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WBAI

WBAI (99.5 FM) is a non-commercial, listener-supported radio station licensed to New York, New York. Its programming is a mixture of political news, talk and opinion from a left-leaning, liberal or progressive viewpoint, and eclectic music. The station is owned by the Pacifica Foundation with studios located in Brooklyn and transmitter located at 4 Times Square.

Origins
The station began as WABF, which first went on the air in 1941 as W75NY, of Metropolitan Television, Inc. (W75NY indicating an eastern station at 47.5 MHz in New York), and moved to the 99.5 frequency in 1947. In 1955, after two years off the air, it was reborn as WBAI (after then-owners Broadcast Associates, Inc.).

1960s
WBAI was purchased by philanthropist Louis Schweitzer, who donated it to the Pacifica Foundation in 1960. The station, which had been a commercial enterprise, became non-commercial and listener-supported under Pacifica ownership.

The history of WBAI during this period is iconoclastic and contentious. Referred to in a New York Times Magazine piece as "an anarchist's circus," one station manager was jailed in protest. The staff, in protest at sweeping proposed changes of another station manager, seized the studio facilities, then located in a deconsecrated church, as well as the transmitter, located at the Empire State Building. During the 1960s, the station hosted numerous anti-establishment causes, including anti-Vietnam war activists, feminists (and live coverage of purported bra-burning demonstrations), kids lib, early Firesign Theater comedy, and complete-album music overnight. It refused to stop playing Janis Ian's song about interracial relationships "Society's Child". Extensive daily coverage of the Vietnam war included the ongoing body count and innumerable anti-war protests.

WBAI played a major role in the evolution and development of the counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s. Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant" was first broadcast on Radio Unnameable, Bob Fass' freeform radio program on WBAI, a program which itself in many ways created, explored, and defined the possibilities of the form. The station covered the 1968 seizure of the Columbia University campus live and uninterrupted. With its signal reaching nearly 70 miles beyond New York City, its reach and influence, both direct and indirect, were significant. Among the station's weekly commentators in the 1960s were author Ayn Rand, British politician/playwright Sir Stephen King-Hall, and author Dennis Wholey. The 1964 Political conventions were "covered" satirically on WBAI by Severn Darden, Elaine May, Burns and Schreiber, David Amram, Julie Harris, Taylor Mead, and members of The Second City improvisational group. The station, under Music Directors John Corigliano, Ann McMillan and, later Eric Salzman, aired an annual 23-hour nonstop presentation of Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle, as recorded at the Bayreuth Festival the year before, and produced live studio performances of emerging artists in its studios. Interviews with prominent figures in literature and the arts, as well as original dramatic productions and radio adaptations were also regular program offerings.

1970s
In 1970, Kathy Dobkin, Milton Hoffman, and Francie Camper produced an unprecedented, critically acclaimed 4$1/2$ day round-the-clock reading of Tolstoy's War And Peace. The epic novel was read cover to cover by more than 200 people—including a large number of international celebrities from various fields. Newsweek called this broadcast "one of the more mind-blowing 'firsts' in the history of the media". The complete reading (over 200 audio tapes) was the first Pacifica program to be selected for inclusion in the permanent collection of the Museum of Broadcasting in NYC. In 1973, the station broadcast comedian George Carlin's iconic Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television monologue uncensored. WBAI's broadcast of Seven Words became a landmark moment in the history of free speech. In a 1978 milestone in the station's contentious and unruly history, WBAI lost a 5-to-4 U.S. Supreme Court decision (FCC v. Pacifica Foundation) that to this day has defined the power of the government over broadcast material it calls indecent. Mickey Waldman and Joe Cuomo covered much of the legal proceedings during this time.

In 1974, WBAI program director Marnie Mueller asked Charles Ruas to become director of arts programming. Thus the station, already at the forefront of the counterculture and anti-war protest, under Ruas also became a platform for New York's avant-garde in theater, music, performance, art, and poetry. When the downtown avant-garde operas A Letter for Queen Victoria and Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson opened at the Metropolitan Opera, the station was right there to tape excerpts in rehearsals for broadcast.

Ruas initiated The Reading Experiment, a year-long series on Marguerite Young's epic novel Miss MacIntosh, My Darling. These readings were transformed into performances by Rob Wynne, who scored them with a complex collage of sound effects, music, and opera. The participants included Anaïs Nin, Marian Seldes, Alice Playten, H.M. Koutoukas, Leo Lerman, Michael Wager, Novella Nelson, Osceola Macarthy Adams, Owen Dodson, Wyatt Emory Cooper, Michael Higgins, Anne Fremantle, Peggy Cass, Ruth Ford, Earle Hyman and Daisy Aldan.

When William Burroughs returned to the United States from Tangier, Ruas invited him to present a retrospective of all his works. The series consisted of four programs, beginning with Junkie and followed by The Yage Letters, read by Burroughs and Allen Ginsburg, The Last Words of Dutch Schultz, and, finally, Naked Lunch. Bill Kortum oversaw this series as well as retrospectives of the works of Jerzy Kosinski and Donald Barthelme, co-produced with Judith Sherman, the station's music director.

A semester of Allen Ginsberg's poetry seminar held at the Naropa Institute in Colorado was presented by Ruas, and for many years the station covered the annual New Year's Eve celebratory poetry marathon at St. Mark's Church. The day the Vietnam War ended, poet Muriel Rukeyser came to the station to read her poem on peace.

Ruas inaugurated the Audio Experimental Theater, a series presenting the works of avant-garde artists: Meredith Monk, Yvonne Rainer, Ed Bowes, Ed Friedman, Michael Newman with Joan Schwartz and Benjamin Folkman, Vito Acconci, Charles Ludlum, Jacques Levy, Willoughby Sharp, John Cage, Robert Wilson, Philip Glass, Richard Foreman, and Joan Jonas.

In drama, the station defended Tennessee Williams against his critics during the last years of his life by covering his Memoirs and broadcasting a production of Two-Character Play. Other dramatists whose works were featured included Jean-Claude van Itallie, Richard Scheckner, Andrei Serban, and Elizabeth Swados.

Ruas initiated interview programs featuring nonfiction writers discussing their fields of expertise—Buckminster Fuller, Thor Heyerdahl, Ed Sanders, Jonathan Kozol and Nigel Nicholson.

Each of the arts had weekly coverage. Courtney Callender's Getting Around covered the cultural scene. Moira Hodgson was the dance critic. The visual arts critics were John Perreault, Cindy Nemser, Liza Baer, Joe Giordano, Judith Vivell, Kenneth Koch, and Les Levine.

Ruas invited poet Susan Howe and CCNY Literature professor Paul Oppenheimer to produce a weekly poetry program. Howe produced a weekly poetry program presenting the works of John Ashbery, W.S. Merwin, Maureen Owen, Charles Reznikoff, Rebecca Wright, Ron Padgett, Carter Ratcliff, John Hollander, Anne Waldman, Helen Adam, Audre Lorde, Michael Brownstein, Mary Ferrari, and Muriel Rukeyser. She also produced specials featuring William Carlos Williams, V. R. Lang, Jack Spicer, Louise Bogan, Paul Metcalf, Jonathan Williams, Harry Mathews, and James Laughlin.

On alternate weeks, Oppenheimer presented the works of Barbara Holland, Ivan Arguelles, Ann Darr, Richard Howard, Karen Swenson, James Emanuel, Siv Cedering Fox, Nelson Canton, Victoria Sullivan, Samuel Menashe, Carol Hebald, Paul Zweig, Gregor Roy and Mary Jane Menuez. He also produced specials on the aesthetics of 20th century poets and the history of the sonnet with contemporary American examples.

From 1976 to 1979, poet John Giorno hosted The Poetry Experiment and presented, with Charles Ruas, his eight-part series Dial-A-Poem Poets.

During those years, WBAI became a cultural force as these programs were disseminated nationally through the Pacifica Network.

In 1977, there was a major internal crisis at WBAI which resulted in the loss of the physical space of the station. WBAI was located in a former church on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. For many years, WBAI had believed it was exempt from New York City real estate taxes as an "educational" institution, but in March 1977 the City Tax Commission denied that status and WBAI eventually sold the church (which it owned) to pay the back taxes. WBAI signed a new lease for the 19th floor (the former Caedmon Records office/studio) plus one office on another floor of an office building at 505 8th Avenue on the West Side of Manhattan.

Turmoil and change
After the events in 1977, the station began a shift to a more profound international direction. In 1980, Caribbean immigrant and Marxist activist Samori Marksman was hired as WBAI Program Director and with his ascension, there was more of a focus on international issues and the promotion of people of color to the WBAI staff which caused grumbling among long time white and Jewish progressives who felt they were being pushed out of the station. In 1983, Marksman abruptly left for the Caribbean island of Grenada to participate in a new government – a government that was thwarted by the US invasion of Grenada in October 1983.

In 1986, gay activist John Scagliotti became program director. He initiated many program changes; still more long-time programmers left the station. Scagliotti tried to professionalize the programming and smooth out the rougher edges of existing shows. During his tenure, several producers received accolades for their efforts, including Robert Knight, who won a Polk Award for his show "Contragate", and future program director and Station Manager Valerie Van Isler, who won awards for her role in the film, The Panama Deception. Also, award-winning producer and host Amy Goodman began her career under Scagliotti. Samori Marksman returned to WBAI in the early 90s and in 1994, and was hired again as WBAI's Program Director. During his five-year tenure, WBAI achieved significant progress in listenership and fundraising. Marksman founded Democracy Now! in 1996, the award-winning program now helmed by Amy Goodman. Marksman was deeply-connected to the Caribbean and African diaspora. His own program, "Behind The News", focused on international and national issues from a black nationalist and Marxist perspective. Marksman was profoundly loved by a broad cross section of the WBAI audience and staff. His shocking and sudden death from a massive heart attack on March 23, 1999, was a wound to the station that lasted for years. Over 3,000 people attended his funeral at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan. Shortly before the death of Samori Marksman and following years of complaints about the outdated and filthy studios at 505 Eighth Avenue in New York, WBAI moved to new studios at 120 Wall Street in the Financial District in Manhattan in June 1998. After the death of Marksman, there was profound uncertainty and an explosion of pent-up feelings and resentments that was suppressed by Marksman and Mario Murillo, the Public Affairs director. Utrice Leid, a popular Caribbean radio host and producer had expected to succeed Marksman but was denied the post by then-general manager Valerie Van Isler. This led to an intense battle between various factions inside and outside the station and with The Pacifica Foundation, the non-profit parent company of WBAI. The culmination of this conflict was the "Christmas Coup" in December 2000 when a faction, led by Leid, padlocked the station and took control of the airwaves, starting an on-air and off-air war that lasted for several years. Some senior WBAI staffers, including general manager Van Isler, were fired immediately. Van Isler, in particular, was blamed for the early death of Marksman. In 1994, Van Isler initially refused to hire Marksman, claiming Marksman had a mediocre credit report, then, later in his tenure, refused to give him a salary increase. The autocratic and unpopular Van Isler also vigorously fought former staffers from obtaining unemployment benefits, including Bill Wells, the former WBAI Chief Engineer, who had a disability. In late 2012, WBAI suffered extensive damage to its offices following the events of Hurricane Sandy. The Manhattan offices saw flooding reach the second floor, trapping seven staffers inside, and the telephone systems being disabled. The devastation by Sandy occurred in the midst of fundraising efforts, which ultimately prevented WBAI from acquiring the necessary funds to remain operational. As a result of funding and operational difficulties, WBAI announced in 2013 it would be moving out of those studios to temporary studios of WHCR-FM located in Harlem, a station operated by City College of New York (CUNY).

Lynne Rosen and John Littig, co-hosts of the monthly show The Pursuit of Happiness, were found dead on June 3, 2013, after committing suicide in their Park Slope home.

In June 2013, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting suspended payments to WBAI, citing accounting irregularities and a failure by the station to meet its financial obligations. Layoff notices effective July 15 were subsequently issued to the station's staff and management.

On August 9, 2013, Pacifica management announced that due to financial problems, WBAI was laying off about two-thirds of its staff, effective August 12, 2013. The entire news department was laid off. Summer Reese, the interim executive director of the Pacifica Foundation, which owns WBAI, said that after talks with SAG-AFTRA, the union that represents broadcasting talent, "we will be laying off virtually everyone whose voice you recognize on the air," effective Monday. She corrected that and announced the final number was 19 out of the station's 29 employees, about 66%. Andrew Phillips, the former general manager of another of Pacifica's five stations, KPFA in Berkeley, California, was appointed WBAI's interim program director. The New York Times reported that the station owed $2 million in broadcast fees to Democracy Now! alone, while cash on hand was just $23,000.

In March 2014, there were assorted rumors that the station would be sold or leased or moved, in whole or in part (including their equipment and antenna at the Empire State Building), after contentions and firings both at WBAI and at Pacifica headquarters.

On December 17, 2014, the California State Attorney General opened a full and formal investigation into the Pacifica Radio Foundation, owner of WBAI, with respect to its alleged irregularities as to its finances, violations of California law with respect to nonprofit organizations, and violations of its own bylaws. In 2015, WBAI moved to new studios and offices at 388 Atlantic Avenue in the Boerum Hill section of Brooklyn.

On October 4, 2017, the court rejected WBAI's pleadings as ill-founded and granted the Empire State Realty Trust (ESRT) a summary judgment, in the amount of $1.8m plus attorney's fees, for the monies due through the initial filing date of late 2016. ESRT was awarded with an additional $600k for the lease through the date of the court's ruling, with obligations of approximately $50k+ per month through lease expiration in 2020 also remaining in place. A further settlement was announced on April 6, 2018, releasing WBAI from the court judgment and its obligation to continuing leasing the Empire State tower into 2020. They began broadcasting from 4 Times Square on May 31, 2018. A bailout loan from listeners of sister station KPFK eventually covered the remaining fees on the lease.

On Monday, October 7, 2019, the Pacifica Foundation announced they were shutting down WBAI's local operations, leaving only two workers to keep the station's signal on the air. WBAI began airing a national network feed known as "Pacifica Across America" - a curated collection of original content produced by Pacifica stations KPFA in Berkeley, California, KPFK in Los Angeles, KPFT in Houston and WPFW in Washington, D.C., among other sources (the post-shutdown WBAI schedule included commercial progressive talker Thom Hartmann and Native American free-form series Undercurrents, which is mostly syndicated to public radio). John Vernile, interim executive director of the Pacifica Foundation, said the station's fund raising and audience had declined in recent years, to the point where the rest of the Pacifica network was subsidizing WBAI's operations on top of servicing its unsustainable debt load.

Within hours of the shutdown, WBAI's staffers filed a lawsuit in New York state court challenging the shutdown as illegal. A temporary injunction was granted the afternoon of October 8, 2019 ordering WBAI to resume operations and not dismantle the studio until an October 18 hearing, but by the time the injunction had been issued the studio had already been dismantled, preventing the staff from resuming local operations. An appeals court lifted most of the injunction October 10, only enjoining Pacifica from outright firing WBAI's employees. On Tuesday, October 15, 2019, WBAI's attorney, Arthur Schwartz, stated that Federal Judge Paul A. Engelmayer reactivated the temporary restraining order (TRO), extending it to close of business on the 17th.

On October 15, District Judge Engelmayer (Southern District of New York) extended the New York State Supreme Court's TRO from October 18 through the end of the next hearing, which was scheduled for Monday, October 21. Prior to the hearing, the parties were to submit briefs in support or opposition of the extension of the TRO.

In Manhattan Supreme Court, Judge Melissa Crane ordered Pacifica to return control of the station back to WBAI. She upheld the October 20, 2019, board vote to annul the decision to shutter WBAI. A lawyer for Pacifica, Kara Steger, said that the company planned to appeal the ruling. WBAI resumed local programming on November 7.

In April 2024, WBAI announced it had again fallen into arrears on tower rental and that the owner of 4 Times Square was threatening to remove WBAI "at any time" unless the station paid the $150,000 in debt it owed to the building. WBAI, which stated that such a move would mean "the end of WBAI" (a statement the general manager insisted was "not hyperbole") immediately launched a pledge drive hoping to raise the funds. Later that month, Pacifica agreed to a consent decree with the FCC over its pledge drive content containing unlawful calls to action, accepting a $25,000 fine and having its license renewal shortened to two years instead of the usual eight; the complaint had been filed by Pacifica Safety Net, a pressure group formed in hopes of rectifying Pacifica's overall financial situation, up to and including selling the WBAI license.

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Yim Wing-chun

Yim Wing-chun is a Chinese legendary character, often cited in Wing Chun legends as the first master of the martial art bearing her name. Wing-chun, though a person's name in Chinese language, translates literally to "spring chant", or may be substituted with the character for "eternal spring".

Background
Different accounts of Yim's legend exist, but the central sequence of events remains largely the same, beginning with the origin of her teacher. During the Qing dynasty, a Shaolin Buddhist nun and abbess, Ng Mui (五枚師太), reportedly fled the destruction of the Shaolin temple at the hands of the government; the temple was believed to be harbouring revolutionaries. According to one legend, after being inspired by witnessing a crane and a snake fighting, Ng Mui incorporated their movements into her style of Chinese kung fu to form a new, yet-unnamed martial art system.

Ng Mui later took on a disciple, Yim Wing-chun, and passed the art on to her. Yim Wing-chun was well known for her beauty and sold tofu for a living. A local bully tried to force her to marry him, but she used the art to defeat him. Some accounts claim that Ng Mui taught Yim the art specifically for the purpose of defending herself against the man's unwanted advances.

Yim later married Leung Bok-chau, a salt merchant, who named the art "Wing Chun Kuen" (Wing Chun Fist) after her. James Yimm Lee (1972) attributes significant development of the art to Yim Wing-chun, crediting her with the invention of the Chi Sao (sticking hands) exercise. From there, the art passed through several men's hands before coming to Ip Man.

In popular culture
Stranger from Shaolin (1977) uses the character of Yim Wing-chun in an action film genre starring Cecilia Wong Hang-Sau.

The movie Wing Chun (1994) loosely portrays Yim Wing-chun's life within the action film genre, with Michelle Yeoh portraying the central character and Donnie Yen (now famous as Ip Man in four films) playing Leung Pok-to, Yim Wing-chun's childhood friend and fiancé.

Erica Choi portrays Yim Wing-chun in the 1994 Hong Kong martial arts television series The Kung Fu Master.

In the 2010 film Kung Fu Wing Chun, Yim Wing-chun was portrayed by Bai Jing and Leung Bok-chau was portrayed by Yu Shaoqun.

Meng and Rudnicki (2006) have written a critical analysis of the legend surrounding Yim Wing-chun.

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Category talk:Human appearance

 * What is the difference, if any, between Category:Human appearance and Category:Human image? —tregoweth 06:49, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)

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I was thinking of adding the Breasts article to this category. After all, most of it is on humans anyway.

I think Body Enhancement/s should be added
Makeovers, facelifts, body building, tattos

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Talk:Censure

Suggested merge
Shouldn't this be merged with Censorship? 83.227.37.223 (talk) 00:32, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Suggest adding a brief mention of the censure resolution introduced in Congress following the impeachment trial of former President Bill Clinton.

This is a difficult issue, but I'm not sure it's objective to say "The legality of the wiretapping has not yet been resolved." The debate in the Senate Intelligence Committee reveals that the NSA program Bush is known to have authorized, as well as other programs that remain secret, clearly do not comply with FISA. It might be better to say, "The constitutionality of warrantless electronic surveillance has not yet been resolved, although it is clearly illegal under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act." Rmwarnick 22:21, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Where's the punishment sentenced for a Congressional member whose been censured? All that's in the article is about the President being censured, not a Congressperson or a Senator, which I assume happens more frequently. Joseph McCarthy was censured, and now there's rumors floating around that Tom DeLay's going to get censured. It would be nice if someone added more information on what being Censure does to a Congressperson.--YoungFreud 06:53, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Essentially, censure by itself does nothing. Censure of the president by congress, for example, would certainly be toothless (and astonishingly unlikely as long as the incumbent party holds congress as well as the presidency). The motion of censure itself may invoke other rules of congress, including removal from all committees or even a strongly worded request to resign (lest congress exercise its right to eject its own members)

Censure
why would you talk about a censure that never happened? i.e. how moveon.org wants to censure bush.
 * Because a censure is an incredibly rare thing, so even a pretty largescale call for one that failed is worth a mention. Staxringold 13:49, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Censure in Canada
I hope nobody minds, but I added some info on the censure process up here in Canada; there is talk of the possible censure of the Rt. Hon. Stephen Harper up here, so I thought it would be relevent. Thanks. =) FiveParadox 03:52, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Drawing From The West Wing
I was just wondering whether the example of a censure from a television series is entirely warranted in an encyclopedia — I would think that perhaps examples of real censures would be more appropriate in this article.

Tmoenk wrote: Jed Bartlet, the fictional president of television show The West Wing, was censured for failing to reveal that he had multiple sclerosis during his first presidential campaign.

Just wondering what other contributors might think on this one. FiveParadox 01:45, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

BUSH IS GETTING CENSURED!

 * And you have this on the authority of who or what, Mr. Unsigned? FiveParadox 09:00, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Transferring Individual Censure Articles
Perhaps it would be appropriate, seeing the developing length of Censure in the United States, to move those examples to an article specifically dedicated to United States censures and a more detailed explanation of the process. I do not think that what should be a relatively general article such as 'Censure', in general, should be the host of four individual and lengthy examples. FiveParadox 09:07, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

over a 1000 FISA wiretap requests rejected
I removed this sentence:

Which held true until the the Bush Administration had over 1,000 requets denied in the last 4 years.

Besides being an awkward, incomplete sentence with typos, initial research suggests that this is very exaggerated: as seen here. It appears that not a lot of their requests have been outright rejected, but over a hundred have been modified. This is more than normal, but it's not "over 1,000", and requires further explanation as to possible reasons (for one, it seems that many more requests were being made). However, I think it's more detail than is necessary in this particular article, and my hunch is that the person who anonymously interjected it was just upset and trying to defend Bush. Cesoid 00:44, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

I added the Current Events tag because the censure introduced by Russ Feingold is pending a vote.

Joe McCarthy
I think the McCarthy censure paragraph is misleading. The text says that "McCarthy had recklessly accused employees" and that he was "censured by the United States Senate for behavior that was 'contrary to senatorial traditions.'" It gives the impression that he was censured for his reckless accusations. He was not. He was censured for failing to cooperate with the Senate subcommittee that was investigating him, and for calling some others who were out to get him a "lynch party". Roger 02:28, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Someone asked for a citation. I don't have a good one handy, but the essential element is the censure resolution itself. The 1954 text of it said:
 * Resolved, That the Senator from Wisconsin, Mr. McCarthy, failed to cooperate with the Subcommittee [that was investigating him, and] repeatedly abused the subcommittee ... contrary to senatorial traditions.
 * Sec 2. The Senator from Wisconsin, Mr. McCarthy [called the] Select Committee to Study Censure Charges a "lynch-party" ... and stating further: "I expected he would be afraid to answer the questions, but didn't think he'd be stupid enough to make a public statement"; ... and such conduct is hereby condemned.

Perhaps the article should have a more complete quote. Roger 22:47, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Actually, the part of this article addressing Senator McCarthy is as poorly written and as deceptive as the article on Joseph McCarthy itself. The Senator was not "censured", he was "condemned". You have to read the resolution in order to discover this fact. Also, one observer stated:

 * Regarding the first count, failure to cooperate with the Subcommittee on Privileges and Elections, the subcommittee never subpoenaed McCarthy, but only "invited" him to testify. One senator and two staff members resigned from the subcommittee because of its dishonesty towards McCarthy, and the subcommittee, in its final report, dated January 2, 1953, said that the matters under consideration "have become moot by reason of the 1952 election." No senator had ever been punished for something that had happened in a previous Congress or for declining an "invitation" to testify.
 * As for the second count, criticism of the Watkins Committee and the special Senate session, McCarthy was condemned for opinions he had expressed outside the Senate. As David Lawrence pointed out in an editorial in the June 7, 1957 issue of U.S. News & World Report, other senators had accused McCarthy of lying under oath, accepting influence money, engaging in election fraud, making libelous and false statements, practicing blackmail, doing the work of the communists for them, and engaging in a questionable "personal relationship" with Roy Cohn and David Schine, but they were not censured for acting "contrary to senatorial ethics" or for impairing the "dignity" of the Senate.

So, as anyone interested in the facts can easily see, the charges were not only trumped up but also the result was described as "censured" when in fact it was a "condemnation". The real world and the truth often does not apply to the left-wing editors of Wikipedia. I'm going to remove this entire entry unless someone can provide evidence to the contrary. Jtpaladin 22:42, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Isn't it accurate to call it "censure", even if the text of the resolution used the word "condemn"? What's the difference?
 * Perhaps the censure/condemnation reflected badly on the Senate. The article describes the Senate censuring A. Jackson, even tho that also reflected badly on the Senate. If the article is wrong or misleading, then correct it. Roger 06:35, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Censur of swedish wikipedia is very usuall
when we are talking about censure.. i think its wrong that on the Swedish version of Wikipedia you cant say what you want to with out being blocked for let say 24 hours or so. And you be blocked for no appearent reason like if you tell tha tyou dont agree on something toally silly the other person or someone else of that persons allies block you. Their is something wrong with the wikipedia system it makes people powerhungry and people block each other just becuase they can. /matrix17

Canon law
In canon law, a censure is generally defined as an interdict against a cleric which forbids him from publishing any more articles or books thought to be harmful to the Church. This ecclesiastic definition of censure should be included in the article page somehow. ADM (talk) 13:14, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Merge with Censure (motion) and Theological censure
All three of these articles discuss the same topic; there is no difference in the scope of Censure and Censure (motion), and Theological censure is simply an application to the Roman Catholic Church. The other two articles should be merged here. Neelix (talk) 21:07, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Power of censure of the European Parliament
Legislature_of_the_European_Union refers to this article, but here there's no section for the European Union/ the European Parliament. It would be nice to include the issue in this article. --Van Tuile (talk) 17:48, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

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Academic sense missing
We're missing an entire section on formal censure in academia, one of the most common uses of the term that our readers will encounter. — AReaderOutThataway t/c 04:22, 8 September 2019 (UTC)

Democracy and censure in Europe
I think EU tries to implay that if country is in it there is democracy of it, no matter what this state practices, and that any thing that EU makes a politics is always right and never a subject of questioning, like the warm acceptance of Ukrain and Ukrainians that leads to curses by Ukrainians at very public sqares and public places. I think every educated person knows difference between Russian and Ukrainian, ahaha, and it is funny how politicians in EU and USA embrace European and US Ukrainians as "almost intellectuals" while rather they have historical difficulties in public behaviour and for some reason, sympathies to Prince William at a national level, and also over minorities in EU and US, with these al funny and "funny" as combined? I wanted also to ask if school diploma is asked from a politician and how they claim to have university grades if they don't know simple things as Ukrainians behaviour and types of actions to prevent it and, obviously, not support it, untill you exaust the Catholic Church in their ability to be patient for social and political instabilities? --Bgeditor4 (talk) 11:36, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

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Some Devil

Some Devil is the only solo studio album by musician Dave Matthews. It was released on September 23, 2003 on RCA Records. It has been certified platinum by the RIAA, signifying over a million copies sold. The album features several guest musicians, including long-time Dave Matthews Band collaborator guitarist Tim Reynolds and Phish frontman and guitarist Trey Anastasio. The album's first single, "Gravedigger," won a Grammy Award in 2004. Some Devil was recorded at Studio Litho in Seattle, Washington, and produced by Stephen Harris, who had previously worked with the Dave Matthews Band on their 2002 album Busted Stuff.

Of the album, Matthews said: "'I hadn't really been thinking about doing a solo album until I had a handful of songs that didn't really fit with the band, so I started with those and it just grew into a full record,' Matthews said. 'I kind of thought it'd be fun to put it out.'"

Many fans, while at first skeptical of Matthews' desire to release a solo album, quickly praised his efforts. The album is noted for its moodier tone and the fresh direction shown in Matthews' songwriting.

Since 2003, Matthews has performed Some Devil material in concert with a group coined Dave Matthews & Friends, which consisted mainly of musicians that appear on the album. He has also played album material solo and with long-time acoustic duo partner Tim Reynolds. During the 2008 summer tour, Dave Matthews Band played "Gravedigger" and "So Damn Lucky" regularly, with "Stay or Leave" following suit during the 2009 summer tour.

The song "Some Devil" featured in the House episode "Love Hurts", the Freeform show Pretty Little Liars, and the closing credits to the 2003 film 21 Grams. Finally, the song "So Damn Lucky" is in The CW show Privileged.

The limited edition version of the album includes a 7-track bonus CD featuring songs from the Dave Matthews/Tim Reynolds 2003 tour. These are Grey Street (4-3-03, Elliott Hall of Music, Purdue University); When the World Ends (3-28-03, Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum); Jimi Thing (3-22-03, Radio City Music Hall); Stay or Leave (4-3-03, Elliott Hall of Music, Purdue University); Seek up (3-20-03, Ryan Center, University of Rhode Island); Crush (3-28-03, Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum) and Drive In Drive Out (3-20-03, Ryan Center, University of Rhode Island).

Track listing
All songs by Dave J. Matthews unless noted.

 * 1) "Dodo" – 4:57
 * 2) "So Damn Lucky" (Matthews, Harris) – 4:34
 * 3) "Gravedigger" – 3:53
 * 4) "Some Devil" – 4:04
 * 5) "Trouble" (Matthews, Harris) – 5:44
 * 6) "Grey Blue Eyes" (Matthews, Anastasio, Harris) – 3:01
 * 7) "Save Me" – 4:33
 * 8) "Stay or Leave" – 4:02
 * 9) "An' Another Thing" – 5:30
 * 10) "Oh" – 2:48
 * 11) "Baby" – 2:19
 * 12) "Up and Away" – 4:19
 * 13) "Too High" – 5:38
 * 14) "Gravedigger" (acoustic) – 3:52

Personnel
Musicians with:
 * Dave Matthews — vocals, guitars (1), acoustic guitar (2, 3, 7-14), electric guitar (2, 4, 13), sitar guitar (2), baritone guitar (8), vocal percussion (8)
 * Brady Blade — drums (1-3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13), percussion (1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 10, 12)
 * Tony Hall — bass guitar (1-3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13)
 * Tim Reynolds — guitar (1, 2, 5, 7, 12), electric guitar (3), acoustic guitar (8, 10), sitar guitar (13)
 * Trey Anastasio — electric guitar (2, 3, 6, 12), piano (2), intro guitar (1)
 * Stephen Harris — keyboards (1, 5, 9, 12), harmonium (6, 10), programming (1, 2, 5, 6, 9), percussion (3)

Additional musicians
 * Alex Veley — organ (7, 12)
 * Dirty Dozen Brass Band — horns (1)
 * Roger Lewis – baritone saxophone
 * Kevin Harris – tenor saxophone
 * Efrem Towns – flugelhorn
 * Sammy Williams – trombone
 * Audrey Riley – string arrangements (2, 3, 8, 9, 13, 14), horn arrangements (4, 13), orchestral arrangements (11)
 * Seattlemusic Group Strings – strings (2, 3, 8, 9, 13, 14)
 * Leonid Keylin, Misha Keylin, Mikhail Schmidt, John Weller, Jean Wells Yablonsky, Peter Kaman, Paul Shure, Bonnie Douglas, Gennady Filimonov, Jennifer Bai, Karen Bentley, Anne Sokol, Steve Bryant, Jennifer Sokol, Clark Story, Mariel Bailey, Marcia Steel, Jamie Laval, Xiao-Po Fei – violin
 * Vincent Comer, Susan Bryant, Cynthia Morrow, Dajana Hobson, Wes Dyring, Shari Link, Michael Lieberman, Eileen Swanson, Andrea Schuler, Heather Bentley – viola
 * David Sabee, Walter Gray, Bruce Bailey, Roberta Downey, Theresa Benshoof, Jackie Robbins, Rajan Krishnaswami, Clare Garabedian – cello
 * Jordan Anderson, Todd Gowers, Chuck Deardorf, Anna Doak – bass
 * Seattlemusic Group Horns (Mark Robbins, Susan Carroll, James Weaver, Rodger Burnett) — horns (2, 4, 5, 9, 13)
 * Seattlemusic String Quartet – strings (11)
 * Leonid Keylin, Misha Keylin – violin
 * Vincent Comer – viola
 * David Sabee – cello
 * Total Experience Gospel Choir — backing vocals (7)
 * DeShe' Brooks-Wright, Tanisha Brooks, Gena Brooks, Lulu Strange, Mary Strange, Sherri Charleston-Johnson – choir
 * Patrinell Wright – director

Technical personnel
 * Mark Branch – second orchestral engineering (2, 3, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14)
 * Rob Haggett – mixing assistant (6, 9, 14), assistant mix Pro Tools engineer
 * Stephen Harris – producer, mixing (4, 6, 9, 11, 12, 14)
 * Sam Hofstedt – additional assistant engineer
 * Ted Jensen – mastering
 * Ric Levy – mixing assistant (12)
 * Floyd Reitsma – assistant engineer (1-10, 12-14), mixing assistant (4, 11)
 * John Schluckender – second orchestral engineering (2, 3, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14)
 * Mark "Spike" Stent – mixing (1-3, 5, 8, 10, 13)
 * Dave Treahearn – assistant mix Pro Tools engineer
 * Brian Valentino – assistant engineer (11), string Pro Tools engineering (2, 3, 8, 13, 14)
 * Paul "P-Dub" Walton – mix Pro Tools engineer
 * John Whynot – orchestral engineering (2, 3, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14)

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As Tears Go By (film)

As Tears Go By is a 1988 Hong Kong action crime drama film starring Andy Lau, Maggie Cheung and Jacky Cheung. The film was the directorial debut of Wong Kar-wai, and was inspired by Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets. The central plot revolves around a small-time triad member trying to keep his friend out of trouble. The film was screened at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival, during International Critics' Week.

Plot
Wah is a mob enforcer who primarily deals with debt collection. His subordinate, Fly, is less successful and not as well respected as Wah. Fly frequently causes trouble and borrows money he can't pay back. Out of the blue, Wah receives a call from his aunt, informing him that his younger cousin Ngor, whom he has never met, will be coming to stay with him in Hong Kong for the next few days. Ngor, who works at her family's restaurant on Lantau Island, must come to Hong Kong for a medical procedure.

Soon after Ngor arrives at his apartment, Wah has to leave to help Fly collect a debt. After the job, Wah goes to see his girlfriend, Mabel, who dumps him. Because he had been so distant and unresponsive, she had aborted his baby. Wah had not even been aware she was pregnant in the first place and reacts badly. Wah stumbles home angry and drunk, but when Ngor tries to console him later that night, he becomes very aggressive and threatens to throw her out. The next morning, Wah apologizes to Ngor and offers to take her out to a movie to make up for his behavior.

In order to make money to pay off a loan to a fellow gang member, Tony, Fly makes an unreasonably high bet in a game of snooker. When he realizes there is no chance he can win or pay his debt, he makes a run for it with his friend Site. After being chased through the streets, Fly and Site are caught and severely beaten by members of Tony's gang. As Wah and Ngor are about to leave the apartment, Fly arrives, bruised and bloody and carrying an unconscious Site. Wah and Ngor treat their wounds, and Ngor starts to question Wah's line of work. The next day, she returns to Lantau, leaving Wah a note asking him to come to visit her sometime.

Wah meets with Tony to settle Fly's debt. Tony says to Wah that if Fly wasn't his friend he would already be dead. Unable to pay the interest on the debt, Wah steals the money from the owner of the establishment Tony was hired to protect. Insulted by Wah's behavior, Tony takes his grievance to Uncle Kwan, the mob boss, who forces Tony and Wah to accept a monthly payment compromise. Afterward, Kwan tells Wah to get Fly under control before he gets himself killed. Accepting that Fly is not cut out for mob work, Wah gets him a legitimate job selling fishballs from a food cart.

After accidentally meeting Mabel and finding out she is now married, Wah decides to visit Ngor. Arriving at her family's restaurant in Lantau, he learns that she is in Kowloon for the day and will return that evening. Wah meets Ngor at the ferry terminal and learns that she has begun seeing her doctor. Over the next couple of days, Wah helps out at the restaurant and his relationship with Ngor evolves. Meanwhile, Tony visits Fly to insult him and his new job. Fly wrecks Tony's car in retaliation, but Tony's gang promptly catches him and beats him near to death. Wah has to cut his visit with Ngor short, after receiving a call from Tony demanding money in exchange for Fly's life.

Arriving at Tony's place, Wah surprises Tony by threatening him. Tony gives in to Wah's demands and lets Fly go. Wah urges Fly to return to his family in the countryside, which Fly refuses to do. Leaving the bar, they are attacked by Tony and his gang and severely beaten. Fly leaves Wah, telling Wah to forget him because he has been a terrible friend. Wah manages to return to Lantau where Ngor and her doctor treat his wounds. He recovers, and the two rekindle their relationship.

Back in Hong Kong, Uncle Kwan gives Tony a job to assassinate an informant. Tony is afraid to do the job since it is essentially a suicide mission. Fly offers to take the job in order to humiliate Tony, whose thugs abandon him in disgust. Hearing Fly has taken this job, Wah returns to confront him, and attempts in vain to persuade Fly not to do it. Wah arrives at the police station just as Fly is about to carry out the assassination. Fly shoots the informant but fails to kill him. Instead, he is shot and killed by the police. Wah grabs Fly's gun and kills the informant, finishing the job. As Wah is gunned down, he thinks of his first kiss with Ngor.

Cast

 * Andy Lau as Wah
 * Maggie Cheung as Ngor
 * Jacky Cheung as Fly (烏蠅 Wu Ying)
 * William Chang as Ngor's doctor
 * Lam Kau as Kung
 * Alex Man as Tony
 * Ronald Wong as Site

Home Media
The film debuted on the Blu-ray format in the United States on January 20, 2009. The disc, released by MegaStar, has since gone out of print.

The film was released on Blu-ray by the Criterion Collection on March 23, 2021 in a collection of 7 Wong Kar-wai films.

Box office
During its initial Hong Kong theatrical run, As Tears Go By grossed HK$11,532,283. Until the release of The Grandmaster in January 2013, it was Wong Kar-wai's highest-grossing film in Hong Kong.

Reception
A retrospective review for The New York Times finds that "As Tears Go By heralds a new vision not yet in perfect focus."

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Coogee

Coogee may refer to:

 * Coogee, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney
 * South Coogee, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney
 * Electoral district of Coogee, an electoral district in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
 * Coogee, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia

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Quest University

Quest University (officially Quest University Canada) was a private, not-for-profit, secular liberal arts and sciences university. The university opened in September 2007 with an inaugural class of 73 and suspended academic operations in April 2023. The university had an enrolment of around 200 students around the time of its closing.

Quest's curriculum was considered unconventional. It used the block plan, adapted and modified from the block plan at Colorado College. Students needed to complete 32 blocks to graduate. Classes were seminar-style and capped at 20 students. There were five divisions (Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Arts & Humanities, Mathematics, and Social Sciences) instead of traditional departments. In lieu of declaring a major, students wrote a personalized Question. Studies culminate in a major work called a Keystone project. Upon graduation—usually after four years study—students were awarded a degree of Bachelor of Arts and Sciences.

The campus was located on a 60 acre hilltop on the edge of Garibaldi Provincial Park. It was approximately 75 km from Vancouver and 60 km from Whistler, British Columbia. Quest University Canada was fully accredited and approved by the Degree Quality Assessment Board (DQAB) under the British Columbia Ministry of Advanced Education. Quest was also registered as a British Columbia Education Quality Assurance (EQA) approved post-secondary institution.

The university closed at the end of the 2022–2023 academic year, when all academic operations ceased. On August 16, 2023, the government of British Columbia issued a press release announcing that Capilano University had purchased Quest University's campus for $63.2M with supplemental funding provided by the government of British Columbia. The same press release specified that Capilano University plans on offering courses at the campus starting Spring 2024.

Pre-founding and founding
Quest University Canada was originally created as the Sea to Sky University in May 2002, when the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia passed the Sea to Sky University Act. One of the purposes cited in the act was to create a university that would "offer a rigorous and well-rounded university education in the arts and sciences with a global focus." Quest was the brainchild of David Strangway, who, after his retirement as president of the University of British Columbia, wished to create a new kind of university where undergraduates guided their own studies in close cooperation with faculty.

Together with Quest founding directors Blake Bromley and Peter Ufford, Strangway formed the Sea to Sky Foundation and began soliciting contributions and searching for land. The foundation received grants from the J.W. McConnell Foundation, R. Howard Webster Foundation, and the Stewart and Marilyn Blusson Foundation, which allowed it to begin hiring staff and faculty and launch the university's operations. Bromley, a lawyer specializing in charitable law, recruited many wealthy clients to donate shares to the foundation, many of which were sold back to donors after a charitable tax receipt had been issued, a move that triggered an investigation from the Canada Revenue Agency. In October 2005, the Sea to Sky University changed its name to Quest University Canada. The school officially opened its doors to students in 2007, becoming the first private, secular university in Canada.

Early years
During its first years of operation, the university underwent a number of administrative changes. David Strangway stepped aside as president and was replaced by Thomas L. Wood, who had served for 14 years as president of Mount Royal College and three years as Quest's Chief Academic Officer. Less than a year later, Wood was replaced by an interim president, Dean Duperron. Duperron's appointment was the result of a proposed alliance with CIBT Education Group, but the alliance was dissolved within a month.

The Board of Governors invited David Helfand, chair of the astronomy department at Columbia University, to serve as interim president. Helfand had been an advisor to the school's founders in 2005, and had been a visiting tutor since 2007. He became interim president in 2008. In 2011, Quest graduated its first class. That same year, Helfand took a long-term leave of absence from Columbia to continue the presidency at Quest, which he retained through August 2015.

Peter Englert succeeded Helfand. He served until 8 May 2017 when he was removed by the university's Board of Governors. George Iwama was appointed as Quest's Vice-Chancellor and fifth President on 25 August 2017. In September 2017 Quest named its newest chancellor, Peter Webster, president of the R. Howard Webster Foundation. In February 2018 the University cancelled its athletics program, the Quest Kermodes, citing the need to cut costs to reduce its high debt load.

On October 29, 2020, Quest University announced that an agreement had been signed with Primacorp Ventures, an investment company which owns and manages commercial and educational real estate. Under the agreement, Quest would sell their campus lands to Primacorp and then lease them back in order to continue operations.

Academics
Quest's curriculum and educational philosophy were different than most universities. Its approach was multidisciplinary and the school did not have traditional departments. It offers one degree for all students, the Bachelor of Arts and Sciences. There were no lecture halls. Every class had a maximum of 20 students. The faculty hold terminal degrees in their field, but were known as Tutors rather than Professors. There is no tenure system at Quest.

Other distinguishing features included the Foundation and Concentration Programs, block plan scheduling, a Question instead of a conventional major, and a final Keystone project.

Foundation program
In their first two years of study, students enrolled in 16 Foundation courses. After completing the mandatory Cornerstone and Rhetoric classes, they went on to take 14 courses chosen from five major divisions: Social Sciences, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Arts & Humanities. They needed also fulfil a language requirement.

Toward the end of the Foundation Program, students took a course called Question. Working with an instructor and a faculty mentor, they developed a statement of Question: a proposal for how they would study a topic of particular interest to them. The Question was in lieu of a conventional major, serving as the basis for the remaining two years of study, and inspired the student's Keystone project.

Concentration program
The remaining two years were known as the Concentration Program. With the help of a faculty advisor, students designed a personalized program, which consists of four principal elements:
 * 1) a statement of the Question
 * 2) a course plan
 * 3) a list of related readings
 * 4) a Keystone project

Along with their Concentration (or Focus) Courses, students took between one and four Experiential Learning Blocks, hands-on work that could take place in the private sector, not-for-profit, government or many other settings. Quest stated that the purpose of Experiential Learning was to show students how their interests manifested in the world and helped them gain direct experience. Students also take three or more electives.

Block plan
Quest operated on the block plan, where students took one course at a time, meeting every weekday for 3.5 weeks. The academic year was divided into two terms. Fall term usually ran from September to mid-December, and spring term typically ran from January to the end of April. There were four blocks per term, and full-time students took eight blocks per year.

Quest claimed that the block plan allowed scheduling flexibility: students could decide which blocks were spent on courses and which were spent traveling, working, or exploring other pursuits. The school also noted that block scheduling permitted faculty to run "field studies", off-campus learning experiences that could run for several weeks. Many field studies involved fees, which ranged from nominal to significant. Quest also offered Study Abroad. Students could spend one or two academic terms at a selection of partner universities around the world.

Keystone
To graduate, students needed complete a Keystone project, the culmination of their studies. A Keystone could take various forms: a scientific paper, video documentary, art installation, photography exhibit, work of fiction, or research paper. Students presented their Keystones to their peers, faculty and community. A few outstanding Keystones were granted Distinction, and some were chosen as Showcases that the students present to a wide audience in a formal setting. The university provided ample services to prepare students to justify, to Graduate school admissions officers, their Keystone as the equivalent to a major.

Rankings and reputation
Quest University Canada had posted at or near the top of Canada's foremost poll of student opinion, the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE).

Quest was not included in Macleans University Rankings because its enrolment was below 1000 students, the magazine's cut-off. However, Macleans conducted an interview with then-President David Helfand in 2013 and had published several articles about the school over the years. Quest had also been noted in The Globe and Mail's University Report.

Leadership
Arthur Coren, was the president of Quest University Canada at the time of its closure. The Chancellor was Chief Dale Harry. The Quest Board of Governors consisted of seven members, headed by Board Chair Arthur Wilms, former president of Westcoast Energy Inc. In 2018, Anna Lippman became the first Quest alumnus elected to the board. Jeff Warren, an arts and humanities professor, was the Vice President, Academic.

Campus
The campus had been named one of top 10 most beautiful campuses in Canada. It is built on 60 acre a hilltop in Squamish, BC.

Quest's campus included an academic building, a library building, a "RecPlex" which contains a full gymnasium facility, and a services building that included a cafeteria. There were five main student residences, each priced the same as an average Canadian university and with nearly twice the floor space. Only two were by the university students. The others were rented out to a high school which used the campus daily.

Cost and financial aid
Because Quest was private, it received no government funding at any level. Its operations were funded by tuition and private donations. According to its website, full-time tuition for Canadian students and permanent residents was C$21,000. For international students, it was $35,000. Room and board could add another $15,000, depending on the student's selections.

Eligible students could receive financial aid, including scholarships that range from $2000 to full tuition; bursaries; and a Work-Study program on campus. Quest also offered substantial scholarships through its LEAP program (see below). Quest was an approved post-secondary institution to administer government student loans from all provinces and territories in Canada. Quest was also an approved post-secondary institution to administer certain programs out of the US.

Leaders in Elite Athletics and Performance program
Quest's Leaders in Elite Athletics & Performance program (LEAP) was structured to accommodate the needs of elite athletes and performers who wish to pursue a postsecondary education. LEAP students were afforded extra flexibility in housing, billing, and course scheduling. They could take more years to graduate and were eligible for LEAP scholarships.

Notable LEAP students and alumni include:
 * Jack Burke (professional road cyclist for Team H&R Block)
 * Samuel Edney (luger; Olympian)
 * Darren Gardner (snowboarder; Olympian)
 * Rosalind Groenwoud (freestyle skier; Olympian, Winter X Games Champion)
 * Keltie Hansen (freestyle skier; Olympian)
 * Leah Kirchmann (professional road cyclist for Team Sunweb; Olympian)
 * Simon Nessman (international model)

Notable faculty members

 * David Strangway (geophysicist; founding president of Quest University Canada; President Emeritus at the University of Toronto and University of British Columbia)
 * David Helfand (astrophysicist; former Chair of the Department of Astronomy at Columbia University and co-director of the Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory; former President Emeritus of Quest University Canada)
 * Glen Van Brummelen (mathematics scholar; past President of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics)
 * Richard Hoshino (mathematics professor; winner of the 2017 Adrien Pouliot Award for Significant and Sustained Contributions to Mathematics Education in Canada; former coach for Canadians competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad )

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