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September 8, 2014 | VoLuME XcVI| IssuE V putting it in boobs since 1918

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ONE-ON-ONE WITH GUPTA P2 | B.C. TEACHERS’ STRIKE AND UBC ADMISSIONS P3 AMS BUDGET P4 | FOOTBALL FALLS TO REGINA P9 | MUSE AT FRINGE FEST P6

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YOUR GUIDE TO UBC EVENTS, PEOPLE + CAMPUS

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OUR CAMPUS

This week, may we suggest...

Derby Days BBQ

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THE PEOPLE AND BUILDINGS THAT MAKE UBC

All week

Derby Days BBQ @ UBC Main Mall from 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. daily A collaborative effort by Sigma Chi, 200 BPM and HYPHY results in this charity event going on all week long, featuring live music, BBQ and a beer garden.

Free (but food costs money!), beer garden 19+

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Climate Change

Wednesday

Wired to Ignore Climate Change? @ Woodward Library from 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Speaker George Marshall addresses the issue of why people ignore the science and evidence of climate change by drawing on social psychology.

Free

Tue 1210

Wednesday

UBC Slam-Jam-A-Ram-Tim-TamExtram-Vam-A-Gamza Photo Martin Dee / Ubc

Gupta is looking forward toward his career as UBC’s new president.

New president Arvind Gupta wants UBC to continue its charge into the modern world Armaan Malhotra Contributor

UBC Slam Poetry Extravaganza @ Benny’s Bagels from 7:30 p.m. - late.

Share your creative inspiration and test your poetic chops at UBC Slam’s first event of the school year.

Free but arrive early to sign up.

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ON THE COVER “It’s hard to believe that two weeks from now everyone will be in-doors studying for midterms. The Backyard BBQ was a fitting final goodbye to the summer. Welcome back UBC!” Photo Kosta Prodanovic

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At the start of this year, the University of British Columbia welcomed a record-breaking 8,360 incoming students to its Okanagan and Vancouver campuses. While he wasn’t exactly a fresh face to UBC, Arvind Gupta has found himself in a very new position — on July 1st, Gupta assumed his role as the 13th President and Vice-Chancellor of UBC for the next five years.

UBC is an academically and socially diverse institution made up of thousands of students and faculty from all around the world with many different goals and aspirations.

In Gupta’s words, “... as the world becomes more knowledge sophisticated, the role of universities becomes ever more important. When you have more facts, the ability to understand and critically analyze those facts becomes the challenge.”

With over a decade of experience leading a Canadian non-profit organization that developed young innovators into scientific and business leaders, an unwavering love for the West Coast and continuing professorship with the department of computer science, Gupta has begun to think about our university’s position in this ever-changing ecosystem.

“Universities play an integral role in shaping society economically, socially and culturally,” said Gupta. “Some people say that we need to integrate with society, but I don’t like the word ‘integration’ because it sounds like we are losing our unique characteristics. We need to mesh.”

Gupta spoke about how excited he is for his new role.

“UBC is so strong on the cultural, science and arts side that we have the ability to bring together different disciplines and I really like to think about the possibilities.”

When asked about the interests and hobbies he pursues outside of his office, he simply laughed and joked that “[he hasn’t] had a lot of down time over the past four months.”

If he does find himself with a rare moment of spare time then Gupta enjoys traveling with his family, reading, watching concerts at the Chan Centre and spending the weekends cooking with friends. If you are lucky, you might even catch him hiking a local mountain with his wife.

During his Imagine Day address to the new students, Gupta completed the ALS ice bucket challenge on stage.

The president admits that he continues to discover social media’s power to influence others, a vital change to previous years.

“I am learning about social media; it is a tool. Social media has the unique ability to connect lots of like-minded people. We would like to use my Twitter to connect a broad set of students and engage them in discussion about certain issues.”

The discussion about social media quickly changed into a conversation about young people and the nature of issues that face young adults in society today.

Gupta is frequently asked by parents, “Are there jobs out there if my son or daughter studies ‘subject X’?”

Gupta pointed out that many jobs today didn’t exist ten or fifteen years ago. “We can’t even see careers anymore,” he said.

Gupta went on to emphasize that jobs are constantly evolving; as technology is developing, jobs are being created in new parts of society to satisfy different needs. It is necessary to broaden our educational experiences so that we are best suited to tackle the real world.

“Maybe we need to give our students the ability to constantly transform themselves by focusing on communication, numeracy, analytical skills and the ability to discern information and put it together in new ways,” Gupta said.

With thousands of new students and many continuing ones, Gupta believes that the best advice he could give is to be open-minded as we pursue our education.

“So what would I say to a student? I would say that I believe that — at least for your first couple years — you should keep your horizons open. Let yourself see the diversity of possible experiences. There is nothing wrong with a science student taking a class in history or signing up for a club that looks fascinating.”

As students begin to enter the ever-changing environment of the real world, Gupta anticipates that they will be forced to adapt in ways that conventional education finds difficult to teach.

“The world is going to appreciate people who are broad.

It is funny because we are in a place where things narrow very quickly, but people who can see across silos are going to be so much more valuable to us.” U

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EDITORS Jovana Vranic + Veronika Bondarenko

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bc teachers >>

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BC teachers have been without a contract since June of this year.

BCTF strike to have no impact on admissions, UBC says

David Nixon Contributor

Lucy Wright’s post-secondary plans are in jeopardy.

Uncertainties around the B.C. Teacher’s Federation strike are causing Wright and other students to consider enrolment in private school to finish their Grade 12 year.

Since the 1980s, B.C. teachers and the provincial government have been trying to negotiate issues including wage increases, class size and composition and work hours. In June of this year, teachers walked off the job in a rotating, then full strike, which forced classes to end two weeks early for many schools. The question of when school will start up again remains up in the air, and it’s leaving students anxious about their futures.

With this in mind, families and students are beginning to consider options in the private sector. research >>

UBC researchers expanding marine life preservation efforts Maura Forrest Contributor

Everybody knows what a seahorse looks like, right?

Their long snouts, curved necks, and their strange habit of floating upright through the water make seahorses one of the most unique and recognizable fish in the ocean.

What you might not have known is that many of these small fish are in danger. They live mainly in coral reefs, mangroves, and seagrass — all habitats that are threatened by human activity and pollution.

They’re also heavily overfished in some parts of the world, largely for their use in traditional medicine.

In spite of their distinctive appearance, seahorses are actually a bit of a mystery. They blend into their surroundings like chameleons, making them very difficult to find and track. So scientists don’t know how many species are in danger, how big the remaining populations are, or how many of the fish are being harvested each year.

A UBC researcher and her team are working to change that. Dr. Amanda Vincent is the director of Project Seahorse, a research group she started in 1996 that’s devoted to seahorse

“It’s a direct sign of families, parents and students losing faith in the B.C. public education system, and that shouldn’t be right,” said Ying Wang, a Grade 12 student and Trustee Representative of the Vancouver District Students’ Council.

Wright has her hopes set on Queens University in Ontario, and Wang will be applying to UBC as well as several other schools across Canada and the U.S., but both students are worried the strike will hurt their chances of admission.

“We’ve got the shorter end of the stick here in comparison to students outside B.C.,” said Wang, who hopes schools will extend some leniency.

Wang may be in luck with UBC and other schools in the province­ — UBC has a big stake in the issue as 56 per cent of its incoming first year class was admitted from biology and conservation.

Vincent said the threats to seahorses include direct impacts to their habitat, poor government policy and a lack of education about the animals and their fragility.

“There are concentric rings of pressure bearing down on the seahorse,” she said. “You can’t fix anything unless you address all these concerns.”

Project Seahorse is a collaborative program, with researchers conducting field work around the world, including research from the Philippines, South Africa and Mexico. That said, the project is about much more than gathering data.

“It’s a mixture of research and action,” said Vincent. “As a university-based team, we acquire knowledge, but we’re not limited by data. We have to act on all available information.”

To date, Vincent and her colleagues have established 35 no-fishing reserves in the Philippines. They’ve worked with Chinese traditional medicine makers on voluntary codes of conduct to reduce damage to seahorse populations. They helped establish laws that regulate seahorse exploitation and trade around the world.

In the past year, they’ve also set up iSeahorse.org, a citizen science initiative that encourages people to record their own seahorse sightings.

Kyle Gillespie, a PhD student with Project Seahorse, em-

B.C., according to Andrew Arida, Director of Undergraduate Admissions at UBC. “It doesn’t serve anybody’s best interests — ours, the students’, the schools’, for us to allow B.C. students to be disadvantaged in any way,” said Arida. He also said the university is committed to working with all stakeholders to “put something in place so that nobody is disadvantaged.”

He stressed that it’s still early, and the hope is that the dispute will be resolved before it causes a problem. There are possible alternatives as well: UBC needs students’ grades by March for admissions, but they can still fall back on Grade 11 marks to make the initial offer of admissions.

Still, that won’t bring much comfort to students who had hoped to boost their grades and pad their resumes in their Grade 12 year.

Wright and Wang may have more difficulty convincing schools outside B.C. to make concessions. “We’re just a small [percentage] in who’s applying.

It’s not that they don’t care, but it’s not their main priority to cater to kids impacted by the strike here,” said Wright.

Arida wouldn’t speculate as to a point-of-no-return where UBC would begin taking action, but according to the B.C. Labour Relations Board in 2011, it takes up to two weeks of lost school until there are lasting consequences to students.

The province-wide strike began on June 17, and as of the end of the first week of September, 16 days of school have been lost — the longest of any teacher strike in B.C.’s history. On Friday September 5, B.C. Teacher’s Federation President Jim Iker called for binding arbitration, which would have let the

A Project Seahorse researcher lays out photo quadrats in the Ria Formosa, Portugal.

phasized that the program is not only focused on seahorses.

However, he said they are a good indicator for the overall health of the ocean.

“If you get things right for seahorses, things kind of fall into place for other species,” said Gillepsie.

At the moment, Gillespie is studying how the no-fishing zones in the Philippines are affecting less charismatic invertebrates such as squid and sea cucumbers. He said it’s important to him to be working on a project that is actively involved

with conservation efforts.

“People tend to think of academics as sitting in their ivory tower,” said Gillepsie. “But [Project Seahorse researchers] don’t just talk the talk, they walk the walk as well. They don’t just do research. They apply everything that they do.”

That emphasis on getting involved with conservation planning and writing policy has not always been easy for Vincent.

There are many scientists who believe that researchers compromise their integrity and independence if they do more than

teachers vote to return to work, but the Government refused.

Now that the first week of the regularly planned school year is over, Wright’s family is watching the two-week mark approach fast.

It will be a litmus test for whether or not to seriously consider the private school option.

UBC’s assurances are good news for worried students applying within the province, but the reigning narrative is uncertainty and frustration. Both Wright and Wang also worry about extra-curriculars like sports team cuts, student council events being cancelled, and more.

“We’re frustrated at how long this dispute as gone on for,” said Wang. “Up until now, there’s been no direct student input and it’s hard because we have so much to say, and we have so much to fight for, because it’s ultimately our education on the line here.” U

Photo Courtesy Iain Caldwell/Project Seahorse

present the data they collect.

But Vincent doesn’t have a lot of patience for that.

“The average scientific paper is only cited less than once. I think universities should be doing a lot more to contribute to societal dialogues.”

Vincent compared conservation to medicine, saying that doctors often have to make treatment recommendations based on incomplete information about a patient. She said scientists have a responsibility to do the same.

“We have a sick planet,” she said. “We need to address it.” U

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

AMS >>

AMS releases finance budget for the 2013/2014 fiscal year

VP Administration Derek Moore VP Finance Joaquin Acevedo VP Academic Kiran Mahal VP External Affairs Tanner Bokor President Caroline Wong $56, 895

$65, 511

$68, 255

$81, 206

$96, 056

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This graph visually represents the expenditures of the AMS Executives from the 2103/2014 fiscal year.

Veronika Bondarenko News Editor

The AMS has released its annual budget for the 2013/2014 fiscal year.

A total of $17,889,097 in revenue came from fees this year. $985,148 in revenue came from General Fees, $574,264 came from Capital Projects Funds and $552,183 came from Student Aid Bursary Fees. The AMS also brought $379,691 in revenue from

businesses over the course of the year.

After factoring in the total non-discretionary allocations and total transfers to the budget, the AMS yearly revenue adds up to $1,532,752.

The total expenditures add up to $1,436,532, which is $24,180 less than the AMS had intended to spend this year in its budget.

A total of $594,346 was spent on Student Government. The

expenditures of each of the executives include a $32,500 salary as well as additional benefits and various office, telephone and fax expenses.

The total expenditures for the year added up to $56,895 for the President, $68,255 for VP Academic, $96,056 for VP Administration, $65,511 for VP External Affairs and $81,206 for VP Finance. All executives have stayed within the allocated budget for the year.

Research >>

Tackling bullying and homophobia in BC secondary schools

Mateo Ospina Contributor

For many teenagers, high school is a time full of academic and social pressures that may be overwhelming when paired with bullying and casual homophobia in school communities.

Elizabeth Saewyc is a UBC expert and School of Nursing professor who specializes in the health of adolescents. With funding from the Canadian Institute, she is researching how schools can create supportive environments for LGBTQ youth.

The study focuses on GayStraight Alliances and the anti-homophobic policies in schools, such as training teachers how to handle homophobic outbursts and having diversity specialists on campuses to help alleviate conflicts.

Saewyc said the research plans to find ways to “help young people stay healthy and reduce the distress that might come from bullying as well as [the bullying itself.]”

The study uses the BC Ado-

lescent Health Survey, which asks students from Grades 7-12 questions about their health in direct focus groups or online interviews, to focus on students who identify as LGBTQ. According to Saewyc, the study places emphasis on a safer and more inclusive school community that would help all students feel safer at school.

“The goal of our research is to actually make a difference in the lives of adolescents,” said Saewyc.

Through this study, Saewyc hopes to prove to parents and school boards that anti-homophobia policies “reduce the odds of LGBTQ youth reporting suicide, discrimination and problem substance use.”

At the same time, some of the short term effects of Saewyc’s research may have already started to pop up.

“In 2008, only 15 BC school districts of 59 actually had explicit [anti-homophobia] policies.

This year it’s about half of the school districts,” said Saewyc. U

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The AMS will not be releasing information on how much of the maximum $5,000 Performance Accountability Incentive bonus that is given out as a reward for good performance over the course of the year has been awarded to each individual executive. In the past, the AMS has named regulations in the AMS code and the need to protect executives’ personal lives as reasons to keep this information private.

The AMS also spent a total of $487,346 on Student Services, including $17,906 on AMS Connect, $12,084 on the Foodbank, $119,463 on Safewalk and $147,362 on the Sexual Assault Support Centre.

In summation, a grand total of $229,566 was spent on Programs and Publications, including expenditures of $10,017 on Block Party and $20,029 on the Welcome Back BBQ. U

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What UBC students wish they knew in their first year Veteran students reflect on what would have made things go more smoothly

Simran Singh Contributor

When most of us look back on our first year at UBC, there are probably a few things we wish we knew. There is so much to learn about UBC and it is impossible to figure it all out when you are a young, naive first year.

I got the chance to talk to some seasoned professionals who know the ropes at UBC. They shared their thoughts about what they wish they knew when they started university. To all of the freshmen out there: make sure you take some notes. And to all of you who have “been there and done that” with first year, I am sure the sentiments will bring back memories. U

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Clockwise from top left: Martin Chau Third-year commerce 

Keagan Parlette Third-year English

Iyanu Owolabi First-year Science

Natasha Ingeniero Second-year Science

Anupam Srivastara Second-year computer science

Aljosa Perkovic Fourth-year political science

“I wish I knew more about internships and co-op. If I knew about them before, I would have applied for them. I didn’t know that such great opportunities were available to give me an idea about possible career paths.”

“I wish I realized there was a used bookstore on campus (in the Village). I would have saved a lot of money if I knew that before hand.”

Since Iyanu is a first year student I asked him what he hopes to learn in his first year at UBC. He replied, “I want to know how to make dollar bills.”

“I wish I knew more about balancing my time so I could have more opportunities to meet more people and have fun instead of focusing solely on studying and homework.”

“I wish I knew how much construction there would be on campus.”

“I wish I knew that if you’re relatively good at a sport you can get some kind of scholarship.”

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EDITOR jenica montgomery

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Is social media really controlling our lives?

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Students walk around with eyes locked to their phones, but is this really a bad thing? Technology is changing, and we’re changing with it.

Miguel Santa-Maria Contributor

If you are a UBC student and reading this article right now, it’s almost certain that you’ve done any of these three things today: logged onto a social media account, surfed the internet or used your phone to communicate with other people. That statement is not necessarily based on some statistic from CNN or Maclean’s – social media technology has become a fundamental part of our lives in terms of how we communicate and relate with each other and the rest of the world.

Eric Meyers, a professor of Archival Information Studies, reaffirms that it doesn’t take rocket science to recognize the role social media plays in our lives. “You get your RSS feeds or your updates, you get your news on Twitter....

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things that people don’t have the time to look for but if its delivered to me, then it’s a real convenience – it aggregates things for me that I might miss out on or just don’t have time to look for.”

More importantly of course, is the biggest mainstay of social media - the immediate and wider connection with countless others.

Through social media, we suddenly feel less alone, a sentiment shared by sociology student Kimberly Wogan. “I’m able to reach out to more friends than I would normally be able to on a real life basis,” said Wogan.

“For Tumblr, I’m able to connect with people who have the same opinions or feelings as I do about daily life that I’m not always comfortable with expressing personally but to find that someone else is feeling the same way makes me more comfortable with the way

I feel about not only my feelings but also myself,” said Wogan.

This can be especially so for this campus; in particular with the student run UBC Facebook pages, where a lot of students procrastinate by discussing how we bumped into various appealing people – UBC Compliments or how we literally “bumped” said people – UBC Confessions.

It may be crude, but it indeed connects people on a single unifying topic.

However, as much as it’s become useful in our lives, social media, and lingering in the online realm, comes with some problems.

One of the major problems up for debate in an increasingly connected world is that society, and students specifically, are beginning to become too engrossed in communicating online rather

than making it a personal, faceto-face affair.

Suzanne Xu, despite being like the many people who frequent those UBC Facebook pages, shares some similar sentiments.

“I’ve seen UBC Compliments where it’s ‘to cute guy or cute girl in Buchanan...’, why can’t you just go up to him … and go out to coffee, instead of professing your love anonymously on the internet?”

Another common issue that pops up is also the matter of bending our personas online, which is done in spades on websites such as Facebook.

“It can get really time consuming and self-absorbing. It gets really frustrating,” said Thierry Bahuch, a political science student. Unlike most people using Facebook, Bahuch strictly uses Facebook for communication

purposes only -- no statuses, no profile pictures.

“I think a lot of people take it too far, they spend tens of hours a day even to make themselves [look a particular way] when that’s not even an important part of life,” said Bahuch.

Creating an online persona that is different from your real life persona can lead to misunderstandings and complications in your social life and potentially your career.

“A lot of young people don’t realize the long-term challenges of having these profiles” said Meyers. “In some cases they’re rather immature in their views....

When you create these things you’re still not as concerned or as cognoscente of what it’ll do to your career path later on.”

In a community like UBC, where even class functionality hinges on the online landscape, UBC Connect, it can beg the question of whether we risk a significant loss in how we properly interact emotionally with each other, especially as students try to create a solid university community.

Despite the time we spend on social media, Meyers is confident that our online interactions are inferior to the real thing. “The idea what we’re all gonna live in Second Life, the idea that it would eliminate travel, that we’d eliminate the need for real work meetings.... It hasn’t panned out because it hasn’t gotten past a point we’re it doesn’t feel clunky.... You never really get a sense [that] it’s as genuine as it might be.”

Ultimately though, Meyers feels that its essentially up to us to keep this balance. “[Technology has] to be reined in by our values; what we feel is important to human contact.

We’re still in charge – ultimately, if we want that sort of dilution of our emotion or that inability to determine [it] in other people, then that’s the way we’re gonna direct that, but I don’t see that happening. We don’t have to yell ‘Skynet!’ yet.” U

fringe festival >>

Invoking your inner MUSE

Two-woman play, MUSE, invokes deep emotion Olivia Law Contributor

One of the most attractive aspects of Fringe theatre is that one can never be sure of what is to be experienced upon entering the theatrical space. MUSE, a two-woman play starring Natalia Hautala and Darlene Arseneualt was the embodiment of what a Fringe Festival play is all about.

Not one audience member could be sure of the premise or plot of the show before it began. Described as a world of cellos, bubbles and chalk, with worlds and voices colliding, one might have expected a polemic piece of abstract theatre, yet what unravelled over the next 60 minutes was a funny, warm, moving insight into the head of a creative yet troubled young woman.

As the final audience members shuffled into the small room where the performance was to take place, lights arose onto a stage, empty but

for a hospital-style bed and young woman, UBC-O alumna Natalia Hautala, playing a stilted but somehow soothing lullaby of sorts on her cello. Singing patterns of numbers, a sense of unease was building amongst the audience, until the mesmerizing, hypnotic opening was shattered by a barrage of words, seemingly coming from the inside of a child’s head, desperate to tell a story but so excited they can barely move their lips fast enough to string sentences together.

The unease and insecurity demonstrated by Hautala as Grace proves equally attractive and endearing, yet frustrating to the audience. Essentially playing the role of inside Grace’s head, audience members are addressed directly by Hautala, whose interest in finding freedom of expression in awkward places make her role of neurological patient all the more believable. The two women in MUSE are unable to communicate with one another

MUSE, a two-woman play, incites deep emotion and thought during and after the show

through words — but the audience is able to understand both sides of the story, switching between sympathies for each woman. As is often standard with small fringe theatre performances, audience reactions are key for the progression of the storyline. The quirks and differences between the two characters drew in the audience as one, responding to the twists and turns of the plot with laughter, shock, and for some, tears.

I was pleasantly surprised

throughout the play to feel equally drawn to and connected with both characters. The juxtaposition of the caring nurse and confused patient was simply calling out for a wonderful ending, one which could only end in heartbreak or laughter. The quick-changing emotions of MUSE between monologues ensured attentiveness and connectivity between the audience and both characters, with pity, anger and longing being established in quick

Photo courtesy In other words theatre

succession throughout.

Although essentially a comedy, MUSE is a thought-provoking, curious production, which will remain in any audience member’s head for a while afterwards.

Using the normal and abnormal in conjunction forces a consideration of matters beyond what one might expect for a 60-minute production in a third-floor studio, but this is with no doubt a fine example of the local talent demonstrated at the Vancouver Fringe this year. U

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film >>

AMS Backyard BBQ welcomes students Shedding Light at TIFF UBC film production students produce a short film premiered at TIFF this past weekend.

The AMS Backyard BBQ welcomes students back to the new school year with open arms.

Quinn Aebi Contributor

As first week excitement was reaching its peak on the bright, bustling UBC campus, final preparations were being made on the stage behind the SUB. Yes, there was a stage amongst all of the fences back there.

Earlier in the week, Imagine Day was blanketed with a steady rainfall, but on Friday, the sun was high in the sky contributing to a perfect setting for the annual AMS Welcome Back BBQ, now called the AMS Backyard BBQ. With a limited amount of tickets available due to the smaller concert venue this year, the AMS Backyard BBQ stayed true to its roots and gave UBC students a worthy welcome to a new school year.

This year’s diverse lineup was full of local Vancouver music

talent. Tourist Company took the stage to open the show and gave eager concertgoers instant musical satisfaction. As the stage was being set up for the next band, the venue was greeted with the groovy sounds of mix master MGH!, who was taking care of the crowd during the transitional periods.

After what seemed like seconds for the patrons enjoying the spoils of the beer garden, members of synth pop alternative group, We Are the City, wasted no time to start jamming. The enthusiastic band kept the energy rolling as the night progressed. By this point, the beer garden was a labyrinth of old and new friends, eager to start a conversation and stop you from finally reaching the stage.

The crowd, now steadily growing in number, was eager in anticipation for alternative folk

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band Good for Grapes. Feeding off the good vibes of the tune-happy crowd, the group’s feet hardly touched the ground for their whole set. Taking the stage in the next slot was the chill wave group Sabota. Layering live vocals over deep chillwave tracks, the duo left the crowd bass hungry and ready for the night’s headliner, Ryan Hemsworth.

Darkness took the stage as Ryan Hemsworth proceeded to play an amazingly diverse set of electronic music. Ranging from chill Flumelike tracks to a faster MIA break beat style, the crowd was moving as one, jumping and grooving at Hemsworth’s command.

The backyard BBQ, though smaller than previous years, sufficiently welcomed UBC students, new and old, to the new school year with great beats and warm friends. U

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Screen caption from short film Light, showcased at the Toronto International Film Festival

Lawrence Neal Garcia Contributor

For the first time in many years, after a long history of UBC alumni premiering films around the world, a film production student will bring a short film to the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).

The short film Light, written and directed by Yassmina Karajah, was one of seven short films produced for a third-year film production course at UBC. Karajah and two other students, Jenna Hambrook and Benjamin Houde-Hostland, served as executive producers for the project.

The film tells the story of Omar, a Lebanese man recently settled in Canada, as he deals with the death of his stillborn child and struggles to fulfill his mother’s (Soad Karim) request to perform a religious pre-burial ritual.

With a team largely composed of film production students, Karajah worked on pre-production in the fall of 2013, shooting in December, and starting post-production early in 2014. The film was completed by April. Later that summer, it was accepted to TIFF’s Short Cuts Canada Program, a showcase of short films from Canadian filmmakers.

Karajah, who makes her directorial debut with Light, was able to attend the 2014 Filmmaker Boot Camp ahead of TIFF in preparation for the festival.

“The greatest part of [the boot camp] is you get an education there that you would never be able to get in a classroom,” said Karajah. “Just meeting people in the industry, meeting other filmmakers... It was quite the experience.”

Light opens with a black screen and a voice lifted in prayer, followed by glimpses of Omar (played

by Ahmed Muslimani), edited so that the shots flicker like lamplight before steadying into view.

It’s a spare but striking sequence, a quality of the film itself, which throughout its 13-minute runtime is both observant and affecting.

Light deals with larger questions of culture, religion, immigration and the concept of home, issues certainly informed by Karajah’s own move from Jordan to Vancouver. The film is a personal one.

“I witnessed something similar to what is going in the film in terms of story — the death of a baby boy in my family — and I witnessed how people reacted to that,” said Karajah. “So I wanted to create one situation to deal with the concept of home and the concept of death at the same time…

Conceptually, the film has a social context to it, but it’s a very personal story.”

Stories, intimate in scale yet far-reaching in impact — like the kind told by the Dardenne brothers (La Promesse, Rosetta) or Asghar Farhadi (A Separation, The Past), filmmakers whom Karajah cited as major influences — are the reason she got into film to begin with.

After graduating from the University of Bristol Law School, Karajah found her interests drawn elsewhere. “I realized that I was just interested in the stories behind the cases and not actually in all the paperwork,” she said. “Film was my true passion.”

The experience of making her first film cemented that interest; and even as she looks forward to a new script that she hopes to produce in her final year, she reflects on the experience of working on Light. “It was great and it was frustrating at times,” said Karajah.

“I was new to everything, so that came with a bit of a challenge … but there [is] also something innocent and charming about how first films are made. You don’t always know what you’re doing, but it kind of works out because it’s honest, and it’s genuine and it’s real.”

Light premiered at TIFF over the weekend and will be screened later this month at the Vancouver International Film Festival and on board Air Canada flights through the Air Canada enRoute Film Festival. U

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PArting shots and snap judgements from The ubyssey editorial board

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Lack of AMS transparency is a problem Information available

Information not available We’d happily report the details of the AMS Performance Accountability Incentive (PAI) bonuses if the information was public.

Ryan Hemsworth’s excitement was palpable.

TEachers’ strike is hurting would-be ubc students UBC has given assurances that high school students won’t be affected by the current B.C teachers’ strike, but how could that possibly be true?

Students rely on their schools, their teachers, and their education to provide them with the opportunities to grow and to be successful, but the current teachers strike is effectively keeping students from achieving the high standards needed to get into post-secondary institutions.

Locked out and unable to provide a space for transition and oneon-one guidance, the province’s youth are ultimately the ones being left behind.

The fact that some students are considering moving into the private school system is appalling. Our public education system should be providing a learning environment and transition support for the students in their care. This strike has gone on too long, with both sides diverging from their purported purpose: to provide meaningful education and a safe environment for growth to students across the province.

exclusive Breakfast at gupta’s Maybe you’ve seen an ad floating around recently for “Breakfast with the President”: if you entered your name in the draw, you might be one of 20 lucky students who have the grand opportunity to enjoy your morning meal with Arvind Gupta before his installation ceremony as President of UBC. What The Ubyssey wants to know is why we weren’t directly invited in the first place. It stands to reason that this campus’ finest (and only) source for news would be essential for the coverage of this historic event.

Clearly, since they expected so many applications as to warrant a raffle solution, this must be one of the defining moments of our institution, so to throw it in the face of student journalism is nothing short of a betrayal of student rights and common ethics.

That said, we entered the draw anyway. If, by some 8-in-49,896 chance, one of us manages to make it in, expect a brutally honest review of Gupta’s choice of breakfast venue and the eggs therein. We will not hold back.

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In conclusion, and because The Ubyssey is committed to a standard of ethics and etiquette that this university’s administration clearly is not, we cordially extend to Gupta an invitation to attend our annual Hootenanny, an allyou-can-drink gathering of intellectuals that we feel is equivalent to his significant event.

backyard bbq review: the good, the bad and the ‘meh’ Now that construction on the new Aquatic Centre has finally started, MacInnes field will soon be entirely dug up and slathered in concrete and the AMS may have to host the next few years’ worth of their high cost events on the SUB’s doorstep.

The cramped location, long waits in lines and uncomfortably high price tag of the AMS’s Backyard BBQ were the three big factors that ultimately made the event a flop in terms of organization.

But maybe the good could outweigh the bad in this case.

The boredom of waiting in line to get into the beer garden was offset by the fact that the line stretched right by the stage, and no show was missed. Throughout the day, the atmosphere was cozy — perfect for day drinking and catching up with old friends or meeting new ones.

UBC students don’t get very many chances to hang out and drink outside, so the AMS gets a pat on the back for continuing to provide us with excuses to do so.

By nightfall, however, the atmosphere had become a little messy.

The bright stage lights came on and much of the crowd assembled in front of the stage.

Now there’s nothing wrong with a little grinding, but with everyone cooped up in front of a tiny stage, the whole show turned into a disorganized soul train(wreck). The poor headliner, Ryan Hemsworth, came on with an expression on his face that made his button-pushing and knob-turning look like he was washing dishes on stage while a mob of sober young students bobbed awkwardly by the stage, roughly in time with the thumping bass.

It was great to hang out in the beer garden and enjoy the smaller shows throughout the day.

However, the overall location of the event really left us wanting to head back to sip beers in the comfort of our own grind-free Ubyssey office. U

Will McDonald Coordinating Editor

Back in March, I wrote an editorial about the lack of accountability when it comes to AMS executive bonuses. For those of you who don’t remember, the AMS has a pot of up to $25,000 to give out to five executives.

In order to get the extra money, executives have to set and meet certain goals. If a committee decides they reached those goals well enough, they can get up to $5,000 each. But the AMS didn’t think it was necessary to let students know how much bonus money executives got or why.

We’ve been asking the AMS for the bonus numbers for months. Back in March, they said we wouldn’t necessarily get a specific breakdown of how much each executive got, but they would send out the total amounts in a budget document. They

finally released that document this week, minus one key detail — their bonus numbers.

The AMS has cited a number of reasons over the past few months for keeping their bonuses secret: the execs are students who might not want everyone to know how much money they make; the process is accountable to AMS Council itself, so the average student doesn’t need to know the details; or that policy prevents them from releasing the numbers due to privacy concerns.

But none of those reasons seem to hold water. The executives ran for public office. Their salaries are public, and their bonuses should be too.

The bonus numbers aren’t the only issue we have with the AMS when it comes to accountability. Council has been going into closed session more and more frequently. They kick reporters

out of the room, often without telling us why. All this secrecy doesn’t exactly inspire confidence in the AMS. It’s been a growing trend for organizations to be less and less open to the media, and the AMS’s stance on their bonuses is another step in the wrong direction.

Organizations are increasingly adding public affairs staff, asking for quote approval or demanding that reporters send interview questions ahead of time. Thankfully, the AMS hasn’t gone that far yet. But it’s a slippery slope.

Which is why we’re calling the AMS out on their bonuses — because no one else is.

At the end of the day, we as students fund the AMS. A total of $25,000 is only a small chunk of their budget. But the principle still stands — refusing to let students know how much money we pay executives is a problem. U

seeking student volunteer as UBC Development Permit Board Member We’re seeking applications for the volunteer position of Student Member on the Development Permit Board, which has the responsibility to review and approve non-institutional development proposals on UBC’s Vancouver campus.

If selected, you will be expected to serve on the Development Permit Board for a minimum of one calendar year, starting October 2014. Members of the Development Permit Board are appointed by the Board of Governors.

Candidates should be knowledgeable about contemporary practices in sustainability and land use planning as well as support the development of UTown@UBC, UBC’s on-campus residential community.

Submit a current resume and cover letter to Campus and Community Planning highlighting your qualifications and interest in this position by Monday, September 22, 2014.

Steven Lecocq steven.lecocq@ubc.ca

Campus and Community Planning 2210 West Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4 For more information, see planning.ubc.ca

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EDITOR Jack Hauen

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Thunderbirds drop opening game in Regina

Inability to capitalize costs UBC against strong home team CJ Pentland Staff Writer

Shawn Olson is the first to admit that the Canada West conference is full of surprises; he’s stated that numerous times over the past couple years, and once again during training camp.

“The one thing I’ve learned about Canada West is [that you] don’t try to predict it. It’s a tough conference, and year in and year out you don’t really know who’s going to step to the forefront… I think it’s going to be very competitive.”

The T-Birds got a first-hand dose of that competitiveness on Friday night in Regina. Though UBC didn’t play terribly, they ran into a University of Regina team much better than one slated to finish fifth in the conference and dropped a 33-23 decision in their 2014 season opener. The game provided a sharp dose of reality after

a preseason which provided much optimism and a number seven ranking in the CIS preseason poll — that is sure to disappear come the next installment.

The game started beautifully for the ‘Birds, with Riley Jones blocking a punt and picking it up before scampering into the end zone for a touchdown. A Quinn van Glyswyk field goal shortly after made it a quick 10-0 lead, and UBC looked to be on their way to a convincing victory.

But while the offence continued to rack up yards, it couldn’t put points on the scoreboard. The T-Birds scored just one offensive touchdown on the night — a 31-yard TD strike from Carson Williams to David Mann to start the second half — and left a large number of points on the field.

Meanwhile, Regina hit their stride come the second quarter, as quarterback Cayman Shutter slow-

ly started to pick apart the UBC defence.

Against a defence that allowed an average of 277.2 yards per game last year, Shutter threw for 430 and two touchdowns, helping his squad overcome deficits of 10-0 and 17-10. Despite UBC knowing he would throw it — he attempted 51 passes, completing 30 — he fit a number of throws into tight seams, and receivers Addison Richards and Jared Janotta helped him out with some stellar catches, racking up totals of 133 and 114 receiving yards, respectively.

Their strong passing game only highlighted the room for improvement in UBC’s. Carson Williams showed more confidence as the game went on, but still threw for just 220 yards and one touchdown while getting picked off once — getting his team across the goal line once while settling for three field goals.

“It was a good effort from our guys, but we did not make enough plays tonight,” said Olson to UBC Athletics after the game. “We made some crucial mistakes with some bad penalties and we were unable to capitalize on our chances in the red zone. Settling for field goals will not win games and that was the situation tonight.”

Perhaps the most shocking feature of the game, though, was UBC’s running game. With a plethora of options in the backfield, the ‘Birds racked up just 148 yards on the ground — still a respectable total, but when your offence relies on the run and features one of the top rushers in the country, that total isn’t enough.

Brandon Deschamps averaged just 3.8 yards per carry after averaging 6.9 last season, while blue chip recruit Terrell Davis had just four carries for 15 yards. On the bright side, Terrell’s brother Marcus

Davis showed flashes of brilliance on a number of end-arounds — an option that should become a lethal weapon all season long when combined with the threat of Deschamps and Davis going up the middle.

Logistical reasons meant UBC didn’t play an exhibition game this season, so whether some of the instability on both sides of the ball came from this being their first game will be seen next week.

However, next Saturday’s game comes against Calgary — currently ranked number two in the nation and the six-time defending Canada West champs. A performance similar to Friday’s will result in much a much worse outcome than a ten-point loss.

UBC’S Homecoming Game will be held this Saturday at Thunderbird Stadium against the University of Calgary. U

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Star rusher Brandon Deschamps was held to just 3.8 yards per carry in the loss.

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You are invited to attend an Open House on Thursday, September 18 to view and comment on a mixed-use development proposal for University Boulevard - Site B. Plans will be displayed for a new 6-storey mixed use building with retail/commercial uses on the ground floor and 5 storeys of residential rental accommodation for students, faculty and employees at UBC.

Date: Thursday, September 18, 2014 Time: 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM Place: North Side of UBC Bookstore, 6200 University Boulevard Representatives from the project team and Campus + Community Planning will be available to provide information and respond to inquiries about this project.

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Places to be: Lake Louise Explore >>

Adventure in the Rockies just across the B.C. border

photo courtesy iona naismiith

A panoramic view of the lake and surrounding landscape

Ailsa Naismith Contributor

Everyone talks about Lake Louise and how lovely it is. I agree.

However, until I went in July, it remained a hollow ideal for me: the crisp postcard view, a collage of paper boats coloured by Photoshop and glued on top of a flat

page of blue. When I saw the lake in real life, it was transcendental.

Never has a place moved me so much; I doubt I’ll see anywhere with that depth of beauty again.

Though I’m a cynical skeptic at heart, it was the closest I’ll get to a spiritual experience.

I only saw it for four hours.

Many people walked around; my

sister Iona and I had heard that it was the most-travelled route in the national park, and in the spirit of adventure, we thought we would try something different. Our aim this morning was to rock climb on the lakeside.

We only had three days to spend in the Rockies, and had to cram every activity that we wanted to do within that time. Rock climbing seemed to finish up our bucket list nicely.

Our route would take us around the water to a small wall hidden behind the trees on the lake’s eastern shore. The day began normally enough with a walk-in from the parking lot.

What the photographs in those glossy travel brochures failed to include, not surprisingly, was the giant of a hotel in front of the lake — tall, bland, anaemic.

Though tastefully done, it’s a comparative eyesore that is the elephant in the editing room. Before long, we had left it behind and moved on to the great silence.

I’m not a talented enough writer to bring you back to the first flush of that morning beside Lake Louise. What I can tell you about our morning is a faint memento, filmed with mist like a developing photograph. We took the path to the right, and the day swung into focus. We saw the fog sit flat on the lake-top. We heard the great wall of silence. It was so easy to talk, and as we laughed our voices carried against the curve of the mountains and the level water. I was awake then, and every sound crackled and every flower was cut out sharp against the fallen rock.

There are certain mornings like this; that last forever as you’re living them. What I’ll remember, vividly, is that swell in my heart that I felt on our journey: today was endless.

At eight o’clock we were high in the clouds and above the sun.

Though our guidebook stated the climbs should be near the lake, we had not found them. And so we kept walking. I knew that the view down the valley was grand, but a perverse part of me has always preferred postponing a

panorama until it reaches its full potential.

I turned, and the path fell away below us. An army of trees crowded around the lake. Some had flung their roots to reach towards the water, not caring whether they were trodden on as long as they could be a few inches closer. The mountains behind glared sharply against the sky.

Although Iona and I were a well-travelled hiker and a geologist respectively, we had become peculiarly and spectacularly lost.

Our stubborn minds resisted the truth — of course we were on the right path! Nearly there! Until we could avoid it no longer: a signpost wheezed discreetly, and told us we had come to the beginning of the glacier trail. I was desperate to carry on — the toe of the glacier peeked around the cliffs ahead, and that’s where the lakeside climbs would be — but Iona wanted to head back.

Of course she was right. We found the wall an hour later.

It appeared that we had been discouraged by the sight of a lone madman, cheerfully soloing his way up the face of the wall while he towed a rope dangling below him. This sight was extraordinary; I think particularly because of the nature of the rock. Glistening quartzite, stacked in alternating layers of pink-and-brown, gives the Rockies both their characteristic layer-cake look and their fearsome grades. Most climbers, when seen from below, resemble nothing more than an ant tackling a stack of books.

Iona and I had rather toppled the stack when selecting our wall, choosing the simplest and the most accessible.

Despite our epic detour, the routes were mercifully quiet and we scrambled to clip on to the single multi-pitch.

Iona led the first half while I belayed from below. I watched her back recede and braced myself for my turn. I hadn’t led a sport multi-pitch in five years, so of course I was tremendously excited; nerves like feathers, fingers shifting like butterflies on the rope. The climb I would conquer

was little more than a walk in the park, promising to be technically easy while providing spectacular views of Lake Louise as the climber cleared the spindly pines.

Soon, here I was, on a kindergarten climb. A step up here — a little hop there — and I was already five feet above Iona with no safety protection. My shaking hand reached up to clip the distant bolt ... and made it. I took a deep breath, and relief dashed me like a bucket of ice water. The feeling was fleeting, however, because I knew I’d only get a taste of that sweet release if I braved the fear of more bolts. The length of the pink-and-tan ladder grew below me; I prayed I wouldn’t slip on a snake of a rock and come sprawling down. Towards the end of the climb, with almost the summit achieved, I began to feel almost peaceful. In the zone!

Sadly, there was one more bolt to come. I saw it: a good twenty feet above. It was placed there, no doubt, by a sadistic pro climber who could leap tall buildings with a single finger-jam. I imagined him laughing at me, a mortal climber, as I stared at the vicious metal. Its slight jut against the wall was now so exaggerated in my mind that I knew would have to dyno it: jump, scramble, throw myself up and away from the face; and grab on with the shreds of my fingers, to watch the bolt slip through my grasp as I tumbled below.

The most important thing in climbing is to breathe. The wall slowly swam back into focus, and the hall-of-mirrors distortion receded. It was still a heck of a reach, though. I stood up on trembling legs. The kind of move — if you imagine — that you do when reaching to stack a crate of beer on a shelf. Except that, you know, I had no beer, and I was 60 feet above the ground. I have studied geology for three years now, but I never got closer to a particular rock before today, my nose nuzzling the gritty edge as I grazed my shins below. The bolt was attempted, reached for, by feel entirely and not by sight.

That click as it went through will remain the sweetest sound of the day, even the week, for me. It sounded around the echo chamber of the wall; empty except for me, the metal, and the rock.

During the last leg of the climb I imagined the view behind me to be nothing, a blank whiteboard.

Now I was clear I could turn around to face the view; and, once again, I had to remind myself of the most important thing in climbing.

The view — that lake is such a viscous and abundant blue that the colour seemed to pour unchecked out from the depths.

Cobalt and kingfisher hues evaporated from the surface into a steam that hazed the sun and shimmered through the trees.

Perversely, that view is always with me whenever I see it on Iona’s camera. The photograph is fantastic, but a shoddy copy of the real thing; and yet when I see it I am transported instantly to the top of that cliff, looking down and over the height I had achieved.

It’s a permanent capture of a transient moment. U

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