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MD program considers removing science pre-reqs

In the front row at Vancouver Fashion Week

Editorial: this election, don’t waste your vote

UBC’s quidditch club is vying for competative club status

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When Adit “Elizabeth” Abit was six years old, the Sudanese Civil War forced her to flee Panyangor, a village in what is now South Sudan. The recent UBC graduate spent much of her childhood seeking safety.

“I spent most of the time walking from place to place, village to village, camp to camp,” she said of the five years before her family finally settled in a Sudanese refugee camp bordering Uganda.

There, Abit was tasked with guarding their unlocked house while her mother barred her from going to the local school her older brother attended.

“My brother would come and say ‘A, B, C, D,’” Abit recalled. “I didn’t even know what was ‘A, B, C, D’ and I’d feel bad because students would mock me.”

Abit reasoned that without a house and family possessions to look after, nothing could prevent her from going to school. At age nine, she issued an ultimatum her mother couldn’t refuse.

“I told my mom, ‘Mom, you know what I will do if you don’t let me go to school? I will burn the house,’” she said.

After completing primary school, Abit earned a place at a Kenyan boarding school hoping to secure a scholarship from World University Service of Canada, a non-profit organisation that funds higher education to Canadian universities for students from developing countries.

While she would eventually achieve her dream of a WUSC scholarship, her boarding school years were not free from trauma. In her final year of high school, Abit was crossing the border between Kenya and Sudan when the car she was in came under attack. Roadside bandits opened fire on the vehicle, killing the woman sitting next to her, she recalled.

“I would say I was lucky because I was shot in the arm,” Abit said.

Still, Abit was determined to return to school. She made it back in time to complete her exams while maintaining a positive outlook on life.

“I’m very grateful for the

experience I had [at UBC],” Abit said, noting that her academic program helped answer questions that she’d had since childhood.

“Because I had been affected by war from childhood, I grew up so passionate about solutions to war,” she said, pointing to the interdisciplinary nature of her studies which helped her understand war and poverty from multiple perspectives.

One class in particular, the global politics course taught by Allen Sens, left a lingering question in her mind — how does one get the courage to put knowledge into practice?

Abit’s answer came last winter when she began efforts to launch a youth empowerment program in South Sudan.

“People would tell me … ‘This is too much. It’s too big,” Abit recalled. “But what I actually would tell them [was], ‘It’s big, but you and I are bigger.’”

Abit believes that to end the cycle of violence in South Sudan, which has been plagued by internal conflict since it gained independence four years ago, individuals must take charge of improving their communities.

“People see government as something that can make everything workable and successful,” she said of her compatriots. “But how can you make them understand … that change within society is your own responsibility?”

She chose to focus on supporting South Sudanese youth, who she believes are most likely to end up either taking up arms or becoming refugees. Abit said her organization, South Sudanese International Youth Ambassadors, will foster a diverse team of young people based in South Sudan and Kenya equipped to identify and address the needs of their communities.

“These ambassadors will come from all walks of life, all communities, any nationalities,” said Abit, adding that she would like to find a role for UBC students to become involved as well.

To help Abit’s goal of raising $50,000 to open a resource centre in the South Sudanese capital of Juba, UBC charity event organizer

Generocksity is donating ticket revenue from an upcoming party to Abit’s group. The event is taking place at 8 p.m. October 17 at the Fortune Sound Club.

Abit’s second objective for SSIYA comes from her appreciation of UBC’s libraries.

Through the “Book Project,” she hopes to open a library in a South Sudanese primary school within the next 12 months, giving children there the chance to find their unique interests by learning about the world through a diverse set of books.

Abit’s proudest accomplishment with SSIYA to date was an International Day of Peace celebration last month featuring guest speakers discussing the role of youth in South Sudan.

“The best thing is getting the message out,” said Abit. “We are here, this is what we’re doing.” U

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EDITORS EMMA PARTRIDGE + MOIRA WARBURTON

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2015

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Medicine faculty considers removing science pre-reqs Sruthi Tadepalli Staff Writer

UBC’s Faculty of Medicine has proposed removing the mandatory science pre-requisites for its M.D. program.

“We still strongly recommend that science courses be part of what a student brings to the Faculty of Medicine,” said Bruce Fleming, Associate Dean of Admissions at the UBC Faculty of Medicine. “But instead of saying that you strictly have to have each and every one of those science pre-requisites, our admissions committee will … look at your strengths in an attempt to open accessibility to the program.”

Students will still be required be required to write the MCAT exam which, especially due to recent changes in 2015, Fleming says it is a good indicator of the knowledge and scientific thinking of prospective medical students.

The proposal has been a part of discussions relating to changes around the medical school curriculum since 2012. It will be discussed at the UBC Faculty of Medicine’s next full faculty meeting at the end of November.

Should the proposal be approved to move forward, it will then be taken to the senate to be discussed in December.

When pre-med students were asked about the proposal, they, for the most part, felt it would not impact their decision to take the majority of the pre-requisites.

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Danni Shanel Contributor

Medical students might not need all those science courses anymore.

Fourth-year psychology major Sara Samani felt that the requirements allowed her a plan for preparing for the MCAT and medical school in general.

“Not only is [the science requirement] helpful for the MCAT, it’s also helpful to understand what you’re going to be going up against for med school,” said Samani. “These courses are going to give [students] an idea of what’s going to be ahead.”

When current first-year medical students were asked for their opinion on the proposal, they said that they think completing the science requirement is helpful to them in medical school.

“There’s a lot of baseline stuff I understand because I took courses

in undergrad,” said medical student Shyama Das. Another first-year medical student, Caroline Gardiner agreed with Das, but added that medical school seems difficult for everyone — even those who probably have more experience in the area than others.

“I’ve asked nursing students who you’d think would have the most practical exposure and they have a hard time. I think it’s so variable. I don’t know if it actually correlates to what your degree is necessarily,” said Gardiner.

On the other hand, pre-medical student Jasmine Lewis believes “the proposal will probably make [medical school] more inclusive.

Students who haven’t paid $500

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per course to take all these science courses will be able to apply if they have the pre-requisite knowledge as opposed to have taken the courses,” said Lewis.

In attempting to make this proposal a reality, UBC’s Faculty of Medicine’s main goal is to make the program more accessible to different students.

“To be strong, any discipline has to draw from a rich background of applicants. We feel that there are non-traditional applicants that maybe come from a non-science background that would bring much to the program and to the profession. We don’t want to close the door to them,” said Fleming. U

How all the pump-up around football benefits UBC

Have a good time at homecoming? Good. So did we.

UBC is famous for a lot of things – a beautiful campus, world-class research facilities and diverse student body to name a few. But overwhelming school spirit isn’t the first thing that springs to mind when thinking of UBC. The triple threat of David Sidoo, Robert Morton and Aaron Bailey plan to change this, starting with entrenching Thunderbird football at the heart of campus life.

Morton is the founder and director of The Calendar, UBC’s

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biggest event-planning group.

“We’ve learned as a campus how to do these big ‘rah-rah’ school spirit events,” said Morton. “We know what it looks like, we know how to come out to it and we know that we want it.”

It’s not the lack of enthusiasm at UBC that results in lagging school spirit, argues David Sidoo, just few opportunities to express it.

“Students want to have a great pre-party, a great experience at the game and a winning team,” said Sidoo, ex-Thunderbirds football player, UBC Board of Governors member and businessman.

So how does this translate

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into increased school spirit off the football pitch? The motive behind the pump-up before each Thunderbirds home football game is equally simple— more connection between students.

Aaron Bailey, AMS president, sees this going beyond just a connection between students and athletics on campus and instead connecting students to their campus as a whole.

With their combined interpersonal relationships with the various clubs and societies on campus, the AMS and Calendar folk working together with the business acumen of Sidoo and

Athletics can connect a lot of people.

Compared to last year’s numbers, 4,245 came to Homecoming 2014 versus almost 7,000 in 2015.

What’s more telling is that the second game of the year in 2015 saw over 3,000 fans – record-high numbers.

“The biggest thing … this year is momentum from last year, learning from our mistakes [and] doing it bigger,” said Morton. “We’ve also been a bit more organized with reaching out to other organizations.”

Sidoo and Bailey, for their parts, both noted that an easy way to tell there’s been an effect is the increased number of people wearing Thunderbird clothing around campus. Their tangible focus is football, but the effects can be seen in much broader ways than one.

“We focused on football in first semester because it’s almost like a romantic college experience,” said Morton. “There’s four games which is a nice thing that people can commit to. [It’s] enough that you can follow them and move from just being excited about school spirit and school in general … to be excited about the game.”

The organizers hope the momentum won’t stop there.

“We’re hoping the campus transitions itself from a campus where … students feel that they’re not connected … [and] that it transitions itself to a campus that continues to push the academic excellence,” said Sidoo. U

Watch out UBC, more construction is coming your way.

The university is putting together a proposal to redesign Library Garden as a part of UBC’s Public Realm Plan. The initiative was approved in 2009 and allots $46 million for the redesign of campus public outdoor spaces.

Campus and Community Planning has launched a consultation process to seek input from those on campus as to what they would like to see from the garden.

Through a series of open houses and two “co-discovery workshops,” the university has brought together the Building Working Committee, Landscape Working Committee, Planning Advisory, the AMS, GSS and several other stakeholders to give their opinions on the proposal.

“There are so many different perspectives and ideas,” said Consultation Senior Manager Gabriella Armstrong. “It’s got so much potential and opportunity to be a number of different things for different groups.”

Campus Landscape Architect Dean Gregory is in charge of implementating the landscape vision laid out in the Public Realm Plan.

“Long after you finish your studies, you forget about the classes, you know?” Gregory said. “You remember the friends you made, the places you hung out in, the landscape [and] what the place felt like. So that’s our challenge today.”

So what is Gregory’s overall vision for the project?

“I want to see this very central, important piece of campus knit back into the fabric of the campus.”

The garden will also be home to a 5,000 square foot Indian Residential Schools History and Dialogue Centre.

Gregory said he would like to acknowledge the area’s rich Musqueam history while also paying tribute to the designs of the university’s first landscape artist who designed the grounds back in 1927.

He would also like to maintain the axial-visual relationship between the two libraries. “It gives dignity when you have a strong axis focused on something of importance. You feel it. It’s a little bit like Paris or the mall in Washington DC. We don’t have the Washington monument, but we have the Martha Piper fountain.”

He does not want to introduce formality. Instead, he sees “erosion, breakdown [and a] more naturalistic relationship with building — human scaled spaces.”

Proposed designs will be put forward to the UBC Board of Governors in spring of 2016. U

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EDITOR OLIVIA LAW

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2015

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Fashion is a language that is shared by all, but not necessarily understood by everyone.

Films like The Devil Wears Prada and the price of highfashion clothes may act as a deterrent to some, but the industry isn’t as intimidating and inaccessible as it may seem.

Fashion is actually very easy to understand ­— all you need is to know are the current trends and how you can make them work.

Thankfully, Vancouver Fashion Week was last week and from the front row we could see what’s to come in the next few seasons. By taking the styles from the runway and integrating them into your daily wardrobe, you can ensure that you will stand out and look fashionable without too much effort.

ACCESSORIZING The key to making any look shine lies in the accessories. For example, a pair of sunglasses can lift any look and make it chic. Opt for unconventional shapes and frames that will instantly make you high fashion.

Keep watches simple and try to stay within the gold/silver/ black colour schemes. Hats are especially great for winter! Look for faux fur Russian style hats as they scream elegance on both guys and girls.

MINIMALISM This trend has been recurring on runways for a few years now. It’s a simple concept which says stay away from over the top prints

and designs. Stick to solid earth tone colours such as mustard, browns, greys, navy, pumpkin, and of course the colour of the year marsala (maroon). You can also incorporate geometric shapes into your look to polish it off.

FABRIC CHOICES Along with incorporating trends, also try to be conscious of the fabric choices you use. Opt for fabrics that contain structure — loose and flimsy clothing can often look messy and unpolished.

When trying to dress it up, make sure your clothing looks stiff and sharp. A super easy way to dress up for the holidays is with velvet. For guys try dressing up with velvet blazers and ladies, a simple velvet dress will be ultra fab.

THE 70s ARE BACK! So bust out that fringe and acid washed denim because this trend will be everywhere next spring. The 70s aesthetic has now been shown in designer collections in all the major fashion weeks. Lucky for us, shopping for vintage clothing is cheap since we can shop at thrift stores – you don’t need to buy from expensive designer brands to look trendy.

The most important trend of all is staying true to you. No matter how fancy your outfit is, your personality will always outshine it. Wear what makes you happy, even if it doesn’t make sense to others, because in the end fashion is art and so are you. U

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“There’s many other ways that we have already announced measures to support young people,” said Joyce Murray, liberal candidate. “A program to create 40,000 jobs a year for youth ... will be very helpful to people going to school because some of those jobs will be jobs that can help support their tuition or summer job.”

Murray said this initiative is restoring a previous program “the government cut in half.”

The Liberal’s plan for sustainability involves spending $20 billion on developing public transit nationwide. “[The Conservative Government] dropped their Build Canada Fund for infrastructure by 87 per cent for two years in a row,” said Murray.

“We need to do more of investing in infrastructure because interest rates are low right now.”

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Murray said that getting the Broadway Line is part of her party’s plan to develop public transit across Canada.

One of the main goals of the Liberal Party is to increase the Canadian government’s investment in sustainable energy. Measures to achieving this include removing subsidies from fossil fuels and spending $20 billion on green infrastructure over the next decade.

“Canada actually has to transition onto a green energy platform and away from fossil fuels in order to meet our two degree centigrade commitment to reducing emissions,” said Murray.

Murray said that Canada’s “prohibition policies have failed.”

“The best way to keep young children from having access to marijuana is to have it controlled and regulated by government, not the gangs,” she said. “That just fuels the gang wars and violence out on the streets. So if we want safer streets and safer kids, it’s important that it’s government, and not criminals, that are regulating and controlling this drug.”

The Conservatives have promised to double the government’s contributions to RESPs. They will now give 20 cents on the dollar for regular income families and 40 cents for low income families on the first $500 put into an RESP each year.

They’ve also promised to double federal contributions to additional Canada Education Savings grants.

South Surrey-White Rock Conservative candidate Dianne Watts announced that the Economic Action Plan’s national public transit fund will provide $700 million for the proposed $2.1 billion dollar Light Rail Transit Project in Surrey.

The party has chosen to support Surrey transit over Vancouver’s Broadway subway line because Surrey’s plan was more advanced, although they will not close the door on the east-west corridor.

Conservatives support pipelines such as the Northern Gateway, Kinder Morgan, Keystone XL and Energy East pipelines. They’ve committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030, although they’ve announced no specific plans on how this will be accomplished. If elected, they will provide an enhanced tax credit for remote mining projects to help support potential mines that face higher costs because of their location.

The Conservatives oppose any attempts to legalize marijuana and, comparing it to tobacco, say that legalizing the drug will not keep marijuana away from children.

“We have spent a couple of generations trying to reduce the usage of tobacco in Canada with a lot of success,” Harper said at a rally in Montreal. “Marijuana is infinitely worse.”

NDP

“I actually watched tuition increase every year that I was studying at the University of British Columbia. The average student graduates now owing more than $26,000 in debt,” said NDP candidate Scott Andrews.

Andrews points to decreasing transfer payments from Ottawa as a causal factor in this mass of debt. According to Andrews, an NDP Government will provide the provinces with adequate post-secondary education funding from the federal government.

During his time at UBC, Andrews would see the 99 pass him regularly.

Andrews says the NDP will improve transit by providing “$1.3 billion every year in predictable and transparent investments across Canada.” “This will also have the benefit of creating 31,000 good quality jobs,” said Andrews. “Mulcair is committed to being a good partner for municipalities and regional districts to make sure we’ve got a solid urban transit plan.”

Andrews and the NDP are committed to setting numerous environmental goals. They intend to appeal the subsidies on the oil and gas industry, restore funding to the Canadian Research Council, attend the Paris Climate Summit and reduce CO2 emissions by 80 per cent from 1990 levels by 2050.

Andrews says it is clear that Harper’s War on Drugs is not working.

“The current unregulated market, it’s failed. It produces violence, stigma and unfortunately control by organized crime,” said Andrews.

“Our marijuana laws need to be modernized. They need to be based on evidence and public principles so the NDP would begin this process immediately by decriminalizing marijuana.”

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POLITICIANS ARE TOOLS, ELECTIONS ARE BROKEN—BUT YOU SHOULD STILL VOTE

Arno Rosenfeld Features Editor

Rolling out of Koerner’s late Tuesday night, AMS VP External Jude Crasta led a crew to paint the Engineering Cairn. Normally defacement of the Cairn promotes competing faculties or clubs crude jokes – purple for Arts, bright orange to promote a Calendar Halloween party, F-U-C-K in large letters, and so on – but Crasta had something different in mind. Until someone else comes around with their own can of paint, the concrete monument in the center of Main Mall is promoting Champion the Vote, the AMS’ “get out the vote” effort for this month’s federal election.

Along with a website, social media outreach, debate screenings, pub talks and even cup sleeves handed out at Uppercase and other AMS restaurants, Crasta has been working hard to ensure students know how to vote and why it’s important.

And he’s not alone. Every election cycle the same stories emerge about the “apathetic” and “disengaged” 18 to 24-year-old demographic, which regularly sees voting rates below 40 percent. But while experts agree that turning out young people to the polls is

crucial in order to improve the political situation in Canada, they say youth have every reason to tune out of the political process.

“There is a misapprehension that young voters are being apathetic, not caring, too plugged into their gadgets,” said Max Cameron, a political science professor at UBC. In fact, “youth look at the political process and they say, ‘Well, I don’t see myself reflected in it.’”

Among Cameron and others working to turn out the vote on this campus and across Canada there is a broad consensus that political parties have failed to attract young voters across the board. Parties are more invested in securing the support of seniors, who are more populous and vote in higher numbers; parties are failing to present grand visions of a better Canadian society; parties are in a perpetual campaigning process that turns governing in a spectacle that makes the political process look crude and unappealing. That, coupled with an electoral first-past-the-post system that encourages strategic voting, rather than supporting the party you would like to see form a government, and it is easy to see why UBC students and others turn away from elections.

“It’s more and more becoming a show of theatre, of who can be the most sensationalist,” Crasta said of Canadian politicians.

The smoke and mirrors of rhetoric bouncing around during campaign season are a key reason why students and young people fail to turn out to the polls. While voting itself may only take a few minutes, Cameron said many people simply don’t feel prepared to cast their ballot and see getting caught up on all the issues as a daunting task.

Of course, those trying to encourage youth turnout are quick to point out there are a variety of easy ways to learn about where the parties stand on issues voters care about. Vote Compass, operated by the CBC, is the best-known example of such an educational tool, with users answering a series of questions and the website spitting out a suggestion of which parties align best with their views. But smaller applications and websites are stepping into the void seeking to help specifically younger voters.

Pollenize is a beautifully designed website and mobile phone application first created to educate voters about the Toronto mayoral race last year and now being applied to the federal election. Each party is broken down with a barebones summary of their policies on a series of issues from justice to pipelines and aboriginal issues and makes it easy to compare a single issue across the parties and reminds readers at the bottom of each page that “It only takes 42 seconds to register for the 42nd Canadian Election” with a link to sign up.

“It’s really hard to get to the core of the style that all these politicians use,” said Miguel Barbosa, one of Pollenize’s co-founders. Barbosa said his team has tried to cut through the political rhetoric, only including party positions that have specific plans tied to them and citing their sources clearly. “We want to hit the user who has no interest in politics at all.” iCanParty is another attempt to reach prospective youth voters through technology. Run by a team including three UBC students, the website offers a less polished

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but more in-depth breakdown But, as crazy as it may sound, and comparison of the four main none of this is to say you shouldn’t parties’ stances on issues like vote. combatting the Islamic State and “Encouraging young people to Quebec sovereignty. vote is absolutely essential,” said Recent UBC graduate and Tessica Truong, who works for iCanParty cofounder Jonah Brook Simon Fraser University’s Public said the idea for the site came out of Square initiative and has lots of a conversation with a friend, where experience engaging youth civic the two disagreed over a party’s engagement. She herself has had a stance but found the actual positions great deal of frustration with feeling not to be easily found. as though none of the political “I found it surprisingly hard to parties adequately advocate for the look up and find what parties were Canadian future she would like arguing for and supporting,” he said. to see. However she said that just “I feel like most people get bogged means we need to do more than down in these big ideological ideas vote – not sign away our voice and what parties stand for or how altogether. much they like the leader.”

“You can reward the politicians But if these that are advocating projects and on behalf of the others help close issues that you feel The smoke and the information important, or mirrors of rhetoric are gap for youth in certain cases bouncing around punish or not voters, that during campaign only addresses reward the political season are a key one aspect of that are doing disillusionment reason why students work against the with the political and young people public interest,” system in Canada. fail to turn out to the Truong said, adding Cameron, the that it is work polls. political science done between professor, said elections that holds he thinks the shift on the part of politicians to account the most and all parties to gearing their policies moves democratic reform forward. towards improving the economy and Likewise, the AMS VP Crasta keeping up with other countries has said that despite the valid led to a lack of vision. With parties disillusionment many students pledging to get out of the way and let feel, staying at home doesn’t the private sector drive the country, communicate any message to he said it is hard for leaders to argue those in power and leads to the they will improve Canadian society. population being written off. But “As governing gets more and if instead UBC students vote in more limited, politics becomes less large numbers it will allow the and less attractive,” Cameron, who AMS to flex its muscles when it is the director of the Centre for the comes to advocating for student Study of Democratic Institutions on interests in conversations with the campus. “There’s sort of less to offer government. people.”

“It gives politicians a reason If parties used to fight over grand to see that students should not ideals of what Canada should be – be taken for granted and student the terms in which young people issues should not be taken for often think about futures they would granted,” Crasta explained. “It like to see – Cameron said they are helps the case later on to… say, now reduced to fighting over the ‘Look, we have a lot of students – centre, reduce campaigning to a 52,000 of them – they are voters. series of fights over insignificant You should probably listen to wedge issues like the niqab where what they say because if you don’t politician can score cheap political respond well they’re probably not points while dodging more serious going to rehire you in the next questions. election.’” U

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UBC AND THE FEDERAL ELECTION

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Political clubs and their relationship to the parties Sophie Sutcliffe Staff Writer

With the 2015 election season upon us, no one has been more active around campus lately than UBC’s student political groups.

More than anything, these students are trying to make UBC students do the unexpected — vote.

“It’s assumed that youth aren’t going to vote [and that] youth aren’t going to care. So a lot of parties don’t campaign towards youth,” said Amy Ryder, Election

Coordinator and Treasurer of the UBC NDP club. “When youth aren’t voting, these parties have no reason the create policies which benefit students. But when students are voting, then parties actually have to pay attention to what they need.”

For political parties, these clubs can be a great tool. They increase voter turnout, engage young people in politics and campaign for the party on campus. How much the parties actually use this resource though varies.

When asked what their involvement was with the Liberal Party of Canada, President of the UBC Young Liberals of Canada Robin Asgari said “[We] are considered an affiliate. So we’re actually allowed to go to policy conventions and things and meet MPs ... but technically no, we’re just an AMS club.”

According to Asgari, members of parliament have attended events in the past. In terms of the frequency of these events, Asgari said, “It’s hard to get MPs [because] they’re always in

Ottawa, so it’s not too often.”

There seemed to be more opportunity for involvement for the UBC NDP club.

“We’re affiliated with the national [party], but we’re also affiliated with the Young New Democrats — the youth counsel of the provincial party,” said Kayla Fast, president of UBC NDP. “It works to basically facilitate training, campaign training and it works to incorporate the youth voice into the making of provincial policy under the NDP umbrella.”

The campus Conservatives could not be reached for comment.

Despite their differences in structure and belief, both the Liberal and NDP student groups agree that getting students to vote is important.

“Check out all the parties, check out their policies,” said Asgari. “Just go vote because if voter turnout among youth is even 60 per cent this election, regardless of who wins, in the next election all parties are going to be paying attention.” U

UBC weighs in on the NDP student debt plan Samantha McCabe Contributor

Last month, the NDP announced a new plan to phase out federal student loan interest over the next seven years beginning immediately should they be elected.

Allegedly, this would save the average student about $4,000 while repaying their loans.

The NDP will also create approximately 74,000 new grants for students, a total investment of around $250 million over four years, with low-income families receiving the most assistance and focus.

“Compared to just making tuition free ... what you want is

exactly having enough of a grant system such that people that are coming from different backgrounds, where they have no family support … can be helped to go to university and are not falling into debt,” said Paul Beaudry, economics professor at UBC. Today, two million Canadians are struggling to manage a collective $20 billion in student loans (a jump of 36 per cent since 2006, the NDP claims).

Yet, tuition keeps rising – last year, almost 425,000 students were forced to take on loans in order to finance their education, according to the Canadian Federation of Students.

“I feel that every student

should have the equal opportunity to be able to attend university based on merit rather than financial strength or weaknesses,” said Isabella Tang-Graham, a secondyear arts student, when asked about her thoughts on the rising debt of Canadian students.

B.C. students are especially affected. The province’s interest rate on student loans is currently the highest of any in the country — a staggering 2.5 per cent above prime. This interest starts accumulating onto a student’s debt right after they graduate with no grace period like some other provinces.

However, other parties are also realizing that the younger vote is

extremely important. They are all creating policies aiming to reach out to youth aged 18 to 24.

Justin Trudeau, party leader for the Liberals, states that if his party gets elected, graduates would not have to begin paying off their student loans until they earn at least $25,000 a year.

Trudeau claims that to financially cope with these changes, he will balance the budget in 2019 after three years of modest deficits.

At the same time, Steven Harper is promising a greater amount of money returned on the dollars that low and middle class families invest into their children’s RESPs. Each of these plans, no matter how extensive, has an economic

feasibility that derives from where this repurposed funding comes from. “A lot of things are feasible,” said Beaudry.

“The question is whether it is desirable and who is paying for it.”

Concerning the Conservative Party in particular, Tang-Graham added, “[It seems like] it doesn’t encourage equal opportunity and access for every student regardless of their background.”

While student loan interest rates are not the only platform factor that young people will consider, they are a key component in the financial future of Canada’s students and recent graduates. U

Vancouver Quadra candidates debate climate change Aidan Qualizza Contributor

Climate policy is one of the main topics of discussion as the October 19 federal election day approaches.

Last Tuesday, a group of students, faculty and community members met at UBC to hear a panel of political candidates and environmental experts speak.

Candidates for the VancouverQuadra riding also attended.

The topic under discussion was the importance of climateinformed voting.

George Hoberg, associate professor in the department of political science, spoke of the current global community’s environmental trajectory which “puts us in a very alarming future.”

Hoberg said if we don’t work hard to decrease carbon emissions, “Many of the systems that we see on the plant earth that support human civilization in a way that we’re accustomed to will be radically altered.”

Similarly, Kathryn Harrison, a political scientist and chemical engineer, spoke of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions within Canada, what their sources are and how they are linked to climate policy.

According to Harrison, Canada’s GHG emissions are divided into two groups — the first half are big industrial polluters, a quarter of which is the oil and gas industry.

The second half is made up of “million and millions of small sources” such as farms, buildings

and personal vehicles.

“We need to actually take our target seriously,” she said, noting that the Canadian government has had seven different GHG emissions targets since 1990 — all of which have failed.

Cooperation between parties became a clear goal of all three federal Candidates participating in the debate featuring Joyce Murray of the Liberal Party, Scott Andrews of the New Democrats and Kris Constable of the Green Party.

Blair Lockhart of the Conservative Party declined her offer to attend the debate.

Murray and her party see the ability to collaborate on every bill as the main issue the Canadian government needs to deal with.

“We have a very consensus oriented party,” she said. “We have weekly legislative meetings where we talk it through … we actually reach consensus as a group. I am very proud of the approach that we take.”

Constable explained that he is “the only candidate that is standing ... that can say authentically that [he] will vote for you” in Ottawa. Party discipline in his point of view is undemocratic.

The event led students and community members to further develop their opinions as they go to vote.

Kimberley Wong, a secondyear geography student, said that she attended last night’s lectures and debate because she was divided on if she wanted

to vote strategically or on her fundamental beliefs. She said that last night’s debate was “the deciding factor” in how she is going to vote on October 19.

UBCC350 hopes that whoever gets elected into office will effectively represent the concerns of residents in the Vancouver-Quadra riding.

Concerning the Conservative Party in particular, Tang-Graham added, “[It seems like] it doesn’t encourage equal opportunity and access for every student regardless of their background.”

While student loan interest rates are not the only platform factor that young people will consider, they are a key component in the financial future of Canada’s students and recent graduates. U

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2015

FLEA MARKET //

AWARDS //

Eastside Flea Market is more than just plaid shirts Professor receives

Governor General’s Award

The Eastside Flea Market brought in vendors from all of Vancouver.

Elena Volohova Staff Writer

The annual Eastside Flea Market is back in the new SUB and this year is welcoming back old favourites and new friends.

Tea Lani is an organic tea shop run by Mayumi Sugano, tea lover and Chinese herb expert.

Mayumi is on a mission to educate people about real organic tea.

“For me, tea is a way of relaxation and socializing. I found many cultures have this tradition,” she said. “It is sad because many people drink artificially produced tea which is not good.”

With an aspiration to change that, Mayuni, after working at a tea shop in Victoria, took an online course to learn more about herbs and started her own company.

Mayumi’s goal is to show that artificial flavouring is unnecessary because purely organic teas can taste just as good or even better while also nourishing the body and improving the health.

Specialized in brewing her hipster brew of choice, kombucha, Biota Fermentation is an organic fermentation company. They also provide a variety of pickling vegetables such as kimchi, sauerkraut, pickled beets and cucumbers.

Passionate about food and fermentation, James Kidd and Bradley Henderson, having a total of 30 years in the food industry between them, founded the company in February 2015 and had finally began brewing and pickling the following March. Both former chefs working together side by side at three different restaurants, Kidd and Henderson found their passion in organic fermenting.

“Biology and food put together — it’s beautiful,” said Kidd.

The Biota Fermentation booth is living proof of the fact. Along with a delicious variety of kombuchas, they are offering seasonal sauerkraut and brussels sprout kimchi — fermented using local probiotics and crafted with love. Currently developing their own mustard recipe along with working on Christmas specials,

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Kidd and Henderson are hoping to establish a retail space of their own one day to share their passion with their customers.

Bringing the “flower power” to the people, Ron Pobran is a founder of the mobile store Simply Neglectable which specializes in desert plants. A fourth generation farmer from Saskatchewan with 11 years in farming experience, he is on a quest to fight against chemical pesticides and genetically modified fertilizers. Pobran uses nothing on his plants that he wouldn’t use in his own home.

Through Simply Neglectable, Pobran hopes to share his passion for organic farming and prove that sometimes it can be done effortlessly.

“I realized that people don’t want to water their plants all the time and be married to them. So I started working with desert plants which are very forgiving,” he said.

A large variety of desert plants are available for sale at Simply Neglectable. They are a strikingly beautiful, diverse and colourful spectacle of organic farming proving that nature got it just right. U

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Dr. Barman will be presented with her medal on October 16.

Mischa Milne Contributor

A little-known piece of British Columbia’s history is being recognized at the national level.

Dr. Jean Barman, a now-retired UBC professor, was awarded the gold medal for scholarly research for her book French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Pacific Northwest, published

by UBC Press in 2014.

The prize is given to the nonfiction work of Canadian history published each year that is judged to have made the most significant contribution to the understanding of Canada’s past. It is presented by the Canadian Historical Association and administered by Canada’s History Society.

What makes the book unique is the exploration of the impact of French Canadians and their Indigenous partners on British Columbia. Making up the bulk of workers in the fur trade, Barman argues that they played a large role in the Hudson’s Bay Company – and by extension, the British government’s determination to keep BC part of Canada rather than relinquishing it to the United States.

“We often think of history as being created through white men in positions of power, and these were men not in positions of power but ordinary young men from Quebec who decided they wanted to have an adventure, who wanted to leave home and get a job … I’m arguing that they mattered, by virtue of being who they were,” she said.

A significant challenge to completing the six year research and writing process for the book was the fact that the subjects – French Canadian men and the Indigenous women they married – were, for the most

part, illiterate. Information was collected from colonial records preserved in places as far away as the National Archives in London, or as nearby as local provincial archives. The majority of these records were for left by British officers who controlled the fur trade, requiring Barman to glean information through the eyes of others.

“In this case, the people I was able to write about most thoroughly were the daughters of chiefs, because they were ones whose families intrigued the English men who were in charge and who were writing the books and telling the stories, and from that you could infer something about their daughters.”

Initially, Barman had intended to focus on the men that moved to the Pacific Northwest to work in the fur trade, as much of her previous historical work has focused on women. However, she discovered very early on in her research the significance of the partnerships and family life had in keeping the workers in British Columbia.

She was helped in her research by UBC grad student Genevieve Lapointe, who was working on her Master’s degree in Sociology at the time.

“The information I was able to find from the perspective of French Canadians, and through them of Indigenous women, took me in a direction I didn’t expect to go,” said Barman. “It’s actually finding out something, and coming to understand something, that you really had no idea existed in the first place.”

Dr. Barman will be presented with the gold medal by Governor General David Johnston on October 16 at Rideau Hall in Ottawa. She is already planning her next book. U

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EDITOR JACK HAUEN

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Ask Natalie: On sex, virginity and friends with benefits

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“Dear Natalie,

“Dear Natalie,

I’m one of those saps who fall in love easily and, unfortunately for me, Cupid struck early this year. We’re a month into school and I’m already head over heels for this boy on my floor. He’s made it fairly clear he’s not interested in a relationship but would still be down for something like friends with benefits. Should I take it? I’m usually a relationship gal, but I really, really like this guy and I kind of want to just take what I can get.

I’m a virgin and I’m starting to get embarrassed by my lack of a sex life. I feel like everyone is leaps ahead of me and I can’t really add to conversations with my friends.

Any advice?”

— Hopefully Hopeless” Dear Hopefully Hopeless, I don’t know your history or views on some fairly important topics that are really relevant to this situation, but I can give you my personal advice. In my honest opinion, don’t do it. You can’t start a relationship (even one that’s just “friends with benefits”) thinking you can change the other person.

You two are looking for different things and, regardless of what you think you will feel, it will be a lot harder than you think.

At least if you’re not together, you won’t have to try to convince yourself you’re happy with the situation you’re in. You won’t have to pretend it doesn’t bother you when you see him flirting with someone else or confused if people ask you if you were a couple.

You won’t feel guilty when you flirt with someone else at a party because you won’t be together. At least you can give the rest of the world an honest go.

Friends with benefits can work in certain circumstances, but I would never recommend it when you’re starry-eyed for the other person. That’s just not fair to you.

Are you telling me all your friends talk about is sex? How old are your friends?

Being a virgin is nothing to be ashamed of. It should have no impact on your everyday life unless you make it a huge deal. If you want to get laid, go out and get laid. If you want to wait until marriage, go ahead

“

No one should judge you for your sexual experience or lack thereof.”

and wait. Hell, if you never ever want to have sex, that’s a valid choice too.

No one should judge you for your sexual experience or lack thereof.

If your friends are making fun of you, then tell them to cut it out. If they keep doing it, then drop them like you’re hot and move on to people who don’t judge you by your sex life.

I have friends who are very sexually active and I have friends who have never been kissed — those facts have no bearing on how I feel about them.

So you’re a virgin. What does it matter? So are tons of other people.

Some surveys report up to half of entering first-years are virgins. But regardless, being one (or not) doesn’t change who you are as a person.

Don’t waste your vote Ubyssey Staff Editorial

The Ubyssey editorial board could not come to an agreement on a specific party to endorse in the 2015 federal election, but the unanimous consensus was that we would rather see any one of them in power over the Conservatives. To achieve that goal, UBC students must a) vote and b) vote strategically.

Students here are overwhelmingly centre-left to left-wing, and as such, we have a tendency to split our vote between the Liberals, the NDP and the Green

Let’s hear ‘em.

opinion@ubyssey.ca

and Point Grey are situated, that’s Liberal Joyce Murray. You might feel like Thomas Mulcair would be the best leader for Canada (or you might just love a good beard), but if your riding’s NDP candidate is polling at 10 per cent while the Liberal and Conservative are neckand-neck, you’d only be throwing your vote away on the New Democrat.

Voting as a UBC student is easier than ever and the outcome of this election could decide some very important aspects of our lives in the coming years. For all its imperfections, Canada is still a democracy and we all have a responsibility to participate. U

Notice of Development Permit Application - DP 15032

Public Open House

Totem Park Residence Infill Phase 2 You are invited to attend an Open House on Thursday, October 22 to view and comment on a proposed new student residence building south of the existing Totem Residence to house 350 first and second year students.

Date: Thursday, October 22, 2015 Time: 4:30 - 6:30 PM Place: Foyer, Coquihalla Commons Block, 2525 West Mall Plans will be displayed for a new 8,900m2 , student residence with 350 beds. The facility will be comprised of a 6-storey dormitory block and a single-storey shared amenity building.

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

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

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Party. Apply this vote-splitting nationally and it becomes a major problem. Because our electoral system can so easily become fundamentally unrepresentative of a democracy in which there are multiple parties, Conservative MPs are often elected in ridings where the majority of people would rather elect a left-wing candidate.

This is where strategic voting comes in. Take a look at the voting history and current polls in your riding. If you’d like to see someone other than Stephen Harper at 24 Sussex for the next few years, vote for the non-Conservative candidate who has the best chance of winning — in Vancouver Quadra, where UBC

This event is wheelchair accessible.

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EDITOR KOBY MICHAELS

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Last year, the UBC Quidditch team finally achieved a goal that it had been gunning for since its inception in 2010 — They made it to the Quidditch World Cup in South Carolina.

With third position in the Northwest division and ranked first in their region, the UBC Quidditch team snagged a spot amongst 80 teams beating a sizeable amount of American teams for it. They went on to represent UBC and the rest of Canada for the first time at the World Cup. Western Washington, UBC's regional rivals across the border, was the only other team from the Northwest that competed in the World Cup. This was a considerable achievement for them considering that only five years ago they were still a fledgling team struggling to achieve recognition within the UBC community. Only a few people showed up to practice and hoops were duct taped to the ground. Now they are about 70 members strong with two competitive playing teams striving for international and regional prominence.

Making waves The team does not play in the Canadian Quidditch League though — mostly because of a need for exposure and a lack of strong competition in Western Canada.

Instead, they choose to play in the US Quidditch league (USQ). There are a few teams in Alberta, the University of Victoria and Simon Fraser University that compete in Western Canada, but UBC “routinely squashes them,” according to this year’s Quidditch Club President Elizabeth Benoy.

“In American Quidditch, there are four other teams that are right across the border. We decided it would benefit us in terms of our understanding of Quidditch and playing style to play with American Quidditch [teams],” said Brandon Rivas, the beater captain for the A-team roster.

Benoy said that the team is “arguably the best” in Canada. This is arguable because a sanguinary decider match between the UBC and McGill teams ended in a tie on March 29. The Canadian nationals were happening in Burnaby and both

teams, eager to show off their skills, organized an exhibition match to see who was the best once and for all.

“Both us and McGill really wanted that title of ‘best team.’ We were willing to do anything for it,” said Rivas. “A nice friendly match was the intention but it got physical really quick, so we called it.”

Real as it gets Watching several twenty-something year olds run around in the rain with broomsticks tucked in between their legs is enough to make anyone pause. But after watching a little longer and seeing the fierce tackles, heavy body checks and dodgeballs received squarely in the face, one would realize that it is a full-contact sport that requires just as much exertion as traditional sports.

Quidditch is the wizardingchild of basketball, flag football and dodgeball. It's a full contact co-ed sport — possibly the only one in existence.

Not only that, the team also prides itself on its sense of community and inclusiveness.

“Quidditch itself is a co-ed sport and it is inclusive of all genders. There are strict policies in the rule book that insure that everyone is included. No one gets discriminated or left out so we really work to support that,” said Benoy.

The World Cup was in South Carolina on the East Coast being very much out of the way. Between the plane tickets for the A-team roster and accommodations, their overhead price came to about $11,000. Apart from their inability to get a consistent and inexpensive field to practice on at UBC, this was probably the biggest problem the team faced last year.

Rivas offered up the styling of his beard for their World Cup Indiegogo campaign in that he had to sport a pinkish-red beard for the entire competition. Many of the players also offered themselves up on dates — enough evidence that this was a dream that they all wanted to see achieved. They ended up raising $2,325, about 22 per cent of their total cost. Their trip was also subsidized by an AMS grant of $3,000. While this was not enough to completely fund their trip, the team was eventually able to pay their way to the World Cup.

Wanting more Now, with enough collegiate and international recognition, the team has another goal in their sights — to achieve competitive club status.

“Competitive clubs at UBC get funding from the AMS and also get access to the varsity gyms. And for us, it’s really important because we're really trying to promote a strong sense of athleticism in the club," said Benoy.

The problem is that, in the past, the Quidditch Club was not considered sustainable in the eyes of the competitive club committee.

They didn’t have enough turnover of leadership which meant that a poor leader in the future could lead to a floundering club or, even worse, a failed one.

The club’s recent success both in

BC and abroad might have changed that perception not just for the competitive club committee, but also for the UBC campus as a whole.

"This year is really about proving ourselves because we’ve changed captains completely and so my co-captain Cameron [Cutler] and myself are really going to try to show people what we’re worth,” said Rivas.

“Since then we’ve really developed as a club. We’ve had turnover of leadership and we think that we're a strong candidate for competitive club status,” said Benoy who is also a chaser for the team.

Every year, everyone that is interested in being on any of the teams tries out for positions that they are interested in. They also have practices throughout the

year on Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. and Sundays at 12:30 p.m. for two and a half hours each. They aren’t open practices so you need to get a $20 membership. Benoy says that the first step to getting involved with the club is to first like their Facebook page. She assures that this isn’t a “promo thing,” but rather a way to keep up with latest news and practice times for the teams.

Although not an age-old organization decorated with trophies or even bestowed with varsity status, the UBC Quidditch team is still gearing up for the new season like any of the others. “[There's] more competition, more games. We travel all around the states, we're just hoping to really develop our club and become the strongest team in Canada.” U

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2015

Public Workshop - October 24

Wesbrook Place Neighbourhood Design Vision UBC, working with the UNA, is undertaking a process to develop a more detailed design vision for the Wesbrook Place Neighbourhood.

This process follows up on a commitment UBC made to the UNA to develop a more detailed design vision for Wesbrook Place. With just over half of Wesbrook Place built, it is now time to check with the community and confirm the design vision to support the development of the remaining sites.

Date: Saturday, October 24, 2015 Time: 10:00am – 1:00pm Place: Wesbrook Community Centre, Room 201, 5998 Berton Avenue

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44- Desert havens; 45- VCR button; 46- Cock; 49- Superlative suffix; 50- Small batteries; 51- Black cuckoos; 53- Agent; 60- Mr. Moto portrayer; 61- Sensible; 62- Tel ___; 63- Alloy of iron and carbon; 64- Agitate; 65- Welles role; 66- Noted duck; 67- Pouches; 68- Steven Chu's cabinet dept.; DOWN 1- Cries of discovery; 2- "Venerable" English monk; 3- Russian pancake; 4- Accumulate; 5- Declares; 6- Ruler of the Islamic world; 7- Golden Fleece ship;

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The workshop will include a walking tour and small group discussions on neighbourhood design, including building shape and character, open space and landscape design, streetscapes, and other ways to enhance livability through design.

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30- Not emp.; 31- Spring up; 32- Melodies; 33- Emo anxiety; 35- Baa maid?; 37- Nabokov novel; 39- That group; 40- Boo follower; 41- Water wheel; 46- Seldom; 47- Pertaining to tea acid; 48- Goes in;

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