radix issue 2 march 08 2010

Monday March 8, 2010

News - Biz/Tech 2 A&E 3 Life 6 Editorial 7 Sports 8

BIZ / TECH

EDGE

Gerry WatsonPool Trick

Artist Mar. 8, 2:30pm,

Game Room, Humber

International Women’s Day

Mar. 8

GHSA Elections Mar. 8-12,

Guelph-Humber

Business WeekMar. 8-12,

Guelph-Humber

Canadian Music Week

Mar. 10-14,Toronto & GTA

St. Patrick’s Day Parade

Mar. 14,Downtown

St. Patrick’s Day

Mar. 17

Dancing with the StaffMar. 17,KX202

Paranormal State at Humber

Mar. 22,3 p.m.

Student Centre

Texting Tournament

Mar. 23,12 p.m.

Student Centre

Toronto Fashion Week

Mar. 28-Apr. 1Throughout

Toronto

Artists for Outreach 50/50

DrawTickets until

Mar. 31,Draw on Apr. 1

RADIXThe University of Guelph-Humber

ARTS LIFE SPORTS

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Overcrowding at Guelph-Humber Lady Gaga: new face of performance? Can LinX surpass Caps? Volleyball Provincial Results

Tyler Munro

Sandman Viper Command is one of 700 artists set to perform at 45 venues around Toronto for Canadian Music Week. See page 3 for story.

STEPHANIE BUTLER

With the University of Guelph-Humber population now at 3,000 full-time students, the school is trying to find new ways to keep the university competitive in a province with many of the top post-second-ary institutions in the country.

“All universities – us included – are in competition for really good students,” says Guelph-Humber Vice-Provost John Walsh. “We need to put a lot on the table to at-tract these students.”

Walsh identified five goals he has for the institution: increased elec-tive choices; more international op-portunities; self-directed learning; development of distance and hybrid course formats; and the creation of an undergraduate research fund.

Lack of choice in electives has been a perennial source of student criticism. Third-year Early Child-hood student Amber Ennis says, “there wasn’t that much variety that fit in my schedule.”

Vice-Provost Walsh is aware of students’ concerns, but says there’s a very good reason. “We have very few electives in our programs at Guelph-Humber because of the de-gree and diploma course load,” he says.

Walsh is aiming to add five elec-tives a year to double the number of electives offered within five years.

Walsh aims to add electives with out of country field trips in order to give students the option to acquire international experience.

Continued on page 2

Attracting top students

is main motivation for

school improvements

Guelph-Humber aims to set higher standards

Local talent to shine

NEWS/BIZ-TECH 2 MONDAY MARCH 8, 2010

RADIXGuelph-Humber

STEPHANIE BUTLER

Overcrowding in the Learning Commons computer lab is com-mon during daytime hours at the University of Guelph-Humber.

“It’s a very busy atmosphere,” says Ian Trider, a Computer Sup-port Assistant who works in the lab. “There’s lots of activity with students coming and going.”

Patrons in the Learning Com-mons are a mix of Humber Col-lege and GH students. During peak hours, roughly 20 per cent of computer users are Humber students, as the Radix found through a survey of students in the lab. On the weekends, the split is more even with 60 per cent of users coming from across the bridge.

With GH operating at its maximum capacity of 3,000 full-time students, computer users are noticing the strain.

Nick Manson is a fi rst-year Justice Studies student who works in the lab between class-es.

“When it gets mad busy, it gets really loud,” he says. “Sometimes you can’t fi nd plac-

es to sit or to study.”Humber’s main computer lab,

H205, is similarly crowded. Jor-dan Mellow has worked in H205 as a Support Technician for over a year and doesn’t see an imme-diate solution to the crowding. “There’s a lot of people in here all the time during the week,” he says. “It’s hard to get a computer most of the time.”

Second-year Humber Fitness and Health Promotion student, Rob Henderson has used both.

He uses the H205 lab and the Learning Commons, but prefers getting his homework done on the GH side.

“It’s just a nice environment.

You’ve got your own little cubicle and it’s fairly quiet. You don’t get that over at the Humber College lab or in the library,” he says.

“[In H205] you can never get a seat and you can never get your print job.”

Asked if the Learning Com-mons should be restricted to GH students, Manson says, “I think it should be shared.” Computer Support Assistant Ian Trider concurs.

“The campus is a shared cam-pus. Guelph-Humber students use a lot of Humber resources. Likewise, that should apply to Humber students here at Guelph-Humber.”

Learning Commons computers maxed out from overcrowdingResources limited as Humber students fl ee their packed computer lab to use GH study space

Mariama Barrie

Long lines to use computers have become frequent in the Learning Commons as the school population has grown to 3,000 students.

File-sharing sites encourage users to donate to the needy

Arrrgh! Web pirates give back

TYLER MUNROSTAFF REPORTER

When Haiti was ravaged by an 7.0 earthquake in early

January, its cry for help was an-swered in a universal language: money. Celebrities were some of the fi rst to jump at the chance to help. Roughly a week after the earth-quake hit, George Clooney and Leonardo DiCaprio had each do-nated one million dollars. Surely this is worth emphasising: two million dollars is a lot of money. But the celebrities weren’t alone. A grassroots donation-drive started to form in the un-derbelly of the world wide web. It was an act of charity that has not been widely publicized and here’s why: in this case, the people rais-ing the money were pirates. Not the plank walking kind, but the fi le sharing kind.

When one of them, OiNK’s Pink Palace, went online in 2004, it quickly became one of the most popular web sites of its kind. It was a community based, invite only music sharing web site that was bolstered by its ratio require-ments, meaning you had to try and share as much as you down-loaded. If you failed to do so, your account was terminated. In

2007 OiNK was raided by Inter-pol and subsequently shut down,

Not long after OiNK was sent to the slaughterhouse, two sites were born out of its ashes: What.CD and Waffl es.fm.

Waffl es.fm, perhaps to the disdain of the Recording In-dustry Association of America and its associates, has become a maverick do-gooder. They’ve run charity drives where they reward users who provide photo evi-dence that they’ve donated. Not long after the Haiti earthquake, Waffl es.fm’s userbase took their charitable efforts to new heights. Their idea was to donate money, provide a screenshot that proved you’d done so and receive “waffl e points” that could be “spent” on free downloads.

To date, the web site has seen thousands of donations towards Haitian aid. Every dollar helps, but donations haven’t been lim-ited to a dollar here, two dollars there. There has been no short-age of donations in the $20 to $50 range and one unnamed user do-nated 2500 Swedish krona, which translates to roughly $3500 Ca-nadian. As of last week, the site had raised over $70,000USD. The Recording Industry Associa-tion is adamant that fi le-sharing web sites such as Waffl es.fm are bent on stealing, and they may be right, but in this case even they’d be wise to look at the positive. By raising as much money as they have, Waffl es.fm has become somewhat of a digital Robin Hood. They’ve (allegedly) stolen from the rich to give to the poor.

(cont.from pg.1)Guelph-Humber is in the pro-cess of securing exchange agreements with the Manage-ment Centre of Innsbruck in Austria and Hanze University Groningen in the Netherlands.

Walsh also sees service learning – or self-directed learning – as an option for fu-ture students. He is currently co-supervising a University of Guelph student who is teach-ing English to monks in Laos for course credit and Walsh be-lieves the idea could translate well to Guelph-Humber’s prac-tical curriculum.

“There’s opportunity for you to have your individual idea and you can pursue it,” he says.

Opportunities for service or ‘experiential’ learning could extend to any of Guelph-Hum-ber’s seven programs and would be designed by the student and supervised by faculty.

An undergraduate research fund is another key aspect of improving Guelph-Humber’s standing. The fund would pro-vide support to students inter-ested in exploring course mate-rial outside the classroom.

The proposal for the $150,000 fund is before the Guelph-Hum-ber Board of Directors and may

be available as early as next year.

With 4,800 students apply-ing to Guelph-Humber, accord-ing to the Academic Manage-ment and Program Committee, the university is expecting be-tween 700 and 800 new students this fall.

This infl ux of new faces will bring challenges to the univer-sity’s limited infrastructure, making additional internet-based learning an attractive alternative to cramped class-rooms.

Walsh says that giving stu-dents the option to learn online may also help those who have part- or full-time jobs.

“I come from Mississauga by bus so online courses would defi nitely be a convenient choice,” says one fourth-year business student.

Whichever of the pro-posed options come into place, Guelph-Humber will experi-ence changes if Vice-Provost Walsh puts his plans into play.Some students hope the im-provements come sooner rather than later.

“It’s good as long as they follow through with it,” says Ennis. “As long as you’re con-sistent with what you’re promis-ing, I think it will be enough.”

Improvements to GH

DEVON MCLEAN

Students can fi nally breathe easy as faculty at Ontario’s 24 colleges voted to accept the administration’s latest offer and avoid a strike.

The colleges called for a vote on the offer in early February while facing a potential strike by the 9,000 full-time and partial load faculty in the Ontario Public Service Employ-ee Union.

The initial ballot count was 51.25 per cent of faculty in favour of accepting the offer. With such a close call, students had to wait weeks until the fi nal 300 mail-in ballots were counted by the On-tario Labour Board to be sure there would be no strike.

Orville Getz, President of the Humber College Faculty Union, says, “We knew they were going to vote to accept.” He says the prob-lem was “we didn’t get a strong strike mandate.”

John Davies, President of Hum-ber, says he wasn’t sure faculty across the province would vote to accept the contract but that he “knew that Humber faculty would vote that way.”

Humber faculty voted 65 per cent in favour of accepting the contract.

Of Ontario’s 24 colleges, Humber had the third highest percentage of faculty voting yes. Only Fanshawe and St Lawrence had more.

Davies says that Humber man-agement and faculty have good re-lations because they routinely talk about issues that are contentious at other colleges, such as academic freedom. He believes there is “dif-ferences in the issue of respect” be-tween faculty and management at other colleges.

The 5.9 per cent wage increase over three years is below the usual 3 per cent a year being given to edu-cators across Canada. Davies says he thinks the contract is reasonable.

“That’s not a bad contract. Not in these economic times,” says Davies.

But Getz says “our side is qual-ity of education,” while the col-leges’ side “is budget.” He adds that the big colleges, including Humber, already had a 3 per cent increase

in their budget, but the smaller col-leges didn’t have the funds.

Getz says, “There are still a lot of faculty disgruntled that the work-load issues were not dealt with.”

OPSEU’s website says fear of a strike was a big motivator for fac-ulty to vote for the contract.

“It gets frustrating because it’s a game to them. That’s how they ap-proach negotiations,” says Getz.

Davies says that perhaps the contract did not meet every expec-tation, but that he thinks “it was a fair contract and I think faculty at Humber thought the same.”

Getz says this time the union have “got to start mobilizing now to fi nd out where did the support go.” Big issues at the next negotiations are “going to be workload, salary, and ben-efi ts.”

The new contract is now in effect until Aug 31, 2012.

Classes will continue after College faculty avoids a strike

Devon Mclean

Humber had one of the highest ‘yes’ votes compared to other Ontario colleges.

OPSEU accepts contract off er

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RADIXGuelph-Humber

Canadian Music Week to rock Toronto

TYLER MUNRO

In two days, Canadian Music Week will take over the clubs and venues of downtown Toronto for the 28th consecutive year.

Sheer strength in numbers marks this year’s event, which runs from the Mar. 10 until Mar. 14. It’s expected to feature over 700 artists playing in 45 venues throughout the city. For $60, willing fans can buy a five-day festival wristband that gives them cover-free access to virtu-ally every show throughout the event.

At its core, this year’s Can-adian Music Week is much the same as it has been for over a decade. It still features an over-whelming amount of music crammed into a relatively short time frame. The only real dif-ference this time comes with the inauguration of Canadian Music Fest, an event within an event that separates the week’s performances from its corpor-ate side, which is set to feature lectures and conferences held by various industry figureheads.

Arif Mirabdolbaghi, bass-ist and lyricist for Whitby-bred

metal group Protest the Hero, was just 17 when the band won the award for “Best Indie Metal Band” during Canadian Music Week in 2004, beating out Que-bec legends Voivod for the hon-ours. He still remembers when they won, saying he was too young to realize what it meant at the time. He also remembers it was a school night.

Five years later, in 2009, Protest the Hero won the Indie

Award for “Favourite Punk/Hardcore Artist/Group”. This year they’re nominated for the “Favourite Metal Artist/Group” award.

In spite of all the awards and accolades, Mirabdolbaghi approaches Canadian Music Week with cautious optimism. “I don’t like the industry booze and schmooze,” he says, adding that, “from a band’s perspective, or from a player’s perspective,

it’s important to pay homage to those festivals but not make them bigger than they really are.”

Rob Janson is decidedly more optimistic about the event. Sandman Viper Command, the Burlington, Ontario band for which he provides vocals and guitar, make their Canadian Music Week debut on Mar.11 when they close the Audio Blood Media Showcase with

a 2 a.m. performance of their raucous, bluesy brand of indie rock.

Like Mirabdolbaghi, Janson sees Canadian Music Week as an opportunity to gain experience.

He says he’s excited to hit the stage with his label-mates.

“Anytime you’re playing with great bands on one of Canada’s premiere music showcases,” Janson says, “it’s going to be a good place to cut your chops.”

Bands have high hopes for their showcases at annual festival

Tyler Munro

Sandman Viper Command jams at Patrick Sheehan’s Irish Pub in St. Catherines in preperation for their Audio Blood Media Showcase performance on March 11.

IRENE BOATENG

Humber’s annual art show, eARTh Matters, is approaching quickly and has stepped up its game by going green.

Sponsored by the Humber Stu-dents’ Federation and organized by Humber’s second year Public Relations diploma students, the art show is nature inspired.

eARTh Matters is open to stu-dents at all Humber campuses.

Maria Schembri, one of the public relation students in charge of the presentation of the show said Humber initiated 10,000 acts of green and they wanted to coin-cide the theme to support it.

Everything that is being used for the show will be eco friendly, including decorations.

The students used the Inter-net, Humber Radio and Televi-sion for the promotion of the event to help reduce the event’s carbon footprint.

Students are encouraged to submit their nature-inspired art pieces to showcase their talent, not only for the competition, but to also gain recognition.

“It presents students with an opportunity that they wouldn’t normally have,” said Schembri. “It’s more than a cash prize. It

can be beneficial to students and shows how Humber is supportive of their students.”

Art pieces will be judged and cash prizes will be awarded to the first, second and third place winners in different categories.

The five best pieces will be chosen to represent Humber Col-lege at the League for Innovation Art Show, which Humber will be hosting for the first time.

The League for Innovation is an international organization that advocates for colleges in North America.

Submissions will be collected from Mar. 15 to Mar. 18. The col-lection of art will be displayed at the North campus from Mar. 22 to 24 and at the Lakeshore campus on Mar. 25 and 26. A reception for the winners, the Humber community.

Humber art show goes green

Poster for Humber’s eco friendly art show, eARTh Matters, taking place March 22 to 26. Lady Gaga, the pop culture

queen who likes to be called the Master of Performance Art might show a poker face, but plays with a stacked deck -- a his-tory in dance; writing all of her own lyrics and melodies; a flare for scandalous fashion; and ec-centric performances that shock audiences.

Voted MTV News’ Woman of the Year, she beat out the likes of Taylor Swift, Britney Spears and Beyonce. MTV said, “there’s no one who challenged, provoked, entertained and, well, titillated us over the past 12 months quite like she has.”

Aaron Risen, a student at Ryerson University, thinks Gaga is more than a passing trend.

“People were saying Lady Gaga was just a fad, but I really think she’s going to be the queen of the decade, the way that Ma-donna was... I don’t know if shes

musically brilliant, but she- or her producers- definitely create some interesting pop hooks,” said Risen.

Her own ‘Haus of GaGa’ de-signs with haute couture to create such outfits as the black Jean Paul Gaultier dress, and black and gold Keko Hainswheeler neck brace she paired with a Phantom Of the Opera-esque mask that covered half of her face at the Video Music Awards.

“Gaga influenced the world of performing artists to open up, to try new things- go way out there and don’t stop,” said Miss Nikki Chin, a Toronto’s female impersonator who works charity shows for the queer community.

“Performing arts is about con-necting with the audience. People still enjoy looking at art 400 years after it’s been created because it strikes a cord with the viewer,” said Denny Christianson, Music Program Co-ordinator at Humber Lakeshore .

Gaga says she only wears things that her fans can repli-cate though some beg to differ.

She has a band of followers she calls her little monsters. They recreate her outfits and emulate her style in creating something new.

In the short time Gaga has been in the spotlight, she has par-alleled herself with distinguished pop music icons. Gaga shared the stage with music legend, Sir Elton John at the Grammys and is teaming up with ‘80s singer, Cyndi Lauper in a benefit cam-paign for AIDS.

“The trick is ... no mat-ter who you are, or where you came from ...harness your iden-tity,” Gaga said in a recent CNN interview.

“Lady Gaga has no fear. That’s what she has that we don’t. She has that creativity bubble that she lives in every day of her life,” said Chin.

Love her or hate her, Lady Gaga has conquered popular culture.

“She has come out with a bang, and she is still on a rise ... No one knows what’s going to come next in the world of music and performances,” said Chin.

Lady Gaga master of performance

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ERIN KANNSTAFF REPORTER

HUMBER STUDENTS’ FEDERATIONELECTIONS 2010: YOUR CANDIDATES

Gurpreet Dhillon Adam Gorman

Bhaskar Ranjan Bryan Tran

Hello Humber college students,My name is Gurpreet Dhillon. I am an undergraduate taking police foundations and my goal is to stand for what is right and fight on behalf of my fellow students to get us what we deserve. I am honoured to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest college in Canada.

I believe in the famous quote, “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader”. My actions would speak louder than my words. We would maintain a peaceful and healthy environment within the campus without any discrimination of gender, caste or religion. I am a police foundation student and I believe in giving help and service to the community and I will be standing tall, anytime in the service of this community i.e. the Humber Community.

I promise to you all that I will help all the students in every possible way. Humber College is not just a place to learn but also a place to inspire. We must set the path straight, not only for ourselves but for our coming period. So, I want you all to support and vote for me to direct ourselves into new way and focus.

If elected HSF president, I will do the best I can do to realize my vision for Humber College, which I think would benefit every one of us, individually and as a college community. Humber should be a fun and relaxed environment. The class rooms and common areas should be kept clean and be nice to look at. And since our college years should be the most fun years of our lives, let’s make them that way!If I am elected HSF president, I am interested in achieving things for our school in a way that is fun and enjoyable for all of us and I mean, actually fun and enjoyable. As full time students we need to keep our costs low. As an honours business student I know how to look for every angle to save us money, while keeping the college at least as profitable as it is now.Keeping that in mind, I still think that we should be for the promotion of Humber offering activities, events, speakers, and good information to enjoy our college experience and to improve in the areas that we want to improve in to succeed in life.

My name is Bhaskar Ranjan (Bass) and it’s my pleasure to run for the post of HSF president. Three qualities that qualify me to represent you as your president are that i am passionate, visionary, and result oriented. In the last decade I have travelled to over 10 countries and worked for 4 multinationals, as a corporate trainer, project & recruitment manager & financial associate, where I managed a team of 200 people.

As your President, I will use my corporate leadership skills in combination with my international exposure to provide students with effective career guidance, networking opportunities and better support structure. I forsee bringing together the students from different Humber campuses through cultural events, sports activities, fun fairs and concerts. I also value creativity and warmly embrace new ideas that will take Humber to new levels of excellence.

I can’t promise free coke for lunch, but I can promise you that together we can make a difference at Humber. Your vote is very important to this election, vote for me and be assured that your vote will count for something. Thank you for your precious time, and don’t forget ‘To get your Pass, Vote for BASS!! ‘ :)

Hey Humber Students!!My name is Bryan Tran and I want to be your President for the HSF! This past year I’ve had the pleasure of being your VP Campus Life at Lakeshore, which has enabled me to bring some exciting new cross-campus events to Humber (Amazing Race, Humber’s Got Talent), and also serve students as a part of the Governance Review Committee (making changes to HSF’s constitution and policies), and CSA’s Policy Committee (making recommendations to the provincial government regarding college-wide improvements). Other accomplishments include revising the budget, participating in the first ever GHSA/HSF summit, and spearheading the recent Haiti Relief initiative (where we have raised over $5,000 to date!). I’ve also been recognized as the winner of The Business School’s Dean’s Award this past year for my outstanding commitment to academic studies (with a 93% overall average) and involvement within the college. If elected President, I will continue to actively improve the connection between all of Humber’s campuses (North, Guelph-Humber, Lakeshore, and Orangeville), improve environmental sustainability on campus, and help provide the HSF with a long-term strategic vision and direction as an organization.Swing by my campaign booth for more information, and don’t forget to vote the week of March 8th!

VP ADMINISTRATION - NORTH

VP CAMPUS LIFE - NORTH

VP CAMPUS LIFE - LAKESHORE

VP ADMINISTRATION - LAKESHORE

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

Bradley Watson

Karlie Fisher

Richard Chang

Melissa Mendes

Shabana Kaker

Abdul Wahid Rahmaty

Stephanie Butler

Arshdeep Mangat

Hi, I’m Stephanie Butler and I’d like to be your HSF Vice-President of Administration next year. I’m an active, passionate, and experienced leader and am excited to have a chance to take the HSF forward in 2010/2011. For the upcoming year, I’d like to see: •more interaction between the Humber and GH communities•more ethnic foods on campus•an increase in HSF scholarships and bursaries for students in need•an option for students to opt out of the entire health and dental plan•growth in the HSF volunteer program and green team•more support for diversity and positive space campaignsIn my years on campus, I’ve developed a successful track record and believe that I am well qualified for this position. I have attended Guelph-Humber and lived in student residence for three years and have worked part time for the HSF for two years doing Public Relations and writing for Humber Life. Additionally, I have served as Vice-President and President of Rez Committee, President of Rez Orientation Committee, President of Humber Pride Club, Co-president of the Vegan and Vegetarian Society, and Media Studies Program Rep with the Guelph-Humber Student Association.Integrity. Experience. Vision. Vote Stephanie for VP Admin!

Hello Humber Students,I am Arshdeep Singh Mangat pursuing Advanced Diploma in Electrical Engineering. I am standing for the position of Vice President – Campus Life. I have chosen this position because of my good management & organizing skills, knowledge about HSF services and strong strategic planning. However the most important skill for this position is to understand every individual in order to create an environment of friendship, enjoyment and entertainment within the campus. As Vice President (Campus Life)..... * Promise to perform my duties with honesty and dignity so that whatever you are expecting this year, at the end you will get more. * Will develop and implement social, cultural and entertainment events for the students of Humber College this season. * Help new and international students to take the best advantage of our services. * Will do my best to solve various problems and issues regarding o Club budgets & their promotions. o Organising variety of events and parties. o Higher food prices in campus. o Improve food facilities in Guelph-Humber.College moments are considered one of the great moments in our lives, so let’s make the best of them. With your support I will have the opportunity to serve you. Let’s make the best of Humber History.

HEY Students, My name is Melissa Mendes and I want to be your Vice President of Campus Life! After a year of being your VP of Administration I have decided to expand my experience with then Humber Students’ Federation and bring in some more “LIFE” into our hallways! My Profile:•Vast experience and knowledge regarding the HSF. •Worked for the organization for the past 2 years: First as a Public Relations Assistant and second as your VP of Administration. •I am currently in my Second year in the Public Relations stream. I have and will continue to obtain the knowledge and skills required for this position. i.e Event planning and time management. Committed and Motivated to:• I will dedicate my time to get student voice’s heard concerning their suggestions for new event opportunities. i.e. “HSF Speakers Corner,” for students to express their thoughts!•Passionate about what the STUDENTS want within our campus.•Working closely with our Clubs and Associations to enhance student life on campus. What you want … What you Need…A Motivated Experienced LeaderVOTE MELISSA MENDES FOR VP OF CAMPUS LIFE !!!!

Hey HUMBER! My name is Waleed Rahmaty and I am interested in being your next Vice President of Campus Life. I’m a full time student in the Fitness and Health Promotion Program and I’m also a part time staff member on the HSF events team.Being with HSF for the past year has opened my eyes to all the great opportunities available to us. By witnessing many HSF events, I’ve recognized the importance of campus life; my goal is to make it even more enjoyable! As the VP of Campus Life, you can count on me to think outside the box and organize events that are unique to Humber! Humber is our “home away, from home” where we will form memories that last us a lifetime. Voting me for VP will leave HSF events etched in your mind!Here are a few things I would like to see: • More Multicultural events because we are proud of our ethnic diversity • More off campus events in the GTA so we can represent our city • More Weekend events and after parties at Linx so the partying doesn’t stopI would love to hear your comments, ideas and concerns to help me understand what YOU want.Trust and Vote me for Vice President, because a new decade deserves a new beginning!

Hello Humber Students! My name is Karlie Fisher and I would like to be your next HSF Vice President of Administration. I am a first year student, currently enrolled in my second semester of the Community and Justice Services program here at Humber Lakeshore. Even though I have only been at Humber for less than a year, I feel my current position with the HSF programming department has assisted me in thoroughly getting to know most of Lakeshore’s strengths as well as areas for improvement. As your VP of Administration, I will strive to ensure that all of HSF current services such as Health and Dental Insurance, the Used Book program, Bursaries, and the Food Program, continue to be available to each and every student at your convenience. If elected, I plan on looking into providing an on-campus pharmacy for students, much like the one located at North Campus. The Pharmacy would conveniently allow students to drop off, pick up and fill personal prescriptions, as well as give students an opportunity to purchase convenience items. I would also like to provide students with a yearly tax assistance program, as well as a structured car pooling program. Most importantly, I will make sure YOUR voice is heard.

My name is Richard Chang and I’m running for the position of VP of Administration. I am a third year Business Administration student from the University of Guelph-Humber, with leadership experience (President of the Anime Club 08/09) and am most qualified to fill this elected position.

How does electing you VP of Admin help me?I am a great communicator, leader, problem-solver, and I care about the concerns of the student body. As VP of Admin., it is my duty to help relay student concerns to administration. One of the biggest concerns that I’ve found exists between the students and their course coordinators. If elected, I will push for better relationships between the two by addressing the issues that the students have and bringing them to light. People are usually surprised by how much can be resolved when core issues are discussed.Another student concern reside with facilities management, in particular, the washrooms and lounge areas. If elected, I will be vocal in improving them by forwarding this voice of dissent to the decision-makers above, thus enacting positive change. I asked students what they wanted when I started running, so remember: a vote for Richard is a vote for you.

Hey Humber,I’m Shabana Kaker and I am hoping to be your Vice President of Administration at the north campus, for the year 2010-2011. I am in my first year of the Business Administration diploma program. Currently, I am an events assistant at the Humber Students’ Federation. In the past year I have learned a lot about the HSF, and the many services it offers. It would be my pleasure to give back to the students by increasing HSF’s service offerings. As your Vice President of Administration I promise to make only those decisions that will most benefit the student body. During my time in office, I would like to make the following changes:•Bring an optometrist on campus•Increase the food courts hours of operation•Introduce new volunteer specific initiatives•Bring forth more student concerns on dietary restrictions

I would like all students to know that I will have an open door policy. I will listen to any ideas, concerns, or opinions any student may have, as well as try to implement possible solutions.Voting me as your Vice President of Administration will ensure that you have a voice at Humber.

Hey everyone,As a student going into my third year in the Business Administration program at the University of Guelph-Humber, I remain committed to the growth of the Humber Students’ Federation and Humber itself. What I feel is one thing, but what I have done and will do is another:More Experience: Only elected student representative on the Board of Governors for Humber ITALTwo years as President of Student Leaders of Tomorrow (HSF Sanctioned Club) An elected member of the University of Guelph Senate Liaison to the HSF Board of DirectorsMore Helping: Continue to develop campus green initiatives Further development of the Volunteer Crew (V-Crew)Represent YOU in the College Student AllianceMore Giving: Vision Centre on Campus Growth of the HSF Food Bank A stronger HSF scholarship programMy ongoing involvements on campus speak volumes; however I believe my passion for this job is what sets me apart. I want to represent YOU and look back knowing that I have truly made a positive difference for everyone.So if you want to see a difference, vote Bradley Watson for Vice President of Administration.Are you part of the… Bradministration?

Varun VermaHello, fellow students, my name is Varun Verma. I am an Electrical Engineering student at Humber College. Currently serving as a Board of Director for the Applied Technology Department. I have facilitated academics complaints and concerns of the students with full attention and reviewed by me in an accountable manner. This year I am running for the position of Vice President (Administration).When I will be elected, I promise to fulfill the following duties and goals. * Represent the HSF positively and professionally. * More career opportunities for the graduating student. * Good and healthy food in the college at reasonable prices. * Interactions with various members of the Humber community. * Reasonable fees for the various services provided to the students by the college such as photocopying, printing, athletics, etc. * Improve residence services, so that students can study hard and enjoy their time while being at Humber College. * Help new and international students to adapt new life.It is through developing opportunities that one can show his/her talent and be successful while doing good for others.

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Deniero BartoliniHey Humber Lakeshore!

For those who don’t know me, my name is Deniero Bartolini and I am running to be your next VP of Campus Life. Over the past years that I have spent at Humber College, I have realized that there are so many opportunities for us students to get involved and to have a good time. In the 2009/2010 academic year I have been working with the HSF events team, making our campus a more fun and interesting spot for those who want to enjoy college life. One of the things I love about being at the Lakeshore campus is the wide range of artistic talent our student body has. With the opening of the new K building, I can envision many more opportunities for Humber students to perform their craft, no matter what their specialties are. If elected as your VP Campus Life, I will be committed to making the best use of this new facility to further enhance student life on campus. Even though voting in the upcoming election may seem like such a small thing, it will be the first step for you to be an active part of an exciting and community oriented school!

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MELISSA DOYLE

Business Administration at the University of Guelph-Humber holds the spot as the largest pro-gram on campus. and the pro-gram has a variety of clubs to choose from within its different specializations. All have been started by Guelph-Humber students. While some of the clubs were sanctioned not long ago, others have been around almost as long as Guelph-Humber itself. Two of the business students who have taken leadership roles with the clubs are Hailey Zysman and Bradley Watson.

Third year student Zysman is the Controller of the Guelph-Humber Accounting club. She says students should consider joining because they are the ones “molding the future of Guelph-Humber.” While the club does focus on students mainly inter-ested in accounting, there are

benefits for others too, “We want to help students with resources to get a job after graduation,” says Zysman.

Watson is in his second year of the Business program, and is also the president and founder of the Student Leaders of Tomorrow club. Watson said that he started the SLOT club within weeks of his first year at Guelph-Humber. “When I first came here, I was looking for a way to get involved and I noticed that there were no programs that promoted leader-ship on campus. There were a lot of roles that entailed being a leader, but nothing that really promoted the growing core lead-ership around the school,” says Watson.

Christian Mangar, a second year Justice Studies student, vol-unteered at the Student Leader-ship Summit last month, which was put on by Watson. “This was the first event I attended as a Student Leadership Developer, and I was actually impressed, especially with the fact that they had critical paths, and knew where everyone was the entire time.”

Although Mangar has a busy schedule being the Justice Stud-ies Representative and a part of the University of Guelph’s

Senate, he will consider work-ing with SLOT again, Zys-man and Watson are just two of the many business students that have taken it upon them-selves to not only become lead-ers within the Guelph-Humber community, but encourage other students on campus to do

the same. Some other business clubs that students can get in-volved with on campus include DECA U , GH AMA ( Guelph-Humber Advertising and Mar-keting Association ) , GH AC (Guelph-Humber Accounting) and Amnesty International: Guelph-Humber Chapter.

Melissa Doylet

Business students help set up for the Student Leaders of Tomorrow Summit, which was held last month at GH.

Campus business clubs flourishing

“We want to help

students with re-

sources to get a job

after graduation.”

TRACY WOOLCOCK

Some Ontario residents are say-ing goodbye to nicotine for a chance to win a Ford Escape Hybrid as the Canadian Cancer Society launches its fifth annual Driven to Quit Challenge.

Contestants had to quit smok-ing or tobacco use by March 1st, and remain tobacco free for the remainder of the month, in order to be entered into the draw.

According to Physicians for a Smoke free Canada, 21 per cent of Canadians over the age of 15 are smokers; a total of 5.4 million people.

Smoking has been around for centuries and like its long histori-cal timeline, people often strug-gle for many years to quit. The contest hopes to give smokers the drive they need to kick the habit. However, it’s not easy, even for a car.

Paul Anderson, a telecommu-nications representative at Gem-ma Communications, has been smoking since age 18. Now 26, he admits that he has tried quit-ting on countless occasions.

Anderson entered the Driven to Quit Challenge last year but couldn’t hold out long enough.

“I made it as far as March 12 and couldn’t go anymore. I was

disappointed with myself but I just wasn’t ready to quit” he says.

Anderson firmly believes that there isn’t any outside incentive adequate to make a smoker quit. He thinks it’s solely up to the in-dividual to say when he or she wants to stop.

“I really wanted that car but I wanted the cigarette even more. I just wasn’t ready to quit and no car was going to make me do it” he says.

The decision to start smok-ing differs for each individual but the reason to quit is simi-lar. The health of a smoker is depleted every time a cigarette is lit, according to the Canadian Cancer Society, which identi-fies scores of serious health af-flictions in which smoking is implicated.

Cherri Grannum, retail Co-

Manger at Costa Blanca Outlet, started smoking at the age of 16 and knows it’s time to quit.

Grannum smoked three packs of cigarettes a day, but now she’s cut down to one pack a week. She’s thinking about taking part in the Driven to Quit Challenge next year.

“I know it’s going to be re-ally hard but I’m definitely up for it. I just hope that I can hold out until the end.” she says.

Cigarette-smoking is consid-ered a highly addictive habit.

Contest organizers are aware of the difficult task ahead for anyone who accepts the challenge and have placed procedures to help assist indi-viduals who have a weak mo-ment.

They have telephone, website, and text-message lines available 24 hours a day for anyone who needs to talk.

Participants don’t accom-plish the effort alone -- as an application requirement, a bud-dy must be present from the be-ginning of the contest until the end to ensure that the partici-pant sticks to their plan to quit.

Lending a helping hand won’t go unnoticed; each buddy will also have the chance to win a $200 shopping credit.

Names will randomly be selected March 31, and in or-der to verify contestants are tobacco free, a urine test is administered; winners will be announced publicly in April.

Since 2006 the contest has been successful in inspiring 101,000 entrants to get on the road to a smoke-free lifestyle.

It may take more than a free car, to help kick the tobacco habit

Students are given reason to butt out

Guelph-HumberBusiness students develop leadership skills at a range of specialty groups

DEVON MCLEAN

Before LinX opened in No-vember, there was much specu-lation about what the new cam-pus pub would look like. And after months of renovations, it finally opened with a few changes from the look of the old pub.

Christopher Shimoji, LinX’s manager, said there have been updates from the pub’s previous manifestation as Caps, but LinX needed to stay a multifunction venue. It acts as a pub during the day and a club on Thursday nights, when all the tables and chairs are removed from the room and the floor is open for dancing.

Committees were established to plan the pub, with Shimoji, and representative from Humber Students’ Federation members, and Campus Services. Shimoji says students used to call Caps “a dungeon,” and so LinX is more open and bright. But that doesn’t change the basics of Linx, a con-crete block with cafeteria style tables.

Aaron Miller, the HSF Pro-gramming Director, says, “It’s not the warmest room,” but that “it’s easier to use because it be-came a blank canvas.”

The idea for LinX was “something brighter, more modern, more loungey,” says Shimoji. The pub’s more ap-pealing features include a cou-

ple of couches and two pool tables.

But some observers have re-marked that the result of the open, modern design is a lack of warmth and personality for the new pub. The warmth and com-fort of other on campus pubs is typically described as coming from the booths, fabrics and gen-eral decor.

Miller says “sometimes stu-dent say they like the look of it, they like the atmosphere,” but may also remark that “they don’t like the location. It’s not easy to get to in the school.”

Guelph-Humber students who have made the trip to the Univer-sity of Guelph’s on-campus pubs find the difference between them and LinX is striking.

At the University of Guelph, two main pubs exist. One is a sports bar, Gryph’s, mimicking what woud be found off campus, with booths, televisions cover-ing every wall and giant screen TVs.

Some GH students have said LinX’s bare walls, few TVs, and generally grey decor feel more sterile than atmospheric. Guelph’s pubs have ambience that the metal and plastic tables and chairs and cafeteria feel of LinX can’t compare to.

Shimoji says that with LinX, what you see is not what you will get. He says that additions, like booths, will continue at Linx, but “you gotta start somewhere.”

LinX may not be what students expected

Tracy Woolcock

Smokers need to stay nine metres away from the school entrances or deal with the consequences.

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We asked you...What’s the weirdest text message you have ever recieved?

Heather AchesonHumber JournalismFirst-year

“I love how I don’t know you, but I have the power to make you look at your cell phone.”

George PereiraMedia StudiesFirst-year

“Hey, wgat shaking? How soix helmh the robeum.”

Paul AgiusHorticultural StudiesFirst-year, Humber College

“I’ve gotten a nude photo.”

Taylor KhanVisiting Student at GH

“Girls saying they’re so drunk when they aren’t because they just want to talk to you.”

Damian HansonElectronics EngineerFirst-year, Humber

“It’s 3a.m. and I get a text that says ‘What are you doing?’ What do you think I’m doing!”

Only tragedies can make us care

It is nearing two months since the devastating earthquake

that rocked Haiti and shook the change out of everyone’s pock-ets. The Haiti relief fund -- we’ve all heard the phrase. Many of us even spared whatever change we had lingering in our pockets after our morning coffee.

It is also likely that you gave your extra lunch money when the tsunami hit the coast of In-donesia in 2004. Have you ever donated to Liberia or Congo, two of the world’s poorest coun-tries out of the goodness of your heart, not because there was a natural disaster being flashed on the television every five sec-onds?

Probably not. This is not nec-essarily a bad thing, yet what does it say about our sense of charity? By no means are we too selfish as a society to do-nate our spare money. Accord-ing to Wikipedia, Canada has donated over $135 million dol-lars to Haiti. On the other hand, searching the World Wide Web for donations to Congo: Zip.

Perhaps the real reason is our ignorance.

North Americans have be-come desensitized to the idea of a developing country. Not only do we know too little about coun-tries facing financial hardship, human rights abuses and politi-cal chaos, the majority of us don’t want to face the harsh realities.

We watch bored-faced as ema-ciated children stare through the

screen at us and do nothing. Yet we become enthralled with the cause after the latest natural di-saster.

There have been fundraisers for Haiti on a small scale, such as the ones here on campus, and a large scale, like Wyclef Jean’s events for his Yele Haiti foun-dation.

There are only a handful of celebrities that donate money

to developing countries on a regular basis, but dozens have now flocked to share their for-tunes with the damaged nation. It seems that celebrities are the first to respond to a disaster, of-fering millions of dollars to re-gions hit by a crisis while the rest of us common folk follow suit, donating on a smaller scale proportional to our income.

At times, the option of where

to donate could be overwhelm-ing. What causes this drive?

Are we using these natural disasters as the push we need to help countries so far impover-ished we didn’t know where to start? Is this giving the donors too much credit? Perhaps we need to reconsider our charitable priorities and donate to countries in need before they are flattened by a catastrophe.

People choose to give aid to countries in need only when they are struck by great tragedy

Alyssa Ouellette

SPORTS 8 MONDAY MARCH 8, 2010

RADIXGuelph-Humber

KATIE MYHALUK

It was a golden weekend for the Humber Hawks men’s and wom-an’s volleyball teams. Both teams travelled to their respective On-tario College Athletics Associa-tion’s Provincial Championships.

Humber men’s volleyball won gold Feb. 27 by defeating the Sen-eca Sting. The Hawks travelled to Redeemer University in Ancast-er to compete in the provincial tournament, beating Algonquin and Durham in the semi-finals and winning all three sets in each game. Humber then took on Sen-eca for the provincial title, win-ning in three sets.

“I was a little concerned, be-ing the first provincials for a lot of the guys,” said Head Coach, Wayne Wilkins. He was worried about them making rookie mis-takes which they did not do.

OCAA Rookie of the Year and All Canadian, Terrel Bramwell, took home 22 points with 20 kills and two stuff blocks. Bramwell was named 2010 OCAA Champi-onship Tournament MVP.

The Humber men’s volleyball team will be heading to Alberta

on Wednesday for the Canadian College Athletics Association’s National Championship.

Farther north, the Humber wom-en’s volleyball team, ranked number one in the province. They travelled to Cambrian College in Sudbury to compete for the provincial title.

The Hawks beat both Cam-brian and Mohawk to get into the gold medal game. Humber defeat-ed the Nipissing Lakers by a score of three sets to two and won their third consecutive OCAA Wom-en’s Volleyball Championship.

“Although we didn’t play our best volleyball, we deserved to

win because of how we played over the course of the year,” said Humber women’s coach Chris Wilkins.

During the close gold medal game, OCAA Rookie of the Year, Kelly Nyhoff, led Hum-ber’s attack with 12 kills, three aces and two stuff blocks for 17 points. Landis Doyle added 12 points of her own towards the win.The women’s team will be in the CCAA Nationals start-ing Mar. 10 in Quebec. Last season, Humber lost to Red Deer three sets to one, in the bronze medal match.

Men’s and women’s

are OCAA Champions

Volleyball teams golden

The month of March is liked for many reasons. The start

of spring, St. Patrick’s Day and a one week break from school. For basketball fans, it’s all about March Madness. This 65-team, single elimination U.S. college basketball tournament is one of the biggest sporting events of the year.

Last year’s champions, Uni-versity of North Carolina, were a pre-season favourite to win but currently sit at second-last place in their conference. They are the biggest disappointment of the college basketball season thus far and have a very slim chance of repeating as champi-ons. While North Carolina has struggled, the other pre-season favourites have lived up to ex-pectations.

The universities of Kansas, Kentucky, and Villanova were all ranked in the pre-season top five and will be serious contend-ers for the championship.

Humber Hawks basketball team manager Dan Cox consid-ers himself a huge fan, not only at the NBA and college level but high school as well

“I’ve been following most of these kids since they were in high school. I like to see their transformation from Grade 12 to the college level. March Madness is what I live for ev-ery year, I don’t leave the tele-vision”, said Cox. He admits there are many great teams this

year but he can only see two making it to the finals.

“This year is all about Kan-sas and Kentucky,” said Cox.

The Kansas Jayhawks and Kentucky Wildcats each hold a 27-1 record and have been the top teams for most of the year. A final between these two teams would be the ultimate showdown as Kan-sas relies on its veteran leadership while Kentucky relies heavily on its youth. John Wall is one of Cox’s favourite players and he has a pre-diction for the finals.“I’ve been fol-lowing Wall since he was in grade 9, the guy is unbelieveable, but Kansas is too good. I think they will take it,” said Cox.

The University of Villanova is looking to spoil the Kansas vs. Kentucky showdown. Villanova fell short in last year’s semifi-nals, losing to eventual champi-ons North Carolina. With most of their key players from last year still enrolled, the expecta-tions are that Villanova will at least return to the final four.

The Purdue Boilermakers are currently ranked third, but have had a huge setback. Star player Robbie Hummel recently suf-fered an injury that will keep him out for the rest of the sea-son. Without Hummel, Purdue should still make a deep run in the tournament but it is unlikely they will be able to compete with the elite without him.

The Syracuse Orange have lost only two games and currently sits atop the Big East conference. They were ranked as high as third this season.

March Madness is known for its unpredictability but the one thing fans can count on is its ex-citement and drama.

March Madness fans have high expectations

JESSE MAIDASTAFF REPORTER

Heather Alford

The Humber Hawks women’s volleyball team celebrates their third straight Provincial Championship in Sudbury on Feb. 27.

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