November 17, 2014

NOVEMBER 17, 2014 | VOLUME XCVI | ISSUE XXIII DEBATING SHENANIGAN SINCE 1918

UBC GAMBLING RESEARCH CENTRE OPENS

AMS STRATEGIZES AGAINST FEE INCREASES

STUDENTS MAKE HUMOUR GREEN

The centre recieved $2 million to study the psychology behind gambling problems.

An outline of the society’s plans to mobilize the student body against UBC’s fee increases.

Environmentalist comedy enters competition for funding to produce web series.

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VENTURE CLINIC

Shaun Wilson is responsible for ensuring that AMS events run smoothly.

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The UBC Social Enterprise Club is hosting its first venture clinic of the year, in which you have the opportunity to brainstorm with a local organization — Bridge for Health — and come up with solutions to challenges they face. $5

Head of AMS security Shaun Wilson keeps events fun and safe

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Block Party, the Welcome Back BBQ, concerts at Thunderbird Arena and events at the Norm — you’ve likely been to a multitude of these in your career at UBC. The appeal of these events, organized on AMS property, lies in the opportunities for beer gardens, dancing and chatting with friends and taking in new experiences — that’s what student life is all about. But sometimes things don’t go as planned, and it’s important to know that you and everyone around you is safe: this is where the elusive AMS Security team steps in.

Perhaps they have gone unnoticed to you, but each AMS-based event is aided by a team of 16 security guards. Their aim is to promote safety alongside a good time — and with most employees having student status, their focus is to ensure the best possible time at UBC for everyone.

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Each year it’s my goal to try to help a club do better, and have a bigger event than they’d had the year before — whatever the club is.”

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Shaun Wilson sees himself as an advocate for UBC students, and it’s hardly surprising, considering he attends almost every single AMS event year-round. As the AMS security and facilities manager, Wilson is involved in some way with every AMS-based event, whether it be put on by the AMS themselves, or an event held by one of the many clubs and societies around campus.

Now that is no small feat, even for someone with the experience of Wilson.

Before working at UBC, Wilson worked at universities in the States, travelling around the Midwest each Saturday to promote university football games.

Coming from such an infamous-

ly glorified background of US college sports, Wilson is keen to build UBC events up to bigger and better levels each year.

“Each year it’s my goal to try to help a club do better, and have a bigger event than they’d had the year before — whatever the club is,” stated Wilson. “I’m excited for what students can pull together as far as campus community and club events.”

Wilson has worked with the AMS for four years, but played an active role for several years previous to that as an events security manager for Block Party and Thunderbird Arena events.

Now, Wilson is managing a team of well-trained, student security guards, working up to three events each day all over campus.

However, Wilson’s favourite event to attend on campus is Block Party.

My goal going forward is to take the success of these events and the overall positive outcome to prove that UBC is a really fun campus — we could have so many more events than we currently do.”

Shaun Wilson

“The popularity of Block Party keeps growing, there’s been a steady stream of really enjoyable talent that’s been coming to UBC. My goal going forward is to take the success of these events and the overall positive outcome to prove that UBC is a really fun campus — we could have so many more events than we currently do,” said Wilson on what he sees to be the future of UBC events.

His opinion could definitely resonate with huge numbers of students, and that is what Wilson loves about his role.

“We’ve been selling out every single time, and the issue we’ve had is a really great one — there are several thousand people who show up to events (such as Block Party or the Welcome Back

BBQ), and limited capacity.”

Wilson is heavily involved in the planning of these annual events, as co-chair of the AMS health and safety committee, and is currently in meetings for the location of this summer’s heavily anticipated Block Party.

Not only the head of AMS security, Wilson also manages security at B.C.-based Shambhala Music Festival each summer, where his experience leads him to new visions for the UBC community.

“What that experience gives me is a clue into some of the biggest parties in B.C., and so I bring all the effective techniques we use there, and I would say the spirit of celebration to the work and assistance I give in planning to the clubs here. I always tell clubs to think big, and we’ll figure out a way to make their visions work.”

Wilson’s role is by no means just based around events security — he has a lot more up his sleeve. Emails start flooding into his inbox from 7:00 a.m., and don’t stop until the SUB closes at 2:30 a.m.. Each day involves some general maintenance work, three or four meetings, and on occasion, tours of the Nest — Wilson gives students and clubs tours of the new building approximately three times a week.

Keen to make effective changes to the safety of students in everyday life, Wilson is heavily involved with campus security and the RCMP to target thieves on campus.

“Because of the diligence we’ve been able to have and the partnership we have with campus security, we’ve cut down thefts in the SUB by about 80 per cent in the last few years,” said Wilson. “These incidences are way down, and that’s because we’ve been able to get the ‘nogo’s’ banned from campus.’

Shaun Wilson certainly is a useful guy to have around. Next time you see him patrolling the SUB, helping out your club’s annual event, or stopping thieves, make sure you take a moment to appreciate the hard work on the part of him and his team — UBC certainly wouldn’t be the same place without him. U

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RESEARCH >>

Centre for Gambling Research launched at UBC

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UBC researchers The research centre will be home to the study of addiction and problem gambling aim to streamline vital bloodKelley Lin thinning drug Senior Staff Writer UBC’s new Centre for Gambling Research hopes to shed more light on the psychology of gambling addictions.

Luke Clark, director of the research centre and UBC psychology professor, had relocated his research from the University of Cambridge to UBC last year in order to stimulate gambling addiction research in the B.C. community.

“It’s quite a young [and] fast moving area of research because we’ve seen that a lot of the technology behind gambling has changed in the last decade or so — particularly machine gambling, which is one of the main things that we’re interested in,” said Clark. “This is a field that’s in the public spotlight at the moment and I think that the centre’s come about at a really good time here.”

The B.C. government, along with the B.C. Lottery Corporation (BCLC), has funded the centre with $2 million to conduct its research.

Clark also said that the centre’s intent is to stray from the historically conventional studies of gambling psychology. Only recently has problem gambling been considered within the same realm as other addictions and studied as such.

“Our research is really [focused on] the psychology and also the neuroscience of gambling behaviour,” said Clark.

“I think our approach is some-

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UBC’s Centre for Gambling Research will house a lab complete with slot machines and other casino games.

what unusual in that we look at both the features of the games themselves, [while] taking quite a modern public health approach to gambling. We really put the emphasis on that interaction or that interplay between the game and the gambler.”

According to Clark, one feature of the new centre is a stateof-the-art casino lab, housing modern slot machines and other ordinary casino games.

“There’s only been a couple other facilities like this around the world,” said Clark. “We’re starting to do some work looking at the state of immersion or absorption that a lot of machine gamblers describe where they just lose track of time or they lose track of their surroundings.”

This simulation of the casino environment will allow researchers to study the behaviour of gamblers under the safe, controlled conditions of the lab.

“It’s really going to help us focus in on particular features of the modern game, and also the psychological effects that the modern games have,” said Clark.

Since the opening of UBC’s Centre for Gambling Research, Clark and other members of his research team are aiming to expose the vulnerabilities of gamblers to addiction, while also exploring the importance of responsible gambling. U

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Admin members drop out of BARTalk on fee increase proposals

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The BARTalk was held on November 13 at The Gallery Lounge.

Veronika Bondarenko News Editor

Last week’s BARTalk consultation on the proposed residence and housing fee increases took place in the absence of two of UBC’s key players.

Despite an earlier commitment to attend, VP Students Louise Cowin and Vice Provost and Associate VP Enrolment and Academic Facilities Angela Redish decided to forgo the student discussion. On November 12, AMS Events, who organized the event along with The Terry Project UBC, announced that the list of panel members had changed to no longer include Cowin and Redish.

The event, held on Nov. 13 at The Gallery, was originally planned as an opportunity for students to ask

questions on the proposed increases in an informal environment.

Some of the panel members included MLA for the Vancouver-Point Grey riding David Eby, AMS President Tanner Bokor and student activist Ilana Shecter.

In a statement, UBC spokesperson Susan Danard said that after some thought, Cowin and Redish decided against attending this consultation.

“UBC is in the midst of a consultation process with students regarding the proposed increase to international tuition in support of the Board of Governors decision-making process and, upon reflection, Cowin and Redish believed it was best to stick with the consultation process that was agreed to with student representatives at the outset,” said Danard in the statement.

The statement also said that Cowin and Redish have attended three Town Halls and eight student meetings and still remain committed to student consultation on the increases.

Eby said that it was disappointing to see university officials back out of a discussion that was so crucial to shedding light on the reasons for the increases and the financial pressures that the university faces.

“One of the reasons why I was excited to attend was to hear firsthand from the administration about the financial pressures they face, so that I can use that information to pressure the government in Victoria,” said Eby. Gordon Katic, a master’s of journalism student who acted as moderator at the BARTalk, also

said that Cowin and Redish’s absence affected the quality of the talk and left a significant gap in the discussion of the panel members.

“I think the conversation would have been enriched if they were there, certainly,” said Katic.

“It was missing the perspective of university officials who are the ones who are making these decisions, so it was disappointing.”

According to Eby, Cowin and Redish’s decision not to attend the talk reflected poorly on UBC’s approach to student consultation.

“I think it sent the message that the administration is indifferent to the concerns of students, that they don’t feel that they need to answer questions and that they’re not going to answer questions,” said Eby. U

A UBC research team has created an antidote to the second most prescribed drug in the world: heparin.

Heparin is used extensively to prevent the formation of blood clots. According to Jayachandran Kizhakkedathu, head of the research team and UBC pathology professor, it is a vital and life-saving drug.

Kizhakkedathu said that one to three percent of the global population use heparin. It is not only used for the regular treatment of cardiovascular disease but also in most surgeries and all dialysis procedures.

Although heparin has the potential to save lives, it can also cause excessive bleeding even when used in regular doses. Such bleeding can be harmful to patients, leading to various clinical complications.

“There are at least a dozen heparin derivatives available, so there is an antidote, reversal agent available but there is no better drug than ‘infraction antidote,’” said Kizhakkedathu. “This means that patients with bleeding have to go through some other procedures that are quite expensive.”

After a treatment procedure such as surgery, heparin must be neutralized so that patients do not experience excessive bleeding that leads to delayed recoveries. Currently there is only one antidote to heparin on the market, which costs between $7,000-8,000 per patient and only treats one strain of heparin.

Kizhakkedathu and his team of researchers have created a new antidote that treats all 12 strains of heparin in order to decrease the incidence of excessive bleeding during treatment procedures. “[The researchers] wanted to develop a new molecule that can neutralize and reverse the activity of all heparin instead of one, so this is what we started with,” said Kizhakkedathu.

The antidote is made out of a polymetric material and is currently in the preclinical stage.

Kizhakkedathu said than in order for a drug to be developed further it has to go through several steps.

The first step is testing the antidote in small animal models and the second step involves moving on to larger and more complicated models.

“We were able to show that the molecule is non-toxic and was tested in many animal models and many in vitro studies and we tested it as much as we could in the lab,” said Kizhakkedathu.

The new heparin antidote can also be made right in the lab, which makes it more stable and easier to process. Kizhakkedathu hopes that, with help from investors, this antidote can become available on the market in the next three to five years. U

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OPPOSING

THE HIKES

by Jovana Vranic

FOLLOWING THE AMS’ STRATEGY PLAN FOR MOBILIZING AGAINST UBC’S FEE INCREASE PROPOSALS

On October 28, the AMS held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) and passed seven motions outlining actions that the society should take to officially oppose UBC’s international tuition and winter session housing fee increase proposals.

One of these motions bound the AMS to the promise of mobilizing the student body in protesting against the hikes.

To act on this, the AMS organized a demonstration on Thursday, Nov. 13. Roughly 60 society members and students gathered at the event’s peak.

The protest played out similarly to the October 24 #IAmAStudent march. Both assemblies led participants on a route from Koerner Plaza, down Main Mall, and through the west end of campus, making stops at the common spaces between the housing complexes of the Place Vanier, Marine Drive and Totem Park residences.

The trek was organized by the AMS in collaboration with the #IAmAStudent movement.

The AMS recently passed a strategy plan for opposing the fee increases. As a result of it, a working group and an advisory group were established to address matters pertaining to the opposition plan.

“The role of the advisory group is to be inclusive of all of the representatives of the stakeholder groups, such as the RHA (Residence Hall Association), the ISA (International Students’ Association) and all of the constituency presidents, whereas the working group is more of a concentrated group that sort of figures out the logistics and actual actions,” said Ava Nasiri, AMS VP Admin.

According to Nasiri, the AMS’s strategy plan tackles the fee increase debacle from two angles: speaking for individual students’ concerns through their constituencies, as well as by representing the student body as a whole.

At its AGM, the society was also called to support student groups who wish to organize themselves against the hikes. Nasiri has been

a key player in materializing this commitment.

As chair of the Student Administrative Commission (SAC), and an active member of the #IAmAStudent campaign, she found herself in the position of main liaison between #IAmAStudent and the AMS. “It all happened very organically,” said Nasiri. “I’m pretty into the things being planned [by #IAmAStudent] so it all just makes a lot of sense.”

As the go-to AMS executive for mobilization against the hikes, Nasiri handles many of the SAC’s recent responsibilities.

“Through SAC, we (the AMS) have been communicating with clubs in an outgoing active manner,” she said.

Two emails have been sent out to clubs to inform them of the Town Halls held by UBC administration, the AMS-organized protest and all of the consultation procedures that students are able to participate in.

To reach out to the rest of the student body, the AMS has also created a social media campaign

with Thunderclap, an online platform for mass sharing, through which they hope to reach up to 40,000 students.

At the Nov. 13 protest, AMS VP Academic and University Affairs, Anne Kessler, outlined the principal aim of the society’s strategy plan, which her office had drafted.

“If I have one goal coming out of this, other than the actual [fee increase proposals] being undone, it’s that every student on campus would know that this is happening and know that they have an opportunity to have their voice heard by the university,” she said.

Nasiri shares Kessler’s concern about informing students that the AMS can be a platform to voice their opposition to UBC’s proposals.

“Obviously, for a protest, you need protesters,” said Nasiri.

“It’s important for students to be interested and find protesting to be an avenue to voice their concerns.”

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Increases are announced to the AMS.

Redish and Pollard meet with the AMS to discuss the increases in more detail, provide reasons for them.

Another meeting with the AMS, discuss Policy 72 among other things.

AMS passes statement officially opposing fee increases.

AMS meets with Cowin and Farrar to discuss budget allocation.

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She believes the protest was successful in this regard. “I think all of the students that spent their time [at the protest] had an opportunity to do that.”

The fee opposition working group will be meeting again this week. Nasiri expressed certainty in the group’s ability to pull together another demonstration within a couple of days if necessary.

If not, the AMS will carry on representing students at the negotiating table with UBC administration, along with continuing efforts to support student mobilization.

“We recognize in the actions we’re taking, we have to cater to a wide demographic of students,” Nasiri said. “Not everyone is a protester, and also not everyone is the type to fill out an online consultation, so we’re trying to be as diverse as possible to sort of give everyone an option to participate, whatever their preference may be.”

The entire society — constituencies, committees, clubs and

all — has set aside time to ensure that students are properly informed, mainly through Outreach AMS, and the SAC, and are aware of the support being offered.

Any groups wishing to organize events in light of the student body’s opposition can receive funding and materials from the SAC, through an online form, with approval by the AMS working group.

“We try as much as possible to avoid a very long, bureaucratic process,” said Nasiri. “Time is a-ticking, and students need their money for projects related to this topic as soon as possible.”

The AMS is bound to the obligation of representing its membership, and Nasiri believes the society has done a remarkable job of doing so in terms of speaking up against UBC’s fee increases. That said, she also reminds students that the entire process hasn’t been simple.

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year and being a student just like everyone else alongside that, I have this on top of everything,” she said.

According to Nasiri, many people assigned to the working and advisory groups have also missed classes and assignment deadlines as a result of opposition projects and consultations taking priority.

“It’s an added thing,” she said.

“It takes up quite a bit of time.”

Constituency presidents have been working to inform and gather the opinions of their student membership to take to consultations with university administration and many AMS Council committees have been tasked with responsibilities surrounding budgeting and planning for fee increase opposition.

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Seven motions passed at the AMS Annual General Meeting.

AMS meets with UBC and other students groups (GSS, ISA, RHA) to discuss housing increases, and the fact that bringing more mental health services to UBC is great, but shouldn’t come at the expense of more fees for students.

AMS approves strategy going forward on the tuition increases at Council, directs different groups to establish specific steps and actions.

Tanner Bokor writes a letter to Arvind Gupta, asks to improve student consultation, saying that previous one was insufficient with regards to both time and manner of holding them, asks that final decision on the increases be moved to February instead of December.

AMS allocates $2,700 for groups mobilizing against the tuition, this allows different groups to apply for funding.

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MUSIC >>

Five weeks in and CiTR’s Shindig is picking up

CiTR’s Shindig is 31 years young and expanding every year to help local bands get their foot in the door.

Yoki Li Contributor

CiTR’s annual Shindig is back for its 31st year and it’s already underway. Twenty-seven bands were chosen from about 100 submissions to compete over nine weeks until December 16 before the semi finals in January and finals on February 6.

Shindig has become one of the longest running music competitions in Vancouver, running since 1983.

“The idea of Shindig is to introduce the world, or the music community to some of these bands that no one has heard of,” said Ben Lai, host of CiTR’s

Shindig since 2001. “It’s also to introduce the bands … to play at bigger venues [and] in front of people because it’s sometimes … very hard to get [a] foot in the door.”

The competition welcomes a variety of different genres including comedic bands, acoustic singer-songwriters and classic punk rock bands. Lai sees Shindig as an opportunity for aspiring bands to “get their act together” and provide them with good exposure and networking to continue producing music after the competition.

Each week, three bands battle it out in front of the judges in

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hopes of making it to the next stage and win one of the top three prizes. The prizes are designed to help bands start their music careers. Prizes include recording time, showcases at Music Waste Vancouver and Canadian Music Week in Toronto, music industry consultations, poster printing, a night out with Mint Records and much more. Last year’s winners, WAR BABY, went to bowling and karaoke with Mint Records and performed at Music Waste 2014.

Previous winners also include The Salteens, 3 Inches of Blood and Sleuth. Famous losers of the competition include Japandroids,

You Say Party and Mohawk Lodge.

The five judges are often active members of the music community.

Previous Shindig participants, local musicians, music journalists and CiTR DJs have all sat in the judging chair. Lai commented on trying to have a diverse group of judges due to the wide variety of genres and because “judging is so subjective,” he said.

This year CiTR is also compiling comments and summarizing feedback from the judges and Lai hopes that it will be more constructive for the bands.

Shindig also aims to attract more student bands in the future.

They tried to accommodate students by moving the competition to the middle of October so members can get the band ready in time to send in a demo. Lai said CiTR was “excited” to have three student bands competing. However, two of the three had to drop out because they were unavailable during Christmas and the two school terms meant some of the students would not be in Vancouver for some parts of the competition. Even so, Lai is still optimistic and said they will try and “[work] out the kinks” and they “totally want student bands involved” and help them get a foot in the music industry.

But Shindig is more than just a competition, it is also a way for the people of Vancouver to be exposed to a wider range of music that they otherwise won’t have the chance to listen to. “Generally speaking the bands are good,” said Lai. “So it’s kind of like if you want to go out one night and just be crazy … you might find something you like.”

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Bottom of the Queue: Bad Milo!

Sam Fruitman Contributor

It’s a Sunday night, you’re lazing on the couch avoiding your dreaded homework, browsing through the endless treasure trove of laughably bad movies on your Netflix account. What to watch? It’s a daunting task, not one to be taken lightly.

Luckily for you, The Ubyssey is here to make that decision easier. From zombie stoners to space Nazis, no premise is too far-fetched. All of them will be carefully scrutinized, painstakingly inspected, all for your benefit.

If you’re a connoisseur of cheap horror comedies, Bad Milo! is the one for you. The film centres around Duncan (Ken Marino) as he develops stomach problems caused by a gremlin-like creature with a thirst for murder setting up shop in his intestines — yes we’re serious.

The official Netflix synopsis tells it better, however. “A man has so much stress that a creature has grown inside his digestive tract — and pops out now and then to kill whoever’s causing him problems.”

No, that wasn’t a mistype.

Some notable supporting characters include Duncan’s faithful wife Sarah, played by a far more reserved Gillian Jacobs (of the Community persuasion), as well as Duncan’s eccentric healer-therapist Highsmith (Peter Stormare), a sage-like warlock graced with an extended knowledge of gremlin creature mythology and many key plot-moving details. The real show-stealer, however, is Milo, the adorable, intestine-dwelling killing machine that could very well have been a rejected Muppet. He really grows on you as the story unfolds, and by the end of the film you’ll wish it was your bowels he was crawling back inside.

The bottom line: if campy horror comedies are your thing, watch it.

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Irish supergroup The Gloaming perform at the Chan Centre

The Gloaming is a collection of notable Irish musicians.

Lawrence Neal Garcia Senior Staff Writer

A man is hunched over on a few planks of wood, a hammer raised in his left arm. He is surrounded by open water, which ripples outward from the force of the last hammer-strike. He is building a bridge. A bridge to nowhere.

That is the cover image on the eponymous debut album of The Gloaming, an Irish (super)group — “super” because each musician is well-known in their own right — that blends traditional Irish folk music with a contemporary style.

Formed in 2011, the group consists of Martin Hayes (fiddle and

violin), Iarla Ó Lionáird (vocals), Thomas Bartlett (piano), Dennis Cahill (guitar) and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh (hardanger fiddle) — all world-renowned musicians in a range of musical genres.

On November 15 they made their Canadian debut at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, their last stop in a three-week tour.

Though from varying backgrounds, the group was united by a desire to push boundaries beyond their individual cultures, which has resulted in music that is recognizably Irish in tradition, and yet reaches far beyond.

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“I was very confident about one thing: that what they had done, I had not heard before and that there was something else happening,” said Lionáird during a pre-show talk, of the first time he heard Hayes and Bartlett playing together.

For many, it’s something that can be said of The Gloaming’s music as a whole.

Vocal tracks like “Song 44” and “Necklace of Wrens” are grounded

by Lionáird’s sean-nós (literally translated as “old style”) singing, accompanied by swelling, soaring strings. Both performances, which resounded through the walls of

the Chan Centre, were stirring medleys of sound; but if there’s one thing that stood out, it was Bartlett’s approach to the piano, which he used to its fullness — plucking the interior directly, or tapping its exterior percussively.

The music is dreamlike and haunting, fitting given that the lyrics of both songs are taken from Irish poems filled with surreal imagery.

The majority of their music however, consists of reels — which refers to both the traditional folk dance and the music that accompanies it. Characterized by simple rhythms and melodies performed with increasing tempo, reels like “The Sailor’s Bonnet” will sound familiar — at least in their basic grammar — to anyone even remotely familiar with Irish music.

The reels often begin languorously, with Raghallaigh’s and Haye’s fiddles accompanied by Bartlett’s measured piano keys and Cahill’s controlled strumming.

At times, the tracks even dip into more experimental territory, giving the performances an improvisatory, almost unrehearsed quality, before building to the lively, infectious tunes that one would be hard-pressed not to tap along to. Watching them perform is to witness musical celebration in its purest form: just five individuals wrapped up in the swirling, joy of music, seemingly oblivious to anything else.

Although their music goes back decades and centuries (both lyrically and musically), they imbue the ancient with a contemporary sound, blending the two, rather than sacrificing one for the other.

“Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness,” quoted Raghallaigh from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Wind, Sand and Stars halfway through the concert. He used the quote to describe their approach — and the approach of Irish artists in general — to ages-old folk tradition, where they do not add to what has been passed down, but rather strip it down to its elements, until only the essential nature remains.

Encapsulating this is a 16-minute track simply titled “Opening Set” (which they closed with), where Lionáird’s yearning vocals give way to the instrumentals, showcasing the full range of their talents. Played separately, the melodies might be unexceptional, but together they become unlike anything you might have heard before.

Only after the last note reverberated through the cello-shaped halls of the Chan Centre did I realize that their album cover doesn’t depict a man building a bridge to nowhere.

It shows a man that, like The Gloaming, is building a bridge to yet uncharted waters. U

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Koerner Quartet mixes old and new musical styles

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Koerner Quartet played their first show in October; their second will be in February and will feature songs by Elvis Costello.

Gabriel Germaix Senior Staff Writer

In October, they played Beethoven, Haydn and Brahms. Next time, it will be a musician from the Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame.

The Koerner Quartet of the Vancouver Academy of Music (VAM) will play Elvis Costello’s The Juliet Letters — a surprising piece in the pub-rock master’s discography — at their next concert in February. Costello is not only known for his first pop albums at the end of the 1970s, but the British singer-songwriter is also known to have had a fruitful collaboration with the </em>

Brodsky quartet in 1993. The hour-long voice and string quartet partnership shows accents that one might compare to parts of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody, and is assuredly different from the repertoire that the Koerner Quartet is used to playing.

“The quartet genre has been around for about 250 years. It was basically created by Haydn, the famous composer,” said Joseph Elworthy, cellist in the ensemble and executive director of VAM. Their last concert “Nothing But The Classics” featured “three heavy-hitters and sort of very traditional classical” <em>

figures of the genre, according to Elworthy.

The group settled on three modern anglo-saxon composers for their post-Valentine’s Day concert, “Notes of Love & Protest.”

“All of the iconic composers not only wrote for quartets, but arguably their finest works were string quartets,” said Elworthy, citing the example of Beethoven’s early-, middle- and late-period productions.

This extensive classical repertoire does not however discourage Elworthy and his three colleagues — Jason Ho,

Emilie Grimes and Nicholas Wright — from performing modern composers.

“Of course we would play the classics and stuff from composers who are dead, I guess,” said Jason Ho. “But there is a lot of exciting new music being written, and we are very passionate about promoting that and bringing that to audiences.”

Ho is a UBC alum and second violin both in the quartet and in the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. He attended UBC as an undergraduate student before moving to Cleveland.

“I was fortunate enough to move back to Vancouver and to work and live in the city that I love,” he said. Vancouver is also the home of VAM’s composer-in-residence Jocelyn Morlock.

Morlock will work with the quartet on their next concert and will be able not only to interpret her original work, but also Costello’s, as she is the Costello’s touring orchestral music consultant. “She tours with [Costello] across the globe,” said Elworthy.

To have such an asset has proven decisive in the choice of the program. “We are really fortunate to work with the composer so we know exactly what she wants,” said Ho. “You can’t beat it.”

This is one of the many reasons why Koerner Quartet chose

contemporary composers. Another one comes from Elworthy’s personal history. “I remember when I was a university student at Yale, when Elvis Costello came up with this really ... far-reaching CD called The Juliet Letters,” he said.

“Elvis Costello, at that time, still had that kind of punk-rocker iconoclast thing working for him, and then here he is, coupled with a very well-established English string quartet.”

“We all have our kind of bucket list of things that we would love to play,” said Elworthy, who will bring his acolytes back in his own youth memories, next February.

Both Ho and Elworthy also want to bring the love of this very particular music to the next generation. “I just loved the fact that as a young person I could appreciate popular music and classical music in one listen,” said Elworthy.

“Hopefully we can reach some new audience members, because I am sure there are a lot of fans of his music out there,” said Ho. The Koerner Quartet promises an intimate frame for its next performance, where the audience will be able to “hear [the performers] grunt,” one that will allow it to hear Costello’s music “straddle the pop genre and the classical genre in a very artistic kind of way,” said Elworthy. U

WEB SERIES >>

Become an environmentalist with Green-ish Sam Fruitman Contributor

The condition of the environment, although a popular topic in today’s media, is still an issue that many people know little about. Greenish , an entry into this year’s Telus STORYHIVE competiton, aims to reinvigorate environmental issues with the aid of comedy.

The Telus STORYHIVE competition, now in its second year, offers contestants from Western Canada the chance to apply for one of 15 $10,000 grants to produce an original pilot for a web series. The 15 winners then enter to win one of two $50,000 grants to produce their entire web series. Contestants will be relying on votes from the general public to get the money for their projects.

Green-ish , created by a team of seven UBC MFA and BFA students in the creative writing, theatre and journalism departments, aims to use real-life local environmental issues ­— such as the Enbridge pipeline and the disappearance of bees — as the driving force for the story of the web series. The creative team consists of MFA creative writing students Ryan Bright, Kyle D’Odorico, Michael Orlando, joint MFA creative writing/ theatre students Justin Neal and Sasha Singer, as well as BFA creative writing student Chloe Rose and master of Journalism student Jordan Wong. <em>

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The team is optimistic that their concept will succeed due to it’s originality.

“I think there’s a lot of information out there about what the [environmental] issues are, but not a lot about how to approach them,” said Rose.

“Our silly, bumbling team sets out and tries to deal with them in ways that are ridiculous, but not that far off from what people might actually think would help.

And we do intend on being educational each time by showing [viewers] what they absolutely should not be doing. Then our audience can say, ‘Well that’s stupid, of course you shouldn’t do that, you should be doing this instead,’ and then they’ll think, ‘Well why am I not doing something about it?’”

The comedy aspect will be one of the hooks of the series. Greenish centres around a ruthless socialite who forms an environmental group of oddballs to get back at her conservative mayor ex-husband. The rag-tag group of environmentalists will tackle a local Vancouver environmental issue in each episode.

Bright details the delicate balance between comedy and promoting awareness for real environmental issues. “We had a long conversation about how to do this in a way that could be funny, but [not in a way that makes] fun of environmentalism itself, because that was the furthest from what we wanted.” <em>

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“The characters are going to be bumbling idiots a little bit, so hopefully that’ll be really funny, but the issues will be very real, researched and we’ll have links to actual research that [viewers] can do themselves. The idea is that people who aren’t into environmentalism will hopefully laugh, as well as learn something, even if they don’t realize it,” said Bright.

The series includes a large and diverse ensemble cast, in an attempt to appeal to a wide viewer demographic.

Rose affirmed that “The location, as well as the issues we’re going to touch on, are all very Vancouver-based. And the fact that it’s on the web, it’s going to be accessible everywhere.”

The team plans to make use of their UBC connections for promoting their concept, as well as gaining viewership from students. “Because the show is local, and we’re all UBC students, I can foresee potential episodes being filmed here,” said Rose. “UBC is actually a very green campus, as far as the standard goes, so it’s interesting that this is our demographic. We can assume that there are a lot of students here that are interested and who will be somewhat informed [of the environmental issues]. And that’s our target.”

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Ask Natalie: On courteous drunkenness

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LAST WORDS BARTALK 13 ENDED UP BEING VERY UNLUCKY When it comes to the tuition and residence fee increases, we’ve written a lot about the importance of engaging in the consultation process with the university. We’ve hammered on and on about showing up to the Town Halls in order to have your voice heard where it can make the most difference. And while we still believe that doing all that is important, that was also before UBC pulled its latest and ‘greatest’ blunder: having Louise Cowin and Angela Redish back out of a scheduled student consultation at The Gallery last Thursday.

The BARTalk was a chance for students and university officials to talk about the increases in a less formal environment. It was an opportunity for students who may not feel comfortable speaking up in a public Town Hall to ask questions in a more familiar venue.

And it was, of course, also a chance for the university to say more about the financial pressures that they’re facing from the provincial government in order to help us see their side of the situation and try to understand why these increases were necessary. When UBC makes a decision to forgo such an opportunity at the last minute (and, to add insult to injury, provide no

reasons for doing so), the message that they send speaks volumes.

UBC can go on and on about how they are committed to student consultation and care deeply about our opinions on the increases, but their latest string of actions clearly says otherwise. And reminding us that they have consulted students repeatedly? Holding three Town Halls and meeting with student representatives is great, but it is also not nearly enough if UBC wants to claim that they are not talking to students merely as a formality. But who are we kidding here? Maybe that’s what it always was. At this point, the onus is on UBC to prove us wrong. U

CBC article paints unfair portrait of Vantage College EMILY TYHURST Letter

I’m sure many of you have skimmed through the latest article CBC has produced about UBC Vantage College. If you haven’t, it’s less than flattering. The article paints a picture of privilege and cost, and casts the Vantage program in an accusatory light with respect to the tuition and housing increases.

I currently am employed as a TA for UBC Vantage College MATH 100, and I did take the job knowing full well the rumours surrounding the conception of this shiny new project. But I let go of my misgivings because of what Vantage College can and should be.

I do believe strongly in the international experience, and I believe that UBC’s support of international students is a good move. In today’s global economy, it is important to have experience of other cultures and language to participate in discourse across the globe. I also appreciate that UBC tries to work both ways, providing many international experiences for local students that have subsidies and scholarships attached.

To provide students who do not have the language abilities to catch themselves up and become part of this dialogue is a smart move.

There should also be a careful emphasis on finding students with ability, whether they have the financial means or not. As with gifted international students, there should be scholarships available for those without the financial means to attend. Given the opportunity, these students can do amazing things for the entire world — and that includes our country and its citizens!

In addition, UBC’s mandate has been increasingly focused on research and innovative practice in education. Vantage College is the ideal place to implement new

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teaching strategies. The smaller class size allows us to provide close support to the students as new challenges are presented to them.

For the record, I believe the creation of a “Vantage-exclusive” area is a mistake with respect to integrating the students. Making exclusive residences may create a safe space for the students to be with others experiencing the same language struggles — but it is also a form of “ghettoization” in which the students will be less likely to make contact with local students.

It would be of benefit to both UBC’s housing crisis and Vantage’s integration strategies to place both Vantage and non-Vantage students together. After all, did you have a lot in common with the people on your floor in res? Did you still become friends? I thought so.

I’m going to end this letter by noting that while you get informed and involved with the politics of UBC’s current financial struggle, please be sure to direct your energy in a positive manner. While the article produced by CBC News was mainly impartial, it had a few buzzwords such as “privileged” and “elitist.” The article implied that Vantage’s target audience is from China. Yes, we have a majority of students from mainland China, but we also have many students from all over Europe, Asia and the Americas. Vantage promotes its resources equally.

If you voted last year in the AMS election, you would have answered the referendum question “Should Vantage College students be considered UBC students?” The majority voted yes. Should you meet one of these individuals, don’t pass judgment. You don’t know how they got there, or how hard they had to work. And if you’re feeling like making a new friend, why not ask them how they feel about the philosophy of Vantage College, and where they’d like to see it go in the future?

Emily Tyhurst is a second-year

Honours math and physics student, and a TA for MATH 100 at Vantage College. U

Advice

“I love going out with my friends, but I know that I always turn out to be that drunk friend people have to take care of, what should I do?”

Clearly you know the answer to this; stop drinking as much. It really is that simple. As the saying goes, “know your limit, play within it.”

You can do it — I believe in you. But just in case you need a bit more than a “go get ‘em, tiger,” here are some hopefully helpful tips: Hard liquor will catch up with you, and by that point, it can be too late to turn the tide of your night.

Shots can be fun but they pack a punch and everyone knows that’s how Houdini died. Beers and coolers may seem less exciting but when you’re throwing up in someone’s bathroom and your friends are quietly fighting about who has to take care of you this time, you may wish you picked a less fun route. <strong>

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For at least one night out of five your friends had to take care of you, take care of your friends. We all know that one friend who always ends up being the drunk parent, so give them a night off. They will remember it and when it is you giving compliments to random people they will be much more willing to rein you back and apologize for you. (Even though, “I was complimenting them, Rebecca — why are you saying sorry?”)

If you find yourself unable to hold back this is when you have to look seriously at your lifestyle.

If you can’t trust yourself to hold back, you should not be drinking.

One other thing to do is to thank whoever took care of you the previous night. Even a quick, “Oh I feel terrible, but thanks for making sure I got home” text can make the person feel better about their night (which, even if you don’t remember, involved chasing you down, stopping you from fighting that guy, getting you on the proper bus, and finally walking you home even though you were “too tired” and “the ground is my bed now.”) As an experienced drunk mama, this morning text is much appreciated.

“Hey Natalie, I love advice so much that your weekly column isn’t enough for my advice needs!”

Oh hey person that definitely isn’t me, have you ever heard of ALL EARS, the marvellous student advice radio program at CiTR (101.9FM)? It’s run by the amazing Mormei and Brandon and it’s just lovely. Tune in every Wednesday at 6:00 p.m. to listen to more advice! (This is a shameless plug, but at least I’m honest about it!)

Need advice? Write to Natalie at asknatalie@ubyssey.ca. U <em>

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Men’s volleyball ‘Birds burned by Bears

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UBC fell just short in a clash of the top two teams in the Canada West conference.

Olamide Olaniyan Staff Writer

Coming into the weekend, the UBC Thunderbirds boasted a 8-2 conference record, and held second place in the Canada West conference.

That all changed as they went head-to-head with top league contender and number one-ranked Alberta Golden Bears. The Thunderbirds fought long and hard in both games but in the end were completely overwhelmed.

The first game on Friday saw a four-set loss, and on Saturday a five-set loss, but what was apparent in both games was the Thunderbirds lack of execution in the moments when it counted.

“We battled — we battled real tough, we fought point-for-point but just couldn’t make the plays when we needed to make the plays, especially when it came down to those late moments in each set,” said assistant coach Ken Li. “We had lots of chances to make plays, and we just didn’t make those plays.”

The usual suspects led the Thunderbirds offensively. Secondyear Irvan Brar and third-year Mac McNicol had 14 kills each, and middle Alex Russell slammed in a total 11 kills in the game. Fourthyear and setter Milan Nikic had a whopping 42 assists in the game.

Defensively, fifth-year Libero Ian Perry made the most digs (eight) and also had four assists.

However, despite great effort from the team, they were unable to stay the advance of the Bears. Alberta’s lead attacker Ryley Barnes hit 25 total kills and setter Brett Walsh tallied 57 assists.

The Thunderbirds managed to dominate the first and third sets on Saturday, making them look like sure winners for the game.

Set scores were 25-16 and 25-17, respectively. In the first set, the T-birds made an eight-point run towards set point from 12-11 before the Bears reared their head, but even then, only managed to slow the ‘Birds advance. The third set witnessed UBC overtake Alberta with a seven-point spree due to efforts from all the players, and put the Bears away.

“We served really tough today, we put them into a lot of trouble, especially in the first and third sets,” said Li. The Bears then fought back well in the fourth to push the game to a fifth, decisive set. The final set started out in favour of the T-Birds with wide swings from both McNicol and Brar, but then they faltered, allowing the Bears to take multiple point leads, allowing Alberta to finish off the Thunderbirds for their second loss of the weekend.

But even with two losses, Li was still optimistic.

“It’s about consistency. It’s going to be good for us in the long run.

Maybe we don’t have it right now but hopefully it will carry on and we’ll be able to learn from these experiences, learn from these moments where we have opportunities we don’t take advantage of and hopefully it all comes together by the end of the year,” said Li. McNicol had 17 kills in this game, Brar got 13, and fifth-year Chris Howe took in a total seven kills in the game. Nikic continued to be a major contributor for the Thunderbirds with 38 total assists during the

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31 Kills Saturday game. Perry made nine digs throughout the match, many of them key.

“I think our setter Milan Nikic set a really good offense for us, he really got our guys into good hitting situations,” said Li. Moving forward, the T-Birds will host the University of Winnipeg Wesmen at the War Memorial Gym next week. They are not a frequently mentioned name when talking about competitors the Canada West Conference, even though they are tied for the second position with UBC at the moment, with two games in hand. The Thunderbirds will not take them lightly.

“They’re a team that usually flies under the radar, but they are a good quality team and we have to prepare for them,” said Li. The ‘Birds will take on the University of Winnipeg at 8:00 p.m. on Nov. 21 and 7:00 p.m. on Nov. 22 at home. U <em>

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Thunderbird women’s volleyball splits weekend vs. Alberta

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The women took a hard-fought five-set match on Friday night, but fell to the Pandas on Saturday.

Olamide Olaniyan Staff Writer

On Friday night, the UBC Thunderbirds prevailed against the top-ranked University of Alberta Pandas in five sets (26-24, 9-25, 27-25, 23-25, 15-9).

This victory did not come easy for the ‘Birds, as they struggled at various points in the game, including losing the second set by an unfortunate 9-25 score.

“There are two ways to look at that [set],” said head coach Doug Reimer, who leads the ‘Birds in his 18th season. “First of all, it’s not acceptable the way we played there, just overall it can’t be that bad.”

“Having said that, once it has happened, the mentality has to be that ‘it’s one-all’ and we had to come back and play.”

The rest of the game was a long battle between the two teams as the Thunderbirds won the third set 27-25, and the Pandas overtook the ‘Birds in a race for the fourth set with a set score of 25-23, driving the game to a fifth set. The T-Birds dominated the fifth set, with Libero Juliana Kaufmanis defending well, and attacks from fifthyear Abbey Keeping and thirdyear Danielle Brisebois giving UBC the much-desired set and the game.

The following day, the Pandas gained revenge against the Thunderbirds, beating them 3-2. Set scores on Saturday were 22-25, 25-20, 25-15, 23-25 and 15-11. UBC again held Alberta at bay to take it to a fifth and final set. This time, however, they were unlucky.

“I thought Alberta put a lot of pressure on us with really good defence, and part of the time we responded well. We definitely had some absent flows, both as individuals and as a group, but I thought we had a lot of people step up and play well,” said Reimer.

The fifth set saw an initial surge by the T-Birds, with as much as a 6-3 lead in the opening minutes of the set that made them look like sure winners, but the visiting team recovered well and managed to lead for the rest of the race towards game point.

Several Thunderbird attacks went wide, allowing the Pandas to catch up. Keeping slammed one down the middle giving the ‘Birds hope when down to 12-10, and jostled at the net to make it 13-11, but in the end, the Pandas stopped them in their tracks.

Again, Brisebois held it down the entire game with 21 total kills. Her continuous kills from the outside repeatedly put her team ahead. She gave a stellar

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performance with the most kills from both games. She also made some very vital digs.

“It’s very encouraging just to see her consistent level of offence for us, 19 kills after four sets, it means she’s given us a really good opportunity there,” Reimer said.

Other attacking leaders were Keeping with nine kills, followed

by Rosie Schlagintweit and Alissa Coulter making eight kills each.

Kaufmanis again led the defence with 18 digs total, and Schlagint-

weit showed up big time again with 10 digs in the game.

The substitutions also seemed to make a big difference for the ‘Birds on Saturday, in which they made about six subs per set.

First-year Laura MacTaggart and fourth-year Kelsey Clarke made a huge difference in the home team’s push for a win. Clarke made four aces in the first set, eight total assists in the game and 10 digs in the game, while MacTaggart smashed in several backcourt spikes, especially in

important times like the fourth and fifth set.

“Contributions from subs coming in really helped. Kelsey (Clarke) is one. In the fourth set I thought Laura (MacTaggart) coming in helped us, and I would say almost all the people that we brought in off the bench gave us a positive spark,” said Reimer. “So it’s something that bodes well for our team moving forward.”

The ‘Birds will face the University of Winnipeg in their last home games of the year on Nov. 21 and 22. U

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Women’s hockey winning streak snapped by Alberta

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The T-Birds split the back-to-back to cap off a tough weekend for UBC against Alberta.

Jenny Tang Staff Writer

For the first time since November 24, 2012, the UBC Thunderbirds women’s hockey team lost a game during regulation time. After a 3-1 win on Friday, the ‘Birds went on to lose to the University of Alberta Pandas 4-2.

UBC was on a five-game winning streak, including the win over the Pandas the night before.

This is also the first time since the aforementioned 2012 date in that the Pandas have won against the

Thunderbirds on UBC’s home ice.

The ‘Birds opened the scoring in the first period, after the Pandas had two penalties within seconds of each other. The 5-on-3 advantage gave ‘Bird Kelly Murray the chance to flick the puck in the corner of the net at the sixth minute.

Rushing to bite back, the Pandas attempted to get one-on-one with goalie Samantha Langford, but ‘Bird Celine Tardif threw herself (literally) on the line and managed to slide past and block the shot

whilst flat on the ice.

The Pandas tried again in the ninth minute of play and Alberta’s Amy Helfrich managed to shove the puck between Langford’s legs to tie the score at 1-1.

Langford was peppered with shots almost constantly before Panda Alison Campbell scored two more goals. By the end of the first period, the ‘Birds were looking at a 3-1 Pandas lead. This was the first time that the ‘Birds had three goals against them in one period. Langford was then

relieved by Danielle Lemon.

With the game still 3-1 in the final period, the ‘Birds pulled Lemon to add an extra player on the ice. This was almost a disaster, as the Pandas got the upper hand and almost scored a wraparound goal, which was saved by captain Sarah Casorso, who acted as goalie.

Campbell then completed a hat trick in the third period after a quick shot off of a pass from Tess Houston to regain the Panda’s two-goal cushion.

UBC attempted to pull Lemon again in the eighth minute of play, and it worked. ‘Bird Logan Boyd then went on to score in the 11th minute on powerplay.

Unfortunately, UBC’s luck and offence would end there, as the Pandas skated away with the victory.

Bench boss Graham Thomas was disappointed with the game.

“We had a game plan going in today, but we did two or three out of the five things we said we’d improve on, we didn’t have a full buy-in and execution from everybody so I think that it was a disappointment. Some players weren’t at their best today,” he said.

Thomas was confident in the team’s ability to bounce back, though, particularly Langford who had led the team to victory on Friday night as well.

“Sam’s been able to grow so much, she’s been playing great for us, she led us this Friday, and she’s back with us now. I know that maybe today she’d want a couple of those goals back from today. Maybe in hindsight we should have been a bit more cautious, but she’s a good player, she’ll bounce back.”

Between Langford and Lemon, they stopped 12 of 16 shots fired at the Thunderbird net. Their Alberta counterpart Lindsey Post stopped 21 of 23 shots. The ‘Birds also went on two-for-10 on the power play, whereas Alberta finished 0-for-3.

This game also commemorated ‘Birds Nikola Brown-John, Sarah Casorso and Tatiana Rafter’s 100th games. In recognition of this, each of them was awarded a golden helmet, as is UBC tradition.

Next weekend, the ‘Birds will prepare for their final road trip to face off the Manitoba Bisons in Winnipeg. Their last home games of 2014 will be against the Calgary Dinos on November 28 and 29. U <em>

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Riled-up Thunderbird rugby runs over Ravens in 37-18 rout

UBC now takes sole possession of first place in the Canadian Direct Insurance Premier League.

Soren Elsay Senior Staff Writer

The UBC Thunderbirds continued their exceptional start to the season on Saturday with a 37-18 win

over the UBC Old Boys Ravens.

Coming off a loss to the defending champions from James Bay, the newly promoted Thunderbirds bounced back to improve to 5-1 for the year, good for first place

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in the Canadian Direct Insurance Premier League.

After trading tries early on, the Thunderbirds jumped in front in the 18th minute when Liam Murphy-Burke intercepted

a Raven lateral at midfield and returned it uncontested for the try. He was back at it again seven minutes later. After a long dash down the left flank, the UBC winger absorbed a jarring hit from the Ravens’ defender and simultaneously was able to find Sam Jeffries for the walk-in try.

The Ravens added a penalty at the stroke of half time to cut the score to 21-10 at the half.

The second half did not start smoothly for the Thunderbirds as they were forced play a man down for 10 minutes after they had a man given a yellow card for an intentional knock. The Ravens took control of the game while up a man, scoring a try in the 48th minute to cut the lead to six. They would add a penalty to close the deficit to three but that would be as close as they would get.

Once the ‘Birds got their man back on the field, the game quickly turned in UBC’s favour. After a good spell of possession, Brock Staller converted a penalty to restore the six-point lead at 24-18.

On the ensuing kickoff, Jeffries returned the ball to the Ravens’ goal line with a breathtaking run down the left sideline before flipping the ball to Jorden Sandover-Best for the try. The capacity crowd, who braved the chilly conditions at Lord Rugby Field,

roared with approval as the surge pushed the Thunderbirds’ lead to 29-18 with 20 minutes to play.

Jeffries would get in once more with three minutes remaining before Staller added another penalty for good measure in the closing moments to cap a satisfying win for the young Thunderbirds.

UBC head coach Rameses Langston was proud of the way his team battled through adversity on its way to the win.

“With the yellow card and some of the other things that happened, we showed good resiliency, we kept competing and really woke up towards the end,” said Langston.

Despite the strong start to the campaign, Langston knows that there is work to be done for his young team playing its first year in the league. The first 10 minutes of the second half were case in point.

“Being a young team, playing against men, we sometimes find ourselves in a bit of a backing off state,” said Langston. “The current effort is to try and continue [at a high level] for a full 80 minutes of rugby.”

The Thunderbirds will try to put together a full-game effort next Saturday when they travel to play Burnaby Lake RFC on November 22. U <em>

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12 | GAMES |

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Photo of the Day

PETER SIEMENS/THE UBYSSEY Morning view of Mt. Baker from Marine Drive.

NOV 13 ANSWERS

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ACROSS 1- Skin of the upper part of the head 6- Minn. neighbor 10- Blubber 14- More tender 15- Silver screen 16- Switch ending 17- In spite of 20- Conscription org.

21- Communication medium 22- Become less intense, die off 23- Lummoxes 24- Web address ending 25- Sail completely around

32- Chancy 33- Zeno’s home 34- Person, slangily 35- Building additions 36- Sucrose 38- Capital on the Aare 39- Sprechen ___ Deutsch?

40- Top-notch 41- Island near Sicily 42- Cannot be found 46- RR stop 47- Extremely 48- Be gaga over 51- Surmise 53- Actor Beatty 56- Divide up 59- Winglike parts

60- Lash mark 61- Seventh sign of the zodiac 62- Shout 63- Till stack 64- Syrian president

DOWN 1- IRS IDs 2- Dove sounds 3- Skills 4- Actor Ayres 5- Seclusion 6- Disunion 7- Round object, often used to store computer data 8- Chip in

9- New Zealand parrot 10- It bites you in your sleep 11- Type of song, to be sung solo 12- Habit 13- Theater box 18- Beancurd 19- Gymnast Comaneci 23- Assns.

24- Perpetually 25- General Powell 26- Ran in neutral 27- Israeli desert region 28- Menu words 29- Clear as ___ 30- Rich cake 31- Poet ___ St. Vincent Millay 32- Lucie’s father

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36- Caribbean dance music 37- Family card game 38- Infant 40- Late bloomer 41- Cooking wine 43- Sharon’s land 44- Happenings 45- Repose 48- An apple ___...

49- Strike out 50- Opaque gemstone 51- Feds 52- River to the Ubangi 53- Pen points 54- Poet Pound 55- Six feet under 57- Snake eyes