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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


2 The Chronicle November 15 - 21, 2016 <strong>chronicle</strong>.durhamcollege.ca<br />

BACK<br />

of the<br />

FRONT<br />

DC journalism students look at Durham College and UOIT,<br />

and beyond, by the numbers and with their cameras<br />

Photograph by Rebecca Calzavara<br />

Durham Lords get popping<br />

DC basketball players Lindsay Panchan (left) and Dakota Kirby have some fun in the pit.<br />

Hot, fresh popcorn was made available to promte the women's volleyball home opener.<br />

What they're saying inside the Chronicle<br />

"I love music. Yeah, I get paid<br />

for it, and obviously I have to<br />

run a business and what not<br />

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 />

me to this point ."<br />

Campus - pg. 13<br />

Entertainment - pg. 27<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.


4 The Chronicle November 15 - 21, 2016 <strong>chronicle</strong>.durhamcollege.ca<br />

PUBLISHER: Greg Murphy<br />

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Brian Legree<br />

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Editorial<br />

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Cartoon by Toby VanWeston<br />

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 />

EDITORS: Jenn Amaro, James Bauman, Rebecca<br />

Calzavara, Nathan Chow, Sharena Clendening,<br />

Dean Daley, Alexander Debets, Travis Fortnum,<br />

Tyler Hodgkinson, Barbara Howe, Noor Ibrahim,<br />

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Kayano Waite, Brandi Washington, Michael Welsh,<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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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 />

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the event. The invites had been<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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12 The Chronicle November 15 - 21, 2016 <strong>chronicle</strong>.durhamcollege.ca Campus<br />

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.


Campus <strong>chronicle</strong>.durhamcollege.ca November 15 - 21, 2016 The Chronicle 13<br />

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.


14 The Chronicle November 15 - 21, 2016 <strong>chronicle</strong>.durhamcollege.ca Campus<br />

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.


Community <strong>chronicle</strong>.durhamcollege.ca November 15 - 21, 2016 The Chronicle 17<br />

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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Campus <strong>chronicle</strong>.durhamcollege.ca November 15 - 21, 2016 The Chronicle 23<br />

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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<strong>chronicle</strong>.durhamcollege.ca November 15 - 21, 2016 The Chronicle 25<br />

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.


26 The Chronicle November 15 - 21, 2016 <strong>chronicle</strong>.durhamcollege.ca Entertainment<br />

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.


Sports <strong>chronicle</strong>.durhamcollege.ca November 15 - 21, 2016 The Chronicle 31<br />

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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