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Class action lawsuit alleging UBC’s negligence in damaged sperm case continues.

Primarily UBC-based band to play show at Koerner’s on Tuesday.

Indie film isn’t dead in Vancouver and the fight against fee increases isn’t over.

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After speaking out about a series of offensive emails and tweets, two UBC professors have been threatened with a lawsuit from a prominent American philosopher.

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Some students may have noticed that the post office red and white have left the Student Union Building. In its place, a pop-up shop featuring several local brands has opened its doors. Dave Greenfield, Vancouver native and owner of street wear label Nomad Collective, has claimed a spot for himself.

A retail opportunity at UBC doesn’t come around very often, so when Greenfield and several other local designers heard the news that a room on the first floor of the SUB was available, they took full advantage of the situation.

“The owner of Lucky Babe, one of the other brands in the store, contacted the campus and found the space, and I came on board with them. There are a couple other brands in the space, and we’re all Vancouver brands.”

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Greenfield’s brand, Nomad Collective, specializes in design-

ing streetwear and snowboards.

However, there are options for everyone at this pop-up shop.

Lucky Babe is known as a ringleader in the Vancouver leggings revolution and Lavish Tee is reputed for street-smart shirt designs. Pretty Girl Swag completes the boutique, bringing a collection of unique accessories.

Up to now, [the business’s growth] has been mainly online and through word of mouth, and we’ve recently started doing pop-up shops. The goal is to get into five different stores by the end of 2015.”

All of these labels possess a distinctive West Coast aura, and Nomad Collective is perhaps the most Vancouver-esque of them all. The brand’s identity stems from Greenfield’s personal experience.

Born and raised in Langley, a township in the Greater Vancouver Area, Greenfield completed his post-secondary studies at Ferris State University, Michigan. Upon graduation, he entered the job market as a new automotive engineer, but was hard-pressed to find any job openings.

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During his time as an intern, Greenfield came up with an idea to start his own brand and, unlike many others with similar ambitions, he turned his idea into reality.

The inspiration for the name ‘Nomad Collective’ came from his adventures, which include a spending a season in Whistler and a 10 month backpacking trip across Europe.

“Travel, adventure and snowboarding were some of the biggest influences for me,” Greenfield said.

Greenfield created his label with a focus on these three things, and has stayed true to them since.

Like any other business owner, Greenfield has faith that his label will continue to pick up momentum.

“Up to now, [the business’s growth] has been mainly online and through word of mouth, and we’ve recently started doing pop-up shops. The goal is to get into five different stores by the end of 2015.”

Greenfield’s aspiration is to become a true fashion designer, selling his products at wholesale to retail shops around Vancouver.

Greenfield had these words of advice for aspiring entrepreneurs: “you have to be super passionate about what you’re doing; there are a lot of hurdles, long hours, and not much reward at the beginning. But as long as you’re passionate, and really love what you’re doing, things will keep moving forward.” U

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ACADEMICS >>

Class action lawsuit alleging UBC’s negligence continues A group of men is suing the university over hundreds of damaged sperm samples Dave Nixon Senior Staff Writer

The class action lawsuit alleging UBC’s negligence led to the destruction of over 400 men’s sperm, many of whom were undergoing radiation therapy that might affect their fertility, when a circuit breaker tripped at a sperm bank in 2002 has won another victory towards proving UBC liable.

UBC placed an exclusion clause in most contracts that would have exempted them from liability in the loss of frozen sperm, but a recent court decision ruled that sperm qualifies as property of the men that produced it and a different set of rules applies, making exclusion clauses irrelevant.

“Because [sperm] was property, it fell within the Warehouse Receipt Act and therefore the exclusion clause was found to be invalid,” said Art Grant, one of the lawyers representing the class-action suit.

The act overrules any exclusion clauses by requiring the business storing property to be liable.

“You can put all sorts of clauses in your contracts but you can’t exclude your responsibility of a warehouser of the materials,” said Grant.

UBC had argued that they used the standard of care necessary and that all sperm donors signed agreements limiting liability. About 26 of the men said that they had never signed any agreement but the recent decision makes it irrelevant. The exclusion clause, signed or not, is no longer valid.

The class action is seeking damages between $20,000 to $100,000 for each of the donors.

HOUSING >>

Conditions in Ponderosa residence complex showing no signs of improvement

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Construction of the Ponderosa residence, was rumoured to have been rushed, leading to many maintenance issues.

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The lawsuit against UBC over hundreds of destroyed sperm samples was first opened in 2002.

The lawsuit has been progressing since 2002, when a circuit break tripped and cut off power to the freezer holding the sperm samples. The alarm system didn’t kick in, and the sperm were damaged.

The freezer that failed had been purchased in 1987 from Forma Scientific Inc.. A representative from the company recom-

mended that freezers be replaced around every 10 years.

The class action must now attempt to prove UBC’s negligence — the next court date is April 27.

“We’ll be making a number of arguments about UBC’s negligence,” said Grant. “The system they used was inappropriate, the backup system was non-existent, the checks and balances non-existent.”

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UBC spokesperson Susan Danard released the following statement when asked for comment.

“UBC recognizes this was an unfortunate situation and empathizes with those directly impacted. The university takes this matter very seriously and looks forward to an early resolution. As the matter is before the courts, we cannot comment any further at this time.” U </em>

ASTRONOMY >>

UBC astronomer helps discover new planet Ivana Litaveez Contributor

UBC astronomy and physics professor Jaymie Matthews recently contributed to the discovery of a new planet light years beyond our solar system.

Matthews, a principal mission scientist for Canada’s first space telescope, directed the investigation which confirmed the existence of a “Super-Earth” planet 2.5 times the size of Earth and 12 times its mass. The planet, officially named HIP 116454 b, is 180 light years beyond Earth.

The Super-Earth could be “a miniature version of the ice giant Neptune,” said Matthews, it orbits close to its star.

The planet could alternatively be more Earth-like, made of three-quarters water in high moisture contents in its materials.

“This would be the more exciting possibility,” said Matthews, “giving more hope that if there are other planets [in that solar system] they will have water ... one of the criteria for potential life.”

According to Matthews, it’s highly likely for the team to find more planets orbiting the SuperEarth’s star.

“Multiple planet systems are very common, and if you find one planet it’s unlikely to be the only one there,” explains Dr. Matthews, “especially if it’s something comparable to Earth in size.”

This discovery opens the possibility of finding life beyond Earth.

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The newly discovered planet is 2.5 times the size of Earth.

the habitable zone relative to its star, meaning that it is not at the optimal distance from the star to be able to sustain liquid water, “it would likely have planetary neighbours and one does not have to go much farther out to get into the habitable zone [of that solar system],” said Matthews.

Diana Dragomir, a research scientist at Las Cumbres Observ-

atory in Santa Barbara, adds that the atypical clarity this planet offers for observation places it among the top six most conducive to research of almost 2,000 confirmed planets.

Matthews and his team gathered data with MOST, the Microvariability and Oscillations of STars satellite from August 3 to October 5 to help American

researchers confirm inconclusive hints from the Kepler telescope. Kepler serendipitously gathered the data during an engineering test in April, and could not return to tracking the exoplanet’s part of the sky due to technical constraints.

MOST detected the dimming of the star’s light as the exoplanet passed between it and Earth. The MOST telescope thus observed two of the Super-Earth’s transits as it orbits through the satellite’s line of sight every 9.1 days — a year’s time in HIP 116454 b.

Dragomir will attempt to observe the planet again on Tuesday from a network of telescopes on the ground to decrease the margin of error on the exoplanet’s transit period, as it will soon be out of sight until next fall.

With over 5,000 stars under the belt, this microsatellite the size of a suitcase has helped Canada “punch above its weight class in space science,” said Matthews.

Federal funding cuts in September 2014 prevent the low-budget satellite from continuing independent operations.

“If we could go back to our autonomous operation of MOST where the science team makes the decisions on targeting we’d go back to [this solar system] in September,” said Matthews.

“Now that we know there is one planet there we can concentrate our efforts to detect additional planets,” said Matthews. There is a high probability “one of them might fall in the habitable zone.” U

The Ponderosa Commons residence complex has been experiencing a series of maintenance and service issues since the completion of its construction in September 2013.

Aside from minor reoccurring cases of broken elevators and electronic doors, recent problems reported by residents also include occasional floods, leaks and electrical fires.

“It starts from the ground up because there’s always been whisperings that the original construction of the place was very rushed and shabby in general,” said Jake Mullan, student president of Ponderosa.

“There’s never a quiet day in Pond, is how I put it. There’s always something broken or something being fixed or something happening to the point where you just need to laugh.”

Many students, however, have spoken out about the quality of the service from the university’s Student Housing and Hospitality Services (SHHS) that is expected to come with the $816-$1071 monthly rent that Ponderosa residents pay to live in a new building on campus.

According to Mullan, these complaints ultimately lead to students in residences criticizing SHHS for their tendency to linger on maintenance issues rather than acting to solve them immediately.

“There’s a sign in the lobby on the elevator door that says something like, ‘The part’s been ordered; don’t worry, we’re fixing it,’ but that sign’s been there for a month now,” said Mullan.

“There’s never much communication [from SHHS] about certain issues like that.”

As student complaints seem to go unnoticed or are deferred until a later date, it seems that these obstacles to the residents’ routines are becoming more commonplace and expected.

“Random things like that probably shouldn’t happen in a brand new building. I think it’s the accumulation of all these issues that really bother me,” said Mullan.

“There’s a greater issue at hand than a broken elevator.”

Mullan also expressed concern that many of the maintenance problems that arise from faults in the buildings’ initial designs, such as basic electric wiring and pipe systems, may risk becoming greater dangers, especially if not given the proper, timely attention or care needed from Student Housing.

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PSYCHOLOGY >>

Study suggests checking email frequently is a major cause of stress Karolina Kapusta Staff Writer

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UBC’s Kosta Kushlev and Elizabeth Dunn suggest checking email only a few times a day.

According to two UBC psychologists, checking emails less frequently could leave students less stressed this semester.

Kosta Kushlev, PhD Candidate at the department of psychology and a Vanier Scholar, and Elizabeth Dunn, associate professor of psychology, have carried out a study showing that checking emails less frequently reduces stress. Kushlev and Dunn wanted to find out if there was a more efficient and less stressful way to handle email.

Kushlev and Dunn recruited a diverse sample of 124 participants including undergraduates, graduates and professionals.

The two-week field experiment allowed the subjects to carry out their lives normally except that they were given instructions on how to handle their email.

During the first week, half of the sample was asked to check their email three times a day, close their mailboxes, and switch off notifications, while the other half was asked to do the opposite and check emails as often as possible. The second week those restrictions were reversed. Kushlev and Dunn looked at the stress levels of each group during the two weeks where everything was kept constant except how they handled their email.

Checking emails frequently can cause stress because it “frag-

ments our attention,” Kushlev said in the study.

According to Kushlev, there is previous research showing that when people are multitasking they might feel like they’re getting a lot of work done, but at the end of the day they are less efficient in their tasks and could be making worse decisions and errors. Email is a source of new tasks all the time and what you end up with is a paradox where you are constantly checking your emails that provide more things to do yet you are less efficient at doing them.

“There’s little we can do about the number of emails we have to handle but we can manage the number of times we check them,” said Kushlev.

“It’s about reducing the amount of times you check your email overall and picking a number that suits you,” said Kushlev.

The best way to reduce checking your emails is to turn off email notifications on your phone so that the sound or vibration doesn’t bother you when you are working or relaxing, Kushlev said. Another smart trick is to move your email box app to the last page on your phone so that you only see it when you want to.

Email is useful but can be even more useful if you manage it correctly. “Breaking any habit is difficult,” Kushlev said, “but putting in the effort to reduce checking your email could be beneficial in the long term.” U

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UBC professors threatened with lawsuit over blog post on professional goals

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Two popular UBC professors have been accused of defamation after speaking out about a series of insulting emails and tweets.

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Two UBC philosophy professors have recently become the targets of threatened litigation over a blog post.

On July 2, 2014, Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins, who had received tenure at UBC’s philosophy department the day before, wrote a blog post on her resolutions for her professional career.

The blog post, which does not mention the names of any other professors, says that Jenkins pledges to “treat other philosophers with respect” and “not treat other philosophers or their work in ways that are belittling, trivializing and/or exclusionary.”

Brian Leiter, who is the director of University of Chicago’s Center for Law, Philosophy and Human Values as well as the editor of the prominent Philosophical Gourmet Report (PGR), then sent Jenkins an email in which he accuses Jenkins of writing about him, threatens future litigation and accuses her of coming across as a “sanctimonious asshole.”

On September 24, 2014, a group of 21 philosophers, many of them from UBC, released The September Statement, which is a letter of solidarity with Jenkins and a refusal to work with the PGR until Leiter steps down as editor. The statement was later signed by 624 other philosophers across North America, Asia and Europe.

Leiter then agreed to step down from his role as editor following the publication of the 2014-2015 issue of the PGR. On December 15, Paul B. Schabas, Leiter’s Toronto lawyer, sent Jenkins and her husband and other popular UBC philosophy professor, Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa, a letter demanding that Jenkins and Ichikawa post an apology, for “misleading members of the philosophical community and other readers of the September Statement about these issues,” at the top of the September State-

ment for at least six months in order to avoid his taking the matter to court.

In the letter, Schablas said that Leiter is “prepared to seek redress in the courts in Canada for the statements [Jenkins and Ichikawa] have made about him, and to have a full airing of the issues and the cause or causes of Jenkins’ medical condition.”

Ichikawa was not able to comment on details of situation because of the possibility of a future lawsuit.

The message it sends to young philosophers is not to speak against those who are in positions of power when you disagree with their behaviour and this is exactly the opposite of what we need in philosophy right now. It’s extremely counterproductive if we want to continue reforming the discipline to be more inclusive.”

Madeleine Ransom UBC doctoral student

Roger D. McConchie, a lawyer for Jenkins and Ichikawa, said that while it is too early to stipulate about a potential response before an actual lawsuit is filed, he has been advising his clients about potential courses of action if Leiter proceeds with the matter.

“At this point, there are any number of defences in the law of defamation that would appear to be available on the facts of this case and it remains to be seen, therefore, whether this fella sues and if he sues, what he claims,” said McConchie.

McConchie also said that he has responded to Leiter’s letter on behalf of Jenkins and Ichikawa.

“I have sent a letter back to Leiter’s lawyer saying that my clients took the position that anything they had posted on the internet was lawful under both the laws of Canada and the United States,” said McConchie.

A number of philosophy graduate students have also spoken out in support of Jenkins and Ichikawa.

Madeleine Ransom, a doctoral philosophy student, said that seeing this situation unfold has been particularly troubling for her, as she respects and admires Jenkins’ success in a male-dominated profession. In particular, Ransom was worried that this type of situation might discourage other graduate students, particularly females, to pursue further studies in philosophy.

“The message it sends to young philosophers is not to speak against those who are in positions of power when you disagree with their behaviour and this is exactly the opposite of what we need in philosophy right now,” said Ransom. “It’s extremely counterproductive if we want to continue reforming the discipline to be more inclusive.”

According to Jasper Heaton, another doctoral philosophy student, Leiter’s decision to proceed with the lawsuit is an attack on individual freedom of expression.

Heaton also said that threats of litigation could discourage other scholars, particularly those who are new to academia, from speaking out against problematic behaviour among senior members.

“By displaying willingness to sue, Leiter has immediately created a culture of fear within the profession: there is now an exceedingly strong disincentive for more junior members of the profession to speak out against what they may view as his, or others, abhorrent behaviour,” said Heaton. U

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MUSIC >>

UBC-based indie band to perform at Koerner’s Pub

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Collect Call is made up of two UBC students and one UVic student.

Miguel Santa Maria Staff Writer

When Nick Babey helped form Collect Call back during his time at Elgin Park Secondary, the initial intent of the band was not particularly exciting.

“The original purpose of the band… was that we were supposed to just make a Christmas album,” said Babey, a second-year Arts student. “It was more of a side thing…. We just played some covers at my house, just jamming.”

Five years later, after incredulous amounts of writing, busking, playing in numerous venues and releasing one album, it may be safe to say the band has found its feet.

Co-founded with Babey’s high school friend and Engineering student Tom Lee, along with Lazar Todorovic who studies at UVic, the band — performing Tuesday night at Koerner’s Pub — has grown to become another promising addition to UBC and Vancouver’s indie rock scene.

Similar bands like the Arkells and Hey Rosetta have provided a major influence on their sound, according to both Lee and Babey. It also helps whenever influences start to take notice of them.

“Dave Verseti (from the band Hey Ocean) will be at our show on Tuesday,” said Babey. “He was like ‘send me your stuff,’ I was like ‘whaaa—?!’ so that was really cool.”

Sound in particular is always a huge priority in regards to song creation for the band, according to co-founder Tom Lee, who contributes a good chunk of the writing. “I feel like song writing is just spontaneous,” said Lee. “Sometimes what I actually do is that every time I have an idea — even if it’s just a little snippet — I’d record on my phone first so I can remember it.... It’s usually the melody and music that comes first … and if I’m just walking to class or on the bus, I’d just put on my headphones and scroll through all the stuff.”

According to Lee, both he and Babey would continuously experiment with these melodies using whatever acoustics they had at

their disposal, and eventually add lyrics later on. The downside to this method is that it creates quite the backlog for them.

“Some songs happen in a day and other songs I’ve been writing for years and still not finished,” said Lee. Backlogs are just part of the plenty of speed bumps the band encounters as they try to balance their act with school and work. In fact, evening hours after their fulltime work are frequently the only times they can practice, according to Babey.

“A lot of people, especially at our age and you had a band from high school, they give up on music at this point in life and I feel like for us it will always be something that we keep up,” said Babey. “If you take the time to schedule and practice then you can really work around it.”

Having just released their first album this past summer, the band is currently focused more on sharing their work than creating for now.

However, Babey said there will be some new material ready for their Tuesday performance. “Oh man, I’m stoked for [this] one song that in the middle of it breaks down into a pop song cover. I’m not gonna say which song, it’s a surprise,” said Babey.

More importantly, both band’s founders simply hope to just keep having fun with their followers.

“What we always look for is that we obviously have a lot of fun playing and we want the audience to feel the same way,” said Lee. Babey immediately shared the sentiment. “For me the reason I love playing live music … is not always about the band really, it’s really about the atmosphere — everyone’s there to experience the same thing and I feel like that’s what we always want to deliver.” U

THEATRE >>

Theatre and politics collide in Kayak Abigail Palaez Contributor

A kayak and climate change. Battlestar Galactica’s Susan Hogan paddling through a vast stretch of water, screwball comedies and cherished perspectives.

It’s seemingly random pairings like these that remind us of Thomas Mann’s observation centuries ago: everything is political.

Playwright and UBC alum Jordan Hall proves the truth of this observation with her first full-length play Kayak , a clever and witty exploration of people’s attitudes about climate change.

Though Kayak has only been showing since January 7 it has already won Samuel French’s Canadian Playwrights Competition and has reached critical acclaim across Canada.

The play will be showing at Firehall Arts Centre until January 17 and includes a discussion panel with Hall herself following the 3 p.m. January 11 show.

“I’m in the Thomas Mann school,” said Hall of the influence of politics on art. “I actually believe that everything is political. If you think you’re creating something and it doesn’t have political implications then you’re not looking at it close enough.”

The play opens with Annie (Susan Hogan), a BMW-driving mother journeying out by kayak to save her son from the ideas of his radical environmental activist girlfriend. She </em>

then encounters a path of events “larger than she could ever have imagined,” a size suggesting the magnitude of climate change’s inevitable impact on people of all political interests.

“The actual facts about climate change are pretty much a foregone conclusion,” said Hall of the issues Kayak addresses. “For me, what was sort of troubling and funny was that most of us know that this is happening. But since we have to get on with our daily lives we end up contesting the facts about climate change. And that’s really where the conflict of the play sits.”

Hall isn’t alone in fusing literary works with environmental politics. She belongs to The EnPipe Line Collective, a group of roughly 16 playwrights who are working together in a “play relay” as a live act of creative protest against the Northern Gateway Pipeline.

For an entire year ending on June 20, 2015, every 48 hours one participant will write a play responding to the proposed pipelines, and then pass that play onto the next participant as inspiration for the following day.

This separate project reflects Hall’s personal politics and reminds her of how sustained a protest has to be since current events have short news cycles if nobody gives them attention.

But Kayak isn’t a piece of propaganda. Hall’s challenge was to make sure both sides had their humanity.

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NETFLIX >>

Bottom of the Queue: Hard Ticket to Hawaii Sam Fruitman Staff Writer

As you know, The Ubyssey strives to find the best of the worst that Netflix has to offer to you. However, for this week’s review, we wanted to extend our essential service to include those who for some reason still don’t have Netflix (or aren’t mooching off of your friend’s account yet).

This week’s film, Hard Ticket to Hawaii, can be found in all its glory on YouTube. So now you really have no reason not to see it. And trust me you’re going to want to see it.

This might very well be the crowning jewel of terrible cinema. Written and directed by the legendary Andy Sidaris, the film follows two operatives of the aptlynamed “Agency” who accidentally intercept a delivery of diamonds to a drug lord. The drug lord is not at all pleased about this, and goes to great lengths to retrieve the diamonds.

More agents are called in to help, and a no-holds-barred battle royale for the diamonds ensues. Need any more convincing? The tagline for this film is “This Ain’t No Hula!”

Right from the impressively cringe-worthy intro music, this film delivers on all accounts. It’s filled with tons of quotable dialogue, rad 80’s hairstyles and a superbly ludicrous chase scene. This film epitomizes the lost art of practical special effects. No excessive overuse of CGI blood here. Just good old fashioned blood squibs. There is a great flow to the story, and a definite feeling of mounting tension towards the climax, and equation for an instant classic.

The bottom line: Stop reading this and go and revel in the eternal greatness that is Hard Ticket to Hawaii. U

CULTURE VULTURE PUNK SINGER A screening of THE PUNK SINGER will take place on January 12, followed by a panel discussion on punk feminism in connection to third wave feminism and the 21st century. THE PUNK SINGER is about famous girl punk vocalist Kathleen Hanna and her influence on punk feminism and the riot grrrl movement, but when Hanna stopped her feminism rallying many wondered why. The film uses archival footage and intimate interviews with Hanna to explore her changing role in punk feminism in the 21st century.

The screening of the film and the following panel discussion will take place in the AMS Art Gallery.

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Kayak is about a mother who wants to save her son from his environmentalist girlfriend.

“I think we end up writing propaganda when we write either side of the conflict as not having their virtues and their psychological complexity. It was a big deal for me to write the character of Annie. [Some people may think of ] Annie, ‘Oh my gosh she’s gonna be making a lot of excuses since she doesn’t engage more in climate change activism’. Which she doesn’t. It did become very important to me that we could feel where her heart was, that she loves her son. That both she and Julie [the activist figure] want to do the right thing. Her reason was human and sound and felt real.”

Hall has some good advice for those who want to fuse art and politics.

“If you’re making a political statement no matter what you do, it’s probably good to take responsibility for it. I think one of the marvellous things about art is you can do different things: you can engage with politics in form, you can engage with it obliquely — the field is wide open.

That’s awesome.”

Kayak will be playing at the Firehall Arts Centre until January 17. U

BARtalk The next installment in the popular BARtalk series will focus on Feminism in the Media. This past year has brought about some insightful dialogue on current events, feminism and the role of the media. This BARtalk will be an informal Q&A session preceded by a brief remarks from the panelists. The panelists include philosophy assistant professor Scott Anderson, Gender-Focus. com author Jarrah Hodge and fifth-year PhD candidate Lucia Lorenzi. BARtalk #14 will take place on January 15 in the SUB Gallery. U

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LAST WORDS PONDEROSA RESIDENTS STILL PLAGUED BY PROBLEMS Another week, another UBC rez problem — once again, in Ponderosa.

The problems plaguing UBC’s newest rez were, at least to some small extent, understandable in the first year of its operation.

The construction was quite rapid and kinks have to be ironed out.

Though still frustrating, it’s common enough in any new building.

But to have major problems like a broken elevator (in a tall building!) continuing for months on end is unacceptable.

We understand, of course, that some problems take longer than others to remedy. One of our editors lived in an off-campus building where the elevator broke and the part took two months to arrive. The problem lies in that the issues with the rez are far from limited to the elevator. Since the building opened, we’ve been hearing and receiving a near-endless onslaught of complaints about Ponderosa.

Ponderosa residents are being forced to wait up to 20 minutes

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for an elevator — making what should be a short commute to class as bad as living off campus.

We’re tired of talking about the university not being subject to the Residential Tenancy Act, but at times their skirting of convention — if not law — is so blatant it’s hard to ignore it.

If UBC is going to charge at- or above-market fees for residence, they should provide at- or above-market service.

NOT CHECKING YOUR EMAIL CAN BE STRESSFUL, TOO A pair of UBC psychologists conducted a study finding that checking your email too frequently could lead to elevated levels of stress. The researchers recommend turning off email notifications so you’re not bothered by them while working or relaxing. We editors at The Ubyssey can understand the importance of this study, as we get hundreds of emails every week — but that’s exactly why we can also pick out its flaws.

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releases in our inboxes as sources for story ideas. When working on stories, we have to stay in touch with multiple sources. We all manage dozens of volunteers. On days when news is slow, we often have no choice but to check our emails as frequently as possible, regardless of how frustrating it can be to see an empty unread folder.

If we were to only check our emails about three or so times per day, as the study suggests, we could miss important breaking news, miss out on interview opportunities, and be unable to help volunteers scrambling with deadlines. So much of our work depends on timeliness that stress will always be an obvious factor of our jobs, regardless of how frequently we check our emails.

We can certainly understand how worrying less about work in general may lead to less stress — for some jobs. But in journalism and many other industries, if you don’t stay on top of things and remain aware of what’s going on, you not only won’t be more stressed — you might not have a job to worry about for much longer. U

I AM A STUDENT >>

The fight against student fee increases is far from over I AM A STUDENT Letter Despite the fact that we have time and time again voiced our vehement opposition to increased tuition — recall the AGM achieving quorum for the first time to oppose the proposed increase and the 2014 referendum that voted 91 per cent in favour of reducing tuition — the Board of Governors (BoG) passed the motion to increase international tuition by 10 per cent for incoming students next year.

Even though we didn’t stop the proposal, in the past few months we have collectively achieved something amazing. We cannot forget that together we held some of the largest political rallies at UBC in the past decade; we met quorum at the AMS AGM for the first time in 40 years; we created a student space for resistance and mobilized, mobilized, mobilized.

“We made history”, said the Ubyssey . This is no small feat, and we are proud of this. And ‘this’? It sure as hell would never have happened without you.

But you’ve seen the hashtag.

You know. #IAMUBC. #WeAreUBC. We, the students, are this university and UBC is nothing <em>

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without us. Everyday they tell us tuum est, it is yours. So why did an unelected, unrepresentative body make this decision for us?

How can all of the students at the BoG meeting have opposed this proposal, and still they passed it? How can UBC claim they care about students and the “student voice” when the student voice was blatantly ignored and voted against?

Tuition increases did not pass because what we did was insignificant; they passed because what we did was simply not enough.

In less than a month from now, the BoG will vote on an unwarranted, illogical and oppressive 20 per cent increase to eight-month housing contracts.

These increases are not inevitable. Far from it. We can stop them, but it means showing up. It means being louder. We need to be louder. We need to be more. We need to be more than enough. We need to be everywhere, all the time. We need to be talking to each other, talking to our classmates, our professors, our roommates, friends, lovers, brothers, sisters, chosen kin. We need to resist.

On January 29, we are going to protest. We are going to show up.

We must show up. We must show UBC that we oppose.

We are students.

We are this university.

Tuum est.

We know it is not easy to show up.

But it is all we have.

I Am A Student is a UBC student movement opposed to proposed tuition and housing fee increases. U

LAWRENCE NEAL GARCIA Op-ed Gabriel Germaix recently wrote about the decline of one-screen cinemas in Vancouver, an article I largely agree with (except perhaps the notion that artistic films are “less visual”); but the piece also gave the impression that foreign, indie and arthouse films largely don’t play in Vancouver, which is simply not true. The problem isn’t that these films aren’t screened at all, it’s that they don’t screen for very long.

The two major sources for such films in Vancouver are Vancity Theatre (associated with Vancouver International Film Festival) and The Cinematheque. The latter plays a few new releases a month, but is more of a go-to for retrospectives on notable auteur directors (there’s an upcoming one on Hou Hsiao-Hsien) and older restored classics than it is for new releases. Similarly, Vancity Theatre plays a number of older films, but also has a wider selection of recent indie, foreign and arthouse films (it also has large, plush red seats with tons of leg room).

Just counting 2014 submissions (not nominees) for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar alone, Vancity Theatre played, or will play, at least five: Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure (Sweden), Lav Diaz’s Norte, the End of History (Philippines), Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Winter Sleep (Turkey), Xavier Dolan’s Mommy (Canada), and Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida (Poland)— not a great number, but certainly not as dire as one might be led to think.

The rest of their programming is also extremely varied, ranging from the acclaimed Australian horror film The Babadook, to the low-budget mindbender Coherence, to animated films such as Studio Ghibli’s The Tale of the Princess Kaguya and the Irish Song of the Sea, not to mention wide-ranging documentaries such as Particle Fever,

Nick Cave: 20,000 Days on Earth and Finding Vivian Maier.

All this is to say that they show a lot of films, especially ones of the type that don’t play in larger theaters. The problem is that, since these films largely screen over a short period of time (sometimes one week, often even less), by the time you’re aware of the film, it’s come and gone; or because there are so few screenings, it’s hard to fit one in to your schedule. It isn’t that they aren’t there, it’s that they aren’t there long enough for people to be aware of them.

Even at Fifth Avenue Cinemas and Cineplex Odeon International Village, which can typically be counted on to play such films for longer periods of time, less marketable films like Jonathan Glazer’s audacious, borderline avant-garde Under the Skin, James Gray’s sideline period piece The Immigrant, Laura Poitras’ Snowden documentary Citizenfour face the same problem, and even more unexpected films like Ann Hui’s The Golden Era (Hong Kong), playing for at most two weeks before they are gone. The problem is compounded at places like the Rio Theatre, which screens new films even more sporadically, as it mixes live shows and older films into its programming (notably, it is currently screening The Interview, though only three times this month), but was — for a few weeks — the only screen in Vancouver to play Frank (the film where Michael Fassbender wears a giant fake head).

The larger point is that alternative film programming does exist, however rarefied; and while Vancouver certainly can’t match New York or Los Angeles or even Toronto for sheer diversity of new (and timely) releases, it’s definitely not a cinematic dead zone. One just has to look a little harder, otherwise it could very well be.

Neal Garcia is a senior staff writer at The Ubyssey. U

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“I can’t understand my prof”: Linguistic diversity at UBC

Ask Natalie: On over-thebreak breakups and sleeping with too much sound

VICTORIA SURTEES Letter Around this time last semester, I stumbled upon a Ubyssey article listing reasons to drop a course.

One reason in particular, “I can’t understand my prof,” evoked the many challenges of linguistic diversity at UBC. As a student here, I have heard many hurtful comments about the way instructors, profs and TAs speak, particularly about those who were not born in Canada. With the drop deadline approaching, I decided to see what the research said about why people sometimes react negatively to different ways of speaking.

What I found was both interesting and practical. I share a condensed version of the findings here in the hope that students will take a step back and think next time they can’t understand a prof.

We all make assumptions about those that speak differently. Researchers refer to this phenomenon as linguistic <em>

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profiling, or the identification of a person’s social characteristics, such as level of intelligence, based on aspects of their speech.

In the university context, linguistic profiling often surfaces in the form of negative attitudes towards instructors who speak non-standard varieties of English (think Texan English or Chinese English). Raisler (1976), for example, found that 730 students rated lectures delivered by a prof with noticeable accents as less convincing than the same lecture delivered by a standard speaker.

In a similar study, students rated exactly the same science lecture as more difficult to understand when played beside a photograph of an Asian man as opposed to a white man (Kang & Rubin, 2009). What this tells us is that when we don’t understand, it’s not always about the prof — our unconscious expectations and attitudes about what “good language” sounds like and who normally speaks it also play a role.

Recently, Kang, Rubin, Lindemann (2014) found that

students’ ability to understand different accents was improved through critical discussion and exposure. With that in mind, here are a couple of practical tips to take away with you as you consider which courses to keep this semester.

Put your assumptions on hold: when you first saw your instructor, what did you expect? When they spoke, what did you think?

Now put your ideas aside for a moment. Give you and your instructor the benefit of the doubt: they work at UBC because they are leaders in their field. You attend UBC because you’re an amazing student.

Remind yourself that it’s useful to understand other ways of speaking: learning to communicate effectively with a variety of English speakers is one way to tap into a vast transnational network. Viewed this way, linguistic diversity is not a burden, it is an additional opportunity that UBC provides. Take advantage!

Victoria Surtees is a UBC doctoral student in the language and literacy education department. U

MINIMUM WAGE >>

Proposed minimum wage hike would solve nothing LOUIS FOK Letter The logic behind the B.C. Federation of Labour’s minimum wage argument sounds straightforward: raising the minimum wage leads to more money in the hands of lower income earners, which then lifts them out of poverty. It sounds like it should work, right? Unfortunately, the unions’ simple-minded logic isn’t grounded in reality.

Contrary to what unions may say, the majority of minimum wage jobs are held by those — usually young people — who live in non-poverty households (e.g. teenagers working as waiters).

Raising the minimum wage would do little to help struggling families make ends meet, nor would it help those who actually live in poverty, like homeless people,

because they don’t have jobs in the first place. In fact, working people who live in poverty are usually poor not because their wages are low, but because they don’t have enough hours.

Moreover, by analyzing minimum wage hikes that have occurred in various jurisdictions around the world, it’s evident that raising the minimum wage has almost no positive effect on poverty rates. Take British Columbia for instance. In 2011, when Christy Clark raised the minimum wage from $8/hour to $10.25/hour, there was actually an increase in the provincial child poverty rate. In addition, shortly after the wage came into effect, grocery stores like Safeway and Superstore began replacing cashiers with machines. With this in mind, it’s clear that minimum wage hikes lead to labour substitution, thereby making it more

difficult for young people to get work experience.

If policymakers want to truly lift people out of poverty, they can begin by growing the economy and creating more private-sector employment opportunities. This has to start by enabling businesses to grow and invest; lowering corporate tax rates, raising the earned income tax credits and allowing for more infrastructure development are good starting points.

Only then can people have access to well-paying, viable jobs that come with economic growth.

The minimum wage debate has, once again, been stirred up primarily as a political talking point ahead of October’s federal election campaign. This has more to do with the unions’ public image than it does with actually helping people.

Louis Fok is a second-year student. U

Let it go. If he texts you in a week, great. If he doesn’t, his loss, I’m sure you’re a catch.

“Dear Natalie, When I sleep over at my boyfriend’s house, he always stays up much later than me watching videos and it’s really annoying. I need my sleep and he doesn’t use headphones. Is he being rude?”

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“Dear Natalie,

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I was kind of seeing this guy last year, but after the break he hasn’t been answering my texts and I think he’s ignoring me. I’m really confused, but I don’t want to seem clingy. What should I do?

Suddenly Alone” Dear Suddenly Alone, To be blunt, he’s not into you anymore.

Okay, maybe he broke his phone, computer and forgot his email password, or maybe he knocked his head and is now wandering around Main Mall wondering where he is.

But more likely, contrary to the saying, absence did not make the heart grow fonder. The time over the break when he didn’t spend time with you made him realize that he wasn’t feeling it.

This isn’t your fault, clearly you just had different ideas of what you wanted. Think of it this way: this relationship is a shoe that doesn’t fit quite right. It’s a little too small to fit properly, but it’s a nice enough pair and you’ve been wearing them for a while despite that. Getting out now saves you from really sore feet in the future, even if all you can see now is a pair of shoes you still want.

It’s all depends on a number of things.

How early do you go to sleep? As someone who loves their sleep, I understand going to bed early, but if you’re trying to catch your zzz’s at eight, it’s understandable that your boyfriend would stay up. Are you going to bed much later, past midnight? Maybe your boyfriend is being inconsiderate.

Are you a light sleeper? I personally am a heavy sleeper and someone could be playing the drums in my room and I could sleep. I wouldn’t mind someone watching videos. But if you’re a light sleeper, then it’s different. If you need silence to sleep (and he knows that), then yes watching videos isn’t a nice thing to do.

And finally, have you talked to him about this? Never ever assume your partner knows something if you haven’t told them. If you’re sitting there fuming silently then he may actually think you don’t mind or even that you are sleeping. Talk to him, explain you can’t sleep when he plays his videos and ask if he can cut back on the loud ones or use headphones.

Communicate.

And if everything fails and you’re at your last straw, stop sleeping over. Yeah it will suck, but sleep is very important, especially when you have an assignment, midterm or paper due. Put your needs before your wants and sleep alone.

Good luck!

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

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The merits of grade inflation and why UBC should do it GARY LAI Letter I’m making a case against having grades that are entirely truthful in a student’s transcript. It — grade inflation — is fibbing, and as we all know, fibbing isn’t an entirely bad thing.

Employers don’t like to see really bad grades on a transcript.

As Lewis Black’s character in Accepted — a fictitious university principal — said, the point of going to university is to get a job. Sure, “ultimately, grades are supposed to be educational. They tell you what you’re good at, what you’re not, what you need to work on and how far you have to go,” according to Dartmouth College student Brian Solomon in 2011. But that education should not impede one from getting a job or moving onto the next stage of one’s adulthood.

Harvard seems to have grade inflation — its median grade is an A-.

Grade inflation is allegedly rampant in the Ivy League, home to the most selective universities in the world.

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not follow their practice of giving out higher grades than students sometimes deserve?

No one makes blatant mistakes that would land them an F in adulthood. A philosophy professor, who was Ivy League educated, once alerted me to a mistake that I made, which I corrected, that could’ve given me a F on a paper, instead of giving me the F without warning. A professor should rarely give C’s and never an F. Looking to the practicality of Ivy League professors, educators should be mindful of how their grades impede progress in a student’s academic program.

Saying “I don’t care” or “it’s the student’s problem” is irresponsible, regressive (to the mannerisms of an elementary schoolteacher) or even vindictive.

In law school at UBC, I received the second-highest grade in one of my classes’ midterm — an 89 — showing that academically I belong with the best in the class. Yet I failed my Real Property class in not one but two exams. These were essay questions where an F could easily be upped to a C or higher at the discretion of the professor.

I left UBC after the first year — I couldn’t continue taking courses in law school without passing all of my required classes, of which Real Property was one. I was accepted to Columbia University to study premedical sciences, and I moved to New York City.

Grade inflation was alive and well there. I received a few C’s, which were all magically converted to B’s by presumably my advisor, who was a linguist with three Columbia degrees. But the question is, if a triple-Columbia degreed academic isn’t above changing his advisee’s grades to more academically and socially acceptable ones, then why couldn’t my UBC Law professor give me a C so that I would have been herded along with the others to 2L and wouldn’t have wasted $10,000 in law school tuition?

The professor’s probable retort that I didn’t learn the material well enough isn’t a good reason anymore, looking at our counterparts at Harvard and in the Ivy League.

Grade inflation in elite academic institutions is the norm and giving no grades lower than a passing grade is expected, even at UBC. Gary Lai is a UBC alumnus. U

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UBC faces off in friendly but formidable Korean matchup

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Middle Alex Russell spikes the ball toward his Sungkyunkwan University counterpart.

Olamide Olaniyan Staff Writer The sound of numerous volleyballs making contact with the wooden floor echoed loudly across the War Memorial Gymnasium. The University of British Columbia men’s volleyball team arrived at 10 a.m. on Friday morning to work through drills and practice a little before the game later that evening.

Their visitors, from Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea, came in half an hour later for the very same reason. But rather than antagonism and hostility on either side of the court, UBC and SKKU had an entirely different dynamic, mainly owed to the 30-year old relationship that exists between the two schools.

Sungkyunkwan University is based in Suwon, South Korea, about 30 km from Seoul, and is ranked 17 in the QS Asia ranking. The school also boasts a very strong volleyball athletics program. This was something that former UBC head coach Dale Ohman was quick to capitalize on more than 30 years ago.

In the summer of 1983, the SKKU basketball team arrived with their head coach, Han, unannounced and unprepared for, and a hastily organized exhibition match was played against UBC. While the then basketball head coach Bruce Enns was not interested in any extensive sports exchange program, Ohman

saw a real opportunity for both schools.

“So I heard Bruce talking with him,” said Ohman. “A little light went on in my pea-brain and after they finished I went over to Han and asked whether their school had a men’s volleyball team.”

So blossomed the beginning of a beautiful relationship. An agreement was set up in which there would not only be the exchange of the sports teams on a four year cycle but also the exchange of faculty and graduate students. After that the schedule was adjusted a few times, in 1985 when the Thunderbirds spent their Christmas in Korea and also quite recently when a Korean sports team registration scandal threatened to end the partnership.

Individuals such as Ohman, Han-joo Eom, an alumni of both UBC and SKKU, dean of the college of sport science at SKKU and member of the board of the international federation of volleyball, and current UBC head coach Richard Schick, who have devoted years to the exchange, have continuously seen its importance for both sports programs.

“Volleyball is one of the most international games where it is not uncommon to have relationships like this and to play these types of international matches,” said Schick, who is in his 12th season as UBC head coach.

“It’s two very different cultures and it is really neat to be able to experience those things -- it opens your eyes to a whole new way of thinking and playing and training.”

That doesn’t mean that the games are not at all competitive. In fact, it is quite the opposite. While it is a time of mutual advising, practising and learning, it is also a time for some of the best competitive plays seen all year. It does not help that SKKU has defeated UBC the majority of the times the teams have faced off.

“Traditionally, SKK has kicked our butts. These are both competitive matches. Its good for us that we have a bye week and we can go into something like this with some quality competition,” said Schick.

The T-Birds took the game on Friday, winning 3-0 with set scores 25-14, 25-23 and 25-18. UBC powered through the evening, and took no prisoners. Milan Nikic made the most assists of the game (32) and outside hitters Ben Chow and Jarrid Ireland shared the top slot for most kills with 12 each.

SKKU responded likewise the following evening, coming back with a vengeance to defeat UBC in three straight sets (25-16, 25-22 and 25-21).

The two teams went hard at each other from the first point in the first set, but it wasn’t long before SKKU started increasing the gap, eventually winning the set.

SKKU defender Jun Heuk Jung proved to be a hard wall to get by with five total blocks in the game, only contested by Irvan Brar (four) who was brought in at the middle of the first set. Even though the final two sets were closer, SKKU managed to keep the ‘Birds at bay to take the second game of the weekend.

“We bailed them out a couple of times by missing serves but these guys don’t shy away from a challenge. They go up and they bang the ball every single situation. They are super aggressive and they ran a lot of combos,” said Chow, who also won player of the game on Saturday.

Both Chow and third-year Mac McNicol, who trained with SKKU over the summer, agreed that consistency was one thing the Korean visitors had that they did not. The T-Birds were largely unsuccessful limiting the SKKU multiple point runs and faltered in aggressive servicing at moments when it mattered.

“We didn’t respond to being pushed, it’s as simple as that. SKK played a lot better today and were very aggressive,” said Schick.

“When one team pushes you around and you don’t fight back that’s what happens. Similar to what we did last night. I am sure they were motivated to come in today and prove their worth.”

The last time UBC faced SKKU was in October 2008, and that en-

counter left the T-Birds in the dust with three straight set losses at 25-15, 25-17, 25-17, Each with more than an eight point lead. The total kills for SKKU was 47 compared to UBC’s meagre 29. Sung Ryul Park made 16 total kills while the highest scorer for UBC Steve Gotch got only nine kills.

However, looking at UBC’s Friday game, and some parts of Saturday’s game it can be said that both teams are more or less on equal terms. In the first game the ‘Birds made 41 total kills in the game and SKKU made 35. The following day, SKKU beat UBC with 45 total kills to the ‘Birds’ 31.

“Unfortunately, you’re always left with that taste in your mouth but there were definitely some good things that we can take and learn from as we move into our league,” said Schick.

With this game behind them, the Thunderbirds can now focus on getting back into the groove of the Canada West. UBC has the most kills and assists overall in the conference so far, and are currently fifth in the standings with 20 points. Over the next few weeks they will be facing formidable teams like the Trinity Western Spartans and the University of Calgary Dinos. Hopefully, this bye weekend and set of friendly matches against an old rival allowed the ‘Birds to prepare well for the final stretch of the season. U

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7:30-8:25

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2:00-2:55

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6:00-6:55

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Thunderbirds snap five-game losing skid against Cougars Jenny Tang Staff Writer

UBC’s top scorer Tatiana Rafter pulls a toe drag in the Mount Royal zone.

PHOTO JACK HAUEN/THE UBYSSEY

The UBC Thunderbirds have rung in the New Year in style. The team finally broke their long-term losing skid (dating back to November 15) on Friday night after dominating the Mount Royal University Cougars in a 3-1 win, followed by a 4-0 shutout the next afternoon to seal the deal.

The ‘Birds dominated Friday’s game. It took some serious goaltending skills from Mount Royal goalie Jessica Ross to keep the score from escalating any further.

But even her skills weren’t enough to stop T-Bird Nicole Saxvik from chipping in her seventh goal of the season. The 1-0 lead was not kept for long, as 46 seconds later the score evened out with a goal from Mount Royal’s Sydney Laurin to become 1-1.

Thunderbird Nikola BrownJohn managed to break the tie later on in the second period, banging in a rebound shot from Devon Morrison. The ‘Birds were unstoppable after that; the Cougars only managed two shots on net for the remainder of the period.

UBC closed things off with another goal in the third period.

Tatiana Rafter, the team’s top scorer, tipped in another shot off of Morrison to add an insurance goal, and the ‘Birds emerged victorious with the score ending at 3-1.

UBC goalie Danielle Dube stopped 13 of the 14 shots fired at the net during her first game in just under a year, while her Cougar counterpart Ross stopped 39 of 42.

Head coach Graham Thomas was happy to snap his team’s losing streak, something to which this talented UBC squad is not accustomed.

“It was a bit worrying to go without a W for such a long time,” he said. “It was nice to see that we took a lot of their speed and opportunities away early on before they could try anything.”

The ‘Birds were also happy to welcome home a familiar face.

Joining the bench was former captain Christi Capozzi, who had finished her time in Sweden with the Göteborg Hockey Club and is now back at UBC as assistant coach with the team for the rest of the season.

“I’m super excited to be back,” Capozzi said after the game. “The team’s looking great and it’s going to be a good stretch. I’d rather be out playing for sure, but it’s fun to be around the rink, even if it’s just on the bench with all the girls.”

UBC went on to sweep the weekend with a 4-0 win on Saturday. They will be taking a trip to Saskatchewan to face the Huskies next weekend, followed by a trip to Regina to play the other Cougars. Their next home game will be on January 30 against the University of Lethbridge Pronghorns. U

12 | GAMES |

MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 2015

Photo of the Day

PHOTO MACKENZIE WALKER

A misty mountain on Highway 95 between Raidum and Golden. The Kootenays are worth exploring.

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