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For the first time since 1933, the sound of Hungarian composer Emmerich Kálmán’s tone poem Endre és Johanna filled a concert hall on March 11 at UBC. It was Jonathan Girard, the conductor of the Symphony Orchestra, who revived the piece of the Jewish composer whose music had been banned by the Nazi regime.

“The Nazis would label music, label visual art as ‘degenerate’ if they felt that it didn’t have a certain aesthetic that was pleasing to them or perhaps if it was written by someone who was not in favour with them,” explained Girard. “Unfortunately, Jewish composers from the time were shunned.”

Kálmán was an exception — he was Adolf Hitler’s famous composers.

Fearing his safety amid the rise of Nazism, Kálmán fled to Paris.

However, Hitler sent a general to return Kálmán to Germany where he would be made an “honourary Aryan.” Kálmán refused and fled to New York with his family. After he denounced Nazism, his music was banned.

A friend of Girard’s connected him with Kálmán’s son — the composer Charles Kálmán — who gave Girard the original manuscripts of the tone poem.

Girard studied the score, trying to understand Kálmán’s intentions for pitches and he even enlisted the help of native Hungarians to decipher Kálmán’s Hungarian notes. He then constructed every orchestra part by inputting each note of the 25-minute piece into his

computer.

Although Girard acknowledged that the historical context informed him, his musical direction was not directly influenced by the composer’s story.

“I think this is an interesting aspect of the history of Kálmán.

But I’m only thinking about how to make music as beautiful as possible.”

The sound of music filled Jonathan Girard’s home since he was a child. Both his parents and his grandparents played the piano and at the age of four, he gravitated toward the instrument too.

He then learned to play the viola and the saxophone. But as he learned each new instrument, Girard felt he really wanted to become a conductor.

Without access to a mentor until the start of his undergraduate degree, Girard taught himself how to conduct by studying music scores, reading books and watching conductors at concerts and rehearsals.

“I always loved watching rehearsals of orchestras and seeing what the conductor would say, how they would approach rehearsing and how their gestures would get specific sound,” said Girard. “I was always trying to put together the correlation of gesture and sound, and trying to learn how orchestras really function.”

His exploration into conducting started in middle school and when in fifth grade, Girard conducted the middle school band.“I can only imagine how terrible it was,” he said with a laugh.

Once in university, Girard assembled his own small orchestras and wind ensembles — “Anything I could get my hands on,” he said

— to conduct. His diverse career saw him conduct the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, The Ohio Light Opera and even delved into conducting church music and playing the organ.

Girard said that although there is a universal “grammar of conducting” — a set of gestures all conductors use to communicate with their ensembles — it is also an intensely personal art.

“The general public may think that conducting is really a choreographed thing and it isn’t,” Girard explained. “True conducting comes from honest inner-music making where the body finds a way to externalize what is inside. Whatever I do in terms of movement comes from how I hear the music inside. So I’m always thinking from the inside out and never form the outside in.”

“The performance is the tip of the iceberg, the rest of the work is underwater where no one can see it,” said Girard, explaining how a big part of his job is carefully studying the music he will bring to the stage, analyzing each individual phrase for its rhythm and tone.

“For me, analysis is asking lots of questions of the music. What does [the composer] want? How do we honour that? How do we turn what’s written on this page into something that’s temporal, something that the audience hears, something that speaks to them, that touches their heart?” U In its next concert on April 9, the Symphony Orchestra will perform Hector Berlioz’s Overture “Le corsaire,” Sergei Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1 and Franz Schubert’s Ninth Symphony.

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UBC-held climate conference gives climate change Vancouver percepective F-Word Conference on April 30

Andrea Gonzalez Staff Writer

In an effort to generate a space for dialogue around the issue of climate change, the UBC Centre for Community Engaged Learning (CCEL) recently brought together community partners, local organizations, students, staff and faculty to take part in a three-part series and local discussion on climate change.

The talks were inspired by Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein’s recent book, This Changes Everything, where Klein argues that the current era of capitalism and neoliberal market fundamentalism makes it difficult to address the climate change crisis as there is an inherent drive in capitalism towards constant consumption and economic growth.

“Naomi Klein makes a call for social movements to unite and work together,” said Kyle Nelson, community-based experiential learning officer in CCEL. “We saw our role as a facilitator and connector, to create a place to talk about climate change and support our stakeholders to expand their networks and find new pathways of dealing with climate change.”

The three-part event opened up with a two-hour facilitated conversation discussion where 40 participants, including students, community partners, faculty and

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The F-Word conference returns to discuss Feminist Futures.

Sofia Shamsunahar Contributor Naomi Klein spoke in Vancouver last week about her new book, This Changes Everything.

staff were encouraged to situate themselves in relation to the issue of climate change.

The talks were then followed by the SFU-hosted Naomi Klein talk and documentary screening at the Vogue Theatre. For the last segment of the event, participants congregated at the Groundswell Café on March 15 to listen to local perspectives on climate change and try to ground the challenging concept of climate change into a concrete and local issue based around Vancouver and Canada.

“This conversation is a bit of a wake-up call. Hopefully it lights a fire in people and

it gets them to appreciate the magnitude of the issue and the urgency,” said Julian Zelazny, a biology professor at UBC and the Sustainability Pathway and Capstone coordinator. “As stated

by Naomi Klein in her talk, we are way behind what we have to do to address climate change right now.

While the COP 21 conference in Paris was groundbreaking and the biggest international climate agreement ever signed, we’re so late to come to address the issues that even the measures we agreed to are nowhere near keeping us to 1.5-2 degrees of warming.”

Zelazny hopes that the

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conversation series will encourage students, faculty members and staff at UBC to take active steps to inform others about how climate change influences their lives and to take part in the political avenues at our disposal to voice our concerns regarding climate change.

“As an instructor and a member of the UBC community, I think we need to do more in terms of our own activism and being influential in the public process. You have to get out there and start telling the decision makers what it is we’re thinking and what it is they need to do and use the processes that exist to make that happen,” added Zelazny. U

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Greg Peet resigns from UBC Board of Governors

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Emma Partridge and Moira Warburton News Editors

Last week saw the latest in a series of scandals at the Board of Governors level, once again culminating in the resignation of a board member after incriminating documents were put on display.

It was discovered last week through a UBC Insiders investigation that Greg Peet, a provinciallyappointed member of the UBC Board of Governors and chair of the board’s finance committee, is currently in court appealing a December 2015 ruling which found that a company he owned dodged over $1 million in provincial taxes in 2002 That year, A.L.I. Technologies, of which Peet was CEO, was being

acquired by a much larger company.

To avoid the high income taxes he and his family would have to pay in light of the profit made by selling their company shares, he consulted a tax company who advised him to create a company in Québec and shuffle the money between the two to avoid provincial taxes in either province.

“This is a simple case of a tax not being paid anywhere which ought to have been paid somewhere,” said Justice George Macintosh in the court decision published online. That tax totals over $1 million.

The day after these revalations, it was announced that Peet would be stepping down from his membership on UBC’s Board of Governors

(BoG) and his role as chair of the finance committee.

The academic year was already laden was a series of resignation at the board level. The first departure was the president himself, Arvind Gupta, who left his position after an ad hoc committee was formed and told Gupta he had lost their confidence. Following this, former board chair John Montalbano stepped down to remove himself from a scandal surrounding his possible breach of academic freedoms.

The university has declined to comment, stating in an email from UBC managing director of Public Affairs Susan Danard that “because his appointment is made by the government and they have

the authority for his appointment, we are deferring to them for comment.”

“He is doing this out of the best interests of the university as he does not want to be a distraction from the essential academic missions of UBC in teaching and research,” said the provincial Minister for Advanced Education Andrew Wilkinson in an emailed statement to The Ubyssey.

According to The Globe and Mail, Peet notified the government of the fact of this continuing court case before he was appointed to the board of the university.

It is not known at this time who will replace him both on the board and as chair of the finance committee. U

A day of dialogue and discussion about feminism returns on April 30. The annual F-Word Conference will be put on for the seventh year running by the Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice Undergraduate Student Association and the Social Justice Institute.

This year’s theme is “Theory to Practice: Imagining Our Feminist Futures.” Students across disciplines and faculties will present their own original work that explores subjects such as intersectionality, resisting settler colonialism, transfeminism and more.

Students will present in panels of three. The conference also includes keynote speakers and workshops done by the AMS Sexual Assault Support Centre.

This year, one of the speakers will be a community activist from out of the country, whose name has yet to be announced by the committee.

“I think that the culture of UBC, in terms of feminism and social justice, can be quite cold and apathetic, and at times anti-social justice and anti-feminist,” said Alison Watts-Grant, a member of the F-word Conference organizing committee.

The conference provides a space for people to discuss and learn about social justice issues.

“When people talk about these issues in other spaces, like science classes and art classes, they might get shut down. I think it is vitally important to have an open space on campus for people to talk and think about different views and share their ideas others with each other,” said Watts-Grant.

The audience last year had 120 people in the UBC First Nations Longhouse — the committee is hoping for 175 in their new venue in the Nest this year. “[The conference] is so much fun. It’s difficult to put together and extremely time consuming, but seeing everything come together the day of is the most amazing feeling,” said Watts-Grant.

The F-Word Conference will take place on April 30 at the Nest’s Great Hall at 8:45 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. U

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The BC goverment is behind mandating sexual assault policies.

Joshua Azizi Senior Staff Writer

BC Premier Christy Clark has announced that the provincial government will either pass or develop similar legislation to a recently-proposed private members’ bill that requires postsecondary institutions in BC to address the issue of sexual violence on campus.

The Post-Secondary Sexual Violence Policies Act, proposed

by Oak Bay-Gordon Head MLA and Green Party leader Andrew Weaver, would create a legal obligation for colleges and universities in British Columbia to develop sexual violence policies that outline how they will respond to reports of sexual violence and aim to prevent future sexual violence from occurring.

Weaver’s bill comes just after a number of post-secondary institutions in BC — including UBC, the University of Victoria

and Thompson Rivers University — were accused of mishandling reported cases of sexual assault.

“Right now across British Columbia, we have a number of very high profile cases of sexual violence occurring on campuses where there have been inconsistencies in reporting and a lack of reporting,” said Weaver.

“Why [colleges and universities] have a built-in incentive to underreport is because of the institution’s reputation. The institutions want to be viewed as a safe place for students to be.

If you report high incidences of sexual assault, then these might be perceived as not safe places.

So rather than trying to cover up incidents that may or may not occur, it’s better to prevent them from occurring in the first place.”

Weaver’s bill is based off of similar legislation that recently passed in Ontario. Manitoba is currently moving forward with a similar bill as well.

“The University of Ottawa just did a survey of its female students and found that 44 per cent of them during their time on campus experienced either unwanted sexual assault or sexual touching,” said Weaver.

“This kind of stuff has to end.

In a modern society, we have to recognize and respect people on campuses and not continue down with these inappropriate approaches to sexual violence.”

UBC is currently in the midst of developing its own sexual assault policy while members of the AMS and the university have been working with the government to develop

a framework for sexual violence policies.

According to Sara-Jane Finlay, UBC vice-president of equity and inclusion, the bill will work best if universities strongly implement education and prevention.

“It includes processes for dealing with sexual assault. But in essence, a sexual assault policy comes into play after a sexual assault has happened and the work of education and prevention really needs to happen more broadly and more widely to support the policy,” she said.

Although she wants to see BC’s post-secondary institutions develop sexual violence policies, AMS VP Academic Jenna Omassi raised some concerns about the potential outcomes of any possible legislation. In particular, she is worried that the government may give schools too short of a timeframe to develop an effective policy.

“When something similar was brought forward in Ontario, there was essentially a timespan in which you had to do it — which I get — but it causes a lot of issues when you have a timespan to do something brand new,” she said.

“Something like this can do a lot of harm if it’s not applied in the right way.”

She was also concerned about how those working on the legislation will be political figures.

“We have to realize that those people who are creating [this legislation] are not the content experts. So making sure that they know that and that they rely on those experts is really important,” said Omassi. U

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Calkins is the only woman featured in the above photo.

Helen Zhou Staff Writer

On International Women’s Day, an award commemorating Mary Whiton Calkins was announced by the UBC psychology department.

The fact that the name Mary Whiton Calkins doesn’t ring a bell to most people is the reason that 12 students and their history of psychology professor decided to establish a student award.

The award celebrates Calkins’ achievements as one of the pioneers of psychology at the turn of the 20th century.

“When you think about psychology, it’s not a very old science and she was there during its infancy in North America. She was there with William James, whom we consider the father of American psychology as we know it,” said Katie McCloskey, a fourth-year psychology student involved in the project.

Despite her accomplishments and meeting all of the requirements for a PhD at Harvard, Calkins was not given the doctorate degree on the basis that she was a woman.

“I think we were all a bit confused, frustrated and maybe a little angry that she was not awarded a PhD,” said McCloskey.

With that feeling in mind, they created this award to honour the top undergraduate student in psychology and philosophy.

They hope to present the award to someone who exuded the same qualities that Calkins did — “that persistence, that integrity and just that sheer intelligence,” explained Martina Frackiewicz, a fifth-year psychology student also involved in the process.

The recipient will be asked to write a short essay about how they relate to Calkins’ story in their own lives. The award includes a several hundred dollar scholarship.

While many of the details of the award are still in the works, the message and motivation behind it is clear.

“It’s not really about being a woman because a man or woman can get this award. It’s about people denying you things and overcoming that,” said Alan Kingstone, professor of

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psychology. “She did many things in her field with a lot of integrity.

She held her head up high and just went with it. The hope is that people would be able to resonate with that story in their own selves.”

Both Kingstone and the students were surprised and pleased at the willingness of the department of psychology and the Faculty of Arts to help create the award. In fact, Frackiewicz said that after a few quick phone calls and informal meetings, they had been able to secure annual funding.

She cites the universality of Calkins’ story to be a contributing factor to the ease of the process.

“You put all this effort in and you’re trying to adhere to their standards and they’re still saying no. I feel like that [kind of story] goes for more than just women as well — it happens across the board and I feel like lots of people have encountered something similar.”

While attempts to petition Harvard to give Calkins her PhD have failed in the past, some of the students also hope to “pick up the torch” on lobbying Harvard. “If you try hard enough and make enough noise, you never know what will change,” said McCloskey.

They are also creating a website where Calkins’ work and research can be archived.

“I think what the students want is to make this a website where we can also start to archive her work, her materials, her life so that it’s not just about Harvard denying her,” said Kingstone. “I think they feel like it’s offensive that that’s her branding — that she’s known for what someone didn’t give her.”

Kingstone and the students expressed their excitement in moving forward in ironing out the final details of the award and in getting Calkins her PhD awarded posthumously.

“People have tried so many times in the past 120 years and nothing has really stuck. But hopefully, with what we’ve gathered and the infrastructure that’s available to us, something will stick and be passed on,” said Frackiewicz. U

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UBC Signs encourages voiceless environment in meetings

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UBC Signs want to push the university in a more Deaf-friendly direction.

Karen Wang Staff Writer

Officially founded this year, UBC Signs grew out of a desire of several linguistics students to learn American Sign Language (ASL), the primary sign language in Canada and the United States.

“There’s about 200 sign languages in the world and that’s just something people don’t know,” said David Danos, founder and president of UBC Signs. “Sign languages and Deaf culture are unique cultures that people don’t know about and our club is trying to tackle that.”

The club runs two main programs — weekly ASL lessons that are led by Danos and Honing ASL for New and Developed Signers (also known as HANDS), an ASL conversation group that meets biweekly. Although the club touches on the other sign languages used in Canada, the focus is currently on ASL as it is native to this region of the country.

“Our ASL lessons are not classes. They’re not meant to bring people to a level of fluency,” said Danos. “What we are teaching is how to be in a Deaf environment, which is very different.”

Whereas “deaf” is often used to describe a level of hearing loss, the term “Deaf” describes those who identify with other members of the Deaf community — a cultural distinction rather than a medical one. Unlike learning another spoken language, picking up a sign language and switching to an unfamiliar mode of communication can be a more difficult skill to grasp.

As the lessons are held in a Deaf environment, no voicing is enforced starting from the second lesson onward. The intent of the lessons is to help ease a learner’s transition to a voice-off environment, introducing basic question words such as who, what,

when, where and why as well as syntax and finger-spelling – using various hand shapes to represent letters of the alphabet.

“It’s more concept-driven,” said Danos.

According to Danos, students have joined the club for a variety of reasons, ranging from pure curiosity to wanting to be able to interact with Deaf family members or clients.

Rafael Ruiz, a second-year student entering the BFA acting program, has had previous signing experience in high school and discovered the club after having a conversation with a Deaf person at the bus stop.

“I met some really great people in the club,” said Ruiz. “Some are hearing and we sign to each other at school sometimes … but the club allowed me to make connections with the Deaf community in Vancouver.”

On the other hand, Marie Shuman, a fourth-year linguistics and French major as well as the club’s newest addition, was initially intimidated entering the club last month – something that quickly changed.

“It’s really good for beginners — everyone is so accepting,” said Shuman. “I came in going, ‘Oh no, my knowledge of ASL is so minimum [sic].’ But I feel comfortable signing in front of other people.”

“It’s really awesome seeing learners clicking on an idea or starting to understand,” said Danos.

Danos, who is graduating this year, hopes that the club will continue to grow. He envisions holding an annual symposium on the different sign languages used in Canada as well as potentially collaborating with UBC researchers and the linguistic department.

“Our goal as a club is to push UBC in a more Deaf-friendly direction,” said Danos. U

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Over 1.5 million disposable cups are used on campus every year.

Mugshare helps campus coffee addicts save the environment Yael Boyd Contributor

According to the UBC SEEDS Sustainability Program, at least 1.5 million disposable coffee cups are generated on campus each year. In 2015, UBC’s largest and most active student sustainability organization, Common Energy, conducted a waste audit on the old SUB. They found similarly discouraging results. In the one day of data collection, 490 coffee cups were found with only 17 per cent correctly sorted into the proper waste bins. Although UBC coffee cups are recyclable, the quantity of cups consumed and the level of incorrect sorting is highly unsustainable.

This sustainability concern led Common Energy’s campaign team to come up with the idea of a Mugshare program. After a year of brainstorming, Common Energy recently launched a Mugshare pilot project, funded by the AMS Sustainability Project Fund.

The program has a simple and effective set up. An interested student can sign up and pay a five dollar deposit fee at one of Seedlings, Sprouts or Agora Café — the three participating cafes — and receive a Mugshare card.

Students can take the card to the participating cafes and receive a hot beverage in a reusable travel mug. They can take the mug to go and within three days, return the mug to any of the cafes where the staff will wash it for them.

According to George Radner, campaign team director, signing up for this Mugshare pilot program provides a “convenient, money saving, environmentally friendly alternative to buying so many disposable coffee cups.”

Alison Fung, fourth-year environment and sustainability program student and another team director, also believes that the Mugshare program will help target behavioural changes towards only using reusable mugs. She also notes that starting the program with Seedlings, Sprouts and Agora could encourage participants to go to these sustainability-focused cafes.

Coffee and tea at Seedlings/ Sprouts is also only 75 cents and at Agora only $1.25 — cheaper alternatives to many other coffee

and tea sources on campus. Ernielly Leo, a third-year international relations and geography student as well as promotions and outreach coordinator at Sprouts, is especially enthusiastic that the Mugshare program promotes Sprouts’ values of convenient and accessible options for acting and consuming sustainably. On top of these short term benefits from the pilot program, Common Energy has even grander long-term goals.

The long term goal of Common Energy’s pilot program is to test the project’s viability and ideally one day see a campus-wide mug-share system. The AMS for example, according to Fung, has expressed interest in the program as long as they see feasible results from the pilot project. To make the project successful, Common Energy has teamed up with the UBC SEEDS Sustainability Program, which has connected them with the Applied Science (APSC) 262 class on society and technology.

According to Courtney Collins, a second-year computer engineering

student in the APSC 262 class, her group’s main contribution will be “working with Common Energy to do research into life cycle analysis of disposable versus reusable cups and technical solutions to keeping track of mugs being lent out.”

Collins believes that the biggest challenges will be getting students on board with the program as well as scaling the program up while keep it convenient and feasible.

Nevertheless, Liska Richer, manager of the UBC SEEDS Sustainability Program, believes that this pilot — and the eventual campus wide program — has the potential to help UBC reach its zero-waste goals more quickly by reducing the amount of waste produced on campus. It also offers a new vision of how waste reduction can be performed within the bounds of the emerging sharing economy. Finally, it has the potential to blaze a trail for innovative solutions that start and are tested on campus, but can help solve real world challenges. U

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WORDS DANIEL MILLERD ART JERRY YIN

TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 2016

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s I took off my last remaining piece of clothing in a small room in the heart of Gastown, I had to remind myself why I was about to try “floating” for the first time. For 90 minutes, I would lie in complete darkness — on my back — in 12 inches of salty water, very carefully set at 34 degrees Celsius — a temperature which I imagine to be the precise definition of “tepid.” The water is supersaturated with over 1,200 pounds of Epsom salts, added for their therapeutic effects and their ability to dramatically increase the buoyancy of the floater. My senses were about to receive almost zero inputs for the next hour and a half.

According to preliminary research and the testimonials from enthusiastic members of the floaters community, floating can yield extraordinary benefits. I reminded myself of this and turned toward the darkness of the floatation tank. As I closed the lid, my final sensory input was the sound of the tank’s heavy door closing, sealing me away from the outside world.

Floating — known in academia as Restricted Environmental Stimulation Therapy (REST) — is not a new phenomenon, but it appears as though the once-fringe therapy is having its mainstream moment. Floatation centres are popping up all across Vancouver and are appealing to many people, including the large local student population. It’s not difficult to imagine why this experience of near-nothingness is being sought out. In our hyper-connected world of smartphones and social media, it is rare to find a few moments of silence, let alone 90 minutes of near-total sensory deprivation.

Peter Suedfeld, a professor emeritus in UBC’s psychology department, is the pioneer of REST research. A quick search shows studies authored in part or in whole by Suedfeld, claiming that floating positively affects memory, creativity, athletic performance and more. Scientific claims range from a Nature article claiming REST helped Alzheimer’s patients, to an article in the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment showing benefits for those suffering from substance-induced mood disorders. One study shows therapeutic results for autistic children. Another shows that REST was successfully used to help smokers end their dangerous habit. Is floating a magic bullet? If so, why is it not a mainstream medical treatment?

REST therapy has a long history of research and experimentation. Research dates back to the 1960s, a time when REST researchers such as Suedfeld encountered a difficult academic environment. Isolation tanks were believed to be dangerous, leading to “hallucinations, emotional upheaval, intellectual deterioration and temporary psychosis,” according to the 1961 publication Sensory Deprivation; a symposium held at Harvard Medical School. Although this was later shown to be untrue, this sentiment still exists among some people today. Researchers have found, however, that with the right setting and in modest time intervals, REST therapy is not only safe, but in fact appears to confer benefits to the floater. “[REST] enhances intellectual processes … it has been used successfully as a tool in stress management and a treatment for chronic pain, insomnia, premenstrual syndrome, cigarette addiction, overeating, phobia and compulsive self-injury,” wrote Suedfeld in 1997.

Not all academics are as enthusiastic

about REST research as Professor Suedfeld.

“There’s a fairly wide range of claims from the industry, but they’re not always based on the most rigorous science,” explained Mark Holder, a professor at UBC Okanagan. The psychology researcher lists small sample sizes and a lack of control groups as examples of methodological errors in much of the existing scientific literature addressing floating. In light of lacking rigorous science, Holder is conducting his own study. The premise is simple — to what degree do people selfreport well-being after a 90 minute REST session? A group of 126 floaters were asked to fill out a questionnaire before and after their float session, as well as follow up studies 24 hours and one week later. The studies showed that happiness and life satisfaction did, in fact, improve significantly after a floating session while anxiety and depression decreased, even when controlling for expectation of supposed benefits. Holder’s research is encouraging, but it is — as opposed to

and shares. Instead of filling their time with technology and 24-7 entertainment, our ancestors were used to spending time in silence and solitude.

The brain is affected by reduced environmental stimulation in powerful ways, argues Paul Maclean, the former chief of the Laboratory of Brain Evolution and Behavior at the National Institute of Mental Health. Our “three brains” — the reptile brain, the paleomammalian brain and neocortex — are all strongly affected by reduced sensory activity. In moments of silence, our brain functions differently and we can harness the fruits of these differences such as increased creativity and self awareness to improve our lives. Maclean’s theory is supported by floaters’ anecdotal claims. Regular floaters self-report their minds becoming more creative and introspective, and many claim they leave with the feeling of having spent quality time with themselves — a valuable experience in our never-a-dull-moment society. Floaters report feeling like their brains “switch gears” and their emotional,

earlier, more exciting and controversial claims — a little bland. The need remains to replicate earlier studies conducted

by Suedfeld and his colleagues to find out whether or not their claims can be backed by more rigorous science. Can something as simple as floating really help people with autism, Alzheimer’s, mental illnesses and more? “How could that be?” asks my inner scientist and skeptic — and hopefully yours too — and what could the mechanism of action possibly be?

To understand the benefits of silence and solitude on the brain, we have to understand that our evolutionary relatives were spectacularly connected with their natural environment. People today live a sedentary lifestyle and are constantly bombarded by sensory stimulation.

Compared to today, silence and solitude was much more likely to be a common experience for your average huntergatherer and an important part of their psychological life.

This offers one reason why floating might be good for us. Our brains and bodies have evolved to use moments of silence and solitude. Lying awake at night in the forest, listening to nothing but the leaves blowing in the wind was commonplace, as were hours of focused silence while hunting game or gathering food. This environment is vastly different from our modern online landscape of views, likes

cognitive and spiritual abilities are able flourish in response to the new neural environment. How a restricted sensory environment actually leads to these effects remains an enigma, but the scientific consensus — at the moment at least — is that floating is healthy for the human psyche.

At first, my time in the floatation chamber was enjoyable. Although the space was barely larger than a hot tub, I felt no claustrophobia. I tried playing around with the idea of falling asleep and drowning, but felt comfortable that I would be safe even if I happened to fall asleep. I remained a bit anxious at facing so much time alone with my thoughts, but the water, salt and the general experience of nothingness quickly dismissed these fears.

As the float continued, I contemplated what to do with my mind.

The advice given to me was to simply be present and to let whatever wants to unfold to unfold. I did my best to follow this advice and did in fact feel more present. As the minutes went by, I started to feel as though I was merging with my surroundings, a sense of becoming one with my external reality, unsure where my body ended and the world began.

After the first hour of my float, the initial calm and relaxation started to turn towards boredom. I too am a member of our information-driven society after all

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and am used to being constantly inundated with sensory stimulation. Instead of having a profound inner experience as many floaters report, I opted to play with the sides of the tank, even sitting up crosslegged for a few minutes. I was relieved to hear the music start to play which signaled that I had 15 minutes to exit the tank, shower, put on my clothes and head to the “post-float” room for some tea and relaxation.

As I exited the room, reality came surging back at me. Colours seemed more vivid than usual and I was in a great mood. My girlfriend Emma and I exited Float House and made our way to a fancy Gastown café for $4 drip coffees while we reflected on our first floating experience.

I certainly felt better than I did going into the float as though I had gone through a psychological cleanse. Emma did not.

Instead, she felt tired and nauseous.

Perhaps our expectations played a role in this discrepancy or perhaps the difference was due to the way we managed our time in the tank. Or maybe Emma just shouldn’t have ordered the bang bang shrimp the night before.

“A lot of cool things can happen in this environment,” said Nathan Navetto, the marketing and communications manager for Float House, a Vancouver-based business that offers float tank rentals.

“People come out knowing exactly what they need to do in their lives, whether it’s to start a business, work on a relationship or make improvements to their selves. There’s just so many cool things that can come from floating.”

Float House now has four locations across Vancouver and Victoria, and are currently building two more in Langley and Edmonton. The commercial floatation centres are flourishing and the people at Float House couldn’t be happier to be bringing floating to the world. Challenges remain for the company, the biggest being the task of getting people to try floating more than once. Floating is a practice much like meditation or yoga and it’s impossible to get all the benefits of floating by just trying it once. That said, keep in mind the floatation centre has a business model that depends on that rate of returning floaters.

While it’s probably good for the floater to float regularly, it’s also good for business.

After having tried floating firsthand and having reviewed the scientific literature, I have come to believe that this therapy belongs among the ranks of alternative practices such as meditation, yoga, intermittent fasting, connection with nature and holistic nutrition as practices that have strong merit as performanceenhancing and healing modalities — even as radical tools of self transformation.

Years of future innovation or coupling the experience with other treatments such as psychedelic-assisted therapy could provide floaters with more impressive results.

In a world full of quackery, it is wise to approach all such supposedly beneficial activities with a skeptical — but genuinely — open mind. Floating is backed by (some) encouraging science and appears to be safe. Stepping out of your comfort zone and going for a float — or better yet, a series of floats — could prove to be one of your better decisions of 2016. At least better than your decision to take linear algebra as a “breadth elective.”

So, would you give floating a try? U

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TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 2016

FASHION //

A Legendary moment: the first fashion and art expo at the Nest Jaenna Calingasan Contributor

PHOTO JEREMY JOHNSON-SILVERS/THE UBYSSEY

Alaie and Nik D. are the powerhouses behind the event.

When the two worlds of art and fashion collide, streetwear brand Legendary X and artist Nik D. are no strangers.

Legendary X and Nik D. collaborated together for the first time at the Nest’s UBC performance theatre. The event was filled with a blend of colourful pieces on canvas, fashion shows and special guest performances by local Vancouver artists such as TWest, Up Since Tuesday and the tap dancing styling of Matisse, among many others.

Before now, Legendary X was just an idea.

“I was talking to a friend before I started making any clothing,” said Ashkan Alaie, a fourth-year political science student at UBC and CEO and designer of the line. “I told him I want to capture legendary moments.”

Since 2014, exactly two years since its inception, four collections have been designed and produced

by Alaie, who is the powerhouse behind the brand. He recently showcased his spring/summer 2016 collection through a fashion show at the expo. In addition to featuring the new designs, his other collections (the fall/winter 2015 collection) were shown and sold at a discounted price.

A piece that was featured from the fall/winter collection 2015 was the “Bandana Tall Tee.” With our world moving towards gender neutrality, the diffusion of a dresslike t-shirt and the detail of the bandana creates a statement in the fashion world.

“I started to focus more on quality, fit and still being able to stand out. Because that is what my brand is about — appreciating people being different and being able to stand out,” said Alaie. “I’m happy that’s accepted now and people wear it and it’s like a trend.”

On the other side of the expo, Nik D., a fourth-year art history major at UBC, debuts his paintings during the event. His work focused on vibrant colours as imprints for his images, stunning visuality, while also keeping simplicity present in his work.

“Whatever feels right at the moment is going on the canvas.

It focuses on the feeling and what happens becomes the most prominent thing,” he said.

After a lot of planning, what started with just Nik D. and Alaie became something bigger.

“I felt surprised that the turnout was so great. I didn’t expect to see so many familiar and new faces,” said Alaie. “I’ll for sure be doing more events like this in the future with new and more art collaborations.”

He plans to finalize the pieces for the spring/summer collection for the upcoming look book, which will be available online. U

THEATRE //

PHOTO COURTESY EMILY COOPER

The supporting cast were standouts in UBC Theatre’s final production of the year.

The Arabian Nights is “sexy, humorous and beautiful” Hannah Kahn Staff Writer

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Sexy, humorous and beautiful, UBC’s Theatre department has undoubtedly lived up to expectations cast by Eurydice and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall with their last production of the season, The Arabian Nights.

As always, the costume and scenery were enchanting. This is particularly important in the story of The Arabian Nights which is centred on the court of the Khalifa, Shahryar (Francis Winter). At the beginning of the piece, the audience is greeted by glowing rustic lanterns against a deep purple cloth background like stars in the sky. It is these same lanterns that glitter farewell to the audience at the end of the play, framing the story like the covers of a book.

Scheherezade (Elizabeth Willow) artfully spins her stories both for the Khalifa and the audience. Interestingly, the actors never leave the stage. Instead they paint colours on Scheherazade’s palate, allowing themselves to be manipulated by her words.

When called upon to play a role, they act out her stories. When absent from a scene, they sit around the periphery of the stage and

participate through performing music or whispering lines to those in the main action as a group.

This use of voice and sound was a strong point in the production.

Music placed the production in Arabia and the use of dance with this music brought changes of pace to the play.

The physical acting in the piece is superb, bringing the comedy from the plot to the production.

Aspects of farce acted as a foil to the moments of terror as after many of the stories, the audience would fear for Scheherazade’s life. Playing many different roles, many of the actors aside from those playing Scheherazade and Shahryar stood out.

Mariam Barry was obviously in her element, expertly playing multiple roles and most notably that of Harun Al-Rashid.

Cassandra Phillips-Grande was enchanting, artfully teasing the men around her left, right and centre. Making foolish their masculinity, she was masterfully coy.

Parmiss Sehat was a standout, playing not only the sister of Scheherezade, but multiple smaller roles. She was mesmerizing in all she did and made us forget the many characters she’d portrayed over the

course of the night. Every role she played felt like her first.

Finally, Riley Bugaresti had perhaps the most challenging role of all. Although many women played men over the course of the play, no gender swap was as intricate as Bugaresti’s. It takes talent to be a man playing a woman playing a man.

Bugaresti carefully switched genders over the course of the production multiple times. His finest moment perhaps was in one of the most humorous scenes of the play where he plays a blushing bride whose wedding is ruined by a farting husband. Surrounded by a chorus of, “should not have eaten those chickpeas,” and “oh what an enormous fart,” while her almost-husband runs away to India in shame, Bugaresti succeeds in looking so effeminate and so very much like a disappointed womam on the day of her marriage that one almost forgets he is not in fact a woman.

Finally, the play leaves the audience to wonder about the futures of the characters and what the end of the production truly meant. For while one wants a happy ending, amid sirens there is a sinking feeling that something ominous has been left unsaid. U

// OPINIONS

EDITOR JACK HAUEN

TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 2016

DIVESTMENT //

ADVICE //

FILE PHOTO GEOFF LISTER/THE UBYSSEY

The BoG’s perplexing “obligations” Dennis Pavlich and Jocelyn Stacey Allard Law Faculty

Last month, the University of British Columbia Board of Governors rejected a student and faculty proposal that would have required UBC to forgo future investments in fossil fuel companies and divest from existing fossil fuel holdings within five years. Instead, the board approved the creation of a new Sustainable Future Fund that will stand alongside the university’s existing endowment funds. Underlying this decision is a misleading and ill-informed understanding of the university’s legal obligations with respect to its endowment funds.

This misrepresentation of the university’s legal obligations only serves to enhance the mounting transparency and accountability issues currently facing the board.

Criticism of the board’s rejection of the fossil fuel divestment proposal has focused on its lack of environmental leadership and shaky financial merit. What has gone largely unremarked upon is the perplexing statement made by

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The problem with sloppy phrasing is that it becomes a sound-bite mantra for purportedly justifying what may be unwarranted...”

the UBC finance committee in the text of its recommendation that the board reject the proposal. The finance committee stated that the proposal “would not be consistent with the board’s fiduciary obligation to endowment donors.”

This statement is perplexing because the university does not owe such a legal obligation. We focus our criticism on this aspect of the reasoning for the decision by the board to reject divestment in fossil fuels.

As trustee of charitable purpose trusts (the endowment funds), if UBC owes fiduciary obligations to

anybody, it surely has to be to be those persons intended to benefit from the purposes of the trust — namely, students and faculty. The finance committee’s statement and the board’s guiding policy on divestment thus misrepresent its stated “fiduciary obligation.”

Divestment decisions are guided by the Endowment Responsible Investment Policy in which the board asseverates its primary “fiduciary responsibility of acting in the best interest of the university and its stakeholders … which include students, faculty, staff, alumni, donors, the government and taxpayers.”

In private law, a fiduciary obligation cannot legally and meaningfully extend to such a broad (and in some cases amorphous) group. If anything, the duty can be stretched to cover only those actual persons who are the beneficiaries of the purposes of the charitable trust — students and faculty. Donors and other stakeholder individuals outside the purview of the declared purposes of the trust (for example, scholarships and areas of research) are not, from a legal perspective, beneficiaries under the charitable trust. At best, the policy sits as rhetoric.

The university does not owe a fiduciary duty to its donors unless they are under the trust made by beneficiaries. To make them beneficiaries would jeopardize the charitable status of their tax deduction.

Given the brevity of the reasons for the board’s decision to reject the divestment proposal, it is difficult to know whether a misunderstanding of the university’s private law fiduciary duties influenced the final decision. But the problem with sloppy phrasing is that it becomes a sound-bite mantra for purportedly justifying what may be unwarranted and under the pretense of legal obligation.

In our view, this renders the commitment elsewhere in the policy to “ESG” (Environmental, Social and Governance) principles somewhat hollow.

Good governance at a university adumbrates academic freedom in the pursuit of knowledge.

Anomalous as it may seem to some, this places the views of faculty and students at the core of academic decision making — not the university’s donors. U

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Ask Natalie: housing horror Natalie Morris Advice columnist

“Dear Natalie, My roommate is being a total pain in my ass. He’s inconsiderate, rude, has people over all the time without asking and leaves any room he enters a mess. It’s a disaster zone in here and it’s all his crap! I’m living in rez and I’m leaving at the end of April and (thank God) I never have to see him again, but how can I make it to the end without throwing all of his stuff out the window?”

I don’t know about you, but when I was in residence, my RAs were weirdly concerned with people putting things out the window.

Probably because it was first year and first-years tend to have the type of thought process that ends up with someone scaling the side of Totem.

Talk to your RA. There might only be a month or so left with this guy, but you can definitely try to make that month a little easier for yourself. Ask your RA if they can be there during a house meeting. Don’t feel weird about including them — this is what they get paid for.

If you’ve talked to him and brought your RA in on the drama, then it’s time to just suck it up. I know it sucks and I know you think you should get a petty revenge story from all of this, but that’s not going to help anyone.

You have a month left. Just a few weeks. You can power through this.

Ignore him and his messes. Clean the messes you make and don’t make a big deal when he’s rolling around in his own dirt. Just get through this month and you can move in with someone who actually minds the state of their home.

“Dear Natalie, I moved into this old house at the beginning of the year, but now we’re noticing weird stuff happening. Things are moving without us touching them, chills on the back of our necks, lights flickering. It’s starting to creep me out...”

Congrats on your new ghost.

Or you know, an old house with draughts.

But in all seriousness, who you gonna call?

“Natalie, I’m a first-year who didn’t get oncampus housing next year. I found some friends to live with, but I’m worried about some things. I feel like I’m not ready to adult yet — how do I even adult?”

Congratulations! You’re making the first step in becoming an adult! You thought it was living on your own for the first time, but face it, first-year residence is pretty much summer camp with booze. You don’t have to clean, cook or get cheques or do anything, but move in and pay once a term.

Actually living on your own — now that’s an adventure. If you play your cards right, it’s amazingly fun.

You can cook your own food, pick your own roommates and have a bed that’s bigger than tiny. You can live near the beach, downtown, parks, hiking trails, shopping malls — anything. Vancouver is now yours to play with.

First off, find a place to live. Make sure you see the place before you give them any money. Chances are there will be others looking at the house or apartment too — thank you Vancouver housing market — so if you all agree, move as fast as you can. At the same time, don’t feel pressured into getting a place you don’t really like because your friends are worried about not getting a place. Make sure you’re comfortable.

And then there is a bunch of little things. Find out if you need or want renter’s insurance. I have it, but my roommates don’t. It’s up to you. How will you pay rent? Is it furnished? Do you have access to a car to move your stuff? How often can you have people over?

How early is is too early to use the vacuum? Will there be quiet hours?

Actual Mario parties?

It may seem like a bunch of little things that make a big pile of anxiety, but it’s really just small things that can be figured out in one house meeting. Your RA is now your landlord and you have less drunk people who can’t figure out what room they’re supposed to be sleeping in.

On that note, check to see if your new door has a lock.

Deep breath, it’s less scary than you think. U Need advice? Contact Natalie anonymously at asknatalie@ ubyssey.ca and have your questions answered in an upcoming issue.

// SPORTS+REC

EDITOR KOBY MICHAELS

TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 2016

Thursday: TRU 75 Carleton 91 Dalhouise 87 Ottawa 83 McGill 69 Calgary 72 UBC 101 Ryerson 109

Friday (consolation): Ottawa 87 TRU 77 UBC 69 McGill 68

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cis final 8 Tournament PHOTOS JEREMY JOHNSON-SILVERS, KOSTA PRODANOVIC, KOBY MICHAELS

Saturday: UBC 93 Ottawa 76 (fifth) Dalhousie 66 Carleton 76 Calgary 98 Ryerson 87

Sunday: Dalhousie 78 Ryerson 85 (bronze) Calgary 79 Carleton 101

Ben Gardiner, Jackson Runkle, Matt Langmuir and Koby Michaels Sports Staff

Despite their best performance of the year, the Thunderbirds men’s basketball team lost in overtime to the first-seeded Ryerson University Rams on Thursday evening.

Throughout the opening period, the crowd at Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre was swelling with UBC pride. Huge cheers for the T-Birds’ hustle gave the team a noticeable boost during several key moments.

UBC started the game strong, up 8-2 in the opening minutes.

Buoyed by an emphatic twohand dunk from Conor Morgan, UBC led 14-7 at the five minute mark in the first quarter.

Ryerson’s full-court pressure gave UBC some trouble advancing the ball up the court, but it was the Rams’ shooting that narrowed the scoring gap.

Despite never having led in regulation time, Ram JeanVictor Mukama scored a late three-pointer, tying the game at 90 and forcing overtime.

In overtime, Ryerson quickly built momentum as guard Roshane Roberts nailed a threepointer while Mukama added a steal and dunk to to put the Rams ahead 99-92 with under two minutes in the extra period.

Ryerson’s Adika PeterMcNeilly led his team’s scoring with 25 points and nine rebounds. Ammanuel Dressa and Mukama each chipped in 19 points, while Mukama was awarded Player of the Game for the Rams.

“We got 11 guys strong coming back next year and it’s good to have all of those guys get in the game at one point and be able to show what they can do.

Hopefully that motivates us this summer to work a little harder and next year we’ll come back even stronger as a team,” said Jordan Jensen-Whyte.

Even though the team lost, the St. Patrick’s day game was a huge success for UBC Athletics.

It was a record setting crowd, an unreal environment and one of the best — and most exciting — games of basketball I’ve ever seen.

The made the crowd fall in love with them which is quite a feat after losing a playoff game.

And when — after the final whistle — they turned around and applauded the fans, the stadium went wild.

UBC, on Saturday, then beat the fifth-seeded McGill University Redmen 69-68 in the consolation B game. While the crowd was more modest than UBC’s previous matchup, there were still plenty of Thunderfans sporting their blue and gold.

The thrilling final minutes of the game kept fans on the edge of their seats, cheering the T-Birds in their second game of the tournament.

UBC was quick to start the scoring with David Wagner posting up twice in the opening two minutes of the first quarter.

A pair of three-pointers from Conor Morgan put the T-Birds up 11-0 just three minutes in.

A string of turnovers from both sides late in the frame was characterized by quick backand-forth transition basketball.

Morgan knocked down a pair of free throws to keep UBC’s lead at 58-46 entering the final quarter.

McGill’s offensive frustration came in the form of an increasingly scrappy defence as the Redmen picked up an unsportsmanlike foul on Phil Jalalpoor and a reaching foul in the same possession.

Then, for the third time in three days, a tired and beat up UBC team hit the court for the CIS Final 8 Championship. The ’Birds beat the University of Ottawa Gee-Gee’s to capture fifth place.

Ottawa held the game close throughout the first half, but three games in as many days caught up with them in the second half.

Morgan had a game high 25 points and picked up eight rebounds. Jalalpoor finished

with 19 points of his own and Will Ondrick had 11.

This game also marked Wagner’s last with the team. The fifth-year player tallied up 11 points and three rebounds. He earned a standing ovation from the crowd at Doug Mitchell when he was subbed out with two minutes left in the game.

On the other half of the bracket, the tournament heated up on Saturday as the Dalhousie University Tigers were edged by the reigning champions Carleton University, 76-66. In the final, the University of Calgary Dinos upset the number one seeded Ryerson University Rams by a score of 98-87.

The game between Dalhousie and Carleton was a low-scoring affair due to both teams’ defensive style of play. The teams seemed evenly matched in the first half with the halftime score being 24-23 for Carleton.

Carleton forward Ryan Ejim’s 20-point performance was a difference maker. Despite an explosive second half effort by Kashrell Lawrence, who earned 18 points on the night, the margin was too large to overcome and Dalhousie was ultimately defeated by the defending champions by a score of 76-66.

Due to the offensive style of play of the Calgary Dinos and Ryerson Rams, the second semifinal matchup featured an exciting endto-end high-scoring affair.

Calgary’s Thomas Cooper was phenomenal, registering a whopping 30 points.

With Cooper, David Kapinga and Jasdeep Gill all scoring more than 20 points, the Dinos were able to get by the Rams with ease.

The energy was lacking at tip-off. But by the end of the first quarter, the crowd’s volume had picked up.

Attendance of 4,450 added to the tournament total of 24,754 spectators.

Carleton easily polished of the Dinos,101-79, to claim their sixth-straight national title and 12th in the last 14 years. U

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