permanent full-time employers over<br />
the part-timers.<br />
“At least half of the people working at<br />
the minimum wage level are students,” said<br />
Valerie Naylor will also continue her<br />
role as VP of Trent in Oshawa.<br />
Acclaimed Board of Directors include;<br />
Rachel Calvelli, Ian Ngaira, Adedoyin<br />
Odukya <strong>and</strong> Scott Kelly.<br />
As for executive positions, the role<br />
of VP of <strong>Durham</strong> <strong>College</strong> has not been<br />
Name: Rachel Cavelli<br />
Program: Justice Policy<br />
Studies<br />
Position: Board Director<br />
for Criminology<br />
Name: Nicole<br />
Robichaud<br />
Program: Biological<br />
Science<br />
Position: VP Internal<br />
Chera.<br />
The Canadian Federation of Independent<br />
Businesses represents more than<br />
42,000 owners of small <strong>and</strong> medium enterprises<br />
across all industry sectors in Ontario.<br />
The CFIB wrote an open letter to the<br />
Ministry of Labour objecting to the minimum<br />
wage increase.<br />
“Small businesses account for half the<br />
economy,” said Chera. “They play a big part<br />
in hiring students <strong>and</strong> giving them their<br />
first work-place experience.”<br />
With universities thinking about increasing<br />
tuition <strong>and</strong> part-time jobs becoming<br />
harder to come by, it is more difficult<br />
for students to pay their own way to school,<br />
he said.<br />
Tara Blackburn, director of Hired Career<br />
Services on campus, said that raising<br />
the minimum wage is especially important<br />
during times of economic hardship. She<br />
does not think that many jobs will be lost<br />
due to the pay increase since businesses<br />
have had enough warning.<br />
“It’s going to be difficult for some smaller<br />
business but employers had enough time<br />
to plan <strong>and</strong> budget,” said Blackburn.<br />
The wage increase will put around<br />
$1,300 a year in the pockets of full-time<br />
minimum wage earners.<br />
“Thirteen hundred dollars a year is not a<br />
filled <strong>and</strong> the SA will be holding additional<br />
nominations for this position in the near<br />
future.<br />
Melanie Barnett, a second-year office<br />
administration student, was acclaimed the<br />
to the board of governors for <strong>Durham</strong> <strong>College</strong>.<br />
Name: Anthony Bol<strong>and</strong><br />
Program: Physics<br />
Position: VP of Campus<br />
Life<br />
Name: Scott Kelly<br />
Program: Industrial<br />
Animation <strong>and</strong> Robotics<br />
Position: Director for<br />
DC School of Applied<br />
Science<br />
Photo missing: Valerie Naylor, VP of<br />
Trent in Oshawa<br />
Minimum wage is going up<br />
March 31 raise<br />
will bring it<br />
up to $9.50<br />
very large amount,” said Blackburn. “People<br />
are going to put that money back in the<br />
economy <strong>and</strong> spend it locally.”<br />
By 2010, raises will have totalled $3.40<br />
since 2004.<br />
The minimum wage remained static in<br />
Ontario between 1995 <strong>and</strong> 2004.<br />
“How can the price of everything go up<br />
but not minimum wage?” said Blackburn.<br />
“Minimum wage has to be at a decent level<br />
so people can survive.”<br />
According to a press release from the<br />
Ministry of Labour, some of the major sector<br />
industries employing minimum wage<br />
earners are food <strong>and</strong> retail trade, the two<br />
most common student jobs.<br />
Gibril Sallah, vice-president of Internal<br />
at the Student Association <strong>and</strong> fourth-year<br />
Business student at <strong>UOIT</strong>, said it is a wise<br />
move for the province of Ontario to raise<br />
the minimum wage to help offset the increasing<br />
cost of living.<br />
“Most student jobs are low key that pay<br />
minimum wage,” said Sallah. “ From a student<br />
perspective, any extra money in our<br />
pockets is a good thing <strong>and</strong> helps a lot.”<br />
Students on work-study through the<br />
college won’t be affected by the March<br />
31 increase since they make $10 an hour.<br />
However the next increase in March 31,<br />
2010 will increase their wage to $10.25.
By Asmahan Garrib<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
They shoved grass in Lumo’s<br />
mouth <strong>and</strong> tied her with her<br />
clothes. Afterwards, she couldn’t<br />
walk so they used her clothes to<br />
drag her along the ground. A hunter<br />
found her the next day. Lumo<br />
was hospitalized for three years.<br />
After nine operations she still has<br />
a fistula, a hole between her birth<br />
passage <strong>and</strong> internal organs. Her<br />
husb<strong>and</strong> left her <strong>and</strong> got his dowry<br />
back.<br />
Lumo is just one of more than<br />
200,000 women who have been<br />
raped in the Democratic Republic<br />
of the Congo since an ongoing<br />
conflict started in 1996. Her story<br />
was one of the many told during<br />
the Women in the Congo Teach-In,<br />
which captivated an audience of<br />
eight who sat in to learn about the<br />
atrocities <strong>and</strong> struggles millions of<br />
women suffer through each day.<br />
Approximately 40 women are<br />
raped every day in southern Kivu,<br />
a province in eastern Congo. Almost<br />
50 per cent of those sexual<br />
assault survivors are children.<br />
“One of the ways the soldiers<br />
maintain power is to victimize<br />
women over <strong>and</strong> over again,” said<br />
Allison Alex<strong>and</strong>er, co-ordinator<br />
of the Women’s Centre. “It’s a sick<br />
sense of power that they must<br />
maintain. It’s also a way of traumatizing<br />
the man, having to see<br />
his wife or mother or sister raped.<br />
Then the man leaves the woman,<br />
so she is victimized <strong>and</strong> victimized<br />
again.”<br />
In a presentation that included<br />
a first-h<strong>and</strong> video illustrating the<br />
horrors these women endure, a<br />
PowerPoint presentation detailing<br />
the history of violence <strong>and</strong> a group<br />
discussion to find ways to help,<br />
this year’s Women’s Centre cause<br />
brought awareness to a topic few<br />
people in this part of the world<br />
know much about.<br />
“We want people to be aware<br />
of what’s happening to women in<br />
the Congo,” said Stephanie Armstrong,<br />
a first-year Human Services<br />
Worker student <strong>and</strong> one of<br />
the presenters of the teach-in. “We<br />
think people know, but not to the<br />
extent of how bad it really is.”<br />
The Democratic Republic of the<br />
Congo is the third largest country<br />
in Africa, situated north of Angola<br />
<strong>and</strong> Zambia. It has been ravaged<br />
by conflict since the 1880s.<br />
“Women <strong>and</strong> girls are feeling<br />
the brunt of this war,” said Viola<br />
Morrison, a first-year Human Services<br />
Worker student <strong>and</strong> one of<br />
the presenters of the teach-in. “But<br />
the root of this conflict goes back<br />
to the 1800s when the Democratic<br />
Republic of the Congo was ruled<br />
by leaders who didn’t have the<br />
rights of the people at heart.”<br />
Belgian King Leopold II took<br />
control of the Congo in 1880, exploiting<br />
its natural resources--tin<br />
<strong>and</strong> rubber. Violence, forced labour<br />
<strong>and</strong> starvation caused the<br />
death of millions of people. After<br />
gaining its independence in 1960<br />
the Democratic Republic of the<br />
Congo faced a nationwide army<br />
mutiny.<br />
Joseph Desire Mobutu took<br />
power of the Congo in 1965 <strong>and</strong><br />
in 1994 provided a safe haven for<br />
the militia that directed Rw<strong>and</strong>a’s<br />
genocide. This provoked Rw<strong>and</strong>a<br />
<strong>and</strong> Ug<strong>and</strong>a to invade Congo in<br />
1996 in pursuit of the Rw<strong>and</strong>an<br />
militia, pushing out Mobutu <strong>and</strong><br />
allowing Congolese rebel Laurent-<br />
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Desire Kabila to take power.<br />
“Between 1996 <strong>and</strong> 2002, the<br />
two massive wars fought in the<br />
Democratic Republic of the Congo<br />
were arguably the world’s deadliest<br />
since WWII,” said Morrison.<br />
Since the 2002 peace agreement,<br />
conflict has erupted in eastern<br />
Congo in a battle for control of<br />
natural resources.<br />
“Eastern Congo right now is the<br />
most dangerous place in the world<br />
to be a woman or girl,” said April<br />
Witt, first-year Health Services student<br />
<strong>and</strong> a presenter at the teachin.<br />
“Doctors without Borders has<br />
stated that 75 per cent of all the<br />
rape cases it has treated are in the<br />
Congo.”<br />
The presentation started with a<br />
YouTube video titled The Greatest<br />
Silence: Rape in the Congo. Guests<br />
at the teach-in watched as Congolese<br />
women <strong>and</strong> children recounted<br />
their stories of rape <strong>and</strong> torture.<br />
One woman recounted being<br />
raped in front of her children, then<br />
the soldiers shooting her children<br />
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Congo teach-in raises awareness<br />
By Melissa Bies<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
Every year, thous<strong>and</strong>s of students graduate with a business<br />
degree or diploma in Ontario <strong>and</strong> begin searching for<br />
a job in their field.<br />
As resumes pour in to potential employers, what makes<br />
one student’s credentials looks more appealing than the<br />
others?<br />
Jake Simmons believes that what helped him obtain an<br />
exciting, challenging <strong>and</strong> well-paying entry-level marketing<br />
position was the <strong>Durham</strong> <strong>College</strong> Marketing Competition<br />
(DCMC).<br />
Simmons graduated from <strong>Durham</strong> <strong>College</strong>’s three-year<br />
Business – Marketing program last year. In both his second<br />
<strong>and</strong> third years, he competed <strong>and</strong> placed in the annual<br />
competiton.<br />
“Competing in the DCMC is something that can really<br />
Photo by Asmahan Garrib<br />
WOMEN HELPING WOMEN: First-year Human Services Worker students Viola Morrison,<br />
Ashley King, Stephanie Armstrong (back row), Sarah Ojha <strong>and</strong> April Witt (front<br />
row) with Women’s Centre co-ordinator Allison Alex<strong>and</strong>er (on right).<br />
help you st<strong>and</strong> out in the crowd to potential employers.<br />
You gain experience <strong>and</strong> have something for your portfolio<br />
that looks great to pull out in an interview. It’s something<br />
above <strong>and</strong> beyond going to class.”<br />
The DCMC is a full-day competition that takes place<br />
Friday, March 20. In teams of five, Marketing students<br />
must come up with a product or service based on a chosen<br />
industry. Teams must consist of at least one first- or<br />
second-year student. They must create a sales pitch <strong>and</strong><br />
business plan <strong>and</strong> present it to a panel of judges.<br />
The judges will have “money” to invest in products or<br />
services, <strong>and</strong> will allocate amounts of their choice to the<br />
teams based on the team’s pitches. At the end of the day<br />
the team that has accumulated the most money from the<br />
judge panels wins.<br />
“Prizes are usually gift certificates from local businesses,<br />
but the biggest prize is bragging rights,” said Simmons.<br />
“You are competing against your classmates, the people<br />
who you sit beside every day. It gets very competitive.”<br />
<strong>and</strong> dem<strong>and</strong>ing she eat them.<br />
Alex<strong>and</strong>er found the story of<br />
Eve, a six-year-old girl, especially<br />
touching.<br />
“She’s never even been hugged,”<br />
said Alex<strong>and</strong>er. “No one wants to<br />
be around her because she smells<br />
like pee.”<br />
Eve constantly smells like pee<br />
because she has a fistula that<br />
causes incontinence, according to<br />
fistulafoundation.org. It’s a common<br />
result of rapes in the Congo.<br />
“When the tyrants sexually assault<br />
the women, they insert their<br />
guns into them, which damages<br />
their uterus, bladder <strong>and</strong> intestines,”<br />
said Alex<strong>and</strong>er.<br />
In addition to traumatic fistulae,<br />
the sexual violence also causes<br />
genital lesions, unwanted pregnancies<br />
<strong>and</strong> sexually transmitted<br />
diseases.<br />
PANZI, the only hospital in the<br />
Congo able to perform an operation<br />
to fix fistulae <strong>and</strong> vaginal reconstruction<br />
is often a week-long<br />
walk for many of the women in<br />
need. After the operation, the<br />
women are provided with only a<br />
few days of rest in the hospital before<br />
having to give up their bed to<br />
another woman in need.<br />
“They are having major surgery<br />
<strong>and</strong> having only a few days rest<br />
<strong>and</strong> then having to get up <strong>and</strong> walk<br />
with nowhere to go,” said Alex<strong>and</strong>er.<br />
These women have nowhere to<br />
go afterwards because their husb<strong>and</strong>s<br />
<strong>and</strong> families disown them,<br />
<strong>and</strong> feel the raped women bring<br />
bad luck, said Armstrong.<br />
The video also showed Congolese<br />
men explaining what they<br />
would do if they saw their wives<br />
or mothers being raped. Their response<br />
was a resounding “nothing.”<br />
“The boys are being taken out<br />
of their homes so young <strong>and</strong> being<br />
taught to rape <strong>and</strong> kill,” said<br />
Armstrong. “It’s a vicious cycle <strong>and</strong><br />
the country’s so corrupt. Even if<br />
the men committing these crimes<br />
were penalized they could just<br />
bribe their way out of it.”<br />
The teach-in educated everyone<br />
who attended in ways Canadians<br />
must help.<br />
“We want to make people aware<br />
that they can help,” said Witt. “It<br />
doesn’t seem like we can from so<br />
far away, but we can.”<br />
The Women’s Centre is calling<br />
on all students to help. All the<br />
proceeds from a bake sale held by<br />
the S.A. <strong>and</strong> the proceeds from the<br />
tickets to the Vagina Monologues<br />
on March 11 <strong>and</strong> 12 will go to<br />
help build hospitals <strong>and</strong> transition<br />
houses for women in the Congo,<br />
according to Alex<strong>and</strong>er.<br />
Students can also compel world<br />
leaders to assist.<br />
By sending a letter to the Canadian<br />
Minister of Foreign Affairs,<br />
Lawrence Cannon, writing a letter<br />
to <strong>Durham</strong>’s MPP, Christine Elliot<br />
or the president of the Democratic<br />
Republic of the Congo, Joseph<br />
Kabila, Canadians can urge them<br />
to stop the violence against women.<br />
Anyone interested in helping<br />
should visit vday.org, raisehopeforcongo.org<br />
or womenthrive.org.<br />
“They have so much further to<br />
come than we even realize to get<br />
to where we are,” said Ashley King,<br />
first-year Health Services Worker<br />
student <strong>and</strong> a presenter at the<br />
teach-in.<br />
“Can you imagine if this was<br />
happening in our country <strong>and</strong> no<br />
one would help us?”<br />
Marketing themselves to the top of the pack<br />
After the teams present their work in a dragon’s den<br />
format – just the presenter <strong>and</strong> the panel of judges – they<br />
attend a dinner <strong>and</strong> awards banquet.<br />
This year, Simmons was asked to be on the panel of<br />
judges.<br />
“I still stay in contact with some of my professors <strong>and</strong><br />
was honoured to be asked to come back to the competition<br />
this year as a judge,” he said.<br />
He said the best piece of advice for this year’s competitors<br />
is to be prepared.<br />
“If you’re serious about the competition, it really is quite<br />
a lot of work,” he said. “Do your research <strong>and</strong> be ready for<br />
any questions the judges may have for you. Make sure<br />
you utilize each person’s strengths in your group – for<br />
example, some people are better presenters than others,<br />
but others may be more computer-savvy <strong>and</strong> be able to<br />
spruce up your visual presentation. And know your stuff.<br />
Believe in what you are presenting, be passionate, <strong>and</strong> be<br />
professional yet personable.”
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<strong>Durham</strong><br />
graduate<br />
starts<br />
her own<br />
business<br />
By Paul Bates<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
Alexis Pastuch has faced<br />
many barriers in her life, especially<br />
considering she has<br />
a physical disability, but with<br />
all the issues she has had this<br />
<strong>Durham</strong> <strong>College</strong> Legal Administration/Law<br />
Clerk grad<br />
never let it hold her back.<br />
“I know what it feels like<br />
to go out to a place <strong>and</strong> get<br />
stuck, but if someone goes<br />
there first they can check it<br />
out <strong>and</strong> therefore inform others.”<br />
After graduating from the<br />
program in April 2005 she<br />
has applied to places in Toronto<br />
like Advocates at Law<br />
where, “the push h<strong>and</strong>le to<br />
get into the office was so high<br />
I could not get in myself.”<br />
Another place Pastuch<br />
visited also did not work. “I<br />
went in for an interview <strong>and</strong><br />
the place was totally inaccessible.”<br />
Pastuch said. “All the<br />
tables <strong>and</strong> desks were too<br />
high. The office equipment<br />
was out of my reach.” She<br />
even had issues with not being<br />
able to get her wheelchair<br />
into the washroom, so neither<br />
of these two places led to<br />
full-time employment.<br />
These setbacks, as well as<br />
wanting to create a business<br />
in a unique market, were reasons<br />
Pastuch created Alexibility.<br />
The primary focus is to<br />
make people aware of the<br />
level of accessibility of buildings<br />
in both the public <strong>and</strong><br />
private sector.<br />
The website for Alexibility<br />
was launched this year <strong>and</strong><br />
just recently underwent a<br />
major change. It can be found<br />
at http://www.alexibility.com<br />
The company mission<br />
statement is, “To allow people<br />
to have the freedom <strong>and</strong> ability<br />
to go where they wish.”<br />
“If you wish to visit a facility<br />
that you have never been<br />
to before, <strong>and</strong> want to know if<br />
you will face physical barriers<br />
to accessibility, all you have to<br />
do is call or send us an e-mail.<br />
I will then go visit the facility<br />
for you, compile my findings<br />
<strong>and</strong> report back to you.”<br />
The service is not just for<br />
individuals, Pastuch is keeping<br />
the doors open for major<br />
businesses to call her <strong>and</strong> get<br />
the same level of service, reporting<br />
back to management<br />
on issues she discovers.<br />
While she is still waiting<br />
for her first customers Pastuch<br />
sees big things for this<br />
company in years to come<br />
as buildings <strong>and</strong> businesses<br />
try to reach out to the physically<br />
disabled community,<br />
especially in a city the size of<br />
Toronto.<br />
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East meets West as students<br />
enrol for Hong Kong adventure<br />
By Liisa Sahamies<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
For a second year the University<br />
of Ontario Institute of Technology<br />
is offering a summer Study<br />
Abroad program in Hong Kong.<br />
The Faculty of Business <strong>and</strong><br />
Information Technology <strong>and</strong> the<br />
communication students at <strong>UOIT</strong><br />
have the chance to go to Hong<br />
Kong to gain a comparative underst<strong>and</strong>ing<br />
of Western cultures <strong>and</strong><br />
the traditional Chinese culture.<br />
This includes mythical, religious,<br />
philosophical, ethical <strong>and</strong> scientific<br />
thinking.<br />
All students who choose to participate<br />
in the program enrol in at<br />
least nine credits, including the<br />
three-credit course titled Chinese<br />
<strong>and</strong> Western Modes of Thought,<br />
offered by the Chinese University<br />
of Hong Kong School of Continuing<br />
Studies. The other six credits<br />
can be earned by two more courses<br />
taken online, before <strong>and</strong> after<br />
visiting Hong Kong.<br />
Wilfred Fong, associate dean<br />
of the Faculty of Business <strong>and</strong> Information<br />
Technology, says the<br />
students will be taking this course<br />
along with students from the California<br />
State University in Sacramento.<br />
This is a good chance to<br />
meet new people on the way to<br />
learning about different cultures.<br />
“It’s a great learning experience<br />
<strong>and</strong> opportunity to explore the<br />
outside world,” said Fong.<br />
This is the second year the program<br />
has been offered at <strong>UOIT</strong><br />
after a successful experience last<br />
year. It’s also the first year the program<br />
has been offered to communication<br />
students.<br />
“Now we can get more students<br />
involved, <strong>and</strong> more can be educated,”<br />
said Fong.<br />
But Fong also said the students<br />
will not be going all the way to<br />
Hong Kong to sit in a classroom.<br />
He said the accommodations<br />
were strategically placed at the<br />
university, a small walk or subway<br />
ride away from where the classes<br />
take place. Also, the students will<br />
get the chance to visit Shanghai<br />
<strong>and</strong> Beijing.<br />
“There are still special tours,<br />
sports activities <strong>and</strong> different sites<br />
students can experience,” said<br />
Fong.<br />
Some popular educational<br />
places in Hong Kong are the Science<br />
Park, <strong>and</strong> the History <strong>and</strong> the<br />
Heritage Museum. Students can<br />
also visit Cheung Chau, an isl<strong>and</strong><br />
<strong>and</strong> more calm side of Hong Kong,<br />
<strong>and</strong> the New Territories Villages,<br />
which resemble an older Hong<br />
Kong in Chinese style. All of these<br />
activities support the course the<br />
students will be taking.<br />
For application information<br />
students can contact Jessica Walsh<br />
at jessica.walsh@uoit.ca.<br />
Cinechats<br />
to host<br />
exclusive<br />
showing<br />
By Am<strong>and</strong>a Allison<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
If you think your family is<br />
dysfunctional, you’ve got to<br />
join the Cinechats group on<br />
March 19 for their showing of<br />
The Art of Crying.<br />
This 2007 Danish film will<br />
make your family seem like<br />
the Cleavers in comparison.<br />
“This is a Cinechats exclusive,”<br />
said discussion leader<br />
<strong>and</strong> <strong>Durham</strong> <strong>College</strong> professor<br />
John Arkelian. “We got it<br />
directly from its producer in<br />
Copenhagen.”<br />
The film will run in room<br />
C-113 on Thursday at 6:30<br />
p.m. <strong>and</strong> admission is $2 per<br />
person.
By Andrew Huska<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
The government of Canada will<br />
contribute $22.3 million in aid for<br />
skills training in Africa.<br />
International Co-operation<br />
Minister Bev Oda made the announcement<br />
at the <strong>Durham</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
Skills Training Centre in<br />
Whitby on March 6.<br />
The Skills for Employment<br />
Initiative will help developing<br />
countries like Senegal, Tanzania,<br />
Mozambique, Namibia, the Democratic<br />
Republic of Congo, Niger,<br />
Rw<strong>and</strong>a, Burkina Faso <strong>and</strong> South<br />
Africa. The goal of the initiative,<br />
according to a Ministry of International<br />
Co-operation press release,<br />
is to unite Canadian colleges with<br />
colleges in these countries to establish<br />
technical <strong>and</strong> vocational<br />
training programs.<br />
“It’s a terrific announcement,”<br />
said Oda.<br />
“The thing that it does that I’m<br />
so proud of is it recognizes the<br />
excellence of our college system<br />
<strong>and</strong> the training we’re providing to<br />
young people.”<br />
The $22.3 million donation goes<br />
along with the $95 million that will<br />
be donated for skills training in Africa,<br />
Asia <strong>and</strong> the Americas. It also<br />
comes in addition to the $140 million<br />
the Canadian International<br />
Development Agency contributes<br />
annually to vocational training.<br />
Canada will be contributing approximately<br />
$260 million in aid to<br />
developing countries.<br />
Oda made the announcement<br />
at the <strong>Durham</strong> <strong>College</strong> Skills Training<br />
Centre in Whitby on March 6.<br />
She compared the resources<br />
available to students at the Whitby<br />
Campus <strong>and</strong> what is available in<br />
many developing countries <strong>and</strong><br />
how those resources are not adequate<br />
for an educated workforce.<br />
“I’ve been to so many countries<br />
that do not have the skills that they<br />
need <strong>and</strong> do not have the workforce<br />
they need,” Oda said.<br />
Oda said after the first three<br />
years of the program there will<br />
be approximately 2,000 qualified<br />
graduates ready to enter certified<br />
trades in their countries.<br />
“These graduates will be supporting<br />
families, making communities<br />
stronger, contributing<br />
to better incomes for women <strong>and</strong><br />
youth, <strong>and</strong> renewing their hope for<br />
a brighter future,” Oda said.<br />
For this initiative the ministry<br />
is working with the Association of<br />
Canadian Community <strong>College</strong>s.<br />
The association’s vice-president<br />
Katrina Murray said the organization<br />
has contributed to over 600<br />
international aid projects for postsecondary<br />
education along with<br />
the federal government.<br />
However, this program is<br />
unique, according to Murray. This<br />
time the recipient country drives<br />
how the money will be used,<br />
something that hasn’t always been<br />
the case.<br />
“It was designed with <strong>and</strong> will<br />
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be driven by the recipient country,”<br />
said Murray.<br />
“It will be managed in concert<br />
with other donors so we have a coordinated<br />
approach.”<br />
With that there could be concerns<br />
over whether the money is<br />
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Africa to receive money for training<br />
going to the right purpose. Oda<br />
feels there’s no need to worry.<br />
She said when the ACCC uses<br />
the money for projects it will be<br />
monitored by the government,<br />
which is also the case for the recipient<br />
countries.<br />
Photo by Andrew Huska<br />
SKILLS TRAINING IN AFRICA: Katrina Murray, Bev Oda, <strong>and</strong> D.C. President Don Lovisa<br />
were present for the federal government’s announcement of new aid for Africa.<br />
Women, unleash your inner goddess<br />
Women’s Day<br />
was held on<br />
March 8<br />
By Sarah Manns<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
The “inner goddess” was the<br />
theme of the 10 th annual International<br />
Women’s Day held at<br />
the McLean Community Centre<br />
Banquet Hall in Ajax, on Sunday,<br />
March 8.<br />
“’We have a different theme<br />
every year <strong>and</strong> this year we are<br />
celebrating our inner goddess,”<br />
said Esther Enyolu, executive director<br />
of Women’s Multicultural<br />
Resource <strong>and</strong> Counseling Centre.<br />
“It’s a day to pamper <strong>and</strong> celebrate<br />
being a woman.”<br />
The event included manicures,<br />
belly dancing, face painting, astrologist<br />
Joan Ann, <strong>and</strong> much more.<br />
“It’s all about celebrating us, our<br />
struggles <strong>and</strong> our hard work,” said<br />
Am<strong>and</strong>a McCafferty, guest speaker<br />
<strong>and</strong> women’s caseworker for the<br />
Denise House (a house for abused<br />
women <strong>and</strong> their children). “We<br />
often forget about ourselves <strong>and</strong><br />
it’s important that we don’t. I don’t<br />
think enough women celebrate<br />
themselves, <strong>and</strong> we need to support<br />
each other.”<br />
The event featured booths<br />
where women could talk <strong>and</strong> ask<br />
Photo by Sarah Manns<br />
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY: Shabana Talip, dressed<br />
up as the Green Tara Goddess, representing the theme<br />
of International Women’s Day- “Inner Goddess.”<br />
questions regarding everything<br />
from fitness to financial advice.<br />
“I am here bringing finances<br />
to women,” said Irene Anyanwu,<br />
financial consultant for the Investors<br />
Group. “For a lot of women,<br />
husb<strong>and</strong>s h<strong>and</strong>le the money, but<br />
that isn’t the way it has to be,” she<br />
said. “I am here to educate them,<br />
<strong>and</strong> show them that there are so<br />
many things they can do.”<br />
For some guests it was their<br />
first time, but they were pleased<br />
with the results.<br />
“It is my first year here,” said<br />
Nawal Ammar, professor <strong>and</strong> dean<br />
for the Faculty of Criminology Justice<br />
<strong>and</strong> Policy studies at <strong>UOIT</strong>.<br />
“Every year I have been away. Last<br />
year I was in Turkey,” she said. “I<br />
was very happy to make it here<br />
this year. It is very interesting <strong>and</strong><br />
it’s great to see so many young<br />
people here today.”<br />
The city of Ajax also offered<br />
their support for the event.<br />
“We donated the space to support<br />
them today,” said Sharlene<br />
Melnike, community development<br />
co-ordinator. “We support over 140<br />
cultural community groups, <strong>and</strong> in<br />
supporting these groups we hope<br />
to build their capacity to do what<br />
they do best.”<br />
Y’s Wish, Bethesda House, Herizon<br />
House <strong>and</strong> The Denise House<br />
sponsored the event.<br />
“We have to remember women<br />
in our lives,” said Enyolu. ”Whether<br />
they’re our gr<strong>and</strong>mothers, aunts,<br />
sisters, mothers, cousins, partners<br />
or neighbours, women deserve to<br />
be treated with respect.”<br />
“The government will monitor<br />
<strong>and</strong> visit what’s happening, <strong>and</strong><br />
the ACCC will provide us with audited<br />
financial reports on progress<br />
being made,” said Oda.<br />
“So the accountability <strong>and</strong><br />
transparency is already built in.”<br />
It’s all about<br />
school spirit<br />
By Jamilah<br />
McCarthy<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
If you’re outgoing <strong>and</strong><br />
creative with an interest in<br />
encouraging school spirit,<br />
Student Association br<strong>and</strong><br />
ambassador is the right job<br />
for you.<br />
Resumes <strong>and</strong> cover letters<br />
must be sent to marketing coordinator<br />
Autumn Tilley at<br />
the beginning of August.<br />
“Applying is like any other<br />
job. There’s an interview process<br />
<strong>and</strong> then six students are<br />
chosen for the entire school<br />
year,” says br<strong>and</strong> ambassador<br />
Walia Wahid.<br />
All of the hiring is done at<br />
the beginning of September.<br />
The main job of a br<strong>and</strong><br />
ambassador is to promote<br />
Student Association events.<br />
To be a br<strong>and</strong> ambassador<br />
you must have great people<br />
skills.<br />
“You have to be able to go<br />
up to people <strong>and</strong> let them<br />
know what’s going on in the<br />
school,” says Wahid. Br<strong>and</strong><br />
ambassador Graham Wilcox<br />
says, “You have to make yourself<br />
st<strong>and</strong> out.”<br />
Students must be willing<br />
to dress up in crazy costumes<br />
to promote events. “Promoting<br />
is a creative thing,” says<br />
Wahid.
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Trent students get identified<br />
By Robyn DePratto<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
All of the green you’re sure to be<br />
seeing around campus today isn’t<br />
just for St. Patrick’s Day. This week<br />
is the year’s second Trent Identity<br />
Week, organized by Trent University’s<br />
peer mentoring program.<br />
On March 5, the peer mentors<br />
met in the boardroom of the Student<br />
Centre to create their own<br />
Trent T-shirts to help show their<br />
school spirit.<br />
“One of the main critiques of<br />
Trent identity week is that we don’t<br />
have much merch<strong>and</strong>ise here on<br />
campus,” said Trent student <strong>and</strong><br />
peer mentor Am<strong>and</strong>a Daley.<br />
She explained that she <strong>and</strong> other<br />
peer mentors wanted to get together<br />
<strong>and</strong> make their own shirts<br />
to show other Trent students that<br />
they can do the same.<br />
Prizes are going to be given<br />
away throughout the week to students<br />
who display Trent spirit.<br />
This week will be full of Trentrelated<br />
events, including the Bingo<br />
night held yesterday at the Student<br />
Centre.<br />
Tonight there will be a Trent<br />
dance night in room G2009 from<br />
5 to 6 p.m.<br />
“That’s my favourite one actually”<br />
said Daley, while gluing a<br />
green ribbon to the bottom of her<br />
shirt. Trent student Brianna Douglas,<br />
who is part of the <strong>UOIT</strong> dance<br />
team, will be teaching the Trent<br />
students different styles of dancing,<br />
such as salsa <strong>and</strong> hip-hop.<br />
Wednesday, be on the lookout<br />
for green treats, because on that<br />
day the peer mentors are holding a<br />
bake sale in the UA atrium from 10<br />
a.m. to 2 p.m. “Once again the proceeds<br />
are going to the food centre<br />
on campus,” said Daley. “There’ll<br />
be a box set up there for food donations<br />
as well”.<br />
Trent is running a food drive<br />
throughout the week, with a donation<br />
box set up in the main office<br />
as well as at all the events. Students<br />
attending them are asked to<br />
bring a non-perishable food item<br />
as a donation.<br />
On Wednesday night, there will<br />
be a student <strong>and</strong> staff mixer in the<br />
lounge of the student centre from<br />
5 to 7 p.m.<br />
The first half of the event will<br />
give professors an opportunity<br />
to present their work to students,<br />
such as projects they are working<br />
on or newly released books.<br />
“It’s going to be a way to appreciate<br />
the Trent faculty,” said Daley.<br />
“They’re part of Trent too.” The second<br />
half of the event will give the<br />
students <strong>and</strong> staff time to mingle<br />
<strong>and</strong> talk to one another.<br />
To cap off the week, another<br />
Trent open house will be held on<br />
Thursday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in<br />
the new Trent office in the Simcoe<br />
building. High school students will<br />
be given the opportunity to tour<br />
the facility <strong>and</strong> meet Trent faculty<br />
<strong>and</strong> ask them questions about the<br />
By Shayna Brown<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
All across <strong>Durham</strong> Region there<br />
has been an increase in awareness<br />
for the factors that are putting<br />
youth at risk.<br />
On Feb. 18, <strong>Durham</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
held its first-annual At Risk Youth<br />
<strong>and</strong> the Law symposium to address<br />
the issue.<br />
“We were expecting about 100<br />
people for the first year <strong>and</strong> we had<br />
about 150,” said Jennifer Laffier, an<br />
instructor in the School of Justice<br />
at <strong>Durham</strong> <strong>College</strong>.<br />
Laffier teaches the one-year<br />
Youth Correction <strong>and</strong> Intervention<br />
(YCI) program at the college.<br />
t was her students’ assignment<br />
to put together the event to get<br />
some experience while at the same<br />
time benefiting the community.<br />
“It went better than I expected,”<br />
said YCI student Duztyn Leonard.<br />
“None of us have any experience<br />
school.<br />
For more information about<br />
Trent University in Oshawa, as<br />
setting up a conference like this<br />
one.”<br />
Professionals in the field were<br />
invited out to hold workshops on<br />
topics including cyber bullying,<br />
youth gang exit programs, restorative<br />
justice practices <strong>and</strong> mental<br />
health issues.<br />
Apart from workshops, there<br />
were representatives from various<br />
organizations offering information<br />
<strong>and</strong> a breadth of knowledge.<br />
Some of the information boards<br />
included information about the<br />
<strong>Durham</strong> Youth Gangs Strategy<br />
Organization, Eastview Boys <strong>and</strong><br />
Girls <strong>and</strong> the Ontario Association<br />
for Students At Risk.<br />
According to their brochure.<br />
“[They] provide opportunities for<br />
information to be shared through<br />
multiple venues so that it may assist<br />
in improving one’s knowledge<br />
<strong>and</strong> underst<strong>and</strong>ing for the advocating<br />
of at risk youth.”<br />
Joy Sloan, a volunteer director<br />
for Ontario Association for Stu-<br />
Photo by Robyn DePratto<br />
GET GREEN: Am<strong>and</strong>a Daley, a Trent University in Oshawa student, makes her own<br />
T-shirt for the Trent Identity week held the week of March 16 to March 20<br />
well as the programs they offer,<br />
visit their website at http://www.<br />
trentu.ca/oshawa/ .<br />
Fighting for students who are at risk<br />
Photo by Sarah Manns<br />
STUDENTS AT RISK: Joy Sloan, director of the Ontario<br />
Association for Students at risk, fights for students who<br />
are at risk with getting in trouble with the law.<br />
By Jaspinder k Jassal<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
Hindus all around the world<br />
were drenched in coloured powder<br />
last weekend, in celebration<br />
of Holi – the festival of colours.<br />
Holi is celebrated by people<br />
throwing coloured powder <strong>and</strong><br />
water at each other. It’s ideal that<br />
white clothing is worn so that the<br />
colours can be seen.<br />
Holi marks the end of winter<br />
<strong>and</strong> the beginning of spring by<br />
celebrating the triumph of good<br />
over evil. Holi originated when<br />
the ancient Indian king, Hiranya<br />
Kapyapu, dem<strong>and</strong>ed everyone<br />
follow his orders.<br />
Everyone but his son Prahlada<br />
followed his orders. His son was a<br />
true devotee of Lord Vishnu.<br />
King Kapyapu punished his<br />
son by putting him through difficult<br />
tasks such as jumping off<br />
a steep cliff <strong>and</strong> being trampled<br />
by an elephant. Prahlada was left<br />
unhurt, as he would chant Lord<br />
Vishnu’s name.<br />
Finally, the king ordered his<br />
son to sit on the lap of his sister<br />
Holika in flames of fire. Holika<br />
would not die as she would be<br />
protected by a shawl that would<br />
prevent her from burning to<br />
death.<br />
Everyone looked in amazement<br />
<strong>and</strong> witnessed Holika burning<br />
to death. Prahlada remained<br />
unharmed.<br />
“You can’t destroy something<br />
so pure <strong>and</strong> honest,” said Shally<br />
Saggar, who is a student at <strong>UOIT</strong><br />
<strong>and</strong> also a Hindu.<br />
In celebration of the death of<br />
the evil king, a bonfire is lit the<br />
dents At Risk, was at the symposium<br />
with some words of wisdom<br />
<strong>and</strong> some stories from her experience.<br />
“I work with students of all ages<br />
who are at risk of not succeeding<br />
the way they can,” she said.<br />
Sloan has worked with a variety<br />
of students, from kids in prison<br />
to men <strong>and</strong> women in maximum<br />
security. She also works with the<br />
instructors.<br />
“We work with teachers <strong>and</strong><br />
school them in better ways of catering<br />
to these kids,” said Sloan<br />
“Most of them just need a better<br />
way of teaching.”<br />
The event, sponsored by the<br />
Whitby Mental Health Centre,<br />
RCMP, <strong>Durham</strong> Regional Police<br />
Services <strong>and</strong> the <strong>Durham</strong> Family<br />
Court Council, was a huge success.<br />
Laffier expects the symposium<br />
to be bigger <strong>and</strong> better next year<br />
with more people participating.<br />
Hindus celebrate spring with colour<br />
day before in honour of the miraculous<br />
Prahlada.<br />
Houses are decorated in<br />
colour in recognition of the festival..<br />
Children participating in the<br />
event play pranks on their elders.<br />
“As a kid we used to fill water<br />
guns with coloured water <strong>and</strong> run<br />
through houses shooting colour<br />
at everyone,” said Sunny Sharma,<br />
who is also a student at <strong>UOIT</strong> <strong>and</strong><br />
fellow Hindu.
By Shawntee Russell<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
GO Transit Riders might have<br />
to dig a little deeper into their<br />
pockets as GO Transit has plans to<br />
increase fares by 25 cents.<br />
The decision to raise the GO<br />
fares was to be approved by the<br />
GO Board, on March 13. If approved<br />
the increase was to take<br />
effect on March 14.<br />
The fares will increase by 25<br />
cents per adult single ride regardless<br />
of where riders will be traveling.<br />
The fare increase is part of GO<br />
Transit’s 2009-2010 operating<br />
budget.<br />
Vanessa Thomas, media relations<br />
<strong>and</strong> issues specialist for GO<br />
Transit, explains that this year’s<br />
fare increase is higher than the<br />
last increase in March 2008, which<br />
was 15 cents per ride.<br />
Thomas doesn’t feel that this<br />
fare increase will detour riders<br />
from using GO.<br />
“Each year GO Transit reviews a<br />
fare increase as part of our annual<br />
budget process. Even though our<br />
fares do increase over the years,<br />
in line with inflation, our ridership<br />
continues to grow,” said Thomas.<br />
“Right now we have nearly 55 million<br />
passengers a year.”<br />
The fare increase would allow<br />
GO to provide riders with improved<br />
<strong>and</strong> exp<strong>and</strong>ed service, <strong>and</strong><br />
cover the ongoing cost of doing<br />
business.<br />
“The higher costs of hydro,<br />
property taxes, 407 road tolls <strong>and</strong><br />
snow removal are all costs that will<br />
be paid for. It would help cover the<br />
costs of existing operating costs as<br />
well as provide for additional services<br />
for our growing ridership,”<br />
Thomas said.<br />
GO currently has seven lines,<br />
59 stations <strong>and</strong> runs 183 train trips<br />
each day.<br />
New parking spaces <strong>and</strong> the<br />
cost of maintaining those parking<br />
spaces is another example of<br />
where riders’ money will be going.<br />
“There is such a dem<strong>and</strong> for<br />
our network. We believe that a fare<br />
increase is necessary this year in<br />
order to provide the best possible<br />
service <strong>and</strong> to continue to exp<strong>and</strong><br />
to meet the growing needs of our<br />
riders,” said Thomas.<br />
Over the past year GO has seen<br />
many improvements to its servic-<br />
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es, such as 12-car trains, formerly<br />
10-car trains on the Lakeshore<br />
line. The increase in cars allows for<br />
more riders to fit on a train at one<br />
time.<br />
10-car trains can hold 1,600<br />
people while 12-car trains can fit<br />
1,900 people.<br />
“ We had to exp<strong>and</strong> our platforms<br />
<strong>and</strong> fix all our infrastructure<br />
across the entire Lakeshore line so<br />
that we could fit 12-car trains instead<br />
of 10-car trains so that more<br />
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Prices may GO higher<br />
<strong>and</strong> more riders will get a seat on<br />
the train,” said Thomas. “In the upcoming<br />
months we will be having<br />
more 12-car trains.”<br />
Tariq Adam, an electric engineering<br />
student at <strong>Durham</strong> <strong>College</strong>,<br />
doesn’t have any problems<br />
with the fare increase. “It’s something<br />
that needs to be done,” he<br />
said.<br />
<strong>UOIT</strong> game development <strong>and</strong><br />
entrepreneurship student Johnathan<br />
Lam had mixed feelings<br />
Photo by Shawntee Russell<br />
FARES RISING: Johnathan Lam, a GO Transit rider, st<strong>and</strong>s in front of the bus that he often takes to get around.<br />
International students win!<br />
Photo by Sarah Manns<br />
AWARD WINNER: Viviane Rutabingwa, the winner of The<br />
International Student of Excellence Award for 2009.<br />
By Sarah Manns<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
For some students, winning an<br />
award is an exciting time, but for<br />
Health Science student Viviane<br />
Rutabingwa it’s so much more<br />
than excitement.<br />
Rutabingwa is the recipient of<br />
the International Student of Excellence<br />
Award, given by the Student<br />
Association, which is the first<br />
award of it’s kind on campus. “I<br />
have been an international student<br />
here for four years <strong>and</strong> it’s good to<br />
see a university is recognizing International<br />
students. I am proud to<br />
be a recipient.,” said Rutabingwa.<br />
The university has really grown<br />
when it comes to International<br />
Students, she said. “When I first<br />
came here all of us knew each other<br />
name to name, but over the four<br />
years that I have been here, it has<br />
probably quadrupled.”<br />
Kellie Newberry, The international<br />
student advisor said, “We<br />
currently have 259 international<br />
students from 57 different countries<br />
on <strong>UOIT</strong>’s campus,” she said.<br />
“When we first started we only had<br />
83 students from 38 countries,”<br />
said Newberry.<br />
Rutabingwa heard about the<br />
award through word of mouth<br />
first, <strong>and</strong> then when the award was<br />
formalized the international students<br />
were e-mailed encouraging<br />
them to apply for it.<br />
Rutabingwa said there was a<br />
reason she applied. “I come from<br />
Ug<strong>and</strong>a.. The fact that I’m here I<br />
feel like I have a duty for all of the<br />
privileges that I am offered. Where<br />
I come from, people don’t have<br />
half the chance I do, <strong>and</strong> that really<br />
drives me. I don’t take anything<br />
for granted because of the fact<br />
that some people don’t even have<br />
drinking water or shoes.”<br />
To be eligible for the award students<br />
had to be actively involved<br />
in campus life, have a GPA of at<br />
least 2.5 or higher, <strong>and</strong> be studying<br />
towards a bachelor degree.<br />
“I am the VP of the Caribbean<br />
African Student Association,<br />
Events co-ordinator of SHARE, I<br />
volunteer as a consultant at the<br />
Sexual Health Resource Centre, I<br />
am a International Student Mentor,<br />
<strong>and</strong> a peer mentor,” said Rutabingwa.<br />
She will receive $1,500 for the<br />
award.<br />
about the fare increase.<br />
“I’m not happy about the rising<br />
costs. I’m not sure why they are<br />
raising the fares but if they actually<br />
do what they say they are going to<br />
do with the extra money, I won’t<br />
mind,” he said.<br />
A single ride fare from Oshawa<br />
to Union Station will be $8, up<br />
from $7.75.<br />
A monthly pass will increase to<br />
about $262, from the current price<br />
of $250.<br />
Pamper<br />
yourself<br />
By Shayna Brown<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
To mark international<br />
women’s month, the Women’s<br />
Centre is hosting a free<br />
event called celebrate yourself.<br />
There will be makeovers,<br />
manicures, pedicures, dry<br />
haircuts, massages, as well as<br />
food <strong>and</strong> refreshments.<br />
“You can have your nails<br />
done <strong>and</strong> have a glass of wine<br />
while you’re doing it,” said<br />
Allison Hector-Alex<strong>and</strong>er,<br />
women’s centre co-ordinator.<br />
“We always wait for everybody<br />
else to offer us these<br />
great things, or someone to<br />
buy us this, or to take us out,<br />
but we can do that for ourselves.”<br />
The event will take place at<br />
the Student Centre on March<br />
19 at 4:30 p.m.<br />
Students can register at<br />
SAWomencentre@dc-uoit.ca
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14 The Chronicle March 17, 2009<br />
Beware of deadly gingivitis<br />
By Shenieka<br />
Russell-Metcalf<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
Brush your teeth twice daily,<br />
floss every day <strong>and</strong> go to your<br />
yearly dental appointment? Sometimes<br />
all of this isn’t enough to improve<br />
your teeth <strong>and</strong> gums.<br />
Of course—flossing is important<br />
but brushing your teeth the<br />
right way, makes the difference.<br />
Brushing your teeth efficiently<br />
means pointing the bristles towards<br />
the gum tissue at a 45 degree<br />
angle <strong>and</strong> vibrating the bristle<br />
slightly <strong>and</strong> sweeping up <strong>and</strong><br />
down. Don’t forget to brush biting<br />
surfaces <strong>and</strong> the tongue, says Donna<br />
Pegg, registered dental hygienist<br />
<strong>and</strong> <strong>Durham</strong> <strong>College</strong> professor.<br />
On average, people should visit<br />
the dentist twice a year, but some<br />
may need to go more frequently.<br />
However home maintenance<br />
helps to keep up the health of<br />
gums <strong>and</strong> teeth.<br />
“There’s a space between the<br />
tooth <strong>and</strong> the gum, the deeper<br />
the space the more unhealthy the<br />
teeth are,” said Pegg.<br />
Regular cleanings are key in<br />
removing plaque in those pockets.<br />
Many foods we eat can get stuck in<br />
these pockets because the bristles<br />
from our toothbrushes can only go<br />
so far.<br />
The foods that contribute to<br />
cavities include granola bars,<br />
bread, crackers <strong>and</strong> chips. These<br />
foods stay on the teeth longer,said<br />
Pegg.<br />
Foods that are better for teeth<br />
include nuts, cheese, <strong>and</strong> sugarless<br />
gum with xylitol, like Trident.<br />
Unlike what you’ve been told in<br />
the past, gum is not all bad for the<br />
teeth. Just chew sugarless gum <strong>and</strong><br />
you’ll be much better off, she said.<br />
Fruits <strong>and</strong> vegetables aren’t just<br />
good for your body; they’re good<br />
for your gum tissue as well.<br />
With the recent links between<br />
gum disease <strong>and</strong> cardiovascular<br />
disease, respiratory disease <strong>and</strong><br />
diabetes, caring for your gums is<br />
just as important as for your teeth.<br />
Many types of gum diseases<br />
can affect us including of the most<br />
common gingivitis. It can be found<br />
in all ages. Around 50 per cent<br />
of the population has gingivitis.<br />
Another type of gum disease is<br />
periodontitis, it affects around 36<br />
per cent of the population. It’s a<br />
more advanced gum disease that<br />
increases with age.<br />
Key indicators that you may<br />
be suffering from gingivitis are<br />
bad breath, pain in the mouth <strong>and</strong><br />
bleeding gums when flossing or<br />
brushing your teeth, Pegg said.<br />
Visit one of the two dental clinics<br />
on campus, located at SW107<br />
for adults <strong>and</strong> A250 for children, to<br />
improve your oral health. The clinics<br />
charge $25 for adults <strong>and</strong> $10<br />
for children.<br />
The clinics provide oral cancer<br />
screenings, blood pressure testing,<br />
gum tissue exams, cavities diagnosis,<br />
radiographs, dental cleaning,<br />
fluoride applications, photo<br />
disinfection therapy, pit <strong>and</strong> tis-<br />
sue sealings <strong>and</strong> dental nutritional<br />
counselling.<br />
“We offer oral hygiene instruction<br />
specific to the needs of the pa-<br />
tients,” says Pegg.<br />
For more information or to<br />
book an appointment, call 905-<br />
721-3074.<br />
Stop procrastinating <strong>and</strong> get it done<br />
By Ingrid Saravia<br />
Chronicle staff<br />
As the end of the year draws<br />
closer, more students show signs<br />
of a widespread affliction described<br />
by Urban Dictionary as<br />
Post-All-Nighterism. Common<br />
among students, Post-All-Nighterism<br />
is the inevitable zombie-like<br />
stupour that develops the day after<br />
staying up all night to finish an assignment.<br />
Typical symptoms include caffeine<br />
dependency, twitchy eyes<br />
<strong>and</strong> a vacant expression. The affliction<br />
is generally caused by excessive<br />
procrastination.<br />
“I can hardly keep my eyes<br />
open,” said Tyler Brown, a firstyear<br />
Bachelor of Arts student<br />
while he sipped on a Red Bull. “I<br />
should have done the project last<br />
week but I left it until the last minute,<br />
I had to stay up really late to<br />
finish it.”<br />
Hmmm…do the math project<br />
or check out Billy’s new pictures<br />
on Facebook?<br />
The choice should be obvious<br />
but sometimes it’s though not to<br />
get distracted, procrastinate <strong>and</strong><br />
leave the less enjoyable activities<br />
for later.<br />
“Procrastination is an avoidance<br />
behaviour,” said Brett Clayton,<br />
learning advisor at the Learner<br />
Support Centre. “It is when you<br />
do an activity that prevents you<br />
from noticing the passage of time<br />
so you don’t feel the weight of your<br />
responsibilities.”<br />
But luckily for all the students<br />
suffering from Post-all-nightmerism,<br />
the cure for the malady is right<br />
on campus. Excessive procrastination<br />
can be reduced at the Learner<br />
Support Centre where they offer<br />
Time Management workshops.<br />
According to Clayton, who<br />
teaches the Time Management<br />
workshops, everyone is guilty of<br />
procrastination <strong>and</strong> most of the<br />
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time people don’t even realize<br />
they are doing it.<br />
A good way to reduce procrastination<br />
is to do nothing.<br />
“Don’t do anything. Don’t take<br />
naps or go on Facebook,” said<br />
Clayton. “Put yourself in a corner<br />
with no music, television or roommates.<br />
Just sit quietly <strong>and</strong> feel the<br />
passage of time. Five minutes can<br />
Photo by Ingrid Saravia<br />
HAVING TROUBLE GETTING THINGS DONE?: Take the time to visit the Learner Support<br />
Centre <strong>and</strong> sign up for a time management workshop. It could get you going.<br />
feel like an eternity <strong>and</strong> 10 minutes<br />
feels like a life time.”<br />
By becoming aware of the passage<br />
of time, people realize how<br />
much work they could have done<br />
in the two hours they wasted.<br />
Time management is all about<br />
prioritizing. Deciding which<br />
things are the most important <strong>and</strong><br />
doing them first but also about<br />
Photo by Shenieka Russell-Metcalf<br />
BETTER KEEP YOUR MOUTH CLEAN: Dental hygienist Tanya Deman (left) works on a<br />
patient whie dental assistant Kristin Lackey takes the notes.<br />
balancing the time.<br />
“Not only do students need to<br />
make time for schoolwork. They<br />
also need time for friends, family<br />
<strong>and</strong> relaxation,” said Clayton.<br />
“However school should be their<br />
number one priority.”<br />
Ramona Spiteri, a second-year<br />
Business <strong>and</strong> Commerce student,<br />
admits to pulling all-nighters all<br />
the time.<br />
“I end up doing other things. I<br />
check Facebook, High Five, or talk<br />
on the phone. Anything besides<br />
my homework,” she said. “It happens<br />
more often if the assignment<br />
is difficult or boring.”<br />
There are many reasons why<br />
people procrastinate but among<br />
students the most common is low<br />
appeal.<br />
“Anything we don’t enjoy doing<br />
we are less likely to do,” said Clayton.<br />
“But try to be optimistic. Your<br />
mindset is very important in the<br />
learning process.”<br />
He suggests confronting the<br />
source of most difficulty first.<br />
“You don’t have to love everything<br />
you study because you are not going<br />
to enjoy everything in life,” he<br />
said. “It’s not whether or not you<br />
love something but whether or not<br />
you think it is important.”<br />
If you are tired of Post-All-<br />
Nighterism, visit the Learner Support<br />
Centre <strong>and</strong> sign up for a Time<br />
Management workshop.<br />
“Everyone can take our workshops,”<br />
said Clayton. “We can<br />
meet with students one on one<br />
or as a group. Just bring a copy of<br />
your schedule to book an appointment.”
<strong>CAMPUS</strong> <strong>NEWS</strong><br />
The Chronicle March 17, 2009 15<br />
<strong>UOIT</strong> professor wins top award<br />
By Lynn Wayling<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
From Shanghai to Oshawa, with<br />
a stop in Laval for good measure,<br />
it’s been a journey of more than 10<br />
years <strong>and</strong> some 7,000 miles for Dr.<br />
Dan Zhang <strong>and</strong> his research <strong>and</strong><br />
development of the parallel robot.<br />
The director of the Automotive,<br />
Manufacturing <strong>and</strong> Mechanical<br />
Engineering programs at <strong>UOIT</strong><br />
<strong>and</strong> associate professor in the Faculty<br />
of Engineering <strong>and</strong> Applied<br />
Science recently received a break<br />
in his research efforts – a chair.<br />
On Feb. 23, the government of<br />
Canada announced its list of Canada<br />
Research Chairs (CRC) <strong>and</strong><br />
Zhang was among the recipients,<br />
receiving a $500,000 Tier 2 Canada<br />
Research Chair in Robotics <strong>and</strong><br />
Automation.<br />
The Canada Foundation for<br />
Innovation also awarded Zhang<br />
$87,091, to cover equipment<br />
Get help<br />
for your<br />
eating<br />
disorders<br />
By Asmahan Garrib<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
Students concerned about their<br />
relationship with food can now<br />
join the <strong>Durham</strong> <strong>College</strong>/<strong>UOIT</strong><br />
Health Centre’s eating disorder<br />
support group.<br />
Every Wednesday afternoon at<br />
4 p.m. for the next four weeks, men<br />
<strong>and</strong> women looking for help with<br />
an eating disorder or who need an<br />
outlet to share <strong>and</strong> receive information<br />
can attend.<br />
“I found that I was seeing a lot<br />
of students with eating issues <strong>and</strong><br />
there wasn’t any place for them to<br />
go,” said Sylvia Emmory, registered<br />
holistic nutritionist at the <strong>Durham</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong>/<strong>UOIT</strong> Health Centre.<br />
Emmory runs the group, which<br />
provides guided dialogue between<br />
the participants. anorexia nervosa,<br />
bulimia, binge eating <strong>and</strong> excessive<br />
exercise are some of the disorders<br />
students can cope with using<br />
the assistance they receive at the<br />
support group.<br />
“It’s a place where students can<br />
get together <strong>and</strong> meet other students<br />
who are having the same<br />
struggles,” said Emmory.<br />
To join, students must fill out<br />
an intake form as part of the interview<br />
process with Emmory in<br />
which they can meet, talk about<br />
their problem <strong>and</strong> get a feel for<br />
what they are comfortable with.<br />
Students can also sit in <strong>and</strong> listen<br />
to see if the support group is something<br />
they might enjoy.<br />
“The group is a safe place for<br />
students to meet, feel comfortable<br />
<strong>and</strong> talk about their eating issues,”<br />
said Emmory.<br />
costs.<br />
“It’s very exciting <strong>and</strong> very good<br />
recognition. It’s a top award for<br />
university professors,” says Zhang<br />
of the award.<br />
His research <strong>and</strong> development<br />
of parallel robots began during his<br />
time at Laval University where he<br />
obtained his PhD under the guidance<br />
of professor Clement Gosselin,<br />
one of the leading mechanical<br />
engineering experts in Canada.<br />
“Dan Zhang is one of the most<br />
dedicated students that I have supervised.<br />
He is very determined <strong>and</strong> hard<br />
working. I am glad that his work is<br />
now<br />
recognized with a CRC,” said<br />
Gosselin.<br />
Zhang’s project – the parallel<br />
robot – is a tool that has the ability<br />
to lessen production time, save<br />
money <strong>and</strong> increase the accuracy<br />
of manufacturing, especially in the<br />
fields of automotive <strong>and</strong> aerospace<br />
manufacturing.<br />
Currently, however, most manufactures<br />
employ serial robots<br />
rather than the parallel model.<br />
Zhang explains, “More than 60<br />
per cent of the robots in manufacturing<br />
factories are serial robots,<br />
but the parallel robot has more ad-<br />
‘<br />
Its very exciting<br />
<strong>and</strong> very good recognition.<br />
It’s a top<br />
award for university<br />
professors.<br />
Dr. Dan Zhang<br />
’<br />
vantages than the serial robot.<br />
They are not widely used. Why?<br />
Because of their performance.<br />
So my research work is mainly<br />
how to improve the performance<br />
of these kind of parallel robots.”<br />
A prototype was built by Zhang<br />
during his time with the National<br />
Research Council of Canada<br />
(NRC). It has the capability to<br />
reach five sides of an object <strong>and</strong><br />
can do intricate work including<br />
contouring <strong>and</strong> surface polishing<br />
<strong>and</strong> finishing.<br />
Those jobs are usually performed<br />
by labourers but at high<br />
risk. The environment can be unhealthy<br />
<strong>and</strong> h<strong>and</strong> injuries are easy<br />
to come by.<br />
The NRC will release the prototype<br />
to Zhang <strong>and</strong> <strong>UOIT</strong> shortly so<br />
that more research can be done.<br />
Zhang also has some students<br />
working on parallel robot systems<br />
on a micro scale for use in biomedics<br />
<strong>and</strong> fibre optics.<br />
Parallel robots are not the only<br />
robots on Zhang’s mind, however.<br />
He is pursuing other areas of<br />
research, including one project<br />
inspired by his six-year-old son’s<br />
love of Transformers.<br />
Working in t<strong>and</strong>em with a university<br />
in China, Zhang is looking<br />
to find ways to help trapped min-<br />
ers escape collapsed mines which<br />
plague the Chinese mining industry.<br />
His vision is of a groundhog-like<br />
robot that can drill a hole into the<br />
collapsed mine <strong>and</strong> then transform<br />
into a human-like robot that<br />
could take the survivors to safety.<br />
Zhang enjoys the freedom that<br />
<strong>UOIT</strong> gives him to pursue such<br />
projects. In fact that is one of the<br />
reasons that he joined the faculty<br />
in 2004.<br />
“Why did I choose <strong>UOIT</strong>? Because<br />
it’s a new university. Like the<br />
Chinese saying says, ‘On blank paper<br />
you can draw the most beautiful<br />
picture.’<br />
I can do whatever I like to do.<br />
There are no constraints.”<br />
Zhang joins fellow <strong>UOIT</strong> professors<br />
Shari Forbes, Douglas<br />
Holdway, Carolyn McGregor <strong>and</strong><br />
Greg Naterer as a chairholder,<br />
helping to build <strong>UOIT</strong>’s reputation<br />
as a research university.
16 The Chronicle March 17, 2009<br />
By Jonnel Briscoe<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
Cassidy has instilled hope in the hearts<br />
of many people around the world with epilepsy.<br />
“I asked my mom if I can start a special<br />
day so that people with epilepsy can<br />
know they aren’t alone,” she said.<br />
The bright young lady is only 10 years old<br />
but has already accomplished a lot in her<br />
life. And there’s no slowing her down—she<br />
plans on becoming “an actress, a veterinarian,<br />
an artist <strong>and</strong> a purple day person,” she<br />
said in a phone interview from her home in<br />
Nova Scotia.<br />
She is the founder of Purple Day for Epilepsy<br />
<strong>and</strong> she is having fun campaigning the<br />
cause.<br />
Cassidy started Purple Day last year because<br />
she wanted other kids with epilepsy<br />
to know that it was okay. She talked to her<br />
friends <strong>and</strong> school for support with the huge<br />
project she was about to tackle, <strong>and</strong> there<br />
were no let downs, they were supportive<br />
<strong>and</strong> onboard.<br />
“I chose purple because it’s my favourite<br />
colour,” said Cassidy.<br />
“I told her that the colour for epilepsy<br />
was lavender <strong>and</strong> she said ‘well lavender is a<br />
shade of purple’,” said Cassidy’s mom Angela<br />
who doesn’t want their last name printed.<br />
Cassidy was seven years old when she<br />
was diagnosed with epilepsy, a disorder of<br />
the brain defined by frequent seizures.<br />
It causes a change in function or behaviour<br />
<strong>and</strong> can often disrupt learning. There<br />
are different forms of seizures, some of<br />
which include a blank stare, muscle spasms,<br />
altered awareness or a convulsion. They<br />
may occur multiple times a day, or rarely. It<br />
can however, be well controlled by medication.<br />
Epilepsy can be present at any age though<br />
it often begins in childhood or in later years.<br />
The disorder affects over 50 million people<br />
worldwide.<br />
Angela said Cassidy doesn’t have convulsions.<br />
She zones out <strong>and</strong> her legs gave out<br />
all the time. “She would cry for no reason,”<br />
she said.<br />
With medication most of the symptoms<br />
have disappeared, even though she<br />
<strong>CAMPUS</strong> <strong>NEWS</strong><br />
Little girl’s dream comes true<br />
By Krista Paxton<br />
Chronicle staff<br />
Students <strong>and</strong> staff can go head<br />
over heels this semester as Yoga<br />
Love returns to <strong>Durham</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
<strong>and</strong> <strong>UOIT</strong>.<br />
Yoga Love was developed<br />
by yoga instructor Niki André, <strong>and</strong><br />
brought to <strong>Durham</strong> by the Women’s<br />
Centre. Its success last semester led to<br />
André’s return, <strong>and</strong> Wednesdays at 5 p.m.<br />
students <strong>and</strong> staff can enjoy a free lesson<br />
in relaxation <strong>and</strong> meditation.<br />
“It’s rewarding to have people say it<br />
made a difference in as little as a week,”<br />
said André. “I hear stories about how<br />
they’re applying it to the outside<br />
world <strong>and</strong> using the technique to<br />
prevent injury or stay calm.”<br />
The hour <strong>and</strong> a half class provides<br />
exercise, breathing techniques<br />
<strong>and</strong> flexibility training through André’s<br />
unique blend of flow <strong>and</strong> postures.<br />
As students work to finish final<br />
assignments, <strong>and</strong> with exams<br />
on the horizon, Yoga Love<br />
provides an outlet for lowering<br />
<strong>and</strong> maintaining stress.<br />
“Stress is my specialty,” said<br />
still zones out occasionally. It’s being controlled.<br />
When Cassidy was diagnosed with epilepsy,<br />
her mom said she <strong>and</strong> Cassidy’s dad<br />
felt uncertainty <strong>and</strong> disbelief. “I thought,<br />
where do we go from here?”<br />
They didn’t change the house in anyway,<br />
but they were more aware of her triggers,<br />
bright flashing light.<br />
The only change that was made was the<br />
bath routine. For her safety, Cassidy can’t<br />
take showers or baths alone. “One of us always<br />
has to sit outside the bathroom door<br />
with a book or something,”<br />
said Angela.<br />
She also can’t go bike<br />
riding alone.<br />
When she was diagnosed,<br />
Cassidy was<br />
afraid to tell people<br />
about her epilepsy<br />
because she thought<br />
they would make fun<br />
of her. “She didn’t<br />
want to talk about it,”<br />
said Angela.<br />
She finally<br />
opened up when the<br />
Epilepsy Association<br />
of Nova Scotia did a<br />
presentation in her<br />
class. “They asked<br />
the class if they knew<br />
anyone with epilepsy<br />
<strong>and</strong> that’s when she<br />
pulled her teacher<br />
aside <strong>and</strong> told him<br />
that she was ready.<br />
She finally spoke<br />
out about it with her<br />
peers <strong>and</strong> teachers,”<br />
said Angela.<br />
When she zones<br />
out she isn’t afraid to<br />
let her teacher know<br />
that she missed<br />
what he said or ask<br />
him for help, which helps her stay on top of<br />
things in school.<br />
She visits the neurologist every six<br />
months for an Electroencephalograph<br />
(EEG), where doctors hook electrodes up<br />
to her head to monitor her brain activity.<br />
LITTLE GIRL WITH BIG DREAMS:<br />
Cassidy is the founder of Purple<br />
Day, which is a campaign for<br />
epilepsy awareness.<br />
Sometimes she has a sleep deprived EEG to<br />
see what happens in stressful situations, but<br />
it doesn’t always trigger a seizure. “Sometimes<br />
it does, sometimes it doesn’t,” said Angela.<br />
“It’s not foolproof.”<br />
There is more to Cassidy’s life, though,<br />
than seizures <strong>and</strong> neurologist visits. She<br />
wanted the cause to go international so that<br />
everyone around the world would know<br />
that they aren’t alone.<br />
Cassidy, determined to make her dream<br />
come true, sent out letters, made phone calls<br />
<strong>and</strong> did multiple interviews to make Purple<br />
Day happen.<br />
She asked her<br />
mother to send<br />
emails to David<br />
Letterman, Barack<br />
Obama <strong>and</strong> the Canadian<br />
government<br />
for support.<br />
Also with the help<br />
of her mother she<br />
stared a Facebook<br />
group for Purple Day<br />
called, PURPLE DAY<br />
for Epilepsy.<br />
“I have Facebook<br />
<strong>and</strong> I am only 10,”<br />
yelled Cassidy.<br />
She does TV <strong>and</strong><br />
radio Public Service<br />
Announcements<br />
(PSA) to spread<br />
the word about her<br />
cause.<br />
“We went to my<br />
school where I practice<br />
cheerleading <strong>and</strong><br />
at the end of the commercial<br />
we held up a<br />
sign that said ‘Supporting<br />
Epilepsy Around<br />
the World’,” she said in<br />
excitement.<br />
She says her friends<br />
are helping her out<br />
<strong>and</strong> supporting her by wearing purple on<br />
Purple Day March 26.<br />
Cassidy doesn’t only receive support<br />
from her friends <strong>and</strong> teacher, but other people<br />
across North America.<br />
“I got a video from Sheree Fitch singing<br />
André.<br />
She added that her class tends to attract those who<br />
lead fast-paced <strong>and</strong><br />
overactive lifestyles. Though it may seem counterintuitive<br />
for students <strong>and</strong> staff always on the go to attend<br />
her class, André said its gentle <strong>and</strong> restorative<br />
atmosphere attracts people who need just that.<br />
“Someone who’s very active both mentally <strong>and</strong><br />
physically can find a balance by attending<br />
Yoga Love,” she said.<br />
about Mable Murple <strong>and</strong> Purple Day,” said<br />
Cassidy.<br />
She also received a signed book from<br />
Robert Munsch. Both Sheree Fitch <strong>and</strong> Robert<br />
Munsch are renowned authors of children’s<br />
books.<br />
Cassidy also met Paul Shaffer of the David<br />
Letterman Show <strong>and</strong> a host of celebrities,<br />
at Dylan’s C<strong>and</strong>y Bar for a Purple New<br />
York Party in New York City on March 10.<br />
The New York-based Anita Kaufmann<br />
Foundation charity is dedicated to raising<br />
epilepsy awareness <strong>and</strong> is also working<br />
along side Cassidy to launch Purple Day<br />
USA.<br />
There are many events kicking off around<br />
the world to raise awareness <strong>and</strong> support<br />
the cause. From Canada to the USA to the<br />
Netherl<strong>and</strong>s, multiple communities are<br />
pitching in to raise awareness.<br />
Melissa McBride, event co-ordinator for<br />
the <strong>Durham</strong> Region, said she is contacting<br />
schools <strong>and</strong> corporations within <strong>Durham</strong><br />
Region to join in on March 26 <strong>and</strong> wear<br />
something purple, <strong>and</strong> so far 39 schools <strong>and</strong><br />
six corporations have confirmed that they<br />
will participate.<br />
Also, for the illumination campaign,<br />
“I have been contacting local l<strong>and</strong>marks<br />
across Ontario to illuminate their l<strong>and</strong>mark<br />
in purple,” said McBride.<br />
Participants include The CN Tower in Toronto,<br />
Niagara Falls, The Big Nickel in Sudbury<br />
<strong>and</strong> the Pickering Town Centre <strong>and</strong><br />
the Oshawa Centre.<br />
Despite the PSAs, trips <strong>and</strong> planning,<br />
none of these activities gets in the way of<br />
Cassidy’s schoolwork.<br />
“We try to book activities around school<br />
hours,” said Angela. “So either before or after<br />
school, or during March breaks.”<br />
Angela said she didn’t think Purple Day<br />
would go this big. “It has built her [Cassidy]<br />
confidence <strong>and</strong> I am very proud of her,” she<br />
said.<br />
Even with her busy schedule promoting<br />
Purple Day, fun trips out of town to meet<br />
celebrities <strong>and</strong> neurologist visits, Cassidy<br />
leads a normal life.<br />
“She does acting <strong>and</strong> cheerleading,” said<br />
Angela. “Everything is normal.”<br />
“Except for the epilepsy!” shouted Cassidy.<br />
Lowering stress levels: Yoga Love<br />
André began practising yoga 10 years ago. As a singer<br />
she took voice lessons, <strong>and</strong> her vocal coach introduced her<br />
to gentle stretches <strong>and</strong> breath work. Since then she has<br />
become a certified instructor, is registered with the Yoga<br />
Alliance <strong>and</strong> has been teaching for four years in schools<br />
across <strong>Durham</strong> Region.<br />
This semester André hopes to exp<strong>and</strong> her lessons,<br />
<strong>and</strong> bring students <strong>and</strong> staff on campus the tools needed<br />
to find balance when their lives spin out of control.<br />
“I also want to explore the balance between the feminine,<br />
receptive, open side in relation to the more direct,<br />
compact, assertive masculine side,” said André.<br />
“It’s a dance, a balance.”<br />
André conducts the class at a varied pace, <strong>and</strong> offers<br />
different posture variations for those with different<br />
levels of experience. She reminds her students<br />
that yoga is a practice, <strong>and</strong> as such advancement<br />
should be achieved at one’s own pace.<br />
Yoga Love can be found in the South Village Residence<br />
dance studio on the fifth floor, <strong>and</strong> beginners<br />
are welcome.<br />
Photo by Krista Paxton<br />
YOGA LOVIN: Yoga Love instructor<br />
Niki Andre sits in the King Pigeon<br />
pose. Her class can be found in the<br />
South Village Res on Wednesdays.
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20 The Chronicle March 17, 2009<br />
Insurance can help if<br />
your pet needs a doctor<br />
By Samantha Stewart<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
Almost every pet owner at one<br />
time in their animal’s life has faced<br />
the problem of not having the<br />
money to take their pet to the vet<br />
either because of accident or illness.<br />
The solution: animal health<br />
insurance.<br />
This kind of insurance has become<br />
more popular over the last<br />
couple of years, however the percentage<br />
of pet owners actually using<br />
it is still quite small.<br />
It’s basically like having group<br />
health benefits for pets. Each company<br />
is different <strong>and</strong> the level of<br />
coverage <strong>and</strong> amount of the deductible<br />
are up to the pet owner.<br />
Things like age <strong>and</strong> breed are<br />
taken into consideration as some<br />
breeds are prone to certain conditions<br />
such as hip dysplasia <strong>and</strong>/<br />
or cancer. Most companies have<br />
a waiting period after sign-up before<br />
the coverage begins, usually<br />
24 hours for an accident claim <strong>and</strong><br />
about 14 days for an illness claim.<br />
This is simply to discourage pet<br />
owners from signing up right after<br />
their pet has an accident or has<br />
been diagnosed with a condition.<br />
“I’d say between three to five per<br />
cent of our customers actually use<br />
pet insurance,” said Diane from<br />
Baker Animal Clinic in Whitby,<br />
“<strong>and</strong> most of those customers are<br />
with Pet Secure. With Pet Secure<br />
clients can choose if they want<br />
accident or illness coverage, <strong>and</strong><br />
even get coverage for dental procedures,<br />
chiropractic, acupuncture<br />
<strong>and</strong> holistic medicine.<br />
Each clinic recommends a different<br />
insurance company based<br />
on what they believe ensures the<br />
best level of care.<br />
Veterinarians from the Oshawa<br />
Animal Hospital recommend<br />
Medicard, as they have a high turnaround<br />
of approval <strong>and</strong> require no<br />
down payment or collateral.<br />
“We do recommend animal<br />
health insurance whether pets are<br />
healthy or un-healthy,” said Debbie<br />
Crossman from the Oshawa<br />
Animal Hospital. “However, we<br />
do find that more clients sign up if<br />
their pet has been diagnosed with<br />
a condition that has to be regularly<br />
treated.”<br />
Vet visits can quickly become<br />
expensive <strong>and</strong> buying into pet<br />
health insurance is a way to combat<br />
the cost <strong>and</strong> worry of having<br />
an animal that needs medical attention.
<strong>CAMPUS</strong> <strong>NEWS</strong><br />
Support epilepsy in March<br />
By Jonnel Briscoe<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
Wear purple to support Purple<br />
Day for Epilepsy on March 26.<br />
Epilepsy <strong>Durham</strong> Region <strong>and</strong><br />
other agencies across Canada will<br />
wear purple in support of the annual<br />
event, which was founded in<br />
2008 by nine-year-old Cassidy of<br />
Nova Scotia.<br />
“I chose purple because it’s my<br />
favourite colour <strong>and</strong> lavender is<br />
the colour for epilepsy,” said Cassidy.<br />
Epilepsy is a seizure disorder<br />
<strong>and</strong> condition of the brain that is<br />
characterized by multiple recurrent<br />
seizures. There are different<br />
types of seizures such as a blank<br />
stare, muscle spasms, uncontrolled<br />
movements or a convulsion.<br />
E.P. Taylor’s hosted Pub Night<br />
with a Cause in support of Purple<br />
Day for Epilepsy on March 4.<br />
Prizes <strong>and</strong> information was given<br />
out to students about the disorder<br />
<strong>and</strong> there were purple drinks <strong>and</strong><br />
purple fun.<br />
Student Centre manager, Will<br />
Ellis, said a placement student at<br />
Epilepsy <strong>Durham</strong> Region put the<br />
event together.<br />
After this event Ellis was motivated<br />
to support the worldwide<br />
event.<br />
“I will be wearing purple [for<br />
By Am<strong>and</strong>a Allison<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
A 2005 study showed that it<br />
is easier not to put weight on in<br />
the first place than it is to shed it<br />
later on.<br />
The lesson to be taken from<br />
this Statistics Canada study is<br />
that young adults need to be conscious<br />
about healthy eating <strong>and</strong><br />
their nutritional practices. This<br />
March is Nutrition Month <strong>and</strong><br />
these priorities are being highlighted<br />
all month on campus.<br />
For the past five years, the<br />
Balanced Choices program has<br />
helped guide students to healthier<br />
selections. Selected menu<br />
items with the balanced choice<br />
blue dots direct eaters to choices<br />
with healthy grains, vegetables,<br />
fruit, lower fat dairy products<br />
<strong>and</strong>/or leaner meat or meat alternatives<br />
from Canada’s Food<br />
Guide to Healthy Eating.<br />
For more information, the<br />
Chartwells Dine On Campus<br />
website has a host of tools, including<br />
nutritional calculators<br />
<strong>and</strong> charts, hot topics <strong>and</strong> links to<br />
other resources. Recently, there<br />
has been an increase in nutrition<br />
materials available on campus.<br />
A display is set up in UB cafeteria,<br />
<strong>and</strong> will be moved to the<br />
residence cafeteria soon. Food<br />
guides <strong>and</strong> Nutrigrams are also<br />
available to curious customers,<br />
<strong>and</strong> six “Food For Thought”<br />
boards provide “Did You Know?”<br />
tidbits, weekly menus <strong>and</strong> information<br />
about campus food<br />
events.<br />
For Nutrition Month,<br />
Purple Day],” said Ellis.<br />
Epilepsy <strong>Durham</strong> Region will<br />
also host its first annual Dream<br />
Inspired Cocktail <strong>and</strong> Art Auction<br />
at The Lake House Event Centre in<br />
Pickering on March 26. “Local art-<br />
Photo by Cassidy<br />
SUPPORT EPILEPSY: Founder of purple day, Cassidy<br />
drew this logo for her campaign to create epilepsy<br />
awareness around the world on March 26, 2009.<br />
Chartwells is promoting a<br />
“Snacksmart” program.<br />
Items like trail mixes, lowfat<br />
yogurt with probiotics, fresh<br />
fruit <strong>and</strong> bagged vegetables <strong>and</strong><br />
new dips are being introduced<br />
this month as better grab-<strong>and</strong>go<br />
options for smart snackers.<br />
Chartwells is trying to make<br />
ists will create pieces that inspire<br />
hope <strong>and</strong> courage,” said Melissa<br />
McBride, event co-ordinator for<br />
Epilepsy <strong>Durham</strong> Region.<br />
All artists can submit an item<br />
of their choice, which represents<br />
these options as affordable as<br />
possible for penny-pinching students,<br />
said marketing manager<br />
Mary Hopkins.<br />
“Sometimes, healthier options<br />
do cost a little bit more as they’re<br />
more labour-intensive,” she<br />
said. “But a chocolate bar versus<br />
bagged vegetables or an apple or<br />
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hope, inspiration <strong>and</strong> courage. It<br />
must also include shades of purple.<br />
“The artist will get 50 per cent<br />
of the profits <strong>and</strong> the rest will go<br />
to Epilepsy <strong>Durham</strong> Region,” said<br />
McBride.<br />
Anyone who wants to attend<br />
the event should contact Epilepsy<br />
<strong>Durham</strong> Region for ticket information<br />
or send their contact information<br />
to get on a waiting list.<br />
“I have also been contacting local<br />
l<strong>and</strong>marks across Ontario to<br />
join us <strong>and</strong> showcase their support<br />
by illuminating their l<strong>and</strong>mark in<br />
purple,” said McBride.<br />
A few of the l<strong>and</strong>marks include<br />
The CN Tower in Toronto, Niagara<br />
Falls, The Big Nickel in Sudbury,<br />
<strong>and</strong> the local Pickering Town Centre.<br />
“These events are to raise<br />
awareness,” said McBride.<br />
Cassidy’s mother Angela said<br />
that she didn’t think Purple Day<br />
for Epilepsy would go as big as it<br />
did. “But I am very proud of [Megan],”<br />
she said.<br />
Everyone is encouraged to support<br />
the cause <strong>and</strong> learn more<br />
about the disorder.<br />
For more information on Purple<br />
Day <strong>and</strong> how you can show your<br />
support contact Epilepsy <strong>Durham</strong><br />
Region at (905) 571- 2099 or visit<br />
www.epilepsydurham.com <strong>and</strong><br />
www.purpleday.org.<br />
Nutritional meals on campus<br />
Photo by Am<strong>and</strong>a Allison<br />
HEALTHY EATING: Kim Price, June Renes <strong>and</strong> Francine<br />
Jones hard at work to provide a healthy choice<br />
for students on the run at Upper Crust in the UB.<br />
granola bar? It’s actually a smarter<br />
choice both economically <strong>and</strong><br />
health-wise.”<br />
Donna Bottrell, the director<br />
of nutrition for Compass Group<br />
Canada (which Chartwells is a<br />
division of), believes the key is<br />
making healthy choices accessible<br />
to everyone.<br />
“They need to be priced appropriately<br />
<strong>and</strong> well promoted<br />
to encourage students to make<br />
better choices more often as part<br />
of a healthy sustainable eating<br />
pattern,” she said. She said there<br />
are a few special challenges facing<br />
students, including eating<br />
snacks with very little nutritional<br />
value <strong>and</strong> often skip entire meals,<br />
especially breakfast, that can be<br />
solved with better planning.<br />
Bottrell recommended packing<br />
whole grain cereal or breads,<br />
nuts <strong>and</strong> seeds or dried fruit in resealable<br />
bags to eat in the morning<br />
or as snacks throughout the<br />
day. Also, fruits <strong>and</strong> vegetables<br />
are very portable <strong>and</strong> are essential<br />
to meeting the daily serving<br />
requirements of the food guide.<br />
The week of the 23 rd ,<br />
Chartwells will have the “Sides<br />
of March” campaign, where each<br />
day healthy <strong>and</strong> interesting sides<br />
will be promoted over the typical<br />
fries <strong>and</strong> gravy.<br />
Taking these promotions <strong>and</strong><br />
nutritional tips into consideration<br />
can go a long way for students<br />
who are trying to eat better.<br />
After all, a healthy foundation<br />
can help you keep weight off<br />
now, rather than fight the more<br />
difficult battle against the pounds<br />
later on.<br />
Iced<br />
capp<br />
hunt is<br />
on again<br />
By Krystin Spittal<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
The iced cappuccino hunt<br />
is on again, after the Tim Hortons<br />
in the Gordon Willey<br />
building had its iced cappuccino<br />
machine break for the<br />
second time this year.<br />
Though Chartwells staff<br />
do their best to keep their<br />
equipment working throughout<br />
the year, Elizabeth Mc-<br />
Kay, general manager for<br />
Chartwells, says that sometimes<br />
problems are beyond<br />
their control.<br />
“The issue with the machine<br />
is the compressor <strong>and</strong><br />
freezing mechanism. Hopefully<br />
the repair will fix future<br />
problems but I cannot guarantee<br />
this,” said McKay.<br />
The first time the machine<br />
broke down was Sept. 15. Students<br />
who had classes in the<br />
Gordon Willey building were<br />
upset that they had to walk to<br />
the UB building’s Tim Hortons<br />
for their daily iced cappuccino.<br />
In September, the machine<br />
was expected to be broken<br />
for two weeks, but ended<br />
up being broken for just over<br />
four weeks. Now the problem<br />
seems to be reoccurring.<br />
“Here we go again,” said<br />
Kevin Serge, a <strong>Durham</strong> <strong>College</strong><br />
student. “I remember it<br />
breaking for a few weeks last<br />
semester. I know it doesn’t<br />
seem like a big deal because<br />
it is only a drink, but it’s my<br />
morning coffee. And I love<br />
my morning coffee.”<br />
This time around, the<br />
problems with the machine<br />
are expected to be fixed<br />
within the week, according<br />
to McKay. The machine has<br />
been taken off the campus<br />
for repairs.<br />
“I will be surprised if Tim<br />
Hortons actually has the iced<br />
capp machine fixed by the<br />
time they say they will,” said<br />
Corri Fenn, a <strong>UOIT</strong> student.<br />
“It was broken for so long<br />
last time, <strong>and</strong> it probably will<br />
again. I guess we’ll have to<br />
see.”<br />
CORRECTION<br />
Two cutlines in issue 14 of<br />
The Chronicle had mispelled<br />
names.<br />
The student posing with<br />
the skeleton on the first page<br />
was Ken Ramiro.<br />
In addition, the woman on<br />
the far right of the picture on<br />
page 16 is Joyce Marshall.<br />
The Chronicle regrets the<br />
errors.
22 The Chronicle March 17, 2009
By Lynn Wayling<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
We have approximately five<br />
litres of it in our bodies. It accounts<br />
for seven to eight per cent of our<br />
body weight.<br />
Each beat of our heart sends<br />
it travelling do wn a highway of<br />
valves, ventricles, arteries <strong>and</strong><br />
veins. And approximately every<br />
minute of every day, someone in<br />
Canada needs a transfusion of it to<br />
stay alive.<br />
The dem<strong>and</strong> for blood is high,<br />
but the supply is low.<br />
According to Canadian Blood<br />
Services (CBS), 900,000 donations<br />
are needed per year to meet hospital<br />
dem<strong>and</strong> for blood in Canada.<br />
Last year dem<strong>and</strong> for blood grew<br />
by two per cent, the highest increase<br />
in 10 years.<br />
To keep the donor pool thriving,<br />
CBS needs roughly 90,000 new donors.<br />
<strong>Durham</strong> <strong>College</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>UOIT</strong><br />
students <strong>and</strong> staff have the chance<br />
to make a dent in that number by<br />
signing up for a donor clinic being<br />
held on campus March 20.<br />
While all healthy individuals<br />
over the age of 17 are able to donate<br />
every 56 days (barring those<br />
who have had recent dental treatment,<br />
tattoos or piercings), the<br />
majority of individuals don’t donate<br />
for a variety of reasons.<br />
Nick Shopian, a student in automotive<br />
engineering, reasons<br />
that he often does not know when<br />
the clinics are occurring.<br />
“Recently I have been either<br />
committed to something or have<br />
not found out about blood donor<br />
clinics until they have passed,” he<br />
says.<br />
Agreeing with this is Laura<br />
Herdman, in legal administration.<br />
“I never know when one is happening<br />
<strong>and</strong> you have to call <strong>and</strong><br />
book appointments a while ahead,<br />
which is kind of a hassle.”<br />
But for Jaspinder Jassal, a journalism<br />
student, the reason concerns<br />
nerves <strong>and</strong> a common fear<br />
of needles.<br />
“I have a huge fear of needles<br />
<strong>and</strong> a huge fear of blood. When<br />
I see blood I feel faint <strong>and</strong> nauseous…I’d<br />
rather donate by giving<br />
money.”<br />
Will she ever donate? “Maybe<br />
one day. Though I’m not sure if I<br />
can get over my fear.”<br />
But Sue Harris, CBS community<br />
development co-ordinator for<br />
<strong>Durham</strong> Region, says nerves are<br />
common among donors.<br />
“Everybody is nervous donating<br />
for the first time. Everybody.<br />
And most people are nervous for<br />
a few times after that. It’s the unexpected,<br />
right?”<br />
But Harris stresses that the<br />
result outweighs the process, “It<br />
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is Ruby Richards (centre)<br />
from the Humane Society.<br />
a needle. However I’m sure that<br />
everybody knows somebody who<br />
has had cancer.<br />
When they are getting treatment<br />
what they have to go through<br />
is huge compared to what you go<br />
through when donating blood.”<br />
The length of time the needle is<br />
in the arm is between five <strong>and</strong> 15<br />
minutes <strong>and</strong> that unit of blood collected<br />
can save three lives.<br />
Safety <strong>and</strong> sterility is also an issue<br />
with some people.<br />
But Harris stresses the donation<br />
process is completely safe<br />
<strong>and</strong> that Canadian Blood Services<br />
follows regulations meticulously.<br />
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Donate the best gift ever: life<br />
“You cannot catch anything<br />
from donating blood. Everything<br />
is one-time use.<br />
Everything is sterile. We follow<br />
very strict guidelines. People<br />
should not be afraid of donating.”<br />
A regular blood donor since<br />
2006, <strong>UOIT</strong> nursing student Bobbi-Lee<br />
Lawrence agrees the donation<br />
experience is safe <strong>and</strong> not as<br />
scary as it can seem.<br />
“The staff (at the clinic) is really<br />
good about wearing gloves, <strong>and</strong><br />
you see them open the equipment.<br />
You also have numerous opportunities<br />
to change your mind about<br />
donating.<br />
There is no obligation, even<br />
after you’ve signed up <strong>and</strong> been<br />
Photo by Lynn Wayling<br />
GIVING IT HER ALL: <strong>UOIT</strong> nursing student Bobbi-Lee Lawrence is a regular blood donor. Canadian Blood Services<br />
will be holding a blood donor clinic on campus March 20.<br />
Students raise huge donation<br />
By Michael Flynn<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
The Humane Society of <strong>Durham</strong><br />
Region got a boost of $3,664<br />
thanks to a fundraiser by secondyear<br />
Public Relations students at<br />
<strong>Durham</strong> <strong>College</strong>.<br />
Janel Haight, Iman Saad <strong>and</strong><br />
Olivia Harmon organized the<br />
fundraiser as a way to raise money<br />
for a trip to Ottawa.<br />
It also served as an assignment<br />
for their program.<br />
“We chose the Humane Society<br />
as the recipient of the<br />
proceeds because they need a<br />
permanent facility after the previous<br />
one was lost in a fire,” said<br />
Harmon.<br />
“It’s been great, the number of<br />
people who have been coming<br />
forward to express their support<br />
for everything that we’re doing,”<br />
said Ruby Richards, manager of<br />
the <strong>Durham</strong> Humane Society.<br />
Originally a fundraiser for<br />
program-related activities, the<br />
event held at the Thirsty Monk<br />
in downtown Oshawa aimed to<br />
raise $825, but easily surpassed<br />
that amount.<br />
There was food, entertainment<br />
<strong>and</strong> door prizes.<br />
Guests participated in a raffle<br />
draw, silent auction <strong>and</strong> a 50/50<br />
draw.<br />
“We had a lot of support of<br />
friends, family <strong>and</strong> r<strong>and</strong>om businesses,”<br />
said Haight.<br />
“We knew we would have extra<br />
because we sold over 200 tickets<br />
at $10 a piece.”<br />
The Thirsty Monk donated the<br />
bar for the event.<br />
Donated prizes included two<br />
Leafs tickets, two digital cameras,<br />
theatre tickets <strong>and</strong> a complimentary<br />
one-week rental of an RV.<br />
A total of $4,489 was raised.<br />
Photo by Janel Haight<br />
BIG BOOST FOR SOCIETY: <strong>Durham</strong> <strong>College</strong> students<br />
present a cheque to the Humane Society. From left,<br />
students Olivia Harmon <strong>and</strong> Janel Haight, Ruby Richards<br />
from the Humane Society, student Iman Saad,<br />
Thirsty Monk owners Antoine Albis <strong>and</strong> Julian Albis.<br />
given your paper work.”<br />
If you are hesitant about donating<br />
blood or unsure of the process,<br />
Lawrence suggests observing the<br />
donors in front of you.<br />
If it’s your first time giving blood,<br />
the staff will usually be extra attentive<br />
to you.<br />
“The staffs at the clinics are really<br />
compassionate. They make<br />
sure you are not having any concerns<br />
<strong>and</strong> you can ask as many<br />
questions as you want. When it’s<br />
your first time donating they usually<br />
stay with you <strong>and</strong> sit on a chair<br />
with you while you’re actually<br />
donating. And you don’t have to<br />
watch (the needle). You can look<br />
away.”<br />
So why does she donate?<br />
“I think it’s a really rewarding experience,”<br />
she says. “Partly because<br />
I am in nursing, <strong>and</strong> I just like to do<br />
things to help out. It’s only an hour<br />
of my time every 50-some-odd<br />
days. A little bit of my time is nothing<br />
compared to someone being<br />
in an accident <strong>and</strong> dying (without<br />
blood).” she says.<br />
“I have type O negative blood<br />
so anyone can receive that blood<br />
type. So if it’s an emergency, they<br />
don’t have to cross-reference my<br />
blood because if it’s just a transfusion<br />
anyone can have O negative<br />
blood.”<br />
Those who are interested in<br />
donating blood for the March 20<br />
clinic in the east gym or a future<br />
clinic in the community can call<br />
1-888-2-DONATE or go to www.<br />
blood.ca.<br />
A new permanent clinic will<br />
open in April at 1300 Harmony<br />
Road North. The clinic will be open<br />
Tuesday through Saturday.<br />
Harris, however, is hoping<br />
that the clinic on campus will be<br />
the biggest one yet <strong>and</strong> gives her<br />
thanks to everyone involved.<br />
“With the growth of the school<br />
<strong>and</strong> so many new students, I know<br />
we can collect over 100 units. Donating<br />
is really so easy.”
24 The Chronicle March 17, 2009<br />
By Am<strong>and</strong>a Press<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
She walks briskly through the<br />
crowded halls, already five minutes<br />
late for her exam. Rushing into the<br />
class, she grabs a pencil <strong>and</strong> exam<br />
<strong>and</strong> still can’t seem to catch her<br />
breath. The huffing <strong>and</strong> puffing begins<br />
to escalate. Not knowing what<br />
is happening she starts to panic<br />
<strong>and</strong> a teacher <strong>and</strong> a few students<br />
come to assist her. She is having<br />
an asthma attack. And although<br />
at first she blames it on rushing to<br />
make the test on<br />
time, deep down<br />
she know the real<br />
reason why she is<br />
suffering from this<br />
is because she is a<br />
smoker.<br />
When someone<br />
lights up a<br />
cigarette they are<br />
increasing their<br />
chance of a heart<br />
attack, mouth can-<br />
cer, asthma, even death, <strong>and</strong> although<br />
the sudden high or feeling<br />
they get from smoking may only<br />
last a few minutes, many smokers<br />
feel these risks are worth it. It<br />
is clear that many people enjoy<br />
smoking <strong>and</strong> like the benefits <strong>and</strong><br />
feelings they get from it, but there<br />
are many more pluses they could<br />
be getting from not smoking.<br />
Some benefits of quitting smoking<br />
are that a person’s lungs start<br />
to clear up, their carbon monoxide<br />
level drops <strong>and</strong> over time, they will<br />
save a lot of money. Within<br />
the first 48 hours of quitting, their<br />
chances of having a heart attack<br />
start to decrease <strong>and</strong> their sense of<br />
smell <strong>and</strong> taste begin to improve,<br />
<strong>and</strong> within six months of quitting,<br />
people will start to see improvements<br />
in coughing, sinus congestion<br />
<strong>and</strong> shortness of breath.<br />
“I think one of the main rea-<br />
sons why people<br />
start to smoke is<br />
due to stress, especially<br />
students<br />
in university <strong>and</strong><br />
college,” said Lindsay<br />
Scott, program<br />
co-ordinator for<br />
Leave the Pack<br />
Behind.<br />
Students who<br />
smoke are not<br />
necessarily thinking about the<br />
long-term effects it can have on<br />
their body <strong>and</strong> are mainly thinking<br />
about short-term effects, which is<br />
a problem, Scott said.<br />
“People are not thinking 50<br />
years down the road that they<br />
could die of lung cancer.”<br />
One reason why people say<br />
they want to quit is because they<br />
are finishing up school or have just<br />
completed exams, she said. Many<br />
students have said that during<br />
college or university they became<br />
stressed <strong>and</strong> started to smoke, but<br />
upon graduating they decide to<br />
quit.<br />
You would think that smokers<br />
<strong>and</strong> non-smokers are aware<br />
<strong>and</strong> educated about the risks <strong>and</strong><br />
harmful effects smoking, however<br />
this is not the case.<br />
“A lot of people are surprised<br />
when they hear about all the risks<br />
<strong>and</strong> harmful effects it has on their<br />
body, <strong>and</strong> when we tell them<br />
something, it is usually something<br />
they didn’t know,” said Sayeeda<br />
Jaweriya, team leader for Leave the<br />
Pack Behind. For example, during<br />
a walkabout or when booths are<br />
set up, members hold a jeopardy<br />
board where people can guess<br />
trivia questions related to smoking.<br />
Many people under guess<br />
numbers such as the number of<br />
people who die each<br />
year from smoking or<br />
under guess the effects<br />
of smoking.<br />
When quitting,<br />
many people try<br />
cold turkey, but the<br />
method depends on<br />
the person <strong>and</strong> their<br />
needs. Other meth-<br />
ods of quitting are<br />
gradually reducing<br />
the amount a person<br />
smokes, using the nicotine patch,<br />
telephone help lines <strong>and</strong> ZYBAN.<br />
“The average person attempts<br />
to quit five times before becoming<br />
successful, so that could mean<br />
five different methods of quitting<br />
smoking, <strong>and</strong> there are so many<br />
different options,” said Scott.<br />
Although the process of quitting<br />
is tough, it is important to remember<br />
that they will be reducing the<br />
chance of dying from a smokingrelated<br />
disease, have more energy,<br />
a better sex life, <strong>and</strong> will be getting<br />
rid of foul-smelling hair, breath<br />
<strong>and</strong> clothes.<br />
Because smoking is shown in<br />
movies, members of Leave the<br />
Pack Behind believe this influences<br />
people to smoke.<br />
“They show cigarettes in movies<br />
<strong>and</strong> on TV <strong>and</strong> are making it<br />
the norm which is not right,” said<br />
Jaweriya.<br />
Even in Disney<br />
movies, smoking<br />
is promoted <strong>and</strong> is<br />
targeting kids when<br />
they are younger <strong>and</strong><br />
more vulnerable to<br />
be influenced by society.<br />
One example<br />
is Captain Hook in<br />
Peter Pan, as he is<br />
always shown smok-<br />
ing a pipe. Another<br />
example is Cruella<br />
de Ville 101 Dalmatians, with her<br />
long cigarette holder.<br />
“Smoking should be deemed as<br />
bad <strong>and</strong> should be banned in these<br />
types of movies,” Jaweriya said.<br />
When a person approaches a<br />
Leave the Pack Behind member<br />
for help, the member would first<br />
see if they have an idea of when<br />
they want to quit. They would<br />
then explore all the different quitting<br />
methods <strong>and</strong> provide support<br />
emails weekly or bi-weekly<br />
depending on the person’s preference.<br />
Another good way to track their<br />
progress is by conducting a carbon<br />
monoxide test. 0-3 parts per<br />
million means that the person is<br />
a non- smoker, 4-10 parts per mil-<br />
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Maybe it’s time to give it up?<br />
Cold turkey, nicotine patch or gum. It’s time to quit.<br />
‘<br />
They show cigarettes<br />
in movies<br />
<strong>and</strong> on TV <strong>and</strong><br />
are making it the<br />
norm which is not<br />
right.<br />
‘<br />
Sayeeda Jaweriya<br />
’<br />
The average<br />
person attempts<br />
to quit five times<br />
before success.<br />
There are many<br />
different options.<br />
Lindsay Scott<br />
’<br />
lion means that a person has been<br />
exposed to carbon monoxide such<br />
as second or third h<strong>and</strong> smoke.<br />
Anything above 10 means they are<br />
a smoker <strong>and</strong> anything above 20<br />
means they are a heavy smoker.<br />
“When we perform the carbon<br />
monoxide test on people anywhere<br />
from ages 19-23 they are<br />
usually anywhere from 10-20 parts<br />
per million,” said Jaweriya.<br />
When thinking about the pros<br />
<strong>and</strong> cons of quitting smoking it is<br />
very clear there are many more<br />
pros to quitting.
By Krista Paxton<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
Spring break! It’s the perfect<br />
escape from a typical Canadian<br />
February whose claims to fame<br />
are mountain-lined driveways <strong>and</strong><br />
skin shattering winds.<br />
The moment I stepped off the<br />
plane in the Dominican Republic<br />
I peeled off my winter coat, unwrapped<br />
my scarf <strong>and</strong> rejoiced at<br />
the palm trees scattered about the<br />
La Romana airport.<br />
Viva la Dominicana!<br />
Filled with chatter the packed<br />
bus bounced along for an hour<br />
through La Romana to the beaches<br />
outside the nation’s capital of<br />
Santo Domingo where I was to<br />
spend a week in paradise with my<br />
boyfriend, Mike <strong>and</strong> our friends,<br />
Carrie <strong>and</strong> Clay.<br />
Twisting <strong>and</strong> turning down<br />
the narrow Dominican roads we<br />
passed endless cement block<br />
homes, <strong>and</strong> local motorists zipped<br />
along on scooters.<br />
By morning I was sprawled on<br />
the beach gazing into the horizon<br />
where the pristine Caribbean Sea<br />
melted into the cloudless sky. One<br />
h<strong>and</strong> was damp from the condensation<br />
of a melting pina colada, the<br />
other hung over the edge of the<br />
beach lounger tracing doodles in<br />
the s<strong>and</strong>.<br />
Local merchants w<strong>and</strong>ered<br />
back <strong>and</strong> forth down the beach.<br />
Women carried armloads of<br />
wraps or displayed pictures of<br />
past tourists with long str<strong>and</strong>s of<br />
beads braided into their hair, <strong>and</strong><br />
men hauled suitcases filled with<br />
jewellery <strong>and</strong> intricate ornaments<br />
carved by local artisans.<br />
In the evenings the stone path<br />
between the hotel <strong>and</strong> the beach<br />
transformed into a marketplace<br />
boasting even more local art including<br />
key chains, statues <strong>and</strong> an<br />
array of paintings laid out on the<br />
grass or propped against the trunk<br />
of a palm tree.<br />
During the day the collection<br />
lined the streets outside the resort,<br />
<strong>and</strong> every day we strolled past the<br />
rows of souvenirs on our way to<br />
the market square.<br />
The square was a popular hang-<br />
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ENTERTAINMENT<br />
Party hard in the Dominican<br />
By Jamilah McCarthy<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
There was once a time when<br />
hair extensions (or weaves, as<br />
many people call them) were<br />
thought of as two things: very expensive<br />
<strong>and</strong> for black girls only.<br />
But today hair extensions can be<br />
done in the comfort of one’s own<br />
home, <strong>and</strong> girls of all ethnicities<br />
can be found sporting this temporary<br />
beauty accessory.<br />
“Hair extensions are so common<br />
today,” says Nicole Providence,<br />
head hairstylist of Essence Hair<br />
Salon in Ajax. “It’s not like 10 years<br />
ago when women were ashamed<br />
to tell people they were wearing<br />
out for locals, <strong>and</strong> we frequented<br />
the shops for souvenirs not found<br />
on the resort such as Mamajuana,<br />
a Dominican concoction of rum,<br />
red wine <strong>and</strong> honey fermenting in<br />
a bottle together with dried leaves.<br />
Though referred to by the locals as<br />
gasoline, Mamajuana was a popular<br />
drink at the bar.<br />
Our favourite market shop was<br />
one that housed Kika, a small parakeet<br />
that sat atop the open door<br />
<strong>and</strong> cawed, “Hola” in greeting each<br />
time we came or went.<br />
But the most memorable<br />
nights were the ones spent trading<br />
cultures with some of the resort<br />
workers at the Café Isla, a tiny pub<br />
nestled amidst the marketplace<br />
commotion.<br />
With the end of each Presidente<br />
bottle, the favoured beer of the Dominicans,<br />
came the beginning of a<br />
new story, <strong>and</strong> as dusk settled over<br />
the isl<strong>and</strong> Mike, Carrie, Clay <strong>and</strong> I<br />
came to know Ricardo, Domingo<br />
<strong>and</strong> Luis.<br />
The three men worked at the<br />
resort. Ricardo ran the motorized<br />
water sports, Domingo the ATV<br />
tours <strong>and</strong> Luis was a jack-of-alltrades,<br />
from selling resort tours to<br />
nearby real estate.<br />
“Those condos,” he said pointing<br />
to a large <strong>and</strong> beautifully maintained<br />
building across the street,<br />
“They sell for $400,000 each.”<br />
Most of Luis’s income goes to<br />
his 7-year-old son who lives in<br />
Santo Domingo with his mother.<br />
Photo by Krista Paxton<br />
PARTY IT UP: Resort worker, Ricardo <strong>and</strong> tourist Clay Westwood party at a local bar.<br />
The Dominican Republic is a hot vacation spot for tourists on Spring break.<br />
fake hair. Now woman brag <strong>and</strong><br />
boast about their weaves.”<br />
“They see their favourite celebrities<br />
with long hair one day <strong>and</strong><br />
short hair the next, <strong>and</strong> then the<br />
notion of fake hair becomes acceptable<br />
to them.”<br />
Black women have been putting<br />
hair extensions on the map for<br />
years, but now women of all races<br />
are finding their way to this growing<br />
trend.<br />
“ It’s definitely not just black<br />
women wearing extensions,” says<br />
Providence. “Out of all my customers<br />
I would say almost half of them<br />
are non-black women. The only<br />
difference is that typically women<br />
who are not black have naturally<br />
long hair, so it’s harder to tell when<br />
they are wearing hair extensions.”<br />
A lot of women, especially students,<br />
would love to get their extensions<br />
put in professionally, but<br />
can’t afford it.<br />
Fortunately, hair extensions<br />
<strong>and</strong> weaves are no longer a job<br />
solely for the professionals.<br />
If you can braid <strong>and</strong> sew then<br />
putting extensions in this way<br />
should be a breeze.<br />
“Sewing is probably the most<br />
common way of putting in extensions,”<br />
says Providence. “This is because<br />
it lasts very long, it’s almost<br />
impossible to pull out, <strong>and</strong> it’s easy<br />
to maintain. When the extensions<br />
are sewed in women can wash<br />
<strong>and</strong> style the hair as if it was their<br />
own.”<br />
Domingo, who is best described<br />
as the gentle giant from the Green<br />
Mile, works to support his sister,<br />
who’s sick with cancer, <strong>and</strong> her<br />
three children. Domingo loves<br />
kids <strong>and</strong> told us that one day he’d<br />
like to have 24 of his own. His own<br />
baseball team we joked.<br />
But despite their troubles <strong>and</strong><br />
the two-hour bus ride to work every<br />
day, Luis <strong>and</strong> Domingo stay<br />
positive <strong>and</strong> live their lives according<br />
to the old tune of Don’t Worry<br />
be Happy.<br />
“I just smile <strong>and</strong> get along with<br />
everyone,” laughs Luis. “It’s always<br />
summertime here in the Dominican.”<br />
They each speak four languages<br />
including Spanish, French, Ger-<br />
The first step to sew in weave is<br />
making sure you have all the tools<br />
needed, which consist of a thread<br />
<strong>and</strong> needle, scissors to cut <strong>and</strong><br />
separate the hair extensions, <strong>and</strong><br />
of course, the most important, the<br />
hair extensions.<br />
“Hair extensions range in price<br />
depending on length <strong>and</strong> br<strong>and</strong>.<br />
They can be purchased at any<br />
black hair store,” says Providence.<br />
“A good <strong>and</strong> affordable br<strong>and</strong><br />
would be Fino or Outre, but if you<br />
want a br<strong>and</strong> closer to what the celebrities<br />
use, Velvet Remy is your<br />
best bet. It’s expensive but it lasts<br />
longer than most br<strong>and</strong>s <strong>and</strong> it’s<br />
the best quality hair.”<br />
The second step is braiding<br />
your natural hair in cornrows.<br />
man <strong>and</strong> English, which allowed<br />
the conversation to flow as freely<br />
as the beer.<br />
They shared stories of their<br />
travels to Germany <strong>and</strong> Canada,<br />
<strong>and</strong> Ricardo spoke fondly of his<br />
brother who has since settled in<br />
London, Ont. with a wife <strong>and</strong> three<br />
children. Ricardo’s English was<br />
perfect right down to his street<br />
slang.<br />
We laughed <strong>and</strong> joked <strong>and</strong> talked<br />
about everything from gun laws<br />
to immigration. Baseball was also<br />
a hot topic, <strong>and</strong> they clapped <strong>and</strong><br />
cheered with each mention of an<br />
MLB Dominican champ.<br />
A sudden downpour ended the<br />
evening, <strong>and</strong> the guys walked us<br />
back to the resort. They have to<br />
work in the morning, but laughed<br />
when we asked at what time.<br />
“Sometimes one o’clock, sometimes<br />
two,” said Domingo. “We<br />
work on Dominican time.”<br />
Mike gives Ricardo his Detroit<br />
Tigers baseball hat that he’s been<br />
eyeing all evening, <strong>and</strong> is wearing<br />
the next morning as we meet them<br />
for an ATV tour.<br />
The tour took us off-road <strong>and</strong><br />
into a village where parents sat on<br />
the front stoops of their small cement<br />
homes <strong>and</strong> watched their<br />
children chase the ATVs that went<br />
roaring past. The toddlers, naked<br />
as newborns, smiled <strong>and</strong> waved<br />
while the older children held out<br />
their h<strong>and</strong>s for a high five or called<br />
out, “Dinero, dinero!”<br />
We wished we had more to give<br />
them especially after the kindness<br />
given to us by our new Dominican<br />
friends.<br />
As the bus bounced along<br />
the narrow roads returning us to<br />
the airport we marveled at the<br />
streets bustling with people, clad<br />
in colourful costumes. Children<br />
ran up <strong>and</strong> down the sidewalks,<br />
<strong>and</strong> festivities were in full swing at<br />
each bar <strong>and</strong> restaurant we passed.<br />
They were celebrating their Independence<br />
Day.<br />
The moment I stepped off the<br />
plane in Toronto I wrapped my<br />
scarf, slid into my into my winter<br />
coat <strong>and</strong> wondered at how quickly<br />
I had forgotten the skin-shattering<br />
winds.<br />
Viva la Dominicana!<br />
Go head girl, get yo’ weave on<br />
The extensions are sewn onto the<br />
braids. If you want your whole<br />
head weaved then braid the whole<br />
head. But if you only want a few<br />
rows, for length or body, only braid<br />
it where you want the extensions.<br />
The third step is to sew the extensions<br />
onto the braids, just as<br />
if you were sewing a button back<br />
onto a coat or hemming a pair of<br />
jeans.<br />
Once the extensions have been<br />
sewn in the fourth <strong>and</strong> final step<br />
is to style your new extensions as<br />
you desire.<br />
No longer is there a need to<br />
stress about your hair, because its<br />
“unbeweaveable” how simple <strong>and</strong><br />
affordable it is to put in your own<br />
extensions.
26 The Chronicle March 17, 2009
By Nicki Lamont<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
Awkward. Stiff. Uncomfortable. Nervous.<br />
Four words that you wouldn’t normally<br />
use to describe comedian Jimmy Fallon<br />
seemed to be the most appropriate to describe<br />
his premier in late night TV.<br />
With big shoes to fill, Fallon took to the<br />
30 Rockefeller Center stage on March 2 in<br />
his debut in the 12:35 slot on NBC as host<br />
of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, <strong>and</strong> started<br />
the show in a way nobody expected: by not<br />
being funny.<br />
The eight-season Saturday Night Live vet<br />
has plenty of live comedic experience in<br />
front of an audience, but you’d be surprised<br />
to know that watching the first episode.<br />
Fallon opened his Monday night premier<br />
with a cameo from the outgoing host<br />
of Late Night, Conan O’Brien. Unfortunately<br />
for Fallon, the applause the audience gave<br />
for O’Brien was the biggest reaction of the<br />
night.<br />
After the images in the shows intro<br />
(which were far to familiar for anyone who<br />
has watched SNL in the past five years),<br />
Fallon took a swing at his first monologue.<br />
Every swing can’t be a homerun, but Fallon<br />
barely made it to base.<br />
He must have forgotten the techniques<br />
he used to use when reading the news on<br />
Weekend Update, because he came off stiff<br />
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<strong>and</strong> unnatural while reading off his cue<br />
cards. Underst<strong>and</strong>able if this was his first<br />
time attempting it, but Fallon has four seasons<br />
of that under his belt from reading the<br />
news on SNL.<br />
It was obvious in which areas he did his<br />
homework, <strong>and</strong> which he did not. Watching<br />
just a few episodes of Late Night with the<br />
past two hosts (O’Brien <strong>and</strong> David Letterman)<br />
would have made it obvious that the<br />
show isn’t a place for formal talk, but Fallon<br />
chose to ignore that.<br />
On a program that’s infamous for it’s immature<br />
humour, Fallon sang a song with<br />
his house b<strong>and</strong> The Roots about the state<br />
of American politics, dropping Whitehouse<br />
names that the audience didn’t recognize,<br />
leaving them not only confused, but bored<br />
by the end of the number.<br />
But not all of his ideas went straight to<br />
a comedy wastel<strong>and</strong>. The audience was<br />
enthusiastic about a segment called Lick It<br />
For Ten, where audience members would<br />
lick different items for $10. From the title of<br />
the segment alone, the crowd was roaring in<br />
laughter, eagerly awaiting to see what would<br />
be licked for 10. But when Fallon revealed<br />
the items (among them a bowl <strong>and</strong> a printer),<br />
the audience was visually disappointed.<br />
The best choices were evident when they<br />
walked onto the stage: the first week’s guests<br />
blew most late night show’s line-ups out of<br />
the water. Big names like Robert De Niro,<br />
Justin Timberlake, Drew Barrymore <strong>and</strong> Jon<br />
Bon Jovi helped Fallon grab ratings <strong>and</strong> kept<br />
viewers from turning the channel after the<br />
mundane skits. But somehow Fallon managed<br />
to turn even the most interesting of<br />
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Fallon fails as late night host<br />
Violence, swearing <strong>and</strong> sex:<br />
could we ask for any more?<br />
By Krystin Spittal<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
This 2009 dramatization of a series of comic books,<br />
later to be released in one graphic novel, makes all<br />
other ‘R’ rated movies look like a playschool during<br />
recess.<br />
The suspense, the surprise, <strong>and</strong> the action-packed<br />
subplots are what keep viewers immersed in every<br />
twist of the Watchmen. Of course, this comes as no<br />
surprise with Zack Snyder directing the film. His previous<br />
movie, 300, is only a glimpse of what his directing<br />
abilities can do.<br />
I must highlight one problem that I have, not<br />
with the movie, but with the viewers who debate the<br />
Watchmen Vs. The Dark Knight. Both films are admirably<br />
well done for different reasons. For example,<br />
The Dark Knight stars Heath Ledger as The Joker. In<br />
my opinion, he alone enhances the film, whereas in<br />
the Watchmen, the cast is composed of many unknown<br />
actors.<br />
It is nice to see fresh faces, a nice change from the<br />
usual big names. It was easier to envision a particular<br />
actor as the character, instead of remembering that<br />
actor from a previous role. It kind of kills the authenticity<br />
of a movie when actors are in a lot of movies be-<br />
cause the viewer begins to picture the actor in a previous<br />
role. Plus, not only were there fresh faces, but they<br />
were talented actors as well.<br />
Basically, the movie is a more grown-up version of<br />
the typical superhero comic book. There is violence,<br />
there is swearing, <strong>and</strong> there is sex. This is why it is<br />
rated ‘R’. Parents should be warned that despite the<br />
comic book, cartoony feel of the film, it is grounded<br />
on mature themes.<br />
Lastly, the answer to all Watchmen comic book<br />
fans: how close is the movie to the book? Extremely.<br />
However I must note a few changes, which differ from<br />
the book. The scene where Rorschach is in prison has<br />
a script change. He is asked the question from the<br />
book; “We got a jail full of guys out here who hate<br />
your guts. What in hell do you got?” But answers<br />
the question “Your h<strong>and</strong>s, my pleasure.” Instead of,<br />
“Your h<strong>and</strong>s, my perspective.” Which would have<br />
made more sense considering what happens next in<br />
the film. Another difference, which was more of a cut<br />
than a change, was to the Black Freighter storyline.<br />
The Black Freighter is a sort of comic within a comic.<br />
Watching Dave Gibbon’s 2-D images from Alan<br />
Moore’s 1986/87 comic book series go from flat <strong>and</strong><br />
simply coloured to vibrant real life characters was<br />
amazing, despite the small differences between the<br />
book <strong>and</strong> film.<br />
By Nicki Lamont<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
Millions of young girls<br />
around the world had a dream<br />
come true on Feb. 25 when they<br />
got to sit front row for a 90 minute<br />
long Jonas Brothers concert,<br />
<strong>and</strong> the brothers didn’t even<br />
have to perform that night.<br />
Last Friday, the Jonas Brothers<br />
3-D Concert premiered<br />
around the world, <strong>and</strong> gave fans<br />
a first-h<strong>and</strong> experience at what<br />
it’s like to sit beside the stage<br />
(<strong>and</strong> sometimes even on the<br />
stage) at one of their shows. And<br />
according to the $12.7 million<br />
weekend box opening, there<br />
were a lot of young girls waiting<br />
to see what that’s like.<br />
The movie opens with a<br />
glimpse into the life of the b<strong>and</strong>;<br />
<strong>and</strong> for three brothers with four<br />
world records <strong>and</strong> two platinum<br />
albums, it’s not as glamorous as<br />
you’d think.<br />
You can only assume that<br />
the best selling pop group of<br />
2008 has a busy schedule, but<br />
from what audiences got to see<br />
in the movie, it’s hard to believe<br />
that the boys have enough time<br />
to breathe.<br />
Between 4 a.m. wake up<br />
calls, live TV interviews <strong>and</strong><br />
performances, a CD release<br />
kick off event, <strong>and</strong> a sold out<br />
show at New York City’s Madison<br />
Square Garden, we get to<br />
see just what it’s like to live the<br />
life of a Jonas Brother for a day.<br />
And it ain’t easy bringing in the<br />
green.<br />
The pre-concert footage<br />
not only lets us see them try to<br />
guests into awkward conversations.<br />
De Niro is known for rarely doing television<br />
interviews, so a big opportunity presented<br />
itself when he agreed to be Fallon’s<br />
first ever guest. Instead of asking questions<br />
people would be interested in, Fallon choose<br />
to spend his time telling stories about his<br />
own life experiences, <strong>and</strong> showing clips of<br />
fake movies he <strong>and</strong> De Niro never made.<br />
It showcased Fallon’s lack of interviewing<br />
skills, but it’s still early in his hosting career.<br />
With any luck he’ll soon get into a groove of<br />
good questions <strong>and</strong> interesting interviews.<br />
But aside from his obvious mistakes,<br />
Fallon failed to do something within his<br />
first week that all other great talk-show<br />
hosts have done before him: create an image.<br />
When Letterman took over Late Night,<br />
he was known as the ‘anti-talk show host’<br />
because of his relaxed sports coat <strong>and</strong> tennis<br />
shoe ensemble. O’Brien had his goofy<br />
entrance, uncontrollable main of hair, <strong>and</strong><br />
witty banter with his b<strong>and</strong>, The Max Weinberg<br />
7. Fallon has his awkward pauses <strong>and</strong><br />
routine interview questions, which isn’t a<br />
great thing to be known for in the late night<br />
world.<br />
But it’s only his first week. The public had<br />
doubts of O’Brien taking over the show in<br />
1993, <strong>and</strong> his reign lasted 16 years. With a<br />
little luck, <strong>and</strong> a lot more practice, Fallon<br />
could turn into a great host. Lets ust hope he<br />
doesnt skip the practice.<br />
Girls scream<br />
for Jonas 3-D<br />
fit 26 hours worth of work in a<br />
24 hour day, but it gives fans a<br />
closer look at who the trio are as<br />
individuals.<br />
Joe singled himself out as<br />
the funny one, trying to crack<br />
jokes while Kevin, the dad of the<br />
bunch, dictated the schedule<br />
for the day off his Blackberry<br />
(a number which I’m sure every<br />
girl watching was craving).<br />
Then you have Nick, the quiet<br />
musical prodigy of the bunch<br />
who didn’t say much, but left<br />
the older viewers thankful that<br />
he’s of-age to be eye-c<strong>and</strong>y.<br />
But as unique as the three<br />
are off-stage, they collaborate<br />
in such unity onstage that they<br />
seem to be one person.<br />
When the music finally<br />
starts, the screams <strong>and</strong> smiles of<br />
the girls watching make it hard<br />
to believe that you’re not at a<br />
live concert.<br />
The boys’ ability to work the<br />
audience transfers well to film,<br />
making you feel only inches<br />
away from the action.<br />
In reality, tickets to sit that<br />
close to the boys can run you<br />
upwards of $530 depending on<br />
which venue you go to, so for a<br />
$12.50 movie ticket <strong>and</strong> a free<br />
pair of Real-D shades, you’re<br />
saving yourself a pretty penny.<br />
At the end of the movie, you<br />
could almost hear the sound of<br />
the tweens running home to rip<br />
down their High School Musical<br />
3 posters in favor of a fold<br />
out of the Jo Bros. The 3-D Concert<br />
Experience lets fans enjoy<br />
a live concert whenever they<br />
want from the best seats in the<br />
house.
28 The Chronicle March 17, 2009<br />
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Keri Hilson’s<br />
world is perfect<br />
R&B star<br />
delivers<br />
with debut<br />
album<br />
By Jamilah McCarthy<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
What do you get when you mix<br />
a beautiful voice with an amazing<br />
face, figure, <strong>and</strong> fashion sense, <strong>and</strong><br />
songwriting skills that have garnered<br />
hits for the likes of Britney<br />
Spears, Mary J. Blige <strong>and</strong> Usher?<br />
The answer is an artist with every<br />
bit of potential to become the next<br />
big thing. Correction.<br />
The answer is Keri Hilson.<br />
Hilson’s debut album<br />
has been pushed<br />
back many times since<br />
its expected release<br />
back in 2007. The first<br />
two singles “Energy”,<br />
<strong>and</strong> “Return the Favour”,<br />
were both well<br />
received by critics, but<br />
didn’t quite take off at<br />
radio.<br />
Sometimes timing is everything<br />
<strong>and</strong> it seems there is no<br />
better time than now to release<br />
the album since her third single<br />
“Turning me on” featuring hip-hop<br />
superstar Lil’ Wayne has become a<br />
huge success, <strong>and</strong> is currently sitting<br />
just outside of the Billboard<br />
Hot 100 top 10. So on March 24,<br />
the world will get to enter Hilson’s<br />
<strong>Durham</strong><br />
welcomes<br />
Canadian<br />
Idol’s Rex<br />
Goudie<br />
By Shenieka<br />
Russell-Metcalf<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
‘<br />
Canadian Idol runner up Rex<br />
Goudie will be performing at E.P.<br />
Taylor’s Pub on March 20 at 8 p.m.<br />
Tickets are on sale at the tuck<br />
shop in the student centre. Tickets<br />
are $5 for students <strong>and</strong> $10 for the<br />
public.<br />
$2 of every ticket sale will go<br />
to Skate4Cancer to help fund research<br />
to find a cure for cancer.<br />
For more information on Skate-<br />
4Cancer, go to www.skate4cancer.<br />
com.<br />
world, as her debut album, In a<br />
perfect World will be released.<br />
The 26 –year- old R&B singersongwriter<br />
began her career writing<br />
for the Atlanta based hip-hop<br />
production <strong>and</strong> songwriting team<br />
The Clutch, <strong>and</strong> penned a number<br />
of hits for several superstars,<br />
perhaps most notably for Britney<br />
Spears. She gained notoriety as an<br />
artist after the massive success of<br />
her collaboration with Timbal<strong>and</strong>,<br />
“The way I are”. She has made a<br />
number of celebrity friends including<br />
Justin Timberlake <strong>and</strong><br />
her mentor Timbal<strong>and</strong>, who both<br />
wrote <strong>and</strong> produced for the album.<br />
Hilson also worked with The<br />
Clutch, the production team she<br />
started out with.<br />
The Timbal<strong>and</strong> produced “Love<br />
Ya”, is a mix of Indian <strong>and</strong> hip-hop<br />
beats <strong>and</strong> it shows Hilson’s sexier<br />
side. The track “Knock you down”,<br />
featuring Ne-Yo<br />
What do you<br />
get when you mix<br />
a beautiful voice<br />
with an amazing<br />
face, figure <strong>and</strong><br />
fashion sense?<br />
Jamilah McCarthy<br />
’<br />
<strong>and</strong> Kanye West,<br />
<strong>and</strong> produced<br />
by The Clutch, is<br />
utter brilliance.<br />
It’s a song about<br />
redeeming yourself<br />
after a bad<br />
breakup <strong>and</strong> allowing<br />
yourself<br />
to love again. It’s<br />
also the smartest<br />
choice for a<br />
fourth single.<br />
In a perfect world, also features<br />
production from Polow da Don<br />
<strong>and</strong> Danja, two of hip-hop’s hottest<br />
producers today.<br />
Keri Hilson is refreshing. She’s<br />
already proven herself to be an<br />
amazing songwriter <strong>and</strong> in a<br />
perfect world, she will get the acknowledgement<br />
<strong>and</strong> success she<br />
deserves as an artist.<br />
Anderson Council<br />
gives students a taste<br />
of their sound at pub<br />
By Nicki Lamont<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
Students at <strong>Durham</strong> <strong>College</strong> were left wanting<br />
more after Anderson Council treated the Market-<br />
Place to an acoustic sneak-peek of their new EP on<br />
March 6.<br />
Despite the fact that both their lead <strong>and</strong> back-up<br />
singer talked about having to do the performance<br />
with throat infections, the Ajax-based b<strong>and</strong> impressed<br />
audiences <strong>and</strong> proved why they were a<br />
good choice to be Backrow Records’ first signed<br />
b<strong>and</strong>.<br />
“They’re very professional at what<br />
they do,” lead guitarist Jeff Robertson<br />
said about Backrow. “It would be<br />
very hard for us to do what we’re doing<br />
without them.”<br />
Backrow first set their sights on<br />
Anderson Council after they played<br />
a show at the Dungeon late last year.<br />
Since then Backrow, an independent<br />
record label run by first- <strong>and</strong><br />
second-year Music Business Management<br />
students, has helped start<br />
the road to success for the b<strong>and</strong>.<br />
Backrow has helped the b<strong>and</strong> set up shows like<br />
the one on the 6th to promote their upcoming release<br />
of Under Auditorium, their six-song debut<br />
release.<br />
But this wasn’t the first time they’ve recorded in<br />
a studio together.<br />
The b<strong>and</strong> used their talent to win them 16 hours<br />
of free recording time at a battle of the b<strong>and</strong>s, but<br />
they quickly learned that it takes a lot longer than<br />
that to show off their best work.<br />
“We thought we won a lot, but 16 hours really<br />
isn’t much to work with,” said Robertson. “It wasn’t<br />
even enough to record three whole songs.”<br />
But Anderson Council has come a long way<br />
‘<br />
Playing live is<br />
like nothing else.<br />
Having the crowd<br />
there to feed<br />
off their energy<br />
pumps you up.<br />
from having to win their recording time.<br />
The b<strong>and</strong> has been in the studio since November<br />
working on their first album with the <strong>Durham</strong><br />
<strong>College</strong> label.<br />
Tracks like Dreadlock Girl <strong>and</strong> Pinned <strong>and</strong><br />
Posted prove they’re not just another college b<strong>and</strong>,<br />
<strong>and</strong> their unique sound (think of a mix between<br />
Pink Floyd <strong>and</strong> Straylight Run) has students interested<br />
<strong>and</strong> wanting more.<br />
With five days of shows scheduled around Oshawa<br />
between March 21 <strong>and</strong> April 3, students<br />
won’t have to go far to catch a glimpse of their intoxicating<br />
live stage presence.<br />
“We love doing shows,” said bassist Dave Yorke.<br />
Dave Yorke<br />
’<br />
“Playing live is like nothing else. Having<br />
the crowd there to feed off their<br />
energy just pumps you up.”<br />
Anderson Council’s busy schedule<br />
is only a small indication of how<br />
hard they’re working to promote<br />
their album; but it’s not all serious<br />
business with the boys. Even their album<br />
name hints at their light-heart-<br />
ed approach to their first record.<br />
“The studio we recorded in was<br />
literally under the auditorium [at<br />
<strong>Durham</strong> <strong>College</strong>],” said lead singer Craig Robertson.<br />
“And it goes well with the b<strong>and</strong> name. Which<br />
looks great on our T-shirts.”<br />
For a b<strong>and</strong> from such a small town, they’re<br />
packed with talent, <strong>and</strong> students are taking notice.<br />
Anderson Council won March’s Artist of the Month<br />
on The Riot Radio, which is determined by votes on<br />
the station’s website.<br />
The b<strong>and</strong> will take the stage as a part of MBM’s<br />
Rock N’ Reel alongside Beauti, London Swagger<br />
<strong>and</strong> others for their CD release party on April 3 at<br />
EP Taylor’s.<br />
Check out more from Anderson Council at<br />
www.myspace.com/acouncilb<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> www.backrowrecords.ca.
<strong>Durham</strong> <strong>College</strong>-<strong>UOIT</strong> Chronicle<br />
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Anthony Batchelor Eric Smith Erin Emery Jessica Newton Samantha Jansen<br />
OCAA rewards Lords basketball<br />
By Didier Kalonji<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
The hard work by the men’s <strong>and</strong><br />
women’s basketball teams did not<br />
go unnoticed by the Ontario <strong>College</strong>s<br />
Athletic Association. Five<br />
Lords players received awards at<br />
the provincial basketball banquet.<br />
The men’s basketball banquet<br />
was held at Algonquin <strong>College</strong> on<br />
March 5, followed by the women’s<br />
on the 6 th at Sheridan <strong>College</strong>.<br />
Lady Lords guard Erin Emery<br />
received an all-star award <strong>and</strong><br />
teammates Samantha Jensen <strong>and</strong><br />
Jessica Newton got rookie awards<br />
for the women’s team. “It is a statement<br />
to their work <strong>and</strong> commitment<br />
to the program,” said women’s<br />
basketball coach Tim Baulk.<br />
The women did not have a great<br />
season this year, but they played<br />
hard in every game from the beginning<br />
to the end.<br />
“It is extremely difficult to earn<br />
honours as an all-star when your<br />
team has a losing record, <strong>and</strong> fails<br />
to make the playoffs,” said Baulk.<br />
Point guard Erin Emery led the<br />
team, averaging 12.1 points per<br />
game. She also showed her defen-<br />
sive skills, finishing with 44 steals.<br />
She was selected to the East Region<br />
second all-star team. It was<br />
her first provincial recognition.<br />
Rookies Jessica Newton <strong>and</strong><br />
Samantha Jansen were selected<br />
to the East Region all-rookie team.<br />
As rookies they helped their team<br />
fight each <strong>and</strong> every single game.<br />
Newton finished behind Emery<br />
in scoring, averaging 11.8 per<br />
game, <strong>and</strong> led the team in blocked<br />
shots with five. Jansen contributed<br />
with 7.9 points per game, <strong>and</strong> six<br />
rebounds.<br />
Team captain Anthony Batchelor<br />
<strong>and</strong> rookie Eric Smith received<br />
all-star awards for the men’s team.<br />
The men had a terrific regular season<br />
as they went 16-4, but unfortunately<br />
lost 91-87 to Algoma in an<br />
overtime thriller on Feb. 21.<br />
Freshman Eric Smith had a lot<br />
to do with the Lords success. He<br />
averaged 18.6 points per game,<br />
leading all rookies in scoring.<br />
He also finished with an impressive<br />
10 double-doubles. He<br />
was named an East Region second<br />
team all-star <strong>and</strong> was selected to<br />
the all-rookie team.<br />
“It feels good as a rookie to be<br />
honoured at a provincial level,”<br />
said Smith. But regardless of his<br />
Rookies honoured by OUA<br />
By Lauren Thomas<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
The Ontario University Athletics<br />
(OUA) has listed two <strong>UOIT</strong><br />
Ridgebacks men’s hockey team<br />
athletes as 2008-09 major award<br />
winners.<br />
Rookie Josh Vatri was named<br />
the OUA West Rookie of the Year<br />
<strong>and</strong> was also selected as a member<br />
of the OUA West all-rookie<br />
team. Teammate Mike Noyes also<br />
received the honour of being selected<br />
to the OUA West all-rookie<br />
team.<br />
Vatri finished his first season<br />
as a Ridgeback with 32 points, on<br />
15 goals <strong>and</strong> 17 assists. During the<br />
season he also managed an exciting<br />
five-game point streak.<br />
“Over <strong>and</strong> above his scoring<br />
prowess, Josh is arguably the most<br />
exciting player in the OUA, with<br />
exceptional explosiveness <strong>and</strong><br />
the ability to execute moves at top<br />
speed,” said Ridgeback head coach<br />
Marlin Muylaert.<br />
Noyes led the OUA defensive<br />
rookies in goals, with eight for the<br />
season. With 23 points he also<br />
ended second in the league for<br />
overall defensive scoring.<br />
In his first four games with<br />
the Ridgebacks, Noyes impressed<br />
teammates, fans <strong>and</strong> coaches<br />
alike.<br />
“Severely lacking in offence<br />
from our blue line during our first<br />
year of play, Mike was recruited<br />
in to contribute to exactly that<br />
shortcoming,” said Muylaert. “He<br />
did not disappoint… Mike’s talent<br />
lay in his awareness of where<br />
his teammates are on the ice at all<br />
times, <strong>and</strong> his ability to find them<br />
with the puck.”<br />
“It is exciting to be given an<br />
award like this,” said Noyes. “To<br />
have my name mentioned with<br />
the rest of these players is awarding<br />
enough as it is.”<br />
Photo by Lauren Thomas<br />
OUA AWARDS: <strong>UOIT</strong> Ridgeback Mike Noyes was selected to the OUA west allrookie<br />
team. He led all rookie defencemen in goals with eight.<br />
Vatri <strong>and</strong> Noyes are the first<br />
Ridgebacks Ridgebacks to be<br />
honoured by the OUA, in only the<br />
teams second year in the league.<br />
well-earned awards. Smith said he<br />
does not think he met his goal, because<br />
he wanted to take his team<br />
farther in the playoffs.<br />
Teammate Anthony Batchelor<br />
was also named a member of the<br />
East Region second all-star team.<br />
Batchelor holds the all time OCAA<br />
scoring title with 1,833 points.<br />
He finished second in scoring<br />
this season with 16.3 per game.<br />
Batchelor has been contributing to<br />
the Lords success for five seasons.<br />
“If we realized what we can do<br />
together earlier in the season, we<br />
could’ve done so much damage,”<br />
said Smith.<br />
OCAA<br />
all-stars<br />
invade<br />
Athletic<br />
Centre<br />
By Didier Kalonji<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
The best basketball players<br />
in Ontario, both men <strong>and</strong><br />
women will be showcasing<br />
their talents on March 25,<br />
when the 22nd annual allstar<br />
game will be held here at<br />
<strong>Durham</strong> <strong>College</strong>.<br />
Basketball fans will have<br />
the opportunity to see all the<br />
top players in action. They<br />
will perform in different challenges<br />
throughout the day.<br />
The event will kick off at<br />
3:30 with a co-ed two-ball<br />
competition, which will be<br />
followed by the three-point<br />
shootout competition for<br />
both men <strong>and</strong> women at 4:30<br />
p.m.<br />
The women’s all-star game<br />
will start at 6 p.m. At half time<br />
the women’s shootout finals<br />
will take place. At 7:30 the<br />
mascot competition will take<br />
place.<br />
The last show of the day<br />
will the men’s all–star game,<br />
which kicks off at 8:15 p.m.,<br />
followed by men’s three-point<br />
shootout finals at halftime.
30 The Chronicle March 17, 2009<br />
Students get the ball rolling to<br />
balance academics <strong>and</strong> sports<br />
By Thomas Cranston<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
The Student Association Campus<br />
Recreation Program at <strong>Durham</strong><br />
<strong>and</strong> <strong>UOIT</strong> encourages a<br />
healthy <strong>and</strong> active lifestyle by offering<br />
numerous sports <strong>and</strong> activities<br />
to help students stay fit <strong>and</strong> get<br />
involved with the school.<br />
The Student Association offers<br />
intramural <strong>and</strong> extramural sports,<br />
which must be signed up through<br />
the Tuck Shop, located on the second<br />
floor of the Student Centre.<br />
Those who wish to participate are<br />
asked to bring their student card<br />
with them when they sign up.<br />
Full-time students are allowed<br />
the opportunity to participate in<br />
school sports without having a<br />
high skill level. The school also has<br />
its varsity sports but intramurals<br />
are provided just for fun <strong>and</strong> so<br />
students can all enjoy the year <strong>and</strong><br />
stay involved at the same time.<br />
However, all participants must<br />
be respectful <strong>and</strong> follow the school<br />
rules. Every intramural/extramural<br />
team must designate a captain<br />
to look after meetings, submit their<br />
team to the Tuck Shop <strong>and</strong> make<br />
sure their team is informed with all<br />
the details like schedule changes,<br />
rules, etc.<br />
Kelly Morrison, the campus<br />
recreation manager who oversees<br />
sports intramurals, among other<br />
things, said intramurals are important<br />
to student life <strong>and</strong> that she<br />
was once a varsity student herself.<br />
“As a past varsity athlete, athletics<br />
was an important component<br />
to my student experience at<br />
<strong>Durham</strong> <strong>College</strong>,” Morrison said.<br />
“Because athletics adds a balance<br />
to one’s academics, I believe it’s<br />
important for all students to have<br />
an opportunity to participate in<br />
organized leagues/tournaments.<br />
This allows the student to stay active,<br />
relieve stress, <strong>and</strong> make new<br />
friends.”<br />
The intramural program is run<br />
by the Student Association <strong>and</strong> offers<br />
a wide range of sports, including<br />
badminton, hockey, basketball,<br />
indoor soccer, jujitsu, curling <strong>and</strong><br />
volleyball. SA also offers slo-pitch<br />
<strong>and</strong> tennis monthly tournaments.<br />
“The Student Association organizes<br />
the campus recreation<br />
program,” Morrison said. “The SA<br />
works closely with the athletic department,<br />
campus tennis centre,<br />
<strong>and</strong> campus arena booking space,<br />
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etc. We currently organize leagues<br />
for hockey, basketball, volleyball,<br />
<strong>and</strong> indoor soccer. We decide on<br />
the leagues based on past participation<br />
<strong>and</strong> try new leagues based<br />
on campus-wide surveys, etc.”<br />
While all the intramural sports<br />
cost money (used to purchase all<br />
the uniforms, equipment <strong>and</strong> facilities,<br />
etc), Morrison says they<br />
‘<br />
This allows for<br />
students to stay<br />
active,relieve<br />
stress <strong>and</strong> make<br />
new friends.<br />
Kelly Morrison<br />
’<br />
are much cheaper than if students<br />
played in an outside league. But<br />
not only are intramurals held on<br />
campus, they are more affordable<br />
<strong>and</strong> convenient than league<br />
sports.<br />
“The SA offsets any costs associated<br />
with equipment <strong>and</strong> the<br />
league,” Morrison said. “The student<br />
pays $20 per league/semester.”<br />
She added that money comes<br />
from SA <strong>and</strong> these intramurals<br />
help form a good partnership with<br />
the Athletic Department for using<br />
the facilities.<br />
The Campus Recreation Office<br />
organizes the students into teams<br />
<strong>and</strong> makes up the schedule. The<br />
Campus Ice Centre <strong>and</strong> the gymnasium<br />
at the Campus Recreation<br />
<strong>and</strong> Wellness Centre are among<br />
the facilities used for sports intramurals<br />
around the school.<br />
Officials oversee games <strong>and</strong> ensure<br />
all participants are kept safe<br />
<strong>and</strong> that the scores <strong>and</strong> penalties<br />
are accurate <strong>and</strong> consistent.<br />
“We have certified basketball,<br />
indoor soccer, <strong>and</strong> hockey officials,”<br />
Morrison said. “We pay<br />
students to score-keep <strong>and</strong> ref volleyball.<br />
We also have student coordinators<br />
that oversee the league.<br />
I believe the students “do the job”<br />
as it is a great way to make extra income<br />
doing something they like.”<br />
“Student feedback has been<br />
relatively pretty good, seeing how<br />
many people sign up <strong>and</strong> play,”<br />
Morrison said. “We h<strong>and</strong> out a survey<br />
at the end of the year to get student<br />
thoughts for improvements<br />
<strong>and</strong> what can be done to make the<br />
sports better.”<br />
Morrison added that while intramural<br />
leagues are currently full,<br />
any student at <strong>Durham</strong> <strong>College</strong>,<br />
<strong>UOIT</strong> or Trent in Oshawa can play.<br />
Alumni <strong>and</strong> staff are also eligible<br />
but are required to pay a higher<br />
registration fee.<br />
Ken Crosina, the <strong>UOIT</strong> men’s<br />
<strong>and</strong> women’s tennis coach, agrees<br />
that intramurals play a huge role<br />
for students trying to maintain an<br />
active lifestyle.<br />
“I think intramural sports are<br />
great for kids,” Crosina said. “We<br />
try to run a large intramural program<br />
for tennis <strong>and</strong> I think the biggest<br />
problem we had with that was<br />
just timelines for students. It’s so<br />
difficult finding the same time that<br />
they have off of class. I think what<br />
we’ve seen now with the increase<br />
in student usage is that students<br />
are more apt to play on their own<br />
against their friends than they<br />
were to play intramurals. But I<br />
think that intramural sports plays<br />
a key role for students in an active<br />
lifestyle while attending (college<br />
or) university.”<br />
Check out the Student Association<br />
website (www.your-sa.ca) for<br />
up-to-date information regarding<br />
upcoming intramural action.
Career block leader<br />
By Stephanie Pollard<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
In a super slow motion both<br />
players are in the air, one ready<br />
to make the kill… one ready to<br />
block it. <strong>Durham</strong> fans strain their<br />
eyes as they see one arm swooping<br />
down <strong>and</strong> another pair rising.<br />
The swooping h<strong>and</strong> smacks the<br />
ball <strong>and</strong><br />
BOOM! The ball ricochets over<br />
the opponent’s side of the net <strong>and</strong><br />
crashes to the ground, hitting the<br />
floor before a sea of tangled desperate<br />
h<strong>and</strong>s try to save it. <strong>Durham</strong><br />
fans erupt in cheers <strong>and</strong> the<br />
announcer cries: “M<strong>and</strong>i Doris<br />
with the kill!” Doris slaps a few of<br />
her teammates’ h<strong>and</strong>s <strong>and</strong> runs<br />
back into position to wait for the<br />
next serve.<br />
Doris has done that 156 times,<br />
making her the OCAA all-time<br />
career block leader. She took a<br />
moment from her intense schedule<br />
to talk about her career, <strong>and</strong><br />
rest her left leg clamped safely in<br />
a cast due to a stress fracture. If<br />
M<strong>and</strong>i had to pinpoint the root<br />
of her success, it was her coachability<br />
that brought her to her<br />
skill level.<br />
“My coach could tell me anything<br />
that I need to fix <strong>and</strong> I did<br />
it right away <strong>and</strong> then just kept<br />
practicing <strong>and</strong> practice,” she<br />
said. She also centres her ‘practice<br />
makes perfect’ energy on all<br />
aspects of her game, not just the<br />
blocks.<br />
“I just focus on my game in<br />
general not just blocking, but it<br />
just happens that I do get a lot<br />
of blocks,” she laughed. <strong>Durham</strong><br />
Lords women’s volleyball head<br />
coach Shane Christopher said<br />
that when it comes to Doris’ work<br />
ethic, it’s an attitude everybody<br />
should adopt.<br />
“She doesn’t look for excuses<br />
but for input <strong>and</strong> feedback. She<br />
does the little stuff that everyone<br />
thinks insignificant <strong>and</strong> that’s<br />
what makes her better.” But despite<br />
her individual skills Doris<br />
insists teamwork won <strong>Durham</strong>’s<br />
recent accomplishments.<br />
“You cannot win the game<br />
with just one person, it has to be<br />
all six, so you have to make sure<br />
that everybody works as a team<br />
<strong>and</strong> I think that’s why I like it,<br />
because it’s just a team-oriented<br />
sport,” she said. We can safely<br />
assume that Doris has been doing<br />
her part. Aside from holding<br />
the OCAA record, Doris also<br />
went down in the books for most<br />
blocks made in a single season. In<br />
19 games she recorded 78 blocks,<br />
smashing the previous record of<br />
61, held by Courtney Warren of<br />
Mohawk <strong>College</strong>. Doris loves<br />
playing volleyball so much she<br />
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looks forward to practice after<br />
school. Even before the ferocity<br />
of college competition she enjoyed<br />
every aspect of the game.<br />
“I started playing volleyball<br />
in grade 7 of elementary school<br />
<strong>and</strong> I played 7,8 <strong>and</strong> then all<br />
throughout high school <strong>and</strong> was<br />
the captain of my volleyball team<br />
in grade 12,” she said. She also<br />
played basketball, ran track <strong>and</strong><br />
field <strong>and</strong> performed gymnastics<br />
for a while. This season offered<br />
nothing but good things for Doris<br />
(aside from a hurt ankle in<br />
the first game of the season) but<br />
there was a time volleyball wasn’t<br />
Photo by Stephanie Pollard<br />
ALMOST THERE: Lords captain, M<strong>and</strong>i Doris, aims for the kill when <strong>Durham</strong><br />
faced Sault <strong>College</strong> on Feb. 14. Doris is the all-time career block leader with 156.<br />
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in her favour.<br />
“I tried out for the volleyball<br />
team that was called <strong>Durham</strong><br />
Attack because my teacher was<br />
actually the coach for it, but I<br />
went to the tryout. I guess I went<br />
with my friend <strong>and</strong> she said that<br />
I wasn’t ready or something <strong>and</strong><br />
they cut me. I never made the<br />
team,” she said. In situations like<br />
those her parents have always<br />
been there as a solid support system.<br />
Whether they are her parents,<br />
friends or teammates Doris<br />
has what it takes to be successful.<br />
And she will block those who will<br />
say otherwise.<br />
Sad<br />
ending<br />
for Lords<br />
By Andrew Huska<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
The <strong>Durham</strong> Lords’ men’s<br />
indoor soccer team had some<br />
measure of success at the Central<br />
East regional championships<br />
in Oakville on March 10. Unfortunately,<br />
it wasn’t enough to get<br />
them into the provincial finals.<br />
The Lords had two wins <strong>and</strong><br />
two losses at the tournament. It’s<br />
more success than the team has<br />
had at other tournaments but unfortunately<br />
only the top two teams<br />
in the tournament move on to the<br />
Ontario <strong>College</strong>s Athletic Association’s<br />
Provincial championships<br />
on March 26 <strong>and</strong> 27. <strong>Durham</strong> finished<br />
third.<br />
Head coach Stan Bombino said<br />
the Lords had personnel problems<br />
that forced them to play short in<br />
the games.<br />
“Unfortunately, we came to the<br />
regional finals with three regular<br />
players out of the lineup,” Bombino<br />
said.<br />
The Lords were without Nick<br />
Zdravkovski <strong>and</strong> Kyle Ryan due to<br />
illness. Trevor Delpippo was out<br />
because of eligibility issues.<br />
In <strong>Durham</strong>’s first game against<br />
George Brown they lost 4-1 to the<br />
team that would cruise to first<br />
place in the tournament <strong>and</strong> earn<br />
a berth in the OCAA provincial<br />
championships.<br />
The Lords two wins came<br />
against Centennial <strong>College</strong>, 3-0,<br />
<strong>and</strong> Canadore <strong>College</strong> 1-0. Goalkeeper<br />
Andrew Macleod picked<br />
up both shutouts.<br />
The final game could have given<br />
the Lords an opportunity to finish<br />
second <strong>and</strong> move on but in the<br />
final game against Seneca fatigue<br />
set in <strong>and</strong> the Lords lost 3-1.<br />
Bombino said <strong>Durham</strong> controlled<br />
most of the game <strong>and</strong> without<br />
a doubt one or more substitutes<br />
would certainly have affected<br />
the outcome of the game.
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OCAA men’s indoor<br />
soccer Central<br />
East Regional<br />
championship<br />
Game 1; Centennial defeated<br />
Canadore 1-0<br />
Game 2; George Brown<br />
defeated <strong>Durham</strong> 4-1<br />
Game 3; Seneca defeated<br />
Canadore 7-1<br />
Game 4; <strong>Durham</strong> defeated<br />
Centennial 3-0<br />
Game 5; George Brown<br />
defeated Seneca 3-1<br />
Game 6; <strong>Durham</strong> defeated<br />
Canadore 1-0<br />
Game 7; George Brown<br />
defeated Centennial 3-2<br />
Game 8; Seneca defeated<br />
<strong>Durham</strong> 3-0<br />
Game 9; George Brown<br />
defeated Canadore 5-1<br />
Game 10; Centennial<br />
defeated Seneca 1-1<br />
OCAA women’s<br />
indoor soccer<br />
Central East<br />
Regional<br />
championships<br />
Game 1; Centennial defeated<br />
Canadore 3-0<br />
Game 2; <strong>Durham</strong> defeated<br />
George Brown 3-1<br />
Game 3; Seneca defeated<br />
Canadore 5-0<br />
Game 4; <strong>Durham</strong> defeated<br />
Centennial 1-0<br />
Game 5; Seneca defeated<br />
George Brown 2-1<br />
Game 6; <strong>Durham</strong> defeated<br />
Canadore 6-0<br />
Game 7; Centennial defeated<br />
George Brown 3-2<br />
Game 8; <strong>Durham</strong> defeated<br />
Seneca 1-0<br />
Game 9; Canadore defeated<br />
George Brown 2-0<br />
Game 10; Centennial defeated<br />
Seneca 5-1<br />
SPORTS <strong>NEWS</strong><br />
Stat Pack<br />
OCAA men’s basketball East<br />
division final st<strong>and</strong>ings<br />
Schools W L T Points<br />
Algonquin 18 2 0 36<br />
<strong>Durham</strong> 16 4 0 32<br />
St. Lawrence K 16 4 0 32<br />
Fleming P 15 5 0 26<br />
Cambrian 13 7 0 26<br />
George Brown 10 10 0 20<br />
Seneca 8 12 0 16<br />
Centennial 5 15 0 10<br />
Georgian 4 16 0 8<br />
Loyalist 4 16 0 8<br />
La Cite 1 19 0 2<br />
OCAA Men’s Basketball playoff results at<br />
Algonquin <strong>College</strong><br />
Semi-final #1: Humber defeated Niagara 79-62<br />
Semi-final #2: Algonquin defeated Algoma 79-64<br />
OCAA men’s basketball West<br />
division final st<strong>and</strong>ings<br />
School W L T Points<br />
Humber 16 2 0 32<br />
Fanshawe 14 4 0 28<br />
Niagara 14 4 0 28<br />
Sheridan 12 6 0 24<br />
Lambton 9 9 0 18<br />
St. Clair 9 9 0 18<br />
Algoma 9 9 0 18<br />
Mohawk 5 13 0 10<br />
Redeemer 2 16 0 4<br />
Sault 0 18 0 0<br />
OCAA Men’s Basketball playoff results at<br />
Algonquin <strong>College</strong><br />
Bronze Medal game:Niagara defeated Algoma 76-62<br />
Gold Medal game: Humber defeated Algonquin 85-78
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By Thomas Cranston<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
As <strong>UOIT</strong> continues to grow in population<br />
since opening in 2003, so does their<br />
varsity tennis program, which started three<br />
years later.<br />
“We’re always on the lookout for some<br />
17-<strong>and</strong> 18-year-olds that are looking for a<br />
place to go to university <strong>and</strong> hopefully we<br />
can attract them here <strong>and</strong> get them on our<br />
team,” Crosina said. “Kane Easter <strong>and</strong> myself<br />
will be back as the coaches of our men’s<br />
<strong>and</strong> women’s varsity teams.”<br />
The coaches will be back <strong>and</strong> it looks like<br />
the majority of last year’s team will be too.<br />
“I think we have about 75 per cent of our<br />
team that will return with the thought of<br />
making the team again so we hope we can<br />
count on them for a strong foundation,” Crosina<br />
said. “And with two or three recruits on<br />
each team, we should have a stronger team<br />
moving forward.”<br />
The <strong>UOIT</strong> Ridgebacks men’s <strong>and</strong> women’s<br />
tennis clubs are both coming off tough<br />
seasons, finishing at the bottom of the st<strong>and</strong>ings,<br />
but hope for improvement next year.<br />
“I think it (last year) was probably our<br />
best year yet,” Crosina exclaimed. “I think<br />
we won the most matches yet. I think each<br />
year as the university grows in base numbers,<br />
it gives us a larger pool of students to<br />
select from so it makes our team stronger.<br />
Just the experience <strong>and</strong> the way we’ve seen<br />
our athletes train during the off-season, I<br />
think that our team is positioned well for<br />
strong improvement <strong>and</strong> good results going<br />
SPORTS <strong>NEWS</strong><br />
Crosina looks to next year<br />
By Thomas Cranston<br />
Chronicle Staff<br />
John Tavares <strong>and</strong> his secondplace<br />
London Knights had long<br />
secured a playoff berth before the<br />
season was even close to being<br />
over while his former team, the<br />
Oshawa Generals, were left fighting<br />
for their lives right up to the<br />
regular season’s final game just to<br />
get a chance at playoff glory.<br />
Every point mattered to the<br />
Oshawa Generals, who were fighting<br />
for their lives just to make the<br />
post-season. But their road to the<br />
playoffs didn’t get any clearer or<br />
any better, following a 7-2 shellacking<br />
at the h<strong>and</strong>s of the visiting<br />
Brampton Battalion in their final<br />
home game of the season in front<br />
of 4,850 fans at the General Motors<br />
Centre on March 11.<br />
The Battalion scored three<br />
goals, two minutes <strong>and</strong> 17 seconds<br />
apart, to stick a dagger in the Generals’<br />
hopes. The rough <strong>and</strong> tumble<br />
game saw a total of three fights<br />
break out, long after the game was<br />
out of reach.<br />
The Generals were coming off a<br />
3-2 shootout loss to the Peterborough<br />
Petes on March 8 that drew<br />
5,422 fans in Oshawa, the Petes<br />
avenging their 5-4 overtime loss to<br />
Oshawa in Peterborough just two<br />
weeks earlier. Needing an extra<br />
round of the shootout to determine<br />
the winner, Peterborough forward<br />
Sergey Korostin sealed the Generals’<br />
fate in that one, scoring in the<br />
fourth round after Oshawa’s Andy<br />
Andreoff was stoned by Petes<br />
goaltender Jason Missiaen to give<br />
Peterborough the extra point.<br />
Every late-season game came<br />
with massive playoff implications<br />
for Oshawa. The Generals went<br />
into the 2009 varsity season.”<br />
Crosina said members on last year’s<br />
team are staying active, playing in the Tennis<br />
Campus Centre’s house league <strong>and</strong> are<br />
excited for the start of<br />
next season.<br />
“A lot of our varsity<br />
athletes continue to play<br />
in our house leagues, our<br />
in-house programs that<br />
we run,” he said. “Most<br />
of them are usually playing<br />
on a weekly basis. We<br />
also have some inter-club<br />
teams where we compete<br />
against teams across the<br />
GTA on Sunday nights for<br />
our men. We have about<br />
four of our students that<br />
play on those teams. And<br />
then we have one or two<br />
of our girls that com-<br />
pete with our club teams<br />
for women on either a<br />
Wednesday or Thursday<br />
morning across the GTA.”<br />
The Tennis Campus<br />
Centre has a competitive<br />
program for members of the community.<br />
Crosina said the varsity athletes that either<br />
have the time or the interest will tryout<br />
for the community teams. He added that it’s<br />
a nice way for varsity students to interact<br />
with Campus Tennis Centre members <strong>and</strong><br />
for members to interact with the students<br />
on a competitive playing level.<br />
Even though <strong>UOIT</strong>’s tennis season was<br />
completed months ago (the month long<br />
against Brampton, tied with the<br />
Peterborough Petes for the final<br />
two playoff spots in the East Division<br />
with 57 points apiece, just<br />
one point ahead of the Sudbury<br />
Wolves. Korostin’s goal gave Peterborough<br />
the victory <strong>and</strong> that<br />
crucial extra point. Sudbury lost<br />
in convincing fashion March 8 to<br />
the Ottawa 67’s, 6-2 in Ottawa, allowing<br />
Peterborough to leap-frog<br />
over them into the eighth <strong>and</strong> final<br />
playoff position.<br />
While Oshawa lost to Brampton<br />
on March 11, Peterborough<br />
did themselves no favours, falling<br />
4-0 to Belleville. The loudest cheer<br />
of the night came as the out-oftown<br />
scoreboard announced Peterborough<br />
had been shut out in<br />
Belleville, leaving the Generals <strong>and</strong><br />
Petes tied in the st<strong>and</strong>ings despite<br />
Ken Crosina<br />
<strong>UOIT</strong> tennis coach<br />
both teams losing badly.<br />
Brampton captain <strong>and</strong> Canadian<br />
world junior goal medalist<br />
Cody Hodgson was dominant,<br />
scoring two goals <strong>and</strong> adding two<br />
assists as the game’s first star. Oshawa<br />
really had no answer for<br />
Hodgson <strong>and</strong> another member<br />
of Brampton’s top line, Evgeny<br />
Grachev, who combined for three<br />
goals <strong>and</strong> seven points. Brett Parnham<br />
scored both goals for Oshawa<br />
to hit 50 on the year, trailing only<br />
local hero John Tavares for the<br />
league lead.<br />
The game picked up intensity<br />
as the evening went on but after the<br />
Generals fell behind 3-0 early, they<br />
could never recover <strong>and</strong> turned<br />
the game into a slugfest. The active<br />
second period recorded two separate<br />
misconducts, two fights <strong>and</strong><br />
season ended in October). Some people<br />
would assume once a season is complete,<br />
the coaching staff would get time off. Not<br />
Crosina.<br />
The workload may<br />
be less dramatic but it<br />
doesn’t look any easier.<br />
Crosina remains responsible<br />
for running the Tennis<br />
Centre during the offseason.<br />
“My responsibility is<br />
primarily with our membership<br />
base,” Crosina<br />
said. “We have about 330<br />
members so we’re making<br />
sure that we run programs<br />
<strong>and</strong> keep them<br />
busy. As well, we have a<br />
full junior program for lessons.<br />
We have about 200<br />
kids a week that come<br />
through the doors.”<br />
He is in charge of organizing<br />
the lessons, coaches<br />
<strong>and</strong> putting together<br />
the lesson plans. And of<br />
course, dealing with any<br />
problems that may arise.<br />
Crosina said they are also gearing up for<br />
the start of summer camps, hopefully in excess<br />
of the 650 students they had last summer.<br />
He remains optimistic about next season,<br />
hoping the men’s <strong>and</strong> women’s teams<br />
can both uncover a gem.<br />
“Ideally, we’d like to find a diamond in<br />
the rough,” he added. “We need to have one<br />
a flurry of goals, six to be exact, in<br />
the period alone.The score was 3-0<br />
after the first period, <strong>and</strong> after the<br />
second, the goal scoring was done,<br />
Brampton leading 7-2.<br />
Former Generals captain <strong>and</strong><br />
current London Knights forward<br />
John Tavares’ three-goal night was<br />
announced over the PA system<br />
strong female that will join the university<br />
varsity team <strong>and</strong> one strong male. That will<br />
just make our team stronger throughout<br />
<strong>and</strong> it will push our strength down a little bit.<br />
If we can get one superstar on each squad,<br />
I think we’re going to see a huge improvement<br />
in how our team makes out.”<br />
He said students may feel overwhelmed<br />
when they’re first starting out but after a few<br />
games, they usually find their groove <strong>and</strong> go<br />
on to have great seasons.<br />
“For anybody that plays a varsity sport<br />
there’s a lot of uncertainty, so when they<br />
first get out there, they’re not sure what to<br />
expect,” Crosina said. “But as they get into a<br />
comfort zone, they become more comfortable<br />
<strong>and</strong> they’re used to the level they’re<br />
playing at. I think our first match or two, we<br />
were kind of shell-shocked but then they get<br />
comfortable. Particularly on our girls team, I<br />
think we had a couple rookies on our team<br />
that were really unsure what to expect but<br />
when they got out there, they were pleasantly<br />
surprised how well they could compete.”<br />
Crosina believes that as the season progresses,<br />
students will find their comfort levels<br />
<strong>and</strong> he hopes to continue helping them<br />
do that as coach for as long as he can.<br />
“As long as they’ll let me,” Crosina said<br />
with a laugh. “Ideally, I’d like to be here for<br />
probably another 20-23 years or something<br />
like that. I’d like to go through to 65 as long<br />
as I can keep my wits about me, <strong>and</strong> keep<br />
my youthful exuberance, I think I should be<br />
fine.”<br />
The varsity tennis season starts back up<br />
in September.<br />
Generals in tough until the end<br />
against Peterborough to a thunderous<br />
ovation by Oshawa fans. Tavares<br />
had just become the OHL’s alltime<br />
leading goal scorer by potting<br />
the winner as the Knights edged<br />
the Spitfires 4-3 in Windsor. He<br />
passed Peter Lee’s career record<br />
of 213 set from 1971-76 when Lee<br />
was a member of the Ottawa 67’s.
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