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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 />
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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 />
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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 />
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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 />
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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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