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There's a lot of people who don't know<br />
where their next meal is coming from.<br />
-<br />
See page 15<br />
Volume XLIV, Issue 6 <strong>chronicle</strong>.durhamcollege.ca November 15 - 21, 2016<br />
Are things OK<br />
with our SA?<br />
page 3<br />
Celina stops<br />
by for a visit<br />
page 13<br />
Photograph by Jenn Amaro<br />
Please sir,<br />
I want some more page 15<br />
UOIT women make<br />
sports history page 29<br />
Photograph by Barbara Howe<br />
Photograph by Al Fournier
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FRONT<br />
DC journalism students look at Durham College and UOIT,<br />
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Photograph by Rebecca Calzavara<br />
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Hot, fresh popcorn was made available to promte the women's volleyball home opener.<br />
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but at the end of the day, I<br />
still have passion for it..."<br />
"I live with zero regrets<br />
because every mistake<br />
I have made has gotten<br />
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Campus <strong>chronicle</strong>.durhamcollege.ca November 15 - 21, 2016 The Chronicle 3<br />
SA rebuilds reputation<br />
Travis Fortnum<br />
The Chronicle<br />
The past year has been rocky for<br />
the Student Association at Durham<br />
College and UOIT.<br />
It has developed a reputation<br />
for meeting student concerns<br />
and inquiries with silence<br />
after it was the centre of several<br />
scandals through the spring and<br />
summer.<br />
Since the last general election<br />
wrapped up in May, the SA has<br />
had two presidents come and go<br />
as well as another member of its<br />
board.<br />
It now faces the <strong>issue</strong>s that both<br />
institutions are withholding funds,<br />
and may halt the collection of fees<br />
on the SA’s behalf.<br />
Durham College student Vianney<br />
Nengue was elected VP of college<br />
affairs in the general election.<br />
He has now stepped up to fill<br />
the role of interim president and<br />
acknowledges that the SA has<br />
been faced with turbulent times.<br />
Nengue says alleged emails between<br />
president-elect Reem Dabbous<br />
and the athletic department<br />
were said to include a promise of<br />
new soccer fields should they endorse<br />
her party.<br />
When Dabbous won the election,<br />
Nengue says she immediately<br />
entered a one-month legal<br />
battle with the SA board over allegations<br />
of bribery.<br />
This resulted in her being disqualified<br />
by the board before ever<br />
taking office.<br />
From there runner-up Cerise<br />
Barbara Howe<br />
The Chronicle<br />
No one said a student’s life was<br />
easy, but for some college students<br />
their time at school can be compromised<br />
further when they face<br />
the challenges of hunger or homelessness.<br />
A recent survey entitled Hungry<br />
for Knowledge published by<br />
the Meal Exchange, a student-led<br />
hunger awareness group, reports<br />
39 per cent of post-secondary students<br />
are going without nutritious<br />
food.<br />
This situation is prevalent, if<br />
somewhat hidden, on the campus<br />
of Durham College (DC) and the<br />
University of Ontario Institute of<br />
Technology (UOIT).<br />
The Student Association’s (SA)<br />
outreach program, located in<br />
room 1048 of the Simcoe Building,<br />
runs the Campus Food Centre.<br />
There are also two smaller satellite<br />
centres in the Whitby and<br />
downtown Oshawa locations.<br />
According to Nicole Shillingford-Grell,<br />
SA Outreach Services<br />
support coordinator, the food<br />
bank helps hundreds of students<br />
and has had an increase of 60 new<br />
registrants since the start of this<br />
semester.<br />
The reasons for a student needing<br />
to use the service are varied,<br />
she said.<br />
Wilson took office. Nengue says<br />
almost immediately after, Wilson<br />
and another member of the SA<br />
executive board began accusing<br />
each other of harassment and became<br />
entwined in a legal battle.<br />
When no resolution could be<br />
made, Wilson and the other board<br />
member were placed on leave by<br />
the executive board. Nengue says<br />
Wilson then resigned.<br />
Officials from both schools say<br />
it was during this past summer,<br />
after these incidents, that UOIT<br />
and Durham College announced<br />
an investigation into the SA after<br />
it failed to release audited spending<br />
reports.<br />
In the past both schools have<br />
collected about $96 in SA fees annually<br />
from students as part of the<br />
tuition process.<br />
Whether or not this will continue<br />
remains to be seen, raising<br />
questions about the SA’s viability,<br />
which is another dent in the SA.<br />
“We have a negative reputation<br />
right now,” Nengue says, “so<br />
our power lays mainly with the<br />
students.<br />
When it comes to institutions,<br />
we are still in a good relationship<br />
with them. Which means we are<br />
still talking and negotiating.”<br />
Nengue and the SA have been<br />
in constant conversation with<br />
both Durham College and UOIT<br />
administration. He says the departure<br />
of the board members has<br />
lead to the hesitation from both<br />
institutions.<br />
“It’s politics,” he says.<br />
Olivia Petrie, UOIT’s assistant<br />
vice-president of student life,<br />
“Maybe there’s some kind<br />
of homelessness or a situation<br />
with their family,” said Shillingford-Grell.<br />
“Maybe they’re kicked out, a<br />
lot of the stories are students who<br />
become members of the LGTBQ<br />
community and get kicked out of<br />
their house.”<br />
The program works on a points<br />
system based on family size and<br />
full-time students can access the<br />
program once every two weeks<br />
hopes to see resolutions to the<br />
problems plaguing the SA before<br />
the next general election.<br />
“We want to make sure that the<br />
SA continues to support our students,”<br />
says Petrie, “so we’re managing<br />
the transfer of fees that we<br />
collect from the UOIT students.”<br />
At this point, the buzz of fee<br />
collection <strong>issue</strong>s and trouble<br />
amongst the board has led to a<br />
cool relationship between the student<br />
body and the SA, something<br />
Nengue says has caused the association<br />
to begin a complete rebuilding<br />
process.<br />
“We want to support the SA<br />
and help them rebuild,” says Petrie.<br />
“They’ve identified that as<br />
an <strong>issue</strong> and we want to support<br />
them in that rebuilding. At the<br />
end of the day we want effective<br />
leadership within the SA so that<br />
they can effectively represent our<br />
students.”<br />
Durham College announced at<br />
the beginning of the school year<br />
that effective May of 2017 they<br />
would not collect fees on behalf<br />
of the SA. However, that may no<br />
longer be the case as Nengue says<br />
the SA and Durham remain engaged<br />
in conversation.<br />
Meri Kim Oliver, DC’s VP of<br />
student affairs, confirms that the<br />
two groups have been trying to<br />
work on the <strong>issue</strong>s.<br />
“The SA has been working<br />
hard to resolve its internal concerns,”<br />
she says. “DC appreciates<br />
the efforts that it is making to have<br />
more contact with its student constituents.”<br />
Nengue concedes some of the<br />
until a year after they graduate.<br />
Fresh produce items are free of<br />
points, but everything is on a firstcome,<br />
first-served basis. Students<br />
need to register at room 1048 in<br />
the Simcoe Building to access the<br />
service.<br />
The centre is open Monday to<br />
Friday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.<br />
Apart from servicing needy<br />
students, the Campus Food Centre<br />
is always looking for volunteers<br />
and donations from the campus<br />
student body on both campuses<br />
feel the SA has been quiet on these<br />
matters for too long.<br />
“That’s our fault,” Nengue<br />
says. “We’re working to be more<br />
open and invite more students to<br />
come to board meetings.”<br />
Those interested in having<br />
their say can attend SA meetings,<br />
which are open to students.<br />
Photograph by Travis Fortnum<br />
SA interim president Vianney Nengue discusses the <strong>issue</strong>s.<br />
community.<br />
Although Feed the Need in<br />
Durham (FTND) delivers 30 full<br />
boxes of food every Wednesday,<br />
Shillingford-Grell said, “we<br />
are always struggling to keep it<br />
full.”<br />
The coordinator indicated<br />
Items such as oils, hygiene products<br />
and cash donations are always<br />
welcome.<br />
Feedback from clients of the<br />
Campus Food Centre has been<br />
They will also be hosting town<br />
hall meetings from Nov. 23 - Nov.<br />
26.<br />
As the dates approach, more information<br />
will be made available<br />
on the SA website and through<br />
their social media.<br />
The next board meeting is<br />
on Dec. 7 in the Student Centre<br />
above E.P. Taylor’s.<br />
Food bank eases hunger pangs for students on campus<br />
Phil Bilinski (left) and Ray Bottrell from Feed the Need in Durham, unload a delivery.<br />
Photograph by Barbara Howe<br />
positive.<br />
“They get to choose and have<br />
the freedom of coming in and<br />
picking the items,” said Shillingford-Grell.<br />
“We try to make<br />
the space really inviting and<br />
non-judgmental.”<br />
Camille Talag, Outreach Services<br />
event and volunteer coordinator,<br />
is always looking to recruit<br />
new volunteers.<br />
There is a mandatory orientation<br />
and training that happens<br />
every semester.<br />
“It’s a lot of work,” said Shillingford-Grell.<br />
“We depend a lot<br />
on volunteers and placement students.<br />
Volunteers will also be needed<br />
at the end of the upcoming food<br />
drive.<br />
“The annual holiday food<br />
drive is coming up,” said Talag.<br />
“It’s a combined effort between<br />
the college, the university and the<br />
Student Association.”<br />
According the SA website, last<br />
year the initiative provided assistance<br />
to 274 students and their<br />
families.<br />
The target this year is to raise<br />
$50,000 due to the expected increase<br />
in the number of full-time<br />
students who will register to receive<br />
the food drive hampers.<br />
The SA needs help to pack and<br />
deliver hampers on Dec. 18 at 9<br />
a.m. at the Campus Recreation<br />
and Wellness Centre.
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OSAP finally helps with student debt<br />
The Ontario government announced<br />
a re-make to the Ontario<br />
Student Assistance Program<br />
(OSAP), re-naming it the Ontario<br />
Student Grant (OSG). The OSG<br />
will benefit those families in the<br />
lower-to-middle–income bracket<br />
with added bonuses for full-time<br />
mature students and married students.<br />
This replaces many provincial<br />
assisted programs rolling them<br />
into one non-repayable grant. It’s<br />
set to roll out at the beginning of<br />
the 2017-18 school year.<br />
The newly re-designed OSG allows<br />
a dependent college student<br />
whose parents earn $50,000 or<br />
below per year to finish their college<br />
education with no provincial<br />
student debt.<br />
University students whose families<br />
are in the same income bracket<br />
will have some of their costs covered,<br />
but not all. This is because<br />
of higher tuition costs at university.<br />
According to an article written by<br />
Simona Chiose, the president of<br />
Seneca College and chair of Colleges<br />
Ontario, David Agnew, says,<br />
“low-income college students will<br />
benefit most.”<br />
The Ontario Student Grant will<br />
give eligible students an opportunity<br />
to get post-secondary education<br />
by making education more accessible<br />
to more students, including<br />
mature students.<br />
The OSG will also make Ontario<br />
more competitive by increasing<br />
the number of Ontarians who get a<br />
post-secondary diploma or degree.<br />
Statistically students from lowerincome<br />
families are approximately<br />
half as likely to attend college or<br />
university compared to that of a<br />
student who comes from a higherincome<br />
family, according to Reza<br />
Moridi, Minister of Training,<br />
Colleges and Universities. A 2005<br />
study, released by Ontario’s former<br />
premier, Bob Rae, showed 36 per<br />
cent of students from lower-income<br />
families were in some sort of postsecondary<br />
education compared to<br />
56 per cent from higher-income<br />
families.<br />
But, with these new changes<br />
to student aid, a post-secondary<br />
education will become accessible<br />
and affordable to more than<br />
150,000 qualifying students. This<br />
allows for all students, regardless<br />
of family income, to reap<br />
the benefits of a post-secondary<br />
education and all it has to offer.<br />
The OSG will also benefit those<br />
students whose family income is<br />
$83,000 per year or below by offering<br />
an increase in grant money,<br />
as well as more availability to loans.<br />
Over half of<br />
Ontario’s population falls into<br />
this income category and many<br />
young adults do not venture into<br />
the world of post-secondary education<br />
because of the burden of<br />
student debt.<br />
However, with these new incentives,<br />
students can get a higher<br />
education without that huge debt<br />
looming overhead.<br />
Mature full-time students are<br />
not excluded from the OSG either.<br />
Within the “old” OSAP, which was<br />
a cumbersome and difficult system<br />
to understand, mature students<br />
wanting to return to school were<br />
faced with a time period in which<br />
they had to have been out of high<br />
school for eligibility to enroll.<br />
The “new” OSG eliminates that<br />
stipulation, making eligibility much<br />
more obtainable.<br />
Without the waiting period,<br />
mature students are now able to<br />
continue their post-secondary<br />
education sooner, enabling them<br />
back into Ontario’s workforce and<br />
financial growth.<br />
As well, the OSG will help Ontario<br />
reach its goal of having 70 per<br />
cent of adult Ontarians obtain a<br />
post-secondary diploma or degree<br />
by the year 2020. That figure will<br />
surpass 2014’s percentage of 66,<br />
which was up from 56 per cent in<br />
2002.<br />
One of Ontario’s biggest competitive<br />
resources is its labour force.<br />
That’s why the OSG incentives for<br />
low-to-middle-income families are<br />
so important. They can only make<br />
Ontario more competitive.<br />
Regardless, all students from<br />
low-to-middle-income families, as<br />
well as full time-mature students<br />
will fair better within the new system.<br />
In fact, the OSG will better<br />
equip those students, giving them<br />
a fighting chance in a very competitive<br />
job market.<br />
Why should some prosper while<br />
others flounder strictly because of<br />
their family’s financial situation?<br />
They shouldn’t. And now they<br />
won’t.<br />
Joshua Nelson<br />
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<strong>chronicle</strong>.durhamcollege.ca November 15 - 21, 2016 The Chronicle 5<br />
Opinion<br />
Photograph by Nicole O'Brien<br />
Dean Daley (omnivore) and Sharena Clendening (vegan) go head-to-head over meat and non-meat options.<br />
To eat meat or not?<br />
Sharena Clendening, a vegan, and<br />
Dean Daley, an omnivore, discuss<br />
what food options Durham College<br />
has to offer. After seeing the options,<br />
the two journalism students<br />
have a lively debate in an attempt<br />
to decide which is better.<br />
Vegan: Veganism isn’t about eating<br />
grass and leaves. A vegan is a<br />
person who does not eat anything<br />
that comes from an animal or use<br />
anything from an animal such<br />
as leather. Around 33 per cent of<br />
Canadians are either vegetarians<br />
or vegans, according to Helena<br />
Pedersen’s conclusion in her book<br />
Future Directions for Critical Animal<br />
Studies. Veganism is more beneficial<br />
than being an omnivore because<br />
the price of food can be a lot more<br />
affordable, vegans lose the struggle<br />
of picking where to eat and the<br />
vegan lifestyle is healthier.<br />
Omnivore: Thinking about being<br />
a vegan, like hipsters Ellen Page<br />
and Alicia Silverstone? Veganism<br />
may be a new trend but being an<br />
omnivore has far more history<br />
and advantages. Granted living as<br />
a vegan may save animals, but it’s<br />
not the best way to eat. Not only<br />
are our bodies are meant to eat<br />
both plants and animals, being an<br />
omnivore gives a person far more<br />
options when going out and is less<br />
expensive.<br />
Vegan: Vegan students don’t<br />
need to worry about being broke.<br />
There are always stores such as the<br />
Superstore and FreshCo. that have<br />
sales that can help a broke college<br />
student afford vegan food.<br />
According PETA, premade food<br />
a college student would use, such as<br />
premade soy burgers, costs more<br />
money than non-vegan premade<br />
meals. But veggies cost less than<br />
Sharena<br />
Clendening<br />
meat so learning how to make vegan<br />
food at home will be cheaper<br />
because one can buy the products<br />
separately to make the meal.<br />
Even if one spent a little more on<br />
a premade meal or made food from<br />
scratch, it is healthier than eating a<br />
Hungry Man frozen dinner.<br />
Omnivore: In a city full of<br />
fast food places and restaurants, it<br />
becomes difficult to choose what<br />
to eat for lunch. Being an omnivore<br />
provides a person with overwhelming<br />
options. Being a vegan<br />
does not provide a person with the<br />
same number of options as being<br />
an omnivore. Durham College’s<br />
Marketplace is an example of how<br />
being a vegan doesn’t give a person<br />
many options. The Marketplace<br />
provides students and faculty with<br />
four main restaurants. Pizza Pizza<br />
offers only one option for vegans.<br />
Smoke’s offers fries and vegetable<br />
gravy with an assortment of vegetables.<br />
Patrons can mix and match,<br />
although each vegetable is an extra<br />
cost of 75 cents. Extreme Pita offers<br />
a falafel and veggie wrap, although<br />
a lot of the typical sauces, such as<br />
mayonnaise and ranch, cannot be<br />
eaten by vegans. Lastly, Pan Fusion<br />
offers garlic chili tofu and vegetable<br />
pho but one of the two types of noodles<br />
is made with eggs. The other?<br />
“I think it’s wheat,” says one of the<br />
ladies at Pan Fusion. College and<br />
university students tend to eat fast<br />
food and drink alcohol. A favourite<br />
alcoholic beverage for most is<br />
wine. According to Donna Amaro,<br />
manager at Winexperts in Whitby,<br />
there is a specific sort of wine vegans<br />
have to drink. Most wines are<br />
normally made through a process<br />
that can contain egg, fish by-products<br />
and milk products. Altogether,<br />
vegans don’t have any options in<br />
comparison to omnivores.<br />
Vegan: When it comes to what<br />
restaurants offer vegans in Oshawa,<br />
there are few places one can take<br />
vegan friends. ‘Nourished On The<br />
Go’ is an all-vegan place located on<br />
Simcoe Street. They offer a variety<br />
of wraps and soups that could even<br />
attract omnivores. That isn’t the<br />
only place. Cocoa & Joe and Yola’s<br />
Family Restaurant Inc. are some<br />
other places one could go with<br />
their vegan friends. If meat eaters<br />
say there are no places for vegans<br />
to go and eat, shout out a few of<br />
these names.<br />
Omnivore: While grocery<br />
shopping might be cheaper when<br />
not buying the pricier vegan options,<br />
vegan choices at restaurants<br />
aren’t the greatest. Buying a salad<br />
at McDonald’s costs over seven dollars<br />
but sandwiches are cheaper. At<br />
Jack Astor’s, one can get a salad as<br />
cheap as $9.99.<br />
Although it’s a Caesar salad and<br />
you would have to ask for it without<br />
ranch sauce, without cheese and<br />
without bacon bits.<br />
Someone who is vegan would<br />
have to consider buying a salad so<br />
they could have the proper nutrients<br />
in their meal. Or they would<br />
have to consider somewhere else to<br />
eat. If a Caesar isn’t what you want<br />
to eat, there is always the grilled<br />
chicken salad. Although they’re 17<br />
plus dollars and you’d need to ask<br />
them to take out the chicken.<br />
At restaurants, vegans have to<br />
spend a lot of money for a filling<br />
Dean<br />
Daley<br />
meal. Considering what we need<br />
daily, vegans could not get all of<br />
what they need at most restaurants.<br />
Often requesting menu changes is<br />
the only option.<br />
Vegan: One thing omnivores<br />
have over vegans is they get all their<br />
vitamins in the meat and other animal<br />
by-products. B12 and iron are<br />
two of the main things vegans lack<br />
in their diet. According to the Vegan<br />
Society, plant milks such as soy,<br />
almond and rice milk contain B12.<br />
There are other substitutes for<br />
essential vitamins. However, there<br />
are supplements vegans can take to<br />
get B12 and iron. It isn’t the end of<br />
the world to take a few pills every<br />
morning to maintain a healthy vegan<br />
lifestyle.<br />
Omnivore: Humans have been<br />
farming animals such as cows, pigs<br />
and chicken for their milk, eggs and<br />
meat. According to the localhistories.org,<br />
humans have been domesticating<br />
sheep, pigs and goats since<br />
7,000 B.C.E. Before then humans<br />
hunted other animals for nutrients<br />
and used their pelts for clothing.<br />
According to peta.org, vegans<br />
need six essential nutrients to live<br />
a healthy life.<br />
Vegans have to make up for<br />
nutrients such as such as iron, normally<br />
found in meats, B12, normally<br />
found in meats and dairy,<br />
calcium found in dairy, and others<br />
such as Vitamin D, Omega-3s and<br />
protein.<br />
According to ‘Dieticians of Canada’,<br />
a professional association<br />
representing 6,000 members of<br />
dieticians, B12 is an essential vitamin<br />
that our body requires. B12<br />
keeps the nerves in our body working,<br />
forms DNA and makes healthy<br />
blood. Altogether vegans have to<br />
find alternate methods to get the<br />
essential nutrients omnivores find<br />
in their normal diets. The best way<br />
to live a healthier life is to follow<br />
the Canadian Food Guide. In order<br />
to achieve a healthy diet, humans<br />
must eat seven to ten servings of<br />
fruits and vegetables, six to eight<br />
servings of grain products, two<br />
servings of dairy products and two<br />
to three servings of meat or alternatives.<br />
These amounts depend on<br />
whether you are male or female.<br />
Being a vegan means four to five<br />
daily servings of meat, alternatives<br />
and dairy are not being eaten and<br />
have to be replaced with vitamins.<br />
Vegan: These little fun facts<br />
should make someone consider<br />
being a vegan because it is not as<br />
bad as some people make it seem.<br />
Becoming a vegan gives people a<br />
better reason to learn how to cook<br />
healthy food, a better understanding<br />
of vitamins and nutrition. Most<br />
importantly, an animal won’t have<br />
to die for you to enjoy a delightful<br />
meal. But either vegan or omnivore,<br />
there is always a way one can<br />
eat healthy.<br />
Omnivore: Hipsters pretend<br />
veganism makes for a better lifestyle<br />
but what you eat is what matters.<br />
Vegans have to spend about<br />
the same when dining out. They<br />
have fewer choices when dining<br />
out and are forced to take supplements<br />
such as B12 or they can be<br />
very sick. So put down the extra<br />
supplements and your wallets and<br />
go grab some meat.
6 The Chronicle November 15 - 21, 2016 <strong>chronicle</strong>.durhamcollege.ca Campus<br />
Photograph by Dan Koehler<br />
Stephen Forbes, a professor in the School of Business, IT, and Management, shares his passion for IT and computers with his students at Durham College.<br />
An ever growing world<br />
of information technology<br />
This is one in a series of conversations with faculty experts at UOIT and Durham College<br />
A passion that<br />
lasts a lifetime<br />
Dan Koehler<br />
The Chronicle<br />
Many people can only dream of<br />
turning their passion into a career.<br />
For Stephen Forbes, a computer<br />
science professor at Durham College,<br />
that dream has become a reality.<br />
Forbes has worked in the field<br />
of information technology most of<br />
his life and as a full-time Durham<br />
College professor he shares this<br />
passion with his students every day.<br />
How did you get interested<br />
this area of expertise?<br />
I am one of the very luck kids<br />
who in the ’80s got a personal computer<br />
by the time I was six years<br />
old. I started in DOS and moved<br />
into Windows 3.1. It was a hobby<br />
pretty much my entire life. I started<br />
working as a 13-year-old making<br />
websites for people and than<br />
when e-commerce became a thing<br />
I started making websites for that.<br />
I didn’t originally decide to pursue<br />
IT (information technology) as my<br />
career. I tried a couple things first<br />
before realizing I should focus on<br />
something I’ve got a background<br />
in so I came to school here after<br />
working in various industries for a<br />
while. I was a manager at a bunch<br />
of different places so I came in with<br />
a good mind for business. The<br />
good mind for business jelled with<br />
the IT for business and it ballooned<br />
into where I am now.<br />
What brought you to Durham<br />
College?<br />
The proximity. I live in Whitby.<br />
When I was going to school I was<br />
never well off so living away from<br />
home wasn’t an option. I actually<br />
came to Durham in 2000 for a program<br />
but ended up dropping out<br />
because it wasn’t what I expected.<br />
I went out and worked and in the<br />
time I was gone the program I<br />
ended up taking evolved into something<br />
stronger.<br />
Why do you feel Business,<br />
IT and Management is important?<br />
With the computerization of the<br />
world it’s continuing to grow exponentially.<br />
There’s a growing need<br />
for business for IT systems. Either<br />
creating new ones for new business<br />
and new industries that are emerging,<br />
or looking back on existing<br />
ones and how their processes have<br />
gone over the decades, and looking<br />
for opportunities to improve those<br />
processes so the people that are<br />
in those businesses can continue<br />
to be successful in the changing<br />
economy. The world is dependent<br />
on information technology to run<br />
business these days. It’s going to<br />
be here for the forseeable future.<br />
I understand you’re an avid<br />
skateboarder, do you have a<br />
favourite skater?<br />
I’m sort of a weird anomaly in<br />
terms of skateboarding in that I<br />
have a lot of hobbies, and skateboarding<br />
is more or less my meditation.<br />
It’s the thing that I do<br />
when I’ve had a bad day. I don’t<br />
consume media from the skateboarding<br />
world as much as I used<br />
to when I was a kid. But if I had to<br />
pick one it would be my good friend<br />
TJ Rogers who’s from Whitby. He<br />
recently went pro. He grew up in<br />
Whitby and we’ve been part of the<br />
same community of skateboarders<br />
in the area. He actually donated a<br />
signed skateboard for a raffle I was<br />
doing on the weekend for an event<br />
for the Humane Society.<br />
In an oddity, a job you had<br />
at the Toronto Zoo connected<br />
you to Durham. Do you<br />
consider yourself an animal<br />
lover?<br />
Absolutely. I actually paved my<br />
way through school by working at<br />
the Toronto Zoo on the Zoomobile.<br />
It was the best job ever. It actually<br />
so happened that one of my teachers,<br />
Kevin Dougherty, visited the<br />
zoo with his family one day and<br />
caught one of my Zoomos and<br />
heard me going through my script.<br />
The whole idea when you’re doing<br />
that work at the zoo is trying to<br />
I started working as a 13-year-old<br />
making websites for people.<br />
educate people about the need for<br />
conservation. A lot of people hate<br />
on zoos but the fact of the reality<br />
is we’re not treating the environment<br />
effectively. We’re destroying<br />
it and in destroying it we’re<br />
destroying ecosystems. I think<br />
Kevin Dougherty was impressed<br />
with the passion, enthusiasm, and<br />
clarity, and that I was able to get<br />
those things across while also infusing<br />
a lot of humour into it. I’m<br />
almost certain that experience was<br />
the thing that made it click in his<br />
head to say ‘hey, maybe we should<br />
give this (guy) an opportunity to<br />
teach part time,’ which is what ended<br />
up happening.<br />
This interview has been edited for<br />
style, length, and clarity.
Campus <strong>chronicle</strong>.durhamcollege.ca November 15 - 21, 2016 The Chronicle 7<br />
Photograph by Tommy Morais<br />
Dr. Joseph Eastwood in his office at the CIBC Tower in downtown Oshawa.<br />
Interviewing: A real, valuable skill<br />
This is one in a series of conversations with faculty experts at UOIT and Durham College<br />
Tommy Morais<br />
The Chronicle<br />
Some children aspire to be astronauts<br />
or firefighters. Growing up<br />
on Canada’s east coast, Dr. Joseph<br />
Eastwood always knew he wanted<br />
to do applied research.<br />
In his own words, Eastwood<br />
enjoys being able to hang his hat<br />
on practical and applied work.<br />
The father of three bounced<br />
around until the day he found a<br />
note that said “forensic groups<br />
looking for interested students”.<br />
Eastwood said no one had a clue<br />
what forensic psychology was at the<br />
time.<br />
Ten years later he’s working at<br />
UOIT in its forensic department.<br />
“No complaints,” he says. “It’s<br />
been a good life.”<br />
Tell us what you do and how<br />
you do it.<br />
I do research in the area of investigative<br />
interviewing. I research the<br />
best ways to get information from<br />
people. On the applied side, I work<br />
with the Durham police where we<br />
do joint programs and give them<br />
up-to-date research and the best<br />
tools to do their work.<br />
What makes your topic of<br />
research relevant?<br />
Interviewing is something any<br />
officer does from traffic accidents<br />
to homicides. The ability to obtain<br />
information from somebody, either<br />
cooperative or un-cooperative, is<br />
one of the most important skills a<br />
police officer can have. All information<br />
is good information, even<br />
if it’s not true or if we have to decipher<br />
it.<br />
How and when did you get<br />
interested in this area of expertise?<br />
It started with my graduate work<br />
in Newfoundland. My supervisor<br />
was interested in forensic psychology<br />
and brought his course from<br />
the U.K. to Canada. I was helping<br />
out with the course and integrated<br />
myself into the training.<br />
Can you tell us about your<br />
roots and how you ultimately<br />
arrived in Oshawa?<br />
I spent six years in Newfoundland<br />
doing my masters and Ph.D.<br />
plus some training in legal rights.<br />
Then I spent two years in Sherbrooke,<br />
Que., on research and<br />
alibi. Finally, I got the position here<br />
in Durham in July, 2013.<br />
Who inspired you along the<br />
way?<br />
I have to give most of the credit<br />
to my former supervisor, Brent<br />
Snook. He reached out to police,<br />
set up the relationships and nearly<br />
killed himself doing it (laughs).<br />
A decade later here I am in this<br />
position. He supervised and pushed<br />
me along.<br />
Tell us about the projects<br />
you are involved in.<br />
Everything [I do] is related to<br />
police interviewing. I’ve done<br />
work on ways to get information<br />
from witnesses primarily. One of<br />
the big ones lately has been using<br />
sketching instead of getting people<br />
to verbally describe the event. As<br />
a memory tool it helps bring out<br />
more details.<br />
What is the most important<br />
thing in this field you think<br />
people should know?<br />
Interviewing is a real skill. I<br />
think sometimes because it’s something<br />
we all do in a sense it’s almost<br />
seen as a pseudo-skill as opposed<br />
to a specialized skill. To be a good<br />
interviewer, it takes a ton of practice<br />
and training and knowledge.<br />
It’s not something you just show up<br />
and expect to be an expert at.<br />
What’s your favourite part<br />
of this research?<br />
This idea that you’re generating<br />
new information through research<br />
we’ve created a piece of knowledge<br />
that didn’t exist before. I’ve always<br />
liked the idea that I can take that<br />
information, put it into training<br />
and make it practical.<br />
How does one prepare to<br />
conduct investigative interviewing?<br />
Find out what you know about<br />
the situation and the person. If you<br />
know what kind of information<br />
they’re able to give, you can come<br />
up with a basic interview plan with<br />
topics you want to cover.<br />
What would you say is the<br />
primary difference between<br />
investigative interviewing<br />
and regular interviewing?<br />
The major difference is the purpose<br />
part of the investigative interview.<br />
You’re trying your best to<br />
dance around the <strong>issue</strong> and get the<br />
person talking. Having said that, I<br />
think the same skill sets required<br />
[for both] are the same.<br />
This interview has been edited for<br />
style, length and clarity.
8 The Chronicle November 15 - 21, 2016 <strong>chronicle</strong>.durhamcollege.ca Campus<br />
Something<br />
new unfolds<br />
on campus<br />
DC upgrades L-wing<br />
with new chairs<br />
Tyler Hodgkinson<br />
The Chronicle<br />
A new addition to Durham College<br />
has students sitting with joy.<br />
Four wall-mounted chairs have<br />
been installed on the college’s<br />
second floor in the L-Wing for<br />
those in need of a spot to study,<br />
wait for class, or take a load off.<br />
Previously, students had no other<br />
option but to sit on the floor.<br />
The Facilities and Ancillary department,<br />
which is responsible for<br />
installing new features and general<br />
upkeep of both Durham College<br />
and UOIT campuses, says the location<br />
was chosen because of lack<br />
operations, there are plans to install<br />
more seats in the L-wing and<br />
other corridors around Durham<br />
College because there are “always<br />
students sitting on the floor waiting<br />
for their next class.”<br />
He says the school is “always<br />
looking for furniture ideas and<br />
solutions” to make everyone more<br />
comfortable, and student response<br />
from a survey about the new chairs<br />
was positive.<br />
Burke thinks the seats are beneficial<br />
not only for students and faculty,<br />
but facility clerks as well.<br />
“What’s nice is that they’re not<br />
in the way when not in use, and<br />
it’s very easy for staff to clean the<br />
floors underneath them.”<br />
Photograph by Tyler Hodgkinson<br />
Firefighting students (from left) Lauryn Penfold, Andre Floriddia, and Evan Jolicoeur enjoy<br />
using the new foldable chairs.<br />
This is the perfect spot for me and<br />
my classmates to wait for class.<br />
of sitting space in the corridor for<br />
students.<br />
The new hallway feature is located<br />
directly across from room<br />
L217, and is the first of its kind in<br />
both Durham College and UOIT.<br />
The seats, which are spaced five<br />
inches apart, give enough room<br />
for whoever uses them to work or<br />
rest comfortably without banging<br />
elbows with others.<br />
They also have a padded bottom<br />
for coziness and an ergonomic<br />
hardwood backing for support and<br />
perfect posture.<br />
“This is the perfect spot for<br />
me and my classmates to wait for<br />
class,” says Evan Jolicoeur, a student<br />
in Durham College’s Firefighter<br />
– Pre-service, Education<br />
and Training program. “I sit here<br />
all of the time.”<br />
Jolicoeur uses the seats often because<br />
he has three classes in L217.<br />
He believes students need more<br />
spots in the hallways to sit, and<br />
adding more wall-mounted chairs<br />
is the perfect solution.<br />
Andre Floriddia and Lauryn<br />
Penfold, classmates of Jolicoeur,<br />
both share the same concern over<br />
a lack of sitting areas in hallways.<br />
“There is usually a fight to see<br />
who get the seats first,” Floriddia<br />
says, with Penfold adding, “it<br />
would make more sense for there<br />
to be more in this hallway and<br />
around the school.”<br />
According to Scott Burke, Durham<br />
College’s manager of facility<br />
Burke would not specify how<br />
much the seats cost to install, but<br />
says it was economic because “they<br />
use simple wall anchors to attach<br />
them to a wall.”<br />
Facilities and Ancillary has not<br />
confirmed if UOIT will get the<br />
wall-mounted sets throughout any<br />
hallways.
Campus <strong>chronicle</strong>.durhamcollege.ca November 15 - 21, 2016 The Chronicle 9<br />
Experience the 48-Hour Film Challenge<br />
Media, Art<br />
and Design<br />
students come<br />
together<br />
Rebecca Calzavara<br />
The Chronicle<br />
Eighty students cram into the lecture<br />
hall in C113 and struggle to<br />
find a spot. Greg Murphy, the dean<br />
for the School of Media, Art and<br />
Design (MAD) stands with a big<br />
smile on his face at the bottom of<br />
the lecture room.<br />
Wearing a bright colourful shirt,<br />
Murphy talks with faculty who prepare<br />
to explain then assign groups<br />
for the 48-Hour Film Challenge.<br />
Meaghann MacLeod, a secondyear<br />
student in Broadcast in Radio<br />
and Contemporary Media, grabs a<br />
seat and waits for her group number<br />
to be called.<br />
For the 48-Hour Film Challenge,<br />
students produce a two-minute<br />
film. using a prop, a specific genre<br />
and a character with one line of<br />
dialogue.<br />
Meaghann waits until John<br />
Starling, a Media, Art and Design<br />
professor, holds up a green bag<br />
with a big number ‘2’ on it. This is<br />
Meaghann’s group. She is led out<br />
of the lecture room into a hall that<br />
continues to get more crowded as<br />
groups 3, 4, 5 and 6 pile in. John<br />
pulls out the prop: 4 rubber ducks.<br />
Then he tells the group the genre:<br />
romance.<br />
Next, he reveals the character:<br />
a tall dark stranger. All 7 group<br />
members are ready to get started.<br />
They move to a quieter space to<br />
get to know each other and to start<br />
working on the film. It is 9:30 a.m.<br />
on a Tuesday. They have until noon<br />
Thursday to complete a 2-minute<br />
film. On Friday it will be screened<br />
at the Cineplex Odeon and will be<br />
judged by faculty. Some will win<br />
awards but everyone will see their<br />
work on the big screen.<br />
Fifty film groups were assigned<br />
between 9:00 a.m. and noon. After<br />
hearing a short presentation about<br />
the film challenge, students were<br />
put in a group of 11 people they<br />
didn’t know.<br />
“I was a bit skeptical going in because<br />
we were going to be meeting<br />
people we haven’t met before from<br />
different programs, I was worried<br />
about people not getting along,”<br />
Meaghann says.<br />
Meaghann’s group members<br />
include students from advanced<br />
filmmaking, Broadcast for Contemporary<br />
Media, Journalism,<br />
Contemporary Web Design and<br />
Photography. Vik Paniwani, a<br />
Video Production student, breaks<br />
the silence and asks if anyone has<br />
any ideas.<br />
Once Meaghann’s group starts<br />
talking, they don’t stop. Idea after<br />
idea is thrown out. Each group<br />
member helps out with writing the<br />
script and deciding who is going to<br />
play what character. By 11:45 a.m.<br />
on Tuesday, the script is finished.<br />
The next step is to get the equipment<br />
and then start filming on<br />
Wednesday.<br />
The 48-hour film project is the<br />
world’s largest and oldest filmmaking<br />
competition, according to<br />
the official 48-hour film project<br />
website. It started in Washington in<br />
2001, inspired by Mark Ruppert’s<br />
The 24 Hour Play.<br />
Durham College is not the first<br />
school to do a film challenge.<br />
There are film challenges all over<br />
the world. The city of Toronto<br />
has participated in a 48-hour film<br />
project every year for the past eight<br />
years. People must register to be a<br />
part of the challenge.<br />
It is spread across 130 cities<br />
around the world and spans 6 continents.<br />
The winning film gets to<br />
represent Toronto at Filmapalooza.<br />
The 48-hour film project is a whole<br />
weekend and a team of people<br />
make a movie. They must write,<br />
shoot, and edit all in 48 hours.<br />
The dean of Media, Art and Design,<br />
Greg Murphy, decided this<br />
opportunity would help students<br />
use both their developing skills and<br />
own creative talents. “I did something<br />
in Stratford with high school<br />
students.<br />
Photograph by Rebecca Calzavara<br />
Richard Gerr, Vik Panjwani and others setting up the cameras to start shooting their film.<br />
I did one at Fanshawe College<br />
when I was there. But… this is<br />
massive,” says Murphy. Over 500<br />
Durham College students were involved<br />
with the film challenge.<br />
When Meaghann’s group arrives<br />
to get their equipment, the end<br />
of the line up is at the top of two<br />
flights of stairs. Her team waits for<br />
three hours to get a camera and<br />
audio equipment.<br />
I thought it was going to be a<br />
mess.<br />
While waiting, rumours spread<br />
up the staircase that half the equipment<br />
is gone because there are so<br />
many groups. When it is Group 2’s<br />
turn, all the lighting equipment is<br />
gone. It is 10:00 a.m. Wednesday<br />
morning. Meaghann’s group is<br />
ready to start filming.<br />
Megan Pickell, Student Support<br />
Technician and runs the Media<br />
Loans Office and Print Services<br />
for the School of MAD, was in<br />
charge of logistics. She also created<br />
all the print material, the packages<br />
for students and jurors as well as<br />
managing the equipment sign out.<br />
She also designed the logo for the<br />
event. “I think it turned out well,<br />
there were a few hiccups here and<br />
there but overall I think it ran really<br />
well,” Pickell said.<br />
Meaghann meets her group at<br />
E.P. Taylor’s Wednesday just after<br />
10:00 a.m. Filming is a lot harder<br />
than one would think. Getting<br />
the light perfect on the main character’s<br />
face is a struggle since the<br />
sun cuts in and out behind clouds.<br />
Three different cameras get as<br />
many different angles as possible.<br />
Once filming is successful two<br />
group members, Vik and Richard,<br />
get together and start editing. Their<br />
goal is to get it done by noon Thursday.<br />
They have 36 hours. Once the<br />
film is edited and ready to be submitted<br />
they put it on a USB and<br />
hand it over to Professor Kris Felstead<br />
and Kevin Fraser along with<br />
technicians Oliver Fernandez and<br />
Keir Broadfoot who put the final<br />
films together for the screening at<br />
Cineplex.<br />
Sixty people gather in the lobby<br />
of the Odeon Cineplex to watch.<br />
There are two theatres showing<br />
the films, with an intermission after<br />
25 films. People buy popcorn<br />
and drinks and get ready to watch.<br />
There are five categories: Romance,<br />
mystery, horror, mockumentary<br />
and western. In total,<br />
50 films were produced between<br />
Tuesday October 11 th and Thursday<br />
October 13 th .<br />
Meaghann is nervous. Her<br />
group’s movie is about a girl who<br />
goes on a dating site and plans to<br />
meet up with a tall dark stranger.<br />
Meaghann is the main character.<br />
Once the films are over, each<br />
category had a winner and along<br />
with the category wins, there was<br />
an extra award, the Deany award.<br />
The Deany award is a statuette of<br />
Greg Murphy, wearing a colourful<br />
shirt. A wooden plaque is attached<br />
to the statue. The winning team<br />
gets their names engraved on the<br />
wooden plaque and then put on<br />
display.<br />
Group 33 won the Deany award.<br />
Darryl Callahan was one of the<br />
main characters and had the crowd<br />
laughing.<br />
“I thought it was going to be a<br />
mess but then even seeing all 50<br />
films it was well put together,” Callahan<br />
said.<br />
Murphy was quite pleased with<br />
how the whole challenge came to<br />
end in a big success. “I think it was<br />
fabulous. It exceeded my expectation<br />
by a mile, it was just great and<br />
so much fun,” Murphy explained.<br />
Even though Group 2 didn’t<br />
win Meaghann enjoyed herself. “I<br />
think I had a really good group and<br />
it turned out really well,” Meaghann<br />
says.
10 The Chronicle November 15 - 21, 2016 <strong>chronicle</strong>.durhamcollege.ca Campus<br />
Durham high school students get taste of UOIT<br />
Dean Daley<br />
The Chronicle<br />
It’s 11:15 a.m. and students in<br />
grades 9-11 from Oshawa’s Maxwell<br />
Heights and Whitby’s Sinclair<br />
secondary schools are all crowded<br />
in room UA1140 at the University<br />
of Ontario Institute Technology<br />
(UOIT) attending their first university<br />
lecture.<br />
They are among the nearly<br />
500 students from all over Durham<br />
Region on hand for UOIT’s<br />
bi-annual Science Day event to<br />
learn about the different fields of<br />
science they can take.<br />
UOIT professor Kevin Coulter<br />
is giving a talk called, ‘Solar Fuels<br />
Research: Water splitting catalysis<br />
with a chemistry lab tour’. He’s<br />
teaching the students about renewable<br />
energies and the response<br />
of the students was not favourable.<br />
High school teachers are walking<br />
around ‘shushing’ and giving<br />
their students a stern look attempting<br />
to get them to pay attention to<br />
the lecture. Trying to get young<br />
teenagers to listen to a university<br />
lecture isn’t meeting with success.<br />
At least not initially. But things<br />
aren’t always how they seem.<br />
Destiny Mullen, a grade 11<br />
student at Maxwell Heights,<br />
says she only ever considered the<br />
health sciences, however, after attending<br />
the chemistry lecture and<br />
an earth science lecture during<br />
Science Day, her eyes are open to<br />
new things.<br />
Mullen says she found the<br />
chemistry lecture very interesting.<br />
She was able to follow along because<br />
the chemical formulas that<br />
Coulter was talking about were<br />
things she recently started learning<br />
in class.<br />
Mullen says she found the<br />
earth science lecture to be more<br />
abstract and theoretical and<br />
found the chemistry lecture to<br />
be more practical. According to<br />
Mullen, she thought it was “neat”<br />
how UOIT participated in different<br />
forms of research and how it<br />
might be something she would like<br />
to participate in one day.<br />
Mullen was not the only student<br />
from an Oshawa secondary school<br />
who had an interest in the lecture<br />
she attended. Maija Kimunen, a<br />
grade 12 student at O’Neill CVI,<br />
had a strong interest in her ‘Data<br />
hacking for fun and profit’ lecture.<br />
Kimunen says she has always<br />
been interested in video game design<br />
and thought the lecture was<br />
helpful and gave her knowledge<br />
she can use towards her goal. She<br />
says she learned hacking isn’t always<br />
negative and was originally<br />
just a term for finding a solution<br />
to a problem.<br />
According to Kimunen, she<br />
initially intended to go to either<br />
UOIT or OCAD after hearing<br />
Photograph by Dean Daley<br />
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fascination with parasites’, to grade 9-12 students from all around Durham Region.<br />
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programs, but after the lecture she<br />
realizes she has more options and<br />
computer science might be what<br />
she wants to pursue.<br />
Damie Liscio, Deanndra<br />
Balkaran and Eleanor Cloves,<br />
three grade 12 students at Pine<br />
Ridge Secondary School, thought<br />
Science Day was a good way to see<br />
what actual university lectures are<br />
like.<br />
The three of them really<br />
enjoyed the lecture called ‘Search<br />
for the New Earths’.<br />
The three students had never<br />
been interested in astronomy before.<br />
And while they aren’t necessarily<br />
interested in changing<br />
their intended majors, they are<br />
thinking about taking classes<br />
they previously never considered.<br />
Liscio says “maybe not astronomy<br />
specifically but it kind of opened<br />
my eyes to fields that I thought<br />
wouldn’t interest me maybe, due,<br />
because I have a lack of knowledge<br />
in that area.”<br />
“It was really eye-opening,”<br />
says Cloves.<br />
The three students had attended<br />
multiple information seminars<br />
about different universities,<br />
however, they feel Science Day actually<br />
gave them a sample of what<br />
university is like.<br />
UOIT’s Science Day “is not<br />
something a lot of universities offer,”<br />
said Balkaran.<br />
Balkaran says because they live<br />
in Pickering, they are often encouraged<br />
to look at schools such<br />
as the University of Toronto or<br />
Ryerson. But Cloves says after listening<br />
to the lectures, she is now<br />
considering UOIT.<br />
This was UOIT’s second Science<br />
Day event this calendar year.<br />
The first one ever was held in<br />
February, and according to Paula<br />
Di Cato, UOIT senior lecturer<br />
and organizer of the event, nearly<br />
500 students showed interest in<br />
the event. The invites had been<br />
given to only schools in the Durham<br />
Region and hosted students<br />
from grades 9–12.<br />
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Photograph by Tyler Searle<br />
A display featuring some of the auto parts available through the library.<br />
Auto parts join books for<br />
checkout at campus library<br />
Tyler Searle<br />
The Chronicle<br />
Engineering students looking for<br />
parts to build their assignments<br />
won’t have to search any further<br />
than their campus grounds.<br />
Through a combined effort between<br />
the Durham College and<br />
UOIT library and the Software,<br />
Electronics, and Electrical Engineering<br />
Klub (SEEK), a new centre<br />
for loanable engineering kits and<br />
parts has been established in the<br />
library.<br />
“We’re always happy to help out<br />
the clubs on campus,” said Dr. Pamela<br />
Drayson, who has worked for 11<br />
years as chief librarian at Durham<br />
College and UOIT. “The engineering<br />
students had a need and<br />
asked the library if we could take<br />
it on. And I was more than happy<br />
to help.”<br />
The parts centre was conceived<br />
by Ahmad Touseef, a third-year<br />
electrical engineering student at<br />
UOIT, and co-founder of SEEK.<br />
Since the SEEK members had no<br />
way of properly tracking their parts,<br />
Touseef approached the library to<br />
help with storing and managing the<br />
parts’ distribution.<br />
“The library already checks out<br />
other objects that are not books,”<br />
said Drayson. “We have chargers<br />
for your iPhone or computer, calculators,<br />
and cameras.”<br />
This is not the first conjoined<br />
project the library has produced<br />
with campus-based clubs. Others<br />
include the den, which acts as an<br />
open workspace for students located<br />
in the library’s basement, and<br />
display cases built with the help of<br />
the Student Association.<br />
Touseef provided 80 per cent of<br />
the 12,000 parts being used in the<br />
parts centre, while the remaining<br />
were provided by the engineering<br />
program and robotics group. They<br />
were given to the library in April<br />
and are now ready for public distribution.<br />
“You don’t have to micro-manage<br />
your parts, because now you have<br />
everything under one roof,” said<br />
Touseef, when asked about some of<br />
the benefits the parts station offers<br />
students. “Plus, many students don’t<br />
have $500 to drop on new parts.”<br />
The parts, which include servo<br />
motors, bread beards, and tools such<br />
as screwdrivers, may be checked out<br />
for three to seven days, depending<br />
on their size and rarity.<br />
As with library books, students<br />
can continue to check out the parts<br />
once returned, provided there is not<br />
a waiting list.<br />
Although priority is given to engineering<br />
students, the parts’ centre<br />
is open to anyone who is working on<br />
a mechanical prototype or assignment.<br />
However, non-engineering<br />
students cannot check the parts out,<br />
similar to how the library handles<br />
reference books.<br />
Touseef said the parts centre can<br />
be used for personal projects as well<br />
as school assignments. Students may<br />
check out parts for the construction<br />
of prototypes to be used in business<br />
presentations, though they must still<br />
be returned.<br />
The centre can also act as as a<br />
work space to allow engineering<br />
students to review their lab work,<br />
and offers help to students to plan<br />
their projects.<br />
Meanwhile, Drayson says she is<br />
eager to see if other DC and UOIT<br />
clubs will come to the library for<br />
similar assistance.<br />
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DC Centre for Food gets a new name<br />
Euvilla Thomas<br />
The Chronicle<br />
Durham College’s Centre for Food<br />
has a new name and a new fund for<br />
student scholarships.<br />
Durham College has added the<br />
name W. Galen Weston to its Centre<br />
for Food at the Whitby campus.<br />
Galen Weston is a renowned<br />
philanthropist and food icon who,<br />
until recently, was the president of<br />
Loblaw Companies Ltd.<br />
This announcement came shortly<br />
after Weston donated a $1 million<br />
grant to the school to help with food<br />
innovation and scholarships.<br />
This is the second contribution<br />
the W. Weston Garfield Foundation<br />
has made to Durham College.<br />
In February 2015, the foundation<br />
donated about $462,000 to Durham<br />
Region students attending Red Seal<br />
skilled trades programs at the college.<br />
Now the foundation is lending a<br />
hand to the food program.<br />
The Centre for Food opened to<br />
students in 2013 and is the first of<br />
its kind in the Durham Region. The<br />
centre includes an apple orchard,<br />
planting fields, greenhouses and<br />
other garden features. The centre<br />
also houses a full teaching-inspired<br />
restaurant and pantry which is also<br />
open to the public.<br />
The unveiling took place on Nov<br />
1. with Don Lovisa the president<br />
of the Durham College, and Pierre<br />
Tremblay, chair of the college’s<br />
board of governors, doing the introductions.<br />
It was an exciting day for both<br />
students and the college. Students<br />
who received scholarships were also<br />
in attendance.<br />
Lovisa was appreciative of the<br />
support from the foundation.<br />
“We approached the Weston<br />
foundation for bursaries and scholarship,<br />
so we received that,” says<br />
Lovisa.<br />
He says a million dollars has been<br />
invested, which allows the school to<br />
buy new equipment.<br />
He says it is also a representation<br />
of the school brand and the quality<br />
of the program. He adds students<br />
can rest assured they are receiving<br />
the best quality program at the<br />
centre.<br />
“It was a very generous gift,” says<br />
Lovisa.<br />
The donation was given to the<br />
Centre for Food and not the rest<br />
of the campus because of Weston<br />
connection to the industry.<br />
“Mr. Weston has spent his entire<br />
life in the food industry, from baking<br />
and to food retail with Loblaw’s,<br />
so that’s a natural fit,” says Jeff Ross,<br />
a representative of the W. Garfield<br />
Weston Foundation.<br />
He says having the Weston name<br />
on the building exterior is exciting<br />
and the foundation is pleased to be<br />
part of this institution.<br />
For Lovisa, having the Center<br />
for Food renamed after Weston is<br />
a confirmation of success.
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Celina: Unusual path to politics<br />
Jenn Amaro<br />
The Chronicle<br />
Whitby MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes<br />
is encouraging students at<br />
Durham College to break through<br />
the glass ceiling.<br />
As a black woman in politics,<br />
and is publicly struggling with<br />
mental health, she has had to break<br />
through glass ceilings to get where<br />
she is in her career.<br />
Caesar-Chavannes visited Durham<br />
College on Nov. 7, to tell the<br />
second year journalism class about<br />
her story of coming to be Whitby’s<br />
MP and the personal parliamentary<br />
secretary to Prime Minister<br />
Justin Trudeau.<br />
Caesar-Chavannes says she had<br />
no interest in politics, and had<br />
never been actively involved in<br />
politics.<br />
She owned a business for a<br />
healthcare-based research management<br />
firm, researching and studying<br />
the brain.<br />
When she was about to turn 40,<br />
and had been running that business<br />
for 10 years, she felt the need for a<br />
change. She decided to go back<br />
to school and get her Executive<br />
Masters of Business Administration<br />
(M.B.A.) at the University of<br />
Toronto.<br />
It was in this environment when<br />
the idea emerged to run for parliament<br />
and she was elected in 2015.<br />
Caesar-Chavannes connected<br />
with the students at Durham College<br />
with her relatable life story.<br />
She reminded students it is OK<br />
to struggle during their lifetime.<br />
Caesar-Chavannes said she feels<br />
like she “trips and falls into these<br />
roles.”<br />
Students don’t always know<br />
where they’re going to be when<br />
they graduate, and Caesar-Chavannes<br />
reassured the students in<br />
the journalism class that you don’t<br />
need to know yet.<br />
She said that she has made many<br />
mistakes over the course of her<br />
journey, but knows they all were<br />
made for a reason.<br />
“I live with zero regrets because<br />
every mistake I have made<br />
has gotten me to this point,” says<br />
Caesar-Chavannes, “and the path<br />
has not been without struggle.”<br />
Above all of her duties and<br />
responsibilities, Caesar-Chavannes<br />
says she is a mom first. She<br />
is a wife and a person. “I’m just<br />
Celina,” she said.<br />
I’m vulnerable.<br />
I’m open.<br />
I’m authentic.<br />
A topic that Caesar-Chavannes<br />
touched on was her struggle with<br />
mental health.<br />
She made it public in September<br />
that she struggles and says she<br />
did so, so she can connect with<br />
people. She does not want people<br />
to be ashamed of any mental health<br />
problems.<br />
“I’m vulnerable. I’m open. I’m<br />
authentic,” says Caesar-Chavannes,<br />
“and I didn’t make it this far<br />
because I have thin skin.”<br />
She wanted to help people along<br />
with their journey with mental<br />
health, and show that it is not a<br />
setback.<br />
She let the students at Durham<br />
College know, that if there is a goal<br />
they want to reach, to go for it, and<br />
to learn from mistakes along the<br />
way.<br />
Caesar-Chavannes, a black<br />
woman, who struggles with mental<br />
health, has come so far, by putting<br />
her mind to what she wants.<br />
With these glass ceilings that she<br />
has broken through, she says she<br />
advocates for the woman of colour,<br />
the poor, the old, anyone part of<br />
the LGBTQ, the disabled. Anyone<br />
who struggles with a glass ceiling,<br />
Caesar-Chavannes advocates for<br />
them. She says she understands<br />
that exclusion is a real thing people<br />
face everyday and her empathy and<br />
her drive is for these people.<br />
Photograph by Jenn Amaro<br />
Whitby MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes speaks to a Durham<br />
College journalism class about breaking the glass ceiling.
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Top judge visits Oshawa<br />
Barbara Howe<br />
The Chronicle<br />
It is important for judges to be<br />
willing to change the law-making<br />
system as our society evolves.<br />
This according to former Supreme<br />
Court Justice Ian Binnie<br />
who addressed about 100 students,<br />
faculty and members of the local<br />
legal profession at the downtown<br />
Oshawa campus of the University<br />
of Ontario Institute of Technology<br />
(UOIT) recently.<br />
The Faculty of Social Science<br />
and Humanities (FSSH) welcomed<br />
the Hon. Ian Binnie as the inaugural<br />
speaker in a series of talks organized<br />
by the Legal Studies program’s<br />
Distinguished Visitors Lecture Series.<br />
The 77-year-old retired lawmaker<br />
was appointed to the Supreme<br />
Court in 1998 and spent 14<br />
years on the bench. He is one of<br />
only a few appointed to the position<br />
without serving as a judge in a lower<br />
court first.<br />
“Activism runs in both directions.<br />
It is expansive and contractive,”<br />
explained Justice Binnie during<br />
his hour-long address entitled<br />
In Defence of Judicial Activism in the<br />
Supreme Court of Canada.<br />
He spoke of examples where<br />
judges have played active roles<br />
in shaping the political and constitutional<br />
landscape of Canada.<br />
Such as in 1982, when he referred<br />
to ‘Trudeau the elder”, and his<br />
attempt to bring the constitution<br />
home from the control of the U.K.<br />
Despite the provinces not being<br />
in full agreement with Pierre<br />
Trudeau, the prime minister at<br />
the time, Binnie spoke of how the<br />
courts came up with a formula to<br />
legitimize the terms.<br />
Justice Binnie also spoke about<br />
Quebec’s attempt to secede from<br />
the federation, as well as, Aboriginal<br />
and equality rights.<br />
“It is desirable you have judges<br />
that are prepared to adjust to the<br />
system as society evolves,” said<br />
Binnie.<br />
He said the question of gay rights<br />
would not have been discussed<br />
when Canada’s constitution was<br />
born in 1867. However, Binnie<br />
added, “society evolves, people<br />
begin to understand the community<br />
they live in. Time has come to<br />
include gay rights as relevant.”<br />
A reception followed the event<br />
where students mingled with the<br />
former judge. When asked of his<br />
opinion about cameras in the court<br />
room, Justice Binnie said he was<br />
in favour.<br />
Aylina Dhanji, a second-year student<br />
in the legal studies program,<br />
waited in line to speak to the former<br />
judge<br />
“All our professors are amazing,”<br />
said Dhanji. “A lot of his speech<br />
overlaps our studies.”<br />
Jake Lauder, a forensic psychology<br />
student, was also impressed<br />
with Justice Binnie’s presentation,<br />
“It was very insightful. He has a<br />
great way of answering everyone’s<br />
questions.”<br />
Malcom McRae from McRae<br />
Law and Evan Clemence, a lawyer<br />
from Creighton Law attended the<br />
event from their nearby law offices.<br />
“I always enjoy listening to him,”<br />
said McRae. “Anyone can listen to<br />
him speak.<br />
Sasha Baglay, program director<br />
of the legal studies program said<br />
she hopes to attract and invite<br />
speakers of a similar calibre next<br />
semester.<br />
Photograph by Barbara Howe<br />
Former Supreme Court judge Ian Binnie chats with Nelcy Lopez Cuellar at the reception<br />
following his talk at the UOIT downtown Oshawa campus.<br />
As a prelude to the evening<br />
a smudging ceremony was performed<br />
by representatives from<br />
the Mississaugas of Scugog Island<br />
First Nation. The ritual not only<br />
welcomed the esteemed speaker,<br />
but also purified the air from any<br />
negative energy by burning cedar,<br />
sage, tobacco and sweet grass.
Community <strong>chronicle</strong>.durhamcollege.ca November 15 - 21, 2016 The Chronicle 15<br />
A soup kitchen with a difference<br />
Barbara Howe<br />
The Chronicle<br />
Empty bowls mean empty stomachs,<br />
but Feed the Need in Durham<br />
(FTND) proved the community is<br />
willing to step up to fill the gap<br />
when it comes to putting food on<br />
the table.<br />
The third annual Empty Bowls<br />
fundraiser brought together local<br />
restaurants, including Durham<br />
College’s Bistro 67, which<br />
prepared its signature soups and<br />
desserts at the Oshawa Golf and<br />
Country Club.<br />
The FTND food hub distributes<br />
food to 55 organizations such<br />
as emergency food providers including<br />
shelters, school breakfast<br />
programs, soup kitchens and food<br />
banks, as well as, the Campus<br />
Food Centre at Durham College<br />
and UOIT.<br />
According to Bill Earle, FTND<br />
executive director, an average of<br />
100,000 pounds of fresh and frozen<br />
food is processed through its<br />
Oshawa warehouse each month.<br />
That, according to the FTND<br />
website, is the size of a small<br />
grocery store. Empty Bowls is a<br />
fundraising initiative where the<br />
cost of the $60 admission included<br />
unlimited soups served in artisan<br />
bowls crafted and donated by the<br />
Durham Potters Guild. The participants<br />
were able to take these<br />
one-of-a-kind bowls home after<br />
the event, held over two sittings.<br />
“Hunger is an unfortunate reality,<br />
for far too many individuals<br />
and families in our community,”<br />
said Earle, “In Durham about 10<br />
per cent of households face food<br />
insecurity at some point throughout<br />
the year, when they do not<br />
have regular access to healthy,<br />
nutritious food. Of these, about 40<br />
per cent are households with children<br />
living in them.”<br />
Although FTND already<br />
works with the Durham College<br />
(DC) and University of Ontario<br />
Institute of Technology (UOIT)<br />
Student Association (SA), to supply<br />
the Campus Food Centre,<br />
Earle indicated he will be looking<br />
at different ways to support the<br />
campuses beyond just supplying<br />
the food banks.<br />
“Because we shouldn’t be asking<br />
people who are trying to build<br />
their futures to also be worrying<br />
about being hungry every day,”<br />
said Earle.<br />
In between the two sittings,<br />
Oshawa-born champion jockey<br />
Sandy Hawley spoke to the gathering<br />
about his career achievements<br />
and mishaps.<br />
Another speaker, Kwasi Douglas,<br />
season two finalist of Master<br />
Chef Canada, hopes to work with<br />
FTND.<br />
“There’s a lot of people who<br />
don’t know where their next meal<br />
is coming from,” said Douglas.<br />
“A lot of people don’t know how<br />
to cook. I am hoping to work<br />
with FTND in a program to teach<br />
people where their food comes<br />
from and how to eat properly.”<br />
Among the crowd were local<br />
dignitaries including Oshawa<br />
mayor John Henry and local MPs.<br />
“It’s an endurance contest, my<br />
Photograph by Barbara Howe<br />
Second year DC culinary management student, Shiwei Yin, serves Bowmanville food bank volunteer Hugh Allison a bowl of<br />
buttercup squash and carrot soup from Bistro '67 at the Empty Bowls event at the Oshawa Golf and Curling Club.<br />
strategy is to have a small bowl,”<br />
said Oshawa MP Colin Carrie<br />
as he brought his fourth bowl of<br />
soup back to his table. Whitby MP<br />
Celina Caesar-Chevannes also<br />
lined up to get her bowl filled.<br />
The other restaurants participating<br />
in the event were Shrimp<br />
Cocktail, Bistro 238, Chatterpaul's,<br />
Port, Tetra, Oshawa Golf<br />
and Curling Club, kb, Da Food<br />
God, Chartwell Wynfield, Lisa’s<br />
Cakes and Lollies and The Baker’s<br />
Table.<br />
Historical women role models can still inspire girls<br />
Photograph by Nicole O'Brien<br />
Kathleen Smyth performs at the McLean Centre in Ajax.<br />
Nicole O'Brien<br />
The Chronicle<br />
Eighty-seven years ago women in<br />
Canada were not considered ‘persons.’<br />
But that changed on Oct.<br />
18, 1929, when women officially<br />
became people under the British<br />
North American Act in Canada.<br />
Women won the right to serve in<br />
the Senate, to own property and<br />
the right to vote. This year marked<br />
the 87th anniversary of what is now<br />
known as Persons Day in Canada.<br />
Girls Inc. Durham, a Canadian<br />
charity that provides more than<br />
1,600 girls across Durham Region<br />
with life-changing experiences and<br />
solutions to the challenges girls<br />
face, wanted to highlighted this<br />
historic day recently. The organization<br />
wanted to showcased the<br />
five prominent Canadian women,<br />
now known as the Famous Five,<br />
and other historic female figures.<br />
The Famous Five included Emily<br />
Murphy, Nellie McClung, Louise<br />
McKinney, Irene Parlby, and<br />
Henrietta Muir Edwards. After being<br />
turned down by the Supreme<br />
Court of Canada in 1927 when<br />
they asked if the word “person”<br />
in Section 24 of the British North<br />
American Act include female persons,<br />
these five women went to<br />
London’s highest court of appeal.<br />
Two years later in 1929, the<br />
Judicial Committee of the Privy<br />
Council of Great Britain announced<br />
that women would officially<br />
be considered “persons” under<br />
the law. The Famous Five not<br />
only achieved this but helped pave<br />
the way for women to participate<br />
and contribute in other aspects of<br />
life.<br />
At the event at the McLean<br />
Community Centre in Ajax, Girls<br />
Inc. Durham hosted interactive<br />
activities such as writing a letter<br />
to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau<br />
and his wife Sophie, as well as<br />
multiple prominent female speakers.<br />
Around 45 people attended<br />
the all-ages event.. The audience<br />
included many young girls, teenagers,<br />
mothers, grandmothers, as<br />
well as proud fathers, and little<br />
brothers.<br />
Yvette Nechvatal-Drew, the<br />
executive director of Girls Inc.<br />
Durham, said the charity does everything<br />
it can to support women<br />
empowerment.<br />
"We are the champions for<br />
girls," she said. "We fight for a positive<br />
future."<br />
Many of the girls at the event<br />
also attend one of several Girls Inc.<br />
programs held across Durham.<br />
They have after-school sessions as<br />
well as summer camps where girls<br />
are able to interact with positive<br />
role models in a safe environment.<br />
During the event, attendees<br />
participated in activities such as<br />
arts and crafts, and writing a letter<br />
to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau<br />
and his wife, Sophie, about personal<br />
challenges facing both women<br />
and girls.<br />
Victoria Morrison, a Girls<br />
Inc. volunteer, says feels writing a<br />
makes a powerful statement.<br />
"It brings him awareness that he<br />
doesn't necessarily know about,"<br />
said Morrison. "Instead of a government<br />
level of thinking it brings<br />
it down to a citizen level."<br />
Speakers at the free event included<br />
Tracy MacCharles, MPP<br />
for Pickering-Scarborough East,<br />
Kathleen Smyth, a professional<br />
storyteller, and Katie Bausch, a<br />
women studies professor at Trent<br />
University.<br />
Martine Robinson is the co-superintendent<br />
of the Durham District<br />
School Board was also a guest<br />
speaker. She talked about how her<br />
daughter motivates her.<br />
“Because of my amazing<br />
daughter, Sadie, I work hard every<br />
single day to make sure I am<br />
a good role model for young women,”<br />
said Robinson.<br />
But while many of the speakers<br />
discussed the progress that has<br />
been made for and by women in<br />
Canada, there still may be a long<br />
way to go, according to Katie<br />
Bausch. She said it is important to<br />
know our history as a society.<br />
"Sometimes it can make people<br />
feel like a little hopeless," said<br />
Bausch. "But if you think of all the<br />
things women have been able to do<br />
in Canada it can really boost your<br />
sense that is it possible for change<br />
to happen."
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Birth control<br />
pills on a decline<br />
Trusha Patel<br />
The Chronicle<br />
The most popular form of oral contraceptives<br />
– the pill - used by many<br />
women across Canada, is on the<br />
decline.<br />
This information has been revealed<br />
in an analysis done by<br />
the World Health Organization<br />
(WHO).<br />
According to QuentilesIMS<br />
(health company), the number<br />
of prescriptions for the pills have<br />
dropped over the past five years.<br />
Overall, there has been a decline<br />
in the industry, where busy millennial<br />
women have turned to different<br />
methods of contraceptives.<br />
Teresa Engelage, a registered<br />
nurse at the Campus Health Centre,<br />
says the decline is due to convenience.<br />
“You don’t have to think about<br />
(other methods of birth control)<br />
everyday, but for the pill, you have<br />
to think about it everyday, and<br />
make sure it’s with you,” she said.<br />
“For students’ lifestyle, they go back<br />
home and then come back, and they<br />
forget their prescription at home, so<br />
they have to get a new one, and it’s<br />
all very easy to mess it up.”<br />
Oral contraceptives have been<br />
used since 1960 and birth control<br />
pills are the most popular.<br />
Research done by the Sex Information<br />
and Education Council<br />
of Canada reveals 66.6 per cent of<br />
females age 15 to 19 use the pills,<br />
while 58.3 per cent of females age<br />
20 to 29 use them.<br />
With all these benefits, one can<br />
only ask, why is the use of birth control<br />
pills on a decline?<br />
“I actually took the (birth control)<br />
pills for just a month before I<br />
realized body changes, like I was<br />
starting to gain weight, and it was<br />
completely noticeable, so I just decided<br />
to stop right away,” said Ekta<br />
Vijay, a second year health science<br />
student from UOIT.<br />
Engelage said after talking to a<br />
physician, she learned the use of<br />
the pill is on the decline, but the<br />
majority of women seeking a contraceptive<br />
start with the pill since they<br />
are most familiar with it.<br />
“(A) young person coming in,<br />
starting birth control for the first<br />
time, they’ll usually say they want to<br />
start the pill,” Engelage said. “We<br />
do talk to them about consistency,<br />
managing the pill, and side effects,<br />
and they’ll usually start there because<br />
it’s easy to think about.”<br />
Data from QuentilesIMS shows<br />
an 11 per cent decrease on the use<br />
of pills from 2011 to 2015. The data<br />
says Canadian pharmacies sold 1.17<br />
million less pills in 2015.
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T.O. marchers stand<br />
with Standing Rock<br />
Angela Lavallee<br />
The Chronicle<br />
Thousands of marchers walked<br />
in Toronto in support of Standing<br />
Rock North Dakota recently in a<br />
peaceful demonstration to show<br />
solidarity for those who oppose the<br />
pipeline.<br />
More than 4,500 people gathered<br />
at Queen’s Park Nov. 5 in unison<br />
against the proposed North Dakota<br />
pipeline in the United States that<br />
has made global headlines.<br />
Chief Stacey Laforme of the Mississauga<br />
New Credit First Nation<br />
spoke to the crowd and said that he<br />
is paying close attention to those on<br />
the front lines in North Dakota.<br />
“We stand with you and we support<br />
you in the fight to halt this<br />
pipeline,” said Laforme to protestors<br />
at Queen’s Park.<br />
The peaceful demonstration<br />
headed down University Avenue<br />
to the U.S. Consulate, then onto<br />
Nathan Phillips Square beside City<br />
Hall.<br />
But police did halt the march<br />
briefly. Once the protestors reached<br />
the U.S. Consulate they were met<br />
with Toronto police who tried to divert<br />
the protestors away from City<br />
Hall, but that didn’t stop the flow<br />
and soon the marchers took over<br />
Nathan Phillips Square.<br />
The protestors chanted, “water is<br />
life,” until coming to a stop at City<br />
Hall.York University student Logan<br />
Post volunteered in the event and<br />
collected donations for people at<br />
Standing Rock.<br />
“It’s despicable what is going on<br />
there, it’s a human rights <strong>issue</strong> and<br />
for police to enter lands that is not<br />
theirs is a serious unjust,” she said<br />
Toronto actress Sarena Parmar,<br />
also a volunteer responsible for<br />
taking donations, said that Queen’s<br />
University made a donation, but<br />
would not elaborate on the amount.<br />
“All the donations will be sent<br />
to Standing Rock for things like<br />
clothing, tents, food and water,”<br />
said Parmar.<br />
Toronto Police Sgt. McDonald<br />
said the protest was relatively small<br />
compared to others he’s attended.<br />
“There’s about 40 of us on police<br />
bikes, and it’s a peaceful demonstration,”<br />
said Sgt. McDonald.<br />
Patti Pettigrew urged protestors<br />
to join in the largest round dance<br />
in Toronto history. A round dance<br />
is part of the indigenous culture and<br />
symbolizes strength and involves<br />
holding hands to form a circle and<br />
dance to the beat of a pow-wow<br />
drum or hand drum.<br />
The protest wrapped up at 6 p.m.<br />
where buses picked up out of town<br />
protestors.
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Campus <strong>chronicle</strong>.durhamcollege.ca November 15 - 21, 2016 The Chronicle 19<br />
Making the right career choice<br />
Both DC and<br />
UOIT have<br />
services<br />
to help<br />
Devon<br />
Turcotte<br />
How much research did you do<br />
before you arrived here at school?<br />
Did you visit an open house or take<br />
a campus tour? Did you know<br />
what to expect in terms of class<br />
sizes, faculty availability, services<br />
and student life?<br />
As a former recruiter, I sincerely<br />
hope the answer to those questions<br />
is a resounding “yes.”<br />
Many students choose their programs<br />
based on a few characteristics<br />
about themselves.<br />
We often hear nursing students<br />
say they were motivated by wanting<br />
to provide care. Engineering<br />
and engineering technology students<br />
will say “I’m good at math.”<br />
And those in arts or design programs<br />
wanted a creative outlet that<br />
would provide steady pay.<br />
Those are great places to start,<br />
but there are many other factors<br />
to consider.<br />
First year student Jillian Ball<br />
really loved biology in high school,<br />
and that prompted her interest in<br />
DC’s biotechnology program. She<br />
spoke to professors and researched<br />
online to figure out her next steps.<br />
“I want to bridge to university at<br />
the end of my program and eventually<br />
get a PhD so I can do research<br />
as a career,” she said.<br />
How much did you know about<br />
the potential careers connected<br />
to your program before heading<br />
out into the great wide world of<br />
post-secondary education?<br />
Do you know where in the<br />
province you are most likely to<br />
be hired? Do you have a ballpark<br />
idea on starting salary, or what the<br />
labour market looks like for the career<br />
path you would like to follow?<br />
Don’t worry if your answer is<br />
“oops.” There is no time like the<br />
present, and there are quite a few<br />
ways to jump into it now.<br />
Start with career resources on<br />
campus.<br />
You can log into DC’s Hired<br />
portal or UOIT’s Career Centre<br />
portal to explore information from<br />
the comfort of your own home.<br />
You also have the option of meeting<br />
with someone in the career<br />
department for some guidance on<br />
mapping out your career, or just<br />
checking in on how well your current<br />
program of study fits you.<br />
Explore online.<br />
Google produces a veritable<br />
mine of information on everything<br />
and jobs and careers are no<br />
different.<br />
Try searching different job titles<br />
and prominent companies to see<br />
what you discover.<br />
LinkedIn is another major resource<br />
that you can use to find out<br />
about different fields and companies.<br />
It also has the additional bonus<br />
of being a networking site that<br />
allows you to connect directly to<br />
people who work for companies<br />
you would like to work for and to<br />
alumni from your school or program.<br />
Talk to your professors.<br />
If you know of a specific area<br />
within your sector where you<br />
would like to work or a particular<br />
job title you are after, talk to your<br />
faculty about it.<br />
You may find out that one of<br />
your professors held that job at one<br />
point, worked in that part of industry,<br />
or has friends or colleagues in<br />
that area that they can connect you<br />
to for more information.<br />
Try informational interviews.<br />
What better way to find out what<br />
to expect in a job than to speak<br />
with someone who is already doing<br />
it?<br />
All those connections you made<br />
through LinkedIn and your faculty<br />
may be interested in having a<br />
conversation with you about how<br />
they got where they did and their<br />
likes and dislikes about their work.<br />
Just remember, an informational<br />
interview is not a job interview<br />
and not a chance to show off your<br />
resume.<br />
Book 20 to 30 minutes of time<br />
with that person and stick to your<br />
timeline.<br />
As college and university employees,<br />
what we least like to<br />
hear is “my mom/dad/grandma/<br />
uncle/cat said I should take this<br />
program.”<br />
Your career and your passion are<br />
just that - yours!<br />
There are plenty of great resources<br />
around to help you make<br />
the most of it, so be sure to take<br />
advantage.<br />
This column is courtesy of Career Development<br />
at Durham College.
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Community <strong>chronicle</strong>.durhamcollege.ca November 15 - 21, 2016 The Chronicle 21<br />
Many home renovators facing financial <strong>issue</strong>s<br />
House<br />
flipping<br />
may result<br />
in lost<br />
money<br />
Alex Debets<br />
The Chronicle<br />
House flipping has been a growing<br />
trend in the housing industry<br />
for the past 15 years, according to<br />
some local realtors.<br />
But Charles Ferreira, an agent<br />
with HomeLife in Ajax, says it’s not<br />
for everyone.<br />
He says flipping, the art of renovating<br />
a home and quickly re-selling<br />
it for a profit, often results in<br />
lost money.<br />
“If you do not know the costs,<br />
you may very well run into the risk<br />
of losing some money in the next<br />
little while,” Ferreira said.<br />
Flipping has become a much<br />
more popular thing in recent years,<br />
with the spike in HGTV and renovation<br />
homes, but viewers don’t see<br />
the other side of flipping.<br />
Fahad Rehman is a student at<br />
Western University, and is learning<br />
about the setbacks involved with<br />
flipping a home. At only 20-years<br />
-old, Rehman has bought his first<br />
house to flip.<br />
The Ajax resident is no stranger<br />
to renovations, but hasn’t owned<br />
his own home, until now.<br />
Although Rehman is using contractors<br />
for his flip, he still understands<br />
the work that goes into renovating<br />
a home.<br />
“I had basically grown up doing<br />
small jobs, renovation jobs at my<br />
house,” Rehman said.<br />
“Last summer my uncle was<br />
looking at selling his place and I<br />
sort of proposed him with the idea<br />
of me taking that on as a project<br />
and sort of doing that whole renovation<br />
head-to-toe.”<br />
The renovation costs of Rehman’s<br />
project are about $50,000<br />
– $60,000.<br />
Rehman has the benefit of knowing<br />
his costs, unlike a lot of first<br />
time flippers.<br />
He had to get what’s known as a<br />
‘B’ mortgage because of the banks<br />
already strict mortgage rules,<br />
which are about the get tougher.<br />
New regulations passed down<br />
from the federal government last<br />
month are going to make getting<br />
a mortgage cost much more than<br />
before.<br />
Borrowers will need a higher income<br />
and a bigger down payment<br />
to hit the same qualifying rate from<br />
the bank.<br />
Newbies to the flipping game<br />
will have to take that into account<br />
when considering buying a property.<br />
It could be another hurdle to<br />
jump for someone who already<br />
might be losing money.<br />
Marco Werner lives directly<br />
across the street from Rehman’s<br />
flip.<br />
He says the situation is good for<br />
the neighbourhood.<br />
“I think it is a positive thing for<br />
the neighbourhood,” Werner said.<br />
“It has a couple things of value to<br />
add.”<br />
Rehman has learned a thing<br />
or two about the housing market<br />
through this, and says he will definitely<br />
try to do it again.<br />
Photograph by Alex Debets<br />
Flipping is the art of renovating a home and quickly re-selling<br />
it for profit.
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Photograph by Rebecca Calzavara<br />
A fire truck and campus security at Simcoe Village residence.<br />
Midnight<br />
popcorn<br />
goes bad<br />
Rebecca Calzavara<br />
The Chronicle<br />
Smoke filled the halls with the smell<br />
of very burnt popcorn.<br />
Students living in Simcoe Village<br />
residence at Durham College were<br />
awakened by the loud sounds of the<br />
fire alarm Monday, Nov. 7, 2016<br />
around midnight.<br />
People were pushing and shoving<br />
to get out of the emergency exit.<br />
The voices of people asking “what’s<br />
going on?” and “are you serious<br />
right now?” were almost drowned<br />
out by the alarm.<br />
Residents were coughing because<br />
the smoke was overwhelming.<br />
According to Christopher Pinette,<br />
a Simcoe Village residence<br />
staff member, a bag of popcorn<br />
was left in the microwave in a room<br />
just long enough for it to produce<br />
enough smoke to cause the alarm<br />
to sound. There were no actual<br />
flames.<br />
Pinette said the fire department<br />
responded and arrived within 10<br />
minutes.<br />
“For everyone’s safety we followed<br />
our safety protocols so we just<br />
evacuated the building, went in and<br />
checked and it was nothing so we<br />
let everyone back in,” Pinette said.<br />
About 200 students were evacuated<br />
out of the building into the parking<br />
lot for their safety. The students<br />
stood out in the cold air for about 40<br />
minutes before safely being allowed<br />
to re-enter the building.<br />
Pinette explained there was no<br />
major damage done and the occupants<br />
of the first floor room where<br />
the smoke started were able to return<br />
to their place.<br />
According to Derrick Clark, deputy<br />
fire chief at Oshawa Fire Services,<br />
no one was harmed or injured,<br />
it was a very small incident.<br />
“Specifically through the school<br />
year we get these accidents happen<br />
now and then,” Clark explained,<br />
“it’s not something that happened<br />
regularly, it’s just kids are busy like<br />
everyone else and we always tell<br />
people never leave food unattended.”<br />
Clark added that cooking is the<br />
major cause of fires in Ontario and<br />
that is why part of the building code<br />
when living in residence is no hotplates<br />
and rooms do not have stoves,<br />
because it too dangerous.<br />
“Be vigilant if you are using the<br />
microwave or any cooking items<br />
and also when the alarm system<br />
sounds make sure you know where<br />
to go and what to do and how to<br />
get out or escape,” Clark said, adding,<br />
“early escape is key, people get<br />
trapped in the smoke in the hallway<br />
and turned around, so it’s key to<br />
know where the stairwells are and<br />
how to get out quick.”<br />
According to Clark, fire safety<br />
and knowing the procedures is important<br />
when living in a building<br />
like a campus residence.<br />
“Make sure the people don’t take<br />
out the batteries in their smoke detectors<br />
in their rooms,” Clark advised.
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Entertainment<br />
Photograph by James Jackson<br />
The covers of poetry books from Adele Barclay, Owain Nicholas and Gregory Scofield.<br />
Losing yourself in Canadian poetry<br />
Getting deep with three poets about love, life, culture and self<br />
James Jackson<br />
The Chronicle<br />
These three poetry books by Canadian<br />
authors, If I were in a cage<br />
I’d reach out for you, Digsite, Witness,<br />
I Am, are about loss. Loss of<br />
life, innocence, self, culture, mind,<br />
and love. Each of these three books<br />
tackle these themes through different<br />
ways.<br />
If I were in a cage I’d reach out for<br />
you shows the loss through stories<br />
of people, living in todays society.<br />
Digsite goes through these themes<br />
by displaying the life of an archeologic<br />
digger.<br />
Witness, I am shows these through<br />
the eyes of the Native American<br />
community of Canada.<br />
IF I WERE IN A CAGE I’D<br />
REACH OUT FOR YOU<br />
BY: Adèle Barclay<br />
Adèle Barclay uses vivid imagery<br />
and metaphors to tell stories of love<br />
and confinement.<br />
The poems take place in various<br />
places and times. Giving the<br />
reader quick snippets into people’s<br />
experience love and the bindings<br />
that come with it.<br />
The various poems have no indication<br />
that they are from the same<br />
point of view, with the exception<br />
of two ongoing poems throughout<br />
the book. Barclay’s works have<br />
appeared in various poetry collections<br />
such as The Fiddlehead, and<br />
Matrix.<br />
This is her book she had written<br />
herself.<br />
The book was shortlisted in<br />
2015 for the Robert Kroetsch<br />
Award for Innovative Poetry, a<br />
award hosted by Insomniac Press<br />
and Matrix magazine as of 2007.<br />
She is currently an editor at The<br />
Rusty Toque, a Canada-based web<br />
publication that focuses on the arts.<br />
DIGSITE<br />
BY: Owain Nicholson<br />
Owain Nicholson uses some of<br />
his own personal experience to tell<br />
the reader the story of archeological<br />
diggers and the problems they<br />
have.<br />
The poems are primarily from<br />
the point of view of an unnamed<br />
archeologist digger, with some side<br />
stories throughout.<br />
The poems tell stories about the<br />
struggles the diggers go through<br />
and the struggles of life in general,<br />
and the effort we put into digging<br />
up our past only to be the next ones<br />
in the ground. He tells about having<br />
to leave the life you had behind<br />
while you go into the wilderness for<br />
months on end.<br />
Nicholson is from Winnipeg,<br />
Manitoba and studied archology<br />
and creative writing at the University<br />
of Victoria. This is his first<br />
published work.<br />
WITNESS, I AM<br />
BY: Gregory Scofield<br />
Gregory Scofield writes using the<br />
stories of the First Nations people<br />
and adapts them to the modern<br />
audience and to his meaning. The<br />
book is split up into three parts.<br />
The first part is a singular poem<br />
that, on the surface, is the retelling<br />
of the Cree creation story. But<br />
this is adapted to tell the story of<br />
indigenousness women being kidnapped<br />
and murdered.<br />
The second is a selection of<br />
poems loosely based off the author’s<br />
life.<br />
The third part is about identity<br />
and belonging, what it means to be<br />
a First Nations and Metis.<br />
Scofield is Red River Metis of<br />
Cree. He has taught First Nations<br />
and Metis Literature and Creative<br />
Writing at various post-secondary<br />
schools.<br />
He is currently an assistant professor<br />
in English at Laurentian University<br />
where he teaches creative<br />
writing.<br />
His first poetry collection, The<br />
Gathering Stones for the Medicine<br />
Wheel, won the Dorothy Livesay<br />
Witness, I Am tackles<br />
important <strong>issue</strong>s in the<br />
world with a complete<br />
narrative.<br />
Poetry Prize in 1994 a award reserved<br />
for those who either have<br />
lived in the British Colombia or the<br />
Yukon for the past twelve months,<br />
or for three of the past five years.<br />
His other works of poetry include<br />
Native Canadiana: Songs from<br />
the Urban Rez, Love Medicine<br />
and One Song, I Knew Two Métis<br />
Women, Thunder Through My<br />
Veins, Singing Home the Bones,<br />
kipocihkân: Poems New & Selected,<br />
and Louis: The Heretic Poems.<br />
All three of these collections are<br />
good in their own right. But, Witness,<br />
I Am stands out as the best of<br />
the three.<br />
Witness, I Am¸ tackles important<br />
<strong>issue</strong>s in the world with a complete<br />
narrative.<br />
Witness, I Am is about the troubles<br />
the First Nations go through,<br />
which about half of the book is<br />
dedicated to the abduction and<br />
murder of aboriginal women.<br />
While the other three do talk about<br />
important <strong>issue</strong>s, such as depression<br />
and apathy.<br />
Digsite and If I were in a cage<br />
I’d reach out for you lack a singular<br />
coherent story to make it more<br />
impactful.<br />
This is less of a problem of the<br />
book themselves, but more of the<br />
fact that its told through poetry,<br />
with very little work done to establish<br />
characters.<br />
So, of the three books Witness,<br />
I Am is the more enjoyable book<br />
because it tackles serious <strong>issue</strong>s with<br />
a strong sense of character.
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Chavannes’<br />
Detox shows<br />
new side of<br />
black community<br />
Euvilla Thomas<br />
The Chronicle<br />
Joshua Nelson<br />
The Chronicle<br />
What if you were told to marry a<br />
man you never met? What if you<br />
were told to be silent, that your<br />
opinion didn’t matter? What if<br />
you spoke up in an effort to defend<br />
yourself but were severely punished?<br />
While people in today’s society<br />
pay lipservice to the idea that the<br />
oppression of women is taboo, there<br />
are still places where it’s allowed<br />
and even encouraged: places where<br />
women are viewed as property to<br />
men, unable to live their existence<br />
without hiding themselves in public,<br />
as if they are invisible. This<br />
perspective is beautifully rendered<br />
within Khaled Hosseini’s Novel, A<br />
Thousand Splendid Suns.<br />
Khaled Hosseini is a New York<br />
Times best-selling author. He has<br />
written three novels: The Kite Runner,<br />
A Thousand Splendid Suns and his<br />
latest, And the Mountains Echoed. He<br />
was born in Kabul, Afghanistan<br />
and many of his works reflect his<br />
Donald Trump once tweeted statistics<br />
that show 97 per cent of<br />
black people are killed by other<br />
blacks. Things like these are so<br />
often echoed in the media. Young<br />
black men and women are placed<br />
in boxes.<br />
Guns, foul language and naked<br />
dancing are commonly associated<br />
with black youth in North America.<br />
Vidal Chavannes’ book, Detox,<br />
takes us on a journey through the<br />
black community in Toronto. Chavannes<br />
explores the music, media<br />
and parenting styles. The book<br />
analyzes how black kids engage in<br />
a lifestyle of guns, foul language<br />
and naked dancing, none of which<br />
has a positive end.<br />
Chavannes explains the psychology<br />
behind <strong>issue</strong>s rooted deep<br />
within the community. Detox not<br />
only provides insights, Chavannes<br />
delivers these in his own voice.<br />
These are stories not being told in<br />
the media.<br />
Chavannes starts his story with<br />
4 different incidents of young black<br />
men killed by other black men. In<br />
his book, Chavannes says black<br />
people are not just killing themselves,<br />
they are manipulated by a<br />
culture which promotes violence<br />
and nudity. This, he says, is the sad<br />
reality destroying the black community.<br />
In a chapter called “Keeping<br />
It Real,” Chavannes writes, “Unfortunately,<br />
where once hip hop<br />
was a political vehicle for change,<br />
an outward expression of the anger<br />
and angst that lay under the surface<br />
of the urban centers of America,<br />
the music is now often wrapped up<br />
in a gangster drama played out on<br />
real streets by real kids who end up<br />
dead and in prison.” Black youth<br />
who look up to this music, says<br />
Chavannes, do not receive positive<br />
messages.<br />
For Chavannes, education and<br />
analysis is needed for positive messages.<br />
Chavannes was the manager of<br />
Program Development and Quality<br />
Initiatives at Durham College,<br />
responsible for developing new academic<br />
programs across schools. He<br />
was also a professor at the post-secondary<br />
level. He has created course<br />
outlines and training manuals for<br />
different organizations. His background<br />
has helped him assemble<br />
some thoughtful analysis of the situations<br />
the black community faces.<br />
Chavannes was able to take his<br />
background and understanding of<br />
the community and bring an engaging<br />
and controversial interpretation<br />
of black youths in his book.<br />
This analysis is evident in Detox.<br />
Detox describes the author’s<br />
journey. Chavannes attempts to<br />
homeland country before and after<br />
the Soviet invasion of 1979, as well<br />
as the Afghan civil war and the uprising<br />
of the Taliban.<br />
His work is inspired by a peaceful<br />
upbringing in Kabul before the<br />
Soviet invasion. Hosseini’s second<br />
novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns,<br />
published in 2007, ties in an era of<br />
peace, as well as an era of turmoil.<br />
The story tells the life of two girls<br />
A Durham College student reads Vidal Chavannes’ book Detox.<br />
avoid the stereotypes, while living<br />
with the pain it causes him to look<br />
at his community and watch his<br />
people go down a path that is both<br />
physically and mentally harmful.<br />
In his book, Chavannes says the<br />
problems black kids suffer from are<br />
not society’s fault. He says today’s<br />
parenting style plays a big role. One<br />
of the problems, he says, is parents;<br />
they are not successfully communicating<br />
with their children.<br />
In the chapter “We Reap What<br />
We Sow,” Chavannes writes about<br />
a sad conversation he had with the<br />
parent of one of his students.<br />
“She said her daughter was a<br />
budding entrepreneur,” Chavannes<br />
documents of a woman’s communication<br />
with her 14-year-old<br />
daughter. “Sometimes she will<br />
come home with four or five new<br />
iPods and a whole pile of brandnew<br />
clothes.” Chavannes said this<br />
statement left him with his mouth<br />
hanging open. He realized this<br />
mother was okay with her young<br />
daughter coming home with merchandise<br />
and would not question<br />
where it came from or discipline<br />
her. To him this was not only<br />
wrong but unbelievable.<br />
With today’s parenting style in<br />
mind, Chavannes says the lack of<br />
responsibility is within the household.<br />
growing up and becoming women:<br />
the small joys, the hardships, and<br />
the fear of a rapidly changing country.<br />
The story is told in four parts.<br />
Each part is told from different perspectives<br />
until the two girls’ stories<br />
ultimately climax into one.<br />
The book sheds light on women’s<br />
struggles, giving an important<br />
perspective on <strong>issue</strong>s surrounding<br />
women in Middle Eastern countries.<br />
Telling the story from the<br />
point of view of women directly<br />
involved in Afghani society helps<br />
the reader imagine living as one<br />
of the characters.<br />
Hosseini’s novel begins by telling<br />
the story of Mariam, a girl who was<br />
born out of wedlock and forced to<br />
live in a tiny shack with her mother.<br />
After a series of unfortunate events,<br />
Mariam is forced to wed a man<br />
Photograph by Euvilla Thomas<br />
Detox, is Chavannes’ way of expressing<br />
his perception of the black<br />
community through his eyes and<br />
how culture and parenting influences<br />
the lives of black youth.<br />
Chavannes is an activist, a consultant<br />
and a motivational speaker.<br />
Detox is a must- read not only for<br />
the black community but for people<br />
who want to understand the darkness<br />
and trauma that comes with<br />
being black.<br />
Take a walk with Chavannes<br />
on his journey through the black<br />
community and be inspired to see<br />
black youths beyond the stereotypical<br />
boxes of guns, violence and foul<br />
language.<br />
The Middle East from a different persepective<br />
A Thousand<br />
Splendid Suns<br />
is a powerful<br />
novel<br />
Khaled Hosseini’s book A Thousand Splendid Suns.<br />
Photograph by Joshua Nelson<br />
almost 30 years her senior. The<br />
book follows her life as she grows<br />
up with the knowledge that she has<br />
always been unwanted. The second<br />
story told within the novel is that of<br />
Laila, a girl born during the Soviet<br />
invasion attempting to live a pleasant<br />
yet unremarkable life with her<br />
family while her country struggles<br />
against a civil war that is rapidly<br />
consuming civilian life.<br />
These two stories become intertwined<br />
due to a complicated series<br />
of events that leave the women<br />
struggling to find their place within<br />
a society dominated by men.<br />
The contrast between characters<br />
is something Hosseini exemplifies<br />
within the novel. Because of their<br />
different upbringings, each of<br />
these two women reacts completely<br />
different to their surroundings.<br />
Everything from how they act, talk,<br />
show respect is completely opposite,<br />
which also renders the type of punishment<br />
they each receive.<br />
A Thousand Splendid Suns presents<br />
beautifully and will leave a lasting<br />
impact on anyone who chooses to<br />
read it. It’s a fascinating, educational<br />
and emotional read. Hosseini’s<br />
ability to portray incredibly difficult<br />
yet, real life <strong>issue</strong>s through an<br />
accurate depiction is quite remarkable.<br />
The novel is a must read for<br />
those looking to analyse and review<br />
women’s history within the Middle<br />
East.
Entertainment <strong>chronicle</strong>.durhamcollege.ca November 15 - 21, 2016 The Chronicle 27<br />
Photograph by Asim Pervez<br />
Matthew Samuels, better know as Boi 1 da is one of many hip-hop talents to emerge from Pickering High School.<br />
Pickering High: A gold mine for hip-hop<br />
Asim Pervez<br />
The Chronicle<br />
Charlotte Arnold and Munro<br />
Chambers were a part of Degrassi,<br />
Mark Spicoluk is a Canadian<br />
musician. Sara Ghulam was<br />
Miss World Canada in 2007 and<br />
Eon Sinclair is the bass player for<br />
Canadian band Bedouin Soundclash.<br />
All are former Pickering<br />
High students.<br />
Pickering High School is mostly<br />
known for being the former<br />
school of Toronto Raptors guard<br />
Cory Joseph, but many talented<br />
people from Toronto’s hip hop<br />
scene come from the school.<br />
Matthew Samuels, better<br />
known as Boi1da, is an alumni.<br />
Samuels has worked with<br />
some of the biggest names in<br />
hip hop: Drake, Eminem, Jay Z,<br />
Lil Wayne, Kendrick Lamar, Big<br />
Sean, Rihanna and many more.<br />
Boi1da isn’t the only successful<br />
music producer out of Pickering<br />
High. Fellow music producers<br />
Tyler Williams, kown as T-Minus,<br />
Jordan Evans, and Matthew<br />
Burnett have all done work in the<br />
industry before.<br />
T-Minus has done work for<br />
Drake, Lil Wayne, Kendrick Lamar,<br />
Nicki Minaj, Ludacris to<br />
name a few. Evans has produced<br />
for Drake, Eminem, Jamie Foxx<br />
and more. Burnett has done work<br />
for Drake, Keri Hilson, Tyga, DJ<br />
Khaled and more.<br />
Samuels was a guest speaker<br />
at the International Music Software<br />
Trade Association Festa that<br />
took place at Ryerson on October<br />
15th..The main focus of the event<br />
was to discuss purchasing music<br />
software legally. During the event,<br />
Samuels talked a bit about his rise<br />
to success.<br />
Samuels was gifted a Casio<br />
Keyboard as a teenager. Samuels<br />
said he was walking home from<br />
school one day when a friend told<br />
him about the music software<br />
Frooty Loops, also known as FL<br />
Studio, he downloaded it and that<br />
is when he started producing music.<br />
Once he gained confidence at<br />
music, Samuels entered his first<br />
ever Battle Of The Beat Makers<br />
competition. He was only 17.<br />
Samuels won the competition<br />
at only 17 years of age but then<br />
won twice more for a total of 3<br />
wins. From this event, he says he<br />
got a lot of exposure and made a<br />
lot of connections, which led to<br />
him meeting artists like Drake.<br />
He definitely<br />
gives back to<br />
the school.<br />
The Battle Of The Beat Makers<br />
competition involves 32 producers<br />
from all over Canada.<br />
Each participant plays 3 beats<br />
each round for 45 seconds in a<br />
head-to-head challenge.<br />
Three judges vote on the best<br />
beat as they hear it and the winner<br />
then moves on. Ultimately, it<br />
comes down to the one winner.<br />
Each judge in the competition<br />
has industry credentials. Former<br />
judges include 9th Wonder and<br />
Metro Boomin.<br />
This past year, Samuels was<br />
one of the judges, alongside<br />
T-Minus and Ebony Oshunrinde,<br />
also known as WondaGurl.<br />
One of Samuels’ biggest prduced<br />
hits early in his career was<br />
Drake’s Best I Ever Had.This<br />
song really helped both Boi1da<br />
and Drake’s careers. The song<br />
peaked at number 2 on Billboard<br />
Charts.<br />
For Samuels, making music<br />
more than just about making<br />
money. “I love music, yeah I get<br />
paid for it, and obviously I have<br />
to run a business and what not but<br />
at the end of the day, I still have<br />
passion for it,” said Samuels at the<br />
conference.<br />
Pickering High School has an<br />
annual Matthew Samuels Award<br />
they give to one student during<br />
graduation. “Every year we send<br />
him music clips or introductory,<br />
original compositions that our<br />
students make. He judges them<br />
and picks one award winner and<br />
gives them a cheque towards<br />
their future schooling,” said Tania<br />
Craig, a Guidance Counsellor<br />
at Pickering High. She adds,<br />
“He definitely gives back to the<br />
school.”<br />
The 2014 Winner of the Matthew<br />
Samuels award winner,<br />
Troy Murrell, says, “He wanted a<br />
5-minute creative project of music,<br />
pictures, beats and anything<br />
me and my partner Brian (Betty)<br />
did a music video collage with 5<br />
different songs and submitted it.”<br />
Samuels inspired a generation.<br />
It’s only a matter of time before<br />
the next star music producers<br />
come out of Pickering High.
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<strong>chronicle</strong>.durhamcollege.ca November 15 - 21, 2016 The Chronicle 29<br />
Sports<br />
'Backs win championship<br />
UOIT women's soccer<br />
team wins first OUA<br />
title in school history<br />
Joshua Nelson<br />
The Chronicle<br />
The UOIT Ridgebacks women’s<br />
soccer team has won their first Ontario<br />
University Athletics (OUA)<br />
championship.<br />
In fact, it’s the first OUA title in<br />
school history for women's soccer.<br />
The championship winning<br />
moment came on Nov. 6, after the<br />
Ridgebacks defeated the Queen’s<br />
Golden Gaels 1-0 in the final.<br />
The Ridgebacks finished the season<br />
with a 16-2-1 record including<br />
conference and pre-season games.<br />
“I thought our team had a ton of<br />
potential going into this season,”<br />
said Helen Frampton, Ridgebacks’<br />
goalkeeper.<br />
The Ridgebacks started their<br />
season with a trip to Sweden, where<br />
Frampton says her team bonded.<br />
“We were incredibly fortunate<br />
before the season actually started.<br />
We got to go to Sweden as a team<br />
for 10 days or so and we played a<br />
couple of exhibition games against<br />
some Swedish clubs there, so that<br />
was incredible for bonding. You’re<br />
in a new country, a new environment,<br />
[we] were able to become<br />
really close after that,” she said.<br />
The Ridgebacks tore through the<br />
regular season, losing only three<br />
games during conference play,<br />
earning them a spot in the OUA<br />
final four, their first time since<br />
2014, and is ranked third in the<br />
nation.<br />
“We have some senior players<br />
here who are leaving. I think it was<br />
about making sure that they could<br />
see the tangible…making history<br />
here at school and bringing home<br />
that trophy and a banner that’s going<br />
to be here forever…and I think<br />
that itself was motivating enough<br />
for everybody,” said head coach<br />
Peyvand Mossavat.<br />
The Ridgebacks beat the Windsor<br />
Lancers, 3-1 to advance to the<br />
final against the Gaels.<br />
Frampton didn’t let nerves stand<br />
in the way.“I was very nervous because<br />
one mistake could cost you<br />
the game, but I tried my best to get<br />
rid of that so you could really focus<br />
on the game and focus on the moment<br />
and just do the best you can.”<br />
Mossavat was excited for the win,<br />
but uncertain of the future.<br />
“The reality of it is that you’re<br />
not always going up and we are<br />
going to do the best we can to continue<br />
being competitive and doing<br />
the right things, for us it’s about<br />
living our principles that we hold<br />
dear to our program, commitment,<br />
hard work…you’re going<br />
to win some games and lose some<br />
games, what’s important [to us] is<br />
that we continue to build a strong<br />
program,” said Mossavat.<br />
The Ridgebacks are headed to<br />
the nationals in Wolfville, Nova<br />
Scotia, Nov. 8 and wrap-up their<br />
season on Nov. 15.<br />
The UOIT women's soccer team celebrates its first ever championship.<br />
Photograph courtesy of Scott Dennis<br />
Lords can't maintain success in college invitational<br />
Christopher Jones<br />
The Chronicle<br />
The Durham Lords men’s baseball<br />
season can be summed up by<br />
how they played during the Canadian<br />
Colleges National Baseball<br />
Invitational. They were good, but<br />
not good enough, as the Fanshawe<br />
Falcons (17-3) won the tournament.<br />
With a record of 11-9 during the<br />
season, the Lords hosted the Canadian<br />
Colleges National Baseball<br />
Invitational Oct. 28-30.<br />
The Lords won their opening<br />
two games, beating Humber 2-0<br />
and the Holland Hurricanes 4-1.<br />
After the first two victories, the<br />
tournament changed for the Lords.<br />
They were defeated by the St. Clair<br />
Saints 2-0, and then lost 5-0 to Fanshawe<br />
in the semi-final.<br />
On the tournament, all-star<br />
pitcher Alec Brown said their early<br />
success helped them finish first in<br />
their division, but “when it came to<br />
the semi-final game [against Fanshawe],<br />
we unfortunately fell short<br />
and lost our chance at the national<br />
title.”<br />
The season can be summed up<br />
in that way, as they also lost to<br />
Lords take their at bat against the Holland Hurricanes.<br />
Fanshawe to end their time in the<br />
Ontario playoffs.<br />
Ontario College Athletics Association<br />
(OCAA) coach-of-the-year<br />
Sam Dempster emphasized that the<br />
team just couldn’t catch up after<br />
giving up three runs during the<br />
semi-final game against Fanshawe,<br />
and said with a shrug, “that’s<br />
baseball.”<br />
For all-star Michael Chilvers,<br />
“it was an excellent opportunity<br />
Photograph by Christopher Jones<br />
to try and become a top college in<br />
the country.”<br />
Chilvers enjoyed the tournament<br />
for multiple reasons.<br />
“Having other colleges come<br />
from other parts of Canada and<br />
being able to compete against them<br />
was a great experience and was also<br />
very exciting for players and spectators,”<br />
he said.<br />
With two all-stars in Brown and<br />
Chilvers and the OCAA coach-ofthe-year<br />
in Dempster, the Lords expected<br />
to make it further into the<br />
invitational.<br />
However, they did find it to be a<br />
good experience.<br />
“It was awesome to see how it<br />
turned out and how exciting the<br />
tournament was,” Chilvers said.<br />
The Lords are looking to the<br />
future now as their season comes<br />
to a close.<br />
Despite all-star Chilvers not<br />
returning, Brown will return to<br />
anchor the pitching staff next season,<br />
and OCAA coach-of-the-year,<br />
Dempster, is also back.<br />
With these two on their staff,<br />
the Lords are looking forward to<br />
the challenge that next year will<br />
present.<br />
“This tournament will continue<br />
to bring excitement to baseball in<br />
the OCAA and in Canada. It will<br />
be cool to see future tournaments<br />
with more teams showing interest,”<br />
said Chilvers.
30 The Chronicle November 15 - 21, 2016 <strong>chronicle</strong>.durhamcollege.ca Sports<br />
Panchan’s life of basketball<br />
Lindsay<br />
begins her<br />
final year<br />
as a Lord<br />
Logan Caswell<br />
The Chronicle<br />
Hundreds of athletes have represented<br />
Durham College in varsity<br />
sports, but few have achieved what<br />
Lindsay Panchan has as a Lord.<br />
As she begins her fifth and final<br />
season of eligibility and third at<br />
Durham College, Panchan has<br />
broken the record for most points<br />
in a game by a female player with<br />
41, surpassing Jenn Harvey’s record<br />
of 38 back in 1998. Panchan is<br />
also the first-ever Durham College<br />
athlete to be named to the Canadian<br />
Collegiate Athletic Association<br />
(CCAA) All-Canadian team<br />
in back-to-back seasons.<br />
But Panchan hopes these records<br />
are just the start of what could be a<br />
longer career in basketball.<br />
“My personal goal is to keep going<br />
into the next level of basketball.<br />
I don’t want to stop playing now, I<br />
feel like I’m just getting better and<br />
I’m working harder than ever,<br />
hopefully I can land in Europe,”<br />
says Panchan.<br />
The journey hasn’t been an easy<br />
one for the Lords star. Panchan<br />
played as a substitute during her<br />
Michael Chilvers is an all-star on and off the field<br />
Chilvers<br />
has<br />
achieved<br />
greatness<br />
in<br />
academics<br />
and sports<br />
Sam Odrowski<br />
The Chronicle<br />
Michael Chilvers first picked up a<br />
bat at the age of six to play T-ball<br />
in his hometown. He has now been<br />
named Ontario Colleges Athletic<br />
Association (OCAA) Men’s Baseball<br />
League All-Star. He has played<br />
with the Durham Lords for three<br />
years now.<br />
“There’s ups and downs some<br />
nights you get in at 1, 2 o clock in<br />
the morning and you got to be up<br />
at 7 the next day for school,” he<br />
says. “It gets kind of exhausting at<br />
times but at the end of it, I wouldn’t<br />
change anything for the world.”<br />
Chilvers has been on the honour<br />
roll in the past and is currently in<br />
his final year of studying sports<br />
management.<br />
Chilvers had a big year in 2016,<br />
with a .413 batting average in 57<br />
plate appearances. He ranked<br />
fifth overall in the league for batting<br />
average and runs. He ranked<br />
seventh overall in hits and doubles.<br />
His overall slugging percentage is<br />
.630 which puts him at fourth in<br />
first two years at St. Mary’s University<br />
in Halifax, N.S. She then took<br />
a year off from basketball before<br />
making the transition to Durham.<br />
She praises her current head<br />
coach, Heather Lafontaine, for her<br />
success here.<br />
“Coming over here I had a year<br />
Michael Chilvers has played for the Durham Lords baseball team for three years.<br />
the league.<br />
Chilvers says being able to put<br />
up numbers like that isn’t easy but<br />
hard work and dedication has gotten<br />
him to where he is. The Durham<br />
Lords recently finished the<br />
season with 20 wins, 12 losses. The<br />
head coach Sam Dempster says<br />
it is a big improvement from last<br />
year’s 9 wins, 16 losses. Chilvers<br />
was named OCAA league all-star<br />
in October.<br />
Chilvers has always enjoyed<br />
baseball and attributes his success<br />
to his love for the game. He says<br />
he does everything in his power<br />
to never miss a practice or game.<br />
“The time and the commitment<br />
you make to baseball, you kind of<br />
get rewarded for it,” says Chilvers.<br />
Dempster says Chilvers has gotten<br />
to where he is by working hard.<br />
“When you’re talented you don’t<br />
get there because it’s easy, you get<br />
there because of hard work,” says<br />
Dempster.<br />
Braden Weir, a catcher for the<br />
Lords also says Chilvers is a hard<br />
worker.<br />
“Always at practice. One of the<br />
first guys there,” says Weir. “One of<br />
the last to leave.” He really admires<br />
Chilvers’ work ethic.<br />
After being named the OCAA<br />
league all-star, Chilvers says his<br />
parents were proud of him and his<br />
friends congratulated him on all<br />
the hard work. He says it felt good<br />
to be recognized for the work he<br />
does out on the field.<br />
Chilvers says his parents and<br />
coach are very easy going and the<br />
only pressure he feels out on the<br />
field is the pressure he puts on himself.<br />
“When you get looked at as<br />
a leader/Captain of the team you<br />
want to make sure your performing<br />
and not feeling like your letting<br />
your team mates down,” he says.<br />
Chilvers is succeeding at leading<br />
the team. According to Weir, he<br />
motivates people and gives them a<br />
boost of confidence when needed.<br />
Photograph by Logan Caswell<br />
Lindsay Panchan hopes to continue to play basketball after her time is done with the team.<br />
off and it made me unsettled and<br />
nervous. I questioned if I was still<br />
a good player or not. Coach Lafontaine<br />
gave me a direction arrow<br />
Chilvers is motivated by his team<br />
mates as well. He says, “It’s always<br />
motivating to see other guys working<br />
hard.”<br />
Chilvers says being around his<br />
friends out on the field creates an<br />
energy that makes him want to be<br />
the first guy to get the bats going.<br />
Bonding with a new group of<br />
to go up and has driven me to be<br />
the best player I possibly can,” says<br />
Panchan.<br />
Panchan has the support of her<br />
coaching staff too. Lafontaine isn’t<br />
short of compliments about her<br />
game and hopes to help achieve<br />
her goals.<br />
“She’s a great player but she’s<br />
also a great person. I’ve never<br />
seen her give up,” says Lafontaine.<br />
“When you see her busting up and<br />
down the court to play defense you<br />
want to buy into that. Her plan ultimately<br />
is to go overseas so we’ll<br />
try and help her achieve that goal.”<br />
Kayla Marshall is also in her last<br />
year of eligibility and has been part<br />
of the women’s basketball program<br />
for five years. She praises her teammates<br />
and hopes to see her good<br />
friend succeed after her time with<br />
the Lords.<br />
“She’s brought a lot of experience,<br />
intensity and passion to our<br />
game. I hope she does it all and<br />
succeeds wherever she goes,” says<br />
Marshall.<br />
It won’t be an easy task for Panchan<br />
but says she has a plan.<br />
“I’ve been talking to the right<br />
people to help me out. I have<br />
someone who is representing me<br />
and making film so we can send<br />
it to agents and all of the business<br />
side of stuff,” she says.<br />
Panchan also set the bar high<br />
with her goals in her final year as<br />
a Lord.<br />
“We want to be first in the east<br />
and win provincials. Hopefully we<br />
can make it to nationals.”<br />
Photograph by Sam Odrowski<br />
guys each year is Chilvers’ favourite<br />
part of the game. With the help<br />
of his teammates he says, “You kind<br />
of create memories on and off the<br />
field that last a lifetime.”<br />
After this year, Chilvers plans on<br />
keeping baseball in his life. He will<br />
either play for a senior league or<br />
take on a coaching role.
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Mixed bag for DC men's volleyball<br />
James Jackson<br />
The Chronicle<br />
The Durham Lords men’s volleyball<br />
team is half way through the<br />
season and are expected to make it<br />
to the provincial finals.<br />
The team played its first home<br />
game recently. The Lords performed<br />
well, coming away with a<br />
win against the Algonquin Thunder.<br />
The Durham Lords have played<br />
eight games, winning five and losing<br />
three.<br />
Last season out of seven games.<br />
The Lords won four, tied two, and<br />
lost one.<br />
The Lords won the first two sets<br />
against the opposing team. But the<br />
Thunder ramped up the pressure<br />
in the third set and pushed back.<br />
The Lords got themselves together<br />
in the fourth set and went back<br />
on the offensive. The two teams<br />
battled for the lead, but the Lords<br />
came up on top with a score of 24-<br />
23 in the Lord’s favour, winning<br />
the game.<br />
George Matsusaki, head coach of<br />
the men’s volleyball team at Durham<br />
College said, “we expect to be<br />
at the provincial final tournament.<br />
And we expect to be a contender<br />
there.“<br />
He says the team is playing well,<br />
but still has many things to work<br />
on. Saying the team let their level<br />
of play drop in the third set. Which<br />
allowed the Algonquin Thunder<br />
to be more aggressive and win the<br />
third set.<br />
Some of the players agree. Saying<br />
they played well, but got a bit sloppy<br />
in the third set.<br />
Erik Janssen played middle<br />
The Lords celebrate following a point against Algonquin College at the CRWC.<br />
blocker for the Lords. He said they<br />
let the opposing team dictate the<br />
speed of the game. He says it threw<br />
the Lords off their game and allowed<br />
the Algonquin Thunder to<br />
win the set.<br />
Setter John Pharm says he has<br />
high expectations for the team this<br />
year.<br />
“We’re mixing up a couple lineups,”<br />
he says. “So we don’t have a<br />
definite line-up yet. But look forward<br />
to something around our<br />
necks.”<br />
Outside hitter Damin Noss<br />
agrees with Pharm that new line<br />
ups should make the Lords a<br />
stronger team but he also worries<br />
about the team work the team is<br />
showing.<br />
“I definitely hope we grow as a<br />
Photograph by James Jackson<br />
team. Work together more so we<br />
don’t have to do more 4 and 5 set<br />
games and stuff. So I just think we<br />
need to work on a lot of things as<br />
a team,” he says. The Lords’ next<br />
match is against the Loyalist Lancers<br />
in Belleville.<br />
Sports are a great place to start reconciliation<br />
Let's make<br />
changes on<br />
indigenous<br />
team names<br />
The Cleveland Indians didn’t<br />
win the World Series but they did<br />
manage to keep Chief Wahoo and<br />
the moniker Indians.<br />
Would a rose by any other name<br />
smell so sweet? Shakespeare’s question<br />
in Romeo and Juliet reminds<br />
us of the power of a name. So what’s<br />
in a sports name? When it comes<br />
to the use of indigenous names in<br />
sports, the answer is systemic racism<br />
and outdated associations. To<br />
fix this, names need to change and<br />
Angela<br />
Lavallee<br />
so do logos.<br />
Let’s start with the Chicago<br />
Blackhawks. The name is linked<br />
to an army squadron called Blackhawk<br />
division. The squadron was<br />
named for a Native American<br />
leader who battled the United<br />
States government in the War of<br />
1812. The backstory here goes back<br />
as far as the First World War but<br />
has no connection to the hockey<br />
team. Why are names like the<br />
Blackhawks, or symbols, such as<br />
the Cleveland Indians’ logo of Chief<br />
Wahoo, representing hockey franchises<br />
in the twenty-first century?<br />
The Washington Redskins brand<br />
name is worth billions, according<br />
to Forbes. According to the Washington<br />
Redskins, changing their<br />
name would cost around 20 million<br />
dollars. This is why the Washington<br />
team representatives are not going<br />
to change the name, according<br />
to team president Bruce Allan.<br />
On a local level, two-time Juno<br />
winner Ian Campeau of A Tribe<br />
Called Red was successful in getting<br />
the Ottawa Nepean Redskins<br />
football team changed to the Nepean<br />
Eagles. Campeau believed<br />
the former name was racist. Once<br />
the name was changed, Campeau<br />
urged representatives of major<br />
sports teams to stop selecting indigenous<br />
names and logos for their<br />
team.<br />
In Brampton, a teacher asked<br />
other teachers to join the fight to<br />
Games in your backyard<br />
ban logos and mascots that depict<br />
indigenous culture. The Port<br />
Credit Warriors and Chinguacovsy<br />
Chiefs need to take steps to change<br />
their logo.<br />
In Mississauga, a hockey dad has<br />
counted a half a dozen teams using<br />
indigenous names and logos. Lorne<br />
Park Ojibwa was changed to Lorne<br />
Park Wild in September 2016. But<br />
according to New Credit Chief<br />
Stacey Laforme, the Chinguacovsy<br />
Chiefs the name is not an <strong>issue</strong>.<br />
This is odd.<br />
Since the Truth and Reconciliation<br />
Commission and Idle No<br />
More, sports names have come<br />
under fire.<br />
And rightfully so.<br />
Back on the main stage of big<br />
league sports, The United States<br />
Congress has not made a decision<br />
on whether the Washington Redskins<br />
will have to change its name.<br />
There is more controversy over the<br />
Cleveland Indians than the Redskins.<br />
During this year’s Major League<br />
Baseball finals, sportscasters like<br />
CBC’s radio announcer Jerry Howarth,<br />
avoided saying Indians on air.<br />
“I will not say the whole name<br />
for Cleveland, Cleveland is who<br />
they are and Cleveland is what I<br />
will say,” said the Blue Jays playby-play<br />
announcer.<br />
It’s a pact Howarth made in the<br />
early 90s, so let Howarth pave the<br />
way. No more indigenous names<br />
on air.<br />
Let’s make a change that reconciles<br />
the future of major sports with<br />
the reconciliation of Canada’s past<br />
with indigenous peoples. Sport is a<br />
good place to start.<br />
Are you game?<br />
Men’s Basketball: Nov. 18, Durham vs. George<br />
Brown, 8 p.m., Campus Recreation and Wellness<br />
Centre (CRWC).<br />
Men’s Volleyball: Nov. 17, Durham vs. Fleming,<br />
8 p.m., CRWC<br />
Women’s Basketball: Nov. 18, Durham vs.<br />
George Brown, 6 p.m., CRWC<br />
Women’s Volleyball: Nov. 17, Durham vs. Fleming,<br />
6 p.m., CRWC<br />
Women's Hockey: Nov. 19, UOIT vs. Western,<br />
3:30 p.m., Campus Ice Centre<br />
Nov. 20, UOIT vs. Windsor, 3:30 p.m., Campus<br />
Ice Centre
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