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U-Pass and SSC probems, animal testing reports and empty rez rooms.

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OPENING RECEPTION 8:00 P.M. @ BELKIN ART GALLERY

The Belkin Art Gallery will be featuring B.C. artist Tom Burrows’ works from January 9 through April 12. Known for his unconventional artistic style, Belkin will be giving a talk at the gallery on Saturday. Free

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Jacob Derewenda (left) rowed with UBC for nearly four years until a shoulder injury ended his competitive career.

In life and sports, Jacob Derewenda is rowing with the current

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When it comes to sheer intensity, few sports can compare to rowing.

Though the gliding of boats across water appears tranquil, for the duration of each race, nearly every muscle in your body is strained as each rower works in tandem with his or her crew to pull their boat across the water, their successes and failures the product of years of training, sweat and a lot of pain.

Until last month, Jacob Derewenda was one of UBC’s varsity rowers — but now, thanks to a shoulder injury, he’s been cut off at the peak of his career, before one of his most important rowing seasons.

Derewenda, born in Edmonton and raised in Virginia, is in his fifth and final year of a philosophy and economics degree. He’s currently in the process of applying to law schools, and plans on going to school in Ontario or continuing at UBC. “I want to help the speed of scientific and technological progress through law. I think that law is an important aspect and one that’s not necessarily thought of too often in regards to science and technology, because there are a number of inventions or fields of study that are going to require either philosophical inquiry as to whether or not the field should be practiced or what our approach should be ethically and morally,” said Derewenda.

In novice, it’s basically like a 5,000 piece puzzle. You’re only given five pieces a day. By the time that you put it all together you can see what it can offer you and how much of a commitment it really is.”

Jacob Derewenda Former UBC Rower and fifth-year philosophy major.

Derewenda’s first semester at UBC was relatively typical, with more of a focus on meeting people than academics or clubs, but in his second term he wanted to become more involved.

“I’ve always played sports … so I looked to do that again but I also

wanted to do something new and different. I played baseball and basketball in high school and I was looking for something different so I looked at all the sports that UBC had, and I basically figured that I wasn’t good enough at anything else and I maybe could try rowing … So I gave it a shot and did pretty well,” Derewenda said. “I started September of my second year full time.”

Most weeks, varsity rowers train 11 times per week — including the infamous 5:00 a.m. rows.

Many varsity rowers — including Derewenda — started at UBC with no rowing experience, and joined the program as novices training six or seven times per week. At his peak last summer, Derewenda was rowing 12 times per week.

I couldn’t have done it without the rest of the team. It’s one thing to promise something to yourself, but it’s something completely different when other people are depending on you.”

Jacob Derewenda

“In novice, it’s basically like a 5,000 piece puzzle. You’re only given five pieces a day. By the time that you put it all together you can see what it can offer you and how much of a commitment it really is. But, because it’s done incrementally, it’s not overwhelming or burdensome.”

Derewenda’s injury — a torn labrum — first surfaced two years ago, though he remembers having shoulder pain as early as high school. While racing in Seattle in late 2014, he realized that the injury had progressed to the point where it was impairing his performance and also threatening his long-term health.

“As soon as that was done, I kind of realized that I needed to get this fixed soon. If I didn’t, I wasn’t going to be able to do a lot of things that I enjoy doing,” Derewenda said. “The unfortunate thing about the surgery being when it is is that I won’t be able to get to row for this next term — my last term — which is kind of an important season for us, because we have one of our

bigger races of the year: the brown cup, against UVic.” Derewenda, who considers himself to only be a “decent” rower, stressed the importance of teamwork in rowing — if someone doesn’t pull their weight it’s felt by the whole crew … literally. He also highlighted the impact that rowing has had on his personality and his development of a more disciplined lifestyle.

“I couldn’t have done it without the rest of the team,” said Derewenda. “It’s one thing to promise something to yourself, but it’s something completely different when other people are depending on you. When it’s seven other people or 15 other people depending on you, it’s that much more of a reason to stop whining and get about what you need to get about doing.”

I’m only taking three classes this term, but doing so with one arm for three weeks will probably be pretty interesting. I’m sure I’ll have my hand full in that regard.”

Jacob Derewenda

Having rowed full time for almost four years, Derewenda is going to have a much more open schedule for his last few months at UBC. “I’m only taking three classes this term, but doing so with one arm for three weeks will probably be pretty interesting. I’m sure I’ll have my hand full in that regard.”

Though Derewenda’s competitive rowing career is over, he plans on staying involved with the UBC rowing community and helping out wherever he can. He hopes to build awareness of the sport at UBC and encourages anyone interested to try out.

“Again, there’s no experience necessary — I didn’t have any experience … you can wake up at 6:40 when we have our morning practice, head to the Doug Mitchell Arena and just follow the noises of music and grunting and you’ll find yourself in the erg room and you can introduce yourself and say that you want to become a part of the music and grunting.” U

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EVENTS >>

AMS Events gears up for new term with events, collaborations and contests Jovana Vranic News Editor

The AMS is launching a new series of events to kick off Term 2.

According to AMS Programming and Events Manager, Anna Hillar, Frost Fest, a week of welcome-back festivities, has been a major project for the events office.

“We wanted to do Frost Fest because the past few Januaries it seems like nothing really happens on the first week, and we just wanted to change it up,” said Hillar.

The week-long event was initially anticipated to go hand in hand with the opening of the new SUB, but despite building delays, the AMS decided to pursue planning of the event.

Hillar said that the most important reason to host Frost Fest stemmed from the desire to make all students feel welcome upon starting the new year and term.

“There’s new students that come [to UBC] in January too.

They didn’t get a first week in September,” she said, expressing hopes that this event will “speak to more of the demographic.”

As part of Frost Fest, the society is hosting comedy, wine tasting and trivia nights, special lunches and live musical acts, including popular Canadian band July Talk in concert at The Pit. “People seem to be excited for [the concert,]” said Hillar.

“I don’t think we’ll be able to see [July Talk] in such a small venue again.”

For the rest of the month and term, the AMS is working on con-

NEWS BRIEFS Ponderosa residence neglect An elevator in the Ponderosa residence complex has been out of order for about two months, and residents living on upper floors are growing anxious.

Students were told that the wait for maintenance comes as a result of complicated parts needing to be ordered and replaced ­— a lengthy process, according to SHHS. Residents also reported strange noises and smells coming from other elevators in the complex in the summer and fall. These issues have since been resolved.

Students petion against mining A student group called Stop The Institute started circulating a petition asking the Canadian International Resources and Development Institute (CIRDI), a mining and resource extraction coalition between UBC, SFU and the École Polytechnique de Montréal, be shut down. The letter attached to the petition, which is addressed to the heads of the three universities, argues that the CIRDI, which is funded in part by the federal government and in part by the universities, presents a conflict of interest to the research that will be conducted at the institute.

The students behind the letter and petition expressed a desire to see the three universities conduct research on the impacts of Canadian resource extraction that is independent from funding by the federal government.

The petition currently has 1,037 signatures, including the names of environmentalist David Suzuki, UBC First Nations Studies professor Glen Coulthard and SFU English professor Stephen Collis. U

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The AMS Frost Fest is a new first week event meant to welcome back new and returning students.

tinuing to grow their support for various students’ interests, starting with a collaboration with Campus DJ, a US music competition. To participate, interested students can apply to be chosen to open for a

bigger DJ who is set to play at the Pit at the end of the month.

“The winner gets a whole bunch of prizes, cash and the opportunity to go to the main competition,” said Hillar.

UBC will be the first Canadian university to get involved with Campus DJ. In addition, the AMS will be bringing back the Last Band Standing competition, which calls on stu-

dents to vote for a fellow student’s band to win management meetings, prizes and a chance to play at Block Party.

According to Hillar, there are also two special talks planned for the month. The first is a co-presented talk with humanitarian and CNN Top Ten Hero of 2011, Derreck Kayongo, at the Student Leadership Conference.

At the end of the month, the AMS will also be hosting Canadian politician and cannabis activist Marc Emery, who will be speaking at the Frederic Wood theatre.

“It’ll be the first time he’s spoken anywhere close since he got out of prison. I think that will be a super interesting talk,” said Hillar.

Moving forward with the new term, Hillar cited collaboration with other campus organizations, including AMS clubs, The Calendar and Thunderbirds, as a main goal for expanding the reach of AMS events.

As the term goes on, Hillar encourages student groups to come chat with AMS Events about potential collaborations.

The office also hired a new events coordinator to help ensure the society can balance large- and small-scale events simultaneously.

“The AMS is here and we offer all these amazing services lots of people don’t even know about,” said Hillar, explaining the reasoning behind large promotional events. “It’s also just awesome to give someone a free coffee and they’re like ‘you made my day!’” U

SCIENCE >>

Researchers launch SPIDER telescope to study universe expansion Scott Jacobsen Contributor

Mark Halpern, a UBC professor of physics and astronomy, along with a team of researchers, is studying patterns of the early universe with a specialized airborne telescope.

Their SPIDER telescope will be searching for Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR).

According to Halpern, “this is radiation from the early thermal glow of the plasma that filled the universe for the first few thousand years.”

The team’s primary goal is to study the primordial process known as inflation.

According to Halpern, the early universe expanded extraordinarily rapidly. Halpern says the math describing this phenomena would not produce a stable universe over billions of years, even though the age of our universe is about 13.77 billion years.

A variable is missing.

“What you would expect is, essentially instantly, the universe would fly apart and be empty, or re-collapse and vanish. By instantly, I mean a tiny, tiny fraction of a second,” said Halpern.

“We’re missing part of the physics that makes the thing be stable for a really long time.”

To explain, Halpern suggested an analogy. If you were to roll a marble down the top of a downward sloped cylindrical surface such as a pipe, you would assume that it would veer to the side and fall off after a few centimetres.

“I push a marble down the top of the pipe, and a quarter of a mile

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Mark Halpern and his team are studying primordial Big Bang light patterns.

later it’s still on top of the pipe, you’re going to say I’m missing something,” said Halpern, who says the research team draws this analogy with respect to the origin and growth of the universe and the missing variable.

SPIDER was launched to search for this variable.

“We’ve built what we think are the most sensitive telescopes in wavelength regime anyone has

ever made. They can be so sensitive because they are up out of the atmosphere.” Halpern said.

The balloon-borne SPIDER telescope took 10 years to construct and will operate for 20 days over Antarctica. It operates with two distinguishing characteristics: extraordinary sensitivity and high vertical range above the atmosphere, 40km above the Antarctic, in the stratosphere.

According to Halpern, the researchers do not have explicit predictions as to what SPIDER will find.

“There is one concrete story for what happened early on, which is that in the first 10-34 seconds, the universe expanded,” said Halpern.

“The thing we’re trying to measure is, essentially, how long that lasted and just when it stopped.” U

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WILDLIFE >>

Climate change may wipe out Chinook salmon School of Economics Undergraduate Society to be finalized

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Viet Vu is the president of the Vancouver School of Economics Undergraduate Society.

Dave Nixon Senior Staff Writer

Despite setbacks, the new economics student society is on track to become an official society by the end of the school year and to set a precedent for how new student societies will be formed in the future.

New AMS constituencies don’t appear very often so the AMS has been moving forward cautiously; in November 2012, the Vancouver School of Economics (VSE) was formed and students have been working with the AMS since to create a procedure for the formation of future student societies.

“The AMS doesn’t actually have a set of rules or procedures or steps that people need to take,” said Viet Vu, president of the Vancouver School of Economics Undergraduate Society (VSEUS).

“Everyone was like ‘let’s just make sure we move carefully’”.

The VSEUS, formerly a student club, will be taking its 916 students from the Arts Undergraduate Society (AUS). In March 2014 they held their first referendum in which 89.5 per cent of 149 voters agreed to reallocate a fee currently paid to the AUS to the VSEUS. The AMS approved a procedure for establishing new student societies in August 2014 and ruled a motion to recognize the VSEUS in September 2014 as “out of order” until the

new rules could be followed.

AMS President Tanner Bokor said that was to work out a few more details with the university and internally.

The new rules involved the creation of a committee made up of members of the AMS, VSEUS and AUS, and it will be mobilized during a meeting on January 19.

“The only purpose of the meeting is to get the organizing committee set up,” said Bokor, who said there would also be a lot of general information about constituencies, in general, presented.

If the committee is not satisfied with the new society’s governing documents, it can recommend the AMS cease to recognize the society, or amend the society’s bylaws. If the VSEUS is established officially, they’ll be moving into student spaces in the Iona building.

The last student society to go through the process was architecture students, nearly a decade ago, according to AMS President Tanner Bokor. “[It] highlighted that we didn’t really have any clear protocols on how to create a constituency and ensure effective representation for students.”

“It certainly took a little longer than we had expected,” said Bokor, who said they aren’t aware of any other new societies on the horizon, “but it’ll be for the better of those students and a better result in the end.” U

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According to Anthony Farrel, there’s a 98 per cent chance that the Chinook salmon population will die out by 2100.

Edmund Henry Contributor

While the wildlife of B.C. faces many uncertainties due to the changing global climate, new research shows that the future of the Chinook salmon might be an especially grim one.

Along with several members of an international research team, UBC Zoologist Anthony Farrell found that there is a 98 per cent chance that B.C.’s population of Chinook salmon could suffer irreparable losses by the year 2100.

In their study, researchers investigated whether the Chinook salmon could adjust to changing temperatures and their limits to these temperatures, based on their heartbeat.

While human beings are able to regulate their body temper-

atures around 37 degrees Celsius, the body temperatures of invertebrate animals like amphibians and fish are determined by their environment, which is increasingly getting warmer.

According to Farrell, while salmon could adjust their physiology and even perform better in certain warmer temperatures, the Chinook salmon’s heartbeat becomes irregular and fails to function at 24.5 degrees Celsius.

“You get to a certain temperature, and then at that temperature, you go downhill,” said Farrell. “It’s a bit like falling over, you’ve got this trajectory of global climate warming [and] those couple of degrees [are] going to make all the difference.”

As the temperature of the water that is home to the Chinook

salmon continues to increase, it is possible that their former home may become unliveable in the next 85 years.

“It’s that kind of precipitous decline,” said Farrell. “Once you reach this threshold temperature, things just end in a bad way.

According to Farrell, the prospects of reversing this alarming trend look bleak. While the most obvious solution would be to put a complete stop to global warming, this type of change seems unlikely. The study suggests smaller, more realistic steps such as making habitats cooler and practicing aquaculture, where humans cultivate the salmon themselves. “[Global warming] is very easy to ignore, but I think ignoring it is one’s peril,” said Farrell. U

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Animals tested

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The total decrease in animals tested.

4.8 per cent

Category D+E Defined as moderate to severe distress or discomfort.

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Increase (since 2012) The total increase in Category D+E animal testing.

UBC has released its 2013 report on the number of animals it uses for research.

In 2013, the university used 216,450 different animals, including small and large mammals, fish, reptiles and rodents, for different types of laboratory and educational research.

UBC has released a report on the number of animals used for research to the Canadian Council on Animal Care (CCAC), which oversees animal testing and its use for science in Canada, since 2011.

While the total number of animals used for research has decreased by five per cent since the report in 2012, the number of animals used for Category D research, which is rated as causing moderate to severe distress or discomfort to the animal by the CCAC, increased by 2.55 per cent from 74,556 to 76,494 animals.

Over 64 per cent of all animals used fell into Categories B and C, which range from causing little discomfort to minor stress and pain to the animal.

63 animals were used for Category E research, which is the highest category on the invasiveness rating scale and categorized as causing severe pain to the animal. This number is a 0.01 per cent decrease since 2012, when 0.04 per cent of all animals used fell into this category. Animals that were used for both Category D and E research accounted for 32.83 per cent of total animals used in 2013.

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98 per cent of all animals used were rodents, fish or reptiles and amphibians. CCAC also divides the purposes for which the animals are used into six categories, which range from zero (breeding) to five (educational purposes). More than half of all animals used fell into categories one and two, which include basic and medical and veterinary research.

Stop UBC Animal Research, a group that has recently submitted a petition to the university to ban all types of animal use for research and presented a request to end Category D and E research to the UBC Senate in April, has continued advocating against any animal use by the university, especially ones that falls into the higher pain categories.

“One animal screaming in pain, discomfort and fear is one too many, let alone 76,496 animals enduring moderate to severe discomfort and pain, and 63 enduring severe [pain] at or above their pain threshold,” said Laura-Leah Shaw, the president of Stop UBC Animal Research in a statement released shortly after the report. “This is what science fiction novels are made of.”

Shaw also said that the university needs to shift towards research practices that do not involve live animals.

“Time will tell if UBC and their researchers are prepared to modernize their approach to research — but on behalf of the animals whose lives hang in the balance — we ask UBC to immediately stop the Category D and E experiments,” said Shaw. U

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CLUBS >>

Heart of the City Piano Program receives $10,000 grant Funding will help buy keyboards and guitars for underprivileged schoolchildren to use at home Lawrence Neal Garcia Senior Staff Writer

After obtaining her ARCT diploma in piano — the highest academic credential awarded by The Royal Conservatory — Jessie Wang wondered: “where do I go from here?”

Now, Wang — who was herself a beneficiary of volunteer piano lessons (though not from a formal organization) — is the co-director of the Heart of the City Piano Program (HCPP) Vancouver chapter, an AMS club that provides piano and guitar lessons to schoolchildren in East Vancouver.

Recently, the club obtained a Musicounts TD Community Grant worth $10,000, which will go to purchasing keyboards and guitars for students in the program to practice with at home — all under a new “loan-for-practice” initiative.

As a predominantly volunteer-driven organization, the HCPP recruits musicians to teach basic music skills to those who might otherwise not have access to such opportunities. With a varying number of volunteers (which last term numbered to just under 30), HCPP Vancouver has partnerships with nine different underprivileged elementary schools, and sets up weekly lessons (of about 20 minutes per student) for those interested — a number

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The Heart of the City Piano Program provides East Vancouver children with free music lessons.

limited mostly by the lack of available instruments.

The new “loan-for-practice” initiative, which Wang hopes will be implemented by the next school year, will hopefully change that.

“Because most of the students who take lessons with us are not able to afford an instrument at

home … this is something that we think would greatly benefit [them],” said Wang, who noted that the added practice would give students a more realistic learning experience. “It will also help us expand the program to schools that currently don’t have any pianos or keyboards.”

Aside from the volunteer initiatives, HCPP also has a Performance Troupe, a group of highly skilled musicians who volunteer not to teach, but to perform at various local venues and charity events in order to fundraise for the organization as a whole.

The majority of the funding goes towards the HCPP’s annual Year-End Recital, which gives students in the program a chance to perform on-stage at the Tom Lee Music Hall.

And while a few minutes a week may not seem like much at first, the program’s efficacy is more than just technical.

“Basically it might seem small that you’re teaching simple things to kids,” said Lydia Yeo, a volunteer teacher with the HCPP, “but it really makes a difference because at the year-end recital, even if the kid is playing something like ‘Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star’ on the piano, their parents come up to us crying and are really happy that their children have the chance to learn even something as small as that.”

“It’s more about empowering the children than actually getting them to become professional pianists, because our volunteers also serve as role models for the students whose families might not be the best conditioned for them,” added Wang. “So it’s a matter of enhancing their social opportunities through access to music.”

It seems safe to say that, with each new student and volunteer, HCPP certainly lives up to its name of becoming the heart of the city. U

FILM >>

Are one-screen cinemas a thing of the past? Love Movies such as The Interview may be changing the cinema landscape movies?

So do we.

Join the force.

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Shia Laboeuf on campus in 2011 while working on the film The Company You Keep.

Gabriel Germaix Senior Staff Writer

Under the threat of terrorist attacks on American theatres, Sony Pictures released The Interview through online platforms such as YouTube, Google Play and Xbox Video, and only showed the film in select theatres across the world. While The Interview is not the only film to be released primarily online, the media

coverage following the hacking of Sony Pictures and the success of the comedy — having made $31 million online since its release, according to CNN — shines a new light on the decline of the traditional cinematic experience. In Vancouver, the decline in cinema screenings of films has left the city almost bare of its smaller-sized cinemas.

“By the time we get to the year 2000, we see the beginning of the

demise of one-screen cinemas in Vancouver,” said Brian McIlroy of the film studies department.

“If you went from UBC 15 years ago, you could have walked down [to] the West 10th [Street] and the Varsity Cinema and you could have seen a film ... further to the Hollywood Theatre in Kitsilano and watched a movie there, you could have walked on a little bit more or taken the bus to the Ridge Theatre in Arbutus and watched a movie there. And all those cinemas are closed.”

Facing the competition of free, illegal streaming or downloading, cinemas changed from small and specialized theatres to larger commercial theatres, Cineplex appearing as a leader and model in present-day Vancouver.

The population of avid movie-goers is shrinking as cinemas close their doors to lesser-known international and independent movies that are not deemed safe bets of a $13 entertainment investment. “You might have the 5th Avenue and Burrard cinemas [showing independent movies].

Normally one or two of those screens are dedicated at least to challenging material,” said McIlroy, “The Tinseltown [Odeon International Village] as well ... because it has so many screens, they can risk with some films.”

“If you only have three or four screens, or one screen, like the Dunbar theatre, you have to take the blockbuster, because you have to fill those seats.”

That said, an alternative independent culture still lives through film festivals and arts exhibition spaces. “Usually in a medium-sized city there is one venue which is dedicated to non-mainstream activity.” Here

in Vancouver, the Cinematheque fills this role, but going downtown to see a movie might seem too far for UBC students.

Vancouver thus sees two distinct groups further divide. Some go see the blockbusters while aficionados stick to more artistic, often less visual movies.

Michael Johnston and James Mackin are both students involved in the UBC Film Society, which runs the Norm Theatre on campus. Johnston saw the near eradication of independent theatre step into reality as the Toronto cinema he worked for almost closed its doors. “The independent theatres could not keep up. Our [digital] projector [at the Norm] is $100,000 ...

It is a major investment,” said Johnston, one that specialized theatres cannot keep up with.

“Foreign films are probably the ones that are hurt the most,” said Mackin. “Any film that is nominated for the Best Foreign Film Academy Award would be almost impossible to see here ...

I have seen maybe one or two foreign films that have been nominated in the last four years that I have been here.”

As The Wolf of Wall Street became the first movie to be entirely sold in digital copies, old projectors that use film came one step closer to being obsolete and with them the struggling cinemas of Vancouver and elsewhere. With every theatre closing, UBC students have yet another step to take if they want to keep up with some of the most brilliant but also most discrete productions. Gone might be the days when sitting in a big red armchair with a box of popcorn was part of a normal Saturday. U

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City before the city: MOA’s new exhibit

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Student Luke Wallace uses film and music to spark discussions on conservation in B.C.

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MOA’s new exhibit opens on January 25 in collaboration with two other museums.

Trisha Bernardo Contributor

Vancouver is a blank canvass, a city in the making. However, there is nothing entirely new about Vancouver, at least not in the historical sense. Beneath its shimmery veneer of bright, energy-efficient lights and glass towers lies something. Before Vancouver, there was ćǝsnaɁǝm.

The society of ćǝsnaɁǝm is one steeped in culture. Just two years ago, several intact ancestral remains were uncovered at the site during an initial survey, as it was slated for development. Many protests ensued and a 200-day vigil was eventually held at the site by the Musqueam community and their supporters, in hopes of stopping the development. These events surrounding the Musqueam site helped spur the highly anticipated three-part exhibition ćǝsnaɁǝm, the city before the city, set to open on January 25.

The exhibition, according to co-curators Jordan Wilson and Susan Rowley, comprises of three different “sub-exhibitions,” one at the Museum of Vancouver, one at the Musqueam Cultural Centre and one at the Museum of Anthropology.

“They’re all opening at the same time, and they’re all related to ćǝsnaɁǝm but they address different areas or different themes in each exhibit,” said Wilson. “In some ways they’re standalone exhibits ... but in other ways they’re all connected, tied in one broader, larger story.”

The three exhibits are collectively aimed at reversing the stereotype of Vancouver being a new city.

Rowley explained that it is not right to think of Vancouver as having no history. “There was a long occupation of a very sophisticated group of communities that interacted and had a trade network and a governance system that has been here for thousands of years,” said Rowley.

The exhibits are largely products of the Musqueam community

itself. In choosing the items to be displayed, Wilson said that they worked with a “cultural advisory committee … comprised of six respected community leaders.”

They involved the Musqueam community as much as possible in the development of all three exhibits.

Vancouver is built upon complexity — Musqueam complexity.

Wilson and Rowley revealed that one of the main focuses in MOA’s exhibit will be Musqueam worldview and value. The exhibit is built upon Musqueam teachings, which Rowley briefly described as “the things that you learn from when you’re young until you’re grown up.”

She elaborates that the teachings include ancestors, territory and the “oral history of people telling their lived stories.” Teachings also encompass what can be called a deep history, the stories of how things came to be. Rowley added that the exhibit at MOA is “probably the most experimental in nature.”

“People expect to see objects, or what community members would prefer everybody to refer to as the belongings, things that people used in the past,” said Rowley. However, she noted that “there is none of those at the MOA exhibit.”

One of the features that Rowley is particularly excited about is the tangible table, “a thing that allows people to actually touch plastic replicas of the pieces.” One of their hopes with the tangible table is that it will create conversation, so that their stories add to “Larry Grant’s … or Larissa or Mary Roberts.”

Wilson and Rowley stress that the ćǝsnaɁǝm exhibit caters for everyone. Their aim is for people to interact with the Musqueam through the stories on the exhibit walls and the videos that will be present. They want us to get to know the story of the people from the city before the city. U

Luke Wallace is a fourth-year environmental geography student.

Mischa Milne Contributor

Fourth-year UBC student Luke Wallace is using music and film to raise awareness about the conservation of British Columbia’s coastlines.

His second album, The Kitimat LP, was released on December 16 and the musician celebrated with a show at the Fox Cabaret the same night. It is the soundtrack to the documentary One Big Coast that Wallace filmed over the summer of 2014 in Kitimat, B.C. The documentary will be released in January and was edited by Wallace and his friend Ali Harris. Both the album and the documentary focus on the Kitimat coastline.

Wallace began writing the album in November of 2013, and took approximately one year to finish it.

A few songs were recently played on CBC Radio over the winter break, though Wallace said he was unsure how CBC got a hold of his music.

“Right now they’re just playing my stuff because they heard it somewhere and they like it I guess, which is pretty awesome,” said Wallace.

As an environmental geography major and a researcher

for UBC, Wallace says he knew whatever he was going to do with his life would involve conservation. Born and raised in Vancouver, he spent a lot of time hiking and camping in the outdoors, which he said strongly shaped who he is today. Additionally, he is able to incorporate what he’s learned into his songs.

“I think that my writing wouldn’t be what it is and my songs wouldn’t be what they are without constantly learning new things about the planet and the way that our society interacts with it,” he said.

He first started playing music at 15, and now plays guitar, banjo and harmonica, among other instruments.

His first EP, From the Ground Up, was released in October of 2013, but the two albums are very different.

“They’re like night and day.

The ideas in From the Ground Up loosely carry over to The Kitimat LP, but Kitimat is a lot more direct and purposeful. I think through maturity and writing experience, I was able to refine what I’m trying to say.”

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He decided to film the documentary, which is supported by UBC Common Energy, as a way to connect people across the province, and to use multiple arts forms in order to deepen his argument.

“What I couldn’t say through music, I was able to say through this film in visual footage,” said Wallace.

He hopes that once people have seen the film and listened to the music they will be inspired to get involved in the discussion around the conservation of B.C.’s coastlines.

Over the next few months, there are plans for multiple screenings of the documentary and live shows throughout the province. Wallace is also speaking with the Vancouver School Board to discuss the possibility of screenings at high schools.

“I don’t think I will ever accomplish my grandest goal … to inspire every human being in the world to take better care of the planet. However, I have accomplished more than I would have ever thought I was capable of in music and film.” U

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STUDENT VOICE. COMMUNITY REACH.

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Re: Prasad’s minimum wage letter

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CIARAN DOUGHERTY Copy Editor Op-ed Having received your letter regarding the increase in minimum wage in B.C. I took issue with some of your points.

Firstly I would like to clarify that The Ubyssey did not state that an increase was a bad idea, it only questioned whether an increase of this magnitude — the proposed $4.75 — is too drastic. With this in mind, your reference to a poverty reduction plan is intriguing. Yes, an increase in minimum wage can be a part of such a plan, but only if applied correctly alongside other measures. However, that does not necessarily mean that an increase of nearly 50 per cent is wise.

Increasing wages moves our economy further from the equilibrium point of perfect efficiency than we already are, causing an even greater deadweight loss to society. We must operate slightly above that point because companies cannot be relied upon to be fair with wages.

Yet an increase of this magnitude is risky and could lead to a costly strain on the economy.

While your point that workers on minimum wage will have an increased standard of living is correct, you have ignored those who are not on that wage. People already earning at or just above the proposed new wage will suffer a drop in living standards as their living costs will go up but their wages do not. This is due to the inflation caused by the wage increase.

However, these are not the people that will suffer the most; your letter failed to address the people who are unemployed, people without work actively looking for jobs. According to John Rawls’ famous Maxi Min ethical rule, the way to increase the net welfare of society is to prioritize those who are worst off. In this situation the unemployed are in worse poverty than those struggling on the current minimum wage, and increasing that wage puts them in an even worse scenario.

Imagine an unemployed single parent who is having trouble finding work, their skill set and time are limited, then add to these inhibitors that companies have to pay <em>

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a higher minimum wage to employ them. Their chances of employment are severely diminished. And it gets worse, the increased living costs caused by the augmented minimum wage make it even more difficult for the parent to support themselves and their child.

Yes the increase may help those just below the poverty line, but only at the expense of those who are even worse off.

Now, as you said we here at The Ubyssey do understand the struggle some students go through to pay for their education. All of us at the paper are students as well and we are all working to either fund or partially fund our degrees. Yet the same logic that is applied above is also relevant to students. Sure, those of us on minimum wage would love to get an extra $4.75 an hour, but again what about those students who also really need jobs but cannot find them? It is going to be even more difficult for those with employers more reluctant to hire at the new higher rate.

Now to another of your points; companies are going to be affected by such a drastic increase. There is no way around this fact. What is a little unclear is exactly how this will affect workers. Maybe companies will not lay off workers as you say, but they will certainly struggle to hire new ones. There is also the possibility that people on minimum wage will then be given fewer hours to account for the extra costs to companies. The costs of having to pay so much more per hour for every minimum wage employee will be felt somewhere.

One final thing to consider is the loss of industry to other provinces.

With our minimum wage raised to $15 an hour, work that would have been done in B.C. may be done elsewhere, where labour is cheaper. This would be damaging to our economy as it would decrease investment, which would potentially reduce our economic growth.

Thank you for bringing up the subject as it is important for us as students to consider how it may affect us. There is plenty more debate to be had on this topic and I am hardly an expert. It should be noted that I do not believe we are currently in an ideal situation, but I do believe we should be cautious before supporting anything too radical as it could have the opposite of the desired effect. U

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LAST WORDS UBC’S ANIMAL RIGHTS PROGRESS IS GOOD, BUT NOT AN END POINT

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UBC has released its yearly report on the animals that it uses for research and, in typical UBC fashion, they want us to know all about how great they are at releasing the information when no other university does the same. While UBC definitely does the right thing by making these numbers available and accessible, we also don’t like that the media release makes it seem like being transparent about the animals that you use for research deserves praise. UBC likes to brag about being a leader in just about every area of education and innovation, so using the ‘otheruniversities-are-being-sneakyso-we-could-too’ excuse doesn’t seem cool.

And then there are the numbers themselves. While the categories about the animals used are vague (‘large mammals’ could mean anything from gorillas to elephants to giraffes), the ones on the purposes are even worse (What exactly is ‘educational purposes’? Is the term ‘basic research’ clear-cut to the average person reading the report?).

This type of information leaves many questions unanswered and even though these categories are established by the Canadian Council on Animal Care rather than the university, this doesn’t mean UBC shouldn’t do even more to keep us informed about the types of animals it is using. The problem seems to be that UBC is treating their current policy, at least to an extent, as an end point — ‘we’re better than our counterparts so we don’t have to do anymore.’ But for school that prides itself on sustainability and moral respons-

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ibility, we should strive to go for something beyond ‘better than the rest and that’s enough.’

Don’t just stay one step ahead of everyone else — go into a higher league altogether and inspire other universities by example.

SSC AND AND U-PASS PROBLEMS PLAGUED FIRST DAY BACK The first few weeks back at UBC were plagued with infrastructural and technical problems, namely a severe dearth of U-Passes and problems with the SSC. Sometimes, these kinds of problems are unavoidable. But sometimes it’s a result of poor planning and administration.

The SSC wasn’t down for long, but when students can’t access their course schedules and financial information (especially when tuition is due in two days), there’s a bit of a problem. There were probably a fair number of people who missed a class (or two!) because they didn’t know what building it’s in. In fact, this happened to some of our editors.

As for U-Passes, the problem was both technical and administrative. The machine was down for a couple hours, which is rough on what was the first day back for most people. But all machines were out of passes at least as of Sunday, which means that people either have to pay for a service that they’re already paying for (due to the machines not being refilled in a timely manner), or they simply don’t pay and chance getting fined a couple hundred dollars. Our editors know a few people who were caught at UBC without change, leaving them unable to pay the fare for transit even if they wanted to.

The U-Pass program is great, and we understand that it’s

probably a challenge to keep it organized — but if things don’t go according to plan, some sort of alternative should be made available and the problem should be remedied as quickly as possible.

EMPTY REZ ROOMS AND OVERCROWDED FLOOR LOUNGES Some of our editors have heard this week that there are certain rooms in residence that are currently unoccupied following the winter break. One member of our staff has knowledge of several rooms in Fairview Crescent that have remained empty since exchange students left in December.

While we have very little knowledge of the reasoning behind this, it does seem odd considering the reported demand for rez at UBC. We can only speculate but it would be a little worrying if students on the waitlist were not lined up to fill these spots. Yet right now that is apparently the case; residents of four-bedroom townhouses reported that some of the rooms in their houses are vacant with seemingly no indication of an impending new tenant.

Hopefully the ever-dependable Student Housing and Hospitality Services (SHHS) has a solution to this problem. However, we at The Ubyssey are more than a little concerned that there are rooms free at this time of year.

If it’s just a matter of the rooms having been vacated by single-term exchange students, the problem should be easy enough to solve: balance the numbers of exchange students in rez in each semester. Whatever is done, don’t let rooms sit empty when hundreds desperately want them. U

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SPORTING AFICIONADOS The most extraordinarily knowledgeable coterie of gaming authorities one could hope to assemble in 10 minutes of searching Taco Bell dumpsters.

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Nick Adams

CJ Pentland

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Known for length, adored for girth.

Man of the people, god of the lizards.

Enjoys fluffy kitties and popcorn. Together.

Former dictator of defunct ex-Soviet nation.

Arcane philosopher of exoskeleton proportions.

Men’s soccer broke my heart so I’m giving it to women’s basketball.

The women’s field hockey team continues to amaze.

The women’s cross country team also ran really fast.

Women’s hockey.

The Ubyssey sports section.

Not football.

See above.

Football is obvious, but the women’s soccer team again couldn’t make nationals and saw Andrea Neil step down.

Football.

Whichever one lost the most.

Football.

3. Who’ll be the best team for the rest of the year?

Women’s softball, stealing bases and hearts.

Both the men’s and women’s basketball teams will pump up the jams and make nationals.

Men’s hockey?

Rugby.

Well, I guess the one that wins the most games/ races/general sporting events.

4. How will the football team look next year without Shawn Olson?

Angrier and hopefully more Friday Night Lights-y.

Rejuvenated, but still a year or two away from winning a conference title.

Good, according to what other people tell me.

There will be less facial hair. Or maybe more. Get on it, Coach Nill.

I don’t see why they would change their outfits just because Shawn Olson’s gone.

Beer. Free beer. Whiskey.

Free whiskey.

SFU vs UBC. Find a way to make games happen.

Offer free food and games with prizes.

Partnering with the Calendar seems to be working out pretty well for them.

I want sparklers, fireworks, loud (good) music, the whole shebang. And I guess the sports team needs to win the sports thing too.

Polo. With horses and caps.

Flonkerton, the national sport of Icelandic paper companies.

Competitive Zumba.

Judo would be neat.

I want to see the caber toss come to UBC.

7. Best recreational activitiy on campus?

Sex.

Campus golf reclaims the title for the third straight year.

Zumba, kickboxing.

Quidditch!

Napping in the aquatic centre counts, right?

8. If you played a varsity sport, what would it be?

See above.

Flonkerton.

That would never, ever happen.

Probably track (longdistance running).

Varsity caber toss (obviously).

1. Best team of the first semester?

2. Most disappointing?

5. How can UBC increase attendance at games?

6. Which sport would you like to see played at UBC, that isn’t?

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T-BIRDS 5-ON-5 AMAZING AMERICANS

DANIELLE LEMON

BRANDON UNDERWOOD

KARA SPOTTON

Hockey (Madison, Wisconsin)

Hockey (Carlsbad, California)

Basketball (Fort Collins, Colorado)

DAVE SCOTT

ELIZABETH SWOBODA

Football (El Paso, Texas)

Soccer (Livingston, Montana)

1. What made you decide to come to Canada for university?

I was debating a few different schools at the time, but when I came and checked out UBC campus I fell in love. I knew this was the place for me.

I hold dual citizenship (USA and Canada) with family up here as well.

I chose Canada because I love maple syrup and hockey. I also really like UBC’s business program and Vancouver.

My mom was originally from here, so UBC and SFU were always options and UBC ended up being the best opportunity for me.

I decided to come to Canada for university because I had the opportunity to play soccer and receive one of the best educations in the world.

2. What would you say is the most “Canadian” thing you’ve caught yourself doing?

I now say “hockey” instead of “hackey.”

Making fun of Americans.

Needing to buy Timmies coffee before my 8 a.m. classes.

Talking weather in the much less precise Celsius scale.

Either saying “hey?” at the end of certain sentences or frequently stopping by Tim’s for a double double!

3. What’s one thing you still just don’t understand about Canada?

Apparently there is a desert? Osoyoos?

The misuse and abuse of the word “sorry.”

I just don’t understand why Canadian football has so many different rules compared to American football rules.

How people can survive the winters.

I don’t understand the weather here! In Montana it either rains or snows, nothing in between like the weird misty rain.

4. What’s the biggest difference between playing your sport in Canada and the US?

Through different summer hockey camps I had met Graham [Thomas] and really liked how he coached.

Biggest difference in my sport is definitely the popularity. Hockey is part of the culture up here.

In Canada a lot of the players can dunk. Kris Young has a crazy windmill dunk — her vertical is like 40 inches.

Canadian football is all around way different than American football, but it’s more of a passing game, so I love it!

There are definitely more people who call soccer “football” up here!

5. Name one other Canadian place you’d like to visit and what you’d want to do there.

The Yukon — apparently there is a lot of money in mushroom picking. I have also always wanted to go sailing in Nova Scotia.

Toronto — strictly to hang out with Rob Ford.

I would like to visit Tofino. I would really like to learn how to surf while I’m there.

Montreal or Quebec City to experience the French Canadian culture.

I would like to visit Lake Louise again for the spectacular views, hikes and great skiing it has to offer!

FITNESS >>

Where to go to keep your fitness resolutions in 2015 Jack Hauen Sports and Rec Editor Now is the time of year when those pesky New Year’s resolutions start nagging at the back of your mind. You can no longer use the excuse that you’re hungover or ate too much holiday food, because you’re already a week

into 2015. It’s time to get off the couch. Luckily for you, we’ve compiled some information to get you started: The Bird Coop The most popular student gym on campus is also the most crowded.

Located in the Student Rec Centre near the bus loop, the Coop costs <strong>

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just $30/term and contains pretty much every machine and free weight you can ask for from a student gym, at the cost of extreme crowdedness at peak hours. Good luck getting a squat rack with Johnny Six-Plate and five others in front of you.

Rez gyms They’re not great. At all. They usually consist of a treadmill or two, a few stationary bikes, and a couple basic strength or bodyweight machines, and not much more. Marine Drive’s is <strong>

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better than Totem Park’s or Place Vanier’s, but still probably lacking if you need to do a full routine.

If you need an hour of cardio, residence gyms might be your best bet, but anything more and you’ll want to find somewhere with a bit more variety.

The Aquatic Centre Completely free with your student card, it has a basic weight room with free weights and machines and a cardio section consisting of a treadmill, a rowing machine and a few stationary bikes. It’s <strong>

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We’ve taken the liberty of gathering some information to help you get in shape this year.

surrounded by UBC’s pool, steam room and sauna, making it a nice spot if you like a post-workout dip, soak or steam.

Gold’s Situated in the University Village and under completely new management than during its slightly shady past, Gold’s boasts the finest equipment around and is definitely the most elite gym near UBC. If you demand an all-around great space to get your pump on, you can get it — just expect to pay the price. U <strong>

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