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Letters received after this point wil\nbe published in the following issue unless there is\nan urgent time restriction or other matter deemed\nrelevant by the Ubyssey staff.\nItisagreed byall persons placing display or classified advertising that if the Ubyssey Publications\nSociety fails to publish an advertisement or if an\nerror in the ad occurs the liability of the UPS wil\nnot be greater than the price paid for the ad. The\nUPS shall not be responsible for slight changes or\ntypographical errors that do not lessen the value or\nthe impact of the ad\n7\\V\n^\u00bb %f^ Canadian\n-r-p. q. f^ University\nroL        Press\njpe- Rainforest\nAlliance\nCanada Post\nSales Agreement\n#0040878022\nEVENTS\nONGOING EVENTS\nUBYSSEY PRODUCTION \u2022 Come help\nus create this baby! Learn about\nlayout and editing. Expect to be\nfed. \u2022 Every Sunday and Wednesday, 2pm.\nRESOURCE GROUPS \u2022 Are you\nworking on a progressive project,\nbut need funding? Do you have\nan idea, but can't get it off the\nground? Apply to the Resource\nGroups for funding! Come in,\npitch your idea to us and we will\nconsider fully or partially funding\nyour project. \u2022 Every Monday\n1 lam in SUB 245 (second floor,\nnorth-east corner). For more info\nemail resourcegroups.ams\u00ae\ngmail.\nALPHA OMICRON PI RECRUITMENT\nEVENT* UBC's newest sorority,\nAlpha Omicron Pi, is looking for\nmore members to join its colony\nclass! There are opportunities to\ntake on leadership roles, volunteer\nand gain service hours, create\nlasting bonds of sisterhood and\nfriendship, socialize within the\nGreek system, network with\nwomen with similiar interests all\nover the world and overall enrich\nyour UBC experience. \u2022 Informal\nrecruitment events on Feb. 5 and\n27, email ubcaoiirecruitment\u00ae\ngmail.com for more information.\nSKATING AT ROBSON SQUARE \u2022 Free\npublic skating rink, with skate and\nhelmet rentals, skate sharpening\nand a concession stand on site.\n\u2022 Ongoing til Feb. 28, Sunday-\nThursday 9am-9pm, Friday-\nSaturday 9am-llpm, free.\nMONDAY, JAN. 31\nSAAM CLOSING RECEPTION \u2022 Come\nto the closing reception of Sexual Assault Awareness Month\n(SAAM) at UBC. Cake and tea will\nbe provided. \u2022 l-2pm, Centre for\nStudent Involvement, Brock Hall.\nTUESDAY, FEB. 1\nDEAN OF ARTS GAGE AVERILL ON\nPROFTALK* On UBC CiTR Radio's\nProf Talk, with host Farha Khan,\nDean of Arts and Haitian scholar Gage Averill will discuss his\nnew role at UBC as well as his\nrecent Grammy nomination for\nhis project, Alan Lomax in Haiti: Recordings for the Library of\nCongress, 1936-1937. \u2022 3pm,\nCiTR 101.9FM, go to citr.ca for\nmore information.\nWINETASTINGAND DINING EVENT:\nEXPLORING AFFORDABLE WINES \u2022\nMany do not consider wine a\nluxury, but rather a necessity\nfor a full and healthy life. This\nTaste and Dine event will focus on a few of the many inexpensive yet attractive wines\ncurrently available through local liquor stores. Joseph Collet,\nGreen College Executive Chef,\nhas matched the wines with fine\nwinter fare. \u2022 6:30-9:30pm, Graham House, Green College, $46\nregular, $28 students, purchase\ntickets at gc.reception@ubc.ca\nor call (604) 822-8660.\nWEDNESDAY, FEB. 2\nWORK YOUR BA: ARTS INTERNSHIP\nPROGRAM INFO SESSION* The UBC\nArts Internship Program provides current undergraduate\nArts students with the opportunity to gain meaningful work\nexperience in the private and\nnon-profit sectors. Arts internships are part-time, unpaid positions and can provide you a\nstepping stone to your future career. \u2022 12-lpm, Buchanan B310.\nTHURSDAY, FEB. 3\nOLD RED NEW RED \u2022 Ever wonder\nwhat the greatest Engineering\nprank of all time was? Some might\nclaim the Statue Stunt of 1963 to\nbe it! Stephen Whitelaw (AGIE\n'65) and Art Stevenson (CHEM\n'66) will retell the infamous story of the prank that duped the\nentire campus and university art\ncommunity. You're all invited to\njoin the current Engineering student body to make this the largest ORNR ever. \u2022 6:30-9:30pm,\nCecil Green Park House.\nGLADIATOR* Bravely go where\nmany UBC students have gone\neach year before. This is your\nchance to take on your toughest competitors and compete in\nyour favourite American Gladiator challenges\u2014as a team!\nWhetheryou are navigating your\nway through a colossal maze,\nracing through the inflatable obstacle course or duking it out on\nthe joust, this event is filled with\nnon-stop action. \u2022 4pm-12am,\nSRC Gyms, 6-10 registrants.\n$80-$175, register by Jan. 27,\nroster due Jan. 28.\nJULES MASSENET: CENDRILLON (CINDERELLA) \u2022 The UBC Opera Ensemble and the UBC Symphony Orchestra will be performing\nJules Massenet's Cendrillon,\nbased on Charles Perrault's 1698\nversion ofthe Cinderella tale. Performed in French with English\nsubtitles. \u2022 7:30-10:30pm, Chan\nCentre, $35 adults, $25 seniors,\n$20 students, call (604) 822-\n6725 or go to ticketmaster.ca\nto reserve. Tickets also available at the door.\nFRIDAY, FEB. 4\nSTOREWIDESALE\u00bbThe UBC Bookstore is having their February\nsale\u2014up to 75 per cent off a\nbroad selection of merchandise!\n\u2022 All day, UBC Bookstore.\nCOLD WAR CONFIDENTIAL \u2022 This\nsymposium expands on John\nO'Brian's focus on photography during the Cold War in Canada. Symposium speakers will\nexplore links between culture\n(art, photography, literature), the\nenvironment and nuclear propaganda and protest in the Cold War\nera. \u2022 10am-3pm, Belkin Art Gallery, go to belkinartgallery.com\nfor more information.\nSATURDAY, FEB. 5\nTAILGATER F00TBALLT0URNAMENT\n\u2022 Can't get enough football between the college bowl season\nand the Super Bowl? Well, before you park your butt on the\ncouch for six hours to watch the\nbig game, come out and make\nsome of your own history on the\ngridiron. Tailgater Football is the\nperfect way to get jacked up for\nthe biggest weekend in football!\n\u2022 11am-5pm, UBC Wright Field,\n5-8 registrants, $51-$100, register by Jan 31.\nTUESDAY, FEB. 8\nLUNAR NEW YEAR CELEBRATION \u2022\nCelebrate the Lunar New Year at\nUBC, which includes a food sale\n(Sri Lankan, Korean, Vietnamese\nand assorted desserts), all the\ntea you can drink, a live music\nperformance and a silent auction of framed artwork (cash or\ncheque only). \u2022 11:30am-2pm,\nCK Choi Building Lounge.\nWEDNESDAY, FEB. 9\nDOUBLE DOUBLE FOIL AND FUMBLE \u2022 Double Double Foil and\nFumble is a joint production between UBC's Theatre and Creative Writing faculties. It follows\nthe story of five university-aged\nfriends as they get together to\nweave some magic; only none\nof them know what they're doing, half of them don't believe in\nmagic and some of them have\nulterior motives. \u2022 Run until Feb.\n12, Dorothy Somerset Studios,\ntickets by donation, proceeds\ngo to Pride UBC.\nAccountable.\n1\nY\ne\nF;\n0\ny<\nC(\nte\nMl\n.ike you.\nsu've got a lot on your plate balancing\nJucation and life. At Athabasca University's\nculty of Business,you can pick up an\niline course that fits your schedule and\n>ur needs. 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GEOFF LISTER PHOTO\/THE UBYSSEY\nARSHY MANN\nnews@ubyssey.ca\nAMS President Bijan Ahmadian\nwas able to successfully evade\nbeing censured by Council after\nthreatening the society that he\nleads with legal action.\nThe censure motion was\nbrought forward in response to\nAhmadian's actions during AMS\nelections, especially hisbiting criticisms of then VP External Jeremy\nMcElroy. The motion resulted in a\n12-12 tie, one vote short of a successful censure. Six councillors abstained, including President-elect\nMcElroy. Ahmadian said that he\nwould sue the AMS if such a motion passed, arguing that he was\nnot provided with proper notification of the motion to censure.\n\"I hate to be put in this awkward position to sound like I'm\nthreatening, but I need you to\nknow about the potential damages,\" he said. He went on to\ncite a question asked on the bar\nexam, which he plans on taking, that asks if the applicant\nhas ever been censured by an\norganization.\nAhmadian's lawyer, Noah Sarna, was present throughout the\nmajority ofthe meeting and told\nCouncil that they should consult\na lawyer before they considered\ntaking any actions against the\npresident.\n\"You're exposing the society\nto considerable legal potential\nliability,\" said Sarna. 'And the\nadministrative component of\nit is just one end of it. There\nare also employment law issues and possible defamatory\nissues that need to be explored\nand considered.\n\"The last thing thatyou want\nand the last thing thatyou need,\nis that sort of legal problem.\"\nThe censure motion was\nbrought to the floor after a nearly hour-long in-camera session,\nwhich was closed to the media,\nin which council discussed \"executive dynamics.\"\nDave Tompkins, speaker of\nCouncil, said that the motion was\nbrought to the floor after the incamera session because some\ncouncillors had been threatened\nwith defamation lawsuits if they\nspoke publicly.\nTompkins, whose position\nis non-political and usually remains above contentious debates, was dragged into the fray\non Wednesday, as Ahmadian\nraised the possibility of suing\nhim as well and said he perceived\nTompkins to be biased.\n\"Sue me, Bijan,\" said Tompkins\nat one point after Ahmadian, who\nsits next to him, whispered in his\near. \"I have no money.\"\nHe made it very clear that he\nstrongly disapproved of Ahmadian's threats.\n\"One of my rules is that all\ncouncil members can speak their\nmind freely...which is why I get\nmy back up when people threaten and intimidate them,\" said\nTompkins.\nHe also said that he believed\nthat Ahmadian knew a censure\nmotion was coming, based on\nthe fact that he brought a lawyer.\nTompkins went on to argue that\nAhmadian had never brought up\nthese sorts of arguments for previous censure attempts, and had\nsupported the censuring of Blake\nFrederick and Tim Chu for initiating a human rights complaint\nto the United Nations over the\ncost of tuition lastyear.\nAhmadian countered that although he knew a general censure motion may appear, he did\nnot know what the exact wording of the motion would be and\ncould therefore not prepare a\nproper defense.\nAlongside his actions during the elections, Engineering\nCouncillor Andrew Carne cited\na variety of reasons he believed\nAhmadian should be censured.\nThese included Ahmadian's communications with the university regarding land use, comments he made to the National\nPost which could be considered\ndefamatory, how the Gaza donation was dealt with, failing to respect the values of the AMS and\nthe fact that he was threatening\nthe AMS with a lawsuit.\nMcElroy mostly stayed out of\nthe debate, but argued that censuring is done by student societies for a variety of reasons. He\npointed out that the University\nof Victoria Student Society censured their director of finance\nin November for showing up to\nwork late.\nAfter hours of debate, Ahmadian was finally able to avoid censure by issuing an apology for\nsome of council's grievances,\nincluding the way he criticized\nMcElroy.\n\"First and foremost [I apologize for] the distorted portrayal\nof my colleague Jeremy in that\nvideo last week and the unfair\ncomments there. We have accomplished lots as a team and I\nthink that video did not do a fair\njob of portraying that.\"\nAhmadian's term expires on\nFebruary 11. tl\nPrimate experiments draw criticism from activists\nFABRIZIO STENDARDO\nfstendardo@ubyssey.ca\nSTOP UBC Animal Research, an\nanimal advocacy group, held a\nprotest outside the Vancouver\nArt Gallery last Thursday to urge\nUBC to end research on non-human primates. It was aimed at a\nproposed experiment that plans\nto study the development of Parkinson's disease in monkeys.\nThe experiment, L91, would\ninvolve injecting four rhesus\nmonkeys with the compound\nLactacystin, which eventually\nleads to the onset of symptoms\nof Parkinson's disease.\n\"We feel that this type of\nresearch and end product is\nhorrendous to us,\" said STOP\nspokesperson Anne Birthistle.\nAt the rally, four people were\ndressed as monkeys in prison\nuniforms behind bars \"to show...\nconcern about the imminent\ndoom awaiting the monkeys\nin the Parkison's research,\" according to Birthistle. She was,\nhowever, pleased with how the\nevent turned out. \"We had a great\nresponse.\"\nVP Research John Hepburn referred to the protest as a \"publicity stunt\" and said that he\nThe Animal Care Centre at UBC. DAVID ELOP PHOTO\/THE UBYSSEY\nsupports the research. \"Frankly, I'm not interested in stopping a line of research for Parkinson's disease.\"\nSTOP hopes to obtain the\nmonkeys to stop them from being killed. Birthistle said they\nare willing to buy the primates.\n\"We have public support in raising funds to purchase them.\"\nHowever, she said STOP would\nrather not pay for the monkeys. \"We feel that they really\nbelong to the taxpayers, who\nfund much of the research at\nUBC [and] would prefer tha t\nUBC donate them.\"\nBirthistle says STOP has\nasked Fauna, a non-profit animal rescue organization founded in 1997, for help in finding\nthe monkeys a permanent home.\n\"We'd like to give them sanctuary away from the pain and suffering their lives have entailed\nup to now.\n\"We definitely would help to\nprovide financially for their\ncare for the rest of their lives.\"\nHowever, she was unaware of\nhow much this support would\ncost, only saying it would be\n\"substantial.\"\nHowever, Hepburn said that\nUBC will neither donate nor sell\nthe monkeys because they are\nneeded for research even after\nthey die. \"Part of the [proposed]\nexperiment involves post-mortem examination of brain tissue,\nwhich is not done without euthanizing the animals.\" In addition, he said that monkeys are\nexpensive, so even if they don't\ndie, UBC will still care for them.\n\"The monkey colony is maintained and we want to make sure\nthey are kept in good shape.\"\nThe spokesperson for the experiment, Doris J. Doudet, who\nis also a professor of medicine\nand neurology at UBC, was unavailable for comment.\nHepburn said he was unaware\nof the requests and that no direct contact has been made between the university and STOP.\nHe explained that experiment\nL91 has yet to be approved for\nfunding, as the most recent attempt was denied by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.\nHe also stated that there was no\nchance the experiment would\nhappen before April 1, 2011. va\nNEWS BRIEFS\nASHLEYLOCKYERPHOTO\/\nTHEUBYSSEY\nUBC'S TRIUMF FACILITY TO\nMAKE MEDICAL ISOTOPES\nTRIUMF, a research lab at UBC,\nwill help make Metro Vancouver\nself-sufficient in its supplies of\nmedical isotopes.\nTRIUMF will become an alternative source for the most\nwidely used medical isotopes for\ncancer treatments. Technetium-\n99m, which is usually produced\nat Ontario's Chalk River nuclear reactor, will now be made at\ntwo other facilities in Toronto and\nhere at UBC, thanks to a $6-mil-\nlion federal government grant.\nThe Chalk River facility was\nshut down for repairs in 2009,\nwhich caused health agencies\nworld-wide to scramble for alternative supplies of the isotopes.\nWhile Chalk River reactors have\nbeen repaired and are back online, the long-term future ofthe\nreactors remains uncertain.\nTRIUMF, the subatomic physics lab, is owned and operated\nby a consortium of Canadian\nuniversities. Tim Meyer, a TRIUMF spokesperson, said that\nUBC labs could be supplying\nthe isotopes to the BC Cancer\nAgency by March 2012.\nRYERSON UNIVERSITY RADIO SHUT\nDOWN\nCKLN, Ryerson University's\ncampus radio station, has had\nits broadcasting license revoked\nby the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). The CRTC said\nthe station violated license conditions and regulations and was\nnot able to provide quality control for its programming. The licensing conditions required program logs, submission of audible on-air tapes and completion\nof annual returns. Several warnings had been issued to CKLN,\nbut CKLN failed to comply with\nCRTC conditions.\nThe CRTC's decision followed\nproceedings and public hearings\nthat took place last month. Investigations into operations at\nCKLN by the CRTC began in\nJuly 2009 after complaints were\nmade about its day-to-day operations, management and ability\nto stay on the air, as well as an\nunbalanced representation on\nthe board of directors.\nCKLN has a history of conflict\namong its staff. The station went\noff-air intermittently for seven\nmonths in 2009 when the building manager was forced to lock\nout staff, volunteers and management for security reasons.\nFindings from a consultation\nin fall 2009 revealed that there\nwas minimal student involvement at the station, tl 4\/UBYSSEY.CA\/NEWS\/2011.01.31\n$700 Gaza donation officially approved\nFate of Resource Groups and external donations uncertain\nMICKI COWAN\nmcowan@ubyssey.ca\nAfter three months of debate\nand $13,000 in legal costs, the\nAMS has passed the final motion to allow the transfer of $ 700\nfrom the Socialjustice Centre\n(SJC) to Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) intended to fund the Canada Boat\nto Gaza this spring.\nHowever, debate has been\nspurred around AMS Resource\nGroup structure and funding,\nand policies around external\ndonations generally.\nSince it was first proposed,\nthe $700 donation has caused\nconsiderable debate amongst\nAMS council and the larger student body.\nIn December, council put the\nmotion on hold until they were\nsatisfied that the non-profit organization was not linked to ter-\nrorism and did not leave the\nAMS liable, as some critics had\nsuggested.\nAn email returned to VP Finance Elin Tayyar from Fin-\ntrac, a financial tracking organization that investigates money laundering and transfers to\nterrorist organizations, silenced\nthe concerns of Council.\n\"Fintrac does not maintain\na list of organizations, charities or non-profit groups that\nare in good standing. It will\nnot verify or evaluate groups\nabout which you requested information,\" quoted Tayyar. \"Because these guys aren't on their\nlist, they aren't being investigated and looked into [as possible\nterrorists],\" he said.\nHowever, due to the extensive\ndebate and uncertainty caused\nby transfer and subsequent\nThe Resource Group offices on the top floor of the SUB\ndonation, the Resource Group\nstructure is being re-examined\nby AMS Council.\n\"The Resource Group changes\nwe feltwere importantto make,\ngiven some of the things that\nhappened this year,\" said Ben\nCappellacci, VP Academic and\nUniversity Affairs. \"[They] advocate for specific political interests, and while we feel it's important that these have the support of students, we also felt like\nstudents shouldbe able to make\ndecisions about whether or not\nthey feel their support should be\ngiven to the Resource Groups.\"\nThe Resource Groups will be\npart of a fee restructuring referendum held in March which,\nif passed, will enable students\nto opt-out of the current $1.50\nResource Group fees, which the\nSJC is part of.\n\"Essentially, by allowing the\nstudents to opt out of the resource group fee, we're giving\nstudents the choice here to say\nthat 'Yes, I agree with the resource groups and I want to support them with my money' or T\nwon't,'\" said Cappellacci.\nHe admitted that the Canada\nBoat to Gaza donation had partly prompted the restructuring,\nbut said they had also wanted to\ntake a look at the fees in general,\nmany of which they felt could be\nstreamlined and made more accountable to all students.\nGEOFF LISTER PH0T0\/THE UBYSSEY\nTayyar plans to bring up even\nfurther changes at a meeting in\nthe near future.\n\"We're looking at essentially stopping all donations from\nall mandatory fees that are collected from students. That includes any kind of donations\nthat the AMS Council or anyone can donate,\" he said. \"That\nwould stop these kinds of transfers that are just a direct donation to an outside organization. We're changing the rules\nto say that all mandatory fees\nhave to be spent on things that\nall UBC students will have access to.\"\nAccording to Tayyar, the SJC\nis \"in support ofthe changes.\"\nGall Levit, a second-year Arts\nstudent, told AMS Council that\nshe attempted to participate in\nSJC meetings but was unable\ncontribute her views due to what\nshe perceived as \"hostility.\" She\nargued that changes are needed.\n\"It think it should be a lot\nabout trying to engage a wide\namount of students because they\n[receive] $10,000. Their main\npurpose shouldbe trying to involve as many students in their\ndecisions as possible,\" she said.\n\"The SJC seemed like they liked...\ntheir own exclusive little group,\nwith very radical views.\"\nActive SJC member Gregory\nWilliams said that this debate\nhas taken up hundreds of hours\nof their time, and has been \"a\ncomplete mess.\"\n\"While the debate on the fund\ntransfer is over now, [things are]\njust heating up because the LPC\n[Legislative Procedures Committee] is just starting that review,\" said Williams. \"We're\nstill going to be in committee\nrooms fighting this for months\nand months.\"\nWhile many are aware ofthe\nreferendum, the possible code\namendment is less well-known.\nFormer president of SPHR Omar\nChaaban said that the amendment hasn't yet been discussed\nat length by the Resource Groups\nthat he knows of. He hopes that\nthe referendum does pass as he\nvalues that it gives students a\nchoice, but that the code amendment fails at Council.\n\"It's like a blanket boycott\nkind of thing. It's all or nothing. . .it's kind of authoritarian to\nme. My fear is that it will pass.\nThey don't want to talk about\nthese issues. They want to talk\nabout the easy stuff.\" tl\nU of A suspends frat for five years\nThree-month investigation revealed widespread hazing at DKE chapter\nALEXANDRIA ELDRIDGE\nThe Gateway (University of Alberta]\nEDMONTON (CUP)-After a\nthree-month investigation into\nhazing activity, the University\nof Alberta administration has\nsuspended the Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE) fraternity chapter\nfor five years.\nFrank Robinson, the U of A's\ndean of students, announced\nThursday morning that the university made this decision after their investigation revealed\nthat hazing activity had taken\nplace. Some ofthe hazing allegations raised in October included forcing pledges to eat their\nown vomit, forcing pledges into\na plywood box and depriving\nthem of sleep.\nRobinson could not go into\ndetail about the hazing or the\ninvestigation, but added that\nthey are not pursuing charges against individual students\nand DKE has complied with this\ndecision.\n\"The DKE fraternity has acknowledged that hazing took\nplace over a number of years\nand that this behaviour was participated in by both student and\nalumni members from this U\nof A chapter,\" Robinson stated.\nDuring the five-year suspension, the group will be ineligible to register as a student group\nat the university, meaning they\nwill lose the ability to use the\nuniversity's name or insignia,\nuse the university's liquor or\ngaming licenses, rent university property or equipment, or\nparticipate in university governance or other activities.\n\"I've taken this serious action\nas a result of ongoing concern\nfor the safety and well-being of\nour students and for the entire\nuniversity community. As a result ofthe suspension, the DKE\nfraternity is no longer allowed to\nofficially identify themselves as,\nor carry on activities, as if they\nare associated with the U of A\nin any manner,\" Robinson said.\nAfter a period of three years,\nDKE may apply to have the suspension lifted at Robinson's discretion, provided they can demonstrate good behaviour during the period of suspension\nand provide a plan for future\nactivities. During the period\nof suspension, the Dekes will\nalso be meeting with Robinson\nperiodically.\n\"One aspect is a sanction and\nthe other part I like to think of\nas more of a restorative model. We have agreed to work with\n[the fraternity] and help them\ncome back, as opposed to simply slamming the door,\" Robinson said.\n\"The actions taken in this\ncase concerning the Dekes have\nbeen motivated to ensure that\nour student groups remain a\npositive force in student life.\"\nThe DKE house at U of A.\nAfter the five-year period,\nthe group will have to re-apply\nand will only regain their student group status at Robinson's\ndiscretion.\n\"After the suspension is lifted\nin five years, they will be like any\nother frat or sorority. We watch all\nof our fraternities, we watch sororities, we watch clubs, and if we\nhave a problem, we'll deal with it.\"\nThe last time a fraternity was\nsanctioned at the U of A was in\nDAN MCKECHNIE PH0T0\/THE GATEWAY\n1999, and in that case, it was\nalso DKE.\nRory Tighe, a students' union\nvice-president, was pleased with\nthe university's action and felt\nthat the restorative model Robinson has prescribed is a good\napproach.\n\"I'm glad the university took a\nstronger stance than the alumni council. I hope this will accomplish the goal,\" Tighe said.\n\"I do think that this required\na harsh sentence and I think\nthat was appropriate. I'm hoping that this does lead to what\nthe dean said\u2014rebuilding the\ncommunity and allowing the\nGreek system to get back to\nits height.\"\nInterfraternity Council President Mike Siebert also released\na statement expressing his satisfaction with the university's\ndecision.\n\"This group has acted in an\nimmature and selfish manner\nand by doing so has undermined\nthe positive impact that fraternities strive for,\" he wrote. \"As\nlong as they are suspended as\na student group, they will continue to have their membership\nfrom the IFC suspended.\"\nIn December, DKE International provisionally suspended the U of A chapter for three\nyears. A local alumni council\nwill be formed to monitor the\nactivities ofthe chapter and revise the initiation process.\nDKE posted a statement on\ntheir website apologizing to the\nuniversity community for their\nactions.\n\"We agree that hazing has no\nplace at the University of Alberta\nor in fraternity life, and we, the\nDelta Phi chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon, apologize to the international fraternity, the University of Alberta, the university community and the other\nfraternities at the university.\" 2 011.01.31 \/UBYSSEY. CA\/S PORTS\/5\nSPORTS\nEDITOR MARIE VONDRACEK\u00bbsports@ubyssey.ca\nCoach Reimer under the scope\nThree straight CIS championships make coach a constant for T-Birds\nMIKE DICKSON\nContributor\nChemistry.\nThat's been the key ingredient\nin the success of the UBC women's volleyball team in recent\nyears. It's also prime recruiting\nmaterial when it comes to head\ncoach Doug Reimer choosing his\nsquad, a system that has served\nthe Thunderbirds well during\ntheir three-year reign as national champions.\n\"As a coach, you want to create an environment where players want to be here and want to\nget better every day, which is\nsomething we've tried to grow\nhere over the last fewyears,\" Reimer said.\nThe players have bought into\nReimer's system and continued\ntheir winning ways not only with\ntheir talent on the court, but their\ncharacter off it as well.\n\"What's great about Doug is\nthat he considers you as a person, not just a volleyball player,\" starting setter Brina Derksen-Bergen said.\n\"He creates a great atmosphere that makes you want to\nbe here every day.\"\nHer sentiments were echoed\nby returning national team outside hitter Kyla Richey, who believes the Thunderbirds' success\nstems from their willingness to\nsupport each other.\nTriple CIS banner winning head coach Doug Reimer.\n\"I definitely think it's our team\nrelationship,\" Richey said. \"After\nevery season we've won, people\nasked us why we did, and we've\ngot a great team full of talent, but\nyou can't do anything with talent\nwithout chemistry. It's not just\nthe best 6 players on the court\nbut the best 17.\"\nThat combination of chemistry, talent and hard work was on\nfull display last weekend as the\nT-Birds swept the University of\nBrandon Bobcats two games to\nzero, not losing a single set in\nthe process.\n\"The support we have for each\nother is great in both good and\nbad situations, and adds to your\nteam confidence as well as individual confidence,\" Derksen-Bergen said.\nReimer's experience, which includes being the head coach of\nthe women's national team from\n1997-2000, has taughthim to recruit not just the best volleyball\nplayers, but the best people too.\n\"Each of the three years has\nbeen different,\" Reimer said. \"But\nthe biggest commonality between\nthem has been good chemistry\nGERALD DEO PH0T0\/THE UBYSSEY\namongst the group. We want to\nmake sure we've got good people\nwho are working hard and keeping the environment fun, one that\npeople want to be a part of and let\nthe chips fall where they will.\"\nReimer has been nominated\nfor CIS Coach of the Year, along\nwith the '09-10 T-Birds squad.\nThe squad, which closed a 25-0\nseason with a third consecutive\nCIS championship, is up for CIS\nTeam ofthe Year. Graduated outside hitter Liz Cordonier is also\nup for her second CIS Female Athlete of the Year award, tl\nBIRD DROPPINGS\nUBC MEN'S HOCKEY SWEPT BY\nLETHBRIDGE\nThe Lethbridge Pronghorns and\nthe Thunderbirds remain tied for\nsixth place, with the 'Horns having one game in hand over the\n'Birds after sweeping UBC 5-2\nand 5-1 in Lethbridge.\nLethbridge keeper Scott\nBowles put in a stellar performance on Friday, stopping 33\nshots. Jordan White was forced\nto make only 21 saves.\nEntering the third period only\none goal down, UBC fell victim\nto a third period Lethbridge hat\ntrick from Andrew Courtney,\nwhich propelled the 'Horns to\na crucial 5-2 win, bringing them\ntwo points behind.\nBefore the ice was even dry\nin the third, Courtney struck for\nhis first, then again four minutes and twenty-three seconds\nlater on the power play, Courtney scored again, putting the\npuck over a sprawling White to\nmake it 4-1.\nBrennan Sonne brought the\ngap down to two with 108 seconds left, but upon pulling the\ngoalie, Courtney completed his\nhat trick with an empty net goal.\nThe 'Horns did not let up on\nSaturday, jumping to a three-\ngoal lead by the halfway point.\nUBC's Max Grassi responded by\ntapping in a cross-crease pass\nfrom Justin McCrae. However,\nthey didn't get any closer, as the\nPronghorns added two more to\npull away for a 5-1 victory, completing the weekend sweep. tl\nLaura Moss\nDirector, UBC International Canadian Studies Centre,\nis pleased to invite you and your friends to the\nBrenda and David Mctean Public tecture Series in Canadian Studies by\nJohn O'Brian\nMcLean Chair in Canadian Studies\nTHE BOMB IN THE\nWILDERNESS:\nNuclear Photography, the Atomic Age, and Canada\nat the Liu Institute for Global Issues (6476 NW Marine Drive)\nTuesday evenings at 7 o'clock\nJanuary 25   On Photographing a Dirty Bomb\nFebruary 1    Vox Crapulous (Reception to follow)\nFebruary 8    Picturing Nuclear Risk\nJohn O'Brian will examine the place of photography in the\nconstruction of nuclear narratives since World War II.\nTo what extent, he will ask, is the mushroom rloud, the meta-symbol\nof the atomic age, laced with Canadian content?\nhttp:\/\/www.c3nHKlianstudies.ubc.ca\/\nThink our stories are lame? Come write em.\nMarieVondracek | sports@ubysseyca\nU THEUBYSSEYc\ngot ideas on water?\nIn keeping with our vision for a complete, sustainable community on campus,\nUBC is developing a Water Action Plan to better manage water on campus -\nand we want your input.\nPlease join us at our upcoming full-day planning session to share your ideas\nas a springboard for the development of a draft vision, targets and actions\nUBC should take to realize its goals for water management.\n$\nwater\nVISION & ACTION PLAN SESSION\nFebruary 8th, GSS ballroom, Thea Korner House\n6371 Crescent Rd\u201e UBC\n9:OOam-3:OOpm\nPrepare to stay for the full day working session\nLunch will be served\nRSVP to the working session by February 3rd:\nemail Stefani Lu to RSVP (stefani.lu@ubc.ca) and note your dietary preferences.\nmore information: sustain.ubc.ca\/campus-water\na place of mind\nCAMPUS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING\ncampus sustainability 6\/UBYSSEY.CA\/SPORTS\/2 011.01.31\nNCAA decision expected this year\nAfter years of reports and discussions, UBC hopes a final decision will be made this spring\nUBC against the NCAA's Minnesota. GEOFF LISTER PHOTO\/THE UBYSSEY\nJUSTIN MCELROY\ncoordinating@ubyssey.ca\nThe NCAA: To join or not to join?\nIt's a decision that UBC will\nmake in the coming months after releasing a report discussing\nthe issue. And if that sounds like\ndeja vu, it's because it is.\nPresident Stephen Toope has\nsaid that UBC intends to decide\nwhether to apply for Division II\nmembership in the US-based National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) bythe end of this semester. They've released a report\non the topic for discussion\u201418\nmonths after an earlier report\non the same topic was written.\nHowever, the new report takes\ninto consideration discussions\nthat have taken place with the\nCanadian Interuniversity Sport\n(CIS) over the past two years.\n\"What I wanted to see was\nwhether anything could change,\"\nsaid Toope. \"Because I wanted to\nbe comparing apples to apples,\nI didn't want to compare some\nhistoric view of the CIS to some\nprospective view of the NCAA.\nSo what I wanted to ensure was\nthat we had actually explored all\nthe options with the CIS to see\nif indeed things could change,\nor would change, before making any determination about the\nNCAA and that's why it's been a\nyear and a half.\"\nFor much of last decade, UBC\nAthletics, led by Director Bob\nPhilip, have advocated a move\nto the NCAA, arguing it would\nprovide more competition for\nUBC and make it easier to keep\nstudent-athletes in Canada. The\nissue moved to the forefront in\n2008 when NCAA Division II,\nwhich is the second-tier league\nin the association, invited international schools to apply for\nmembership.\nWhile SFU immediately signalled their intentions to apply,\nand entered the league lastyear,\nUBC created a NCAA Division II\nReview Committee to investigate the issue. In March 2009,\nthey issued a 588-page report,\nwhich did not make a recommendation either way, but revealed that ofthe 537 people who\nfilled out a survey on the issue,\n52 per cent were against moving to the NCAA.\nHowever, in an interview last\nmonth, Toope seemed to take\nissues with the value of those\nresponses.\n\"Mostpeople didn't have a clue\nabout what they were talking\nabout. I'm being very serious,\"\nhe said.\n\"Ifyou actually broke down\nthe views\u2014there were a whole\nbunch of things which predicated views, which I think actually\nwere not well thought through,\"\nsaid Toope citing confusion over\nwhether UBC would be joining\nDivision I or II as one example.\n\"My only hope in the NCAA\ndiscussion is we actually talk\nabout real things, we don't talk\nabout visions that people have\nabout what CIS is or what NCAA\nis. I want to be as clear as possible as to what we're actually debating and then we're going to\nhave a real discussion around it.\"\nLast year, the CIS had a committee examine the merits of a\nflexible scholarship model, which\nwould allow universities to offer\nfull-ride scholarships to a limited number of student-athletes,\nwhile limiting the total amount\nof money available per sport. Currently, scholarships are limited\nto tuition and mandatory fees,\nand athletes musthave an 80 per\ncent average out of high school\nand maintain a 65 per cent average throughout university.\n\"The principle is to keep the\nbest student athletes in Canada,\" said UVic Director of Athletics Clint Hamilton in 2009.\n\"Currently, the scholarship situation is such that it's limiting\nour ability to do that.\"\nAt last June's Annual General\nMeeting, the CIS decided not to\nvote on any proposal. In a report\nprepared for delegates, it was\nclaimed that \"although the Flexible Model that was proposed 'received some support,' it did not\ngarner significant support in its\ncurrent format.\"\nToope said he hoped the ideas\nfrom the CIS would allow clarity to people's opinions at UBC.\n\"My only hope is people actually look at the report, look at the\ninformation we've tried to provide and then have a conversation about real things, not false\nthings.\" til\n'Birds bring out the brooms\nThunderbirds sweep Lethbridge with only fifteen healthy skaters\nMARIE V0NDRACEK\nsports@ubyssey.ca\nWhen the weekend began with\na technical malfunction of the\nnational anthem, UBC women's hockey took up the slack\nand belted out the final chorus\nthemselves, making it audible to\neven the farthest fans. This act of\n'holding the rope' has been the\ntrademark of this hockey club\ntime and time again.\nJust as with the sound system\nbreakdown, the Thunderbirds\ndid not begin lighting up the\nboard until the final frame. Entering the third period one goal\ndown, Amanda Asay opened the\nscoring by beating a rushing\ngoalie to the loose puck at the top\nofthe circles and calmly sliding\nit into the empty goal. Four minutes later, Laurajordan, a rookie who has been given very few\nopportunities prior to this weekend, put the puck in net and fellow rookie Tatiana Rafter fired\na low hard shot past the keeper.\n\"Jordan was given the opportunity, she stepped up and she\ndid a great job,\" said UBC head\ncoach Nancy Wilson of Jordan's\nplay.\nWith only and all three lines\nrolling, Asay and Rafter both\npotted their second ofthe night\nto help the 'Birds earn a hard-\nfought 4-1 victory.\n\"The team showed lots of\ncharacter tonight; the [injured] kids are begging the\ndoctor to let them play. Those\nwho are playing are inspired\nby the kids who are sitting off.\nThey're playing hard for them.\nOur bench is not down. They're\nshowing a lot of character and\nBIRDS   f<_f\nliJiE\n1\ngjjg 'HORNS\n\u00a7OTBGM\n'BIRDS\n5\nWiBE\n#     \u00b0\n\u00a3$|  'HORNS\nThird-year Kelsey Halvorson stepped into a forward's role due to injuries\nI'm very proud of them,\" said\nWilson.\nThe Thunderbirds earned a\nnight's rest before facing off\nagain on Saturday, when they\ncame out flying. After pausing\nto honour fellow teammates\nLisa Bonang, Melinda Choy and\nKirtsen Mihalcheon with a golden helmet for their 100th CIS\ncareer game, Tamara Pickford\nopened the scoring six and a\nhalf minutes in, upon reception\nof a pass from Kaylee Chana-\nkos through three pairs of legs.\nChanakos offered Pickford an\nearly birthday present by threading another pass through to\nPickford for her second of the\nnight.\n\"I don't think anyone had a\nbad game tonight, but especially Pickford with two goals. And\nit's her birthday on Monday, so\nit's an early birthday present\nfor her,\" said Wilson. \"Pickford\nis an older player in the dressing room and she comes prepared. She works hard on and\noff the ice.\"\nTIM BL0NK PH0T0\/THE UBYSSEY\nOnce again Asay and Rafter\neach added a goal to the board,\nthe latter reeling in a stretch\npass from third-year defense-\nman Jocelyn Marren from her\nown end. While Melinda Choy\nmade 17 saves in her 106th CIS\ngame and earned her seventh\ncareer shutout, Rafter and\nAsay combined for six goals\nthis weekend to help the Thunderbirds (7-12-1) earn a sweep\nover the Pronghorns (4-15-3).\n\"The past two or three series, Asay has really stepped\nup her game...[and] Rafter has\ngreat hands with a quick release. She had a beautiful goal\ntonight and she's had a couple\nthis year already,\" commented Wilson.\nEven though UBC is out ofthe\nplayoff race, they're arguably\nplaying their best hockey ofthe\nseason and having fun.\n\"You're always having fun\nwhen you're finding time to\nmove the puck. They're working hard and they're getting the\nresults.\" til 2 011.01.31\/UBYSSEY.CA\/SPORTS\/7\nTHUNDERBIRD ATHLETE COUNCIL\nATHLETE OF THE WEEK\nMEN'S ALPINE SKI TEAM\nUBC men's alpine ski team prepped and ready to go. JOSH CURRAN PHOTO\/THE UBYSSEY\nThe men's Alpine ski team has earned\na spot as athletes of the week for their\nperformance at the peak of Vancouver on January 22 and 23. UBC played\nhost to an array of American schools\non Grouse Mountain for the first league\nrace of 2011 and the first United States\nSki Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association (USCSA) Northwest Conference race to be held in Canada in 16\nyears. Despite warm and overall unfavourable conditions, the team was on\nfire, finishing first in the team standings\nboth days. On Saturday, the Men tore\nup the slopes,dominating the top ten in\na field of over 70 athletes:rookie Austin Taylor took gold, followed closely\nby Mike Bisnaire in third, veteran Ben\nMiddleton in fourth and Alex Binks in\nfifth. Mike Cadman and Taylor Drury finished in eighth and ninth, respectively.\nThe women also finished first on Saturday and then second on Sunday, tl\n\u2014Amelia Rajala\nThe Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and\nUBC International Canadian Studies Centre\nCOLD\nWAR\nCONFIDENTIAL\nSYMPOSIUM\nFEBRUARY   4,10-3pm\nat the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery\nDaniel Grausam, Washington University\nFinis Dunaway, Trent University\nMartha Langford, Concordia University\nJohn Langford, University of Victoria\nPlease RSVP for the Symposium by January 28\nto rsvp.belkin@ubc.ca (lunch included).\nDo you know what's key in a sports setting?\nIfyou answered yes, come write with us.\nmarie vondracek | sports@ubyssey.ca\nU THEUBYSSEYc\nhow about waste?\nIn keeping with our vision for a complete, sustainable community on campus,\nUBC is developing a Waste Action Plan to better manage waste on campus -\nand we want your input.\nPlease join us at our upcoming full-day planning session to share your ideas\nas a springboard for the development of a draft vision, targets and actions\nUBC should take to realize its goals for waste management.\n@\nwaste\nVISION & ACTION PLAN SESSION\nFebruary 10th, GSS ballroom, Thea Korner House\n6371 Crescent Rd, UBC\n9:OOam-3:OOpm\nPrepare to stay for the full day working session\nLunch will be served\nRSVP to the working session by February 7th:\nemail Stefani Lu to RSVP (stefani.lu(a>ubc.ca) and note your dietary preferences.\nmore information: sustain.ubc.ca\/campus-waste\na place of mind\nCAMPUS AND COMMUNITY PLANNING\ncampus sustainability 8\/UBYSSEY.CA\/CULTURE\/2011.01.31\nCULTURE\nEDITORS BRYCE WARNES & JONNY WAKEFIELD \u00bbculture@ubyssey.ca\nSENIOR WRITER GINNY MONACO \u00bbgmonaco@ubyssey.ca\nILLUSTRATOR INDIANA JOEL\u00bbijoel@ubyssey.ca\nE-HISTORY:\nTHE CAIRN\n\"Erected in humble\nappreciation of\nthe diversified\nand continuing\ncontribution to\ncampus life by the\nEngineers.\"\n\u2014Plaque on the\nCairn, circa 1966\nThe E. The Cairn. An impotent\nphallus. Whatever you choose\nto call it, the big old rock with\nan \"E\" on it on Main Mall is\nthe source of many a campus\nlegend. Luckily, the engineers\nare not ones to forget their storied history. They have recorded the story of the E on Heu-\nstory, the Engineering Undergraduate society's wiki. The\nUbyssey presents an abridged\nhistory of the E.\nThe first Cairn, literally a pile\nof rocks, was erected in 1966.\nIt was destroyed several days\nlater by the groundskeepers.\nAnother E was built in 1968.\nThis time a hole was dug in the\nmiddle of Main Mall, filled with\nscrap, cemented over and embossed with a red E. The Board\nof Governors had it destroyed\nseveral days later.\nThe administration\nwas convinced\nonly a charge of\ndynamite could\ndestroy it.\nAnother E, allegedly modeled on a tank trap, was built\non Main Mall in 1969. At five\nfeet tall, the administration was\nconvinced only a charge of dynamite could destroy it.\nIn 1970, the administration reportedly contracted\nPlant Ops to clear the site for\n$10,000. The EUS bid $1000\non the project, and was given\na go-ahead. The monument\nwas moved by crane to its current location.\nThe Cairn was defaced consistently for the next ten years.\nIn 1980, Arts students tried\nand failed to flip the E with a\nforklift.\nIn 1981, the Cairn was renewed and made two feet larger. In 1988, Forestry students\nwith a backhoe and drills reduced the E to rubble. Over\nthe next year, the Cairn was\nrebuilt (allegedly with a propane tank in the centre to destroy any vandals).\nIn 1989, the E as we now\nknow it was completed, and\nit has stood ever since.\nSource: Heustory, the EUS wiki.\nWEEK\nPrank you very much\nMIKE DICKSON\nContributor\nPranks. They are the result of engineers\u2014mathematically gifted\nminds with a legendary reputation for consuming drink and a\nbent for problem-solving\u2014getting together around E-week and\nunleashing their skills in creative ways.\nBut the art of the prank has\nbeen declining for some years\nwithin the Engineering faculty both in number and execution. Past stunts have ranged\nfrom suspending future Prime Minister Kim Campbell\nin a tree with a\nhammock   in\n1964 to stealing\nthe Speaker's\nChair out of the\nVictoria Legislature in 1978\nand holding it___\nfor $1000 ran---^\nsom to be paid\nto Children's\nHospital.\nHowever, the infamous failure to suspend a Volkswagen Beetle from Ironworker's Bridge in 2009 got five UBC\nengineering students arrested\nand, explained Engineering VP\nEvents Nigel Myers, was a poor\ndemonstration of their professional skills.\n\"It reflects on how you have\nto go about your job as an engineer,\" Myers said. \"You have to\nprepare for all the variables and\nplan ahead carefully,\nwhich in retrospect\nthey didn't do.\"\nCareful\nplanning\nhas been\ninclude filling Omar III with concrete (1980) and welding Omar IV\naround a tree (1981). Engineers\nalso dismantled Omar 2008 into\na Christmas card for the FUS,\nwhich read, \"Save a tree: Bulldoze a Hippie.\"\nIf a job is worth doing, it's\nworth doing\nvolved in\nsubjecting the various incarnations of Omar, the Forestry\nUndergraduate Society car, to\nengineering originality. These\nwell\u2014but in recentyears,\nmany just haven't been worth\ndoing.\n\"In the last few years ideas\nhave been lacking originality,\"\nMyers said. \"It looks to continue\nbeing that way for some time to\ncome.\"\nA common thread from\npast engineers to present has\nbeen their focus on charity.\n2008 saw the creation of a gigantic red engineering jacket\nfilled with clothes for the needy\ndraped around the English Bay\ninukshuk, while in 2009 engineering students handed out red\nscarves to the homeless.\n\"Pranks have never been endorsed by the Engineering Undergraduate Society,\" said EUS\nVP Communications Will\nGallego. \"The EUS does\nnot condone pranks of\nany kind.\"\nIt is teamwork\nthat pulls off the\nspectacular,  as\nthe 1969 pranksters who stole\nStanley Park's\n1800-pound\nNine O'clock\nCannon can\nattest. Its ransom\ngenerated over $1200 for the\nChildren's Hospital, tl\nEngineers are encouraged to come\nout to E-week, which hosts a career\nfair on Wednesday and Thursday\nfrom 10am\u20143pm.\nForty brews and booby traps too\nThe fact and the fiction behind the Engineering faculty at UBC\nCRYSTAL NGAI\nContributor\nThey happen everyyear: engineering pranks, events, competitions and celebrations.\nBut what about the outrageous\nthings you hear about but don't\nget to witness firsthand? These\nare the myths that get passed\ndown from year to year. Are\nthey more than myths, though?\nEnter the 40 beer challenge.\nIt's not exactly a myth, but neither is it something you hear\nbeing promoted openly. To clarify, it is an \"engineering thing,\"\nisolated from the EUS, that\noccurs every term. Those who\nattempt the feat are giv\nen a time limit of 12\nhours to down 40\ncold ones. Victors\nare awarded bragging rights and a\nspecial \"40 beer\nbadge\" for their\nred jacket.  For\nlightweights, there\nis the one-fifth under 200 pounds challenge. This replaces\n40 beers with a number of brews equivalent to\none fifth ofthe participant's body\nweight.\nEUS VP Communications and\nadministration representative William\nGallego  said,\n\"You can find\nengineers\naround campus    with\nthe 40 beer\npatch, so it's\nobvious that\nit still goes on,\nand people do actually finish it.\"\nIf you see an engineer bearing this remarkable symbol on their red\njacket, ask them about their\nexperience. They will probably be happy to tell you.\nThen there is the buzz regarding the Engineering Cairn\n(the giant E on Main Mall). It is\nrumoured that there are several propane tanks hidden inside\nor below the Cairn to dissuade\nthose who might want to destroy or remove the landmark.\n\"I've heard that story myself,\nbut there is no way in telling\nunless you destroy the Cairn,\"\nsaid Gallego.\nIt cannot be entirely validated\nas a fact, only a real possibility.\nBut it would not be advised not\nto try and find out yourself, tl 2011.01.31\/UBYSSEY.CA\/CULTURE\/9\nAdding substance to your liquid lunch\nCulinary tips from the \"Cooking With Beer\" champ\nCATHERINE GUAN\nContributor\nBeer is the sustenance of the\nmasses, or at least, the college\nmasses. But no other faculty can\nchallenge the engineers for their\nlong-standing devotion to and liberal consumption ofthe beverage.\nDuring E-Week, interdepartmental rivalry heats up in the\nkitchen. Armed with their favourite brew, the engineers show off\ntheir culinary chops at \"Cooking with Beer.\" The rules are simple. \"You can make anything you\nwant as long as it has a substantial amount of beer in it,\" said\nOmid Javadi, the winner of the\n2009 cook-off.\n\"I knew I was a good cook,\" said\nJavadi. \"We just wanted to blow everybody away.\" His winning entry was a Guinness Rye Pot Roast.\n\"Lager would be good for something like beer-battered chicken,\"\nbut his advice for novices is that\n\"you can't go wrong with Guinness Rye.\" What could be better\nthan beer with a little whiskey?\nJavadi's first attempt at cooking\nwith beer was a perfect disaster.\n\"We used one of those kettles ...\nfilledhalf of itwith water and half\nof it with beer to cook some eggs,\nand called that our entry.\" He admitted, with a rueful laugh, that\n\"the smell of boiling beer stunk\nup the Cheeze.\"\nAt \"Cooking with Beer\" at the\nCheeze this Friday from 12:00 to\n1:30 pm, students can taste some\nstrange and wonderful concoctions. Or, you can experiment in\nyour own kitchen. But be sure double up on the amount of beer. After all, good chefs always sample\ntheir ingredients first, til\nGUINNESS GRAVY\nDirections\n1. Place one cup liquid from slow\ncooker in pot. Add remaining\nGuinness, bring to a simmer.\n2. Saute mushrooms in oil.\n3. Mix three tbsp cornstarch\nwith small amount of water.\n4. Enjoy the non-Newtonion\nconcoction.\n5. Add more water to cornstarch,\nand then add it to the pot.\n6. Mix liquid as mixture thickens.\nGUINNESS SMASHED POTATOES\nAND VEGETABLES\n\u2022 5 red potatoes\n\u2022 3 cups liquid from slow cooker\n\u2022 0.5 kg baby carrots\n\u2022 1 can cut green beans\n\u2022 Va can Guinness\n\u2022 2 tbsp butter\n\u2022 Salt, pepper, garlic and milk\nto taste\nDirections\n1. Remove liquid from slow cooker, place in pot alone and bring\nto simmer.\n2. Wash and cut potatoes into\neighths.\n3. Add carrots, green beans and\npotatoes to liquid.\n4. Cook vegetables thoroughly,\nremove potatoes, and place in\na bowl.\n5. Add Guinness, milk, salt, pepper, butter and garlic to potatoes.\n6. Mash the shit out of the\npotatoes.\n7. Return carrots\/beans\/liquid\nto slow cooker to warm. Serve\nseparately.\nSLOW COOKER GUINNESS TOP\nSIRLOIN ROAST\n\u20221.5 can beef broth\n\u20221 can French Onion soup\n\u20221\/2 can Guinness\n\u20221 Guinness Rub Sirloin Roast\n(see below)\n\u20221.5 oz Canadian Club rye\nDirections\n1. Place all liquid in slow cooker.\n2. Place roast in center of liquid.\n3. Cook on medium for six hours\nin slow cooker.\nGUINNESS RUB SIRLOIN ROAST\n\u20222 tbsp paprika\n\u20221 tsp cayenne pepper\n\u20222 tsp thyme\n\u20222 tsp rosemary leaves\n\u20221 tbsp salt\n\u20221 tbsp garlic\n\u20222 tsp pepper\n\u20221 tsp Guinness\n\u20221 tsp rye\n\u20221 tbsp olive oil\nDirections\n1. Mix dry ingredients.\n2. Mix in wet ingredients.\n3. Rub on entire surface of roast.\nE-WEEK EVENTS\nAt its core, E-Week is an annual celebration of Engineering. But it is\nalso a competition between each\ndepartment in the faculty for bragging rights. Engineers compete\nin a number of challenges to earn\npoints for their team. We've taken a slice of some ofthe most epic\ncompetitions and social events E-\nWeek has to offer.\nMONDAY\nFour Legged Race\u2014Cheeze @\n6pm: Teams of three engineers are\nbound at the ankles and forced to\ncollect clues from across campus.\nGlory ensues.\nTUESDAY\nGodiva Band March @ 10am:\nHigh school band kids get to relive the good old days and show\noff their faculty pride with this\nannual march through campus.\nThis event used to feature a naked woman on a horse as an homage to an 11th century English\nnoblewoman who rode naked to\nprotest taxation. The practice was\ncalled off in 1986 after the murder of 14 women at Dawson College in Montreal.\nChariot Race\u2014Main Mall @ 2pm:\nEach engineering department designs and races a human-powered\nchariot.\nWEDNESDAY\nE-Ball Soccer Tournament\u2014Main\nMall @ lpm\u2014Full-contact soccer\nwith a six-foot-tall ball.\nTHURSDAY\nTrue Engineer\u2014The Cheeze @\n4pm\u2014Teams are given some basic supplies and one hour to engineer a device to perform a mystery task.\nArts Career Expo pacifies post-grad anxiety\nGINNY MONACO\ngmonaco@ubyssey.ca\nWhen Dr Gage Averill, Dean of\nArts, gave his opening speech\nat Thursday night's Arts Career Expo (ACE), he seemed\nto touch a nerve.\n\"Anybody here whose parents ever asked 'How are you\ngoing to make any money?'\"\nNervous laughter and several\ndozen raised hands followed.\n\"I know that line,\" he said.\nAverill, in many ways, embodies the changing attitudes of academia. His approach to the faculty follows the movement from\n\"chalk talk\" to a more discussion- and dialogue-based style\nof learning.\nItmaybe due, inpart, to his unlikely past. Before he was thrust\ninto the university, Averill made\na living as a school bus driver, a\ntractor driver, handyman, espresso server, musician and \"failed\nTime-Life book seller.\"\n\"Be open to accident,\" he said.\nAccording to Carol Naylor, Associate director of Career Development, it's a message that is\nparticularly important for Arts\nstudents. \"An Arts degree is, by\ndefinition, flexible,\" she said.\nNaylor works for Career Services as part of the Center for\nArts Student Services (CASS).\nShe emphasized that, upon graduation, it is no harder for an\nArts student to find a job than a\nstudent from any other faculty.\n\"The challenges differ,\" she admitted, \"but there's this myth\nthat an Arts degree is somehow\nless employable.\"\nThis \"less-than\" mentality echoes the comments with\nwhich Averill opened ACE, and\na long-held belief that a BA is\nnot a valuable degree. UBC is\npart of the BC Post-Baccalaureate Survey, a research initiative that tracks post-secondary\ngraduates two and five years out\nof university.\n\"The challenges\ndiffer, but there's\nthis myth that\nan Arts degree\nis somehow less\nemployable.\"\nCAROLNAYLOR\nCAREER SERVICES\n\"The stats show that in Arts,\nit's no different,\" said Naylor\nofthe 2007 survey. \"There are\nsome differences\u2014maybe a little less average salary two years\nout\u2014but by five years out that\ngap isn't as big.\n\"One ofthe questions they ask\nis 'To what level is what you're\ndoing now related?' For Arts it\nshows that it is less related, but\nto me that doesn't mean less\nsatisfied or less rewarding.\nArts students are out-scoring\nin terms of jobs satisfaction.\"\nA Macleans article dated November 18, 2010 noted a rise\nin budget cuts to the humanities in both the Canada and the\nUS, partly as a way of diverting\nmoney to college curriculum\nand trade schools. Averill called\nthese cutbacks \"shortsighted\nand retrograde\" and stressed\nthat the pattern will not follow\nto UBC. \"The increasing focus\nof this campus is on an Arts education that is more real-world,\nto use a tired phrase.\"\nIn an ACE panel entitled\n\"Why I hire BAs,\" the word \"experience\" was thrown around\na number of times. Carol Naylor echoed this importance.\n\"I think of that old research\nterm 'necessary but not sufficient.' The degree is not less\nthan your experience, but without that experience, it's not\nenough.\"\nShe pointed out that the Faculty offers several ways of facilitating this experience. Both the\nArts Internship and Tri-Men-\ntoring programs exist to provide practical knowledge and\nguidance within a selected field.\nWhile it's best for students to involve themselves in co-curric-\nular activities as early as possible, it's never too late.\n\"My sense is that students\nwalk around with the feeling\nthat there is a single mistake\nthey can make that will doom\ntheir entire future,\" Naylor said.\n\"Every small decision you make\nhas the potential to be a career\ndecision.\" tl\nArts \u00b1 Dishwashing GEOFF LISTER PHOTO ILLUSTRATION\/THE UBYSSEY 10\/UBYSSEY.CA\/G AMES\/2011.01.31\nGAMES & COMICS\nPHILOSOPHRENIC, BY RACHAEL FREEDMAN\nCROSSWORD\nSUSC0MIC.COM, BY MICHAEL BROUND\nTHEP-EIS \/OOTHIMG\nSAZAEMON, BYMEIKISHU\nCOMICMASTER, BY MARIA CIRSTEA\n.isieen^upsupposep\n\"To Do tuat r\n\u2014\\C\nBLUNDERGRADS, BY PHIL FLICKINGER {BLUNDERGRADS.COM]\nCAN I GET IN TO\nVOUR \"PERSUASION\n101\" CLASS?\nLAST DITCH EFFORT, BY JOHN KROES (LDE-0NUNE.COM]\nPUZZLES PROVIDED BY BESTCR0SSW0RDS.COM. 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Directional ending\nLSAT MCAT\nGMAT GRE\nPreparation Seminars\n* Complete 30-Hour Seminars\n* Convenient Weekend Schedule\n* Proven Test-Taking Strategics\n* Experienced Course Instructors\n* Comprehensive Study Materials\n* Simulated Practice Exams\n* Limited Class Size\n* Free Repeat Policy\n* Personal Tutoring Available\n* Thousands of Satisfied Students\nOXFORD SEMINARS\n604-683-3430\n1-800-269-6719\nwww.oxfordscminnrs.ca 2011.01.31\/UBYSSEY.CA\/OPINIONS\/ll\nOPINIONS\nDO YOU CARE? WRITE US A LETTER\u00bbfeedback@ubyssey.ca\nEDITORIAL\nCONCERNING THE ENGINEERS\nEngineering students are hairy-palmed troglodytes with less social intuition than graphing\ncalculators. They make the Computer Science\ndepartment look like charm school. Engineers\nwear bright red jackets so that other students\ncan see them coming from a distance and take\nflight before the smell hits. It's similar to the way\nlepers in the Old Testament days were forced to\nshout \"unclean!\" whenever in the company ofthe\nuninfected. And much like leprosy, the scent of\nan Engineer at close proximity can cause one's\nnose to fall off.\nThere was a time when printing the kind of libel\nyou just read above in the Editorial section of The\nUbyssey would push Engineers\u2014or \"Redshirts,\"\u2014\nto acts of revenge. Allan Fotheringham, an editor\nin the '50s who would go on to dominate the back\npage of Macleans, was abducted by members of\nthe faculty for calling Engineers \"uncouth louts.\"\nHe was chained to a clock in downtown Vancouver and had to be rescued by firemen. In the '60s,\nMichael Valpy\u2014a senior writer for the Globe and\nMail\u2014was punished for similar crimes by being\nattached to a pillar in the Engineering building\nand forced to wear dunce cap. In the 70s, current\nVancouver Sun writer Mike Sasges was thrown in\na pool for criticizing the Engineers.\nIt's a time-honoured tradition: we mock the Engineers for being sexist, greasy-haired, slide-rule-\nclutching sub-humans. They exact some sort of\nphysical revenge, like abducting head members\nof our staff or collecting all the issues on campus and burning them. The fact that The Ubyssey's Coordinating Editor has yet to be abducted\nby Engineers this decade\u2014this century, in fact-\nshows how far their faculty has fallen from its\nformer glory.\nNot that we would ever encourage the Engineers\nto kidnap Justin McElroy (who can be found in\nThe Ubyssey office most days of the week, wears\na red NBC jacket, can be habitually seen clutching a bottle of Coke and usually catches the 99\nB-Line home from the bus loop). But even if we\ndid expressly suggest that the Engineers do such\na thing, we would not fear the repercussions.\nAfter all, two years ago, the Engineers couldn't\neven manage to suspend a VW bug from the Steel\nWorker's Memorial Bridge. Lastyear, cowed, perhaps, by their previous failure, they didn't even\nattempt such an escapade.\nYou heard us right. They were so scared of\nfailure, they didn't even show up. Which begs\nthe question: if they cannot manage such a paltry prank as the public planting of the Forestry\nbeetle, then what do we, the all-powerful media,\nhave to fear from them?\nIn fact, it is questionable whether most Engineers are even capable of reading this editorial.\nTaking seven classes per term in maths and sciences, your average Redshirt does not get much\nexposure to English literature\u2014or to the company of human beings capable of using words for\nthe expression of complex thoughts or emotions.\nThe scraps ofthe English language that UBC Engineers do manage to pick up during their undergrad years primarily come in the form of cat-\nbased internet memes and rejections from members ofthe opposite sex.\nEngineers should spend this week reflecting\non what a sad shade of its former self their faculty has become and plan an act of havoc that will\nregain them a fraction of their departed glory.\nMore likely, though, they'll just hide in the Cheez\n(Hey, you're getting a new social space! And only\na decade after Arts and Science students did!)\nwith their cheap beer and tiny population of female students\u2014who are all dating guys in Arts.\nEnjoy E-Week, you sissies, tl\nThe 80s: When Engineers would ransack our office without fear of repercussion. PHOTO ARCHIVE\/THE UBYSSEY\nOPINIONS\nOur series of tubes is under attack!\ni\nTREVOR RECORD\nfeatures@ubyssey.ca\nThis last week, anti-government protests have rocked Egypt, leading to\nthe government cutting off Egyptian\ninternet and cell phone use on Thursday. As coverage ofthe events in Egypt\ncontinues, literally thousands of articles have zeroed in on this issue\nspecifically.\nFrom China to Iran to Myanmar,\ngovernment suppression of communication services has been met with\ndismay from those of us in Western\ncountries. Quashing freedom of expression seems to strike a direct nerve\nto most in Canada, but our underlying assumption is that usage ofthe internet here is safe and unrestricted.\nWhat is it we value about openness of\ncommunication, and are those values\ngoing unchallenged?\nThere are a number of ways, both\nsubtle and direct, in which use ofthe\ninternet is becoming less open. But\nhere, it isn't the government that is\nthe direct cause. Proponents of net\nneutrality, for instance, complain of\ninternet service providers (ISPs) supplying preferential access to websites,\nlike Comcast does in the US by not\ncounting access of NBC sites (which\nit partially owns) towards your data\nallowance.\nThe concern is that as trends continue, ISPs may eventually begin to\ntighten bandwidth control to an extent\nthat sites and applications approved\nby the company are the only ones effectively worth accessing. At the extreme end of the spectrum, certain\nsites are locked off altogether: this\nhas already occurred in the past, when\nTelus blocked subscriber access to a\nTelecommunications Workers Union\nwebsite.\nMore pressingly in the battle for\nnet neutrality than outright censorship, however, is that our ability to\nuse the internet may be further stymied by the introduction of metering,\nor usage-based billing (UBB), by ISPs.\nEssentially, in addition to your basic\nsubscription to broadband it would require you pay extra for every byte you\ndownload or upload. Bell Canada, Rogers and Shaw are having their plans\nto switch to this model approved by\nthe CRTC as we speak. Er, write.\nBeyond the claims made by some\nthat this is just a money-grabbing\nscheme, what is the problem with this\nsystem? It would hamper our ability to communicate via the internet,\nof course. Think about the funding-\nstrapped media outlets\u2014The Ubyssey\nincluded\u2014whose ability to increase\ntheir production of video- and flash-\nbased web contentwould be hampered\nby this model.\nHow many would opt to not bother at all, leaving Canada in the dust\nwhen it comes to the internet? It also\naffects your ability to access that content. This isn't just going to affect people using P2P networks to download\nfilms. Think about the kid growing\nup who wants to watch NOVA or the\nDiscovery Channel online, but whose\nparents can't afford that extra bit of\nbandwidth.\nThe way we use the internet is gradually shaping our ability to communicate\nwith it, as well. In a polarizing feature last summer, Wired predicted the\ndeath of the \"web,\" referring specifically to web browsers, as the method\nthrough which we use the internet. Although web browser usage has continued to rise, as a total portion of web\ntraffic it has been going down steadily\nsince the early 2000s. Now the trend is\nmoving to applications, like the ones\non your iPhone.\nThis isn't a condemnation of iPhone\napplications. We at The Ubyssey have\na fondness for quite a few. But now,\nrather than directly choosing the way\nwe communicate with the internet,\nwe are increasingly leaving it up to\nthe people who control our apps to\ndetermine where we go. In effect, we\nare trading away range and ability for\nease of use and convenience.\nEven our access to those apps is\nbeing directed. Normally, iPhone users are only able to install applications which appear on their iTunes\nweb page. And Apple has attempted\nto resist the legalization of \"jailbreak-\ning\" their iOS as an example of this.\nJailbreaking, a process which allows\nusers to switch their phone to other\nnon-approved networks and install\napplications of their choosing, was\nrecently upheld as a right in the US-\nmuch to Apple's chagrin (in Canada,\nthere still are no laws for or against\njailbreaking).\nThe Egyptian government's decision\nto directly suppress access to modes of\ncommunication is condemable. However, in light of the uproar over their\nactions, we should keep in mind what\nreally matters about those rights, tl\nLetters. We like them. Even when they're not about the AMS. Especially when they're not about the AMS.\nMake em under 300 words and it's even better. Send them to feedback@ubyssey.ca. And Engineers,\nifyou can manage to string together five or six coherent sentences in a row complaining about us,\nwe promise we'll print that too.\nJustin mcelroy | coordinating@ubyssey.ca\nU     THEUBYSSEYca 12\/UBYSSEY.CA\/OURCAMPUS\/2011.01.31\nJUSTIN MCELROY\ncoordinating@ubyssey.ca\nUBC not only hosted the 2011\nCanada West swimming championships this weekend, they\ncame away victorious.\nBoth the men's and women's\nswim teams defeated their\narchrivals from Calgary in the\nthree-day competition. UBC's Savannah King, who was named\nCanada West Female Rookie of\nthe Year, finished in first in the\n400m freestyle with a time of\n4:11:51. 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