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LIFE CHOICES>>

Just do your homework or something

Really? You expect constant sensory stimulation every night of the damn week? You’re in university, and if you think you’re going to do well by going out every night, wait til you see what you got on that poli sci midterm.

Yeah, think again. Go home, eat a salad and crack open a damn book.

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MUSIC >>

Karaoke: 8pm @ The Gallery Lounge Cause I’m just a teenage dirtbag, baby/ Yeah I’m just a teenage dirtbag, baby/ Listen to Iron Maiden, baby, with me/ Ooohohoh.

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AUS Foam Party: 9pm @ Forum Sports Bar Do something super sleazy with that sad guy or gal in the peacoat you always see trudging around Buchanan D. Entry is $20, and Jagermeister is sponsoring. This seems very out of character—but good job, AUS.

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To be fair, Lindsey Richardson has a pretty bland name when compared to former UN Secretary Generals, like Boutros Boutros-Ghali.

Zedd+Felguk: 8pm @ the Pit Some dudes at the Pit. Weren’t Zedd and Felguk the names of those aliens on The Simpsons?

The Halloween shows were usually pretty funny, like when they spoofed The Shining. Course that was in like 1998 or something— years before the show’s welldocumented decline in quality.

God, it really sucks nowadays. It’s just sad.

BIKES >> Critical Mass: 5:30pm @ the VAG Reclaim the streets in time for Halloween! Ride with a pack of cyclists through the streets of downtown as part of the monthly Vancouver Critical Mass ride. For the October edition, costumes for you and your bike are highly encouraged.

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UBC’s Ban-Ki Moon Cheneil Hale Contributor

For many a listless undergrad, Lindsey Richardson’s convictions are enviable. “I know what I want to do now, which is exciting. Not a lot of people are that privileged to know what they want to do,” said Richardson, the new secretary general for the UBC Model United Nations (MUN).

What is it that she wants to do?

Help people, and bring to light current issues. And as secretary general of MUN, Richardson is in a better position than most to do just that.

Richardson started at MUN as a volunteer on a whim.

I saw a poster [for MUN] in the basement of IKB and said,

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‘Oh! That’s something I’m really interested in.’”

She slid in just under the wire.

It was the last day for volunteer applications to go in. She started out as a page running from delegate to delegate, and since then has been a delegate herself at numerous conferences around Canada and the United States.

Beyond the conferences and debates, MUN is where Robertson found her niche at university.

It’s really fun, you have your own little MUN friends; it’s like a culture within itself.”

In her spare time, Lindsey manages to balance her duties as the secretary general—which include holding office hours and running student-directed

seminars—with planning a volunteer trip to Tanzania. It’s not her first time volunteering in impoverished regions.

Two summers ago I managed an orphanage for four months, and then this last summer I started working for Volunteer Abroad: Base Camp Centres International,” she said.

The plan for this summer is to go back for three weeks to host my own group, and do some humanitarian work, probably construction.”

Oh, and she still takes time out to watch Zooey Deschanel in The New Girl.

It’s really dorky, and doesn’t take a lot of thinking to watch it, so I appreciate it,” she said with a laugh. U

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UBC researchers attempt to save dwindling honey bee population Laura Greenstreet Contributor

It’s autumn, and Vancouverites are reaping the benefits of the Okanagan’s harvest. Yet what they may not realize is that it’s thanks to the honey bees that commercial crops from apples to zucchinis make it to your table—and those bees are in danger.

But luck is with the bees. Two million dollars of a $25 million funding grant from the BC government

to Genome BC has been allocated to research honey bees. Genome BC is a research organization with projects in many areas, including agriculture, human health, fisheries and forestry. They’re going to be working on solving the bee problem.

“This funding will allow us to take the crucial foundational work that has been done and translate it into real-life applications for BC in the years ahead,” said Genome BC’s Alan Winter.

Leonard Foster, a professor in

UBC’s department of biochemistry and molecular biology, works at a lab funded by Genome BC. They locate regions of the bee genome correlated with desirable traits, which breeders can use to develop into heartier stock.

Foster described the factors damaging bee populations. “Twenty or so per cent of the bees being lost are lost to one of three things: The first is the Verroa mite, the second a fungus and the third reason is environmental causes. By far the biggest problem is

the Verroa mite,” he said.

The problem has been exacerbated as apiaries are seeing increased resistance to chemicals used against the mites.

Since 2006, apiaries across North America have seen a startling rise in the number of colony die-offs, with around a third of colonies perishing each winter. BC’s colonies are no exception to the trend.

According to a 2010 Globe and Mail article, in the winter of 2009 alone, the southern region of Vancouver

Island suffered the death of 90 per cent of its colonies.

This decline in bee colonies across BC has led to the increased investment in research into heartier strains—Foster’s lab is partnered with an agricultural economics group whose objective is to evaluate whether the selected bees provide an advantage to beekeepers.

Allen Garr, beekeeper at the UBC Farm, described the situation: “You have to be a pharmacist right now to be a beekeeper.” U

RESOURCE GROUPS >>

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Resource groups accounts unfrozen News Editor

Nearly a month after the resource groups’ accounts were frozen after failing to submit a budget on time, AMS Council has released their funding.

On October 19, Council released $57,030 from the AMS budget to the resource groups, an umbrella of student groups established by the AMS for the purpose of researching, raising awareness and advocating for social issues of concern to students.

The resource groups currently consist of Pride UBC, Allies at UBC, the Social Justice Centre, the Womyn’s Centre, the Student Environment Centre and Colour Connected Against Racism.

AMS VP Finance Elin Tayyar explained that it was verbally agreed upon with the former resource groups coordinator, Andrea MacDonald, that the budget would be submitted later than usual.

MacDonald had been in charge of communicating with the AMS and Tayyar since July. But after her resignation on September 22, Tayyar said he had to make a quick decision.

“I had no one left to deal with.

So I froze the resource groups accounts,” said Tayyar. “It was done to encourage the resource groups to get together more quickly and resolve the budget issue.”

But resource groups members said they were under the impression that they still had an extension on the budget deadline, as this was their first year having to account for students opting out of their $1.50 student fee. The opt-out option came into place when the April 2011 referendum passed.

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“We had our budgets ready in July and we just needed a little extra time to control for the opt-outs, and we asked them if we could have that time and they said we could,” explained Arielle Friedman, treasurer for the Social Justice Centre.

Despite confusion at Council, Tayyar said the process of unfreezing the accounts was a straightforward vote. “I told everyone I was only freezing it until the budget passed Council.”

However, resource groups members are frustrated with the way the freezing was handled and how long it took to get funds released.

Pride Co-Chair Abby Feresten said that throughout October, the resource groups were still holding

events and many executive members had to cover expenses out of their own pockets.

The AMS is currently reviewing budget procedures for the resource groups, which Tayyar said should make things more clear.

As to whether the resignation of their coordinator affected the timeliness of their budget, Feresten said it wouldn’t have made a difference.

“If she had still been there we would have taken the exact amount of time to work out those minor details.”

The resource groups have not yet decided whether they will be hiring a new coordinator, or going back to the old system of a rotating coordinator that works on a volunteer basis. Friedman said that if they plan

to hire for the position, it will be made public.

Tayyar said a hired and permanent coordinator for the year would do the resource groups some good.

“We definitely need a different system, in my opinion. I think the resource groups are happy with it, [but] I’m not necessarily happy with the current model of governance that they are using.

“I did suggest to the Legislative Procedures Committee to have at least one person in AMS be responsible for dealing with all the resource groups, and at least that way we can go to someone if we need to contact them. Communication and coordination had definitely been an issue.” U

UBC develops new skin cancer detection technology UBC and the BC Cancer Agency have recently developed a new noninvasive technology to detect skin cancer.

The new device analyzes the biochemical composition of the skin to detect the presence of cancerous cells in less than two seconds, said the co-inventor of the device, Haishan Zeng.

Although the device does not deliver results as definitive as a biopsy, it will speed up the process of diagnosis.

“Its biggest advantage is that it is non-invasive and can help general practitioners make decisions quickly. Speed is the key,” said Zeng.

AMS SASC resumes service The AMS Sexual Assault Support Centre (SASC), which was hobbled by staff shortages at the beginning of the school year, will resume its full level of service today.

Two long time employees left the centre at the beginning of the summer. The AMS failed to rehire for the positions in the interim, leaving the centre unable to provide support and accompaniment services to survivors of sexual violence. The AMS fast-tracked the hiring process after the resulting community outcry.

“It’s great to be back on track,” said SASC program coordinator Emily Yakashiro in an email. The centre is open from 9 to 5, Monday to Friday.

Women focus of UBC cardiovascular research UBC and Providence Health Care have established the first research program in BC to focus on gender-based differences in cardiovascular disease.

The UBC Heart and Stroke Foundation Professorship in Women’s Cardiovascular Health, run by Karin Humphries, will develop a focused and integrated vision for cardiovascular care, education and research for women throughout the province.

“For decades, cardiovascular disease was considered a man’s disease, but the reality is that more women are dying of heart disease than men. We haven’t seen enough research in this area of study,” said Humphries. U

News briefs Study: Women play key role in managing male depression A study by UBC researchers, led by UBC Professor John Oliffe, has identified how women play a key role in helping their male partners manage their depression in heterosexual relationships.

The study, published in Social Science & Medicine, details how heterosexual couples’ gender roles shift and strain when the male partner is depressed and the female partner attempts to help.

“Our findings suggest that gender relations are pivotal in how health decisions are made in families, and for that reason, it’s important to understand couple dynamics if we want to have effective interventions,” said Oliffe.

Not everyone has time to wait in the notorious lineup for the Honour Roll during their lunch hour.

For those people, the AMS has opened the Express location across from CopySmart in the SUB basement. “[The line] goes quickly, but when you have 30 minutes between classes, waiting time adds up,” said AMS Food and Beverage Services Manager Nancy Toogood. “We wanted to make sure everyone was accommodated.”

Serving between 1000-1200 customers daily, the Honour Roll is one of the most popular AMS food outlets. The Express, open between the peak hours of 11am-12pm, will sell California and avocado rolls, sunomono salad and chicken teriyaki, among other choices.

Raymond Chan, Honour Roll staff manager, said that they will be increasing production in order to supply both outlets.

“This will help our business and help people not wait so long,” he said.

The size of the lineup is notorious on campus, and some students refuse to wait.

“I’ve seen the lineup with probably 50 people, but I’ll only wait behind 3 to 5 people, max,” said Jenna Macken, a third-year UBC student.

But on its opening on Tuesday, the Express had limited success, which may be due to poor advertising aside from two posters.

“It should be advertised more,” said Macken. “I’d never heard of it and it’d be a great option at lunch.”

Toogood still has high hopes for the Express. “If it takes off successfully, we may even start to take popular items from other areas— the Pendulum salads and some Bernoulli’s bagels—in a commissarystyle model that we’re considering for the new SUB.” U

4 | News | 10.24.2011 VP STUDENTS >>

Louise Cowin steps up as new VP Students Plans to enrich student experience and tackle low student engagement

Kalyeena Makortoff News Editor

Last week, Louise Cowin took her post as VP Students, becoming the newest face in the UBC executive.

Cowin was headhunted for the position in July after four years as warden of Hart House, a student centre at the University of Toronto (U of T). But this is not her first time working at UBC. She was first involved with the university in the late 1990s, when she taught as a sessional instructor for the Faculty of Education. “The university has changed tremendously,” she said. “And it seems to be a university on the upswing that has a very ambitious agenda.”

The portfolio was run on an interim basis by Louise Nasmith since Brian Sullivan ended his 12-year term in March 2011. The VP Students oversees Enrolment Services, Student Development, UBC Athletics and Student Housing and Hospitality Services. They’re also the point person for all general student concerns, including liaising with student groups.

“I’m tremendously excited to be here,” said Cowin. “UBC is still a relatively young university and I think is a little more nimble, therefore, in terms of being able to move things along, perhaps a little faster.

“I think that at U of T those traditions are just more deeply rooted,

so I think this nimbleness and agility comes from having less of that rootedness.

“I do have the sense…that change here is possible and that was part of the excitement in coming to be part of this portfolio.”

Originally from the Isle of Man, Cowin was an international student in Canada, where she received her master’s at Dalhousie and her PhD at McGill. Cowin said that UBC’s goal of increasing the number of international students has little risk but much prospective benefit for the student body and the university as a whole.

“I know that international students have been increasing in successive years…and I’m aware that there are myths and concerns about them taking seats and kind of taking funding from Canadian students,” she said. “But to the best of my knowledge that’s something that is a myth, and students are coming and paying full freight. And indeed there are benefits to the university from that, but mostly it’s not an economic question for me, but enriching the fabric of the campus and the experience for all students.”

Similarly, Cowin sees UBC’s movement towards broad-based admissions as a a positive force for campus diversity.

“Numbers don’t provide the full picture, and I think that who the

Louise Cowin took on her new role on October 21.

student is and the experiences they have had also provide a richness in terms of the student body as well,” she said.

Cowin also addressed the chronic problem of student engagement at UBC. She said that while she was impressed by the diverse number of support services and student clubs, on-campus involvement is hard to explain and a difficult problem to solve.

“All these great opportunities

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exist. Which students are taking them up? But of equal, if not greater importance is: who’s not and why not? And what is it that UBC could be doing…to increase their engagement and not having them run to the bus loop or run to the parking lot to get off campus?” she said.

“I think it’s the $64,000 question that UBC faces, that U of T faces, that the vast majority of large universities in North America face.

I don’t think it’s a quick fix and certainly not an easy one.”

Cowin said she intends to start dialogue with the campus community about the university experience.

“I think we need to engage in some town halls,” she said.

“We need to engage in conversations with students. We need to deeply listen to what it is that students are telling us from that kind of score. Then, we need to do something about it, because clearly that kind of score is absolutely counter to the strategic plan, Place and Promise, that talks about support and well being, personal development and positive affiliation with UBC through outstanding campus life programs and service excellence.”

North America-wide student surveys, such as the National Survey on Student Engagement, have consistently shown UBC students are less satisfied with their classroom experiences compared to those at smaller and less research-focused schools.

But Cowin says UBC’s size shouldn’t be an excuse.

“It’s not something that we can simply shrug our shoulders about... and just say, ‘We’re a large institution, or student expectations are x and y.’ We have to begin to understand what the criticism is and begin to address it.” U

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Ex-professional skateboarder and UBC grad wins literary award

Will Johnson Senior Culture Writer

While Michael Christie was writing his award-winning collection of short stories, The Beggar’s Garden, he would routinely walk into alleys and smell dumpsters.

“I had to figure out a way to describe that smell, you know?”

Christie said in a recent interview with The Ubyssey. “It’s harder than it sounds.”

The former professional skateboarder, who graduated from UBC in 2009, picked up the Vancouver Book Award on October 18, which comes with a $2000 prize.

“First of all, it’s weird to hear the mayor say your name,” said Christie. “The only time I’d ever been to city hall was for bad reasons like parking tickets, so to be a guest there was strange enough.”

When Christie first heard the announcement that his book had won, he was too shocked to move.

“I didn’t get up at first. He called my name and I was kind of frozen.

I think he might have said it again.

At that point I was like, okay.”

After the ceremony, Christie got a chance to speak to Mayor Gregor Robertson.

“He’s obviously handsome and charismatic-seeming from a distance. I never knew if it was a slickness,” he said.

“But actually, we talked after and he was a super genuine guy, selfeffacing and interesting. And he seemed genuinely interested in the book too.”

As it turned out, Robertson had only read the first three stories.

“That third story, sometimes it can be a deal-breaker,” said Christie.

He was referring to “Goodbye Porkpie Hat,” his first-person story about a man smoking crack and interacting with the ghost of J. Robert Oppenheimer in a vision.

That was Christie’s first published story, in subTerrain magazine, and it eventually landed him a Journey Prize nomination.

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Michael Christie is currently working on “the first literary novel about skateboarding.” He uses the smells of particularly nasty dumpsters for inspiration.

But some people don’t appreciate it.

“I mean, they see a first-person story about someone smoking crack and that’s it for them,” he said.

But Christie is drawn to unreliable narrators, and stories that feature the damaged and mentally ill.

“I like weird. I like cracked perspectives,” Christie said. “There’s this Chekhov quote I love. He said, `Don’t tell me the moon is shining.

Show me the glint from broken glass.’ I love that idea of looking at the world through broken perspectives in a way to make it more beautiful.”

Christie drew from his personal experiences in the Downtown

Eastside for many of his stories. He worked in an emergency shelter for six years and said his experiences there were transformative.

“It was hard. I’m not suited for social work,” said Christie. “I’m a pretty empathetic person and I have trouble wielding power over people. I have trouble watching them fall apart. And being in a position where you’re supposed to be helping them…it’s pretty much impossible.

“I burned out pretty bad. I was quite broken-hearted, really,” he added.

But Christie took those conflicted emotions and channeled them into his writing.

“This book, I don’t want to inflate the significance of it, but there’s a real thread of people helping each other, trying to know people who are damaged, and I mean damaged on all class levels,” he said.

Christie said he’s still struggling with his transition to full-time author. He’s living in Thunder Bay with his wife and young son. He recently stepped down as the senior editor of Colour magazine to focus full-time on his new manuscript, an untitled novel about a woman with agoraphobia. Her son is a skateboarder.

“This is going to be the first literary novel about skateboarding,”

said Christie with a smile.

Meanwhile, he’s been busy touring across the country. After a week in Vancouver, he’s heading to Toronto. The Beggar’s Garden is up for the Rogers Writer’s Trust Award.

Christie said it’s been exciting to meet other authors, including DW Wilson, Jessica Westhead and Alexander McLeod, as he makes the rounds of the awards circuit.

“It’s super surreal,” he said. “I didn’t become a writer to stand in front of a bunch of people and talk.

Sometimes I feel like an imposter.

Like, I’m just this weird kid.”

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ADVOCACY>>

Student-run aid groups team up for awareness seminars Mike Dickson Staff Writer

UBC is a long way from the conflicts raging in central Africa, but three advocacy groups are doing their best to bring awareness to the campus doorstep.

Invisible Children, STAND UBC and the Africa Canada Accountability Coalition are taking part in student-based seminars on November 3 and 24 in the Global Lounge at Marine Drive residences. The focus will be on the effects on central and east African states like the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and the Central African Republic. The November 3 seminar focuses on sexual violence in conflict zones, while the November 24 presentation is about the use of child soldiers in the Congo.

The aims of the three organizations differ in specifics but not in spirit, as each hopes to alleviate human suffering in African conflict zones by raising awareness and translating it into political action at the highest level.

STAND UBC is focused on the

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STAND UBC created a genocide hotline to lobby the federal government.

crime of genocide, which evolved out of their initial goal of advocating for intervention in the ongoing conflict in Darfur. In addition to creating events, the group is pushing for Members of Parliament to be more aware of the atrocities taking place, and making policy recommendations to the federal government.

“Our main recommendation is the creation of a special sub-committee

on genocide under the Committee of Human Rights,” said Adi Burton, who is in her second year as president of STAND UBC. “It’s a different crime altogether, and we want Members of Parliament to be constantly updated on the different situations arising around the world.”

Those MPs can’t hide anymore thanks to a STAND-funded hotline,

aptly numerated 1-800-GENOCID, which connects callers to the offices of the prime minister, leader of the opposition and foreign affairs minister. “That’s been very successful,” said a smiling Burton.

Invisible Children is a fundraising and advocacy group that grew out of a summer trip to Uganda by three college friends.

They held a presentation at the Norm Theatre on October 3 and ultimately aim to stop the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), one of the most notorious and brutal militia groups on the face of the earth.

The organization is pursuing the LRA as it moves out of northern Uganda and into the Democratic Republic of Congo.

“With the early-warning radio network we’ve created, we can talk to remote communities and give them updates on LRA activity and warn them of impending attacks,” said Cassie Lauang.

“We also broadcast messages on frequencies that can be heard by the LRA, urging them to lay down their arms and come home. The other week we had six members hear our message and turn themselves in to

the local authorities.

“Having LRA members actually defect is very encouraging progress.”

The Africa Canada Accountability Coalition (ACAC) looks at conflict in the Great Lakes region, comprised of parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. It is committed to empowering Canadians with information so they can become agents of change.

Simon Child, an ACAC representative, said the organization wants Canadians to lobby the government to take responsibility for our history in the region.

“Canada has an extensive history in the region that many are not aware of, and it’s been a generally negative one,” he said.

“From the government failing to address the funding of militia groups by the diaspora in Canada, to prioritizing corporate citizens and extractive companies over the women of the Great Lakes, we want to bridge the gap between think-tank and activist group and get some lines of accountability established.” U

6 | Centre | 10.24.2011 PHOTO ESSAY >>

Sprouts’ weekly student soup kitchen Photos by Peter Wojnar

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t’s a tattered, black binder. Not much distinguishes it from the thousands of other beat up black binders on this campus—except for a faded label on the front.

This particular binder is the Community Eats Handbook, and it contains all the information compiled over the years on running Sprouts’ popular Friday free lunch. Founded in 2007 to promote discussion around food security issues, the program has since grown into a campus staple, attracting hundreds of like-minded individuals to the cafe every week.

“We are dedicated to fostering food security and encouraging community engagement on and beyond our campus,” wrote program founders Caitlin Dorward and Heather Russell in 2008.

Indeed, many Sprouts volunteers are involved in the Faculty of Land and Food

Systems, and share a committment to making Community Eats as sustainable as possible. “We are always shocked by the number of disposable containers littering the building, and glad that our project isn’t contributing to that waste,” they wrote. Long time patrons of Community Eats (Ubyssey staffers included) know to bring cutlery and containers to the Friday morning lineup. For first-timers, though, staff have accumulated numerous yogurt containers so no one is turned away.

Coordinating such a meal is no easy feat.

Sprouts currently has seven staffers who coordinate Community Eats. According to the handbook, close to 50 hours a week go into the lunch, and “Community Eats operates entirely with volunteer power.”

Prep work for the dishes—which include chilis, stews and salads—begins at 10pm on Thursdays in the AMS prep kitchen.

The program began in 2007 as a way of uniting a number of student groups on a sustainble product to benefit students.

In 2007, the AMS VP Academic Brendon Goodmurphy called together the Bike Kitchen, Students for Sustainability and Sprouts. Goodmurphy wanted to “create a program similar to The People’s Potato, a ‘vegan soup kitchen’ that the students of Concordia University, in Montreal, initiated to address student poverty.” The program was wildly successful, and has become the cornerstone of what Sprouts does.

Community Eats is one of those rare opportunities for students on campus to get together and share a free meal.

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Bird Droppings Women’s basketball wins preseason tourney UBC’s women’s basketball team sailed through the Edmonton HoopFest exhibition tournament this past weekend, defeating the University of Concordia 78-72, the University of Toronto 79-57 and Wilfrid Laurier University 74-58.

UBC won a thriller against Concordia on Friday, needing an overtime to notch the victory.

At the end of the fourth quarter, Concordia drained a buzzer beating three-pointer to keep them in the game. The T-Birds prevailed in overtime, outscoring Concordia 115. UBC’s Alex Vieweg led the team with 17 points.

On Saturday against Toronto, three players scored 13 points each in the winning effort. The Thunderbirds ran up a 37-23 lead by halftime and were able to hammer it home with a 23-point fourth quarter.

Sunday, UBC completed their tournament sweep in convincing fashion. The ‘Birds held onto the lead from the very beginning and at one point they held an 18 point advantage over Laurier.

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UBC’s Malcolm Williams blows past Concordia’s Jerome Blake. The T-Birds narrowly defeated Concordia 74-71 Saturday night at War Memorial Gym. The ‘Birds controlled the game for most of the night, but in the fourth quarter UBC suffered a meltdown and were outscored 22-9. Graham Bath led UBC with 17 points. Concordia had a chance to tie the game in the final seconds, but UBC’s defence blocked a three-point attempt to preserve the win.

Women’s soccer annihilates Sask 6-0 Kaan Eraslan Contributor

On Saturday night the UBC women’s soccer team completely and utterly dominated the University of Saskatchewan Huskies.

UBC cruised to a 6-0 victory at Thunderbird Park, despite playing star striker Janine Frazao for only one half.

Frazao managed to score twice in the first half, bringing her league leading goal total to 12.

UBC head coach Mark Rogers said that Frazao’s second half absence was simply for rest and recuperation in order to prepare for next week’s games. “It could have been a chance to give her a hat trick but I don’t coach just for individual accolades,” he said.

Early on, Saskatchewan showed that the only scoring chances they could capitalize on were against themselves. The Huskies accidentally scored on their own net in the opening minutes of the game.

In the 22nd minute, Frazao quickly pushed the Huskies into deeper water by heading the ball past Saskatchewan goalkeeper Marrissa Wilford. She continued her reign of dominance two minutes later when she buried another goal on a penalty shot, bringing the score to 3-0 for UBC. In the first half, the majority of play was spent on Saskatchewan’s side of the field. UBC kept the Huskies on their heels with continuous offensive pressure. The ‘Birds made good use of the field, stretching the Huskies’ defence thin

and keeping possession with crisp passes.

“I felt that our possession game could have been better at certain times this season. We’ve started to grow in our last six games. We tied against Trinity last week but we’re starting to score more so I think [the team] is believing in themselves as a group a little more with possession,” said Rogers.

Even with Frazao absent in the second half, UBC proved they could still find the net with consistency.

Striker Rachel Sawer continued the onslaught of goals with a perfect shot from outside of the penalty box.

The ball found the net in the top left corner, making the score 4-0 in the 29th minute.

The depth of UBC’s roster was something that impressed Rogers

on Saturday. “The performances off the bench were great. Every one of the players that was called upon to go out and perform did really well,” he said.

The Huskies’ defence continued to struggle for the rest of the half, once again scoring on themselves after redirecting a UBC free-kick into their own goal. Then in the 80th minute, Sawer scored her second goal of the game from a cross sent by midfielder Taylor Shannik.

“We kept a clean sheet at one end, we scored six and could have had more, so I’m obviously quite pleased.

I thought we looked very dangerous going forward today,” said Rogers.

Next week the ‘Birds face the University of Calgary and the University of Lethbridge in their final games of the season. U

Football team claims another victim, slays Bears 39-22 Drake Fenton Sports Editor

For the second week in a row, the UBC Thunderbirds’ defensive backs came up huge, propelling UBC to a 39-22 win over the Alberta Golden Bears in Edmonton on Saturday.

In the third quarter, with UBC leading 20-15, T-Bird fifth-year cornerback Sam Carino intercepted Alberta’s Ryan Schwartz’s pass, returning it 53 yards for a touchdown.

Then, with 3:27 left in the fourth quarter and Alberta trailing by 10, safety Chris Mark picked Schwartz, returning the ball 55 yards for UBC’s second pick-six of the game.

“Big plays, that was the name of the game on defence,” said UBC head coach Shawn Olson. “Two interceptions returned for touchdowns are huge in any game.”

Though UBC’s defence helped spark the ‘Birds to victory, it was their kicker Billy Pavlopoulous who was the team’s unsung hero. With the score 29-22 in UBC’s favour and 9:38 left in the final quarter, the T-Birds were forced to punt from

their 17 yard line. Pavlopoulous boomed the ball down the field 77 yards, eliminating Alberta’s chance of a short field.

On the enusing drive, the ‘Birds defence forced the Bears to punt, putting the ball in the hands of UBC quarterback Billy Greene. He drove the offence down the field and Pavlopoulous slotted a 47 yard field goal to make the score 32-22, putting the game out of reach.

While UBC’s defence was opportunistic the entire game, they struggled to contain Alberta’s rushing attack, getting torched for 299 yards. “We didn’t stop the run very consistently,” said Olson. “I think we were misaligned a few times, I don’t think we [did] our jobs especially well and all those things lead to an inconsistent effort. If we’re going to be able to go anywhere, we can’t have those kinds of efforts.”

UBC remains in second in the Canada West. Next weekend they host the undefeated University of Calgary. If they win, it will secure their first home playoff game in 12 years. U

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UBC will most likely need to beat Calgary next week if they want to host a playoff game.

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Men’s soccer questing for first From the pitch

Andrew Bates

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UBC is one point off first place. They have two games left to close the gap on Victoria.

Agenda for Tuesday’s staff meeting: 1. Introduction 2. New Members 3. Ted Talk 4. Hootenanny Update 5. Retreat Update 6. NASH Discussion 7. Mundane Discussion 8. A Heartbreaking Reveal!

9. Sad Denouement 10. New business?

11. Probably not 12. After all, everyone has been struck mute by the dinosaurs 13. Wait, what?

14. Dinosaur discussion (URGENT) 15. Flee the dinosaurs!

With three points on Saturday night, UBC ensured passage into the Canada West playoffs. But for the nation’s No. 1 ranked team, first place—and home advantage—is now precarious, but still in reach. Can they grasp it?

The theme of this year has been the quest to return to the CIS final after losing 1-0 to York University last year. The first half of the season continued that story, with UBC thundering through the conference undefeated.

When they were moved above York to the top of the coaches’ poll, it seemed as though they were destined to run the table en route to another appearance at nationals.

On Thanksgiving, UBC head coach Mike Mosher said their plan was to not lose a game the whole season, and it looked like they could do it.

But after a loss to the University of Victoria last weekend and a draw against the University of Alberta Friday, they were brought down to earth. With Victoria’s victory over the University of Lethbridge on Sunday, UBC sits one point out of first place.

“It would be nice [to finish first] but we’re not going to knock ourselves out,” Mosher said. “You just take it as it comes. Every weekend is a big weekend. Victoria doesn’t

have an easy road trip [to end the season].”

UBC has demonstrated their strength; they are an offensive juggernaut that knows how to maintain pressure and hold possession. The key, however, is to bury the chances they create, and they didn’t against Alberta.

The ‘Birds only scored once on 23 shots, and they weren’t able to keep the lead they created. Alberta tied the game in the 28th minute of the second half. But that doesn’t mean the strategy is useless; after the game, Mosher said he thought if they maintained their quality play, the chances would eventually convert into goals. They certainly did against Saskatchewan. The 5-2 win was as impressive as it was frustrating for Saskatchewan, whose season is slipping away after coming close in last year’s conference final.

We’re talking about championships, however, and what will keep UBC from becoming a champion is a frustrating inability to turn pressure into goals, and the failure to supplement that pressure with rock-solid defence. The meal they made of a 3-0 lead in the second half ended well for them, but they won’t always be so lucky.

“We’ve got to be harder to score against,” Mosher said. “We haven’t had enough clean sheets, and that’s something that needs to be improved over the next couple of weeks.”

That being said, UBC isn’t without character. They were able to beat back 2-0 leads twice this year, and when they have a job to do, they

aren’t easy to perturb. It’s possible that being behind will give them a little more fire going into the final weekend­. Last year, after all, they made it through the playoffs after being second in the league.

The schedule’s not bad either. UBC has two matches left, both away against Calgary and Lethbridge. Though scrapping for a playoff spot, Calgary has not enjoyed an excellent second half of the season, with only one win in three games.

Lethbridge is a minnow; although there is always the potential for calamity, UBC is fortunate to end their season against them. On the other hand, Victoria has a tough trip to Alberta and Saskatchewan­. First place is still very much in reach.

And though topping the table isn’t as valuable as it usually is—any other year it would book a team’s place to nationals—there is still much to be won. First place hosts the Canada West playoffs, and UBC’s 6-0-1 record at home is much better than their 1-1-3 record on the road.

“We’re a very quick and very technical team, so our game is very conducive to [our] artificial [field] surface, that plays very fast,” Mosher said. “That has some definite benefit to us.”

Regardless of whether or not the T-Birds secure first place, they are confident in their ability.

“We’ve learned that if we come out and play our game and play at the level that we’re fully capable of doing, we’re damn tough to beat,” Mosher said. U

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Editor: Brian Platt

A UBC election that could matter Editor’s Notebook Justin McElroy

After Honour Roll Express catches on, the AMS creates scaled-down versions of its other businesses.

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The Last Word Parting shots and snap judgments on today’s issues Happy anniversary to our friends at the Daily There are only two twice-weekly student newspapers in Canada— yours truly and the McGill Daily.

But only one of us had a ridiculous party celebrating our 100th anniversary last week, and while we’re jealous of the large amount of memories and booze they undoubtedly shared, we were cheering them on from the other side of the country.

There’s a strong lineage between our two papers and campuses that dates back to 1906, when the McGill University College of British Columbia was established

by McGill to provide Vancouverites with the first few years of education towards a degree. When our provincial government was ready in 1915, we transitioned into the University of British Columbia.

Our paper was founded three years later.

For decades, the Daily has covered the political machinations and social changes in their university and city with a zealous passion for journalism. After a century of upheaval in Quebec, the Daily is still standing, prouder than ever, and for that we raise our glass and say: félicitations!

Dreaming of a new, open-late liquor store A rumour started up on Twitter last week that the BC Liquor Store was going to be moving to Wesbrook Village, near Save-On Foods. It goes without saying that it would be a horrific tragedy to move our university’s only source of liquor away from the centre of campus—though not all that surprising, given the way development at UBC has gone in recent years.

So we went in and asked the liquor store staff about the rumour, who told us not to worry about it. Such gossip has constantly popped up over the past five years; another variation is that the store

is expanding in its current location. We were told to not believe any rumour about the store until construction equipment actually arrives.

Yet this did get us thinking about the liquor store situation on campus. It would be very nice to have a private store on campus, even if it’s way off in Wesbrook Village.

A private store would likely stay open later, and it would give the BC Liquor Store some competition that may result in a few more weekly specials.

At one point, UBC Athletics tried to have a beer vendor installed in the new arena, but that plan was scuttled after opposition from the RCMP and the UNA (surprise, surprise.) But a store down in Wesbrook, as opposed to literally across the street from the frat houses, might get support.

Oh hell, we just don’t want to have to trek down to Darby’s at 10:30pm anymore. One can hope.

The fuss over re-districting ignores the real problem There was much gnashing of teeth this past week as the federal government announced they had altered the magic formula used to determine the number of new seats each province gets in the House of Commons, taking promised seats away from BC and Ontario while giving them to Quebec.

That this provoked a round of passionate debate about federalism from newspaper columnists and political science students is no surprise. But this is another example of provinces bickering with one another for supremacy, and ignoring the far greater problem of democratic reform.

BC will have five new MPs, which is five more people who will have no real voice, no real say over policy and cost Canadians millions of dollars in salaries and pensions in their lifetimes. Figure out how to empower ordinary MPs, and then we’ll care about how many we have.

Another petition that dies on the Facebook page We’ve said this a lot: petitions are awesome. A petition drive is one of the few times when UBC students get passionate and organized, and petitions are often the only option available to reverse decisions made by the various bureaucracies on campus, and there are many success stories to point to.

The AMS has been commendable in its response to the anger over executive pay raises, and the proposed changes are a step in the right direction. But we’re a little disappointed in the organizers of the petition, who have left much to be desired in keeping the troops mobilized.

The AMS Legislative Procedures Committee was very responsive in holding consultation meetings.

Yet the only students who attended were organizers of the petition or members of campus media. How are the petition organizers going to win a referendum if they struggle to get even a couple of students to come to the consultations?

Real change takes work, and you need it if you want your petition to succeed. Resting on a 400-person Facebook event isn’t enough; you have to annoy people into actually showing up, because being that’s how grassroots campaigns work.

It’s called “Express” for a reason, you fools When The Ubyssey discovered that an Honour Roll Express was being built where the copy-machines were, we were overcome

by NIMBYism. We didn’t want sushi-crazed second-years roaming around our part of the SUB basement.

But instead we’re forced to look at the empty Express only metres away from a huge line of students waiting to buy the exact same sushi, and realize the stupidity inherent in humanity. Seriously people, just go use the quicker option. U

Did you know that if you live on campus, you can’t vote in the Vancouver election? Suprise!

You aren’t part of any municipal government. UBC is on provincial land, bereft of municipal accountability, and while this was dandy when the university was a sleepy outpost on the edge of Vancouver, it’s become a little unwieldy in the last decade as a city has sprung up here. A city which, for all intents and purposes, is under UBC’s control.

Yet it’s amazing how, despite living in the only urban area in Canada without a representative municipal government, our area west of Blanca doesn’t lack for elections; there was the UNA Board of Directors election last month, there will be an AMS election in January, and next month, the vote for the Electoral Area A director takes place.

This last one is particularly important because the winner takes a seat on the Metro Vancouver board (MetroVan). It’s the only election where everyone who lives at UBC— whether student, faculty, staff or millionaire—can vote.

It’s the only election where the winner can conceivably claim to represent all citizens of UBC. Because of that, the winner of this election should have some rhetorical power and a bully pulpit to represent the interests of people who live here.

Except they won’t. Maria Harris hasn’t in her past three years as director, and it likely doesn’t matter

who gets elected. Right now, the Electoral Area A director has no actual power to influence change on this campus and won’t be able to lobby UBC in any meaningful way.

Of course, UBC won’t complain about this. UBC likes all of these elections, because so long as people—however few of them—are voting, they can plausibly say that there is no real democratic deficit.

It also helps that they have a bunch of small groups chirping away at them for various grievances.

If all of UBC’s elected representatives were united in common causes, this university would have a problem on their hands. But they each have their own smaller issues, so the university can deal with each fairly easily.

Meanwhile, the Electoral Area A director gets caught up in the inner workings of MetroVan. And both the AMS—which, full disclosure, is currently run by my cousin—and the UNA have repeatedly criticized MetroVan in the past two years for not understanding what people at UBC care about.

All the while, UBC continues to hold total control over development, total control over zoning, total control over parking—total control over just about anything that matters, academic-related or not.

This election could be a wonderful chance for our community to unite on shared issues of contention with UBC. It could be a chance to select a candidate who will represent everyone on campus when they critique the university and provincial government. It could be a chance to get all diverse groups on the same page on the issues that really matter.

Recent history tells me it won’t.

But I’m willing to be surprised. U

Mental health is a priority Letters Jonny Wakefield does an excellent job pointing out that depression and stress are among the top health concerns that cause negative academic impacts for UBC students (“Wakefield: UBC must address mental well-being as a structural issue,” October 18). While some of the statistics quoted in the author’s article require a more careful review of the survey data, mental health remains a significant concern for many students.

Mental and physical health is a priority at all levels of UBC and we are actively working towards positive changes for students, staff and faculty. Improving mental health is about addressing systemic barriers as much as it is about increasing individual resiliency and providing access to services for those who need them.

UBC Vancouver deans met in June to discuss a campus-wide systemic plan regarding policy that supports mental well-being for all students, as well as improving the recognition and treatment of those who become distressed by mental illness. The UBC Focus on People plan supports mental well-being through initiatives for staff and faculty. Overall, the goal is to improve everyone’s resilience— the ability to meet stressful life situations in a positive manner—and to support students’ academic success.

Having a caring community at UBC helps all of us to support each

other, to be more human with one another, to give each of us the space we need to regroup when required— which is what Thrive Week is all about. Another part of the campuswide mental health plan is how to offer the right type of help when it is needed. Thrive is also about raising awareness of resources in the UBC community so that students can better navigate the services available to them when they are struggling.

We offer self-help such as the Antidepressant Skills Workbook through the Live Well Learn Well website, we support student groups by providing space and promoting their work and we connect with Speakeasy and the Learning Commons. We also provide quick access to mental health services through the Counselling Service and Student Health Service, which have partnered to provide effective, evidence-based care for students with mental health concerns. We are also improving the connections with health care agencies in the surrounding community. Together, each of us in the UBC community can improve our resilience and caring to support academic success of all students. We welcome discussion across the university on mental health and encourage students to bring ideas for how we can continue to build a caring campus community at UBC. —Patricia Mirwaldt, MD CCFP Director, Student Health Service

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Why you should not develop an addiction to crack The 25 Queries of Student D Bryce Warnes

The 25 Queries of Student D is an attempt to answer 25 pressing questions posted anonymously by a commenter on The Ubyssey’s website.

For the introduction to this column, and to read the original comment, visit ubyssey.ca/opinion/wakefielda-new-look-a-new-paper-a-newway-of-thinking321/.

Two for one special! Today I’ll answer two of Student D’s questions:

22. “where to buy crack, BCIT has a huge supply” & 23. “where to buy cheap coke, I mean cocacola the drink” First things first: I can’t tell you where to buy cocaine. Last year, a UBC student died from consuming too much alcohol and cocaine.

I can’t have any future fatalities weighing on my conscience. Also, in order to know where to buy coke, you usually have to be friends with

cokeheads. And cokeheads make for tedious company. I’ll leave it up to the reader to find their own source of yayo.

If you’d like to buy crack, a trip to East Hastings is in order. But if you’re able to locally source your cocaine, you can save yourself a bus ride by picking up some baking soda, rubbing alcohol, distilled water and cotton swabs.

The editors of The Ubyssey have some sort of weird hang-up about explicitly describing, within the pages of the paper, how to produce an illegal and highly addictive substance. They say I’m not allowed to provide instructions for the ratio of baking soda to cocaine or the method for heating the mixture, but if you search “how to make crack” on Google, you won’t have difficulty finding a recipe.

Once you’ve made your crack, you’ll probably want to smoke it.

You need to melt the rock—or a portion of it—while inhaling the fumes, making sure to avoid oral contact with the hot brown resin that forms as a byproduct. A lightbulb with the threading removed works for this. So does any thin glass tube, so long as you insert a wad of steel wool to keep the crack rock from sliding into your mouth while you smoke. You can also purchase pipes designed for vapour-based drug use

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It was a funny couple of days in the life of video editor David Marino.

online.

Now, for the effects. You will probably enjoy the sensation of smoking crack. When the crack has worn off, you will feel terrible and want more. This is when the addiction starts. If you stick to it, eventually you can expect all the pleasures of living to take second

seat to smoking more crack. In time, you will find yourself unable, or unwilling, to attend school or hold down a job.

Your lungs and throat will hurt.

You will develope oral nastiness that far outshines anything Colgate can prevent. You’ll lose weight, but not in the sexy way. While smoking

crack is energizing in the short term, in time your comedown naps will extend in length, so that when you’re not smoking you spend most of your time in bed. Withdrawal will leave you paranoid and aggressive. You may have attacks of fear and anxiety similar to schizophrenic episodes. Be prepared for your personality to change drastically and probably for the worse. There’s a good chance that the people who like or even love you will not want to be around you any more.

Smoking crack tends to put a lot of stress on your body, especially your heart. Continued use will increase your chances of suddenly dropping dead from cardiac arrest.

But when you’re high, you’ll feel great. Nothing will hurt, and you’ll be a god among mortals.

If you manage to pull yourself out of your addiction, you’ll still want to smoke crack, possibly for the rest of your life. Depending on how long you spent smoking, you may suffer cognitive impairments. You might have trouble holding still or walking in a straight line. You made it out alive, though. Which, after you start smoking, is probably the best you can hope for.

With any luck, this article was useful. May your future experiments with cocaine and cocaine products prove non-fatal. U

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Rail Jam The UBC Ski and Board Club hosted a rail jam on the Knoll on Friday.

Skiers and snowboarders slid, spun and got rad on a down rail for a chance to win prizes ranging from a snowboard to a ski trip—all on zamboni shavings collected from skating rinks around UBC. —Peter Wojnar PETER WOJNAR/THE UBYSSEY