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the carillon, Feb. 10-16, 2011newsGGeettttiinngg tthhee wwoorrdd oouuttStudents’ union annual general meeting generates little student interest

Martin Weaver

The countdown to the University ofRegina Students’ Union annual gen-eral meeting [AGM] is on and, surpris-ingly, most of the student body areeither unaware of it or just don’t care.

URSU’s annual general meeting,to be held on Feb. 10, allows anyonewho pays URSU fees to vote on impor-tant motions that could potentially af-fect the whole campus.

In past years there have beenproblems meeting the quorum of 150students, meaning motions couldn’tpass. Kristy Fyfe, who has put forwarda motion asking for transparencyabout spending during last fall’sCanadian Federation of Studentsmembership referendum, said thatmeeting quorum could once again bean issue.

“It’s definitely a worry for me –and other people that have put for-ward motions – because if we don’thave quorum then we can’t pass thesedecisions, and it’s really important toget through some of these motions.”

Fyfe thinks that AGMs are impor-tant so that students can voice theirconcerns and vote for motions thatthey feel could improve on-campusexperiences.

Kyle Addison, URSU president,said students need to participate inAGMs to help URSU better govern.

“It’s important for students tocome out and have their voice beheard and have them take part and

engage themselves into the decision-making process.”

Although students need to beaware of the AGM, there hadn’t beenmuch done the week before the mo-tions were voted on to ensure studentswere well informed. Fyfe feels that stu-dents aren’t aware because studentsare misinformed about the motions.

“I think that there are ways to en-gage students. Particularly, justspreading the word about what themotions are ... it’s improved over thelast couple of years but we still have alittle way to go.”

Rebecca Scalan, a second-year sci-ence major, was one of those studentsunaware of the AGM.

“I didn’t know about [the] AGM,probably because I’m too busy withschool and stuff. It’s pretty importantto know what’s happening around theuniversity.”

Clinton Grudecki, a first-year po-lice studies student added, “This is thefirst I’ve heard of this. There is proba-bly a little bit more that should bedone.”

Alexis Schaffer, a third-yearGerman major, has seen the URSUposters around campus. Instead ofproviding answers, Schaffer said theposters just left her with questions.

“There’s posters everywhere, it’shard to miss them, but it doesn’t tellyou a damn thing about what it is. Isaw one and read it all the waythrough and nowhere did it tell mewhat an AGM was or what it wasabout.”

She did admit that she would have

found the posters useful if she was al-ready aware of the motions.

“If you already know what it is,sure, it provides some useful informa-tion. But, if you don’t, then it’s kind ofuseless.”

Addison said that they are work-ing hard to promote this event.

“We’re actually in the process ofusing social media, our website – basi-cally we’re utilizing all of our avenuesthat we utilize for any promotionalevents.”

He was confident quorum will notbe an issue this year.

“It’s always a concern to makequorum, it depends on the availabilityof the students ... but we are doingmany recruitment methods to ensurewe make quorum, and I’m fairly con-fident that we are going to have quo-rum.”

URSU is also providing an extraincentive for students to encouragethem to vote.

“When you come in, you’ll walkup to the room and you’ll sign in. Youwill be greeted with fellow studentsalong with complimentary pizza anddrinks.”

Addison said that URSU will bepushing to get buzz on campus in thedays before the AGM.

“We will have table space up nextweek advertising the fact that therewill be an annual general meeting. Thetable space will be held in the Riddeland we’re going to be asking some ofour volunteers from our URSU V-teamto be manning that table.”

He commented that students may

even be aware of the banners on cam-pus TV screens that have been run-ning.

Although Fyfe feels that morecould have been done, she stressedthat URSU faces challenges in organiz-ing events like these and others shouldassume responsibility to inform cam-pus.

“The people bringing forward mo-tions have the responsibility to engagethe membership for the people that itaffects and to bring them out to passthese motions.”

Christina Vickaryous, a second-year nursing student, agreed it’s notsolely URSU’s responsibility to ensurequorum is met.

“They have to advertise it and,once it has been advertised, if we don’tgo from there, then it’s our own fault.”She said she is hoping, come Feb. 10,“students are well informed and showup to vote.”

At last year’s AGM, quorum wasinitially met. However, people headedout soon after the voting began.Consequently, the meeting’s chairruled that, according to Robert’s Rulesof Order, the meeting was unable tomaintain quorum and thus had to ad-journ.

Though URSU’s constitution over-rides Robert’s Rules, Addison is stillhoping students won’t take that as aninvitation to leave once their motionhas passed.

“It would be nice if everybody canstick around and take part in the deci-sion-making process that matters toall students.” He added, “Getting quo-

rum is the trickiest thing to grasp.”There are several motions being

presented: from membership intoURSU for nursing students andEnglish as a second language students,increased funding for the Carillon, andfixed election dates and fixed termsfor URSU executives. Addison hopesthat this year’s AGM ends in betterterms than last year and students willbe able to benefit from showing up.

“I think it’s going to be a greatevent. I think it’s going to be an eventthat will pull in a lot of students andeducate them on what exactly theUniversity of Regina Students’ Unionis all about.”

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“ It’s importantfor students tocome out andhave their voicebe heard and havethem take partand engage them-selves into the de-cision-makingprocess.”

Kyle AddisonURSU president

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A quick Google News search for “2011Oscars” brings up 285 news articlesfor an event that has yet to happen. Ifthe search is refined to “2011 Oscarnominations”, 915 articles are re-trieved. The Queen herself apparentlyapproves of The King’s Speech, up for 12Oscars. Controversy over ChristopherNolan (Inception) being overlooked forbest director is splashed throughoutthe search results.

The Golden Globes, already overthree weeks ago, are still being men-tioned in major media outlets. TheWashington Post ran an article on Feb.2, clarifying the one they’d run the daybefore, saying that host Ricky Gervaiswas, in fact, asked to host the awardshow again next year. The end of thearticle reads, “And with that, we’vemanaged to talk about the GoldenGlobes again, even though they took

place more than two weeks ago andwe all should be focused on the Oscarsright now.”

A Google news search for “GoldenGlobes 2011” brings up an astounding8,642 news articles.

The 17th annual Screen ActorsGuild awards received similarly inten-sive coverage.

According to Joseph Epstein,“Without celebrities, whole sections ofthe New York Times and theWashington Post would have to closedown.”

Here in Regina, thankfully, it does-n’t seem like that’s the case. The city’smajor paper, the Leader-Post, has keptits front page award-show-free infavour of more city-relevant news. It’sa sharp difference from the“Bieberization” of September, whenthe teen star put on a sold-out show.Coverage started in the form of pre-views in mid-August, and the week ofthe show Bieber took over the frontpage of the Leader-Post and theSaskatoon StarPhoenix.

Fourth-year journalism studentAmanda-Lynn Williams wrote an arti-cle on that very phenomenon for theJournalism School newspaer, Ink.

“There were things going on [atthe time of the Bieber concert] thatwere big things,” she said. “Storiesabout people losing their lives.”

These stories were pushed to theback of the A section, or reduced to asmall front-page sidebar that washardly noticeable amongst the hugephotos and block-letter headlinesabout Bieber’s visit to the Queen City.

“Since when is Bieber worth morethan a human life?” Williams pon-dered.

As consumers of media, mostfaithful news followers know that

there is a difference between hardnews and entertainment. Hard news istypically considered the sometimesgrisly, tough-to-stomach happeningsin our lives – murders, car crashes, hu-man trauma and suffering. Hard newscan be positive – it’s just more difficultto come by. A well-known saying inthe journalism world, “if it bleeds, itleads” is disturbingly true.

So why is the idea of “celebrityculture” becoming more and morecommon and accepted as part of oureveryday news coverage?

Andrew Napolitano, author of thebook Constitutional Chaos, said hethinks it is a way that today’s societychooses to distract themselves from avery real, very frightening life. Hepoints to examples of the horror of thetortures at Abu Ghraib and in CIAprisons worldwide. When the revela-tions of the inhumane acts perpetratedby guards at Abu Ghraib came out inApril 2007, they received a flurry ofmedia attention.

“Even when the information iswidespread and available, many

Americans would rather change thechannel and distract themselves withthe contrived drama of reality TV,” ex-plained Napolitano.

At the end of the passage,Napolitano describes the phenomenonof celebrity culture and society’s obses-sion with it best: “The sheep don’twant to take time out from lazily graz-ing in their couch potato pastures toconsider the turmoil outside theflock.”

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The camera lens doesn’t always treat all stories equally

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“ Since when isBieber worth morethan a humanlife?”

Amanda Williamsjournalist

Rain and cold weather make car crashes duringa cold Saskatchewan winter almost common-place. But an accident in downtown Regina onFeb. 1 stood out from the rest. Early in the morn-ing, an SUV crashed into the Viterra building on

Albert St. It seems that this is one accident thatcan’t be blamed on the weather, though. Policereport that the driver had run a red light, and al-cohol might have been a factor.

It’s the most-watched sporting event in theworld, who wouldn’t be nervous? For anysinger, being asked to sing the national anthemat the Super Bowl is a big honour. This year, thathonour went to Christina Aguilera. The pop

star messed up the lyrics to “The Star-SpangledBanner”. As Deion Sanders later explained onTwitter, Aguilera was just showcasing the new,“remixed” version.

Stephen Harper’s library won’t be filling up asregularly anymore. Yann Martel’s “What isStephen Harper Reading” campaign ended Feb.2. For the last four years, the author sent theprime minister a new book every two weeks, ac-

companied letters written with varying degreesof snark. After sending 100 books and writing abook about the project, Martel was satisifiedwith the number, and his two-person book clubis now over.

Money for nothing and your Internet for free.The Canadian Radio-TelevisionTelecommunications Council [CRTC] recentlyruled large companies like Bell could chargesmaller Internet service providers for Internet

usage if users exceeded download limits – thecosts of which would be passed to the consumer.Public and government outcry about the deci-sion cause the CRTC to blink; the decision is cur-rently under review.

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In a showing of solidarity with thehundreds of thousands of protestersthat have spent the last two weeksdemonstrating across Egypt,Canadians have taking to the streets aswell.

On Saturday, Feb. 5 a number ofdemonstrations encouraging the im-mediate resignation of embattledEgyptian President Hosni Mubaraktook place in a number of cities acrossCanada. The demonstrations, orches-trated by the Canadian Peace Alliance(CPA), took place in several ofCanada’s largest cities – includingEdmonton, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto,Windsor, and Winnipeg.

According to Lemme Ibrahim, oneof the demonstration organizers inToronto, the demonstrations were or-ganized both to show anti- Mubarakprotesters they are not alone in theirplight for presidential regime reform,but also in hopes that wide-spread

protests across Canada will encouragethe federal government to call forMubarak’s immediate resignation.

On Feb. 1, after a week of violentprotests across Egypt, Mubarak de-clared that he would not pursue re-election in the nation’s Septemberelections. However, at the same time,Mubarak also made it clear that he hadto no intention of immediately step-ping down – much to the chagrin ofhundreds of thousands of anti-govern-ment demonstrators across Egypt andmany anxious outside observersaround the globe.

Unfortunately for the protesters,both in Canada and Egypt, two daysprior to the Canadian demonstrations,the federal government publicly sup-ported Mubarak’s highly unpopularplan to gradually secede power. Thiswas in contrast to the thousands ofanti-Mubarak demonstrators who in-sist Egyptians would benefit greaterfrom a quick presidential transition.

On Thursday, Feb. 3, Canada’sForeign Affairs Minister, LawrenceCannon, insisted a rushed change in

Egyptian leadership could be detri-mental to stability in the Middle Eastand is not something the Canadianfederal government plans on pushingon Mubarak’s regime.

“I think the question is, ‘what’snext?’ A vacuum does not mean tran-sition. The transition must be orderly;we have said it from the beginning,”Cannon explained outside the Houseof Commons. “These things must besettled by the Egyptians themselves.”Although the Canadian federal gov-ernment called for an eventual transi-tion to a democratic political system,their response to the situation in Egyptis at odds with many other Westernnations.

As a testament to their growingfrustration with Mubarak’s unwilling-ness to remove himself from office, lastWednesday White House spokesmanRobert Gibbs stated that when theUnited States called for transition tobegin “now”, now in fact, “[meant]yesterday.”

Additionally, last Thursday, theleaders of Britain, France, Germany,

Italy, and Spain all called for the dem-ocratic transition in Egypt to begin im-mediately.

NDP leader Jack Layton, who at-tended the anti-Mubarak rally inToronto, also differed in opinion fromthe federal government.

“It is a moment for a democraticimpulse to take hold and Canadashould be a part of helping to facilitatethat,” Layton said, after addressing theestimated 400 demonstrators inToronto. “It seems that right nowMubarak has become the obstacle. Heseems to understand that – he hasagreed not to run again. Let’s movemore quickly here.”

At this point it is unclear if thewidespread demonstrations will haveany impact on the Canadian federalgovernment’s decision to supportPresident Mubarak’s drawn-out tran-sition process or switch gears and pur-sue an immediate departure fromoffice.

Despite this, the CPA’s protestssignify exactly what hundreds of thou-sands of Egyptians have taken to the

streets for – the right to assemble,voice their displeasure, and, if PrimeMinister Stephen Harper’s federalgovernment doesn’t heed their advice,the right to vote for his removal fromoffice in a free and fair election in thecoming months.

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WWhhaatt’’ss nneexxtt??Thousands across Canada call for the immediate removal ofPresident Mubarak

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Last Thursday, after a particularlyproductive year for Somali pirates,the United Nations’ maritime agencyannounced they will be picking uptheir efforts to curb piracy off theHorn of Africa in the near future.

Following the removal ofPresident Mohamed Siad Barre in1991, Somalia endured a brutal civilwar that spanned 15 years and ac-counted for an estimated 400,000deaths. Somalia’s already precariousTransitional Federal Government[TFG] controls only a fraction of thenation’s capital, Mogadishu, andsome territory in the center of the na-tion. Now, they are losing substantialcontrol of the state to rebel forces.

Somalia’s instability and nearly-wiped economy has caused the lu-crative piracy industry to flourish offthe nation’s coast in recent years.

Running highly-sophisticated op-erations, where high-tech equipmentlike GPS and satellite phones areused, Somalian pirates have tradi-tionally been armed with both AK-47 machine guns androcket-propelled grenade launchers.

Allegedly working on tip-offsfrom contacts in the Gulf of Aden, thepirates have generally approachedunsuspecting ships, often at night,aboard speedboats or, in some in-stances, much larger “pirate mother-ships”.

Using grappling hooks and lad-ders, Somali pirates board their tar-geted ship, gain control of the vessel,and navigate it to the pirate hub townEyl. According to UN SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-moon, there are cur-rently 30 ships being held in Somalia.From that point, the ships – along

with the sailors aboard – are held forlarge ransoms from their respectivecountries. Although estimates havevaried, it is assumed that theSomalian piracy industry has col-lected roughly $300 million from thestart of 2009 through 2010.

With a lack of a strong centralgovernment, and very little means toprosecute alleged pirates, Somalia hasproven inept at curbing their piracyproblem. Moreover, many have ar-gued that members of Somalia’s TFGhave colluded with the nation’spiracy industry.

According to a recently-leakedU.S. State Department cable, in 2008,after escorting food-aid ships off theHorn of Africa, Canadian NavyCaptain Chris Dickinson reported todiplomats, “The vessel’s command-ing officer noted that there is clearevidence of collusion betweenSomalia’s Transitional FederalGovernment and pirates in Somaliwaters.”

In an attempt to essentially takematters into their own hands, the UNwill soon be launching a new anti-piracy program.

“Piracy seems to be outpacing theefforts of the international commu-nity to stem it,” Ki-moon explained inan address at the launch of theInternational MaritimeOrganization’s [IMO] initiative inLondon, England.

In response to Somalia’s expand-ing piracy industry, the UN has ap-pointed a special adviser toperiodically meet with the IMO – aspecialized agency of the UN whoseprimary purpose is “to develop andmaintain a comprehensive regulatoryframework for shipping” – the ship-ping community, and seafarer organ-izations.

Last week, Efthimios

Mitropoulos, the IMO’s general secre-tary, outlined his organization’s six-point plan to help curb piracy.

The plan calls to increase politicalpressure to secure the release of theover 700 hostages currently held bySomalian pirates, review and im-prove IMO guidelines to administra-tions and seafarers, and promotestricter compliance with industrypractices. It also calls to promote agreater degree of support and co-or-dination with navies operating in theregion, promote anti-piracy co-ordi-nation and co-operation proceduresbetween different states, regions, or-ganizations, and industry, and to pro-vide care for piracy victims and theirfamilies.

Additionally, the plan looselyoutlined what type of repercussionswill face alleged pirates if they arecaught.

Yury Fedotov, the executive di-rector of the UN Office on Drugs andCrime, offered that the internationalcommunity wanted to see “fair andefficient trials in Somalia and in re-gional countries.”

Despite being scheduled for 5:30,the University of ReginaStudents’ Union board of direc-tors meeting on Jan. 31 didn’tstart until exactly 5:59 p.m. Manyof the board’s members weresidelined by the inclementweather. Eventually, enough peo-ple arrived for the board meet-ing to commence.

The meeting started with areport by Drew Baldock, the chiefreturning officer [CRO] for theupcoming URSU election.Baldock and URSU’s executivetold the board about conflictingpolicies between URSU’s consti-tution and its election bylaws;though the dates for the electionhad been voted on by the board,the CRO’s decision is the bind-ing one. After some discussion,the dates were moved to Mar. 16and 17, to allow for some cam-paigning after the weekend.

With three groups asking forfunding – the Faculty ofEducation’s Arts PLACE pro-gram, the Faculty ofEngineering’s CANstructionproject, and the Graduate

Students’ Association’sInternational Night planningcommittee – it came up thatURSU’s project-funding budgetis starting to run dry due to whatpresident Kyle Addison referredto as a marked increase in re-quests for funding over this fiscalyear.

After a lengthy presentationon StudentCare – effectively aninformational seminar and quar-terly report from StudentCare’sPacific-West director – the boardlost quorum. The board wasforced to adjourn; while the exec-utive did read their reports, theywere obligated to do so again atthe next meeting as well.

The next URSU board meet-ing was scheduled for Monday,Feb. 7. This was after theCarillon’s press time, so the reporton that meeting and the date ofthe next meeting will be pub-lished in our next issue.

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Between 2009 and 2010, it’s estimated that Somali pirates have hoarded about $300 million

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“Piracy seems tobe outpacing theefforts of the in-ternational com-munity to stemit.”

Ban Ki-moonUN Secretary General

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OTTAWA (CUP) – As youth voter turnout re-mains at an historic low, Elections Canada islooking for new ways to reach out to the thou-sands of disengaged young Canadians.

The independent agency, which ulti-mately hopes to encourage more young peo-ple to vote as part of its Youth ResearchAction Plan, is commissioning a new surveythat would involve 2,500 Canadians betweenthe ages of 18 and 34, according to PostmediaNews.

While total voter turnout in the October2008 federal election clocked in at an all-timelow of 58.8 per cent, the estimated voterturnout of eligible voters aged 18-24 was aneven more dismal 37.4 per cent, according toa parliamentary report.

Why, when so many young people areengaged in other political affairs and debates,do so few youth turn up to vote in federalelections?

Robert Asselin, assistant director at theUniversity of Ottawa’s Graduate School ofPublic and International Affairs, said the com-plex question doesn’t just have one answer.

“I think generally, we can certainly ob-serve a decline in interest in institutionaldemocracy,” he suggested. “I think there’s ahuge disconnect between what politicians aresaying or the way they are conducting theirbusiness and the way the youth see how ourdemocracy should be expressing itself.”

Asselin also pointed to recent and ongo-ing attack ads and generally negative ex-changes between parties as aspects youngpeople simply don’t want to see in politics.

“When you look at what Obama was ableto accomplish in his [2008 U.S. presidential]campaign, you can see how one is still able toreach [out],” he said. “There’s hope that whena candidate like this comes, people can actu-ally kind of feel the appeal and involve them-selves and be engaged ... but in Canada we’rein this situation where no national leader hasreal charisma and appeal to young people.”

And, according to Asselin, this can yielddangerous results.

“We’re approaching a situation where it’svery dangerous for our democracy becausewhen you have almost one out of two people

[who aren’t] voting, because either they don’tthink it’s relevant or they don’t like what theyare hearing – when you elect governmentwith that many people, it’s dangerous,” hesaid.

“It’s not a sign of a healthy democracy.”Asselin is doubtful that one independent

agency alone could solve the youth engage-ment issue.

“I don’t think an organization likeElections Canada can solve it. I think it canhelp ... [by] trying to be more present, for ex-ample, on campuses and reaching peoplethrough the Internet or social media becausethat’s where most young voters are rightnow,” he suggested.

“But still, it’s a long shot ... I think theyare trying the right thing and they should tryto shore up the vote, but it will be difficult.”

There may not be that much time forElections Canada to reach out to youth beforethe next election, however. While the latestEKOS poll released Jan. 27 suggested only 14per cent of Canadians believed the next elec-tion should be held as soon as possible, fed-eral parties are showing signs of preparing fora trip to the polls as soon as this spring.

One of the next opportunities will comewhen the Conservatives release their 2011federal budget, set to occur next month.

“I always take it with a grain of salt whenpeople say they don’t want an election be-cause it’s only during an election that yousee the issues addressed or you see the realdebates happening,” said Asselin.

“I guess it’s always the case that before anelection – nobody wants one, but once theyrealize they have an election, they have tomake up their mind and they’re tuned intothe process.”

Asselin went on further to suggest thatwhile Canadians’ feelings may be up in theair, most political leaders know – and are get-ting ready for – what’s around the corner.

“My own analysis is that most partiesthink that it would be time to go to the peo-ple. I think the Liberal Party certainly feelsthat way ... [after] two years as leader of theopposition, I think Ignatieff feels it’s time nowto go,” Asselin said, also noting that while theBloc Quebecois are currently in a strong posi-tion, the NDP may be more reluctant to rushto the polls.

“For Harper this time, the expectation isthat he needs to get his majority and it seemsa big challenge for him right now to get thoseextra seats,” Asselin continued. “So all par-ties, I think, have obstacles to their ultimategoals.”

And it may very well be because of theseobstacles that Asselin himself is reluctant tomake an election prediction.

“The funny thing is that the election cam-paign matters. You can absolutely have a very,very different result than when you startedthe campaign,” he said, noting KimCampbell’s 10-point lead over Jean Chrétiengoing into the 1993 election, which Chrétienwon overwhelmingly and launched a newLiberal majority in Parliament.

“A campaign on its own has its course,and you never know. I think a majority is un-likely, but it’s possible ... it could be muchtighter than people think,” Asselin said. “Itwill be interesting – that’s what a campaignis for. You go out there, you go to the people,you make your argument, and anything canhappen.”

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Putting on a play at the University ofRegina takes a lot of preparation,time, effort, and talent from all mem-bers of the cast and crew; it all makesthe joy of the end result nothing lessthan satisfying. Katie Moore, whoplays the title role in the U of RTheatre Department’s new produc-tion, Eurydice, is elated about the playdespite her jam-packed schedule.

“Coffee is my best friend rightnow!” Moore laughed. “Some days Ihave class from 8:30 a.m. to 5:15 p.m.and then I have to go straight to re-hearsal. So its really tough and a lotof the other acting students havecrazy hectic schedules too. You haveto plan out your life day by day.”

Even though she has to juggle somuch, she said, the play is worth it.She is ecstatic about her role in theproduction.

Auditions were held back in lateNovember. Since then, the cast andcrew have been busy hustlingaround getting things prepared. Evenduring her interview with theCarillon, a few crewmembers ap-proached Katie to discuss quick cos-tume details before hurrying off.

Eurydice is a modern take on theGreek myth of Eurydice andOrpheus. The original myth mainlyfocuses on Orpheus and his travels,including his journey to the under-world to save his wife, Eurydice, af-ter her death. The play, however,focuses on Eurydice and her life inthe underworld, similar to a behind-the-scenes type of story.

Moore said that the challenges ofplaying Eurydice involved nothingso drastic as having to lose or gainany weight, though she did laughand mention that she began jumpingrope and practicing walking in heelsfor the role.

“I’ve had a really hard time try-

ing to get [Eurydice] down becauseshe loses her memory in the under-world, so in one moment she’ll be re-ally happy and the next really sad. Soshe’s definitely an interesting charac-ter to act and definitely an actingchallenge for me.”

Eurydice isn’t all drama, though.With subtle hints from the author,one can find a few comedic like as-pects in this performance. “SarahRule [the play’s author] has done areally amazing job with writing thescript. It’ll be dramatic and thensomeone will say something andyou’ll just want to laugh. This makesit really hard for the actors becausewere in these really dramatic sceneswhere your supposed to be cryingbut you just want to laugh.”

Some of the high-concept ele-ments of the play – such as a “rainingelevator” and characters Moorecalled “the Stones” – make it verydifferent from the U of R’s previousperformance, String of Pearls.

“There are some crazy theatricalelements, like the costumes. Andthese characters called the Stones area sort of element of the Greek chorusthat appear in the underworld. Theyhave this crazy white and blackmake-up and these huge weddingdresses. As well, there is one of thelost souls that wanders into the un-derworld has a metal dress that poufsout. All the design elements work to-gether so wonderfully!”

The Stones’ poses are as close toany sort of musical aspect this playwould present, Moore said. Withcarefully choreographed poses, theyset the tone for certain scenes.

Eurydice is running from Feb. 16– 19. Doors open at 7 p.m. with cur-tain call at 7:30 p.m. Tickets can bepurchased during lunch hours at theBox Office or before the show, freefor students and $15 for non-stu-dents.

Making people laugh can prove arather strenuous and fruitless effort.But several of Regina’s comedians areup to the challenge, and among theirefforts to bring comedy to the city isthe weekly Comedy Grind show thattakes place every Saturday night atGabbo’s.

The Comedy Grind was startedjust about a year ago by Shawn Hall,a Regina-born comedian who was do-ing stand-up on the West Coast butreturned home to raise a family. Uponhis return home, Hall recalled, there“wasn’t really anything going on forlocal comedy as far as stand-up. Therewas a little bit of improv and a fewother shows, but there was no stand-up, so I approached a few differentpeople and said that I wanted to startup a show.”

The show is a simple, no frillsstand-up show where the comics goonstage and try to entertain what hasfor the past fifty-one weeks been anever-growing crowd.

The comedy scene in Regina wasa very different story a year ago, withonly one monthly comedy show, thesemi-open-mic-style Pass the Hat, try-ing to represent an increasingly largeand diverse comedy scene. Comparethis to a larger city where stand-upcomics are doing multiple shows in asingle evening. Hall said it was “al-most like we were having to start amarket”.

But the scene is growing rapidly.Hall believes that having the ComedyGrind on a weekly basis has con-tributed to that. “A lot of people onlywanted us to do once a month, but Iwas really insistent that we had to doit every week so that the talent couldget better and better,” he explained.

Although comedy in Regina hascome a long way from where it wasyears ago, Hall described the currentscene as still “a little bit lacking in thesense of amount of shows [in com-parison to] the amount of talent that’s

here.”There’s no doubt that it will still

continue to grow, but a fully blossom-ing comedy scene in Regina is “goingto take some time ... There’s not a lotof shows for the talent here in the city,but it’s slowly growing. The GeneralFools are starting a new monthlyshow at the Fainting Goat onMondays, Combat Improv is onWednesdays, Pass the Hat is Friday,Feb. 11, and the next night is ComedyGrind, which is the one-year anniver-sary.”

While there are a cast of regularson the Comedy Grind, the show onFeb. 5 was Newbie Night, with allbrand-new comics taking the stage atGabbo’s in order for Hall and com-pany to “bring more people into thefold.” The Newbie Night went swim-mingly; each comic hammered out hisor her five-minute set and was judgedat the end by two of the regularcomics of the Comedy Grind. The au-dience then voted on their favouriteof the evening, and the winner wasinvited to the upcoming one-year an-niversary of the Comedy Grind onSaturday, Feb. 12. The amounts oflaughs varied from comic to comic,but Hall said that the most importantthing was that people were laughing,period.

“There’s arguably some amazingtalent [in Regina]. You can’t have win-ter for six months out of the year, arabid fan base, and more restaurantsper capita than anywhere in the coun-try and not have some funny individ-uals.”

Comedy is an incredibly satisfy-ing and rewarding form of entertain-ment, but one starry-eyed andaspiring comic can find early under-achieving extremely discouraging ifthey have an unsuccessful evening.Hall said the only way to remedy thatis to work harder.

“You can’t rely on anybody else.If you’re in a band or improv troupeor sketch troupe or anything else, youcan always blame it on somebodyelse; if you’re a comic, and you’re notgetting the laughs, it’s your fault. It’s

not the audience, it’s not anybodyelse.”

But the rush from working hardand performing a successful set isworth the hardships, and that the in-teraction with the crowd is instantlygratifying. “It’s getting that immedi-ate feedback ... if you’re a comic andyou’re on, it’s like every five secondspeople are reaffirming how funnyyou are, and it’s an amazing feeling,”Hall said. “... Once I started doing it [Irealized] it’s literally the greatest high;it became incredibly addictive.”

For Hall, comedy is much deeperthan making people laugh; it involvesmuch intelligence as well as pickingthrough the oddities of the world thatwe live in. Stand-up comedy is “thelast line of defense against tyranny”;comics are not just entertainers, but“truth-sayers ... if [a crisis like inEgypt] happens in North Americaand the bombs drop, everyone willbe gathering on piles of rocks on thecorners and there’ll be the comics try-ing to keep everybody entertained”.

The Comedy Grind is everySaturday night at Gabbo’s. The showusually starts at 9 p.m., and admis-sion is $5.

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“ I’ve had a really hard time trying to get[Eurydice] down ... she’s definitely an in-teresting character to act and definitely anacting challenge for me.”

Katie Moore

“You can’t havewinter for sixmonths out of theyear, a rabid fanbase, and morerestaurants percapita than any-where in thecountry and nothave some funnyindividuals.”

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Foxwarren5If patience is a virtue, then Foxwarren aresaints – their debut, Has Been Defeated, is fullof well-paced, tightly-constructed, and catchysongs. Someone I know called them “windyrock”, and the term sticks.

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Factor4A prolific producer who’s worked with artistslike Moka Only and Regina’s own Def 3,Factor has spent years in Saskatoon crankingout pop- and folk-influenced hip-hop trackswith a classic vibe; 2010’s Lawson Grahamshowcases his knack for turning vinyl cracklesand pops into bass-heavy drum bonanzas.

Jeans Boots3It makes sense that Saskatoon’s Jeans Bootshas played shows with Ontario-based guitarnerd Shotgun Jimmie. Boots (real name:Jeanette Stewart – she’s a Carillon alumnus!)shares Jimmie’s penchant for ramshackle gui-tar rock and quiet, pretty melodies.

Bright Black2Bright Black are fairly new, and they don’thave a record out yet, but when it drops it’ll begreat. The punishing rhythm section, HenryBrass and Garrett Matheis (ex-Geronimo),backs up former Ghosts of Modern Mansinger/guitarist Jonah Krieser on some seri-ously vicious math-rock.

Orbital Express1We’ve devoted a lot of press space to theseguys, and for a reason – in Saskatchewan, theyare the best at what they do. What you need toknow, mostly, is that they write good riffs, andtheir pounding space-rock is almost all riffs.

The music industry has seen someheavy changes over the years. TheInternet has opened up the worldof music to an unprecedented ageof accessibly and diversity. No mat-ter where you come from, whenyour music is online, everyone hasthe potential to hear it.

But with a sea of music for lis-teners to sift through, getting no-ticed as an independent musiciancan be a arduous task. The littleguys need a big voice to stand outin the crowd. In Saskatchewan, thenon-profit corporation SaskMusic,which is also the SaskatchewanRecording Industry Association,tries to be that voice.

SaskMusic is a member-basedcorporation committed to thegrowth of the music industrywithin Saskatchewan through lead-ership, promotion, and advocacyof Saskatchewan artists.

One of SaskMusic’s promo-tional tools is the annual InTuneCD, an exclusive compilation made

to show off Saskatchewan‘s bestmusical talent to people within theindustry around the world.

“This is something that we’vebeen doing for a few years,” saidDerek Bachman, program directorof SaskMusic. “[The first edition]was in 2007. That was the yearwhen, obviously, the Juno awards,the Canadian Country MusicAwards, and the Western CanadianMusic Awards were inSaskatchewan. So they launched asampler of Saskatchewan artists togive industry personnel and peopleoutside of the province a sampleof what is going on here musi-cally.”

The process of putting togetherthe sampler starts with hundredsof submissions from various artistsaround the province. Then it’s nar-rowed down by a panel of thirdparty judges to a collection of thebest 20 to 25 songs, covering a va-riety of genres. With the help ofSaskMusic, this CD makes its wayaround the world, and into thehands of record labels, people inradio, venue owners looking tobook shows, and music supervi-

sors who need music to place infilm and television.

“Our mandate is to promotethe Saskatchewan music industry,”offered Bachman. “Really, the goalis to help the artist. We are a non-profit organization, the goal is toget these artists recognized andhopefully opportunities come fromit.”

Although the compilation ispromoted within Saskatchewan tosome extent, most of the promo-tion is focused outside theprovince, nationally and interna-tionally. Dispersing the CD on aninternational scale is important tothe growth of the artists, and theSaskatchewan music scene as awhole.

“We have the resources to at-tend certain conferences, and tonetwork with other industry peo-ple within Canada and outside ofCanada, so it’s a great way for us togive them a sample of some of thebest that we can offer here,” notedBachman. “Without a tool like this,it would be much harder for us toshowcase the talent here. We do alot of work from our website, doingpress releases and contacting in-dustry people. But the CD makes itmuch easier. The music sells itself.”

Bachman added that the CDhas helped Saskatchewan musicmake its way into the hands of peo-ple that wouldn’t have heard of itbefore, opening up opportunitiesthat wouldn’t be there otherwise.“[Artists] have been offered place-ment in television and film becauseof it, radio play across NorthAmerica and Canada, we have sentit to festivals, and people have usedit as a source to find artists for

booking and things like that,”Bachman said. “We were just in LosAngeles for an export mission inNovember. We showcased a cou-ple Saskatchewan acts to some mu-sic supervisors in LA at aninvite-only music reception, andwe gave each of them a compila-tion CD.”

Export missions to places likeLA are not only great ways to makeindustry contacts. SaskMusic isalso bringing a product to a marketthat wants it, and bringing revenueto artists that need it. Bachman saidTV and film companies love work-ing with independent artists.

“Placing music in film and tel-evision is a great revenue streamfor artists as well as a great promo-tional opportunity. Music supervi-sors like working withindependent artist because it’s easyto license their music. These artistown the rights to their own musicand recordings, while with majorrecord labels, there are a few moresignatures and approvals that theyhave to go through in order to usethat music.”

Today, the music industry isflooded with content. Everyone isgetting their material out there andwithout the effort of SaskMusicand their sampler CD making itsway around the world, it would bemuch harder for Saskatchewan’sartists to get noticed. For manyartists, the business side of thegame is not their forte -- they’reartists, not promoters. SaskMusicis here to handle that end of thingsfor those artists, to help grow theSaskatchewan music industry, andto help make successes out of someof the best musicians in the world.

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“We do a lot of work from our website,doing press releases and contacting in-dustry people. But the CD makes itmuch easier. The music sells itself.”

Derek Bachman

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“Hotel Yorba”5Childish and juvenile thanks to Meg’s min-imalistic drumming and Jack’s lone acousticguitar, “Hotel Yorba” is reaffirmation thatgood music will still be good music when it’sstripped down from all of its fancy effectsand post-production frills.

With the recent disbandment of a band thatwas so loved, here’s a look back at some ofthe White Stripes’ lovelier tunes that dealwith that four-letter word that we all thinkabout around the middle of February. Theone starting with “L”.

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“300 M.P.H.Torrential OutpourBlues”4

Washy cymbals and acoustic guitars give“300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues” avery laid-back vibe during the verses.Clocking in well past five minutes, it alsoproves that Jack White is more than capableof writing more than simple three-chord/two-minute songs.

“The Denial Twist”3One of their more groovy numbers, this pi-ano jam from Get Behind Me Satan still knowshow to rock out during a chorus.

“Fell in Love Witha Girl”2

This is the straight-ahead rock that was themeat and potatoes of the White Stripes’ ma-terial. Electric guitar, drums, and a handfulof chords – it doesn’t get much more bare-bones rock’n’roll than that.

“You Don’t KnowWhat Love Is (You JustDo as You’re Told)”1

This is probably my favourite White Stripessong. It seems to be a lot more thought-outthan a lot of the White Stripes’ earlier tunes.The lead melody over big open chords is achallenge to get out of your head, and JackWhite nails the pitch-shifted guitar solo atthe end of the song.

CCrreeaattiivvee wwrriittiinngg ccllaassssrreessppoonnddss ttoo ““TToooo AAssiiaann””University of British Columbia students’ complaints go viral

When Macleans published “TooAsian?” in November 2010, therewere protests across Canada. In re-sponse to the backlash, they issueda formal apology and changed thetitle of the article to “TheEnrollment Controversy.”

This title is apparently more ap-propriate for the article, which wassupposed to discuss the growingAsian majority in American col-leges and how, should the US de-cide to limit Asian students’enrolment, these students wouldchoose to come to Canadian uni-versities – edging out localCanadian students in admissions.

University of British Columbiastudents had mixed reactions to thispiece. Rebecca Gu, a Commerce stu-dent and blogger, was disappointedby the article’s stereotypes of peo-ple of Asian descent.

“I thought we had moved be-yond being characterized as per-sonality-less robots,” said Gu. “I

wasn’t too impressed they broughtit up again. I was tired of it.”

Others, such as Celestian Rince,a creative writing major, weren’t of-fended by the article. “I thought itwas quite interesting and informa-tive,” said Rince. “I hadn’t knownthat US schools have racist admis-sions. It was also good that some-one finally discussed racialinteraction at Canadian universitieswithout glossing over the realitiesof the situation.”

One on-campus reaction to thearticle came in the form of aYouTube remake of the 1980s hit“We Are the World.” The video, en-titled “UBC’s Way Too Asian,” isthe brainchild of Dr Ray Hsu’sAsian Canadian writing class, whowere led by Tetsuro Shigematsu, acreative writing MFA student.

“Dr Hsu was the only one totake initiative with the article,” saidShigematsu.

“The challenge was to do some-thing as a group that would be a lotof effort and coordination. I sug-gested half-jokingly that we couldrecord a cover of the ’80s charityclassic “We Are the World” and

people seemed to think it was agood idea. We decided we wouldn’twait. We would do it the next morn-ing.”

While they didn’t have officialpermission to shoot on location inplaces such as the Chan Centre,Shigematsu explained that thegroup used guerrilla-style tactics tofilm the video, which now has over6,800 hits on Youtube.

Hsu said that the results of thechallenge “went beyond theMacleans article.”

“The issue of shelf life is inter-esting. On one hand, the pieces arekind of like journalism [as thevideos feature] contemporaryevents,” he said.

“By producing works of art,that is different, however. Art does-n’t necessarily engage with thenews. A work of art can transcendthe moment in which it was createdand has a longer shelf life. Most in-teresting, [with] works of art tiedto present-day controversial issues,we have something that works onthe border of journalism and whatwe think of as art work.”

The video sensation plays on

traditional stereotypes of people ofAsian descent and non-Asians whoare fans of different facets of Asianculture. Characters pop on and offcamera with tag lines like “addictedto MSG” and “loves dogs (deepfried).” The video also featuresAsian, European, and mixed-racechildren. Shigematsu says featur-ing the children in the video had adeeper meaning.

“We are [showing kids] whoare different ‘degrees’ of Asian,”said Shigematsu.

“It’s quite effective when yousee the kids, [because] it’s not justuniversity students [who are] af-fected by racist media coverage ...[it] affects the next generation. Dowe want our kids to grow up witha right wing magazine featuringthis garbage?”

There were some class mem-bers who felt uncomfortable withthe project. “I initially felt that itwas a good idea, as the article wasdefinitely worthy of some sort ofresponse,” says Rince. “However,that soon turned to dismay when Irealized that the response wouldsimply be a denial of the truths inthe article. ‘No, that’s not true,’ isnot a very reasoned or substantialresponse.”

Shigematsu expressed the diffi-cult choice which student activistsoften have to make: academics oractivism.

“I had that luxury, not havingto decide between doing what’sright or homework. Ray Hsu tookthat away. It was so simple and in-genious. We shouldn’t be the onlyones on campus to be able to dothis. This is a defining issue on cam-pus in Canada. What if other stu-dents had the privilege? We canchange the discourse. Rogers havetheir money; we have YouTube,Facebook, and Twitter. It’s notabout who has the most money, butwho is the wittiest and quickest.This issue won’t be defined by mul-timedia conglomerates.”

kait bolongaroubyssey (university ofbritish columbia)

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TORONTO (CUP) — A handful ofRyerson University students arebroadcasting their posh lifestylesliving in the upscale blocks ofToronto with a new web-based real-ity series.

Take MTV’s The City’s focus onstyle, knock it down to a Canadiancalibre, toss in the high schooldrama of MTV’s Laguna Beach andthe sexual ambiguity of LOGO’sRuPaul’s Drag Race and voila! — TheAvenue is paved.

“We’re not trying to be anykind of Jersey Shore. It’s not justdrama and going out and partyingfor shock value,” Jacob Morris, anexecutive producer, said.

Scott Fisher, another executiveproducer jumped in: “The way I see

it is that it’s all real. They’re realpeople and we’re following the realthings that they’re really doing.”

But Fisher was quick to correctwhat he meant by “real”.

“It’s a TV show, we’re con-structing something,” Fisher admit-ted. “We can frame people toentertain an audience.

“It’s a show. We need drama.We will tell them, ‘Why don’t youguys go out for lunch, go to thisclub,’” he continued.

The paradox that reality showslack “reality” isn’t groundbreakingby any means, and The Avenue is noexception.

The weekly show premiered onYouTube on Jan. 25, and is sched-uled to air on a Rogers channelsometime next month.

Fisher first got the idea for theshow while watching GregoryLazzarato, the main character, onYouTube.

“I was thinking, ‘How can Ilaunch a successful show right fromthe get go?’” Fisher said, “So Iwanted to follow an Internetcelebrity.”

And Lazzarato’s online follow-ing has been very receptive to thenew show.

Also known by his YouTubepersona Gregory Gorgeous, his up-loads include personal vlogs andmake-up tutorials that have at-tracted over 90,000 subscribers.

Still, the cast is prepared forvaried responses.

“Since I have been getting a lotof attention, I have learned that youshouldn’t read what people writeabout you,” said Arta Ghanbari, theshow’s resident fashion journalist,about negative comments andpress.

Executive producer StephanePare added, “A lot of celebs dothat.”

According to the press release,the show profiles “the lives of fiveup-and-coming Torontonians asthey build new friendships, dealwith drama and enemies, and climbtheir way to the top.”

But in reality, the show conve-niently stars two Ryerson radio andtelevision arts students and a jour-nalism student that were alreadyfriends with Lazzarato.

A small camera crew followsthe fabulous five as they rompacross Toronto’s most unrecogniz-able clubs, bars, ultra-lounges andthe occasional lunch spot – “fordrinks.”

But the cast has adjusted to thespotlight.

“It did take a little getting usedto, having a normal conversationwith the camera there,” said RachelGuest, Lazzarato’s self-described“sassy” friend.

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The Ubyssey

Dr. Ray Hsu’s Asian Canadian writing class at UBC wants to show the world “different ‘degrees’ of Asian”

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NNoo nneeeedd ttoo kknneeaaddGreat bread comes easy

Jim Lahey’sNo-KneadBread3 cups all-purpose flour, and morefor dusting1 5/8 cups water1/4 tsp yeast1 1/4 tsp salt

In a medium-to-large mixing bowl,mix together the flour, the yeast, andthe salt. Slowly add the water andstir it into the flour to make dough. Ifyou incorporate all the water and stillhave flour left over on the bottomand sides of the bowl, add a bigenough splash of water to makeeverything in the bowl into dough.The dough should be very sticky;keep a metal spoon nearby in caseyou need to scrape the wet dough offyour hands.

Cover the bowl with a cotton toweland let it sit, covered, at room tem-perature for 14-18 hours.

When the dough is ready – it willhave visible air bubbles on the sur-face, and poking it will still cause it tostick to your finger – turn it out ontoa lightly floured counter and fold itover itself once or twice. Cover itloosely with plastic wrap and let sitfor 15 minutes.

Heavily dust a cotton towel – youcan use the one you used earlier –with cornmeal, flour, or bran. Placethe loaf on the towel, sprinkle somemore of whatever you’re using fordusting on top, and place anothertowel over top of the loaf. Let it restfor two hours.

Half an hour before you want to bakethe bread, put a heavy oven-proofpot – preferably one with a lid, like aDutch oven – in your oven. Heat theoven to 450.

After half an hour, take the pot out ofthe oven. By this point, the combina-tion of the rise in the bowl and therise on the counter will have causedthe dough to double in size. Verycarefully take the dough and transferit into the pot. If it’s unevenlylumped into one corner or side, youcan shake the pot a little to make sureit’s evenly distributed, but for themost part this will work itself out asthe bread bakes.

Place the lid on top and return the potto the oven for 30 minutes. If the potdoesn’t have a lid, you can also useheavy-duty tinfoil.

When 30 minutes have passed, re-move the lid from the pot. Continueto bake the loaf, uncovered, for an-other half hour.

After the bread has baked uncoveredfor half an hour, remove it from theoven. Let it cool on a rack. Servewarm, if possible.

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for a video of this recipeand much more.

People eat a lot of bread. It’s a dietstaple across the globe, and as suchit’s very important to people. Asof this writing, protesters in theMiddle East are using bread to rep-resent their struggle – the difficultyof getting bread to eat is a symbolfor their social and economic hard-ships.

The fact that you can findbread almost everywhere, in manyforms, might have something to dowith the fact that flour, water, andyeast are extraordinarily versatile.And while you can dress them upwith oils or eggs or sugar, depend-ing on what you’re making, youreally only need two more ingredi-ents to make a spectacular low-ef-

fort loaf of bread.The fourth ingredient is salt,

which adds a little flavour to thedough and helps balance out themoisture. But the fifth ingredient isthe most important one, and it’sthe ingredient that makes the dif-ference between the bread recipethat’s going to kick off this columnand other recipes you might use.

The fifth ingredient is, not sur-prisingly, time.

So the bad news is that youwill need a lot of time to make thisbread happen. The good news isthat you can spend most of it – allbut probably 45 minutes, to behonest – outside of the kitchen.And the moments that you dospend in the kitchen will be fairlysimple.

Jim Lahey’s no-knead breadrecipe caused quite a stir in thefood community when MarkBittman published it in his New

York Times column, The Minimalist,in 2006. North America’s foodcommunity suddenly took a fardeeper interest in bread, culminat-ing in the release of books likeArtisanal Bread in Five Minutes aDay.

But while there have been anumber of variations on his recipesince – including a Mark Bittmanupdate that uses more yeast andless time to similar results – theoriginal is too simple and non-time-intensive to ignore.

The best part is that, for stu-dents, the basic nature of the recipemakes it really easy to fit into yourschedule. It’s not particularlymessy, and after the initial mixingof the dough you mostly just let itsit.

You do have to be around thedough about two hours before youwant it to be in the oven, but ifyou’re able to block out three hours

of time on the weekend to spend athome doing work or relaxing orwhat have you then it’s not de-manding. If you aren’t able toblock that time out, either, the goodnews is that the recipe is extraordi-narily forgiving; so long as you’rewithin a generous window of time,the yeast will happily do its thingwithout your interference.

And what you pull out of theoven is totally worth it. The cook-ing method – which is heavy onwater and relies on using a potwith a lid to keep the moisture inthe pot, making the crust crispyand crackly without being tooth-shatteringly hard – gives you a re-ally phenomenal bread.

Of course, that means that aday’s worth of getting bread readywill see its results vanish veryquickly. But that, too, is worth it.

photos by Dan Shier

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“ For students,the basic natureof the recipemakes it reallyeasy to fit intoyour schedule.”

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dvd review

In the background, behind the Word documentwindow where I’m typing this review, I haveopen an internet relay chat client, a web forum,Facebook, and Gmail. The latter two have real-time chat functions, and I’m currently usingthem. Meanwhile, on my desk, my cell phone’slight is blinking to let me know I have new mes-sages. The ways we’re connected to people noware intricate, varied, and strange. Few moviesunderstand this better than Catfish.

The marketing for Catfish’s DVD release isthe same as its theatrical run. While I can respectthat they were trying to keep the movie myste-rious, I’m not sure they chose great methods.The documentary follows Nev Schulman, a NewYork-based photographer in his mid-20s, as hefalls in love with a woman he mainly knowsfrom Facebook and phone conversations. Thenthings get weird, and he and his two workingpartners – his brother Ariel and their friendHenry Joost – take a trip to find her.

That’s all you can really learn from the trail-ers and the back of the box, and that’s aboutwhat you should learn about the movie beforegoing in. But while the trailers make it seem like

something with terrifying life-or-death stakes,it’s not. It is suspenseful and occasionally tenseenough that you have to measure your breath-ing. Yet it isn’t a thriller at heart. Instead, likemost good documentaries, Catfish has an un-usual and compelling emotional arc, one thatwill take you in a lot of surprising directions.And if you know people online, it will resonatewith you very, very deeply.

I once knew a girl, Cassie, who posted on thesame web forum I did. She lived in San Diego,wrote songs, and seemed pretty cool. When myfamily went to San Diego, she and I made plansto hang out, though those plans fell through.One day, out of nowhere, Cassie posted a cryp-tic apology to the forum and had her accountdeleted. I logged into the forum’s chatroom tofind out if anyone knew why she did this. Theydid. Cassie wasn’t really Cassie – she was someother girl, who’d used someone else’s photosand songs to work her way into the forum. Therest of her personality was true, maybe, butthose things were a lie.

Catfish isn’t that, exactly. But it made methink about Cassie for the first time in years.

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CatfishDir. Ariel Schulmanand Henry Joost

video game review

There’s a moment early on in Dead Space 2 whereyou watch from a doorway as a man drags awoman towards another door, offscreen, whilethe woman screams, “I won’t leave my motherin there!” Soon, your character, Isaac Clarke, isstanding in the same spot she was, faced with achoice to either push forward or turn aroundand investigate the ominously open doorwayof the room she was screaming at.

There’s another moment where Isaac, need-ing to get through a zero-gravity trash com-pactor, launches himself into a tunnel throughwhich compressed garbage is hurtling. He doesthis without once firing his pistol – sorry,“plasma cutter” – and yet he manages to feel ex-traordinarily badass.

This is the balance of Dead Space 2, a gamethat is basically Aliens to its predecessor’s Alien.While that game had you exploring a dank in-dustrial mining ship and focused almost entirelyon making you completely paranoid and alone,its sequel – well, you’re still paranoid and alone,but you’re exploring a space station, and so yourun into its living residents a little more often.They’re not always friendly but they’re a more

interesting and varied bunch than in the firstgame.

It’s also still totally nerve-wracking. Thesound and lighting are remarkable, able to con-vey exactly the right amount of dread. You cannever tell if that clanking noise above your headis just part of the environment, or if it’s a horri-fying Necromorph, a reanimated dead bodywith seriously gross anatomical problems and apenchant for bursting through roof, wall, andfloor panels.

While you’re a little better equipped to dealwith the Necromorphs this time, and while thepacing has improved, and while Isaac has beengiven a bog-standard gruff space hero voice, thegame still wants to freak you out. It’s too badthat the plot is occasionally incomprehensible –something about space Scientologists and aweird alien artifact that simultaneously seems tocause and stop the Necromorph outbreak – be-cause the atmosphere of the game is absolutelyspot-on.

Also spot-on, surprisingly, is the multi-player. It’s tense in the way Left 4 Dead is, askingteams of humans and teams of Necromorphs toduke it out over various objectives. Playing it re-veals that the developers, Visceral Games,cribbed a lot from Valve to make this game, butthat’s good; like the first Dead Space, the sequel’sinfluences are on its sleeve, and it wears themwell.

kotaku.com

Dead Space 2Electronic ArtsXbox 360

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cd reviews

Hotel of the Laughing TreeTerror and Everything AfterBrookvale Records

The debut release from Long Island sextet Hotelof the Laughing Tree, Terror and Everything After,can be summarized into two words: “nailed it”.The high-energy, electric pop-rock has an edgyand upfront feel to it for the majority of the al-

bum. Despite boasting fourteen tracks, listenerinterest is easily maintained throughout the en-tirety of the record; it’s very dynamic, encom-passing a mixture of rocking electric guitar riffs,hypnotic vocal harmonies, and singing pianoarpeggios. Songs feel more linear than cyclical,starting in one place and ending up in anotherrather than repeating a verse/chorus/verse tem-plate. Nevertheless, Hotel of the Laughing Treeknow how to write and place a hook that keepsthe audience engaged in the music, as Terror andEverything After is full of them. That’s probablythe biggest strength of this fantastic debut album– the ability to mix a motivated song structurethat’s anything but stagnant with catchy hooksthat draw the listener in.

paul bogdan a&c writer

The DecemberistsThe King is DeadCapitol

The Decemberists have, over the course of fivealbums and three EPs, become America’s fore-most purveyors of elaborately constructed, liter-ate, and Anglophilic folk-art-rock. That’s a veryparticular niche, but one that they’ve perfected

working in over the years. The King is Dead, theirthird album since jumping to a major label, is asmajor a departure as a low-key folk album canbe, trading in the prog aspirations of The CraneWife and The Hazards of Love for a newfound fo-cus on American folk music and a stripped-down, no-nonsense approach to songwriting.Most of all, though, The King is Dead is TheDecemberists’ most out-and-out gorgeous al-bum. Colin Meloy’s reedy delivery and verboselyrical flourishes are subtly refined here, makinghis harmonies with guest vocalist Gillian Welchon tracks like “June Hymn” send shivers downthe spine. The album is perhaps most reminis-cent of the band’s first record, Castaways andCutouts, in its stripped-down focus. Unlike thatalbum, however, The King is Dead lacks any ofthe quirky affectations that have made TheDecemberists stand out – nothing close to a seashanty here. But it’s hard to argue with this new-found maturity when it produces such solidsongcraft.

matthew blackwelltech coordinator

Teen TopTransformT.O.P. Media

Korean records are much different than those inthe West. Artists will put out one or two releasesa year. Those usually consist of only five songs,

three being mostly instrumental. This continuesuntil the artist gains enough popularity or recog-nition to produce an album with more songs orwith the same amount but no instrumentals.Teen Top are still little fish in the big sea of theK-pop industry. So ignore the three instrumen-tal tracks on Transform and focus your attentionon the fast-paced, catchy rhythms of “Supa Luv”and “Angel”. Although the Autotune drownsout their voices at times, you can still clearlyhear their budding talent through the electronicbeats. Compared to their debut album, ComeInto The World, they’ve certainly tried a new ap-proach. With the softer and more BackstreetBoys-feeling “Angel”, this new approach leadsthem away from the strong lyrics and emotion oftheir first album. And that’s not a good thing.Transform is good for something catchy to danceto but if you’re looking for lyrics and emotion I’ddefinitely backtrack to their older music.

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Jeff Lukomski has a record 1,430 career points for the Cougars, eight more than the previous record holder, Glen Nelson

For Jeff Lukomski it was a night to re-member, but for the team, it was oneto forget.

The University of Regina Cougarsmen’s basketball team found them-selves up against a powerhouse squadlast Friday night, as the University ofBritish Columbia Thunderbirds werein town to take on the Cougars inCanada West action at the Centre forKinesiology, Health and Sport. Reginacame into the game with a 12-6 record,while UBC was riding a 12-game win-ning streak and sported an impressive16-2 record.

The Cougars knew that theywould have to be firing on all cylin-ders in order to bypass UBC, whileLukomski knew that he needed justsix more points to bypass Glen Nelsonfor the school’s all-time scoring record.He would accomplish this feat.

“It’s great for anyone to break arecord and it’s certainly a milestonefor him and something that he shouldbe proud of,” said Cougars assistantcoach Darcy McKeown of Lukomski’srecord-breaking night. “It wasn’t his

best game and he certainly wouldhave liked to have done more for theteam element, but it’s special any timeanyone breaks a record, so it’s good.”Regina was never able to get its of-fence going against the Thunderbirds,generating just 10 points in the firstquarter. The Cougars quickly foundthemselves down by as many as 30points early in the first half.

The only bright spot of the firsthalf, and likely the game, came earlyin the second quarter when Lukomskihit a fade-away three to land him yetanother spot in the school’s recordbooks. He already holds the record formost career three-pointers.

Lukomski’s record-breaking shotwas one of the only plays the crowdhad to cheer about on Friday night asthings quickly spiraled out of controlfor the Cougars. Regina went into halftime trailing UBC by a score of 32-60and the game already seemed to befar out of reach for the home team.

Although the team never gave upcompletely, the deficit was simply toomuch for the team to overcome.

Mark Donarowicz tried to con-tribute as much as he could forRegina, finishing the night off with ateam high 19 points and nine re-

bounds. Paul Gareau and Lukomskiboth ended up with 13 points apiece inthe loss. Lukomski’s 13 points nowputs the record at 1,430.

“Overall it was OK, it was a prettytough matchup” McKeown offered onthe team’s lacklustre performance.“UBC is number two in the country,but guys like Downarowicz played areally great game and battled hard.”Even though he was able to get therecord in front of his hometowncrowd, like any player Lukomskiknows that personal achievements arenothing if the team isn’t doing well.The final score on night one was a dis-mal 111-67. Regina had not given upmore points in a game since 2002.

Although the loss was not byquite as large of a margin, the finalscore on Saturday’s was 95-59, onceagain in UBC’s favour. Downarowiczwas the team’s leading scorer for thesecond night in a row, adding 13points in the loss, while MattCampbell and Lukomski both chippedin with eight points each.

Brent Malish was the offensiveforce for the Thunderbirds on nighttwo of the weekend series, as headded a career-high 33 points. JoshWhyte, the reigning conference most

valuable player, added 21 points onnight one and 14 points on night twoin order to propel the Thunderbirds to18-2, first in the conference.

Despite the tough games, theCougars will have to move forward.

“We’ve got a number of toughgames left,” McKeown noted. “Weneed to get better with execution andplay physical in those games as wehead into the playoffs.”

With the weekend series com-plete, Regina’s record slipped to 12-8,but they have clinched a post-seasonberth.

Although this weekend was sup-posed to be all about Lukomski andhis record-breaking performance, thepoor outcomes for the team overshad-owed his personal victory.

Regina battles the SaskatchewanHuskies Thursday, Feb 10 at 8 p.m. atthe CKHS, then travel to Saskatoonon Saturday in the back end of thehome-and-home. The Cougars willfinish off the regular season at homewhen they take on the ManitobaBisons on Feb. 18 and 19, as they lookto gain some momentum before head-ing into the playoffs.

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all-timeleadingscorersJeff Lukomski (2006-11)Games Played: 99Points: 1,430

Glen Nelson(1980-85)Games Played: 79Points: 1,422

Tyler Wright(1998-02; 03-04)Games Played: 93Points: 1,406

Chris Biegler(1985-89)Games Played: 59Points: 1,362

Joel Hunter(2001-06)Games Played: 99Points: 1,359

“ It’s great for anyone to breaka record and it’s certainly amilestone for him and some-thing that he should be proudof.”

Darcy McKeown

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Playoff positions were on the line forthe University of Regina Cougarswomen’s basketball team last week-end.

The team took on the Universityof British Columbia Thunderbirds atthe Centre for Kinesiology, Healthand Sport in a pair of Canada Westgames.

The Cougars came into the gamein sole possession of second place inthe CIS top ten rankings. They werealso just one game behind theSaskatchewan Huskies for first andwere holding a slim one-game leadover the Winnipeg Wesmen. In orderfor the Cougars to stay among the toptwo teams in the standings, bringinghome two wins would be very im-portant.

“That was probably our secondbest game of the year” said headcoach Dave Taylor of the girl’s 85-54victory on Friday night. “That was acomplete game.”

Many of the spectators in atten-dance were there to watch JoannaZalesiak in action. Zalesiak is the con-ference’s leading scorer, averaging16.8 points per game and is also ru-moured to be named player of theyear.

Zalesiak did not disappoint theCougar fans as she finished off thenight with 22 points, while showingimpressive and unselfish passing.Zalesiak got things going early in thefirst quarter, which helped theCougars secure a 29-15 lead after just10 minutes of play. Lindsay

Ledingham and Gabrielle Gheyssencontributed largely in the secondquarter. The Cougars walked into thedressing room with a 43-35 point leadand never looked back.

It was more of the same for theCougars in the second half. Greatscoring chances, combined withpretty passing and hot shooting, al-lowed the Cougars to run away withthe game. The Cougars were neverfazed by the skill of UBC and heldthe lead the entire game. They weresimply the better team that night.

Gheyssen finished off the nightwith a total of six three-pointers andbecame only the second Cougar toever sink six from beyond the arc in aCanada West contest. Taylor couldn’tsay enough good things about howhis team played on Friday night.

“We have had trouble with slowstarts this season, sometimes givingup 20 points, and that was somethingwe really wanted to work on thisweekend.”

In order for the team to keep pro-gressing and earn a trip to nationalsTaylor believes that consistency willbe most important.

“We have to have games like thatall the time,” he said. “We can be asgood as any team in the countrywhen we play well like that, butwhen we don’t play well we can loseto a lot of teams too.”

Regina proved to be a consistentteam on Saturday, taking it to theThunderbirds and earning them-selves another W. Although the vic-tory did not come as easy for theCougars on night two, they stillended up on top by a score of 75-69.

With the weekend behind them,

the Cougars improve their record to17-3 and remain in sole possession ofsecond place. The Cougars will takeon their provincial rivals, theSaskatoon Huskies (18-2), in a home-and-home series this week before fin-ishing the regular season off at homeagainst the Manitoba Bisons (6-14) onFeb. 18 and 19. On Thursday,Saskatchewan comes to the CKHS fora 6:15 p.m. game. Regina will thenmake the trip into hostile territory onSaturday. These two games will be avery good indicator of how the toptwo teams stack up against each otherso close to playoff time.

If the Cougars are able to performwell against the Huskies, it will givethem the added confidence to reachtheir goal.

“We have said it from the begin-ning,” explained Taylor. “We want towin a national championship.”

U of R SportsRoundupCougars women’s volleyball teamprepares to battle for their play-off lives

HHeeaattiinngg uupp ddoowwnntthhee ssttrreettcchhJoanna Zalesiak helps Cougars women’sbasketball team sweep UBC

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The Cougars remain second in Canada West, setting up a huge showdown this week against first-placeSaskatchewan

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““[Friday’sgame] was proba-bly our secondbest game of theyear. That was acomplete game.”

Dave Taylor

Track and Field

The Cougars were golden last week-end.

Five Regina athletes came awaywith first place finishes at the BisonClassic in Winnipeg. ConnorMacDonald (men’s high jump),David Walford (men’s triple jump),Chris Pickering (shot put), NicoleBreker (women’s triple jump) andShalane Haselhan (women’s highjump) all took home gold.

The Cougars also broke threeschool records at the meet.

Merissa Margetts posted a 39.14second time in the 300-metre dash,breaking her own school record, put-ting up the second fastest time in theCIS this season, and automaticallyqualifying for nationals. Thewomen’s 4X200m relay team alsobroke their own record. The team –comprised of Margetts, KelseyBohachewski, Amanda Ruller, andChelsea Valois – finished in 1:40.64.The men’s 4X800m relay team had atime of eight minutes, .5 seconds.

The Cougars are in action at theQueen City Kinsmen Indoor Classicthis Friday at the Regina Fieldhouse.The time of the event was unavail-able at press time.

Women’s Volleyball

It all comes down to this weekendfor the Cougars if they hope to makethe playoffs.

Currently tied for the seventhand final playoff spot in Canada Westwith the Winnipeg Wesmen at 6-10,the Cougars will need to better theirrival’s performance this weekend toadvance.

While the Wesmen currentlyhold the tiebreaker over Regina, itappears the Cougars have the advan-tage based on the schedule. Theyhost the Saskatchewan Huskies (2-14) this weekend, Friday at 6:15 p.m.and Saturday at 8 p.m., both at theCentre for Kinesiology, Health andSport, while Winnipeg welcomes theBrandon Bobcats (9-7) to town.

Regina did its playoff chances nofavours last weekend, dropping apair of road games to the UBCThunderbirds in straight sets. OnFriday, they fell 25-18, 25-15, 25-16.Meagan Onstad had eight kills and11 digs for the Cougars, which got sixkills and seven blocks from MichelleSweeting. The next day Winnipeg tri-umphed 25-20, 25-14, 25-21. Onstadtallied 10 kills for Regina, whileRoxanne Olynyk recorded nine digsand four blocks.

Women’s Curling

Brooklyn Lemon’s U of R curlingsquad settled for sixth at the 24th an-nual Winter World UniversityGames, held from Jan. 28 – Feb. 5, inErzurum, Turkey.The team – also comprised of thirdChelsey Peterson, second AshleyGreen, lead Nicole Lang, and alter-nate Sarah Watamanuk – finished theround-robin with a respectablerecord of 4-5, but it was not enoughto advance. After winning the CISCurling Championships last Marchin Edmonton, Lemon’s rink hadearned the right to represent Canadaat the event.

Men’s Hockey

On thin ice heading into last week’sCanada West action, the Cougars fellthrough.

Regina dropped a pair of roadgames to the Alberta Golden Bears(15-5-2) to fall out of playoff con-tention.

On Friday, Regina fell by a 5-3count. Dillon Johnstone, with twogoals, and Cody Zubko scored forthe Cougars, while Adam Wardturned aside 43 shots. The Cougarsfell 4-1 on Saturday. TerranceDeLaronde scored for Regina, whichgot 47 saves from Ward.

Regina plays its final homegames on the season this weekendagainst the Calgary Dinos (13-8-2) onFriday and Saturday. Each game isat 7 p.m. at the Co-operators Centre.

Men’s Volleyball

Another disappointing season forRegina is coming to an end.

After dropping a pair of CanadaWest road games to UBC (7-9) lastweekend, the Cougars will play theirfinal two games of the season onFriday and Saturday againstSaskatchewan (1-15), at 8 p.m. thefirst night and 6:15 p.m. the secondnight, at the CKHS.

In last Friday’s 11-25, 27-25, 23-25, 19-25 loss to UBC, Jamie Wilkinshad 16 kills for the Cougars, whichgot 35 assists and 10 digs from CalebEschbach, six blocks from DrewSmith, and three blocks from JoelColter. The next day, in a 22-25, 15-25,26-24, 20-25 loss, Taylor Andersonhad 12 kills and 10 digs for theCougars, who also got nine kills fromBrody Waddell and Jamie Wilkins.

Men’s and Women’sWrestling

The Cougars are competing at theCanada West Championships inSaskatoon this weekend.

The men are in action on Fridayand the women take to the mats onSaturday.

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DDooiinngg hheerr bbeesstt ttoo ssaavvee tthhee ddaayyLisa Urban was solid in net for the struggling Cougars women’shockey team this season

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Urban has posted has posted a 3-6-0 record, with a 4.09 goals-against average and a .876 save percentage on the season

The first goal Lisa Urban allowed thisseason was a memorable one.

The University of ReginaCougars women’s hockey startinggoaltender was in net as the Cougarsbattled the visiting Calgary Dinos intheir Canada West season opener inOctober. Besides the excitement of anew season getting underway, therewas a buzz in the Co-operatorsCentre due to the debut of HayleyWickenheiser. Wickenheiser, the leg-endary Canadian women’s hockeyplayer, had made the decision tocome back to school and play hockeyfor the Dinos at the age of 32.

Well, it didn’t take Wickenheiserlong to introduce herself to Urban. Alittle less than nine minutes into thefirst period, Wickenheiser netted thefirst goal of the game and her first inthe CIS on the powerplay. It’s notevery day a player gets scored on byan icon they have watched growingup, especially one who has picked upthree gold and one silver WinterOlympic medals, while being namedthe tournament most valuable playertwice.

“I wouldn’t exactly consider it aspecial moment,” said a chucklingUrban, whose Cougars were sweptby the visiting Alberta Pandas (16-3-3) last weekend. “It was strange tolook up and see a national teamplayer shooting on me. She’s defi-nitely made a huge impact on thatteam.”

Bittersweet moments like thoseones have really defined the season

for Urban. While the fourth-year ki-nesiology and health studies studenthas played brilliantly at times, it hasoften been in a losing cause. Urban’splay was simply not enough to savethe season for Regina. At 7-13-2, theCougars have been eliminated frompost-season contention.

“It’s definitely disappointing,”said Urban, who was born inEdmonton and played with theAlberta Major Midget Female HockeyLeague’s Edmonton Thunder beforejoining the Cougars. “Our teamshould have had a better fate. I thinkthere are a lot of things that con-tributed to that. Some games sort ofgot taken away from us because ofthings we can’t control, like the refs.It’s not what we wanted to happen.”

Urban’s numbers this seasonhave not been exactly glamorous. Shehas posted a 3-6-0 record, with a 4.09goals-against average and a .876 savepercentage. Yet, Cougars head coachSarah Hodges is still confident in hergoaltender’s abilities. Before the sea-son started, Hodges revealed that shefelt Urban was one of the best goaliesin the conference, if not the entirecountry.

“I stand by that assessment,” saidHodges. “She’s had some ups anddowns this season, but overall I thinkshe is capable of being one of the topgoalies in our league.”

Urban appreciates the senti-ments.

“That’s really flattering that shesaid that,” said Urban, referring tothe best goaltender in the confer-ence/country comment. “I think, justlike any other goalie, I need to workat it every single practice and game. I

think I have potential to be one of thebest, but I don’t like to let things likethat get to my head.”

Two factors that very well couldhave contributed to Urban’s so-sonumbers so far this season are pres-sure and minutes played. Pressure-wise, Urban has had to deal withnearly 30 shots a game, making 577saves (second in the CIS) in theprocess. Shaky play by the defencehas not helped her out in this depart-ment. Time-wise, Urban has started21 games (first in the CIS), rackingup 1,203 minutes (third in the CIS).The fact that the Cougars have an in-experienced backup in rookieMorgan Cooper has made it neces-sary for Urban to play more often.

There are certainly bigger factorsthan goaltending that have con-tributed to Regina’s struggles thisseason. The offence, for example, putup 19 points in the first six games andhas proceeded to register only 25 inthe 17 games that have followed.Regina started off the season with a 4-1-1 record before submerging into anepic freefall.

The point is, while there are def-initely areas on the Cougars rosteryou could point fingers at, Urbanshould not be one of them.

“Her numbers don’t really mat-ter,” said Hodges. “She’s been solidfor most of the season. As a goal-tender, she is very quick and can getherself in position to make stops allthe time. Because she’s in good posi-tion, she has pretty good reboundcontrol. Mentally, she is a prettystrong person as well. She’s alwayshad very good maturity from her firstyear and on.”

It is not hard to see why Hodgeswould have the utmost faith inUrban. After all, Urban has been thestarting goaltender for Regina most ofthe time she has been with the squad.In Urban’s first season back in 2007-08, she took over as the starting goalieafter the midway point of the season.Amazingly, Urban went on to sport a4-5 record in 10 games played, with a1.76 GAA (second-lowest in U of Rhistory), a .927 save percentage andone shutout. Urban notes she “sur-prised herself and had an amazingseason.” Since then, Urban has con-tinued to be the team’s starting goal-tender and has logged a lot of playingtime.

Entering her last campaign withRegina next season, Urban will con-tinue to be a player the Cougars needto rely on, especially if they hope toimprove. There will be pressure onUrban to perform at her highest.

“I don’t mind the pressure,” shesaid. “I feel I have the ability to stealgames for our team and I expect thatof myself every single game. I lookforward to the challenge of being thatgoalie that can pull out wins for ourteam.”

While Regina was swept lastweekend by Alberta, it was anotherset of solid outings for Urban, whomade a total of 68 saves. In Friday’s 3-1 loss, Urban turned 39 shots. StefanieBanilevic tallied the lone goal for theCougars. Urban made 29 more saveson Saturday, as Alberta triumphed 6-2. Rianne Wight and Kendra Finchscored for Regina.

The Cougars finish off their sea-son this weekend on the road againstthe Lethbridge Pronghorns (4-15-3).

jonathan hamelinsports editor Strong effort

in a losingcause

Jan. 7/11 atSaskatchewanUrban made 41 savesRegina lost 2-1

Feb. 4/11 vs. AlbertaUrban made 39 savesRegina lost 3-1

Nov. 27/10 at CalgaryUrban made 31 savesRegina lost 7-3

Feb. 5/11 vs. AlbertaUrban made 29 savesRegina lost 6-2

Nov. 19/10 vs.LethbridgeUrban made 29 savesRegina lost 4-3 in over-time

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16 sports the carillonFeb. 10-16, 2011

LLeett wwoommeenn ggeettpphhyyssiiccaallOutlawing physicality in women’s hockeyis sexist and makes for a boring game

EDMONTON (CUP) — In a late-January match between theUniversity of Calgary Dinos and theAlberta Pandas, fifth-year Panda cap-tain Leah Copeland, streaking intothe offensive zone to recover thepuck, body-checked Erin Rennison ofthe Dinos hard into the boards.

It was a clean check that, in anyother league, would elicit a loudcheer, with a loose puck squirting freeto continue the Pandas’ rush. But in-stead of creating an opportunity,Copeland would serve two minutesin the penalty box, forcing her team toplay short-handed at a critical pointof an inter-provincial match withplayoff implications on the line.

In women’s hockey, body check-ing results in a two-minute minorpenalty and is one of the few thingsseparating the female game from themen’s games.

It’s an outdated regulation theCIS should change in order to createmore equality for the players whotake to the ice every weekend.

Hockey is a physical sport. Heftyplayers use their bodies to dominatepuck possession or force turnovers,while smaller players are forced to

use their speed in order to make upfor their lack of physical dominance –it’s the great détente of the hockeyworld.

But in women’s hockey, no suchbalance exists. Fast players are re-warded for their speed, while largerplayers are forced to try to keep up,unable to cash in on their imposingpresence.

Body checking is part of thegame, and to deny it on the women’sside seems, at the very least, puzzlingand sexist.

And it isn’t as though the physi-cal side effects don’t apply to bothmen and women. While those effectsmay differ between the sexes, it’sridiculous to disallow one side butnot the other.

If we’re going to protect studentathletes, let’s protect them all equally.If we’re going to allow rough physicalcontact, let’s open it up to everyone.

Officials from the CIS claim theyare simply following the regulationsput forward by Hockey Canada, whoin turn cite the disparity betweenhockey nations as some sort of expla-nation for the ban on body checking.The argument goes that Canada andthe U.S. would dominate competi-tions even more than they currentlydo if more physical contact were al-lowed.

Hockey Canada also cites a lack

of pressure from its member associa-tions as a sort of “if it’s not broken,don’t fix it” situation to keep the cur-rent body-checking ban on the books.

That’s not to say there’s no phys-ical contact in women’s hockey.Incidental bumps are not frownedupon, and a variation of basketball’spick-and-roll is often employed.

However, it’s time the CIS take asecond look at the body-checkingrule. Allowing the men’s teams tothrow hip checks, while protectingthe female players from physical dan-ger seems very quaint – almost 19thcentury quaint.

I want to see Copeland throwingbig hits at centre ice on top of pottinggame-winning goals. Pandas forwardAlana Cabana has been on a scoringstreak in the second half of the sea-son, but would be an even biggerforce on the ice if she could stand upopponents in the neutral zone andmake them think twice about skatingup with the puck.

The difference in regulations ismaintained throughout every level ofhockey in Canada. But this is the uni-versity level, where progressive atti-tudes are supposed to triumph. Let’ssee some forward thinking prevailand shake the hell out of the boardsall across the country.

justin bellgateway (university ofalberta)

sportsshooter.ca

If men are allowed to use their size and strength to their advantage on the ice, so should women

Canada West standings As of Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011

Men’s Basketball

W L PTSUBC * 18 2 36Trinity Western * 19 3 38Saskatchewan * 16 4 32Victoria * 15 7 30Alberta * 14 8 28Regina * 12 8 24Manitoba 9 11 18Calgary 8 12 16UFV 7 13 14Lethbridge 5 15 10Brandon 4 16 8TRU 4 18 8Winnipeg 3 17 6

*clinched playoff spotTop eight teams make playoffs

Men’s Hockey

W L OTL PTSAlberta 15 5 2 32Saskatchewan 15 7 0 30Calgary 13 8 2 28Manitoba 11 7 4 26Lethbridge 9 8 4 22UBC 9 11 4 22Regina 7 15 2 16

Top four teams make playoffs

Men’s Volleyball

W L PTSCalgary * 16 0 32Alberta * 15 1 30Trinity Western * 11 5 22Manitoba * 11 5 22Brandon * 8 8 16Thompson Rivers * 7 9 14UBC * 7 9 14Winnipeg 2 14 4Regina 2 14 4Saskatchewan 1 15 2

*clinched playoff spotTop seven teams make playoffs

Women’s Basketball

W L PTSSaskatchewan * 18 2 36Regina * 17 3 34Winnipeg * 16 4 32Alberta * 15 7 30Victoria * 15 7 30UBC * 13 7 26Calgary 10 10 20Thompson Rivers 9 13 18UFV 8 12 16Manitoba 6 14 12Lethbridge 4 16 8Trinity Western 3 19 6Brandon 0 20 0

*clinched playoff spotTop eight teams make playoffs

Women’s Hockey

W L OTL PTSAlberta * 16 3 3 35Calgary * 16 6 2 34Manitoba * 14 5 3 31Saskatchewan * 14 7 1 29Regina 7 13 2 16UBC 7 14 1 15Lethbridge 4 15 3 11

*clinched playoff spotTop four teams make playoffs

Women’s Volleyball

W L PTSUBC * 13 3 26Trinity Western * 13 3 26Alberta * 10 6 20Manitoba * 10 6 20Brandon * 9 7 18Calgary * 9 7 18Winnipeg 6 10 12Regina 6 10 12Saskatchewan 2 14 4Thompson Rivers 2 14 4

*clinched playoff spotTop seven teams make playoffs

sports 17the carillonFeb. 10-16, 2011

KKeeiitthh iiss ssttiillll tthhee mmaannEven with sights set on the NFL, the running back remembers his roots

When Kenton Keith first signed withthe Saskatchewan Roughriders in2003, many football fans thoughtthat the former New Mexico Statestandout was one of the best if notthe best running backs to ever suitup for the Green and White.

Fortunately for Roughrider fanseverywhere, there’s a chance thatKeith may be back in Saskatchewanfor a second tour of duty in the verynear future.

After suffering a pair of lowerbody injuries in his lone campaignwith the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Keith,30, decided to sit the 2010 season out– despite the pleas of a number ofboth CFL and NFL squads that weretrying to lure Keith back onto thefield.

Now back at 100 per cent, Keithis ready to get back into professionalfootball.

“Right now I’m doing most of

my workouts with the NFL, but I’mactually coming up to Saskatchewanon the 18th for my son’s birthdayand I’m trying to schedule a work-out for Saskatchewan – something tofall back on if nothing else works,”Keith explained over the telephone.

Although Keith is quick to pointout that Saskatchewan is, for all in-tents and purposes, a backup plan tohis aspirations of returning to theNFL, the Lincoln, Neb. product isquick to show respect to the CFL andoffer assurance that he would bemore than happy to be back with theGreen and White for 2011.

“Honestly, it’s just as hard foran American guy to get into the CFLas it is for the NFL,” offered Keith.“[The CFL is] pretty well known,now – these last couple of years it’sbeen getting bigger and bigger inthe States. Kudos to the CFL.

“I honestly think the CFL is a lotfunner. The NFL is cool because youget paid more, if that’s the way youwant to look at it, but overall, theCFL is a lot more fun ... When I

played for Saskatchewan, it wassome of the best years of my wholecareer, man. We had a real tight-knitteam and we were like family – thecoaches, the GM, and the staff,everybody was just like family,man.”

A member of the Roughridersfrom 2003 through the 2006 season,it didn’t take long for Keith to es-tablish himself both as one of thepremier running-backs in the CFLand has one of the league’s most ex-citing athletes.

Incredibly quick, shifty, and ag-ile, with a prowess for making de-fenders look silly – YouTube“Kenton Keith vs. Rob Hitchcock”if you need proof – Keith wasSaskatchewan’s go-to-guy for bigplays on offence throughout the ma-jority of his career with theRoughriders.

Statistics-wise, in four seasonsin Saskatchewan, Keith racked upnearly 5,000 all-purpose yards and29 touchdowns, all the while, andperhaps most impressively, neveraveraging fewer than six yards percarry a season.

Interestingly enough, as Keithexplained, his experience inSaskatchewan nearly didn’t happenat all.

“I actually didn’t even knowabout the CFL when I came out [ofcollege],” recalled Keith. “When Ididn’t get drafted to the NFL, I hadjust had shoulder surgery so I waskind of discouraged and I went backhome. I started working a job deal-ing with mentally-challenged peo-ple and I worked there for a monthand I saw this SaskatchewanRoughriders contract on my tableand I was like, ‘What the hell is this?’– I couldn’t even pronounce it.

“I was like, ‘it must be some-body trying to get me to come train.’I didn’t even look at it. I pushed it tothe side for two weeks. I went towork, then at work I got fed up andI went on break and never cameback ... ever [laughs]. I went home,looking in the trash, like, ‘where’sthis contract at,’ then I found it and

that’s how I got to the CFL.”After parting ways with the

Roughriders following four veryproductive campaigns, Keith signeda contract to play under the tutelageof Tony Dungy with theIndianapolis Colts in 2007, therebyfollowing the same path as his fa-ther Percy Keith and cousins RogerCraig and Ahman Green.

When given the opportunity toplay in the NFL, Keith immediatelystood out, even in the company oflegends of the sport like PeytonManning, Marvin Harrison, andReggie Wayne.

As a member of the 12-win AFCSouth division champion Colts,Keith primarily served as a backupto starting tail-back Joseph Addai.Despite predominantly serving as asituational player, Keith still pickedup over 600 all-purpose yards andfour touchdowns.

Although Keith, no doubt, planson getting back into the NFL – at thetime of the interview he was enroute to Dallas to speak with Dungyand a number of interested NFL ballclubs during the league’s annualSuper Bowl festivities – there’s nodoubt that Roughrider fans every-where would want the former two-time CFL West all-star to come backfor another run at a Grey CupChampionship or two inSaskatchewan.

Moreover, if Keith’s attitude to-wards the CFL is any indication, itseems that he wouldn’t have a prob-lem with a second stint inSaskatchewan either.

“I’ve got much love for theCFL,” Keith said. “I’m actuallyworking out with a guy up here, hisname is Courtney Smith and heplays with Winnipeg. I’ve beenworking out with him for a coupleweeks and we just talk about theCFL, how people need to give theCFL more credit, and just how funthe game is. The overall game in theCFL is a lot more fun and it’s not ashard on your brain. It’s less politicaland you can actually just be your-self.”

ed kappnews writer

canada.com

OvertimeKeith on the prospect of playing inthe NBA: “Yeah, I could’ve been there.I had letters to go to Temple andSyracuse and a couple other D-1schools. but I just didn’t take advan-tage of it because I knew that I had abetter opportunity to play football.”

Keith on getting snubbed by the NFLcoming out of college: “It was a learn-ing process. I never take things forgranted. I’m the type of person thatthinks that everything happens for areason and it makes you stronger andbetter. If I made the NFL I wouldn’teven be having this conversation withyou right now.”

Keith on not being a part ofSaskatchewan’s 2007 Grey Cup-win-ning squad: “Nah, I don’t regret it,man. Would you regret going to theNFL instead of getting a Grey Cupring?”

Keith on playing with future NFLhall of famer Peyton Manning: “Ithink he’s real good. I think what sep-arates Peyton from most of the quar-terbacks I’ve played with is that heknows the defences. There’s no waythat you can really out-think him.With the Colts, we called at least threeplays in the huddle, so we always hadthe option to change things. We al-ways had the upper hand.”

Keith on his welcome to the NFL mo-ment: “When I spiked the ball the firsttime I got a touchdown against TampaBay, it was like it was destined to hap-pen. As soon as I spiked the ball, thebomb went off and it was just crazy[laughs].”

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18 sports the carillonFeb. 10-16, 2011

After making it to the EasternConference final in 2010, the MontrealCanadiens are back in a playoff spotand poised to make some noise.

Despite key injuries, theCanadiens have played relativelywell this season. Currently, they findthemselves neck and neck with theBoston Bruins for the NortheastDivision lead.

This is largely thanks to the playof 23-year-old goaltender, CareyPrice.

With the departure of goaltenderJaroslav Halak in June, the Canadienscame into this season with manyquestion marks in net. However,Price, a 2005 first-round draft pick,has been stellar in net and has stolenmany games for the Canadiens.Through 47 games, Price has posted aleague-leading 26 wins, five shutoutsand a .922 save percentage.

This season’s Habs looks similarto the team that made a miraculousplayoff run last May. With a few addi-tions this season and some fine-tun-ing, the Habs hope to make a similarrun this year, but it will be tough con-sidering their injury situation. Bothdefencemen Josh Gorges and AndreiMarkov suffered season ending kneeinjuries and sniper Mike Cammalleriis currently out with a separatedshoulder.

The Canadiens will need captainBrian Gionta and other players likeAndrei Kostitsyn and TomasPlekanec to step up. Secondary scor-ing from guys like Benoit Pouliot andMax Pacioretty would also be highlybeneficial. Young defenceman P.K.Subban and Yannick Weber havebeen turning in solid performances

and the Habs hope this continues.Not mentioned above is Scott

Gomez, the 7.3 million-dollar-for-ward, perhaps the most overpaidplayer in the NHL. With just 27 pts in51 games and a -9 rating, he will needto be better. In what many call a panicmove by former Montreal generalmanager Bob Gainey, Gomez was ac-quired in June 2009 prior to the entrydraft from the New York Rangers.Going to the Rangers was forwardChris Higgins and prospect defence-man Ryan McDonagh.

In Montreal, Gomez has yet toprove he is worth the steep price tag.The only justification for acquiringhim at this point is the possibility thatit may have attracted free agent for-wards Gionta and Cammalleri. As aonce great playmaking center, maybethe Habs just need another scoringwinger to compliment Gomez’s greatpassing skills.

This year’s trade deadline is stilla major question mark in Montreal.While it is unlikely the team will besellers, it is unclear whether generalmanager Pierre Gauthier is willing topart with valuable assets in order tomake this team a legitimate threat.Earlier in the year, to replace Gorges,Gauthier acquired offensive defense-men James Wisniewski from the NewYork Islanders. In return, theCanadiens only gave up a secondround compensatory pick. It was agreat move for the Habs. For once itfeels like they were the team who did-n’t get hosed in a trade.

Thus far, Wisniewski has done agood job in filling the skates ofGorges, but Markov, who is in mymind a top-10 defenceman in thisleague, will be very hard to replace.At a $5.75 million price tag, Markovwas a bargain and a great puck mov-ing defenceman who led one of the

league’s most potent power plays.The loss of Markov is no doubt huge,but the Canadiens were able to makeit to the conference final without himlast year and it is possible they will doit again.

Recently, the Canadiens havebeen rumoured to be interested inFlorida Panthers centre StephenWeiss. If the Canadiens can add ascoring forward like Weiss, and theycan get Gionta, Cammalleri, andGomez firing on all cylinders, theywill be very hard to stop. In lastyear’s playoffs, Cammalleri notched15 goals while leading the team inscoring. This team has a lot of provenplayoff performers.

If Montreal can get hot at theright time, look out. A puck-movingdefenceman is also a need that has tobe filled, but Subban has stepped upand minimized the effects of the lossof Markov.

Going forward, it is beneficialthat the Canadiens finish sixth orhigher in the conference standings.Drawing a first-round matchupagainst a big, tough, and skilledPhiladelphia Flyers team is some-thing the Canadiens do not need.Aside from the Flyers, I feel theCanadiens are good enough to beatany team in the East. If the playersonce again buy into coach JacquesMartin’s defensive system, they havea very good chance of being success-ful in the post-season.

Only time will tell if theCanadiens will once again return totheir former glory, but Gainey had re-turned the team to respectability and,in the past five years, the Canadiensare one of the league leaders in play-off games played. As a fan, that’s allanyone can ask for.

The Toronto Raptors were finallyable to snap their awful 13-game los-ing streak last Friday against the vis-iting Minnesota Timberwolves.

While this may have been a bigwin for the woeful Raptors, who im-proved to 14-37 at the time, in hind-sight it came against a team with aneven worse record of 11-39. I thinkthis matchup was a prime example ofwhat Miami Heat star LeBron Jameswas talking about when he referredto the NBA in the 80s as not being “aswatered down as it is [now].”

While the Raptors are strugglingmightily right now, are they reallyan example of a watered-down team?

As of right now, that statementwould be hard to argue against forRaptors fans, but the future outlookdoes look promising. The Raptorsthink they have potential for the fu-ture with the likes of Demar Derozan,

Ed Davis, and Jerryd Bayless and canonly hope the draft is very kind tothem along the way.

Derozan has the potential to be avery good player. He is already get-ting attention from American jour-nalists this season (not easy to do)and is participating in both the slam-dunk completion and the rookie-sophomore game during the all-starcompetitions. Davis and Bayless areboth former high-draft picks, Davischosen by the Raptors last year andBayless acquired for basically noth-ing from New Orleans. Both of thesemen have shown very raw talent intheir early careers, but it can’t be ar-gued that they each have potential.

Then there is the man everyoneloves to criticize in Raptorland, first-overall pick in the 2006 NBA draftAndrea Bargnani. There is no deny-ing that the 25-year-old has skill: hecan shoot the three, work deep in thepost, and drop a good percentage ofhis shots.

But everyone is skeptical ofBargnani because of one thing: effort.On his career, Bargnani is averagingjust fewer than five rebounds a game.Yes, the seven-foot-tall starting centreof the Raptors is not even grabbingsix rebounds a game. When askedabout how he gets beat on theboards, Bargnani responded, “Beinglazy maybe ... That’s the only reasonit can be. I’ve got the body.”

For any avid viewer of Raptorgames, it is clear that when Bargnaniis playing aggressively, the Raptorsare a much better team. It is under-standable that when you are on ateam that has a .275 winning percent-age, it is going to be hard to bringyour top game every night. Raptorfans don’t care about what excusesBargnani may have though, only thathe comes out every game with a chipon his shoulder and proves he can bethe leader of this team moving for-ward.

PPrriiccee iiss mmoonneeyyHabs goalie Carey Price has helped theteam dominate this season

NHL.com

Price has posted a league-leading 26 wins, five shutouts and a .922 save percentage this season

colin buchinskicontributor

“ This season’s edition of the [Montreal Canadiens] looks similar tothe team that made a miraculous playoff run last May. With a fewadditions this season and some fine-tuning, the Habs hope to makea similar run this year, but it will be toughconsidering their injury sit-uation.”

WWaatteerrsshhiippddoowwnnThough the Raptors areamong the league’s worst,things can only get better

zimbio.com

Andrea Bargnani needs to step up and be Toronto’s leader

joseph grohscontributor

“ The Raptorsthink they havepotential for thefuture with thelikes of DemarDerozan, EdDavis, and JerrydBayless and canonly hope thedraft is very kindto them alongthe way.”

sports 19the carillonFeb. 10-16, 2011

TThhrriilllleerr iinn DDaallllaassGreen Bay Packers defeated Pittsburgh Steelers 31-25 in Super Bowl XLV

It’s all over. The 2010-11 NFL season is com-

pleted and the Green Bay Packers areworld champions.

In a microcosm of their regularseason, the Packers passed the ballgracefully, overcame injuries andforced interceptions en route to a 31-25 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelersin Super Bowl XLV in Dallas.

As anticipated, the Packers won aclose, hard-fought battle. The Packersnever trailed during the entire game,but, with the Steelers breathing downtheir neck and coming on strong inthe second half, Super Bowl XLV wasa thrilling end to what has been oneof the most entertaining NFL seasonsin recent memory. It was the classicthat everyone hoped it would be.

After a slow start, the biggestgame of the year exploded into a scor-ing frenzy at the end of the first quar-ter, leaving fans on the edges of theirseats.

Green Bay took the ball on theirsecond possession and marcheddown the field, utilizing short passingplays to a diverse range of receiversbefore Aaron Rodgers hit JordyNelson for a 29-yard touchdown toopen up the scoring.

Pittsburgh shot themselves in thefoot as quarterback BenRoethlisberger threw an interceptionto Packers pro-bowl safety NickCollins on the Steelers first play oftheir next possession. Collins ran thepick back for a touchdown.

After over 11 minutes of score-less football, the Packers needed onlytwo consecutive plays to amass a 14-point lead.

Pittsburgh did put points on the

board on their next possession, with afield goal by Sean Suisham.

After holding the Packers to athree and out on their next posses-sion, it appeared that Pittsburgh hada chance to gain some ground. But,the hearts of Steelers fans sank asRoethlisberger threw his second inter-ception of the game, this one to JerrodBush.

The Packers, with the momentumfully in their favour, gashed theSteelers defence on a four play drivethat culminated in a 21-yard touch-down pass to star receiver GregJennings, putting the Packers up 21-3with two minutes 31 seconds to go inthe first half.

Super Bowl XLV was quicklylooking like a blowout.

The media had been talking fortwo weeks about Pittsburgh’s wealthof Super Bowl experience coming in.And down 21-3, when most teamswould get demoralized, the Steelerscalmly started to mount a comeback.

On their first play after receivingthe ball, Roethlisberger hit AntwaanRandle El for a 37-yard strike that setthe tone for a speedy 77-yard drivethat ended in a touchdown pass toHines Ward. Adding injury to insult,during the drive the Packers lost theirteam leader, cornerback CharlesWoodson, for the remainder of thegame with a broken collarbone.

A game that looked like ablowout one minute quickly turnedaround, and after losing veteransDonald Driver and Woodson for thegame and giving up a touchdown,the momentum appeared to haveswung the Steelers’ way.

After a lacklustre halftime showthat made Carillon news writer EdKapp “lose his faith in society,” every-thing appeared to be unraveling for

Green Bay.On their opening possession of

the second half, wide receiver JamesJones dropped a sure touchdownpass, leading to a Packer three-and-out.

Pittsburgh responded with a con-fident five-play drive that wascapped off by an eight-yard ReshardMendenhall touchdown run, and justover five minutes after Green Bay ap-peared to have the game by the horns,their 17-point lead was slimmeddown to only four.

The game was on.The rest of the third quarter saw

both teams clashing back and forthfor field position while the clockdwindled down, and tension beganto mount as the teams entered the fi-nal quarter of football for the year.

The fourth quarter started with abang as Green Bay star Clay Mathewsforced a fumble deep in Green Bayterritory to thwart a promisingPittsburgh drive.

Rodgers capitalized on thePittsburgh turnover with a touch-down pass to Jennings. It was a drivethat ate up some clock and increasedthe Packers’ lead to 11.

Pittsburgh, unfazed by thedeficit, raced down the field andscored a quick touchdown of theirown on a series of gashing passes,capped off by a 25-yard touchdownstrike to Mike Wallace and a success-ful two-point conversion thattrimmed Green Bay’s lead to onlythree.

After Green Bay scored a fieldgoal to increase the lead to six, theSteelers were left with just under twominutes to march down the field andscore a touchdown to win the game.It was a scenario Pittsburgh faced inSuper Bowl XLIII, a game they ended

up winning.Chills coursed through the arena

as the whole world waited to see ifRoethlisberger could do it again. Butit was not meant to be. After com-pleting two passes to Ward,Roethlisbeger threw three straight in-completions, turning the ball over ondowns and cementing the win for thePackers.

Although the Packers nevertrailed the entire game, the Steelerswere nipping at their heels the entiretime in one of the best games of theyear.

With the cameras flashing, andthe world watching, the game’s mostvaluable player Aaron Rodgers dis-sected the Steelers’ defence all gamelong with a 300-yard passing per-formance that saw him throw threetouchdowns and no interceptions.

Rodgers, who finished the play-offs with a Super BowlChampionship, an MVP award, andover 1,000 passing yards, finally ap-pears to have stepped out of theshadow cast by Green Bay legendBrett Favre.

“This is the end of an amazingjourney,” Rodgers commented afterthe game. “I’m just so blessed to be inthis position, with a great organiza-tion behind me and incredible team-mates to work with. There is so muchcharacter in that locker room. I hopethis isn‘t the end, and I hope we getback here, but, I’m going to enjoy thisone.”

While Rodgers did take home theMVP award, he was hardly the solefactor in the Packers tight victory.Both teams came to play and bothplayed exactly as advertised, for bet-ter or for worse.

Super Bowl XLV lived up to thehype.

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The Green Bay Packers celebrate the victory

“ This is the end of an amazing journey. I’mjust so blessed to be in this position, with agreat organization behind me and incredi-ble teammates to work with. ”

Aaron Rodgers

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Obviously a fan of the characterDarth Vader from the Star Wars se-ries, a child dresses up as Vader andtries to conjure up the force.However, attempts to move theworkout machine, dog, washer, doll,and a sandwich end in only dejec-tion. Just when the child has lost al-most all faith, his father drives homein their Volkswagen, and the kidruns out for one last attempt.Suddenly, the car starts! We soonlearn the dad pressed the commandstart from inside the house.

BridgestoneTires – “ReplyAll Email”4

Rod is horrified when he is informedby a colleague at work that he acci-dentally hit “reply all” when he senthis email response. To prevent theemail message from circulating, Rodgoes to extreme measures. To name afew, Rod steals the laptops from agroup of employees in a businessmeeting, smacks the phones out ofhis colleagues’ hands as he runs by,and jumps out of a tree to get a lap-top. Then he finds out he actuallydid not hit “reply all”.

Doritos –“Doritos Dog”3

A man gets more than he bargainsfor when he tries to mess with hisgirlfriend’s dog. The man holds up abag of Doritos to the dog, who isoutside, then closes the clear dooras the dog runs towards him. Aftersome epic slow-motion shots of thedog, a worried girlfriend, and thedumbass holding the chips, the dogsuddenly breaks through the door,knocking the man to his rightfulplace on the floor. Man, that musthave been one hungry dog.

E*TRADE –“Baby’s Tailor”2

The popular E*TRADE Baby com-mercial series returned this year, giv-ing the audience a chance to meetthe man who dresses up the babyfor every single commercial. Like allprevious E*TRADE commercials, itwas a simple concept, but seeing thebaby talk, especially in a Germanancient, was priceless. The interac-tions between the baby and the tailorwere effective as well.

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This commercial was all about pay-ing tribute to hardcore NFL fans onpopular television series. Someshows included Family Guy,Simpsons, Seinfeld, The Office, Cheers,and Friends. It wasn’t exactly themost creative commercial, but it didshow how deeply the Super Bowl isingrained in North American cul-ture.

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My name is Kim, and I have a problem.I’m addicted to holiday-ahol. That feelsgood. Admitting it is the hardest part.But, even for the most committed hol-iday junkie, Valentine’s Day can be atest of will.

I have, for the last few years, beenlucky enough in love to have a goodman to celebrate the holiday with.

While it’s been fun to experienceValentine’s Day like lovers do, I needyou to take a walk back in time withme. I am thirteen years old – too old tomake tacky construction paper valen-tines for everyone in my class, tooyoung to be a half of any great ro-mance. It’s hard to go for dinner and amovie when your mom is going tohave to drive you there and pick youup. Not particularly a mood setter.

I was in the middle of regrettingmy decision to break up with my“boyfriend” the month before. We hadbeen seeing each other since we hadslowed danced at the Back to SchoolMuchMusic video dance weeks earlier.Neither of us had had the courage tosay one word to each other since. Thatwas the hardest “Dear John” MSNmessage I ever had to write.

So, there I was, thinking of check-ing in with old what’s-his-name and

see if he wanted to hang out and holdhands on Feb. 14, when a thoughtstruck me. Maybe my own problemsweren’t the centre of the world.

Shocking as it may be now, I hadfriends. We were all at that strange in-between stage, each wanting to be seenas grown up and adult, romantic en-tanglements included. No one buysinto the Valentine’s Day hype like awk-ward preteens.

So, I decided to scrape togetherany money I had saved from babysit-ting and I was going to buy each ofmy friends a yellow rose and wouldsneakily leave it on each of their desksat some point during the day. (For costreasons, the roses were downgradedto daisies, but it’s the thought thatcounts.)

So the day came, and I brought myyellow daisies to school. I spent theday trying to get these large brightflowers into the room without the girlsknowing. As luck would have it, theyseemed pretty distracted themselves,otherwise I’d probably have yellowdaisy potpourri today.

I was feeling pretty good at the endof the day. It was the same feeling Ihad gotten when I was younger andvalentines were given to everyone and

the day was spent doing arts andcrafts.

Do you remember when it wascool to tell your friends your lockercombination? You weren’t really“besties” unless you could break in tothat person’s locker and leave stickynotes about cute boys. That day, whenI opened my locker, I found a fake rose,a small heart-shaped box of candy, anda cartoon Valentine’s Day card. Myfriends rocked.

As the years went by, we all gotone another through our first realbreakups, survived high school withno real scars, learned to drive, and gotin our first accidents. I think the reasonfor our longstanding friendship wasrooted in that one Valentine’s Day. Ithad been the first time in our short,self-centred lives when we really caredabout someone else.

Sure, it wasn’t romantic, butValentine’s Day was about love, andthose girls were my very first soul-mates.

It’s that time of year again – time toget out the booze, pour a glass, andsit alone in the dark watching StarTrek.

That’s right, it’s Valentine’sDay. For people like me, who areinexplicably single despite avid in-terest in the fictional adventures ofthe Starship Enterprise, Valentine’sDay can be rough. In fact, during about of social anguish a fewmonths ago, I started a countdownon my phone for Feb. 14, dubbingit “The Most Miserable Day of theYear.” Of course, this was rathermelodramatic on my part, but it il-lustrates perfectly how some singlepeople feel about Valentine’s Day.

It doesn’t help that stores, tele-vision, and Facebook statuses allloudly declare that love is the bestand everyone in love is in a state ofconstant chocolate-fuelled eupho-ria. Love is hyped up so much thatfor a lot of single people, love isthe cure for any ailment they mighthave. There’s a huge misconcep-tion perpetuated by Valentine’sDay that love is all champagne androses when it is really a lot of work.Of course love looks appealingwhen all the downsides of it aremasked with red streamers, plasticcupids, and candy.

Being single in this environ-ment is extremely alienating. It’slike everyone is getting ready for aparty that you weren’t invited to.You feel like there is somethingwrong with you because you don’thave someone to celebrate with.On top of feeling like you are defec-tive, you get to see how everyoneelse is in love and fully functional.It’s really hard to deal with for a lotof people.

I am not saying that Valentine’sDay needs to be cancelled. Love isnot a bad thing, and couples cancelebrate as they wish. What I wantto convey is not that Valentine’sDay is bad, but that being single isnot bad.

It’s a chance to learn who youare, form an identity, and become amore self-aware person. Some cou-ples that have been together for

years don’t have an identity out-side each other, and if they everbroke up, it would be devastating.Not only would they lose someonethey cared about, they would losetheir own identity. The commonphrase “I’m nothing without you”,used to express how deeply some-one loves their significant other, isfrankly disturbing. It’s not healthyto have an identity based solely onsomeone else.

Being single isn’t so bad. It canbe lonely, but someone who knowshow to be comfortably alone is get-ting rarer in this increasingly con-nected world. You get to makeyour own rules, do what you wantwhen you want, and not worryabout maintaining a relationship.You don’t have to worry aboutwhether someone else’s parentslike you, you can save money youwould have spent on gifts, and youcan watch a lot of TV. Maybe some-day you’ll be on a quiz show aboutpop culture and that night youspent watching reruns of Big BangTheory instead of going out forsupper will pay off when you wina million dollars.

The worst thing you can do isgetting hung up on your single sta-tus. Desperation is not attractive, sobecoming confident in yourself andwho you are alone might be thebest thing you can do when look-ing for someone to date. My bestadvice is don’t write any newspa-per articles about how lonely youare and how you can’t even get adate for Valentine’s Day.

It’s a rough time of the year forsingles. But it’s always fun to go toa fancy restaurant on Valentine’sDay, sit alone and act as if you arebeing stood up. In fact, maybe I’lldo that Feb. 14 and watch Star Trekthe next day instead.

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Art and Music at the University ofRegina: The Centennial Legacy

February 10, 2011Dr. John Archer Library, Archives and

Special Collections Reading Room2:30-3:15 pm

Join us for the first lecture in the Library’s Beyond the Bookseries for 2011. Following the lecture, Archives, and SpecialCollections will launch web sites for two recently completeddigitization projects. These highlight the history of ReginaCollege and Florence Kirk, a Regina College alumnus whoseletters home tell the fascinating story of her life in China from1932 to 1950. A reception will follow the lecture.

Dr. James Pitsula is professor of history at the University ofRegina. He has written two books on the history of ReginaCollege and the University of Regina.

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OTTAWA (CUP) –– The Internet is, inmany ways, the last and most essen-tial of censorship frontiers. Despitethe fact that total censorship is ex-tremely difficult in online environ-ments without complete governmentcontrol, the issue is vital to consider asregulatory agencies and corporationscontinue to exert influence over howconsumers access the web.

In some countries, such as NorthKorea, Venezuela and the People’sRepublic of China, Internet censor-ship is pervasive and crippling. Thiscan have devastating effects on citi-zens’ ability to communicate witheach other and the world, whether itis for social, humanitarian or religiousreasons. During the recent protests inEgypt, the government of HosniMubarak enacted a near total black-out of Internet access for common cit-izens.

The one network that remained

unblocked, Noor AdvancedTechnologies, continued to providelimited service to large corporations,ministers, banks, the stock exchangeand select five-star hotels. This notonly made it difficult for protestersto document their experiences and re-port human rights violations to theworld, but it also made it a challengefor citizens to organize themselves orrequest assistance in obtaining food,water or medical attention.

Internet blocking is not simply athreat in distant regimes and over-seas nations – it is a reality in NorthAmerica as well. A proposed law inthe United States would grant thepresident similar powers – that is tosay, the ability to shut off or severelylimit Internet access entirely for a pe-riod as long as 120 days at a time.Modelled after Chinese policies, theCybersecurity Act of 2010 is toutedas a measure to be used in case of a

large-scale cyber attack, but in realityit could have devastating effects oncitizens' freedoms.

In Canada, Internet censorship isallegedly nominal – but extremelyproblematic in its application. ProjectCleanfeed Canada identifies childpornography sites and transmits thisinformation to Internet serviceproviders, who voluntarily blockthem. However, lists of websitesblocked by ISPs are not publicly re-ported; this information is not avail-able to consumers and there is littlecontrol over what websites an ISPmay choose to block. Without limita-tion or accountability policies inplace, ISPs could very easily add non-pornographic websites to blockinglists without the knowledge of thepublic in order to cater to corporate orgovernment interests.

The practice of pseudonymityand the availability of data havenshelp preserve freedom online. Datahavens, which are essentially freelyheld and usually unregulated datarefuges, break down national bordersand enable whistle-blowing organi-zations – such as Wikileaks – to con-tinue to operate despite governmentefforts to shut them down. Proxywebsites, virtual private networksand anonymizer software offer simi-lar solutions.

These practices enable softwaredistribution and freedom of speechin countries where censorship lawsprevent the publication of certainkinds of materials or opinions. In lessrevolutionary terms, virtual privatenetworks and their offspring can beused to access entertainment contentthat is only available in some regions– think Hulu.

While Canada is not nearly asbad as places like Egypt, Internet cen-sorship is a global concern that mustbe actively discussed between citi-zens, governments and corporations.Because whether you’re posting badpoetry on your anonymous blog ororganizing a revolution, freedom ofexpression and freedom of access arecritical social issues.

After reading the last edition of theCarillon [Vol. 53, Iss. 15; Feb. 3-9;“Letters”], I decided to investigateKyle Addison’s online antics a littlefurther – I was appalled by what Ifound. First of all, most studentsagree that he shouldn’t be using hisURSU president blog to personallyattack Kent Peterson and to lob alle-gations at our student newspaper. Itook a moment to re-read KentPeterson’s article that Addison al-ludes to, and it is completely harm-less – perhaps even a little humorous.

But back to Addison’s online an-tics – his Twitter account is ripe withhideous sentiment; he even attacksprofessors who have a native lan-guage other than English.“Seriously… What is with theUniversity of Regina hiring prof’sthat can hardly speak english?! [sic],”

Addison tweeted on Jan. 11 of thisyear. Normally I would leave per-sonal Twitter accounts out of theequation, but I found that one a littleironic given that Addison was alleg-ing that Kent Peterson had been dis-respectful to U of R faculty and staff.Addison’s other tweets attack theNDP, hail Brad Wall, and bashunions. That is correct: Addisonbashes unions while being the presi-dent of the University of ReginaStudents’ Union.

Perhaps Addison should takesome of his own golden Twitter ad-vice: “Find a more + way to live.”

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Recently there have been many ex-amples of URSU executives abusingprivileges – privileges they shouldn’thave in the first place. The latest in-stance is Kyle Addison‘s mudsling-ing against the Carillon on hisstudent-funded blog. Not only that,but Addison has been using this blogas a launching pad for horrible accu-sations and personal attacks againstKent Peterson. Now, Kyle Addisonis wont to do these sorts of things –but doing it on students’ dime is un-acceptable.

Other privileges include freeclasses that URSU executives enjoyeach and every semester. Free classes,by the way, that aren’t free at all – we,the students, pay for them. Theclasses that Kyle Addison gets to takeare in addition to his student-fundedsalary. I have nothing against fair

compensation for our student lead-ers, but tacking on free classes, freetrips, and even a phone expense isgetting a bit ridiculous.

The last concern I have regardingURSU executive privilege is their freemeals at the Owl. There are many op-tions on and near campus for Kyleand his friends to eat. I don’t think itis appropriate to give them free mealsat URSU’s pub, because it effectivelycomes out of my wallet.

It is time to, at the very least, re-view the privileges allotted to URSUexecutives and, if necessary, cutthem.

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Dear editor—I read with great interest Kent

Peterson’s opinion piece entitled“Ivory Tower Award Nominations”which appeared in the Jan. 6-12 issueof the Carillon. Because the articlequestioned the value of theAssociation of Universities andColleges of Canada (AUCC)“Presidents’ Mission to India” inwhich I participated in Nov. 2010, Ithought I would provide a bit of con-text for your readers.

India is one of the world’s fastest-growing economies – something thatis providing a great deal of opportu-nity for Canada as a whole, and forSaskatchewan in particular. A reportlast year by the Government ofCanada’s International Affairs Tradeand Finance Division showed that in2009, Canadian exports to India to-talled $2.1 billion. Of that total, closeto half – $976 million – originated inSaskatchewan. By comparison,Ontario was the next largest provin-cial exporter of products to India,with sales totalling $423 million.Given that Saskatchewan’s exportsto India have increased an averageof 39 per cent per year since 2004, theprovince’s trade with India shows nosign of slowing down.

This is important for theUniversity of Regina. We alreadyhave a number of academic agree-ments in India, most notably withShreemati Nathibai DamodarThackersey Women's University inMumbai – an agreement that hasbeen in place since 1999. These aca-demic partnerships, coupled withSaskatchewan’s strong trade relation-ship with India, are opening doorsfor the U of R in India.

Having worked in India for eightyears, I have seen first-hand how thatcountry is transforming itself into aneconomic, academic and cultural su-

perpower. Indian universities havemuch to offer Canadian universities –and vice versa – in terms of joint ac-ademic agreements. My objective inparticipating along with 14 otherCanadian university presidents in theAUCC mission was to facilitate thedevelopment of additional academicagreements that will provide new op-portunities for Indian students tostudy at the U of R, and for U of Rstudents to study in India.

The results have already beenpositive. Research collaborations arebeing pursued, and the Faculty ofKinesiology and Health Studies hasdeveloped a “2+2” agreement thatwill bring Indian students here forthe third and fourth years of their un-dergraduate programs. Agreementslike this will bring students fromIndia to the University, enriching ourcampus culture and adding to the di-versity of thought that makes it sucha wonderful place to study.

In my opinion, the timing could-n’t be better. In 2011, we are celebrat-ing the 30-year anniversary of the Uof R’s relationship with China – a re-lationship that has brought thou-sands of Chinese students andvisiting scholars to our campus, andtaken many domestic students andfaculty members to China. But as welook back, we are also looking for-ward. The governments of Canadaand India have designated 2011 to bethe “Year of India in Canada,” withRegina being one of the cities chosento host events. This is the perfect timeto strengthen our academic ties toIndia, and the AUCC mission inwhich I participated was an effectiveway to do so.

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Dear Tanner: you may be one of mybest friends but your bluntness isbreaking my self confidence. Pleasethink before you say something.Sincerely: already low self confi-dence.

Is URSU becoming un-unionized?How can they go from a Students’Union to Students’ Association?Doesn’t it need approval from themembers-at-large or Board ofDirectors? If so, why is Kyle sendingemails from @ursa.ca?

You’d think after 6 months FoodServices would get their shit to-gether and find a way to have theprovince's largest credit union's(AKA Conexus Credit Union) debitcards work with their debit ma-chines. Until then, I'm just going tokeep ripping them off.

Was anyone else not informed thatthe university is planning on con-verting many student organization'srooms and other rooms into studyspaces for grad students? Anyoneelse think this is unfair?

Check out the rest of the story thisFriday, 7 PM at The Exchange, along

with the return of a Mix Improv trio!Isn't the word "midterm" derivedfrom "middle" and "term"?Shouldn't that be when they takeplace?

"Want to improve your publicspeaking? Come out and tryToastmasters on Thursdays at 12:05in the URSU boardroom."

Would the girls who insist on talkingin Math III kindly shut your pieholes!!!

Has anyone noticed that the licensesin EVERY elevator on campus ex-pired over a month ago? Think ofthat next time the lift makes funnynoises.

Dear Carillon: Check your f@$*ingemails. There are people trying towork for you. Lazy f@$#$s.{Just a quick note: in response to thisand several other queries, we took a lookat our website and realized some of theemail forwarding was broken. It’s fixednow, though. So please, try contactingus again, or stop by our office. We wantyou to write for us! ––Ed]

Cindy MacKenzie stinks.

Read Ezra Levant’s “Ethical Oil”.Well researched and organized, it’shard to dismiss his main arguments.Let’s crank up oil sands develop-ment and make this world a betterplace. Disagree? I’ll see you in nextweek’s Declass.

Do you like beautiful women? Lovecheap drinks? Yeah? Then get yourass to the Gaslight every Wednesdaynight to watch the Bare Essentialbabes dance! Nobody knows polequite like them…

Last year, the URSU exec was all“friendly” with the FNUniv stu-dents and. Now URSU says thosesame FNUniv students aren’t URSUmembers. WTF?

There is a BandAid stuck to a benchin the women’s locker room. If youare the owner of said BandAid,please remove it.

To the 18-year-old girl posse in Art100: I’m paying $500 to learn aboutart, not how you’ll be old enough todrink at the Keith Urban concert inSeptember.

by dropping them off at the Carillon (Rm. 227, Riddell Centre)or through Facebook (Carillon Newspaper)

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