Ravens reclaim OUA East title

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A rivalry as big as the game itself, and a victory just as rewarding, the Carleton men’s varsity basketball team defeated the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees 78-64 Mar. 6 in the Ravens’ Nest.

The win secured Carleton the Ontario University Athletics’ (OUA) East championship title.

The game started off slow for the Ravens as the Gee-Gees came out strong, capturing the first points of the game and maintaining a dominant lead throughout the beginning of the first quarter.

It was midway through the first quarter when the Ravens reclaimed their territory.

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Discovering Sherwood Forest on campus

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 When one thinks of archery they often think of Robin Hood.

That’s what Amanda Devitt thought too, when she first fell in love with the sport at summer camp as a child.

Now, years later, Devitt is a senior member of the archery club at Carleton.

The simple fact that Carleton has an archery program was a deciding factor for Devitt four years ago when she was choosing a university.

The archery team, which has been around for six years, practices every Tuesday in the combatives room and welcomes new members.

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Policies for policing players in NHL, OHL, CIS

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The Canada-U.S. Olympic gold medal showdown in men’s ice hockey had all the ingredients for a game people will be talking about for ages: nail-biting intensity, a come-from-behind push that saw the States force overtime with only seconds remaining, and a photo finish care of Canadian poster boy Sidney Crosby.

The gold-medal game was a perfect representation of Olympic hockey: fast-paced, hard-hitting and skilled, but without the dirty hits and roughhousing that are commonplace in the NHL.

Yet exactly one week after Crosby’s golden moment, his NHL teammate made headlines for injuring Boston Bruins centre Marc Savard. Matt Cooke delivered a blindside hit to Savard’s face. Savard was knocked momentarily unconscious and removed from the ice on a stretcher.

Savard is back practicing with his team, but the incident has left NHL brass with a major headache.

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Inuit documentary stakes a claim at Carleton

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Four Inuit youth spent a summer interviewing elders and government officials learning about their history from those who lived it.

The result, a feature length documentary to be screened for the first time in Canada at Carleton and hopefully it’s only the beginning, the director said.

“It was about educating young people about what the Inuit journey’s been like and how they were able to take on a very large bureaucracy and change it,” said Kath Clarida, director and co-creator of the film.

The film explores the Inuit Land Claims Agreement through interviews with those involved in the negotiations.

Carleton professor Frances Abele was also involved in the film, acting as an outside source and providing global and Canadian perspectives during the time of land negotiations.

Although a struggle, these land claims brought the people together to create change, Clarida said.

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A one ooman show

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One woman, five characters and a story that never gets old.  The award-winning solo play blood.claat: one ooman story has finally found its way to Ottawa.

Since its creation in 2004, blood.claat has been seen on numerous Canadian stages, including a recent appearance at Vancouver’s Magnetic North Theatre Festival and productions in Montreal and Victoria, B.C. But the show’s creator and only actor, d’bi.young anitafrika, said each performance of blood.claat is a new and distinct experience.

 “I love to invent new lines depending on what the vibes (are) in the house,” anitafrika said with a laugh. “But we try to keep the beginning and the end the same.”

Ottawa theatre-goers will see an updated version of the play, anitafrika said, as certain songs, dances and monologues are changed with every production in order to keep the play timely and engaging for each new audience.

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Theatre Review: Vagina Monologues

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The women began by listing off a handful of names that women around the world use for their “down there” – cunt, poonanie or coochi snorcher to name a few.

“In Ottawa we call [the vagina] a salty prime minister,” one cast member stated.

“But when a woman is going through a dry spell she calls it a prorogue of Parliament!” another actress added.

The crowd was full of laughter and tears all weekend long as the Vagina Monologues were performed at Carleton.

And although the Saturday-afternoon show was late to begin, due to technical difficulties, it was flawless and well worth the wait.

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Girl power to purge poverty

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Half the Sky LIVE, an interactive film event discussing “the most important movement of our time” – to make women full-pledged members of society around the world – was screened in hundreds of cinemas across North America, including one in Ottawa, March 4.

Screenings coincided with the marking of International Women’s Day, an occasion which celebrated its 100th anniversary March 8.

The event was organized by CARE, a global humanitarian organization concerned with empowering marginalized women.

“We need to ensure that we are contributing, investing in helping the root causes of poverty and not in band-aid solutions,” said Andrea Lanthier-Seymour, director of communications at CARE Canada.

The film depicts the gender-based violence engraved in many communities around the world. It also shows the tragedy that one woman dies from pregnancy or a childbirth-related illness every minute.

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Concert Review: Wilco

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On two occasions when asking friends if they wanted to go see Wilco, I got the same response: “What’s Wilco?”

Fair enough.

It’s not exactly your standard band name, but its true meaning makes for a good laugh: Wilco stands for will comply - not exactly what the concept of rock ’n’ roll is rooted in.

And Wilco is no standard band either.

The group’s music could be described as a combination of alternative, country, rock, pop and experimental. And that wacky combination is exactly what makes their music, and especially their shows, so special.

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Ottawa guitarist learns more every gig

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“My name was an accident, like my music,” says Kirk Ramsay, the young man behind Giant Hand.

Ramsay was 20 when he learned to play his first pawn-shop guitar, and just two months older when he played his first gig. At the time, Ramsay didn’t have much in the way of music: a sparse set-list of minimalist folk music he was writing almost on the go.

But those quirky observations set to three (or so) chords, including one about forming a band called Giant Hand, were enough to cement his name and reputation at once.

The next step, a daunting one, was translating the instant hype into a career. So despite some stage fright and a little bewilderment, Ramsay booked every show that came his way. Immaculate Machine, Born Ruffians, Bluesfest, and the list goes on.

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Boats! crossing international waters

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Mat Klachefsky and his band Boats! recently found themselves in a position not uncommon for musicians: tired, dirty, broke and with no place to stay. However, the gods of pop music shone on the band that night and presented them with what seemed to be a perfect fix to their situation.

After finishing a set, a woman presented the band her keys and told the members to crash in her apartment, Klachefsky says, the lead singer and songwriter for the band.

“So we went to her apartment and fell into bed and around 3 a.m. she came in on all kinds of drugs, but we’re not really down with that whole thing and we were tired. Then she started demanding that we watch with TV with her. It was really awkward. My biggest fear was that she would not remember that she lent us her keys and start beating us with a frying pan,” he says. “We don’t have crazy followers, but we have seen crazy people.”

Sometimes when you’re a band trying to make it in Canada you got to do what you got to do.

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