October 23, 2014

october 23, 2014 | VoLuME XcVI | IssuE xvII Mental gymnastics since 1918

Dalai Lama comes to ubc

opinions and last words

Halloween Film fest

Although his speech at the Chan Centre was met with praise, protesters also gathered.

Break-up banter, basic bitches, student reps should represent and cherry-picked housing.

Ernest Mathijs weighs in on what makes a good Halloween film fest with friends.

P3

P5

P8

5-on-5: Vibrant Vegetarians Find out how and why some Thunderbirds maintain a no-meat diet.

SURVEY

says UBC argues that their housing rates are a better deal than what students pay off campus, and a 20 per cent rent increase is justified. We conducted our own survey of students to see where they live, who they live with and how much they pay in rent. Here’s how the numbers added up.

5 4 $6 0 5 7 $

P10

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014 |

YOUR GUIDE TO UBC EVENTS, PEOPLE + CAMPUS

EVENTS thursday

OUR CAMPUS

this week, check out ...

2

ONE ON ONE WITH THE PEOPLE and buildings that MAKE UBC

23

benefest for tibet

6:30 - 11:00 p.m. @ thunderbird sports centre

A performance benefitting the Tibetan Resettlement Project, Benefest for Tibet features acts such as K-OS, Brevner, The Zolas and Delhi to Dublin. All proceeds are donated to charity. Tickets $34

friday

24

Jungle fever y2k

9:00 p.m. @ 6 - 2880 wesbrook mall / alpha delta phi house

Alpha is hosting a throwback party to “a time ... where every romance was CHEMICAL, and when people spent their hard-earned money buying Soulja Boy ringtones to play on their 16-bit Nokias.” Tickets from $10-20

saturday

25

tedx terry talks

Come and listen to your fellow students and alumni speak about the subjects they know best at this UBC version of the world-renowed TED Talks. Topics range from “Bi the way, we exist” to “A story of obedience.” $12

ON THE COVER Shedding light on UBC’s study.

-Illustration Nick Adams

Want to see your events listed here?

Email your events listings to ourcampus@ubyssey.ca.

U The Ubyssey Coordinating Editor Will McDonald coordinating@ubyssey.ca

Design Editor Nick Adams printeditor@ubyssey.ca

Web Developer Peter Siemens web@ubyssey.ca

News Editors Jovana Vranic + Veronika Bondarenko news@ubyssey.ca

Culture Editor Jenica Montgomery culture@ubyssey.ca

Sports + Rec Editor Jack Hauen sports@ubyssey.ca

Video Producer TBD video@ubyssey.ca

Photo Editor Cherihan Hassun photo@ubyssey.ca

Opinions + Blog Editor Austen Erhardt aerhardt@ubyssey.ca

STAFF

Copy Editor Ciaran Dougherty

Natalie Scadden, CJ Pentland, Kosta Prodanovic, Dave Nixon, copy@ubyssey.ca Soren Elsay, Olamide Olaniyan, Lawrence Neal Garcia, Tariq Distribution Coordinator Vira, Kelley Lin, Jenny Tang, Leo Lily Cai Soh, Gabriel Germaix, Joshua lcai@ubyssey.ca Azizi, Koby Michaels, Natalie Morris, Olivia Law

october 23, 2014 | Volume XCVI | Issue xvII BUSINESS

CONTACT

Business Manager Fernie Pereira

Editorial Office: SUB 24 604.822.2301

fpereira@ubyssey.ca

Ad Sales Geoff Lister advertising@ubyssey.ca

Illustrator Julian Yu

Accounts Thea Simpson

julianyu@ubyssey.ca

accounts@ubyssey.ca

Business Office: SUB 23 Advertising 604.822.1654 Inquiries 604.822.6681 Student Union Building 6138 SUB Boulevard Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1 Online: ubyssey.ca Twitter: @ubyssey

LEGAL The Ubyssey is the official student newspaper of the University of British Columbia. It is published every Monday and Thursday by The Ubyssey Publications Society. We are an autonomous, democratically run student organization, and all students are encouraged to participate.

Editorials are chosen and written by the Ubyssey staff. They are the expressed opinion of the staff, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Ubyssey Publications Society or the University of British Columbia. All editorial content appearing in The Ubyssey is the property of The Ubyssey Publications Society.

Stories, opinions, photographs and artwork contained herein

cannot be reproduced without the expressed, written permission of The Ubyssey Publications Society.

The Ubyssey is a founding member of Canadian University Press (CUP) and adheres to CUP’s guiding principles.

Letters to the editor must be under 300 words. Please include your phone number, student number and signature (not for publication) as well as your year and faculty with all submissions. ID will be checked when submissions are dropped off at the editorial office of The Ubyssey; otherwise verification will be done by phone.

The Ubyssey reserves the right to edit submissions for length

and clarity. All letters must be received by 12 noon the day before intended publication. Letters received after this point will be published in the following issue unless there is an urgent time restriction or other matter deemed relevant by the Ubyssey staff.

It is agreed by all persons placing display or classified advertising that if the Ubyssey Publications Society fails to publish an advertisement or if an error in the ad occurs the liability of the UPS will not be greater than the price paid for the ad. The UPS shall not be responsible for slight changes or typographical errors that do not lessen the value or the impact of the ad.

PHOTO will mcdonald / THE UBYSSEY

Amy Roneki and Kirianna Crowe are UBC Athletics’ people behind the scenes Olivia Law Staff Writer

9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. @ Life science centre

editorial

The scoreboard operators have to keep the board up-to-date regardless of the outcome.

With the support for the T-Birds on the rise each year, it’s definitely time to get to know those behind the scenes. That’s right — UBC athletics isn’t all about the talented athletes and hardworking coaches. Without a dedicated support team, our experiences at football, basketball, volleyball, soccer and hockey games would be massively different.

Amy Roneki and Kirianna Crowe are involved with the operation of the scoreboards in almost every sporting event at UBC. With the huge number of varsity teams, there’s no way they can do all the work themselves, so they have been training others to keep track of each and every element of the game.

Crowe, a Land and Food Systems fourth-year student, stressed the importance of accuracy within the roles.

“The records of each game go to both the coaches and it goes to the CIS, so we have to be good at it or the university will get fined if there are any mistakes.”

Both girls found themselves in their roles almost by accident.

“I started because I played soccer here for my first two years and they just wanted people to come and help out with security and stuff at the

games, standing at the door and — once I got a chance — to sit on the table,” explained Roneki, a fourth-year Kinesiology student.

“Once I proved I was confident and able, they kept putting me back there.” And it seems she’s never looked back.

For Crowe, the induction into the scorekeeping world followed a similar path.

“I played rugby for a year, and our boss just wanted people to come and help out. When she realized I could score-keep because I played basketball through high school, I just kept going.”

“I live with athletes, so I like to think I’d be coming to the games anyway and supporting them — this gives me a front row seat.

Amy Roneki UBC scoreboard operator and fourth-year Kinesiology student.

The support of varsity athletes between teams has always been strong, and Roneki considers the job another way to go and support her friends.

“I live with athletes, so I like to think I’d be coming to the

games anyway and supporting them — this gives me a front row seat,” Roneki said.

Working between 10 and 15 hours a week, usually on Friday and Saturday nights, scorekeeping is a big commitment. As part of UBC’s work-learn program, both girls are learning to work in professional environments in a situation which complements both their studies and their interests.

When asked about the future of UBC sport and athletics, both Roneki and Crowe have similar views.

“It’s really entertaining to come and watch these games, and I think people would really enjoy the culture a lot more if they created a sporting culture,” said Roneki.

“These people are extremely athletic, it’s really, really good entertainment to watch,” said Crowe. “These people are really serious about what they do.”

It seems as though there are few better ways to get involved with sport at UBC. Both girls definitely seem to love their role with UBC Athletics. Roneki acknowledged that her position with the T-Birds is ideal. “We have a great job — a really great job.”

“The people we work with are all our friends,” said Crowe. “It’s unreal.’’ U

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014 |

EDITORS Jovana Vranic + Veronika Bondarenko

3

research >>

fees >>

Board of Governors student representatives on tuition and residence fee increases UBC economics prof Chris Roach and Nina Karimi comment on UBC’s proposals and the #IAmAStudent movement wants companies to

give bereavement leave for breakups

illustration tariq vira/the ubyssey

Mateo Ospina Contributor

How would you like to be able to take a few days off work to nurse a broken heart?

Marina Adshade, a UBC economics professor, believes that companies should consider giving their employees bereavement leave after a breakup.

In a recent article in Time magazine Adshade suggests offering bereavement leave for breakups in order to encourage young adults to search for long-term relationships.

According to Adshade, there are studies that compare the reaction of co-workers who are both enduring and observing the breakup in the work environment. Managers and co-workers tend to view the grieving workers as lazy and having less focus committed to their tasks.

“Employers should care about their employee’s mental health, and it is possible that bereavement leave will improve that as well as encourage employee loyalty,” said Adshade.

In practice, heartbreak leave would work similarly to the bereavement leave that is currently offered by companies to employees who are mourning the loss of a loved one.

Adshade also said that workers would not be likely to abuse this type of leave, as the risks of dishonesty would be too high.

“When you are in the workforce your employer will not verify absences from work because the risk of losing your job is too high for people who are dishonest,” said Adshade.

Still, Adshade does not give extensions on assignments to compensate the suffering of newly single students in her own classes because such claims are difficult to verify.

Adshade said that this policy is not meant to dissuade students from pursuing committed relationships. In fact, she feels that university students have more time than they will perhaps ever have again to pursue their romantic interests.

“I can see really serious students saying [they] don’t want to deal with the hassles of being in a relationship,” said Adshade. “It doesn’t really get any better when you finish school.”

Adshade said that if companies offered bereavement leave for breakups, this stress could be lifted off of young adults altogether. She believes that adults should not have to risk their careers in order to enter into a long-term relationship.

Though Adshade does not see companies offering bereavement leave for breakups in the near future, she still believes that pursuing romantic relationships in university is a worthwhile risk.

“You really have more free time right now than you ever will in the future,” said Adshade. “And you maybe get a little bit more sympathy right now.” U <em>

em>

photo geoff lister/the ubyssey

UBC’s Board of Governors’ meetings take place within the Gage commonsblock.

Veronika Bondarenko News Editor

UBC’s proposed tuition and residence fee hikes are a hot topic for the Board of Governors student representatives.

Christopher Roach, who is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in genome sciences and technology while serving a term as Board of Governors student representative, said that he hopes the university will take more active steps towards helping make education more accessible for students.

“As a UBC student and a scientist, I would like the provincial and federal government to more adequately support post-secondary education and for student’s time at UBC to be as economical [and] affordable as possible,” said Roach.

Still, Roach also said that the increased fees could be a last resort taken by the university in order to provide more opportunities and services for students.

“I know the university is trying to improve both the quality of education and student experience at UBC,” said Roach. “Taking into account the current government funding situation, increasing tuition is one of the proposed ways for the university to pursue these improved opportunities for students.”

Nina Karimi, who is a fourthyear political science student and other Board of Governors student representative, also said that post-secondary education needs to be made accessible to all students.

“My personal belief is that education should be free and accessible to all, but the reality is, UBC is operating in a system largely determined

by the provincial government, and this is currently not plausible,” said Karimi.

Karimi said that she would like to see the current proposal change after undergoing student consultation. As such, Karimi will continue to advocate for the students’ opinions on the proposed increases to the Board.

“Students are very upset, not just with the increases, but by the way in which the increases have been presented,” said Karimi. “I will make sure their voices are acknowledged at Board.”

Roach and Karimi are currently meeting with different student representatives and campus groups to get a clearer understanding of where students stand with the proposed hikes.

Roach said that it is especially important for students

to come out to the discussion sessions scheduled in the upcoming weeks.

“I want to emphasize how crucial it is for students to become a part of the campus-wide conversation and I encourage everyone to do so,” said Roach.

Both Roach and Karimi said that, as the final proposal on the increased fees has not yet been presented to the Board, they are unable to comment on how they are planning to vote.

Karimi also said that she is happy to see that student activists are speaking up against the proposed changes.

“The students that are organizing a movement against the increase have my full support at this time, and I am proud to see student activism alive on campus,” said Karimi. U

protests >>

The Dalai Lama’s arrival at UBC sparks demonstrations from both protesters and supporters Veronika Bondarenko News Editor

The Dalai Lama’s arrival at UBC has been met with many supporters and a handful of protesters.

On Wednesday, October 22, His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama came to UBC to lead a panel discussion on the importance of teaching empathy and compassion to young children and future generations.

As students crowded into the Chan Centre for the Educating the Heart in the Early Years: A Dialogue with the Dalai Lama panel, opposing groups from the International Shugden Community (ISC) and Global Tibetan Volunteers For The Truth (GTVFTT) stood chanting outside the concert building.

The ISC, which is made up of various Buddhists from around the world, held up signs that read “False Dalai Lama give religious freedom.”

Demanding that the Dalai Lama oppose the ban on worship of the Dorje Shugden school of Buddhism, the protesters handed out brochures criticizing the Tibetan government to passers-by.

“Throughout the Tibetan Exile Community, both in India and overseas, Tibetans have been required to take public oaths to abandon their Shugden Buddhist faith and to also not associate with Shugden people.

Those refusing to take such oaths

photo cherihan hassun/the ubyssey

Both supporters and protesters could be found in front of the Chan Centre during the Dalai Lama’s panel dialogue on October 22.

face ostracism and widespread discrimination,” read one of the brochures handed out by the ISC. Meanwhile, members of the GTVFTT stood across the street from the ISC, all while chanting, handing out pamphlets that denounced the allegations made by the ISC and holding up signs that expressed their support for the Dalai Lama’s teaching.

“We strongly condemn all the uncalled protests, and unsubstantiated writings circulated by the Shugden followers,” said the GTVFTT in a statement about the string of ISC protests. “We request people around the world not to fall in their trap by listening to their unfounded allegations, which are full of lies and backed by Chinese government machinery.”

Members of the ISC also protested at John Oliver Secondary School and the Vancouver Convention Centre, where the Dalai Lama led discussions on human kindness and compassion on October 21. The protesters are planning to make another appearance at the Dalai Lama’s all-day empowerment teaching on October 23 at Thunderbird Arena. U

</

4 | News |

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014

research >>

#iamastudent >>

UBC-O to open centre to research survival in extreme conditions

Students involved in the #IAmAStudent campaign are formulating a plan to prevent the proposed fee increases

UBC students in opposition to tuition and residence cost hikes hold general assembly

file photo geoff lister/THE UBYSSEY

The centre will be based at UBC-O.

Anuja Kapoor Contributor

A $3.8 million grant will help launch a UBC centre dedicated to research ranging from making better helmets to improving technology for drones.

The facility, called Survive and Thrive Applied Research (STAR) was established to develop enhanced strategies of human protection, survival technologies and functionality in remote and extreme conditions.

According to Gord Binstead UBC-O’s vice president research, the centre has made the most headway on a project to develop a sports helmet that is better at preventing concussions. The project is a partnership with a British company, as well as faculty at both UBC’s Okanagan and Vancouver campuses.

“This is a good example where you have small companies, a number of researchers, all working on a project that comes together,” said Binstead.

Other projects include new sensors for drones.

“The question is what sensors can you put on a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) to have it fly over crops and tailor for example, how much water each area of a field is getting, by having sensors that detect how much moisture is in the soil. This is another example, and the same thing goes with flying over forest fires,” said Binstead.

The facility will be based at UBC’s Okanagan campus.

“Because of the relative newness of our campus, it means that as these things come in, projects like this we can respond at a timeline that a large institution like UBC Vancouver couldn’t.

There is no way to turn a ship that size that quickly. So our campus is the right size to respond to projects,” said Binstead.

According to Binstead, 90 per cent of the funding will go towards research equipment.

“STAR is an example of what the long term plan for our campus is; which is to make our campus more embedded and integrated with the broader community, both profit and non-profit. So hopefully, one of the core outcomes of STAR will be a marked increase in the degree of interaction both in private research projects, but more broadly with small and middle sized businesses,” said Binstead.

“I think really the facility is essentially an example of an ongoing goal for innovation in the interior and having UBC partner with both small business and other institutions. It is just an example of that agenda, and hopefully it won’t be the last.”

—With files from Will McDonald U </em>

Photo will mcdonald/the ubyssey

At the assembly, students shared ideas, made posters, buttons and badges, discussed future social media campaign strategies and planned the movement’s next events.

David Nixon Senior Staff Writer

Students are considering walk-outs and legal action to combat UBC’s tuition and residence fee hikes.

Following the October 14 teachin, roughly 100 students showed up for a general assembly on the night of October 22 in the SUB ballroom to make concrete plans to ensure UBC hears their voice and takes notice of the UBC Students for Fairness in Tuition and Housing Prices movement.

“At the core of it we have a very hierarchal, non-participatory, non-democratic organization that’s in charge of students … and it’s making this a less desirable campus,” said Iain Marjoribanks, a Geography student who helped organize the assembly.

UBC has proposed a 10 per cent increase to tuition for next

year’s international students.

They have also announced a 20 per cent increase to eight-month residence contracts.

Students formed groups to create posters, buttons, organize social media strategies for #IAmAStudent, and to make red squares that students can pin on their clothes to show they disagree with the fee increases. There was also a direct action group, which split into three sub-groups.

Students attended for a variety of reasons. “I was hoping to share ideas with other students and come up with a better argument for myself other than having it solely based on emotion,” said Simone Williamson, an arts student from the U.S.. “A lot of it is ‘hey, this isn’t fair’… but we need to be able to come up with a cohesive argument.”

law >>

Embezzler sentenced to house arrest

FILE photo geoff lister/THE UBYSSEY

Former accountant Janet Bayda embezzeled $1 million from a UBC-based law group.

Veronika Bondarenko News Editor

Janet Bayda, who embezzled $1 million from a UBC law centre, has escaped jail time.

Bayda, whose first offence dates back to 2004, pleaded guilty to nine counts of fraud from UBC’s International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy (ICCLR), where she worked as an accountant from 1993 to 2011.

On Monday, October 20, Bayda was sentenced to two years of house arrest and two years probation by Judge Reg Harris at a court hearing, according to B.C. court records.

According to The Province, Bayda wrote fake cheques to build a new house and pay credit card debts.

The ICCLR is a registered charity that strives to bring law, democracy, human rights and good governance to the justice systems both in Canada and internationally.

The court heard that Bayda had previously suffered from alcoholism, depression, an eating disorder and a shopping addiction. Judge Harris ruled that, alongside continuing to undertake mental health counselling during her house arrest, Bayda must also complete 250 hours of community service. $825,000 of the losses sustained by the ICCLR have already been recovered, with Bayda currently making payments on an additional $550,000 civil action judgement. U

The next protest will be a march through campus on Friday October 24. An addition to that was organized at the assembly — the march will end at the Martha Piper Plaza Fountain, where students armed with rubber duckies and brushes will be mock-bathing to symbolize the rising costs that could make students unable to afford everyday items like bathing supplies. No soap though, they don’t want to do any damage or cause work for the janitorial staff.

The other proposals were in anticipation of the AMS Annual General Meeting (AGM) on October 28, where they would be able to propose steps for the AMS to take on behalf of students. The sense that something big was needed was prevalent — the recommendations included a walk-out and

having the AMS sue the UBC Board of Governors for Charter of Human Rights violations based on the steep fee increases.

The need for a big show in opposition to the fee increases came from a worry that the student voice will be ignored, which many students spoke to during the discussions. The students present also hoped to make the assembly a weekly occurrence, in order to keep their voice organized and strong.

If students pursue the proposals they came up with at the assembly, the reality of the walk-out proposal or the civil suit will be decided at the AMS AGM on Tuesday October 28.

“The people who are in the position to listen to the students and the stakeholders are not doing that,” said Marjoribanks. “No one is as smart as everyone, [but] I think that’s lost on UBC.” U

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014 |

STUDENT VOICe. COMMUNITY REACH.

last words >>

advice >>

Ask Natalie: On how to make it through midterm season

ILLUSTRATION julian yu / the ubyssey

LAST WORDS breakup leave has left us broken up So a UBC prof wants to make “breakup leave” a legitimate reason to get vacation time. But that can’t be a serious proposition.

It seems a little ridiculous that when someone goes through a breakup they’re afforded the luxury of taking time off. This doesn’t seem particularly fair to those who manage to stay in long-term committed relationships and, thus, have fewer breakups and get less time off. Should they not be rewarded for being able to maintain meaningful relationships?

In all honesty, this would be a frighteningly easy policy to manipulate. Suddenly, companies are being flooded by employees whose partner-of-two-dates dumped them and now they want time off because they’re an emotional wreck. How would a company even check to make sure that you were even in a relationship to begin with and then that it had ended? That sounds like a huge breach of privacy. In fact, the last person that we would want to know that we got dumped is our boss. Can you imagine that awkward conversation?

If you have a hard time dealing with a breakup, take your regularly assigned vacation time and go to a tropical island, alone — because you got dumped.

ubc cherry-picked their housing figures UBC has insisted for years that their housing rates are affordable for students. They argue that the rates are below market value and that the growing waitlist to get into campus

5

PArting shots and snap judgements from The ubyssey editorial board

residences shows students think the costs are reasonable.

UBC recently tried to reinforce this line of reasoning based on a survey they had a consulting firm perform. They took the 164-page survey report and were kind enough to condense all the data into one neat slide they presented to a number of student leaders (and to The Ubyssey).

For the slide, they conveniently reworked the numbers from the survey and added $60 to the average private rental price (for utilities) to make a map showing how much more affordable UBC is than other surrounding neighbourhoods.

However, UBC left out some more interesting data from the survey that wouldn’t have looked so nice in a slideshow. The survey showed 47 per cent of students who live on campus have their parents paying all of their expenses. Only 32 per cent who live off campus had that luxury. The study also found that students who live on campus list convenience as the main factor for their decision, while the number-one reason for living off campus was price. While UBC can make the numbers say their housing is affordable, students who actually have to pay for it clearly have a different experience.

student bog reps. should represent student interests Chris Roach and Nina Karimi are the folks who represent the voice of the students to the Board of Governors. As such, it is extremely important for them to make sure that the concerns students have about the proposed tuition and residence fee increases are actually heard and

listened to. They are definitely on the right path with meeting with different campus groups and gathering opinions, but we would also like to see a more drastic response to such a drastic proposal.

Perhaps more than any other university issue, the proposed tuition and residence clearly matter to both incoming and current UBC students. While it is extremely unlikely that whatever Roach and Karimi advocate to the Board will have any real impact on UBC’s final decision, quiet disapproval and it’d-be-great-ifs are not the way to go when it comes to arguing for housing and education accessibility.

And that goes for both students and student representatives. U

“Ask natalie”

natalie morris

Advice Columnist

“MIDTERMS! How do I survive?”

You will survive! Midterms, like terrible group projects, are an inevitable part of college. And like terrible group projects, you’re just going to have to bite your tongue and push through.

In the beginning of the year it’s very easy to ignore your readings and sleep through classes, but midterm season is the time of the year where you regret that and promise yourself you’ll catch up on everything and go to all your classes (even that one with the prof whose voice makes you sleepy). Whether or not you actually do is up to you.

Generally, it is important to actually do your readings. But listen to your prof and read your syllabus. Is your midterm based on the readings, the lectures or both?

This can help you study. If it is your readings, check if your textbook’s chapters have summaries or “key points” sections at the end. If you woke up today and realized you had a midterm tomorrow, this may be your best option.

From now on, even if you don’t take notes, go to your lectures and listen. It’s a lot easier to recall information from a previous class than to make up something that seems right. Get a study group going and hopefully you can catch up. It is not too late to ace your classes, especially if there is multiple midterms.

These study practices may seem less than ideal, but — believe it or not — there are students who do all of their readings and homework. I once heard of someone who finished an essay a week before it was due so they weren’t stressed and had time to edit it properly.

If you do all of your readings and are just stressed by midterm season, here’s some advice for you: calm down and take a minute. You have studied. You know the stuff.

But you’re going to get worry brain during the midterm if you stress out. Take a big breath and rock your midterm.

Good luck, and remember, finals are coming faster than you think.

Need advice? Write to Natalie at asknatalie@ubyssey.ca and have your questions answered in an upcoming issue. U </em>

Drinking Pumpkin Spice Lattes doesn’t make me basic or bitchy what you did was so basic.” No These people probably aren’t Rachel levy-mclaughlin Letter

I’m a 20-something white girl.

Yes, I wear brown (faux) leather boots, scarves, and sometimes leggings and am frequently seen with a coffee in my hand. Yes, sometimes it’s even a Pumpkin Spice Latte. I am going to own up to this, even though I feel absurdly ashamed of it recently.

Since Pumpkin Spice Lattes rolled out at Starbucks this month, my Facebook newsfeed has been filled with posts, quizzes and memes about “basic bitches”, like Buzzfeed’s post: 25 Things Basic White Girls Do During the Fall (#1 is, you guessed it, drinking a Pumpkin Spice Latte).

I have been called a basic bitch too many times this month.

meaning to insult me, let’s just be clear on that. But it is insulting to me. And pluralistic ignorance tells me that it is to lots of other twenty-something white girls who believe that they are neither basic nor bitchy because they enjoy some PSL every now and again.

Lots of my other 20-something white girl friends have been on Facebook lately telling the world that they do not like Pumpkin Spice Lattes. By denying any affinity to PSLs, these girls are trying desperately to peel that “basic bitch” label off their foreheads. These girls are trying desperately to not be judged by others for completely mundane life choices.

Basic bitch is not a nice term, folks. Just look at it. No one has ever said endearingly, “wow, you’re such a bitch,” or “dude,

matter how you swing it, those are not nice words. And they are not any nicer when combined.

I like Pumpkin Spice Lattes.

They taste fatty and fake, but I like them.

This does not make me a bad person. Sure, maybe I have bad taste, but I don’t deserve to be degraded as a human being for having poor taste in coffee beverages.

Let’s leave unpleasant stereotyping out of our coffee cups, okay?

Let me and every other 20-something white girl drink our Pumpkin Spice Lattes and Instagram the fall leaves on Main Mall in peace.

Rachel Levy-McLaughlin is a fourth-year English literature student and a volunteer contributor to The Ubyssey. U

By Levin C. Handy (per http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.04326) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

“ The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” › Thomas Edison: Relentless Inventiveness Failure is no biggie. Just ask Edison. If he stopped at failure, he would never have moved on to invent a little thing called the light bulb. So if you’ve failed a class somewhere else, or have a scheduling conflict, come on over. You can catch up with our world-recognized online courses, then move on to bigger successes. Talk about a light bulb moment.

open. online. everywhere.

Learn more @ athabascau.ca/edison

6 | news |

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014

HOUSING

STATS

By Will McDonald and Peter Siemens

UBC Housing recently announced a 20 per cent increase in student housing costs starting next year. UBC says their rates will still be below market value in Vancouver. The university backs this statement up with a 2014 survey from a consulting firm. We conducted our own survey of student renters to see how the numbers compared.

UBC’s survey had 6,628 student responses, including 3,831 students living off campus, and 1,431 living at home.

The Ubyssey’s survey had a total of 2,243 responses, but the data below is based on the 1,992 responses we received from student renters. Here’s what we found:

$705

$644

Ubyssey

$823

$750

$757

$682

UBC

Cambie

Commercial

$724

Arbutus

$728

In a presentation from UBC housing justifying the fee increases, they presented a map with the average market rates students pay for housing based on their commute time to campus. The slide from UBC’s presentation took the market rates from UBC’s survey and added $60 to each average rental rate to account for the cost of cable, internet and utilities. The map above shows UBC’s numbers without the addition of utility costs. Within this map, our survey found the average student pays $714 in rent. UBC’s survey found students in these areas pay $781.

Visit ubyssey.ca for an interactive version with more information and statistics.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014

33.8% of students live

in Kits

79%

live less than 30 minutes away

$1173

highest average rent per month

4

highest average number of roomates

In UBCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s presentation of the housing fee increases, they cited McGill and the University of Torontoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s higher housing costs as evidence their housing rates are relatively cheap. Below is a table that gives a little more context. The chart shows the cost of a single dorm room per month at the major universities across Canada before the 20 per cent increase, UBC is the 14th most expensive of the major schools across Canada. After the fee increase, UBC jumps to the seventh most expensive.

| news | 7

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014 |

EDITOR jenica montgomery

8

film >>

There’s a rhyme and a reason to your Halloween film fest American contemporary cinema can’t understand. So I would say Gingersnaps is a perfect example,” said Mathijs.

That said, it’s also important to not to get ahead of yourself and load up something too psychologically traumatizing like a disturbing European avant garde film.

“There’s an overlap between where horror gets really gory and where independent or art house experimental cinema reaches out to that gory part and ‘experimentalizes’ it,” said Mathijs. “I think that’s a really exciting overlap, but I don’t think that Halloween is the right time.”

Given this advice though, horror films are not necessarily obligatory when it comes to the Halloween movie — nor are generally wellmade films either. In fact, two of Mathijs’ favourite films to watch on Halloween are Donnie Darko and Friday the 13th: Jason Takes Manhattan; the former being more of an independent sci-fi drama while the latter being considered one of the silliest sequels in the Friday the 13th franchise.

It is important not to watch alone, Mathijs added, not just to cower behind someone’s back, but because peers can be the quintessential part of the viewing.

“You should be able to share with your fellow human beings your anxieties your joys, your ability to comprehend fear and poke fun at it,” he said. “They might be fleeting relationships but essentially what you consume that evening, what you establish that night, and in different cultures and even in our own society, it’s not just Halloween,” said Mathijs.

Ultimately though, what matters is that everyone has their fair share of morbid fun by the end of the night.

“Having fun about it is an important component because it demonstrates that you’re, if you see this as a sort of a rite of passage, then it demonstrates that you’re maturing that you’re becoming responsible, that you’re coming [to] grips with the anxieties and the fears of life.

And the horror movie is as good a test for that as anything else,” said Mathijs. U <em>

</em>

</em>

PHOTO cherihan hassun/the ubyssey

Watching scary movies is a staple in Halloween celebrations, but there’s more to the process than you think.

Miguel Santa Maria Contributor

When it comes to Halloween, university students not interested in partying or pulling pranks don’t have that many options for what to do for the night. However, there is one thing that those uninterested in Halloween festivities can fall back on, and it’s inviting some

friends over, brushing off the Bluray player and having a good ol’ Hallow’s eve movie night.

But what makes a good, if not great Halloween movie experience?

After all, if one intends to have peers soil their pants, it should at least be worth it.

According to Film Studies professor Ernest Mathijs, the ideal

scenario would be a mix of having good fun while simultaneously pushing your limits.

“I’d like to think of it as double bill — you have to watch two movies; not just one,” said Mathijs.

“The first would have to be a scary movie that startles you and that sort of scares you at the appropriate moments but would other-

tv >>

Roll for Damage isn’t just about D&D

PHOTO courtesy Roll For Damage

Roll For Damage is a part of this year’s CBC ComedyCoup competition.

Jasmine Cheng Contributor

It is an exciting time for comedy shows across Canada as CBC’s ComedyCoup is underway. It’s mission: to launch the funniest and most original project into comedy stardom with $500,000 in funding and a 30-minute CBC prime time special broadcast slot which will be airing in 2015.

Already, over half of the original 285 submissions have been cut during the first round of selections.

Of the top 110 teams, one project has caught the eye of many and impressed fans immensely — despite being a relatively new creation.

Roll For Damage is a comedy show brainstormed by three talented comedians. Max Mitchell is a producer, writer, director and editor; a jack-of-all-trades. Adam Pateman is an actor, stand-up comedian, writer and authentic funnyman.

Brian Fukushima is the group’s graphic designer and prolific pen-

and-paper gamer who ensures the project scripts remain true to the game it pays homage to.

Mitchell and Pateman are both UBC alumni who attribute much of their success — and where they are now — to their time spent as students at UBC. “For me, taking the theatre program here at UBC was tremendously advantageous,” said Pateman, who has since then gone on to have a video featured on FunnyorDie. com, co-create a popular web-series and host his own half hour comedy special on CTV and the Comedy Network.

For Mitchell, his years as a student on campus were full of opportunities to learn, create, produce and hone the skills that would later on become crucial to his path as a video-producer.

Equipped with these skill sets and their sense of humour, the pair with the help of their friend Brian Fukushima created Roll For

Damage from the ground up. If you haven’t figured it out already, a significant theme of the show is based on the popular tabletop role playing game Dungeons And Dragons, abbreviated D&D, and the title references the damage roll, a common play of the game that determines the amount of damage a player inflicts with an attack. The concept revolves around five friends who get together once a week to play a pen and paper world campaigning game to escape their daily lives, which inevitably seep into the game and are slowly revealed along with their individual psychologies and personalities.

“This is a show about relatively normal people, although everyone has flaws, doing something that has the stigma of being nerdy, but they’re not playing it up as nerdy characters at all. These are not nerd characters we’ve written; they’re normal people characters who happen to have interesting lives that you could relate to,” said Pateman.

“We use the D&D one, as a way to bind them all together, and two, as a way for them to explore the psychology of the characters. And to show some really cool pictures of dragons and stuff like that,” said Mitchell.

So far, the concept has been a raging success both as a contender in the ComedyCoup, as well as with fans of online forums and social media like Reddit and YouTube.

“We’ve got a lot of pipe dreams about this project, but really I would say that if anybody who is interested in a show like this taking fruition, right now is the absolute best time to get involved in following this project.” U

wise be fairly safe and acceptable,” said Mathijs, with such classic franchises like Halloween and Friday the 13th being surefire selections.

“The good thing about that is, it’s like the character Randy says in Scream, ‘It’s a formula, everybody knows it,’ but then there are slight deviations on that formula, and those are the components that actually help you have fun. So anything that’s franchised is good for the first part of the double bill,” said Mathijs.

The second part, according to Mathijs, should be testing out your grossness endurance. With movies such as the Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Gingersnaps , a Canadian werewolf film that apparently does not limit its gory boundaries like Hollywood does.

“This is not the suburb that Jamie Curtis usually wanders in, this is not I Know What You Did Last Summer … There are issues of boundaries and frontiers that only a Canadian film can explore that </em>

</em>

<em>

<em>

</em>

THE VANCOUVER INSTITUTE PRESENTS

AN EVENING WITH UBC’S 13TH PRESIDENT

Dr. Arvind Gupta

Saturday, October 25, 2014, 8:15pm LECTURE HALL # 2, WOODWARD IRC, 2194 HEALTH SCIENCES MALL

www.vaninst.ca

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014

| culture | 9

recipes >>

Halloween desserts that will get you in the festive mood Delicious spooky cupcakes

for about 20 minutes or until done.

Halloween Rice Krispies squares

Vanilla Buttercream Icing: Ingredients ½ cup unsalted butter, at room temperate 1 ½ teaspoon vanilla 2 cups icing sugar (also called confectioners’ sugar) 2 tablespoons milk Food colouring Instructions 1. Cream butter until smooth and fluffy.

2. Slowly add icing sugar, then beat in vanilla.

Cupcakes are delicious. End of story.

Natalie Morris Staff Writer

Take your basic cupcake recipe and dress it up. Use your own recipes or these: Ingredients Chocolate Cupcakes: ½ cup butter or margarine 1 ounce (3 squares) unsweetened chocolate 2 cups white sugar 2 eggs 1 cup boiling water 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour 1 ½ teaspoons baking soda ¼ teaspoon salt ¼ cups milk 1 ¼ teaspoons distilled white vinegar

PHOTO cherihan hassun/the ubyssey

3. Add milk and beat until extra fluffy To decorate

1. Preheat your oven to 350°F

1. For multiple colours, make your own piping bags — a sandwich bag with a corner snipped off will work — and put drops of food colouring into them.

2. In small saucepan, melt chocolate and butter together and set aside.

3. Cream together sugar and eggs then add chocolate and mix well.

4. Add boiling water and blend well.

5. In a separate bowl, mix together flour, baking soda, and salt.

6. Add flour mixture to chocolate mixture and mix until smooth.

7. Mix milk and vinegar together then add to chocolate batter.

8. Pour into cupcake molds and bake

PHOTO cherihan hassun/the ubyssey

Rice Krispy Squares are an easy, but delicious, shareable dessert.

Instructions

2. Add desired amount of icing into each bag, close, and squish icing with colouring until the colour is consistent — you can add more colouring if needed.

3. Cut a small opening at a corner of the bag (the smaller the hole the more control over the icing you have).

4. Push icing towards the opening and go crazy. Icing can also act as glue for candy. U

Natalie Morris Staff Writer

An easy Halloween twist on a classic.

Ingredients 6 cups of Puffed Rice Cereal (most commonly Rice Krispies) 3 tablespoons butter or margarine 4-5 cups of white marshmallows (no matter of the size) Icing for decorating Candy to decorate Food colouring of your choice Optional: A dash of vanilla

2. For Oven: In large pot, melt butter and add marshmallows.

3. For Microwave: half or quarter the recipe and microwave until melted, stirring every minute.

4. Once melted completely add vanilla and food colouring meant for treats, stir in completely and remove from heat.

5. Quickly add cereal and stir until everything is covered.

Instructions

6. Shape treats to desired shape, or if using a cookie cutter, press into a greased pan.

1. Measure out puffed cereal beforehand and set aside.

7. Allow to cool and decorate as Halloween-y as possible. U

Dalai lama >>

Dalai Lama discusses childhood development and love

Want to write for Culture?

U

culture@ubyssey.ca

TEACH IN KOREA with the support of the Korean government!

PHOTO cherihan hassun/the ubyssey

The Dalai Lama came to UBC this week to empart some of his wisdom and teachings onto the future leaders of the world: students.

Jenica Montgomery Culture Editor

There are a few opportunities that most university students never have. One of these opportunities is having the luxury of sitting in the Chan Centre with the Dalai Lama for an intimate panel discussion. The 800 students who had this very chance were not disappointed.

His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama appeared on a panel on Wednesday morning to discuss the importance of early childhood development and the environment children are raised in. The panel discussion titled Educating the Heart in Early Years: A Dialogue with the Dalai Lama was a sold out panel discussion presented at the Chan Centre Wednesday morning. The Dalai

Lama was joined by Anthony Phillips as the moderator, Kim Schonert-Reichl, Hillel Goelman, Kiley Hamlin and John Helliwell whose research overlap in the field of child development.

The purpose of the event was to create a dialogue that highlighted the importance of western science and eastern spiritual traditions in child development and to showcase where these two traditions overlap in current research. One example of such research is Hamlin’s research on where goodness starts in toddlers and infants. Infants as young as three months, as Hamlin showed, begin to show signs of understanding and interpreting “good” behaviours, such as sharing.

Goelman’s and Schonert-Reichl’s research focused

on the factors that contribute to early childhood development.

For the Dalai Lama, love and an environment without fear and anxieties contribute to a child’s overall happiness. He mentioned a personal familial experience with his mother who used to carry him on her back as she worked, exemplifying the importance of love and closeness to a child’s development.

Though the focus was on the presentation of current research being done at UBC, the words of the Dalai Lama were not muted or weakened. The messages that he was emanating were on the importance of love in the family and creating an environment of peace within the family.

“Their source of happiness is human love.” U

Get a transformative cultural experience through TaLK! • Teach conversational English in after-school classes • Monday - Friday (15 instructional hrs/wk)

s (KRW 1.3 million) allowance d exit n a e c h orientation tran ) • One-mont million • En W 1.5 olar cation leave a V R h • e t c a K c i s f ( i t er o d etion c n • C pen ompl odatio y sti c l m h p m t i o c n • Ac • Mo arsh chol verage ce • S ance co e information r n u a s n i w l a o ebsite for mor all • Medic it our w ment se vis • Settle Plea

W! O N Y APPL

talk.go.kr www.

Contact information:

Consulate General of the Republic of Korea TEL: 604-681-9581 / vanedu@mofa.go.kr

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014 |

EDITOR Jack Hauen

dive >>

Places to Be:

Diving in West Van

“

I’ve heard that underwater you can reach a state of complete weightlessness.”

“You’re kidding.”

“You kick your flippers, and poof — ­ you’re gliding forever.”

PHOTO ian kennedy/flickr

Mormei Zanke Contributor

I had this conversation in early September with a friend who was mildly obsessed with the idea of scuba diving. He had a collection of scuba-related tales that he swore were all true. He knew a guy who saw an octopus devour a lingcod, on the Discovery Channel he saw a jellyfish dance around a seal — and did I know that crabs mated underwater?

Regardless of whether his stories were true, I was hooked.

I wanted to scuba. I wanted to achieve that state of complete weightlessness. I wanted to see a jellyfish dance around a seal.

For people tickled with the grandiose idea of space and floating in a vast expandable never-ending arena, scuba diving is your game. I too have always had that desire to strap myself to a tin can, rocket up to the moon and do a few somersaults in zero gravity.

Then I realized, instead of strapping myself to a tin can, I could strap a tin can to myself and jump into the ocean.

Essentially, that’s what scuba diving is.

It was fun as a prospect, but I had no idea how to make it more than that. It wasn’t until I stumbled across the UBC Aqua Society that scuba diving became more tangible.

I signed up for their Open Water course, which is split into three sections over the span of two weeks: classroom dive theory, confined pool sessions and open water dives. Before you can actually dive in the ocean, you have to learn the basics and get comfortable with the equipment and safety procedures.

Before the course, I thought of scuba as something you could learn in a day, like riding a bike. I figured they would give me an air tank; show a brief video and say, “Okay, you’re good to go.”

I learned that scuba diving is vastly complicated. You need to take into consideration every detail, know the ins and outs of your equipment, be conscious of the environment and know what to do in the worst-case scenarios.

The first thing they teach you in training is to breathe. That’s the most important rule: deep, continuous breaths. People can panic underwater, something could go wrong. Then, your biggest problem is your own anxiety.

I found it surprising that there would even be a psychological aspect to scuba diving, but I am embarrassed now to think I ever thought otherwise.

After the classroom sessions where we would learn what to do in theoretical situations (what do you do if your buddy runs out of air? If you dive for 30 minutes at a depth of 20 feet how long is your surface interval?), we would head out to the pool sessions.

These started off with basic skills like swimming 250 metres, how to recover your regulator if it falls out of your mouth, and communicating to your buddy how much air you have left in your tank. After the four sessions, I was feeling pretty good about my skills.

I felt like a badass suited up in my gear. I was pretty confident that if it came down to it, I could totally arm wrestle a shark and come away with only minor flesh wounds.

Then, it was time for the ocean dives.

The plan was to drive out to Whytecliff Park in West Vancouver and complete our dives over the weekend. The park is home to a beautiful inner cove that’s popular for beginner undersea diving. It also harbours a family of seals, who, if you’re lucky, will pay you a visit.

We started our trek at 8:00 a.m.

We loaded five cars with all our gear and headed out on the road, crossing the Lions Gate Bridge

10

and zipping through Stanley Park on the way. You know you’re close when the road starts getting windy and the trees slant off cliffs like a Tom Thomson painting.

There was good weather that first day and the water was deep blue. We waded into the water, inflating our BCDs (Buoyancy Control Devices) and fastening our masks on over our hoods.

To me, floating in scuba gear feels like bobbing up and down like an ice cube. Every movement is exaggerated, and you have to work really hard not to tip over.

We swam out to a buoy and were briefed on the skills we were about to perform underwater. We were to do the same ones we had in the pool, then take a tour of the cove.

Once underwater, you are struck by the drastic change in visibility.

Not only is it darker, it’s grainier too. Sand gets kicked up by fins, waves work against you and at the depth we were at you couldn’t see further than three metres in front of you.

In some ways, scuba diving is like walking onto another planet.

It’s unfamiliar, the terrain is completely different and you aren’t the dominant species. You are the alien, and that’s what makes it so exciting.

I performed the various tasks for that dive, preoccupied by the fact I was actually doing what I had waited so long to do. Afterwards, we swam around the cove, and I was reminded of that scene in Titanic where they take underwater footage of the decaying skeletal ship. There is a constant feeling of discovery and curiosity in the ocean that you just don’t get in the pool.

After three similar dives over the course of the weekend, it was time for the final dive that would determine if I pass the course and get my dry suit certification and scuba license.

The last task I had to perform was releasing my dry suit hose from my suit and replacing it.

This is no small feat. The hose is attached by a metal clip you have to push back for it to come loose.

Plus, with gloved and water logged hands the clip proves to be difficult to loosen.

I think I spent five minutes trying to do this task. I pulled and twisted and silently cursed into my regulator, which sputtered out bubbles furiously. Finally my guide, Meagan, demonstrated how to do it properly. I repeated her technique on myself and was surprised by the ease the hose came off and slid back on.

I was done. I had my license.

Breaching the surface, I couldn’t believe it. What started out as being a faint aspiration had turned real. I had done my training. I had completed my dives and I was now certified.

Now I could be the person with the crazy diving stories somebody tells their friend (none yet, but I did see an octopus).

After the dives I had a chance to talk with Meagan and Brendan, two dive instructors at the Aqua Society who have been diving for years. I asked them what advice they had for beginners.

“It can be technically unnatural, but once you get more experience you get comfortable, and then you can appreciate it. It becomes second nature,” said Brendan.

Meagan’s advice is simple: “Dive as much as you can. Keep diving.”

Of course you are always diving with a buddy, but the silence underwater, the relationship you develop with the things you see and the way you are aware of each breath you take is something that can’t be shared with anyone.

It turns out my friend was right.

Underwater, you can reach a state of complete weightlessness. U

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014

| sports | 11

Thunderbirds >>

T-BIRDS 5-ON-5

Madison guy

emily wilson

sam puddicombe

Swimming

Swimming

Alpine Skiing

emmie page

Track

leah taylor Rowing

Vibrant Vegetarians 1. What was your main reason for becoming a vegetarian?

I did it because meat tastes gross.

The main reason is because my girlfriend made me.

I started at first just because I did not like the idea of eating dead things. I now also have environmental and political reasons.

Sympathized with the beef cattle in my rural neighbourhood ... and wanted to lessen that environmental footprint.

I’m a vegetarian because I don’t agree with the way they treat/slaughter animals.

2. How does being vegetarian affect you as an athlete?

It tends to get me in trouble with my coaches.

It hasn’t affected me as an athlete much; I’m just glad I don’t have to eat a tuna concoction after games like the rest of my teammates.

Not too much. All athletes have to keep on top of what they are eating. I just do that and don’t eat meat.

If I keep a high protein and nutrient-rich diet I have improved energy levels for all athletic endeavours.

I find it somewhat hard as an athlete to get enough protein and iron and just to feel satisfied and full after a meal.

3. Athletes generally need to eat a lot of protein. How do you accomplish this?

Protein shakes, almonds and beans ... lots of beans.

Beans, beans the magical fruit ...

Protein is pretty abundant in a lot of foods other than meat. it’s a good thing I am not vegan because I eat Greek yogourt by the tub.

Meals combining nine essential amino acids, complete proteins like hemp hearts, quinoa, dairy products and eggs.

I still eat wild caught fish for protein. Also eggs, cheese, Greek yogurt, lentils, beans and lots of nuts/seeds and protein bars.

4. What’s the best place to go for a vegetarian meal on or near campus?

The Naam. It has so many options!

Graze is delicious! Although it’s not really near campus ...

East is East has a lot of good vegetarian dishes.

And on campus, the Agora Cafe has some really good stuff for cheap.

Greatest thing is you typically end up at the more creative venues: meals with flavour, colour, spices. The Naam on West 4th anytime!

The Naam, hands down.

5. If you were a fruit, what kind of fruit would you be?

An orange, because it would match my hair.

A tomato because three minutes exposed to UV equals a sunburn of epic proportions.

A Pluot. It is a confused fruit. No one is really sure if its more plum or more apricot and neither is it.

I can relate to its indecisive struggle.

Lemon: great in hot water, great in cold water. Great with salt and tequila. In fact one of the only fruits that thrives in a salty air environment.

Banana!

soccer >>

‘Birds tie up the end of regular season

file photo hogan wong/The Ubyssey

The ‘Birds have just one win in their last four games.

Soren Elsay Senior Staff Writer

The Thunderbirds closed out their regular season with a 1-1 draw on Sunday against the Trinity Western Spartans. With the number one seed for the playoffs already clinched, head coach Mike Mosher was able to rest many of his key players in preparation for next week’s Canada West quarter-finals.

UBC got off to a sluggish start, eventually conceding the opening goal in the 33rd minute. A looping free kick played into the UBC box was not cleared properly and the ball eventually found its way to Spartan midfielder Mitchell Rohla, who guided the ball inside the near post from six yards out for his first goal of the year. The Thunderbirds had to wait until the 84th minute to find the equalizer through second half substitute Sean Einarsson. Milad Mehrabi’s free kick was headed

back across goal by Bryan Fong directly into the path of Einarsson, who headed in his seventh goal of the year.

The Thunderbirds, who started the year with eight straight victories, closed the campaign with only one win in their last four games, including a pair of defeats. Despite the recent run of poor results, Mosher is “not overly concerned.”

“We weren’t particularly sharp against Victoria [a 2-1 loss on October 17], but I think a little bit of it is just waiting for the playoffs to get going … we’re looking forward to getting on with the important part of the season.”

While UBC does not enter the playoffs on a winning note, they possess a healthy, well-rested lineup thanks to their fantastic start to the season.

“Because we’ve been in such a good situation [in the standings] we’ve been able to rest players over

the last couple weekends so that we’re fresh going forward, because as soon as the [playoffs] start, games can come pretty fast and furious,” said Mosher.

The Thunderbirds finished the regular season with 33 goals for, while conceding only 7, which is easily the top goal differential in the division. The road back to the national championship, however, will not be an easy one. First up is the surprising University of British Columbia Okanagan. The newest members of the league clawed their way into a playoff spot and have played well against the Thunderbirds’ in both meetings, including a tight 2-0 UBC win on Thunderbird Field on October 4.

The Canada West quarter-finals begin October 24, when the top seeded Thunderbirds take on the University of British Columba Okanagan Heat at Thunderbird stadium at 7 p.m. U

12 | games |

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2014

Photo of the Day

PHOTO CHERIHAN HASSUN/THE UBYSSEY The Dalai Lama always reaches out to those around him.

Oct 20 answers

COURTESY KRAZYDAD.COM

Across 1- Folded food 6- Top-notch 10- Requests 14- Parisian pupil 15- Oil-rich Islamic theocracy neighboring Iraq 16- Musical Horne 17- Cassette half 18- Dupes 19- Airline since 1948 20- Cat’s stomach accumulation 22- Aboriginal 24- “You are ___” 25- Automobile shelters

26- Unobserved 29- Swiss river 30- ___ chance!

31- Highest rank in scouting 37- Inactive 39- Heston’s org.

40- Weeping 41- Gentleness 44- Quickly, quickly 45- Foot covering 46- Fortified feudal residence 48- Russian novelist 52- Windmill part 53- Conceit 54- Sans mains?

58- Banned apple spray 59- Remove water from a boat 61- Hit back, perhaps

62- Actress Russo 63- Pakistani language 64- Short literary composition 65- Flat sound 66- Hook’s helper 67- Grenoble’s river

Down 1- New Age musician John 2- Inter ___ 3- Basic monetary unit of Ghana 4- Got an earful, in a way 5- Navy builder 6- Grocery lane 7- Face-to-face exam

8- Siesta 9- Trap 10- Prince Valiant’s wife 11- Baseball commissioner Bud 12- Jack 13- Shops want to achieve high ones!

21- “Judith” composer 23- Give it ___!

25- Festive occasions 26- Single entity 27- Zero 28- Type of gun 29- Be of one mind 32- Bother 33- Incessant 34- Kiln for drying hops

Oct 20 answers

35- Russian range 36- Class 38- Trials 42- Equilateral parallelogram 43- Scrutinize 47- Peace Nobelist Sakharov 48- Rips 49- Leers at 50- Bank offerings 51- Fathers 52- Worth 54- Cover up 55- Relaxation 56- Sign of injury 57- Eye problem 60- Upper limb