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UBC law professor Janine Benedet speaks in favour of Bill C-36 in Ottawa.

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Housing development, Van’s music scene, Safewalk, and the Birding Club.

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UBC Yoga fest

11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. @ ubc main mall near the earth sciences building

With sponsorships and instruction from UBC Recreation, MEC and Hot Box Yoga, this is a great time to try out yoga in a low-stress (but highly public) environment.

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TWELFTH NIGHT PREVIEW

7:30 p.m. @ frederick wood theatre

The precursor to today’s mass-produced rom-coms (though infinitely better), this UBC Shakespeare production runs from September 24 through October 11, and is considerably cheaper on preview night, September 24. $7

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Andrew Lai has become internet-famous (at least at UBC) for his UBC Confessions comments.

Andrew Lai of UBC Confessions has commented his way to internet fame Jack Hauen Sports & Rec Editor

Andrew Lai is internet famous.

And if you’re one of the 16,500 or so people who like the Facebook page “UBC Confessions”, you almost definitely know his name.

His hobby began on UBC Connect, where students in his TA course, CPSC 310, didn’t quite understand the material.

He had to remain professional in order to address the students’ concerns, but found some of their questions to be “kind of hilarious,” so he began to slip in small nuggets of sarcasm when he could pass them off as helpful advice.

I just thought the confessions were really stupid in general and they’re getting worse and worse … so I thought, ‘You know what’d be really cool?

If I made even stupider comments on them.’”

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Internet sarcasm is a slippery slope, and before long, Lai found something more entertaining than computer science students struggling to understand software development: UBC Confessions — a place for students to anonymously confess their innermost secrets, or just complain about campus.

“I just thought the confessions

were really stupid in general and they’re getting worse and worse … so I thought, ‘You know what’d be really cool? If I made even stupider comments on them,’” Lai said.

It’s that attitude that has — perhaps ironically — kept him a fan favourite amongst the users of the page. What’s more intriguing, though, is that through his biting sarcasm, Lai hopes to convey some meaning to the people reading his comments.

Though he still views his Facebook endevavours “primarily as a joke,” he holds strong beliefs about morality that he expresses in his own, rather unorthodox manner.

Sometimes I see really intolerant stuff on [the page] that’s filled with so much hatred.

I’m like, ‘How can you live a happy life when you’re like that?’ I don’t believe that any two people should have conflict.’”

The Confessions page is often an outlet for students to vent their frustration, from complaining about construction, to cyclists, to bus etiquette.

According to Lai, conflict arises from misunderstanding, and it could all be avoided with kinder human interaction.

“Sometimes I see really intolerant stuff on [the page] that’s filled with so much hatred. I’m like, ‘How can you live a happy life when you’re like that?’ I don’t believe that any two people

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should have conflict,” he said. “I can pretty comfortably say that I don’t have any conflict in my life … I really feel like it’s important for people to connect to each other, to view each other on good terms by default.”

Lai is striving to make the world a better place, in his own unique way. He hopes that some of the angry commenters will take his advice, even if it is shrouded in sarcasm.

I don’t expect to be received positively, but if that happens, I’m going to try to use my lame influence on this lame page to influence people.”

“I don’t expect to be received positively, but if that happens, I’m going to try to use my lame influence on this lame page to influence people,” he said.

For all his humanistic views, Lai views his comments as mostly a source of entertainment for himself — if others happen to enjoy his work, that’s their prerogative, but he’s most definitely not doing it for the online recognition.

If you’d like to hear what Lai has to say in real life, you can often find him playing the piano outside the UBC bookstore.

Don’t be afraid to approach him, you’ll likely be met with open arms and far less sarcasm than you might expect — especially if you share his musical tastes.

“If you like trance music you should start partying with me.

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UBC law professor welcomes bill to change Canada’s prostitution laws

Veronika Bondarenko News Editor

After striking down Canada’s old prostitution laws, the government is currently working to put in place a new law to regulate sex work in the country.

Bill C-36, which cracks down on those who are purchasing and trafficking sex work, has been proposed by Justice Minister Peter Mackay in May. While the bill also makes it illegal for sex workers to advertise their services, it is intended to primarily go after buyers and traffickers by making both offences punishable by fines and time in prison.

The Senate has recently held a pre-study of Bill C-36, but it still needs to be passed by the House of Commons.

Janine Benedet, a UBC law professor specializing in criminal and labour laws, has been advocating for changes to Canada’s prostitution laws for over a decade. Benedet was also one of the experts who testified on the bill at a hearing in Ottawa on September 10.

As part of her testimony, Benedet said that while Canada’s old prostitution laws were meant to be applied to both traffickers and sex workers, they would mostly go after sex workers who, for the most part, already came from marginalized positions. As such, Benedet argued that any new law needs to instead go after those who are buying and trafficking sex work. “[The old laws] were really designed just to target the women, to move them around, to get them into places that were less visible and ultimately, I do think that was unfair,” said Benedet. “It was focusing on the wrong end of the transaction and saddling these women with criminal records,

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The Canadian government is expected to come to a decision on Bill C-36 by December.

which made leaving prostitution even harder.”

As a result, Benedet is largely satisfied with the proposed Bill C-36, which focuses on putting an end to the practices that support exploitation and inequality by fueling the demand for prostitution.

“It is not especially fruitful to criminalize prostitutes for their own exploitation, but we do need to target the demand for prostitution and those who exploit prostitutes by profiteering off the money they make,” said Benedet.

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AMS businesses to implement customer loyalty app Kelley Lin Contributor

The AMS has joined forces with RTown, a Vancouver startup supplying local businesses with a mobile loyalty app.

With the RTown app, customers will be able to use digital stamp cards to get discounts at select AMS businesses. Some deals include getting a free cookie from Blue Chip or free bagel from Bernoulli’s for every 10 bought.

Businesses implementing the app’s loyalty reward system include Bernoulli’s Bagels, Blue Chip Cookies, The Honour Roll, The Moon, The Pit Burger Bar and many more off-campus.

The electronic stamp system will be replacing old paper stamp cards.

“It’s the same premise,” said Jennifer Ryan, Marketing Manager for the AMS. “It’s just digital, versus carrying around a little card that you can lose [and] it helps to allow faster transactions.”

According to Ryan, the AMS saw RTown as the fastest and easiest technology for both staff and customers to use. Customers just download the app, tap an option to find businesses in their

area, choose the store and offer that interests them and present the store cashier with the digital stamp at the time of purchase.

Last year, the AMS approached the Strategy Consulting Initiative, a student-run non-profit service.

“They were engaged to do a marketing plan for the AMS, and one of their recommendations was to have a digital loyalty program,” said Ryan.

According to their website, RTown’s team of marketing experts aims to help local businesses increase their revenue, which is a value that Ryan says the AMS shares with RTown.

“Essentially, the loyalty program is about increasing sales and driving traffic in pertaining customers,” said Ryan. “But more importantly, it’s a reminder to students that we’re here, we’re open during construction, and that in AMS-run businesses, all profits go back to fund programs that the AMS runs.”

Due to the AMS’s privacy policy, Ryan declined to disclose the overall cost of the program.

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While Benedet disagrees with the section of the bill that criminalizes sex workers who are offering their services near a public place such as a school or a church, she feels that Bill C-36 is still a very important step in the right direction for the country.

“For the first time, we have a provision that says it’s an act of exploitation to buy another human being for sex and you should stop because ultimately, you’re fueling inequality and exploitation and trafficking,” said Benedet.

Benedet also said that while Bill C-36 has been subject to a

number of criticisms, she believes that those who are speaking against the bill are largely dissatisfied with the fact that prostitution is not legalized in Canada.

“I think, overall, the approach on the new legislation is very positive and that those who are criticizing it are really not criticizing the actual terms of the legislation,” said Benedet.

“They want a system in which prostitution is not criminalized, in which prostitution is legal and prostitution businesses can set up and operate.”

Benedet, however, argues that prostitution is more than just a simple commercial transaction between two consenting parties, as it pits people who are in very different positions of power against each other.

“I am someone who understands prostitution to be, fundamentally, a practice of sex inequality that preys on the vulnerability and lack of power of women and, in particular, racialized women, aboriginal women, poor women,” said Benedet. “And it seems to me that that’s who the laws need to focus on.” U

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

housing >>

UBC pushes back residence construction

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The AMS will be making a few changes to its Safewalk and tutoring services Laurie Baxter Contributor

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UBC has delayed the construction of a housing unit on University Boulevard.

Dave Nixon Staff Writer

Planning delays have pushed back the construction of 125 residential units on University Boulevard.

The Site B housing project was originally set to go ahead with a public consultation on September 18, but UBC Properties Trust is now rethinking the building plans.

“We’re guessing that it might set the project back a couple months to improve the building design and come forward with a project that we were fully comfortable with,” said Paul Young, Director of Planning and Design for UBC Properties Trust.

The current building plans are to have a ground floor with retail outlets such as a restaurant and cafe, and five floors above that for residential living. It will border the War Memorial Gym and University Boulevard, near the bus loop. Most units will be studios, one bedrooms and two

bedrooms. The retail floor is to help bring some activity to one of the gateway streets of the university while the retail units are to help with the high demand for rentals on campus.

This year, over 700 first year students were placed in upper year residences like Walter Gage, forcing more upper year students to contend for fewer spots on campus. Rental apartment units like Site B appeal to upper years, and the demand for the units will continue to grow yearly.

The units won’t relieve too much pressure although they are open to professors and staff, not just students.

The delay, according to Young, was prompted by comments at an Urban Design Panel around concerns of building size in the spaces allotted. Young said he believes the project would have been approved in its current form, but they felt that taking the time to improve the plans was important.

Young’s changes may include splitting the building into two.

Current plans have Site B as a larger building, while another area called Site D would host one smaller building. They are now looking at the possibility of reducing Site B’s building’s size and increasing that of Site D, which would make the two similar in scope.

Young says the project was to be completed in early 2017. His estimate of a two month delay is tentative at this point, though, and according to Joe Stott, Director of Planning and Development Services for Campus and Community Planning, they have no knowledge of why the project was withdrawn.

“We’ve not received any indication of whether this is a postponement or a cancellation or anything,” said Stott. “They haven’t asked for a new date.”

Neither UBC Housing nor the Urban Design Panel were available for comment. U

Improvements and additions to the AMS Safewalk and tutoring services are starting to come into effect for the upcoming term.

Safewalk, which allows students to call for a co-ed pair of students to accompany them to any place on campus, will be installing a new system for managing dispatch calls as well as getting an additional company car.

AMS Service Manager Ron Gorodetsky said that, in light of the string of sexual assaults that took place on campus last year, these additions come at an important time for UBC. “In response to [the sexual assaults] there’s much more request and demand for the service that at one point surpassed our capacities,” said Gorodetsky.

Gorodetsky also noted that as the number of Safewalk users tends to increase in the fall, the dispatch system and extra car will allow their team to provide their services more quickly and efficiently.

“This year we’re anticipating high levels of demand as well and we’re increasing efficiency by using two vehicles instead of one,” said Gorodetsky.

However, the scope for the Safewalk services is still limited

to the UBC area, with Blanca street marking the cut-off point between UBC and Vancouver.

According to Gorodetsky, the AMS plans to continue their outreach efforts in order to encourage more students to use their newly updated services.

Other AMS service improvements include a revamp of AMS Tutoring Services, which will be launching a new website at ams.helphub.me. It will replace the current website, which Gorodetsky described as “antiquated.”

As with previous years, students will be able to choose tutoring services online or in person for a selection of price points depending on the education level of the tutor. But as the new site will make it easier for students to search through tutors and include more courses for students to choose from, Gorodetsky expects it to nearly triple the number of students using the one-on-one tutoring service.

“In the past two weeks we’ve already imported over 123 subjects worth of tutors, so we’re very close to full implementation on our end,” said Gorodetsky.

The AMS will also continue to provide free group tutoring services, which are being held at several residences and buildings on campus. U

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UBC receives funding for more spaces in speech therapy education

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UBC will be offering more spots for students who want to study speech therapy.

With increased funding from the B.C. government, UBC’s Master’s of Science in Speech Language Pathology program will be expanded to include 36 student spots by 2016. As the program currently receives over 150 applications for just 23 available slots, the additional spaces are expected to respond to a growing demand for speech therapists in the province.

Through graduate courses, several clinical internships and a final thesis, the program will teach students to recognize and address a number of different speech problems, including difficulties with articulation, stuttering, language delays and swallowing disorders.

“Most of us take the ability to communicate for granted, but for the thousands of British Columbians who have problems with speech, language or swallowing, speech therapists provide a bridge to the rest of the world,” said Advanced Education Minister Amrik Virk.

The program will be receiving an initial $2.475 million in funding, as well as an additional $932,000 in yearly operating funds.

According to UBC, the increased number of students who are graduating from the speech therapy program will help fill the need for therapists in northern and rural B.C., where speech therapists positions have been rare in the past.

“Adding 13 first-year spaces to the training program at UBC will help meet the growing demand for qualified speech-language pathologists,” said Virk.

Julia Hodder, vice president of the B.C. Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists, is also excited to see increased space for speech therapists at UBC in the days to come.

“The increase in funding supports BCASLPA’s efforts to provide access to highly trained, certified professionals across this province who can help support and provide services to those of all ages with communication needs. Lives are changed by improved communication,” said Hodder. U

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EDITOR Jenica Montgomery

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theatre >>

UBC Theatre’s Twelfth Fashion Week takes over Vancouver Night a hilarious rendition Milan, New York, Paris, of the Shakespeare classic London, Tokyo, even Toronto. All these Olivia Law Contributor

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Charlotte Wright in UBC Theatre’s rendition of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.

Connie McKimm Contributor

Cakes and ale are everywhere to be seen in UBC’s upcoming production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night . Audiences will look forward to the production’s impressive interpretation of one of Shakespeare’s most popular comedies.

“This particular project is devised for the graduating class of the BA. So we’re looking for a play that will suit whatever the demographic is for the students in that class. It’s really difficult to find a play where all the gender roles fit,” said Stephen Heatley, Director of the production.

Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is the first in this year’s UBC Theatre and Opera season, opening on September 25. Heatley hopes to bring a new twist to this year’s season opener by setting it in modern day New Orleans at the time of Mardi Gras. “I’ve always maintained that surprise is a big element in theatre,” he said.

Heatley has successfully set up many surprises for his audience — his production is full of live music, stunts and general hilarity. The actors worked with a specialist team to perfect their stage fights and original music has been composed specifically for the production.

One of the production’s surprises comes from the traditional role of Malvolio being played by a woman, and changing the character from male to female. Malvolio becomes Malvolia. “We looked at what roles made potential sense so that they could be other than male,” said Heatley.

Allyce Kranabetter, who plays the role of Malvolia, is a part of a whole production team who is proud of how the show has come together. “It is absolutely stunning visually and musically,” she said.

“Theatre is spectacle and visual beauty and I feel that the production team have really done that justice in this play.”

The production team praised by Kranabetter is made up entirely of students. This season opener is very much a student run production, a reflection upon UBC’s Theatre program as a whole. “It’s all student designers, all student actors, all student stage managers, <em>

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all student production staff,” said Heatley. “We really are featuring all aspects of what student theatre does here.”

The actors performing in Twelfth Night are all final year students from BA Acting and have enjoyed rehearsing. Jenna Mair, who plays Olivia, emphasized that the rehearsal process has been a collaborative effort between cast and director.

“I really like working with Stephen and he has been very forthcoming to our own interpretations,” said Mair. The cast used innovative methods of rehearsing.

“It was really creative and unique,” emphasized Kranabetter.

The cast have particularly enjoyed performing Shakespeare and have relished the challenge of mastering his language. “I really love Shakespeare,” said Mair. “I think it’s beautiful language and has really rich characters and stories.”

Twelfth Night is one of Shakespeare’s greatest comedies, and the cast believe that the story will appeal to everyone on campus.

“Everyone who comes to see this play will identify with at least one character, because we’ve all been in love,” Mair said. “It’s a universal human experience and Shakespeare shows that in all different shapes and colours.”

Mair was first introduced to Shakespeare by local Vancouver theatre company Bard on the Beach. “I went to see the Merchant of Venice as a child, and I’ve been hooked ever since,” she said.

Heatley hopes that his production will help spread this kind of love for Shakespeare and theatre across UBC. “Shakespeare is a great thing for the campus. The fact is that there is a lot of support for some of these major classics with the English department and some other departments. Part of our role at Theatre UBC is to animate the campus,” said Heatley.

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cities are renowned worldwide for their seasonal fashion weeks, with hoards of photographers, designers, models and bloggers converging on the streets to celebrate what is to some, a means of expressing yourself to the highest degree, a form of art, if you will.

The Vancouver fashion world is one which is yet to break into the mainstream, enviable, glamorous scene portrayed in magazines and movies. This is not a problem — but Vancouverites do not seem to be aware of the lack of fashionable reputation surrounding the city.

In the past, Vancouver Fashion Week has come under fire for an unprofessional running of the event, with huge proportions of the staff made up of volunteers.

This year, efforts were made to ensure a structure of teams on each station to maximize control and efficiency. This being said, much of the event relies upon the work of volunteers. This year, volunteers ranged from students, to aspiring designers and stylists, to people who are simply passionate about fashion.

A vast majority of those involved in Vancouver Fashion Week are — indeed — from Vancouver, pushing those involved to make the show more professional and prevalent in Vancouver’s eyes. For example, Ana Badila, a makeup artist assisting with the looks for Oscar Mendoza and Laura Laval, was spotted at a department store makeup counter shortly after moving to Vancouver. Badila aims to become a sought-after makeup artist worldwide, and sees Vancouver’s young fashion scene as an ideal stepping-stone.

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Vancouver’s Fashion Week took over Queen Elizabeth Plaza this past week.

Aside from the inevitable delays in beginning shows (where else can we use the phrase ‘fashionably late’ to such an honest degree), for the hundreds of people passing through the shows at the Queen Elizabeth Plaza throughout the week, Vancouver Fashion Week appeared to be running smoothly and to perfection.

Evidently this prowess does not come with no effort. Although none of the catwalk shows began before 4 p.m., models, designers and MC’s were rehearsing each and every morning, right up until their call times for the stage. Even backstage, one could see confident-seeming MCs rehearsing, pacing back and forth, makeup artists applying cat-eye after cat-eye, and designers working alongside stylists and dressers to make sure each and every item of clothing was fitted to perfection.

It is difficult to know what to make of Vancouver Fashion Week.

The chaos, the over-confident fashionistas and the crazy after parties were as expected, but the sense of support and teamwork between designers, volunteers and managers was something which one might not expect to see in the brutal world of fashion. At the end of each evening, designers and presenters approached volunteers express their gratidude, and photographers from the press, from magazines and from blogs were keen to photograph everyone for their ‘street-style’ spreads.

Although Vancouver Fashion Week is not New York, it could be the ideal place for people waiting to break into the fashion industry to begin their journey. Everyone’s individual style seemed to be appreciated and accepted, regardless of whether the skirt comes from Proenza Schouler or Salvation Army. U

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

A tale of two scenes Vancouver’s underground music

by Lawrence Neal Garcia

Take a walk up Granville Street in downtown Vancouver and you’ll get a picture of the city’s music scene. Within about a one-block radius lie the Orpheum, the Vogue Theatre, the Commodore Ballroom and Venue Nightclub, some of the most well-known concert venues which frequently play host to touring international talent.

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he area provides an image that meshes well with Vancouver’s politely placid exterior — clean, tame and decidedly un-offensive — the one you would most likely see in a tourist brochure.

Venture a bit further east, however, and a radically different scene emerges. Away from the near-unlivable housing prices of the downtown core, the Downtown Eastside provides a stark counterpoint to Vancouver’s sanitized image. Long besot by negative stigma from Vancouverites and tourists alike, the area possesses a seedy, oppressive mystique that permeates the rainsoaked streets. But for anyone who is truly willing to look, it’s also home to a daring, vibrant and experimental local music scene.

Get Me To the Emergency Room!

In 2006, out of the underground parking lot of the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, the Emergency Room was created.

Originally started by Keith Wecker of the V. Vecker Ensemble, the ER was conceived of as a modest practice and performance space for local bands. But, thrust into a restless music scene frustrated with a lack of suitable music venues, hyper-vigilant policing of such venues, and regulatory problems related to both, it became much more than intended.

The Emergency Room became a focal point of the weird punk scene that emerged during that period and peaked in 2007. Featuring an extreme mix of genre-bending noise rock, punk and experimental, the scene grew out of events like the Cobalt’s Fake Jazz Wednesdays -- a weekly experimental night -- and a general commitment to no-holds-barred musical innovation. Although the

scene grew to include bands from increasingly disparate genres, it was characterized by a unifying current of energy.

“They would really go crazy,” said Sarah Cordingley, who previously played with Channels 3 & 4 and is currently the music coordinator of CiTR. “It was always really high energy and pretty aggressive.”

The music was there; the space came next.

After relocating to a former fish-processing warehouse in Strathcona, the ER quickly grew, simultaneously serving as a recording studio, practice space and performance venue. As catalogued in its eponymous, manifesto-like compilation, Emergency Room Vol. 1 (“This record is to document a year of one of the best alternative spaces currently operating in Canada,” reads the forward, written by co-founder Justin Gradin) the space saw artists like Twin Crystals, Nü Sensae, Sick Buildings, Vapid, The Petroleum By-Products, Defektors, Mutators, and White Lung.

“There was some amazing stuff there,” said Cordingley, who recalled practicing in its jam rooms with Ice Cream, her band at the time.

“It just had a really good collective feel and really allowed people to get a lot done and make a lot of interesting stuff, because there was finally a venue that people were actually coming to.”

Inevitably, the growing crowds became a double-edged sword, attracting the unwanted attention of the local police and law-enforcers.

It got shut down with increasing frequency and eventually became

Heading East, Going Underground too costly to maintain. By late 2008, the space had been closed.

Although the whole weird punk scene emerged from a literal underground, it is also — ironically — one of the Vancouver scene’s most notable exports, particularly during its apotheosis in 2007. But since then, and even before that, the local music scene has remained largely underground. Much of that has to do with the city’s music venues — or lack thereof.

It’s just the cultural ties of the city, cultural lines of the city,” said Kew. “Ultimately working as an artist, you won’t be living in the downtown core. You’ll be living where the rent is more affordable.

Unsustainable finance models and the threat of being priced out by larger development projects has, and continues to cull many local venues. But perhaps the larger and more intractable causes are Vancouver’s convoluted regulations, legal restrictions, and zoning laws, which make locations across town near-uniformly shortlived.

Reflexively, the music scene had to adapt.

“It became more underground, less accessible,” said Ryan McCormick, formerly of the band They

Shoot Horses Don’t They? who likened the city’s regulation of local shows to the policing of illegal activity. “It has almost criminalized local music, which might sound a bit extreme.”

B-side reactions Since first moving to Vancouver from the Okanagan in 2003, Cordingley has seen a definite shift to the East Side in terms of where shows actually happen, away from pubs and clubs to more unconventional -- and largely illegal -- venues. At the same time, the Granville Entertainment District in the downtown core has gravitated to more mainstream music, eschewing local, alternative music in favor of Top 40 hits.

It’s a dichotomy that, for Jonathan Kew, Vice President of the CiTR student executive team, comes from Vancouver’s geographic and economic divisions.

“It’s just the cultural ties of the city, cultural lines of the city,” said Kew. “Ultimately working as an artist, you won’t be living in the downtown core. You’ll be living where the rent is more affordable ... But that’s not where a lot of Vancouver goes for entertainment, so those two worlds will often remain separate for that reason.”

But the divergence of the local scene from Vancouver’s entertainment district has also had a positive, flipside reaction.

Local musicians have largely abandoned corporate and legal structures in favour of a DIY mentality: recording albums in basements or garages, burning and distributing self-produced CD’s, hosting their own shows -- practices that recall early punk and garage rock scenes. “[The situation] has driven people to be a little more independent. The fact that the corporate music world is so out of reach has led people to develop things on their own ... more for

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the music’s sake than for a job,” said McCormick.

Arguably, the conditions surrounding the local independent scene have also affected the kind of music produced: harsh, grungy, experimental — ostensibly opposed to Vancouver’s sanitized image. But whether reactionary or just coincidental, as some would argue, it’s no doubt that the music is a very real, if also more hidden, part of the city.

Less debatable is that local artists, along with the music they produce, are more politically minded than in other cities.

“It’s not necessarily extremely politically engaged, but there’s a political mentality of the collective. There’s a big feminist movement, and more social leanings

that I think is cool of the scene,” said Erik Coates, president of CiTR. “The music scene embraces lots of aspects that are maybe marginalized in mainstream society.”

There are events like Shout Back! Fest, a feminist music festival complete with an anarchist book fair, organizations like Girls Rock Camp Vancouver — which provides music workshops -- training and opportunities for female youth, and non-profits like the Safe Amplification Society, a group dedicated to filling the void of all-ages venues in BC. Officially incorporated in spring of 2009, the Safe Amplification Society, of which Ryan McCormick is also a founding director, currently operates a temporary, all-ages space called Astorino’s, which opened just over a year ago. Recently, Safe Amp launched a letter-writing campaign calling for a permanent all-ages venue to be included in the forthcoming city budget for the coming November election.

Unfortunately, because of regulatory and liquor laws in Vancouver, all-ages shows are still something of a white elephant: with costs often outweighing feasibility. Consequently, young people either turn to illegal — and less accessible —

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“There’s a funny line, or lack of a line, between all-ages venues in Vancouver and illegal venues in Vancouver ... It’s forced kids into a bad space and I don’t know

“It’s not necessarily extremely politically engaged, but there’s a political mentality of the collective.

There’s a big feminist movement, and more social leanings that I think is cool of the scene what the justification is,” said Cordingley, who noted the importance of getting kids creatively engaged. “Young people do a lot of creative and interesting stuff and it’s important that they have a place they can do that and get involved.”

As with any other city, getting involved in the music scene can be difficult; and the underground

nature of Vancouver’s local scene can make it seem even more so.

“Within the city I think there’s a lot of great music, but it’s kind of a club,” said McCormick, who has been involved in the scene for about ten years now. “I don’t want to say [it’s] insular, but it’s kind of ‘if you know what you’re looking for, you’ll find it’ sort of thing.”

For Gina Loes, a UBC grad who has played with the Ruffled Feathers since 2008, getting into the scene is just a matter of going to shows, meeting more people, and putting yourself out there.

From first playing at local cafés to larger venues like the Biltmore and eventually festivals like Rifflandia and Sled Island, the Ruffled Feathers have definitely broken into the local scene.

Breaking out is another matter.

“We’re still very much a band that’s still stuck in Vancouver. We need to get out of this city,” said Loes, who cited distance as the largest obstacle for the band.

Compared to other cities like Toronto or Montreal, Vancouver is relatively isolated, which makes it hard for local musicians to branch out. Victoria is separated by ferry while Portland, Seattle and the rest of the U.S. are across the border.

“Vancouver is a really hard place to tour from,” observed Loes, who has toured down to San Francisco and through Alberta. “Canada is a hard place to tour from in general.

It’s huge and the towns are small and bands do it but the payoff is not necessarily that good.”

Although some local artists like Japandroids and The New Pornographers, have gained wide, even international recognition; for every one that does, there are hundreds that don’t. Some of this can be attributed to the underground nature of Vancouver’s scene, but mostly it has to do with what gets heard, and what doesn’t.

There’s nothing based on the music that’s being played that limits it to being underground.

Still happening “The music that’s played in the Vancouver music scene and underground music in general ... is only not popular because it isn’t getting played for everyone, not because it’s necessarily worse,” said Coates, who cited White Lung as an example of an underground sound that gained currency elsewhere. “There’s nothing based on the music that’s being played that limits it to being underground.”

Peace. Lié. Cosmetics. Dead Ghosts. Bobby Draino. Kōban.

Purple Hearts Social Club. These are just a handful of local artists that came up during interviews, and a tiny fraction of the greater music scene that, while diffuse in location and exposure, remains potent in its offerings.

“It’s still happening,” said Cordingley, who recalls the influx of creativity and talent during the height of the weird punk scene.

“There’s still a lot of new energy and new creativity coming into the town.”

It may not be the best of times, but it’s certainly not the worst.

And whether recognized or not, the local music scene will continue to exist, thriving under the radar, pushing boundaries, and offering its music up for anyone willing to venture out a little further. U

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and increasing its pickup locations beyond campus.

But, in the end, it was the changes to AMS Tutoring that really failed to impress. While it’s great that they’ll be updating their website, it just feels like common sense to let go of a site that looks like it’s come straight from 2004. It also wouldn’t hurt to improve the tutoring services to include more free tutoring sessions and recruit additional tutors from all walks of their university career for the paid ones. After all, will a snappier website really triple the number of students who sign up for tutoring, as Ron Gorodetsky claims it will? That we’d like to see.

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LAST WORDS Vancouver’s “indie” music scene isn’t indie enough Vancouver is a difficult place for local musicians to break into the music industry — this should come as no surprise. For those who are insanely passionate about creating good music, it seems almost impossible to get your voice — and your music — heard. This shouldn’t be the case.

Rather than focusing on wellknown “indie” bands, local music venues should be branching out and promoting local musicians. The popular music scene in Vancouver is largely unviable for unknown musicians, unless you’re already part of a widely unavailable and out of reach underground music scene. Even in that case, it’s difficult to break out of the underground scene and move into the public’s eye. The only way to combat this is by getting the wellknown music venues to band together and promote local, underground — and unknown — musicians.

PArting shots and snap judgements from The ubyssey editorial board

extreme birdwatching Birdwatching is pretty rad. Yes, your grandma is probably super into it, which doesn’t sound like a thrilling argument for radness, but keep in mind how many things she’s tried in her decades on this earth — out of all of them, this is what gets her out of bed in the morning.

In the same vein as knitting and soap operas, birdwatching is popular among our elders due to the long hours of relaxation punctuated by small points of adrenaline it provides. Forget yoga — this is where it’s at.

The UBC Birding Club knows this, and it’s doing its part to spread the good word. For a five dollar fee, you too can experience the unadulterated joy that birdwatching provides, and there’s a lot of joy. Those five dollars are your admission to a world only a few people can see — one that’s right in your backyard.

And that includes binocular rentals as well.

ams services improvements are lacklustre The AMS recently announced that it’ll be expanding its Safewalk and tutoring services in the upcoming months. While the idea of improving student services is definitely a good one, we are also holding back from throwing confetti at them just yet. In fact, the decision to get an extra vehicle for Safewalk only leads to more questions. Is Safewalk going to evolve into a mostly driving-based service in the future?

And then there’s the whole dispatch call system. This will definitely make it easier for the Safewalk team to juggle calls and send people out on calls faster, but it still feels like the AMS should be doing more to promote a system that is seeing increased demand and is so important to so many students.

Some possibilities could include keeping it running later than 2 a.m.

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There’s a serious lack of student housing on campus, and quite frankly, we’re a little ticked off about it — and most of us don’t even live on campus!

Thousands of students are basically paying to be on waiting lists while residences are filled up with straight-from-highschool or newly admitted first- and second-year international students who have guaranteed spots. Over 700 beds from formerly upper-year residences were given to freshmen this year, displacing an absurd number of upper-years wanting to live in rez.

Of course, UBC Housing is planning to solve this issue by building more residences with the money they get from the poor saps eagerly checking to see if they’ve gone up a spot on the waitlist.

Overall, the whole situation probably isn’t all that terrible. No one’s forcing you to pay to be on a waitlist, or to be in res at all, for that matter.

But the fact that housing developments are being postponed isn’t a very good sign.

Housing is being given to the students who really do need it most, but what’s going to happen as UBC continues to admit more and more international students, and the number of guaranteed spots rises?

New residences may not solve the issue of upper-years being left to fend for themselves in the wild housing market of Vancouver.

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Letter: Keep the “E” classy UBC Engineers Letter

Dear UBC Community, I write to you today to express my disappointment and frustration. I, the Engineering Cairn, am deeply saddened by the current state of affairs at UBC. Since before you were born, I have stood proudly on the centre of Main Mall not only as a symbol of engineering pride, but also as a challenge for those of you non-engineers to destroy. I have survived burning, bludgeoning, and even a memorable encounter with a front end loader.

Over the decades, I have been defaced by faculties, fraternities, and just about every other campus group. I have had Forestry paint me with a green F, Arts coat me with purple and glitter, and Sauder give me a bow-tie. LFS has even erected scarecrows in front of me.

However, no matter how often I get defaced, whether it be everyday or every month, the loyal engineers promptly paint me back to my proper red and white.

“So,” you ask. “why are you disappointed?” Well recently the quality of effort that has been put into defacing me has been ... well ... lacklustre.

This year, I have noticed a steady decline in the quality of my “redecoration”. I am not impressed by profanity scribbled on my sides – come on, I want something better than what you find in the SUB bathrooms! Putting a chair on top of me is weak. Decorate me with glitter, cover me with feathers, use me to show off your faculty pride.

Think bigger. Do better.

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UBC Birding Club opens up a hidden world Jack Hauen Sports and Rec Editor

Members of the UBC Birding Club probably see more than you do when you look up.

“Whenever I ask people who may not be really into birds, ‘What kind of birds have you seen [around campus]?’ it’s, ‘Oh, crows, seagulls, pigeons,’” said President Vivian Hui. The campus, according to the club execs, is a hotspot for a staggering variety of birds, due to the triple threat location of forest, land and sea. Club photographer Louis Almario has personally documented more than 80 species, the majority of which are within transit distance from Point Grey.

“I joined because my hobby is photography, and I got my first long lens and photographed hummingbirds in Richmond.

I saw the club and [I thought] ‘Might as well try it,’” he said.

You might have seen their advertising: a cartoon bird on a homemade bird feeder outside the Student Rec Centre is all that promotes the UBC Birding Club, and it’s all they need.

“The goal is not to grow more popular in terms of members, it’s to grow more popular in terms of members being engaged,” said Hui. “I think that’s probably more important.”

The club is open to everyone with an interest in the avian, regardless of experience. “We cater to beginners,” said Hui. “In fact, most of our members, aside from having a general interest in birds or thinking birds are cute, prob-

Members of the UBC Birding Club take part in bird watching expeditions close to UBC and around the Lower Mainland.

ably don’t have much experience.

We also offer beginner classes for bird identification.”

The club frequently ventures out to practice their passion.

This year, they plan to stay local by taking advantage of UBC’s

outdoor attractions: mainly the Botanical Garden, Pacific Spirit Park and the UBC Farm. The cost to join is a measly five dollars, and included in that fee is a UBC Birding Club Membership Card, access to their birdwatching field

trips — including discounted admission fees if applicable — and free rentals of binoculars during those trips.

The Birding Club offers access to a world that exists in plain view, but that few rarely notice.

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“It’s a very nice place that we live in for birding here at UBC, because we have the land, the ocean and the forest,” said Hui. “[We’re] really there to enjoy nature, because that’s what birdwatching is about.” U

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Thunderbirds settle for a draw

Hard-fought home opener against UVic ends 1-1

The UBC women’s field hockey team struck first, but a UVic equalizer meant they wouldn’t walk away with a win.

Soren Elsay Staff Writer

Coming off three straight National Championships, the Thunderbirds opened the season with a new look squad following the departure of several key components, including captain Miranda Mann, as well as reigning CIS

Championship MVP Abigail Raye and longtime coach Hash Kanjee.

Kanjee was replaced by Robin D’Abreo, who is fresh off his stint as the assistant coach for the Canadian senior women’s national team. In the past, D’Abreo has competed at the Olympic Games (2000), World Cup (1998), and

Commonwealth Games (1998, 2002, 2006). He and his new group faced an early season test as they kicked off their campaign at home against their longtime rivals, the University of Victoria.

The first half was rather cautious, and scoring chances were hard to come by. Midfield-

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ers Gabby Jayme and Hannah Haughn created a handful of half-chances that were foiled by the UVic defence. At the other end, UBC goalie Lauren Logush was forced to make a fantastic reflex save from five yards out late in the half to keep the game scoreless.

The second half opened up with UBC seeing the majority of ball possession for the first ten minutes. The Thunderbird’s pressure finally paid off ten minutes into the half as last year’s Canada West leading goal scorer, Haughn, banged in a rebound off of the team’s third penalty corner of the game to give her team the lead.

The Vikes mounted considerable pressure for the last portion of the second half as they looked for the equalizer. They finally broke through with less than three minutes remaining from their own penalty corner as Annie Walters-Shumka found Marin Davidson for a back door tap in to finish off a well designed set play.

UBC’s bids for a late winner were denied and the teams settled for a 1-1 draw.

Although his debut as UBC head coach did not end in victory, D’Abreo was very pleased with the effort. “Given how much I’ve actually asked [the team] to do differently in the last four weeks, I was really really happy with the performance … a lot of the things that we’ve been working on in practice I was able to see on the field, and I was really excited by that,” he said.

D’Abreo is excited about the direction his new team is heading.

“For this team to pick up as much as they did that quickly, I’m very impressed and very excited for what is to come.” U

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UBC swimmer Luke Reilly looks to Rio Ciaran Dougherty Copy Editor

When you speak to Luke Reilly, there is almost nothing that betrays his enormous talent. If it weren’t for other people’s praise, you’d never know that he competes at the world’s premier level of swimming.

He was tired the day I met with him, but he mustered enough strength to be engaging and quite inspiring when speaking about his training and competition.

“I don’t really enjoy the training that much,” he said, “but it’s when you line up for the final 50 metres of a race, when you put in everything you’ve got, that makes it all worth it, all the early mornings and the hard work.”

Reilly has competed at an international level of swimming, and earlier this summer he competed for Canada in the Commonwealth games in Glasgow. In terms of a multi-sport event, this was the biggest meet he has been to; but Reilly said that, “in terms of standard, the Pan Pacs [Pan Pacific Swimming Championships] I went to were faster.”

While he spoke fondly of the atmosphere in Glasgow, he described the pressure of the big stage as something to overcome.

He voiced his disappointment at his own performances this summer — in Glasgow he dropped three seconds from his best time.

“I didn’t go as fast as I would like at the Pan Pacs,” said Reilly.

At age 19, finishing seventh in the Commonwealth games is a huge achievement in itself, but it was not enough to satisfy Reilly.

It is often the nature of elite athletes to place enormous pressure on themselves, and to always strive for better, no matter how well they do — that mentality will surely drive him to success in the future.

He’ll get a chance to prove it, as the Olympic games in Rio 2016 are on Reilly’s agenda. “That’s the plan. I’ll focus on the 400IM [400m Individual Medley], I want to make the final and then just see what I can do there.”

Reilly’s competition, the gruelling 400IM, consists of 100

metres of each different type of stroke: first is butterfly, followed by backstroke, then breaststroke, before a final leg of front crawl.

To prepare for the challenges ahead, Reilly gets up at 5:40 a.m. each morning to do a morning session of two and a half hours in the pool. Later in the day he will do another three hour session in the water.

Like many swimmers, his diet is also a fascinating part of his routine: “Before my morning practice I’ll usually have a banana and a bowl of oatmeal, then when I get back I have an egg scramble, some toast and some veg. At lunch I have maybe three bowls of pasta and leftovers and at dinner I have roast veg, chicken breasts and I really love quinoa, I know that’s really stereotypical of me being in Vancouver, but it’s really great.”

His diet is always a work in progress as he and his nutritionist are constantly tweaking it to improve his performance; he says they focus on complex carbs, low gluten and low lactose so that he never feels unwell during training.

Alongside his nutritionist, he has four coaches to keep him training right; one of them, Brian Johns, holds the Canadian national record for Reilly’s event.

“I’d love to take that record of four minutes and 10 seconds,” said Reilly.

Right now his personal best is four minutes and 15 seconds, but Reilly is only 19 and feels he can get a lot faster as he gets older.

With a schedule as busy as Reilly’s, it can be tough to fit everything in. He studies Arts and is aiming at an English major.

“It can be hard, with school, practice, sleep and also trying to socialize a bit,” he said. In his free time, Reilly mostly enjoys sleeping; considering his routine, it’s hard to argue with that.

As Luke Reilly looks forward to his next big meet, the Pan Americas in Toronto, UBC can feel lucky to have such a talent to cheer for — surely the Canadian home crowd in Ontario will give him a hair-raising welcome. U

Reilly works hard to strike a balance between school, friends and swimming.

photo courtesy Luke Reilly

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Women’s rugby team disposes of Dinos

Thunderbirds take their home opener against Calgary Soren Elsay Staff Writer

The women’s rugby team kicked off their season with a 24-19 victory over the visiting University of Calgary Dinos at Lord Rugby field on Friday night.

The Thunderbirds looked focused and determined early in Friday’s matchup, grinding down the Dino defence and spending the majority of their time on the offensive. The game remained tight, however, a testament to the solid defensive play of the visiting team. 21 minutes into the first half, the Thunderbirds were finally able to capitalize when inside center Mackenzie Lee ran the ball in for the game’s first try.

After a successful convert, the score was 7-0 Thunderbirds.

UBC closed the first half with an impressive defensive stance.

Thanks in part to a ferocious hit

by Lee, the Thunderbirds shut the door on a Calgary team that fell just inches short of tying the game, but after dominating most of the half and only leading by seven, the Thunderbirds left the hometown crowd feeling uneasy.

“We talked in the change room about our mindset,” said head coach Maria Gallo. “The next ten minutes in the second half really sets the pace for the rest of the game. You really have to come in and get a try under your belt.”

Unfortunately, the opposite happened. After misreading the bounce off an early Dino kick in the second half, Ciara Malone watched them stroll into the

The women’s rugby team opened their season with a solid outing against their Alberta rivals.

end zone uncontested to tie the game at seven. This proved to be the sole blemish on Malone’s otherwise flawless perform-

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ance. The third year from Delta, B.C displayed a speed that was unmatched on the field — the Thunderbirds’ most dangerous

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offensive weapon; a thorn in the side of the Dinos’ defence.

On the following possession, redemption ensued. Malone,

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after catching a pass from Megan Hamm, dashed past a diving Dino defender for the game’s longest try, throwing the Thunderbirds back in front by a score of 14-7.

This seemed to spark the rest of the team, leading to a successful penalty kick, and an impressive try by Shawnee Monchalin, who picked off an errant Calgary pass and put the Thunderbirds up 24-7.

Complacency was the Thunderbirds’ biggest threat, as they fell into a defensive shell for the rest of the game that allowed the Dinos to make a contest out of what should’ve been a blowout.

After two Calgary tries, the game ended 24-19. Gallo blamed early season nerves for the Thunderbird’s late game mishaps.

“You want play from whistle to whistle. That’s the big one. The girls got kind of anxious, thought they had the win under their belt, and took their foot off the gas, which is the wrong mindset. But they’ll learn from that. We’ll go back to that lull in the game and talk about how to prevent that in the future,” she said.

Revenge will be on the mind next week as the Thunderbirds host the University of Lethbridge Pronghorns. The Pronghorns ended the Thunderbirds’ season last year after defeating them in the conference’s bronze medal game.

“Revenge is always sweet, right?” said Gallo. “But we’re really just focusing on our team right now. We’re going to keep doing what’s right for us. We’re going to focus on our strengths.” U

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Summer stars 1. What was the (athletic) highlight of your summer?

Training 2-3 times a day with some great athletes... at the London Training Centre in a very focused and exciting environment was the definite highlight.

Playing [pro] for the Auckland NHL (National Hockey League) team. It is made up of most New Zealand national team players.

Winning a bronze medal in the 4×100 medley relay with my amazing teammates at the Commonwealth Games.

2. What ‘summer’ activity do you really want to do in September while it’s still nice outside?

So far I’ve been very committed to continuing the high degree of ice cream consumption that got started in Italy. I have no plans to go lightweight this season.

My favourite summer activity is having a beer on the patio at Mahony and Sons UBC.

Go to my cottage in northern Ontario.

Probably don’t want to be like any UBC football players at the moment after they got crushed by Calgary.

The one guy that scored the touchdown at homecoming. Good on ya whoever you are.

3. Which UBC football player do you secretly have a crush on/want to be like?

If I was more like Bryan Rideout, I’d probably be a better person... He is extremely knowledgable about Ashtanga yoga and the paleo diet.

4. What advice do you have for new UBC students who are looking to avoid the freshman 15?

Join crew. Especially if you’re tall and strong.

5. What does the acronym UBC really stand for?

Oh man I wish I knew.

Try not to end up at either Fresh Slice or McDonald’s after every Pit night.

UBC: University on a Beautiful Campus.

Stay away from Chubbard’s. Also eat some veggies.

Ultimate Bird Champs?

My highlight of the summer was shooting 61 (-11) at my home course in Calgary.

Swim in the ocean!

Running a personal best at NACAC Championships where I represented Canada.

Run in shorts!

Former QB Billy Greene.

Everyone liked the guy.

Thunder #1. So dreamy.

Stick with an exercise routine and follow it throughout the semester.

Avoid Magda’s/Hubbard’s and make time for exercise.

University of Building Construction.

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