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After victory at national rowing championships, Hillary Janssens has her sights set on 2016 Olympics

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Janssens finds rowing a “serene” activity.

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Hillary Janssens is coming off of a team victory at the Canadian National Rowing Championships last weekend and is on her way to potentially represent Canada at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

All of this is quite an accomplishment for an athlete who came to UBC without any intention of joining the rowing team. In fact, while she had played basketball and volleyball, Janssens hadn’t rowed at all until she came to campus.

“The first week of school, the rowing team walks around campus and looks for tall people and asks them to try the sport,” Janssens, who is 6’2”, explained. “That’s how our program is sustaining itself.”

Janssens said that rowing had a steep learning curve, but she enjoyed how “objective” the sport was compared to others. You can see your race time and compare it to other rowers on the team.

Workouts also give clear data with the indoor rowing machines offering feedback on how strong each pull on the machine is.

“It’s so unbiased,” she said. “It’s very tangible and you can easily

compare yourself to others.”

Finding enjoyment in the sport is important given the intense schedule of UBC rowers. Janssens said many days start with a 5:30 a.m. rowing practice at the team’s facility in Richmond followed by a second afternoon conditioning workout on campus.

Between the two practices, Janssens is busy taking classes as a biology student in her fourth year at UBC and hopes to go into medicine once she graduates.

“Not having much of a social life” is the trick to managing her schedule, she said. “I try to get as much sleep as possible because if you don’t get sleep, things go downhill pretty quickly.”

Janssens is quick to deflect attention from herself, pointing to the impressive feat achieved by the women’s team in the eight-person boat competition at nationals where they won their third championship in as many years during the weekend of October 8-10.

While Janssens is clearly loyal to the larger UBC rowing crew, unity on such a teams is complex because the nature of the sport.

No substitutes or extra spots are available once the team of eight has been set, making it internally

competitive or “quite cutthroat,” in her words.

The tension is eased by the fact that members of the team usually arrive in cohorts of a few women who improve and make the jump from the novice team to varsity level together. Janssens was able to row varsity in her first year, winning nationals in the twoperson boat. She has continued to win the two-person boat competition at the championships since then and notes her development as a rower as “quite the progression.”

In her first year, she was paired with a far more experienced athlete who was able to coach her and raise her skill level dramatically.

During the second year, she was able to help her less experienced teammate in the boat. This year, she rowed with a friend who had joined the team the same year as she had.

Janssens said she’s not sure what role rowing will play in her future, but she is confident it will remain a part of her life for a long time.

“It’s actually a pretty serene sport,” she said. “It’s given me so much in my life and I don’t think I could really extricate myself from it.” U

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EDITORS EMMA PARTRIDGE + MOIRA WARBURTON

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AMS lobbies B.C. government to stop UBC hiding public documents David Nixon Staff Writer

UBC continues to refuse public scrutiny of its real estate development arm, UBC Properties Trust, and the AMS hopes the B.C. government will step in.

For over a decade, students, journalists, privacy agencies, community members and MLAs have lobbied for legislative change that would prevent UBC from using an accountability gap to shelter what are widely considered to be public documents. “This year, we’ve made a very hard push with the government,” said Jude Crasta, AMS VP External. “It’s a very dangerous avenue for public bodies to go down, creating these shell corporations to enclose information away from public eyes.”

Crasta made his recommendations to the special committee reviewing BC’s Freedom of Information and Privacy Act (FIPPA).

This committee is convened every six years.

The AMS was there six years ago, presenting strikingly similar recommendations — and again six years before that. The committee itself has been listening, but various Liberal governments have ignored dozens of committee recommendations for FIPPA reform since 1999.

Each time, the response has been, “‘It’s complicated, we’re consulting,’” said Vincent Gogolek, executive director of the B.C. Freedom of Information and Privacy Association (FIPA) — a non-profit dedicated to promoting and defending freedom of information and privacy rights in Canada.

“Presumably, they’ve been consulting for the last four years. You’d think maybe after four years they’ve maybe done enough consultation and are ready to leap into action,” said Gogolek. “It’s very frustrating.”

He also noted that municipalities are required to have their private subsidiaries disclose documents — all that would have to change in the existing legislation would be a sentence that includes “educational bodies.”

“Bottom line, where public resources are used to operate a subsidiary corporation, then the entity should be subject to [freedom of information],” BC’s Privacy Commissioner Elizabeth Denham in a July hearing of the committee.

Committee members themselves have expressed frustration with the lack of action.

“I’m having trouble understanding how in 2005 the government could say that they were going to do this and in 2015 we still don’t have this in place,” said committee appointee David Eby, NDP MLA for Vancouver-Point Grey, in a July hearing.

At the last committee meeting in 2009, the changes seemed so inevitable that the AMS President at the time, Blake Frederick, released a statement.

“The province’s privacy office has found that, since UBC’s Properties Trust is 100 per cent owned and operated by UBC, it is subject to FIPPA — no more will UBC’s real estate arm be hidden from public view,” said Frederick.

This was right after the AMS had spent a year filing freedom of information requests for documents from UBC’s subsidiaries, all of which were denied. Six of 16

Walk fundraiser for Syrian refugees held on campus

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The AMS VP External called UBC’s habit of not disclosing certain documents “dangerous.”

requests made in 2009 related to UBC’s private subsidiaries.

About a year later, freelance journalist Stanley Tromp was denied documents for the same reason. He went to BC’s Privacy Commissioner Elizabeth Denham and she ruled in his favor, which prompted Frederick’s statement.

But UBC appealed. After a complicated saga involving a similar case at Simon Fraser University, the B.C. Court of Appeal upheld the corporate veil.

“This is appalling, obviously,” Tromp told The Ubyssey by email about UBC’s decision to fight him in court. “Those legal funds could far better be used to assist needy students.”

This year’s committee will submit its report to the Legislative Assembly by May 27, 2016. Tromp said it’s likely they will make similar recommendations as the committee did in 2010.

The recommendations would then go to Christy Clark’s Liberals.

Since the committee has been underway, BC’s privacy commissioner released a damning report showing that government officials deleted emails and documents on a regular basis. Prior to this, other information scandals Christy Clark’s Liberals have been involved with include the routine breaching of B.C. health data and the loss of a backup hard drive with education records of 3.4 million residents.

Tromp and Crasta are hopeful though, despite the context — Crasta will continue lobbying.

The AMS’s other recommendations to the committee include fines for educational bodies in non-compliance with FIPPA, more fee waivers and removing provisions allowing for “unreasonable delays.” U

Syrian crisis sparks effort to expand refugee student program Arno Rosenfeld Features Editor

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Kuol Deng Biong is president of the WUSC program on campus, a club that facilitates the arrival of four refugee students to UBC each year.

from the current refugee crisis stemming from strife in Syria, other parts of the Middle East and Africa.

“We have so many students who are stranded in so many countries, in Syria and around the world,” Biong said. “We need to increase the number of students, so we need to increase the fee.”

Omassi said the AMS began talks with the university in September to examine ways in which UBC could help aid the refugee situation

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WalkUnited particpants marched down Main Mall on November 5.

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With support from the AMS and university administration, a group of students is seeking to raise the annual fee students pay to support refugees studying at UBC from $2.61 to $5.22 per year.

World University Service of Canada (WUSC) currently facilitates the arrival of four refugee students to campus each year. The university and AMS cover tuition, book fees and some housing and living expenses. If the fee increase passes, the number of WUSC students at UBC will double to eight per year and support services for the students would be increased, according to AMS VP University Affairs Jenna Omassi.

To raise the fee, the WUSC club on campus plans to circulate a petition to place a referendum question in the spring AMS elections ballot, said club President Kuol Deng Biong.

Biong arrived at UBC in 2011, 12 years after he and his family were forced to flee southern Sudan. Biong was educated in Kakuma — a refugee camp in northeast Kenya — and managed to earn a prized WUSC scholarship, which places dozens of students at universities across Canada each year.

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unfolding in the Mediterranean.

“There’s this crisis happening … and it’s a public crisis, which means students and people might be more willing to act on it,” Omassi explained.

She said that while the AMS would not be putting the referendum question about raising the student fee on the election ballot themselves, they would support the WUSC club in gathering the 1,000 signatures necessary to qualify the question.

The student levy to support WUSC refugees was first implemented in 1985 at a 50¢ fee. It was raised to $1 in 1996 and to $2.50 in 2008.

Janet Teasdale, director of student development and services for UBC, said the university’s current contribution to WUSC scholars is around $185,000 a year. If the student fee increases, UBC would also roughly double their contribution to the WUSC program.

She said that the expansion of the refugee program would not be limited to Syrian students and that it was just one aspect of what will eventually be a broader response

by UBC to the refugee crisis.

“We want to respond to the crisis this year, but we want to respond broadly and deeply and there are many displaced people who need additional places to study,” Teasdale said.

Biong said that while he would like to see the number of refugee students at UBC increase beyond eight per year, four additional students would make a serious difference in many lives.

“If you help four students, you have helped so many families behind them. If their loved one gets a scholarship and come here, then their future is brightened,” he said. “Four students would really change a lot.” U

A student-organized independent fundraiser to promote awareness for the Syrian refugees crisis took place last Thursday.

WalkUnited is a student-run UBC walk fundraiser to support and create awareness for Syrian refugees.

The march was held on Main Mall.

Despite the cold weather, participants were excited to demonstrate their solidarity with refugees as well as spreading awareness of the cause to the UBC community.

“I’m here because I feel deeply for this cause and I’ve seen the troubles the Syrians are facing, especially the children,” said secondyear student Zuhur Cader. “I want to help in any way I can to improve the situation.”

To raise money, the organizers sold $5 painted t-shirts to be worn at the event at Main Mall to show that “we walk united with refugees.”

All funds collected will go towards Canadian branch of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), a department of the United Nations that deals with refugees.

The second part of the project was the photography portion, where organizers aimed to collect photos of 10,000 UBC students along with signs written with solidarity messages. They aimed to show that UBC students are passionate about the issue as well as to send messages to Canadian officials and the world about accepting refugees.

“The goal was basically to give an easy way for UBC students to be able to help out and contribute either by time or money to something really worthwhile, rather than just discussing it academically, and put efforts into actual actions,” said Nika Moeini, head organizer of WalkUnited.

According to Moeini, she expected the fundraiser to raise $500 for the cause and gather a large turnout during the event.

WalkUnited raised over $350 for the UNHCR and took over 200 photos of UBC students. Moeni said that the group will continue to fundraise until the end of the month and do collaborations with other clubs on campus.

The idea of the two-part fundraiser provided a solution for the problem of how to both raise money and allow students to engage with the issue in an active manner.

“I thought doing a fundraiser by mixing it with advocacy ... might be the best way to solve this problem,” said Moeini.

Moeini thought that the project was an effective way to fundraise.

“I think by making it accessible — by having a specific date, time and specific item to purchase — it makes it easier for people to actually do something,” said Moeini. U

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Clubs are still living in the old SUB — and they like it

Placing quotas on female representation: is it really meaningful?

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The AMS Student Nest got occupancy over the summer and the flow of clubs into the new building began — but who stayed?

Joshua Azizi Senior Staff Writer

Although many new clubs have found a home in the Nest, a number of clubs are still active in the old Student Union Building.

Among these clubs are the Pottery Club, Blank Vinyl Project, UBC Photo Society, UBC Free Store and others. All of these clubs reside in the old SUB basement, while the UBC Film Society uses the main floor and clubs such as the Dance Club and the Wrestling Club use the upstairs ballrooms.

According to AMS VP Admin Ava Nasiri, renovations for the old SUB — that would give certain specialized clubs new facilities in the basement

— were supposed to take place right after the opening of the Nest, but this plan was indefinitely postponed due to financial issues.

“We really wanted to make sure we had enough space and resources to provide exactly what they needed for the groups that are still there,” said Nasiri.

Specialized clubs that are promised office space in the renovated building include UBC Aqua Society, UBC Film Society, UBC Sprouts and the AMS Bicycle Co-op and Bike Kitchen.

According to Nasiri, “These would be our main sort of larger clubs that require the specialized space just because they operate at such an impressive caliber.”

Since these clubs were originally meant to be allocated space in the renovated old SUB, they were not moved into the Nest. Nasiri says that other clubs in the basement may not have been able to move into the Nest, but were given space in the old SUB as consolation.

It’s currently unspecified as to when these renovations will take place. In the interim, the clubs will stay in the old SUB’s basement — a placement that has actually managed to bring many of these clubs together.

“Because these clubs are in the old SUB, there’s more potential and drive to collaborate with each other,” said Cheralyn Chok, president of Blank Vinyl Project.

Blank Vinyl Project was originally moved into an office on the fourth floor of the Nest, but were subsequently moved into the old Ubyssey office — a space that they share with the UBC Photo Society.

Although Chok was initially disappointed to leave the Nest, she’s become very fond of the new location.

“This is honestly better for our club. We can make a lot of noise and it fits more of the Blank Vinyl Project culture thing to be down here,” she said. “I love it.”

Last Wednesday, many of these clubs came together to host a “SUB-Culture Party” in the old SUB basement dedicated to the congregation of these clubs left behind. Although the party showcases and celebrates the clubs of the basement, Chok also interprets it as the way for these clubs to announce that they’re still very active. “[It’s] not protesting. [It’s] just saying that ‘oh, we’re down here.’

We want people to know that there’s still stuff going on in the old SUB,” said Chok. “It’s kind of the hidden, more underground clubs, but we don’t really wanna be underground — we want students to know about us and use our resources.” U

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Our new prime minister has made a cabinet with 50/50 representation — our own engineering faculty plans to follow suit.

Helen Zhou Staff Writer

With UBC Engineering announcing their goal for 50 per cent female enrolment by 2020 and Justin Trudeau following through on his promise of a gender-balanced cabinet, it seems like the world is finally seeing the light in terms of equal opportunities for women.

According to UBC professors in gender studies, while the encouragement of female representation is a good first step, the fight is far from over.

“I think it’s great to try and aim for equity and representation, especially in places like government,” said Jennifer Berdahl, professor of gender and diversity in leadership at the Sauder School of Business. “But it really depends on the motivations for doing it and how it’s done.”

She believes that diversity as a quota does not necessarily equal a successful, effective governing body and that it’s important to choose leaders who are “high quality individuals” — not just for their gender.

“You might get women who put down other women, for example, or who don’t really stand for equality. But, because they’re female, the numbers look good.”

Beyond the numbers, it’s also important to consider the positions that women play in governing bodies. Leonora Angeles, associate professor in Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Work, said that most of the women appointed to Trudeau’s cabinet have been assigned

traditionally female positions — health, public service, heritage, etc.

“If you have a hierarchy of significance in cabinet positions, these are what you might call soft issues — not as controversial as the big ones like finance, foreign affairs and economic development,” she said.

The other problem with the gender quota in governing bodies is that it often ignores other marginalized groups — the racially diverse, the disabled, members of the LGBT+ community and people of lower socioeconomic classes.

“It’s always assumed to be cisgendered women,” said Angeles. “It really lacks intersectional analysis of how embodiments are not just based on gender. It’s also based on sexuality, race and ethnicity.”

She pointed out that in a cabinet of 15 women, only three represent ethnic minorities.

Similarly, out of 15 men, only four represent ethnic minorities as well.

“It still does not mirror the makeup of the Canadian population — in the new Canada that we know,” she said, citing that between 25 and 28 per cent of the population will be born abroad and 55 per cent of those Canadians will have been born in Asia by 2031.

Despite all of this, both professors believe the efforts encouraging female representation are a positive first step.

“I think our social norms are moving in that direction, that of course men and women are equally capable,” said Berdahl. U

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EDITOR KOBY MICHAELS

TUESDAY,NOVEMBER 10, 2015

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Arbutus Medical is making surgery safe for everyone Naseeb Bolduc Contributor

An average surgical drill used at Vancouver General Hospital costs about $30,000. This is unaffordable in many parts of the world and surgeons are left with few options, ultimately resulting in avoidable disability and injury.

A new technology has been introduced to solve this problem: A sturdy piece of fabric that seals around an inexpensive drill, exactly like the kind you would find at your local hardware store.

This fabric, called a drill cover, is making safe surgery more accessible around the world. It all started here in Vancouver with UBC graduate students.

UBC Engineering students founded Arbutus Medical — the company responsible for the drill cover. Michael Cancilla, one of the founders and director of technology, credits the Engineers in Scrubs — a graduate fellowship program at UBC — for helping bridge the gap between biomedical engineers and surgeons.

The program allows surgeons to present their problems to biomedical engineers and for the engineers to receive feedback as to how practical their technology would be in use.

“It’s really good when you can create a program like this where

you’ve removed all the barriers between the people designing the device and the people who will use the device,” explained Cancilla.

“It’s a really good format for a collaboration.”

Surgeons who travelled to Uganda reported a lack of surgical drills in operating rooms, despite the adequately trained doctors available to use the tools. This, said Cancilla, is where the development of the drill cover began.

The idea of using a cover is not unique to Arbutus Medical. Basic covers have been created before, but none had been quite good enough to provide a completely reliable and safe surgical procedure. Arbutus Medical tested multiple prototypes with doctors until they came up with their current model. This drill cover stands out because of the attention put into the entire use of the cover.

“We have a loading procedure we developed with Vancouver General Hospital to allow the nurses to put the drill into the bag very easily,” said Cancilla.

He also pointed out that the specific shape of the bag matches the drill, which is perfected by textile experts. The fact that a true barrier is created between the drill and the operating room doesn’t create any room for the transfer of bacteria or liquid, making a cheap drill with a drill cover on par in terms of safety with the

Arbutus Medical’s drill cover makes using a power drill safe in orthopaedic surgeries.

expensive equipment people have access to at hospitals in the Vancouver.

The drill cover is being met with enthusiasm all over the world. There are approximately 215 drill covers currently being used and over 4,000 surgeries have been performed with the devices. Arbutus Medical hopes to increase these numbers and

eventually move on to modifying other expensive tools required in operations. The company remains centered around its foundational purpose — to create more equality in terms of access to safe surgery.

Anyone with a similar goal is offered a bit of advice from Cancilla — take advantage of the programs offered at UBC and opportunities elsewhere. In addition to Engineers

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in Scrubs, Arbutus Medical benefited from surgeon experiences with Uganda Sustainable Trauma Orthopaedic Program (USTOP) at UBC and the Coast Capital Savings Innovation Hub. “Get out of the workshop, the lab or the office and start asking questions. Learn about what you need to create before you create it,” advised Cancilla. U

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Over-prescription of opioids linked to higher death rates in British Columbia

A map of opioid dispensation in milligrams dispensed per capita across British Columbia.

Arianna Leah Fischer Contributor

According to a new study at UBC, the over-prescription of opioids — more commonly known as painkillers — has been linked to higher death rates in the province of British Columbia.

The study was conducted by looking at regional patterns in B.C. from 2003 to 2014 with a search narrowed down to 79 areas. The team sought to look at the social and cultural disparities in access to medicines as well as the quality and safety of the prescriptions. The study, perhaps

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not too surprisingly, found that there is a significant variation in the prescribing of opioids in that regions with overall higher purchases had higher rates of opioid related deaths on average.

“What’s interesting about British Columbia is that we actually have had fairly high rates

of prescription opioid use for the past decade. We were above the norm for North America,” said Steve Morgan, an economics professor at the School of Population and Public Health.

He went on to add that British Columbia’s overall use for the past 10 years, although high, has been quite stable and that only now have other jurisdictions sadly reached the same concerning level.

While the study focused on legal prescriptions, Morgan acknowledged that there are high rates of illicit opioid use in all areas. In fact, the researchers realized that quite a large portion of those who died from opioid related poisoning did not have records of filling prescriptions in the months or years prior to their death.

“There’s a fair number of people who appear to have been harmed by these prescription drugs when they either borrowed the medicine from someone else, bought it off of a street market or thieved — as sometimes is the case with people with serious opioid addiction.”

Morgan noted that the attention the study received was very positive. The ideas being put forth to help resolve this problem have been very progressive and promising.

“There’s a willingness to have a conversation. The College of Physicians and Surgeons in

British Columbia announced last spring that they are looking into either mandating or otherwise increasing the use of the electronic databases that my team used for this study in order to increase their use on a routine basis by doctors that are prescribing these medicines. That’s a remarkable level of interest and leadership,” explained Morgan.

The team is currently working with health professionals and the government to increase the use of electronic databases that can provide adequate monitoring and surveillance of the prescribing of these medicines in British Columbia. One of their most prominent database is known as “PharmaNet” which is a secure province-wide network that links all British Columbian pharmacies to a central set of data systems. Doctors have access to patient records relating to all prescription medication dispensed to an individual in the province.

With this strategy, the team hopes to ward off extreme use of these medicines without harming people who legitimately need the treatment or jeopardizing those who are prescribing the drugs.

“It’s important to know that B.C. is in a really good position to develop solutions for this. We have some of the country’s best clinical and research leaders in the areas related to addictions and treatment for them.” U

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EDITOR OLIVIA LAW

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2015

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Symphony Orchestra mixes melancholy, UBC Opera’s Manon was striking, rich and intense calmness with virtuosic performances

The orchestra played Shostakovich, Verdi, Hamel and Haydn.

Samuel Du Bois Staff Writer

The theme this season is ninth symphonies and, as such, the latest performance by UBC’s own Symphony Orchestra ended triumphantly with Dmitri Shostakovich’s energetic No. 9 in E-flat major, Op. 70 — an immensely entertaining and slightly sardonic celebration of the Soviet victory over the Germans at the end of World War II. The performance encompassed a well-curated assortment of works combined into an elegant narrative of joy and melancholy.

It began with the epic overture to La Forza Del Destino by Giuseppe Verdi and led by Assistant Conductor Alex Toa. Then moved on to Franz Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 49, also known as La Passione, which was a slower and more melancholic piece. After intermission, the audience was introduced to Keith Hamel’s Overdrive, which brought a stormy presence to the stage, bringing us to the conclusion with Shostakovich.

The opening was excellent and Alex Toa handled his musicians

with precision and unfailing emphasis. The Overture carried all the heft expected of a work by Verdi and was played without flaw.

Symphony No. 49, by Haydn, brought a suitable calm to follow the opening. Jonathan Girard, who conducted the rest of the performance, really drew all of the emotion from the work.

The orchestra itself was pared down to a third of its size for this one and that, coupled with Girard’s delicate lead, made the experience an intimate one. The skill of the violin players was particularly noticeable here.

After intermission, the full orchestra took to the stage once more joined by the piano and an assembly of interesting percussion instruments for Hamel’s Overdrive. The beginning carried a strong lead by the piano into a tempestuous mix of themes and instruments that comprised the rest of the work.

Overdrive is wild and thematic with violent fun in it. However, its nonstop pace also hinders the piece. Instead of giving each of its ideas their time on stage, Hamel has every different aspect of the work vying for dominance with

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little interweaving. This makes it rather confusing as times, although none the less dramatic.

The finale was the aforementioned Shostakovich — it was excellently done thanks to the Girard’s superb and amazingly entertaining conducting. Rather than limiting himself to his baton, Girard directs his orchestra with his whole body, becoming as much a tool of expression for the work as any other instrument.

The passion he feels in his direction is evident and manifests in the performance. He moves about his podium as though it were much too small — lunging and gesturing with such gusto that he looked once or twice as though he were about to leap into the Violin I section, whose their impeccable solos were led by the very talented concertmaster, Billie Smith.

The performance was an impressive ensemble of talent and passion that made for an enjoyable and insightful night. U The Symphony Orchestra’s next performance will be a rendition of Beethoven’s ninth symphony on December 4 to 5, which will be in Girard’s capable hands once more.

Only opera can get away with these costumes.

Olivia Law Culture Editor

An “opera-comique” that ends in deportation and death — only in opera.

Manon is a 19th-century French opera by Jules Massenet, performed by the UBC Opera Ensemble and Vancouver Opera Orchestra, conducted by Rosemary Thomson and directed

by Nancy Hermiston. It tells the tale of Manon, a young girl on her way to live at the convent under her parents orders. She and des Grieux, a young nobleman, fall in love and move to an apartment in Paris when, soon after, he is abducted and Manon begins to enjoy the new pleasures of her youthfulness. She finds that des Grieux is taking holy orders and dispels his reservations by begging forgiveness when they finally express their love once more. More separation and reunions ensue until Manon dies in her lover’s arms, begging forgiveness for the shame she has brought him.

The two leads, played by Kallie Clayton and Philippe Castagner, portrayed the innocence of the young lovers effortlessly and without fault. Clayton was endearing as the title role as well as a capable actress and a talented soprano. Castagner was — as one can only expect from a singer returning from the Met in New York — a stunning performer, playing the role of des Grieux in an earnest, loveable style.

Opera has the ability, over straight theatre or musicals, to be over-dramatic without compromising the legitimacy of the performance or storyline. Of course falling in love in the space of one song is ridiculous, but the

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sold-out audience of opening night was swept along with the comedy, romance and excitement.

Perhaps more could have been done with the romance scenes — lines in the music could suggest the young lovers to be more passionate together than they were, but perhaps the charming awkwardness between the two was intended to juxtapose the more risqué subject matter.

Although the Old Auditorium was full, there is no doubt the proportion of students in the audience could certainly have been higher. Performed in French with English subtitles, the storyline, jokes and emotions were easy to understand and the audience was vocal about their appreciation of many of the scenes. The opera begins with a comic scene involving food, innuendo and physical comedy — thanks to the talents of Yuhui Wang, Camille Holland, Gwendolyn Yearwood and Charlotte Belinger, whose small ensemble singing was one of the highlights of the performance.

It was an absolute pleasure to watch an opera of this calibre with such talented performers.

UBC Opera’s performance was brilliant — each actor with their own story and an incredible ensemble presentation.

Conductor Thomson knows every word and note of the production and the Vancouver Opera Orchestra provided tight energy from the pit. The atmosphere in the auditorium was exactly what you’d hope for in a comedyopera.

An extremely talented cast under direction of Nancy Hermiston, Manon is truly a testament to the accomplished UBC Opera program. U

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Opening discussions of mental health with art Miguel Santa Maria Senior Staff Writer

There is little doubt that art is a platform that can be used to express endless amounts of ideas.

With the exhibition series “Piece of Mind,” the B.C. Psychological Association (BCPA) and a handful of artists, the main idea right now is mental health. This past Wednesday, one iteration of the exhibition series opened at the AMS Hatch Gallery with the theme of “resilience.”

“Piece of Mind” was founded three years ago by Rukshana Hassanali, the events and education coordinator of the BCPA. Since then, the project has branched out with many other exhibits all across Canada — from the Vancouver Public Library all the way to McGill University. For her, art was the ideal platform to get plenty of people talking about a subject rarely touched upon.

“A lot of times, it’s hard to find a way to talk about psychology and mental health,” said Hassanali.

“Bringing art and psychology together, it creates a platform to talk about [both of them].… I think the hardest part about getting a discussion started is getting people together and not feeling scared to say something.”

The importance of discussion was emphasized during the opening event. Apart from

presenting the artistic works, there was a short presentation discussing this specific exhibition’s theme of “resilience” and how it functions within individuals. Additionally, there was a Q&A panel involving the artists themselves that covered the inspirations of their works as well as what mental health means to them.

For artist Rebecca Ou, resilience and mental health are both personal stakes close to her heart. Diagnosed as dyslexic when she was only three, Ou took her diagnosis report, broke it down into phonemes and filmed herself reading them. She then traced her lip movements, converting them into three small animated flipbooks. The project was yet another way for her to come to terms with her condition and keep looking forward. “[My mom] turned my head around … she always tells me, ‘It’s not how you start, it’s how you end.’

That really stuck with me,” said Ou during the panel. She added that this support and her passion for art helped her cope with her difficulties in everything else. “I found art as a form of therapy — I think finding something you like and having people who love you [is a way of personal] resilience.”

Personal experience with mental health was not necessary for artists to participate in the event. Some artists still desired to

Hannah Kahn Contributor

The people of Canada are an amalgamation of different ethnicities, religions and nationalities, resulting in something high school teachers in particular love to call the “Canadian cultural mosaic.”

This diversity in Canada is something Canadians are very proud of and many places around the world consider Canada to be one of the most diverse and welcoming countries on Earth.

This has not always been true and arguably never has been.

Often Canada has treated its minorities with a fraction of the inclusiveness our reputation deserves. This November, the Jewish Community Centre is hosting the annual Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival. This

event highlights a key minority in Canada and celebrates works by Jewish authors as well as works about Jewish culture and religion.

Richard Menkis is an associate professor of modern Jewish history at UBC and recently co-wrote a book called More Than Just Games — Canada in the 1936 Olympics, which will be on display at the festival.

“The book isn’t so much about religion, but is about the Jewish experience — or one aspect of the Jewish experience — and looking at the experience of Jews in Canada,” he said on the topic, which he noted was overlooked for large periods of Canada’s history.

This oversight connects with his current work.

“I’m looking at the ways in which Jews writing about their history have been writing it sometimes as a group that’s trying

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“Piece of Mind” is promoting healthy minds through art.

address issues that pertained to discussing mental health, even if indirectly. Visual artist Patrick O’Neill was one of them — he wanted to explore how mental health may not be well understood due to limitations in terminology, language and reluctance for better comprehension.

“I was interested in how language plays into our understanding of mental health – [how] it’s not gained a lot of traction. There are lots ideas [regarding mental health] that are centuries old, yet haven’t really progressed,” said O’Neill in the Q&A.

Whatever the case, Hassanali is overall grateful for art’s ability to help messages reach out to many individuals — no matter what the subject is.

“I’ve always found art to be this really unique experience to share with everyone [in that] everyone experiences art in their own way. But at the same, [we] are all experiencing it together … you’re kind of seeing what other people are seeing in the same way,” Hassanali said. “Art has always been there for me when I feel stressed out or dealing with something difficult and I can’t really find the words to say. Art creates that platform for me.” U

Jewish Book Festival highlights Canada’s cultural diversity

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to make the majority of society recognize that they are a part of Canadian society.”

Menkis noted how this inclusiveness has become better in recent decades. However, this idea of Jews as outsiders was a theme that permeated the works of other members at the festival.

Marina Sonkina, who also teaches at UBC, experienced the separation of being Jewish.

However, her experience was vastly different. Growing up in Russia, her novella, Expulsion and Other Stories — which she will present at the festival — tells the tales of women coming of age in post-Stalinist Russia and explores how a totalitarian regime feels on a very mundane and personal level.

When discussing growing up in a totalitarian regime, her childhood experiences with the stigma associated with being Jewish in Russia and the repercussions of these experiences, Sonkina reiterated the message which is a central theme in her book.

“We do not choose where we’re born,” she said. “The place and the time, we do not choose, but we then accept that into ourselves and we either make the best or the worst of it. Some of the struggles are the struggles that would be typical to anybody born in any place — growing up, knowing who you are, blending or not blending with people. And some of the issues are quite different. So that is my message, just to show the fabric of life.”

Struggles while growing up was something A.D. Gentle — another writer at the festival — experienced and she found it influenced her

writing as well, albeit in a different way.

Gentle, who got her B.Sc. in biology from UBC, wrote her first story, The Freak and the Vampire, to escape from high school bullying.

Discussing how being Jewish has affected her writing, she said that “being Jewish generally makes you already an outsider, so it’s kind of just a natural role.”

However, there are many stories about Jews or by Jewish authors that are not focused on the idea of being an outsider.

June Hutton, an instructor at UBC’s Writing Centre, will be at the festival discussing her story, Two-Gun & Sun, about a real Jewish historical character — Morris “Two Gun” Cohen — and his role in the Chinese revolution.

Hutton said, “He was obviously one of those shady characters with a heart of gold.”

She discussed how being Jewish was more cultural for Cohen. In fact, her story does not focus on him being Jewish at all, but rather it looks at his role in history and his character. This caused a cultural crossroads that Hutton explores in her book, noting the many different peoples such as Chinese, Native and Jewish peoples who would have lived and coexisted in these frontier lands.

The festival and these authors celebrate everything Jewish. They tell important stories about Jewish people and communities, highlight the work of Jewish authors and give us a picture of the Jewish minority in Canadian history. U The festival is between November 21-26. More information is available online.

Andrea Gonzalez Staff Writer

‘Tis the season of the ‘stache.

With no-shave November here, clean-shaven faces will soon start sprouting the renowned moustaches all around campus.

Since the Movember charity began in Australia in 2003, the movement has spread into a worldwide phenomenon for men to grow their facial hair to raise awareness about prostate cancer, testicular cancer, poor mental health and physical inactivity.

This year, in addition to its traditional embrace of the ‘stache, Movember is kicking into high gear with its anticipated MOVE campaign — a 30-day fitness challenge for both men and women to move as much as they can during the month of November. UBC has embraced the challenge by partnering with Movember for the Fall Classic Run Official Charity.

From preparing for a 10-mile marathon to simply getting off the bus one stop earlier or playing ping-pong, MOVE is designed for any age and fitness level.

Tyler Small is the head of Movember’s Big Moustache on Campus Challenge and representative of all things Movember on campus.

“I think the biggest impact will be mostly for women because they can participate by signing up and motivating the men in their lives,” said Small. “Whether that’s a boyfriend, husband, uncle, dad [or] students on campus ... really challenge them to match their movement. We are already having more girls sign up, lead teams, run events and really be catalysts for fundraising, encouraging men in their lives to get healthier and being more open to talking.”

While previous campaigns are mostly reactive, MOVE is the first real change offered by the charity to be proactive with health.

In the past few years, UBC has become one of the top fundraising universities for the Movember charity in Canada. In 2014, the 395 registered Mo Bros and Mo Sistas in the UBC network came from a variety of faculties and raised over $50,000.

With the introduction of MOVE, the 2015 total is predicted to dwarf this value. “UBC has really helped raise funds, but I think it could be even bigger,” said Small.

This Movember, in addition to the glorious array of beards that pepper campus, we might start to see accompanying spandex and sneakers in a new show of support for men’s health. U

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EDITOR JACK HAUEN

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Why I’m leaving The Ubyssey to fight the The Access and Privacy office isn’t fooling anybody international tuition increases

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Emma partridge Op-ed

The slew of Freedom of Information requests that hit UBC’s Access and Privacy office was the most seen in five years, according to Paul Hancock, Legal Counsel as well as Information and Privacy for the Office of University Counsel.

It pains a journalist to say this when getting information is our job, but it was expected and even somewhat understandable that more than the allotted 30 business days would be needed for the three staff members of the office to return all 47 requests.

After all, there are only three people to do it. While it is UBC’s fault for not hiring an adequate number of staff to get their job on time, 47 FOI requests is a heavy task considering they’re trying to navigate the tricky landscape of “what do I have to give away and what don’t I?” because of the law and confidentiality agreements.

So they asked for an extension and no one was surprised. But that extension was supposed to last until November 6 for The Ubyssey and November 5 for the couple of news outlets that beat us to the punch.

We were on guard all day, waiting for the drop to hit. Then at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, November 5, we got one letter. Here’s what it said: “The records contain a substantial amount of personal information of Dr. Gupta and other third parties. We have reason to believe that this information might be excepted from disclosure under section 22 of the Act (disclosure harmful to personal privacy). The Act sets out a consultation process that we must follow in these circumstances.”

In other words: scratch what we told you before, we’re going to take until December 18 to reach out

to those third parties and then tell you that we don’t actually have to give you anything.

Let’s make one thing clear – that letter isn’t fooling anybody.

Access and Privacy waited until nearly the end of the workday of the last possible day they had to respond to our requests — with a new deadline. A deadline that happens to be right before the biggest holiday of the year when you can bet journalists will have a hell of a time tracking down the people who could offer any kind of comment.

“

Access and Privacy waited until nearly the end of the workday of the last possible day ... to respond to our requests — with a new deadline.”

This is not a mistake. This was not a last-ditch option. They dropped that letter at a time that was calculated and purposeful.

They have been dealing with these requests since August — I have a difficult time believing that, on the week of November 5, they only then realized that reaching out to the third parties would be the best thing to do. What have they been doing for the last four months if not talking to those involved?

But we shouldn’t be surprised.

After all, this is the same institution that gave us the news about GuptaGate late on a Friday afternoon.

This is just the final nail in the information coffin. U Emma Partridge is a fourth-year English literature major and News editor at The Ubyssey.

UBC’s International House opened in 1957.

arno rosenfeld Op-ed

When I finish my Arts degree next month, I will have paid less than $60,000 in tuition — roughly the same amount I would have paid to attend public university back home in California.

If the proposed international tuition increase of nearly 50 per cent — on top of a 10 per cent increase passed last year — is approved next month, my 15-yearold sister would have to pay over $155,000 for the same degree.

During my years as an editor at The Ubyssey, I have published important and sometimes uplifting stories. Journalism can be a tremendous source of good and I hope to pursue a career in it after graduation. Unburdened by the tens-of-thousands of dollars in student debt I would have racked up at a more expensive university, I am actually free to put my UBC education to work for a greater good.

The current affordability of our university’s international tuition should be a point of pride for UBC. When I arrived here three years ago, I assumed it was. I thought it reflected an intention to provide an affordable education to all. Yes, international students paid more because we were not subsidized by the provincial government. But we were not charged the absurd amounts that universities in the United States charge — we were not charged as much as UBC thought they could get out of us.

Now we are faced with a university administration that makes a mockery of that assumption.

Attempts to justify the proposed tuition increases verge on parody as administrators admit to being clueless about the impact higher

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fees would have on the diversity of the student body — or even how to measure such a thing. Then there’s the fact that UBC has acknowledged they don’t even need the additional revenue, nor do they have any specific plans on how to spend it.

Simply put, they think that charging lower tuition than their competitor institutions means they’re doing something wrong.

Many of my international friends here chose UBC because it offered the best package — affordable tuition, an excellent education, on a

gorgeous campus, in a vibrant city.

Yet, our university administration apparently sees us as a watered-down McGill or Harvard rather than one of the most affordable top-rate institutions in the world. Somewhere in our hulking administrative bureaucracy, UBC’s leadership lost sight of what makes us special.

But students — international and domestic alike — still understand what makes UBC different. It is that understanding that has caused me to leave my Ubyssey post a few weeks early to take a job with the AMS. I will help organize a campaign to show that, however irrelevant we may be in the intra-university battle for “excellence,” students here still have something to say.

It is time to remind the university that we are the heart of UBC and they ignore our voices at their own peril. I’m going to fight like hell to make sure student voices are heard before the Board of Governors votes on the tuition increases December 3. I hope you’ll join me. U Arno Rosenfeld is a fourth-year political science major and former Features editor at The Ubyssey.

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An open bar might not have been a wise choice.

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Qoola’s grand opening was insane

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A frozen yogurt shop opened in the new SUB. Big deal, right?

Apparently Qoola thought so.

Not satisfied with a some music and a few balloons, whomever was in charge of the event decided that an

all-out rager was necessary.

Highlights included an open bar with extremely heavy pours, a saxophonist who previously played the Grammys, an enormous balloon arch and someone who at one point shouted, “We’re going to start a revolution!”

It’s unclear whether he was talking about frozen yogurt. We’ll let you know if you need to worry. U

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Soccer captures CanWest, heads to Nationals Football heads to Hardy Cup after 52-10 win over Manitoba

The team celebrates after scoring their second goal on Friday night.

Lucy Fox Staff Writer

The UBC Thunderbirds are headed to the Canada West gold medal game and have solidified their place in the CIS championships after a commanding 3-0 win over the University of the Fraser Valley Cascades on Friday night.

Although no goals were scored in the first, there were plenty of clashes between the players and a few non-threatening chances for each team.

UFV midfielder Justin Sekhon earned himself the first yellow card of the match with a heavy tackle on T-Bird defender Chris Serban.

At the 25 minute mark, Cascades player Connor MacMillan grazed the top of UBC’s net with a shot from just inside the T-Birds’ half.

His shot brought the crowd to life, but didn’t find the back of the net, keeping the game at 0-0.

Minutes later, UBC’s Milad Mehrabi and Cascades defender

Tammer Byrne clashed mid-air going up for a header. Mehrabi managed to shake off the tackle, but Byrne wasn’t so lucky and was slow to get up. Byrne was helped off the field by his teammates and Michael Mobilio came onto the field in his place.

With little else to report from the first, the teams headed to the dressing rooms all tied up at 0-0.

The T-Birds finally opened the scoring just minutes into the second half when Nike Azuma floated in a free kick from the top right corner of the box. Midfielder Justin Wallace knocked a header to Adriano Clemente who finished off the play with a decisive header into the top left corner of the net.

UBC followed up shortly after with another free kick from Azuma, landing deep in UFV’s box.

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Finally, another Azuma free kick ended up in the back of the net after more hasty play inside UFV’s box. Sean Einarsson scored the goal and brought UBC’s tally up to two goals for the evening.

However, the Cascades weren’t going down without a fight and managed a quick shot on Chad Bush off a counterattack. Bush confidently punched the ball away and kept UFV off the scoreboard with about 20 minutes left in the match.

The Thunderbirds sealed UFV’s fate mere minutes later as Mehrabi struck the ball into the back of the net. Cascades keeper Alex Skrzeta managed to get his fingers to it, but the ball still crossed the goal line, bringing the score to 3-0 for the T-Birds.

With less than 20 minutes to go, the game finished with a flurry of yellow cards. UFV’s Daniel Davidson took the first card, followed by a card for UBC’s keeper after he pushed an opponent down in the box. The consequent penalty kick, taken

by Colton O’Neill, was stopped by Bush who managed to get his body in front of the ball and keep his clean sheet going for the night.

The score remained 3-0 for the home team until the final whistle, putting the T-Birds into the Canada West finals.

“Obviously we’re excited. At the start of the year, we set up our goals to win our division, host Canada West and make it to this final match,” UBC’s starting goaltender Chad Bush said regarding the gold medal game to be played on Saturday. “We’re all ready for it for sure.”

“We have less than 24 hours to turn it ‘round, just do everything that we can to recover and be ready to go as best we can for tomorrow,” head coach Mike Mosher said about Saturday’s game against the University of Victoria. “It’s never easy back-toback in these situations, but it is what it is.”

“They’re a very worthy opponent,” Mosher said of Saturday’s opponents — the Vikes.

“UVic is a good opponent. They’ve got the conference player of the year who’s an excellent player. It’s the Canada West Championship on the line — a big trophy — and that’s what we want to be playing for.”

On Saturday, UBC took on the University of Victoria Vikes in the Canada West final, defeating their rivals 2-1 with an extra time goal from defender Chris Serban. U

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The football team is heading to Calgary to face coach Blake Nill’s former team.

Bill Situ Staff Writer

Coming off of a successful 6-2 record during the regular season, UBC football defeated the Manitoba Bisons 52-10 to advance to the Hardy Cup. UBC had a strong start to the game when linebackers Yianni Cabylis and Mitch Barnett caught two interceptions for the T-Birds during the first four minutes of gameplay. Wide receiver Trivel Pinto then brought UBC onto the scoreboard with an eight-yard reception from Michael O’Connor.

Four minutes later, star running back Brandon Deschamps scored the next T-Birds touchdown on a 38-yard run to increase UBC’s lead to 14-0. Deschamps finished the game with an impressive 124 rushing yards for his third straight game with over 100 yards.

Deschamps attributes his success on the field to the efforts of his offensive line teammates.

“I think it starts with the O-line.… Every week they get better, every week they’re picking up,” said Deschamps.

With less than a minute remaining in the first quarter, Manitoba conceded a safety to UBC to make the score 16-0.

Early in the second quarter, Trivel Pinto caught a 46-yard pass from O’Connor that placed the T-Birds at the Bisons’ 9-yard line, but UBC missed the scoring opportunity as they fumbled the ball. Still, this did not slow the Thunderbirds as kicker Quinn van Gylswyck picked up two field goals in the quarter to make the score 22-0.

During the final minute of the second, Pinto scored another

touchdown to give UBC a 29-0 lead by halftime.

As the Bisons’ struggle to gain ground continued, van Gylswyck scored another field goal to increase UBC’s lead to 32-0 midway in the third quarter.

Receiver Alex Morrison also added a touchdown to make the score 39-0 by the end of the third.

The Thunderbirds’ defense also remained strong. In the second quarter, defensive back Stavros Katsantonis caught an interception. Defensive lineman Conor Griffiths and linebacker Terrell Davis each recorded a sack on Bisons quarterback Theo Deezar during the third.

“I thought our defensive coach just did a superb job preparing our athletes and it showed,” said Blake Nill, UBC’s head coach.

After having failed to score earlier, Manitoba finally got onto the scoreboard early in the fourth with a team safety.

Still, they were unable to gain momentum as Barnett caught his second interception of the game and ran it back for a touchdown.

Van Gylswyck got two more field goals during the final quarter and finished the game with an impressive 20 points.

“The D-line got good pressure up front — forced to throw when the quarterback didn’t want to throw and I was just in the right place and right time,” said Barnett.

With UBC leading 52-2 near the end of the fourth quarter, the Bisons managed to score a touchdown to narrow the Thunderbirds’ final win to 52-10.

The T-Birds will face the Calgary Dino’s on November 14 at McMahon field in Alberta. U

HOME GAMES

Super Weekend

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2015

SPORT

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SCORE

Men’s Volleyball

University of Calgary

Win 3-1

Men’s Volleyball

University of Calgary

Win 3-0

Women’s Volleyball

University of Calgary

Win 3-1

Women’s Volleyball

University of Calgary

Win 3-1

Women’s Basketball

University of Alberta

Loss 72-67

Women’s Basketball

University of Alberta

Loss 69-54

Men’s Basketball

University of Alberta

Loss 79-74

Men’s Basketball

University of Alberta

Win 82-54

Men’s Soccer

University of the Fraser Valley

Win 3-0

Men’s Soccer

University of Victoria

Win 2-1

Men’s Football

University of Manitoba

Win 52-10

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COMMENTS

The team has wrinkles to iron out, but is looking strong.

A perfect conference record is a good way to start the season.

Expect the team to bounce back and have a strong season, despite losing veteran players.

We miss Tommy.

Who will step into his shoes?

Unbelievable.

Bow to Blake.

Shanna (Shan) Larsen was only 24 when she lost her life to breast cancer

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