STUFFED SINCE 1918 SEPTEMBER 6,2012 | VOLUMEXCIV| ISSUE II Disoriented? *r-' ^i:%. Recapping the Imagine Day craziness 1< ' III tltt^^ 8^5^23^ v»S&S&>'*°L *a£S&S"" . , :QUH9 \ PlO-11 This man is DJing on campus this Friday Learning disruption Renovations of 1KB begin this fall P3 T-Bird Liquor Woes UBC Athletics seeks liquor licence for arena P3 »Page 2 What's on HIS WEEK, MAY WE SUC Open Air Dance Party: 9 p.m. @ theSUB Partyroom Looking for the best venue to debut all the new moves you learned this summer? Make sure to check out the Open Air Dance Party! So what if you have class Friday morning? It's only the first week of school, right? Featuring music by student DJs. Tickets $10 at the door or free with First- week wristband. CONCERT» Welcome Back BBQ: 2 p.m. @ Maclnnes Field The Alma Mater Society (your student government) presents the Welcome Back BBQ, the last hurrah before school gets tough. Plus, when else are you going to be able to jam out on Maclnnes Field this term? Tickets$15+. DANCED JOURNALISM » The Ubyssey Production Day: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. @ SUB Room 24 Want to get the behind-the- scenes scoop on next week's issue? Come volunteerforyour twice-weekly student newspaper. Free dinneris provided! IPI |jt> ■tap9;:,.- M P*'» II <. ^B £ -^H [] 1 """ | iH .--L-J^ffi ' 1 -ffl Shine Day Shinerama is a fundraising competition with proceeds going to Cystic Fibrosis Canada. UBC's goal is $35,000, so for those who have time between 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., help out for a great cause. Students will hit the streets to wash cars, sing songs and promote general merriment. From Brock Hall with Love: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. @ AMS Art Gallery As part of an effort to increase student awareness of the art gallery in the SUB, the AMS is showcasing a pieces from the permanent collection. The show will run throughout the weekin theSUB. Got an event you'd like to see on this page? Send your event and your best pitch to printeditor@ubyssey.ca. Video content Make sure to check out our refreshed Ubyssey Weekly Show, airing now at ubyssey.ca/video 'JjTHE UBYSSEY SEPTEMBERS,2012 | VOLUMEXCIV| ISSUEI Coordinating Editor Jonny Wakefield coordinating@u byssey.ca Managing Editor, Print Jeff Aschkinasi minted itor@u byssey.ca Managing Editor, Print Andrew Bates webed itor@u byssey.ca News Editors Will McDonald* Laura Rodgers iews@ubysseyca Senior News Writer Ming Wong Tiwong@u byssey.ca Culture Editor Anna Zona culture@ubyssey.ca Senior Culture Writer Rhys Edwards •edwards@u byssey.ca Sports + Rec Editor CJPentland sports@ubysseyca Senior LifestyleWriter ZafiraRajan zrajan@u byssey.ca Features Editor Natalya Kautz featu res@u byssey.ca Video Editor David Marino video@ubyssey.ca Copy Editor Karina Palmitesta copy@ubyssey.ca STAFF 3ryce Warnes, Catherine Gyan,David Elopjon Chiang, Josh Curran, Scott Mac Donald, Peter Wojnar, Tanner Bokor, Dominic Lai. 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All letters must be recelvec ay 12 noon the day before intended publication. Letters received after this point will bs aubllshed in the following Issue unless there Is an urgent time restriction or other matter deemed relevant by the Jbyssey staff. Itls agreed by all persons olaci ng di splay orclassified advertising thatiftheUbyssey Pub- icatlons Society falls topubllsh an advertise men tor if an error n the ad occurs the liability of theUPS will not be greater tnar the price paid for the ad. The J PS shall notbe responsl ble for slight changes or typographi- calerrors that do not lessen the value or the Impact of the ad. OUR CAMPUS ONE ON ONE WITH THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE UBC KAIJACOBSON/THE UBYSSEY Kaveh Sarhangpour combines artistic expression and entrepreneurship to helm his own production company. Art meets business Jonny Wakefield Coordinating Editor Kaveh Sarhangpour is one of those creative types. Perhaps you've seen Sarhangpour and his friends on the YouTube. They're the guys behind last year's "Shit UBC Says" (80,000+ views) and the New SUB skit that premiered at the Imagine Day pep rally, as well as a half dozen other UBC-focused clips. Their production company, Hollis Mason Creative, isn't just some guy and his friends making funny videos in their spare time. It's a business they want to grow, and they're using the UBC campus as a proving ground. "It's really fun working in the UBC community because you have a lot more creative liberty," said Sarhangpour. "You can make sketches, you can make skits, a lot of student organizations need help because most people don't have either the equipment or the know- how to make these videos." He realized that there was a market for the kind of creative work he was interested in doing last November, after he'd finished an internship at a real estate development company. In talking with the firm's marketing director, it dawned on Sarhangpour that businesses pay thousands of dollars for old media marketing materials like flyers and pamphlets. The gears in his head started turning. "Small- and medium-sized businesses either don't understand the value of visual media or can't afford the rates that professionals give them," he said. "So I brought together two friends I knew from high school, Eric Lee and Kevin Lee, and I said, 'Hey, I have the creative direction, I could write scripts, I could storyboard, you guys have the technical aspects of it. Why don't we get out in the community and help the small- and medium-sized businesses out?'" So far, they're sticking to campus groups, but the political science major hopes to expand beyond campus soon. As for the coming year, Sarhangpour just hopes to keep turning out more content. Hollis Mason Creative is planning to produce four more videos for the Arts Undergraduate Society as a follow-up to their Drake-inspired Arts frosh week video. Sarhangpour says he's always looking for new ideas; hopefully UBC will continue to inspire this creative entrepreneur, tl KAVEH SARHANGPOUR Hometown: Vancouver On being a student & entrepreneur: N o PLAYHARD ^ £^ Volunteer for The Ubyssey, enjoy perks like these. tNewsl KEEPING QUIET » DITORS WILL MCDONALD + LAURA RODGERS Noise from student residences would be subject to the proposed bylaw if the noise can be heard by UNA residents. UNA noise bylaw could affect students JOSH CURRANffHE UBYSSEY Arno Rosenfeld Contributor If you live adjacent to private housing on campus, you could soon be fined $200 for talking too loudly at night. The UBC Board of Governors (BoG) is considering a bylaw submitted by the University Neighbourhoods Association (UNA) to regulate noise levels on UNA neighbourhoods around campus. But the bylaw wouldn't only regulate noise made on the UNA sites, but rather all noise heard on UNA sites. "If the noise is outside the [UNA] neighbourhoods, but it is still affecting the lives of residents, then the bylaws will... apply," explained UNA chair Prod Laquian. Totem Park, Thunderbird, Acadia Park and Gage residences are all adjacent to UNA neighbour- NEWS BRIEFS B.C. Libs shuffle both UBC-relat- ed cabinet posts New ministers have been appointed to two positions that affect UBC afterthe B.C. Liberals announced a cabinet shuffle today. Bill Bennett wasappointed minister of community, sport, and cultural development, taking Ida Chong's position. As UBC currently has no local government, land useforthe campus ultimately falls under the responsibility of this ministry. This marks the fifth leadership change in 30 months overthe UBC land portfolio. Bennett was previously in charge of the UBC land portfolio before being fired from cabinet in 2010. Minister of Advanced Education Naomi Yamamoto was dropped to a junior position (minister of state for small business) and John Yap, previously the minister responsible for multiculturalism, will now preside over both of these portfolios as the minister of advanced education, innovation and technology and minister responsible for multiculturalism. UBC student arrested on Stanley Cup riot charges UBC psychology student Dakota Schlag, wanted on charges of participating in a riot and mischief related to the Vancouver Stanley Cup riot, was arrested at the U.S. border. Schlag returned to the States after he was charged in May and the RCMP issued a Canada-wide warrant for his arrest. Border officers identified him when he tried to return to Canada and turned him over to the RCMP.« hoods and would be subject to the bylaw if it is passed. The bylaw would ban noise above 55 decibels during the day and above 45 decibels after 10 p.m.; violators could be fined $200 for each offence. An average conversation is 50 decibels, and ambient sound in a city is usually around 40 decibels. Even in the event that the noise does not exceed the decibel limits, any voices or television noise that can be heard outside of one's apartment or property would also be banned. If the Board of Governors approves the bylaw, it is unclear who will be in charge of enforcement. Laquian said the RCMP and Campus Security are both possibilities. The bylaw, Laquian said, is targeted at noisy construction and events at Thunderbird Stadium, in addition to individuals. It includes higher decibel limits for construc- CONCERTS» Thunderbird Arena looks for new liquor licence Veronika Bondarenko StaffWriter Alcohol may soon be served at Thunderbird Arena during concerts. UBC Athletics is planning to apply for a change to its liquor licence. If approved, the new licence will allow the athletic organization to host and serve alcohol at the Thunderbird Arena at a total of ten concerts each year. "Currently, the licence does not permit liquor service at a musical event," said associate director of facilities and business development for Thunderbird Arena, Kavi Toor. "We would like to apply for a change in terms to allow liquor service at events." The athletics department began its scuffle with the Liquor Control and Licensing Board back in 2009, when they were denied the ability to serve liquor at concerts after the arena was found to have over-served patrons during musical events. A number of concerts, such electronic DJ Bassnectar and the well-known children's music group The Wiggles, are already scheduled to perform at the Thunderbird Arena in the upcoming months. The new liquor licence would allow alcohol to be served at some of the events that are geared towards university students. tion and commercial businesses, and also imposes heftier fines of upwards of $1,000 for construction companies that become repeat offenders. Renee Tang, a Thunderbird resident who lives adjacent to the UNA's Hawthorn Place neighbourhood, said she supports the bylaw, but for reasons other than what the UNA has in mind. "I don't hear students pass by and make noise," Tang said. "I hear a lot of noise from the neighbours and kids running around and crying." Metro Vancouver's noise bylaw has decibel limits identical to those in the proposed UNA bylaw for residential areas around the city. That a neighbourhood association is in the position of imposing fines on UBC students is an outcome of Bill 20, which divorced the UBC campus from Metro Vancouver. Passed in 2010, Bill 20 was intended to be followed by a second step incorporating UBC into a different form of government. But that still hasn't happened, and the BoG maintains sole control over governance on university land. The UNA, which represents 8,000 non-student campus residents, has taken on roles usually reserved for a municipal government. This is despite the fact that the UNA lacks any actual legal power, which is why they sent the bylaw to the BoG for approval. Laquian said the UNA understands that living on a university campus is inherently noisier than elsewhere and that the bylaw won't necessarily be strictly enforced. "When we were discussing this bylaw, we told many of the residents that, look, we moved into the campus knowing that students would be here.... We have to learn to live with that," he said. Xi KAIJACOBSONffHE UBYSSEY Thunderbird Arena, which has had issues with over-service and the effects of smug- gled-in liquor at dry events, wants to serve booze at 10 concerts each year. instead would support individual concerts that they felt were in the community's best interest. "The view of the UNA Board is that it has no objection to the events provided they are properly managed and that the RCMP gives assurances that security is provided to prevent problems," said University Neighbourhoods Association chair Prod Laquian. He has high hopes that any problems will be dealt with quickly and efficiently. "UBC Athletics has been good at managing the affairs. In case some problems do arise, the RCMP, UBC Security and the UNA — we hope to have a noise bylaw approved this month — have the proper rules and regulations that can be enforced to deal with these." —With files from Laura Rodgers Xi Currently, UBC Athletics is still seeking approval from stakeholders. Consultations are being undertaken with the RCMP, Campus Security, Campus Planning, the University Neighbourhoods Association (UNA), the University Endowment Lands Community Advisory Council and the Alma Mater Society (AMS). "We haven't had too many nay- sayers so far," said Toor. "I think, for the most part, folks like the idea of having events in the arena." AMS President Matt Parson is in favour. "I fully support UBC Athletics' application to expand on their ability to host more concerts with a liquor licence throughout the year," said Parson. The UNA Board of Directors decided at a recent meeting they would not be lending their broad support to Athletics' proposal, but URSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6,2012 | 3 LIBRARIES » Construction moves inside 1KB study areas \ ^^VA &if ^J * V ■" * "il *s F E "a •« 1 ■6 L 1 'b A 1 M E E L E s E A 0 N E L A 1 R S A R E s T 0 R N t T s Ia S 5 0 C 1 A T 1 0 N Y A S I'll | VI A k H H 0 L E L Y Ia 1 E r He N T R E H S N olwl'A 1 r T 1 s T H A E S L A N 1 K FaH 0 A t Ha 1 vi 1 p L E Y E a Hi E s T E 1 l Ha 1 R 0 N Ho B E Y S H S s In H * A M B A r||p A i 1 n It E R p R E S T 1 C 1 0 U s H . 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