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Students At-Large Appointed to Build SFU

The SFSS Board of Directors voted to appoint six At-Large Representatives last Thursday for the Build SFU Student Advisory Committee. These students will help the Committee to provide feedback and recommendations on its plans for student consultation, communications, and outreach as well as participate in the planning process.

The Board was eager to appoint a diverse group of students to reflect not only those already involved, but the various student populations on all campuses.

After much discussion, the Board appointed Anthony Janolino, Kyle Acierno, Meghan Lenz, Eric Hedekar, Jasmine Sjodin and Maria Ivanova to the Committee. As stated by its website, Build SFU hopes that these students (as well as any others who wish to attend the open committee meetings) will help them “redefine the SFU community not only for this generation but for future generations of SFU students.”

 

Changes to Orientation

Brian Fox, Student Life Coordinator at Simon Fraser University, joined the Board last Thursday to discuss changes to New Student Orientation that will be happening this fall.

These “significant changes” include the elimination of the drum café and the services fair, both of which have been keystones in the Orientation process for a number of years. Instead, Orientation leaders will be touring students through Maggie Benston to connect them with services that the organizers feel are more immediately important to new students. Additionally, students will be given a free afternoon on the Friday to explore campus by themselves.

Apply to be The Peak’s Layout Assistant!

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The Peak‘s layout assistant must be proficient with Adobe InDesign, and will use those skills to lay out the pages of the print edition of The Peak; related duties to do with design and illustration may also be required. Pay is $150 per week, and two layout assistants will be elected for the Fall 2013 semester. Applicants are invited to give a brief presentation of their qualifications at the Peak offices in MBC 2900 at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 17, and voting will proceed until 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 24.

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25 Light Years: Illuminares finale

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Illuminares Lantern Festival — one of the best kept secrets of East Van, and much-loved by residents — is celebrating its 25th anniversary and final festival. The 2013 theme is 25 Light Years, but there will be no LED dragons in the trees like last year, no stilt-walkers or roving performers are being hired, and no stages with lights and amplification.

While Public Dreams welcomes any and all artists who want to come and be part of the community event, they are unfortunately not in the financial position to hire performers.

Matthew Bissett, the new Artistic Director of Public Dreams, explains that the decision is not only financial, but also bringing the festival back to it’s roots. “We want to bring it full circle — and put more emphasis on the procession, less on installations.” Bissett explains that the first Illuminares were low tech and really were about bringing the community together, and walking together around Trout Lake.

Public Dreams, with Managing Director Paula Jardine, originally started Illuminares in an effort to reclaim John Hendry Park. The park surrounding Trout Lake didn’t have proper upkeep, and the lake itself — the only lake within the city of Vancouver — was incredibly polluted. That small, humble procession has since grown to an annual event in Trout Lake, drawing more than 20,000 people each year.

While Public Dreams is no longer in a financial or structural position to continue the festival, it may not be completely gone. Bissett notes that even when the Trout Lake Community Centre was undergoing renovations and they relocated Illuminares, there were still core community members in East Vancouver who showed up with their lanterns to walk around the lake. Also, it’s possible another organization will take over the festival.

Bissett says that Public Dreams really just needs to “hibernate and figure things out.” He was brought on in March when the previous Artistic Director left abruptly, and they’ve also had half the board and many other staff turn over: “Obviously something in this structure isn’t working,” Bissett explained.

Funding has often been an issue for Public Dreams Society, an arts-based group formed in 1985 to encourage community events. Both Illuminares and their other major event, Parade of the Lost Souls, have been wrought with trouble over finances with decreases in government funding yet rising costs for policing, security, and infrastructure as the events gained popularity.

Illuminares has always been about community involvement and interaction with art and each other, and encourages people to not just be consumers of art.

“Participate. It’s about the community doing something and being together,” stresses Bissett. Participants and neighbours are encouraged to have a picnic, bring an instrument, and enjoy the surroundings. The park will be open from 6:00 p.m. onward, with the procession beginning at 9:30 p.m. from John Hendry Park.

Although there will be no stages, speakers or generators, there will be lantern-making stations on site and pop-up programming of various types. As the lantern-lit procession circumnavigates the lake, they will pass animated performances of stars within 25 light years of earth — Alpha Centauri, Sirius, Procyon, Altair, and Vega. As the procession reaches the baseball diamond, the culmination will be the favourite fire show finale.

Lantern workshops will operate the week prior to the event at Trout Lake Community Centre, July 15 to 19 from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. The 2013 Illuminares Lantern Festival takes place Saturday July 20, 2013 from 6:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. at John Hendry Park, Trout Lake, in East Vancouver.

Driving doesn’t have to be horrible

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The other day I was driving and decided to check out the vehicles in the oncoming lane to see if I could find someone who looked happy. I failed miserably.

With the exception of a few drivers with passengers in their vehicles, every single person had either an expression of intense boredom, depression, or anger. This might seem like an exaggeration, but if you don’t believe me, try to play a game of “Spot the Happy Driver.”

This really got me thinking: why all the grumps?

Maybe sadness, anger, and boredom are peoples’ default expressions — the true faces that are revealed when they don’t think anyone is watching. But could everyone really be so down in the dumps?

The Province recently discussed commute times and drivers’ woes in a July 27 article. It explains how commuters change behind the wheel in an interview with Belcerra resident Dan Fel: “I’m a very calm, happy person, [but] the drive to and from work cuts to the core of me. It changes me as a person. I become irate.”

After my drive I went into a coffee shop, and, to my relief, gazed upon people who were indeed happy and smiling. So, it must be something specific about driving. But what?

I personally look forward to occasions that necessitate driving long distances to out-of-the-way appointments. Call me crazy, but I actually believe driving can be fun. This might be is because I look at my relationship with my vehicle differently than most.

Let me explain. For the longest time, I perceived putting on a seatbelt as a process of strapping myself to the vehicle. I believe this is the way most drivers think. The problem is that being strapped tightly to a massive hunk of metal is not exactly a comforting idea. It kind of makes your vehicle feel like a giant death trap.

But then my thinking changed. Who says I’m strapped to my vehicle? Couldn’t it be strapped to me, like some cool, robotic extension of my body? After all, I’m the one in control, not the car. And for me, this subtle change made driving feel a lot less like a form of imprisonment.

But not feeling imprisoned isn’t the same thing as feeling happy. The second half of the equation that turned me into a happy driver fell into place when I realized my car had the ability to act as my own personal karaoke booth. And in a car on the freeway, who is there to hear you? Even if someone does happen to look your way and notice you pouring your heart out, you’ll pass them momentarily, never to see them again.

UC Berkeley did a survey of 7,515 adults and found that the average person spent 101 minutes per day driving. That’s more than seven per cent of a person’s life spent behind the wheel of a car.

So why not have some fun, put together a playlist, and sing along? Or maybe listen to one of the thousands of great podcasts and audiobooks just waiting to be devoured. Only boring people are bored.

Values-based politics hamper progress

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What Canadians seem to get are politicians who put their parties above their priorities via conditioned antics. Voters should not be interested in the mindless chest-beating politics of their ideology, because how can a politician who puts doctrine and “values” first be entrusted to make rational decisions?

With headlines of Toronto mayor Rob Ford’s alleged crack-cocaine addiction, the expenses of Senator Mike Duffy, and the institutional costs of the Senate and issues over 2011 election spending, stories of poor governance are compounded.

These aren’t even “scandals,” really; they have become ordinary problems for Ottawa and other political jurisdictions. At worst, they represent pressing issues that will go unresolved. In other cases, it’s the cover-up and subsequent lies told to society.

As such, genuine problems facing society get glossed over. When was the last time a prominent politician spoke with a reasoned attack against the issue of rising student debt or youth unemployment? The Financial Post has flagged $27,000 of debt for the average student entering the workforce. Financial burdens coupled with a lackluster economy show no promise for young Canadians, and this is being ignored.

Yet, it will be them who foot the bill in upcoming decades to pay for the social securities the generation of politicians and their supporters expect in their later years — the promises of a “just society.”

Looking at political history, “value politics” have been used both by icons of the political left and right. In Britain, Margaret Thatcher’s neoconservatism was responsible for creating unnecessary suffering. Her practice of conviction politics held the responsibility of more than doubling child poverty.

Politicians who believe ideologies can full-stop serve as a solution to the ills of society do not harm themselves. But when these ideas are thrust upon society, everyone loses, and necessary needs become neglected. Politicians should be expected to act within reason. Politicians should look at every issue in relation to its causes and effects.

There is no substitute for good governance. At the end of the day, it’s society that pays the price for the vicious role of ideology; it threatens the public’s trust of political institutions. Just look at the state of the Senate in our country!

To be fair, there are politicians in Canada doing commendable work, and they deserve to be supported. Liberal Senator Romeo Dallaire is a politician all Canadians should be proud of, because he worked to promote advocacy against the exploitation of child soldiers, and to promote genocide prevention. Dallaire exemplifies the silent heroes on Parliament Hill who work in the shadows of those politicians too busy grandstanding.

The expressive foundation of a politician to the ideological fundamentals of their party’s values, economic doctrine, or religious conviction will not help society progress. When dogmatic politicians who have already alienated a segment of the electorate go on to commit transgressions — as we have seen in the last year with the Senate and with the mayor of Toronto — everyone loses.

Poor governance weakens the social contract, withering away the just society. The relationship between the voter and politician should be sacrosanct, above political parties and above any strategic calculations.

Demonizing the entire political system won’t work, so support politicians who work for progress. Poor politics won’t erode a just society — it will decay because of society’s weak support of good governance when it is there.

Egypt: from Arab Spring to Arab Winter

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The pro-democracy protests of the Arab Spring initially brought a huge wave of optimism to Egypt by bringing down the three-decade old regime of Hosni Mubarak. However, in the period of a little over two years, such hard-fought gains are no longer the reality in Egypt. From the hastily written constitution to the successful military coup conducted just this month, Egypt is on its way back to what its citizens desperately wished to leave behind: autocracy.

The fair and free elections held in 2012 saw the Muslim Brotherhood win power with the election of its presidential candidate Mohamed Morsi, and a plurality in the Parliament. While this provided hope that democracy would continue to progress in Egypt, such hopes faded not long after. Rather than attempting to strengthen the nation’s infant democracy, Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood hastily drafted a constitution and called for a popular referendum without sufficient consultation with other sectors of society.

While it was passed in a free and fair plebiscite, the process failed to live up to expectations that it would be inclusive and protective of human rights. Rather than guaranteeing the freedom of religious belief to anyone regardless of their background, the newly drafted and adopted Constitution limited this fundamental right solely to adherents of Abrahamic religions — Islam, Christianity, and Judaism.

As a result, Egyptians belonging to the long persecuted Bahá’í faith were clearly excluded from constitutional protection. More importantly, this signifies the continued widespread persecution of unrecognized religious minorities, which was the status quo under Mubarak.

The right of self-expression was also placed in huge doubt under this newly adopted Constitution. Although Article 45 does ensure this right for Egyptians, it also signifies that it must be exercised within reasonable bounds by prohibiting individuals from insults. However, as the language contained is overly broad, there is cause for concern; the standard for defining what is “insulting” seems completely arbitrary.

Subsequently, there have been attempts to criticize Morsi’s criminal cases. According to the NGO Human Rights Watch, defendants charged with “defamation,” “insulting the judiciary,” or “insulting President Morsi” have become quite frequent. Prominent comedians have also been included as targets. These prevailing trends under Morsi seem to be a throwback to the non-existent right of free speech under Mubarak.

On July 3, 2013, the military staged a coup after giving Morsi 48 hours to resolve ongoing civil unrest. While the coup portrayed itself as the savior of the country and representative of the peoples’ will, the reality is that the military — with its secular outlook and its privileges — aimed to seize political power and weaken the Muslim Brotherhood. More importantly, it meant the full resumption of its active political role as was the case under the rule of Mubarak, who himself was a high-ranking officer.

Furthermore, the hope of having a civilian-led government with an apolitical military seemed to be dashed in one day. While elections have been pledged, the reality seems to be inching back towards autocratic rule.

Shortly after the coup, many senior Muslim Brotherhood members and Morsi’s political allies were detained by the military. This is a disturbing reminder of the unmerited arrests of political opponents by Mubarak under his rule. Not only have Muslim Brotherhood members been subject to legal troubles, but they have also been subject to deadly violence by the army.

These developments all indicate a recurring pattern with a common characteristic; since Mubarak’s departure, setbacks for democracy have continued under Morsi and the Egyptian military. As a result, many dreaded features of Mubarak’s rule have returned in this post-Mubarak era. Regrettably, the prospects of a thriving Egyptian democracy have continued to dim for the near future.

Point/Counterpoint

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Society needs to get over its doll obsession

By: Tara Nykyforiak

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Nickolay Lamm’s recent re-design of Mattel’s Barbie may help the doll better reflect the average American female body, but this action fails to support its cause. Yes, Lamm attempted to illustrate Barbie’s unrealistic looks, and the pressures young girls face to live up to society’s standard of “beauty.” However, Lamm and his supporters only further convey the stereotype that females are superficial, insecure, and emotionally unstable.

By drawing attention to Barbie in this way, the assumption made is that girls cannot think for themselves, and can’t help believing they are going to be measured against Barbie’s standards. Moreover, Lamm demeans females by drawing attention to their looks in the most plastic of ways — in the form of a doll.

Obsessing over how Barbie looks paints women as superficial, which does nothing to address the pressures they actually face in the “real world,” such as relationships, careers, and personal finances. Barbie may have Ken, an outstanding resume, and what appears to be a six-figure salary, but the majority real women could never dream of commanding this mode of living. We’re much too busy balancing school and shitty part-time jobs to be concerned with her 13.5 cm bust, and 12.5 cm hips.

Society has come a long way, with females now able to experience a higher level of freedom than they ever did in the past. This means that more women than ever before feel empowered to lead the kind of life they want for themselves. This also means focusing on personal interests and passions and not on whether they personally align with Barbie’s hip-to-waist ratio.

By re-designing a doll in an attempt to help subvert negative body image, the message being sent is that all females lack confidence, and are driven by the desire to look a certain way. This completely ignores the progress we’ve made in terms of society’s political, educational, and professional sectors, and supports the false stereotype that a woman cannot possess positive self-image on her merits alone.

When I held Barbie as a girl, I never once compared myself to her, and my feelings toward her were never a reflection of my supposed insecurities. The reason I would rip off her head and mash her feet and hands with a hammer is not because I was projecting my poor self-confidence onto her. It was simply a fun way to spend a rainy day, and my way of protesting sub-par birthday gifts.

Because really, I would much rather have been playing with Lego and constructing my pillow fortress. Barbie girl, my ass

Fighting stereotypes one change at a time

By: Estefania Duran

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Nickolay Lamm’s idea of creating a more realistic look for Barbie has nothing to do with the assumption that girls are incapable of thinking for themselves. Quite the opposite: his idea to create a Barbie based on the average American woman was solely to portray exactly how wrong Mattel has been all these years.

The famous “Barbie Syndrome” — the desire to look like and have the lifestyle of a Barbie doll — is most often associated with pre-teenagers and adolescents. With the equivalent of an 18-inch waist, Barbie is the representation of a body image that is both unhealthy and unattainable, and Lamm’s work draws precise attention to this problem. Moreover, after 54 years on the market, it looks like Barbie is here to stay, so why not challenge her image to become a more realistic portrayal of women?

In an interview with The Huffington Post, Lamm explains, “If there’s even a small chance of Barbie in its present form negatively influencing girls, and if Barbie looks good as an average-sized woman in America, what’s stopping Mattel from making one?” He is absolutely right — it is true that not every woman will be influenced by the doll’s famous looks; however, if there is even a possibility that the doll is reinforcing negative stereotypes about how a woman should look, action is not only necessary, but critical.

In addition, because society has come a long way in the past 50 years, we need to speak up against a doll representing a dissenting depiction of women, and begin to question the harmful effects it has. Regardless of whether it is the stereotype of a Barbie or any other form of gender-stereotype,negative body image is a problem affecting teenagers all over the world. Therefore, instead of expecting young girls to be immune to constant social pressures of the “ideal” body, we should do whatever we can to prevent them from having a plastic self-image.

Furthermore, dolls and toys that reinforce gender stereotypes go much farther than a Barbie doll; toys such as the G.I. Joe doll can have the same effect. Having a doll with an unrealistic looking body that possesses tough weapons and military-like looks, can have similar negative effects on boys. Gender and image expectations affect both women and men, and the Barbie doll is just one example among a plethora of toys that further perpetuate harmful clichés.

Toys that strengthen unrealistic gender expectations are the enemy here. An artist trying to represent a more realistic version of Barbie is not assuming women to be weak, it is assuming stereotypes to be wrong, and if proving that Barbie looks better with average measurements is his way of taking a stand in this long battle, we should join him in his fight to help change the world one stereotype at a time.

Glass house, meet stone

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I am a staunch supporter of same-sex marriage because I believe in equal opportunity and freedom of expression and choice. My feelings on the subject are grounded in the interlocking confluence of reasons that compose my psyche.

The biggest reason I support same-sex unions is grounded in political philosophy: no one has the right to infringe on another’s bedroom. Many self-described social liberals may agree with this reasoning. Many may aggressively deride it. However, the chasm between these mindsets is often bridged by a universal and ironic derision of adulterers.

The pre-conception that superficial judgment is a valid and harmless form of vigilantism is thriving, especially in an environment that devours salacious celebrity gossip by which bottom feeder rags earn their dollars. But if we shift this discussion towards another public sphere, we arrive at the brutal dissection of those renowned piñatas — politicians.

For whatever reason, we feel as though the shortcomings of public figures award the freedom to pass along maliciousness. Some might say “it’s harmless” while others might say “it’s deserved.” But who are we to judge?

This is not to support cheating on the part of anyone. However, the rush to vilify politicians because of infidelity is baffling. In the Canada Day issue of The Peak, Estefania Duran argued that politicians who cheat on spouses are inherently compromised — their capacity for risk aversion now questionable. However, she casts no shadow on misbehaving, unelected officials such as CEOs or managers. Why not?

Apparently, Councilman X’s capacity to approve the building of a casino near my neighborhood is tainted because he betrayed his wife, while Hedge Fund Manager Y’s judgment is unimpeachable even as he manages my RRSPs. That’s an odd dichotomy.

Adultery, despite rendering the offenders social pariahs, is not a crime. The decisions or urges that drive one to adultery vary from person to person and, let’s face it, we as a species are pretty consistently given to messy actions irrespective of public standing. Issuing public apologies, the go-to response of politicians caught with their (metaphorical) pants down, is unnecessary. Yet we, as petty and indignant voters, demand placation.

In her article, Ms. Duran feted the Swedish PM for divorcing his wife because “their marriage was no longer working” instead of presumably running around on her. Who’s to say — and this is purely hypothetical — that politicians who cheat on their spouses are not caught in loveless, dysfunctional relationships sustained simply to present an appealing image?

We cannot know, nor do we deserve this information. But given that we voted them in, we feel their personal business is our business, as though we have a rightful claim on their lives.

Private indiscretions that do not impact an individual’s capacity to do their job should not affect their ability to keep that job. Of course, there’s another side to that coin. Anthony Weiner tweeted revealing, unsolicited photos. Clinton had sex with an intern. Eliot Spitzer dropped thousands of dollars visiting high-end prostitutes.

These men clearly violated laws or explicit rules governing workplace decorum — offenses that warrant termination. But private instances of infidelity are purely that — private. The emotional turmoil of cuckolded spouses is not assuaged by public outrage. Adultery’s fallout is the domain of the two pertinent players in an intimate drama; it does not belong on a public canvas.

Your name may lose you that apartment: study

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If your name is Kevin Li, you are more likely to land that rental property you wanted than if your name is Mark Anderson, Luis García, or Tyrone Johnson.

According to a recent study in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, when it comes to potential male renters, those with Asian-sounding names are more likely to receive a response from a landlord to an email inquiry about an advertised rental apartment than those with Caucasian, Hispanic, or African-American-sounding names.

Besides names indicating ethnicity, the study also confirmed that gender-implying names affect responses from potential landlords; women experienced 40.8 per cent positive responses when inquiring about an advertised rental apartment, whereas men experienced a success of only 27.1 per cent.

Allyson Weseley, co-author of the study, told The Peak that the results show stereotypes of minority groups and gender can affect opportunities in the rental process. “Research has shown that people of Asian descent and white women are typically stereotyped as quiet, timid, and responsible,” Weseley stated, “[whereas] most men and Latino and African-American women are stereotyped as loud, aggressive, and other qualities less likely to be valued in a tenant.”

Weseley, a behavioural science teacher with degrees from Princeton, Harvard, and Columbia University, and fellow author Michelle Feldman, became interested in conducting this study back in 2010 when Feldman had read an article which suggested that African American males were disadvantaged in the housing market. “We became interested in extending the work to look at people with Asian, Latino, and female sounding names,” Weseley said.

The study was conducted from 2010-2012, where nearly 1,600 email inquiries were sent out to landlords with various names signed — based on US census’ record of the most common names by race.

Of the results, Feldman said: “The Asian-American prospective tenant received more positive responses with a 34 per cent response rate compared to the African-American prospective male tenant who barely received any positive responses, with only a 16 per cent response rate.”

The results were slightly different for women, with white females seeing more positive responses than Asian, followed by Hispanic and African-American females.

“This data shows that our society continues to rely on underlying stereotypes,” Feldman said. “This can prevent individuals that have racially/ethically sounding names from having equal opportunities.” Feldman concluded that these stereotypes contribute to the formation of segregated neighbourhoods.

Feldman, a current student at Cornell University studying Biology & Society, is interested in further exploring how segregated areas affect individual’s access to quality healthcare. “It would also be interesting to see if there is correlation between racial [or] ethnic names and health insurance costs,” Feldman stated.

“Stereotyping is present even without any face-to-face interaction,” Feldman concluded, “Although our country has made great strides when it comes to limiting the amount of racism present in our society, a person’s name can continue to be used as a means to discriminate when it indicates an individual’s race or ethnicity.”

“ASS” inducted into Arcade Hall of Fame

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LAS VEGAS — The Arcade Hall of Fame held their annual induction ceremony of new members last Friday which honoured one of the greatest names in arcade game history.

Boasting an unprecedented amount of high scores on arcade video game machines across world, the legendary “ASS” was finally rewarded with an induction into the prestigious AHOF.

“ASS is one of the most prolific video game champions to ever come out of the arcade world,” spoke AHOF president Ron Davis. “It doesn’t seem to matter where you went, what you played — if you were at the arcade you’d always see “ASS” right up there at the top of every leaderboard . . . he was a legend.”

“ASS” was joined by fellow 2013 inductees “POO,” COQ”, “TIT” and “FUK” (in the ‘builders’ category), all of which continue to hold top 10 spots on the majority of Space Invaders and Street Fighter games in existence.

“I can’t believe these legends weren’t already in the hall,” explained Todd O’Neal, an excited video game enthusiast who was on hand for the event. “I grew up idolizing ‘ASS’ and ‘COQ” . . . it’s who we all wanted to be growing up.”

The AHOF, which runs out of a garage just outside of Las Vegas, Nevada, was formed in 2010 with an original class that included the great “AAA,” “NOB,” and “GAY.” Every year, three to five new members are inducted at a ceremony held at a local arcade which is routinely attended by dozens of esteemed and non-esteemed guests.

Many popular fan favourite arcade legends such as “XXX” and “VAG,” among others, continue to wait for their call to the hall, although “GOD” has been rumoured to be a lock for 2014 due to his dominating Galaga scores.

Although “ASS”, who did not attend the ceremony in person, might be happy about the induction, not everyone believes that the hall is actually fitting of the label ‘the highest honour in arcade gaming’.

“It’s got a total West Coast bias and focuses way too much on high score rankings,” complained one of many angry, aging arcade video game enthusiasts blogging about the announcement. “I mean, my friend Tony in Baltimore was one of the best Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man and Professor Pac-Man players the world has ever seen but does TONY get recognized? No. Meanwhile players I’ve never even heard of like “DIC” and “JAY” and “TON” are all in there.”

While AHOF president Davis does admit that there are some problems with the voting system, he believes that all the greats will find their way into the hall eventually, but to induct too many in one year wouldn’t allow the event to be held yearly since “there aren’t really a lot of new players in arcade gaming.”

Despite these criticism, the hall has no plans to cease operations and will continue to honour the best and brightest arcade players to ever play the games and can still make a claim that most other hall of fames cannot. According to Davis, the AHOF are still free of any players with allegations of steroids or illegal performance enhancing substances, due to the fact that all arcade gamers know that “winners don’t use drugs.”

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