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Canned soup raises BPA levels Tra c jams along highway 97 Arctic ice melting rapidly Egyptians protest their governmental situation Rabbits being hunted in Alberta BC student loan system changes

Features • Has yoga given up its traditional and cultural roots and become mired in consumerism? This issue’s feature wonders if yoga hasn’t just become a sellng point for sweat pants.

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Daily consumption of canned soup increases BPA level Bisphenol-A found in people aged 6-79 in Canada Alexa Kingsmith Contributor

human urine. Health Canada has previously worked on removing BPA from baby bottles and other nursing accessories in order to reduce infants’ exposure to the chemical. However, in August 2011, Statistics Canada released numbers revealing that more than 90 percent of Canadians aged six to seventy-nine had

detectable levels of BPA in their urine. Despite these discoveries, the health risks associated with BPA are still unclear.

The U.S. National Institutes of Health carried out a study on animals suggesting that once ingested, BPA may imitate estrogen and other hormones. In an attempt to discover the possible risks associated with BPA, Jenny Carwile, a doctoral student at Harvard University, carried out a study in which participants consumed a 340-gram serving of canned vegetarian soup in different varieties every day at lunch for ive days. The participants then waited two days and repeated the lunch assignment with the same amount of fresh soup that was prepared without any canned ingredients or vice-versa. After testing the levels of BPA in the participants, researchers found that the average concentration of BPA was 20.8 micrograms per litre after consuming canned soup versus only 1.1 micro-

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A study carried out by the American Medical Association found adults that consumed canned soup daily saw an increase in the plasticizer BPA in their urine. BPA stands for Bisphenol A and is an industrial chemical used to make polycarbonate plastic for water bottles and food containers and is also

used in the protective lining in metal cans. The study included 75 adults and was published Tuesday, November 27th in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The AMA (American Medical Association) is the one of the irst to discover a correlation between canned foods and an increased BPA level in

grams per litre after consuming fresh soup. With these numbers, the study concluded that Consumption of one 340-gram serving of canned soup daily over ive days was associated with a more than 10-time increase in urinary BPA. Rick Smith, executive director of the advocacy group Environmental Defence, called this study important as he and his company stand at the forefront ight against the use of BPA. With this accumulation of evidence, Smith has now called upon the federal government to work with the food industry in order to bring down BPA levels in canned foods. However, the government may have to reassess their opinions concerning the chemical because when Health Canada carried out a study concerning BPA levels in canned foods in April 2009, they concluded that the presence of BPA was not considered to represent a human health concern.

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On Black Friday in Porter Ranch, Calif., a woman allegedly pepper sprayed other customers that were lining up at a Wal-Mart store. The woman sprayed her fellow shoppers in order to get access to preferred locations in the Black Friday lineups. Black Friday sales began at 10pm at Wal-Mart; video games, toys, and other merchandise are all sold at extraordinary low prices. The event has created chaos where customers charged in the store trampling video games and DVDs on the loor. Black Fridays have historically been linked to competitive shopping.

The Occupy protests in Winnipeg have experienced a hate crime in which an unattended tent was burned down. The ire was set with kerosene fuel. Fuel canisters could also be seen near and around the burnt tent. Fortunately, nobody was injured although tools, art supplies, and an Occupy sign were destroyed in the ire. Occupy protesters have expressed that they will remain contributed to the cause and continuing camping in Winnipeg’s memorial park throughout winter. In addition to the burning tent, warnings were also apparent where notices demanded that the tents be removed by Saturday.

High winds have created power outages to thousands of homes on Vancouver Island as well as the temporary cancelling of B.C. Ferry services. At Harbor Air Seaplanes, all 45 trips were terminated by 11 a.m. De-rooted trees caused by the strong winds have caused 4000 B.C. Hydro customers to lose power. Of these customers, 2,700 resided in the north-island communities with about 3,700 other individuals in the Lower Mainland. Winds swept around the region at speeds of 90 km per hour after 3 p.m. However, most local residents are used to the strong winds common in winter times.

Two vehicles collided with one another at an intersection on Highway 97. As the Toyota Matrix turned left during a yellow light, a yellow van also attempted to get through the intersection which resulted in the accident. According to the RCMP, speed as well as failing to yield were the two major contributing factors for the collision. After the collision, the Matrix owner ejected herself from her torn vehicle in a disoriented state. She suffered from minor injuries and was taken to the Kelowna General Hospital for treatment.

UBCO is implementing geothermal technology to heat and cool the campus buildings in order to limit greenhouse emissions to the atmosphere. It is estimated that introducing the new technology will prevent the transmission of 38,000 tons of GHGs over a period of 25 years. The geo-exchange system will bring beneits to UBCO including reduced natural gas consumption, decreasing GHG emissions, and long-term savings on heating. In addition to using the new technology, solar panels used to pre-heat domestic water are expected to diminish the campus’s environmental footprint.

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Bottleneck traffic caused by collapsed retaining wall Drivers frustrated and anxious for answers Terence Cheung News Editor

Trafic jams in Kelowna along Highway 97 near the bridge are becoming a major issue as people become increasingly frustrated with the problem. On Monday, cars were progressing so slowly that multiple individuals said that they had been waiting for hours just to pass through the bridge at Harvey and Abott. Twitter user @courtneyhaines related the trafic jam to the video game Carmageddon as well as to notorious Los Angeles summer trafic.

Another person expressed concern saying that they left the University at 4:30 and got home at 8 pm. Kelowna resident Ai Turner

wrote, “Why are the Kelowna Police not out there directing trafic to stop the drivers from blocking the intersections? My wife left work (by the mall) at 3 p.m. It is now 6:33 p.m. and she is still not home; we live in Glenrosa. From what I understand one of the reasons the trafic is so bad on Hwy 97 is because the vehicles coming on to Hwy 97 from the side streets are blocking the intersections, so the vehicles on Hwy 97 can’t move.”

Turner had said that his wife waited in an interaction for two hours without the car moving an inch due to cars from the side

streets plugging the intersections.

“I like the comments the experts are making, ‘DON’T DRIVE DURING THE BUSY TIMES’,” said B. Woods. “What are people to do after work? Go to the mall!

And wait until 6:00 and then drive home when there is more trafic.

This trafic jam is unacceptable.

In the last half hour we’ve gone less than 10 car lengths. Can you please give us an update? Is there any further info on the progress of the repair? Is there any police directing trafic?” RCMP efforts to control the low of trafic proved unsuccessful as cars had already plugged the roads.

Ice melting in the Arctic at unprecedented pace Study confirms thaw due to greenhouse gases Terence Cheung News Editor

A major study on the Arctic ice trends over the past 1,450 years have conirmed that the region is currently melting at an unprecedented pace. The research is conducted by using Canadian data regarding glacial ice that has been a controversial issue in contemporary times.

According to the Vancouver Sun, the study, led by Geological Survey of Canada scientist Christian Zdanowicz, as well as ive other researchers from Canada, Chile, Norway, and the United States—has suggested that Arctic thaw in the past decade has exceeded the pace of the previous 14 centuries.

Researchers have used glacial ice cores, tree rings, and lake

sediments to create a replication of the conditions of ice retreats in 560 CE. Canada’s ice core collection was used in the study, in which scientists examined the temperature, precipitation, and contamination patterns of premodern climates. A spokesman for the National Resources of Canada had said that “both the duration and magnitude of the current decline in sea ice seem to be unprecedented for the past 1,450 years,” the authors conclude in the Nature article.

“These results reinforce the assertion that sea ice is an active component of Arctic climate variability and that the recent decrease in summer Arctic sea ice is consistent with anthropo-

genically forced warming.”

“We’re trying to put the recent observations about the ice decline into a long-term perspective adding that the challenge has been to interpret whether the extreme thaw witnessed in the past decade is a predictable part of a natural, historical ‘cycle’ or is ‘highly unusual,’ said Zdanowicz on Thursday. The study has conirmed that a linkage exists between Arctic ice thawing and CO2 emissions as a result of factories and cars. Although there have been records of ice thawing in previous centuries, the sustained pace of the current ice melting process (50 years) has been unprecedented during the past 1,450 years.

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Egyptians demand their military step down Civilians in fear that Egyptian military may want to consolidate power Terence Cheung News Editor

Civilians in Egypt are planning a mass rally on Friday in fear that the military may want to remain in power. The last military civilian cabinet appointed by the military has decided to resign as a result of the violent uprisings Cairo and other cities. The state media announced that the Egyptian military wants to appoint ex-Prime Minister Kamal Ganzouri to form the new government.

Although the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) is overseeing the transition of power from the Hosni Mubarak regime to civilian rule, protestors are still worried about the possibility of a military takeover.

The military’s recommendation in the appointment of Ganzouri has sparked criticisms. “For the second time, we are going to depend upon the old guard of

Mubarak’s regime. Why we do not give chance for the young, instead of those people who are 80 years old?” said Suhir Nadimone, a protester in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. “Appointing Ganzouri is a crisis for the revolution. We must remain in Tahrir,” proclaimed Hossam Amer, a 44 year old demonstrator. Ganzouri has headed Mubarak’s government from 1996 to 1999. Demonstrators have called this Friday the 26th the “Friday of the last chance” for Egyptians to demand a transfer of power to civilians. According to BBC, “The Egyptian Independent Trade Union Federation called for a march to Tahrir Square while another labour rights group called for a general strike to back the protests.” The Egyptian health ministry has announced that 41 people have died since the violence.

However, the military council has expressed that it has paid compensation to victims’ families.

The violence was located in a street in between Tahrir Square and the interior ministry. Soldiers in the military have now set up barricades and other fortiications, separating the security forces and protestors. The Egyptian state newspaper al-Ahram has announced on its website that Ganzouri has agreed to lead a national salvation army after a meeting with Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantaw, the head of SCAF. It is important to mention that Mr. Ganzouri has distanced himself from the Mubarak administration and is regarded as a possible presidential candidate.

The Egyptian revolution began on January 25th, 2011 and is currently still progressing. The dem-

onstrations and crackdowns have left 846 people dead and 6000 injured. The uprising in Egypt occurred immediately after the Tunisian revolution which led to the ousting of Tunisia’s president. Success for the Egyptians came on Feburary 11th, following the collapse of the Mubarak regime. Currently, the country is led by SCAF, and Egyptian citizens fear that the military wants indeinite power.

The revolt’s main objectives include the end of emergency law, a non-military government, freedom, justice, and democracy.

Western nations have generally pursued a more peaceful approach, suggesting that political stability should be prioritized.

The European Union’s foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton has reiterated her call on the

Egyptian authorities to “urgently establish a constructive and peaceful way to respond to the legitimate aspirations of Egyptian citizens for democratic and socioeconomic reforms.”

During Mubarak’s reign, abuse and torture were widespread even though the administration at the time denied the claims. Corruption was also a concern as Ahmed Ezz monopolized the steel industry by attaining a 60 per cent market share; according to an article from Al Jazeera, Egyptian citizens became convinced that becoming wealthy is only possible for businessmen that have connections with the National Democratic Party.

Mubarak is currently on trial for pre-meditated murder of protestors and could face the death penalty if convicted.

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Albertan rabbits to see crosshairs on their cotton ball tails Judge permits hunting of rabbits to combat their overpopulation Terence Cheung News Editor

Susan Vickery, an animal welfare activist, has encountered a perplexing problem relating to rabbits. Bunnies dumped in urban areas have been reproducing at an exponential rate, causing havoc on gardens and lowerbeds. In 2008 and 2010 respectively, Kelowna and Victoria heard pro-rabbit voices demanding that wild bunnies be saved from execution. Vickery has founded a rabbit sanctuary that houses 600 unwanted rabbits from the University of Victoria. In Canmore, Alberta, 2-3000 rabbits roam the region, creating problems for gardeners and attracting predators such as coyotes. Last week, an Alberta judge has ruled that the rabbits should no longer be protected, allowing hunting in Canmore.

Unlike Kelowna and Victoria, the citizens of Canmore do not seem to care about the livelihood of the bunnies. According to Vickery, nobody seems to want to donate. “I haven’t given up hope yet; the town still stands with its offer to release the rabbits to us, if we can provide a sanctuary for them. What is barring our progress right now is a lack of donations and a lack

of community support,” says a rabbit rescuer. “In 2006 we did a town survey and it came back pretty much 50/50 as to whether anybody wanted to do anything about the rabbits,” says Mayor of Canmore, Ron Casey. “Back then, it was really a localized issue. It was one part of town that was infested and it’s the same old thing: if you don’t have a cold, why would you take anything? But since then the rabbits have spread out across the town, and we have started to see more and more predators, mostly coyotes, coming into town.”

Coyotes coming into Canmore in search for rabbit meat have raised safety issues as three children were bitten in 2007.

The coyote invasion as well as the bunnies’ garden wreaking abilities has made rabbits undesirable in the town. “What is happening is long overdue. The rabbits have continued to multiply.

They are feral critters. We moved to renovate an old house and we re-landscaped this past year, and because we hadn’t protected the new trees the rabbits actually bit off all the lower branches. They also ate some of our Tiger Lillies.”

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Do these adorably u y bunnies deserve to be dinner? available to them,” says Brenda Martin, a gardener from Canmore. “Because no rabbits have been killed yet, I think people are sitting back and wondering what

is happening next and saying that they have heard some groups are looking after things. Well, no, the community is ‘those groups’, and nothing is happening to save

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the rabbits. People don’t seem to wake up until there is a lot of drama. It is unfortunate, because in this case it means that the drama costs lives,” said Vickery.

Amendments in BC student loan program Underaged students no longer required a guarantor Micki Cowan The Ubyssey (University of British Columbia)

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VANCOUVER (CUP) — Two amendments have been made to the British Columbia student loan program that look to take the pressure off underage applicants or those facing inancial hardship.

The changes were made to comply with federal rules, since the federal and provincial loan programs were amalgamated earlier this year.

The irst amendment allows underage students to get a loan without a signing guarantor. The second amendment eliminated non-suficient fund fees, which are usually applied if your account is overdrawn when paying back your student loans.

Jeremy McElroy, president of the UBC student union, the Alma Mater Society (AMS), said the program still has a lot of shortcomings.

“It’s great that [students] can now apply for funding indepen-

dently at the age of 18, and I’m glad they’re no longer penalizing students for being in situations of inancial need,” said McElroy.

“But there is still a lot of work to do with the program and we’ve got all kinds of ideas for that.”

McElroy said the AMS is lobbying to also change the expectation that parents should be paying for students’ university fees and tuition.

“We’re asking for reduction and ultimate elimination of expected parental contribution,” he said.

Another issue the AMS is attempting to tackle is how liquid assets are evaluated. “Right now, if a student owns a car that is worth more than $5,000, they are expected to sell that car or have $5,000 removed from how much they’re eligible for for student loans,” McElroy said.

“Those of our students who commute in from Abbotsford,

Mission and Chilliwack, they either have to sell their car, go to school somewhere completely different or not go to school at all.”

Brittany Manson, a third-year international relations student on student loans, welcomes the changes.

“I know when I irst tried to apply it was kind of dificult … especially if you don’t get a lot of support from your parents,” said Manson.

“You should be able to get the funding you need to go to university, so I think it’s awesome,” she added.

“They told me I couldn’t use use B.C. student loans anymore because my parents don’t live in B.C., even though I do and I had been living here for three years, so it was a bit of a hassle for me,” she said. “But it sounds like they’re addressing the issue, though, so that’s good.”

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NBA season saved Last-minute deal ends lockout Cameron Welch Features Editor

It really looked like there would be no 2011-2012 NBA season. The players rejected a decent inal offer, on the grounds that it was essentially an ultimatum by David Stern, and promptly decertiied. The move to decertify put the rest of the negotiations in the hands of lawyers and essentially killed the possibility of a season. In that scenario those lawyers would have been the only party to really beneit: the lost season would cost both the own-

ers and players more that either stood to lose in giving in to the other’s demands.

However, sanity rallied in the fourth quarter and went on a 20-2 run before inally emerging victorious. Despite the fact that the Players’ Association and owners were technically bargaining, the NBAPA heads and the league were able to essentially send their lawyers to discuss settlements when meeting to discuss the antitrust suit. The players risked

their antitrust suit to some degree by conducting settlement negotiations under the pretense of legal antitrust negotiations, but the (basket)ballsy move ultimately paid off.

The current agreement would set up a December 9th start to free agency and a Christmas Day season kickoff featuring the originally scheduled BostonNY, Dallas-Miami, and Chicago-Lakers marquee matchups.

From there, a 66-game season

would commence.

The particulars of the new deal still have to be voted on, and is expected to be passed despite lingering opposition from hardliners. Most details are still up in the air, but the owners reportedly made several notable concessions, particularly in giving up on imposing automatic cuts to certain types of contracts. The new deal seems to also include the preservation several important cap-related signing rules, such as

extend-and-trades and mid-level exception signings (up to 4 million over the salary cap). Signand-trades would be allowed for the irst two years of the deal but phased out afterwards—meaning that at season’s end, the 2012 class of big-name free agents (Chris Paul, Dwight Howard, and Deron Williams) can still end up on big market teams operating at or over the salary cap.

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In a world of branded yoga clothing and equipment, studio chains, and multibillion dollar revenue, has modern yoga strayed too far from the practice’s Indian roots?

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‘Bikram’, ‘Tantric’, ‘Hatha’ and ‘Asana’, ‘Lululemon’, ‘Maharishi Yogi’, ‘George Harrison’, ‘Yoga for Wii Fit’, ‘Rishikesh’. What do these all have in common? Yup, it’s all about yoga. When you see posters on the UNC pillars importuning students to attend laughter yoga or Bikram yoga, do you ever get a hint of its Indian origins?

Sure, there is the usual ‘namaste’ at the beginning of classes, and postures have been translated from ‘Ardha Chandrasana’ to ‘Half-moon posture’, but yoga’s Indian origins certainly seem to have been obscured.

Yoga as an entity has been through rapid global changes since its exportation from India to the West. In Kelowna, we have yoga studios nearly everywhere, all of which practice distinct and

HISTORY OF YOGA The yoga that you might practice at the Hot Yoga studio downtown integrates the Sanskrit terms for the postures and translates them, presenting a secularized twist on yoga. Yoga in our modern age has largely left behind the attachment to its Hindu origins in order to ‘offer a spiritual path, not a religious one’ as claimed by marketers of yoga. Yoga was steeped in Hindu traditions and spiritual texts as early as the 3000 BC in the Upanishads and Vedas. The word ‘yoga’ is a Sanskrit word, derived from the root ‘yuj’, meaning to join, unite, or attach, whereas the yoga that we practice in the west is more exercise-based and is largely detached from its spiritual aspect in order to appeal to and be marketed for the masses. Yoga in the religious texts had no speciic guidelines for practicing yoga until Patañjali wrote the founding text, The Yoga-Sutra.

Patañjali was a Hindu monk and poet who created the foundation of the yoga that we see today.

Patañjali outlined the eight vital limbs of yoga: Yama refers to social constraints or ethical values; Niyama, means personal observation of purity tolerance and study; Asana, having to do with the dis-

altered styles of yoga. Yoga is a product of ‘glocalization’ in Kelowna: we have kept a tiny essence of the Indianness of it and adapted it to it the local and regional community. However, it is also a cultural business, with the studios offering classes on campus targeted at UBC students in order to de-stress from papers and projects along with some ‘your body is a temple’ mantra thrown in for good measure.

A irst year yoga enthusiast told us, “I did pilates for a year or so as well as hot yoga and yoga. I liked hot yoga better because I felt I was getting more out of it and found it more stress-relieving.” Yoga is a form of exercise for this student; a workout minimally engaged with yoga’s heritage or spiritual origin.

Like her, many of us are bombard-

ed with endless ads and just end up homogenizing the multitude of styles offered.

Yoga divides us: those who treat it simply as an exercise and purists who worry that the spirituality of the practice is being slowly eroded away. When (as with yoga) commerce and spirituality go hand in hand, we judge whether we are appropriating this practice by choosing to ignore or embrace certain aspects of the old tradition. As yoga’s popularity grows and diffuses, with more studios and Lululemon wearers every day, we need to ask ourselves: how did this cultural product get here? Where does it truly come from? Should we have to pay for a practice that shuns materialistic values and monetary gains itself?

cipline of the body and the rules and postures that act as a physical aid to meditation; Pranayama, which is the control of the breath; Pratyahara, withdrawal of the senses in preparation for meditation; Dharana, concentration; Dhyana, the undisturbed low of thought during meditation; and Samadhi, achieving oneness with the object of meditation creating ecstasy. Currently, the two main focuses of this model are Pranayama and Asana which are the physical manifestations of this practice. Patañjali is the founder of Raja-yoga, the original form of yoga, which has since been altered and appropriated by various gurus while trying to maintain that link to traditional yoga.

The most popular forms of yoga that you have likely seen ads for all over Kelowna may be Bikram, Ashtanga, Tantric, Hatha, and Kundalini, all of which claim to be utilizing the original concepts and forms of yoga in a contemporary and commercial setting which appeals to a majority of people.

crashed the party at the Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893, delivering an inspiring speech that captured American attention and received a two minute standing ovation from seven thousand people. Vivekanada was a staunchly Hindu monk, and in his speech he advocated that yoga was a deinite Indian product, and that its roots should not be forgotten. He made yoga accessible to the already hooked West by translating the Yoga Sutra into English.

With Eastern spirituality already in vogue, yoga soon became the fashionable ‘it’ thing that everybody just had to try.

The Beatles have to be mentioned in the story of Western yoga: without the exposure brought by the ubiquitous band, yoga and eastern spiritualism might have remained a niche market in the 1960s. When the Beatles met the Maharishi Yogi, it was almost love at irst yogic posture for George Harrison, who became an inluential igure in bringing Indian culture to prominence.

With such an idolized rock star bringing awareness to Indian practices, exoticism of yoga and Indian culture seeped in. As Harrison wrote to his mother, “I looked at all these kids and cats in Hyde Park wearing saffron,

YOGA IN THE WEST Before the Beatles picked up their sitars and brought yoga to the swinging sixties, yoga missionary Swami Vivekananda

beads, striking yoga positions, and all that stuff and my heart cried at the sadness. This was not the Indian feel I tried to show— it’s about God and reaching that spiritual height with music and poses, not this shit.” Harrison may have tried to pave the way to spirituality and yoga with noble and earnest intentions, but it soon became a commodiied version for his new disciples.

CULTURAL APPROPRIATION A Hindu third year UBCO student explained to us that “I don’t like when I go to a yoga class and the teacher casually dismisses the Indianness of it. Yes, you can say namaste, and do the surya namaskara, which are just bits of the heritage to not offend Christians or agnostics. They really don’t need to erase the roots; it just makes it too commercialized.

Why are people suddenly treating it like an h-word that infringes on the practice?”

This is a key point in the narrative of yoga’s move to the West, as yoga has been estranged from its Hindu origins as chosen and adjusted by various gurus and instructors. This is one of the prob-

lems of the glocalization of yoga, as gurus have highlighted the physical and health beneits of yoga to work for the market and global audience but risk offending and upsetting Indians who see their cultural heritage being bought and eroded away in the $6-billion-dollar yoga industry.

Different yogis, some Indian and others not, have revised yoga and essentially ‘created’ their own forms and distinctions. Iyengar, Prattabi Jois, and Indra Devi are all renowned yogis who have created yoga retreats in Mysore and elsewhere. They have each birthed their own particular brands of yoga by picking and choosing from traditional yoga teachings, from soaking in their own guru’s wisdom, and adding their personal experiences and interpretations, creating a form of yoga that is generally more palatable and accessible to their chiely Western audience. Iyengar for example expanded his guru Krishnamacharya’s teachings and became the irst Yogi to incorporate props into his practice, including yoga straps (or belts) and blocks.

These props now are easily accessible online and in local stores for a steep price.

One can see why these gurus sometimes distance yoga from more religious overtones in or-

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It is quite shocking upon realizing that each time we attend a Bikram yoga session here that we are actually in turn funding Choudhary’s lavish lifestyle. Bikram Choudhury acts the conspicuous consumer, with 35 cars—mostly Rolls-Royces and Bentleys—and a drawer full of Rolex watches.

Bikram is a full-blown yoga paradox; he makes money hand over st by utilizing an ancient practice which extols the abolition of pleasure via materialistic gain.

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der to highlight it as a universal practice that is for everyone. As mentioned by the student, yoga is Hinduism’s gift to the world and acknowledgment of its roots does not deny its universality. Everyone can practice yoga, but when ‘Christian yoga’ and ‘Kabbalah yoga’ come about, and deny the origins while using the Sanskrit names we can see why there is protectionism with the practice.

Nobel Peace Prize winner and economic theorist Amartya Sen conceived the idea that global low is important in explaining the cultural appropriation of yoga and the cultural exchange that occurs between countries and nations. In yoga’s case, the global lows and cultural exchange between India and the West have been occurring since the 1890s and have manifested in the altered types of yoga taught by gurus and their Western disciples.

COMMODIFICATION We all have heard of Bikram, or hot yoga, through local studios in town and their somewhat cheaper prices offered to students. Bikram yoga is made up of twentysix poses and breathing exercises adapted from the original Hatha yoga by Bikram Choudhury him-

self—as it turns out, he patented these poses. In order to use the name Bikram for a business, or in lessons for example, one must acknowledge Choudhury and pay him subsidies. As easy as it is to understand why he would want to protect his name and his positions, but it also seems ridiculous to have a patent on a series of positions that one can do on their own. If someone were to change the names of these same positions, would it still then be considered Bikram yoga?

It is quite shocking upon realizing that each time we attend a Bikram yoga session here that we are actually in turn funding Choudhary’s lavish lifestyle. Bikram Choudhury acts the conspicuous consumer, with 35 cars—mostly Rolls-Royces and Bentleys—and a drawer full of Rolex watches.

Bikram is a full-blown yoga paradox; he makes money hand over ist by utilizing an ancient practice which extols the abolition of pleasure via materialistic gain. It is remarkable to see how a spiritual and meditative-driven practice has become something that a person can take credit for and make a great fortune from.

Another UBCO student provided a different outlook by explaining where yoga its within her own life. She acknowledges

that Hot Yoga is quite militant in its teachings and is primarily invested in bettering the physical ability and image of the body.

She believes that “a lot of people do [hot yoga] for the itness aspect and will generally take a hot yoga class or a power class, but the ones who don’t practice it for these reasons are usually the people who pursue it further at a traditional school.” She explains that at these institutions there is much more than just exercises, such as learning methods of balance, meditation, cooking, and massage. As a practice it is reliant on positive energy, the idea of community, and the ability to incorporate yoga into everyday life as a collective understanding of the practice.

Consider yoga wear like Lululemon, which is apparent on campus every time we spot people in their yoga getup with the conspicuous slogan of the company on them. Fashion is a contentious industry; it is at times classist and exclusivist, and this extends to yoga fashion.

A fourth-year yoga practitioner told us, “I really like wearing Lululemon clothes, because yoga for them kinda relates back its meaning that it’s a lifestyle for the person. I also like how the clothes make me feel fashionable while

I meditate and work out. I know these are in complete conlict, but I try not to feel so bogged down by what I’m wearing. I don’t wear them around campus, because it does feel like being a show-off.”

Lululemon is paradoxical, maintaining Patañjali’s insistence that yoga is a lifestyle choice but extending it towards the material with yoga-related clothes, mats, et cetera.

The preoccupancy is often with having fashionable exercise clothing and equipment rather than yoga at heart. Noted theorist Arjun Appadurai mentions that the consumer fetishizes the objects associated with the practice of yoga, and the objects themselves come to signify something greater than the essential meaning.

Just since 2010, Lululemon’s revenue has grown 57% to 712 million dollars, and other athletic companies (such as Nike and the Gap) have since scrambled to hop on the bandwagon. Today, you are in a small minority if you attend a yoga class without some widely recognized logo on your outit or gear. Of course, all those who practice yoga can’t necessarily afford the outrageously priced yoga-wear, creating a class division and drawing away from the core of yoga (which commends the release of material pleasures

and ego).

Over the span of ifty years there has been an increased market demand for transnational commercial yoga. This has emerged from the cosmopolitan consumer, mostly those living in large Western cities. This market demand stems from the ‘pseudoneed’ to create a culturally rich, orientalized alternative to traditional forms of exercise. The status of yoga today is still questionable, as it will continue to be an ever-evolving entity shaped by further cultural exchange.

As one student mentioned, “Yoga is a personal thing. It balances you and levels a person in only a way that they understand.”

Yoga is of course entirely up to the practitioner—but hopefully students will be aware of the rapid commercialization of the practice. It’s true that everything, yoga included, has been commodiied, but in a practice that advocates the individual taking the path to self-enlightenment and spiritual blossoming of character, is it so necessary to shell out money?

This irony, along with cultural appropriation, affects the yoga industry’s purists and fans; however despite the inevitable capitalization of yoga we as consumers can and should still work to be respectful of all facets of yoga.

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NHLat the quarter-mark: Surprises abound for Canadian teams.

Alex Eastman Wannabe NHL Analyst

If one thing is certain in the NHL, it’s that the parity of the league makes for some unprecedented highs and lows for teams and analysts who thought they had their standard set by judging the last couple of years. Though there certainly are a series of circumstances that explain the rise of some and the fall of others, the NHL’s standings past the quarter-mark look very different than predicted, especially where Canada’s teams are concerned. With that in mind, let’s take a look at the seven Canadian NHL teams and see how they’ve been:

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Vancouver Canucks Record: 13-9-1, 6th in West Prediction: 3rd in West

Vancouver hasn’t been the same dominant team since they lost in Game 7 of last year’s cup inal. Their stumbles out of the gate weren’t actually too surprising, as the Canucks tend to have a rough October before tearing apart the league in Novem-

ber. Things have taken a turn for the better through November.

What’s working: Adding fuel to the ire of Vancouver’s goalie controversy, Cory Schneider has a remarkable .931 save percentage to go with a 2.02 goals against

average. He’s made several amazing saves and kept the Canucks in just about every game he’s started. He’s on pace for a career year in games played.

What’s not working: The other side of the goaltending situation, Roberto Lu-

ongo, is known to be a slow starter. Luongo is sporting a sub-.900 save percentage and a goals against average of close to 3 goals per game, and while his play is slowly starting to improve, fans have Bobby Lu on a very short leash.

Calgary Flames

Edmonton Oilers

Record: 8-12-1, 13th in West Prediction: 11th in West

Record: 12-9-2, 9th in West Prediction: 12th in West

The Flames are one of the few Canadian teams who are not playing far off of their prediction. Unfortunately for them, that’s not welcome news. It’s going to take a total about-face for this team to start thinking about making the playoffs.

What’s working: Although his usual linemate Jarome Iginla isn’t clicking at his normal pace, Alex Tanguay is still making things happen out there for the

Flames, as he leads the team in scoring at this point in the season.

What’s not working: As mentioned earlier, Iginla has dried up his offensive output, and he is on pace for one of the worst seasons of his time with the Flames. Speculation is swarming around the team’s captain concerning his future.

Iginla may be traded before the season is over.

The Oilers currently are just a win away from occupying a playoff spot. That in and of itself is a huge leap from where most writers, myself included, had them placed. Whether or not they can sustain their play, however, remains to be seen.

What’s working: Thought to be past his prime, the oft-injured Nikolai Khabibulin isn’t just enjoying a healthy season, he’s been a dominant goaltender so far

this year. Playing in front of a young team is never good for your numbers between the pipes, but the “Bulin Wall” has a stellar 1.87 goals-against average and an equally impressive .936 save percentage.

What’s not working: The wheels have started to fall off of the wagon for the Oilers, as they’ve gone 4-6-0 in their last ten games, threatening to push them out of a playoff spot.

THE EASTERN CONFERENCE Montreal Canadiens

Ottawa Senators

Record: 10-10-4, 11th in East Prediction: 8th in East

Record: 10-10-2, 12th in East Prediction: 13th in East

Montreal is in a similar place standings-wise to my prediction, however I have them pegged much lower than many other writers. They managed to recover from a very poor start to get back into the playoff picture.

What’s working: Allowing close to two goals a game, and shouldering the ridiculous load of playing 21 of the team’s 24 games so far this year, Carey Price

continues to push the Canadiens into the playoff picture. He hasn’t been as outstandingly heroic as he was last year, but he’s still been very good.

What’s not working: A team that usually thrives off of its effective power play, the Canadiens are in the bottomthird of the NHL in power play success rate. This largely contributes to the team currently being outside of the playoffs.

The Ottawa Senators started off the season much like they were predicted to: Bottom of the standings with one win in the irst six or so games. Then the Sens completely turned things around, winning their way back into contention.

What’s working: Jason Spezza has truly elevated his game to an elite level, and has the team’s offense and possibly their playoff hopes on his back, and he

hasn’t disappointed. Erik Karlsson has been a pleasant surprise and is second overall in points from a defenseman and tied for second in the NHL in assists.

What’s not working: Craig Anderson looks less like the goalie that inished last year and more like the inconsistent, soft-goal prone netminder who started last year, and usually reliable backup Alex Auld has been anything but.

Toronto Maple Leafs

Winnipeg Jets

Record: 13-8-2, 5th in East Prediction: 10th in East

Record: 9-10-4, 13th in East Prediction: 12th in East

After a scorching start, a concerning slump, and a quick bounce-back, Toronto inds itself in a playoff position near the end of November. a start like this one is encouraging for the Leafs What’s working: The Leafs currently run an extremely dangerous powerplay, ranked 3rd in the NHL. Offensively they

are 5th best in the NHL, and are led by the NHL’s top point-getter and goal-scorer, Phil Kessel.

What’s not working: The have has been bit by the injury bug. Most notable among the injured is James Reimer, who only played ive games because of concussion-like symptoms.

The initial honeymoon of the Winnipeg Jets returning to the NHL is over, and Jets fans have been left with a somewhat cruel reality: their team is the Atlanta Thrashers, largely unchanged from last season.

What’s working:Now on his fourth NHL team in the last ive years, journeyman Kyle Wellwood is plying his trade quite effec-

tively for the Jets. his 17 points lead the team.

What’s not working: Second-tier forwards Brian Little, Andrew Ladd, and Blake Wheeler form an underwhelming top line that is being outscored by ex-Leafs Nik Antropov and the aforementioned Wellwood. The Jets ack a gamebreaker, a player who can put them over the top.

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UBC Heat place at CCAA championships for first time Heat field eleven athletes for cross country Nationals at MacArthur Park in Kamloops Kevin Ilomin Sports Editor

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - This year, UBC’s Okanagan campus ielded its irst real cross country team since becoming the Heat, sending ten athletes to the CCAA Championships hosted by Thomson Rivers University on November 12th. Both men’s and women’s teams inished 13th out of the 14 teams represented at the championships from across the four CCAA conferences. The PACWEST conference inished last compared to the other three, with an average time of 29:38 (2:28:11 total) for the men and an average of 21:51 (1:49:17) for the men. The men’s race was 8km while the women’s was 6km.

Still, for the Heat’s inaugural run, they had a good showing and solid team effort. “They did well as a team and actually placed quite well together,” commented coach Nathan Reiter after both races had inished.

David Harbocian led the men’s team with a 29:29 inish of the 8km race, placing 55th overall.

Aurelien Schilles was close behind alongside fellow teammate Alex Hansen, who both inished 29:52 and 30:01, respectively for 62nd and 63rd. Within the same pack of runners at the inish line was Garet Anstett and Cameron Kroeker, who inished at 65th and 67th, but both inished with a time of 30:08. Matt Redekopp came in shortly after at 73rd with a time of 30:33 while Matt Banield brought up anchor for his team at 101st and 32:41. There were 112 runners and a inal time of 39:05 for the men’s race.

“The guys had a great same day team running,” said men’s coach Nate Reiter. “They came within ifteen spots of each other, which is what we were looking for. They ran really tough in the

second half of the race.

Ashley Yip was irst across the inish line for the women’s team, inishing 33rd overall with a time of 20:51. Shayla Millan followed shortly after at 21:37 to place at 49th. Samantha Hayter came in at 22:04, good for 61st and Britney Hearn wrapped things up for the Heat at 67th to record 22:13.

The course—MacArthur park in Kamloops—consisted of a loop on the ield behind the MacArthur Island Sports Centre.

The loop was 2km long, and so the women completed three laps for their 6km and the men four for their 8km. The course was nearly entirely lat with only a few dips and small hills.

Comparing the race to a tougher terrain experience at the PACWEST championships, Ashley Yip commented that “Provincials [PACWEST championships] was a shorter race and had a lot more hills… so we could actually have a game plan for the race. This one we pretty much just had to hammer hard.”

“I’m used to hilly cross country courses. The pace today was quick,” Matt Banield commented. His sentiments were echoed by the rest of his teammates, as both teams admitted that the course was challenging with its faster pace and use of a few sharp turns and bottlenecks that created a “funnel effect”, according to Sam Hayter.

“The second lap I kind of took a dive,” said Alex Hansen, who went to the ground during the second lap, but did not slow down and kept pace with fellow teammate David. “Me and Dave stuck together pretty well… and we just gave it our all.”

Despite an unfamiliar terrain

for the course and cold conditions, all of the runners enjoyed their time and were happy for the opportunity. “It was tough, but I did enjoy it,” Banield concluded.

The story of the Heat’s cross country for this season was a quick one, taking place over only approximately seven or eight weeks in total. Coach Nate Reiter details a brief history of how it all came together: “Nikki [Reiter, women’s coach] and I moved out to Kelowna in August. We were previously living in China and decided to come to Kelowna when Nikki got hired on as a Lab Coordinator for the Human Kinetics program. We both competed in university athletics [Nate at U of Windsor, Nikki at McMaster] and wanted to continue to be involved in sport. We both coached with the Windsor Legion Track and Field Club and wanted to continue coaching. When we arrived in Kelowna we made a few contacts, including Rob Johnson.

Some students approached Rob about cross country and we were put in contact with Brian Rhodes.

At irst he had a small group (3-4 athletes) but this quickly grew after word travelled. By the end of the seasons the group was around 15-20 athletes. We were fortunate enough to receive the support of UBCO and were given the opportunity to compete at the CCAA championships.”

Relecting on the season past, he added that “Based on the limited training, the athletes performed well. However, we are optimistic about our athletes’ progress with another year of training.”

Nikki also added that “the opportunity has been really great, and we just want to give the Ath-

Top: All smiles after the race: Ashley Yip, Samantha Hayter, Shayla Milan and Britney Hearn Center: Alex Hansen, Matt Ban eld and Garret Anstett.

Bottom: The Heat Cross-Country teams.

Photos by Rita Le Roux

letics Department a big thanks for letting us be here today, and for giving our athletes this great experience. I think they are a little humble, but they are also ready to get ready for next year.”

The runners have echoed their coaches’ gratitude, and give thanks to their coaches for the opportunity as well.

“I give a lot of credit to our coaches, who are new but really stoked on the program,” said Matt Redekopp after the race.

Many of the runners will be returning to UBC’s Okanagan campus next year, and when asked if they would participate on the team again, the unanimous answer was “absolutely.”

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From the Attack Line Jesse Shopa Contributing Heat Analyst

There is only one weekend left of volleyball action this weekend before winter break. We check in with each team’s’ progression.

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And-One One Kevin Ilomin | Sports Editor

Now that From the Attack Line has taken o , it seemed only fair that a basketball column also be instated. Each week either myself or a guest columnist will be here to talk basketball—Heat basketball. So check it out each issue for insights and updates on everything that goes on in Heat basketball. This column and future aspects of it are inspired by TNT Analyst David Aldridge s Morning Tip every Monday on nba.com, and recommend it for all the NBA fans out there. But for now, we re driving in for this issue s inaugural edition of And-One!

Women One of the most prevalent themes surrounding the Heat so far this season seems to be “identity” and the search for it.

While the Heat have played exceptionally well over the better part of six games, this young squad has still yet to establish an on-court identity. The Heat bring neither a mighty offense, nor an unbreakable defense to the court; the team currently sits close to the middle in all major offensive and defensive statistical categories. Identity is important because it allows a team to understand the strengths of the squad, and to play accordingly to these strengths. It’s all about

developing a particular “brand” of volleyball best suited to the capabilities of the team, and quite frankly, the Heat have yet to establish their personal brand of volleyball.

With that being said, the Heat are still a relatively young team in their irst season in the CIS. It would be unfair to expect this team to have put it all together by now. The pieces are deinitely available for Coach Manuel, however. It’s just a matter of putting it all together.

How Manuel chooses to handle this situation could determine the rest of the season for the Heat women.

Men It’s a tough remaining schedule for the Heat men as they are set to face three nationally ranked opponents over the course of their next three weekends of play, with the biggest being against #2 ranked Alberta at home on January 20th-21st.

There isn’t reason to go into panic mode just yet, however. The Heat still have a chance at making the playoffs, but they are go-

ing to need to steal a few games from top-ranked opponents in the process. I look at their date with the Dinos on Dec. 2nd3rd to be two games they need to steal from Calgary in order to have a legitimate chance of playing volleyball in late February. It might become a David and Goliath-type season for the Heat. Let’s hope they can be giant killers.

Heat volleyball keeps rolling, and you can expect “From the Attack Line” to be there for every set, dissecting every bump, set, spike and serve.

Be sure to follow on Facebook: from the attack line Twitter: @AttackLineUBCO tumblr: attacklineubco.tumblr.com for live updates at games!

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Photo by Steve Shulhan

Heat Basketball is back! Finally, some hoops to watch during this ridiculous NBA lockout (besides Div I, of course). Both the guys and girls have performed admirably to start the season off, but have struggled out of the gate to 0-4 records as of the writing of this column—hopefully by the time you read this, the teams would have grabbed a W from either or both of the Regina Cougars and Brandon Bobcats.

Coach Steve Manuel from the women’s volleyball made the claim that his team was a team of “CIS rookies,” which is a sentiment that I think applies to the basketball teams to start the season. One can talk and talk about inally competing in Canada West, and prepare mentally and physically for it, but when it is your irst time, you don’t really feel it until you hit the court banging with bigger, stronger bodies in the paint, and are trying to back-

pedal and defend quicker, more agile guards.

Everything is a learning curve, and there is a general consensus amongst the players that the initial nerves of getting the regular season underway are gone. Says veteran post player Steve Morrison: “The nerves are past us, we’re just excited to play.” He added that his team has learned from the irst few weekends of the season that “We’re not a team who’s going to win off of lash and sizzle. We’re going to have to grind out every possession and every ball, and ight to the end.”

Playing a league with stiffer competition, the margin of error drastically shrinks, and the players are already getting the hang of the idea that every possession counts, and the little mistakes can count. The women’s team, though going down 0-4 after two weekends, has been right there with their competition, and they

know it. Says veteran post Ros Huber: “We’re right in there with teams. A lot of announcers at away games say we’ve been really committed for working our tails off for forty minutes, and I think it says a lot about our team.”

Pointing out areas she hopes her team can improve, head coach Heather Semeniuk commented that “As far as the turnovers go, we’ve been pressed a lot this year… done pretty well with it, igured out where the ball has to go to break through the sets. Our hesitation once we get the ball… it’s hurt us. We need to just keep playing, and attack.”

With vets in a new league and talented rookies still getting their feet wet, everything is a learning curve. But the players know where they are, where they want to be and how they can get there.

Don’t look at a losing record to start a CIS campaign as a lack of effort.

Nobody asked me, but... …is the West an epicenter of the top university athletes in Canada?

It could be a hard argument to make, but it was a question that crossed my mind about a week ago. When our men’s volleyball team went down 3-3 from their 3-0 start, I was shocked to see that we were still—at the time— ranked 8th in the country, while sitting at sixth in the Canada West conference. There are three other conferences—one in Ontario, one in Quebec, and one for the Atlantic provinces—and out of all of them there were only two teams better than us at that

time? Note also that Manitoba, Alberta and Trinity Western are, as of printing time, undefeated, and the Thunderbirds’ lone loss was at our hands so far.

Out of the last forty-odd years, fewer than ten teams from nonCanada West teams have won the CIS Women’s volleyball championship, most of those being hoarded by separate dynasties in Winnipeg, Alberta and, most recently, UBC and their four-peat as of the end of last season.

The SFU Clansmen were so strong that they won their bid into the NCAA for all of their varsity teams and have transcended

CIS competition altogether. The Thunderbirds could likely have the opportunity to do so, but have opted to stick around in Canada for the time being.

National team rosters for multiple sports are constantly being illed by players from places like the aforementioned schools, but also the University of Saskatchewan and Regina, to name a couple more but not inish the list.

Is the CIS dominated by Canada West? Still a hard argument to make conclusively, but there certainly is a heck of a lot of talent and a lot of winners out west.

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BY THE NUMBERS Kevin Ilomin

Yassine Ghomari and Ashley Yip

Sports Editor

Kevin Ilomin

Each issue come back to check out by the numbers for some stat line updates on all of your favourite athletes! These stats are current as of Nov 25 and are subject to change. Stats are constantly accumulated throughout the season, so be sure to check out canadawest.org for more regular updates.

Sports Editor

Yassine Ghomari The men’s basketball team loor general makes his irst ever appearance in the Athletes of the Week column, returning to UBC’s Okanagan campus after being away for a couple of years. Well, Yassine is back and doing a lot of heavy lifting for his team during the slow but determined start to their inaugural CIS campaign.

Ghomari is averaging about 18 points per game, good for eighth in Canada West heading into last weekend’s bout with Regina and Brandon. He spends the most time out on the court, clocking about 34.0 minutes a game. “We go as [Yassine] goes,” assistant coach Kelly Broderick commented a few days before the team’s roadtrip down to UFV for the Nov 25-26 weekend.

Yassine is a returnee to the school, having played during the 20072008 season, his rookie campaign.

He played one year at Langara before transferring over to UVIC for one year, where he took a break from basketball. He was excited when the Heat made the jump to

18.5: Points per game scored by point guard Yassine Ghomari. Yassine is ranked 8th in ppg among Canada West men’s basketball players.

16, 18: The number of 1st year and 4th/5th year athletes across all

four winter sports active rosters, respectively. Not all of those 18 are graduating this year, but it’s several more than the two from last season. The multitude of new faces still have a collection of tried and true veterans to learn from.

11: Number of athletes that the Heat sent to the CCAA Nationals; the

most ever since the campus varsity teams changed their name from the Lakers to the Heat.

4.43: Nate Speijer’s average kills per set. Nate has and continues to lead the conference.

4: Number of wins Brandon University’s men’s volleyball team won in their debut season in Canada West back in 2006. The Heat eclipsed TRU’s debut record of 1-19 after opening weekend, and hopefully by the time you read this they will have matched or eclipsed this mark as well.

Yassine tries to get by his defender. its new league and wanted to come back, saying “I was done with the college league… I wanted to play CIS.” He’s certainly welcome back,

Photo by Steve Shulhan

and his leadership and court savvy will be critical for the team’s development and success in the league for years to come.

Ashley Yip

Ashley races by at Nationals.

Photo by Rita Le Roux

It was dificult trying to select a female athlete of the week for this issue, especially since I wish I could have just selected all four girls who competed for the cross country team at Nationals. However, as the column spotlights individual athletes each issue, I give Ashley the nod for being the front-runner for her team in Kamloops.

She crossed the inish line at the MacArthur Park 6km course with a time of 20:51, good for 33rd overall of 114 runners total.

She was pleased with her performance, though lamented the latness of the course, preferring more hilly terrain, where her leg strength and technique give her an advantage. She commented after the race that “Provincials [PACWEST championships] was a shorter race, and had a lot more hills… so we could actually have a game plan for the race. This one we pretty much just had to hammer hard.”

Still, the currently 3rd year student at UBC’s Okanagan campus was happy with how the short season turned out, and has high hopes for an even bigger and better team next year. She added that “I’m really happy to actually represent our school and get us on the map for running.”

3: The number of Semeniuks now coaching at UBC’s Okanagan campus. Heather Semeniuk has been with women’s basketball for close to two decades. Her son Darren has coached the men’s team for several years and led the then-Lakers to the 2009 BCCAA (now PACWEST) title. This year her other son Marc makes a return to the women’s bench as her assistant coach. I guess it’s in the family.

1: The number of weekends left of Heat action this year. Volleyball plays next weekend, then that is a wrap until 2012.

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Amber Choo arts@thephoenixnews.com

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How to make sandwiches with swagger Crafting the perfect everyday meal

Alex Eastman Editor-in-chief

“Sandwiches are beautiful, sandwiches are ine, I love sandwiches I eat them all the time.”

Whoever wrote those legendary lyrics had one thing straight: A well-rounded, easy to eat, and delicious sandwich is a tasty alternative to any kind of other meal ever made ever. However, not all sandwiches are created equal (and I’m not talking about how they’re sliced, either.) In this article, I’ll aim to direct you towards crafting the most swaggeriically mouth-watering sandwich, that you can eat over, and over, and over again.

When making a sandwich, the most important thing to keep in mind is this. If, at any point in time, you feel like you are working hard at making the sandwich, YOU ARE LOSING THE BATTLE. Sandwiches are the ultimate lazy person food, very little physical work needs to be put into a sensational creation.

I break down the main ingredients of a sandwich into ive major categories: Bread, Meat, Cheese, Vegetables, and Sauce. The general order of a well made sandwich is simple: Bread, sauce, meat, cheese, vegetables.

Since you should never have to work at a sandwich, including inding the perfect components, I’ll list suitable alternatives and the best possible ingredient, in my humble sandwich wizard opinion.

BREAD The foundation of the sandwich, bread is the unsung hero of the sandwich. So little credit is given to the processed grains used to hold your tempting morsel together, but good bread choice can make or break your lunch break.

For those fans of symmetry out there, there are some excellent slices of quality brands of bread. Typically though, your bread basket will feature little more than white or whole wheat.

While health gurus worldwide will probably tell you that whole wheat is better for you, don’t let that push you away from white, the taste of which is easily worth another few seconds on that treadmill every time.

Of course, this wouldn’t belong the arts section of the paper if I didn’t recommend that you be experimental and venture outside of the world of bread and into buns. Bagels are a solid choice but tend to leave much to be de-

In this sandwich: lettuce, bread, lettuce, dissappointment, lettuce. Must read this article. sired in their centres. Standard hamburger buns are best suited to burgers (which are COMPLETELY different from sandwiches, I assure you.) My pick for bread is the slightly larger bun, a soft variation, very luffy on the inside with decent hold to the outside. Talk to your baker if you don’t understand.

You’ll also want to very lightly toast whatever it is you’re using for the surface, and if you can set your toaster to the bagel setting, go for it. Either way, keep a hawk eye on that shit because burnt toast makes everything taste like burnt toast.

SAUCE Sauce is next. This section is almost entirely up to personal preference, however there are some laws to remember when saucing your sandwich.

You want a sandwich to be somewhat moist and easy to consume, and sauce does a lot of that work for you. This is one of the reasons we dip cookies in milk, because it’s less work to eat the cookie afterwards. With that in mind, be somewhat liberal with sauce application, but restrain yourself if you’re dealing with more than a couple of lavours.

Too much and you have a mess that gets everywhere and fucks

with your tongue, and if you wanted that, you should have ordered the hot wing surprise, my friend.

Try to match up your taste experiences with sauces. I like a nice mustard, Dijon optional, to go with my meat, and standard miracle whip mayo to go with my veggies. Good alternatives include Ranch for high vegetables, ketchup if there’s beef, double mustard for high meat content.

MEAT Meat is the superstar of the sandwich lineup, the lead singer of the band, for sure. Meat choice can be limited by circumstance, but generally if it’s pre-cooked, lat, and meaty, it’ll do.

You always want to try and get thinly sliced meat, if you can, and match up the size of the slices with the width of your chosen bread (this is why we deal with bread irst!) Meat sliced too thick will result in uncompromising differences between length of meat and bread, which is expected to an extent but can get problematic. Layering requires modesty but hunger. Don’t work at eating it, but get your ill!

For the above reasons, I’m partial to thinly sliced smoked

turkey breast, fresh from the butcher, two layers. However my meat palette is fairly varied, including smoked ham, salami, chicken, bologna, beer sausage, pastrami, salmon, halibut, roast beef, ground beef (mind the mess), and even well-placed hot dogs. Meat combos are possible but largely not recommended.

CHEESE Warning: the following may be disturbing to readers who are lactose intolerant. Discretion is advised.

Cheese of nearly every kind kicks so much ass, it’s really hard to go wrong. A general word of advice, if you read the label and have never heard of it before, try it, but try it BEFORE you deile the sandwich with its potentially destructive taste. No, everything else will not make it taste better.

Slicing and placing cheese is crucial. If you have a cheese slicer (slicer, not grater), bust that shit out and you will have some nice melt-in your mouth thin slices of perfectly placeable cheese. If you have to use a cumbersome knife, try to get the slices nice and thin, and make sure to adjust for width and length of bread, roughly of course. You want your cheese to rest on top of the meat like a delicate hat and then become

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crushed into place by the weight of the vegetables.

My preferred cheeses are cheddar, gouda, and pepper jack.

VEGETABLES The most controversial of the sandwich food groups, the vegetables are probably the healthiest but least tasty ingredient, except in certain scenarios. Learning how to get the most out of your vegetables is a very important skill for a sandwich wizard.

For lavour, peppers of various assortments and names get the job done, though some can be rather spicy. For a nice moisture but a bit of a mess one might turn to tomatoes. Olives are a solid option provided their middles are removed and they are coherent with the taste buds, pickles are a bit of a blend of olives and tomatoes.

I ind just plain old lettuce or spinach very dificult to contend with, though, because they it so well into the lat sandwich structure, they’re crisp and refreshing, and they mesh well with cheese and mayonnaise.

So there you have it! The knowhow and the know-what for all you need-to-know about how to build a sandwich that will entertain your taste buds.

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The medium is the (cruel) message Reality television and online trolls Logan Saunders Contributor

John Cochran from Survivor: South Paci c.

As I write this article in the library, I am surrounded by at least three computers that have Facebook up. Most people use it to creep on their friends or to play Tetris (admit it; I’ve seen you).

People also use it for random discussion groups either with family or friends, or those who share a common interest. But what happens if those common interests go too far?

Enter the minor competitive reality TV star (Survivor, The

Amazing Race, The Apprentice, and to a more ‘reality TV-like’ ex-

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tent, Big Brother.) Those who go on these shows are not famous enough to where their popularity reaches beyond Facebook’s 5,000 friends limit, but yet have enough fame for the hardcore fans. But any group of hardcore fans also carries along the hardcore haters. And that’s where one of Facebook’s lesser-known faults is exposed.

Yes, there are people who will friend a reality star just so they can trash their wall for the sole purpose of ensuring the fans and the star itself will read it before

the troll is blocked and deleted from the star’s Facebook. This dates back to Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains when fans were divided between Sandra and Russell. Since then, reality TV freaks have tweaked the method of attack and are using Facebook’s fullest potential.

This past summer, Big Brother 13 aired a season with half returning players and half newbies.

That means the returning players have an established hardcore fan base entering the house, and the other half battle for valuable camera time which is at the discretion of the editors to build a reputation. Therefore, popular returnees (Jeff and Jordan/ Jordeff) indirectly caused one of the biggest cyber bullying victims in Shelly Moore (a newbie).

Why? Because Shelly ultimately betrayed Jordeff midway through the season, as well as joining in on the insults that are always being hurled throughout the house.

Unfortunately, Jordeff’s hardcore fan base reacted to this, and because Shelly Moore was a newbie and since one does not have internet access in the house, the insults

would be able to loat around on Facebook much longer than one should. This led to the creation of an ‘America Hates Shelly Moore’ fan base, a page that consisted of ten thousand (yes, that many are crazy about BB) people to post threatening mental and bodily harm comments, Shelly’s real address, Facebook page, a number for Child Protective Services to have Shelly’s child picked up, and a barrage of insults. Big Brother blogs would encourage participation into this group, and any resistance to the group was met with insults, threats, and accusations of being in support of Shelly’s abusiveness.

However, this group taught how much people can truly get away with on Facebook. Fast forward to the present. In episode eight of Survivor: South Paciic, Survivor nerd and all-around challenge failure John Cochran was featured betraying his tribemates because he claimed they bullied him. So what happens?

In a twist of irony, many viewers go to Cochran’s Twitter and Facebook pages with numerous insults and threats on his pages.

Yep, they say, “you weren’t being bullied Cochran you ******”. So if his tribemates really weren’t bullying him, the viewers certainly made up for it.

Why has the bullying been as charged as it is? Fellow betrayed tribemate Whitney Duncan, who is an established reality TV persona thanks to her ifth place inish in Nashville Star, openly encourages the name-calling of Cochran on her page and how he is a ‘disgusting human being’ and his nickname of ‘Cockroach’ which she coined long ago on the island.

Oh, and factor in beloved (not by me) 3-time super swimmer Ozzy Lusth as another he betrayed, and you wind up with Ozzy’s fans taking to the trolling world and berating Cochran.

So where does a responsibility of this lie? The editors who cast characters repeatedly who will have their fans overreact to any move they don’t like? The players themselves for being ‘backstabbers’? Facebook and Twitter for not policing and banning accounts? Or the fans themselves for letting their lives be consumed by competitive reality television?

Yet to be bored of Bored to Death A review of HBO’s new crime comedy Laura Sciarpelletti Contributor

Many writers wish that they could actually live out what they are writing about. In HBO’s thirty-minute detective comedy Bored to Death, cult favorite Rushmore’s Jason Schwartzman of the famous Coppola family does just that. Schwartzman plays a mystery writer who decides to moonlight as a private detective.

His character, Jonathan Ames, is a very open, eccentric, and oddball character. The television show was created by the real life Ames, but his character is purely ictional. The ictional Ames is often backed by his two best friends, crude cartoonist Ray Hueston, played by The Hangover’s Zach Galiianakis, and rich restaurant owner and uber stoner George Christopher, played brilliantly by CSI’s Ted Danson. Few television characters have entertained me so thoroughly as Danson’s character. He steals the show, which is hard to do with Schwartzman in the picture. Christopher may be stoned most of the time, but

he is always around to bail Ames out of whatever thirties noir-type iasco he has gotten himself into.

Bored to Death has just entered its third season and still remains incredibly originally and hilarious.

Fantastic casting aside, Bored to Death will appeal to fans of mystery noir, Bogart, and offbeat humor. The show still sticks to the tone of the HBO network, which is home to such hits as The Sopranos and True Blood, as it has adult humor. However, it is neither tasteless nor inappropriate for its genre. The supporting cast is also superb, with Miss Congeniality’s Heather Burns, John Hodgman from the Mac commercials (“Hi, I’m a PC”), The Big C’s Oliver Platt, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape’s Mary Steenburgen, Moonstruck’s Olympia Dukakis, and SNL’s Kristen Wiig, to name a few. Galiianakis’ character is the weakest part of the show, with mostly unlikeable story lines and an unchanging character. However, Schwartzman makes up for

it with his signature offbeat style and effortless charm as he follows potential murderers around the city of New York. The city, as in most ilms and television shows featuring the Big Apple, is a character in itself. Many people think of New York when they think of the style of shooting that Bored to Death is going for and achieves.

The goal of the show seems to be to capture that Thin Man vibe that classic actors William Powell and Myrna Loy achieved, while still appealing to modern viewers and including contemporary culture references.

Again, the real treasure of this show is in Danson. His childish and soft mannerisms, mixed with his hippie interests and adventure seeking, is endearing. Watch the show for him, if for no other reason. The murder mystery part of the show is not an overwhelming and continuous part of the general plot, which is interesting. What this means is that each mystery will only last for four

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episodes at the most. The show is deinitely light, with major character problems only lasting briefly. This makes the show easy to watch, and allows for a lot to be going on without overwhelming the viewer. This strange style will really appeal to the viewers that long for something more original.

Bored to Death relies heavily on the city of New York, as it is very setting-dependent. The show deals with a lot of modern styles of exercise, therapy, and trends, which is not done in too many other television shows. It has a

unique style, and might inspire new shows to come.

Generally, Bored to Death is just fun. The theme song is performed by lead actor Schwartzman, who is the lead singer of the indie band Coconut Records, and brother to Rooney lead singer and Princess Diaries actor Robert Schwartzman. Every part of the show has a charming style that simply draws the viewer in to its quirky and oddball world. Bored to Death is thirty minutes of pure entertainment and oddity that you won’t want to get back.

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Rock n’ roll and the blues Contemporary music made of young and old talent Laura Sciarpelletti Contributor

Contrary to popular belief, rock and roll is not dead. As long as young musicians are being inspired by the likes of Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page, or Eric Clapton, the genre will live on. One particular rock and roll-related genre that has really lourished in the last while has been the blues. For example, it is almost impossible to not ind a successful guitarist nowadays who has not been inluenced in some way by blues artists.

Rock and blues go hand in hand, as each genre feeds off of the other.

Clapton credits Buddy Guy as one of his main inluences and truly an aid to his success. Guy really helped to escalate the art of the guitar solo, particularly in the sixties.

He was and is a blues monster, and inspires all sorts of contemporary artists today.

In recent years, Clapton has played mentor to the likes of John Mayer. In the early days of his success, he inluenced artists like Page and Rick Derringer. If you are one of those people who has written Mayer off as a douche bag without giving him a fair chance, I encourage you to check out his music, especially his masterpiece Continuum. Many of the songs in this album show sincere patterns of inluence from the likes of Clapton and B.B. King. One of his most recent albums, Battle Studies, even features a cover of Clapton’s classic

hit song “Crossroads.”

American blues rock guitarist Joe Bonamassa is a talent that cannot be ignored. One of the most talented guitarists around today, Bonamassa credits British and Irish blues as his inspiration. He has released eleven studio albums since his solo career debut in 2000, most notably 2010’s Black Rock. These albums feature his thick and soulful blues voice and some amazing guitar solos. Bonamassa particularly prefers to use Gibson guitars, speciically a Les Paul. Fellow blues artist Jonny Lang also uses Gibsons, as well as Fenders. Lang, despite only being thirty years old, has a voice that seems much too old for him. If you close your eyes while listening to his music, you can envision a sixty or so year old man sitting at the devil’s crossroads and crooning about the girl that done him wrong. In reality, Lang is just an extremely talented young man who is carrying on the tradition of artists such as Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker, and Muddy Waters.

Like Lang, Robert Randolph and his “Family Band” spent a lot of time singing gospel music. Gospel in a subgenre of the blues, and has spawned many highly acclaimed musicians since the ifties. Randolph is a pedal steel guitarist and made Rolling Stone Magazine’s list of greatest guitarists of all time. Un-

English guitarist Eric Clapton rocking and rolling on the stage. Mostly rocking.

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like many of his fellow blues musicians, Randolph was not inspired by the likes of The Allman Brothers Band or Jeff Beck. He is simply a gospel artist who slowly found his way to funk and blues by working with other artists. Fellow Rolling Stone greatest-guitarist listee and

blues artist Derek Trucks actually played with The Allman Brothers. Despite his young age, Trucks has proven himself to be one of the most sought-after slide guitarists in blues and rock music. He is another artist deeply inluenced

by Clapton.

It appears that classic artists of the golden age of rock and roll are still hard at work preserving and teaching the blues. With all this young talent about, our generation has its own blues and rock gods, such as Jack White, Mayer, Lang, and Trucks.

Borat’s Sacha Baron Cohen to play Freddie Mercury in biographical film Laura Sciarpelletti Contributor

Sacha Baron Cohen.

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A Freddie Mercury biographical ilm has been in the works for quite some time now. There have been talks of Johnny Depp playing the Queen front man. However, as of November 21, 2011, Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen is oficially the frontrunner. Most people associate him with comedy, but Cohen is a very talented actor who has proven himself to be a box ofice heavy hitter. According to Rolling Stone Magazine, it is still unknown whether he will attempt to replicate Mercury’s famously lawless vocals, or if original tracks will be used.

The ilm will follow Mercury’s career from the beginnings of his band Queen, to their legendary performance at the 1985 Live Aid concert at Wembley Stadium. This performance is considered to be one of the greatest of all time, and features Mercury’s signature energetic performing and shows his apprecia-

tive relationship with his audience.

According to Rolling Stone, the inal years leading to Mercury’s tragic AIDS-related death will not be in the ilm. It is also unknown to what level the ilm will consider the topic of Mercury’s sexuality.

Freddie Mercury is a legend, often referred to as one of the greatest vocalists of all time. He is famous for his four-octave range and lamboyant performances. In his personal life, Mercury was known as a shy and private man who let very few people get close to him emotionally.

Over his career and up to his death, tabloids and fans speculated about his sexuality. Mercury was known to be a bisexual man, but never acknowledged this publicly. He did not announce his illness to the public until the day before his death in 1991. It is the belief of many that had he come out about his illness earlier on, he would have been able to raise

signiicant awareness and funds for the AIDS cause.

Cohen’s participation so far is a stroke of genius casting-wise.

There are many physical similarities between him and Mercury, and Cohen is known for his outgoing and energetic performances, much like Mercury. Cohen is no stranger to controversy, much like the Queen singer, and has always appreciated his fans. Queen has penned hit songs as “We Are The Champions”, “Another One Bites The Dust”, “This Thing Called Love”, “We Will Rock You”, and “Bohemian Rhapsody”.

The ilm is still in its early stages, as nothing is written in ink yet, but the script will most likely be written

by Frost/Nixon and The Last King of Scotland writer Peter Morgan. Gangs of New York and The Departed producer Graham King will be producing the ilm, and has worked with

Cohen on Martin Scorsese’s newest ilm Hugo.

“Who better to play Freddie Mercury than Sacha Baron Cohen?” said King. “You never know [if a ilm will actually come together] until it’s done, but I’m hoping [he plays the part]. He’s so talented, and you see a side to him in Hugo that no one had ever seen before. Very emotional, and very heartfelt.”

With this kind of critically acclaimed talent involved, the upcoming Mercury ilm is sure to continue generating Oscar-related buzz as the Academy loves biographical ilms such as Walk the Line, Ray, and My Week With Marilyn.

“Freddie Mercury was an aweinspiring performer,” said King.

“With Sacha in the starring role, coupled with Peter’s screenplay and the support of Queen, we have the perfect combination to tell the real story behind their success.”

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The freshman fifteen Avoid it or embrace it?

Stephanie Greenwood Contributor

St. Vincent plays at Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago.

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Season for the siren Innovative albums worth a listen Sarah Bauer Contributor

Long johns and knitted scarves may go far in brittle weather, but the smokecurling warmth of a woman’s voice remedies the deepest winter chill so blissfully, one can almost feel the melody like a gentle re.

Stay in and let these four extraordinary female voices put your heating bill to rest. These albums released this year torch the scene and start it over with strong vocals, innovative musicianship, and siren-like enchantment.

GRIMES Geidi Primes No Pain For Pop/ Arbutus (2011) Montreal native Claire Boucher orchestrates a mesmerizing mixed

FEIST Metals Interscope/Cherry Tree (2011) A voice like glass, glinting true and pure, textures this rhythmi-

ST. VINCENT Strange Mercy 4AD (2011) With gritty guitar riffs and dizzying synths, Annie Clark

TUNE-YARDS whokIll 4AD (2011) Merrill Garbus doesn’t perform

bag of Eastern vocal arrangements, dry percussion, nature sounds, disco, and synth-pop to a spellbinding effect. Check out “Rosa” for a pared-down introduction to Boucher’s innovative choices, and then move on to “Zoal, Face” and

“Gambang” for troublingly jovial tunes with dark edges. With song titles like “Venus in Fleurs” and “Beast Infection”, Boucher seems to thrive in pervading familiar territories and making them her own murky lairs.

cally addictive fourth album by Canadian guitar shredder Leslie Feist. There is a strong communal element on this record, found in the triumphant chanting on “Graveyard” and “A Commotion”, creating a beckoning lis-

tening experience that seems meant for jubilant stage performances. Smoky and inviting, “Caught a Long Wind” plays with bird imagery and hand clapping that ripples across the song with quiet sensuality.

sends listeners down a darkened rabbit hole that is at once sultry and menacing. Try the title track for boney percussion and aforementioned synthesized distortion, or “Dilettante” where some of Clark’s vocal

whimsy meets forceful charges of guitar. Her voice is clean and angelic, but with lyrics like “Nobody’s winning/ The sharks are swimming in the red,” her musical intentions seem anything but. And it’s gorgeous.

under the jagged moniker tUnEyArDs—she reigns over it, with a booming voice and impressive world music/folk fusion that rivals Paul Simon’s earlier records.

Moving into the studio for this

album (2009’s BiRd BrAiNs was recorded from home on a Dictaphone), Garbus bangs a drum to the beat of her frank and funny exclamations about sex, self-conidence, and “life in the city.”

As a irst year student, I had many fears about starting university. Would I make friends?

Would I fail my classes, drop out, and work at the dollar store forever? But one of the biggest fears was the dreaded Freshman Fifteen. Two words that strike fear into the newest university students. My friends kept talking about it and its supposed inevitability but I comforted myself with the fact that it wouldn’t happen to me because I was living at home with my parents. I was going to be eating the same stuff I always ate, right? Wrong.

Not only were the wide assortment of restaurants and cafés on campus always a constant temptation, but I found that I was eating more in general just because I was so stressed out and crazy all the time. Not to mention that even though I was living at home, my dinner that irst night after school was ironically Kraft Dinner.

One day, I noticed that I was feeling more sluggish than usual and the scale told me I had gained ive pounds; a third of the freshman quota! So, how do we avoid this irst year curse? For some people, walking around campus and up the dreaded stairs in the Arts building (those things make me so out of breath!) may be enough.

For others, maybe the free itness classes offered on campus, such as Zumba, will keep those thighs irm. Not to mention the fact that there is a fully-

equipped gym only steps away from the courtyard.

There are so many options; it’s really great. And I had the best of intentions to take part in all of the above. But, alas my laziness got the best of me and after a long day of classes I had zero motivation to stay at school any longer. Sound familiar? After a few more weeks of buying Tim Hortons bagels, and delicious holiday drinks from Starbucks,I decided I would change. I googled “what Nina Dobrev does to work out” and I saw it: yoga. Hot yoga. It was settled; I was going to be a Yogi.

Whether your inspiration is to be to be healthier, happier, or to try and attain a certain Vampire Diaries body, the options to fend off the dreaded Freshman Fifteen are endless. So go out and try some!

Watching your weight? You might want to watch out for the freshman 15!

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World peace: you’re doing it wrong We all learned how to be peaceful way back in kindergarten Janelle Sheppard Opinions Editor

Every year for Christmas, my dad asks for one thing. World Peace. And so, I have spent the Christmases of my life contemplating how to achieve it, and get my dad what he really wants. This year, I realized that I have had the solution since my irst year of school. Indeed, all I really need to know I learned in Kindergarten.

Wikipedia references Kindergarten as a place where children “learn to communicate, play, and interact with others appropriately.” Isn’t this what every world leader, religious head or even everyday person needs to learn? This could be the solution to our problems with attaining world peace.

What have we forgotten? What were those essential things that we learned as little 5-year-old cherubs?

Play fair, and don’t hit people. Not playing fair is an original reason for distortion of world peace. Injustice is what drives people to seek fairness, and retaliate. If we all played fair to begin with, we wouldn’t have to accommodate for rash reaction to injustices. As for not hitting people, this includes with bombs, bullets, baseball bats, and the like.

My crayon artwork gets displayed on the fridge.

Say you’re sorry if you hurt someone. Even if we don’t intend to hit people with baseball bats, sometimes, accidents happen. But to avoid a terrible justice seeking reaction from the other side, apologize. Even if it was intentional, if you have hurt someone, say sorry.

A sincere apology should stop any riposte in its tracks.

Last, and in my opinion most important, is share everything. This concept is the most frequently forgotten kindergarten rule. It is often due to selishness and our notions of possession that distort our attitude on sharing. But note that the idea is to share EVERYTHING. Not just the things that we don’t care about. I often get in trouble with

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friends and family for “stealing” their possessions. My justiication for my apparent kleptomania is that I am simply sharing. Yes, this may have began as an excuse to get everyone else to share their possessions with me, but when my little brother adopted my sharing way of life, and started to share my possessions, I realized the potential for

such a lifestyle to change the world.

I realized that if everyone shared everything due to necessity, rather than selishness, the world could run rather smoothly. Of course, certain potential sharees, such as grocery stores are not going to approve of me sharing their goods, so I will often weigh the consequences when choosing what and with whom to share. Overall, I am of the opinion that sharing could change the world.

So maybe we all need to back to kindergarten. Maybe take a refresher course every couple of years because these fundamental concepts that we all learned at 5 years old seem to be lost. Understandably, since, as we grow older, a lux of inluences and perceptions complicate the inner workings of our minds. Thinking on our own begins to warp the simple ideas that make happiness possible. So I think it would be beneicial to all sit on the loor and colour outside the lines with crayons for a while to take us back to the worry free days of Kindergarten. I remember feeling pretty peaceful back then.

Why I hate Christmas Where has the “Christmas magic” gone?

Janelle Sheppard Opinions Editor

First of all, I don’t hate Christmas. Christmas time is a time for joy, a time for cheer, a time for competitive shopping, and a time for frustrating trafic patterns. I love the Christmas season, but there are a couple cultural happenings around the season that I am not particularly fond of.

Christmas/winter trafic. On the day of the irst snow, my regularly 30 minute commute to work tripled in length. It took me an hour and a half to get to my destination, due to the caution that many drivers were implementing, and the strew of ditched cars on my way there.

I understand that not everyone has his or her winter tires on by November 16th. I understand that there is probably no rationale for me to be frustrated with cautious drivers. But it is just one thing that makes me dislike this festive season.

Not only does the irst snow cause all Kelowna drivers to

operate their vehicles with the gumption of an 86-year-old, but the increased need to ind a parking spot at the mall chaps my hide. One could spend half an hour searching for any spot to park, never mind a good one.

And this phenomenon begins in the middle of November. It seems as soon as the snow falls everyone thinks, “oh crap, Christmas is coming. I must shop.” And so, the mall is littered with important looking people looking for important looking presents for people they think are important. This states something about our culture: the obvious fact that our culture is driven by consumerism. This circumstance, I think, is too widely accepted by the population. They think, “So what? I want it, I buy it.” It is a mind set that takes us light-years from the oh-so-cliché ‘meaning of Christmas.’

But the Christmas with meaning is the one that I love. The

Christmas where Christmas parties are frequent, if only to have a chance to spend time with people; gifts are exchanged, and it is the sentiment that is mutually appreciated rather than the material, and people wear fuzzy things, and smile at each other in the frosty weather and we willingly freeze our appendages for the artistry of building a snowman.

There is certain magic to Christmas that we have stopped calling magic since we grew up.

It is warmth that evades the cold weather, and makes us feel like a part of a community. So many people strive to celebrate this season. Whether you are celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, or maybe just winter, the general feeling of cozy festivities from November to December cannot be avoided.

I do love Christmas. I just fear that our culture is losing the sentiment of Christmas and replacing it with material consumption.

I wouldn’t touch her with a 39½ foot pole.

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The feminists’ dilemma Crisis in India raises a contradiction for feminists when it comes to abortion Gordon Hawkes Contributor

Last Friday I was hurrying to my next class through the Arts Building atrium, which, on that particular day, happened to be full of—no, not a bake sale—but table-top displays, the creations of nursing students in a global culture class. I barely glanced at the titles on the individual displays, and had no plans of stopping, but once I was outside, a certain title somehow struck me, compelling me to go back in: “Female Feticide and Infanticide in India”.

The neatly organized facts, statistics, and charts on the display told a brutal story of injustice toward women in India: over the past 20 years, 10 million baby girls have been killed by their parents. Because of the dowry system, which requires a bride’s parents to pay the family of the groom in cash and goods, girls are seen as a huge inancial burden. (Different studies place the

average dowry at between 6 to 10 times average annual household income). Furthermore, prejudice against women makes them less able than men to get jobs and provide for the family. In short, girls aren’t wanted and the solution is simple: keep the boys, kill the girls. The unwanted girls are either aborted (following prenatal sex determination), or killed as newborns.

The widespread practice of killing girls has left the country with a heavily skewed gender distribution: 914 girls for every 1000 boys under age seven. In some Indian states, the igure is lower than 800 girls for every 1000 boys. The numbers tell the story.

Females are being deliberately exterminated by the millions. It is an example of what the late feminist philosopher Mary Anne Warren called “gendercide”.

This raises a dilemma for North American feminists of a certain

stripe. Surely feminists must stand against this systematic extermination of the female gender, and rightly so. We all ought to.

But this particular extermination is being carried out largely through the means of abortion, a practice that many feminists defend as a woman’s right. If the choice to abort a pregnancy is a woman’s right in Canada, why isn’t it a woman’s right in India?

What are Indian women doing that is wrong?

The feminist’s dilemma is this: If, on one hand, we defend abortion as a woman’s right in the usual way—“My body, my choice” or “A fetus isn’t a person”—then not only is there nothing wrong with Indian mothers having abortions, but also, more signiicantly, we can’t complain that they choose to abort only female fetuses. Isn’t it their body and their choice?

And if it’s not a person, how can it have a gender? Any criti-

cism of aborting female fetuses would extend to the aborting of all fetuses.

But on the other hand, if we say that these abortions in India are wrong, why don’t we condemn abortion here in Canada as well?

It seems a little too convenient and self-righteous to condemn the practices of Indian mothers when we do the same thing. The only difference is that Canadian mothers don’t discriminate according to sex in the abortions they choose to have.

The obvious reply to the above argument is that Indian women are trod upon and devalued in their culture, and, in a tragic example of injustice against women only leading to more injustice against women, Indian mothers face immense pressures from their culture to get rid of their baby girls, so their choice is not entirely free.

But couldn’t the same, or at

least something very similar, be said about Canadian women?

Don’t Canadian women face tremendous pressures from our culture to have abortions? How many young women in Canada are pressured by their social situation, by their friends, by their boyfriends, by their parents to have an abortion? “You’re too young.” “Think about your career.” “This will ruin your life.”

“I’ll never talk to you again if you have this baby.” How many young women in university have had abortions to avoid the embarrassment of being pregnant? The culture we live in pressures women to get careers, be successful, and wait to have children—there is every bit as much pressure in our culture to have abortions as in India, it’s just not as obvious, or as talked about.

Before we start looking down our noses at India, we need to rethink abortion in Canada.

Winter lament Supporting December’s causes amongst the bustle of the season Tyler Gingrich Peace Seeker

December, while a merry month, starts out with a couple of sobering occasions, at least for Canadians.

December 1st is World AIDS Day— how many of us pay attention to it?

December 6th is the anniversary of the Montreal Massacre—does that news get swallowed up in TV advertisements for the latest holiday toy?

Did you know that funding for frontline Canadian HIV/AIDS service organizations has been limited, particularly since the Conservative party formed government? “While funding to the Federal Initiative to Address HIV/AIDS in Canada will increase this year to $72.6 million, it is still far below the $84.4 million

originally planned for the program when the Liberals introduced it in 2004.” And, as former Liberal health critic Ujjal Dosanjh says, “The number of persons with AIDS really hasn’t gone down, and therefore you need to pay more attention.” (“Federal HIV/AIDS funding falls short,” Xtra.ca, January 19, 2011) And, internationally, of the roughly thirty-three and a half million people living, and dying, with HIV/AIDS, the majority live on the African continent. Canada’s commitment to Africa has waned in the past couple of years: “SubSaharan Africa received only about a ifth of Canada’s development assistance in 2008. Since then, the

Harper government has decided to divert assistance from low-income African countries such as Rwanda to middle-income Latin American countries such as Colombia to serve foreign policy and trade interests.” (“Our shaky hand on African aid,” The Globe and Mail, February 22, 2010) In Kelowna, the Living Positive Resource Centre (LPRC) has had to deal with funding cuts in the past year and change its location and services.

Does it concern you that, as our current federal government moves to scrap the long-gun registry, we are commemorating the 22nd anniversary of the Montreal Massacre where fourteen women were

killed? That’s how the registry irst came in to being—to try to hedge the possibility of guns falling into the wrong hands. In fact, families and friends of the victims of the 1989 shootings were instrumental in having the registry created in the mid-1990s. It also troubles me to see funding cuts to programs locally, and in other provinces, where organizations were working for women’s rights and serving women’s needs. In the past year, Kelowna has seen the closure of the Women’s Resource Centre.

You can wear a red ribbon as a sign of solidarity with those living with HIV/AIDS. You can put on a rose-button to be mindful of wom-

en who have been hurt or killed at the hands of men; and attend the Candlelight Vigil to Remember and End Violence Against Women at 6:30pm December 6th at Springvalley Elementary School. Those are good irst steps in being more conscientious. The bigger step is to actively seek out more knowledge about such issues—even engage them by volunteering with organizations like LPRC, or Elizabeth Fry Society (or on campus with the Pride Resource Centre, or the Women’s Resource Centre)—and then help others to also be informed. We must live in a way that is mindful of others, particularly those who are most vulnerable in society.

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November 28, 2011

n an emergency situation... Choice A: Drive into oncoming tra

c. Choice B: Drive into a line of parked cars.

Photo by Hanss Lujan (The Phoenix)

Parking on road shoulders? Cut that shit out.

Alex Eastman Editor-in-Chief

Near the midpoint of the irst semester, you would have been able to drive on the small section of road between the two roundabouts that introduce this ine campus and notice the swarm of cars parked on the shoulder of that road. While their number has decreased since the City of Kelowna has started ticketing them, students have still sought out this method of circumventing paying for parking on this campus.

The problem with this method

should be obvious: taking away road from drivers is a dangerous prospect, even when it’s on the shoulder. With less space to react to unique situations, people’s safety could be compromised. Now, I’m well aware that that particular stretch of road is not the hotbed of all driving in Kelowna, but I hope people will at least consider that what they’re doing is risky and could end with an accident.

I understand that paying for parking is not an exciting pros-

pect. I risk a ticket and have gotten one or two or twelve over my four years with a car on campus. But I’d settle for a $30 ticket over an accident because my car was one of the solid lines of cars adorning the shoulder of the road. Also, they’ve started having the city ticket people who park there anyway, so just don’t do it.

The other side of this coin is that the costs of parking have gotten to the point where students feel the need to try to cheat

the system. We’ve published articles in previous volumes and even in this run of The Phoenix condemning how parking works on this campus. The issue isn’t space, as I’ve yet to see a parking lot full of parking pass holders that had not a single space open. What I take issue with is that parking for “non-passers” as it were isn’t even convenient.

Many times I’ve gone without a day pass just because I don’t have a credit card or three to ive whole dollars in coins, and

I can’t come back every pair of hours to refresh the visitor meter that I shouldn’t even be using. Now, if you want to bump the cost down I’ll be happy to carry around coins, but for now I’ll just settle for being able to use bills or my debit card.

There remains potential for solutions to the problem that is parking on this campus, but lining the shoulder of “Roundabout Road” as I’ve decided to call it, isn’t a productive or safe one.

Snapshots from UBCO Theatre Course Union s Art Party, held on November 25th.

Photos by Dylan Lenz (Contributor)

EVENTS & GAMES

Brendan Savage humour@thephoenixnews.com

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Jon Lajoie - I Kill People Tour Nov 28th, 7:30 PM Kelowna Community Theatre It’s fuckin Jon Lajoie! Go see this guy, support him, he’s built a career out of YouTube comedy; he ain’t got no money.

German Culture Day Dec 2nd, 11:00 AM Arts Atrium, UBCO Campus Experience the cultural lavour of Germany and party like it’s 1989.

Downtown Kelowna Light Up Dec 3rd, 10:00 AM Downtown Kelowna I would’ve thought this was a 420 rally if we weren’t so close to Christmas. Come check out the Christmas festivities kick-off.

Joshua Hyslop at Minstrel Cafe Dec 4th, 7:00 PM The Minstrel Cafe Everyone loves live music. Check out this Abbotsford Folkie pump up the jam.

Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge Dec 7th-9th, 7:30PM Creekside Theatre I have no clue what the hell this is, but on title alone, I’ve decided to blurb about it here. Plums.

The Nutcracker Dec 9th, 7:30 PM Kelowna Community Theatre Live in Kelowna, come check out this timeless roshambo-based ballet. If it doesn’t crack your nuts, it may just make your ass numb.

Naughty Santa Party Dec 16th, 9:00 PM Flashbacks Nightclub I sure do love thinking of ways a 500 pound mythical yule-cow can be sexy. Let girls pretend they’re him! Genius!

Red Eye Empire Dev 17th, 9:00 PM Doc Willoughby’s Rock, Pop, Reggae fusion straight out of VanCity. Props if there’s actually a black dude in the band!

MAT THE ALIEN w/ KAtO Dec 22nd, 9:30 PM Sapphire Nightclub Instead of drinking eggnog, you can take a bunch of MDMA and get your stomach pumped. Merry Christmas ya ilthy animals.

FREE Christmas Day Dinner!

Dec 25th, 5:00 PM Parkinson Recreation Centre For all you lonely exchange students. Or poor students... or fat ones. Dig in; next year won’t be any better for you.

UBCO Heat vs U of Manitoba Jan 6th, 8:00 PM UBCO Gym What proud Canadian doesn’t like kicking off the new year with a game of basketball? I, for one...

The Jim Cuddy Band with special guest Doug Paisley Jan 10th, 8:00 PM Kelowna Community Theatre Don’t ask me what to expect. If you’re attending, its likely got nothing to do with this post.

Crossword ACROSS 1- Conscription org.; 4- Tree of the birch family; 9- Antlered animal; 14- “The Bells” poet; 15- Mislead; 16- Big name at Indy; 17Egyptian cobra; 18- Alamogordo’s county; 19- “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” author; 20- Dilapidated; 23- St. crossers; 24- Sky light; 25- Lets up; 28- Hit on the head; 30- Buddy; 33- Large drinking bowl; 34- Describes a gently cooked steak; 35- “East of Eden” brother; 36- High-speed separator; 39- Gets the picture; 40- Wall St. debuts;

DOWN 41- More cunning; 42- Computer key; Disney lm 44- Biases; 45- Fine hair; 46- Jack of “Rio Lobo”; 47- Development of a cancer; 54- Income source; 55- Blew it; 56- Altar in the sky; 57- Hives; 58- Actor Christopher; 59- Baseball club; 60- Hickory-nut; 61- Blender brand; 62- Extra-wide shoe size

Sudoku

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1- Disagreement; 2- Cubs slugger Sammy; 3- Equinox mo.; 4- Skin emollient; 5- Petrol units; 6- Exploits; 7- French 101 verb; 8- Board’s partner; 9- Eskimo boot; 10- _ a million; 11- _ buco (veal dish); 12- In the public eye; 13- Trick ending?; 21- Spuds; 22- “Lou Grant” star; 25- Divert; 26- Bundles; 27- Early Mexican; 28- Ecclesiastical rule; 29- Scraps; 30- Boston hockey player; 31- Man of many words; 32- Lulus;

COMICS

34- Bank takeback; 35- Blazing; 37- Wispy clouds; 38- Inhabitant of Oahu, Mindanao, or Java; 43- City in S Arizona; 44- Arm cover; 45- “Band of Gold” singer Payne; 46- “Snowy” bird; 47- Attention; 48- A Baldwin brother; 49- Adopted son of Claudius; 50- Metal containers; 51- Kemo _ ; 52- Dies _ ; 53- Fill completely; 54- Dine

Puzzles provided by BestCrosswords.com (http://www.bestcrosswords.com). Used with permission.

Kyle Lees

30th Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Federation of Students Student activists from across Canada gathered in Gatineau, Quebec for the 30th National Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) Monday, November 21st to Friday, November 25th. he UBCSUO is local 3 of the CFS and along with eighty other CFS member locals, the AGM kicked of with the Opening Plenary with guest

speakers Nycole Turmel, interim leader of the NDP and Justin Trudeau, Liberal Member of Parliament.

Other aspects of the AGM included seminars on ‘Public Education for Public Good’ and ‘the Myths and Facts About Tuition Fees.’ here were also panels including ‘Post Secondary Education in Provincial Elections,’ ‘Marketization, Privatization and Degradation of Post

Secondary Education,’ and a report on the context and strategies used in mobilizing the November 10th Quebec Student Strike. here was also a workshop on ‘Social Media for Student Activists’ helping members to understand how to efectively use social media for campaigns and related political action eforts.

One big highlight was talk centered around the

February 1st National Day of Action. On February 1st, 2011, students’ unions across Canada will be taking unique approaches to capture the media for the day of action. he day of action is part of the Education is a Right Campaign ighting for the elimination of inancial barriers to post secondary education and demanding a federal framework that ensures higher quality,

universally accessible public post secondary education.

In January, your students’ union will be working to prepare for the day of action and we need your help to send the strongest message to the government.

If you’re interested in getting involved, contact Neetu Garcha, External Coordinator, UBCSUO at: external@ubcsuo.ca or 250 863 5327.

UBCSUO Pride Resource Centre Update! he UBCSUO Pride Centre supports the End the Ban Campaign of the CFS and advocates for the implementation of behavior based questionnaire by the Canadian Blood Services, instead of the existing screening process which excludes MSM from donating blood. he Pride Centre would like to encourage student participation in the Canadian AIDS Society HIV/AIDS Video Contest: www.cdnaids.ca and also Participation in Male Call Canada, a national study of men’s attitudes towards

sexual health (malecall.ca) he UBCSUO PRC continues to challenge transphobia, homophobia, sexism, asexism, and ableism on campus and provides a safe space for all students, faculty, and administration.

We plan to continue to raise awareness on campus by hosting Out-week 2012 from February 6th- 10th, with the theme “Pride, Not Prejudice” and will continue to engage in similar campaigns throughout the year. he PRC welcomes any students who are interested in volunteering with

the resource centre to visit anytime, or to contact us for more information at prc@ ubcsuo.ca.

Are volunteer training session is being planned for the start of the New Year in January and we encourage all students to participate and help us make our campus a more safe and inclusive space.

Marissa Brown PRC Executive Coordinator UBCSUO Advocacy Representative prc@ubcsuo.ca

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