THE UBYSSEY Vol.LXXXVIH N°14 INTO THE DARK... Yet another begrudging remake of a Japanese classic. Page 3 www.ubyssey.bc.ca WIK-IT...WIK-IT GOOD! Wikipedia: the ruin or redefinition of infotechnology. Pages 4 & 5 Tea-baggin' and Dutch ovenin' under the stars since 1918 Tuesday, 24 October, 2006 HOME TOWN HOCKEY STAR Former Vancouver Giant Captain, Mitch Bartley on playing for UBC. Page 8 Green College principal tenders resignation Residents view this as an opporunity for change by Carolynne Burkholder NEWS EDITOR After months of clashes with residents, Green College Principal Keith Benson has tendered his resignation. Resident Jim DeLaHunt said Benson made the announcement at an after-dinner talk at Green College Sunday evening. "There's been disagreement between the residents and the principal for over a year as to how best to run Green College...including academic programming, the role of residents in decision-making, and even the way the meals are run," said DeLaHunt. Because of these disagreements, DeLaHunt said he wasn't surprised to hear Benson's announcement "This situation has been developing for a long time. It's been very difficult for him. It's been very difficult for the residents. I expected that something would happen to resolve it," he said. Benson confirmed that he has tendered his resignation to the Dean, but refused to comment further on the matter. There have been several conflicts between the administration and residents at Green College in recent months. In September former Green College journalist-in-residence Laura BIG CHANGES: Jim DeLaHunt at Green College, oker chen photo Robinson filed a lawsuit against the University. Before her residency Robinson had a brief relationship with Benson. Afterwards, she claimed that Benson interfered with her residency projects, causing her to file a sexual-harassment complaint. In her lawsuit, filed in BC Small Claims Court on September 19, Robinson alleged that the University did not provide her with a safe working environment. Benson denied these allegations in an interview with the see "Green College" page 2. Teacher evaluations to be made available to the public by Colleen Tang NEWS EDITOR The lack of student resources to choose courses has led the Alma Mater Society (AMS) to consider bringing back an online collection of teaching evaluations. Yardstick, a collection of teaching evaluations from each faculty open to the public, began in 1994 but was ended in 2002. "We stopped doing Yardstick because [University administration] said they were going to put this better thing in place but it's been four years now," said Jeff Friedrich, AMS VP Academic. According to Friedrich, the AMS is cooperating with the University to develop a better system to aid students with course selection. Yardstick is going to run temporarily until the University's system is implemented. "We're having some conversations with the different deans and with the University to see if this is the best way to move forward, but I think [the University] should be publishing something like this," he said, adding that reimplement- ing Yardstick has not yet been approved by AMS council. Friedrich noted that a senate motion in the 1990s "obligates the University to make some kind of summary, obligates each faculty to make a summary of their evaluations available in some form...as long as it meets privacy regulations." The privacy regulations are interpreted differently among faculties, however. "There were some faculties that never gave us all the information or made it all available in an incomplete form. You would have to ask the faculty for them to see it," said Friedrich. The Faculty of Education, for example, views teacher evaluations as unfit to be published because they are not conducted for that purpose. "We don't publish them. They're used for promotion and tenure decisions so it's fully confidential for review," said Robert Tierney, dean of the Faculty of Education. "There are a whole lot of problems with ethics." According to Tierney, students should not be looking at teacher evaluations as the deciding factor on which courses to take. "When people are checking out whether or not to take a course, they really need to look at more than one [source]," he said, adding that the type of information that is often left out is past and present descriptions of courses, course outlines, organisation of the course, past assignments, teaching style and the expectations and background information on both the students and teacher. Anna Kindler, associate VP academic programs said that the University's campus-wide course evaluations are close to being implemented so the need for Yardstick is not that vital. see "Evaluations"page 2. Vancouver considers 2028 Olympics bid Joint bid with Seattle'somewhat visionary/ tourism official says by Eric Szeto CUP WESTERN BUREAU CHIEF VANCOUVER(CUP)-The Vancouver- Whistler 2010 Olympics are still more than three years away, but tourism officials have already begun flirting with the idea of making a bid for a joint Seattle-Vancouver 2028 Summer Olympics. If successful, the 2028 Olympics would set a precedent—it would be the first bi-national Olympics and the first time a city has hosted both the summer and winter Olympic Games. Discussions include the possibility of Oregon joining and making a Cascadian bid. "It's still somewhat visionary," said Walt Judas, vice-president of marketing and communications at Tourism Vancouver. The meeting that took place between Tourism Vancouver and the Seattle Convention and Visitors Bureau on October 19 resulted in a decision that would see creation of a feasibility group to study the possibility of co-hosting future mega-events. The 2018 World Cup and the 2020 World Fair were being discussed as other potential events Vancouver could host over the next 20 years. If the International Olympic Committee (IOC) were to approve such an event, the Pacific Northwest corridor would go under major transformation and become a major tourism centre. "We don't have the Mona Lisa here so we need other ways to attract people to come to this city," said Tim Stevenson, a Vancouver city councillor. "Just having lovely mountains and oceans is only good for a little bit." With the growing pains Vancouver has experienced since the announcement of the Olympics in 2003—cost overruns for almost every Olympic facility being developed, and transportation upgrades such as a $600 million to improve the Sea-to-Sky highway and the $1.5 billion Canada Line—Stevenson was a little skeptical of the idea. "I think we need to get through [the 2010 Olympics] first," he said. "At the moment we're obviously having concerns about cost overruns which are fairly significant and that's really troubling." As well, hosting the Summer Games—double the size of the Winter Games—would require see "2028"page 2. ENTER OUR HALLOWEEN CONTEST OR WE LL PUT A SKELETON IN YOUR CLOSET News Tuesday, 24 October, 2006 THE UBYSSEY "Green College"continued from page 7. Globe and Mail. Green College also made news in August when a group of residents refused to sign their contracts, causing the College to issue eviction notices. The residents were particularly concerned about a clause that allowed the contract to change without warning. Eventually some residents chose to leave, while others signed their contracts. Benson's tendered resignation has left residents unsure about the future of the College. "It's definitely a challenge for the College," said Brigitte Gemme, president of the Executive Committee of the Green College Residents Association. "I think it's a good opportunity for all of us to get together and rethink why we're there and what we want to change." Resident Bryan Thiessen echoed Gemme's statement. "After months of trying to develop a working relationship with the principal, I feel that a change in administration is good for Green College," he said. DeLaHunt expressed regret at Benson's tenured resignation. "I'm sad that it's come to this. It's not been a good situation for anybody. What's really important here is that we find a way to move Green College forward," he said. Benson, who has been president of Green College since 2004, also teaches in the UBC history department @ City councillor worries that property prices will continue to rise "2028"continued from page 1. more world-class facilities. An Olympic swimming pool, a proper track, soccer stadiums and more transportation upgrades would be needed to house an event of this magnitude. "How much of a spotlight do we want Vancouver to be in?" asked Stevenson, who worries that the sharp rise in Vancouver property prices will continue. The average price of a home in Vancouver, according to the Canadian Real Estate Association, is $52 7,504-the highest in Canada and a 16 per cent increase from 2005. The national average is $275,505. The potential rise in property value isn't disconcerting for Arthur Griffiths, former chair of the Vancouver-Whistler 2010 Olympic Bid Board and former Vancouver Canucks owner. Griffiths, who played a heavy part in lobbying for the Olympics, feels that people shouldn't be embarrassed that the local marketplace is so desirable. "You can't really have it both ways. It is expensive to live in the city, that's why you create urban environments," said Griffiths, who reluctantly admitted that a joint Seattle-Vancouver bid was still a long shot. "It's that catch-22." Kim Kerr, director of the Downtown Eastside Residents Association, an advocacy group for the poor and homeless that was originally against the 2010 Olympics, is stoutly opposed to the prospect of another Games coming here. "The Olympics has simply put a timetable on the gentrification of the neighborhood," he said. Vancouver City Councilor Suzanne Anton, clamouring at the idea of hosting another games, feels that without the 2010 Olympics, many initiatives like the $65 million social housing project that was just passed October 13—the largest one in Vancouver's history—would never have happened. "You create a healthy society by having good public facilities and that's what we're building here." The likelihood of an event of that calibre coming is still difficult to tell, Judas said, but "people didn't think that the winter bid was possible for Vancouver either." @ Students should not be looking at teacher evaluations as deciding factor, education dean says "Evaluations"continued from page 1. "I absolutely respect the AMS's rights to make their own decisions and I know the AMS people are very thoughtful about this so I would not impose my judgment on it, but I think that we are getting close to a resolution," she said. A general plan has been presented to the Senate, said Kindler. A joint committee comprised of Senate and administration with participation from students is looking at methods of implementation, including an online option. The projected completion time is December after Senate approves it. A module type of evaluations is what the University is aiming for, said Kindler. "What we really want to see is a policy on student assessment or student evaluation of teaching that would have the blessing of the Senate and would then be implemented across campus," she said. "What we would like to do is to come up with an instrument that would on one hand respect the diversity of the units and the different needs and the nature of teaching and learning environments that they offer while at the same time offer some consistency of administration across campus," Kindler explained. Nancy Gallini, dean of the Faculty of Arts, said she is in favour of the upcoming campus-wide evaluations. "It's an excellent example of how the University and students work together for the same cause." Although she is "excited about the collaboration," Gallini cautioned that this system needs to be done in a way that is "credible [and] reliable for students and faculty." 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Jesse Marchand, Mary Leighton and Andrew MacRae went to see the sea lions while Mathew Jewkes, Isabel Ferreras and Peter Holmes stayed in the starfish room. Nick Black,Cody Burdett,Chris Noon and Elecia Chranik played with the horseshoe fishes. editorial graphic Michael Bround V Canadian University Canada Post Sales Agreement Press Number 0040878022 THE UBYSSEY Tuesday, 24 October, 2006 Culture Latest Grudge remake disappoints THE GRUDGE 2 now playing by Cody Burdctt and Chris Noon CULTURE WRITERS The first Grudge was slow, sus- penseful and barely punctuated with the truly heart-pounding, gut- wrenching scenes that you would expect from a Hollywood horror movie. The Grudge 2's opening scene sends a clear message to the audience that the series won't make the same mistake twice. A married couple is bickering in an urban Chicago apartment when the seemingly docile wife finds domestic liberation with one solid swing of a cast iron skillet. The image of the bloodied husband's body falling to the floor fades to black to introduce the cast of the plot rollercoaster that occupies the next two hours. Sarah Michelle Gellar's Karen is reintroduced when her mother sends her younger sister (Amber Tamblyn) to travel to Japan to ensure her safe return home. Karen is found sedated in a Tokyo psychiatric ward, where she is held under suspicion of killing her former boyfriend. To make matters worse, by setting fire to the haunted house in the original movie, she has unleashed the curse—now it threatens anyone who chal lenges its unstoppable path. The film branches out to follow the seemingly unrelated characters' lives in Japan and the US as they struggle to survive and understand "the grudge" that links them. Three interwoven plot lines keep the audience engaged, but excessive plot twists become more confusing than surprising as the film goes on. Overall The Grudge 2 is just another step away from the traditional horror movie. Death scenes are left to the imagination and wide-eyed infants and intangible villains have replaced the industry's staples of excessive violence and gratuitous nudity. The release of Saw III at the end of this month should balance the scales, however, because if Alfred Hitchcock found out that in 2006 audiences were gripping their seats at scenes of hair in the shower, rather than blood, he would roll in his grave. In the end, Takashi Shimizu's sequel is a mediocre attempt to continue a story that seems a little too similar to other poorly-made remakes of successful foreign horror films. It's unfortunate, but aspects of competition in the American and Japanese film markets are beginning to parallel their compact car industries. And let's face it; though similar, the Ford Festiva is no match for the Nissan Micra. @ UK rockers Kasabian on the rise in North America KASABIAN at the Commodore Ballroom October 15 by Elccia Chrunik CULTURE WRITER British rockers Kasabian took to the Commodore stage to showcase material from their latest release Empire, from Sony/BMG. Though the crew looked a little tired before the show, lead singer Tom Meighan was full of energy and primed to discuss where his band has been and where they're going now. Faced with the challenge of being a British band breaking into the North American scene, Kasabian is carving out its niche. The band's North American tour kicked off in early September and they have been playing consistently sold out venues for new fans across the US and Canada. "What's nice about here is that people generally leave us alone but England's gone mad and Japan's gone mad and Europe's gone mad," Meighan claims proudly. The fan base on this side of the ocean is likely to keep growing as the band continues to tour with no concrete end in sight. This is after a previous North American tour, another tour in Japan, as well as a lot of gigs back home, including the massive festival scene for the summer of 2007. Meighan predicts "we'll be back in the studio at the end of 2007." What is notable about the band's popularity is the maturity and dedication observed in the band's second release. Describing their self-titled first album as "a hazy, funk psychadelia record," Meighan says they've been "licking a lot of flavours from the '70s" in the hopes of creating a modern, timeless sound. They still have a lot of people to impress but are working diligently to get there. It takes dedication to cover all this ground, and people may be familiar with their name, but the results are becoming ever more apparent Kasabian's high-energy and tight sound had the crowd screaming with praise. And when a band obviously loves what they're doing, the enthusiasm spreads easily. There's no question in Meighan's mind that making a lasting impression is a time-consuming process but he feels "refreshed and reformed" and looking forward to the future. "We've got a lot of amazing music left in us," he said. "We'll definitely be around for the next ten years." @ Writers confront the dark side FROM THE DARK SIDE Vancouver International Writers' Festival October 20 by Nick Black CULTURE WRITER "I am your father": once spoken by Darth Vader to Luke Skywalker in the now legendary Star Wars series, those words served as Vader's illumination to Luke as well as his strongest effort to try turn the young Skywalker to the 'dark side.' Recalling this immortal quote, when I heard that the Vancouver International Writer's Festival had an event titled 'From the Dark Side,' I jumped at the opportunity to check it out. Much to my surprise and relief, Star Wars was not up for discussion. Instead, the afternoon was spent speaking with five authors about what it takes to go to the 'dark side' of a human being in order to recreate it in a novel. It made sense that each of the novelists had, at least once in their careers, written about murderers or psychopaths and therefore had to envision what exactly it would be like to feel such heavy emotions. I was most excited to see Patrick McCabe, the Irish novelist who penned the brilliant Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto. I learned quickly, however, that the other writers in attendance had certainly earned their appearance. The readings of their novels were fascinating and did nothing less than increase my interest in their writing. The first to read was British Columbian Marilyn Bowering, who chose a selection from her latest work What it Takes to be Human, a novel about a young man in an insane asylum during WWII; second up was internationally renowned South African novelist Damon Galgut, who read about murderous transactions in his novel The Quarry, McCabe came next reading from Winterwood, his highly anticipated novel. Next was Eden Robinson, who read from Blood Sports, a novel about Vancouver's Downtown Eastside; and finally came Gaetan Soucy, a Quebecois that brought just as much humour to the afternoon as McCabe, despite some difficulties with English. The afternoon passed amicably, as all the writers remained in a light, humourous mood, despite the program's title. The most important aspect to be taken from the afternoon was that the dark side of life is inevitable: it is everywhere around us, no matter where we look. The real difficulty is remaining upbeat enough to be humourous in a time of hopelessness. As Soucy said it himself, "If you take life too seriously, you'll go mad." This statement was reaffirmed by Bowering when she said, "No matter how bad things get, it can always get worse." If there was one central idea that the writers agreed upon unanimously, it was that the dark side is a part of life, but it is never the part that should be the point of constant focus. What we should always remember is that it can always get worse, and that humour is what helps make life bearable. As McCabe said, "It's like living in the dark, and staring at the light." @ Tuesday,24 October, 2006 THE UBYSSEY Feature THE UBYSSEY Tuesday, 24 October, 2006 You only have four days left to submit your story! The 2006 Ubyssey Halloween story contest! Cash prizes! Think you can write a scary story? Why don't you test your skills? 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For more information please contact Norman Sippert at 604.827.3500 or by email at norman.sippert@ubc.ca UBC's Emerging Community www. u n i versitytown. u bc.ca What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Printable version Permanent link image discussion view source historv1 by Bryan Zandberg, Graphics by Oker Chen The Wiki-ed web revolution How Wikipedia is changing the meaning of knowledge VANCOUVER, (CUP)-Skeptics have been slagging Wikipedia ever since it launched in 2001 and to this day the free online encyclopedia's wild popularity remains unscathed. Despite having been portrayed as unreliable, mean-spirited, biased and prone to scary problems like 'trolls' and 'flaming'—people still swarm to use it. Stephen Colbert has satirised its "everybody's-an-editor" approach, calling on viewers to protect endangered elephants by simply re-editing how many surviving specimens were left—problem solved! But watchful Wikipedians quickly corrected his comic act of 'vandalism,' and as ever, the site's celebrity status has kept on climbing. For e-addicts, Wikipedia is like the Paris Hilton of Internet media: it's everywhere they look. Google anything—'hot pants,' 'Santorum,' or "la vida loca — search engines place Wikipedia articles at the top of the pile for almost any person, place or thing you can think of. Which means that unless you happen to be some kind of academic masochist, you too are probably relying more and more on this fast, free, research resource. If it's obvious that Wikipedia's here to stay, what isn't clear is what role, if any, it ought to play when it comes to top-notch academic pursuits. And it turns out the answer's one of the few things out there Wikipedia can't sum up at the touch of a mouse-click. Poor kids + free Wiki= love Wikipedia is freely licensed, which means it can be copied, changed, posted to your blog, made into digital art or treated any way you like since there are no copyright laws to break (as long as updated versions grant the same freedoms to others and acknowledges sources.) In the dazzling digital revolution, Wikipedia is like a techno logical Robin Hood, stealing knowledge from rich license holders and putting it in the hands of the poor. It's the democratisation of information, brothers and sisters. And again, it's free. A 34-volume print set of Encyclopedia Britannica, on the other hand, sells for a cool $1,600 US. Critics like Andrew Orlowski, however, say we're getting exactly what we pay for. And when you read some of the stuff that Tom, Dick and Harry considered worthy of an entry—the biography on Melissa McGee, for example, who placed 12th in the fifth season of American Idol—it makes you wonder if free is already paying too much. Orlowski, a San Francisco-based journalist who has entertained the blogosphere with theatrical critiques of Wikipedia, argues the majority of the encyclopedia's content is "junk food," and that the project is run by people who "willfully create...confusion between information and knowledge." "Information isn't knowledge," he says. "There's a very important distinction. We're awash with information today, and much of it is unreliable and of low quality. It's debatable whether our actual knowledge has increased qualitatively or quantitively." Jimmy Wales, founder and owner of Wikipedia, disagrees: "There is no such thing as too much information," he wrote from Florida by e-mail. "If we are drawing a distinction between knowledge and information, then Wikpedia helps the spread of knowledge because of the very nature of the work: Wikipedia is an encyclopedia attempting to be the sum of all human knowledge, not a data dump." But Tom Panelas, director of communications for Encyclopedia Britannica, counters that there comes a point when information just isn't useful anymore. "When we moved from print to the web," he explains, "we used the additional capacity we gained and expanded the size of the encyclopedia. But we don't continue to expand it without limit...We're not trying to give people all the information in the world or cover every subject anyone could think of." He likens Wikipedia's size fetish with a short story by the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, in which cocky cartographers of a greedy ancient empire continually draw the map of their territory larger and larger. Eventually, the map becomes as big as the empire itself, at which point it becomes completely useless. "The moral is an important one," writes Panelas via e-mail from Chicago. "Like maps, encyclopedias are representations of something else, produced on a smaller scale so real people can assimilate the information they contain. The urge to shovel every fact in the world at people—an impulse that governs much of the web—risks ignoring the real practical needs of people who want to learn." "Wikipedia is an encyclopedia attempting to be the sum of all human knowledge, not a data dump." -Jimmy Wales Founder of Wikipedia Wikipedia dwarfs Britannica completely—compared with the Letter's 65,000 articles, Wikipedia has more than 1,430,032 in English alone, and over five million in all languages combined. Presented with this challenge, the folks at Britannica are fond of citing American historian Lewis Mumford, who predicted—just before the arrival of the web—that the explosion of information in the world would "bring about a state of intellectual enervation and depletion hardly to be distinguished from massive ignorance. "Not only would lots of information fail to make us smarter; it would actually make us dumber by overwhelming us," warned Britannica's editor-in-chief Dale Hoiberg in the Wall Street Journal last summer. Super-hyper-ultra-fast But the real genius behind Wikipedia isn't its speed and span alone, it's the wiki software working away behind the scenes. This software allows visitors to add, remove, edit and change content on its website, making it both fast and flexible because large numbers of people from around the world can create articles and update them as quickly as new developments become known. It should be mentioned that wikis are transforming academia for the same reason: they are an amazing tool for scholars to hyperlink their research together, check on each others' work and learn what advances are being made in their respective fields and disciplines. This format, which has ultimately been the formula for Wikipedia's success, has its pros and cons. It could be considered a benefit because, to a certain extent, building knowledge is an ongoing process. "When is human knowledge ever [complete]?" posits Wales. "Nothing is ever done, knowledge is always growing." On the other hand, when you learn that the Wikipedia entry for 'Wikipedia' itself has been edited 17,919 times between 2001 and last June, the 'process' argument start borders on ridiculous. The Atlantic, which ran the above figure, reported that the entry for George W Bush had been edited 30,393 times within the same time period. These racing revisions often stem from endless 'edit-wars'—the Wikipedian equivalent of pissing contests— between rival editors. Wikipedia isn't the only one to benefit from new technology: even its closest competition, Encyclopedia Britannica, has also made speedy strides forward thanks to its web-based format. The latter obviously doesn't use wikis on its on-line database (where only experts are allowed to write and modify articles), but the web has made them much more cutting- edge than they could possibly be in their print edition. "When Pluto was downgraded from a planet to a 'dwarf planet/" writes Britannica's Panelas, "we immediately revised our articles on Pluto and the solar system, and those revisions appeared on-line the day the announcement came from Prague." Panelas draws a sharp distinction between the down-to-the-sec- ond response time wikis create for researchers and students, and the need for split-second revisions in a carefully compiled reference like an encyclopedia. "Just because you can publish and revise every few minutes...does n't mean you should," he argues. "We publish sound, reliable articles and revisit them when necessary, but since we're not a news organ and would serve our readers poorly if we tried to be one, we don't keep revising endlessly." Quality versus 'openness' "Wikipedia has always had the choice of putting quality first, or putting openness first," writes Orlowski. "It was never going to be able to achieve both." A blogger by the name of Nicholas Carr frames the same criticism in a slightly different way: "At this point, it seems fair to ask exactly when the intelligence in 'collective intelligence' will begin to manifest itself," he writes on his blog Roughtype. "When will the great Wikipedia get good? Or is 'good' an old-fashioned concept that doesn't apply to emergent phenomena like communal on-line encyclopedias?" Here Orlowski and Carr hit a weak spot in Wikipedia's armour: how will it ever be reliable if anyone can edit it? Institutions like the US Patent and Trademark Office, for example, recently ruled that citations of Wikipedia would not be allowed in patent cases because its contents are so volatile. The Stephen Colbert sketch on "wikiality" explains why: in Wikipedia, truth is whatever the last editor says it is. The US Supreme Court, on the other hand, does allow facts cited from Britannica. What does Wikipedia's 'quality versus openess' mean for students? There is no set answer—it really depends on what you're after. If you're in pharmacy, would you trust an anonymous writer named "FlamO-666" to give you reliable information about the side-effects of tetracycline? Probably not If you were looking for pop culture criteria for identifying vampires in the grave, however, or needed a filmography for Atom Egoyan, Wikipedia's probably one of your best bets for starting out. Britannica pales in comparison to Wikipedia on this front When it comes to current events, Wales has the following reason why Wikipedia might be just as good as CNN: "We have a strong neutrality policy which is firmly enforced, and [we] input from a huge number of people [with] many different viewpoints," he says. "If you want partisan information or propaganda, just turn on the television." In many cases, however, background from ol' Encyclopedia Britannica would seem a little safer: they have more than 4,000 experts and scholars from around the world writing, editing and fact- checking their entries, and past contributors include Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Marie Curie, and George Bernard Shaw—you know, that kind of crowd. When the question was posed as to what incentive a modern aca demic would have to write for Wikipedia—without recognition or the assurance that an amateur or dilletante would vandalise his or her work—Wales snapped back with: "I don't understand the question at all. Asking why academics and specialists contribute to Wikipedia is like asking why athletes play sports. There are a lot of reasons people are into intellectual activity," he answers flatly. "I reject the notion that academics have such fragile egos that they live in fear of interacting with the general public. I reject the notion that people who are not academics are 'dilettantes.'" "Wikipedia has always had the choice of putting quality first, or putting openness first. itwas never going to achieve BOTH." -Andrew Orlowski Journalist But Wales doesn't explain how disputes between editors of any given article could be resolved by the most qualified person. The structure of Wikipedia prevents this from ever becoming a possibility, because if it ever closed access to certain people it would no longer be an 'open' encyclopedia. In the academic world, experts, tenured professors and peer review are the authority, and reputation is everything. Wikipedians are anonymous. The German version of Wikipedia, however, is experimenting with limiting access in the interest of creating higher-quality information. Critics say that undermines the openness principle. Diversify your info diet So Wikipedia is faster, bigger and it's free. But what if you're actually willing to get some bang for a few bucks? Encyclopedia Britannica has been on-line since 1994 and you can get access for $70 a year. But that's not even how most people tune into the self-proclaimed "most definitive source of knowledge." There are 100 million people in the world who use Encyclopedia Britannica, according to Panelas, who says most of those people get it through their institutions—schools, libraries, universities—and don't even pay for access. Neither the Vancouver Public Library (VPL) nor UBC, however, have licensing agreements with Encyclopedia Britannica. Representatives at both libraries said they cost far too much. Orlowski thinks there's something very wrong with this. He's written about why societies should extend public access to expensive information collections—like Encyclopedia Britannica, which has been struggling to compete in the last decade partly because of the glut of information on the Internet— and thinks it should be a priority because it would "head off the major trend of today, which is the division into a two-class society— with one class enjoying access to reliable, quality information, the other condemned to use free junk." By junk, of course, he means Wikipedia. For students at most Canadian universities, there are exceptional resources that a lot of students don't take advantage of—things such as e- journals, magazine and periodical databases and access to on-line versions of traditional encyclopedias written by experts. Though neither VPL nor UBC have Britannica, they do provide access to World Book and Funk & Wagnalls. The growing trend, however, is to rely on Wikipedia. It's one of the 20 most visited sites on the web. Which is fine, bearing in mind that there really are fuller-bodied and more robust resources at our fingertips. "To students, I'd say enjoy great information while you can," counsels Orlowski. But even after you've graduated, websites of institutions like the CBC are handy and accurate resources that shouldn't be overlooked. Wiki: the never-ending story So is Wikipedia useful as a student learning tool, or is it just a cultural curio? "When you see an incredibly detailed Wikipedia entry on Klingon language it's hard not to laugh and roll your eyes," says Brian Lam, manager of emerging technologies and digital content at UBC's Office of Learning Technology. "But such cultural quirks should not obscure the genuine pragmatic value of the resource." Despite its flaws, Lam thinks Wikipedia is "a remarkably useful reference tool" and a great place to start. In the context of a cynical, postmodern society, Wikipedia's army of 65,000 volunteers is pretty flooring. "Not only are Wikipedia editors willing to contribute their efforts for free," observes Lam, "they do not expect tenure, glory, good grades or even attribution in return." A recent article from The Atlantic speculated that "[Wikipedia] has the potential to be the greatest effort in collaborative knowledge gathering the world has ever known." But as our whirlwind Wiki romance continues, it's never a good idea to go head over heels. Nature magazine, summed it up well, after conducting a much-disputed study of Wikipedia and Britannica that found them roughly the same in terms of quality. Researchers should read Wikipedia cautiously, they say, "and amend it enthusiastically." @ Editorial & Perspective Tuesday, 24 October, 2006 THE UBYSSEY North Korea is in possession, of Muclear Cruise Missiles! You know what that means.... Nuclear North Korea Can Only Mean Another Giant Leap For Mankind Happiness is just a state of mind Last night, we at the Ubyssey were contemplating the inevitable editorial on the nuclear crisis being negotiated and the breakdown of civil society in Iraq. Naturally, we sank into a stupor just thinking about it. We realised that the most productive thing we could do would be to stick a big yellow happy face over the depressing news that surrounds us. As the wise prophet Brian once said, sometimes all you have to do is look on the bright side of life. Now let us shareth the joy with you... A tumourous blessing He may have a tumour at the base of his skull that caused his body to super-size like a Chernobylian Happy Meal™, and he may die on the court mid-play, but we refuse to see the story of Sun Ming Ming, the 7'9" basketball giant from China, as anything less than a hero's tale. All right, so agents have touted him as slow, awkward and lacking stamina. And due to his health condition, he's probably more likely to turn out to be a De Vito to the Yao Ming's Schwarzenegger (even though he's taller.) But thanks to money and the staunch belief that size always matters, Sun may rise to the top—especially now that thousands have been invested to cover his medical bills and see what he's really capable of. The hero of this story? The sports agent who altruistically shelled out $ 100,000 to medically determine if all basketball talent really boils down to is a freakishly tall body. Who says people aren't compassionate? The fashion of food-poisoning fevers Botulism is back, baby. For those unfamiliar with pre-WWI bacterial infections, botulism has taken back its original standing as the meat industry's strongest counter-argument to vegetarianism. And it's about time. This crippling-if-not-fatal, full-body paralytic infection is now being siphoned into easily accessible bottles of carrot juice for your own over- the-counter consumption, and is now available in Canada and the United States. Nothing spices up grocery shopping like balancing your diet with a little Russian roulette. Just when you thought eating your veggies was getting boring, the agricultural industry throws us yet another curve ball to keep us on our toes. Picasshole! Steve Wynn, a Las Vegas casino mogul wished he was dreaming when he got a little too excited and put an elbow through Pablo Picasso's "Le Reve" which he was planning to sell for $138 million at the beginning of this month. Wynn tried to portray himself as less of a donkey's ass by citing retinitis pigmentosa, an eye disease that makes peripheral vision faulty, as the cause of the mishap. We have to say our hearts aren't breaking over his loss. Instead we're celebrating that another rich bastard was stopped from earning a cool $90 million more than the price he paid for the painting. Nothing says I love you like Kraft Dinner™ Edmontonians are forming a new trend to remind over-seas soldiers of home by sending cheesy, zesty Kraft Dinners™. The soldiers that are currently in Afghanistan will each receive two boxes—at the approximate price of $ 1 a box—to provide them with nostalgia of being at home. Of course, this would only last for one meal but it will be one meal that will be appreciated. First Timmy Ho's, then Kraft Dinner™, what next? Molson™ beer? At least that would numb the soldiers' pain from fighting in Afghanistan. Nagy would be turning in his grave Apparently things haven't changed much in Hungary after half a century. For the past month, the Hungarian government has been surrounded by a mob with big smiles on its faces as the Eastern European nation celebrates the 50th anniversary of its uprising against the occupation by the Red Army in 1956. The latest round of protests began in mid- September when Socialist Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurecsany admitted on a recording that his government lied about the country's economic state before being re-elected. The protests, however, have not been the reaction anyone expected. Just as they began, protesters made their own Jackass video on national media as they stole a tank and ran it through Budapest as riot police shot them with water cannons. Calls to police as to the whereabouts of their tank were not returned with much comment, saying, "My hovercraft is full of eels." A visit to Imre Nagy's grave, meanwhile, showed the ground disturbed by his casket, likely from a post-mortem turning over. Bear attacks horses, mourns defeat A Swedish bear was so hungry he could eat three horses. And that's exactly what he tried to do. Unfortunately for the bear, horse- meat is tough. He limped away from the unlikely battle hungry with hoof prints on his skin and a badly wounded ego. The motto of this story: say nay to the neigh. @ Streeters What is the best piece of news you've heard this week? -Mark Ballard Medicine, 1 "European models have to be above a certain weight." -Brad Peters Geology, 3 "Canucks came back and won. Go, Canucks, go!" —Erica Forssman Fine Arts, 4 "There was a cobra loose in an apartment building in Toronto. They had to evacuate the whole building." —Bryce Cooper Commerce, 2 "They're reconsidering rebuilding Henry Angus [building]" —Timothy Weaver Science, 3 "North Korea is backing down." -Coordinated by Mary Leighton and Oker Chen Perspective World leader or international embarrassment? by Jessica Pautsch The Liberals tried, barely, and failed to live up to their promises. Harper, on the other hand, refuses to even make a legitimate effort Global warming is a harsh, inconvenient reality that cannot be ignored. The Kyoto Protocol currently stands as the only international treaty recognised by 165 countries that aims to reduce greenhouse emissions proven to contribute to climate change. The Harper government has publicly criticised the Kyoto Protocol as unreasonable and unattainable. The Protocol obliges Canada to reduce gas emission by six per cent below the 1990 base line by 2012. Currently, we are 30 per cent above the acceptable target, and risk being one of the only industrial countries that will miss its goals. Ironically, we will be one of the hardest hit. Harper's alternative "Clean Air Act", released on October 19, is in response to the growing concerns to take a stand on the environment. The proposed Act hopes to counter arguments that Harper is "soft" on the environment It essentially seeks to synchronise regulations with the United States by 2010, set intensity based targets, regulate indoor contaminants and reduce emissions from particular vehicles among others things. Despite the striking similarities to Bush's environmental plan, two questions arise from this proposal: Is it sufficient to reduce the adverse effects; and, can it be implemented? The answer to each is a big no. Problem #1: Harper's intensity-based targets are relative, not absolute. Industries are required to reduce emissions per unit of production. The loophole seems obvious: as industries expand, so do emissions. This seems self-defeating. Intensity- based incentives allow large industries to increase emissions and still meet their reduction targets when the economy is growing. Consequentially, restrictions on Alberta's booming oil and gas industry are limited as it continues massive expansion in the oil sands. Needless to say, the plan has the support of oil companies Problem #2: It's too long. The plan does not allow for short-term goals. If passed, the Act would force emission cuts from 45 per cent to 65 per cent by 2050. This is self-defeating since experts hold that short-term targets are the most effective way to bring about change. This obvious inadequacy will bring unfavorable consequences to both Canada and the world. Sea level rises, costal erosion, new diseases, harsher weather and water depletion as well as widespread draught, floods and forest fires are inevitable consequences that will ultimately redefine how we enjoy our comfortable, predictable lives at present If is the operative word since a coalition of environmental groups fear it could take up to five years of debates and consultations before the legislation is adopted. Is it a viable policy? As history shows, policy and practice do not necessarily go hand in hand. The likelihood of the Act being passed is unlikely since all three opposition parties flatly rejected the act as "weak, vague and delayed." This defeat may work in Harper's favour since it now provides him both time and an excuse to do nothing. Though we would be the first government to establish national air-quality objectives, Harper's proposal is considered both a let down and an embarrassment to all Canadians. This is an unfortunate reality because we now have two bills—the Kyoto Accord and the Clean Air Act—with no clear plan to implement either. So, Canada remains at a standstill while the rest of the world is tuning in. Global warming is an uncomfortable reality that will remain on the political backburner unless we collectively make it a priority. Canadians should take a stand and be a model for the world— not an international embarrassment. We can either take the initiative or wait until a natural disaster to wake us up. Now what? As global citizens, we have obligations. Get informed—do some research! Educate your government. Write your MP. See "An Inconvenient Truth" viewing at Freddy woods Theatre, November 23. Take personal measures to reduce your impact on the environment —Jessica Pautsch Political science, grad student THE UBYSSEY Tuesday, 24 October, 2006 Sports Thunderbirds take a step back 7 (4-3) (1-6) TEAM STAT COMPARISON list Downs YDS UBC | 23 415 122-199 1 CAL 23 428 15-150 AIR/GROUND LEADERS UBC PASSING Blake Smelser C/ATT YDS TD 16/30 252 UBC FLOUNDERS IN FOURTH: TheT-Birds handed the Dinos their first win of the season Sunday afternoon in Calgary, wilson wong photo by Boris Korby SPORTS EDITOR The CIS nineth-ranked T-Birds let a 19 point fourth-quarter lead evaporate Sunday afternoon in Calgary against the previously winless Dinos (1-6), dropping them to 4-3 entering the final week of conference play. Trailing 27-8 entering the fourth quarter, Calgary rallied for a 30-27 victory to end a ten game losing streak dating back to the middle of last season, and give first-year Dinos head coach Blake Nill his first victory behind the Calgary bench. "We thought we had the game, basically, going into the fourth," said third- year linebacker Graham Best "It looked like it [was won], then we started getting injuries and we stopped making plays and everything turned around and they just took advantage of it" Calgary got back into the game when slotbackjim Lillico caught a 24- yard touchdown pass from rookie quarterback Dalin Tollestrup with 7:53 remaining in the fourth, cutting the UBC lead to 12. On UBC's next possession, fifth-year quarterback Blake Smelser fumbled the ball at his own 3 7 yard line and two plays later Calgary cut the margin to five with six minutes left to play. Turnovers were a problem all day for the T-Birds, as Calgary intercepted Smelser four times in addition to the fumble recovery. Injuries were also a problem for the T-Birds, who were coming off only three days rest, having played SFU on Wednesday. "It definitely hurt us because it was so close to [the SFU game] and because we had 11 guys injured in [the lineup] during the Calgary game and I think that may have been a factor. Guys were still beat up and tired," said Best Despite the loss, UBC secured one of the final two playoff positions in Canada West over the weekend thanks to undefeated Manitoba's (7-0) 49-44 victory over Regina. UBC is now assured of finishing in either third or fourth in the Canada West, and will be on the road for the Canada West semifinals, which begin November 4. The T-Birds will meet either Manitoba—who visit Thunderbird Stadium next Friday for both teams' regular season finale—or Saskatchewan—whom they've lost to in the semifinals the last two years in row by a combined score of 71-6—to start the playoffs. @ — With files from Wilson Wong CALGARY PASSING I C/ATT I YDS I TD I INT ToKilrup 17/43 316 1 2 UBC RUSHING CAR YDS TD LG Chris 17 112 Ciezki 1 22 CALGARY RUSHING 1 CAR 1 YDS TD LG 1 Anthony 21 118 Woodson 2 19 ^^■■|nd 3rd 4th Final ilfllBC 7 13 7 0 27 \Jk CAL i 2 5 22 30 UBC RECEIVING 1 REC 1 YDS 1 TD LG Tyler 4 78 1 Hamade 39 CALGARY RECEIVING REC YDS TD LG Adam Bunz 4 132 0 105 yims ^ r JA033ZSiUJ2Z THI5 WEEK RND BEYOND An Evening w/ Moses Mayes: Thursday, October 26, Gallery Lounge, 8pm. Tickets @ Zulu, Scratch, the Outpost, 19+ Safetogether Event w/Sweatshop Union, The Clips: Thursday, November 2, Pit Pub,8pm. Stay tuned to AMS Events for ticket info. November show teaser: Islands w/ Besnard Lakes, Subtitle; Chet w/ Away, Rio!; Meligrove Band w/The Golden Dogs, Junction Visit www.ams.ubc.ca/events for more information on these and other events. Are you the parent of a child turning 5 during 2007? Parent Info Night - October 26,7:00 - 9:00pm The Gym in UBC Child Care Administration Building (2881 Acadia Road) Organized by UBC Daycare Council Do you want to know about where your child will go next? Come and gather information about local kindergartens/schools! Learn about where you can send your child next year! Hear about how to register and apply! Hear from and ask questions of representatives from Vancouver School Board and local schools NEW AMS SPEAKEASY SERVICE EXPANSION: Speakeasy now offers its Peer Support Line service 24 hours a day, Monday to Friday and 8pm to 8am on the weekends. We've also expanded our drop-in peer support and information Desk to the hours of 8am to 8pm Monday to Friday. Peer Support Line: 604-822-3700{24hrs/day Monday-Friday, 8pm-8am Weekends) AMS Speakeasy provides peer-support, information and referrals to UBC students and community members through drop-in peer support counselling, a crisis line, an e-mail referral service and an info desk. Speakeasy is staffed by a team of highly-trained UBC student volunteers. Education: Our National Priority The Canadian Alliance of Student Associations (CASA), of which the AMS is a member, has launched a lobbying campaign. Education: Our National Priority will run from September 2006 until March 2007 and there are ways for you to get involved. Website Contest: "After graduation, what do you hope to contribute to Canadian society?" By taking just a few minutes students can answer the online question and be automatically entered into the contest. Winners will be selected each month with different prizes being announced as the contest continues. Put your foot on Parliament Hill The AMS will be distributing foot print stickers from CASA which ask the question, "What is the biggest challenge on your path to achieving your goals through post-secondary education?"The footprints are being collected to create a map of Canada on Parliament Hill on November 7th. For more information visit www.casa.ca. 'rought to you by your student socie WHAT'S THEPLAN? CHAME fTOM UBC Vancouver Campus Plan No 2006/07 Issues and Ideas Workshops Workshop #2 STUDENT-FOCUSED Thurs., Oct. 26, 2006 6:00pm - 8:00pm Rm, 101, Michael Smith Labs, 2185 East Mall Workshop #3 STAFF-FOCUSED Thurs., Nov. 2, 2006 6:00pm - 8:00pm Asian Centre, 1871 West Mall Campus walking tour 1 hour prior to workshops RSVP: Phone 604-827-3465 or email maiamc@exchange.ubc.ca Voice your opinion on the future of your campus. ^P www.campusplan.ubc.ca UBC