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In the 11 years I have worked here I can’t<br />

believe how Durham College has grown.<br />

- See page 3<br />

Volume XLIV, <strong>Issue</strong> 7 chronicle.durhamcollege.ca February 27 - March 5, 20<strong>18</strong><br />

New faces in UOIT's Student Union<br />

page 9<br />

Photograph by Tiago de Oliveira<br />

Politician in the pit page 14<br />

Photograph by Michael Bromby<br />

Halliburton's<br />

a hot hoopster<br />

page <strong>18</strong><br />

Blood drive on campus page 8<br />

Photograph by Cristina Nikolic<br />

Photograph by William McGinn


2 The <strong>Chronicle</strong> February 27 - March 5, 20<strong>18</strong> chronicle.durhamcollege.ca Campus<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 />

<strong>Chronicle</strong> up for awards<br />

Toby Van Weston<br />

The Durham College <strong>Chronicle</strong>,<br />

the newspaper and website produced<br />

by Journalism - Mass Media<br />

students, has been recognized for its<br />

quality work by the Ontario Community<br />

Newspapers Association in<br />

its 20<strong>17</strong> Better Newspapers Competition.<br />

Student Toby Van Weston is one<br />

of three finalists in the Best Feature<br />

Story Category, for a story he produced<br />

in 20<strong>17</strong> about water issues on<br />

Scugog Island.<br />

The <strong>Chronicle</strong>'s website, chronicle.durhamcollege.ca,<br />

is also a<br />

finalist for best college or university<br />

news website.<br />

In addition, Travis Fortnum, who<br />

now works at CP24 in Toronto, was<br />

given honourable mentions in both<br />

Best Feature Story (Homophobia in<br />

Hockey )and Best News Story categories<br />

(Murder in North Oshawa).<br />

Most recently, the <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />

finished second in the General<br />

Excellence category at the 2016<br />

awards.<br />

First, second and third place winners<br />

will be presented during the<br />

Awards Gala on Friday, April 20<br />

at the Sheraton Parkway n Richmond<br />

Hill.<br />

"We're really proud of the work<br />

done by Toby and Travis as well as<br />

the entire program to be nominated<br />

among Ontario colleges and universities.<br />

Our students consistently<br />

produce industry standard journalism<br />

and it is reflected in jobs they<br />

get when they graduate. says Brian<br />

Legree, program coordinator."<br />

The <strong>Chronicle</strong> and the journalism<br />

program has been a fixture at<br />

Durham College for more than 40<br />

years.<br />

For more information on the<br />

program, visit durhamcollege.ca. /<br />

programs/journalism-mass-media.<br />

Travis Fortnum<br />

The following articles have been recognized by the Ontario Community<br />

Newspapers Association. (above), Toby Van Weston's Scugog water story is<br />

up for Best Feature Story, (top right), Travis Fortnum achieved honourable<br />

mentions for Best News Story and (bottom right), Best Feature Story.


Campus chronicle.durhamcollege.ca February 27 - March 5, 20<strong>18</strong> The <strong>Chronicle</strong> 3<br />

Inside DC's new building<br />

A look inside $40M project<br />

Shanelle Somers<br />

The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />

It is the oldest building at Durham<br />

College (DC) – at least for the time<br />

being.<br />

From 1967 to this year, DC’s<br />

original Simcoe Building has been<br />

home to thousands of students. But<br />

that is about to change.<br />

The Simcoe Building will be<br />

demolished once DC’s newest<br />

building project, The Centre for<br />

Collaborative Education (CFCE),<br />

opens its doors.<br />

The building expected is expected<br />

to open in September.<br />

Standing four storeys high, containing<br />

19 classrooms and three<br />

lounge areas, the CFCE is located<br />

at DC’s north campus on Simcoe<br />

Street, just north of the main entrance.<br />

Michelle Darling, senior project<br />

manager, Project Portfolio<br />

Management and Planning, says<br />

the Simcoe Building reached a<br />

point that due to the cost of maintenance<br />

and outdated technology<br />

it became too expensive to keep<br />

operational.<br />

“There was an opportunity to<br />

build a new building that reflected<br />

the style of Durham College’s pedagogy,<br />

which is collaborative learning,”<br />

says Darling.<br />

Darling says the $40 million<br />

project had been in the works for<br />

five years and was financed with<br />

money from the federal and provincial<br />

governments, Durham District<br />

School Board and DC’s fundraising<br />

team.<br />

The CFCE building has many<br />

features DC is excited about<br />

John Cook<br />

The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />

UOIT’s Automotive Centre of<br />

Excellence (ACE) has scored a<br />

$5 million investment to enhance<br />

the state-of-the-art testing facility<br />

with technology that will help auto<br />

makers develop more fuel efficient<br />

vehicles.<br />

Minister of Economic Development<br />

and Growth Steven Del Duca<br />

was at ACE on Feb. 12 to announce<br />

$4 million in funding from the<br />

province.<br />

The other $1 million will come<br />

from automotive supplier Magna<br />

International, according to David<br />

Pascoe, vice-president of engineering<br />

at Magna.<br />

The money will be used to pay<br />

for the addition of a “rolling-road”<br />

or moving ground plane to ACE’s<br />

climatic wind tunnel.<br />

The tunnel simulates harsh<br />

weather conditions, such as extreme<br />

temperatures or hurricane-force<br />

winds and is routinely used to test<br />

various aspects of vehicles.<br />

It can test the overall resiliency<br />

and wind resistance of automobiles—something<br />

which can<br />

lead to the development of more<br />

environmentally-conscious vehicle<br />

designs.<br />

John Komar, director of ACE,<br />

said the tunnel mainly focuses on<br />

to achieve its goal of being an<br />

eco-friendly and sustainable project.<br />

Darling says the building’s mechanical<br />

and energy systems, cleaning<br />

products, toilets, LED lights, design<br />

and heating and cooling systems<br />

are made with the intention of being<br />

eco-friendly.<br />

The CFCE plans to include a<br />

green space in place of the Simcoe<br />

Building once it has been demolished.<br />

Aside from containing 19 classrooms<br />

and three lounge areas, the<br />

CFCE building will be dedicating<br />

its first floor to two large classrooms<br />

- one containing 80 seats,<br />

the other 50 seats.<br />

The first floor will also hold the<br />

Global Classroom, mini breakout<br />

classrooms, the Aboriginal Student<br />

Centre, FastStart, eating and seating<br />

areas.<br />

The second floor will house<br />

DC’s Cosmetic Techniques and<br />

Spa Management program and the<br />

Esthetician and Spa Management<br />

program.<br />

The third floor will hold 10<br />

classrooms for Durham College’s<br />

Centre for Success in partnership<br />

with the Durham District School<br />

Board and the nursing program<br />

will be moving to the fourth floor<br />

as it is designated to patient care<br />

science.<br />

The CFCE is also including two<br />

new features which are newly-designed<br />

study spaces for students<br />

located on each floor as well as a<br />

napping pod area for students to<br />

have a rest between classes.<br />

The construction of the building<br />

is set to be completed by Apr. 28 by<br />

measuring the aerodynamics of<br />

automobiles.<br />

“Getting the best aerodynamic<br />

design [in vehicles] is one of the<br />

elements you need to reduce greenhouse<br />

gases,” he said.<br />

A moving ground plane is a<br />

high-tech moving belt under vehicles<br />

which improves testing conditions,<br />

especially when measuring<br />

the aerodynamics of the underside<br />

Eastern Construction who, Darling<br />

says, has worked hard to keep the<br />

building on schedule from when<br />

they first began in Nov. 14, 2016.<br />

“In the 11 years I have worked<br />

here I can’t believe how Durham<br />

College has grown,” Darling says.<br />

“The consideration that’s given<br />

to the student experience is just a<br />

real thing in every level of the process<br />

when we are designing these<br />

new buildings and building them.<br />

The conversations are real around<br />

the table, you’ve got to think of the<br />

student experience.”<br />

From May 1 – Aug. 15 the new<br />

CFCE will be furnished and set to<br />

be ready for academic startup in<br />

September.<br />

UOIT wind tunnel gets $5M to 'blow away' the competition<br />

Minister of Economic Development and Growth, Steven Del Duca speaks at UOIT.<br />

of a vehicle in motion. It’s like a<br />

treadmill but for cars.<br />

Dr. Steven Murphy, incoming<br />

president of UOIT, said the installation<br />

of a moving ground plane<br />

will “transform” the ACE into an<br />

industry-leading test centre, and<br />

said the investments represent “a<br />

vote of confidence for our university.”<br />

Del Duca said it is important for<br />

Photograph by John Cook<br />

the province to invest in innovative<br />

facilities such as ACE, because the<br />

auto industry is rapidly developing<br />

with new technologies.<br />

“What we’re seeing here in this<br />

centre is the convergence of hightech<br />

and auto-tech,” said Del Duca.<br />

“What you’re doing here is going<br />

to be as big a change for the<br />

industry as the change was from<br />

carriages to cars. And you’re a big<br />

Photographs by Shanelle Somers<br />

The CFCE building in progress (above) and Michelle Darling, senior project manager (below).<br />

reason why Ontario is leading the<br />

way in the auto sector.”<br />

Since opening its doors in 2011,<br />

the ACE climatic wind tunnel has<br />

been used for a wide variety of<br />

testing purposes, not just cars and<br />

trucks.<br />

Toronto Fire Services has used<br />

the tunnel for research and training<br />

exercises in blizzard-like conditions.<br />

Companies have used the facility<br />

to test and develop drones that are<br />

more effective at flying in high<br />

winds.<br />

At this year’s Olympics, Team<br />

Canada’s alpine skiers are wearing<br />

suits which were extensively tested<br />

at the tunnel to minimize wind resistance<br />

on their speedy descent.<br />

In his announcement, Del Duca<br />

said the investments will help students<br />

get more hands-on, experiential<br />

learning.<br />

“It will give students the tools<br />

to train and conduct research in a<br />

high-tech environment, preparing<br />

them for the jobs of the future,” said<br />

Del Duca.<br />

The wind tunnel is mainly used<br />

by students from engineering and<br />

kinesiology programs at the university.<br />

It is also occasionally used for<br />

research projects involving other<br />

programs, especially those related<br />

to the STEM fields.


4 The <strong>Chronicle</strong> February 27 - March 5, 20<strong>18</strong> chronicle.durhamcollege.ca<br />

PUBLISHER: Greg Murphy<br />

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

AD MANAGER: Dawn Salter<br />

Editorial<br />

CONTACT US<br />

NEWSROOM: brian.legree@durhamcollege.ca<br />

ADVERTISING: dawn.salter@durhamcollege.ca<br />

Cartoon by Cassidy McMullen<br />

Studies pour out of colleges and<br />

universities highlighting the facts:<br />

students are stressed out. Time<br />

off school, like spring break, gives<br />

students the time they need to recharge,<br />

take care of themselves and<br />

prepare for the rest of the semester.<br />

This time allows students to work,<br />

sleep, visit home and escape from<br />

the pressure of school. Students<br />

need breaks.<br />

Breaks during the semester allow<br />

students to work. Holding a<br />

job and going to school full-time<br />

is a challenge for the best of students,<br />

especially when you’ve just<br />

struck out on your own.<br />

Breaks allow students to schedule<br />

more shifts which can save the<br />

money to pay off their looming<br />

student debt or use it to make ends<br />

meet until the end of the semester.<br />

Allowing students the opportunity<br />

to get full shifts in during<br />

the semester will help keep them<br />

in the classroom.<br />

For many post-secondary students,<br />

this is the first time they are<br />

living away from home. Having a<br />

break in the semester, especially<br />

when classes start to get hectic, allows<br />

for travel home and time with<br />

family.<br />

Letting students connect with<br />

their families will help relieve the<br />

pressure on students. It will also allow<br />

prevention and early intervention<br />

for students that are suffering<br />

from mental health issues.<br />

Students are stressed out. In<br />

2016, the Ontario University<br />

and College Health Association<br />

(OUCHA) published a survey<br />

that found 65 per cent of Ontario<br />

post-secondary students reported<br />

experiencing overwhelming anxiety<br />

in 2015.<br />

Almost half reported feeling so<br />

depressed it was difficult to function<br />

and 13 per cent of post-secondary<br />

students seriously considered<br />

suicide.<br />

Giving students a break from<br />

classes allows them time to recharge,<br />

be around family and reevaluate<br />

their situation.<br />

The National Institutes of<br />

Health say college students are one<br />

of the most sleep-deprived populations.<br />

With school work starting<br />

to pile up, students often skip out<br />

on sleep to get things done.<br />

Students need breaks<br />

Sleep deprivation can have an<br />

array of effects. Common symptoms<br />

include drowsiness, difficulty<br />

concentrating, impaired<br />

performance, memory and thinking<br />

problem.<br />

In some cases, it causes people<br />

to be disorientated, irritation and<br />

some people even report hallucinations.<br />

Allowing a break in the semester<br />

will allow time for students to<br />

get back on a healthy sleeping pattern:<br />

something Durham College<br />

students will not be getting this<br />

year.<br />

Since Ontario Colleges had a<br />

5-week faculty strike last fall, DC<br />

made the decision to cut spring<br />

break giving students an extra day<br />

off during family day weekend instead.<br />

Students need breaks during<br />

the semester. In order to maintain<br />

their physical, mental and academic<br />

well-being.<br />

For post-secondary institutions<br />

to not recognize this is irresponsible<br />

and potentially dangerous.<br />

Giving students a break gives<br />

them an overall better post-secondary<br />

experience. While it didn’t<br />

happen this year, it will next year.<br />

In 20<strong>18</strong>, DC will be following<br />

trend to include not only a<br />

spring break but a fall reading<br />

week as well: something other<br />

post-secondary institutions like<br />

Fleming College and some high<br />

schools already do. Tweet us your<br />

thoughts on reading weeks @<br />

DCUOIT<strong>Chronicle</strong>.<br />

EDITORS: Austin Andru, Allison Beach, Cameron<br />

Black-Araujo, Michael Bromby, Alex Clelland, John<br />

Cook, Tiago De Oliveira, Shana Fillatrau, Kaatje<br />

Henrick, Kirsten Jerry, Claudia Latino, William Mcginn,<br />

Cassidy McMullen, Conner Mctague, Pierre<br />

Sanz, Heather Snowdon, Shanelle Somers,<br />

Kayano Waite, Tracy Wright<br />

The <strong>Chronicle</strong> is published by the Durham College School of Media, Art<br />

and Design, 2000 Simcoe Street North, Oshawa, Ontario L1H 7L7, 721-<br />

2000 Ext. 3068, as a training vehicle for students enrolled in Journalism and<br />

Advertising courses and as a campus news medium. Opinions expressed<br />

are not necessarily those of the college administration or the board of governors.<br />

The <strong>Chronicle</strong> is a member of the Ontario Community Newspapers<br />

Association.<br />

MEDIA REPS: Madison Anger, Kevin Baybayan,<br />

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Kemp, Reema Khoury, Desirea Lewis, Rob<br />

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chronicle.durhamcollege.ca February 27 - March 5, 20<strong>18</strong> The <strong>Chronicle</strong> 5<br />

Opinion<br />

Concerts are a luxury many can't afford<br />

Alex<br />

Celland<br />

What do Taylor Swift, Bruno<br />

Mars and Adele all have in common,<br />

besides being constantly<br />

played on today’s Top 40 radio stations?<br />

Outrageous ticket prices.<br />

Ticket prices must become more<br />

affordable for buyers if promoters<br />

want to increase future ticket sales.<br />

According to a study done by<br />

Forbes in June 20<strong>17</strong>, Adele had<br />

the highest female ticket prices,<br />

averaging at around 400 US dollars<br />

per ticket. The reason behind<br />

these hiked up prices is location,<br />

limited tour dates, and of course,<br />

artist popularity.<br />

It’s no secret concert tickets have<br />

always been on the pricier side, and<br />

a night out to a live show can be<br />

Patrick Brown, the former leader<br />

of the Progressive Conservative<br />

(PC) party, has decided to fight<br />

back against allegations of sexual<br />

misconduct.<br />

On January 24, Brown was<br />

accused of sexual misconduct by<br />

two women reported on by CTV<br />

News, and he resigned as leader<br />

of the PC party. His resignation<br />

came five months before the election<br />

to be the new premier of Ontario.<br />

However, Brown claims the<br />

accusations to be an “inside job”.<br />

The former Progressive Conservative<br />

(PC) leader decided to<br />

a bit of a splurge. But as of 20<strong>17</strong>,<br />

tickets have skyrocketed to unaffordable<br />

prices that are for fans<br />

of all ages and incomes.<br />

This past December, Taylor<br />

Swift’s Reputation tour was her<br />

first not to sell out. Swift’s 1989<br />

tour in 2015 sold out in a matter of<br />

minutes. Why? The average cost<br />

for a Swift VIP package came to<br />

around 815 US dollars each, according<br />

to The New Daily.<br />

The more affordable options on<br />

StubHub, a secondary market for<br />

purchasing tickets, shows prices<br />

for Swift’s August show at the Air<br />

Canada Centre in Toronto ranging<br />

from 250 to 300 dollars per ticket.<br />

Bruno Mars will be concluding<br />

his 24K Magic tour this month.<br />

Tickets start at a whopping 450 US<br />

dollars per ticket, also on StubHub.<br />

These prices are unacceptable.<br />

Many buyers resort to secondary<br />

market sellers such as StubHub<br />

because of how fast tickets may sell<br />

out on primary websites like Ticket-<br />

Master and Live Nation. The only<br />

option left for buyers is to purchase<br />

from other websites or from scalpers,<br />

where ticket prices cannot be<br />

regulated and it can be hard to tell<br />

when sellers are ripping buyers off.<br />

Twitter users are outraged by upcoming<br />

tour ticket prices, with one<br />

user citing many fans of these artists<br />

are young adults who struggle<br />

to make ends meet. They cannot<br />

expect to afford a concert ticket<br />

close to the cost of monthly rent.<br />

One twitter user even went so far<br />

as to spend her monthly rent on<br />

Beyoncé tickets in 2016.<br />

Ticket prices increased by about<br />

20 per cent between 2010 and<br />

2015, and the numbers are steadily<br />

growing, according to Pollstar. The<br />

number has increased to nearly 23<br />

per cent today.<br />

Dean Budnick is the co-author<br />

of the book Ticket Masters: The<br />

Rise of the Concert Industry and<br />

How the Public Got Scalped. He<br />

says ticket prices are not decided by<br />

get his old job back. He is running<br />

against Christine Elliott, Caroline<br />

Mulroney, Doug Ford and Tanya<br />

Granic Allen.<br />

Patrick Brown needs to step<br />

back from the leadership race and<br />

deal with his own shortcomings.<br />

“A leadership election is not<br />

the place for him to try to clear his<br />

name,” says Mulroney on Twitter.<br />

Doug Ford released a statement<br />

arguing Brown is a distraction in<br />

this race and defeating Kathleen<br />

Wynne should be the only objective.<br />

The PC party needs to regain<br />

focus on the bigger picture. Now<br />

the focus is on Brown and the controversy<br />

surrounding him. Brown<br />

has imploded the party. While he<br />

is trying to stand strong, his decision<br />

to re-enter a race caused by<br />

resignation comes off as arrogant.<br />

Christine Elliott, who ran<br />

against Brown in the 2015 election,<br />

wrote about unity on Twitter<br />

calling herself the only leader who<br />

can stop Wynne and unite the<br />

party. Whether or not this is true,<br />

what is important is the unity of<br />

the party.<br />

Tanya Granic Allen is the newest<br />

member to join the race and<br />

she calls Brown corrupt, stating<br />

he should not be allowed to run<br />

again. She is right.<br />

Interim leader Vic Fedeli has<br />

kicked Brown out of the caucus<br />

but not the party, which means<br />

Brown has just as good of shot to<br />

win as any of the other candidates.<br />

And that is exactly what Brown<br />

intends to do.<br />

Originally, one of the women<br />

accusing Brown of sexual misconduct<br />

told CTV News that she<br />

was in high school and under the<br />

legal drinking age but now she<br />

says it was the opposite. Brown<br />

performers but by outside parties.<br />

"[Artists] establish their deal<br />

terms with promoters, which then,<br />

in turn, inform the final ticket<br />

prices. In doing this, the artists,<br />

their managers, and agents certainly<br />

consider the entire ticketing<br />

landscape, including prices on the<br />

secondary market [second-hand retailers<br />

like StubHub], to land on a<br />

figure that they believe is fair.” The<br />

ticket cost is a reflection of what<br />

you are getting to see.<br />

The most common way concertgoers<br />

try to navigate away from<br />

crazy fees is by attempting to<br />

qualify for presale ticket prices,<br />

depending on the requirements.<br />

Many presale tickets require special<br />

codes, specific credit card holders<br />

such as American Express Front<br />

of the Line, and email sign up.<br />

In Ticket Masters, Budnick and<br />

co-author Josh Baron said they believe<br />

the secondary market would<br />

soon reach a “relative peak,” predicting<br />

the market would soon<br />

has called both stories “factually<br />

impossible,” however the women<br />

are standing by their stories even<br />

with the missing details.But so is<br />

Brown.<br />

Brown is now calling out CTV<br />

News because of how they handled<br />

the story. He has launched<br />

a law suit against the media organization<br />

for defaming his name.<br />

CTV News are standing by their<br />

reporting.<br />

Brown sat down for an interview<br />

with Global News to address<br />

his side of the story which he<br />

called “political assassination.”<br />

Brown says his character is<br />

being assassinated but really the<br />

fatal blow is striking not at Brown<br />

but the PC party.<br />

Brown has chosen to fight the<br />

allegations against him and he<br />

compared the experience to a car<br />

crash. He told Global News that it<br />

shrink and prices would stop increasing.<br />

The issue still stands. Music<br />

lovers across the world who dream<br />

of seeing their favourite artists in<br />

person have to weigh living costs<br />

against going out for a night.<br />

Whether it’s the Air Canada Centre<br />

in Toronto or the Tribute Communities<br />

Centre here in Oshawa,<br />

ticket inflation has to stop. People<br />

cannot afford to attend concerts<br />

when a single ticket breaks the<br />

bank.<br />

It’s unfair many people, especially<br />

those under the age of 30 who<br />

don’t make sufficient income or<br />

have not accumulated significant<br />

savings, cannot afford to experience<br />

live shows anymore because<br />

ticket prices are simply too expensive.<br />

Promoters and event organizers<br />

need to start negotiating realistic<br />

prices and give everyone the<br />

chance to enjoy music that doesn’t<br />

break the bank, before their pockets<br />

begin to suffer too.<br />

Brown should silence his PC leadership campaign<br />

Michael<br />

Bromby<br />

Unfair parking tickets and misrepresented rules<br />

took a big emotional toll on him<br />

and his family but he knew he had<br />

to prove them wrong.<br />

Brown has chosen to fight. Is<br />

this the right ring or does it create<br />

a circus?<br />

The other candidates plan<br />

on changing his original ideas<br />

for Ontario he wants to follow<br />

through with what he started.<br />

Brown wants to see his campaign<br />

of the people’s guarantee continue,<br />

this plan includes a 12 per<br />

cent cut on hydro, a decrease in<br />

income tax, better efforts for child<br />

care, and more money spent on<br />

mental health care.<br />

This is a plan the other candidates<br />

want to destroy. He has a<br />

new thing to add to the list: getting<br />

back at those who put him in<br />

this position.<br />

It is not time to poke the bear<br />

but rather hibernate.<br />

William<br />

McGinn<br />

At $100, it was the maximum<br />

possible fine in the list of violations.<br />

My mom, Julie Johnson, received<br />

a parking ticket after she<br />

drove by the strike picket line<br />

back in October to park at the<br />

roundabout near South Village,<br />

the Durham College and UOIT<br />

residence building.<br />

We parked for 15 minutes so<br />

Mom could help me carry luggage<br />

to my dorm room. When we got<br />

back, there was a parking ticket<br />

for parking in a fire route.<br />

This is an unjustified ticket<br />

that should have been overturned.<br />

Every ticket in Oshawa has a<br />

list of possible violations.<br />

You can be charged $30 for<br />

parking “in private property without<br />

consent”, or $45 for parking<br />

“on the sidewalk”, which is an<br />

understandable fine. “Stopped<br />

Where Prohibited in School<br />

Zone” is a fine of $60. That makes<br />

sense because stopping in a zone<br />

where other cars are trying to get<br />

by to pick up or drop off their kids<br />

could be dangerous. “Parking in<br />

a fire route” is worse. Preventing<br />

firetrucks from doing their job<br />

can endanger lives. However, the<br />

South Village roundabout is a different<br />

kind of fire route.<br />

There are a total of eight small<br />

No Parking signs scattered around<br />

the roundabout. However, they<br />

aren’t noticeable, especially at<br />

night. The signs also say the area<br />

is a fire route but they are not<br />

clear on the fine for parking. Also,<br />

people still park in the roundabout,<br />

which can confuse drivers.<br />

One sign says “Do Not Leave<br />

Vehicles Unattended”. As a result,<br />

drivers are still allowed to stop<br />

their car in the roundabout as<br />

long as they have someone still in<br />

the car. Leaving the car alone is<br />

a $100 fine. Despite this, the rules<br />

are constantly ignored.<br />

Most nights of the school year,<br />

especially Fridays and Sundays<br />

when the weekend either starts<br />

or ends, there are cars parked all<br />

across the roundabout for families<br />

to pick up or drop off students.<br />

Some of the cars are left attended,<br />

some aren’t.<br />

One of the Residence Staff,<br />

Kieran Wilson’s family parked in<br />

the lane and left their vehicle unattended<br />

for two minutes to get a<br />

few things. A ticket for $100 was<br />

there when they arrived.<br />

According to Nicole Mac-<br />

Gregor, Residence Services Lead<br />

of South Village, “Unfortunately,<br />

parking in [the roundabout] is actually<br />

part of [the city’s] bylaws<br />

so it’s not [the residence’s or the<br />

campus’] security. It’s actually<br />

enforced by the city.” This means<br />

the college and campus have no<br />

authority over what constitutes a<br />

fire route and are following the<br />

city’s rules.<br />

“It has nothing to do with the<br />

Residence. We as a residence are<br />

trying to figure out a better way<br />

[than the signs] because that is the<br />

most convenient spot, being closest<br />

to the door,” says MacGregor,<br />

who helps supervise her other residence<br />

staff.<br />

There's a difference between<br />

the fire routes that justify a $100<br />

fine and the route at South Village.<br />

This fire route is constantly<br />

in use.<br />

Unaware guardians and students<br />

will keep parking here and<br />

receiving tickets until something<br />

is done.<br />

The roundabout ticket should<br />

be less than $100 and better signage<br />

is needed to make sure drivers<br />

know leaving their car unattended<br />

is not allowed.<br />

Better yet, the rule could be<br />

dispensed with and this unjust<br />

game of tag could stop.


6 The <strong>Chronicle</strong> February 27 - March 5, 20<strong>18</strong> chronicle.durhamcollege.ca Opinion<br />

Big 'Mac' attack<br />

DC student and employee debate the merits of Apple<br />

Apple has<br />

predatory<br />

business<br />

practices.<br />

Apple has<br />

changed the<br />

world for the<br />

better.<br />

Photographs by Conner McTague<br />

Durham student Tiago de Oliveria (left) goes head-to-head with DC tech specialist, Jim Ferr.<br />

Tiago de Oliveria<br />

The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />

Dear Mr. Ferr,<br />

This is in defense of my piece; Apple is rotten to<br />

the core. I believe I followed my due diligence<br />

in researching Apple and communicating my<br />

opinion while not diving into a full-on slander<br />

article. I’d like to state that I, myself use<br />

a 2016 MacBook Pro as per the requirements<br />

of my program and am mostly satisfied with<br />

its performance, unlike I am with its price.<br />

My experience as an Apple customer is the<br />

foundation for my opinion and criticism of the<br />

tech giant.<br />

Apple’s prices are simply unfair, Jim Ferr.<br />

Apple not only “costs more” but rather it may<br />

cost several times more than competing technology.<br />

For comparison, the Dell Inspiron 15” Laptop<br />

is a computer in the same performance area<br />

as the new MacBook Pro 15”. This computer<br />

also has one terabyte of internal storage unlike<br />

the 256GB SSD storage device you find on the<br />

lowest end of the new MacBooks.<br />

The low end of the MacBook Pro has a 2.2<br />

gigahertz (GHz) quad-core Intel Core i7 processor,<br />

the Dell’s is a 2.4 GHz 7th Generation<br />

Intel Duel Core i3-7100U.<br />

Best Buy recently had a sale on Dell for<br />

$549.98, with a reported saving of $250.<br />

The overall cost of this laptop would it be<br />

bought normally would be around $800 plus<br />

taxes. The cheapest MacBook Pro at 15” is<br />

$2,449.00. Before taxes.<br />

This price is over three times more than the<br />

competitor. The Dell laptop is just over one<br />

pound heavier than the MacBook.<br />

So, what do you mean when you say “premium<br />

product” and “superior engineering,<br />

design and software?” Are these not just buzzwords<br />

that confer no inherit value to Apple’s<br />

product? Is the extra $2,000 for the additional<br />

two cores in the processor or the extra 8GB of<br />

RAM? Apple makes money off its brand, not<br />

its product, that is the crux of this argument.<br />

I take issue with your proposition that without<br />

Apple the computer market would not have<br />

advanced past old school terminals running<br />

Microsoft disk operating system (MS-DOS).<br />

Apple does not have innovation and it is useless<br />

to debate what could have been if Apple had<br />

not succeeded as a company.<br />

However, when I said “Apple is a company<br />

that is not innovative,” I was not referring to<br />

Apple’s past accomplishments that they currently<br />

rely on to excuse they’re inflated prices.<br />

I’m talking about the way they’ve designed<br />

their computers and phones in these last few<br />

years.<br />

I see the removal of legacy ports in the most<br />

recent MacBook Pros as evidence of cutting<br />

corners to make the computer lighter. They say<br />

they’re “brave” to be leading the tech movement<br />

away from compatibility but at the end<br />

of the day it’s the consumer who pays more<br />

money.<br />

You want to hear about “predatory business<br />

practices?” Apple admitted in 20<strong>17</strong> that they’ve<br />

been purposely slowing down older models of<br />

iPhones to provoke people into buying the new<br />

models once they’re released.<br />

When a new phone comes out, Apple would<br />

send out an operating system for mobile Apple<br />

devices known as an iOS update that would degrade<br />

the performance of their own machines.<br />

They are currently facing class-action lawsuits<br />

seeking millions in damages.<br />

It is because of behaviour like this I call<br />

Apple “pretentious liars,” as their continued<br />

self-association with famous humanitarians<br />

and artists in their advertising is disingenuous<br />

with their actions.<br />

Now I’m glad Apple gave $10 million to hurricane<br />

relief recently, but this company also<br />

recently posted $52.6 billion in profits in its<br />

November 20<strong>17</strong> quarter. Doing the bare minimum<br />

in disaster relief and progressive policy<br />

does not excuse Apple’s business practices, including<br />

the issue of extreme labour conditions<br />

causing suicides in Chinese factories.<br />

While as you noted, FoxConn is not Apple,<br />

Apple does in fact still use them for cheap<br />

manufacturing and workers still are not paid<br />

fair wages, having to rely on excessive overtime.<br />

That isn’t even to mention Apple’s history in<br />

hiding profits offshore to ignore U.S. tax law.<br />

Apple recently announced in January they plan<br />

to pay $38 billion in deferred taxes as a result<br />

of President Trump’s new tax code giving them<br />

the opportunity to make amends.<br />

Good journalism does call for research and a<br />

balanced approach, thankfully I’ve got plenty<br />

of both and charm yet to spare.<br />

Cheers…Not a fan of Apple.<br />

Jim Ferr<br />

Technical coordinator/server specialist<br />

Dear <strong>Chronicle</strong>,<br />

I’m responding to “Apple is rotten to the<br />

core,” from your last issue. Full disclosure: I<br />

worked for Apple from 1988 to 2001, when I<br />

began my position at Durham College. I’m<br />

proud to be an ex-Apple employee.<br />

I feel Apple has changed the world for the<br />

better.<br />

Mr. de Oliveira: Yes, Apple costs more.<br />

It’s a premium product. You’re paying for<br />

superior engineering, design and software.<br />

Support costs on an Apple product are less.<br />

Is the Mac easier to use than a Windows<br />

machine? I believe it is.<br />

Apple’s operating system (OS X, now macOS)<br />

still has no viruses or worms in the<br />

wild, ten years after it was released. Zero.<br />

Yes, there is some malware but it is all of the<br />

Trojan Horse variety - it requires the user to<br />

do something inadvisable to have any effect.<br />

Viruses, worms and malware are a much<br />

larger problem with Windows.<br />

Ah, Tiago, you’ve but scratched the surface<br />

in your comparisons on Dell versus<br />

Apple.<br />

Giving the user a one terabyte hard<br />

drive invokes a huge performance penalty<br />

on users.<br />

Apple has left hard drives in the dustbin<br />

of history where they belong. The Solid-State<br />

Drives in the MacBook Pro are<br />

among the fastest in the industry, with<br />

peripheral component interconnect express<br />

(PCIe) interfaces exceeding the capabilities<br />

of the serial advanced technology attachment<br />

(SATA) interface used in the machine<br />

you are comparing.<br />

To compare prices, you need to go down<br />

to the component level.<br />

Yes, Apple’s machines are premium products<br />

with premium prices.<br />

Probably about 30 per cent more than<br />

competing products with the same specifications,<br />

but not “several times” more expensive<br />

as you write.<br />

You say, “Apple is a company that is not<br />

innovative...”<br />

Really? If it weren’t for Apple, you’d probably<br />

be reading this on a green phosphor<br />

cathode ray tube on an international business<br />

machines professional corporations<br />

running Microsoft disk operating system<br />

(MS-DOS).<br />

Apple has led the way in UI (User Interface)<br />

design since the 1980’s.<br />

Apple didn’t invent the Graphic User<br />

Interface but they brought it to the personal<br />

computer.<br />

Windows would not be the product it is<br />

today without imitating Apple’s constant<br />

innovations through the years<br />

Micrsofthas a long history of borrowing<br />

Apple’s innovations, not to mention “predatory”<br />

business practices. Remember Netscape?<br />

Look it up.<br />

Yes, Apple had public relations issues with<br />

FoxConn, but FoxConn is not Apple, and<br />

Apple isn’t their only customer.<br />

Apple has committed to supplier responsibility<br />

and does progress reports, site audits<br />

and shows constant improvement.<br />

I don’t think anyone at Apple deserves<br />

to be called, in your words, “pretentious<br />

liars.” The lack of legacy ports on the new<br />

MacBook Pro is annoying.<br />

But I believe a world without Apple would<br />

be a much smaller place.<br />

You say, “Apple has predatory business<br />

practices...” Sounds like you are describing<br />

Microsoft.<br />

You criticize Apple for “posters of people<br />

like Gandhi, John Lennon, and Pablo Picasso<br />

hanging on the wall...” So? It’s called<br />

advertising. Apple wins awards for its advertising.<br />

“They are not a charity,” you write. Correct.<br />

Apple is a publicly traded company<br />

whose first loyalty is to its shareholders, but<br />

Apple does give to charity.<br />

In 2012, Apple gave $100 million to charity.<br />

Apple recently gave $10 million to hurricane<br />

Harvey and Irma relief in the United<br />

States.<br />

Apple is a leader in manufacturing of<br />

circuit boards devoid of toxic metals and<br />

chemicals, not to mention a leader in recycling,<br />

equal access and diversity.<br />

Good journalism calls for research and<br />

a balanced approach.<br />

Cheers...Jim Ferr, Technical Coordinator/Server<br />

Specialist<br />

School of Media, Art & Design


Community chronicle.durhamcollege.ca February 27 - March 5, 20<strong>18</strong> The <strong>Chronicle</strong> 7<br />

'Strong voices' speak to MPP<br />

Aly Beach<br />

The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />

After hosting a town hall meeting,<br />

New Democrat Party MPP Jennifer<br />

French had no trouble recognizing<br />

the “strong voices are in Oshawa.”<br />

French hosted the meeting at the<br />

South Oshawa Community Centre<br />

Feb. 15, where she listened and<br />

addressed the concerns of many<br />

residents.<br />

Many topics were discussed including<br />

education, poverty, health<br />

care, social assistance, public transit,<br />

the minimum wage cuts, Ontario’s<br />

debt and animal welfare.<br />

She explained that she wanted to<br />

speak to Oshawa riding residents<br />

before heading back to Queen’s<br />

Park to deal with broader provincial<br />

issues.<br />

“I get to be loud in the legislature,<br />

but the power of those words<br />

are when they’re real people stories<br />

and they’re actually not my words,”<br />

said French.<br />

She says her local office, 78 Centre<br />

St., can help connect Oshawa<br />

residents to other ministries and<br />

social services.<br />

French, a former public school<br />

teacher, said she picked south Oshawa<br />

for the town hall because it is<br />

familiar territory.<br />

“We picked this area because<br />

this is an area where I have personal<br />

connections. My students<br />

from Glen Street (Public School)<br />

and their families and neighbours<br />

- I wanted to come back and connect,”<br />

said French.<br />

She took three questions or<br />

comments at a time and then responded.<br />

Oshawa Mayor John<br />

Henry was also in attendance.<br />

There were many concerns over<br />

education in Oshawa, both on the<br />

high school and the post-secondary<br />

front. One resident, a student from<br />

G.L. Roberts high school, said<br />

she feels schools in south Oshawa<br />

do not receive equal educational<br />

The land where we stand is the<br />

traditional territory of the Mississaugas<br />

of Scugog Island First<br />

Nation.<br />

Uncovering the hidden stories<br />

about the land our community is<br />

built on is what the <strong>Chronicle</strong>’s new<br />

feature series, The Land Where We<br />

Stand, is about.<br />

<strong>Chronicle</strong> journalists have<br />

knocked on doors, raided archives<br />

and put boots to the ground to find<br />

stories about places like the Ajax<br />

Hospital, which used to be a part<br />

of a World War II bomb factory<br />

called Defense Industries Limited<br />

opportunities, adding students<br />

from her school were limited in<br />

their additional course offerings.<br />

“I think this as fundamentally<br />

unfair…that the fundraising potential<br />

in a community should not<br />

determine the resources provided<br />

at a school,” said French.<br />

There were concerns over the<br />

amount of debt modern students<br />

are facing at post-secondary institutions.<br />

(DIL). Without this factory, Ajax<br />

would never have existed.<br />

We’ve done our research, interviewing<br />

people like Louise Johnson,<br />

a 96-year-old Ajax resident<br />

who was the last person to work<br />

at DIL.<br />

We have talked to Oshawa Mayor<br />

John Henry, Oshawa Museum<br />

archivist Jennifer Weymark, former<br />

city councillor Louise Parkes,<br />

chair for Heritage Oshawa, Laura<br />

Thursby.<br />

The <strong>Chronicle</strong> launched this<br />

project with Julie Pigeon, an advisor<br />

at the Aboriginal Student<br />

Centre.<br />

We sat down with Pigeon to participate<br />

in a smudging ceremony, to<br />

expand our knowledge of the history<br />

of the land and to learn how to<br />

make tobacco ties to give to elders<br />

when asking for information and<br />

stories about the land where we<br />

stand.<br />

We look at Durham Region’s<br />

lost stories and explore the impact<br />

history has had on shaping where<br />

Photograph by Aly Beach<br />

Oshawa MPP Jennifer French speaking to residents at the South Oshawa Community Centre.<br />

“When I look at the cost [of my<br />

post-secondary education], the allin<br />

cost to feed myself and live in<br />

there and take courses and buy my<br />

books, was like nothing compared<br />

to now,” said French.<br />

Many residents raised concerns<br />

over social assistance.<br />

French commented on how the<br />

confirmed living wage in Oshawa<br />

is $<strong>17</strong> per hour, or $136 a day.<br />

According to one resident, someone<br />

on social assistance will bring<br />

in a average of $27 a day.<br />

“The numbers tell a real story<br />

there,” said French.<br />

One resident, a landlord, was<br />

concerned about how it doesn’t<br />

seem like social assistance has been<br />

keeping up with rise in prices over<br />

the years.<br />

French says the first step to fixing<br />

the low-income problems in Oshawa<br />

is creating more affordable<br />

we live.<br />

You’ll read about famous buildings<br />

like the Hotel Genosha and<br />

Regent Theatre and discover places<br />

such as Harriet House, Oshawa’s<br />

first post office and the Oshawa<br />

skate park.<br />

The Land Where We Stand explores<br />

themes such as the impacts<br />

of World War II in Durham Region,<br />

businesses’ role in shaping our<br />

communities, the development of<br />

farm lands and maintenance and<br />

abandonment of historic buildings.<br />

We share Land Where We Stand<br />

stories so you can understand that<br />

housing.<br />

“What needs to be done is to<br />

have a system that actually is fair,<br />

that is not going keep folks stuck in<br />

a cycle of poverty and it actually<br />

gives them a chance to build out<br />

of that,” said French.<br />

The topic of health care was met<br />

with frustration among residents after<br />

many stories were shared about<br />

lack of health coverage or funding.<br />

One woman shared a story<br />

about how she had to pay more<br />

than $3,500 for hearing aids because<br />

assistive devices benefits only<br />

cover $1,000 every four years.<br />

One resident asked why dental<br />

is not covered under OHIP, given<br />

teeth are so important to overall<br />

health.<br />

Another resident wanted to know<br />

why certain diabetic supplies were<br />

not covered even though they are<br />

necessary.<br />

“When you start looking at the<br />

human body and you say ‘OK, this<br />

is OHIP and this is whole body<br />

wellness and whole body health -<br />

wait but not your mouth, and by<br />

the way, not your feet. That’s not<br />

‘healthcare’, that’s ‘kind of-healthcare’,”<br />

said French.<br />

The impact of Ontario's recent<br />

minimum wage hike to $14 per<br />

hour was also an issue.<br />

French described the reaction of<br />

businesses cutting full-time jobs,<br />

paid breaks and benefits as "overkill"<br />

and companies are "doing<br />

damage to their employees."<br />

She said although businesses<br />

were left out of the decision-making<br />

process by the government, but the<br />

hourly wage hike was necessary.<br />

French encourages residents of<br />

Oshawa to get involved and continue<br />

telling her office their concerns.<br />

“Some of you have already been<br />

sending emails, angry or otherwise,<br />

keep doing that. We’ll be glad to<br />

have those letters, stories, concerns,”<br />

said French.<br />

The <strong>Chronicle</strong> explores the land where we stand<br />

See stories on pages 10-12<br />

it’s not just us standing here, but<br />

those who stood here in the past<br />

who shaped what we see today.<br />

The series will be published<br />

over the next four print issues of<br />

the <strong>Chronicle</strong>.<br />

We have a story map for you to<br />

check out online at www.chronicle.<br />

durhamcollege.ca.<br />

Tune into Riot Radio Thursdays<br />

from 3 to 4 p.m. for segments with<br />

guests like mayor John Henry.<br />

Follow us @DCUOIT<strong>Chronicle</strong><br />

and use #landwherewestand to join<br />

the conversation, ask questions or<br />

send us more information.


8 The <strong>Chronicle</strong> February 27 - March 5, 20<strong>18</strong> chronicle.durhamcollege.ca Campus<br />

Our community gives blood<br />

William McGinn<br />

The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />

Canadian Blood Services (CBS)<br />

visited Oshawa’s DC and UOIT<br />

campus recently for its second<br />

blood donor clinic this school year.<br />

According to Laura Ashton, event<br />

coordinator for CBS in Oshawa<br />

and Peterborough, 58 people came<br />

between the hours of 10 a.m. and 1<br />

p.m. on Feb. 8 to donate 450 millilitres<br />

of their blood for research and<br />

hospital patients.<br />

First-time donor Andrew Davis<br />

said giving blood wasn’t difficult.<br />

“The flu shot is worse than<br />

that,” said Andrew Davis after his<br />

donation, it being his first time.<br />

Travis Bruce, a child and youth<br />

care student, donated for a second<br />

time.<br />

“I found out last time my blood<br />

type is O+. That means I’m a universal<br />

blood donor, so it’s good to<br />

donate,” he said.<br />

Connor Hopkins, a fourth-year<br />

manufacturing and engineering<br />

student, said his roommates are<br />

the reason he donated blood.<br />

“[My donating] started with a<br />

bunch of my roommates. We were<br />

going to do it, and if I’m being<br />

frank, we’re very competitive with<br />

one another. So I was like, ‘well, if<br />

you’re going to do it, I’m going to<br />

do it.’ So ever since, I’ve returned.”<br />

This was his fifth donation.<br />

Rampaul Udaipaul, studying<br />

forensic science, also was donating<br />

for the second time.<br />

“I’m donating blood because<br />

my grandfather back in would donate<br />

blood to a lot of people and<br />

I just thought it would be a good<br />

idea to do so as well.”<br />

Chin-Ting Sherwin, a business<br />

and marketing student, wanted<br />

to donate when she was 16 but<br />

couldn’t because she was a year<br />

under the age requirement. When<br />

Sherwin heard CBS was arriving<br />

on campus, she came from Port<br />

Perry to the Oshawa campus to<br />

donate blood. She didn’t have<br />

classes that day.<br />

Anea Siby has donated blood<br />

seven times and David Hennessey<br />

nine. Siby has a personal connection<br />

to the field. She is studying to<br />

be a technologist and has a history<br />

of helping out at blood donor clinics.<br />

“In my high school “[Our Lady<br />

Mount Carmel],” she said, “I used<br />

to help get the blood services going.<br />

We had a health care club, and<br />

I would call [the blood services]<br />

and organize whole donations.”<br />

Hennessey, majoring in kinesiology,<br />

said CBS came to his high<br />

school and he simply got into the<br />

routine. At nine donations, he has<br />

Photograph(s) by William McGinn<br />

Donating blood at a recent clinic on campus are (from top left to top right) Travis Bruce, Rampaul Udaipaul, David Hennessey,<br />

(from bottom left to bottom right) Chin-ting Sherwin, Andrew Davis and Anea Siby.<br />

given more than enough blood, according<br />

to CBS, to care for a lymphoma<br />

patient for seven days. He<br />

said he used to hate needles, then<br />

got used to it.<br />

Every donor got to relax after<br />

they were done, enjoying cookies,<br />

water, juice, and a chat with others<br />

who donated.<br />

Watch your back in the parking lot<br />

William McGinn<br />

The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />

Those whose work involves issuing<br />

parking tickets have jobs that<br />

practically no one appreciates.<br />

Some drivers receive tickets after<br />

breaking a rule unintentionally.<br />

So here’s a reminder to all those<br />

parking at Durham College and<br />

UOIT - tickets are still a reality and<br />

rules remain enforced.<br />

At Durham College and UOIT,<br />

there are two different sorts of<br />

parking tickets, according to Ross<br />

Carnwith, manager of ancillary<br />

services on campus.<br />

“We have gated lots, where<br />

you’re given a prox card. It’s like a<br />

security card where you just beep<br />

and the gate rises. Some of our<br />

lots are hangtag, where you leave<br />

a hangtag in the rearview mirror.”<br />

According to Carnwith, tickets<br />

given for not paying for and displaying<br />

a hang tag are issued by a<br />

company called Precise Parklink.<br />

The other kind of ticket is enforced<br />

by the City of Oshawa, put<br />

in specifically if a driver parks in “a<br />

fire route or an accessibility spot.”<br />

There are ongoing issues involving<br />

parking in the roundabout<br />

at the South Village residence.<br />

Many cars park in the fire route,<br />

especially on Friday and Sunday<br />

nights.<br />

Drivers are still allowed to stop<br />

their cars briefly in the roundabout,<br />

as long as a driver stays in<br />

the car.<br />

If left unattended, the fine<br />

equals a $100 ticket enforced by<br />

the City of Oshawa.<br />

“We as a residence are trying to<br />

figure out a better way [than the<br />

No Parking signs] because that is<br />

the most convenient spot to park,<br />

being closest to the door,” said<br />

Nicole MacGregor, South Village<br />

Residence lead.<br />

Carnwith is aware of the South<br />

Village roundabout controversy<br />

and put together a project on Labour<br />

Day when people were moving<br />

into the South Village, with<br />

students instructing drivers not to<br />

park in the roundabout during the<br />

school year.<br />

Campus Security, which issues<br />

tickets, has been ordered to crack<br />

down harder on tickets, Carnwith<br />

said.<br />

He also said security has been<br />

looking at tailgating, when one car<br />

follows another car and sneaks in<br />

or out of a gated lot before the<br />

road barrier comes down after the<br />

Photograph by William McGinn<br />

One of the many displays reminding drivers of the parking regulations of Durham College and<br />

UOIT's campus.<br />

car in front has paid.<br />

If Campus Security notices<br />

this, according to Carnwith, the<br />

driver will receive an invoice in the<br />

mail and a fine.<br />

If you are caught tailgating a<br />

third time, Carnwith said the vehicle<br />

will be towed off grounds.<br />

“We’ve towed a few vehicles<br />

because of this over the last few<br />

years,” he said.<br />

"This process started in the<br />

summer of 2016."<br />

These are not the only possible<br />

punishments, either.<br />

According to Dominic Willock<br />

of Campus Security, parking in a<br />

handicap spot can result in a fine<br />

as high as $300, and being caught<br />

with a fraudulent hang tag can<br />

have a fine in the thousands.


Campus chronicle.durhamcollege.ca February 27 - March 5, 20<strong>18</strong> The <strong>Chronicle</strong> 9<br />

UOIT<br />

students<br />

elect new<br />

leaders<br />

New president<br />

is Nguyen, voter<br />

turnout low<br />

Tiago De Oliveira<br />

The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />

The first president of UOIT’s new Student<br />

Union is Jessica Nguyen.<br />

Nguyen, a student at UOIT for three<br />

years and former president of the Health<br />

Science Society, went uncontested in the<br />

race for the top job, but under election rules,<br />

still had to garner more votes than a ‘none<br />

of the above’ option.<br />

Due to UOIT Student Union policy she<br />

was not acclaimed to the executive position<br />

and had to beat a vote of non-confidence,<br />

which she did.<br />

Nguyen tallied 891 votes, while the<br />

non-confidence vote was 232.<br />

“For president that is unusual,” said Conner<br />

Doherty, the chief returning officer for<br />

the UOIT Student Union and is the main<br />

administrator of the election.<br />

Doherty explained it is the policy of the<br />

Student Union not to acclaim someone to<br />

the position simply because they’re running<br />

unopposed.<br />

If Nguyen had lost the election “there<br />

would be no president,” Doherty said.<br />

In her platform statement Nguyen said she<br />

ran for president “because this school has<br />

given me so much and what I want to do is<br />

give back to you – the students. I feel that<br />

it is time for us to work together to build a<br />

cohesive community.”<br />

This marked the first year for UOIT<br />

where the voting process was entirely online.<br />

It was also the first election following the<br />

split of student government between UOIT<br />

and Durham College.<br />

Students received an email with instructions<br />

of how to vote and who was running.<br />

Results of the election were released two<br />

days after voting ended, on Feb. 16.<br />

Nguyen said it is time for the university<br />

“to be placed on the map, and to finally<br />

be the UOIT that we are meant to be.”<br />

Attempts by the <strong>Chronicle</strong> to interview<br />

Nguyen following the election have gone<br />

unanswered.<br />

Doherty believes the president position<br />

had only one applicant – compared to several<br />

candidates for vice-president – because<br />

of flexibility.<br />

“We at the Student Union tried something<br />

different this year for the first time,” said<br />

Doherty. “In previous years, both vice-president<br />

and the president were full-time positions<br />

for one year. This year we have moved<br />

the vice-president to be part time during the<br />

fall and winter semesters of the school year<br />

and full time during the summer semester.”<br />

Doherty said this change may explain the<br />

lack of interest in the presidential position.<br />

The president’s position is full time and<br />

pays $20 per hour.<br />

Vice-presidents are part time, work up<br />

to 10 hours a week and are also paid $20<br />

per hour.<br />

Directors work as volunteers and don’t<br />

get paid.<br />

In the other races, Abel Shimeles won<br />

vice-president of downtown, beating a<br />

non-confidence vote 779-321.<br />

Amr Elziny is the new vice-president of<br />

student affairs and Fahad Khalid is the<br />

vice-president of student services.<br />

The newly-implemented online process<br />

was intended to boost voter turnout and<br />

get more students involved in their student<br />

government, Doherty said.<br />

This was not the case.<br />

According to Doherty, his year, the turnout<br />

was approximately 13.5 per cent, down<br />

from last year’s turnout of 16 per cent.<br />

Although the process was aimed at being<br />

easier and more convenient for students, it<br />

didn’t achieve the desired results. Among<br />

the UOIT student body, 1,193 students<br />

voted.<br />

“I did not vote, saw the posters, saw the<br />

emails, that’s about it for my commitment<br />

unfortunately,” said Gabrielle Caron, a<br />

forensic science student at UOIT. “I don’t<br />

feel like it would make a big difference and<br />

I honestly don’t really care… I’m here for<br />

my education.”<br />

Colin Léger is a first-year networking and<br />

information technology security student at<br />

UOIT. He narrowly won his candidacy for<br />

Faculty of Business & Information Technology<br />

director by a margin of 29 votes.<br />

Léger said there’s a noticeable lack of<br />

energy or excitement on campus.<br />

“Compared to other universities, there<br />

doesn’t seem to be much of a school spirit,”<br />

said Léger. “I think we really need to unite<br />

everyone and have everyone proud of the<br />

university and have really good events.”<br />

Part of renewing that school spirit would<br />

be reinstating E.P. Taylor’s pub, which<br />

Léger said is something he wants to do for<br />

the campus.<br />

One of the more surprising aspects of the<br />

election is that someone did in fact lose to a<br />

non-confidence vote.<br />

The position of Faculty of Science director<br />

is currently unfilled because the non-confidence<br />

vote won with 346 votes against Rida<br />

Warsi, who finished with 301 votes.<br />

It is unclear as to how long this position<br />

will be unfilled, however UOIT by-laws<br />

have a process for acclamation and may<br />

select an interim director in the meantime.<br />

This is UOIT’s first election since last<br />

year’s split with the joint student association<br />

with Durham College. Elected executives<br />

will take office May 1.<br />

Photograph by Tiago De Oliveri<br />

Conner Doherty, is chief returning officer of the UOIT student union and<br />

administrator of student elections this year.


10 The <strong>Chronicle</strong> February 27 - March 5, 20<strong>18</strong> chronicle.durhamcollege.ca Community<br />

Ajax: A town built on bombs<br />

Defence<br />

Industries<br />

Limited key<br />

in Second<br />

World War<br />

Tracy Wright<br />

The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />

When the opportunity came for<br />

Louise Johnson to work at Defence<br />

Industries Limited (DIL), she took<br />

it, with the blessing in the only<br />

letter she ever received from her<br />

father saying, “Go for it, it sounds<br />

like a great opportunity.”<br />

This was a historical moment.<br />

In 1942, almost all jobs for women<br />

were in the home, taking care of the<br />

family. “Back then,” says Johnson,<br />

“you worked the farm and married<br />

the boy down the road.” But the<br />

Second World War changed that.<br />

Men had been recruited to go to<br />

the Second World War, which lasted<br />

from 1939 to 1945. There was a<br />

shortage of workers, so women were<br />

needed to fill the jobs men would<br />

normally do.<br />

Defence Industries Limited (DIL)<br />

was a shell filling plant, says author<br />

and historian Lynn Hodgson.<br />

Its main purpose was to build<br />

shells with explosives and have<br />

them crated, then transported by<br />

cargo, then rail and finally shipped<br />

to England to the men in field, according<br />

to Hodgson.<br />

Louise Johnson was 21 years old,<br />

living in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.<br />

She was single and working at Saskatoon<br />

City Hospital in the nurse’s<br />

residence.<br />

Louise said she was lucky to have<br />

been at home when the call came<br />

from Civil Services (now known as<br />

Human Resources) about working<br />

at DIL.<br />

DIL opened in the summer of<br />

1941. It had 9,000 employees and<br />

75 per cent of those employees were<br />

women, explains Brenda Kriz, Records<br />

and FOI coordinator for the<br />

Town of Ajax.<br />

The women came to Ajax from<br />

across Canada, as far away as<br />

Northern Alberta and Nova Scotia.<br />

Before the Second World War,<br />

Ajax was not a city. It was all farmland.<br />

“It became Ajax, after the war,”<br />

says Hodgson, who wrote Ajax Arsenal<br />

of Democracy.<br />

The women at DIL were called<br />

"Bombgirls". Johnson, like the<br />

other women, did not know what<br />

to expect when she arrived in Pickering<br />

Township.<br />

When she was recruited, she<br />

was told the job was dangerous.<br />

She was assured she and the other<br />

9,000 employees would be taken<br />

care of; they would receive housing<br />

and meals along with a uniform,<br />

and if they did not like it there, they<br />

would get a train ticket back home.<br />

Defence Industries Limited was<br />

built in 1941 on 2,800 acres of land.<br />

“The land was expropriated<br />

from Pickering Township to create<br />

Defence Industries Limited,”<br />

says Kriz.<br />

This was the largest shell plant<br />

during the British Commonwealth,<br />

according to Kriz. The<br />

Photograph courtesy of Ajax Archives<br />

Female assembly line at Defence Industries Limited.<br />

Photograph by Tracy Wright<br />

Louise Johnson, 96, made bombs in the Second World War.<br />

township of Pickering set up the<br />

factory to build bombs for the<br />

Second World War.<br />

Pickering Township, now Ajax,<br />

was considered the perfect location.<br />

It was away from residential areas<br />

and water supplies, which was very<br />

important because it required a<br />

million gallons a day to support the<br />

site, says Kriz.<br />

There were 600 wartime homes<br />

built as temporary residences close<br />

to the plant.<br />

“There was a community hall,<br />

movie theatre and a convenience<br />

store and a post office so you didn’t<br />

have to go outside,” according to<br />

Hodgson, who goes on to explain<br />

that “loose lips sink ships” and this<br />

is why DIL didn’t want workers<br />

speaking to the public about their<br />

job.<br />

When the plant closed, the idea<br />

was the homes would be broken<br />

down and sent to Britain to help<br />

with the housing shortage there,<br />

but instead a town was established.<br />

Ajax was named after a battleship<br />

called HMS Ajax.<br />

Naming of the town came after<br />

the post office in Pickering Village<br />

could not handle the loads of mail<br />

sent there. For a post office to be<br />

in a town, the town had to have a<br />

name. A vote was held to choose<br />

between Dilco, Powder City and<br />

Ajax, after the mythological Greek<br />

hero.<br />

DIL had been in operation for<br />

about five years before Ajax got its<br />

name.<br />

To get access to the plant, you<br />

would walk across the Bayly Bridge<br />

which is no longer there but you<br />

would have crossed over the 401<br />

at Harwood and Bayly.<br />

This is how you’d enter the gates<br />

to DIL. From there you would take<br />

a bus that would bring you to the<br />

line where you worked.<br />

“At the end of your shift, you’d<br />

take the bus back over the bridge<br />

and then walk back to your residence,”<br />

explains Hodgson.<br />

“There were four lines each line<br />

produce a different kind of shell,”<br />

says Kriz.<br />

There was heavy security at DIL,<br />

Johnson recalls. “If you did not<br />

have a badge, you could not pass<br />

through the gates,” says Johnson.<br />

The whole facility was surrounded<br />

by barbed wire fence.<br />

Hodgson explains, “Security was<br />

very tight; the guards were armed<br />

veterans from the First World War.”<br />

For safety reasons, no matches<br />

were allowed on the property.<br />

If you were caught with matches,<br />

you would go to jail. One guy<br />

served 30 days in Whitby jail for<br />

smoking behind the line, says<br />

Hodgson.<br />

Johnson worked on line 3.<br />

Here she measured cordite,<br />

which is another form of gunpowder.<br />

Her job was to weigh it on a scale<br />

and she had to be very precise. If<br />

not filled properly, the ammunition<br />

could either explode in transport or<br />

not detonate in the field.<br />

Work was in rotating shifts each<br />

week: eight hours a day six days a<br />

week.<br />

Each shift was represented by<br />

a different colour bandana: blue,<br />

red and white. Johnson’s was blue.<br />

The only day off was Sunday and<br />

Christmas day. “On Sundays, you<br />

just watch the walls and cook dinner,”<br />

says Johnson.<br />

Life at DIL was not just about<br />

work. Relationships were built<br />

there. “I met my husband at work,”<br />

laughs Johnson. “He was the cordite<br />

deliverer.”<br />

Russell and Louise were married<br />

in 1944 and had one child, a<br />

daughter named Lynda. Russell<br />

died in 1965. “He worked hard, but<br />

was not a well man,” Johnson said.<br />

With the end of the war, the need<br />

for shells ended too.<br />

The lines at the factory were shut<br />

down one by one. When it came<br />

to Johnson, she was called to the<br />

office and asked if she knew how<br />

to type. She said, “I could look for<br />

keys,” she said, “and make a stab<br />

at it.”<br />

Johnson was assigned the task of<br />

typing quit slips.<br />

She placed her slip at the bottom<br />

of the pile and when the time came<br />

typed her own quit slip.<br />

She was the last production employee<br />

at DIL.<br />

Johnson then went to Selective<br />

Services, now Employment Insurance,<br />

to receive her compensation.<br />

Johnson asked the lady behind the<br />

desk if she should comeback after<br />

her EI ran out.<br />

She was advised to not come<br />

back as there was no work for<br />

women.Men were coming back<br />

from war. “It was a two-sided<br />

coin,” Johnson says. “The men left<br />

work to go to war and they came<br />

back.”<br />

Not only were the jobs few, Johnson’s<br />

husband did not want her to<br />

work. She stayed home and took<br />

care of her daughter, who was eight<br />

years old. She did start working<br />

again and was able to work from<br />

home.<br />

Johnson now aged 96, lives on<br />

her own in the same wartime bungalow<br />

she purchased with her husband.<br />

Comparing the workforce for<br />

women from 1942 to now in 20<strong>18</strong><br />

Johnson says, “Hasn’t changed.”<br />

As for DIL, “few buildings remain.<br />

But not many,” says Kriz.<br />

The original DIL hospital became<br />

Ajax-Pickering hospital.<br />

The original building was demolished<br />

in the late 60s, according<br />

to Kriz.<br />

The Ajax Town Hall sits in the<br />

same place the DIL administration<br />

office was.<br />

“The heart of the community has<br />

always been on this site,” says Kriz.<br />

Without DIL, “There would be no<br />

Ajax, a town born overnight,” says<br />

Hodgson.


Community chronicle.durhamcollege.ca February 27- March 5, 20<strong>18</strong> The <strong>Chronicle</strong> 11<br />

Revitalization<br />

at Hotel Genosha<br />

Photograph by Austin Andru<br />

1930 advertisement of Hotel Genosha (left) courtesy of Oshawa Museum and the building owner, Richard Summers, looking out of a window at the Genosha.<br />

Austin Andru<br />

The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />

“Instead of my mom cooking<br />

Christmas dinner, my dad used to<br />

take his mom and stepdad and my<br />

mom’s mom and all his kids and my<br />

mom and we’d go to the Genosh to<br />

have Christmas dinner,” said John<br />

Henry, the mayor of Oshawa. “It<br />

goes back to a memory that I have<br />

over 40 years.”<br />

Hotel Genosha was Oshawa’s<br />

first and only luxury hotel. It was<br />

built in 1929 in Oshawa’s downtown<br />

core as it was becoming<br />

known as “Canada’s Motor City.”<br />

It was advertised as, “One of<br />

the finest hotels in Central Ontario.”<br />

The name Genosha was<br />

made by combining the words<br />

“General Motors” and “Oshawa”.<br />

During the 1930s, Hotel Genosha<br />

was a common place for social<br />

events and weddings in Oshawa.<br />

Jennifer Weymark, the archivist<br />

for the Oshawa Museum said,<br />

“It was the major hub for business<br />

people travelling in and out of<br />

Oshawa.”<br />

“It was where the upper<br />

management of General Motors<br />

met,” said Weymark. “When the<br />

Genosh was built it was, high<br />

end, high class, it was where the<br />

wealthy wanted to go.”<br />

Genosha’s most prestigious<br />

visitor was Queen Elizabeth, the<br />

wife of King George VI in 1939.<br />

Henry, who has been the mayor<br />

of Oshawa for almost eight<br />

years, says the people who visited<br />

the Genosha play a big role in the<br />

history.<br />

Henry says Canada’s military<br />

involvement in the Second World<br />

War makes him wonder, “who<br />

might have stayed there and who<br />

might not have stayed there?”<br />

When Ian Fleming, the author<br />

of the James Bond novels, trained<br />

at Camp-X in 1942, the camp was<br />

at capacity, according to the official<br />

Camp X website.<br />

He was encouraged to visit the<br />

Genosha in Oshawa.<br />

It is not clear if Fleming ever<br />

stayed as a guest overnight at the<br />

Genosha, but he did visit for the<br />

entertainment.<br />

The only way to access parking<br />

when mayor Henry visited was<br />

through Bond street.<br />

“Did James Bond get his start<br />

in Oshawa?” Henry asks.<br />

After training elite spies in the<br />

Camp-X facility in Whitby, Fleming<br />

went on to create the famous<br />

James Bond series.<br />

The Genosha didn’t face difficulties<br />

until the early 1980s when<br />

industry started moving away<br />

from the city centre. When General<br />

Motors started changing its<br />

operations, there was a lot less<br />

people downtown, says Henry.<br />

“As the downtown declines,<br />

you saw the Genosh declining,”<br />

Weymark said. “They’re tied in<br />

together.”<br />

A strip club called “The Million<br />

Dollar Saloon,” opened in the<br />

basement. It was eventually closed<br />

in 2003, leaving the building empty.<br />

In 2005 it was designated a<br />

heritage site, and 5 years later the<br />

sign was taken down.<br />

Many people attempted to<br />

revitalize the building. Student<br />

housing was proposed, as well as<br />

66 apartment units. These ideas<br />

never went through.<br />

Richard Summers, the current<br />

owner of the building, who has<br />

already purchased the property<br />

once before, says maintaining this<br />

property this was made possible<br />

by Durham Region council approving<br />

a funding assistance of<br />

over $500,000.<br />

The old building hasn’t retained<br />

much of its original self. It<br />

has undergone a partial interior<br />

demolition and the only remains<br />

of the original hotel is the Juliet<br />

fixtures on some of the windows<br />

and the painted “Hotel Genosha”<br />

sign on the exterior.<br />

One of the marble staircases<br />

that was fitted in the lobby was<br />

severely damaged. Summers said<br />

this was because, “construction<br />

workers were sliding stoves down<br />

the stairs.”<br />

Summers has ambitious plans<br />

to turn the building into 102 luxury<br />

micro apartments with commercial<br />

space in the main floor.<br />

The focus will be on bachelor<br />

units.<br />

The roof currently houses a<br />

flock of pigeons. Summers said he<br />

would’ve liked to have a rooftop<br />

lounge. “Something you’d see in<br />

Toronto,” he says.<br />

Summers says it’s something he<br />

wouldn’t be able to do because of<br />

the way the Genosha is built.<br />

Weymark says that while the<br />

new developments won’t be like<br />

the original hotel, downtown<br />

Oshawa is in need of proper housing<br />

rather than a luxury hotel.<br />

“Now we see a resurgence and<br />

a revitalization in the downtown<br />

and you’re seeing that with the<br />

Genosh as well,” said Weymark,<br />

referring to the developments by<br />

Summers.<br />

“Along with the Regent Theatre,<br />

those two large buildings<br />

represent the evolution of downtown.”<br />

It is estimated the residences<br />

will be completed by 2019.<br />

Mayor Henry said, “It will<br />

never be the hotel it was, but it has<br />

a great future.”


12 The <strong>Chronicle</strong> February 27 - March 5, 20<strong>18</strong> chronicle.durhamcollege.ca Community<br />

Oshawa skatepark not just for skateboards<br />

Shana Fillatrau<br />

The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />

To some, a skatepark just seems<br />

like a slab of concrete, but to others,<br />

it’s an important part of their world.<br />

David Galloway, a long-time volunteer<br />

at Skatelife, a faith-based<br />

organization that works with local<br />

skateboarders in different communities<br />

across Canada, is at the<br />

North Oshawa skatepark at least<br />

once a week.<br />

Galloway’s favourite moments<br />

from the park are conversations.<br />

He said, “Sometimes I show up,<br />

especially when there are a lot of<br />

guys here, and guys I know, I don’t<br />

even necessarily get on my skateboard<br />

right away. I’m just making<br />

rounds talking to people.”<br />

It’s not always about the skateboarding,<br />

he said, but more just<br />

connecting with people.<br />

Treflips, nose grinds and varial<br />

heels are all terms you would hear<br />

and tricks you would see at the<br />

North Oshawa skatepark. It is a<br />

place for the young, the old - the beginners<br />

and also, the professionals.<br />

The 10,000 square foot skatepark<br />

opened in 2010. The park was built<br />

by New Line Skateparks, a municipal<br />

skatepark design and construction<br />

company, who have finished<br />

over 200 projects.<br />

The park includes, rails, manual<br />

pads, hubbas and quarter pipes, as<br />

well as space to pump in order for<br />

the skaters to keep their momentum.<br />

Mississaugas of Scugog Island:<br />

The skatepark is on the land of<br />

the Mississaugas of Scugog Island.<br />

After the American Revolution, the<br />

British began settling more in Canada,<br />

on Indigenous land.<br />

Through the William’s Treaty of<br />

1923, the Ontario government took<br />

possession of large amounts of land<br />

from Indigenous peoples, including<br />

the Mississaugas of Scugog Island.<br />

The word Oshawa is actually<br />

of Indigenous descent, meaning,<br />

“That point at the crossing of the<br />

stream where the canoe was exchanged<br />

for the trail,” according<br />

to Lisa Terech of the Oshawa Museum.<br />

Skatepark construction 101:<br />

Mitchell Wiskel, an Oshawa<br />

parks development supervisor,<br />

says planning to build a skatepark<br />

is similar to any other parks’ development<br />

project.<br />

“In the case of a skatepark, “he<br />

said,” we would typically start off<br />

by determining if there’s a need for<br />

the city through surveys or outside<br />

studies.”<br />

Skateparks are benefical to city’s<br />

urban development.<br />

While being relatively inexpensive,<br />

the parks give youth a place<br />

to spend their time productively at<br />

and it promotes physical activity.<br />

Once it’s determined there is a<br />

need for the skatepark, parks development<br />

would then decide what<br />

the best location is.<br />

After that, he said, they would<br />

then focus on the design of the park<br />

After that, an expert skatepark<br />

designer has to be brought in.<br />

Wiskel said, a request for proposal<br />

(RFP) is sent out.<br />

Designers pitch their ideas and<br />

skills to parks development. This<br />

would be contracted out and parks<br />

development oversees this process<br />

Another RFP is sent out to contractors,<br />

but their pitch is based on<br />

price, where parks development<br />

hires the least expensive, but qualified<br />

contractor.<br />

After the design is finished, parks<br />

development hires general contractors<br />

to build the park. Parks<br />

and development decides what<br />

company would be hired, as well<br />

as the construction process itself.<br />

Once the skatepark is finished,<br />

parks development ends their involvement<br />

and the city’s parks operation<br />

staff looks after the facility.<br />

He said, parks and development<br />

is only brought back onto the project<br />

if something broke or the park<br />

was to be renovated.<br />

Other duties of parks development<br />

include, organizing public<br />

consultations (whether that be<br />

through city hall meetings, local<br />

surveys or speaking to interest<br />

groups - skateboarders), speaking<br />

to other city departments that may<br />

have a stake in the process and fiscal<br />

responsibilities.<br />

He said, the most significant<br />

things to remember is that, “It’s so<br />

Shana Fillatrau<br />

The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />

Kyelle Hatherly at the North Oshawa skatepark.<br />

important to stay involved and to<br />

stay involved with the development<br />

side of things for Oshawa, because<br />

if we didn’t have that involvement,<br />

from a public standpoint, there<br />

wouldn’t be that buy-in, through<br />

the process.”<br />

Wiskell says, “so, by having that<br />

sort of strong community feedback,<br />

through consolation and what not,<br />

we can ultimately build much better<br />

facilities because we’re building<br />

for exactly what those users want.”<br />

A skater’s experience:<br />

Kyelle Hatherly started skating<br />

Photograph by Shana Fillatrau<br />

Learn more about Donevan’s skate camp<br />

Children can try something new and hop on a skateboard over at Donevan Recreation Complex.<br />

Seven to 13-year-olds can share the public park on camp days through July to the beginning of<br />

September.<br />

According to Andrea Preston, the supervisor of recreation programs at Donevan, the campers<br />

learn skateboard tricks so they are mainly spending time with staff to practice their newly<br />

acquired skills.<br />

She said, “As well as skateboarding, they also do camp games, songs and those sorts of things<br />

and then they also have a recreation swim as well every day.”<br />

Brendan Browne, the manager of programs and facilities with the city, said a problem with<br />

the camp is finding the right staff.<br />

“I think a challenge that we find as a staff or as a supervisor or managers overseeing is actually,<br />

where we’re talking about the actual counsellors who run the program,” he said, “so<br />

finding a qualified staff person who has the skills, able to work with children, I know we always<br />

had difficulty finding that quality of a counsellor.”<br />

Another issue is interested campers. Skateboarding isn’t as popular with the children as it<br />

used to be. Preston said, “The skateboarding world, isn’t as big as it used to be, scootering is<br />

taking over.”<br />

The next camp will start this summer.<br />

in 1986. He stopped when he started<br />

high school. Back in the 80’s,<br />

Hatherly said skateboarding was a<br />

fad, and he wanted to try it.<br />

Three years ago, Hatherly picked<br />

up the board again, since he didn’t<br />

have a license and needed a way to<br />

get around.<br />

Skateboarding is a healthier alternative<br />

to motor transportation<br />

and is better for the alternative.<br />

Hatherly says he didn’t have<br />

many skateparks around when he<br />

was a younger, so when he saw the<br />

North Oshawa skatepark, he wanted<br />

to try it out. He started coming<br />

to the park three years ago when<br />

he started skating again.<br />

His favourite part of the park is<br />

the funbox (a manual pad), but he<br />

said, “Yeah, I think it should be<br />

bigger, but there’s not really space<br />

to add it unless they took out some<br />

of the parking lot or something, but<br />

yeah, it’s a little small.<br />

Hatherly tries to make it to the<br />

park every day he has off from<br />

work.<br />

Who is David Galloway and<br />

what is Skatelife?:<br />

David Galloway started skating<br />

in 1988. He went to O’Neill CVI<br />

where he found his passion. One<br />

day he saw other teenagers doing<br />

bonelesses down a set of stairs.<br />

Even though he said it was a small<br />

set of stairs, “to me they were flying<br />

through the air and I’m like, ‘man,<br />

I want to be a part of that.’”<br />

Galloway says the North Oshawa<br />

skatepark is an integral part of his<br />

skating experience. He said he was<br />

there skating at the park before it<br />

officially opened.<br />

He tries to be at the park at least<br />

once a week, but tries for several<br />

times a week.<br />

Galloway says he wants a flatbar<br />

added to the park. He says he heard<br />

that other people feel the same. He<br />

started volunteering at Skatelife in<br />

1997 in British Columbia, while<br />

attending school in Abbortsford.<br />

His school gave credits for volunteer<br />

hours, so he joined when he<br />

saw Skatelife being advertised in a<br />

local skateshop.<br />

Skatelife is a non-profit, faithbased<br />

organization that works<br />

with local skateboarders in different<br />

communities across Canada.<br />

SkateLife promotes community<br />

and friendships. They hold weekly<br />

skate clubs where local skaters can<br />

meet up, spend time together, learn<br />

new tricks, film, etc.<br />

Galloway says Skatelife focuses<br />

heavily on the 13-<strong>18</strong>-year-old age<br />

range, but the organization also<br />

caters to younger children, as well<br />

as adults.<br />

His favourite part is connecting<br />

with the skaters. “Really working<br />

with the young adult skaters, being<br />

a mentor to them, just helping them<br />

to make positive life choices, career<br />

paths.”<br />

He said, “some of these guys<br />

don’t have a positive male figure<br />

in their life, and I feel that’s really<br />

important, just to be that to those<br />

guys.”<br />

Looking at the park, you wouldn’t<br />

know the stories of the people who<br />

skate there, but taking the time to<br />

learn more can be interesting and<br />

it has an impact on people in the<br />

community.


Community chronicle.durhamcollege.ca February 27 - March 5, 20<strong>18</strong> The <strong>Chronicle</strong> 13<br />

'I wouldn't be here if it<br />

hadn't been for dialysis<br />

and a transplant'<br />

Kirsten Jerry<br />

The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />

Six people all with a similar experiences<br />

to share.<br />

The six, who have either donated<br />

a kidney, received a transplant, or<br />

have had a family member affected<br />

by kidney disease, shared their stories<br />

at the fifth annual Kidney Foundation<br />

Fundraising and Awareness<br />

Luncheon at the Holiday Gardens<br />

Slovenian Country Club in Pickering<br />

on Feb. 10.<br />

There was a panel discussion<br />

where the following questions were<br />

aked: How did you discover you<br />

had kidney disease? What where<br />

the main challenges you faced<br />

when transitioning to being on<br />

dialysis? Can you travel while on<br />

dialysis and what was that like?<br />

The event offered support, fun,<br />

awareness and fundraising opportunities<br />

for the Kidney Foundation<br />

Canada.<br />

“I wouldn’t be here if it hadn’t<br />

been for dialysis and a transplant,”<br />

said panelist Pat Howell, 84, speaking<br />

of her own experience with kidney<br />

disease.<br />

Howell has been coming to the<br />

lunch for three years.<br />

She was diagnosed with kidney<br />

disease in 2000 and received her<br />

transplant in 2004.<br />

The Kidney<br />

Foundation<br />

offered support.<br />

Howell also has three sons who<br />

have each been given transplants.<br />

“When Pat started the only<br />

educational material was from the<br />

Kidney Foundation,” said attendee<br />

Colleen Harrison, 60, a nurse who<br />

has been involved with the renal<br />

program, a program for those with<br />

kidney disease who need dialysis,<br />

for 26 years.<br />

“The Kidney Foundation offered<br />

support. It offered education materials<br />

and today it still does the<br />

same thing.”<br />

Harrison said while there are<br />

now many manuals for dialysis<br />

treatment, she still uses the one produced<br />

by the Kidney Foundation.<br />

“It’s the best manual out there,”<br />

she said.<br />

Lisa Huhn, 51, is also a kidney<br />

recipient. She has endured many<br />

medical challenges.<br />

Huhn was not a panelist but attended<br />

the event.<br />

Her first transplant came from<br />

her mother in 1995. Unfortunately,<br />

her body rejected that kidney.<br />

She later received a kidney and<br />

pancreas transplant on May 2,<br />

1997 and developed a rare virus<br />

afterwards.<br />

She lost the kidney from that<br />

transplant around 2000 and had<br />

another pancreas transplant in<br />

2008, which she lost in 2014.<br />

Later in 2014 Huhn developed<br />

cancer allegedly from the use of<br />

anti-injection drugs for <strong>17</strong> years<br />

and went through chemotherapy<br />

treatments, losing her hair. Her<br />

hair has since grown back.<br />

She has also had the rare privilege<br />

of meeting her donor, a then<br />

10-year-old boy named Ryan.<br />

Panelist Joan Bourque, 68, who<br />

donated a kidney to her daughter<br />

seven years ago, also attended.<br />

The lunch featured kidney-friendly<br />

options, dessert,<br />

including an ice cream bar, face<br />

painting, guest speakers and a<br />

dance demonstration and lesson<br />

given by Tyler Gordon and Anna<br />

Barsch of Arthur Murray Dance<br />

Centres in Ajax.<br />

Photograph by Kirsten Jerry<br />

Isabella Jones, 13 months, and her mother, transplant recipient<br />

Kristy Jones, 38, dancing at the fifth annual Kidney Foundation<br />

Fundraising and Awareness Luncheon.<br />

History and scouting fun meet at Camp Samac<br />

Sam<br />

McLaughlin's<br />

generous gift<br />

to Oshawa<br />

Scouts<br />

Kirsten Jerry<br />

The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />

“I was just flabbergasted when<br />

he pulled out money and gave it<br />

to me,” recalled Jamie Lovell, 48,<br />

camp warden at Camp Samac, a<br />

Scouts Canada camp in Oshawa.<br />

Lovell remembered a generous<br />

act from someone impacted by<br />

Camp Samac when he went to pay<br />

for and pick up an order of pellet<br />

guns for the camp’s shooting range.<br />

“There happened to be a gentleman<br />

there buying some guns as<br />

well,” Lovell said. “As soon as he<br />

overheard where I was from, he<br />

actually gave me money to pay for<br />

one of the guns as a donation.”<br />

Lovell said the man didn’t want a<br />

tax receipt for his donation, he just<br />

wanted to help the camp because<br />

he had gone to Camp Samac himself<br />

as a child.<br />

Camp Samac, as well as being<br />

a Scout camp, is full of historical<br />

significance for Oshawa.<br />

Sam McLaughlin, who founded<br />

General Motors with William<br />

Durant, donated the part of Camp<br />

Samac’s property once known as<br />

Brookside Park, to the Scouts in<br />

1943.<br />

It officially opened on September<br />

5, 1946. McLaughlin bought more<br />

property in 1963 from George<br />

James, a man who had an asphalt<br />

plant right next to the camp on<br />

the land McLaughlin bought. He<br />

purchased more land from a Ross<br />

E. Lee in August 1965, according<br />

to the book Camp Samac History by<br />

Robert Holden.<br />

The main entrance to the camp<br />

is at <strong>17</strong>11 Simcoe Street North.<br />

Camp Samac is the headquarters<br />

of the White Pine Council, which<br />

has territory along the border of<br />

Algonquin and from Pickering to<br />

Napanee. There are 20 councils<br />

involved in Scouts Canada.<br />

While Dave Reid, 68, chair of<br />

Photograph by Kirsten Jerry<br />

(From left) Dave Reid, 68, chair of the camp committee, and Jamie Lovell, 48, camp warden of<br />

Camp Samac in the board room.<br />

the camp committee, doesn’t know<br />

where scouts went for their activities<br />

before Camp Samac was created,<br />

he recalls spending his time<br />

with the scouts in fields and provincial<br />

parks as a boy.<br />

He is not the only one in Oshawa<br />

who was with the scouts.<br />

“There are different companies,<br />

different individuals in Oshawa,”<br />

Reid said, “and they have fond<br />

memories of coming here as a kid.”<br />

For example, Reid recalled going<br />

to get a pizza one day, when someone<br />

called out “Hi Lightning!”<br />

Lightning was his camp name<br />

from when he was a beaver leader.<br />

The scout had grown up, but<br />

remembered his time at Camp<br />

Samac.<br />

The scouts are divided into five<br />

groups - beavers, cubs, scouts, adventure<br />

and rover scouts.<br />

Reid said, “Having fun and<br />

learning, at the same time, are the<br />

main objectives for all the groups.”<br />

Camp Samac gets visitors from<br />

age 5-26 and from many places.<br />

Lovell said groups have come<br />

from as far England and China to<br />

visit Samac.<br />

“We’re probably one of the busiest<br />

camps in Ontario,” he said.<br />

The camp is open year-round.<br />

The camp’s pool, which is run<br />

by the City, is open in the summer.<br />

Campers can access the pool<br />

for free. There is also canoeing, a<br />

sports field, a chapel, hiking trails,<br />

cabins and tenting areas.<br />

In winter, scout groups are able<br />

to rent cabins.<br />

Leaders often plan activities in<br />

advance. Reid said the camp offers<br />

a “program in a box” for leaders.<br />

The program is complete with<br />

instructions and all the materials<br />

needed for the activity.<br />

McLaughlin donated Camp Samac<br />

to the Scouts 75 years ago and<br />

the property continues to thrive<br />

today.


14 The <strong>Chronicle</strong> February 27 - March 5, 20<strong>18</strong> chronicle.durhamcollege.ca Campus<br />

Photograph by Michael Bromby<br />

Ontario's Minister of Economic Development and Growth, Steven Del Duca<br />

(left), speaks at DC with journalism student John Cook, discussing issues<br />

prominent in the news today.<br />

Politician appears<br />

in The Pit at DC<br />

Q and A with Steven Del Duca,<br />

Ontario's Minister of Economic<br />

Development and Growth<br />

Michael Bromby<br />

The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />

The spotlight was on Steven Del<br />

Duca, Minister of Economic Development<br />

and Growth, when he<br />

dropped by the Pit at Durham College<br />

for a Q and A session.<br />

Del Duca spoke Feb. 12 about<br />

tuition costs, NAFTA, the #metoo<br />

movement, and the $14 minimum<br />

wage.<br />

However, not all the students<br />

were satisfied with his answers.<br />

Tayler Michaelson is a marketing<br />

and advertising student at Durham<br />

College.<br />

He asked the minister about the<br />

new minimum wage law put into<br />

place on Jan. 1, 20<strong>18</strong>.<br />

He wanted to know how the provincial<br />

government was going to help<br />

local businesses stay alive with the<br />

increase in minimum wage.<br />

According to Statistics Canada,<br />

Ontario lost 88,000 jobs since the<br />

start of the new year.<br />

“I was a little bit disappointed<br />

that he didn’t kind of answer the<br />

last part of my question,” says Michaelson<br />

after the event.<br />

Del Duca said job loss in Ontario<br />

is not connected to the minimum<br />

wage increase but rather because<br />

of seasonal work over the holidays.<br />

“We try really hard in economic<br />

growth by not getting influenced<br />

by the month to month numbers,”<br />

he said.<br />

Many students are part-time<br />

workers and say they have lost hours<br />

and money since January.<br />

Michaelson wants Del Duca to<br />

understand the complaints and create<br />

change in Durham Region.<br />

“Maybe he can walk away from<br />

that thinking this is a concern that’s<br />

on someone’s mind that works a<br />

part-time job.<br />

Hopefully he can come up with a<br />

solution,” said Michaelson.<br />

Del Duca told the audience he expects<br />

new jobs coming this year, but<br />

promised other changes too.<br />

He told students the provincial<br />

government has worked on providing<br />

free tuition for students from low<br />

income families.<br />

He says this will increase graduation<br />

and employment rates.<br />

For now, Del Duca told students<br />

he wants Ontarians to be strong as<br />

a province.<br />

“We’ve gotten through so much<br />

as a province I know we’re going to<br />

do it again,” he said.<br />

Del Duca is the MPP for Vaughan<br />

but was recently named to this cabinet<br />

post.<br />

He was formerly the Minister of<br />

Transportation.<br />

About five students got to ask a<br />

question, as well as some via email<br />

and through social media.<br />

Several dozen students, faculty<br />

and administrators attended the<br />

session.<br />

Michaelson would like to see<br />

more political leaders visit Durham<br />

College to talk with students about<br />

important topics which matter to<br />

them.<br />

“It’s good that we live in a country,<br />

a province, a city and have a<br />

college like this and we can have<br />

that open dialogue with people,”<br />

says Michaelson.<br />

“When they have the Alumni in<br />

the Pit that’s great, but someone of<br />

prominence coming in is great and<br />

I’ll always attend those events if I<br />

can.”


chronicle.durhamcollege.ca February 27 - March 5, 20<strong>18</strong> The <strong>Chronicle</strong> 15<br />

Entertainment<br />

Augmented artistry<br />

John Cook<br />

The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />

If you’re looking to learn more<br />

about art, there’s an app for that.<br />

Case in point: Tom Thomson<br />

was an iconic Canadian artist,<br />

often connected with the famed<br />

“Group of Seven” painters.<br />

Although Thomson died over<br />

100 years ago, visitors at Oshawa’s<br />

Robert McLaughlin Gallery<br />

(RMG) can see him sitting an<br />

arm’s length away with the help of<br />

smartphones.<br />

In 20<strong>17</strong>, apps which superimpose<br />

virtual imagery onto a live,<br />

real-world setting have become<br />

techno-chic.<br />

From Snapchat to Pokémon<br />

Go, few can deny the recent popularity<br />

of so-called “augmented reality”<br />

apps.<br />

Artists Joel Richardson, Germinio<br />

Pio Politi, and Nyle Johnston<br />

have channeled this technology<br />

into an unlikely purpose—connecting<br />

young people to stories<br />

and artifacts from the past.<br />

Their new installation, Betwixt<br />

and Between, on display in RMG’s<br />

main exhibition space until mid-<br />

April, encourages visitors to download<br />

a smartphone app that compliments<br />

the information provided<br />

by the installation.<br />

“Art today is a combination of<br />

[different] media” said Pio Politi.<br />

“[Augmented reality] can help the<br />

younger generation understand<br />

what we are doing here.”<br />

Betwixt and Between explores<br />

several themes including: Canada’s<br />

historical mistreatment of<br />

Indigenous peoples and lands, “invented<br />

history,” and the question<br />

of authenticity as it pertains to<br />

historical artifacts, all showcased<br />

through (“85 per cent authentic”)<br />

connections to Thomson.<br />

The exhibition challenges the<br />

audience’s perception of truth<br />

through presenting the story of a<br />

fictionalized character, imagined<br />

by the artists, who is invented as<br />

Thomson’s close friend.<br />

While the story and its supposed<br />

author are fabricated, the majority<br />

of the details, including those regarding<br />

Thomson and historical<br />

events from the time, are real.<br />

Tech-inclined visitors who<br />

download the free Betwixt and<br />

Between app can interact with the<br />

exhibit in a whole new way.<br />

Imposing bullseye-shaped symbols<br />

are scattered across the walls<br />

in part of the installation. On the<br />

ground in front of them are green<br />

dots reading, “stand here.”<br />

After signing into the app, one<br />

simply points their camera at the<br />

centre of the symbols, until they<br />

turn blue (on the phone, that is).<br />

Tapping on the symbol allows users<br />

to access throngs of additional<br />

information, including multimedia<br />

elements.<br />

Aiming the camera at a wooden<br />

canoe reveals ‘Thomson’ and<br />

his imagined friend (portrayed by<br />

modern-day actors) surveying a<br />

landscape. Scanning other exhibits<br />

opens trivia games, photos, and a<br />

scavenger hunt-styled challenge.<br />

The app is available on both<br />

Apple and Android devices, and<br />

visitors without such a device can<br />

sign one out from the gallery’s<br />

front counter.<br />

Linda Jansma, senior curator<br />

of the RMG, says the app offers<br />

facts and details far beyond what is<br />

physically available in the gallery.<br />

“There’s so much additional<br />

information [on the app],” said<br />

Jansma. “It enriches everything if<br />

you spend some time with it.”<br />

Photograph by Austin Andru<br />

Linda Jansma, senior curator of the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, displays augmented reality.<br />

The app can be seen as something<br />

of an update on the traditional<br />

headphone-based tours offered<br />

at some museums and galleries,<br />

according to Pio Politi.<br />

“For the younger generation,”<br />

says Pio Politi as he gestures toward<br />

a visitor using an iPhone.<br />

“This is their language.”<br />

Kendrick robbed of Grammy Award<br />

Third times the charm? Not for<br />

Kendrick Lamar, apparently.<br />

The ten-time grammy winner<br />

was robbed yet again of the album<br />

of the year award at the 60th annual<br />

Grammy Awards on Jan. 28.<br />

As his critically acclaimed album<br />

DAMN. lost to Bruno Mars’ 24K<br />

Magic.<br />

Hollywood got it wrong.<br />

Lamar’s debut album Good<br />

Kid, M.A.A.D. City lost to Daft<br />

Punk’s Random Access Memories<br />

in 2014 and his 2015 hit album<br />

To Pimp a Butterfly lost to Taylor<br />

Swift’s 1989 at the 2016 Grammys.<br />

What does Lamar have to do to<br />

win the award he deserves?<br />

He addresses politics, black oppression,<br />

depression and so many<br />

more topics. He does it all while<br />

telling a story and drawing a picture<br />

with his lyrics.<br />

Lamar tackles issues many rappers,<br />

and artists in general, tend to<br />

steer away from.<br />

Even former U.S. president<br />

Barack Obama openly praised<br />

TPAB and said his favourite song<br />

from the album was “How much<br />

a Dollar Cost?” This still wasn’t<br />

enough to sway voters away from<br />

their favourite country girl, Taylor<br />

Swift.<br />

The worst part about this<br />

Grammy robbery? DAMN. is arguably<br />

the 30-year-old’s best work<br />

yet.<br />

Yes, 24K Magic is a good album,<br />

had high sales and catchy<br />

songs with a lot of radio play, such<br />

as “24K Magic”, “That’s What I<br />

Like,” “Finesse,” and “Versace on<br />

the Floor”. This has been a common<br />

theme of award winning albums<br />

in recent years, catchy songs,<br />

without much personal substance,<br />

which appeal to the younger generations.<br />

But this isn’t album of the year<br />

material.<br />

Album of the Year as defined by<br />

the National Academy of Recording<br />

Arts and Sciences is to “honor<br />

artistic achievement, technical<br />

proficiency and overall excellence<br />

in the recording industry, without<br />

regard to album sales, chart position,<br />

or critical reception.”<br />

“DAMN.” has it all. Politics,<br />

oppression, love, lust and personal<br />

journey all leading Lamar to proclaim<br />

himself as the best rapper<br />

in the industry. Two songs off the<br />

album (“LOYALTY.” ft. Rihanna<br />

and “LOVE.” ft. Zacari) are even<br />

getting radio play, which seems to<br />

be a huge influence on voters for<br />

some reason.<br />

A song to pinpoint is the song<br />

Conner<br />

McTague<br />

“FEAR.” and this<br />

is because Lamar himself has said<br />

it’s the best song he’s wrote, so it<br />

does the album the justice it deserves.<br />

In the song, Lamar explores<br />

three stages of fear: when he was<br />

7, <strong>17</strong> and 27, respectively.<br />

In the first verse, Lamar recounts<br />

his life as a seven-year-old.<br />

His mother was strict and threatened<br />

to beat him as a way of keeping<br />

him in line, which caused him<br />

to fear her.<br />

A line from the first verse is,<br />

“that homework better be finished,<br />

I beat yo ass. Your teachers better<br />

not be bitchin’ ‘bout you in class.”<br />

This seemed to help him as he was<br />

a straight-A student and he has<br />

said school combined with personal<br />

experience inspired him to start<br />

writing lyrics.<br />

The second verse, he recounts<br />

his fear of dying at the age of <strong>17</strong>.<br />

A 2004 Centers for Disease Control<br />

and Prevention (CDC) study<br />

found the leading cause of death<br />

for black males between the age<br />

of 15-19 was homicide at 45.3 per<br />

cent. So if Lamar had died at <strong>17</strong>,<br />

there was a high chance of it being<br />

homicide.<br />

Verses three and four discuss<br />

his fear at age 27, losing the life he<br />

had built for himself. By 27, Lamar<br />

had released three studio albums,<br />

had accumulated over $30 million<br />

in career earnings and become a<br />

leader of the rap industry.<br />

But despite all of his success,<br />

he is still scared. “At 27 my biggest<br />

fear was losin’ it all.”<br />

He’s afraid of losing his creativity,<br />

he’s afraid of going broke,<br />

he’s afraid of his fans judging him<br />

when he goes through hard times.<br />

“Wonder if I’m livin’ through<br />

fear of livin’ through rap.” Lamar<br />

wonders if he’s still alive because<br />

of his music or his fear of all he’s<br />

mentioned: fears which keep him<br />

frugal and anti-social.<br />

Lamar connects real life situations<br />

with his music. He opens up<br />

to his emotions, his fears and his<br />

success: all to inspire.<br />

His mission is to inspire the people<br />

in his hometown of Compton,<br />

California. Compton is known for<br />

its gangs and high crime rates.<br />

According to city-data.com,<br />

in 2016 the city witnessed 643.3<br />

violent crimes per 100,000, well<br />

above the U.S average of 216 per<br />

100,000.<br />

“I don’t do it for the ‘Gram i do<br />

it for Compton” he proclaims on<br />

“ELEMENT.” He isn’t concerned<br />

with influencing those who follow<br />

him on Instagram or social media,<br />

but rather he wants to use his fame<br />

and fortune to improve the lives of<br />

those in his city.<br />

He was recognized for his work<br />

in the community by Senator Isadore<br />

Hall III, being named the<br />

California state senate’s 35th District’s<br />

generational icon in 2015.<br />

Hall said Lamar’s donations to<br />

music, sports and after-school programs<br />

totals in the “hundreds of<br />

thousands.”<br />

Lamar is a voice for a generation<br />

of children often misunderstood<br />

and forgotten<br />

“Mr. Lamar has not only given<br />

voice to a new generation of of<br />

urban youth, he is demonstrating<br />

the best of what it means to work<br />

hard, do well, and give back to his<br />

community,” said Hall during his<br />

speech to the Senate.<br />

Now it’s time for voters to recognize<br />

the musical and lyrical excellence<br />

of Kendrick Lamar the<br />

way the rest of the music industry<br />

and its fans have. What more does<br />

he have to do?


16 chronicle.durhamcollege.ca February 27 - March 5, 20<strong>18</strong> The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />

Sports<br />

Blue Jays stars ready for 20<strong>18</strong><br />

Teams<br />

inaugural<br />

Winter Fest<br />

has players<br />

in high<br />

spirits<br />

Conner McTague<br />

The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />

Toronto Blue Jays players are back<br />

in Dunedin, Fla. for spring training,<br />

as the team turns it focus to<br />

20<strong>18</strong> after a disappointing season.<br />

Coming off of two straight<br />

American League Championship<br />

Series appearances, expectations<br />

were high for the Jays in 20<strong>17</strong>.<br />

However, it was a season derailed<br />

by injuries and inconsistent play<br />

throughout the lineup, ultimately<br />

leading to a 76-86 record.<br />

One of those players who battled<br />

injuries is second baseman<br />

Devon Travis, who didn't play after<br />

June 4 following surgery to repair<br />

cartilage damage in his right<br />

knee, an issue he also dealt with<br />

during the 2016 ALCS.<br />

The 27-year-old struggled<br />

in April, but hit for an average<br />

of .364, an on-base percentage<br />

of.373, and a slugging percentage<br />

of .646 in May, prior to going<br />

down.<br />

Travis has been plagued by injuries<br />

throughout his three year<br />

career, playing 213 out of a possible<br />

486 games. He calls it frustrating<br />

to be out of the lineup so<br />

much but says he's going into 20<strong>18</strong><br />

feeling the best he ever has.<br />

“I just can’t wait for the day<br />

Blue Jays' legends Paul Quantrill and Pat Hentgen play a game of 'Heads Up' at the team's first ever Winter Fest.<br />

where I don’t have to answer many<br />

questions about my health, " said<br />

Travis, at the team’s inaugural<br />

Winter Fest at the Rogers Centre<br />

in January. “I’m just excited to get<br />

to that point in my career.”<br />

Travis isn’t the only player<br />

looking to rebound, though.<br />

Pitcher Aaron Sanchez was limited<br />

to eight starts last season due<br />

to recurring blister issues on his<br />

throwing hand. Shortstop Troy<br />

Tulowitzki missed 96 games<br />

due to quad and ankle injuries.<br />

The Jays made it a focus to<br />

improve their middle infield<br />

depth in wake of Travis’ and Tulowitzki’s<br />

durability woes by acquiring<br />

infielders Aledmys Diaz<br />

from the St. Louis Cardinals and<br />

Yangervis Solarte from the San<br />

Diego Padres.<br />

One of the few players who<br />

remained healthy last season is<br />

pitcher Marcus Stroman.<br />

Coming off a poor 2016, the<br />

right-hander rebounded in a big<br />

way in 20<strong>17</strong> going 13-9 with a<br />

3.09 ERA and 164 strikeouts in<br />

201 innings while winning the<br />

Gold Glove for fielding prowess<br />

among pitchers.<br />

The 200-innings is a notable<br />

number for pitchers and those<br />

who can consistently reach it are<br />

considered among the game’s<br />

elite, which Stroman hopes to become.<br />

"I want to become one of the<br />

top two, three, four, five pitchers<br />

in the game. I want to be the best,"<br />

he added with his usual confident<br />

demeanour. "And I think I will be<br />

one of the top, best pitchers in the<br />

game within the next few years.<br />

One hundred per cent. There's<br />

not a single doubt in my head."<br />

What's interesting about Stroman<br />

is he doesn't need to strike<br />

out 200 batters a season like<br />

Cleveland ace Corey Kluber to be<br />

effective.<br />

He is primarily a pitch-to-contact<br />

pitcher, evidenced by Fangraphs,<br />

which indicate 62 per cent<br />

of balls put into play off Stroman<br />

are hit on the ground.<br />

That number led all major<br />

league pitchers.<br />

Unlike a power pitcher like<br />

Photograph by Conner McTague<br />

Kluber, who averaged almost 12<br />

strikeouts per nine innings a year<br />

ago, Stroman fanned just 7.4 batters<br />

per nine innings.<br />

Though Stroman said he wants<br />

to improve his strikeout numbers.<br />

Stroman, the player fans have<br />

come to love, gave an emphatic<br />

answer when asked if he should be<br />

the Jays’ opening day starter on<br />

March 29 against the New York<br />

Yankees at Rogers Centre, where<br />

they will also honour the late Roy<br />

Halladay, who died when his single<br />

engine plane crashed off the<br />

Gulf of Mexico on Nov. 7, 20<strong>17</strong>.<br />

"Absolutely, 100 per cent," he<br />

said. "I'll strike out (Aaron) Judge,<br />

(Giancarlo) Stanton, all of them. I<br />

ain't scared."<br />

Mossavat's experience has brought success to UOIT<br />

The 'Backs<br />

have seen<br />

their soccer<br />

program<br />

become a<br />

winning one<br />

Pierre Sanz<br />

The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />

Peyvand Mossavat has brought lots<br />

of success to UOIT since becoming<br />

coach of the Ridgebacks men’s and<br />

women’s soccer teams. But he’s also<br />

playing a role in the growth of local<br />

soccer among younger players.<br />

Mossavat, 47, spent his playing<br />

days in and around the Canadian<br />

Soccer League and National Professional<br />

Soccer League playing<br />

for the Toronto Olympians, Toronto<br />

Supra and more.<br />

He now coaches the UOIT<br />

Ridgebacks men’s and women’s<br />

teams and has been for the last six<br />

years.<br />

He has been named Ontario<br />

University Athletics (OUA) coach<br />

of the year four times and was<br />

named the USports coach of the<br />

year in 2016 after helping the<br />

UOIT women to their first ever<br />

OUA championship.<br />

The Ridgebacks clinched a<br />

bronze medal at nationals that<br />

same season.<br />

Mossavat also coached the<br />

Ryerson Rams and the York Lions<br />

prior to accepting the head coach<br />

role at UOIT.<br />

“I joined UOIT because they<br />

supported my philosophy and<br />

shared the same vision as me.<br />

They were able to understand<br />

what it takes to be successful,” said<br />

Mossavat.<br />

He also coached the Canadian<br />

women’s national team in 2015<br />

and 20<strong>17</strong> at the Summer Universiade,<br />

an international university<br />

sports and cultural event in<br />

Gwangiu, South Korea and Taipei,<br />

Taiwan.<br />

Along with coaching at university<br />

level, Mossavat also helps out<br />

in the community and recently<br />

took on the academy director role<br />

at DeRo United Futbol Academy<br />

in Oshawa.<br />

DeRo Academy is owned<br />

by former Toronto FC player<br />

Dwayne DeRosario and was<br />

formed to helps young kids in the<br />

community grow as players and<br />

people.<br />

“I was always quite interested<br />

in coaching,” said Mossavat.<br />

“I always wanted to give back<br />

in a way and I think there was always<br />

a teacher in me and I think<br />

teaching and coaching goes hand<br />

in hand.”<br />

He has coached for about 30<br />

years now and has seen soccer<br />

grow.<br />

He said the game has become<br />

faster and more tactical, with different<br />

formations and play. He<br />

says while the game is changing,<br />

it is important as a coach to grow<br />

with it.<br />

“Well, you’re always as a coach<br />

evolving because the game is<br />

evolving,” said Mossavat. “You<br />

have to be able to change and<br />

grow and it has impacted me because<br />

I am always trying to educate<br />

myself more.”<br />

Mossavat says great things<br />

are happening in the local soccer<br />

community.<br />

He says UOIT and Durham<br />

College are growing and will be<br />

adding new soccer fields in the<br />

next few years. At DeRo academy,<br />

he oversees the recruitment of<br />

promising young players.<br />

“I recently took on the academy<br />

director role at DeRo United<br />

Academy here in Oshawa to help<br />

grow local soccer within the community,”<br />

he said.<br />

At UOIT, Mossavat says success<br />

for the organization has come<br />

down to the players buying into<br />

his philosophy.<br />

“I contribute part of our success<br />

at UOIT to the great people<br />

around me,” he said.<br />

“Great players have bought<br />

into our vision and they work hard<br />

every day to make our vision come<br />

true.”<br />

Mossavat says he sees himself<br />

coaching for at least the next 10<br />

years but even after his coaching<br />

career ends, he says soccer will always<br />

be his passion.


Sports chronicle.durhamcollege.ca February 27 - March 5, 20<strong>18</strong> The <strong>Chronicle</strong> <strong>17</strong><br />

A storied franchise with no fan support<br />

Success<br />

usually<br />

brings fans,<br />

but not for<br />

the Whitby<br />

Dunlops<br />

hockey team<br />

Conner McTague<br />

The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />

The Whitby Dunlops have a long<br />

legacy of winning – including a<br />

World Championship – but the<br />

owner and president, Ian Young<br />

is confused and asking, where are<br />

the fans?<br />

It isn’t because of a losing culture.<br />

The Dunlops have always<br />

posted a winning percentage<br />

above .630 in their history, and<br />

they’ve been a competitive team<br />

since day one, too.<br />

The team has a storied history.<br />

The Dunlops won the Allan Cup<br />

in 1957 and 1959 (which goes to<br />

the top senior amateur men’s team<br />

in Canada), and the 1958 World<br />

Championship in Oslo, Norway.<br />

The ’58 squad was inducted<br />

into the Ontario Sports Hall of<br />

Fame in 1997 for its accomplishment.<br />

Young became aware of the<br />

Dunlops when he arrived in Oshawa<br />

to play goal for the junior<br />

Generals in the 1963.<br />

“When I was coming in to see<br />

the town of Whitby, I saw the sign<br />

on Brock Street that said ‘Home<br />

of the World Champion Dunlops’<br />

so my feelings for this team and<br />

its history goes a long ways back,”<br />

Young said.<br />

The team folded in 1960, but<br />

after a long hiatus returned for the<br />

2004-05 season after Steve Cardwell,<br />

Mike Laing and the late<br />

former mayor of Whitby, Marcel<br />

Whitby Dunlops owner, Ian Young, wants to know why the team gets no fan support while playing winning hockey.<br />

Brunelle, campaigned to town<br />

council for re-entry of the team to<br />

senior hockey.<br />

The current version of the<br />

Dunlops is a senior team (no<br />

longer eligible for junior hockey)<br />

and play in the five-team Allan<br />

Cup league. The other teams are<br />

Dundas, Stoney Creek, Hamilton<br />

and Brantford. The Dunlops have<br />

posted a .700 winning percentage<br />

through their first 20 games this<br />

season, going 14-6-0.<br />

The steady stream of winning,<br />

however, isn’t translating<br />

to a strong fan base at their home<br />

arena, the Iroquois Park Sports<br />

Centre.<br />

“The problem is we’ve always<br />

had a first-rate hockey team, but<br />

we get no support, we have no<br />

support from the fans, very small<br />

crowds and we don’t get many<br />

benefits from the Town of Whitby<br />

either,” Young said.<br />

Young also said three years<br />

ago, the directorship of the team<br />

had decided to fold the team due<br />

to low attendance, “but because<br />

of my relationship with the team I<br />

couldn’t let it happen, so I bought<br />

the team. So for the last three<br />

years I’ve owned the Dunlops.”<br />

According to the Allan cup<br />

hockey website the team draws an<br />

average of 153 fans a game, and<br />

it’s disappointing because this has<br />

been what Young feels, their most<br />

competitive season. By comparison,<br />

the Brantford Blast lead the<br />

league with an average 9<strong>07</strong> fans<br />

per game.<br />

The league averages 264 fans<br />

per game.<br />

It’s disheartening for the players<br />

to come out onto the ice and<br />

see a sparse crowd while they<br />

work so hard to win, he says.<br />

“We are the only team in<br />

the league who doesn’t pay our<br />

players, but they’re still so determined,”<br />

said Young.<br />

The players have full-time<br />

jobs, and families, but are still<br />

Photograph by Conner McTague<br />

dedicated to the hockey club and<br />

Young says when fans come up to<br />

him at games, they always tell him<br />

about how enjoyable the team is to<br />

watch.<br />

Young says he wants to pay his<br />

players, but the $200,000 in expenses<br />

per year with no fan support<br />

makes it difficult. It's going to<br />

cause the team to be under review<br />

at years end, he said.<br />

It doesn’t seem to him like anything<br />

will work at this point.<br />

Does he think bringing home a<br />

championship would draw fans in<br />

and increase support?<br />

“I can’t see it happening, I wish<br />

it would.”<br />

A 48-team FIFA World Cup would ruin the sport<br />

It would<br />

make for a<br />

complicated<br />

tournament<br />

Pierre<br />

Sanz<br />

Expanding the FIFA World Cup to<br />

48 teams would be terrible for the<br />

world’s most watched sports tournament.<br />

Nick Hilton, of spectator.<br />

co.uk, and Grant Wahl of Sports<br />

Illustrated, think there will be a<br />

huge imbalance in quality of play<br />

and soccer fans should be worried<br />

because of the number of inferior<br />

teams that will be in the tournament.<br />

Groups of 3 teams, penalty<br />

shootouts in the group stage and a<br />

lot of uncompetitive teams is what<br />

will be coming to the World Cup<br />

in 2026. This will make the tournament<br />

boring and complicated.<br />

In January 20<strong>17</strong>, FIFA President<br />

Gianni Infantino’s bid to<br />

have a 48-team World Cup was<br />

approved, which means the tournament<br />

will have 16 new teams.<br />

FIFA has a tough decision on how<br />

to share these 16 spots between 6<br />

continents.<br />

Europe is the top continent in the<br />

world and has 13 countries going to<br />

the World Cup, with that number<br />

expected to be 16 or <strong>17</strong> by 2026,<br />

which will cause controversy from<br />

other continents.<br />

Having groups of 3 teams in a<br />

soccer tournament is unheard of<br />

and as a result, will be very difficult<br />

to schedule.<br />

In Euro 2016, the tournament<br />

was expanded to 24 teams and<br />

teams went into games to tie, not<br />

to win. More than half of the teams<br />

in the tournament advanced to the<br />

knockout stages because of the best<br />

third rule, which saw Portugal win<br />

the tournament without even winning<br />

a game in the group stage.<br />

The same problem will be coming<br />

to the World Cup now as the top 2<br />

out of 3 teams from 16 groups will<br />

advance, which means 32 out of 48<br />

teams will advance to the knockout<br />

stage.<br />

That number of teams advancing<br />

to the knockout round is another<br />

fault in the new system: an extra<br />

knockout round.<br />

The World Cup has had 32<br />

teams in the groups and goes to a<br />

round of 16. With this new format,<br />

the first knockout round will have<br />

as many teams as the current tournament<br />

has from the start.<br />

The expansion also means lots<br />

of bad teams will qualify for the<br />

knockout rounds. This is just to add<br />

more games to the tournament for<br />

money, not to better the level of<br />

play according to FIFA researchers.<br />

This is happening for financial<br />

reasons. According to FIFA researchers,<br />

FIFA will make 20 per<br />

cent more in revenue adding up to<br />

$6.5 billion during the 2026 World<br />

Cup. The upcoming 20<strong>18</strong> World<br />

Cup is projected to make $5.56<br />

billion.<br />

What’s more, there is also talk<br />

of adding penalty shootouts to the<br />

group stage. There are lots of questions<br />

over how it would work and<br />

how teams would be given points in<br />

this process. Shootouts are a knockout<br />

round thing, adding them to<br />

the group stage is a strange idea.<br />

When thinking about the expanded<br />

tournament and how many<br />

good teams will be in the World<br />

Cup, it is thought there will be a<br />

good tournament. But if Europe<br />

has 16-<strong>17</strong> slots for the tournament<br />

and 27 of the top 47 nations in the<br />

world are from Europe, it means 10<br />

of the best 47 nations in the world<br />

won’t be attending the tournament.<br />

South America have the best<br />

level of qualifying for the World<br />

Cup, it is the most competitive in<br />

the world, just look at the recent<br />

qualifying process. But with the<br />

expansion in teams, 7 out of 10<br />

nations from South America would<br />

be going to the tournament. This<br />

would mean the level of play and<br />

competitiveness will drop. Many<br />

teams will rest star players late in<br />

qualifying which is bad for attendances.<br />

FIFA should not expand to the<br />

current format. From 24 teams to<br />

32 teams and now to 48 teams,<br />

every few decades FIFA adds more<br />

and more teams and sooner or later<br />

the world’s most entertaining and<br />

most watched sports event will be<br />

ruined.


<strong>18</strong> The <strong>Chronicle</strong> February 27 - March 5, 20<strong>18</strong> chronicle.durhamcollege.ca Sports<br />

Lords reach for playoffs<br />

The Durham Lords<br />

men's basketball team<br />

hopes hot streak<br />

to end regular season<br />

continues in the playoffs<br />

Matt Henry<br />

The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />

The Durham Lords men’s basketball<br />

team won its final eight games<br />

to finish the regular season 15-5<br />

(third in the eastern conference),<br />

but head coach Desmond Rowley<br />

says his team isn’t getting ahead of<br />

themselves.<br />

After losing six of seven between<br />

late November and mid-January,<br />

the Lords rode a hot streak into the<br />

playoffs (Durham played Sunday,<br />

after the <strong>Chronicle</strong>’s deadline).<br />

The Lords are playing their best<br />

hoops of the season at the right<br />

time.<br />

“We want to make sure we position<br />

ourselves first. Our whole<br />

focus is one game at a time an<br />

that’s all we’re looking at right<br />

now.” Rowley said.<br />

The Lords have been successful<br />

offensively this season, with the<br />

focal point being ball movement.<br />

Durham has been averaging upwards<br />

of 85 points per game this<br />

season.<br />

Centre Esmail Danso credits his<br />

team’s success to sticking to fundamentals<br />

and the players trusting<br />

each other.<br />

“We always give confidence and<br />

boost each other. Whoever is hot<br />

that day, feed that person. We can<br />

score inside or outside. We have<br />

wonderful guys who can shoot at<br />

any time.”<br />

Fourth-year guard Trae Lawson,<br />

says the coach’s blueprint has<br />

been the key to the team’s overall<br />

success.<br />

“I honestly got to give all the<br />

credit to the coaching staff.<br />

They’re putting us in great positions<br />

to be effective on the offensive<br />

end.”<br />

Lawson has loads of confidence<br />

in his teammates and says rebounding<br />

and defence have created<br />

the foundation necessary to be<br />

successful on the floor.<br />

“Offensively I honestly think we<br />

can play with anybody, it all comes<br />

down to our defence. As long as we<br />

get stops I think we can win any<br />

game in this league.”<br />

The team’s leading scorer, Brandon<br />

Halliburton, admits the team<br />

struggled to find chemistry early<br />

in the season.<br />

However, as the season progressed<br />

the team began to click.<br />

Halliburton is averaging just under<br />

23 points per game, while shooting<br />

44 per cent from the floor. He sits<br />

fourth in the league in scoring.<br />

“For the rest of the season we<br />

have to keep working hard in<br />

practice. Keep gelling together,<br />

because once we play together I<br />

think nobody else can stop us in<br />

the league. The only time we lose<br />

is if we beat ourselves. As long as<br />

we’re sticking together I think the<br />

sky is the limit for us.”<br />

The Lords won all three of their<br />

remaining games over the family<br />

day weekend. An 88-70 defeat of<br />

the Algonquin Thunder on Feb. <strong>17</strong>,<br />

a 103-87 victory on Feb. <strong>18</strong> over<br />

the La Cité Coyotes and concluded<br />

their season on Feb. 20 with an 81-<br />

64 victory over Centennial.<br />

If Durham beat Fanshawe Sunday<br />

in its first playoff game, it will<br />

qualify for the OCAA championships<br />

which take place at Niagara<br />

College in Welland, Ont. from<br />

Mar. 1-3.<br />

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Sports chronicle.durhamcollege.ca February 27 - March 5, 20<strong>18</strong> The <strong>Chronicle</strong> 19<br />

UOIT student wins OUA award<br />

Tracy Wright<br />

The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />

Zhiyi Chen has been playing badminton<br />

for more than six years.<br />

When he was younger, his parents<br />

let him try different sports. He<br />

chose badminton and has stuck<br />

with it ever since.<br />

Chen, <strong>18</strong>, currently plays<br />

badminton for the University of<br />

Ontario Institute of Technology<br />

(UOIT) Ridgebacks. He was<br />

awarded the Ontario University<br />

Athletics (OUA) peak performer<br />

in January.<br />

This is a first for Chen and for<br />

the Ridgebacks badminton team<br />

which came into existence two<br />

years ago. He initially did not<br />

know he was awarded the OUA<br />

peak performer until a group chat<br />

with his friends. He did not know<br />

what the award was either.<br />

The next day his coach Wayne<br />

King, shook Chen’s hand and congratulated<br />

him on the award. The<br />

peak performer award is given<br />

to an athlete who has improved.<br />

Chen is a freshman at UOIT and<br />

is studying engineering.<br />

Chen was born in Singapore<br />

and grew up taking part in soccer<br />

and running. “There were no ice<br />

Zhiyi Chen, a badminton player at UOIT.<br />

sports,” he says as he smiles. His<br />

family moved to Colorado in the<br />

United States and lived there for<br />

three years. At the age of eleven<br />

his family moved to Canada and<br />

he now lives in Richmond Hill. “I<br />

think this year I have improved<br />

quite a lot,” says Chen, who has<br />

American player caps off<br />

first year with Ridgebacks<br />

Jackie Graves<br />

The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />

Sports were important in Tucker<br />

White’s family home in Holden,<br />

Mass. His father Bob played centre<br />

for the New England Patriots<br />

and the Dallas Cowboys. His parents<br />

felt that sports were important<br />

to build strong leadership and<br />

social skills, and it was common<br />

for each of the five children to<br />

play.<br />

Hockey, however, wasn’t common<br />

in the household. His family<br />

had no history with the sport, and<br />

it wasn’t until his father built the<br />

family a backyard ice rink that his<br />

interest in it “caught fire.”<br />

White, now a defenceman with<br />

the UOIT Ridgebacks’ men’s<br />

hockey team, played his first game<br />

with a group older kids, not knowing<br />

yet how play. After his feet<br />

began to blister, he came off the<br />

ice in tears.<br />

“The first time I stepped on a<br />

rink, it was the worst experience<br />

ever,” White said. “I came off the<br />

ice crying to my dad, and he’s like<br />

a tough dude, so he told me to suck<br />

it up and get back out there.”<br />

This experience didn’t deter<br />

White. Eventually, he was drafted<br />

into the Quebec Major Junior<br />

Hockey League, playing first for<br />

the Moncton Wildcats then the<br />

Acadie-Bathurst Titan and finally<br />

for the Maritime Hockey League’s<br />

Miramichi Timberwolves.<br />

After four years in Canada,<br />

White connected with the coach<br />

of the Corpus Christi Ice Rays<br />

through a mutual friend and<br />

moved to Texas to further pursue<br />

his hockey career.<br />

“He said we’re right on the<br />

water, we get 4,000-5,000 fans a<br />

night, and you’ll be playing good<br />

hockey,” White said. “I said, you<br />

convinced me there.”<br />

It wasn’t until White began<br />

considering his future education<br />

that he heard about UOIT.<br />

His former coach referred him<br />

to UOIT coach Curtis Hodgins,<br />

who was in need of a defenceman.<br />

Hodgins decided the 6-foot-5<br />

White was exactly what he needed,<br />

and White’s desire for adventure<br />

and playing hockey made<br />

him accept the offer.<br />

“I’m very adventurous, I’ve<br />

never been to Ontario or the<br />

Toronto area,” White said. “It<br />

was almost a no-brainer to come<br />

here.”<br />

After one season with the<br />

Ridgebacks, White has found his<br />

place on Canadian soil and said<br />

he has connected well with his<br />

team. He is currently enrolled in<br />

UOIT’s Communications program.<br />

He said he received assistance<br />

from his major junior league<br />

to help pay for his schooling, while<br />

the U.S. to Canadian dollar exchange<br />

has helped pay for the rest.<br />

White said he has adjusted well<br />

to living in Canada, even though<br />

Photograph by Tracy Wright<br />

worked at his sport for many hours<br />

this year. The school year started<br />

out with four, two-hour, training<br />

sessions a week and Elite Training<br />

his family is far away. He attributes<br />

this to the kindness of Canadians,<br />

UOIT students, and his team. He<br />

said others should have no fear of<br />

following an international path to<br />

Canada as he did.<br />

“What I like about Canada is<br />

that everyone is welcome, doesn’t<br />

matter what race, colour or religion,”<br />

White said. “It doesn’t<br />

Service (ETS)where strength and<br />

cardio training is done for an hour<br />

once a week.<br />

When not working out or<br />

training for badminton, he can be<br />

found in a study room or library.<br />

As for his parents’ involvement,<br />

Chen says, “my parents were<br />

really involved when we were<br />

younger but when we got older<br />

they became less involved to the<br />

point where they just drove me to<br />

tournaments. My mom sometimes<br />

watches my games but my dad<br />

doesn’t which is a good thing I feel<br />

because there is less pressure when<br />

they are not around.”<br />

Chen says most communication<br />

is done by coach King,<br />

“He talks to them about all<br />

the technical stuff of how I performed.”<br />

Another first for Chen is playing<br />

with his brother, Sheng Chen,<br />

who is also a student at UOIT.<br />

“I have played more with my<br />

brother recently as coach Wayne<br />

thinks we’re pretty good as pairs<br />

in doubles so we play together a<br />

lot. He is better at doubles and I’m<br />

better at singles,” says Chen. King<br />

is pleased for his young athlete.<br />

“This is a really special award.<br />

Zhiyi is richly deserving of it,”<br />

says King in a press release.<br />

Photograph by Jackie Graves<br />

Tucker White, an American hocky player with the Ridgebacks.<br />

matter where you’re from, you<br />

will be accepted.”<br />

White said he could end him<br />

up anywhere the road decides<br />

to take him once he finishes his<br />

education. However, should he remain<br />

in Canada, he said he would<br />

feel content, saying it’s just like his<br />

home in the U.S. “just with two<br />

different flags.”<br />

Ben Blasko bids farewell to the Ridgebacks<br />

Jasper Myers<br />

The <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />

The UOIT Ridgebacks men’s<br />

hockey team played the Laurentian<br />

Voyageurs three times this<br />

season but the final matchup held<br />

special meaning for assistant captain<br />

Ben Blasko.<br />

“It actually kind of hit me before<br />

the game tonight that this<br />

was my last regular season home<br />

game,” he said at a post-game<br />

news conference.<br />

After three years with the<br />

Ridgebacks, the Kingston, Ont.,<br />

centre said goodbye when the<br />

season ended.<br />

“He’s had a great time, really<br />

enjoyed it here. He’s going to<br />

miss it,” said Blasko’s father, Rob,<br />

who was at the Campus Ice Centre<br />

with other family members to<br />

take part in a farewell tribute at<br />

the start of the final regular season<br />

game.<br />

Blasko learned to skate when<br />

he was three, started hockey a<br />

year later, and played in a league<br />

by five, according to his father.<br />

After playing hockey in various<br />

leagues, he ended up at Nazareth<br />

College in Rochester, N.Y.<br />

At Nazareth, Blasko played in<br />

the NCAA Division III league for<br />

two years.<br />

After two years he transferred<br />

to UOIT where he joined the<br />

Ridgebacks.<br />

“The hockey’s better here,”<br />

Rob explained about the transfer<br />

from Nazareth.<br />

He said his family has tried to<br />

go to most university games since<br />

Blasko’s return to Canada.<br />

“We’re from Kingston so we<br />

come down to the home games,<br />

most of them,” he said. “We go<br />

to all the Queen’s and RMC<br />

games, and we’ll even go to Ottawa<br />

on occasion. We get to a lot<br />

of games. It’s good hockey, we<br />

really enjoy it.”<br />

Although the younger Blasko<br />

will graduate from the criminology<br />

and justice program later this<br />

year, he still plans to play hockey.<br />

“I’m hoping my hockey career’s<br />

not over from here,” he<br />

said. “I’m going to keep playing.”<br />

His father said Blasko has<br />

been contacted about potentially<br />

playing pro hockey.<br />

“He’s been contacted by a<br />

couple of pro teams and if he’d<br />

like to, if he could, play some<br />

pro hockey in the next couple of<br />

years,” said Rob.<br />

He said a couple of agents and<br />

two pro teams have also contacted<br />

Blasko.<br />

During the 20<strong>17</strong>-20<strong>18</strong> season,<br />

Blasko set the single-season record<br />

for points by a Ridgeback<br />

with 36.<br />

UOIT’ s season ended following<br />

a two-game sweep by the<br />

Concordia Stingers in the first<br />

round of the playoffs.


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