"CONTENTdm"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=2432419"@en . "University Publications"@en . "2016-02-16"@en . "[2015-03]"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/alumchron/items/1.0224444/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nA PUBLICATION OF ALUMNI UBC \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 NUMBER 37 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 2015\n>^\n\"WALK SOFTLY\nWHEN YOU\nCARRY THE DEAD\"\nTop forensic dentist David\nSweet, OC, is frequently called\nupon to help identify victims and\nperpetrators of violent crime.\nLUS\nCitizens lead forensic\ninvestigations in Mexico\nake a look inside the brand new\nRobert H. Lee Alumni Centre\nThe rise and fall of the Old Gym\nIndia's school for the marginalized FEATURE\nHELP! TEETH HURT\nJoan Rush, LLM'06, is on mission to get timely\nand adequate dental treatment for developmental^\ndisabled adults - starting with her son.\nTHE LAST WORD:\nWITH WANTING QU\nQ: What was your nickname at school?\nA: Chili pepper. I was feisty and would always think I was right.\nNow I'm nicer and more diplomatic.\nFEATURE\nHEARING\nVOICES\nA movement that started in\nEurope is taking a different\ntherapeutic approach to the\nphenomenon of hearing voices.\nFEATURE\nTHE ART OF\nVARSITY GOLF\nKeep your head down\nand hold your finish.\nFEATURE\nFAIR PLAY\nThe Old Gymnasium and\nthe early history of women's\nathletics at UBC.\nIn Short\n3\nQUOTE, UNQUOTE\n3\nn=\n4\nA CENTURY\nOF COMMUNITY\n6\nWHAT'S THE DEAL\nWITH COCONUT OIL?\n6\nWE NEED A POLICY\nFOR DRIVERLESS CARS\n7\nA UBC EXPERT ON BILL C-51\n8\nTAKE NOTE\nAlumni\nDepartments\n5\nEVENTS\n38\nBOOKS\n40\nT-BIRDS\n42\nCLASS ACTS\n47\nIN MEMORIAM editor's note\nNEW KID\nON THE BLOCK\nWhen moving to a new office space, it soon\nbecomes apparent how long you've been at the\nold one: a few years translates into a few hours'\nworth of sorting, clearing, recycling, dismantling,\npacking, and retreating in cowardly fashion from\nspiders so large they could star in a B movie.\nThose were the scenes this April at Cecil Green Park House, a 1912 mansion\nperched on the northern tip of UBC's Vancouver campus where alumni UBC\nhas been headquartered for the past few decades (walking to meetings\nheld on the other side of campus requires a map and some sandwiches)\nIt's architecturally impressive, historically interesting, has a sea view and\nis surrounded by idyl lie gardens. You'd think we'd be reluctant to leave\nBut not if you knew where we were moving to\nOn the morning of April 20, alumni UBC staff arrived at their new\nworkspace inside the Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre - so new the paint was\nstill wet. As the building's earliest occupants, we were able to witness the\nfinishing touches being added to the spacious and inviting public areas,\nfrom paving stones and shrubbery on the outside to hi-tech interactive\nscreens, display cases for UBC memorabilia, and some stylish lounge\nchairs and tables I would steal if I were dishonest (or had a bigger purse)\non the inside. The alumni centre was coming to life - it was like watching\na building being born. And it's your baby. If you want to take a quick peek\nat the new arrival on campus, turn to page 14\nThe Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre opens officially on September 30 to\ncoincide with the start of UBC's Centennial celebrations. It's significant\nthat alumni UBC has moved its operations from a former family home\nthat existed before the first campus building was erected to a new home\nbuilt specifically to serve alumni right at the heart of what has become\nan expansive, energetic, and highly productive campus\nUBC has come a long way in a century, and it's clear alumni are being\ncounted on to have a hand in shaping the next 100 years\nVanessa Clarke\nEditor\nEDITOR Vanessa Clarke, BA\nASSISTANT EDITOR Alison Huggins,B/l\nGRAPHIC DESIGNER Pamela Yan, BDes\nBOOKS AND FICTION Teresa Goff, BA\nCONTRIBUTOR Michael Awmack.B/Voi, MET'09\nTREKONLINE WEB COORDINATOR\nElizabeth Powell, BSc\nBOARD OF DIRECTORS\nELECTED CHAIR Michael Lee, BSc'86, BA'89, MA'92, LLB\nVICE CHAIR Faye Wightman, BSC'8l (Nursing)\nTREASURER Ian Warner, BCom'89\nMEMBERS AT LARGE [2012-2015]\nBlake Hanna, MBA'82\nDavid Climie, BCom'83\nJudy Rogers, BRE'71\nan Warner, BCom'89\nFaye Wightman, BSC'8i (Nursing)\nMEMBERS AT LARGE [2013-2016]\nValerie Casselton, BA'77\nMichael Lee, BSc'86, BA'89, MA'92, LLB\nGregg Saretsky, BSc'82, MBA'84\nMEMBERS AT LARGE [2014-2017]\nRobert Bruno, BCom'97\nRoss Langford, BCom'89, LLB'89\nBarbara Anderson, BSc'78\nEX-OFFICIO PRESIDENT'S DESIGNATE\nBarbara Miles, BA, PostGradinEd.\nUBC PRESIDENT\nArvind Gupta, BSc, MSc, PhD\nUBC CHANCELLOR\nLindsay Gordon, BA'73, MBA'76\nASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT, ALUMNI/\nEXECUTIVE D\K\u00C2\u00A3C10K, ALUMNI UBC\nJeff Todd, BA\nTrek magazine (formerly the UBC Alumni Chronicle)\nis published two times a year by the UBC Alumni\nAssociation and distributed free of charge to\nUBC alumni and friends. Opinions expressed\nin the magazine do not necessarily reflect the\nviews of the Alumni Association or the university.\nAddress correspondence to:\nThe Editor, alumni UBC\n6163 University Boulevard,\nVancouver, BC, Canada V6T1Z1\nemail to trek.magazine@ubc.ca\nLetters are published at the editor's discretion\nand may be edited for space\nADVERTISING\nJenna McCann\njenna.mccann@ubc.ca\n604.822.8917\nCONTACT NUMBERS AT UBC\nAddress Changes\n604.822.8921\nvia email a\numni.ubc@ubc.ca\nalumni UBC\n604.822.3313\ntoll free\n800.883.3088\nUBC Info Line\n604.822.4636\nBelkin Gallery\n604.822.2759\nBookstore\n604.822.2665\nChan Centre\n604.822.2697\nFrederic Wood Theatre\n604.822.2678\nMuseum of Anthropology\n604.822.5087\nVolume 71, Numberi | Printed in Canada\nby Mitchell Press\nCanadian Publications\nMail Agreement #40063528\nReturn undeliverable Canadian addresses to:\nRecords Department\nUBC Development Office\nSuite 500 - 5950 University Boulevard\nVancouver, BC V6T 1Z3\n\u00C2\u00A35\nFSC\nPaper from\nresponsible sources\nFSC8 C011267\nQUOTE,\nUNQUOTE\n\"Clients are a bit confused when\nthey first come in and see it, she said.\n\"But then they say 'I really missed\nthat clickety-clack sound.'\"\nNinety-five-year-old practising lawyer\nConstance Isherwood, LLB'51, LLD'15,\ncommenting on her clients' reaction to\nthe typewriter she still uses in preference\nto a computer. Isherwood received an\nhonorary degree from UBC this spring,\n(The Canadian Press, May 21)\n\"My gift supports pillars of excellence in\nhuman rights, and international integrity\nand ethics, and my hope is that the law\nschool will become a beacon for justice,\nand the promotion of human rights and\nthe rule of law around the world.\"\nUBC alumnus Peter Allard, QC, who\nhas donated $3oM to the Faculty of Law,\n(UBC media release, January 22)\n\"There are many rules that\neveryone must follow and you're\nconstantly in the glare of the\npublic eye - all rightly so. It takes\nexperience and education to learn\nhow to manage those things in\na way that's legal, forthright,\ntransparent, and gets the\njob done.\"\nV\nFormer NDP MLA Joy MacPhail\ndiscussing UBC's Summer\nInstitute for Future Legislators,\naimed at students who are\nconsidering running for politica\noffice. MacPhail is on the advisory\nboard for U BC's Centre for the\nStudy of Democratic Institutions\n(The Early Edition, CBC, April 26)\n\"The chief executive of Hong Kong, Leung\nChun-ying, took the oath of office in Putonghua,\nunlike the former chief executives, who did it in\nCantonese. Many people think that his language\nchoice was a 'kowtow' to Beijing.\"\nZoe Lam, a UBC grad student researcher, who thinks\nthe Cantonese language is at risk of disappearing,\nmainly as a result of the Chinese government's\npromotion of Putonghua (Mandarin). (CBC News.ca,\nApril 29)\n1\n*\n\u00C2\u00A3.\n\"My favorite journalist is a shrieking British\nColumbian who dresses like an exploded\n1970s Soviet golf catalog. He was born John\nRuskin, but changed his name to Nardwuar\nthe Human Serviette. ('Serviette' is Canadian\nfor napkin.)\"\nAuthor and TV host David Rees reveres UBC\nalumnus Nardwuar in a column for the New York\nTimes Magazine (March 19, 2015). Nardwuar has\nhad a regular spot on UBC's radio station, CiTR,\nsince 1987,\n\"We always knew Braden\nwas especially gifted and super\nsmart, but he's laid back too -\nnot a Type A or anything. He's\nmodest about his successes.\"\nBraden Lauer's sister, Megan,\non her brother being chosen as\na participant for CBC's Canada's\nSmartest Person. Lauer is a second\nyear law student at UBC and\nwent on to win the competition\nThe runner-up was Johnny\nMacRae, UBC alumnus and\nspoken word poet. (St. Albert\nGazette, October 4, 2014)\nJ^\n-M\n58,678\nThe record-breaking\nnumber of UBC\nalumni who engaged\nwith UBC in some way\nover the past year.\nIncrease in the number\nof women registered in\nUBC's first-year engineering\nundergraduate programs\ncollided with the windows of\nMOA, The Beaty Biodiversity\nMuseum, and the Barber Centre\nrespectively over a nine month\nperiod, according to a report\nco-authored by environmental\nsciences student Carmen Leung.\nThe Canadian annual average\nis five per year. Leung says the\nVancouver campus lies on the\nroute of many migratory birds.\n18.\n11.\nThe proportion of glacier\nL ice in Alberta and BC\nthat could disappear by\n' the end of the century,\naccording to UBC researchers, who used\nvational data, computer models and\nclimate simulations to forecast the fate of\n70%\n30\n\"Oiameter of the primary\nlirror in what promises\nto be the world's most\npowerful telescope. In I\nApril, UBC celebrated the\nCanadian government's\ninvestment of $243-5\nmillion towards this\ninternational Thirty Metre Telescope (TMT)\nproject. UBC astronomy professor Paul\nScience Advisory Committee and project\nscientist for the adaptive optics syste]\n$23.2 mil. 1\nto support 23\nfederal govern\n. Research Chai:\nengineering, biology and\nrepresents 11 new chairs, ar\npsychology, message from the president\nThere are very few institutions that can be measured in centuries, but\nuniversities feature prominently among them. Later this year, UBC will be\ncelebrating the Centennial of its first class in 1915-16. This Centennial year,\nrunning from September 2015 to May 2016, will be all about reaching out\nto our communities and inviting them to connect with us.\nAs connected alumni, you know the importance of keeping in touch with\nthe university and with each other, wherever you are. There are more than\n300,000 alumni in more than 140 countries, and our UBC Linkedln Higher\nEd group already has close to 200,000 alumni and student members\nIn fact, alumni are UBC's single largest university community. This is\nwhy the launch event for the Centennial will include the official opening\nof the Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre. This historic event will take place on\nSeptember 30,2015 - exactly 100 years since the first class began their\nstudies at UBC in 1915\nIf anything symbolizes the distance we have travelled in a relatively short\ntime it is the Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre. This new centre - the first of its\nkind in Canada - is a place for connecting, collaborating and lifelong learning.\nIt is a place that supports innovation, social discourse and the exchange\nof knowledge and experience. It is a home and a resource for our alumni\ncommunity for life\nOur alumni are a community but they are also working in our communities\nthrough a vast spectrum of causes that align with UBC's desire to serve\nand improve our society. The your evolution initiative (yourevolution.ubc.ca)\nhighlights around 300 community projects that our alumni are involved in,\nright here in BC and as far away as Guatemala, India and Burkina Faso. It is\ninspiring to read their stories and to see other alumni joining in. This, to me,\nis the very definition of community.\nIn our community closer to home, the university and the Alma Mater\nSociety have been deeply involved in the recent transit referendum in BC,\nurging students to make their voices heard and help us all plan a sustainable\nfuture for transit here in the Lower Mainland\nOur community in the Okanagan - nowio years old! - continues to\ndemonstrate the truly transformational power that is unleashed when\nuniversities and their communities grow hand in hand\nDowntown, at UBC Robson Square, we welcome more than\n40,000 community members for adult educational programs, meetings,\nconferences and public seminars each year.\nAnd our Learning Exchanges in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside\nand in downtown Kelowna are hubs where faculty, staff, alumni, students\nand local citizens come together for learning programs tailor-made for\ntheir communities\nSo when I look back to 1915 at that first community of 379 students\nwho put their faith in this brand new entity called the University of British\nColumbia, I am struck by their courage and their sheer optimism, even\nas the Great War raged in Europe\nNow, one century later, our university has been transformed by, with and\nthrough our communities and I look forward to celebrating with you in the\nCentennial year ahead. D\nCENTENNIAL PROGRAM\nCalling all UBC alumni! Add your\npin to UBC's Global Impact Map!\nAdd your pin to UBC's Global Impact Map!\nThe G4&1I knpKl Mb ml mutltf (tpTwe UK) tw*|i\"|tl ni BnUft ColurtltM\nC watia. and aont die wwld We #wrte ttuim xtudtnti hbH fjetity. tnefldi\n#1J WW o* UK is \u00C2\u00ABy * e* to ihe nup. ih*r V** uery. **f in\" \u00C2\u00ABon\nitout the skitis rath of |hr UBC CfliaWj\nSUBMIT YOUR PIN\nCENTENNIAL\na to UBC's Gtaballmpact Map\nPROGRAMME STARTS INS\nUBC is developing a Global Impact Map to visually capture\nits footprint in British Columbia, Canada, and the rest of\nthe world. The map will be a highlight of the soon-to-be-\nlaunched UBC Centennial website, which will be your go-to\nguide for celebrating a hundred years of UBC: a look at our\npast, a taste of our future, and information about all the\ncelebratory activities.\nAlumni, students, faculty, staff, friends and partners of\nUBC are all being invited to add a pin to the map to represent\nthemselves and their UBC connections and activities. UBC's\nvast alumni network is made up of more than 300,000 members living\nin more than 140 countries. Adding a pin to the map is an opportunity\nfor you to tell us where you are, share your story, and learn more about\nyour fellow alumni. What you share is completely up to you. Stake your\nUBC claim at www.ubc100.ca.\nEVENTS\nWesbrook Talks with Victor de Bonis\nVancouver - June 9, 2015\nVictor de Bonis, BCom'89, 's COO of Canucks Sports and Entertainment\nand Alternate Governor for the NHL. Find out how he got his start and learn\nabout the challenges he faced and opportunities he seized along the way.\nCrosscurrents: The History of Trans-Pacific Migration\nHong Kong - June 12, 2015\nOver the last so years, migrations between Hong Kong and Canada\nhave reshaped societies on both sides of the Pacific. Hear from Professor\nHenry Yu, BA'89,as he discusses the effects of these migration patterns.\nComputational Thinking for the 21st Century\nMountain View, CA - June 15, 2015\nJoin UBC president and vice-chancellor Arvind Gupta, UBC dean of Science\nSimon Peacock, founding Google investor David Cheriton, and industry\npanelists for a look at the promise of computational thinking.\nThe Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in a Modern World\n(Milton K. Wong Lecture, featuring Wade Davis, PhD)\nVancouver - June 22,2015\nEvery culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does\nit mean to be human and alive? Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey\nto celebrate the wisdom of the world's indigenous cultures.\nUBC Bound!\nSummer 2015\nThis summer, grads in cities across Asia will introduce incoming students\nto the global UBC community at UBC Bound! regional welcome events.\nAlumni Reunions\nThere are many reunions scheduled for the summer months. To find out if\nyour class is planning one, please see alumni.ubc.ca/reunions\nSAVE-THE-DATE\n2015 alumni UBC Achievement Awards\numni represent an\ninspiring account of positive social, cultural, and economic change in the\nworld. This October we will honour some outstanding individuals who,\nthrough their extraordinary activities, have connected the university\nwith communities both near and far to create positive change.\nTickets available for purchase July 2015.\nIUBCI a place of mind\nK&B&] THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA\nNow supporting preservation of bird habitats\nWerner and Hildegard Hesse were passionate bird watchers and enthusiastic\nconservationists. Inspired by the birds they spotted during a road trip through the Cariboo,\nthe Hesses' journey started with a UBC night course on birds of BC and turned into a\nlifetime passion for avian research. The Hesses expressed this passion with a gift in their\nwills to UBC, ensuring vital funding for ornithology research.\nAn estate gift can support research or education in sustainability, science, health care,\nbusiness, arts and culture \u00E2\u0080\u0094 virtually any field.\nTo establish your legacy with a gift to UBC call 604.822.5373 or visit\nwww.startanevolution.ca/Hesse\nstartanevolutlon.ca ubc reports\nTime for an Oil Change?\nBy Corey Allen\nCoconut oil sales are on the rise. Sainsbury's in the United Kingdom reports\ncoconut oil sales are up 442 per cent over 2013. The popularity of coconut oil\nas a multi-purpose oil, used both as a beauty product and for cooking, has it\nflying off the shelves. Avocado oil is not too far behind\nGail Hammond, a dietitian and food, nutrition and health lecturer in the\nFaculty of Land and Food Systems, discusses the coconut oil craze and why\nmixing it up in the kitchen can be a good thing\nWhy do you think coconut oil has gained popularity among consumers?\nThere are three things that immediately come to mind: consumers\nare becoming more nutrition savvy, recent research has challenged the\nlongstanding notion that saturated fats are harmful to heart health, and\ncelebrity endorsements of coconut oil have turned up the heat on using\nit for everything from beauty products to cooking.\nWhat are the health benefits of using coconut oil versus other oils?\nDespite a prevailing message to reduce our saturated fat intake, we\nknow that not all saturated fats have the same health effects. The\npredominant type of saturated fat found in coconut oil is metabolized\ndifferently than the majority of saturated fat that we otherwise consume\nAnd, even though coconut oil provides people with a ready source of\nBy Lou Corpuz-Bosshart\nChildren today may no longer need to learn how to drive when they grow up,\nif some of the world's leading automotive and technology companies have\ntheir way.\nIn the future, if they need to go somewhere, an automated car may pick\nthem up, drop them off, and park itself - without any human intervention.\nThe Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers anticipates that by\n2040, three out of four cars on the road will be fully autonomous. A recent\nreport by the Conference Board of Canada points to the imminent arrival of\ndriverless vehicles, predicting it could save Canadians up to $65 billion a year\ndue to less traffic congestion and transit time, along with lower fuel costs\nand fewer collisions.\nUBC professor AnnaLisa Meyboom says getting there will mean working\nwith a lot of moving parts.\nMeyboom is director of TIPSlab, a UBC research group studying transport\ninfrastructure and public space. She says intelligent policymaking and\ntechnology refinements will be needed to smoothly integrate automated cars\ninto our urban designs and ensure the most benefits for everyone in society.\nenergy, the benefits of using it as your primary fat source need to be\nweighed out with the need to consume essential fatty acids, which are\nnot saturated and not found to a great extent in coconut oil. So, if you are\ncrazed about using coconut oil it is important to also include other types\nof oils in your diet.\nWhat makes for the best cooking oil?\nthink using a variety of oils is the way to go depending on your preferences\nand use. Some people prefer a more pronounced flavour such as the fruity\ntaste of olive oil whereas others favour a lighter taste such ascanola oil. Some\noils are best used unheated, such as using olive oil in salad dressings, while\nothers are better suited for use in cooking. Oils that have a high smoking point\n- that is, the temperature at which they start to smoke in a hot pan and begin\nto lose their health benefits - are good choices for cooking. Avocado oil can\nbe used at a high temperature up to around 520\u00C2\u00B0F/270\u00C2\u00B0C without smoking,\nwhereas coconut oil is better used at a more moderate temperature up to\nabout 350\u00C2\u00B0F/175\u00C2\u00B0C\nWhat oils do you use?\nuse different oils. Typically, I'll use olive or flaxseed oil for making salad\ndressings and I tend to use canola oil for cooking purposes\nAnd with the first wave of automated vehicles already being tested, it's time\nto start talking about their impact.\nIn thisQ&A, Meyboom reviews the state of driverless technology and\ncalls for greater public discussion into how it will change our cities.\nWhen will we see self-driving, aka autonomous, vehicles on our streets?\nLet's define what we mean by autonomous vehicles. There are different\nlevels of autonomy. Level 1 describes a car with simple assist features such\nas stability control, brake assist, cruise control, lane centering, or self-parking.\nThese features are pretty common nowadays.\nAt the other end you have Level 4, completely self-driving cars that\ndon't require human intervention at any point. These cars can drive without\nanyone inside and can operate in a \"return to home\" mode.\nWe are already seeing some autonomous features on vehicles. Tesla says\nit plans to release a car next year that can drive itself 90 percent of the time.\nGoogle says its fully autonomous cars will hit the road between 2017 and 2019.\nBut the specific date is uncertain, and it's because of the social, legal and\npolicy issues surrounding this new technology.\nWhat are benefits of driverless vehicles?\nSelf-driving cars can provide all members of society great transportation\noptions, including the blind, disabled and the elderly. They can significantly\nincrease productivity by allowing people to work or socialize while being\ntransported. They can ease traffic congestion, pollution and parking issues.\nPlus, automated vehicles will reduce the dangers of drunk driving and can\nbe much safer than cars driven by people. Similar to aircraft, there will still\nbe accidents but they will be much less frequent.\nWhat's the impact on public transit?\nThere could be a huge effect. They could make local buses and urban\nlight rail obsolete. Private autonomous car sharing services could take over\npublic transit and taxis. Or public transit organizations could decide to run\nautonomous vehicle fleets.\nProfessor Hasan\nCavusoglu\nInformation privacy\nat threat by Bill C-51\nBy David Nixon\nBill C-51, known as the anti-terrorism bill, has drawn\ncriticism for provisions that many feel are excessive\nand open to abuse. One of these provisions allows\ngovernment agencies to share information about\nCanadians for reasons of national security. In March,\nbefore the bill was passed, associate professor Hasan\nCavusoglu of the Management Information Systems\nDivision at the UBC Sauder School of Business weighed\nin on the privacy risks for Canadians\nWhat is the significance of the new information-sharing\nprovisions in Bill C-51?\nPrivacy concerns over Bill C-51 stem from the Security of\nCanada Information Sharing Act, which is tucked in Bill C-51\nWhat sorts of issues are you working on at the\nTransportation Infrastructure and Public Space lab?\nTIPSlab is a collaboration of researchers from\narchitecture, landscape architecture, business,\nplanning and engineering, and one of the things\nwe're looking at is how driverless vehicles will impact\nurban form.\nFor example, much less parking will be required\nin congested areas because the car can park remotely\nor return home. Demand for retail and office parking\ncould drop significantly. You could own a car without\nneeding parking space. Entire families could share\na single car.\nIt's important to fully understand the impacts\nof autonomous cars so all members of society can\nbenefit from the technology.\nIt's also important that governments plan for\nits implementation in a way that is deliberate and\nsensitive to the needs of Canadians.\nWill the government allow self-driving cars?\nAutonomous drive features are being introduced as\nsafety features and they're generally supported by\ngovernments. The fully autonomous vehicle will be\na highly contentious issue and there will be significant\nlobbying by many stakeholders. Eventually, however,\nI think that the technology will be adopted. We will\nlook back on the days that we drove our own cars\nas reckless, similar to the way we look back on the\ndays that we drove without seat belts and car seats.\nThe act is portrayed as a means to empower law enforcement agencies to prevent terrorist attacks\nby quickly accessing information about potential terrorists from several government agencies\nThe scope of information-sharing is quite broad; it goes beyond just sharing information about\nsuspected terrorist activities and threatens Canadians' privacy.\nWhat is the privacy risk involved in sharing information between government agencies?\nThe vagueness of the scope of the law could potentially lead to surveillance of the public for\nany purposes deemed appropriate by the government. This is the major criticism of the law:\nthe power granted by the new act would result in an unjustified and significant loss of privacy for\nCanadians in return for a negligible improvement in the nation's ability to prevent a terrorist attack.\nThe loss of privacy is excessive\nAre these anti-terror provisions warranted?\nThe government justifies the bill by instilling fear, uncertainty and doubt, which is atactic used\nby marketers and politicians to influence people's perceptions by disseminating inaccurate or\nfalse information. There is no question that terrorism is a threat in Canada, like anywhere else\nBut one has to understand how likely it is. Dying as a result of a car accident is 1,000 times more\nlikely than dying as a result of a terror attack. Dying in a terror attack is less likely than being\nkilled by a lightning strike\nThe potential benefit of the information-sharing act is that more information will be readily\navailable to law enforcement agencies. This could be a good thing: more information could\npotentially improve the odds of stopping terrorist acts. But once again, fear, uncertainty and\ndoubt are at play - information regarding a potential terror suspect in various government\ninstitutions can already be accessed through the judicial system if a case is made\nWhat other concerns do you have about the bill's information-sharing provisions?\nWhile the act seems to facilitate information sharing between 17 governmental institutions,\nin fact it grants authority to the government to expand the list. The government can share\ninformation with other countries about Canadians if they see fit. Since there is no clear oversight,\nthere is no guarantee that information of a significant portion of the Canadian population cannot\nbe handed over to other countries as the government deems it appropriate. It's not clear who wil\nmonitor those who are accessing information\nThe vagueness of the scope, the lack of oversight, and the potential expansion of the reach\nof the act make privacy advocates very concerned about the law. In fact, privacy commissioners\nacross the country are opposed to the proposed act. It's also concerning that the government\ndoes not want to hear objections: the\nprivacy commissioner of Canada, who\nwas appointed by the government,\nwas prevented from appearing\nbefore the committee in Parliament\nIt seems that the bill is politically\ncharged. The need is not wel\njustified considering its risks against\npersonal privacy. The government\nappears to be rushing the bill due\nto the upcoming election. Add onto\nthat, the room for abuse due to poor\noversight and I am not convinced this\nis the proper answer to mitigate the\nterror threat. D TAKE\nLOI\nTHE FIGHT AGAINST\nANTIBIOTIC-RESISTANT BACTERIA\nResearch into new ways of fighting antibiotic-resistant\nbacteria has received a $2 million boost from the\nCanadian Institutes of Health Research, part of\na $4 million commitment for six projects involving\ninternational collaboration with researchers at UBC,\nMcMaster University and Universite Laval\nAntibiotic-resistant bacteria are becoming\nincreasingly common. The problem has major health\nand economic implications and has been described by\nthe World Health Organization as a \"major global threat.\"\nNatalie Strynadka, a professor of biochemistry\nand the Canada Research Chair in Antibiotic\nDiscovery and Medicine, uses advanced biophysica\ntools to zoom in on this big problem. Her team visualizes\nthe individual atoms that make up critical proteins\nin antibiotic-resistant bacteria, effectively creating\na molecular blueprint that is considered central to\nunravelling their function in disease and drug resistance\n\"The blueprint gives us an understanding, at the\nmolecular level, of how bacteria infect and manipulate\nhuman cells and in turn become so virulent,\" said\nStrynadka, who is part of an international research\ncollaboration called the Joint Programming Initiative\non Antimicrobial Resistance. \"With this atomic\nthree-dimensional information we can design drugs\nto specifically blockthese actions and create new\nantibiotics to be used in clinical settings.\"\nThe work of UBC researchers Raymond Andersen,\nHoracio Bach, Julian Davies, Urs Hafeli and Charles\nThompson will also benefit from the new funding.\nA PROMISING TREATMENT FOR HUNTINGTON'S\nHuntington's disease is caused by a mutation in the\nHuntington's disease (HD) gene, but it has long been\na mystery why some people with the mutation get\nthe disease more severely and earlier than others\nHuntington's disease affects the brain and gradually\nworsens, causing problems with coordination and\nmovement, mental decline and psychiatric issues. While\nevery person has two copies of each gene - one on each\nchromosome - a single mutation in one copy of the\nHD gene means the person will suffer from the disease\nThe HD gene is controlled by surrounding regions\nof DNA that function to turn the gene on and off.\nDr. Blair Leavitt, a professor in UBC's Department of Medical Genetics, and his colleagues took\na closer look at this part of the genetic code. They identified critical regions where proteins,\ncalled transcription factors, can bind to the DNA and control the function of the HD gene\nChanges in these DNA regions can play both good and bad roles in the disease\n\"The gene for Huntington's was discovered over 20 years ago but there is very little known\nabout how the expression of this important gene is controlled,\" said Leavitt, who is also a scientist\nwith the Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics. \"This study helps us understand how\nsmall genetic differences in the DNA surrounding the HD gene can both delay and accelerate\nthe disease.\"\nResearchers found that when the DNA change is found on a normal chromosome with no\nHD mutation, it turns off the expression of the good gene and allows the mutant gene on the other\nchromosome to predominate, speeding up the onset of the disease. If the DNA change is found\non a chromosome with the HD mutation, it turns off the bad gene and offers individuals some\nprotection from the disease\nAccording to Leavitt, these findings provide critical evidence to support the development of\nnew drugs that decrease the expression of the mutant HD gene, an approach called gene silencing.\nLeavitt is already involved in the testing of one gene silencing treatment that shows great promise,\nand will begin the first human trial of this therapy for HD later this year.\nUBC PARTNERS WITH CHINESE UNIVERSITIES\nUBC has signed an unprecedented number of partnership agreements with leading Chinese\nuniversities that are expected to pave the way for greater academic and cultural exchange\nbetween Canada and China\nFour agreements will establish joint degree programs between UBC and highly respected\ninstitutions, including Peking, Zhejiang, Fudan, and Southwest universities\nTwo agreements will focus on promoting research collaboration. UBC and Chongqing University\nhave agreed to set up a new materials laboratory that will study alloys, and Beijing University of\nChemical Technology is partnering with UBC to establish a centre for clean energy research\nUBC also signed student mobility programs with Zhejiang University and Chongqing Municipa\nEducation Commission that will establish two-way educational exchanges between UBC and China\nThe agreements were signed during UBC president Arvind Gupta's recent mission in China,\nduring which he met with key government and education officials and visited a research centre\nfor Alzheimer's disease and childhood development disorders at Chongqing Medical University,\none of UBC's largest and most successful joint projects in China\nUNIQUE NERVE STRUCTURE DISCOVERED IN WHALES\nUBC researchers have discovered a unique nerve structure in the mouth and tongue of rorqua\nwhales that can double in length and then recoil like a bungee cord\nThe stretchy nerves explain how the massive whales are able to balloon an immense\npocket between their body wall and overlying blubber to capture prey during feeding dives\n\"This discovery was totally unexpected and unlike other nerve structures we've seen\nin vertebrates, which are of a more fixed length,\" says Wayne Vogl of UBC's Cellular and\nPhysiological Sciences department. \"The rorquals' bulk feeding mechanism required major\nchanges in anatomy of the tongue and mouth blubber to allow large deformation, and now\nwe recognize that it also required major modifications in the nerves in these tissues so they\ncould also withstand the deformation.\"\nIn humans, stretching nerves usually damages them. In these whales,\nthe nerve cells are packaged inside a central core in such a way\nthat the individual nerve fibers are never really stretched, they\nsimply unfold\n\"Our next step is to get a better understanding\nof how the nerve core is folded to allow its rapid\nunpacking and re-packing during the feeding\nprocess,\" says UBC zoologist Robert Shadwick.\nThe researchers don't know yet whether anything similar will turn up in\nother animals - the ballooning throats of frogs, for example, or the long and\nfast tongues of chameleons\n\"This discovery underscores how little we know about even the basic\nanatomy of the largest animals alive in the oceans today,\" says Nick Pyenson,\na UBC postdoctoral fellow who is curator of fossil marine mammals at the\nSmithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. \"Our findings add to\nthe growing list of evolutionary solutions that whales evolved in response\nto new challenges faced in marine environments over millions of years.\"\nRorquals are the largest group among baleen whales, and include blue\nwhales and fin whales. Specimens the researchers studied were obtained\nat a commercial whaling station in Iceland\nUBC RESEARCHERS STUDY EARLY FORMATION OF GALAXIES\nA discovery by a team of astrophysicists including UBC researchers promises\nto have major implications for the understanding of how structures in the\nuniverse formed 10 billion years ago. Hidden within images of some of the\noldest light in the universe, the team identified what they believe are galaxies\nclumping together into the larger galaxy clusters we know today.\nData for the study came from the observations of two European Space\nTelescope missions, Planckand Herschel. The Plancktelescope catches\nlight from the early days of the universe, known as the cosmic microwave\nbackground, while the Herschel telescope allowed researchers to zero in\non some of the objects they saw in the Plancktelescope data\n\"The objects found by Planck appear to be clumps of young galaxies,\nseen early in the history of the universe,\" said Douglas Scott, a professor\nin the Department of Physics and Astronomy. \"By studying them we may\nbe able to learn how clusters of galaxies form and evolve.\"\nScott and UBC graduate student Todd MacKenzie are now working to\nunderstand the Planck objects better by studying them at a range of other\nwavelengths. \"What's exciting is that we don't know if we're looking at\nsomething really bizarre or if these clumps are what would be expected\nIt will change our view of how these structures form,\" said Scott\nUNIVERSAL PHARMACARE COULD SAVE CANADA BILLIONS\nNew research from UBC and the University of Toronto shows that universa\npublic drug coverage, also known as universal pharmacare, is within reach\nfor Canada even in times of government fiscal constraint\n\"It's a win-win,\" said Steve Morgan, lead author of the study and professor\nof health policy at UBC's School of Population and Public Health. \"A universa\npharmacare system would improve the quality and accessibility of health\ncare, while saving the Canadian economy billions of dollars every year.\"\nThe study modelled the cost of universal pharmacare based on data\nfrom $22 billion-worth of prescription drug purchases in 2012-2013\nThe study's calculations included the cost of increased use of prescription\ndrugs by Canadians who currently can't afford to fill those prescriptions\nResearchers found that increasing the use of generic drugs and bringing\nCanadian drug prices in line with other countries where universal drug plans\nachieve better prices through bulk purchasing and negotiation, would add up\nto significant savings.\n\"For too long, policy makers have assumed that universal Pharmacare is\nan expensive policy for governments. That assumption turns out to be wrong,\"\nsaid Dr. Danielle Martin, a co-author of the study and a professor at the\nUniversity of Toronto. \"With the money saved from using generic medicines,\nbulk purchasing, and better approaches\nto pricing, we can afford to cover medically\nnecessary drugs for all Canadians without\nincreasing taxes.\"\nThe study shows that the private sector,\npredominantly the employers and unions that sponsor work-related drug\nbenefits today, would save between $6.5 billion and $9.6 billion annually with\ncomparatively little increase in costs to government. Under many plausible\nscenarios, total public spending on medicines would actually fall if Canada\nhad a universal pharmacare system\nGovernment costs would be driven down by reducing the cost of medicines\nalready paid for under public drug programs - which currently cost taxpayers\nalmost $10 billion - and by reducing public spending on private insurance for\npublic sector employees - which currently costs taxpayers more than $2 billion\nCanada is the only developed country with a universal health care system that\ndoes not include prescription drug coverage\nWHERE ARE ALL THE SEAGULLS?\nThe number of seagulls in the Strait of Georgia is down by 50 per cent\nfrom the 1980s and UBC researchers say the decline reflects changes in\nthe availability of marine food\nResearchers collected 100 years of data on population numbers of\nGlaucous-winged Gulls, the most common seagull species found in the\nLower Mainland, Victoria, Nanaimo and elsewhere in the region. They found\nthat the population increased rapidly beginning in the early 1900s, but started\nto drop after the mid-1980s, with their investigation pointing to diet as one\nfactor in the decline of the bird's health\n\"These birds are the ultimate generalist - they can eat whatever's\naround,\" says the study's lead author Louise Blight. \"If they are experiencing\na population decline, the gulls may be telling us that there have been some\nfairly profound changes to local marine ecosystems.\"\nGulls historically relied on almost a purely marine diet, largely eating smal\nfish and shellfish, but over time moved to a diet that incorporated more foods\nfound on land, such as garbage and earthworms\n\"They're presumably turning to land-based prey\nsources because the things they prefer to eat are\ness available,\" says Blight, explaining that there\nare probably fewer forage fish in coastal waters,\nand less diversity among them, than was the case\nprior to industrial fishing - and that gulls need fish\nto breed successfully.\n\"Gulls are an indicator of our coastal marine\necosystems,\" she says. \"We need to be restoring\necosystems along the coast, and that includes\nrestoring fish populations.\"\nStudy co-author Peter Arcese, FRBC chair of\nconservation biology in the Faculty of Forestry, says reductions\nin marine food abundance and quality help explain why the population\nof two other bird species in the region, Marbled Murrelets and Western\nGrebes, have declined by 90 per cent since the 1950s and 70s, respectively.\n\"Our studies of marine bird populations in the Salish Sea showthat\nrestoration and management plans for the region can be improved by\nincorporating historical information on the causes of ecosystem change,\"\nhe says. D Top forensic dentist Dr. David Sweet,\noc, is all too familiar with the\ntragic aftermaths of violent crimes\nand natural disasters. And, more\nthan once, he has been forced\nto confront his own mortality.\nYet this gifted and compassionate\nscientist is as positive as they come.\nBY ROSEMARY ANDERSON, BA'74\nIt's well after midnight when a young waitress steps off the bus and walks\ntoward her apartment. Behind her, unheard and unseen, a man emerges\nfrom the shadows. Clamping a powerful hand over her mouth, he grabs\nthe woman and forces her at gunpoint into his car. Then he drives to\na secluded area on the outskirts of town where he viciously assaults her\nand dumps her body in the slow-running waters of a nearby creek. A few\nhours later, an early-morning jogger spies the woman's body submerged\nin shallow water near the edge of the creek.\nThe police find a phone and a shoe that they suspect belong to the\nvictim, but she has been beaten beyond recognition. They need to confirm\nher identity so they can trace her last hours and get on the killer's trail\nbefore it grows cold. The killer has also provided a vital clue: when attacking\nthe woman, he bit her left shoulder so hard that the pattern of his teeth is\nbranded in her flesh.\nWho do they call to positively identify the body and analyze the bite\nmark? A forensic odontologist.\nUBC associate dean and professor of dentistry Dr. David Sweet, DMD'y8,\nhas been on the receiving end of such calls numberless times. Since he\nbecame an odontologist (sometimes known as \"forensic dentist\"), he has\nbeen involved in more than 1000 real-life CSI cases and has seen evidence\nof the most depraved things human beings can do to one another.\nSweet got his first taste of forensic dentistry in the late 1970s when\nhe ran a general practice in Cranbrook, BC, his hometown. A police\nofficer called regarding a fatality in which a car had gone off the road and\nburst into flames. From the license plate, they knew who owned the car;\nhe was one of Dr. Sweet's patients. Would Sweet mind bringing in that\nperson's dental chart to see if he could positively identify the body?\nA gruesome scene greeted him at the morgue, one that his dentistry\ncourses had not prepared him for. But when the pathologist pulled back\nthe charred lips, the teeth were white as paper and perfectly intact. Teeth\nare the hardest substance in the human body and protected by enamel,\nmaking them resistant to fire. Sweet had done a crown for the man not\nlong before. \"You have a creativity that you do fillings with,\" he explains.\n\"You put supplemental anatomy in if you're really good at carving; when\nWALK SOFTLY\nWHEN YOU\nCARRY THE DEAD\"\nyou do a restoration you shape teeth exactly the way\nthey look when they're normal. I do all that. And I knew\nthis was my patient.\" There's excitement in his voice\nas he tells the story - it's the passion of one who has\nfound his calling in life.\nA trim, handsome man with a warm smile and\nsilver-gray hair, Sweet's positive energy is contagious\nand he looks the picture of health. But looks don't tell\nthe whole story.\nAt age 10, he was diagnosed as an insulin-dependent\ndiabetic. In those days it was not easy to maintain\nhealthy blood-sugar levels, and Sweet says that after\ndecades of insulin injections most people with diabetes\nwould develop challenging complications. But he took\n\"a scientific approach\" to his illness right from the get-go,\nwhich enabled him to carry on a full and active life while\nbalancing on the insulin tightrope behind the scenes.\nHe grew up around horses, haying and branding\nand riding in rodeos. He taught himself to ski, played\na mean game of hockey and baseball, and went hunting\nin the fall and ice-fishing in winter. In school, he won\nsports and academic awards, all the while holding down\nvarious jobs at school and around town. He even wo-\na photography contest with Canadian Living Magazine\nand, in his graduating year, was elected prime minister\nof his school.\nHis younger sister, Diane, says her brother always\nhad a strong work ethic. \"We were brought up that\nway, to do things well,\" she says. \"And when bad things\nhappened, you didn't wallow in it; you dealt with them\nand you carried on. That's Dave's conviction, t\nhis inner strength, and he never let the diabetes get\nthe best of him. He tried to stay in control of it rathe\nthan letting it take over, controlling him.\"\nIn 1982, biosynthetic human insulin was introduced, largely replacingthe beef- and pork-based\ntypes of insulin that, until then, were prevalent. Over time, it emerged that a significant percentage\nof people who use human insulin don't get symptoms, such as sweating and tremors, to warn\nthem when they're becoming hypoglycemic. Sweet was one of these people. Before long, his\nkidneys began to fail. He would soon have to go on dialysis, the doctors said, and then he'd need\na new kidney.\nSo in 1984 he sold his thriving practice and moved to Vancouver to be close to his physicians.\nHis reputation as an outstanding dentist preceded him, and he was promptly invited to teach in\nUBC's Faculty of Dentistry. \"I felt like I'd fallen into a big hole and come out smelling really good,\"\nhe says.\nWithin a couple of years, he won a UBC Dentistry teaching award. Despite this achievement,\nhe was informed that if he hoped to get tenure he'd have to specialize, develop a research portfolio,\nand build a lab. \"So they threw down this gauntlet in front of me,\" he says, \"but when I picked up\nthe forensic odontology gauntlet they said, 'Forensic what?!'\"\nForensic odontologists devote a lot of time to helping identify victims and perpetrators of\ncrime. As Sweet describes it, when a person has been \"erased and thrown away\" by a killer,\nhis team's main goal is to help repatriate that person to their family. They do this by confirming\nthe victim's identity through dental comparisons and bite-mark and DNA analysis, and by sharing\ntheir insights as to how the victim met their death. Painful though this knowledge is, it helps give\nclosure to those left behind.\nNot everyone is cut out for such work. In addition to extraordinary patience, fine motor skills,\nprecision, and accuracy, it demands a rare degree of resilience. Sweet has all of these, in spades. FEATURE \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 forensic dentistry\nHe had been in third-year sciences and on his way\ninto medical school when John Anderson, a teaching\nassistant in Dr. David Suzuki's genetics class, suggested he\nconsider dentistry. \"You've told me you like woodworking\nand you love building things with your hands, and you are\nvery good in the lab with your manual skills,\" Anderson\nsaid to him. \"Dentistry is a medical profession too. And,\nhere at UBC, you take medical courses for a couple of\nyears before you really start treatment in dentistry. I think\nyou'd thrive in something like that.\"\nTo this day, Sweet is grateful for the encouragement\nAnderson gave him. \"I love my work. The creativity,\nthe art as well as the science - it's just the perfect fit,\"\nhe says. \"Forensic odontology is like trying to solve\na jigsaw puzzle at the same time as reading a whodunit\nThe clues are coming in and there are different things\ngoing on, and you're trying to physically match these\nthings. It's a really cool, complex, unusual exercise.\"\nSweet has an inborn knack for recognizing patterns,\nan ability that is at the heart of forensic dentistry.\nBecause bite injuries are found in eight out of 10 sexua\nassault cases and homicide cases that involve physica\naltercation, the ability to match a bite mark conclusively\nwith a suspect's dentition can significantly influence\nthe court's decision to free or convict the suspect\nBut what happens to a person after they've been\nimmersed, day in and day out - for decades - in the\ninvestigation of heinous crimes? \"It's a very dark area,\ndealing with mutilated bodies and murders,\" says\nDr. Daniel Berant, a recent graduate of UBC's denta\nschool. He is amazed by Sweet's \"ability to see the\nhorrors of tragedies, murders and\nnatural catastrophes, and still get up\neach day and say, 'Life is beautiful.'\"\nSweet's hobbies are a huge\ncomponent of his coping strategy.\nWhether turning out the next project\nin his woodworking shop, or riding shotgun in a racecar\nwith a friend going full tilt around the track, or ziplining,\nwhich he likens to flying, or quietly skimming the waves\non a friend's sailboat, he's having so much fun that\nit leaves no room in his mind for the bad stuff.\nThe BOLD lab (Bureau of Legal\nDentistry) places Canada at the\nforefront of forensic dental science.\nHis deep respect for those who have died also keeps him grounded. \"Do you walk softly\nwhen you carry the dead?\" he asks, often, of colleagues and students. It's more a statement\nthan a question\n\"It's the code he lives by- being respectful of the person,\" says colleague Dr. Dirk van der\nMeer, DMD'92. \"Even though he has to approach them scientifically, which requires an unbiased,\nalmost cold manner, there's still the human element that he never forgets.\"\nVan der Meer regards him as both friend and mentor. \"In forensics circles around the world,\nDavid Sweet is the 'gold standard' - he's the person you go to for the final answer, and he always\nhas it.\"\nThose who know Sweet were not surprised when, in 2008, he was awarded the Order of\nCanada to acknowledge the revolutionary forensic techniques he developed and his untiring\nservice on behalf of victims of crime and mass disasters\nAnd, just a few months ago, he was awarded the Canadian Forces Medallion for Distinguished\nService, the highest award the military can confer on civilians. For years, Sweet has provided\ntraining for Canadian military forensic dentists at his UBC lab, which the Armed Forces have\nselected as the \"touchstone\" of excellence for this country's military dentists to emulate. He also\nprovides Canada's military forensic dentists with detailed advice, tailored to their specific mission,\nevery time they deploy to the site of a mass disaster or armed conflict\nSweet seems indomitable, even in the context of his own health. It was 1984 when doctors\ntold him the day would soon come when he'd need a kidney transplant; he carried on for more\nthan 16 years before that day arrived\nDuring those intervening years, he built\nUBC's Bureau of Legal Dentistry lab (BOLD lab),\nwhich was tasked with education, research, and\nforensic dentistry cases; he worked on hundreds\nof murder cases; he invented a technique for\ngetting DNA out of teeth, making BOLD the place of choice to which police agencies across Canada\nsend teeth and bones for forensic analysis; he founded the British Columbia Forensic Odontology\nResponse Team (BC-FORT), a 90-member core group of dentists, hygienists and certified denta\nassistants trained to respond effectively in the event of a mass disaster in Canada or internationally;\nand he earned a PhD (cumlaude) in forensic medicine from the University of Granada, Spain,\nwhere he invented a method that\nenhances DNA recovery from\nscant traces of saliva left on skin\nnear bite wounds.\nWhen, at last, Sweet went on\nthe waiting list for a kidney, a young\ngeneral surgeon approached him\nThe surgeon said he had recently\nearned how to transplant a pancreas\nand wanted Sweet to get a new\none along with a new kidney.\nBite injuries are found in eight out of\n10 sexual assault cases and homicide\ncases that involve physical altercation\n\"You can't kid me,\" Sweet retorted. \"I've dissected a body in medical/dental school, and I know\nwhat a pancreas is like - it's like snot. It doesn't have a cortex. You can't tease a duct and a vein and\nan artery out of a pancreas. You can't transplant it!\"\n\"You leave that to me,\" the surgeon replied\nSo it was that, on June 25,2001, the family of a young accident victim generously enabled Sweet\nto receive the new kidney he so desperately needed, together with a new pancreas, \"and a switch\nwas flipped.\" No longer diabetic, to this day his blood tests are perfect. A couple of years later, the new\nkidney became irreparably diseased, so a forensics colleague - so close a match it was like they were\nbrothers - gave him one more lease on life. \"His name is John King, and John is a king, and then some.\"\nSweet had barely recovered from his second kidney transplant when he was asked to head up\nthe Canadian forensic dentists' response to the 2004 tsunami in Thailand. He served in this capacity\nfor 239 consecutive days and so impressed other scientists at INTERPOL that they elected him chief\nscientist in INTERPOL'S Disaster Victim Identification section, a position he held until a new illness\nforced him to step down\nAlthough Sweet was cured of diabetes and his new kidney stayed healthy, life had even fiercer\nblows to deal him. In 2011, he was diagnosed with cancer. With typical unflinching courage, he\nsubmitted to surgery and chemotherapy and recovered. But one year later, to the day, his oncologist\nphoned with bad news: it appeared the cancer was back. This time it was inoperable. The diagnosis?\nRecurrent metastatic adenocarcinoma. Sweet would be dead within six months\nBut Sweet was not about to give up. For five weeks, with his wholehearted encouragement,\ndoctors dialled up the \"chemical warfare\" to the maximum possible dosage. Then, for five more\nweeks, they bombarded him with an extremely high level of radiation, administered almost daily.\n\"He had such an upbeat, positive attitude the whole time,\" says van der Meer, \"and this stee\ndetermination to beat the disease.\"\nAfter the onslaught on his body, there was nothing to be done but wait for an interminable three\nmonths until his tissues could recover sufficiently for a follow-up scan. It was time for the bucket list\nHe wentziplining and snorkelling\nwith his wife, and he got strong\n\"I have a very deep belief,\"\nSweet says, \"that the power\nof the mind and the power of\npositive thinking can overcome\nthings by setting up the body\nand the personality for success.\"\nHe shares a personal story\nto illustrate the point:\n\"I was in a cove in Hawaii with my wife, Chris. We were snorkelling, looking at giant green sea turtles\nwas watching a female turtle that was lying on the bottom. She decided to come up. I guess she was\ngoing to take a breath of air, but when she saw me swimming above her she came up and looked at me\nreally close, right into my eyes. I had to swim backwards so as not to touch her. Then she popped up\nand had a breath and looked around. And then I went up, too.\"\nA Polynesian man on shore asked Sweet what he had seen. Hearing the story, he exclaimed, \"That's\nincredible!\" and added, \"In our faith, the sea turtle means two things: peacefulness, and longevity.\"\nSweet clung to this as a sign that he was going to be okay. \"I hadn't had my PET scan yet,\" he says,\nknocking loudly on the wooden table he's seated at\nA few weeks after their snorkelling adventure, he and his wife were sitting in the oncologist's\noffice, reading the pathology report. \"I had to refer back to the original scans to confirm the size and\nlocation of the tumor,\" the pathologist had written, \"because nothing is visible on the current scan\nCompletely resolved.\"\nDr. David Sweet had fallen down yet another deep hole and come out smelling great\nThe BOLD lab relies on donations to fund its research. To find out more about the work of the BOLD lab,\nor to make a donation, please visit: www.boldlab.ubc.ca D\nWhen the pathologist pulled back\nthe charred lips, the teeth were white\nas paper and perfectly intact. Teeth I\nare the hardest substance in the ^H\nhuman body and protected by enamel,\nmaking them resistant to fire.\nHIGH-PROFILE CRIMES\nIn 2007, pig farmer Robert Pickton\nwas convicted of murder as part of the\ninvestigation into the missing women of\nVancouver's Downtown Eastside. It used to\nbe that scientists needed at least two-gram\nsamples of bone to extract genomic DNA,\nbut bone fragments police found on Pickton's\nfarm were smaller than this. So Sweet devised\na method requiring just one gram, and was\nable to extract DNA matching that of six of\nthe missing women. Pickton was convicted\nof all six murders.\nThe skeletal remains of two children -\nthe \"Babes in the Woods\" - were discovered\nin Stanley Park in 1953. A doctor identified\nthem as a boy and girl, aged about six and\neight, and estimated that they had died in 1947.\nWitnesses came forward, recalling disquieting\nscenes of a couple seen first with two boys -\none playing with a hatchet - and a little later\nwithout the boys. Police dismissed the leads.\nIn 1997, a Vancouver police officer obtained\nthe children's remains from the Police\nMuseum, where they were on display, and took\nthem to the BOLD lab. When Sweet extracted\npulp from the teeth, using the freezer-mill\nDNA recovery method he had invented, he\nfound that the children were both boys and\nthat they shared the same mother but had\ndifferent fathers. The case remains unsolved.\nIn 1995, Sweet earned a PhD in forensic\nmedicine for an innovative double-swab\ntechnique he developed to retrieve DNA\nfrom human bite injuries. Shortly after, the\npolice contacted him at BOLD to analyze\na bite mark on the body of Tanya Smith,\nwho was murdered by the \"Abbotsford Killer.\"\nThe police did not yet know about his new\ntechnique. Although Smith's body had been\nimmersed in the Vedder River more than five\nhours, Sweet's swabbing method enabled\nhim to recover the killer's salivary DNA from\nthe bite wound, sealing the case against the\nkiller. The technique he invented has become\nknown as \"Sweet Swabbing,\" and bite marks\n- potentially yielding the biter's DNA - are\ncalled \"Sweet Spots.\" s Yours\nWelcome to the Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre, your home for\nlife in the heart of our Vancouver campus - inspired by UBC's\nunique modernist tradition of campus architecture. A LEED\nGold sustainable structure, it features expansive glass walls\nand extensive use of Douglas Fir and Western Red Cedar in\nthe public spaces of the interior, providing a warm and distinctl\nWest Coast home for current, past and future students.\nStarting with a conversation in 1999 and 16 years in the making\nthe centre was imagined and driven by alumni volunteers and J\nfunded, in part, through the generous donations of more than\n1,000 UBC grads. Its primary purpose is as a meeting place where\nalumni can learn, mentor, network and celebrate. The venue\nwill be the host space for alumni UBC lectures, social events and\ncontinuing education. There are seven different function spaces,\neach designed for unique needs and all available for rental with\npreferred rates for alumni. The facility also includes the Graham\nLee Innovation Centre and vie Wong-Trainor Welcome Centre,\nmaking it the front door for everyone who visits campus.\nInside, an exciting experience awaits in more than 40,000 square\nfeet of space that includes exhibits and an interactive display\nchronicling UBC's history and the achievements of its alumni.\nalumnicentre.ub\nWELCOME CENTRE\nOur friendly and informative\nstaff in the Wong-Trainor\nWelcome Centre will\nintroduce you to the rich\nscope of campus activities\nand help plan your day.\nLOAFE CAFE\nOpening in June, Loafe\nCafe brings a fresh\nconcept to campus.\nIt will offer made-\nto-order gourmet\nsandwiches, vibrant\nseasonal salads,\nhomemade soups,\nartisan local roasted\ncoffee and fresh baked\ngoods. Did we mention\nCartemsdonuts?\nMAKE A PERMANENT IMPRESSION IN YOUR NEW CAMPUS HOME\nTime is running out! The once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see your name on the stunning Points of Light\ndonor wall in the new Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre ends soon. Donate $1,000 or more and your name will\nbe included on the donor wall, located in the main floor atrium. Visit alumnicentre.ubc.ca/points-of-light 1\nZ!m\\nfcl i w\nvja\nf-*\u00C2\u00BBr\ni\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nWith your help\ni\n^MhutfyM\n\u00C2\u00AB\"#\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nJACK POOLE HALL An expans/Ve glass-walled space for\nup to 300, for meetings, and celebration lunches or dinners.\nILp ^*' ^\" w/'fh a commanding view over the UBC campus.\nF\n1 ^ ' -^\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0, \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nv,u\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 - \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n^i\nfill\nasj\n:\nr\nWALTER C. KOERNER FAMILY TERRACE LOUNGE\nA welcoming space with comfortable modern-classic\nfurniture and access to the top floor balcony.\nROBERT H. LEE FAMILY BOARDROOM An impressive\nsetting on the third floor with a large U-shaped table that\ncan seat 32, with state-of-the-art audio/visual capacity.\nover 300,000 UBC alumni\nWith the support of UBC alumni worldwide, UBC and alumni UBC are building a home for alumni to reconnect\nwith their alma mater and each other. The new Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre will foster entrepreneurship,\nnetworking, mentoring and lifelong learning. To help the new Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre become a vital and\nvibrant space, we invite your support, alumnicentre.ubc.ca\nO ROGERS\nMicrosoft\nHSBC\nUBC\nW\nRobert H. Lee\nAlumni Centre\nalur liuBC \"If 43 students can go missing in a town in Guerrero, there's no reason why\n43 students from the university I teach at could not go missing tomorrow,\"\nsays Rodolfo Franco, a part-time faculty member at Tec de Monterrey,\nas he gravely describes the human rights situation in Mexico. The country\nis on edge. It has been entrenched in a drug war for nearly a decade,\nand lately it's become apparent that anyone could be a kidnapping target\nThe 43 young men he's referring to are the students from the Raul Isidro\nBurgos Rural Teachers College of Ayotzinapa who disappeared from the\ntown of Iguala last September. The case made international headlines\nand led to massive street protests in Mexico City and across the country\nas citizens demanded answers. Although mass kidnappings are not\nuncommon in Mexico, this case was different for a couple reasons. First,\nthese students were not involved with the area's drug cartels. And second,\nfrom the beginning it was widely suspected that local authorities had played\na major role in their disappearance. Although dozens of arrests have been\nmade and at least one student's charred remains have been identified, many\nquestions still linger. There's a pervasive feeling that the federal government\n\"The government will never\ncome to terms with the idea that\nthis is a humanitarian crisis, and\nI think they're very worried about\ntheir international reputation.\"\nonly investigated the disappearances because the\ncase was receiving so much international attention\nThe official version of events (that the students were\nlikely killed after being handed over to a drug cartel by\ncorrupt members of local law enforcement) is not fully\naccepted. The families of the missing men, along with\narge segments of the Mexican population, still believe\nthe government is hiding something\nTheir distrust is a result of deep flaws in Mexico's\njustice system. Over the past decade, more than\n27,000 people have gone missing across the country.\nWhile some are eventually unearthed in mass graves,\nofficial investigations are seldom thorough and\nmost cases are never solved. Many families are\neft wondering what happened to their loved ones\nand unable to get closure\nFranco, who is the director of strategy and fund\nprocurement for the recently formed Mexican NGO\nGobernanza Forense Ciudadana (citizen-led forensics),\noffers his perspective on why these cases are not often\ninvestigated. \"At the local level it is a clear issue of\ncorruption,\" he says. \"Police forces are certainly mixed\nwith criminal organizations, and sometimes they're\nat their service.\"\nWhile corruption explains why many individua\ncases are not investigated, the scale of the problem\nsuggests a system-wide failure at the federal leve\nis also to blame. \"I think it's a matter of capacities\nand organization,\" Franco says. He explains that the\noffice of the attorney general regularly tells him that\nthe government's DNA database will soon have the\ncapacity to distinguish between DNA samples from\ndiscovered remains and from the families of the missing,\nmaking comprehensive cross-referencing and potentia\nidentification possible. Although this would be a step\nin the right direction, he finds it unbelievable that the\ndatabase could have ever been designed without this\nfunction in mind\nFranco, whose graduate studies at UBC focused on\nhuman rights norms and the limitations of human rights\nsystems, suspects the federal government has other\nreasons why it's unwilling to investigate the thousands\nof missing persons cases that exist in the country.\n\"I think the general perception is that this is regular\ncrime,\" he says. \"The government will never come to terms with the idea\nthat this is a humanitarian crisis, and I think they're very worried about their\ninternational reputation.\" Because of this, he explains, the government's\nrecent focus has been on crisis management instead of on building the\ninstitutions, rules and norms required to combat the underlying problems\nRegardless of the reasons, the families of missing people are not looking\nfor excuses. They want answers. And in the absence of rigorous official\ninvestigations, citizens have begun investigating cases themselves. It was\nthis reality that drove Franco and some friends from his undergraduate\nuniversity to recognize the potential for a citizen-driven approach\nto combatting the corruption, arbitrariness and lack of investigative\ntransparency surrounding Mexico's missing people. His friends founded\nGobernanza Forense Ciudadana (GFC) in 2012 with this purpose in mind,\nto provide resources and a collaborative forum for families searching for\noved ones\nFranco explains that each state has its own definition of \"disappearance\"\nand its own forensic system. Because of this, jurisdictional issues can\nbe a barrier to investigations. If someone disappears in Monterrey, for\nexample, and their family lives in Mexico City, the authorities would open\nan investigation and begin their search in Mexico City. After a few enquiries,\nhe says, they might discover that it's impossible to gain access to remains\nin Monterrey, or that local authorities won't cooperate. As a result, these\ninvestigations don't lead anywhere. \"There are families that watch the news\nevery day to find out if a mass grave has been opened somewhere in the\ncountry, just so they can travel there and file a new complaint in that new\njurisdiction,\" Franco says FEATURE \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 Citizen-led forensics\nyslNOsonsusrestos?\nDesaparecida\nSPruebagentticaNl-\nIn the face of these bureaucratic hurdles, and the\nfact that they rarely have access to remains themselves,\nfamilies have been forced to pursue creative avenues\nin their investigations. When Franco's friends conducted\ntheir feasibility study and started contacting families\nof missing people to see what they had been able to\naccomplish on their own, they were surprised. \"We\nrealized that they had been very thorough with their\ninvestigations,\" he says. Family members were learning\nabout GPS technologies - contacting mobile phone\ncompanies to get data on the last known whereabouts\nof their loved one - and would often go to coffee shops\nand convenience stores to retrieve security tapes as\npart of their timeline reconstructions\n\"We realized there was a lot of knowledge among\ncitizens,\" he says, \"but there were some problems.\"\nFirst of all, the authorities seemed reluctant to listen\nto or act upon the information gathered by families\nSecond, the families were disorganized and not\nexchanging information. It was clear they needed\na way to work together and leverage their collective\nforensic knowledge to pressure the government to act\nRecognizing this, GFC created an online Nationa\nCitizen Registry of Disappeared Persons in order to\nstart identifying families of missing people. They then\ngot to work developing their idea for a citizen-controlled\nDNA Biobank using mail-in DNA sample kits, like those\nthat are used for paternity tests. Franco explains that\nthe team wanted to build the Biobank using basic,\naccessible technologies in order to demonstrate to\nthe government how simple the task should be, given\nproper organization. \"These Biobanks should be used\nto make massive cross-references of non-identified\nbodies and families that are searching for their relatives,\" he says. \"Once the Biobank is built and\nthere is a critical mass of samples in it, we'd be able to argue due diligence and the government\nwould be obligated to use the Biobank as a tool of investigation.\"\nAlthough building the Biobank is GFC's main objective, the organization also holds workshops\nwith the families of missing persons to educate them about forensic DNA so they are more\neffective at holding government officials accountable. GFC often hears from families who have\ncontested the government's DNA results and requested DNA reports, but received no response\nThen, after filing petitions for more information, they discover no proof in the investigation file\nto suggest their DNA samples had been taken in the first place. \"The way we see it,\" Franco says,\n\"the Mexican government will only be able to present legitimate and credible results insofar\nas they open up the forensic processes and explain how they get the results they get.\" He says\nthat for this to happen, civil society organizations need to monitor the government and pressure\nthem to change their processes\nEXPERT INSIGHT: MFXirO'^ MISSING STNDFNTS\nBy Glenn Drexhage\nNear the end of September 2014,43 students went missing in the Mexican town of\nIguala. Reports indicated that the students were murdered, their bodies burned - another\ntragic turn of events in a country that has endured horrific violence and state corruption.\nIn December, Agustin Goenaga, a Mexican doctoral candidate in UBC's Department of\nPolitical Science, discussed the disappearance, examined its implications for Mexican\ndemocracy and highlighted a Canadian angle.\nViolence has plagued Mexico in recent years, yet the disappearance of the 43 students\nhas produced a particularly strong reaction. Why?\nThese developments challenge the narrative that victims of violence are involved in\nillegal activities. If innocent civilians are targeted, they're viewed as collateral damage.\nWhat's different now is that the 43 students had absolutely no ties with organized crime.\nThis is something that even the attorney general has publicly stated.\nSecond, the first actors involved in this crime were local police forces, following orders\nof Iguala's mayor. They were the ones who opened fire against students, arrested them,\ndetained them and allegedly handed them overto members of a criminal organization\nto torture and execute.\nFranco is starting to see small signs of progress\nin this regard. He talks proudly of a GFC member in\nthe state of Guerrero who recently stood up in a public\nforum and questioned the government's DNA sampling\npractices based on knowledge she learned at a GFC\nworkshop. \"She was able to tell these people that they\nwere sampling the wrong family members, because\n[this particular case, which involved identifying an older\nindividual, required] a special mix of DNA samples, and\nnot necessarily the ones they were taking.\" He says that\nGuerrero's government is beginning to understand that\ncitizens are demanding more accountability and have\nlittle tolerance for superficial investigations that are\nonly conducted for appearances' sake\nIt's a small step, and there's still a lot of work to\nbe done. GFC has funding to collect 1,500 samples\nand aims to have the Biobank populated with complete DNA\nprofiles for at least 500 missing person cases by the end of this\nyear; an organized group of citizens will have accomplished a task\nthat the government, with all of its resources and expertise, has not\nAlthough Franco hasn't had anyone close to him disappear, he knows he is not immune\nand feels a moral obligation to continue the work. He is also driven by compassion. Late\nlast year in Monterrey, with the help of a Peruvian team of forensic anthropologists, GFC\nperformed the first independent citizen-led exhumation. For a number of reasons, the family\nof missing woman Brenda Damaris Gonzalez Solis had serious doubts about the identity of\nthe remains that the government had given them. Following the exhumation, GFC was able\nto conduct DNA tests that definitively proved the remains were those of their daughter.\nAlthough the news was heartbreaking, this family could finally reach some sense of closure\n\"It's not all about finding what the government does wrong,\" Franco says. \"It's also about\nproviding families with a scientific basis to mourn.\" D\nTrek heard about Citizen-Led Forensics Mexico when information about the project was\nadded to yourevolution.ubc.ca, a purpose-built website where alumni and other members\nof the UBC community can publicize the socially beneficial projects in which they are involved.\nnm ;'i'H'#11\nHow have the government and opposition parties responded?\nThe president has started a new nationwide strategy to combat\norganized crime, and deal with conflicts of interest and corruption\namongst public officials.\nThe brunt of the new program is an initiative to dismantle municipal\npolice forces, and create 32 forces at the state level, as an attempt to\nfight the corruption of local police officers.\nIn many municipalities, local police forces are indeed the most\nvulnerable to corruption. But dismantling them also removes actors\nwho historically served as mediators in illegal activities, managingthe\nviolent escalation of small conflicts in this ad hoc way.\nThere is also an assumption that corruption does not touch the state\nor federal levels. This is false. Former state governors, national union\nleaders and federal secretaries of state face accusations of corruption.\nEven President Pena Nieto is trapped in a conflict-of-interest scandal.\nWhat are the implications for Mexican democracy?\nCivil society has mobilized in ways unseen until now. We've had\ndemonstrations in the streets all over Mexico and around the world.\nThese events are serving as a trigger for civil society to push the\npolitical parties to be more responsive. Maybe there is also the potential\nfor a new coalition of political forces to emerge.\nA recent Vancouver protest highlighted concerns about Canada placing\nMexico on a so-called \"safe list.\" Can you expand?\nImmigration Canada put that decision in place in February 2013.\nThis was based on the idea that it has limited resources to deal with\nclaims for asylum and refugee status. The implications are that Mexicans\npotentially asking for asylum will face higher obstacles to achieve that.\nThe justification for placing Mexico on the \"safe list\" comes from\nthe way the Mexican administrations have presented themselves to\nthe international community: as defenders of human rights that are\ntrying to implement and enforce the ruleoflaw-andinthe process\nare facing an escalation of violence.\nBut the recent events put this image of the Mexican state in question.\nThe state has not proven itself capable of defending human rights,\nprotecting vulnerable populations or prosecuting violations. In the\nstudents' case, the state was actually the perpetrator of those crimes. your evolution\nDoing your bit to change the world*:\n^\nstartanevolution.ca\nyour evolution is a unique project-sharing platform that supports the many ways the 300,000-strong global alumni community\nis changing the world for the better. It allows the UBC community to share details of socially beneficial projects and connect with fellow alumni,\nstudents, staff, faculty, volunteers and donors to find supporters and inspire others to make a difference. Launched in 2014, the website offers\nmany ways for projects to gain exposure as well as occasional competitions, the latest of which ran this spring. Participants stood to win a social\nentrepreneurship kit - including a professionally produced video or photography session to help promote their cause, and mentoring sessions with\nUBC experts, your evolution has already helped support approximately 300 projects. Its next iteration will have a matchmaking function, allowing\nUBC social entrepreneurs to seek out volunteers with specific skill sets, as well as non-financial support such as equipment and meeting space.\nIf you're involved in a worthwhile initiative and want to support it by tapping into your UBC network, it's time to visit yourevolution.ubc.ca\nRUNNERS UP\nMorogoro Youth Development Initiative | A movement to educate and\nempower young people through their involvement in positive community change.\nSwimSignal | A system that facilitates navigation in the pool for visually\nimpaired and blind swimmers.\nREACH Initiative | An innovative program designed to engage, inform,\nand educate the community with the goal of improving palliative, end-of-life,\nand bereavement care.\nProject Hands | A Canadian-based non-profit organization that has organized\nsurgical missions to provide otherwise unavailable care to indigenous populations\nin rural regions of Guatemala.\nMotivate Canada | An initiative that is giving young people the tools, training,\nand confidence to make a difference in their lives and communities.\nU BC Stem Cell Club | The first student-run group worldwide that has been\naccredited to independently run stem cell drives in order to strengthen the\nquantity and quality of membership on the Canadian stem cell donor database.\nPsychiatric genetic counselling clinic | The world's first psychiatric genetic\ncounselling clinic was launched in 2012.\n#IAmAntiBully: a movement to say NO to bullying | A group of UBC alumni\nwho made a commitment to raise awareness of and counter bullying.\nBumala Sewing Project | A project that aims to support the development\nof marketable skills, such as tailoring and small business management among\nyoung African women in their local community.\nCOMPETITION WINNER: Help! Teeth Hurt\nJoan Rush is on a humanitarian mission. She is calling on the BC government to fulfill what she views\nas its legal and moral duty to provide timely and adequate dental care to adults with developmenta\ndisabilities. She describes the current lack of access to care as a crisis and in 2013 published a report\ncontaining her recommendations for addressing the shortfall\nAs someone who has spent the past 10 years trying to secure much-needed dental care for her\n28-year-old son, Graeme, who was diagnosed with severe autism at the age of three, Rush has had\nfirst-hand experience navigating the complex, multiple-agency care system. She also holds a master's\nin health law from UBC\nGraeme does not speak, read or write. Throughout his childhood, he received the specialized\nhealth and dental care his condition requires at BC Children's Hospital. Rush says her son received\nexcellent care there from paediatric dentists who were trained to deal with children with specia\nneeds. But when Graeme turned 17, he was referred to Vancouver General Hospital for his dental care\ninstead. It would mark the start of a struggle in which Rush felt she was pitted against a system that\nsimply was not set up to serve her son\nShortly after the referral to adult care, Rush was told Graeme would need to go on a waiting list of\nat least two years to complete dental surgery that had been recommended by BC Children's Hospital\nLike many adults with serious developmental disabilities, Graeme requires general anaesthesia for\neven routine treatments due to complexities associated with his disability.\nThere is no specialized dental clinic with general anaesthesia capability at\nVGH,and patients like Graeme are typically referred to the UBC Hospita\nfor dental surgery. Since there is no clinic dedicated to special needs denta\ncare there (or anywhere in BC), Rush says there is inevitably a long wait for\nOperating Room time. Meanwhile, serious dental problems were developing\nunder Graeme's gum line, undetected\nBy 2006, he had started to beat his own face, especially the area around\nhis right ear. \"We went to many specialists,\" says Rush. \"He had started\nhaving progressively more severe seizures. His neurologist thought he had\nbeen tipped into the seizures from the pain. Graeme's GP was eventually\nprescribing pure codeine to deal with the pain.\" Graeme's parents always suspected the head-hitting\nwas caused by dental pain, but Rush says Graeme's VGH dentist at the time insisted there was no link\nand kept him on the waiting list. Even after mental health specialists ruled out psychosis as a basis\nfor the head-hitting, concluding it probably related to dental pain, Graeme's dentist was reluctant\nto accept this analysis and allow him to access immediate care. When Rush later transferred him\nto another VGH dentist, she met with similar resistance\n\"I couldn't believe what I was hearing, and my kid was killing himself!\" says Rush. Although\nthere are private general anaesthesia clinics in BC, Graeme was having too many seizures at the\ntime to meet their criteria for treatment. Thinking she had run out of options, Rush threatened to\nsue and Graeme was admitted to UBC Hospital for surgery in early 2008. Under his gum line, the\ndentist found two severely infected teeth and several large cavities that she had previously failed to\ndiagnose. He ended up having five root canals completed\nby an endodontist during 2008 and 2009. His right ear is\npermanently deformed as a result of him beating his head\nRush is prepared to accept that Graeme's case is an\nanomaly. Had proper X-rays been taken, routine in most\ndental offices, the tooth decay would not have gone\nundetected and he may have been admitted for surgery\nsooner. But she also believes the failure to provide adequate\ncare was down to a lack of special needs dentistry training\nwithin the profession. Unlike countries such as Australia\nand the UK, Canada does not recognize a specialization in\nspecial needs dentistry. In addition, there is only one program\n(in Toronto) offering a specialization in dental anaesthesia,\nand Rush says more such programs would allow more\npatients to be treated in the community, freeing up precious\nhospital Operating Room time for more complex cases.\nRush acknowledges that the Canadian undergraduate denta\ncurriculum is already packed, and it's difficult for instructors,\nwho themselves never received such training, to include it\nin the agenda. It would also cost a lot of money to establish\nand there are many other important needs to address\n\"On the other hand,\" she says, \"they do find time to teach\nabout cosmetic dental procedures and some other types of\ntreatment that are extraordinarily expensive and financially\nout of reach for the average Canadian.\"\nThe shortage of professionals with specialized training\nbecame more apparent when, over the period from 2009\nto 2013, VGH could not locate a prosthodontist who could\nfit Graeme with crowns under general anaesthetic. Without\ncrowns after the root canals, there was a danger some of\nGraeme's teeth would crumble. He had started hitting his\nface again - enough to black his eye. Rush found a third\nVGH dentist who was prepared to at least repair the teeth\nAgain, they faced difficulty getting Operating Room time\nand again Rush threatened to sue. During surgery, the\ndentist discovered a tooth on the lower right that was too\ndamaged to save and had to be extracted, as well as an\ninfection in the jawbone that Rush suspects was caused\nby the delay accessing care\nThis dentist supported Rush as she campaigned\nto find a specialist able to fit her son with crowns\nOtherwise, he said, Graeme was likely to lose more teeth\nThey found a recent UBC prosthodontics grad who had\npreviously treated adults with developmental disabilities\nunder general anaesthesia in Alberta. He was excellent,\nsays Rush, but after he placed the first two crowns during\n2014, he could not secure more time in the Operating Room\nto finish the recommended treatment plan and resigned\nhis hospital privileges in frustration. Rush was distraught, but\nbecause Graeme's seizures were now well under control,\ntheywereabletoget him into a private general anaesthesia\nclinic. The same prosthodontist treated him there instead\n- at a cost of thousands of dollars. The last two of eight\ngold crowns were cemented into place this May.\nNot every adult with developmental disabilities\ncan count on such a capable advocate, nor has parents\nin a position to pay for private treatment. In fact, says\nRush, there is a high correlation between developmenta\ndisability and poverty - and this applies to the disabled\nindividuals' families as well as themselves. Couple this\nwith a provincial dental plan for adults with disabilities\nthat pays approximately 60 per cent of the treatment\nfees recommended by the BC Dental Association, and\nyou have a situation where there is little financial incentive\nfor dentists to treat this patient group. \"According to\nthe executive director of the BC Dental Association,\nin many cases the coverage is less than 60 per cent,\"\nsays Rush. \"But dentists' average overhead is 60, so\nif they take a patient with a disability who can be treated\nin a community dental office - fairly high functioning\nadults with a developmental disability - they are actually\ndoing it at a loss. Typically those adults take more time,\nand there's no extra fee allowed under the provincial plan.\"\nIt had become clear to Rush that there was a gaping\nhole in terms of care provision, so she decided to advocate\non behalf of the whole developmentally disabled adult\ncommunity. \"In breach of their human rights, I think,\npeople are denied treatment that can be described as\nnothing other than critically needed healthcare - except that our weird healthcare system separates\nout dentistry,\" says Rush, pointing out suspected links between oral infection and serious physical\nailments, such as diabetes and heart disease. \"I assumed that if I raised this issue, they would fix it.\nWhat an idiot I was. More or less, everyone ignored me and said it may be a problem but there isn't\nany money and there's nothing we can do. There's no help we can give. I could not believe that we\ncould be so callous towards a group of people who have no ability to assist themselves otherwise\nIf they can't be treated except under general anaesthesia, and you haven't provided a genera\nanaesthesia facility, and you haven't provided enough coverage to get them treated, they're going\nto lose a lot of teeth and suffer a lot of pain. We are truly mistreating this group and there must be\nan obligation here.\"\nHer preliminary analysis of current health law indicted to Rush that there was indeed a legal\nobligation. She applied to the Law Foundation of BC for funding to research and produce a report with\nrecommendations for the provincial government. UBC law students provided assistance with lega\nand historical research. A UBC library science student confirmed the report's citations and references.\nPublished in 2013, the report draws attention to the issue and calls for adequate coverage, training,\nand the establishment in BC of a clinic dedicated to treating adults with developmental disabilities\nUntil the situation changes, Rush will keep campaigning. That's why she added details about her\ninitiative- Help! Teeth Hurt- to alumni UBC's your evolution website. She never expected to win\nthe competition, yet her submission rapidly attracted 1,000 votes to take the prize\nShe thinks others identified with her situation. \"You have no idea how many emails I got from\npeople asking if I can help them to get their son or daughter with a developmental disability access\nto dental care. It's been very revealing to me just how people struggle. People phone me in tears,\nknow how they feel. There's no question the disability community\nis very united in believing this is critically needed.'\nBut Rush thinks it'sthe photo of Graeme\nfeatured on the your evolution website that\nhelped her nail it. \"It's a very engaging photo -\nit focuses on his smile.\" And how is Graeme\nthese days? \"He hasn't hit his face again since\nthe last of his treatments were completed,\" says\nRush. \"He is as happy as a lark. The difference\nin his life between good dental care and lack\nof access to dental care is 180 degrees.\"\nRush's report, Help! Teeth Hurt: Government's\nObligation to Provide Timely Access to Denta\nTreatment to B.C. Adults Who Have Developmental\nDisabilities: A Legal Analysis, is available to read online. HEARING\nThe multiple Oscar-winning picture Birdman earned praise for its highly\nchoreographed visual technique, star Michael Keaton's physical performance,\nand its multi-layered narrative. But to Natasha Merrick, who identifies\nas someone who hears voices, the movie offered a new way of looking at\nmental illness. While movies and books often portray psychosis as a sign\nof a character's tragic descent, Birdman offers a more complex view. \"Most\npeople have very fixed ideas of mental illness,\" she says. \"It means the person\nis not thinking in the correct way, and they need to be fixed, stopped, and\ntaken care of. But this movie is showing [Michael Keaton's character, Riggan]\nin an expanded state where he's able to experience magic and also find\nmeaning and connection.\"\nYears earlier, Riggan starred as Birdman in a Hollywood blockbuster series\nAs he tries to mount his own adaptation of a Raymond Carver short story\non Broadway, a series of backstage mishaps and personal dramas threaten\nto upend his show. He is taunted by the voice of Birdman, but he also levitates,\nmoves objects with his mind, and flies. \"He's having magical thinking, but\nhe knows the world doesn't see him that way,\" Merrick says. \"People with\npsychosis have that dichotomy, and it's very stressful. I think that's what\nmakes you crazy, is that split between your inner and your outer life. What\nhe needs is to achieve balance, to be able to work within that state of mind.\"\nThrough the lens of magical realism, the film doesn't make a distinction\nbetween hallucination and reality, but focuses instead on the meaning of\nRiggan's otherworldly experience. That's essentially the philosophy of Hearing\nVoices, a grassroots movement started in the 1980s by Dutch psychiatrist\nMarius Romme. Prompted by a patient experiencing auditory hallucinations\nwho argued that the content of her voices mattered, he began to explore the\nidea that hearing voices is more than a symptom of disease that should be\ntreated with medication\nToday, the Hearing Voices network is an international organization with\ngroups in many countries. Hearing Voices groups are facilitated by a voice\nhearer and usually a health professional, and while different groups vary\nin their methods, the basic idea is for people to learn to engage with their\nvoices and gain power over them. Controversy has often followed the groups\nbecause they are perceived as being anti-medication (some are, and others\ncall themselves \"pro-choice\"). Tanya Luhrmann, an anthropologist at Stanford\nUniversity who has written widely on the movement, describes the origins like\nthis: \"What Romme noticed was that attributing meaning to voices had made\na difference to someone who was hearing them. By the psychiatric standards\nof the time, this was shocking. In the new biological psychiatry, which had\nbegun to dominate the profession in Europe and America in the 1970s, voices\nwere symptoms of psychotic illness in the same way that a sore throat was\na symptom of flu... In biomedical psychiatry, mental health professionals ask\nwhether the patient hears voices, not what the voices say.\"\nFor almost three years, Merrick led a Hearing Voices group in North\nVancouver. Her own experience of mental illness began in her late teens,\nwhen she started feeling a hand on her shoulder. A fewyears later she began\nto hear voices. It started with one child's voice, calling her name, and then\nquickly became a multitude. The voices would pretend to be her friend, telling\nher she was special, but they quickly drew her into a kind of paralysis. She\nwas working as a janitor in Vancouver at the time, and she would find herself\nvoices would tell her stories\nut crimes they had committed\nf they were trying to elicit I\nympathy from her. They would\nick on her when she was broke '\nnd destroy experiences she H\nenjoyed, such as listening to music\nsitting in a room for hours listening to the voices. They\nconstantly disrupted her sleep, and one night, feeling\nscared and fatigued, she saw a red vision of her soul leaving her body. She walked to St. Paul's\nHospital and checked herself in. Later she was diagnosed with schizophrenia\nOver the next 15 years, her life was largely controlled by the voices. She managed to complete\na fine arts degree at Emily Carr University, but had several more stays in psychiatric wards. She\ntried several medications. One caused her to gain a significant amount of weight. Another made\nher chronically sleepy. None made the voices go away.\nInto her mid-30s, she continued to be harassed by many voices and the feeling of hands on\nher shoulders or fingers in her ears. The voices would tell her stories about crimes they had\ncommitted as if they were trying to elicit sympathy from her. They would pick on her when she\nwas broke and destroy experiences she enjoyed, such as listening to music. One day she left her\nhome and went to stay with friends to escape them. On her return, she resolved that she wouldn't\nlet them control her anymore. Soon after, she was sitting on the couch and she saw a vision of her\ngreat uncle Jack Ferguson giving her a thumbs-up. Ferguson was a Royal Canadian Air Force pilot\nwho was shot down in World War 11, and the brother of her grandmother. Merrick recognized\nhim from pictures she had seen. He started appearing to her regularly, and sometimes along with\nher grandmother. They would hold up signs with simple encouraging messages, and they were\na calming presence in the midst of her terrible angst\nMerrick continued to seek professional help, and during this period she was assigned to\na community mental health team. For her, this was a new model of mental health delivery.\nIt meant that instead of seeing just a psychiatrist, she would have a number of professionals\nincluding a social worker, a nurse and an occupational therapist helping her with other aspects\nof her life. She received help finding housing and was given a disability allowance. While she\nhad always felt she should work, her case manager told her she should focus on her recovery.\n\"That was the first time anybody had ever said that to me,\" she recalled\nEncouraged by her mental health team, she decided to\nmap a new course. She had already explored many ways\nof looking at her illness, reading all kinds of books and\ntheories. She wondered if she had experienced trauma,\nwhich frequently figures in the histories of people with\nschizophrenia, but concluded that she hadn't. She started\nresearching her uncle Jack and found out fascinating\ndetails about his time in the war. She decided to ask her\nuncle Jack and her grandmother if they could help her.\nThey said yes, they could\nMerrick began experiencing new voices, but these\nwere different. They would have their own personas, and\nthey would help her with various things. One coached\nher to face her fears, and another encouraged her to\nnotice positive things. She had visited a Buddhist temple\nand learned to meditate, and over the next months she\nwould spend dedicated time every day communicating\nwith the voices she called her \"spirit guides.\" Slowly, she\nstarted to notice changes: her depression lifted within\nweeks, and the negative voices\nthat had plagued her for years\nstarted to leave her. Eventually\nher team considered her recovery\ncomplete, and her file was closed\nThrough her treatment with the\nNorth Shore Adult Community\nMental Health Team, Merrick met\nGillian Walker, an occupationa\ntherapist. Walker had recently\nworked in London, England,\nwhere she had become familiar with Hearing Voices. She\niked the way people in the groups referred to themselves\nas \"voice hearers\" rather than \"schizophrenics.\" To her\nthat was an important shift. \"It's the idea that these\nexperiences don't necessarily have to be entirely viewed\nas mental illness. Aspects of these conditions can have\nother interpretations. I find the current predominantly\nWestern medical model to be quite narrow and I don't\nknow that it's entirely helpful to be that narrow. So\nHearing Voices was a refreshing additional approach.\"\nShe and a colleague, Andrea Harowitz, both graduates\nof the UBC Occupational Therapy program, had been\ntalking about several clients who had been repeatedly\nhospitalized. They felt that the therapies available weren't\nsufficient. Walker suggested they start a Hearing Voices\ngroup. They felt that Merrick, who had completed peer\nsupport training, would be an ideal fit to work with the\ngroup. They asked her to be a co-facilitator along with\nHarowitz. This was the first Hearing Voices group in\nBritish Columbia\nWhile she wasn't familiar with the Hearing Voices\nmovement, Merrick felt that it aligned with her own way\nof thinking. She researched the method and began to work\nwith the group. One of the strategies she encouraged FEATURE \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 Hearing voices\nwas for her clients to use their \"good\nvoices\" to help overcome the bad\nones. \"Lots of people experience good\nvoices, but we don't associate good\nvoices with schizophrenia because\nwe've pathologized the experience,\"\nshe says. \"We think a voice is\na symptom of illness and therefore\nit's always bad.\" She points to the\nexperience of Riggan, who is troubled\nby the pestering voice of Birdman but\nwho also says it speaks \"the truth.\"\nShe likens that character to the Greek\ndaemon, as described by Carl Jung\nand Joseph Campbell\n\"The Greeks accepted the\nexperience of hearing voices, but\nthe daemons were not nice. They\nwould whip you and shove you and\nmake sure you did the right thing\nThey were like Birdman.\"\nAbout six months after the group\nbegan meeting, Harowitz and Merrick\nspoke at the 2012 conference of\nPsychosocial Rehabilitation Canada\nin Vancouver. This helped generate\ninterest in Hearing Voices. Now,\nVancouver General Hospital and\nCoast Mental Health have groups,\nand a community group also meets\nin Vancouver.\nWalker also reached out to one\nof her former instructors at UBC,\nMichael Lee. She and Merrick visited his psycho-social rehabilitation classes\nseveral times to talk to students in the Master's of Occupational Therapy\nprogram. He appreciated their visits because he feels that the Hearing Voices\napproach gives a necessary new dimension to the treatment of mental illness\n\"For the longest time we looked at hearing voices as a medical problem\nand didn't really look at how it impacted on the person's daily life. We would\nsay, 'OK, you're hearing voices, take medication,'\" says Lee, pointing out\nthat the role of the occupational therapist is to help a client resume their\nnormal activities. While more therapists are starting Hearing Voices groups,\nthere is not much evidence supporting its effectiveness. So in discussions\nwith Walker, Lee agreed to be the principal investigator on a multi-phase\nsmall-scale research project. Three pairs of students will be contributing\ntowards this research project, which is part of the requirements of their\nmaster's degrees. They will be investigating how participating in the Hearing\nVoices group impacts on different aspects of recovery.\n\"We believe it is very crucial to enable people hearing voices to have an\nopportunity to voice their perception, rather than what we've been doing\nfor the longest time, which is having professionals, doctors or therapists,\ndescribing the problem. Now we encourage people with lived experience to\ncome forward and tell us the meaning. So this is quite a bit of a cultural shift,\"\nsays Lee\nHearing Voices is\ncurrently known as\nan \"emerging practice,\"\nnot an \"evidence-based\npractice,\" and Walker\nacknowledges that |\nthe model is not for\neveryone and that more\npeer-reviewed research\nneeds to be done. I\nHearing Voices is currently\nknown as an \"emerging practice,\"\nnot an \"evidence-based practice,\"\nand Walker acknowledges that\nthe model is not for everyone and that more peer-reviewed research needs to\nbe done. But she has seen the benefits that group members have gained. Much\nresearch has supported the therapeutic effects of meeting others with similar\nexperiences, and people who hear voices have previously not had this benefit.\nShe thinks that Hearing Voices resonated with others in the mental health\ncommunity in Vancouver because they acknowledged the limitations of the\ntherapies currently available\n\"One of our clients right now is about 19, he was recently diagnosed, and he\ncomes to the group and he says, 'I'm okay with being diagnosed with the illness\nmodel, I'm okay taking meds and with the idea that there may be something\nwrong with my brain. But another part of me feels like I had a really spiritua\nexperience, and I'm interested in talking about that.' I think that means that\nhe's still holding on to who he is, and he's not seeing the experience entirely\nas symptom. I thinkthat's an example of how Hearing Voices has helped\nsomeone look at their identity, and where does it fit in the diagnosis. Whereas\nin the past, I don't know if that conversation would have been possible.\" D\n'W\nYOU don't have to be loud to be heard.\nLearn the art of effective interpersonal and organizational\ncommunication at our School of Communication and Culture.\nTo find out more, call 1.877.778.6227\nor visit royalroads.ca/communication\nRoyal Roads\nUNIVERSITY\nCHANGING KEEP YOUR\nHEAD DOWN AN\nHOLD YOUR FINISH:\nThe Art of Varsity Golf\nBY CHRIS PETTY, MFA'85\nWhen Cory Renfrew, BA'og, walked up to the green at the 16th hole of the Phoenix Open in\nFebruary he had no idea of the ruckus he would cause. Golf fans are usually as demure as\ntennis spectators, maybe more so, but the Phoenix Open has traditionally been a rowdier\nevent, especially in the bleachers behind the 16th green, known as \"the loudest hole in golf.\"\nRenfrew, a star during his time as a varsity player at UBC, and a regular on the PGA Canada\ntour, made it into the Phoenix Open by shooting a 66 during a qualifying round. He ultimately\ntied for 59th (ahead of the likes of Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson), but during his final round\nhe placed his second shot on the 16th just off the green, 55 yards from the pin. Renfrew sussed\nthe shot, lined it up and popped a little chip toward the pin. The ball took a couple of bounces\nthen rolled, rolled and rolled, right into the cup\nFans in the bleachers roared and leapt to their feet, throwing cups and cans over the\nedge in a waterfall of beer. Renfrew pumped his fist, then watched the crowd in amazement\nIt's a moment in his golf career he's never likely to forget\nContrast that scene with one of an older gentleman practicing chip shots at Shaughnessy\nGolf and Country Club in Vancouver. He struck a lovely shot that arced up, bounced a couple\nof times and dropped into a hole 30 feet away.\n\"Wow, great shot,\" said a member of the UBC women's varsity team, practicing on the\nsame green. He smiled at her and said, \"it would have been ifthat was the hole I was going\nfor.\" Those two examples pretty much cover the joys and the agonies of the game of golf.\nGolf is a strange game. As a varsity sport it's not like volleyball, football, basketball, soccer\nor hockey. For one thing, not many people who play varsity in any of those big five are likely\nto still be playing in their 40s, 50s or 60s. The knees go, the back hurts, or the lungs just can't\nkeep up. A reasonable golfer, on the other hand, can play well into his or her 80s. Surveys show\nthat more Canadians golf than play any other sport\nAnother aspect about golf is that the very worst player - one who will never break 100 in his\nor her lifetime - can hit at least one shot per round that would make any pro proud. It might be\na putt or a chip or a shot out of a trap, but that one shot will be great. Better golfers will make\nmore of these shots, and it's the hope of all golfers (or firm belief) that they will be able to hit\neven more great shots the next round. Golf doesn't demand great prowess in the weekend\nplayer, just determination\nBut of course the players on UBC's team aren't weekend players. They're the university\nequivalent of pros, performing in the top five per cent, or better, of all golfers in the world\nThese are golfers who consider par the bare minimum of adequate achievement, who can\nconsistently reach a green in regulation and aren't daunted by sand traps, rough or undulating\ngreens. They are to weekend players what Milos Raonic or Eugenie Bouchard are to occasiona\ntennis players. As they say on The Golf Channel, these guys are good\nThe Thunderbird varsity golf team is made up\nof 11 men and six women, and plays in tournaments\nagainst the best university golfers on the continent\nT-Bird golf joined the NAIA (National Association\nof Intercollegiate Athletics), a North American league\nof 175 medium-to-small schools, in 1999. Since then,\nthe team has won a total of five championships\nFor comparison purposes, neither UVic nor SFU,\nwhen it competed in NAIA, have won a championship\nUBC is ranked number one among Canadian varsity\ngolf teams. The men's team is ranked third in the\nentire NAIA, while the women's team is ranked fifth\nAs head coach Chris MacDonald says, UBC's program\nis the gold standard for collegiate golf in this country.\nMacDonald joined the program in 2000, and\nis generally credited with its growth and success\nHe played at the high amateur level for many years,\nthen turned to teaching and player development\nHe was an assistant pro at Nicklaus North, where\nhe ran the Sea to Sky Junior Golf Tour, and is currently\nassociate pro at Shaughnessy, a position he's held for\n11 years. During his time at UBC, he has been named\nNAIA Coach of the Year four times\nUnder his leadership, the women's team has won\nthree NAIA championships, three silvers and three\nbronze medals, and won the Royal Canadian Golf\nAssociation's Canadian University Championship\nten of the last 12 years. In mid March, they won the\n2015 Battle of Primm tourney in California by ten\nstrokes, carding the second best round in school history.\nA week later, they placed third at the Montana State\nBobcat Springs invitational against an all-NCAA field\nOn the men's side, MacDonald led the T-Bird\nteam to the 2008 NAIA National Championship, the\nfirst championship won by a team outside the US\nThe men's team is also a consistent winner at the\nThe players on UBC's tea\naren't weekend players.\nThey're the university I\nequivalent of pr\nperforming in the \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nfive per cent, or br\nof all golfers ir iU\nWomen's captain Reagan Wilson\nholds her finish. Photo credit: Rich Lam\nCanadian University Championships and places top\nten in the majority of its NAIA competitions\nCoach MacDonald has strong ties with some of the\nbest golf courses in the Lower Mainland - Shaughnessy,\nPoint Grey, Beach Grove, Musqueam and Marine Drive\nparticularly - where team members get to play and\npractice at no charge. \"Learning and playing at home on\ntop calibre courses like these gives us a real edge over\nother Canadian varsity programs,\" he says, and is part\nof the reason the program attracts Canada's top golfers\nHe's also built relationships with teams and leagues\nacross North America, which helps him book courses\nand tournaments other NAIA teams might not have\naccess to. \"We get to play against Division 1 NCAA\nteams,\" says MacDonald. \"The NAIA has no limitations\non who we play, and NCAA ratings aren't affected by\nNAIA teams, even when we beat them. We get to play\nthe best university teams in North America and our\nplayers get to compete at the highest level.\"\nExposure to top-ranked NCAA teams pays off.\nNot only does the team rank near the top in both men's\nand women's divisions, current players are considered\nsome of the top university golfers in North America\n\"Evan Holmes, one of our third year players, ranks\nin the top 50 in North America,\" says MacDonald,\n\"and Jack Wood ranks in the top 100. This is pretty\nimpressive for a Canadian school.\"\nThe women's team has also had a big impact\n\"Over the years we've built a strong women's varsity\nteam,\" he says. \"Players like Kyla Inaba and Eileen Kelly\n(both '09) were stars during their varsity years, and\nhave gone on to work as professionals in the golf world\nIt's a great training ground.\"\nReagan Wilson is both a typical and an exceptiona\nmember of T-Bird golf. A fifth year Kinesiology student,\nshe has been playing varsity golf since her freshman\nyear. \"I started playing golf in Calgary when I was five,\" she says. \"My dad was a fanatic and\nhe showed me how to play. Even as a little kid, people told me I had a great swing. I played a lot\nof hockey and volleyball in high school, but when I was 17 or so, I decided golf was my game.\"\nShe didn't compete or play on the high school team, so she had no official golf resume to\nqualify her as a potential scholarship golfer at any university. \"I looked around at various schools,\nbut if you want to stay in Canada and play golf, UBC is the only place. UBC has the best varsity\ngolf program inthe country, andone of thebest academic reputations, so I came in to talk to\nChris. He watched me play and invited me to join the team as a developmental player. He took\nme on faith, but I think I've done pretty well.\"\nPretty well, indeed. She struggled her first year, trying to get a rhythm going with her\nstudies, the gruelling travel for tournaments and the need to practice, but by third year she was\nwinning tournaments, and was named captain of the women's team. \"It is demanding,\" she says,\n\"but it's been a great experience.\"\nWilson graduates this year and unlike many new grads, has a job to go to. \"I start as an\nassistant pro at the Calgary Golf and Country Club on June 1st,\" she says. \"My goal is to get\nmy pro card and become a fulltime golf instructor. My coach at UBC, Keri Moffat, has been\nan inspiration. Teaching is what I want to do. I can't wait to make other people love the game\nas much as I do.\"\nPlayers in all varsity teams are\ncommitted to high achievement\nin academics as well as their\nathletic endeavours, and graduate\nwith degrees from every faculty\nand department. And while many\ngrads, like Wilson, will pursue\nemployment in the golf world\nas course pros, administrators,\nteachers and broadcasters, many\nothers go on to become doctors,\nawyers, teachers, accountants\nand professionals in all fields\n\"I got a call from one of our grads\nin California,\" says MacDonald\n\"She's an engineer in Los Angeles,\nand went out for a round of golf\nwith her boss. She shot a 67.\"\nMaybe not the best way to get\non the good side of your boss,\nbut what can you do? These\nguys are good. D\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nxa\\ Aw\nWOMEN'S GOLF I MEN'S GOLF_\nCHAMPIONS [CHAMPIONS\n* * *\n2014 Association of Independent Institutions\nChampions. Photo credit: Wilson Wong\nREAGAN WILSON'S GOLF TIPS\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \"Have fun! Golf can teach you a lot if you\ndon't let it get you mad.\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 \"Keep your head down and hold yourfinish.\nThat's from my Dad. It works.\" The Old Gymnasium .\nhistory of women's athletics at UBC\nI '%M A :4Vi I \u00C2\u00A3 1VIM WJX llw+X A\nWhen UBC moved to Point Grey in 1925, the facility most obviously lacking\nfrom the new campus was a gymnasium. A gym had been included in the\ninitial plans, but the unexpectedly large costs of other construction had\nforced its cancellation. Varsity basketball and other teams had to hold\npractices and play \"home\" games at Vancouver school gyms, church halls,\nor YMCA/YWCA facilities.\nThere was also a distinct inequality between men's and women's sports\nin this era, and the lack of facilities made this even more obvious. Women's\nteams had to schedule their practices around those for the men, usually very\nearly or very late in the day, and Women's Gymnasium Club sessions were\nimited to an hour a week.\nIt was not until 1929 that a workable scheme to pay for a gymnasium\nwas approved. The Alma Mater Society was legally incorporated under\nBritish Columbia's Societies Act, enabling it to float a bond issue of $35,000\nStudents then committed the refundable portion of their Caution Money\n(a $10 fee deposited as security for good conduct and against possible\ndamages) towards repaying the loan\n\"We would have liked more\nopportunities to use War Memorial,\"\nrecalls Marilyn Pomfret, a physical\neducation student during the 1950s,\n\"but we still liked the old gym.\"\n1 Members of the Women's Basketball\nI Senior A team on their way to Prague\nThe gymnasium was built over the summer of 1929, and officially opened on November 9\nThe main playing floor was 6,000 square feet and surrounded by seating for up to 1,400 spectators\nAs impressive as it looked, however, the building was practically an empty shell; there was\nno money left to pay for furnishings or athletic equipment. To cover this shortfall, the Alumni\nAssociation organized its own campaign to raise\n$3,000 for equipment and furniture\nThe new building soon became a centre of student\nactivity. UBC varsity basketball teams played there -\nnot only against local teams, but against touring squads\nsuch as the Harlem Globetrotters. Women's basketbal\nwas particularly successful; in 1930 the Senior A team\nwon the opportunity to compete at the Women's\nnternational Games. Unfortunately, women's sports\nwere still treated like an afterthought. While the\nuniversity gave the team permission to go, it refused\nto provide financial support. It took another student\ncampaign to earn the team enough money to trave\nto Prague that September, where they eventually won\nthe world championship\nThe gym also hosted team practices, intramura\nsports events, and athletic club sessions, as well\nas pep rallies and post-game dances. Until Brock\nHall was built in 1940, it was one of the few places on\ncampus where clubs could meet and students could\nsocialize. According to legend it was a favourite haunt\nof former UBC Chancellor and BC Chief Justice Nathan\nNemetz during his undergraduate days. \"Sonny\"\nNemetz supposedly spent so much time playing chess\nand blackjack in one of the gym's meeting rooms that\nhe almost flunked out of first year. Only the intervention\nof History Department head Walter Sage saved him\n- he promised to recommend Nemetz for the history\nhonours program, but only if he would stop missing\nso many lectures\nThe gymnasium campaign - the first such student-led\nfundraising initiative - had set an important precedent\nfor the further development of the UBC campus. It\nwas followed several years later by the funding and\nconstruction of the first stadium and playing fields;\nthe campaign to build Brock Hall in 1940; and the War\nMemorial Gymnasium campaign of the late 1940s\nInitial plans for Brock Hall included a \"women's\ngymnasium,\" as by the mid-i930s the increasing\nstudent population was driving a growing demand\nfor recreational space. Although the gym never\nmaterialized, and women's programs were still given\nlow priority, funds left over after the construction\nof Brock Hall were at least earmarked for women's\nsports equipment\nThe need for expanded facilities continued to grow\nover the following decade - even during the Second\nWorld War, when extra-curricular activities were\nsupposedly curtailed. While women's use of the gym\nwas restricted in favour of military requirements,\nhowever, time was still found for men's programs\nThe disparity was also illustrated by the relative lack\nof women's sports coverage in The Ubyssey. This was\naddressed only when women reporters joined the\npublication's staff.\nThe space shortage was not\nrectified until the opening of\nWar Memorial Gymnasium\nin 1951. The older building\ncame to be used largely for\nwomen's sports and recreation,\nand became known as the FEATURE \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 The Old Gym\nWomen's Gymnasium. While women now had their own space for athletics (although some\nmen's activities continued there), it was arguably a \"hand-me-down\" facility compared with\nthe brand-new War Memorial gym\n\"We would have liked more opportunities to use War Memorial,\"\nrecalls Marilyn Pomfret, BPE'54, a physical education student during\nthe 1950s, \"but we still liked the old gym.\" Pomfret, who was later\na UBC professor, coach, and women's athletic director, remembers\nthe Women's Gymnasium well. \"The floor was just big enough for\na regulation-size basketball court, or two non-regulation volleybal\ncourts. The volleyball courts were small - to serve, you had to stand\non the bottom row of the bleachers\n\"The Women's Athletic Directorate, a student leadership group\nmade up of sport managers and an elected executive, had an office at\nthe south-east corner. It was very small, with a low, sloped ceiling that\nthe taller girls had to be careful about. But it had its own door to the outside - a small side-door\nhidden behind some bushes - and we had a key, so we could come and go as we pleased, even\nafter hours.\"\nStudents could sneak in through the office for late-night pick-up games, according to\nPomfret and her friend, Thelma Sharp Cook, BEd'58, another student athlete from the same\nperiod and later UBC professor of education. \"The basement also became a popular place\nto study or even sleep, especially during exam time,\" recalls Cook. \"Sometimes the janitor\nor night-watchman would catch us, but they knew we were good students, so we weren't\nUBC's women athletes\nhad contributed ^M\nsignificantly to the\ndevelopment of ^H\norganized sport for\nboth men and women\nacross the province.\nkicked out. There was another small room in the\nnorthwest corner of the building - there were always\ngirls there playing bridge. The gym was like an unofficia\nclubhouse for women students\nin those days. Most were involved in\nathletics, but all were welcome.\"\nDespite its small size and obscure\nocation, the women's athletic\noffice regularly received at least\none prominent visitor. \"Norman\nMacKenzie heard about it from his\ndaughter - he must have figured that\nsince he liked her friends, he would\nike us,\" laughs Pomfret. \"If he was\nout walking his dog on Sunday he would stop by\nto visit - he'd just knock on the little door. He'd sit\ndown, put up his feet, and chat with whoever was\nthere. It was a way for him to get inside information,\nfrom the students' point of view that, as university\npresident, he might not otherwise hear.\"\nDuring the 1950s and 60s the campus landscape\naround the Women's Gymnasium changed radically.\nWomen's Gymnasium (1970)\n\"The women's gym will have to go,\" said UBC\npresident Doug Kenny in September 1969. \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nThe decision wasn't a popular one.\nWhat was originally open space was taken up by the Buchanan Building\nin 1958. As the Faculty of Arts continued to expand, Buchanan became\ntoo small to hold all its departments and programs. By 1969 it was obvious\nthat the gym's days were numbered. \"The choice [for an extension of\nBuchanan] is between a high-rise type semi-office establishment on the\npresent site of the women's gym and a large horizontal expansion down\nEast Mall,\" UBC president Doug Kenny told The Ubyssey that September.\n\"In any case the women's gym will have to go.\"\nIn response, the AMS Student Council passed a resolution calling\non the Board of Governors to provide \"an adequate replacement\" for all\nstudents to share fairly. The resolution appeared to have no effect, and\nPomfret, by then director of Women's Athletics, remembers a further\nstudent initiative in response to this lack of action\n\"As plans for [the gym's] destruction moved ahead, there was no talk\nof an intended replacement,\" she recalls. \"Well, this rather riled the girls.\"\nAfter all, UBC's women athletes and managers were directly involved in\nthe operations of the Women's Athletic Directorate and over the years\nhad contributed significantly to the development of organized sport for\nboth men and women across the province\nThe students prepared a report outlining their position on the need\nfor adequate sports facilities and equitable access. Pomfret remembers\nit getting backing from many prominent people on campus. A request\nwas made to present it to the Board of Governors, which was finally\ngranted. \"Two students spoke,\" says Pomfret, who was in attendance,\n\"and we were told they were the first students ever to present to the\n(rather secretive) board... Nathan Nemetz was board chair and, as the\ngirls paused [during their presentation], he asked several times: 'So you\nwant a new Women's Gym?' The response: 'No, Sir. We want a new Gym\nwhere everyone can play - women, girls, men, boys.' And a little later\n'So you want a new Women's Gym?' Same answer: 'No, Sir...' The point\nwas well made.\"\nCook and Pomfret remember plans to form a human chain around the\ngym, to prevent or at least delay its demolition until a replacement facility\nwas approved. Students discussed it over the spring and early summer of\n1970, assuming that the demolition would not occur until the fall. However,\nwork crews arrived in August, and by the time students returned from\nsummer vacation the site of the Women's Gymnasium was a vacant lot\n\"The only thing that survived from the gym were the floorboards,\"\nremembers Pomfret. \"They were salvaged and re-sold by the university\nbecause they were still in such good condition.\"\nFortunately, the pressure exerted by women athletes and their\nsupporters did have an effect. According to Pomfret, it was one of the\nfactors behind the board's later approval of the Bob Osborne Centre,\nplanning for which got underway in 1970. Opportunities for women\nwould flourish under Pomfret's tenure as Women's Athletic Director,\nnducted into UBC's Sports Hall of Fame in 1994, she is credited with\ndeveloping athletic opportunities for women at UBC and across Canada,\nin particular by initiating the establishment of national championships\nfor university women\nAll but forgotten today, the first UBC gymnasium, initiated and funded\nby students, was a milestone in the development of the university.\nIn its later incarnation as the Women's Gymnasium, it offered women\nopportunities for athletic accomplishment. And even in its demise, the\ngym became the focus of a concerted team effort to save it that typifies\nthe spirit of Athletics at UBC today. D\nOne of three Big Block woman's ,\n( pendants found underneath a file\n1 cabinet just before the Women's A\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Gymnasium was demolished.\nJust before the old gym was pulled down, it divulged one more story to add to the history of women's\nathletics at UBC.\n\"In the Women's Athletic Directorate office,\" remembers Marilyn Pomfret, \"there was a file cabinet\ncontaining the teams' files. When it became obvious in 1970 that the gym was going, the students came to get\nthe cabinet and rescue the files. As it was pulled aside, underneath it they found three gold pendants with the\nUBC Big Block symbol.\"\nWhom the pendants belonged to is forgotten. They were originally thought to have been awarded at the\ninauguration of the Women's Big Block Club in 1931. The club had been organized in part to recognize the\nSenior A women's basketball world championship the previous year. It was also intended to raise the status\nof women's sports by including them in the Big Block program, initiated the year before.\nFurther research, however, revealed that the pendants had been commissioned from Birks Jewellers at least\na decade earlier. Most likely they were awarded in conjunction with UBC's first Presentation Day in March 1921.\nThis predecessor of the Big Block Club awarded letters to outstanding athletes (both male and female), as well\nas participants in Literary and Scientific Department activities.\n\"The girls from the directorate presented two of them to Marilyn and me,\" says Thelma Cook. \"The third one\nhad a little different design - a 'U' around the 'BC surrounded by blue enamel. That one was supposed to go to\nBrendaChinn,whowas president of the Women's Athletic Association at the time and is now with BC School\nSports. Unfortunately it was stolen before it could be gifted to Brenda - so she'll inherit mine.\" nimuuTMiWM i: 11 * :vj 14 v\nOne of the biggest news stories at the end of last year was that of\nhackers attacking Sony Pictures Entertainment and issuing a menacing\nwarning about what might ensue if The Interview, a comedy about an\nassassination attempt on the leader of North Korea, were to be released\nby the distributors. There was much speculation about who was behind\nthe hacking (likely North Korea, which had issued similar threats in June,\nsaid the FBI. No, not us, but clearly someone righteous, said the North\nKorean authorities). Fearing terrorist attacks, some cinema chains pulled\nout and Sony cancelled the release. This decision drew criticism from\nBarack Obama, among others. In the end, the film was released in select\ncinemas and made available online, soon becoming Sony's most successfu\ndigital release\nDiana Bang, BA'04, who was born in Vancouver to Korean immigrants,\nplayed the character of North Korean government official Sook-Yin Park\n- the romantic interest of Seth Rogen's character in the movie. You may\nremember Bang from her previous roles in TV series The Killing and Bates\nMotel, and her lead role in Rob Leickner's indie feature, Lost Lagoon, which\nwon Best Canadian Feature at the Reel World Film Festival. Here she talks\nabout her route into the profession and the experience of being cast in\na big Hollywood production\nWhen did your acting ambitions first take hold and why?\nthink I've always wanted to do it from the time I saw kids on TV pretending\nto be detectives. Their adventures seemed so much more exciting than my\nmundane life. But before acting, I wanted to be a dancer. I think I just wanted\nto perform in some way, shape or form. However, I was never encouraged\nto act or dance, nor did I excel at it in school. I was shy when I was younger\nand dreamt about performing rather than actually doing it\nWhat was your route into the acting profession?\nWhile at UBC, I actually took a 100 level acting course, but at the end was\ntold by the professor that I should not continue with acting as I did not have\nthe personality for it. While a comment like that did not completely scar\nme or stop me, it did lead me away from acting for about a year. I ended\nup really finding my voice and stride when I fell into doing sketch comedy\nwith a group called Assaulted Fish. It was an environment that fostered\nmy confidence and ability as a performer, and introduced me to the world\nof writing. Within a couple of years of performing with Assaulted Fish,\nwas encouraged to pursue acting more seriously, so I took some courses\naround town and found an agent. Then I began my roller coaster journey\ntowards becoming a working actor. It's still a work in progress\nTell us how you landed your role in The Interview.\nauditioned for the role. It's very rare for someone who\ndoesn't have some star power to be in a Hollywood film,\nbut it was a niche role that I somehow, and luckily, fit\nHow would you describe the character of Sook?\nShe's strong, intelligent and badass\nHow did you prepare for the role?\nwatched whatever I could find on North Korea, and\nread blogs from North Korean defectors to get a sense\nof what was going on. I also had to work on my Korean\nas my Korean skills are equivalent to that of a two year\nold. I had to enlist the help of my mom and her friends,\nand friends of her friends, to help me translate some\nof the English into North Korean, which is different\nfrom the South Korean dialect\nWhat was the most challenging thing about it?\nAnd the most fun?\nI'd say the most challenging was trying to speak\nKorean when I was just given new dialogue right\nbefore shooting. I generally need to practice Korean\nbefore I can actually say it properly and with ease,\nso having to get things translated by random Korean\nextras and then being able to say it properly soon after\nwas definitely a challenge. I'm sure there is tons of\nfootage of me speaking gibberish rather than Korean\nThe most fun was doing the physical action stuff, like\nshooting the gun, punching people and kicking down\ndoors. I love pretending to be a badass\nWhat was the atmosphere like on set?\nThe atmosphere was very relaxed and good-natured. Everyone in the crew always expressed\nto me how lucky and spoiled they felt working on this set. Seth [Rogen] and Evan [Goldberg]\nreally set the bar high for maintaining a fun, relaxed and creative environment, and it all started\nwith their easy attitudes. They enjoyed playing and being spontaneous\nWhat was the initial reaction among cast and crew to the hacking incident and cancellation\nof screenings?\nI'm sure people were shocked and probably disappointed about the cancellation of screenings,\nbut I don't really know, as I was in Vancouver, away from the hubbub\nAnd in retrospect, what are your thoughts about this incident?\nIt's still very surreal for me and I wouldn't be surprised if there was a movie about this whole\nincident in the future. In the end, I'm glad people got to see The Interview, whether in a movie\ntheatre or on their TVs at home. There were many people who worked extremely hard to make\nit happen, and I'm pleased people are getting to see their work\nHow was the red carpet experience at the premiere?\nIt was just like any other movie-going experience, except I got fancied up, had to take photos\ndown a short red carpet, and saw random Hollywood stars. So, you know, typical\nWhat's next?\nWhatever comes my way! D\nwww.dianabang.com\n(ffithedianabang CASTE AGAINST TYPE\nA school in India is offering children from the country's lowest-ranking\ncaste a path out of poverty. Its first class of students is about to sit\nnational exams, and a lot rests on their shoulders. UBC film production\nalumna Madeleine Grant decided to document their progress.\nI'm in India, in the dining hall of a school in the middle of\nrural nowhere. The school is for children from the lowest\ncaste, the former \"untouchables,\" but the only reason\nknow this is from reading about the school a couple\nof months earlier, after my sister came across it on\na random Google search. We'd been hunting for quality\nvolunteer opportunities in India (surprisingly difficult to\nfind) and Shanti Bhavan School in rural Tamil Nadu stood\nout. Now here we are, my sister and I, an aspiring teacher\nand a Vancouver-based filmmaker.\nIn person, we find the students to be charming\nindividuals with big dreams. They range from\npreschool to 10th grade and aspire to be everything\nfrom astronauts through to nuclear physicists\nCaste and class discrimination have no place in this\nenvironment, for all their continued presence in the\nslums and rural villages the students call home. The\ngoal of Shanti Bhavan School is to provide the highest\nevel of education to children from the poorest of poor\nbackgrounds, those designated by the government as\nbelonging to \"backward classes.\" South Indian-raised\nentrepreneur Dr. Abraham George founded the\nschool in 1997, seeing quality education as key to\nempowering the destitute and breaking entrenched\ncycles of socio-economic disadvantage. The school\nis an embodiment of the American Dream, but this is\na truth only driven home to me today, in the dining hall,\ntoward the end of my stay at the school\nFor weeks the school has been on collective\ntenterhooks. The oldest students, the 10th graders,\nhave been preparing to write the national 10th grade\nexams. Educated at Shanti Bhavan since preschool,\nthey will be the first of the school's students to face\nnationally standardized exams. How they do will help prove or disprove the main hypothesis of\nthe school - that given the opportunity, any child can succeed. The school is tense with anticipation\nand the 10th graders have been isolated from the other students to allow them to concentrate\nToday is the first day of exams, and the 10th graders have already filed nervously into the exam\nhall. The rest of the school carries on with their morning. It is lunchtime when the exam finishes,\nand I am standing at the entrance to the dining hall when the 10th graders start coming in all at\nonce. I'm not sure who spots them first, but the reaction is instantaneous. Everyone rises from\ntheir meal as one, bursting into a spontaneous standing ovation that includes the entire school,\nfrom preschoolers to kitchen staff. The shared selfless joy at the accomplishment and potentia\nembodied within the 10th graders almost overpowers me. It is a revelatory\nexperience. It isn't until this precise moment that I fully realize what it\nmeans to have access to quality education, and the doors it can open\nMy sister and I carry on with our travels, but in the back of my mind the\nShanti Bhavan experience stays with me. I decide that one day I will write\na fiction film set there (after all, narrative fiction-filmmaking is what I have\ntraining in). In the meantime, I meet more and more families all over the\nworld who are bending over backwards to provide their children with a I eve\nof education I've received and taken for granted. It makes me think about\nwhat I'm doing with this education I have, which is worth such sacrifice\nto so many families\nThe global economic crisis hits in 2008 and\nDr. George (the main financier of Shanti Bhavan\nSchool) suffers huge losses. It looks like the school\nis going to close. The students with whom I was\nrecently studying geography and reading Macbeth\nwill go back to their families, to communities where\nstone-breaking and housecleaning for pitifully\nminimal wages is the norm. I don't feel capable of\nsinglehandedly taking on fundraising or other similar\nmissions, but I have trained in filmmaking and I like to think of myself as a storyteller. We had\nan amazing documentary professor at UBC, Academy-Award winning director John Zaritsky,\nand there is a real-life story happening at this school on the opposite side of the world that is way\nbetter than anything I could ever write. The former 10th graders, who did exceptionally well on\nMadeleine Grant: there is\na real-life story happening $\nat this school on the ^^H\nopposite side of the world\nthat is way better than \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nanything I could ever write.\nthose initial exams, are now heading into 12th grade\nGiven the school's current financial status, they may or\nmay not be the last class of the school to do so. Whether\nthey graduate on to college or not will determine many\nfates. It is a story that is happening now, and a story\nwhich may no longer exist a year from now.\npitch the idea of a documentary to Shanti Bhavan's\ndirector of Operations in New York and then - upon\nreturn to Vancouver - to a variety of funding organizations\nand colleagues in the film\nindustry. I continue to develop\nthe proposal even as I work\nfull-time in the art department\non other Vancouver-based TV\nand film productions. The story\nis overwhelmingly acknowledged\nas having promise, but the fact that\nam a first-time feature filmmaker\nis an obstacle. I am encouraged\nto shoot something short to begin\nwith, and bring it back to potential financiers for approva\nand hopefully support. I set out to India with two UBC\nfilm production grads as my crew, the extremely talented\nMike Rae (BA'05, cinematographer) and Greg Ng (BA'05,\nsound-person/editor), with the intent of coming back in six\nweeks. Five weeks in, the Indian government changes its\nvisa regulations and I have a choice: either leave with the\npossibility that I might not be allowed back in the country\nin time to complete filming on the documentary, or stay\non and shoot the whole thing on a shoestring budget\nDue to prior commitments, my filmmaking team has\nto go backto Canada, and they do. I do not. I find myself\nin the corner of the school field, the only patch of campus\nwith cell phone reception (one bar), on the phone with\nmy producing partner Jessica Cheung, BA'06. Jessica, also\na UBC film production grad, goes into intense producer\nmode and calls anyone and everyone she knows. The pitch\nis simple, but demanding. We need a cinematographer\nwho can come film in India for three months on a deferra\nbasis, which essentially means three months of living with\nchildren at a school in a developing country with limited\nelectricity, no Internet access, and no pay aside from\nflight and accommodation throughout the entire time\nIn addition to all this, they'd need to leave within the next\ntwo weeks\nJessica's top choice is Nathan Drillot, a Vancouver-\nbased cinematographer with international work\nexperience. She's worked with him before. Nathan has\na ton on his plate though, and initially declines. Within\n24 hours he's called her back, however; this is a story\nand opportunity he can't let himself miss. Within 14 days\nhe's on his way to India, and I meet him for the first\ntime at 3:00 am at the Bangalore airport. He integrates\nwithin the Shanti Bhavan community in no time, and his\na cinematographer who can come film in India\nfor three months on a deferral basis, which \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nessentially means three months of living with\nchildren at a school in a developing country I\nwith limited electricity, no Internet access, \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nand no pay aside from flight and accommodation\ncinematography helps shape the\nentire look of the film. It is one\nof many serendipitous episodes\nthat lead to the creation of the\ndocumentary The Backward Class.\nWe end up spending eight\nmonths in India, shooting at\nShanti Bhavan school for the\nmost part in 2009-2010 and then again in 2012. UBC film production alumna Aynsley Baldwin is\nso inspired by the story she pays for her own flight to join the film crew in India as sound-person,\nand ends up coming on board as editor once back in Vancouver.\nThe editing process is of epic proportions, spanning approximately three years (due in part\nto financing - or lack thereof). The entire project, which I'd estimated would take us two or three\nyears in total, clocks in at approximately five years by the time we finally finish, three days before the\ndocumentary's world premiere at North America's biggest documentary festival, Hot Docs. We're\nable to bring two of the students along to the screening, and we end up winning the Audience Award\n(top out of 197 films). The film goes on to win various other awards at festivals throughout Canada,\nand we end up getting theatrical distribution, a big deal for an independent Canadian documentary.\nThe Backward Class has played to acclaim in Toronto and Vancouver and continues to play\nat festivals nationally and internationally. It is an exciting time, and incredibly validating for our team\nof collaborators to know that audiences are connecting strongly with a story that we've believed in\nfor so many years. As for the three students who've been to Canada to attend film screenings - each\nhas said it is as though their own memories are up on screen, which is for me the ultimate accolade\nwas fortunate enough to receive a world-class education, and I'm excited to be able to share the\nstories of students who were able to receive the same. D\nAfter double-sold out screenings\nat its opening weekend in Vancouver\nthis April, The Backward Class will\ncontinue to screen in a variety of venues\nacross Canada. It is also scheduled to\nplay on BC's Knowledge Network and\nTVOntario in 2016. Grant is working\non facilitating international distribution\nopportunities, including theatrical\nscreenings in the US.\nFor screening times, see\nthe website and social media:\nwww.thebackwardclass.com\n@BackwardClass\n@madeleine_grant BOOKS\nIN VJIlY\u00C2\u00A3l%a 14 'A CTiYcl*] a;\nMY BODY\nIS YOURS\nArsenal Pulp Press\n236 pp.\nMichael V. Smith, MFA'98\nAssistant Professor\nof Creative Writing,\nUBC Okanagan\nIn his provocative\nand candid memoir,\nMy Body is Yours,\nMichael V. Smith tells the story of growing up an\ninadequate male in a small town. In sometimes\nstartling detail, he describes what it is like to be the\nchild of an alcoholic father, how obsessive compulsive\ndisorder creates addictions and compulsions similar\nto alcoholism, and how difficult it has been to reconcile\nhis fey, sissy self with societal gender expectations\nAttheheartofthe book is a community of queer\nartists and left-leaning politicos who have helped\nSmith create both an artistic and personal space\nfor self-expression while challenging notions\nof masculinity.\nSmith alternates between anecdotes that include\nchildhood memories, hospital visits to his father, and\nexplicit sexual encounters in private and in public, but\nhe balances all graphic details with deep, meaningfu\nmoments of reflection. He does so by referencing the\nwords of writers, philosophers and poets as well as\npeople like anthropologist Loren Eiseley, who says\nthat we are process not reality. To this, Smith adds\nthe idea that gender is something you create rather\nthan something you are born with. Gender, according\nto him, is a theatre we all perform. It's just that some\nperformances, such as those of heterosexual males\nand females, are more widely accepted than others\nThis idea is why people feel threatened by Smith,\nand by his drag persona, Miss Cookie LaWhore\nAt the end of Smith's memoir, he has come to\nterms with his inadequate masculinity as well as\nhis inadequate, alcoholic father. Anyone who believes\nthat gender is a simple binary should read this. But\nbe forewarned, it is as graphic as it is illuminating\nTHE\nJOSEPH\nBOYDEN\nV \"I - - 1\nTHEORENDA\nPenguin Canada, 2013\nTHROUGH\nBLACK SPRUCE\nPenguin Canada, 2009\nt\nJOSEPH BOYDEN\nHBBaaUMBiHB\nTHROUGH\nBLACK\nSPRUCE\nTHREE DAY ROAD\nPenguin Canada, 2008\n384 pp.\nA trilogy by Joseph Boyden\n(UBC Lecturer, Creative Writing Program)\nJoseph Boyden's trilogy, comprising The Orenda,\nThree Day Road and Through Black Spruce, attempts\nto reconcile the cycle of violence and injustice done\nto First Nations peoples with the reality of day-to-day\nexistence. The books explore themes of friendship,\nfamily, loss, redemption, survival, innocence and\nidentity, and while the novels unfold chronologically -\nfrom the 17th century to the First World War up to the\npresent day - there is no need to read them in order.\nIn fact, Boyden wrote The Orenda, which takes places\nin the 1600s, after the other two books. In combination,\nthe three novels tie together threads of violence,\nracism and addiction so often emphasized in writing\nabout native peoples, but Boyden upsets this simplistic\nnarrative by telling a story across centuries and placing\nthe horrific alongside the human, revealing that the\nneed to love and be loved gives one the will to survive.\nThe seventeenth century Huron warrior, Bird,\nfrom The Orenda is an ancestor of Cree sniper Xavier\nBird, whose story is told alongside his aunt, Niska,\nand friend, Elijah Whiskeyjack, in Three Day Road,\na haunting tale of the horrors and brutality of the Great\nWar. Niska's life in the bush is in stark contrast to the\nresidential school, which wrecked Elijah, and the war,\nwhich destroyed Xavier's body and spirit. The story\nis one of death and devastation but in the end, it is\na tale of healing and love.\nBoth Niska and Xavier also figure in Through Black\nSpruce, a story about legendary Cree bush pilot Will\nBird, son of Xavier. Will's niece, Annie, is a favourite\nof her grandfather, Xavier. She also has the seeing\npowers of Niska, her great aunt. Annie and Will's story\nis characterized by obsession and addiction as well as\nthe juxtaposition of the urban and rural. Like the other\ntwo novels, there is murder and mayhem. Women are\nraped and beaten. Drugs and alcohol are abundant\nand problematic.\nIn the end, Boyden's masterful storytelling shows\nhow it is possible to soldier on in the face of violence\nand injustice. In combination, the three novels elucidate\na long, complicated history so often breezed over\nin news reports and anecdotes. While there are no\nanswers here, Boyden reveals that life is as simple\nas it is complex.\nThree Day Road won the Amazon/Books in Canada\nFirst Novel Award and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction\nPrize in 2006. Through Black Spruce won the 2008\nScotiabank Giller Prize.\nALL-DAY BREAKFAST\nDouglas & Mclntyre, 2015\n378 pp.\nAdam Lewis Schroeder,\nBFA'95, MFA'99\n(UBC Lecturer,\nCreative Writing Program)\nAdam Lewis Schroeder has\nused hyperbole, satire and\nsarcasm in crafting All-Day\nBreakfast, a humorous zombie\ntale that is a social commentary on apathy, consumerism\nand racism. A large part of the story revolves around the\ngory, meaningless violence that has killed more than five\nmillion people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)\nsince 1998. The book alternates between the loss of limbs\nin the DRC with the body parts that fall off and are then\nstapled back on to high school substitute teacher Peter\nGiller and his zombie students. As with all humour writing,\nAll-Day Breakfast is transgressive. It uses the living dead\nas a metaphor to highlight the wilful ignorance the genera\npublic shows toward global atrocities\nGiller, whose wife recently died from stomach cancer,\ntries his best to raise his two children in the most norma\nway possible. But he is falling apart. When he refuses\nto sign a petition in support of the Nbzambi March, an\ninitiative intended to raise awareness of the atrocities in\nthe DRC, one of his students accuses Giller of putting his\nchildren's needs over the greater good. \"Nice priorities,\"\nsays Grace, who tells Giller that Nbzambi is the Congolese\nword for the walking dead\nEven before the accident during a class trip that turns\nGiller and his students into zombies, Giller is half dead\nAfter the accident, though, Giller and the students develop\nan obsession with bacon, an inexplicable urge to commit\nviolence and an unnerving ability to drop fingers and other\nbody parts then staple them back on. Houses are burned\ndown. People are run down in the street. Violence escalates\nSo does the urge to eat bacon. Through all of this, Giller\nattempts to maintain whatever shreds of humanity he can\n\"A zombie's anything that's wounded, like left for\ndead, but keeps moving forward, against all odds,\" says\nthe mother of one of the zombie students. \"It could be\na mouse in a trap, a whacked out substitute teacher\nor... a reanimated corpse.\" To this her daughter replies,\n\"Could be an impoverished African nation.\"\nAll-Day Breakfast speaks to the absurd ability people have\nof moving forward in their lives despite being half dead\nIAN MCTAGG ART-CO WAN: THE LEGACY OF A PIONEERING\nRini nr,ia FniirATnp Aiun rnKKFRVATiniuKT\nHarbour Publishing, 2015\n416 pp.\nEdited by Wayne Campbell,\nDennis A. Demarchi, and\nRonald D. Jakimchuk\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0{Si 1 ii-u 1 if.j notfRHpM) iiikii.iv, icpeccivt-nioMowunwin\nIan McTaggart-Cowan\nZoologist and biologist\nIan McTaggart-Cowan lived\nto be 100 years old. During\nhis long life, he served as\nthe curator of biology and\nassistant director of the\nBritish Columbia Provincial\nMuseum, was appointed\nhead of the Department\nof Zoology at UBC, served\nas the dean of the Faculty\nof Graduate Studies at UBC,\nwas named Officer of the\nOrder of Canada, became\na fellow of the Royal Society\nof Canada, was awarded\nthe Aldo Leopold Memorial Award by the Wildlife Society, became chancellor\nof the University of Victoria, co-wrote four volumes of The Birds of British Columbia\nand was recognized in 1991 by the Order of British Columbia.\nThe Legacy of a Pioneering Biologist, Educator and Conservationist is a tribute to\nhis accomplishments and scientific contributions.\nThe book includes sections of speeches and lectures delivered by\nMcTaggart-Cowan during his illustrious career, details of his connections to\nenvironmental organizations, as well as anecdotes from acquaintances and\nstudents. Deborah Kennedy, the development and communications manager\nfor the Nature Trust of British Columbia, recalls a conversation she had with\nMcTaggart-Cowan about the importance of nature as the foundation of his career.\n\"If you spend part of your life alone in the wild,\" he said, \"you are changed.\"\nMcTaggart-Cowan spent a lot of his time alone in the wilderness, researching\nlarge mammals in Canada's national parks. His focus, from early on, had been\non learning about the complexities of the natural world so that he could apply\nthat understanding to the preservation of the environment. In a 1969 speech,\nhe wisely noted, \"The laws of our society follow the pattern of ancient ethics\nthat are often poorly suited to governing a complex, crowded, rapidly changing,\ntechnological world.\"\nMcTaggart-Cowan worked hard to counteract what he called the natural\ntendency to do the wrong thing. His legacy as a leader in protecting the\nenvironment lives on in the attitudes and wisdom he shared with his students.\nThis book is a testament to that legacy. D 1J 'J' I\n^\\nrnt*\\nThe Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre was the\nsetting for the recent 94th annual Big Block Awards and\nSports Hall of Fame Banquet, which welcomed almost\n150 current Thunderbird athletes into the Big Block Club\nand honoured 125 former Thunderbird swimmers for\nmaking Canadian university sport history by winning\n10 consecutive CIS men's and women's national titles\nfrom 1998 to 2007. During this aptly named \"Decade of\nDominance,\" 42 international swimming competitors -\nincluding 13 Olympians - emerged from UBC and won\na combined total of 109 medals\nAs the swimmers swarmed the stage, former team\ncaptain Greg Hamm told the 900 in attendance that\nthe group boasted numerous high achievers. \"We've\neven got a nuclear physicist up here!\" shouted Hamm,\na 1998 Commonwealth Games medallist, pointing to\nformer team mate Will Walters\nThe architect of the program, former head coach\nTom Johnson, was enshrined in the Builder category,\nwhile two of his most successful swimmers, Brian\nJohns and Kelly Stefanyshyn, were inducted in the\nAthlete category. A three-time Olympian, Johns won\n33 of 34 CIS races during his university career, including\nhis world short-course record performance in 2003\nin 400-metre individual medley. Stefanyshyn won\n31 CISmedalsdu ring her time at UBCandwasa gold\nmedallist at the 1999 Pan American Games\nEleven current Thunderbird teams were represented\namong the winners of the 12 Big Block Club awards\nThe Bobby Gaul Trophy for Graduating Male Athlete\nof the Year went to track and cross country star Luc\nBruchet, whose highlights include running the first\nsub-four-minute indoor mile in UBC history and setting\na UBC record in indoor 3,000 metres. Bruchet was an\nNAIA All-American in each of his four seasons and\nhas competed for Canada at the World Cross Country\nChampionships\nSwimmer Savannah King and basketball player\nKris Young were named co-winners of the May Brown\nTrophy for Graduating Female Athlete of the Year. One\nof the most dominant distance swimmers in Canadian\nuniversity history, King wrapped up her career as\na four-time CIS Champion and a two-time CIS Swimmer\nof the Year. A multiple record holder and Grand Slam\nchampion in both the 400m and 800m freestyle, King\nalso competed in the 2008 and 2012 Olympics. Young\nCurrent T-birds celebrate their 2015 men's\nand women's CIS National Championship victory.\nfinished her basketball career in second place among UBC's all-time scoring leaders with\n2,384 points. She is the only T-Bird to ever win the Canada West Player of the Year award twice,\nwhile earning CIS All-Canadian and Canada West All-Star honours three times. During her five\nyears at UBC, she twice led the Thunderbirds to the CIS Final 8 national tournament. Both times\nshe was named a tournament all-star. She also set a new school record for points in a game,\nscoring 40 in a 2015 CIS quarter-final\nThe Bus Phillips Memorial Trophy for Male Athlete of the Year was awarded jointly to\nswimmer Coleman Allen and baseball pitcher Conor Lillis-White. Allen led UBC to victory\nat the 2015 CIS Championships, where he set three individual butterfly records while winning\nfour gold medals. He also is a member of the Canadian national team, representing his country\nRIG BLOCK CLUB DIGEST\nat the 2014 Commonwealth Games and earning his\nfirst international medal at a FINA World Cup meet\nin Singapore last fall. In 2014, Lillis-White allowed just\nfour earned runs in 78.2 innings, setting a new UBC\nbaseball record with a 0.46 earned run average, the best\nin the NAIA. The left-hander also eclipsed the old mark\nset by long-time Major League Baseball pitcher Jeff\nFrancis. Lillis-White finished the season with a perfect\n9-0 record, 75 strikeouts and three shutouts while\nhelping the Thunderbirds to a NAIA West Grouping\nchampionship and a berth in the opening round of the\nNAIA World Series.\nCross country and track runner Maria Bernard\ncaptured the Marilyn Pomfret Trophy as UBC's Female\nAthlete of the Year. Last spring, she led the women's\ntrack and field team to a third-place finish at the NAIA\nnational meet, winning the 3,000-metre steeplechase\nand helping UBC win gold in the 4 x 800-metre relay.\nThis past fall, she paced the Thunderbirds to a third\nstraight NAIA cross country team championship,\nwinning the individual title in the process. Bernard\nwas an NAIA All-American in both track and field\nand cross country. D\nUBC alumnus and philanthropist Ken Woods has donated $1 million\nto support awards and special projects for Thunderbird Varsity student\nathletes in Athletics & Recreation. \"To assist students who aspire to excel\nboth academically and athletically is indeed an honour and an excellent\nway of giving back to my alma mater,\" said Woods... It's been several years\nin the making but field hockey alumna Lesley Magnus and recently retired\nhead coach Hash Kanjee have completed their magnum opus salute to\na century of UBC field hockey. Their book, UBC Women's Field Hockey -\nCelebrating 700 Years, was published thanks to a generous gift from UBC\nSports Hall of Fame member Charlotte Warren. The book is available for\npurchase at the UBC Bookstore or Amazon... Architect and former UBC\nSoccer All Canadian Alex Percy is back on campus working on a project\nnear to his heart. An associate with Acton Ostry Architects, Percy is\na member of the design team for the new National Soccer Development\nCentre... Basketball alumna and scoring record holder Kelsey Blair\nhas returned to Vancouver following a pro stint in Sweden and is now\nworking as a children's and youth book author. Her latest book, Pick and\nRoll, is part of the Lorimer Children and Teens Series... Football alumnus\nand 1997 Vanier Cup champion Art Tolhurst is now an assistant strength\nand conditioning coach at the University of Oregon, where he has worked\nwith the likes of Heismann Trophy winner Marcus Mariota... Olympic\ntrack star and former UBC athlete and coach Thelma Wright is still in fine\ncondition, good enough to win her age category in this year's Vancouver\nSun Run... Back in March, former UBC steeplechaser Jeff Symonds won\nhis first career Ironman title, besting a three-time Ironman champion to\nclaim the Asia-Pacific Championship in Melbourne and securing a spot in\nthe Ironman World Championship this October in Kona... UBC women's\nfield hockey legend Shelley Winter Andrews and multi-sport star John\nHaar were inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame on May 28. Selected\nin the Athlete category, Winter Andrews starred for UBC from 1971 to 1976\nand on Canada's national team from 1975 to 1986. Haar enters as a builder\nfor his tireless workin support of Canadian amateur baseball... Rugby\nCanada's Senior Women's team has said farewell to Thunderbird alumna\nKim Donaldson, who recently announced her retirement after a decade\nof international play. The arts graduate made the tough decision to put\nan end to her playing career after finishing last season on a high note by\nhelping Canada to silver medals in the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup...\nEntrepreneurial football alumni Aaron Horowitz and Zack Silverman are\nat it again, this time with their all-natural craft Caesar mix called Walter\nCaesar. Neither one started out in the food industry, but became heavily\ninvolved in speciality beverages a few years ago with the launch of their\nBrooklyn, New York-based award-winning Kelvin Slush trucks that are\nincreasingly ubiquitous across the USA... Former T-Bird catcher Greg\nDensem is living the dream these days as a bull-pen catcher for the Toronto\nBlue Jays. The former junior national team member got a call on Easter\nMonday and two days later he was on his way to join the Jays at Yankee\nStadium... Former UBC rugby player Craig Chamberlin also has a new job\nas president of Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario... Football\nalumnus and former UBC assistant coach Joe Gluska was honoured for\nmore than 50 years of contributions to amateur football with the Bobby\nAckles Award for Lifetime Achievement at the recent BC Community\nFootball Association's Orange Helmet Awards. 't\\nMichael D. Meagher, BSF'57 PhD'y6, has been granted life membership in the Association of\nBC Forest Professionals. Meagher's career centered on reforestation, including establishing\nplantations, examining logged or burned land to determine regeneration actions needed,\nseed-needs planning, seed production, genetics and tree breeding. After earning an MSc in\nToronto, he served as lecturer before returning to UBC for doctoral studies in western hemlock,\nduring which he was a sessional lecturer. Meagher and his wife of 50 years, Birgitte, live in\nVictoria and raised two UBC Students: Kirsten in Vancouver and Patrick in Victoria, both\nthe parents of boys. Mike's hobbies include lobbying and educating the public on the virtues\nof Garry oak, BC's only native oak tree, and its role in the urban forest, the Forest History\nAssociation of BC, tennis, golf and gardening. Charles Krebs, MA'59, PhD'62, professor\nemeritus (zoology), has been awarded the Weston Family Prize for Lifetime Achievement\nin Northern Research. He is one of the world's preeminent field ecologists, and accolades for\nhis work are numerous. They include Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Norwegian\nAcademy of Arts and Sciences, the Australian Academy of Science and of the Royal Zoologica\nSociety of New South Wales. He has also been awarded the President's Medal from the\nCanadian Society of Ecology and Evolution and is an honorary professor in the Institute of\nZoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Cancer cells feed on cholesterol, and for\n14 years, Andras Lacko, BSc'61, PhD'68, professor of integrative physiology and anatomy and\nGO BIG OR GO HOME!\nWhen Liam Harrap, BA'14, and Jake Alleyne, BASc'14, received their hard-earned degrees,\nthey wanted to do something \"big\" before life's commitments got in the way. But unlike\ngrads who choose to celebrate their academic excellence - and freedom - with a big bash,\nor backpacking trip around Thailand, the friends opted to take a hike - 85,500 km hike from\nJasper, AB, to Mexico. This trek along the Great Divide and the Continental Divide trails had\nbeen agreed upon and sealed with a handshake three years previously.\nThe hike required months of meticulous planning. The duo pored over maps, dehydrated\nhundreds of pounds of food and, closer to their departure date, stored food caches along sections\nof the route. On April 25,2014, the friends - both former members of the UBC Varsity Outdoors\nClub and Triathlon Club - strapped on their 100 lb backpacks and embarked on the adventure\nof a lifetime. They conquered the challenging, rugged terrain with skis, snowshoes and hiking\nboots, covering an impressive 50 km each day. And of course, just like any epic adventure, it had\nits highlights: skiing down Mt. Clemenceau (fourth highest mountain in the Canadian Rockies);\nreceiving care package deliveries from their parents; meeting fellow hikers; and playing cribbage\non the summit of Mt. McLaren (9,350 ft). And its low points: walking 121 km in ski boots; eating fire\nstarter-tainted food; endless blisters; falling down a moraine face-first at 6:30 am; and, tragically,\ntravelling through Pie Town, New Mexico, in the off season when all the pie stores were closed.\nOn New Year's Eve 2014, Harrap and Alleyne completed their trek in Puerto Palomas, Mexico,\nand celebrated with the finest $10 bottle of bubbly from Walmart. The eight month trek not\nonly provided the pair with an epic adventure, but also some clarity regarding their future:\nHarrap is considering enrolling in a journalism program and Alleyne is actively looking for\na job in environmental engineering. Harrap's advice for recent grads: \"Don't worry if you graduate\nand you're not quite sure yet what you want to do. We didn't. So we went on a long walkabout\nand had a good ponder about it.\" As for any future adventures in store for the friends, there's talk\nof hiking from Jasper to the Alaska Highway or Nahanni National Park, NWT, next year... maybe.\npediatrics at the University of Texas, has studied the\npotential of drug-carrying synthetic \"good\" cholesterol\nnanoparticles' (rHDL) for cancer-drug delivery.\nThis unique drug-delivery method makes it possible\nto bypass normal cells and go straight to the cancer\ncells, eliminating the harmful effects of chemotherapy.\nAnd now, thanks to funding from the Cancer Prevention\nand Research Institute of Texas, Dr. Lacko and fellow\nresearcher Anil Sood, MD, will be able to expedite\nhuman clinical trials involving the use of nanoparticles\nto fight ovarian cancer. This June Lloyd Burritt,\nBMus'63, MMus'68, will debut his opera, Miracle Flight 571:\nAn Opera in Concert, at Roy Barnett Hall. The opera is\nbased on the 1972 plane crash in the Andes and tells\nthe true story of survivors Nando Parrado and Roberto\nCanessa who made the trek from the 12,000 foot glacier\nto find safety and rescue for the remaining survivors\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 Last May, James Thorsell, PhD'yi, was awarded\n\"honorary citizenship\" at the UNESCO conference\non sustainable development and protected areas for\nhis work advising on the management of natural world\nheritage sites in China. In July, he was named to the\nboard of NatureServe in Arlington, VA - a non-profit\norganization that provides high-quality scientific\nexpertise for conservation. Olympian and long-time amateur sports\nadvocate, Joy Fera, BRE'y2, received the 2014 In Her Footsteps Award\nfrom ProMOTION Plus, alongside renowned figure skater Bev Viger. The\nCelebrating BC Women in Sport event honours female athletes, coaches,\nofficials, judges, pioneers or advocates who have contributed significantly\nto girls and women in sport. Fera rowed for Canada at the 1976 Montrea\nOlympics and won bronze medals with the eight crew at the World\nChampionships in 1977-78. She co-founded the Delta Deas Rowing Club\nand has been a rowing umpire since 1989. In 1988 she organized the first\nScholastic Regatta on Deas Slough in Ladner, drawing girls and boys from\nthe Lower Mainland, the Interior and Washington State. She competed and\nmedalled at the 2005 and 2010 World Masters Alpine Skiing Championships\nand has been a member of the Canadian Masters' ski team since 2008\nThe Delta Sports Hall of Fame has named Fera Master Athlete of the Year\non three occasions. In February 2015, she was inducted into the Canada\nGames Hall of Honour. Don Alper, PhD'y6, retired from Western\nWashington University on December 31, 2014, after 43 years. A professor\nof political science, he also directed the Center for Canadian-American\nStudies from 1993-2014 and the Border Policy Research Institute from\n2005-2014. \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 David Guy, EdD'82, winner of the Coolie Verner Prize in\nhis graduation year, was subsequently awarded a 1990 New Zealand\nCommemoration Medal for his services to adult education in his home\ncountry. Recently, Guy's been in the UK leading the implementation of\nknowledge exchange strategies and systems to maximise the impact\nof research and engagement between those who generate knowledge\nalumni UBC Travel Club\nIt's your travel experience\nand those who apply it in public, commercial and community sectors. \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nGraham Heal, BA'83, is now director of Africa Development for Stonecrest\nnvestment Funds, adding Sub-Saharan Africa, in addition to SE Asia, as\na region of focus. \"Stonecrest is building upon its investments in women's\ncapacity development in Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi, to drive impact\ninvestments in affordable housing, agri-business, renewable power\ngeneration and 'conflict-free' mineral processing and trade,\" says Heal. \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nJonathan Reinarz, BA'92, has been appointed professor of the History\nof Medicine at the University of Birmingham (UK) and is completing\nthe manuscript of his tenth monograph (edited with Rebecca Wynter) -\nComplaints, Grievances and Critiques of Medicine: Historical and Social\nScience Perspectives, published by Routledge (London). In celebration\nof UBC's Centennial, Thunderbird field hockey alumna Lesley Magnus,\nBA'oo, BEd'02, and former UBC field hockey coach, Hash Kanjee, MHK'02,\nhave released the book, UBC Women's Field Hockey - Celebrating wo Years\nThe book takes readers on a photographic journey into the minds and\nhearts of players and coaches as they proudly represent UBC across the\nyears. All book sale proceeds will go to UBC's Women's Field Hockey\nprogram. Since publishing a Spanish novel last summer, Reza Emilio\nJuma, BA'01, has appeared in more than 20 different media outlets. His novel,\nMil Besos, won an award and an honourable mention in the Andalucian\nshowcase after being nominated by the highly-respected Andalucian Centre\nof Literature. Juma is currently working on finishing his second novel, set\nto be released this summer. Internationally-renowned storyteller and\nbest-selling author Richard Van Camp, MFA'03, is releasing six books this\nFEATURED TOUR:\nMyanmar River Cruise led by Paula Swart,\nUBC Continuing Studies instructor,\nArt Historian and Museum Curator\nMarch, 2016\nRequest a detailed itinerary today!\ntravel@worldwidequest.com\n1-800-387-1483 | 416-633-5666\nor visit WorldwideQuest.com/alumniUBC\nto browse all upcoming tours.\nALUMNI.UBC.CA/T RAVEL\nalumniuBC class acts\nGOING ORGANIC IN INDIA\nArmed with a master's degree in entrepreneurship from Brown\nUniversity and an electrical engineering degree from UBC, Ashmeet\nKapoor, BASc'08, initially returned to India in 2010 to work on rural\nelectrification. However, as a consumer and proponent of organic\nfood, his focus shifted when he found it difficult to find genuine\norganic produce. Naturally, the entrepreneur sought a solution.\nAfter a year of planning and research, including visiting villages\nand farmers across India and even becoming a farmer himself, Kapoor\nlaunched I Say Organic. The business venture is an online organic\nfood company in New Delhi that purchases organic produce directly\nfrom the farmer and delivers it to the customer's front doorstep.\nWorking directly with the farmers, Kapoor has successfully reduced\nexpenditures by streamlining what was previously an inefficient\ndelivery process with four to six middlemen, and substantially\nreducing spoilage by utilizing cold storage facilities. The benefits\nfrom these cost-saving measures are passed on to both the farmer\nand the consumer. Kapoor pays his farmers 25 percent more for their\ncrop than the mandi (farmers' wholesale market) and the consumer\nreceives fresh certified organic produce at an affordable price.\nKapoor explains: \"In urban centers, our efforts are focused towards\ncreating a convenient and affordable service for delivering fresh,\nsafe and healthy food straight from the farm to your plate. For rural\ndevelopment, we want farming to regain the respect it once had\nand become a profitable livelihood option.\" Kapoor also encourages\nparticipating farmers to make their planting decisions based on signals\nfrom the marketplace rather than what generations of their family have\ngrown for years. \"We focus on creating a market for organic products\nand promote a demand-based planning of the fields, so more and\nmore farmers find it profitable to convert to organic,\" he says.\nThe company employs 35 staff and partners with 100 farmers.\n\"Through the progress we've made so far, our farmers are earning\n40 percent more than they were earlier, and over 5,000 households\nin Delhi-National Capital Region have been able to lead a healthier\nlifestyle by opting for organic fruits, vegetables, grains, oils, and\nmuch more,\" Kapoor says.\nFollow I Say Organic on Twitter @iSayOrgank.\nyear, including short stories, novels, graphic novels and non-fiction\nVan Camp says they were inspired by his hometown of Fort Smith,\nNWT. Gregory G. Forrest, MASc'04 (mechanical engineering)\nhas qualified as a Canadian Patent Agent. Forrest provides patent expertise\nat McMillan LLP. YannickThoraval, BA'04, recently published his novel,\nThe Current. Commended by judges of the prestigious Victorian Premier's\nLiterary Award, the novel tells the story of one man's obsession with\nsaving a Pacific island from the effects of global climate change. Thorava\nis donating proceeds from the sale of his book to Adult Multicultura\nEducation Services, Australia's largest provider of humanitarian settlement,\neducation, training and employment services for refugees and newly arrived\nmigrants. On June 30, 2014, after a brief but energetic academic career,\nJack Miller, EdD'04, retired from the School of Education at Thompson Rivers\nUniversity (TRU). Miller, whose career as a full-time instructor at TRU\nbegan in 2001, taught in both the Bachelor of Education and Master of\nEducation programs. After completing his EdD, Miller was elected chair\nof the department. In 2007, Miller served as interim dean for four years\nand was also acting dean of the School of Social Work and Human Service\nMiller was active in campus life, supervising many master's students,\nconducting his own research, and collaborating with local First Nations\nin the search for culturally appropriate methods to assess First Nations\nanguage proficiency. He was a long-time member of the TRU Senate,\nincluding a term as vice-chair, and was also a member and vice-chair\nof both the Budget Committee of Senate and the Academic Planning\nand Priorities Committee. In 2005, Jack started the TRU Cross-Country\nRunning team, which eventually became a Wolf Pack varsity squad\nHe continues to coach the Wolf Pack Cross-Country and Indoor Track\nteams, both of which are now in CIS competition. For his dedicated service,\nMiller was awarded professor emeritus status in July 2014. Jack and his\nwife, Verna, also retired, hope to do more travelling in their motorhome\nas well as interesting rides on their Harley Davidson motorcycles. \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nJosh Hergesheimer, BA'04, and his brother, Chris (PhD candidate), take\nreaders on a cross-, continental journey into the meaning of '\"local food\"\nin their new book, The Flour Peddler: a global journey into local food. The story\nrecounts the brothers' journey travelling from the lush rainforests of BC's\nSunshine Coast to the farthest reaches of South Sudan. Their goal: to build\na bicycle-powered grain mill in the world's youngest country and donate\nit to a women's cooperative. Along the way the brothers battle overcrowded\nbuses, hazardous roads and impossibly short deadlines, and face their\nbiggest challenge when war breaks out. Troy Conrad Therrien, BASc'05,\nwas recently appointed curator of Architecture and Digital Initiatives at the\nSolomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation in New York. As the first\nperson to hold this new position, Therrien will contribute to the development\nof the museum's engagement with architecture, design, technology, and\nurban studies, in addition to providing leadership on select new projects,\nincluding the Guggenheim Helsinki Design Competition. His appointment\nfollows the announcement of a record-breaking number of architectura\nsubmissions to the open and anonymous competition and the launch of\nthe project's popular, interactive, online gallery of entries. Therrien will help\norganize an exhibition of six shortlisted submissions to be held in Helsinki\nin the spring of 2015, and will play a key role in developing and articulating\nthe programmatic elements of the proposed museum. After graduating\nfrom UBC, Dylan Murphy, MSS'06, and Yuanyuan Yin, BEng'08, got married\nthree times - twice in New York and once in China. They both quickly\nbecame leaders in their fields working for IBM and, although they were off to\na great start in the corporate world, something was missing from a persona\nperspective. After the loss of a family member and an unexpected hospita\nstay, Dylan and Yuanyuan left their jobs at IBM and started the company\nSuperHealos, with the mission to empower kids who are facing challenges\nTheir first book, Adventures in the Hospital, introduces some of the things\nthat the kids might see in hospital and teaches them that it's not so scary\nwhen you're a SuperHealo. For more information visit: www.SuperHealos\ncom \u00E2\u0096\u00A0 Tyler Mifflin, BFA'08, is the co-creator, writer, and co-host of the\naward-winning series, The Water Brothers. Now in its third season, the\nshow features Tyler and his brother, Alex, embarking on adventures around\nthe world to explore the most important stories surrounding the planet's\nwater resources. The series is available in more than 40 countries including\nthe US, where it is now available in 50 million homes on Pivot, and wil\nsoon be broadcasted in BC on The Knowledge Network and in Quebec on\nRadio-Canada. In November 2014, UBC creative writing alumna Christine\nLeclerc, BFA'08, MFA'10, received the bpNichol Chapbook Award for Oilywood\n(Nomados Books). The award recognizes excellence in Canadian poetry\npublished in chapbook form. Oilywood draws on research conducted on\nthe beaches of Burrard Inlet and Kinder Morgan's tar sands pipeline.\nLast summer, Zoe Shipley, BA'ri, studied the stunning ecosystems, diversity\nof life, and fascinating array of unique desert plants at the Bahia de los\nAngeles UNESCO World Heritage site, and in the crystal blue waters of the\nSea of Cortez. Shipley, a SUN AmeriCorps member at Clear Creek Middle\nSchool in Portland, OR, took the graduate course in pursuit of her master's\ndegree from Miami University's Global Field Program. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Paul Davidescu,\nBCom'n, and Jonathan Hill, BASc'n, pitched their pocket concierge app,\nTangoo, on the CBC's Dragon's Den, and made it out alive. The app organizes\na night out based on the user's mood. Users select the occasion and their\n'moods' and the app recommends a curated selection of restaurants and\nbars based on the criteria selected. Although Dragon Arlene Dickinson\nhas made them an offer, Davidescu and Hill politely declined, confident\nthey could find more suitable investors who'd give them a better valuation\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 Willie Kwok, BSc'13, is co-founder and CTO of SeamlessMD, named one\nof Canada's Top 20 most innovative companies in 2013 by CIX (Canadian\nnnovation Exchange). The mobile software platform enables healthcare\nproviders to engage, monitor, and care for patients across surgical episodes\nof care. This fall, Sara Eftekhar, BSN'13, DipEd'14, will be pursuing a master's\ndegree in international studies, peace studies and conflict resolution at\nthe Rotary Peace Centre at the University of Bradford, UK, after receiving\na Rotary Peace Fellowship. Eftekhar was one of four Canadians selected\nfor the program and the youngest recipient to date. She has worked and\nvolunteered in nine countries around the world and has represented Canada\nat the United Nations University and International Youth Conferences\nThe 25-year-old has initiated several projects for refugee and immigrant\nyouth within her role as the BC ambassador for the Canadian Council for\nRefugees and the executive director and co-founder of Civic youth group,\nand has represented Canada at the UN Headquarters on a youth program\nwith the UN Alliance of Civilization. Most recently, Eftekhar worked with\nrefugees in Cairo and represented Canada at the First Global Forum on\nYouth Policies. In recognition of her work, Eftekhar has received a Queen\nElizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, an Outstanding Youth Award,\nthe YWCA Vancouver's Young Women of Distinction award and is the\nyoungest person to be named as one of Canada's Top 25 Immigrants. D\n*>\nMORE NURSES AND\nDOCTORS FOR NICAR>\t\nWhen Andrew Wilson, BHK'14, visited Nicaragua on a volunteer\ntrip in 2010, he witnessed the scarcity of medical care in rural\ncommunities. He also met a gifted local student who dreamed of\nbecoming a doctor so he could provide health care in his community,\nbut who would never be able to afford an education. Meeting that\nstudent was a game changer for Wilson: \"I had no choice,\" he says.\n\"I had to do something about it.\"\nWilson saw the potential foryoungNicaraguansfrom rural\ncommunities to become a catalyst for change. He recruited doctors,\nhealth care professionals and activists, includingfellow UBC grads\nMichael Carlson, BSc'09, and Sarah Topa, BA'08, and founded Doctors\nfor Doctors (DFD) and Nurses for Nurses (NFN) with the Canadian\ncharity Global Peace Network. The project provides medical and\nnursing school scholarships to rural students in Nicaragua, providing\nthem with an opportunity that would otherwise be out of reach.\n\"We work with partner organizations on the ground in Nicaragua\nto find high-potential young people in areas where medical care is\nespecially sparse, and build strong relationships with all stakeholders\nto ensure long term success in these communities,\" says Carlson,\nwho is director of Operations.\nThe first student was funded in 2010, after Wilson biked\nacross Canada and ran a marathon to raise money. And, thanks to\na successful fundraising campaign in 2014, the project has recently\nfunded a second student and hopes to open a health care clinic that\nwill specialize in providing maternal and neo-natal health services.\n\"This is just the beginning for us,\" says Wilson. \"We acknowledge\nthat the problems rural Nicaragua faces are about more than just\na shortage of doctors. In addition to helping students become doctors,\nwe want to make it possible for them to provide care in rural areas\nwhere facilities and infrastructure do not currently exist.\"\nWhat started as a one-man operation has grown to a team of\n20 professionals with diverse backgrounds dedicated to improving\nthe quality of life for impoverished, rural communities. Wilson,\nwho recently graduated from the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic\nCollege, makes it clear that this project is about removing barriers\nto health care access, and that support from all types of health care\nprofessionals will be vital if it is to realize its full potential. \"The ultimate\ngoal is to help rural communities get access to the care they need,\nand we think every health care profession can assist in that,\" he says.\nTo find out more about the project, or to volunteer, visit\nwww.doctorsfordoctors.ca and follow Doctors for Doctors and\nNurses for Nurses on Twitter (S)dfd_nfn. Ml\n^m\nj-i\nrS T->\ni?H*:,\nTAPESTR\nWesbrook Villas\nCONCERT\n\"I smell bluebells, and suddenly I'm\nnine years old again.\"\nHappy memories keep us feeling vibrant and\nfulfilled. At Tapestry Retirement Communities, we provide all\nthe encouragement and support to keep you feeling that way.\nWhether it's growing prize-winning flowers, participating in one\nof the many activities or enjoying the company of new friends.\nCall us today and see what kind of \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00C2\u00BB \u00C2\u00AB\nindividualized programs we can offer to\nhelp keep your body, mind and spirit healthy,\nvibrant and young at heart.\nAngela Simmons\navid gardener\nwww.DiscoverTapestry.com\nTapestry at Wesbrook Village\n3338 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver BC\n604.225.5000\n1 North America's\nfee Leading Health Resort\nLJiamlrffiftrc\nSparkling Hill Resort, opened in 2010, is a European-inspired destination health & wellness resort. The resort's\ncrowning jewel is the 40,000 sq.ft. KurSpa offering over 100 different treatments, and a variety of complimentary\namenities including 7 aromatherapy steams & saunas and an outdoor infinity pool overlooking the Okanagan Lake.\nRelax, renew and revitalize at Sparkling Hill Resort & KurSpa located in the heart of Okanagan Wine Country.\nwww.sparklinghiU.com 11-877-275-1556\nOkanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada\nRESORT\nDR. JOHN B. MACDONALD, DSc'67, UBC PRESIDENT, 1962-67\nDr. Macdonald passed peacefully with family by his\nside on Tuesday, December 23,2014, in his 97th year.\nHe will be deeply missed by Liba, his beloved wife of\n'al almost 50 years. He leaves behind his loving children,\nKaaren (David), Grant (Jan), Scott (Christine),\nLinda (Jerry), and Vivian (Rob). He was a cherished\ngrandfather to Kristin (Scott), Jason (Veronica), Justine\n(Tyler), Vanessa, Julianne (Robert), Christopher, Laura\n(Jay), Richard, and Michelle. He was a proud great-grandfather to Tatam,\nKol, Jayde, Satchel and Lia. Dr. Macdonald graduated from the University\nof Toronto (U of T) in the middle of World War II, served as a Captain in\nthe Canadian Dental Corps, and after the war, studied microbiology at the\nUniversity of Illinois and Columbia. On returning to a teaching and research\nappointment at U of T, he rose quickly to become the founding director of\nthe Division of Dental Research. His reputation as a scientist and educator\ned to an invitation to move to Harvard in 1956 as a professor of microbiology\nand director of the Forsyth Infirmary. In 1962 Dr. Macdonald became the\nfourth president of UBC. His advice led to the establishment of Simon Fraser\nUniversity (SFU) and Victoria University, allowing UBC to concentrate on the\ndevelopment and expansion of graduate education and research. In the 70s,\nDr. Macdonald was CEO of the Council of Ontario Universities, where he was\na powerful advocate for \"collective autonomy,\" arguing that the 15 universities\nshould use the council as a vehicle for planning and implementing the evolution\nof the Ontario system - because they were best qualified to do so, and because\nfailure to do so would invite government intervention. During the last years of\nhis career Dr. Macdonald was president of the Addiction Research Foundation,\na research affiliate of the World Health Organization. Dr. Macdonald served\nas a consultant to governments, universities and colleges in both Canada and\nthe United States. For his contributions as a scientist and academic leader\nhe received honorary degrees from Harvard, the University of Manitoba, SFU,\nUBC, Wilfrid Laurier University, Brock University, the University of Western\nOntario, the University of Windsor and U of T. He is an Officer of the Order\nof Canada. In lieu of flowers, please visit www.rskane.ca for ways to donate\ntowards the preservation of Lake Simcoe\nJOHN STANLEY NAYLOR HAMMOND, BASc'43\nJohn passed away peacefully on Monday, June 16, 2014. The beloved husband\nof 68 years to Myra Hammond, he loved his six children, 14 grandchildren\nand nine great-grandchildren, unconditionally. His subtle sense of humour\nwill be missed. He was born in Nuneaton, UK, on March 8,1920, and grew up\nin Kelowna. After receiving his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering,\nhe joined the Canadian Army, serving in the Royal Canadian Electrical and\nMechanical Engineers and spending a brief time in England. Upon returning\nto Canada, he worked with Ontario Hydro operations. Looking to the future,\nhe joined the nuclear power division, becoming assistant superintendent and\nthen the commissioning operations superintendent of the Bruce Nuclear Power\nStation at Douglas Point, and eventually finishing his career in Toronto. He was\na gentle, patient man of few words who enjoyed time with his family - bedtime\nstories were his specialty. His creativity in his workshop was boundless\nChildren were happy recipients of handmade whistles, boats and other toys,\nand his totem poles marked many a cottage, campsite or portage. Growing\nup in the Okanagan, he sang in the Anglican Church choir for years. John\noften reminisced about happy times spent at the UBC Outdoor Club cabin\non Grouse Mountain. His love of the outdoors was shared with his family,\nwho recall fondly the many canoe trips and camping holidays in Algonquin\nPark. John was a keen badminton and tennis player. He enjoyed years of\nScottish dancing, bridge with adult friends, and endless cribbage and euchre\ngames with children and grandchildren. John's final years were spent in the\nwarm and loving care of his extended family and the staff of Post Inn Village\nin Oakville, where he was affectionately known as King John. Dad was and\nwill always be an inspiration to his family and will be missed terribly.\nROY V. JACKSON, BA43\nRoy, aged 96, of Wilmington, DE, passed away on\nSeptember 3, 2014. In addition to his UBC degree,\nhe received a degree in civil law from McGill University.\nHe proudly served in the Canadian Army working in the\nab on chemical warfare products. Roy was employed\nby Ridout & Maybee, LLP, a law firm practicing patent\nlaw in Canada. He worked for DuPont in Wilmington,\nHaseltine Lake in New York, Johnson & Johnson in\nNew Brunswick, NJ, and Hercules in Wilmington, from where he retired in\n1994. He was a member of the Patent and Trademark Institute of Canada\nand Mensa. Roy enjoyed attending the University of Delaware/Osher\nLifelong Learning Institute, both to teach and take classes. He had numerous\nprofessional papers published. His passion was reading and writing. He was\nan avid current events enthusiast and was very active in his community. He\nenjoyed spending time with the family. Roy was predeceased by his parents\nand his brother, John, of Victoria, BC. He is survived by his loving wife of\n44 years, Monika; his sister, Marjorie (Ray) McFadden; daughters Francis Ann\n(Edward) Borisenko and Victoria Stagg; grandchildren Adam, Andrea, Andrew\nand Malcolm; great-grandchildren James and Thomas; and numerous nephews\nand a niece. In lieu of flowers, you can donate to www.creston.museum.bc.ca\nJAMES DAVID KING, BSc'45, SCom'45\nDave was born on January 14,1922, in Vancouver\nand passed away peacefully on December 21, 2013,\njust shy of his 92nd birthday. His father, Professor\nHarry King, was one of the founding fathers of UBC's\nDepartment of Agriculture and his mother, Aletta King,\nwas active in the Faculty Wives Association. In 1945\nDave received degrees from UBC in agriculture and\ncommerce. He married Ruthy Parnum in 1949 and lived\nin Langley, where he was district manager for the BC Electric Company. Dave\nbelieved passionately in the ability of the free enterprise system to create\na bigger pie that could be shared by all, and devoted his career to pursuing\nthe economic development of BC. Dave, Ruthy and their children, Julia, Harry\nand Anne, moved backto Vancouver in i960, settling in Kerrisdale near his\nparents. Following the expropriation of BC Electric, Dave remained with BC Hydro and later served as executive secretary of the BC Harbours Board and\nas a commissioner on the BC Energy Commission. He played key roles in\nthe development of the Peace River hydro project and the port at Robert's\nBank. Dave and Ruthy moved to West Vancouver in 1974, where they enjoyed\na tranquil setting, great bridge club, and their four grandchildren, Christopher\nand Eric Mueller, and James and Aletta Leitch. Following Ruthy's untimely\ndeath in 1993, Dave married their long-time friend, Sally Carter, and after her\ndeath in 1998, married Gail Gillespie who passed in January 2013. Dave was\na devoted son, cherished husband and responsible father. His children fondly\nrecall family excursions where \"taking the scenic route\" often resulted in\nfinding the latest pulp mill or highway construction project, and time in ferry\nine-ups was spent doing mental math games. He lived a good life, was well\nloved, and will be missed\nELEANOR GRACE BENNETT (NEE MAYO), BA45\nEleanor Grace Bennett of Rye, NY, passed away on January 31,2014, in\nGreenwich, CT, surrounded by her daughters and her dear aide, who held her\nhands as she prepared for her final journey. Eleanor was born on February 25,\n1925, in Victoria to Albert and Grace Mayo. She graduated from UBC in 1945\nwith a BA in physics, followed by a master's in 1947. After graduation, she\nworked for the National Research Council in Ottawa in the field of optics\nand co-authored a number of papers in that field. Eleanor married Reginald\nB. Bennett, BASc'42, MASc'45, on September 15,1951, in Vancouver. Upon their\nmarriage, the couple moved to Bahrain, where Reg was employed at the\nBAPCO oil refinery. Their first daughter, Eileen, was born there. Circumstances\ned them backto North America in 1957 and they eventually settled in the\nNew York City area, where Eleanor was a devoted wife to Reg and a devoted\nmother to her two daughters. Upon Reg's retirement in 1982, the couple\nenjoying travelling, visiting (among other places) Russia, China, Australia,\nNorway, Egypt, and Chile. Reg passed away on January 13, 2011, after 59 years\nof marriage. Eleanor is survived by her daughters, Eileen (Bill) Colleary and\nAnne (Michael) Long; seven grandchildren: Michael (Kim), James (Katie),\nShannon and Thomas Colleary, Candice, Charles and Melanie Long, and\ngreat-granddaughter Aibhlin Colleary.\nR. GORDON KNIGHT, BASc'49\nJuly 14,1921 -May 16,2014\nGordon passed away, aged 92, leaving lola, his best\nfriend and partner for 68 years; son Tony (Margaret);\ndaughter Tami (Phil Hollman); and grandchildren\nsaac and Dominique LeBlanc. Born in Vancouver to\nA. Richard (Dick) Knight (Herefordshire, UK) and Lily\nBlanche James (Nfld), Gordon had a rich, varied and\nwonderful life. He graduated Kitsilano High School in\n1939, attended UBC and trained in the RCAF as a navigator from 1943 to 1945\nn 1955, Gordon set up a private practice as a consulting engineer specializing\nin water and waste management projects. In 1965, in partnership with\nclassmate Martin J. J. Dayton, he founded Dayton & Knight Ltd., Consulting\nEngineers, which operates today as Opus DaytonKnight Consultants Ltd\nGordon and lola were early members of the Hollyburn Country Club and\nWest Vancouver Yacht Club. After retiring in 1982, Gordon enjoyed travelling,\nboating, cycling and hiking, and was an avid swimmer at the West Van\nAquatic Centre right up to the last few months of his life. He contributed to\nthe communities of West Vancouver and Lions Bay and volunteered on various\ncommissions. He began his lifelong sport of skiing on Hollyburn Mountain in\nthe 1930s and was a member of the UBC Ski Club in 1942 and of the post-war\nVarsity Outdoor Club in 1945. When Whistler opened, Gordon and lola were\nweekend skiers, hikers and cyclists there for 37 years, eventually finishing these\nactivities back on Hollyburn. It was while pursuing these activities that Gordon\nand lola sought to retain the venerable Hollyburn Lodge. With Bob Tapp they\nformed the Hollyburn Heritage Society with goals of restoring the lodge and\ncollecting the history of the local mountains. Donations to Hollyburn Heritage\nSociety to rebuild the lodge are appreciated: www.hollyburnheritage.ca\nWILLIAM (BILL) ALEXANDER HOWES MCCORQUODALE, BASc'49\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 > . Bill passed away peacefully at Lions Gate Hospita\n_ ^Jr* in North Vancouver on February 8, 2013. He was\nt\u00C2\u00A3 predeceased by his brother, Jim, BSc'50, and his parents\nIkSg Bill is survived by his wife of 55 years, Kirsten, BSR'83;\ni^Uf^ sons Gordon (Jean) of North Vancouver and Peter\n^^\u00E2\u0096\u00A01 I of Berkeley, CA; grandsons Rob (Nicola) of Vancouver\nand Alex of North Vancouver; sister Fran of Burnaby;\nbrother-in-law JU of Denmark; sisters-in-law Lotte of\nFrance and Maureen of Illinois; nephews and nieces Michael, Kemp, Sandy,\nLizette, Michael, Michelle, Fred, Jakob, Ida, Niels and Catherine; and extended\nfamily and friends throughout the world. Bill was born in Winnipeg on\nDecember 9,1925, and at an early age moved with his family to the Victoria\narea. He attended Victoria College then graduated from UBC in electrica\nengineering. He helped work his way through college and university by\nplaying professionally in the Victoria Symphony Orchestra and various swing\nbands. After graduation, Bill worked in Montreal, Windsor, Syracuse and\nSan Francisco, before settling in North Vancouver in 1964. As a professiona\nengineer, he was an electrical discipline specialist and held senior positions\non major projects, mainly in the pulp and paper industry, in Canada, USA,\nTurkey, China, South America and Southeast Asia. His memberships included\nAPEGBC and IEEE. He was also a registered professional engineer in severa\nAmerican states. Bill played trombone in various musical groups and toured\nwith his bands in Switzerland, Germany, Mexico and the Bahamas. He enjoyed\nthe BC mountains and spent many happy hours skiing and hiking. His other\nhobbies included photography and international travel. Bill was a wonderfu\nand generous family man who gave freely of his time to friends, neighbours\nand community activities. He will be greatly missed by all who knew him\nJIM MELTON, BA'49, MEd'66\nPredeceased by his beloved son, Scott, and his\ncherished wife, Joyce, Jim is survived by his loving\nfamily: son Dorian (Yvonne); daughter Jan Currie\n(Don); daughter-in-law Candice Melton; sister-in-law\nJan Cummings and brother-in-law Ken Moore;\nfive grandchildren; nieces and nephews; and many\nwonderful, lifelong friends, and colleagues from the\nVancouver School Board and beyond. Jim was a kind\nand generous soul and he made a difference in the lives of those lucky\nenough to know him\nDONALD JAMES (JIM) MCCORQUODALE, BA50\nJim passed away on August 13, 2012, in Naperville, IL. He is survived by his\nwife, Dr. Maureen (nee Kleba) McCorquodale; sons James Alexander (Margi)\nand Dr. Michael Shannon (Dr. Ruba); daughters Lizette\nJean (Paul) Hudson and Michelle Erin (Brad) Artis;\ngrandchildren Jessica McCorquodale, Austin James\nArtis and Dylan Artis; sister Frances (the late Samuel)\nLevis; and nephews Dr. Michael and Kemp Levis, Gordon\nand Dr. Peter McCorquodale; and predeceased by\nhis former wife, Annette (nee Cole). Jim was born on\nAugust 27,1927, to Alex and Annie Elizabeth Catherine\n(nee MacKay) McCorquodale in Winnipeg, and grew up in Victoria. He\nworked a year as a chemist with British American Paint Company (BAPCO)\nin Victoria, and went on to earn a PhD in biochemistry from the University\nof Wisconsin-Madison. He then held a post-doctoral fellowship at the Max\nPlanck Institute in Munich and spent the rest of his career as a professor\nof biochemistry. He made notable research contributions in biochemistry,\ncytogenetics and virology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,\nEmory University, the University of Texas at Dallas, the Medical College\nof Ohio in Toledo, the Northwestern Memorial and Michael Reese Hospitals\nin Chicago, and Midwestern University in Oak Brook, IL. He taught courses\nin medical school curricula and was research advisor to numerous graduate\nstudents who went on to make their own contributions to science. He fondly\nappreciated the fine arts as both a baritone and trombone player, and\na self-taught piano player. He enjoyed travelling, practicing his German, nature,\npoetry, gardening, bike riding, football, golf, stimulating conversations, fine\ndining, bridge, square dancing and taking long walks with his family. His loving\nfamily will dearly miss his unwavering love, patience, support and wisdom\nRONNIE WILSON, SA'50\nRonnie Wilson, director of classic television series such as The Pallisers,\nTo Serve Them All My Days, The Mill on the Floss and How Green Was My Valley,\ndied aged 84. While at UBC, he immersed himself in The Players Club, directing,\npainting sets and taking leading roles in many productions. When he was 22,\nhe went to London and for 12 years worked as an actor on stage and in radio,\ntelevision and film, appearing in The World ofSuzy Wong, The Dambusters and\nThe Avengers. In 1959 his agent sent him and a young actress, Gay Cameron,\nto audition for a stage production of Fool's Paradise - they married in 1964\nThat same year, Ronnie received a grant from the Arts Council enabling\nhim to begin his career as a director. He went on to direct many successfu\ntelevision productions over the next 20 years. He was a BAFTA and Emmy\nfinalist and winner of the Broadcasting Press Award for To Serve Them All My\nDays. For 20 years he taught at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where\nhe was well loved by his many students. Ronnie died of a heart attack while\nswimming in the sea off Milford, in Hampshire. He is survived by his wife,\nGay; his children, Charlie and Fanny; and two grandsons\nHON. KENNETH C. MURPHY, QC, LLB'5i\nBorn in Dunblane, Scotland, on July 15,1922, Ken passed away in Victoria on\nApril 19, 2014, with his wife of 30 years, Jane, at his side. Ken joined the RCAF\nin 1941, and after being discharged, attended Victoria College from 1946 to\n1948. In 1953 he joined Harman and Company, subsequently becoming senior\npartner at Harman MacKenzie Sloan and Murphy. From 1953 to 1969, he served\nas the Saanich prosecutor and also as a defence lawyer. He represented trade\nunions and companies in the labour law field and was a labour arbitrator. He\nserved as president of the Victoria Chamber of Commerce and Victoria Bar\nAssociation, as returning officer for Oak Bay constituency, and as director\nof the Victoria GolfClubandCJVI Radio Station. He held memberships\nin the Oak Bay Police Commission, the National Council of the Canadian\nBar Association of the Provincial Council of the BC branch, and the University\nof Victoria Board of Governors. Ken took a great interest in young people,\ncoaching Little League baseball and managing the YMCA Swim Team\nHe was a great role model for younger lawyers and judges. In 1981 he was the\nfirst Victoria lawyer appointed a judge of the County Court of Vancouver Island\nsince 1963 and in 1990 he was appointed a Supreme Court justice. After retiring\nin 1997, he served as a mediator until 2002. In 1999 he served as adjudicator\nfor the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner. Ken was a member of the\nUnion Club of BC, and an avid golfer and member at the Victoria Golf Club for\n47 years, where he once had a \"single digit\" handicap. He loved golfing, hiking\nand travelling the world with Jane. Ken is survived by Jane; his children, Lynn,\nLloyd, Susan and Steve; stepsons Tony and Shaun; and by 15 grandchildren,\n12 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. Ken had a wonderfu\nand often subtle sense of humour and was a gentle man. He will be missed\nby all who knew him\nWERNER DETTWILER, BSc'59\nIn September 2013, the BC high-technology sector\nlost one of its pioneers. Werner (Vern) Dettwiler\ndied suddenly at the age of 78 in Switzerland, where\nhe had been living with his wife, Cecile. Vern was hired\nas the fifth employee of the fledgling UBC Computing\nCentre. That first computer (only the second in the\nprovince) had a 34-kilobyte memory and was so large\nthat it was delivered in a moving van. Between 1957\nand 1968, UBC used five different mainframe computers. Vern witnessed\namazing changes during his working life, as computers kept getting faster and\ndeveloping more capacity: Resisters replaced tubes, printed circuit boards\nreplaced individually soldered circuits and were in turn replaced by microchips\nVern eventually became head of New Projects at UBC, a job he loved for its\nnovelty and challenge. His drive and enthusiasm lead Vern to team up to start\nMacDonald Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) in 1969, a high-level computing\nfirm supplying complete systems: hardware and software. He was involved\nin creating satellite receiving stations, weather prediction programs, and\nrobotics (such as the Canadarm on the US space craft); the Canadian Police\nnformation System; and air traffic control systems. MDA, which started\nwith a handful of men working part-time from the corner of a basement,\nhas grown to become an internationally recognized leader with more than\n4,800 employees. Vern was on the executive of the Institute of Electrical and\nElectronics Engineers. He served for two terms on the Canada Standards\nCouncil and was involved with the Swiss Canadian Chamber of Commerce\nVern loved music, flying, trains, walking in the Alps, and his family. Vern is\nsurvived by his wife, Cecile, BA'y8; daughters Pamela, BSc'86, and Sarah, BA'86;\nand granddaughter Katherine\nROBERT DONALD (DON) LYON, Bld'59\nDon was hardworking, irrepressible and known for his humorous, flippant\nremarks. Don grew up in Powell River and attended UBC from 1955 to 1959\nFollowing graduation, he worked in a variety of fields in the Canadian Rockies\nincluding avalanche control, construction and teaching. In 1972, he moved back\nto the coast to become the resource centre coordinator for the Burnaby Schoo\nBoard, a position he held for 25 years. In the 1980s, Don and his wife, Heather, founded Galena Publishing, which created postcards of\nthe Kootenays, an area they loved and eventually retired\nto, settling in the town of Nelson. Don was an active\nmember of UBC's Varsity Outdoor Club (VOC), first as\na student and then as a grad member. For more than\n50 years he was coordinator for past members who were\nin the club during the 1950s and 60s, helping to organize\na yearly ski reunion in the Okanagan and, later on, an\nannual \"Larch Lurch\" autumn hike in the Rockies. As a mountaineer, Don was\ndescribed by alpine historian Chic Scott as one of Canada's leading alpinists\nin the 1960s. He was a member of successful expeditions to Mt. Logan, Yukon\n(1959), and the first ascent of the Pioneer Ridge on Mt. McKinley, Alaska (1961),\nas well as quarter master of the First Canadian Himalayan Expedition (1964)\nIn 1966-67 Don was seconded by the Alpine Club of Canada to mobilize the\ngovernment-sponsored Yukon Centennial Expedition to the Icefield Ranges\nof the St. Elias Mountains. In all of these alpine endeavors he was joined by\na large contingent of VOC grads. As Marion (nee Gardiner) Boyd, BA'63, BSW'64,\nMSW'66, stated at Don's celebration of life, he \"was the glue that kept our VOC\ncommunity of the late 1950s and '60s together for many years.\" He will be\nmissed by family and friends.\nGEORGE ALTAMONT BROWN, SA'59\nGeorge, beloved husband of Iris, passed away peacefully\non April 10,2014, in Toronto. George studied economics\nand political science because he believed a strong\neconomy was a precursor to implementing change in any\nsociety. His passion for improving the living conditions\nin his homeland, Jamaica, compelled him to complete\na master's degree in public administration at Carleton\nUniversity and a master's degree in economics at the\nUniversity of Toronto (U of T) before returning to Jamaica in 1962. From 1962\nto 1966, George worked at the Central Planning Unit, the Development Finance\nCorporation, and the University of the West Indies (UWI) hospital in Kingston,\nJM. As assistant administrator of the UWI hospital, he received a fellowship\nto study at the School of Administrative Medicine, Columbia University, NY.\nAfter returning to Canada in 1966 and gaining a master's degree in socia\nwork in 1968 at U of T, George joined the Ontario Human Rights Commission\n(OHRC) becoming its executive director in 1976. He will be remembered for\nhis strength of character, integrity, sense of outrage at injustice, engaging\npersonality and infectious laugh. George's legacy is his vast contribution to\nthe arena of human rights in Ontario. He was a fantastic leader who provided\nstimulus for change, led the struggle for equal opportunity in every endeavor,\nand was instrumental in establishing new structures within the OHRC, such as\na community race and ethnic relations unit. George used his fine intellectua\npowers to combat injustice, which was rampant in the social fabric of Ontario\nHis remarkable achievements at the OHRC changed the social dynamics of\nOntario. George spent his entire life thinking about how to rid our society of the\nevils of harassment and discrimination. Now that his earthly watch is over, he\ncan rest in peace having realized his dream of making the world a better place\nROBERT HARRIS, BA'59, BLS'62, MLS'79\nBorn in Glasgow in 1936, Robert died in White Rock of lung cancer in 2014\nIn his early career, he worked as head of circulation at UBC library, chief\nibrarian at BCIT, and subsequently served as the consultant on libraries to\nthe provincial government and was instrumental in\nimproving library services to educational and medica\nsystems. After serving as executive director to the\nManagement Advisory Council, Robert started his\nown consulting firm, advising on systems and training\nstaff from more than a hundred small Lower Mainland\nbusinesses. Robert was a founding member of the\nCouncil of Post-Secondary Library Directors; one-time\nPresident of the BC Library Association; and an officer or member of severa\ncommittees of the Canadian Library Association, receiving several awards\nfor his contributions. After retiring, Robert and his wife, Betty, volunteered\nfor Rotary International and the Canadian Executive Services Organization,\nhelping plan, organize and improve computer and library services at overseas\ninstitutions and businesses. Robert worked tirelessly on developing and\nimproving the computer program that connects the public health system to\nthe remote area around Jeremie, Haiti. This system has been recognized as\nunique and outstanding in its outcomes by US Aid, the UN and other health\norganizations. He founded \"Help for Haiti Consortium\" and was awarded\nthe prestigious \"Service Above Self\" Rotary award in 2012. That same year,\nhe was recognized by the President of the Haitian Health Foundation when\nhe was honoured at the White House. He was an honourable, unassuming\nman. His intellectual curiosity and sense of humour made him an interesting\ncompanion. He was a loving husband of 33 years to his wife, Betty; a loving\nfather to his two stepchildren, Zakiya of Seattle and Waleed of Singapore; and\na loving grandfather to his two granddaughters, Jasmin and Jade. He will be\nmuch missed by his family, by those he worked with, and by all who knew him\nLLOYD (BILLY) GORDON SHANNON, SASc'61\nBill was born on June 17,1933, in San Fernando,\nTrinidad. He completed his high school education in\nI Trinidad and then moved to Vancouver in 1956, having\nbeen accepted into the engineering program at UBC\nBill married Elma in 1959 and graduated from UBC\nin 1961. He then completed a two-year post-graduate\nscholarship with the UK government. Bill and Elma have\nfive children (Natalie, Steve, Cathy, Dana, BSN'01, MSN'14,\nand LeeAnn, BEd'07); 16 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. In 1971,\nBill returned to Vancouver, where he worked as Chief Electrical Engineer\nwith DW Thompson & Co. A year later, he incorporated his own engineering\nconsulting practice and completed more than 1,000 projects. In 1982, Bill\nundertook a five-year overseas contract with the Government of Trinidad and\nTobago as electrical consultant. In 1987, Bill's practice resumed in Vancouver\nand he was active in it until 2013. Bill died on October 24,2013, of ALS. His life\nwas eventful and satisfying, filled with the joys of a long marriage, large family,\nmany friends, and the success of his professional career. His family marked the\nfirst year anniversary of his passing with loving memories of his outrageous\nstories, the pride he took in his family, and a generous spirit\nJ.F.D. ILOTT,S\u00C2\u00A3d'64\nI938 - 2074\nA gentle giant to everyone he knew, our dad communicated in actions,\nnot words. Born and raised in BC, Fred finished his master's degree at the\nUniversity of Western Washington in 1967. He finished his PhD in education\nat the University of Missouri in an astounding three years. The motivation\nbehind his speed became apparent when, upon graduation, he returned\nto Bellingham and quickly married his former classmate, Helen Matthews\n(nee Bresnahan). The new family moved to Canada, where Fred became\na professor at the University of Alberta. In 1996 Fred and Helen moved to the\nHood Canal and built their retirement home. He is predeceased by his parents,\nFred and Cecilia, and his wife, Helen. He is lovingly remembered by his sister,\nLeslie (Leo); his children, Lorin Matthews (Kerry), Marna Matthews (Paul),\nand Wendy llott (Tobi); and his grandchildren, Sarah, Tom, Alex and Chris\nDONALD FRANK FLOOD, BA'66\nDon was born in Kingston, ON, on October 23,1943, and died in Nelson,\nBC, on April 20, 2014, aged 70. He was a long-time resident of Nelson,\nwhere he worked as a lineman for the City of Nelson before retiring in 2003\nBefore that he worked for the Federal Government as a meteorologica\ntechnician in various postings including Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. During\nthe last third of his life he became a Catholic, and his faith and his church were\nvery important to him. He was a very shy, kind and loving man, beloved of all\nwho knew him. He was a nature and animal lover, a patron of the arts, an avid\nreader and had a great appreciation for poetry, literature, fine art and classica\nmusic. Predeceased by his parents, Viva and Frank Flood, he is survived by his\ndog, Shadow, his brother, Steve, and his sister, Elspeth. He is also survived by\nnieces, nephews and cousins, and by many friends including his close friends,\nRon and Sara, Danielle and James. He will be much missed by them, by his\nneighbours and by his church community\nKAREN ROWDEN MILNE, BA'68\nKaren Rowden Milne passed away in comfort on June 12, 2014, after suffering\n18 months with cancer. She is mourned by her partner of 44 years, Graham\nMilne. Born in Halifax, Karen grew up in Whitehorse and Kamloops. Karen\nwas an artist with Canada Council Bursaries in 1970 and 1971, which led to\nan exhibition of her wearable sculpture at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1971\nShe was awarded Canadian and US patents in 1973 and 1974 for a garment\ndesign and method of dressing. From 1974 to 2004 she and Graham operated\nGraham Milne Photolab, making fine prints for enthusiastic photographers\nIn 2002 Karen was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal for\nher relentless work in protecting the environmental values of North Vancouver.\nIn 2014 she was given the Living City Award from the City of North Vancouver.\nShe created mosquitocreek.org and urbanstreams.org. If you knew Karen\nplease remember her well\nhis passion for the rest of his life. He received a Bachelor of Rehabilitation\nand Medicine degree at the University of Alberta, establishing the Hys\nCentre Physical Therapy clinic shortly thereafter. David sold the clinic to\nLifeMark and became a regional vice president of the company, managing\nclinics in Alberta and Manitoba. David was a man with numerous hobbies\nand interests who travelled the world. He loved being with young people\nand touched the hearts of many during Serve trips to Mexico and El Paso,\nand while coaching teams and leading youth groups. His playful mind games\nalways left kids shaking their heads, scheming for their chance to retaliate\nDavid always said that he would be forever young. He will live on in the\nhearts of those who knew him. We love you, Dad\nPROFESSOR EMERITUS GEOFFREY HAINSWORTH\n1934 - 2071\nGeoffrey was born in Bramley, Yorkshire. In 1952 he\nreceived a state scholarship to attend the University\nof London, graduating from the London School of\nEconomics in 1954 and receiving the Allyn Young\nHonours Prize. A Fullbright Scholars grant enabled\nhim to obtain his PhD at the University of California at\nBerkeley, his thesis being classical theories of overseas\ndevelopment, a subject he pursued throughout his working life. He taught\nat Harvard from 1958 to i960 while supervising the study program for foreign\nservice fellows under the Harvard Development Advisory Service, along\nwith participation in Pakistan's Second Five-Year Plan. He spent i960 to\n1965 as a research fellow and instructor at the Australian National University\nin Canberra, with research work in Papua New Guinea. His three children\nwere born in Canberra. Returning to the US, he taught at Williams College\nin Massachusetts while supervising specially selected mature foreign student\nfellows at the Centre for Economic Development. Geoffrey started his career\nat UBC in 1968, where he founded the Centre for Southeast Asia Studies,\nretiring as its director in 2001. He was one of a select Canadian Educators\nGroup invited in 1976 to visit institutions in China. He organized the first\ninternational conference for Southeast Asian Studies in 1979 and was twice\nelected president of the Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies. He was\ngreatly respected and valued by colleagues in Canada and abroad, having lived\nin Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam working with their governmental agencies\nand their universities. Dedicated to equality, justice and compassion, he\ntouched the lives of many. Learning, understanding and laughter was his way.\nDAVID ALEXANDER VAN DRIESUM, BPF'84\n7967 -2072\nIn Prince George, on September 29,1961, God blessed the van Driesum\nfamily with a most precious gift - a son, David Alexander. First and foremost,\nDavid loved God profoundly. Each day, he lived his motto for his life with his\nwords and actions: love God, love family and love others. He taught us the\nart of living life to the fullest, as well as serving God and others wherever and\nhowever we can. David was and will always be the rock of our family. David\nspent his childhood roaming the forests and fishing along the banks of the\nNechako River. In 1984, he married Mary and was blessed with two daughters,\nEmily and Alison. He loved all \"his girls\" dearly. No mountain was too high,\nno task too great - anything to put a smile on their faces - they were the\ncentre of his being. After receiving his degree, he worked as a social worker\nin Prince George, later returning to school to pursue a career that became\nPlease note that the next two print issues of Trek will be special\ncentennial issues that may not include all of our usual departments.\nAlthough we are still accepting obituaries, unfortunately we are\nunable to guarantee their timely publication.\nPlease submit obituaries to trek.magazine@ubc.ca including\n\"In Memoriam: first name, last name, class year\" in the subject line,\nor mail to:\nalumni UBC, 6163 University Boulevard, Vancouver, BC V6T1Z1\nObituaries should be 300 words or less (submissions may be\nedited for length and clarity where necessary). Mail original\nphotos or email high resolution images - preferably 300 dpi. What is your most\nprized possession?\nMy life experiences. They are\nsomething nobody else has and\nthey teach me how to become\na better person\nWho was your childhood hero?\nMy mother. She is a hard worker and\nhas given me the best life I can have,\nno matter what struggles she went\nthrough to do it\nDescribe the place you most like\nto spend time.\nSinger-songwriters need alone time\nlike spending time in my home to\nthink, reflect and write songs. If you'd\nasked me three years ago, I'd have\nsaid Hawaii, because I love warmth,\nnature and swimming with turtles\nWhat was the last thing you read?\nThe Consequences - a book I bought\nwhen stuck at the airport because\nWITH WANTING QU\nWanting Qu moved to Canada from China as a teenager in order\nto improve her English and attend school. Although she stuck to\nthe plan for the first few years, by 2005 she was focusing most\nof her attention on writing and performing songs on piano, while\nsidestepping parental pressure to pursue a career in business.\nDuring the summer of 2009, Qu took some music courses at\nUBC and was in the process of applying for a full-time program\nwhen something big happened: Terry McBride contacted her.\nMcBride is CEO of the Nettwerk Music Group, which has managed\nartists such as Sarah McLachlan, Dido, and Coldplay, and Qu had\nsent him a demo of her music. Soon after meeting her, McBride\nsigned Qu to the label. Since that pivotal summer, Qu, who sings\nin English and Mandarin, has become a platinum-plated superstar\nin Asia with millions of fans. (This has not gone unnoticed by\nTourism Vancouver, which appointed her Vancouver's first tourism\nambassadorto China in 2013.)\nWith her home base in Vancouver, Qu has been leading\na dual life: superstardom in Asia and relative obscurity in North\nAmerica. Determined to crack the market here, she has released\nan English-language album and last year went on tour at venues\nacross North America. You can watch how her career unfolds\nby following her on social media:\nNorth America: (fflWantingQu | facebook.com/wantingqu\nChina: weibo.com/quwanting | site.douban.com/wanting\nof the cover image. I spend a lot of\ntime on planes and so have usually\nseen all the movies\nWhat or who makes you laugh\nout loud?\nMy friends\nWhat's the most important lesson\nyou ever learned?\nThat everything happens for\na reason. If you expect something\nto happen and it doesn't, just\nbe patient and know there is\na reason. You won't know what\nit is immediately, but you'll\nknow eventually.\nWhat's your idea of the perfect day?\nIt would start after a really good\nsleep. It has to be sunny and warm\nand I'd have to be near the oceans\nor mountains - close to nature\nwould spend it surrounded by love\nWhat was your nickname at school?\nChili pepper. I was feisty and\nwould always think I was right\nNow I'm nicer and more diplomatic\nWhat would be the title of\nyour biography?\nThe Things You Don't Know\nabout Wanting\nOr: Life is Like a Movie\nWhat item have you owned\nfor the longest time?\ncame to Canada from China\nwhen I was 16. I still have\na traditional Chinese dress from\nmy childhood and a lot of photos\nWhat is your latest purchase?\nRecording software for a friend\nWhom do you most admire\n(living or dead) and why?\nadmire Amy Winehouse - not\nbecause of her personal lifestyle,\nbut because she was so real and\nso vulnerable. She didn't sugarcoat\nanything. I find her honesty brave\nand rare. It touched a lot of people\nWhat would you like\nyour epitaph to say?\n\"She lives on through her music.\"\nIf you could invent something,\nwhat would it be?\nA potion that makes someone\nunderstand how others feel and\nthink. If everybody understood\neach other there would be more\nharmony in the world\nIn which era would you most\nlike to have lived, and why?\n'd be a flying dinosaur, millions\nof years ago\nWhat are you afraid of?\nThe unknown\nName the skill or talent you would\nmost like to have.\nwish I could do my own\naccounting and I wish I could\nspeak more languages\nWhich three pieces of music would\nyou take to that desert island?\nColdplay: \"FixYou\"\nAmy Winehouse: \"Our Day Will Come\"\nAnything from the movie soundtrack\nby Hans Zimmer for The Holiday\nWhich famous person (living or\ndead) do you think (or have you\nbeen told) you most resemble?\nMy friends in Asia say I look like\nthe writer Sanmao My younger\nfans say my music style reminds\nthem of Taylor Swift\nWhat is your pet peeve?\nStupid and slow computers that\ndon't do what they're told\nWhat are some of your\nUBC highlights?\ntook a Balinese music course in\nthe summer of 2009. I had to learn\nto play a Balinese instrument and\nall the different rhythms, and the\nteacher was awesome. The campus\nis beautiful, but the music school\nis too far away from the SUB\nSometimes there wouldn't be time\nto get there and back for lunch! D\nBuild\ndreams\nALUMNI\nINSURANCE PLANS\nWe are all bound by familiar milestones in life - and the financial\nresponsibilities that come with them. 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