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November might be famous for its cookie
dusters, but the month is about more than
silly lip ticklers and ironic mouth merkins

By DEVON MACKENZIE

e month of November isn’t just about moustaches.

As well as the successful Movember campaign, Novem-
L ber has become a catch-all month for other awareness
campaigns that focus on everything from seniors and children
to all manner of health isues.

So why November for these numerous causes and awareness
campaigns?

“The winter months and the holidays are generally a season
of giving by patrons of any organization,” said BC Cancer Foun-
dation’s Allison Colina. “We always see more donations come
through this time of year than any other.”

Through November, Langara is hosting a variety activities in
support of the United Way like rubber duck races, hot dog sales
and craft fairs. For complete coverage of the United Way events,
check out The Voice Online at www.langaravoice.com.

There are multiple off-campus events during the month of
November as well, including provincial and national campaigns
for health and awareness causes.

Lung cancer as well as diabetes are two other noted national
awareness campaigns that occur throughout the month of No-
vember and both causes hold functions and awareness cam-
paigns as well.

The White Ribbon Campaign is a national campaign that
runs from Nov. 25 to Dec. 6 that aims to bring awareness to gen-
der based abuse. The campaign also aligns with the National
Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women
and commemorates the women killed in the Ecole Politech-
nique shootings in Montreal in 1989.

CHIMO (an Inuit word that means welcome/friend) Crisis
Services in Richmond has been supporting the White Ribbon
Campaign since 2007 and director of communications Rebeca
Avendano is passionate about their goals.

“Our aim is to encourage people to become more aware and
spread that awareness of gender-based violence,” said Avenda-
no. “We see women and children at CHIMO all the time who
have been victims of gender-related violence, so to spread the
word about this issue - it’s very important.”

The campaign is marked by men wearing a white ribbon
which acknowledges their pledge to never commit, condone or
remain silent about violence against women.

During the campaign, CHIMO also works with high schools,
workplaces and faith communities around the city to promote
the message of non-violence and distribute the symbolic white
ribbons.

The BC Cancer Foundation has also jumped on the November
bandwagon.

The foundation hosted their annual Inspiration Gala which
took place on Oct. 28 this year, but Colina, the foundation’s com-
munications specialist, says the foundation is most excited to
take advantage of November’s power as an awareness month
for the launch of their first-ever awareness campaign which will
feature television ads, print ads and social media.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ‘STACHE

1860s John Wilkes Booth sports a killer moustache

ME 1940s Hitler and Stalin square off for best dictatorial
mo

ME 1980s Hollywood stars Burt Reynolds and Tom Sellick
become synonymous with this classic symbol of male
virility

HB 1990s The moustache falls out of favour, possibly due
to its overexposure in the previous decade

HM 2000s The moustache's popularity is revivved due to
the growth of Movember and the hipster community's
embraces it as an ironic fashion accessory

Photography students raise
over $600 for prostate cancer
research by forcing their
instructor to the razor

By SHAWN GILL

avid Scougal as his student, Dion Farrell, shaved off of
is hair and beard.

Last Thursday afternoon, about 20 students and faculty gath-
ered to watch as Scougal, who hadn’t been fully shaven in 10
years, revealed his baby face.

“My dad had prostate cancer, which is part of the reason I
said I'd do this,” said Scougal.

Scougal’s shave alone raised $630 for Movember Canada, a
growing worldwide campaign to raise awareness for men’s
health issues. Movember helps raise funds for prostate cancer,
which is the most common cancer to afflict Canadian men. One
in six Canadian men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in
their lifetime.

“Tt hit home,” said photography student Jan Snarski, when
two people in his life were recently diagnosed with cancer.

About a week ago, Snarski posted to his class blog that he
was trying to raise money for Movember, and asked, “Who’s
with me?”

Scougal, who hadn’t had a clean shave for 10 years, respond-
ed to Snarski’s blog post by issuing a challenge to his students:
If they could raise $100 dollars in donations for Movember Can-
ada, he would shave his beard.

By the morning of Scougal’s date with the razor, his students
had raised $230.

Upping the ante, Scougal said, “If you can hit $500 I'll shave
my head too.”

By 2:30 p.m. the students had raised $630 to support Movem-
ber Canada, which according to its website, donates 86 per cent
of its raised funds to Prostate Cancer Canada.

Movember has grown by leaps and bounds since its birth in
Adelaide, Australia in 1999. According to Movember Canada’s
website, in 2003, 30 people in the world participated. Last year,
there were 447,808 registrants across the planet.

There are many ways to contribute to this cause. The easiest,
and most fun way is to register on the Movember Canada web-
site. Let your friends and family know about your fundraising
and direct them to your profile webpage to make donations. The
three major credit cards are accepted, as is Paypal.

Movember Canada would like to remind you that in addition
to boosting awareness for prostate cancer, Movember is about
celebrating the moustache itself. For registered male Movem-
ber participants, growing and shaping your sweet ‘stache is the
best way to ensure your fundraising success.

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Photography instructor Dave Scougal has always had creative facial hair.
Pictured here (clockise from left) in high school, sporting classic 70s style side-
burns, last Thursday just before his clean shave, part-way through the ordeal
Scougal’s barber decided to redux the famous side burns and finally, the freshly
shorne photographer ponders his new life with a clean face, thinking that per-
haps November wasn’t the best season to shave off his face blanket.

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next month, what are Langara students doing to look after
their already growing facial foliage?

Asian studies student Robbie Jameson says the main appeal
of growing a beard is not having to shave. After having to shave
in August, he’s well on his way back to his customary “lumber-
jack beard.”

Jameson also likes sporting a beard because of how it looks
and feels. To care for his beard, every other day he uses a spe-
cial conditioner suggested by a friend who works at a salon.

This is not the only approach to beard care that can be found
among Langara’s student body.

Jamie Walraven’s been “phasing his beard in and out” for
twenty years and without using product of any kind. “I was
twenty, I thought it was a scam. Why strip natural stuff to put
plastic stuff in?”

Satish Kohli of Kohli’s Master Cuts disagrees and recom-
mends using shampoo and conditioner to help keep the beard
clean and healthy. He also says that men with longer beards
should be sure to trim their beard evenly and to pay special at-
tention to carefully trim the moustache to be slightly fuller than
the rest of the beard.

Computer science students Florios Demosten and Adam
Wutchnik both prefer using an electric trimmer on their beards
rather than shaving. “It gets prickly when I shave,” Demosten
said.

Gordon Stager, who’s studying business, keeps it old-fash-
ioned — he uses scissors to care for his beard. He trims his beard
every week to “get rid of stuff on my neck.”

Gordon Dyck, who works with Langara’s facilities depart-
ment, has had a beard for 30 years. He trims his beard twice a
week because he doesn’t like the “Grizzly Adams” look.

Alex Kennedy has had a beard off and on for three years. He’d
keep it more consistently but he’s in the military so he doesn’t
have much choice. He uses an electric trimmer once a week.

Will Walraven keep his beard? He said he’s mostly too lazy to
shave his beard, so it will probably stay.

“Unless somebody mistakes me for a terrorist!”

We: Movember bringing facial fashion into focus for the

PATRICK JOHNSTON photo
Jamie Walraven believes firmly in a product-free beard