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This Week At King's. March 24th-30th 2014. Yeehaw, #2!

THIS WEEK AT KING'S
March 17th-23rd, 2014

What a week folks. What. A. Week. Incredibly, here we are, all the way at another lovely Sunday night (read: disgustingly early Monday morning). Shoutout to Gorillaz for getting me through Part 1 of tonight’s TWAK process, and to Meg Shields for getting me through Part 2 (all the credit for the name of this week’s TWAK goes to her). (Obvious implied shoutout to Zach here for calling Justin Bieber a 7-year-old on national youtube.)  There’s a lot to think about in TWAK this week. From KTS plays to Mind Balls, to Watch Elections to fee discussions, this one has got it all, folks. Kind of like the lords and kings would, if we still lived under feudalism. Thank heavens that we don’t.
Can we all collectively congratulate FYP students on only having one paper left? To answer my own question: yes we can! Congrats! Now I’m just stalling. All I can think about is the fact that in two hours the sun will be up. As I carefully contemplate this conundrum, it occurs to me that concocting a crafty sentence where all the words start with ‘c’ is easy until you get halfway through and have nowhere to go with it. Insightful. On that noe, I’m going to have to leave it there – until next week.
 
J
 
P.S. There’s a new feature coming to TWAK in regards to submissions, first person to figure it out and contact me through the new submission system gets to be the first person to figure it out and contact me through the new submission system!
Emma’s Weather Corner
This week Emma watched a lot of House of Cards and procrastinated. When asked what else she got up to, she said, “Jacob, you can’t put the shit I did this week in TWAK. I had a ******* ***** way too ***** ** ** **** for way too long this week.”
Emma Steen is a proud Kingsian and regular reader of the weekly weather, who graciously puts together this detailed and emotional forecast. Look out for more in-depth and personal accounts of what it is like to be her in an upcoming TWAK.
MONDAY – High of -5, low of -10. This sucks. I'm sorry
TUESDAY – High of 1, low of -5. Partly cloudy. Partly shitty.
WEDNESDAY – Gonna snow. What is this?
THURSDAY – Boring. High of -3, low of -6.
FRIDAY – High of 7, but chance of snow? I don't get it either.
SATURDAY – YEAH. High of 9!
SUNDAY – "Chance of ice"...what does that mean? Someone tell me. High of 8, low of 2.

 
Notice

Sunday morning at KSU Council, Jim Fitzpatrick, the University's bursar, came in to discuss proposed raises to tuition by 3%. He also brought up a potential increase of all ancillary fees by 3%, and meal plans by 8% - a change that is in direct contradiction of the Memorandum of Understanding.

Ancillary fees include the King's Administration Fee, the King's College Fee, the King's Athletic Fee, the King's Facility Renewal Fee, the King's Technology Fee, the MFA Mentor Fee, and the Journalism Course Fee.
 
http://ksu.ca/2014/03/22/live-blog-council-march-23/
 
What do you think? We would love to hear from you. Email KSU President Michaela Sam (president@ksu.ca) with thoughts or questions, or reply directly to this email.



ANNOUNCEMENTS, ANNOUNCEMENTS, ANNOOOOUUUNCEMENTS, AAANNNNOUNCEMENTS!
 
BREAKFAST FOR DINNER: THE KSU SPRING GENERAL MEETING
It’s time! The KSU’s Spring General Meeting is next Monday, March 31, at 7PM in Alumni Hall. The menu is Bylaws and Budgets, with a side of committee elections, and levy discussion for dessert. Seriously though, there will be waffles, apples, tater tots, bacon, and whipped cream. What more could a Union member ask for? What’s that? You also want music, dance breaks, special presentations, and a costume or two? Sure, why not.
 
ALEX FOUNTAIN MEMORIAL LECTURE CHOICES
The longlist of Alex Fountain Memorial Lecture speakers is out! Vote! https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5KPBPY7! There are some great choices on there, I know I had a hard time choosing. In fact, there are 20 speakers listed! Wow! https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5KPBPY7! You have until March 28th to vote!
 
K-POINTS ARE REAL
Bryant: “K-Points are awarded based on the activities, positions, and committees you have been involved with during your time at King's and get tallied up by the SLVP at the end of every academic year. You can get K-Points for working a campus job, playing on a sports team, working a Union Hired Position, participating in Day Student Society Events, and most any other activity on Campus.” SO GET ‘EM IN. You can submit your points at www.tiny.cc/kpoints before April 1st. K? K.
 
GRAD CLOTHING
Grad Clothing order forms will be available all week long at Alex Hall front desk! They are due back by Friday at 5PM. Order forms are also on Facebook! All le merch is navy blue with the King’s crest on the front and logo on the back. T-shirts $20, Tanks $20 (Tanks? Or tank tops? Order one and find out!), Hoodies $45. There are also still pint glasses for sale for $6. Grads! Get clothed!
 
HALIBURTON SOCIETY HONOURARY MEMBER’S RECEPTION
Coming straight atcha from the HaliSoc: “It is my exceeding pleasure to announce that this year's Haliburton Honourary Member will be celebrated poet and novelist Sue Goyette. Her first book of poems, The True Names of Birds, was nominated for the 1999 Governor General's award, her first novel, Lures, was nominated for the 2003 Thomas Head Radall Award, and her most recent collection of poetry, Ocean, was published in 2013 by Gaspereau Press (SOMEONE TELL ALEX BRYANT RIGHT NOW). Sue Goyette also currently teaches advanced poetry at Dalhousie University. Every year the Haliburton Society inducts a Canadian author as our Honorary Member. Previous inductees have included Zachariah Wells, Alexander McLeod, David Adams Richards, and Allistair McLeod and this year we could not be more pleased to welcome Sue Goyette to the fold.” Come onnn out to this event on March 26th at 9PM in the SCR for a reading and reception. Refreshments will be provided and copies of Sue Goyette's work will be available for sale by the King's Co-op Bookstore. NOICE.
 
UNION HIRED POSITIONS!
The KSU is hiring! We're on the lookout for a Council Chair, a Scribe, a CUBE Coordinator, a Chief Returning Officer, a Campus Safety Coordinator, a Sustainability Officer, and three Frosh Week Coordinators. Phew! What a long list. To apply for one of the positions, send your resume and cover letter to cvp@ksu.ca or drop them off in the KSU office by March 28. Questions? Hit up cvp@ksu.ca. Is it starting to sound like I'm just plugging for my own email address? I'm happy to hear your complaints at cvp@ksu.ca.
 
THE MIND BALL – 18/19 – WET/DRY – SEMI/FORMAL – FUN?/FUN.
They got their wet/dry license! A limited number of tickets are available for 18-year-olds to attend this supa rad event. If an underager would like to attend, you’ll need your King’s ID at the door. Members of the King’s community will be hosting a super rad semi-formal ball for youth mental health on March 29th at the Lord Nelson. There’s going to be DJs, lights, drinks, a photo booth, a candy bar, a late night snack station, and the chance to win huge prizes. Tickets are $20, with all proceeds going to Moving Minds - an entirely youth led not-for-profit dedicated to changing the culture surrounding youth mental health in Halifax. This sounds like some great fun. Can we just crash at the Lord Nelson that night and then all of the stranded res students can let us in for breakfast? Yes we can! See you there.
 
THERE’S STILL TIME TO TAKE PART IN THE THIRD ANNUAL KING’S SQUASH TOURNEY
If you haven’t noticed this announcement by now, there’s really not much I can do for you other than repeat again: for its sixth time in TWAK, the King's Squash Society is hosting its third annual squash tournament for players of a variety of levels on March 29th and 30th. Do pumpkin and squash taste different? In fact they do. I have eaten both, and they are quite distinct. Which do I prefer? Good question. It entirely depends. (Now isn’t that cryptic.) If you just want to play squash in the King’s squash tourney, please send the Squash society an email at kings.squashed@gmail.com.
 
APPLY FOR POWERSHIFT! – FREE!
Get those gears in motion! PowerShift, a massive conference on climate justice, is coming to Halifax from March 28-31 2014. Hundreds of students from across Atlantic Canada and the rest of the country will be gathering at Dalhousie for the conference and we want you to be there with ‘em at an extremely subsidized cost. How do I do that, you ask? It’s as simple as this, I reply. Come on in to the KSU Office and sign up – it’s now free for the first 20 students!
 
KING’S CHAPEL CHOIR: BACH’S ST. MATTHEW PASSION – SUNDAY, APRIL 6th 
Double choir, double orchestra, double double. What? The Chapel Choir will be putting on a spectacular performance of Bach in the Cathedral Church of All Saints. Tix are 15 bones for students, both available in the Bookstore and online.
 
 
 
SCHEDULE DU JOUR
 
MONDAY, MARCH 24th
 
WATCH MAGAZINE AGM AND ELECTIONS
Wilson Room, 4:30PM
Watch out! This is going to be a meeting to Watch out for. Everyone is welcome to come and participate in the meeting (or to just Watch), and if you’ve contributed in the last year you can vote in the executive elections! The positions up for grabs are: Publisher, Editors-in-Chief and Online Editor, Watch out for their hiring of a Treasurer at a later date.
 
TUESDAY, MARCH 25th
 
VERY LAST WARDROOM OPEN MIC
Wardroom, 8:30PM
The year is coming to an end! !! This is our lovely Wardroom’s last open mic! It’s sure to be a blast. If you’d like to perform but need a musician, post up in the King’s Music Collective Facebook page and they’ll match you up with someone. They want to really make it feel like a “Collective” and create a welcoming environment for this last open mic. Heck, if it’s that welcoming I might have to bring the Beatles back from grade 8 (people who get that, you know who you are – I’m joking and it will never happen).
 
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26th
 
BIG NIGHT
Prince Hall, 6PM
From what I’ve heard, this night is a really big deal. In addition to a whole variety of student performances, a number of faculty and staff will also perform, including FYP Teaching Fellows Ron Haflidson and Chris Rice, and Brandon McNeice of the Registrar’s Office. It is sure to be a great event! PS DINNER WILL BE SERVED. RES STUDENTS GO TO THIS FOR FREE I THINK. YAY FOR US.
 
HALIBURTON HONOURARY MEMBER’S RECEPTION
Senior Common Room, 9PM
I announced this above! Scroll up! Ha!
 
THURSDAY, MARCH 27th
 
HALIBURTON SOCIETY AGM
Location TBA, 7PM
What a grand old time. HaliSoc is having their Annual General Meeting, where they will be electing their new Haliburton Executive for next year. To everyone’s great dismay, they are losing some of their veteran members to grad school, but they're looking forward to getting some new blood on the Exec. So, if you've come to some meetings this year and would like to get more involved next year, please come out to the AGM or, if you can't make it, let them know and they can put your name forward in absentia. The Haliburton Exec is lots of fun, and there will be snax at the AGM!
 
FRIDAY, MARCH 28th
 
WORDSMITHS’ FINAL MEETING
Location TBA, 4PM
A meeting about cephalopods is a meeting I wouldn’t miss for the world. The King's Wordsmiths Creative Writing Society will be having their final meeting of the year! Join them as they do some super cool writing exercises and discuss their various projects (including the Octopus). Feel free to bring anything you're working on for some helpful critique, or just offer a helpful eye to another member. Location is TBA, but meeting time is definitely 4:00-5:30! For more info, hit up kingswordsmiths@gmail.com or the Facebook group over at King's Wordsmiths.
 
SATURDAY, MARCH 29th
 
TEA PARTY
Wilson Room, 3PM
This sounds so fun I think I might even bring my stuffed monkey with me. The Young Alexandra Society and the Feminist Collective are hosting a tea party on March 29th. They will be discussing the history of women at King's, with some info from the archives to facilitate the discussion. There will be tea and treats provided by Sodexo. This sounds like a fascinating discussion that you should all attend.
 
THE MIND BALL – 10PM – 18/19 – LORD NELSON – WET/DRY – SEMI/FORMAL – FUN?/FUN. – THIS WHOLE ANNOUNCEMENT IS IN BOLD – DEAL WIT IT
 
SUNDAY, MARCH 30th
 
THE KJC PRESENTS: FROZEN
Archibald Room, 7:30PM
Now this one’s a real head-scratcher. What on Earth is the King’s Jewish Connection doing screening Disney’s Frozen? A question the answer to which can only be found in one way – by attending! There will be popcorn, and you know what that means. It means popcorn. See you there!
 
SAINT MATTHEW’S PASSION
Cathedral Church of All Saints, 4PM
The “East coast choral event of the season” that tells the story of Christ’s passion according to the Gospel of Saint Matthew. Yet another masterpiece to come out of our chapel. Directed by Paul Halley and featuring the University of King’s College Chapel Choir. I can’t wait.

 
 
KTS KOOLER
 
Like a Korner, but Kool!
 
Submissions for Blue Canoes
            The Blue Canoes are approaching (April 4th) and the KTS would love your help! They’re looking for submissions for instillations, small projects, etc. that you think encompass what it’s like to be a part of the KTS. Submissions could be a performance, a video, photography, poetry, performance art – you got it they want it. Please keep your piece under 10 minutes. Please send your submissions to bluecanoes2013@gmail.com by Wednesday the 26th by noon. Please read this entire blurb again in Mr. Bean’s voice. Wait….
 
KTS GM TIG ICW (King’s Theatrical Society General Meeting This Is Great I Can’t Wait)
            There will be a KTS GM on March 30th in the Red Room at 4:30. My intuition is that there will be delicious snacks. There will also be discussion about all the sweet stuff our society did this year, the Pit, the election of future executives and more! WhAt A gReAt TiMe!!
 
WHICH NIGHT?
TWELFTH NIGHT!
            The King's Theatrical Society is thrilled to present, for the first time in over half a decade: Shakespeare! Join them March 26-29 for Twelfth Night: a classic comedy about mistaken identities, tricks played, and just maybe a dash of true love! Directed by Bryn Shaffer, written by the Bard himself and produced by Alanna Griffin, Meg Shields and Simone MacLennan.

IMPORTANT! They've got some funny times for this one, so make sure to double check the curtain calls:
Wednesday March 26 - 8:30
Thursday March 27 - 8:00
Friday March 28 - 7:00
Saturday March 29 - 8:00
 
Facebook! Reservations! Hoverboards!
 
 
CHAPEL CORNER
 
What’s this? A handy-dandy schedule of all the week’s chapel events? Thanks Karis! The chapel’s AGM is also this Thursday, so check out their website below if you’re interested!
 
Monday
10:00pm: Sung Compline, sung by the Women's Compline Choir.
 
Tuesday
5:00pm: Choral Evensong, sung by the Capella Regalis Men & Boys Choir.
9:30pm: Sung Compline, sung by the Men's Compline Choir.
 
Wednesday
5:00pm: Choral Evensong, sung by the Chapel Choir.
 
Thursday
5:00pm: Choral Solemn Eucharist, sung by the Chapel Choir. Followed by Sherry Hour in the SCR (a.k.a. party time).
 
Friday
8:00am: Morning Prayer and Sung Litany.
5:00pm: Sung Evening Prayer, with student meditation and Shapenote Choir.
 
For a full service schedule and information about other goings-on in the chapel, see www.kingschapel.ca.
 
 
NEW BOOKS AW YEAH
 
Mary Wollstonecraft and the Accent of the Feminine by Ashley Tauchert
Remaking College: Innovation and the Liberal Arts by Chopp, Frost & Weiss
Managed Annihilation: An Unnatural History of the Newfoundland Cod Collapse by Dean Bavington
 
VICTUALS GLORIOUS VICTUALS: Your guide to free food & drink on campus.
 
TUESDAY: Alas, like Haydn I too have never been to St. Andrew’s United Church. But I did just Google it, so now I know exactly where it is (Coburg and Robie – so close!) so I will have to frequent it soon. They serve free student dinners at 5:30PM. The loaded ladle is a-happening today as well! They’ll be serving delicious (FREE!) vegan lunches starting at 1PM until the food runs out. Yummm.
 
WEDNESDAY: Nothing to see here, friends. Wait, yes there is – MORE LOADED LADLE. Same deal, serving at 1PM onwards. Come get your vegan on.
 
THURSDAY: Yes! You guessed it, the Ladle is back for a third time in one week. How do they do it? Must be that vegan magic. Head over to the SUB at 1PM to get some for yourself.
If you'd like to see your announcement in next week's TWAK then make sure to send your event to twak@ksu.ca by 11:59PM on March 22nd 2014. Wait, what? twak@ksu.ca? That's a new one! Why yes it is! There's now a dedicated TWAK submission email address. Whoopee!
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