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Most undergraduate students assume that their peers are also studying toward bachelor degrees. Though this is generally true, Tyler Han is the exception who proves the rule. Currently a grade 12 student at Lord Byng Secondary, Han is making his presence felt in the lecture halls of UBC. Han is one of a sizeable number of grade 12 students taking courses at UBC. Oftentimes these students have completed AP level studies in certain subjects, and are looking to expand their knowledge and experience university while still in high school. In Han’s case, he has completed high school level courses and AP level studies in math and computer science.

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“[By the end of Grade 10], I finished all my computer science courses at high school, the highest level being AP computer science.

That wasn’t too challenging, to be honest.” After a year of selfstudy, Han decided to challenge himself by taking courses at UBC. “In grade 12, I wanted to keep on learning about computer science and so that’s how I came here. And it’s nearby, which makes it easier to take courses here.” Han com-

pleted MATH 200 during the first semester, and is currently enrolled in CPSC 210.

In high school, teachers will constantly prompt you ... but in university it stops. No one specifically forces you to do anything; it’s all based on your own effort and merit. I actually like that much more.”

Although he is waiting on his application to the department of computer science, Han is making the most of his time at UBC. “I like the campus a lot, and just the ‘university life’ in general. I’ve even joined some clubs — the Model UN Club, and the Steppingbridge Association. Since you have a UBC ID, you’re able to go around and do whatever everyone else does.” As a part-time student, Han recognizes the advantages of being at UBC. “The most important one is the U-Pass. It saves me from having to buy a concession pass every month.”

Although Han is hoping to explore new frontiers of computer science at UBC, he is already proficient at designing programs. His first ever project was “SwitchEdit — it was for an indie game; someone was making a browser game called TagPro, and [SwitchEdit] was the map editor. That was okay, a couple dozen people used it.”

Han has also been involved with web design and “other projects on the side,” but if he had to point to one main project, it would be ChairMUN. Han and another student, Lee, spent months work-

ing on this software, designed for use during Model UN conferences.

“Basically every major conference in B.C., including UBCMUN, and also a lot of conferences in the States have shown interest.”

Having experienced higher-level education, Han now feels a certain degree of separation from secondary school education. “It just feels completely different — almost like living two completely different lifestyles. I think it’s the amount of care people put towards you. In high school, teachers will constantly prompt you for homework, et cetera, but in university it stops. No one specifically forces you to do anything; it’s all based on your own effort and merit. I actually like that much more.”

Han believes that the difficulty of university also poses challenges altogether different from high school. “I remember in a MATH 200 class, looking away for a moment or two and looking back at the board. I had no idea what was going on!”

Like any other university student, Han has run into his own share of problems. “My grades for my first course [MATH 200] were not good at all; I just butchered the final.” He has also felt the effects of the increased workload.

“My study habits aren’t perfect, so sometimes I fall behind and I have to work extra hard. [This happened] especially during the winter season, when I had a lot of university applications going on and extracurriculars on top of that.”

Still, planting a foot on both sides of graduation has proved advantageous for Han. “It doesn’t make me any more confident that I might get in [to university], but at least I know that I am prepared for the challenge.” U

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AMS hopes to see students vote yes in transit referendum

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Voting for the Metro Vancouver transit referendum will take place from March 16 to May 29.

Miguel A Rozo Contributor

The AMS encourages students to vote yes in the upcoming Metro Vancouver transit referendum for the Mayor’s Council Plan.

The transit referendum, which includes the construction of the

Broadway Line, increased light rail services in Surrey and Langley and expanded bus routes, would require residents of Metro Vancouver to pay 0.5 per cent more provincial sales tax.

According to Bahareh Jokar, AMS VP External, the benefits

of this referendum far outweigh the costs.

“There is quite a bit of gain for students and very minimal costs,” said Jokar. “We estimate that it is going to cost between $30-50 a year depending on your income bracket and spending

habits, and really what you are getting is tremendous amount of service increase.”

Jokar said that students will benefit from a 25 percent bus service increase, 400 new buses across Metro Vancouver, and increased night buses, among

other services. This also includes a commitment to build an underground subway from VCC Clarke to Arbutus, which would make commuting to UBC easier for students but would not take them all the way to the university.

“Approximately 87 percent of our undergraduate students are commuters and 93 percent of our graduate students are commuters,” said Jokar. “Students that live on campus also depend on transit.”

Jokar also said that the services are expected to decrease the number of people on the roads, even accommodating for the expected growth of the city’s population within the next 25 years.

“It’s a plan for a society that is rapidly changing and growing,” said Jokar.

Still, others have argued that the increase in taxes would not necessarily guarantee an improvement in transit services.

Jokar said that although challenges remain, the increased collaboration between labour, business and environmental groups will ensure that the changes benefit the largest number of people possible.

In the upcoming months, the AMS will be encouraging students to vote by helping those who live in Metro Vancouver register and hosting various sessions to talk about the benefits of the referendum. Voting will take place by mail-in ballot from March 16 to May 29.

Any Canadian citizen over the age of 18 who has been living in Metro Vancouver for the last six months is eligible to vote. U

TOOPE >>

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Former president Stephen Toope to receive honorary degree

Former VP External candidate Marjan Hatai withdraws from race in AMS Elections

Joshua Azizi Senior Staff Writer

Former UBC President Stephen Toope will receive an honorary degree from UBC during the Spring Congregation ceremonies in late May. Toope served as president of UBC from 2008 to 2014, having stepped down in order to pursue careers related to international law and international relations.

He now works as the director of the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs.

This announcement comes as a part of UBC’s annual honorary degree program, which recognizes the achievements of individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the growth and well-being of local, national or international society.

Toope’s honorary degree comes less than a year after he resigned from his role as the president of UBC. Since UBC does not normally give honorary degrees to current faculty members, his resignation has made him considerably more eligible for the award.

Toope attended Harvard University for his bachelor’s degree in English Literature and European History. He later received a law degree from McGill University before eventually earning his Ph.D from Cambridge University.

After graduation, Toope has worked with various organizations focused on philanthropy and international development such as the Trudeau Foundation,

Joshua Azizi Senior Staff Writer

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Stephen Toope will be walking across the Chan Centre stage for an honorary degree in May.

the United Nations, the Canadian Human Rights Foundation and the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.

He was also the youngest person to serve as the Dean of Law at McGill University from 1994 to 1999.

Through an honorary degree, UBC will now be able to aptly recognize Toope’s accomplishments and contributions.

The Spring Congregation ceremonies take place from May 20-22 and May 25-27.

Other honorary degree recipients include pioneer female lawyer Constance Isherwood, award-winning screenwriter Hart Hanson, art dealer Uno Langmann and Vancouver Folk Music Festival co-founder Gary Cristall. U

UBC AMS Representative Marjan Hatai has withdrawn from the VP External race in this year’s AMS Elections.

Hatai, who is a fourth-year political science student, withdrew her candidature on February 25. She is still running for a spot in the UBC Senate.

“Given the time commitment and the responsibilities that come with being a student senator, I decided that it would be best for the society for me to focus my efforts in one place, and that my work would be of most benefit as a student senator than in the VP External race,” said Hatai.

With Hatai out of the race, the two remaining candidates are Associate VP External Jude Crasta and Student Legal Fund Society President Janzen Lee. Hatai’s announcement comes after the withdrawal of many other candidates from the AMS Elections this week: Harsev Oshan and Rohan Nuttal have withdrawn from the Board of Governors race, while Tanner Bokor has withdrawn from the Presidential race.

These withdrawals follow the campaign blackout period, where candidates were forbidden from

campaigning for a week after the announcement of the candidates.

Hatai joined the AMS in her third year, working on finance commission and later as a referendum coordinator. She learned a lot about the AMS in these positions, and later became a representative for the faculty of Arts. She cites having all of her referendum questions passed last year as one of her greatest accomplishments at the AMS. “It was an incredible feeling being in the Gallery and hearing that they all passed — especially the Whistler Lodge question,” says Hatai.

Now that she is out of the VP External race, Hatai intends to focus her attention on campaigning for a Senate position. If elected, she promises to work to develop co-curricular transcripts and a first semester reading break.

“I’m really excited to run forward with it,” said Hatai.

The other Senate candidates are Aaron Bailey, Anne Kessler, Eric Zhao, Gurvir Sangha, Hannah Xiao, Ian Sapollnik, Jenna Omassi, Margareta Dovgal, Niloufar Keshmiri and Viet Vu. Of these candidates, five will be elected .

The voting period for the AMS Elections begins March 9 and ends March 13. U

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Adjunct professors and sessional lecturers looking to start conversations about wages, job security

AMS President Tanner Bokor withdraws from race for re-election Kelley Lin Senior Staff Writer

AMS President Tanner Bokor has withdrawn from the presidential race in the upcoming elections.

Bokor has spent the past year working on many different projects and is finishing up his last weeks as the president tying up loose ends with the new SUB, the BuildAMS governance review and AMS2030, a strategic plan he’s been creating since May. “I think my year’s been a lot about building groundwork to pass off to the next generation of student execs,” said Bokor. “[It] was mostly spent in preparation for the opening of the Nest and also for the Centennial, so most of

the work that I was really focusing on this year was around long term planning.”

While Bokor had initially hoped to serve as AMS president for another year, he ultimately decided that he would rather step back and allow some new faces to come to the forefront of the society.

After serving as an AMS executive for the past two years, Bokor hopes to continue being involved with the AMS, but in a less prominent role. He is currently still in the running for positions with the AMS Board of Governors, as well as the Student Legal Fund Society.

“I think there’s still a few areas for me within the AMS where I

can still do some good and still contribute back to UBC students, but in a smaller capacity,” said Bokor.

He also hopes to refocus on classes in the following school year and get on track with finishing his degree.

“I’ve been at the AMS for three years now and I absolutely loved it, but I’ve put my studies on hold for a majority of the time while I’ve been here,” said Bokor.

“Ultimately, I’m happy with what I’m going to be able to pass off to my successor after elections. I am very excited to see what is in store for the society heading into its Centennial year, and wish all the best to the candidates running in the upcoming elections.” U

The 2015 AMS Elections will be held Monday, March 9 through Friday, March 13. Keep an eye out for our coverage of the races, including candidate profiles, debate recaps and results.

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Adjunct professors are hired on a contract and do not have a permanent position at the university.

Mateo Ospina

Senior Staff Writer It is difficult to think of our professors struggling to make ends meet, but due to the conditions faced by sessional faculty, English professor Sarika Bose keeps a relief fund in her office in order to help colleagues when they are unable to afford food for the month.

“There’s a general state of fear. A lot of people are very scared,” said Bose, who also serves as executive of Contract Faculty in the Faculty Administration, regarding the Adjunct Teachers movement at UBC. On February 25, Adjunct teachers across the United States and Canada protested in a National Walk-Out Day to protest low wages, poor working conditions and a lack of job security.

At UBC, which has over 600 sessional professors, Bose and the rest of the Faculty of Adjunct Professors decided not to walk out but instead to promote discussion on the subject by wearing blue and making an active effort to speak to students and tenured faculty.

UBC Administration and the Contract Faculty Association are currently having discussions on how to resolve these issues.

“We have goodwill on all sides,” said Bose. “The administration is committed to the principle of equity and fairness for all. They are committed to what is best for students which is what we all want.”

While numerous adjunct professors across the U.S. and Canada have expressed dissatisfaction with the lower wages and job instability facing adjunct professors, others believe that determination and collaboration between both sides will yield beneficial results. Sarah Parry has worked in the Faculty of English as a sessional lecturer for nine and a half years.

Parry also hopes that UBC will address the concerns in a way that benefits everyone.

“I am hopeful that President Gupta will consider this issue of injustice and inequity and discern the right ethical course for the administration to adopt,” said Parry.

“I am hopeful that UBC will show leadership in this area.”

Despite this hope, Parry still deals with the same struggles relevant to many adjunct professors.

“I have a very modest lifestyle and still have large student loans,” said Parry, who works 12 months of the year.

A major complaint from adjunct professors is the amount of work expected of them with little compensation.

“It is very difficult for contract faculty to get a mortgage or support their children through their own first degrees unless they have partner who earns significantly more than they do,” said Parry.

According to Bose, many adjunct professors often have to make a financial sacrifice in order to teach and work in their field.

“People go into their careers because of passion. People are very committed to teaching and research,” said Bose. “People’s identities are bound to these kinds of careers.”

Bose also said that students will face a loss by being taught by professors that are fearful of pushing boundaries and losing their jobs.

“Professors are feeling an insecurity,” said Bose. “Without job security your academic freedom is affected negatively.”

Bose believes that with that the movement needs more popular support campus wide from students and tenured faculty. She encourages dialogue on campus and more understanding for sessional faculty.

Though the current talks with the administration are slow, Bose believes they are a step in the right direction.

“There’s always room for improvement but I think UBC has done a lot of things right,” said Bose. U

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THEATRE >>

Place Vanier’s musical production of Rent aims to inspire

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AMS Art Gallery honours UBC legends

Lionel and Patricia Thomas played a large role in the development of UBC’s fine arts program.

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Rent is the latest in Vanier’s series of annual productions.

Victoria Lansdowne Contributor

Bisexuals, trisexuals, homo sapiens, carcinogens, hallucinogens, men, Pee Wee Herman — this is what you can expect from the Place Vanier production of the famed musical Rent .

“Music connects to us emotionally in a way words never can and triggers different memories and thoughts. [It] allows us to make connections where we previously didn’t see them, therefore creating a new view on life,” said Ivan Yastrebov, director of the Place Vanier production of Rent .

A rock musical that follows a group of young artists through a year of their life in East Village New York in the mid-90’s, Rent shows the audience the beauty of life through the honesty of death.

We see them deal with love, loss, AIDS and life itself.

The original playwright, Johnathan Larson, wrote Rent with the intention to bring musical theatre to the MTV generations.

Although it is no longer the mid-90’s, this performance of the musical intends to incapsulate the timelessness that the musical embodies.

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on one’s life. Stephen Duncan, who plays Mark and is also the vocal coach, noted that music guides them through the people they meet, places they go and all the highs and lows in between — from the little celebrations to overdoses.

“I think [the music] brings about emotions in everyone in a way that everyone can understand no matter what story people have; music can connect all people’s stories together,” said Duncan.

Yastrebov said the audience can look forward to the performance for “No Day But Today.” The song is a message about living in the moment, a perspective that students can identify with.

“Don’t take anything for granted because you don’t know what’s going to come … and there’s much more than that. Make sure you come to the musical to learn it,” said Yastrebov.

The musical committee will also hold a silent auction during intermission with all funds raised being donated to the Crisis Centre.

Rent will take place at 7:30 p.m. on March 5-7 in the Place Vanier Residence Ballroom. Tickets are $8 and are available for purchase within the Place Vanier Commons Block. U

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This month, the AMS Art Gallery is featuring a few works of visual art by architect and painter Lionel Thomas and designer and painter Patricia Thomas.

The exhibition was put together with the help of two research curators from the Collective for Advanced and Unified Studies in the Visual Arts (CAUSA), David Bellman and Meirion Evans. “[Lionel and Patricia] helped create a new environment,” said Bellman. And in fact, their impact is not limited to the historical Vancouver cityscape.

L. Thomas was a professor of architecture from 1950 to 1959 and moved on to the department of fine arts as an associate professor until his retirement in 1981. Lionel and his wife, Patricia worked together murals in collaboration with architects throughout the city during their careers.

Featured in the exhibition at the AMS Art Gallery are photographs of some of these works including the mural on the now demolished former central branch of the Van-

couver Public Library. However, you can get a fuller sense of the couple’s mural work by checking out the south wall of Brock Hall Annex and the freshly restored Pacific Rim mural that will be featured in the new SUB. The show itself is minimalistic, showcasing almost entirely abstract works created by L. Thomas and three works by P. Thomas.

P. Thomas’ work lays mostly in architecture and public space and, according to Bellman, she was one of the first colour consultants in North America. This is reflected in the pieces of hers presented in the show.

Gallery volunteer Jasper Wrinch noted that “Patricia Thomas’ [work] is more about design than art,” observing her colour block work “Self Portrait” (numbered one on the handout which you can pick up at the front desk).

In the summer of 1949 Lionel studied with Mark Rothko in San Francisco. The Rothko influence is evident in the experimental abstraction Lionel executes in the piece “Untitled.” His colour play in “Plankton” and “Holecium and

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Lurking Fish” are reflective of the kind of colour Rothko presents in his work.

The most interesting pieces in the gallery might be the cloisonne and copper panel “Centaur and the Wolf” and “Aquarius (The Water Bearer)” because they combine what the research curators note as L. Thomas’ passion for astronomy, as well as his inclination towards abstraction with the ancient technique of cloisonne. The latter piece belongs to the AMS collection. Both are incredible works of craftsmanship and invoke in the viewer the sense of the possibility of a more mystical modernity, one in which we are still intimately aware of the constellations above us and our place in the universe.

This exhibition is an important first taste of the works of the Thomases’ and comes at a crucial time where progress and transition is leaving the history of art in Vancouver and on the UBC campus in the dust.

“The mural [“Pacific Rim”] being moved is evidence of a great, we hope, resurgence of interest in a historical period of great importance,” said Bellman. U

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VIDEO GAMES >>

CJR held a conference to open dialogue about video games

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Topics covered at the conference included gender and representation in video games.

Miguel Santa Maria Staff Writer

Playing Mario Kart to avoid studying is a well-known student activity, but video games aren’t yet recognized by the academic community.

Press Start conference aimed to change that.

Press Start, a conference on Japanese gaming being held this weekend by the UBC Centre for Japanese Research (CJR) intended to remedy the absence of video games in academic discourse through meaningful discussion by both academics and members of the industry alike.

With representatives from major video game companies such as

Sega, Capcom and Bandai Namco attending, plenty of topics were presented. Topics include gender issues within Japanese video games, as well common traits they share with other Japanese pop-culture mediums.

Professor Sharalyn Orbaugh with the department of asian studies and the institute for gender, race, sexuality and social justice, is expected to join the discussion panels at the conference. Though not a gamer herself, Orbaugh admits that she has been heavily interested in the gaming industry since its rise, particularly with its interactive aspects.

“I feel very strongly that when people are reading [or watching

a movie] narrative that it actually changes them, it changes the way they think, the way they understand the world,” said Orbaugh.

“The interesting part about gaming is that people are actually doing it themselves and so it’s much easier to imagine a connection between what they’re doing in a game and what happens in their brain [and perhaps] change the way in how they see the world.”

This kind of interest from both gamers and non-gamers alike was one of the main reasons the project came to fruition, particularly at UBC. “The idea for the conference was [to] bring together parts of

UBC that were normally not in conversation with each other, that was the basic motivation,” said Christina Laffin, co-director of the CJR and the project director for Press Start. “I thought if we have a topic that brings all these separate parts of the university together [then] it will be a much more interesting and compelling conference … it didn’t have to be gaming for that to happen but it seemed both timely and appropriate.”

According to Laffin, with plenty of companies from Japan branching out along West Coast such as Capcom, and Sega, gaming itself has been a significant

inspiration for many students with, regardless of major.

“Many of them would like to work in the industry as writers, editors, in helping development of content,” said Laffin. “They’re not necessarily programmers … but they want to work in related fields.”

More importantly, both organizers and panelists hope that the conference would help bring gaming to academia as currently the medium is still underestimated in that sense.

“They think it’s a waste of time … and I don’t think they understand how complex and rich a lot of them are,” said Orbaugh, being reminded of the same issue that plagued anime and manga in terms of scholarly work. “It took us years to get anime taken seriously as a subject of study…. Still now it’s harder for people to get it seriously.”

PhD candidate and project coordinator Ben Whaley, an avid gamer himself, shares the same sentiment. “In Japan Studies, many scholars focus on the importance or expressive power of manga and anime but few pay the same sort of attention to video games. This has always struck me as odd given Japan’s huge contribution to the medium,” Whaley said. “We need to bring games into the classroom and into academic conferences so we can discuss all the myriad ways this wonderful medium can teach.”

In any event, Laffin and Whaley hope that with this conference, more companies and universities can join discussions in the future.

“I think we also need ‘think tanks’ or ‘do tanks’ like the Asian Pacific Foundation to be also involved,” said Laffin. “As a topic, it concerns not just industry, not just scholars or academics but also government because that’s a really crucial length for the companies here.”

“We [hope] to strengthen ties between the university and the many game companies that make their home in our province,” said Whaley.

“B.C. is a major hub for video game creation on the west coast and it’s high time we looked to forging bonds with these industries.” U

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Strangers on a Train gives students and alumni the venue to share poetry Tammy Hsieh Staff Writer

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Strangers on a Train is a monthly poetry reading at the Railway Club.

Metaphorical fireworks explode when writers, poets and artists get together to share their ideas, and Langara College’s reading series Strangers on a Train aims to help create the spark.

The February 24 edition of the series also included two UBC alumni: Sheryda Warrener and Laura Matwichuk. Warrener is the author of Hard Feelings and has an MFA in creative writing and Matwichuk was an art history major who was the poetry finalist in the 2013 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers.

With writers coming from diverse communities and of different generations, Strangers on a Train provides a chance for strangers to gather and share their love of poetry.

The event is organized by Heather Jessup and Thor Polukoshko, instructors in Langara English department.

“Langara has had reading series for a while, but not really active. We talked about getting funding but we didn’t get it. But who cares if there is funding or not? We just wanna do it, so let’s go with it,” said Polukoshko.

To correspond to the venue, The Railway Club, they named the event Strangers on a Train, which is also the name of Hitchcock’s movie in 1951. In contrast to the film, Strangers on a Train introduces poetry in a relaxing atmosphere.

The event doesn’t require a central theme but features a variety of writings and people from different literary circles. This time, two UBC alumni are invited to share their works for the first time in the reading series.

“I love that they choose to feature student readers rather than more experienced writers to read books.... The main point is for them to read not for us,” said Warrener. With a stage for the

young writers to shine, the event encourages them to continue reading.

“We make sure that we feature at least one Langara student in every single event. And the students probably have never met a lot of the writers,” said Polukoshko. Students might have the fortune to meet writers they admire or even study in class.

UBC also holds a similar event hosted by the creative writing program.

The event, titled Outwrite, is for undergraduates and Locution for graduate students. But age is not a limitation, everyone is welcome.

“Try to find your voice by writing what’s closest to you possible. Be yourselves in your writing. And you have to read, read, read,” said Warrener.

“You just have to work at it.

Make it part of your daily life.

Read. Read a lot,” said Matwichuk. U

Outwrite and Locution are similar events hosted by the creative writing department. These events give students the opportunity to have their works heard by their peers.

Ghost Town Open Mic nights are held once a month and are an LGBTQ-friendly poetry reading events. This event is hosted on Main Street at the Angst Gallery.

On March 2, poet Isaac Bond will be featured at Vancouver Poetry Slam. This event will take place at Cafe Deux Soleil at 7 p.m. Entrance is $6-$10.

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STUDENT VOICE. COMMUNITY REACH.

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Why don’t people come to UBC sports games?

JACK HAUEN Op-ed

There was an article in the Province recently by Howard Tsumura in which he spoke to a couple members of the 1970-71 UBC men’s ice hockey team — the last team to compete in a home playoff series until the 44-year dry spell was broken just last month.

In it, the players speak of fond memories of playing in front of sold-out crowds. Former right winger Doug Buchanan said it was “the golden age of (UBC) hockey.” Wesbrook, according to Buchanan, was lined up and down the street with people just wanting to watch the Thunderbirds play a game.

How much of this is rose-coloured reminiscence is up for debate, but one would assume that Buchanan, now a successful lawyer, doesn’t have much reason to lie. And if that was the case, what happened? Why do a paltry 200-300 people show up to T-Bird home games? It’s not cost of entry, since a ticket is $2 for a student, or $20 for every home game in every sport, all season. It’s not location, since every stadium is on campus.

It might be because our teams that play the more stereotypically popular sports (football, men’s hockey) aren’t exactly dominant, but the men’s hockey team made the playoffs, and even opened the postseason at home this year.

What we do know is that students will show up when games

are marketed properly. AMS Events, in conjunction with The Calendar, put on a stellar evening for the Winter Classic game, shattering attendance records with 3,049 butts in seats. When there’s a Facebook event with nice graphics, a catchy title and some manipulation of the sports fan within everyone (admit it, you loved getting day drunk and belligerent at Homecoming), we’ll come out to cheer on our teams. Even though the ‘Birds blew a three goal lead and lost in double overtime at the Classic, you’d be hard pressed to find a single attendee who didn’t have a blast.

We also know that if nobody does anything, or if the marketing is left up to UBC Athletics,

it’s a different story. A nonexistent story. How many of you visit gothunderbirds.ca, or pay attention to Facebook events put on by them? 2,200 people like their Facebook page (compare that to The Calendar’s almost 13,000), and a good deal of those are alumni. It serves its purpose, if that purpose is to inform those who are already interested in UBC varsity sports about upcoming UBC varsity sports games.

But in terms of garnering new interest, they have a long way to go before they’re attracting anyone new into a stadium.

So how can we solve the problem? It looks like Athletics isn’t going to put in the effort to make their product more enticing, or update their Facebook model of

posting updates and previews of varsity games (a handy thing to have for the Sports and Rec Editor of a student newspaper, but not very enticing to the casual fan).

So it falls on the shoulders of the AMS Events team, and their successful partnerships with The Calendar.

Obviously a Winter Classic isn’t feasible for every game, but a few more special events over the course of next season might be enough to start getting students interested in coming out to games again. At least, it’s worth a shot.

Jack Hauen is a second-year prospective English major and Sports & Rec Editor at The Ubyssey. U

DIVESTMENT >>

The wolf in sheep’s clothing: how BDS harms Israel, Palestinians and peace ARIELA KARMEL

Letter

At the upcoming AMS meeting, UBC’s Solidarity For Palestinian Human Rights group intend to put forward a motion to boycott and divest from Israeli companies as part of the global Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement.

While this is an inherently discriminatory motion from an intellectually bankrupt and morally obtuse movement, more than anything, it is dishonest. BDS poses as a human rights organization, a pro-Palestine movement, but if aiding the Palestinians is their true goal, then they have been a complete and utter failure.

For a pro-Palestine movement AMS ELECTIONS >>

they seem to be quite uninterested in aiding the Palestinian people in any meaningful way.

They could help the Palestinians improve their lives, develop their economies, democratic institutions, universities, facilitate state building or promote peaceful relations with their neighbours. Truly, there is no shortage of productive things that those who promote BDS while claiming to uphold Palestinian rights could actually be doing. They do none of these things, and one must wonder why.

Instead, the BDS movement is obsessively devoted to the demonization of Israel. Boycotting Israeli products does not help the Palestinians’ quality of life or achieve a state of

their own. Instead, it increases division between Israelis and Palestinians and exacerbates the conflict. Peace is necessary in order for a Palestinian state to be achieved — one cannot exist without the other. It is clear that if you are truly interested in helping the Palestinians or promoting peace then this is the least effective means to do so.

BDS succeeds in accomplishing exactly two things: shutting down dialogue and fostering a culture of marginalization.

Universities should encourage vibrant dialogue, including and especially over views on which we disagree. A boycott is antithetical to dialogue and those who support it seek to censor speech that is unfavourable to them, the

last bastion of the bully when logical argument evades them.

But, conflict can only be ended through dialogue and by promoting a culture of inclusivity, not by demonizing one group.

No one in the UBC community should be made to feel unwelcome due to race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, sex, gender or sexual orientation.

The sole purpose of a boycott is to marginalize people of one country — Israel. A boycott sends a clear message to Israeli and Jewish students that they are unwelcome on their own campus, and truly all those who favour open dialogue.

It is incredibly tempting to reduce this deeply complex and emotionally triggering conflict

to a victim-aggressor binary. And while a blanket condemnation of one group may be easy and emotionally satisfying to some, it is dishonest, intellectually lazy and unworthy of the principles of this institution. More than anything, it does a great disservice to all those who are actually affected by this conflict.

To those who support peace, coexistence and the rights of humans in equal measure, I assert that a BDS motion has no place at UBC. We must fervently oppose efforts to boycott any people, country or perspective and not permit purely divisive forces to hijack our campus.

Ariela Karmel is a second-year political science student. U

State of the student society

AARON BAILEY

Letter

The AMS, in its current form, is out of touch with the demographic it exists to serve. Although it succeeds in providing services and opportunities to students, apathy towards our student society has never been more prominent.

From my experience as a student politician, I know how easy it is to collect titles, produce reports, cast votes, and to continue telling yourself that your peers share the purpose you find in student government. However, through countless conversations over the past four years, I’ve come to understand that the average individual sees the AMS much differently than its “insiders” do. From within the AMS, I see an organization that supports hundreds of campus clubs, while others see bureaucratic communication and frustrating

financial policies. When I look ahead to the possibilities of how a new Student Union Building can connect communities, what are really visible are continual delays and perceived mismanagement of funds. When I see hours of hard work being poured into AMS services, businesses and events, most people struggle to even identify who is behind it all.

For me, the question of engagement is a systemic one that revolves around a central tenet: as students, we actively seek memorable, positive, and fun experiences during our time at university. For the AMS to be recognized as a source of that, we need a cultural paradigm shift away from self-serving pompousness to an organizational attitude that better reflects the awesome community we serve.

A president has three unique opportunities to be the catalyst for such a change in the AMS: The president is responsible for setting the tone within the

team. The attitude with which they approach developing the dynamic that guides the work of those around them directly correlates to how well the organization operates. Over the past few years, this tone has been overshadowed by a sense of inane seriousness. Each decision made is the most important ever, with no room for humour, positive discourse, or fun. Therefore, the president needs to build a team dynamic that is outwardly focused and emphasizes the student within student politics.

Next, the president is the spokesperson for the entire student body, and is responsible for representing the views of many during stakeholder conversations. Because of this responsibility, it is imperative for a president to set aside their personal beliefs to most genuinely represent the opinion of the students. Although the AMS presidential office has made strides to be available when necessary, the fortitude

and authenticity of these efforts has been lacklustre in recent months. With regards to the recent fee increase proposals from the university — arguably the most visible and important issue that affected students this past year — the AMS’ lobbying lacked passion when it was needed most. Even when provided with a clear democratic basis for strong advocacy from the historic Annual General Meeting, the response from the AMS executive was slow and ineffective on the pretence that they feared risking diplomatic relations with UBC central. Unfortunately, the AMS failed to demonstrate any real desire to fight on behalf of students — a responsibility that falls at the feet of the president.

Therefore, the president’s office needs to show genuine passion regarding issues that affect the constituents of the AMS, both in public and behind closed doors.

Lastly, and most importantly, it is the president’s job to dream big.

From their position, they have a view of the entire Society’s operations, making them the ideal person to guide its future direction.

The AMS is uniquely structured to create imaginative opportunities for our members. Initiatives like lobbying for free access to the UBC Aquatic Centre or building a new Student Union Building exemplify the AMS’ history of doing amazing things for this campus. Recently however, the focus has been on keeping the machine oiled in order to stay afloat, lacking any meaningful risk-taking. For the AMS to truly reignite engagement, the president needs to be willing to take chances, make mistakes, and get messy.

With elections upcoming in March, I urge you to read into the issues, think deeply about what you look for in your student government, and vote at ams.ubc.ca/ elections.

Aaron Bailey is a student senator and a presidential candidate in the upcoming AMS election. U

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EDITOR JACK HAUEN

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DOUBLE Mason McIntosh Staff Writer

It was much tighter than the final score on Friday night, but the UBC Thunderbirds came out victorious over the University of Regina Cougars on the last day of February with a 68-63 win.

Friday night was a walk in the park for the ‘Birds, who came out hard and handily disposed of the Cougars 75-59. The effort was led by Harlene Sidhu who had a game-high 23 points.

Saturday night in the War Memorial Gym saw a sleepy UBC team in the first half as Regina jumped out to a 21-4 lead by draining nine of their first 10 shots thanks to some stellar work from Polischuk, Kajati, Coppola and Kot. The home team wasn’t about to be embarrassed on home court, however, as they promptly went on a 11-2 surge to get themselves back in the game. They followed that up with a 15-2 run to get back where they belong: in front.

T-Birds Kara Spotton, Cassandra Knievel and — surprise, surprise — Harleen Sidhu were the main contributors to the magical second quarter, which ended 3230 in favour of UBC. They continued that energy for the third quarter, giving up 11 and scoring 21, enough to carry them through the rest of the game and Regina’s fourth quarter push that saw them score 22 in a desperate effort to claw back into the game. The Thunderbirds were able to strap down on D and get the buckets when they needed them. Five points ended up being enough of a difference to end the Cougars’ season, and the T-Birds walked away with the win.

Sidhu capped off an extraordinary weekend with 21 points and eight rebounds. She was an animal in the paint and took the

game in her hands when UBC needed their talented leader.

Right behind her was the impressive Kris Young who finished Saturday night with 11 points and seven boards in her 38 minutes on the floor.

Regina’s starters had a strong final game, highlighted by Kajati’s 16 points and an outstanding 10 rebounds in just 28 minutes on the floor. Also, all starters reached double digits, despite the heartbreaking loss.

We spoke with Young after the game about how it felt knowing that her time as a Thunderbird was coming to a close, and her expectations for her last playoffs as a T-Bird. “I have had an amazing career at UBC. Of course I would like to add a national championship to the list before I head out, but no matter what happens I have had an unforgettable five years as a Thunderbird,” said Young before celebrating the series win.

The women’s squad now heads to their next challenge: hosting the Canada West Final Four. The ‘Birds will play the University of Alberta Pandas on Friday at 6:00 p.m. at War Memorial Gym. The teams split the two games they played this regular season, UBC dropping the first one by a score of 63-71 but storming back the next night to take it 73-66. The Pandas finished in third place in the Pioneer Division with a regular season record of 16-4. They’re coming into the Final Four hot, as they decisively swept the MacEwan Griffins in their home quarterfinal series by scores of 87-58 and 67-46.

The other matchup will feature the universities of Victoria and Saskatchewan squaring off.

The winner of that will face the winner of the Alberta/UBC game to decide who’s heading to Québec City for the CIS finals.

-With files from Jack Hauen U

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DOUBLE Jacob Gershkovich Senior Staff Writer

Onto the Canada West Final Four it is for the UBC men’s basketball team. The ‘Birds swiftly handed the visiting UNBC Timberwolves their return tickets home after sweeping a best-of-three series this past Thursday and Friday.

Emotions were expectedly running high to begin Thursday’s playoff game. Looking excitedly tense, both teams began the game by throwing errant passes, committing unnecessary fouls and performing a wide array of other birdbrain errors.

One UBC player seemed unaffected by the heightened importance of the match — who else, but Tommy Nixon. Nixon, whose regular season success landed him a spot on Canada West’s First AllStar team, put up 12 first quarter points and finished the half with 16.

In spite of their size, and the unrelenting chirps dished out by members of the UBC football team who happened to be in attendance, the Timberwolves put up a fight.

Going into the half, UBC led 45-38.

Four of UBC’s players finished in double figures in the scoring department, the high-point man being Nixon with a game-high 23.

UNBC rallied late, but the scoreboard exaggerates how close this game really was. The ‘Birds won game one, 83-77.

UBC’s head coach, Kevin Hanson, spoke of his plans for game two. “I didn’t think we defended the dribble penetration very well, so we’ll make a few defensive adjustments. I thought they scored a lot in transition. You just can’t let teams out-hustle you, and I thought tonight they did a really good job of that. It’s a best-of-three series, and you really want to win in two and get that extra day’s rest.”

Not the least intimidated by UNBC’s late game push, UBC resumed hacking down the Timberwolves’

defence with alacrity in the second game. Connor Morgan, the 6’9 Victoria native, scored the first nine points for UBC as the home team jumped ahead to an early 28-9 lead after one.

The thick-skinned Timberwolves looked helpless. Shooting a lacklustre 33.3 per cent from the field in the first half, UNBC was simply lost. And with the prospect of prolonging their season dwindling, their body language communicated defeat.

Morgan added to the growing pit in their stomachs after emphatically throwing down a monstrous one-handed dunk before the appreciative football team, who, fuelled by liquor and pizza and shirtless with their bodies painted blue and white, returned to Friday’s game to further harass the Timberwolves.

Hanson expressed his gratitude for the lively hometown crowd.

“It was a great crowd tonight. In basketball it’s about a 10-15 point advantage when you do have that home crowd. The football guys, it was great to have them out here.

We love to have these crowds out to support us, and it’s something we’re going to look to build on next year when we host the nationals.”

UNBC flared on the scoreboard in the third quarter, the effort akin to the embers of a dying fire.

When the clock ran out at the War Memorial Gym, the score read 8878 for UBC. UBC has beat the odds to get to where they presently are.

After a 1-5 start to their season, critics were beginning to doubt how relevant they’d be come March.

“I’m just very proud of these guys. They’ve accepted their roles. Our game plan was know your job, do your job, and I thought our guys really did that well tonight and throughout the season. We’re thrilled to be going to the Final Four; and we’re going to give it our best.” U

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EXT END ED Jenny Tang Staff Writer After earning a week off before opening the playoff season, the UBC women’s hockey team split Friday and Saturday’s playoff series against the University of Manitoba Bisons.

In a thrilling first night, the ‘Birds came out flying and scored one goal on the powerplay, and killed off all six power play opportunities — including a four-minute double minor — the Bisons had in a 2-1 victory.

UBC’s first goal came eight minutes into the first period from Tatiana Rafter, after teammate Nicole Saxvik flew off the bench and weaved her way up and around the goal before feeding it to Stephanie Schaupmeyer and Sarah Casorso, who then sent it for Rafter to bang home.

The ‘Birds kept their lead in the second period, extending it just 26 seconds in after a shot from Kelly Murray sailed past Bison goalie Rachel Dyck to make the score 2-0.

Despite many opportunities afterwards, the ‘Birds were unable to capitalize while Bison captain Maggie Litchfield-Medd managed to beat Danielle Dube with only one minute of play left. Luckily, the Thunderbirds were able to hang on for the one-goal win.

“It was too bad for Dubes, she had a great game and played really well,” said coach Graham Thomas on the non-shutout. “But it’s a chance to get that playoff experience and how to defend that minute-to-go kind of rush.

“It’s a classic playoff game.

The teams battled hard, they’re

going to go all the way from start to finish. We’ve got to have that same mentality, we’ve got to have a game plan, be ready to execute and just play our best tomorrow.”

Unfortunately, this wasn’t enough on Saturday night. The Bisons opened the scoring in the second period after a double minor from Tatiana Rafter put Manitoba on the powerplay.

But UBC managed to tie it up just three minutes later. Kelly Murray was able to fire a shot from Sarah Casorso past Dyck’s shoulder to even things out.

Despite many opportunities, the ‘Birds were unable to capitalize, and the score remained 1-1 after the end of the third period, which meant that the game would go into sudden-death overtime.

Both teams were hungry for the victory; UBC was determined to put this weekend away and move on to the finals against the University of Alberta Pandas, and the Bisons were desperate to hang on to fight another battle on Sunday.

Manitoba’s Alexandra Anderson determined the winner of the game.

17 minutes into the second round of overtime, she managed to wire the puck past Samantha Langford in a dramatic finish to the match.

The teams are now tied 1-1 in the series, which will be determined by Sunday’s game.

“It was a really tough one, we had so much hope. I honestly thought we would have a better fate,” said Thomas. “Our girls just have to keep their heads up, not get down and just get focused and ready to go.”

Of course, the Canada West conference is extremely competi-

tive.

UBC did well in the regular season standings, placing second and earning the byeweek. However Manitoba were not far behind, and the ‘Birds knew that they would be a tough team to contend with.

“It was to be expected in this kind of playoffs and to play through we’ve got to be resilient.

I’m really confident that we’ll pull through,” said Thomas.

The winner of Sunday’s game will move on to the finals, where they will face off against the University ofAlberta Pandas in Edmonton next weekend.

The ‘Birds are determined to reach their end goal of Nationals, and to bring home some company to their Canada West 2012-13 banner hanging in Thunderbird Arena.

As of press time, the Thunderbirds are just about to face off against the Bisons in the final game of the series. Get the full recap at ubyssey.ca to find out who’s moving on to the Canada West Conference Final. U

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ELI MIN ATED

Jack Hauen Sports and Rec Editor A gutsy three-game quarterfinal win followed by a two-game

semifinal ousting at the hands of the University of Alberta Golden bears. Sound familiar?

That might be because it’s the same situation the Thunderbirds found themselves in last year.

The quarterfinal teams were different (Saskatchewan last year, Manitoba this time), but the

overall schematic is eerily similar. The Bears are becoming to the ‘Birds what the Blackhawks were to the Canucks in ’09 and ’10.

After what looked like a convincing series victory over the Bisons in the quarterfinal, the ‘Birds were flying high. They were getting offensive input from their top guys with help from the depth (11 goals in three games is nothing to sneeze at), their defence was solid and goalie Eric Williams was playing with more confidence than he had ever shown at any point this year, allowing just one goal in two of the three matches.

Leave it to the best team in the league to send them crashing back to earth.

Alberta took the first game by

a score of 3-1, holding UBC to 21 shots in the game and scoring a pair of third period goals to get past the visitors. One of those, it should be mentioned, was into an empty net, so the game was even closer than the score would suggest (mostly due to another stellar performance from Williams, who stopped 34 of the 36 shots fired at him). Jordan Hickmott tallied the lone marker for UBC — the ‘Birds would need more offence if they were to even things up in the next game.

They’d get it. And who else but Cole Wilson and Anthony Bardaro to give the T-Birds a 2-0 lead. A lucky bounce off Wilson got the team off to a good start 2:15 into the game, and a wicked slot shot from Bardaro gave the Bears something to worry about. Alberta’s Jamie Crook pounced on a loose puck to respond with just eight seconds left in the period, but the visiting team had to feel good about a lead heading into the intermission.

Some hard-nosed play led to Luke Lockhart’s 3-1 rebound goal about halfway through the game.

It would take 20 minutes for the Golden Bears to respond, but at 11:10 of the third period, Jordan Rowley scored on a powerplay one-timer to pull his team within one. This goal would spell the end of the game for Williams, who until this point had done everything he could to keep the ‘Birds in front, as he was injured on the play. Matt Hewitt, who hadn’t played since January 29, came in relief.

Five minutes later, the Bears caught up, courtesy Levko Koper.

Then, with 33 seconds left, the winning goal came as Kruise Reddick put a one-timer through Hewitt.

The Thunderbird goalie would head to the bench for the extra attacker in the final seconds, and

Lockhart and Fleming had multiple chances in tight, but Golden Bear goaltender Luke Siemens held fast to give his team the win.

Giving up three, third-period goals to lose by one is a heartbreaking way to go, but credit the T-Birds for never giving up against the best team in the league. This series was much closer than last year’s (5-1, 6-2 losses), and the team played with serious heart facing slim odds. It’s easy to get caught up in ‘what ifs’ after a close playoff loss, but one can’t help but wonder what the outcome could’ve been had Williams not been taken out of the game, especially considering the way he’d been playing.

Either way, this season has been one of impressive growth for the Thunderbirds, as they finished fourth overall in the Canada West conference to earn themselves a home playoff date for the first time since 1971.

Their regular season improved under new head coach and longtime Thunderbird Tyler Kuntz, and some new additions, most notably Eric Williams, the firstyear who will surely be their starting goaltender for the foreseeable future and Manraj Hayer, the speedy winger who seems to have found a home on the top line with Wilson and Bardaro — helped them along the way.

Only forward Nate Fleming and captain D-man Ben Schmidt are in their final year of eligibility — no doubt two big pieces of this team, but in terms of quantity lost, the T-Birds are in good shape. And with the new additions looking comfortable in blue and gold, the future is looking bright. If you’ll indulge the Canucks-Blackhawks metaphor, we’re due for a dramatic finish next March. U

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