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The progressively pink CFL

By Joel MacKenzie,
Staff Writer

he CFL’s campaign

to raise money and
awareness for women’s
cancers this October
is both generous, and
a clear sign of the
breakdown of the strict
divides between gender
roles in our culture.

Members of all of
the CFL’s eight teams
are dressed in partially
pink attire this October
as part of this campaign,
called CFL PINK, created
to raise awareness of
cancers typically affecting
women. The league is
also hosting events and
raising money for the
cause, and encouraging
their fans to do the same.

The players’ clothing
includes pink gloves,
wrist bands, helmet
decals, and other items,
while the sideline team
personnel have pink
whistles and other
apparel.

Each team is raising
money for different
charities through the
cause. The BC Lions
are raising money for
the Canadian Cancer
Society, and are currently
selling pink merchandise

by donation. On their
website, pink hoodies
and hats are available
for purchase, with $10
from each hoodie and
five from each hat being
donated to the society.
The Calgary
Stampeders are also
raising money for
the Canadian Cancer
Society, with two
players taking it a step
further with a more
personal contribution.
On Saturday, October
20, during their game
against the Hamilton
Tiger-Cats, players Jon
Gott and Obby Khan
donned pink beards,
after reaching goals of
(respectively) $5,000 and
$7,000 donated by fans
towards the Pink Power
Campaign, a cancer-
awareness movement
led by Calgary veteran
Randy Chevrier.
Chevrier’s mother is a
breast cancer survivor.
It’s not a stretch to
say that countless other
players and their family
members have been
affected by cancer. In
fact, I don’t think it’s
a stretch to say that
virtually everyone
in North America has
been affected by cancer,
whether directly or

Royals Roundup

Mens soccer team;
League Champions

 

By Josh Martin,
Sports Editor

he regular season

for the PACWEST
soccer league came to a
close this past weekend,
with the Royals men’s
soccer team finishing
their successful season
as league champions

with 33 points—four
points ahead of second

place, the VIU Mariners.

They finished their final
two games with a 6-1
blowout victory over
the Quest Kermodes
on Saturday and a 4-3
loss on Sunday to the
Langara Falcons. This
weekend the Royals
will be travelling to
Squamish to take

part in the Provincial
Championships as

a warm-up for the

indirectly.
This movement is
impressive, in that it very

“manlier” sports, marks
the clear sign of the
progression that our

Sports

the line between gender
specific clothing, they
simultaneously blur the

This movement is impressive, in that it very
explicitly draws attention away from the game to
put it on something much more important.

explicitly draws attention
away from the game

to put it on something
much more important.
But, more than that, it
draws attention to the
fact that the cancer

that primarily affects
women affects
everyone. Doing
this in football,
obviously often
seen as one

of the

National Championships
that Douglas College
is hosting at David
Lam campus on
November 7 to 10.

The women’s

soccer team will not be
advancing to the post-
season after finishing
their regular season
with a 1-0 loss to the
Kermodes and a 4-2
loss to the Falcons on
Sunday. They finished
their season with four
wins and 14 points in 13

society is taking. By this
campaign and countless
other similar ones
lightheartedly blurring

 
  
 
 
  
  

games.

The men’s volleyball
team had a successful
weekend with back-
to-back 3-1 match
wins against the COTR
Avalanche on Thursday
and Friday. They are
currently first in the
league with four wins
and eight points. This
Friday and Saturday
the Royals host the CBC
Bearcats at the New
Westminster campus,
both games at 8 p.m.

lines that separate people
in general, specifically
for something as petty as
strictly enforcing gender-
specific actions.

The women’s
volleyball team split
their back-to-back games
with the Avalanche this
past weekend, at a game
apiece. The Royals won
on Thursday 3-2 and
lost on Friday 3-1. They
are fifth in the league
with two wins and four
points. This weekend
they play the Bearcats on
Friday and Saturday at
6 p.m. here at Douglas
College.

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