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CRACKIN’ DOWN
Security guards stepping up smoking enforcement at both campuses
Every rose
has its thorn
GAVIN
CHAPMAN
Columnist
SitesupervisorJackRedpath(left)andsecurityguardStevenThurlowenforcingdesignatedsmokingareasaroundthecollege.
Photo by Syed Ali
By SYED ALI
Staff Writer
Heads up, smokers! Watch
where you light up.
Niagara College is being more
restrictive in order to improve
smoking control on both campuses.
“When we say restricted, it
means with enforcement, a ticket
system,” said Brigitte Chiki, director of student services.
According to Chiki, Niagara
College has authority to issue tickets for the violation of the rules,
and it’s up to Niagara College authorities where they allow students
to smoke.
There are four designated smoking areas at the Welland campus
and three at the Niagara-on-theLake, but “people smoke where it’s
more convenient,” said Chiki.
“They are waiting for the bus,
they smoke. They step out of the
class, they smoke wherever the
nearest doorway is. So it’s in our
intention as we move along to
restrict smoking further.”
A campus notice was sent in midJanuary to all staff about improvement of smoking control. It noted
volunteers and security personnel
will be directing students, staff and
visitors to the designated smoking
areas during the winter term.
“I think we want to try it. We are
trying to get people to comply the
voluntary way first, by education
and signage,” said Chiki.
As the first step, the new signage
has been installed at almost every
entrance. These are different than
other signs as they display the No
Smoking logo and state, “Smoking
on campus is permitted in Designated Areas only.”
The cost of each sign is almost
$150, including the labour. About
30 of them have been installed on
both campuses, according to John
Gittings, acting director of facilities and management services.
There is a smoking control committee at the college and Chiki, as
‘The next step
now is serious
enforcement …
and driving us
to do this is the
health and safety
aspect ...’
—Brigitte Chiki
well as some students, are members. The meetings are held almost
every month. The next is scheduled
for Feb. 13.
“The next step now is serious
enforcement … and driving us
to do this is the health and safety
aspect of the whole thing,” said
Chiki. “Many students and visitors
are allergic to smoke, and they are
demanding smoke-free entrances,”
she added.
Niagara College has never issued
tickets for smoking on campus
before, but Region Niagara bylaw officers who come on campus
once in while have issued warnings
rather than tickets.
“The few security officers that
we have here are also responsible
for parking and campus security,”
Chiki stated.
Dave Jastrubecki, manager of
security, is also a member of the
smoking control committee.He
was contacted several times but
he was “very busy” and couldn’t
comment.
Moe A., a first-year Recreation
Therapy student and regular
smoker, said, “If college authorities are thinking about enforcing
smoking control, they should
provide us more places to smoke.
You can’t expect everybody to
go [to the outdoor kiosk] by
Simcoe to smoke.”
Many consider Valentine’s Day
24 hours of love, togetherness and
romance. Loved ones dump money
into candy, chocolates, stuffed animals and, of course, flowers.
I have no problem with candy. I
love candy. The stuffed animals are
nothing if not fuzzy. It’s the damn
flowers I have a problem with.
The reason is simple: I’ve
worked at Westbrook Floral for the
past six years.
I’m in the business of packing
the flowers and shipping them out
to our distribution centre, so every
year when Valentine’s Day rolls
around, I have about as much fun
as a Maple Leafs fan in May.
In the morning I walk in, around
4 or 5 a.m., blurry eyed, tired and
in desperate need of a gun and one
bullet. Mountains of boxes stare
back at me, waiting for me to seize
the day and send them out to their
waiting customers.
“Valentine’s Day ... I hate it, the
14-hour shifts at this place,” complains Paul Clavel, an employee at
Westbrook for three years.
“Sometimes I think I should just
sell crack,” he laughs.
I can’t disagree with him. While
most guys are trying to get some
physical romance by sending their
girlfriends roses, I’m doing everything in my power not to burn
every single petal I see.
Continued on page 8
LOVE IS
YEAR-ROUND
Some enjoy spending;
others say love is priceless.
Valentine’s Day views, Page 8.
Tell us what you think.
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Feb. 10, 2012
NEWS
Putting the horses through the courses
By HEATHER DILTS-BAIANO
Staff Writer
“I want to be happy. I want to
work hard, so I can play hard. I
want to make and keep my clients
happy.”
Twenty-three-year-old
David
Kavanagh of Port Perry, Ont., has
been a professional horse trainer at
Kavanagh Training Stable (KTS)
for four years.
Training horses has always been
a part of his life. Kavanagh grew
up in a family who continually had
horses, so training became a part
of everyday living. He was always
around to “lend a hand,” whether it
was for grooming, mucking stalls
or riding.
“I love art, and I consider it an
art having a horse that only knows
the basics and moulding it into an
incredible athlete,” he says.
Kavanagh always wanted to do
something he loved.
Even though she wasn’t “into
horses,” Aileen Robertson, Kavanagh’s fiancé, says she enjoyed
watching what Kavanagh does. For
six years she has come to shows
and is still very supportive of him.
“I could see how much he loved
what he was doing.”
Robertson could see Kavanagh
was passionate about his work,
putting everything he had into it.
“I guess the results he has produced speak for themselves.”
There is a funny side.
Robertson says, “Sometimes
it amazes me how much he can
remember about all these horses
from across the country – their
bloodlines, titles they have won –
yet he can’t remember plans I’ve
made for us on the weekend.”
In 2005, Kavanagh took some
“big steps” to “get the ball rolling”
for his future, by turning his hobby
into a profession. He emailed
and talked to many people in the
industry and “just asked a lot of
questions.”
“Getting answers is one of my
best talents,” says Kavanagh,
laughing.
One email held the offer of an
apprenticeship at one of the best
training facilities in the United
States, Broadmoor.
Kavanagh would be under the
guidance of Mike Goebig and
Dwayne Knowles.
Kavanagh pushes himself and
his horses every day to be “that
much better.” It’s what excites him
enough to get up every morning.
“There is always room for improvement. It is my job to find it,”
he says.
He is thrilled when his clients
are successful in the show ring. He
says he believes it’s the teamwork
aspect. It has been a big accomplishment to keep his clients, as
competition is strong today.
Every year since KTS began, its
clientele has grown. One member
of his team is his sister Lisa, a registered equine massage therapist.
She admits working with family
has its good and bad points: “Being
in business with David has been
fun, entertaining, frustrating, a lot
of work, a learning curve, but most
of all it’s been great … so far.”
Her job complements his business, and they are closer since the
official beginning of KTS.
When a horse isn’t going the
way her brother likes, together they
search for the problem.
Massage therapy can correct a
great number of issues and soon
David Kavanagh and HD Aiden Lair at the New York Morgan Regionals in 2011.
Submitted photo by Terry Young
the horse is back to working the in this profession as possible.”
loves to be clean. Kavanagh stays
way the trainer prefers.
“When he decided to go to away from the barn on his days off.
After graduating from high Broadmoor in 2008, I knew he He doesn’t take emails. He feels
school, Kavanagh rushed off to was serious about his passion for it’s necessary to do other things.
college for graphic design because horses and also realized that he had
“Driving helps me clear my
that is what he thought he wanted developed a passion for training head, windows down, sunroof
to do. Lisa says she was surprised, … I very much respect his love of open.”
perhaps a bit shocked even, horses and training, as it is a hard
Kavanagh knows that making
because she didn’t know her business to get started in and stay his business and life successful is
brother had a passion for horses the in also, especially in Canada,” up to him. He knows he must put in
way she did.
says Lisa.
the effort for the results he wants.
Kavanagh says he recognizes
Kavanagh admits he owes a lot This will continue for the rest of
how important real-world experi- to his mother, who “never once his career.
ence has been to him. He shares pushed me, but was there when I
“I have worked hard, but I know
this knowledge: “Take a moment needed it.”
I can work even harder. It’s great to
and really think about what makes
His boss in 2008, Goebig, always see my business grow and I know
you happy. Get out in the real had the right thing to say, he says.
if I’m determined, it will keep
world. You cannot beat hands-on
It is ironic how someone who growing. With time comes experiexperience. Talk to as many people works so passionately in the barn ence and all I have is time.”
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have made it an essential part of their day-to-day lives
By MERIEM YOUSFI
Staff Writer
Happy Birthday, YouTube.
The coming week is YouTube’s
birthday. People watch YouTube
videos daily, but few know how it
was created, by whom or when. It
is really sad to see such an event
unmarked in our calendar.
Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and
Jawad Karim, former PayPal employees, created YouTube on Feb.
15, 2005. Users can upload, view
and share videos.
Niagara College student, Nazia
Siddie, 22, from Pakistan, says
she spends 90 minutes every day
watching YouTube videos, but she
doesn’t know when it was created.
She thinks it began in 1990.
The YouTube firm is based
in San Bruno, Calif. YouTube
displays a wide variety of video
content, including movie clips,
TV clips and music videos, as well
as amateur content such as video
blogging and short original videos,
‘I just want to say
I love you, YouTube, and I can’t
live without you’
— Syed Ali
in addition to media corporations
including CBS, BBC and CTV, as
a part of the YouTube partnership
program.
Unregistered users can watch
videos, while registered users can
upload an unlimited number of
videos.
“I watch 10 to 15 videos every
day,” says Jordan Dacosta, 19, a
General Art and Science student.
“I and my friends have a YouTube
channel. We upload funny and entertaining videos every time.”
YouTube officials declared that
roughly 60 hours of new videos are
uploaded to the site every minute.
The site has 800 million users a
month. YouTube ranks as the third
most-visited website on the Internet, behind Google and Facebook.
Syede Ali, 18, from Pakistan, a
Graphic Design student, describes
herself as “addicted” to YouTube.
She watches tutorials, cooking
shows and movies.
“I just want to say I love you,
YouTube, and I can’t live without
you,” says Ali.
YouTube viewers have different reasons to view videos. Some
of them watch for fun, others for
games and others for tutorials and
school topics.
“Because I’m an automotive
power technician, I look for tutorials about cars and subjects related
to my field of studies,” says Suraj
Soman, 27, from India.
In November 2006, YouTube
was bought by Google for $1.65
billion and now operates as a subsidiary of Google.
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Feb. 10, 2012
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NEWS
‘Let’s occupy what belongs to us’
“OccupyBrock”signsweredrapedovertheentranceoftheSchmonTowerattheuniversityduringtheFeb.1andFeb.2protests.
Photo by Jared Anderson
Occupy Brock brings core issues to surface at protest
By JARED ANDERSON
Staff Writer
Feb. 1 was the national day of
action against tuition fees across
Canada.
Students
protested
against the tuition fees imposed
by the federal and provincial governments.
“Your government promised to
drop tuition fees by 30 per cent,
but it’s up to students to hold them
to their promise,” reads one leaflet.
This day of action, organized by
the Canadian Federation of Students, drew thousands of students
to rally against tuition fees and
voice for their abolition.
On the same day, Occupy has
come to Brock University.
A group of students has made
the lobby of Schmon Tower the
site of “Occupy Brock,” held in
concert with the national day of
action. The group is also calling
for the reduction and abolition of
tuition fees.
At Brock University, it’s
personal.
“Over the past four years, millions have been spent at Brock on
fancy new buildings and glossy ad
campaigns. At the same time, teaching budgets have been cut. This
means fewer professors and teaching assistants, larger classes and
less time for student instruction.”
Occupy Brock wants to remind
the 13th floor and the Board of
Trustees (that seems to be calling
the shots more and more these
days) that Brock is a public institution that should focus on its
core mission: teaching students
and doing research for the public
good,” reads one of many leaflets
distributed by the group.
In addition to leaflets, students
may “register a complaint,” an
action that involves writing down
demands and posting them in the
Schmon Tower lobby.
“Fix the on-fire elevator!”
“Why must I owe $45,000 plus
interest for my education?”
“OSAP: finding any excuse to
make you struggle, suffer, and remain broke.”
“Get rid of Sodality of Christian
Life from campus!”
“I can’t afford to eat at school.”
“I spent $20,000 and four years
at this place and all I got was this
lousy piece of paper.”
“$1,000,000 for a statue of Sir
Isaac Brock? Who agreed to that?”
It’s not just students who have
come out to protest. University
staff members, whose collective
bargaining rights are under attack
by the university administration, have also come out to show
their support, as have some Brock
faculty.
Like all other Occupy events,
general assemblies are held every
few hours, where proposals are discussed and grievances are aired.
“Drop student debt!”
“Kick out Sodexo!”
“Let’s occupy what belongs
to us!”
“No money? Of course, there’s
money,” says Associate Professor
Hans Skott-Myhre. “The administration is responsible to the students and the faculty.”
“Occupy Brock allows us a venue to share and collaborate,” says
Monica Taylor, a drama student.
Matt Heon, a 20-year-old thirdyear Concurrent Education student,
says to protest is “pretty interesting
and informative.”
He also mentioned how international students pay a lot more than
other students.
“It’s ridiculous immigrants have
to pay four times as much as we do.
They should pay less,” he said.
“I think it’s an opportunity for
people to come together and express
things that are normally silenced,”
says Jenn Elwell, an 18-year-old
first-year Concurrent Education
student, adding that tuition fees are
“too high and too many.”
“I believe in public good and
public taxes. Raise taxes [on the
wealthy] so that education is free
for everyone.”
Indeed, the $2.4 billion that is
currently given away in corporate
tax cuts every year could easily
be used to abolish tuition fees in
Ontario, the province with the highest tuition fees in Canada. Tuition
fees can be abolished. Don’t
let anyone tell you otherwise.
All it takes is for us to do something about it.
What is the
Occupy Movement?
•
Occupy Wall Street is a people-powered direct action
movement that began on Sept. 17, 2011, in Liberty
Square in Manhattan’s Financial District.
• Men and women of all races, backgrounds, political and
religious beliefs began to organize in nonviolent protest.
• Men and women represent the 99% with the goal of
ending the greed and corruption of the wealthiest 1% of
America.
• Occupy Wall Street is a leaderless resistance movement
that began as a call to action from Adbusters, a Canadianbased anti-consumerist organization.
• It commonly uses the slogan ”We are the 99%.”
• By Oct. 9, 2011, Occupy protests had taken place or were
ongoing in over 95 cities across 82 countries and over
600 communities in the United States.
• There have been more than 6,400 arrests, 150 injuries
and 24 deaths. Source: http://www.occupytogether.org/
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Feb. 10, 2012
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When fans
become fanatics
Sports are meant to be entertainment.
From the beginning of time, people have used them as recreation.
In a way, it could be said that sports
are also a form of therapy. They allow people to relieve their stresses
through friendly competition.
On the heels of the New England
Patriots’ Super Bowl XLVI loss
Sunday, about 1,500 students at
the University of Massachusetts in
Amherst gathered near the campus
residential area and began throwing beer cans and other debris.
Police in riot gear and smoke
bombs were needed to disperse the
crowd.
The motive behind this incident
isn’t clear, given that the crowds
were chanting “U.S.A., U.S.A.”
so it seems the crowd liked rioting
for the sake of rioting, or they were
just college kids being young and
stupid.
The 2011 Vancouver Stanley
Cup riots seem to be a similar case.
Alcohol and immaturity fueled
them too. It doesn’t matter whether
the Vancouver Canucks won or
lost, there were lots of people waiting to cause mayhem, as many of
the rioters didn’t join in till long
after the game had ended. The
damages of the Vancouver incident
included 17 burned cop cruisers,
over 100 arrests and more than $4
million in damages. The number of
people involved was estimated at a
staggering 155,000.
The entire situation shed a terrible light not only on Vancouverites, but also on Canadians. Is that
really how we want the world to
view us? Thankfully, there were
no deaths, but last Wednesday in
Egypt the same could not be said.
The site was Port Said Stadium
in Port Said, Egypt. After beating
a heavily favoured visiting team,
fans of the winning team rushed
the field, chasing opposing fans
and players. For some inexplicable
reason, police did nothing to prevent the stampeding fans, nor did
they unlock the exit gates. The fans
bunched up at one end of the field.
Many fans were trampled to
death; others were attacked with
knives, clubs, rocks and fireworks.
A witness said he saw some fans
being pushed or perhaps thrown
from the stands to the field level
below, about a 25-foot drop.
That soccer match left nearly 80
dead, more than 1,000 injured and
these figures are running totals.
This doesn’t include those who
were killed and injured in later protests resulting from the incident.
Alcohol was said to not be a factor,
by the way.
How does this happen in a civilized society? How does someone
go to a soccer match with the intent
of taking a human life? Imagine,
if you can, 80 people being killed
after a National Hockey League
game. Now imagine it happening
inside the arena.
Fan is short for fanatic, and it
seems fans are getting much closer
to fanaticism than ever before.
When did sports literally become
life and death? People need to sit
back and remember they are just
games.
JAMIE VIDAL
Smart Food
Eating nutritious food isn’t always easy,
but the payoff is worth the effort
Everyone who has had a resolution to live and eat more healthfully
knows what a challenge it can be.
When you are comparing your current state to your goal, it can be as
simple or extravagant a change as
you choose. Quitting smoking is a
big change, and it can be very difficult to make that change.
Some people just want to lose a
few pounds. Some people want to
gain a few. Others try to take on full
lifestyle changes to revamp their
lives. Eating in a more healthiful
way is simple to do, but it can be
extremely difficult when combined
with an exercise regime.
The more you exercise, the
hungrier you are. The hungrier you
are, the more food you need to buy.
It’s cheaper to buy produce and
raw ingredients than eating out at
restaurants or fast food joints. It’s
much better for you, too.
If you want to pack on muscle,
you must eat everything you can
that is considered healthy. The
more variety you have, the happier
your body will be and you will see
results faster.
You need calories, carbs, protein
and vitamins. These are essential to
building a strong body. You can find
these things in all sorts of foods, but
protein and calories are the two that
need to be handled with care.
If you are looking to pack on
muscle but are a “hard-gainer,”
you must eat as many calories as
you can every day, along with a
workout routine. The problem is
that you need to be eating calories
found in healthful foods, such as
almonds. The calories you find in
a cheeseburger at Wendy’s are not
the calories your muscles are asking for. We all want to indulge in
junk food from time to time, but the
fact is it will not help you get what
you want.
Think of the brick wall analogy.
Protein, carbs and calories are like
bricks, mortar and the bricklayer.
One might seem more important
than the other, but in the end there
will be no proper brick wall without
all of them.
Whether or not you’re exercising, your body needs these things.
People who get by on preservatives
and junk won’t complain until
they’ve experienced the alternative, which is a cleaner feeling in
the body.
It’s hard to describe, but once
you know what it’s like to have a
clean system, thanks to real food,
you won’t enjoy regressing to
“junk mode.”
It can be hard for students to fit
healthful living and eating into their
day-to-day lives, but they should
attempt to if they have the desire to
make it happen. In the end, the only
thing you have to lose is that few
extra pounds or the vague, gross
feeling in your body.
MATT NOWELL
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Feb. 10, 2012
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OPINION
‘Changes will continue’ in Middle East
Egyptians seek to limit U.S. relations and focus on their own affairs
MERIEM
YOUFSI
Columnist
The Arab Awakening, to some
people, symbolizes spring, when
all things are fresh and new. I prefer
comparing it to fall, when the trees
bare themselves and allow room
for new life. When the leaves come
back, they may not be perfect, but
they are still full of hope.
When the winds of change caressed the Middle East region, they
were not biased. For those who
hoped to pass their power to their
children, it entered their houses
first. They assumed and, therefore,
treated us like flocks of sheep
when, behind our facade, we were
lions ready to fight.
The Pharaohs of the Middle
East thought people would worship them forever, but because
of their injustice, corruption and
the abandonment of honour and
dignity, they had a Pharaoh’s end.
They drowned in the sea and in
people’s anger.
In the Middle East, the leaders’
rights are always at the forefront.
We never hear about the rights
of the people. In a country where
75 per cent of the population is
between the ages of 18 and 30,
equal rights should be granted to
the future generations instead of
oppressing and depriving them,
because when those young people
burst, they will burn everything.
Yemen
native
Mohammed
Alyamani attends Niagara College
and is studying electrical engineering. He explained the huge
obstacle that people in the Middle
East countries had overcome.
“The step could be to the better
and it could be to the worst. People
just want political pluralism, a real
separation of power and a democratic system based on equality and
A protestor holds a sign in Tahrir Square in February of last year. Inset, an army truck rolls into the square.
away from discrimination.”
American politics has a habit of
oppressing people in the Middle
East, but to protect its image of
freedom and democracy, America
doesn’t show this side.
The proof is in the hiring of
people like Hosni Mubarak, Ali
Abdullah Saleh and Muammar
Ghaddafi, who hide behind their
malicious intent what the American government had instructed
them to do.
Yahya Alrajhi, from Saudi Arabia, is a manufacturing engineer
student at the University of Ontario
Institute of Technology (UOIT).
He explained that “Syrian President Bashar Assad and his father
before him were American made,
and people know if the U.S. government doesn’t want someone in
power, they try to eliminate him as
fast as they can.”
The U.S. administration has
been against the Islamists for
decades and tried to fight them in
every country in the region.
However, recently, it was shocking for people when they heard
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton declaring her willingness
to work with any Islamist government in Egypt. The U.S. has
noticed that the era of Pharaohs
has ended and it has to work with
whomever people choose.
Omar Orabi, originally from
Egypt, a mechanical engineering
student at UOIT, said, “We know
the U.S. intentions and interests in
our country, and our hope as Egyptians is to limit our relation with
the U.S.’s government and try to
work on our internal affairs.”
The reason for the U.S. to work
with any Islamic government is
based on its interests in the Middle
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East, which include monopolizing the oil sources and protecting
Israel.
The Americans want to make
sure that accords like Camp David
are still valid, while protecting its
allies who haven’t been touched by
the winds of change yet.
Adel Esayed, a Niagara College
student from Libya, said, “Changes
will continue since people saw
what happened in Tunisia, Egypt
and Libya, and if people were to
speak up, everyone should do it.”
The reality is that there are no
certainties in the Middle East.
Parents to blame for ‘honour killing,’ not Islam
SYED
ALI
Columnist
Almost every Canadian is aware
of the Shafia murder trial. In it we
saw a jury convict the parents and
their older son of killing the three
daughters and a stepmother all in
an “honour killing.”
All four were killed when their
vehicle was pushed into a canal in
Kingston in 2009. The jury gave its
verdict early last week. The judge
sentenced the convicted to life in
prison.
This isn’t the first time we have
seen this kind of incident. Between
2006 and 2009 at least three people
were murdered in Ontario in the
name of “honour killing.”
In 2006, Khatera Sadiqi, 20, and
fiance´ Feroz Mangal were shot
dead in Ottawa. In Mississauga
2007 16-year-old Aqsa Parvais was
killed, by her father and brother.
It is sad and totally incomprehensible that parents could kill
their own children.
Every animal’s babies know how
to be fed when they first come into
this world. Birds’ chicks know
they need to look up and open their
mouths to get food. Most animals’
babies know where to find their
mother’s breast but the human
baby is the only baby who knows
nothing when they first arrive in
this world – human parents do
everything for them. This is why
there is a saying “raising a human
baby is the hardest thing in the
world.”
How could someone kill their
children? They brought them into
this world. They raised them. They
hoped for their better future. Did
they do all these things only to
slaughter them in the end? No.
What is the problem?
It’s not Islam. According to my
knowledge there is no religion in
this world, which tells parents to
kill their children.
Having grown up in an Islamic
society and its knowledge – plus
living in a western society and having Canadian company around me,
I can identify the problem.
Shafia brought his offspring
to Canada for a better future. He
would have thought that living in
a western society, they would get a
better education and certainly they
would have a bright future. But
he was expecting them to live in a
western society but not to live the
western lifestyle.
This is the problem that I think
brought parents to kill. It is wrong.
It’s like wanting your child to eat
an apple but not taste it. Or wanting
your youngster to climb a tree but
not touch it.
Yes, if you are bringing your
children into this society then prepare yourself to see them living a
western lifestyle. If you want them
to live and practice Islam and live
an Islamic lifestyle, you should
have not brought them here.
They didn’t choose to come
here. It’s you, the parent, who
brought them. It’s you, who made
them have to choose.
You should have thought about
all this before coming here. They
were just doing what they learned
from this society, this culture.
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Feb. 10 2012
NEWS
ESL program opens
classes to community
A selection of text books used for new classes offered in the ESL program at Niagara College
By MERIEM YOUSFI
Staff Writer
Starting Feb. 6, the English as a
Second Language (ESL) Department will be offering evening
English classes under the new
ESL Plus program at the Welland
campus. The new program has
two components: Focused Pronunciation and Test of English
as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)
Preparation.
Two ESL instructors, Giacomo
Folinazzo and Alex MacGregor,
created the ESL Plus program and
added it to the college curriculum
based on the students’ needs for
extra pronunciation classes and
preparation for standardized English tests.
“In
my
experience
in
teaching English as a second
language,
international
students have indicated that one
of the skills they would like to improve the most is pronunciation,”
says Folinazzo. “As part of ESL
Plus, we offer a TOEFL preparation course for students who would
like to improve their skills and
pass the standardized TOEFL test,
which gives them an internationally recognized certificate of English
language proficiency.”
Folinazzo explains that pronunciation outcomes are part
of speaking classes of all levels
in ESL program, but in order
to
obtain
greater
results, it is ideal for a student
to enrol in a more focused and
specialized course dedicated entirely to phonetic awareness and
production.
The ESL Plus program is open
for both college students and
people from the community.
“In applying, there is a focus on
Niagara College students,” says
Erica Scheel, administrative assistant, ESL Programs. “However,
there are members of the commu-
nity who apply also, as referred by
community agencies.”
Currently, 10 people have shown
interest in the TOEFL classes and
six students in the Focused Pronunciation.
“As there is a charge for the
evening classes, and students take
on these classes in addition to their
current courses, those who show
interest are very motivated,” says
Scheel.
The program price for the college students is $340 for 10 weeks
(Feb. 6 to April 20) and $680 for
people from the community for the
same period.
The International Department
posted an announcement on its
main office door and on Blackboard. Folinazzo says the department will offer the courses as long
as there will be sufficient enrolment and interest.
However, when asked, the
ESL students had no informa-
Photo By Richard Larabie
tion about the new program,
despite the fact that the registration deadline for the course
was Feb. 1 and the classes were
supposed to start on Feb. 6. The
ESL instructors said they are
willing to talk about the program in their classes during the
coming week.
“I don’t know about this program,” says Raed Alzahrani, 24,
from Saudi Arabia. “My teacher
told us that she will talk about it
next week.”
Alzahrani showed interest in
joining the program because he
feels he has a weakness in his grammar and he wants extra classes.
Soyoung Kim, 20, from South
Korea, says that her teacher explained the ESL Plus program
briefly in class and she is going to
talk about it in detail next week.
Kim said she is not willing to enroll in the program because she is
going back to her country.
Reliable
child care
in one
easy step
By HEATHER DILTS-BAIANO
Staff Writer
Niagara’s working parents can
breathe easy when looking for before and after-school childcare.
“It’s like one stop shopping,”
says Pat Eversden, of Niagara
College’s coporate services child
care centre.
Valerie Reeson, 35, of Pontypool, Ont., doesn’t live in the
Niagara region, but thinks the program is a great idea.
“It would beneficial as you
would end up having a greater opportunity to get a spot. It saves you
some of the leg work,” she says.
Reeson remembers the struggle
of finding quality care for her
daughter.
“The first daycare I fluked into a
position, because a relative worked
with the school board, otherwise
I wouldn’t have got a spot. It was
over a year long waiting list.”
“My second daycare was a
small local daycare that just had
a spot because one of the kids had
moved.”
Region Niagara has developed a safe, fast, convenient
online application for licensed
care. Instead of calling multiple
providers or filling out multiple
application
forms
for multiple places, a parent or
caregiver can fill out a single form
and it will be sent to as many programs as one wishes.
When a space becomes available, the childcare program will
contact the parent.
Melissa Swayze, 35, of Niagara
Falls, says of finding care for her
youngest son, “Thankfully there
were no waiting lists so he was
able to go to our first choice.”
However, she feels there may
be issues when he starts school in
two years.
The one her son will attend
does have the new after-school
care programs so she is hopeful he’ll get Three home-based
care providers are included in the
waitlist. They are Wee Watch,
Adolescent’s Family Support
Services of Niagara (AFSSN),
priority goes to those registered
with their agency), and Niagara
Region Home Child Care, for
those receiving fee subsidy.
Swayze has her son in subsidized child care.
“We had our option of several
different daycares,” she says. “We
picked two closest to us and we
really liked the one, so we went
with that.”
There is a fee calculator available to explain subsidy and see if
one qualifies for it.
For more information or answers to questions visit www.
niagararegion.ca/childcare or call
905-984-6900.
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Feb. 10, 2012
NEWS
Page 7
Doctor without Borders visits NC
By SHELBY WALL
Staff Writer
“If someone told me one day I
would be working in war zones, I
probably would have laughed.”
Marilyn McHarg explained how
quickly one year turned into a
20-year career for her on Monday
evening here to an auditorium full
of college students and the public.
“I was instantly drawn in,” recalls McHarg, one of the founders
of Médicins sans Frontieres (MSF)
Canada (or Doctors without Borders, the English translation).
“I launched into what I thought
was a one-year adventure,” explains McHarg. She is MSF’s
general director and has field experience as a nurse, co-ordinator
and head of mission. “[I] took
advantage of the opportunities I
was given.”
McHarg was at the college to
kick-start Niagara College’s International Week.
Jos Nolle, from the International
Student and External Relations
department here, says, “Marilyn
has finally slowed down enough to
stop by our college.”
Nolle has known McHarg for
over 20 years, and he himself
worked with MSF for seven years.
“I was exhausted after seven
years, so I can’t understand how
Marilyn feels after 20.”
MSF is one of the world’s leading independent international
medical relief organizations that
provides medical care, no matter
what religion or race.
McHarg explains, “We provide
health services for people who
need it.”
“Impartiality is one of the founding principles,” states McHarg.
“We choose according to needs.
Another founding principle is having a strong sense of humanity. We
use humanity to win hearts and
minds.”
She sighs but with a smile, “It is
quite a tall order, and MSF faces
Erin Warman and Jennifer Peace speak with Marilyn McHarg after her speech at Niagara College in the new
Applied Health Institute.
Photo by Shelby Wall
asked McHarg, “Do you ever face where I am and what language is
many challenges.”
McHarg gave an example of cultural problems, people who do spoken.”
“It can feel like a failure somethe challenges in a country like not want your help or cannot untimes because every day we must
derstand what you are saying?”
Somalia.
McHarg responds with a funny make impossible choices. Is it this
“There are four doctors for every
story of how she was once trying group or that group? If it is this
100,000 people.”
She says they, as a team, “are to help a man with a bullet wound group, why? And why not that
struggling” because they often face and as she asked her translator group? However, treating 95,000
limitations from various groups in questions about his injuries, the children and giving more than
man finally spoke up exclaiming, 450,000 out-patient consultations
each country.
is a definite positive.”
“I find our biggest constraint is “Why can’t you just ask to me?”
“We try to carve independent
McHarg laughs.
meeting all the needs of everyone
“I forgot I was in an English- space for ourselves. By carving an
we come across.”
Erin Warman, a Practical Nurs- speaking country. It sometimes independent identity we are in a
ing graduate from the college, takes me a moment to remember better position to help.”
She says MSF deals with a lot of
political and military agendas, adding, “As an organization we tend
not to join in with other organizations helping around the world.”
“We are not there to choose
sides. We provide medical care to
people that are suffering.”
She knows it is hard for people
to understand MSF is there to help
civilians, no matter what side they
[civilians] may be from.
“We are temporary. We try to
keep people alive in a crisis situation,” McHarg explains. “MSF is
there for the crisis, to lay a foundation so people can move forward
after MSF is gone.”
MSF was established in 1971,
its website states, by a small group
of French doctors who had worked
in Biafra. Upon their return, they
were determined to find a way to
respond rapidly and effectively to
public health emergencies, with
complete independence from
political, economic and religious
influences.
MSF has more than 30,000 staff
globally, 60 per cent being medical
personnel and 40 per cent being
non-medical, working in more than
60 countries.
McHarg says, “Anyone can participate with MSF, whether you go
abroad, donate, volunteer or create awareness. You apply online,
and our recruitment teams contact
you.” She explains not everyone is
chosen, but the recruitment teams
give helpful feedback to the applicants.
McHarg says funding sources
are about 80 to 85 per cent privately donated with 15 to 20 per
cent coming from government and
corporate donations.
“MSF does not get institutionalized funds, and that is a good way
to maintain our independence,”
McHarg says. “Everyone deserves
quality health care and it is our
responsibility to help.”
For more info, visit www.msf.ca.
Help provide water,
win New York trip
By MICHELLE TRZOK
Staff Writer
Take action and become a water
champion.
UNICEF has started a new student challenge to raise funds for
water pumps in 100 less-fortunate
countries worldwide.
The challenge runs until March
22, World Water Day, and can take
place at any college or university
across Canada. After setting up a
team of two, students aged 18 to 25
can register online and keep track
of the funds they’ve raised.
“We’re encouraging students to
be as creative as possible,” says
Melanie Sharpe, spokesperson for
UNICEF.
Those who raise the most funds
win a trip to New York City to visit
the UNICEF headquarters.
“The whole idea of the trip is
professional development,” says
Muneed Syed, community engagement co-ordinator for UNICEF.
The water pumps will be shipped
from Copenhagen and, depending
on their use, they can be maintained
and repaired, says Syed. “We believe water pumps are sustainable
long-term solutions.”
Christopher Geoghegan, a second-year Business Administration
student at Brock University, says,
“It’s a really good cause.”
“All students and young people
should try to take part to help unfortunate countries in the world.”
Although the incentive is a great
idea to encourage students to participate, Geoghegan says, “People
should be doing this out the goodness of their heart.”
For more information, visit
www.unicef.ca/studentchallenge.
A girl drinks water from a water hand pump in Ulipur Panchpara Village, Gaibandha District. UNICEF is
working with partners and the government to promote water and sanitation projects in the area.
Submitted photo
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'You may think it's a
day of love, but ...'
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ROMANCE OR COMMERCE?
What does Valentine's Day mean to you?
1)
There’s no romance at Westbrook. Rather, there are mean
stares and grumbled demands.
My boss, Mike Vandermolen,
who’s normally a pretty nice guy,
turns into a screaming, miserable
dictator. Sure, he’ll apologize
when he gets too insane. But
really, “I’m sorry” means nothing when I’m coming in early
to grind out a few hours before
I go to school.
“I get pretty pissed at some of
the SNAFUs here, but it’s the
complaining that gets to
me. I’ve been here a
long time, and
w h e n
m y
guys
a r e
bitching
about the hours, I give it
right back to them, at least to get
a laugh,” jokes Vandermolen. I’m
glad his insulting brings him joy
on these days.
“It blows. Any holiday blows
when you work in the floral industry…unless you’re an owner,”
says Rick Randle, the head of
receiving at my warehouse.
I can’t dispute that view. It does
blow.
It’s not just our department
that takes a beating over Valentine’s Day. We also have women
coming in for 11 hours making
all the bouquets, and we have
the salespeople who have to
deal with the customers over the
phone all day.
“We talk about it for months
in advance because every mass
market or retail store wants to
get ahead of each other. We talk
about the product and booking the product, and everything
happens so early that by the time
the holiday is actually here, we
just want it to be over,” Erin
Reinink, one of the salespeople,
says with a laugh.
You may think it’s cute. You
may thing it’s a day of love, and
you’re entitled to your opinion,
but mine is that Valentine’s Day
is crap.
It’s not just that day I hate because of Westbrook either. It’s
also Christmas, New Year’s and,
I hate to say it, Mother’s Day.
That day is the worst of them all
because not everyone has a lover,
but everyone has a mother.
This year, do me a favour and
remember something: over
720,000 stems of roses will be
sent to a major retailer in one
week. Be original, write a song, a
haiku, anything! I don’t care. Just
don’t buy any flowers! I need
sleep, so help me out.
“I think it’s a good idea. The
matchmaking aspect is fun.”
—Scott Winterbottom, 18,
Environmental Technician
“[It's a] good time to spend
some time with your significant other, eat some candy
and relax.”
—Evan Colonna, 18,
Welding Technician
“It’s just dumb … Why do
you need a special day to
show your love?”
—Samantha DeGraaf, 18,
Early Childhood Education
“I think it’s stupid for people
who have been hurt in the
past.”
—Alaena Barber, 18,
Educational Assistant –
Special Needs Support
“If you’re into it, that’s cool;
if not, then that’s cool too.”
—Thomas Neal, 18,
Broadcasting – Radio,
Television and Film
“[It’s] probably a good idea
to celebrate romantic love …
Just know that romantic love
isn’t all there is to it.”
—John Bessai,
Niagara College
history professor
“Well … I didn’t really do
anything ever. It was a waste
of money and time until I
experienced it with a boy.”
— Emily Slingerland, 18,
Pharmacy Technician
I used to hate it … I don’t
mind it now that I have
someone to celebrate with.”
—Kaitlin Wilson, 18,
Pharmacy Technician
“I don’t know material
objects don’t mean nearly as
much as real emotions.”
—Kintara McQueen, 18,
Early Childhood Education
“It shouldn’t be just one day.
It should be any day of the
year.”
—Stephanie Harris, 21,
Pharmacy Technician
“It’s for young people new
to love. Older people don’t
have time.”
— Rauf Obembe (married 22
years)
“As a married man, it’s very
important for your relationship. It’s like an anniversary
or birthday.”
—Gary Crosbie, 46,
Recreation and Leisure
Services (married nine years)
NIAGARA NEWS
Page 10
Feb. 10, 2012
NEWS
Wagging tails and joyful smiles
Therapy dogs
and friends
visit college’s
Welland campus
By CALI-ANNE SIMPSON
Staff Writer
Smiles greeted the furry fourlegged ambassadors of Provincial
Therapeutic Recreation Awareness week.
The therapy worked for students,
faculty and staff at the colleges
Welland campus Tuesday.
There were about six dogs and
six handlers here.
Students of the Recreation Therapy program, along with volunteers, organized a series of events
highlighting the program’s goals.
Groups of students, each responsible for planning an event.
On Tuesday, they arranged for
Therapy Tails to visit.
It is a dog therapy program in
which volunteers visit places in
the community and put smiles on
people’s faces.
They bring the dogs to visit
children in libraries, schools,
community areas, seniors’ residences, hospitals, and residences
for people with special needs and
disabilities.
The students were very intrigued
by dogs at the front entrance of the
cafeteria.
“The dogs bring joy to the people
and to us as well,” says Holly Rossi, a volunteer with Therapy Tails.
“It’s a great charity that makes
so many people happy.”
Therapy Tails is helpful to
people who are not able to have or
see their dogs any longer.
It was smiles when the Therapy Tails visited the Welland campus as part of the Recreation Therapy program’s students’ recognition of Provincial
Therapeutic Recreation Awareness week. From left, back row, are Lou DeAngelis, volunteer, Stewart Hill, husband of Therapy Tails’ founder, Victoria
Bedesky, Therapeutic Recreation student, and Brandon Hamilton, volunteer. Front row: Markie Hecley, volunteer and Therapeutic Recreation
student at Brock University, with Molson, Pat Lemet, volunteer, with Livy, Kelly Vlaar, volunteer, with Bugzy and Daisy, Holly Rossi, volunteer, with
Thunder, and Jessica Hamilton, volunteer, with Otis.
Photo by Cali-Anne Simpson
“People would miss their dogs
They also sold Therapy Dogs week, including a Wii booth on Therapy Tails, visit www.therapyand be happy to see our dogs,” says cupcakes to raise money for the Monday and a dreams booth on tails.ca, and for more information
Gloria Ayers, volunteer and Thera- program.
Thursday.
on Therapeutic Recreation, visit
peutic Recreation student here.
Different booths were set up all
For more information on www.trontario.org.
Popular driver makes her last college stop
By SYED ALI
Staff Writer
Youngest of 18 children and
mother of two, Jean Lefor has been
driving for the Welland Transit bus
system for about 12 years.
Lefor is the nineth oldest driver
on the Welland Transit drivers’ list.
She has the record of driving the
Niagara College/Brock University bus for more than nine years,
although she was “bumped” this
time. Bumping occurs when someone with more seniority takes over
the route.
“It’s very hard when you get
‘bumped’ because college students,
university students … they see our
faces every day.”
She said she will miss wishing
luck on exam days to Niagara College and Brock University riders
this year.
Lefor said she would love to drive
the Niagara College/Brock University run for the rest of her life.
“I drive the future. I drive students to their destination, and that’s
how I look at it.”
Lefor started working for
Welland Transit as a maintainer,
cleaning the buses, but later she
got the opportunity to serve the
Welland community as a driver.
“Being in the small city you get
to know everybody… you just get
to know people, and they are like
family.”
Lefor says she loves her job
because she drives “the future …
students are our future.”
“Some days are frustrating
– weather, traffic – and the passengers are good, but some are bad
but most of them are good, very
respectful, very different in this
city than other cities,” she says.
Lefor was born and raised in
Toronto. She moved to Welland
with her husband about 16 years
ago because he bought a house
here. She has been married to her
husband for 15 years.
“I like small towns. … It’s different driving here compared to
Toronto’s hustle and bustle.”
Lefor says as a bus driver she
gets a lot of “aches and pains” with
JEAN LEFOR
bouncing around. “Our rides are
only as smooth as the roads are,”
but, she says, “it’s worth it because
it’s a job and it’s a good job.”
Because of serving in a small
community, Lefor is recognized
in public places. “It’s hard to go
somewhere without someone stop-
ping and talking to you.”
John Lefor, Jean’s husband, said
he is proud of his wife and knows
how hard she works. “When we go
out shopping or out to a Welland
event, it still surprises me how
many people know her.”
According to Lefor she gets a lot
of love from students because she
is nice to them, but at the same time
she tries to maintain discipline.
If she hears riders swearing, she
will tell them not to; and if she sees
riders putting their feet on the seat,
she will make sure they are off the
seat before she steps on the gas
pedal. Hence she has a nickname
“Mean Jean.”
“I have a nice attitude. I don’t
yell. If you ask it a nice way, you
get a nice response.”
A few years ago some students
made an email address of “Mean
Jean” for her and she still uses it.
Emily Miller, a Brock University
student taking political science and
a regular rider of the Niagara College/Brock University bus, says
she sees Lefor all the time.
“She talks to students and she really cares about students. Plus, she
seems to be enjoying her job.”
As a loved driver, Lefor gets gifts
from students. She said she was
even invited to a student couple’s
wedding a few years ago, and she
went to the event.
“It’s an honour, and everyone is
family to me.”
Larry (who also refused to give
his last name), another Welland
bus driver, has known Lefor for
nine years.
“She is the nicest person in the
world, but I am a better driver than
her,” he says laughing.
In a message to students, Lefor
said students should have their
U>Passes ready and they should
be at the bus stop, not in the building or away from the bus stop
smoking.
She says that as a regular bus
driver she knows her students but
students should still show their
pass so other passengers won’t
assume they are getting on the bus
for free.
Feb. 10, 2012
NIAGARA NEWS
ENTERTAINMENT
Page 11
Neeson ‘dances’ with the wolves
By MATT NOWELL
Staff Writer
Liam Neeson fans everywhere
can relax because The Grey reinforces him as one of the most
enjoyable bad-asses on the big
screen.
After having done Taken in
2008, Neeson immediately shot
to the ranks of actors like Matt
Damon, Mark Wahlberg and Jason Statham, guys whom you can
count on to physically annihilate
bad guys and appear tough and
unstoppable in an enjoyable way.
Playing cool, skilled characters
in the past, Neeson wasn’t quite
there yet. His acting prowess was
solid, but in the action realm he
was about as experienced as any
average lead actor.
When Taken came around
and boasted the type of intensity we’ve come to love since the
Bourne movies, audiences were
intrigued, but not without levels of
expectation.
Neeson proved that he has that
proper mix of looks and visual and
audible delivery to give you goose
bumps when he’s beating up a gunman or bad-talking a terrorist.
With the release of Unknown, it
looked as if he was following up
with what he had accomplished
in Taken. Though entertaining, it
ultimately did not deliver the same
gut punch its predecessor had.
Having done many more movies since then, Neeson eventually
appeared in a trailer for a movie
titled The Grey. It looked as if it
were that type of role to make you
sit back and enjoy his display of
unbridled intensity.
A man and his crew of oil drillers
are stranded in Alaska after a plane
crash. Weak and demoralized, they
must not only fight hunger and the
Liam Neeson fights for his life in The Grey.
harsh elements, but a hungry, angry pack of wolves, whose territory
they are trespassing upon.
Neeson plays Ottway, a burntout Irishman who’s distraught by
the absence of a loved one.
Even though he has his own
demons to deal with, it soon becomes clear he is the only one of
the surviving men who has any real
leadership qualities.
Also, he is the only one with
any real knowledge about how to
deal with wolves, as his job was
to guard drillers from them during
excavations. Ottway struggles
against not only absurd odds but
also himself, while trying to help
everyone survive.
The movie is a fantastic display of one man’s capacity for an
iron will, given the worst circumstances.
The wolves are the biggest
threat, but the movie is great at
blending their threat with the threat
of the elements, making it more a
battle against nature itself.
The role is great for Neeson. He is
gruff and determined as Ottway and
is able to use his Irish accent. This
makes his performance immensely
enjoyable, knowing not much is
forced on his part.
The display of the wolves was
done in a way that didn’t require
the audience suspend disbelief.
The movie did a good job at reinforcing the threat and reality by
Submitted photo
showing actual footage of wolves
while blending in computer imagery and animatronics for parts
where they were necessary.
If you are a fan of suspense and
adventure or of Liam Neeson, this
movie is unquestionably worth
your time.
The taut combat scenes with
wolves and nicely paced sequence
of events help make this display
of a bad-ass Neeson one for your
movie shelves.
Found footage flick flies with viewers and box office
By ATOM GAUTHIER
Staff Writer
To fly like Superman, to be
strong like the Hulk and to move
things with your mind like Jean
Grey of the X-men — who hasn’t
thought of this at some point in
their life?
Many people have had that
thought or dreamt of having super
powers. Chronicle shows why it’s
better for those ideas to remain
dreams.
Chronicle stars three unknown
actors. Dane Dehaan plays Andrew,
an outcast teenager with a dying
mother and alcoholic father, whose
only friend is his cousin. Alex Russell plays Matt, Andrew’s cousin,
who is a popular student at their
school. Michael B. Jordan plays
Steve, another popular kid, who is
running to be class president.
Andrew decides to record his
life with a camera he recently
bought. He is picked on by kids at
school and yelled at by his drunken
father. It is clear that his life isn’t
the greatest. When the three main
characters are at a party at an abandoned building, they find a strange
hole in the ground outside. Dropping into this hole, they can hear a
loud noise and find something that
looks like a meteor. They escape
the hole just before the cave collapses on them, and the next day
they find out something about them
has changed.
Somehow from their discovery,
they have acquired super powers,
mainly telekinetic.
They begin to practice and use
these powers to better understand
them. They play around and have
some fun with them, as most people would. As the friends’ powers
get stronger, Andrew starts to take
things to a new level, but doing so
doesn’t seem like a good idea to
Matt and Steve.
When Andrew’s mother is in
medical trouble and needs medication, her situation puts Andrew
over the edge and he becomes a
danger to anyone around him. By
the end of Andrew’s rampage, it’s
up to Matt to stop him before it’s
too late.
This is one of the better foundfootage movies of past years. The
story is original and gives the
viewers a look at something they
can only dream about. Most of the
special effects used in the movie
were appealing to the eye.
Naomi Davis, 40, says, “When
they were flying in the clouds, it
made me feel like I was on one of
those moving-theatre-type rides. I
loved the movie too.”
The usage of various cameras and angles made watching the
movie even more exciting.
When Andrew makes his camera
levitate around him, it would make
the audience feel as if they are
floating and it gave another aspect
view for everyone to see.
The only actor in this movie
most people will recognize is
Michael Kelly, who was in the
Dawn of the Dead remake and
Law Abiding Citizen. Kelly is a
Dane Dehaan uses his telekinetic powers to crush a car in Chronicle.
Submitted photo
good character actor and did an
acceptable job portraying Andrew’s alcoholic father.
Altogether this movie is perfect for
a night at the cinema, if you want an
interesting and thrilling look at the
wonders of a superhero.
Ashley Overholt, 19, says,“This
movie definitely made me think
twice about wanting to fly. Everyone should check this movie out
though. Awesome film.”
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Page 12
ENTERTAINMENT
Feb. 10, 2012
White Coals performs at NOTL campus
Long trip from North Bay part of band’s journey
By JONATHAN BETHEL
Staff Writer
North Bay’s White Coals came
to The Core at Niagara College’s
Welland campus and The Armoury
at the Niagara-on-the-Lake
(NOTL) campus to perform free
for students on Jan. 23.
Dave White and Cole Fournier
had a long journey from their
hometown to arrive in Niagara on
time to perform, but they were still
ecstatic and excited to arrive.
“It was awesome, but very hectic
coming from North Bay. We drove
from North Bay around five in the
morning, arriving at NOTL on time
to perform our show from 1:30
until three in the afternoon, having to drive again to the Welland
campus to perform from four until
seven in the evening,” says White.
White said, “We have two official band members: me and my
best-friend Cole. We write everything together, but on CD we have
Eric Treleaven, who plays bass
and Mike Perreault who plays the
drums for us. Also on our last track
of the CD we had four of our good
friends from North Bay sing on the
track with us. It was a real North
Bay effort to get the CD out.”
The band first was noticed
by Niagara College through
Canadian Organization of Campus
Activities (COCA).
“It’s a weekend affair. All the
student life promoters from most
colleges and universities in Ontario
get together to watch showcases
of affordable acts and upcoming
events,” says White. “We were
lucky to get it through Sonic Bids,
which is a family website for upcoming acts and promoters. You
put a press package on it, and promoters can ask for a viewing and
you perform for them. Likewise,
we can view promoters who are
looking for bands, and this is how
we found out about COCA.”
“We ended up becoming friends
randomly, going to Europe together, having a Euro trip, this is
how we started the band,” says
Fournier. “People abroad were really feeling our songs. We sang in
Paris and Amsterdam, which was
an awesome experience.”
The band’s nine-track debut, Accomplices, was released April 16
last year.
For more on White Coals, releases and concerts, visit them at
White Coals on Facebook or at
www.whitecoals.bandcamp.com.
The band can be reached or
booked at whitcoalsofficial@
gmail.com.
White Coals artist Dave White (at left) and Cole Fournier pose for a picture after their performance at The
Core.
Photo by Jonathan Bethel
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In the history of side-scroll gaming, one of the most famous and
challenging series is Castlevania.
There have been many entries,
and the titles span about every
system released since the original
Nintendo. However, the series does
not have a consistency in quality
many gamers would expect.
One of the biggest problems the
series has come to face is the alteration of what makes Castlevania
Castlevania.
The games were distinguished
by their 2D visuals, where the
character would go only right or
left up or down from a side view.
You typically play as a vampire
slayer, making your way through
a castle to kill Dracula, killing any
monster in your way.
Today there are Castlevania titles
that are fighting games and some
that are 3D instead of the original
2D format.
This is not to say all the changes
from the original formula are bad.
Some of the 3D transitions worked
well, as in the remake of the original Castlevania, Castlevania 64 for
the Nintendo 64.
One of the best, if not the best,
titles is Castlevania: Symphony of
the Night for the PlayStation.
“I think it’s the best one of the
series,” says Will Kummer, a St.
Catharines resident and video
game enthusiast who also says it’s
one of his favourite games.
“You get to be Alucard, a vampire, but he’s a good guy, which
makes him even cooler. You’re
usually a human vampire slayer,
but this change is what helps distinguish it from the other titles.”
Another thing about Symphony
of the Night that changed the typical formula was the exclusion of
the traditional whip as a weapon
and the inclusion of different
swords and shields.
These changes were well
received by fans because their
inclusion offered a fresh take on
gameplay while maintaining the
traditions expected from the 2D
side-scrollers. The game is still a
big deal today, and it is being rereleased and re-mastered over multiple platforms. It has been ported
to the PlayStation Network as well
as the Xbox Arcade. Additionally,
it was released as bonus content on
Castlevania: Dracula X Chronicles
for the PlayStation Portable.
Those who have played Symphony of the Night understand why it’s such an
important title, not
just to the Castlevania series, but in
gaming history. It
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that
stands out for better or for
worse, only in this case it is
for better.
“I’ve always played difficult
games like these, but it’s the content and satisfaction that makes me
play through the roughness,” says
Dave Cheese, an avid St. Catharines gamer.
The newest Castlevania, subtitled Lords of Shadow, has received
mixed reviews. It is a reboot of the
franchise and plays much like the
God of War games. A 3D rendition
of the Castlevania fanfare, this
game attempts to take the best elements of the series and use them in
a hugely different experience from
the rest.
Overall, Castlevania is a great
series, though it is often unpredictable. It has many entries and there
will be more to come.
Whether you are an old fan or a
newcomer to the series, there will
always be a Castlevania title that
suits
your
needs.
NIAGARA NEWS
Feb. 10, 2012
Page 13
SPORTS
Knights’ Players of the Week
Outstanding athletes praised for their abilities
By JONATHAN BETHEL
Staff Writer
Alex Campbell and Lindsay
Murray are Niagara College
Knights Men’s and Women’s
Players of the Week.
Campbell, a first-year guard
from Brampton, won for his performance on the men’s basketball
team. Campbell had a strong performance versus Humber College
with 31 points, six rebounds and
one assist.
Unfortunately, the Knights fell
to the Humber College Hawks and
are now 8-4 in the season.
The Knights faced Sheridan
College from Oakville, Ont., and
the match was a tough one for the
Knights.
Murray, a first-year outside
hitter from Welland, won for her
performance on the women’s volleyball team.
Murray is ranked 10th in the
OCAA in points per game. She
ALEX CAMPBELL
had 15 kills, 20 digs, and one serving ace versus a tough Nipissing
College team. Murray also had
nine kills and nine serving aces
with four digs versus Canadore
College.
Jenna Bray and Miranda Ross
LINDSAY MURRAY
were prior Niagara College Knights
Women’s Players of the Week.
Bray, a first-year outside hitter from Burlington, won for her
performance on the women’s volleyball team.
Bray had a strong performance
MIRANDA ROSS
for the Niagara College versus
Mohawk Mountaineers game with
13 kills, five serving aces and 21
digs for the match. Unfortunately,
the Knights fell to the Mohawk
Mountaineers.
Ross, a first-year player from
JENNA BRAY
St. Catharines, won for her performances for the Niagara Knight’s
women’s basketball team, scoring
16 points versus Algoma College
Thunderbirds on Sunday and 11
points versus the Sault College
Cougars on Saturday.
Old-timer players still got it
uPcoming schedule
BASKETBALL
Feb. 17 6 p.m. - Women’s vs. Redeemer
8 p.m. - Men’s - vs. Redeemer
By CHRIS FUNSTON
Staff Writer
They may be called old timers,
but the way they still play the game
on the ice, they look anything but.
The Old Timers’ Hockey Challenge visits St. Catharines next
Thursday at 7 p.m. as the Jack
Gatecliff Arena plays host to
Hockey Hall of Fame member Ray
Bourque and the Boston Bruins
alumni as they take on the Ontario
Law Enforcement Torch Team.
Joining Bourque will be his
Feb. 22 6 p.m. - Women’s - vs. Lambton
8 p.m. - Men’s - vs. Lambton
Bruins alumni teammates Rick
Middleton, Terry O’Rielly, Chris
Nilan, Ken Linseman, Daniel
Marios, Tom Fergus, Bob Sweeney, Mike Krushelnyski, Bruce
Shoebottom, Dave Ellet and Cleon
Daskalakis.
Also joining the players on the
ice will be recently retired NHL
referee Kerry Fraser. He will keep
the two teams in line and add to the
competitive spirit, fun and antics of
the game.
A portion of funds from each
ticket sold will go to the Ontario
Law Enforcement Torch Run for
the Special Olympics.
For over 23 years, the Old Timers’ Hockey Challenge has been
putting NHL legends back on the
ice to raise money for charities.
They have raised over $3 million
for their non-profit partners.
Tickets for the event can be
purchased at the door for $25
or for discount $20 tickets visit
imarktickets.com or call 1-8002680-7371.
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VOLLEYBALL
Feb. 12 1 p.m. - Women’s @ St. Clair
3 p.m. - Men’s @ St. Clair
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Feb. 10, 2012
SPORTS
Lady Knights suffer another
loss at hands of Sheridan Bruins
By JONATHAN BETHEL
Staff Writer
This past weekend the Niagara
College Knights women’s basketball team lost another season
game, in Brampton at the home of
the Sheridan College Bruins. The
Lady Knights are now 6-7 in Ontario Colleges Athletic Association
(OCAA) play and are sixth in the
West Region.
On Saturday evening, the Niagara Knights took on the Sheridan
College Bruins, and viewers from
the tip-off could tell that the Bruins had control of the game.
Sheridan jumped out quickly,
outscoring the Knights 26-11 in
the first quarter. The Lady Knights
fell further behind going into halftime with a 39-28 deficit shooting
38 per cent from the floor, while
the Bruins shot 38.7 per cent. In
the third quarter the Bruins kept
their surge going into the fourth
with a 58-46 lead. In the fourth,
the Knights scored just as much
as the Bruins in the quarter but it
wasn’t enough as the Sheridan Bruins won 78-66. The Lady Knights
were even in rebounds with the
Bruins 45-45 for the game, averaging 50 per cent, while the Bruins
grabbed 50 per cent off the board.
The Knights had two players scoring over double-digits:
first-year forward Miranda Ross
scored a team-high 17 points,
with seven rebounds and one
assist, and guard Allana Arundell
added 11 points with six rebounds
and two assists.
Sheridan’s Nakia Arthur was
the game’s leading scorer with 32
points on the night, leading the
Bruins to victory; Shaylanda Saunders added 24.
After the game, second-year
Knights guard Anita Cloutier said,
“I thought we started off very
slow in the beginning of the game
and that’s what killed us later on.
Sheridan came out strong and aggressive having home advantage,
which threw us off our game. Our
shots weren’t dropping and the
fouls weren’t going our way. Naturally we pushed through and didn’t
give up. Unfortunately, we woke
up a little late in the game, and it
wasn’t enough.”
“I think Saturday’s game started
off very rough, and our team
wasn’t ready to come out and play
in the first quarter. We played like
we were already defeated.
Guard Allana Arundell says,
“From the second quarter onward
the team started to wake up and
play like we know how. I think that
was a game that should have been
close down the stretch. We should
have won but once again we need
to have five people on the floor
ready to give their all. That’s something we seem to struggle with.”
First-year forward Ross said,
“With each game we are learning
to play more as a team, but we need
to work harder to make our passes
faster and crisper and not miss the
easy lay-ups.
“Our focus is not on what we
could have done better. It’s on
what we’re going to do this week
against Mohawk and the rest of
our upcoming games.”
The Lady Knights are hoping
to return to a .500 season with a
victory over the Mohawk College
Mountaineers at 6 p.m. on their
home court Wednesday.
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Feb. 10, 2012
Page 15
NEWS
Strike it big for the sake of kids
By JEREMY MEYERINK
Staff Writer
This month Big Brothers Big
Sisters (BBBS) is looking to the
public to help provide a positive
mentor for children facing adversity and to put $130,000 in the
fundraising coffers.
On Feb. 25 BBBS will be holding the Bowl for Kids Sake event
in Niagara. It holds this fundraiser
every year and looks to the community to have some fun and help
raise money for the organization.
Bowl for Kids Sake is a national
event.
BBBS has been in operation
for over 100 years. The goal is to
help children facing challenges in
their lives by providing a mentor,
someone who can give advice,
listen or just hang around with the
children and play a positive role in
their lives.
Previous Bowl for Kids Sake
events have raised up to $110,000
through individual and corporate
donors. Regional sponsors include
Cogeco and Tim Hortons.
There are five BBBS agencies in
Niagara: Grimsby, St. Catharines,
Niagara Falls, Fort Erie and South
Niagara, which includes Welland,
Port Colborne, Wainfleet and Pelham.
Adam Boyd, a student in Niagara
College’s Recreation and Leisure
Services program, is working with
BBBS to spread the word about
Bowl for Kids Sake.
“Last year Niagara College only
had four or five teams participate
in Bowl for Kids. This year we
are looking for closer to 12 to 15
teams.”
Teams can be four to six people.
Each player must raise $50 to par-
Organizers of Bowl for Kids Sake from left: Bruce McDonald, CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada; Barb Van Der Heyden, executive director,
Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Niagara; Mike Leone, board president (and Big Brother) Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Niagara; Mayor April Jeffs
of Wainfleet Township; Deputy Mayor Paul Grenier of Welland; Pelham Mayor Dave Augustine.
Submitted photo
ticipate.
The event includes games and
shoe rental.
Bowl for Kids Sake in Welland
will be held at the Bowl-O-Rama
Lanes at 968 Niagara St.
There are three times slots
available: 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., 4:30
p.m. to 6:30 p.m., and 7:30 p.m. to
9:30 p.m.
“The 4:30 [p.m.] time is geared
more for the college students,” says
Boyd, adding that Bowl-O-Rama
is also a licensed facility for those
who want to have an alcoholic
drink while they bowl.
Barb Van Der Heyden, executive
director of Big Brothers Big Sisters
of South Niagara, says this year the
organizers are adding what they
hope will be an annual contest between the Niagara College Welland
campus and Niagara-on-the-Lake
campus.
“The winning team will receive
a trophy for their campus … and
the top team will receive prizes
appropriate for college students,”
says Heyden.
The event has a disco theme this
year, so all are invited to dust off
their best bell-bottomed pants and
come out.
There will be door prizes as well
as prizes for best dressed, single
highest pledge as well highest
overall pledges for a team.
Forms are available at Tim Hortons locations.
You can also go online at bbbsinniagara.ca to register your team or
to donate.
For more information call BBBS
at 905-735-0570.
Make-up artist gives tips to broadcasting students
By RICHARD LARABIE
Staff Writer
More blush or a lighter shade of
eyeshadow?
Niagara College Broadcasting — Radio, Television and Film
(BRTF) students were treated to an
interactive workshop with Kathy
Rupcic, a professional freelance
make-up artist, last Friday.
Rupcic, a BRTF graduate, has
been returning here for about the
past decade to help students learn
from her experience.
Tom Otto, BRTF co-ordinator,
said, in an email, he believes
Rupcic can “demonstrate the importance of the make-up industry
while demonstrating the particular
techniques that she uses in the TV
industry.”
Candice Lisk, a second-year
BRTF student, said, “I’m interested
in seeing this. It will be good seeing someone [applying make-up]
properly.”
Rupcic has been involved in
projects in television, film and theatre for many years.
She said she wants to “break
down the barrier” or “queasiness”
about the industry.
In TV Studio 2 in the Voyageur
Wing, she began talking about her
experiences and the difficulties
‘I’m meeting a
technical need.
I’m not meeting a
beauty need.’
— Kathy Rupcic
she has met
colour
spec-
about
when
Darren Alley, second-year BRTF student, has make-up applied for the second demonstration of the workshop.
Photo by Richard Larabie
with the industry, including highdefinition television.
“Everything I do now is high
definition related.”
Rupcic said a high-definition
camera likes to see yellow in the
trum and is translucent whereas a
normal camera likes to see red and
is opaque.
“I’m meeting a technical need.
I’m not meeting a beauty need.”
Three things she said she thinks
applying make-up are skin tone,
definition and structure.
While providing tips to students
such as for women to avoid curls
and bangs because of shadow,
Rupcic said, “Don’t be surprised
what you’ll be asked to change.”
For men, she warns them about
shiny gels and facial hair.
“Play it safe until you get the
job.”
She said the point is “getting the
job and keeping the job.”
Using a live television feed to
show the effects of how make-up
looks on the screen, Rupcic demonstrated first on Rebecca Luden, a
second-year BRTF student.
Looking at the screen, Rupcic
said, “It always amazes me how a
person looks on camera.”
Darren Alley, a second-year
BRTF student and the second participant, said, “[make-up]’s new to
me.”
“Why not look good on television for all the lady fans?”
NIAGARA NEWS
Page 16
Feb. 10, 2012
FEATURES
Corks top caps in Round 1
Students in beer and wine programs fight for supremacy
By MELISSA SMITH
Staff Writer
Wine or beer? Caps or corks?
These were the questions guests
juggled last Thursday at the Caps,
Corks and Forks event during the
six-course meal prepared by Niagara College culinary students, led
by chef-professor Tony DeLuca.
After hours of playful rivalry between the college’s wine and beer
teams, the pairing of wine won
guests’ taste buds breaking the 3-3
tie during the sixth course.
Guests voted by placing either
a cap or a cork, provided on the
tables, into a silver pail after each
course.
With about 25 student volunteers
and about 70 guests, the event was
at the Canadian Food and Wine
Institute in the newly renovated
Benchmark teaching restaurant at
the Niagara-on-the-Lake campus.
“That was a warm-up round.
Round 2 is coming in a month,
and we’ll knock them dead!” said
Kevin Sommerville, the Brewmaster program co-ordinator.
The event sold-out days before
it took off, leading to Caps, Corks
and Forks Round 2, scheduled for
March 23.
Referencing the beer team’s
stout balls served with black and
tan ale in the fifth course, professor Jennifer Wilhelm, the leader
of the wine team, said, “They really brought out all the balls and
whistles this evening, and I don’t
know what they’ll have to do to
win next time too.”
Kevin Braunch, Food Network
personality and host of The Thirsty
Traveler was the emcee for the
evening.
Filling the room with dimmed
lighting, music, laughter and
warm smiles, Braunch, before
each course, kept the score on the
fork’o’meter moving and introduced students who had carefully
chosen the food, wine and beer
choices for that particular course.
The fork’o’meter was a half-circle
labeling six courses. It had forkshaped arms marking the score.
“I’m trying everything tonight.
I’m a seasonal drinker,” said
Braunch during the evening. “In
the end it’s really how it [the wine
and beer selection] comes together
and how it matches a course.”
Talking to the guests Braunch
said, “The vote is up to you people,
‘Round two is
coming in a
month, and we’ll
knock them dead!’
— Kevin Sommerville,
Brewmaster program
co-ordinator
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so eat and drink wisely.”
Corks winning the first course,
Andrea Fujarczuk, in the Winery and Viticulture Technician
program said, “The wine women
thought what better way to start the
night than with a sparkling wine?
It set the palate for the rest of the
evening.”
Susan and Bruce Levy, who travelled to and attended Caps, Corks
and Forks, had a family rivalry, she
said, during the first course. “This
is a very tasty dish. We have a bit
of a battle going on because I liked
the wine and my husband liked the
beer.”
Martina Wang, from China, in
the Hospitality program, was one
of the servers preparing for the
event. “This is the first time I’ve
done volunteer work, and I love the
area and the upscale dining.”
Jody Curry, on the wine team,
joked before starting, “We have a
certain amount of respect for the
1. Winery and Viticulture Technician and Wine Business Management
program students from left: Morgan Juniper, Jody Curry, Jacklyn
Boyd, Mary Catherine Wasilik, Andrea Fujarczuk and Professor Jennifer
Wilhelm stand as the winning team after a battle against the beer team.
2. Brewmaster and Brewery Operations program students from left:
Aaron Spinney, Jeff Broeders, Kevin Braunch from TV show The Thirsty
Traveler, Andrew Bartle, Alan Brown, and Cory Muscato.
3. Decorated tables at the Caps, Corks and Forks event on Feb. 2. Guests
voted by placing caps or corks into a pail after each course.
4. Emcee Kevin Brauch stands with culinary students and chef-professor
Tony DeLuca.
5. Wine students Hunter Kangas (left) and Geoffrey Moss pouring wine.
Submitted photos
beer team, but we’ll feel badly for
them when they lose!”
When the event was announced
last December, the wine, beer and
culinary students began preparing
recipes, pairings and tastings.
“It was about a month of
preparation and tastings, and we
have had a good time doing it,”
said Cory Muscato, 23, from the
United States in his first year in
the Brewmaster and Brewery
Operations Management program.
“It was great. While they [culinary
students] have been tweaking their
recipes [for courses], we got to
tweak our choices of ingredients.”
The event brought a seesaw
battle between the wine and beer
pairings’ final meal chosen by culinary student Jonathan Williams
with pumpkin fritters served with
hot apple cider.
The tie-breaking and winning
selection by the wine team was
an Inniskillin sparkling icewine
and the opposing beer team chose
Great Lakes winter ale.
Alan Brown, on the beer team,
encouraged guests by saying the
winter ale matches its spices to the
pumpkin fritter spices, but Mary
Catherine Wasilik, part of the wine
team, won the guests over with the
“truly Canadian combination” of
the icewine.
Sommerville said the best part
of the event was the synergies between the three programs – wine,
beer and culinary – and the tastings
that they have been participating in
during January.
“What the girls tried to do was
really play with the wines to have
them innovative, creative and
traditional,” said Wilhelm. “I’m
thrilled they won. Those girls put
every ounce of their heart into it
and they truly wanted to represent
the Ontario wine industry.”
“From course to course and
the pairing of the wine and beer,
every course was fantastic,” said
Jon Ogryzlo, dean of the college’s
CFWI. “It really allowed students
to practice their skills, work in
teams and develop a friendship.”
Donguk Sul served a marinated
beef tenderloin with Korean Bulgogi sauce and sour beet salad for the
fifth course and said, “Everyone
knows sushi or noodle. I wanted to
advertise Korean traditional food.
In the future, my meal will be ‘real
Canadian food.’”
Elise Kroes-Burn, who came
from Elora with her family, said
the event “was definitely worth
the drive. It’s been a real toss-up
between beer and wine.”
“What a great innovative event.
I mean, have you ever heard of
something like this happening
around here?” said DeLuca. “We
could have doubled the sales and
size of the event it was so supported. What an amazing event!”
Ogryzlo gave a special thanks to
staff, volunteers and team coaches
involved in Caps, Corks and Forks.
Who will prevail for the Caps,
Corks and Forks Round 2?
Will it be the caps or the corks
again? Guests can taste and decide who should be the winner on
March 23.