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For incoming dean Catherine Dauvergne, law is order

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“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” This oft-quoted line from Shakespeare’s Henry VI is reflective of many people’s attitudes toward the legal profession. Despite the popularity of TV dramas such as Law & Order and Suits, the public perception of one of the world’s oldest professions is far from unanimously positive.

UBC’s incoming Dean of Law, Catherine Dauvergne, hopes to change that perception.

Dauvergne is currently a professor of immigration law at UBC’s Allard School of Law, and, in July, will be taking over the role of dean.

Dauvergne grew up in Edmonton, and did her bachelor’s degree at Carleton University, studying French literature and political science, later pursuing a master’s degree in the latter subject at the same university instead of directly entering law school.

“The advice that I got at that time and that I would still give to people is, ‘do another degree before you consider law and do something that you really want, because you don’t know if you’ll like law school … so do something kind of fun,” said Dauvergne.

After five years of working as a civil servant and teaching English in Japan, Dauvergne enrolled in UBC Law. “I had thought a little bit about law before then, but I’m not sure how hard I thought about it. I didn’t grow up in a family with any lawyers, I didn’t know anyone who was a lawyer,” said Dauvergne.

Dauvergne wrote the LSAT during her undergrad and scored in the 99th percentile. When she enrolled at UBC she was still somewhat uncertain regarding whether or not law was a career that she wanted to pursue.

“I came to law school at the time when my LSAT was expiring.

So either I had to go to law school that year, or I had to write the thing again — so I thought, ‘oh well, I’ll try it for a year and see if I like it — and I really loved it,” said Dauvergne. “And then I was hooked. That took probably six or eight weeks after starting law school to feel like, ‘wow — I really, really like this.’”

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Dauvergne graduated from UBC Law in 1995, and though she now focuses on immigration and refugee law, she stressed the fact that law is inherently a career where specialization isn’t required.

“The great thing about law school and the legal profession is that law is probably the last truly generalist profession … you don’t specialize!” Dauvergne said.

“This is not to say that lawyers and their careers don’t become experts in particular areas and not knowledgeable in other areas, but specialization is an informal process in law.”

I think that the majority of students come to law school because they want to make a difference in the world. I think our students have that in common more than anything else,” Catherine Dauvergne Professor of immigration law and incoming Dean of Law

Dauvergne’s decision to go into immigration law was influenced both by the fact that she received funding for her PhD in that field and that she has worked and is interested in government and the state.

Though she’s never had a legal practice, Dauvergne is a member of the Law Society of British Columbia and does pro bono work for the Canadian Council for Refugees and the Community Legal Assistance Society. She’s represented the former in multiple cases before the Supreme Court of Canada.

“There are serious access-to-justice problems in our legal system, and they are reflected in that sort of configuration of the profession — that a lot of the profession is about managing significant transactional work and sort of in-house stuff and corporate structure and things like that,” said Dauvergne.

While Dauvergne acknowledges that some students do attend law school primarily or entirely for monetary reasons — to get a

high-paying job — she believes that most are influenced by more altruistic or intellectual factors.

“I think that the majority of students come to law school because they want to make a difference in the world. I think our students have that in common more than anything else,” said Dauvergne. “Some people come to law school really thinking, ‘I’m coming to law school because I want to have a comfortable lifestyle’ — but that’s not the majority of people.”

Dauvergne is entering her new role as dean in a transformative period for UBC’s Law program, with Peter Allard having made a major donation to the school this year.

“There are some goals on the horizon that are related to honouring the spirit of the new gift, like strengthening our presence in human rights and really fostering the kind of research that puts the school on the map internationally,” said Dauvergne.

Part of Dauvergne’s vision for the faculty includes improving the school’s experiential learning department. Though she stresses that experiential learning (in the form of clinical work) has been a foundational part of law curriculums since the 1960s, Dauvergne wants her faculty “to re-jump on the bandwagon of experiential learning.”

In regard to concerns that some students have about entering the legal profession due to an uncertain job market, Dauvergne had reassuring words — so far, for this year’s graduating class, there is a 92 per cent placement rate in articling positions. Dauvergne also stressed that there’s much more to law than simply career options.

“I actually think that the value of studying law has very little to do with the fact that you might get a job as a lawyer,” said Dauvergne.

“It’s just a very good liberal arts education. It’s very good for understanding how contemporary society is both organized and disorganized. I think that law is a very powerful ordering mechanism … I think that understanding the mechanics of the law is deeply revealing about how societies are structured.” U

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EXAMS >>

AMS makes online database for past exams, but faces challenge of getting profs to upload material

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MONEY >>

Board of Governors passes two per cent increase to tuition and non-academic fees

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A two per cent annual increase to tuition is intended to inflation.

Veronika Bondarenko

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The AMS is proceeding with plans to create an online exam database.

Kosta Prodanovic

News Administrator After several years of planning, the AMS is rolling out a central exam database.

In March 2011, student senators brought the idea of reinstating an exam database to Senate as a topic of interest.

The plan was to create an online hub where old exams would be collected and made available for reference.

An AMS Academic Experience report from 2012 shows that an overwhelming proportion of students favoured the idea of the database. According to the report, 83 per cent of students “felt that an exam database would be a positive academic resource.”

The idea behind the project is to equalize access to reference material by abating the need for third party web sites where students might need to pay for unauthorized course material.

Associate VP Academic Daniel Munro pointed to the 2012 Academic Experience Report and noted that “students felt there was unequal access to [reference material] depending on students’ social circles or financial means.”

Regardless of the overwhelmingly positive response, the project has been in limbo since being endorsed by Senate in 2013.

It was placed under the purview of a steering committee chaired by the AMS and composed of representatives from the Registrar’s office, the library and the Centre for Learning and Technology.

The committee then reached out to hire a project manager based on an internal grant from the university. This project manager was charged with building the system for the database and collecting content from professors.

Over the course of the project manager’s term, UBC introduced a new policy regarding the use of teaching materials in UBC courses that pushed for “the free and open distribution of teaching materials beyond the UBC community.”

According to Munro, many faculty members took issue with the openness of the policy in regards to intellectual property ownership.

“That, I think influenced the culture of faculty here to be a little bit more defensive over how they use material like old exams,” said Munro.

As a result, the exam database had to be designed in a way that was responsive to these concerns.

“The way that the database is [built], professors can define who can access the material that they upload,” he said.

Munro also said that this will hopefully give professors more control over their own content.

The database is built, but the major hurdle now is getting faculty to upload their content voluntarily.

Munro said that he hopes that framing the discussion in terms of broader learning initiatives will help the cause. He’d like to have enough material in the database to consider rolling it out to students

by September.

“I think what we are trying to do now is to get profs to see how this can be a way of starting a broader conversation around exam practices and assessment practices,” he said.

Considering how positively the idea for the database has been received, the VP academic’s office has clearly been pushing to support the interests of students even amidst all the challenges that have been posed so far.

The database is available online in its current form. U

The Board of Governors approved the annual two per cent increase to tuition and all non-instructional fees.

The increase, which happens every year in order to keep up with inflation, had been discussed both in public and in camera meetings.

The tuition increases apply to domestic undergraduate and graduate students, as well as international graduate students. The non-instructional fee increases apply to all students.

Louise Cowin, VP students, said that the students they consulted made it clear that they were opposed to all fee increases by the university. She also talked about the letter submitted by the AMS on behalf of students, which said that students wanted more affordable tuition, but not at the cost of a poor quality of education.

“The letter that they provided to us made it clear that they wanted lower tuition, but also referenced the AMS Academic Survey in which the majority of students responded to the survey and identified that they did not want to reduce tuition at the cost of a lower quality of education,” said Cowin.

Cowin also said that based on both specific consultation regarding the fee increases and the Academic Experience survey sent out to all undergraduate students, responses about the cost of education yielded similar results. Students that they talked to also said they wanted more consultation regarding the increases and a clear breakdown of where the money was going.

“I also acknowledge that there are still some improvements that

the administration could make with respect to communication,” said Cowin. “I also made reference to a theme in the students’ verbatim comments that students are looking for cost savings and the administration echo the report from the comptroller as the ways in which the centre’s budget has been reduced to the tune of $6 million this year and that the administration is looking very closely at reducing its expenditures and trying to focus its funding on value to students.”

Board Chair John Montalbano asked whether the Board should focus on what is expressed in AMS letter rather than the wished of individual students.

“The AMS is the voice of the students in many respects,” said Montalbano. “In a case like this where it’s tuition increases, would the students not just expect the leadership on something so important would take that forward? We should pretty much be mindful as we are on the AMS’ position and other constituents and perhaps the numbers of respondents should be expected to be lower because this is one where want the leadership voice to be dealing directly with the Board of Governors.”

Cowin said that both were important, although the Board should take the sentiments expressed in the AMS letter seriously.

“The fact that the AMS has taken the time to write their response, I think, is illustrative of the way in which they see their responsibility in terms of representing students on this campus,” said Cowin.

The increase comes after the university increased international tuition by 10 per cent and student residence fees by 20 per cent. U

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Philosophy professor receives $12 million research grant to study free will and morality

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Paul Russell will be partnering with the University of Gothenburg to study morality.

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Philosophy professor Paul Russell will be spending the next decade studying questions of morality and free will thanks to a large grant from a Swedish research group.

The grant, which is worth 80 million Swedish kronor, or approximately $12 million, and has been awarded by the Swedish Research Council, will go towards Russell’s research on moral responsibility and global issues.

Russell will now be dividing the next 10 years of his life between UBC and the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, where he will be

examining how free will influences human responsibility in both local and global issues.

In Canada, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) receives significantly less funding than its counterparts in science, engineering and health research. In the past eight years, SHHRC’s budget has also shrunk by 10.5 per cent.

According to Russell, the Swedish government is more geared towards promoting support and research opportunities to academics in humanities. He also said that this is the first program of its kind in Sweden, which attracts researchers in all fields to the country.

“[The Council] started a new program to attract what they call ‘leading researchers’ to Sweden,” said Russell. “This is, I believe, the first one in the humanities area, so quite a few of them are in other areas like medical research, engineering, things of that sort.”

According to Russell, the University of Gothenburg established a research project with a group led by Gunnar Björnsson. Björnsson, once he heard of the project, began talking to Russell about the possibility of his coming on as an international researcher for the project.

Most of the funding will go towards hiring and establishing a team of researchers to collaborate and assist in the initiative. Russell said that even $12 million can go away quickly when hiring postdoctoral researchers and other project assistants.

Russell’s research considers ethical issues, including traditional philosophical questions regarding the moral responsibility of human beings and the relation of this responsibly to law.

According to Russell, such an issue splits into questions of moral psychology, personal values and people’s feelings of responsibility to other human beings.

“What is it about human beings and human agents that makes it intelligible to regard ourselves and other human beings as responsible agents?” said Russell.

Russell’s team will also be looking into how moral questions regarding law, criminal and legal responsibility interact with people’s feelings of accountability for their actions.

“What makes them valid and makes us think they are not fully responsible and not liable to punishment?” said Russell. U

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AMS President Tanner Bokor gives up bonus, will still go through performance review

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Council denied Tanner Bokor’s request to not undergo his performance review.

Veronika Bondarenko News Editor

After AMS President Tanner Bokor refused his portion of the bonus awarded to executives and requested to not go through the evaluation process that comes along with awarding the money, Council voted to not allow him to skip the review.

The review, which looks at each of the executives’ performance over the course of the year and determines what portion of the $5,000 bonus they receive, is conducted by members of the Oversight Committee and then reported back to Councillors.

Bokor said that during his last two years as an executive, he has stated that he would not be accepting his portion of the bonus money. However, after he started experiencing problems with his health earlier in the month, his medical team advised him not to go through with the review process.

“I explained very early on that I did not intend on taking any percentage of the funding to the Oversight Committee, however I did have an intention to go through the process of evaluation,” said Bokor.

“Unfortunately, there was a circumstance that arose regarding my own health where I was advised by my medical team that certain elements of the process would not be in my best medical interest.”

As a result, Bokor submitted a request to opt out of the review process to Council. At the April 8 meeting, Councillors voted to not allow Bokor to skip the evaluation on grounds that executives still needed to be held accountable for their performance and should not be able to opt out of it by refusing the money. Instead,

Bokor will be going through a more sensitive review process.

Veronica Knott, chair of Oversight committee, confirmed that the committee will be going through the performance review without Bokor’s involvement and will instead be looking at his goals on their own.

“Executives are only mandated to create goals for the year, but they’re not mandated to participate in any further evaluations,” said Knott. “Tanner can just hand in his goals, he’s not mandated to be a part of the rest of it, but Oversight is still mandated to evaluate.”

Knott also said that the committee will be providing a record of his performance to Council at the next meeting. Still, the information in the performance review will not be made public.

“With the goals, we can kind of evaluate his performance without him having to be a part of the process, which is really unfortunate because it’s obviously not ideal and it’s not really why the process is made, but in this case, I think it’s the best scenario for both Oversight and for Tanner,” said Knott.

Bokor said that he was not asking for special treatment, but rather acted upon the recommendations of his medical team. On a larger scale, he believes that performance reviews of executives are necessary, but feels that doing it through the PAI bonus is not the right way to go about it.

“I actually agreed with many comments stated around accountability and transparency,” said Bokor. “I think it’s unfortunate, though, because PAI is actually not an accountable or transparent process to begin with, but I think we do owe a degree of making sure that students know what the executive have done.” U

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Two UBC professors resign from selection committee of Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame over lack of female representation

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Only 11 out of the 60 people inducted are women.

Olivia Law News Producer

Two Canadian scientists and UBC professors have resigned from the selection committee of the Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame over disputes that, for the second time in as many years, there are no female nominees for induction. With these resignations, this leaves only one female board member, Jeanette Southwood, in the panel of five.

Out of the 60 people inducted into the Hall of Fame since 1991, only 11 have been women. Accord-

ing to the website for the Hall of Fame, one of its key aims is to “promote role models that will help attract young Canadians to careers in science, engineering and technology.”

UBC posted record numbers of women involved in these departments this year compared to other universities, with women making up 29 per cent of its 848-member first-year engineering students.

This is a 61 per cent increase since 2010, but still reflects the disparity within the departments.

Neurology professor Judy Illes and Catherine Anderson, the two

UBC professors who resigned from the committee, are both confident that there are several Canadian women scientists and engineers who reach the nomination and selection criteria.

“There are probably fewer women at the highest level who would qualify for this induction because there have been fewer women in the science and engineering pipeline,” said Illes, who resigned on April 3. “[The] trends are changing but it can’t change overnight, you don’t all of a sudden have equal numbers of distinguished women at the very highest level.”

However, she also stressed that, despite the disparagement of women in the science and engineering community, there are women at these highest levels.

“There are women at that level, and what the process has failed to achieve is capturing them,” said Iles.

Anderson, who resigned after Illes on April 9, commented upon the lack of diversity in organizations called upon for nominations.

“The lack of diversity stemming from the pool of nominations was coming from a small group of people,” she said. “My suggestion was that we should try to make sure that more groups and more diverse organizations knew about the call for nominations.”

The nomination process for the Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame is straightforward — open to the public and the academy, along with a 500-word essay and curriculum vitae submission. Illes cites a lack of

awareness within the science and engineering community as a major reason for the deficiency in female nominations.

“I am involved with many organizations who had never heard of this. If the committee had done anything it still wasn’t efficient,” she said.

Joining the nominations committee in 2013, Illes had pressed for higher visibility within the female population.

“I visited the head of the program in the fall and we spoke about how the Hall of Fame could reach out more vigorously,” said Illes. “Whatever process [they] undertook, whether it was augmented or not, I did not observe any enhanced process over the previous year.”

This lack of progress from previous years is also Anderson’s reason for stepping down.

“It didn’t seem like change was happening,” she said. “It wasn’t necessarily just the lack of women, it was the fact that positive suggestions had been made, and people weren’t taking a positive approach.”

From this decision of stepping down, Anderson has resolved to attend conferences only if there is a diverse range of people invited as panelists and speakers.

“I won’t be attending conferences unless there’s a significant portion of invited speakers that are women,” she said. “I feel it’s important that I support things that show diversity, and in things that do not show diversity, I’m not participating.”

Illes has not written off the Science and Engineering Hall of

Fame entirely, however.

“In the future I would love to become involved again once everyone regroups and puts in place a better process for reaching out,” she said.

She also hopes that weight will be placed solely on merit rather than prominence in the science and engineering community.

“It could be that we create a totally revised campaign and still have no women nominees, or no women nominees who make it to the final selection,” said Illes.

“That is, I suppose, possible because it should be merit that drives the question not gender. But I can’t imagine, knowing who’s out there now, that women would not be successful at least to the final selection process.”

Going forward, Illes wants more women to become aware of the Hall of Fame and take a more active role in the nominations and getting voices heard. The aim of the resignation was to protest against the ideas and visions which were not followed up from previous years, not to boycott the nominations or prestige.

“The bottom line message for today is that we have to move forward, we have to reopen the nomination, we have to have a vigorous immediate campaign to make a more heterogeneous slate and revise the campaign for the long term,” said Illes. “I really think the hall of fame has an opportunity now to provide leadership for women in science and engineering. Just take the bull by the horns now and just move forward.” U

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Here are some of our recent award winning students and alumni. The awards listed below are both local and national.

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REBEKKA SORENSEN DAYTIME EMMY NOMINEE People’s Choice Awards

TORRANCE COOMBS FAVOURITE NEW TV DRAMA Mayor’s Arts Awards

KARIN LEE FILM AND NEW MEDIA Canada International Film Festival

SHARON LIN RISING STAR Mayor’s Arts Awards

CARI GREEN FILM AND NEW MEDIA Vancouver Short Film Festival

ANDREW POLLINS AUDIENCE CHOICE Vancouver International Film Festival

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MATT KENNEDY: ACTOR, ENTREPRENEUR AND STORYTELLER

BY VICKY HUANG

From the unwanted old philosopher in Triumph of Love to the much sought-after romantic hero Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice, graduating BFA student Matt Kennedy has walked lives of gloom and glory onstage.

Offstage, Kennedy is a co-owner of a film company, educator at improv camps, judge at film festivals and producer of a feature film.

The magic seed that inspires these achievements is a love for stories and storytelling.

After graduating from high school, Kennedy embarked on a trip to Ghana, where he experienced a culture shock that paved the way to his life philosophy to seize the day.

“Acting is … the way for me to continue [to] explore … different people and different cultures…. Acting is kind of a branch of [travelling that] really highlights humanity.”

Unlike directors, who maintain a distance from the individual characters in order to oversee the entire production, actors indulge in self-exploration. “It’s really about [whom] you are … not so much about creating a character…. It’s like you’re finding yourself within a character…. It’s a very selfish thing, but you’re doing it for someone else,” said Kennedy.

Kennedy’s life offstage has been enriched by his fruitful experience onstage. There are times when he disagrees with his roles, yet he learns to appreciate or at least be non-judgemental of the world as seen from his characters’ perspectives.

“Logic and reason are ruled by the heart,” Kennedy quoted the musical Triumph of Love. “It’s all about finding a balance.”

With grandparents who hold musical aesthetics in a high regard and parents who are ever-supportive and diligently attend his shows, Kennedy has no reserves about launching a life-long journey to the realm of entertainment. Yet he is not oblivious to the cutthroat nature of this industry, and constantly exerts himself to break his own limit.

“You can’t be good at everything, but you can always be better at everything…. I’ll always continue to develop learning how to let it go when the time comes … [and] to be vulnerable, open and flexible,” said Kennedy.

Kennedy values the experience that he learned from past roles while always focusing on the present. “It’s always the show that I’m doing right now that I seem to love

the most…. I don’t really have any dream roles; they just seem to pop in and present themselves to me, and then I fall in love with them.”

Kennedy spoke fondly of UBC as well. “[It] is an amazing school in the sense that it has everything that you could need to develop as an actor in regards to providing you with spaces to rehearse and perform; they provide you with support and they introduce you to all the people that you would need to know to make a career. But at the same time, it’s up to you to take advantage of those things,” he said.

“My advice is to take every opportunity that comes along, and to take every experience and realize that how can you be better next time — to be a little selfish about your work and realize the whole three years in the BFA acting program is about how to be you. There’s no one way to be an actor; there’s only your way to be an actor.”

Be it entrepreneur, traveller or storyteller, Kennedy proudly owns his identity and is using his own way to navigate in the sea of acting dreams. U

GHAZAL AZARBAD IS READY TO TAKE THE THEATRE WORLD BY STORM

BY MIGUEL SANTA MARIA

For Ghazal Azarbad, performing in theatre is just as exciting as it was inexplicable when she started.

“I didn’t really know much about acting [then], [but] I really liked affecting people — making them laugh, cry, whatever,” said Azarbad, who started acting early in her pre-teens, participating in various school musicals and acting classes in Coquitlam.

“From then on I just realized that this is what I really enjoy doing. I also enjoy singing, I enjoy improv ... I don’t know what else to say really.”

Originally from Iran and coming from a fairly traditional family, Azarbad’s pursuit in acting was not something her parents were keen on. Combined with the fact that she was unable to properly articulate how she felt, they initially wrote it off as just another adolescent phase.

Realizing later how serious she was though, they became all ears — albeit, with a substantial amount of concern.

“My family are either doctors, engineers or lawyers,” said Azarbad, aware of the disadvantage from the get-go.

“The fact that I’m not necessarily guaranteed a job for the rest of my life and even health insurance, at first really scared them.”

But she trudged on, joining clubs such as UBC Players and UBC Improv in her early undergrad, and ultimately getting admitted into the BFA acting program.

Now about to graduate after starring in multiple UBC productions including The Bacchae 2.1, Triumph of Love and the film Mercury Falling, the experience was a time where she did what she loves and learned from it.

“For so long [I did acting] on the side for fun, [it] was a place where I got to relax,” she said. “It became my work and became the only thing that I was studying for and memorizing things for, and actually [trying] to understand and apply it to real life.”

The connection between her work and personal life is of utmost importance for Azarbad. She found that the stresses and merits of both aspects frequently spilled into each other.

“I don’t think how I can do better at the rehearsal, I think how I can do better in my life,” she said. “When I say well in life, I mean not taking care of myself, being as healthy and as happy and as on track as I possibly can be. That’s where my work ethic lies.”

On that note, the chemistry with the cast and crew becomes just as essential. “If I’m not in a place of love with everyone in the room, then it hinders my performance … I can’t open up or be vulnerable because I’m scared,” she said. “[If] you don’t have that love, understanding and chemistry then you can’t necessarily afford to go to those places.”

Chemistry and emotional issues only top the numerous issues Azarbad faces as an actress. From the copious performance

multi-tasking— especially in musicals — to her uninsured future, it definitely isn’t a path taken by those without the passion.

Fortunately, Azarbad credits her good company of faculty and fellow BFA students for keeping her going.

“I learned so much from them … how to embrace how different we can all be … how we’re all just people trying to figure out our process,” she said. “On the first day of classes [at UBC] they said ‘you are enough’… I’ve come to understand [what] that means. I don’t have to be a certain way to impress [a] director … It’s my job to be the kind of actor that I am so that they can decide if [that’s what] they need in this production.”

As for her parents? They are more supportive than ever.

“The more they see how much I love what I’m doing … [it] makes them happy,” she said. “In spite of their own fears … watching them try and putting their effort into it is what’s really important to me.”

As for her future plans, Azarbad plans to go on a well-earned vacation in Europe, and then audition to as many performance opportunities as possible. For those following in her footsteps she simply had this to say: “Forgive yourself instantly and don’t apologize for who you are. I know how cheesy that sounds but [those] are the only things you’ll ever need.” U

KATE DE LORME DESIGNED HER WAY INTO THE THEATRE WORLD

BY JOLIN LU

Shakespearean dialogues, flamboyant gestures and makeshift stages backdropped by the yellow-tinted auditorium walls mark most people’s experience with theatre production. Kate De Lorme, a graduating student in UBC’s BFA theatre production and design program, refines high school theatre production and takes it into the university arena.

Although De Lorme now devotes herself into the audio engineering aspect of theatre production, acting is what initially brought her into theatre. “I was in an audition group in high school. Then I started helping with the tech side and did concerts for school.

Soon I became the go-to person for that sort of thing … I found a way to merge technical engineering with theatre and I got really interested,” said De Lorme.

After entering UBC, De Lorme was often entangled in a dilemma over how to spend her time: the constant struggle between non-theatre curriculums and theatre pro-

jects. Because participating in independent theatre projects is her main motivation for studying at UBC, the compromise she has had to make manifested itself in emotional burdens.

“The language requirement was a huge thing for me. The [theatre production] program is heavily dependent on what you make of it and how much effort you’re willing to put in. So I wanted to put my whole self into the theatre and just be working on shows. Many times I couldn’t because I had to work on my science or language courses … and they became a huge stress for me,” said De Lorme.

De Lorme finally decided to tackle the challenges head-on, devoting her third year to fulfilling the onerous non-theatre courses and thus freeing up her fourth year for theatre production.

In her fourth year alone, Lorme was able to participate in three of the UBC’s major shows as a sound designer. Currently, De

Lorme is working on a show called Inside/ Out directed by Stephen Malloy, a professor in the theatre department, starring Patrick Keating. The show is an autobiographical work of Keating’s 10 years in prison. “I did things like the sound of an ambient room, a car driving up, a cop siren and the sound of a radio. I also made the sound surround the space in a logical way,” De Lorme said.

Many may find De Lorme’s interest as a sound designer slightly obscure. De Lorme herself, in fact, hesitated when being asked to define her role. “In a theatrical setting it’s kind of hard to describe what a sound designer does … it includes sound effects … for The Bacchae [2.1], which I did early at UBC, I composed a bunch of music. For The Triumph of Love ... I designed the speaker setup. The tasks vary a lot,” she said.

In the next 10 years, De Lorme still sees herself in theatre production industry but probably in a different city that would offer her more opportunities. U <em>

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EDITOR JENICA MONTGOMERY

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Cult cinema class a favourite among students Celebrating the end of term

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Students celebrated the end of classes in ways other than Block Party.

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Examples of some cult classics covered in the Cult Cinema (FIST 300) class.

Tisha Dasgupta Contributor

The meaning of a film is not what’s in it but what we make of it. Cult Cinema, or FIST 300, is a course offered by the department of theatre and film, which provides students with an opportunity to study an overview of cult cinema through the ages. A popular favourite among students, this course has one of the highest enrollments in the film studies department.

Cult Cinema is taught by professor Ernest Mathijs, who has been teaching at UBC since 2006. Having founded the course and written the textbooks himself, Mathijs is well versed on the topic. “It’s a passion for film, writing about it and sharing with others the love [for cinema] that made me become a teacher in film,” said Mathijs when asked about his inspiration.

There’s no one straight definition of what a cult film is. It could be marvellously made, out of the ordinary or could make you question what you know. It might also be celebrated in a way that goes beyond the bounds of moderation. Teaching assistant Adam Bagatavicius believes that the best attribute of cult cinema is that it allows audiences to define what makes a movie cult.

“Each student leaves the course with their own definition and interpretation.”

The three credit course is open to third and fourth year students but has no pre-requisite course requirements. The course covers an extensive array of 30-40 famous cult films. These are eccentric, hilarious and often provocative films that normally one would not get the opportunity to see. During class hours, each of the films are screened in a very interactive manner. Students are encouraged to immerse themselves in the film by shouting at the characters or throwing objects at the screen.

“The pedagogical purpose is to demonstrate to the students that cinema is all about the social experience of watching the film,” said Mathijs. He believes that if we can turn a terrible film into a great experience, then there must be some merit to it. And that is the essence of a cult film.

One of the films in the course is The Room which is described as one of the worst movies ever.

However, it is also one of the best viewing experiences. Mathijs describes the film to be so poorly made, that over the years, audiences have found different ways to ridicule the movie, and so watching it in a large social group is always fun.

“It’s like a manic sugar rush, you never know what you’re going to get each week,” said Baga-

tavicius. That is what he believes makes students enjoy the course.

For a genre of film so chaotic, the course is perfectly structured into modules. The films are screened on Mondays during class hours and discussions are held on Fridays to discuss weekly readings and assignments.

In the future Mathijs hopes to be able to incorporate video essay assessments into the course, so that students get the opportunity to create film montages and visually present their ideas.

Students are also encouraged to watch cult films outside of the classroom. Affiliating with art-house cinemas in Vancouver gives students the opportunity to watch a midnight movie or watch a horror movie on Halloween.

This provides the ideal setting and mood to enjoy the film. Guest lecturers also conduct workshops a few times in the term to talk about their experience working with cult films.

“A film does not have to fit into the ideal definition of a good movie to be exceptional or appreciated,” said Mathijs.

The unusual interactive manner of the classes and the freedom students find to explore different sub-genres in cult and work with uncommon themes has made this course popular and successful. U

Well, we’ve practically made it, almost an entire school year has come and gone. Sure, finals are here, but before them, all classes came to a glorious end. Friday April 10 was, officially, the last day any student has to worry about attending lectures — you said goodbye to those unnecessarily stressful iClicker questions and, most importantly, tutorials, discussions and labs are now a distant memory.

Last day of classes (LDOC), for some, marks the day of the infamous annual AMS Block Party.

Early bird tickets sold out in a matter of minutes and general tickets sold out within a few days — and many people planned on skipping any and all their classes for the day of Block Party.

Lindsey Baines, a first-year Arts student, not only chose to skip classes for the day, but said she cancelled her plans for after Block Party had ended. According to Baines, her change of heart came from her friends who told her that: “once you go to Block Party, you won’t make it out alive if you want to go to a concert after.”

As for those who had not gotten their tickets, what was going on besides Block Party?

Yes, believe it or not, Block Party wasn’t the only thing students had in mind for their last day of classes. Well, that’s if they even had anything planned at all.

Katherine Poole, a first-year Arts student stated that she was still unsure about her plans, but would likely be “studying or going out with friends.”

Students’ plans for Friday (besides Block Party) seemed to be fairly low-key. Many people mentioned studying, handing in assignments, sleeping, more studying and even a bit of sobbing.

“I guess I’ll just be home crying about finals,” said Annu Shrestha, first-year student of international economics.

On the other hand, a member of the Greek community planned his last day of classes slightly different. He would not Block Party — nor would he be doing much of the prior things mentioned — he would instead attend the Arts County Fair (ACF).

“For the last day of classes, I’m going to stay at the Sigma Chi house the night before, and wake up for ACF, which is a big event in the Greek village,” said Matthew Gooding, a first-year Arts student and a member of Sigma Chi. That said, members of the Greek village are some of the very few students who actually have any pre-determined plans for Friday. Everyone else seemed to be ‘going with the flow’.

Students’ plans for this year’s LDOC, more or less, felt laidback and exuded a ‘whatever happens, happens’ vibe, so it was a struggle trying to find at least one student with some huge, lifechanging and exciting plans for day. Akash Sharma, a first-year Science student, changed all of that.

“I’m probably going to the beach — Wreck Beach — with my dog,” said Sharma, and if that’s not the best plan you have ever heard, then what is? U

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Lucas Hrubizna brings dark sensations with Big Brother Jessica Yang Contributor

What if, one day, you feel like you’re being followed?

Lucas Hrubizna, a fourth-year film production student, felt as though he was being followed when he drove down a darkened Marine Drive one night. This sensation became the inspiration for his final film at UBC, Big Brother.

Hrubizna, along with his producer David Findlay, his other producer and production designer Patty Facy and his cinematographer and editor Blake Davey, began his five day shoot in late January at mostly on-campus locations, such as Totem Park and the highways near the university.

Now, moving into post-production, they’ve recently held a very successful Kickstarter campaign, reaching their goal of $3,000, which will go toward professional

sound mixing, colour grading and promotion.

Big Brother is a surrealist and dark drama about Troy, a youth pastor and former Christian rocker, who obsessively follows his favourite youth group member, Michael, off to college in order to secure Michael’s devotion to God and Troy.

Based partially on Hrubizna’s own experience at a biblical skateboard camp, the film explores the potential disconnect between ideology and behaviour. Having both to illustrate this surrealist grey area between ideals and reality and to create a heavy and suspenseful aesthetic, Hrubizna and his team realized early on that professional post-production development would be crucial to their vision.

“The film has a lot of focus in terms of design and colour, so we really wanted to make sure we could bring that to life,” said Hrubizna.

Though the film production program does not provide funding to students for their films, many students like Hrubizna and his team have become quite resourceful and innovative, refusing to let the lack of funding stand as an obstacle to making their film the way they would like to. Money from students’ own pockets and alternative funding options such as the online platform, Kickstarter, have helped students make their visions come true.

“There’s not a lot of places you can sell [short films].... For us, our major goal is to just get [Big Brother] into the world through festivals.”

Fortunately, Hrubizna has experience in the Canadian festival circuit. His short film from 2014, Hard Card, was featured at the Montreal Film Festival and became a part of the omnibus film, We Both Go Down Together, which was <em>

screened at the Vancouver International Film Festival. Being ready to fund new ideas and attract an audience dedicated to quality filmmaking, festivals have recently become ideal spots for up-and-coming filmmakers, innovative filmmaking techniques and unique stories.

“There’s a tone and a feeling that sort of grabbed me with this [film] … [at biblical skateboard camp] they pull up these little pocket bibles so you can take them with you when you were skateboarding and stuff….

I think that religion adapts itself to the modern world, and sometimes those ways just happen to feel really incongruous and amusing to me,” said Hrubizna when asked about his motivations behind making the particular story of Big Brother.

Hrubizna often develops his projects by starting with an image or sensation from a real life experience and building the story around that.

Though Big Brother is a fictional narrative, Hrubizna’s long term goals for post post-secondary are to make documentaries, which, for him, reveal a spectrum of eccentricities, motivations and character traits, all found in our real world.

“The world has all the characters that don’t need to be written.”

In that case, there are potentially seven billion individual stories in this world just waiting to be transcribed to film along with all the stories our imaginations have to offer. This would make the tremendous work of filmmakers, with all its funding networks and technical advances and complex storytelling, seem impressive but daunting. For filmmakers like Hrubizna, however, passion might be a lot simpler.

“For me, films are about feeling and images, that’s how I enjoy them and that’s how I make them.” U </em>

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Ask Natalie: On long-gone love NATALIE MORRIS

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VOTE YES TO MORE AND BETTER TRANSIT

Philosophy professor Paul Russell received $12 million from a Swedish research group to study questions of morality and ethics.

While there is nothing particularly unusual about scientific or medical researchers receiving large sums of money for their work, it raises eyebrows to see a philosophy professor (or any Arts professor) receiving a grant of this size. Oh wait — this is because this is Canada and not Sweden.

Looking at both federal and university budget trends for humanities research paints a grim picture; there is still some money to go around, of course, but the numbers are much smaller than they are for health, science and engineering research while these types of grants are usually the most likely to get cut.

This makes one thing crystal clear: neither the Canadian government nor Canadian academia prioritizes the humanities and this is, quite frankly, a crying shame.

While we admit that medical and scientific research is often able to provide more tangible and easily calculated results and often requires more expensive equipment, this doesn’t mean that the humanities should always get the short end of the stick — and then only if there is “some money left over.” By fostering and supporting the study of people, arts, culture, philosophy, morality, literature and languages, we are able to develop a more profound understanding of people and the world we live in that can go hand in hand with scientific discoveries.

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“Do you support a one half percentage point (0.5 per cent) increase to the Provincial Sales Tax in Metro Vancouver, dedicated to the Mayors’ Transportation and Transit Plan, with independent audits and public reporting?”

That is the question on everyone’s mind this month.

If you go to UBC, you’ve been bombarded by advertisements and approached by petitioners and promoters urging you to vote one way or another on the now-ongoing transit referendum (officially, “Metro Vancouver’s Transit and Transportation Referendum”). It may be the case that you’re not so much deciding whether to vote ‘yes’ or ‘no’ as deciding if you want to vote at all. Fundamental principles of democracy aside, it’s an understandable stance: maybe you don’t know enough to make an informed choice; or maybe you really just don’t care. We’re going to give you some reasons why you should care, and ultimately, reasons that you should vote ‘yes’.

If it passes and is ratified by the government, the ‘transit tax’ will bring in an estimated $250 million per year in additional funding for TransLink. The campaign promises range from light rail in Surrey, to more buses, to a Broadway subway line — terminating at Arbutus, but still cutting down the student commute considerably.

The breadth, scope and magnitude of these promises are enough to entice any frequent transit-user, though it is also in this that we many ‘no-side proponents’) 1(and 2015-04-09 10:15 AM

see the biggest flaw: the proposals are, as Burnaby mayor Derek Corrigan phrased it, a “wish list.”

Maybe, with sufficient public support, funding and governmental assistance all of these things can be accomplished, but it seems a little bit too ambitious, to us. That said, in our view, regardless of how many of the projects actually come to fruition, more funding for transit is a good thing.

Estimates for the cost to the average student that a 0.5 per cent sales tax increase would bring range from $30-60 per year. That certainly isn’t chump change, but it’s also something that you probably wouldn’t even notice disappearing out of your wallet over the course of a year. If money is your main concern, though, consider the time that you’ll save with improved transit, either from having to wait less time for a bus or SkyTrain, or by having fewer cars on the road causing traffic congestion if more people are taking transit — time that could be spent working to earn back that $60.

Overall, though, we do have some doubts regarding TransLink’s corporate efficiency (we’re looking at you, Compass Card and fare gates) and the ambitiousness of some of the plans of the Mayors’ Council is questionable, the relatively small amount of risk compared to the potential reward of a massively improved (and constantly improving) transit system makes our decision easy.

The environmental, economic and time-saving benefits are clear.

Take 10 minutes out of your day to order and/or fill out a ballot, and vote ‘yes’ for more and better transit. U

I’ve had a crush on this guy since last September. I immediately fell for his exuberant personality but the problem is he was an exchange student and now he is back to his country which is far, far away from Canada. We were just friends but I really liked him. I know that things cannot work out between us, but since I’m still keeping in touch with him it’s so hard to forget about him. There is not a single day that I didn’t miss him ever since he left Vancouver....

Since I still stay in touch with him I feel like he is still in Canada and I can see him whenever I want to. But the reality is I don’t even know when I’ll be able see him again. I try to keep myself busy so that I miss him less but I cannot deny that he is always on my mind nevertheless.... How do I wake up from this dream?”

I’m so so sorry that this happened to you. Being stuck in love with someone who you know you can’t have is a rough feeling. But you can’t let him hold you back from what’s out there now and, you know, actually in the same country.

I’m not saying forget about this guy because you clearly care for him and anyone who’s really cared about someone knows how hard it is to just “let them go.” That’s bullshit. But, you do need some time emotionally apart. You need to come to terms with the fact you aren’t in the same country and you aren’t in a situation where a super long distance relationship would work.

When you see and talk to someone every day, in person, through texting or video calls, you allow them to become a big part of your everyday life, which is why even after your friend has left you still think about him, send him silly jokes and wonder how his day is going. You have to force that to stop. That sounds really harsh and I know how little you probably want to hear it, but it’s necessary.

You can’t just continue on, and you know that I’m right, because you’ll end up just liking him more and it will hurt every day; every thought you have of him will be touched with less happiness and more sadness. It’s not a path you want to continue on.

You pretty much need to break up with him.

While I’m not an expert on breaking your own heart, I can give you some ideas on how to get through this.

Tell your friend honestly why you need time apart. It may seem like a weird time to talk about your feelings, but you have to let them know why you need this so when you do arrive in a better place they will be more willing to accept you back. It’s a lot easier to understand ‘I know this might be coming out of left field, but I have feelings for you and I think we need some time apart so I can cool my own jets’ than radio silence for what seems like no real reason.

Then, you have to commit to some good old fashioned no-contact. You know yourself better than anyone so decide on a minimum time period where there’s no texting, chatting or video-calling. None. Even if you think you’ve moved on and want to reach out to him, continue your no-contact. You can reassess after your no-contact period is over.

In the meantime, focus on anything and everything else. Throw yourself into studying, but also keep yourself busy outside school work. Actively do not think about him. Every time his name pops up into your head, acknowledge that you thought about him, tell yourself he is only a friend, remind yourself of something you don’t like about them, and continue on your way. You have to stop your own feelings, which is way harder than getting new ones.

You have to take stock in yourself. How am I feeling today? What are my plans for today? How often will I think about him? Do I need to be around other people to take my mind off him?

When you are ready, when your heart stops hurting, and when you have accepted that he is not physically, and cannot be romantically, there, then reach out to him again.

But you cannot go into a friendship hoping for a relationship. That’s just a roundabout way to the path you need to leave now.

You CAN do this. I know it seems hard but you have to do this.

You’re young and beautiful and wonderful and you should be able to live your life without someone dragging you down.

If you need more tough love, let me know.

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

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Smoke Bluffs Words and photos by Koby Michaels

Burgers and Fries The sharp rock digs into my two fingers, wedged into a small crevasse in the rock. The skin threatens to tear as all of my weight dangles from the muscles of just two digits. I take a deep break as rain hits my face, pushing my contacts out of focus. With all the strength left in me after a full day of climbing, I swing my legs up, shouting with exertion as I struggle to stay on the wall. My toes, crushed into my tiny, rubber-soled climbing shoes, fight to find grip on the wind and rainswept granite. By some miracle, my big toe finds a groove big enough for me to balance on. With a shaking leg, I stand, relieving the strain on my now crushed fingers. I grab the crack over my head with my other hand, shaking out the lactic acid and adrenaline that has filled my right arm. The hard part is over; I’ve bridged the gap between the sets of easily-climbed cracks.

​To get to the gap, I climbed up two successive cracks and up onto a ledge.

There lays the gap, the crux of the climb. Three metres separate the ledge, the end of the first two cracks, from the second set. In between are only three small holes in the rock with almost nowhere two place your legs, the basis for most of the power and balance in climbing. With my left hand firmly crammed into the the top crack, I’ve bridged the gap. To do so, I used the tiny handholds to pull myself up, my feet slipping on the slick slab.

From here, I use a move called a lieback to climb the final crack. The lieback is a climbing move that uses tension to help you stick to the rock. To do one, you need a crack where you can wrap the fingers of both hands into.

Then you lie back, parallel to the wall with your feet, placed below your hands, pushing you away from the crack. This tension keeps you firmly stuck to the rock and by sliding your hands and feet up the crack, you can easily gain height.

Lieback Flake It’s a little after 11 a.m., and after being awake for four and a half hours already,

I’m ready to start climbing. After all of the pre-climbing checks with my belayer (everyone is tied in properly, harnesses are strapped and all carabiners are locked), my fingers finally find rock. The first few moves are simple but I’m quickly at a loss for my next move. The big toes of both of my feet are balanced on a ledge, but above them is a smooth slab of granite. The only handhold is well above my head and seemingly out of reach.

I have no choice but to jump for it.

I go through the move in my head, visualizing it in perfection. And then I go for it. Or, rather, I try to but fear freezes me up and I do little more than bend my knees stupidly. Again and again I convince myself to go for it and fail to move a muscle. ​O ne of the best (and worst) parts about rock climbing is that as physically demanding as a sport as it is, it is more mentally demanding. Every move is a puzzle to be solved and once it is, you have to execute it. Something that is more simply said than done.

I’m pumped full of adrenaline and it has short circuited my frontal cortex, the logic centre of the brain. (Thanks Artem, for the physiology lesson). I know the rope will catch me. I know

I’m tall enough to reach the handhold.

I know my feet will find grip when I go for the reach. But my brain refuses to believe and trust my body. To beat my brain, I let my muscles go loose, take a second to collect myself and then explode upwards. The tips of my fingers reach the elusive handhold and a foot finds a tiny indent to stick to. I’ve done it.

From here I complete a few more moves before I get to the namesake lieback. But in the rainy conditions, it is above my ability and I am belayed down, slightly disappointed.

Cornflakes Cornflakes, the line next to Lieback Flake, is the most rewarding climb of the day. More successful than its brother Lieback, but more challenging than Burgers and Fries. Most of the climbing has chunky handholds, tight cracks to wedge feet and hands into and flat slabs of granite. The most exciting — and difficult — problem is presented by two rocks that stick out from the main wall, creating an upside-down triangle-shaped hole above a tiny ledge.

I manage to get my feet to the ledge but

there are no handholds. I yell down to the group below for suggestions. “Jam your arm into the hole,” I hear. Okay, let’s try it. ​I stick my arm, up to my elbow, between the two outcroppings and twist it until it’s stuck. Then, I move one foot off of the ledge, out onto a tiny foothold. Then I move my second foot off the ledge, my weight resting on my wedged arm. My arm is screaming, but my new foot positions allow my right side to grab a ledge and pull my other arm out of its crevasse. But I’m not clear yet. Now, I have both feet on a outcropping but the only handholds are half a metre to my left. I grab a vertical crack with my right hand and slowly inch my arm, and body weight, over my feet to my left until my longest finger reaches the handhold. I have enough of a grip to swing my feet onto a step stuck between two layers of rock and I’m home free. Only a few more moves to the top. ​At the top, I take a second to turn around and see the entirety of Squamish, outlined in front of the giant granite Chief. At the top I soak in the view as it should be seen, from the top of a climb, and reflect on a successful day of climbing. U

THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 2015

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THUNDERBIRDS >>

POONAM SANDHU

ERIKA SELTENREICHHODGSON

LUKE PEDDIE

Field Hockey

Swimming

Swimming

Track & Cross-country

Track & Cross-country

Our theme songs for this year would definitely have to be a combination of “Birds Flying High” by Doughboy and “Trophies”

by Drake.

“I’m Too Sexy” by Right Said Fred.

Yuri “the missile” Kisil would want me to say “Hips Don’t Lie.” And his hips don’t.

“Years” by Alesso feat.

Matthew Koma. I remember blasting it in the vans before warm-up at nationals in Kansas.

Gave me goose bumps!

Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons.”

2. Besides champion, what other C-word would describe you?

Other than champ the other “C” word that best describes me is convivial. I went on thesaurus. com for this — I promise it’s a real word.

Callipygous.

Definitely chaotic.

CRAZY! Everybody knows it’s true. I’m just gonna own it.

Callous.

3. Other than the titles you’ve won in your sport, what ‘championship’ or ‘trophy’ is most important to you?

The India Club junior tournament [final]. We [won] that game and I’m pretty sure I discouraged a few boys to continue on with the sport.

One time at swim camp there was an ugly face competition, which I won and got tons of points for, so yeah, I’m pretty proud of that.

I’m from an Oilers family so the Stanley Cup has great significance in our household. My parents were married the day the Oilers won in 1984.

Oh definitely our Storm the Wall trophy from last year with Devan, Tamara, Mike and Jake.

It is proudly displayed in our living room.

The Religion Award in fourth grade, or the Weather Award for responsible and appropriate dress at summer camp.

Have to go with wrapped in a blanket, tea in hand with Netflix on all day/ online shopping. I’m not proud of it but it helps me cope.

By having an emotional and/or nervous breakdown about the fact that I’m procrastinating my studying.

Cleaning my whole house, getting food then making an elaborate meal before I can do anything.

Looking for new music instead of studying. I’m a huge basshead. I’m sure my roommates really appreciate the constant dubstep.

Wine.

Spencer Latu from the men’s football team. He’s a natural athlete, has amazing school spirit and plays the recorder like an angel.

100 per cent Quidditch, because I’m an absolute Harry Potter fanatic but also … I think I’d be really good at riding a broomstick.

Definitely Conor Lillis-White. I always thought my lank would work well for pitching and an ERA of 0.45 is legen- wait for it -dary.

Evan Elder so that I could perfectly lip sync Hilary Duff.

Devan Wiebe so that I can hang out with Jack Williams more often and he will eventually want to be my boyfriend.

T-BIRDS 5-ON-5

KIRSTEN LEE

JACKIE REGAN

COMPLETE CHAMPIONS 1. What would be your team’s theme song this year?

4. What’s your favourite way to procrastinate during exams?

5. If you could spend a day in the life of an athlete on another UBC team, who would it be and why?

This week in Thunderbirds

FRISBEE >>

Baseball

Baseball

Rugby

Track

2000m Steeplechase

Apr 12

Apr 11

Apr 11

Apr 11

Mark Coles

Nicole Lacis 200m Dash

vs. Menlo W 6-2, L 2-1

vs. Menlo

vs. Castaway RFC Emilie Mondon Inv. T 25-25 (1st place finishes)

W 2-1, W 4-1

4x400m Relay Team Men and women

4x800m Relay Team Men and women

And more! Full results: goo.gl/Ac24BN

Notice of Development Permit Application - DP 15011

Public Open House

Brock Commons Student Residence You are invited to attend an Open House on Wednesday, April 29 to view and comment on a proposed new 18-storey student residence on Walter Gage Road, to house upper year and graduate students.

Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2015 Time: 4:00 - 6:00PM Place: SUB - Concourse, 6138 Student Union Boulevard Plans will be displayed for a new 14,040m2 , 18-storey student residence with 408 beds. The building will comprise 17-storeys of dormitory rooms over student amenity areas at ground level.

Representatives from the project team and Campus + Community Planning will be available to provide information and respond to inquiries about this project.

For more information or to comment on this project, please visit: planning.ubc.ca/vancouver/projects-consultations

This event is wheelchair accessible.

For further information: Please direct questions to Karen Russell, Manager Development Services karen.russell@ubc.ca 604-822-1586

Ciaran goes clubbing: Ubyssey editor tries Ultimate Ciaran Dougherty Copy Editor It took approximately 13 seconds for me, and everyone in attendance, to discover that I had no natural ability at Ultimate. After repeatedly dropping easy catches and frequently hucking unstable, wayward passes which my teammates had no chance of catching; my pre-session visions of innate Ultimate talent were cruelly dashed on Jericho turf field.

Fortunately, the UBC Ultimate club members were thoroughly accommodating. They accepted my many shortcomings and made me feel very welcome. The players’ response to my performance was, in many ways, the antithesis of that of our Video Editor, Tim Hoggan, who found my attempts to play Ultimate relentlessly entertaining. I, with my limited knowledge of the sport, was incredibly impressed by the level of the men’s team that I practiced with, yet I was surprised to discover that this was only the B team.

“We have two parts: a competitive “A Team” for both men and women that compete against US schools for a place in the US Ultimate Association National Championships,” said club secretary Alex Hackney.

“The second part of the club is a less competitive “B Team” that attends tournaments in the Pacific Northwest.”

The A team is well-ranked, but costs more than the B team as players have to cover travel, hotel and tournament costs. However, to join the club itself costs only $15 so practice and expertise are accessible to almost anyone that wants to try their hand at the game.

PHOTO TIMOTHY HOGGAN/THE UBYSSEY

Check out the video at youtube.com/ theubyssey.

This structure allows anyone to play, even someone as terrible as myself, and gain skills. Players who develop well then have the option to commit themselves yet further and play at a higher level.

The session that I attended consisted of a gentle warm-up, before several drills, mainly focused on beating you ‘check’ to pass to a teammate. After several other technical drills that I embarrassed myself in with alarming regularity, we moved into some small-sided games. Here the talent of those at the session were very visible.

Fantastically accurate passes, as well as well-timed catches were all the rage. I did manage to ruin an excellent move from my team by fumbling an easy catch in the end zone, but, in my mind at least, I redeemed myself by catching a later one. Ten points to Gryffindor.

The evening was thoroughly enjoyable. Despite not having any skill, I felt welcome: the players that I trained with had an excellent sense of humour and I got the impression that any new player would be given a good chance to play and improve. U

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