"CONTENTdm"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1210082"@en . "University Publications"@en . "2015-07-17"@en . "2004-10-07"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubcreports/items/1.0118229/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA\n[UBC\nVOLUME 50 I NUMBER 9 I OCTOBER 7,2004\nUBC REPORTS\n2 UBC in the News 3 The Great Trekker 4 Motherhood after 35 5 Return to Afghanistan 8 The Pleasures of Silk\nThe Body Beautiful\nPhysical culture muscles its way into academia\nBY ERICA SMISHEK\nThe body is big in the academy.\nOnce the territory of doctors and\nbiologists, the body has emerged as\na hot topic for scholars in an\nincreasing number of disciplines\nincluding anthropology, sociology,\nliterature and history. They argue\nthat the body can only be fully\nunderstood in its social and cultural\ncontext and they're challenging\nlong-held ideas about gender, sexuality, race and more.\n\"The ivory tower used to be all\nabout the mind,\" says Patricia\nVertinsky a professor in UBC's\nSchool of Human Kinetics and a\n2004 Peter Wall Distinguished\nScholar. \"Now it's well accepted\nthat changing cultural conceptions\nof the body affect experience, policy\nand social theory and that we need\nto understand better how body and\nmind work together.\"\nVertinsky and Jennifer\nHargreaves, a feminist sociologist of\nsport from London's Brunei\nUniversity will convene an international conference, Physical Culture,\nPower and the Body, Oct. 15 and\n16 at UBC's Peter Wall Institute of\nAdvanced Studies. Presenters are all\ncontributors to an upcoming book\non physical culture to be published\nby Routiedge in 2005.\nParticipants include UBC sociologist Becki Ross, who researches\nfemale striptease and the controls\nthat have been placed on the nature\nof strippers' performances; Kate\nO'Riordan from the University of\nSussex, who studies the way technology is transforming the body and\nour understanding of what is \"natural \"; and John Hoberman, from the\nUniversity of Texas, whose controversial book Darwin's Athletes: How\nSport Has Damaged Black America\nand Preserved the Myth of Race\nfocuses on society's fixation with\nblack athletic achievement and how\nthis obsession has come to play a\ntroubling role in African-American\nlife and the country's race relations.\n\"Our focus is physical culture,\"\nsays Vertinsky, \"cultural practices in\nwhich the physical body - the way it\nmoves, is represented, has meanings\nassigned to it, and is imbued with\npower - is central. We want to focus\nin a cohesive and broad way on how\npower impacts the way we use our\nbodies.\"\nConsidered one of the most influential thinkers and producers in\nsports studies and the body/society\nparadigm, Vertinsky studies how\nideas about the female, male, youthful, aging, racial and disabled body\nhave been fashioned in modern society through exercise, sport and\ndance.\n\"We have to look critically at the\nway in which our society decides\nwhat is normal in relation to the\nbody as well as the mind,\" she says.\nHer work examines how culture\ncontrols people, shaping our view of\nthe normal body, the beautiful body\nthe toned and fit body, the athletic\ncontinued on page 7\nA New Entrance for UBC\n- by Design\nInternational architectural competition will help\nBY BRAD FOSTER\nInternational architects and jurists\nwill help the UBC community create\na new social heart for the campus.\nUBC will soon be inviting the\nworld's best architects to participate\nin an architectural competition that\nwill redefine UBC's main entrance\non University Boulevard.\n\"UBC has always lacked a memorable entrance,\" said Dennis Pavlich,\nUBC's Vice President of External\nand Legal Affairs. \"In the words of\nGertrude Stein, 'There is no there\nthere'.\n\"This competition will put the\n'there' into the overall vision for a\nmemorable and complete University\nTown community that is emerging\nat the University of British\nColumbia, and in doing so will create a vibrant academic village for\nthe campus.\"\nThe competition jury will consist\nof internationally acclaimed architects including Arthur Erickson\n(Canada), Moshe Safdie (USA),\nLeon Krier (France) and Demitri\nPorphyrios (England), as well as\nUBC student, faculty and staff representatives who will have the respon\nsibility of assessing the submissions\nof the final three competitors and\nensuring the designs serve the broad\ninterests of the university community.\nThe design competition scope\nencompasses University Boulevard\nfrom Wesbrook Mall to Main Mall\nand asks architects to envision five\nbuilding sites, which will include a\nnew University Square, a new\nGreenway and all the associated\npedestrian connections between the\nnew and existing buildings in this\narea.\nThe new centrepiece of the\nUniversity Boulevard neighbourhood\nwill be University Square, located on\nthe old Bus Loop site at University\nBoulevard. 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CANADA V6T 1Z1\nEMAIL: public.affairs@ubc.ca\nHighlights of UBC Media Coverage in September 2004. compiled bybrian lin\nIs Stock Chat all Talk?\nIn a recentiy published paper enti-\nded \"Is All That Talk Just Noise?\"\nUBC financial economists Werner\nAntweiler and Murray Frank exam\nined the stock message board phenomenon and found that the characteristics of messages helped predict\nvolume and volatility, reports The\nNew York Times.\nPublished in the June 2004 issue\nof The Journal of Finance, the paper\nalso shows the number of messages\non one day helped predict returns\nthe next day, even though the degree\nof predictability was week and\nreversed itself the next trading day.\nAntweiler and Frank collected\nmore than 1.5 million messages\nfrom two online boards, Yahoo\nFinance and Raging Bull, and\nanalyzed them using methods\nof computational linguistics and\neconometrics.\nCherry-Picking Immigrants\nDiscouraged\nMany researchers attending the\nrecent United States Federal Reserve\nBank of Kansas City annual\nconference disagree with the popular\nbelief that rich countries could ease\nthe strains of ageing by accepting\nyounger immigrants.\n\"For the rich countries to\ncherry-pick skilled international\nmigrants to finance their own retirement ... seems almost unbelievably\nshortsighted and self-serving,\" UBC\neconomist John Helliwell told the\nAustralian Financial Review.\nHelliwell said that outsourcing\nmay achieve the same economic\nbenefits of immigration but with far\nmore social harmony. It spreads\nknow-how and wealth in the poor\ncountry and minimizes immigration-\nrelated strains in the developed\ncountry.\nNobel Winner's Dream Lab\nOpened\nThe Michael Smith\nLaboratories opened at UBC's\nVancouver campus last\nmonth. Smith, a Nobel Prize\nwinner, had recruited a collection of brilliant young scientists to UBC before his\ndeath in 2000. Now his\ndream of creating a cross-disciplinary biomedical\ncentre finally came true.\nBrett Finlay, one of Smith's\nrecruits who has been doing\npioneering work on microbial\npathogens, told The Globe\nand Mail he rejected a career\nat the Massachusetts Institute\nof Technology to join Smith's\nteam.\n\" [The concept of creating\nan interdisciplinary team]\nwas a brainchild of his . . .\nthat we would mix engineers\nwith biologists, with\nbotanists. This was long\nbefore interdisciplinary\n[research] was trendy,\" said\nFinlay.\nTerrance Snutch left the\nCalifornia Institute of Technology\nto join Smith at UBC. With the\nnew building, \" our students and\npostdocs can actually get together\nand brainstorm, that's never been\nthere,\" said Snutch, who has\nproduced breakthrough work on\ncalcium channels in the brain.\nWilf Jefferies, who left a leading\nresearch institute in Sweden, said it's\nexciting that the new building is\nfinally ready. \"The space is fantastic.\nIt's a marvelous building. Mike, I\nthink, would have been proud,\"\nsaid Jefferies, who studies how\npathogens are broken down and\nheads a team that is testing the first\ncurative vaccine for cancer.\nBreff Finlay is one of Michael Smith's recruits.\nPsychopaths Good at Climbing\nCorporate Ladder\n\"Corporate psychopaths\" are\nruthless, manipulative, superficially\ncharming and impulsive, UBC\npsychopathy expert Robert Hare\ntold CNN.com. And these traits\nare landing them high-powered\nmanagerial roles.\n\"Psychopaths are social predators\nand like all predators they are\nlooking for feeding grounds,\" he\nsaid. \"Wherever you get power, prestige and money you will find them.\"\nHare estimates that as much as\none per cent of the British and North\nAmerican population are clinically\npsychopathic. \u00E2\u0096\u00A1\nLETTERS\nEditor:\nI was pleasantly surprised to open up the UBC homepage to find an article on AIDS in Africa on September\n3rd 2004. As an ardent proponent ofthe HIV/AIDS\ncrisis in Africa, I was glad to finally see this topic placed\non the forefront at a Canadian institution of higher\nlearning. As an African student at UBC, I have learnt to\nexpect very little in terms of representation in the UBC\nmainstream discourse. I was quite appalled to read further and watch stereotypes of my people replicated by\nan ill-informed and ill-researched article.\nNot in a single sentence did the article seek to tap\ninto the resource of Malawian students or indeed East\nor Southern African students at UBC.\nIndeed, as always, the African experience was glossed\nover, ignored and unacknowledged by the writer whose\nfocus was on so called expert Western sources.\nAs a 'world class' institution of higher learning it is\nindeed disappointing to watch UBC replicate the power\ndynamics that have plagued the politics of the North\nand the South. It is time that Westerners ceased to\nspeak for Africans, for we are capable of and interested\nin speaking for ourselves. As the President of Students\nAgainst Global AIDS, my goal is to teach about the\ncomplexities and the multifaceted nature of the\nHIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa. I derive my knowledge\nfrom a lifetime of experience, not a six-week summer\nproject. It is out of the same frustration that has led me\nto respond to this article, that I placed a proposal to\nteach a student directed seminar on the politics of\nHIV/AIDS in Africa. I could easily share a number of\npictures from the rural areas in my home country. But\nwithout an understanding of the rich African culture\nand the complexities of post- and neocolonialism it\nwould be too arrogant for me to purport to speak for\nthe continent through a handful of digital experiences.\nAs VP Academic within the AMS, I look forward to\nrecognizing the World AIDS Day on December 1st\n2004, a world-wide celebrated event that has in the\npast received little or no attention at UBC.\nI have no problem with Canadian students including\na component of International Studies in their education-\ncontinued on page 8\nUBC REPORTS\nEditor\nScott Macrae scott.macrae@ubc.ca\nDesign Director\nChris Dahl chris.dahl@ubc.ca\nDesigner\nSharmini Thiagarajah sharmini@exchange.ubc.ca\nContributors\nMichelle Cook michelle.cook@ubc.ca\nBrian Lin brian.lin@ubc.ca\nErica Smishek erica.smishek@ubc.ca\nHilary Thomson hilary.thomson@ubc.ca\nAdvertising\nKim Fisher public.affairs@ubc.ca\nNEXT ISSUE: NOVEMBER 4, 2004\nUBC Reports is published monthly by the UBC Public Affairs Office\n310 - 6251 Cecil Green Park Road\nVancouver BC Canada V6T IZI\nUBC Reports welcomes submissions.\nFor upcoming UBC Reports submission guidelines, please see\nwww.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/ubcreports/about. 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Submit letters to:\nThe Editor, UBC Reports\nUBC Public Affairs Office\n(address above); by fax to 604.822.2684; or by e-mail to\nscott.macrae@ubc.ca or call UBC.NEWS (604.822.6397) UBC REPORTS | OCTOBER /, 2OO4 | 3\nUBC's Learning Exchange Recognized for the\nGreat Trekker Award\nUBC students have recognized a distin-\nguished educator who is helping\nchange the face of learning at UBC and\nin Vancouver's Downtown Eastside\nwith the 2004 Great Trekker Award.\nMargo Fryer is the director of UBC's\nLearning Exchange, an innovative\ncommunity outreach initiative that\nprovides educational opportunities to\npeople who live and work in\nVancouver's Downtown Eastside and\nother inner-city communities. It also\nprovides opportunities for UBC\nstudents to develop an understanding\nof society through first-hand volunteer\nwork.\n\"The Learning Exchange brings\nlearning alive for people,\" says Fryer,\nwho received her PhD in\nInterdisciplinary Studies from UBC in\n2003.\n\"It's really the Learning Exchange\n- not just me - that's being recognized.\nAnd it's especially fitting that the Great\nTrekker Award is coming to an initiative that is so tied to community and\nto the Trek vision (UBC's strategic\nplan).\"\nThe Great Trekker Award - with its\n2004 theme of Community Outreach\nand Community Involvement in the\nGreater Vancouver Regional District -\nis presented by the student-run Alma\nMater Society (AMS) of UBC to an\nalumni member who has achieved\nrecognition in their chosen field, made\na special contribution to the community and maintained a continued interest\nin UBC. The Award commemorates\nthe spirit of the Great Trek of 1922,\nwhere UBC students marched from\ndowntown Vancouver to the Point\nGrey campus in an effort to pressure\nthe provincial government to provide\nfunding for the campus.\n\"That event was about students\nmaking the statement that the conditions for learning weren't good\nenough,\" says Fryer.\n\"The students coming into the\nLearning Exchange Trek Program are\nsaying something similar, that they\nneed different learning conditions that\nconnect them with the challenges of\nthe 21st century. They want to be\nlearning within the context of the community. They want to cultivate the\nqualities necessary to be responsible\nglobal citizens.\n\"People in the Downtown Eastside\nrecognize that education is so important. The Learning Exchange is a setting where they can get access to\nresources that weren't available to\nthem before and where they too can\nreflect on their roles as global citizens.\"\nFryer has directed the formation and\ngrowth of the Learning Exchange since\nits inception. The project began in\n1999 when Fryer and another student\nwere hired to consult with the\nDowntown Eastside community about\nhow UBC could most effectively develop its presence in the area.\nSince then, the Learning Exchange\nhas operated a number of community-\nbased educational programs and initiatives, including a storefront on Main\nStreet where patrons can use computer\nresources to access the UBC Library,\nprepare resumes and letters and connect to the Internet. Several \" 101\"\nlevel courses have also been offered\nfree to low-income participants and\ninclude a meal before and transportation to and from each class.\n\"Dr. Fryer's work has allowed many\npeople to access educational services\nand programs in their own neighbourhoods, \" says Holly Foxcroft, Vice-\nPresident of External Affairs for the\nAMS. \"She is a pioneer in finding\nways to increase the capacity of learning in the Downtown Eastside and for\ncontinuing to link the community back\nto the university.\"\nAbout 800 UBC students will participate in the Trek Program this year.\nUBC's goal is to have 10 per cent of its\nstudents engaged in community service-learning by 2010.\nFryer says future plans for the\nBY ERICA SMISHEK\nLearning Exchange include a staff volunteer initiative, a pilot program for\nalumni volunteers, a more integrated\napproach to the education events and\nprograms offered at the Main Street\nstorefront, enhanced partnerships with\nother Canadian universities, and, in\nconjunction with the Vancouver\nSchool Board, a more strategic\napproach to the work students are\nconducting in inner city schools.\n\"We hear time and time again that\nthis is a 'transformative' experience for\nthe people involved,\" says Fryer.\n\"We're being driven by the\npower of what's being created.\nWe have to keep that momentum going.\"\nPrior to completing her PhD,\nFryer was a researcher in the\nhealth and social service fields.\nShe has collaborated with\ncommunity groups, non-profit\norganizations and government\nagencies on research projects on\na variety of issues, including\nchildhood sexual abuse, immigrant women's perinatal health,\nchild poverty, the needs of seniors, women's health care and\nmulticultural service delivery.\nShe has also evaluated pilot\nprojects related to community\ndevelopment strategies for health promotion, community involvement in\nhealth care decision-making, and\nbuilding collaborative partnerships\namong health care agencies, and has\ntaught research and evaluation\nprinciples and skills to community\nmembers.\nPrevious recipients of the Great\nTrekker Award include former Prime\nMinister John Turner, author Pierre\nBerton, CBC journalist Eve Savory,\nand diplomat and international\nlawyer Maurice Copithorne. \u00E2\u0096\u00A1\nLearning Exchange director Margo Fryer has been\nhonoured for her commitment to community\noutreach and community involvement.\nUnited Way Campaign Well\nUnder Way\nWith a successful September kick off\nevent behind them, and more than\n$35,000 already raised, organizers\nhave the 2004 UBC United Way\nCampaign well underway.\n\"Pledge packages were delivered in\nlate September, and donors have\nalready been generous through their\ndonations and event participation,\"\nsaid Stan Auerbach, a sessional\ninstructor in the faculty of education\nwho is 2004 Campaign Chair. \"One\nof our goals this year is to raise\ndonor participation by five per cent\nso we are on our way to achieving\nthat.\"\n\"Volunteers have really been\nworking hard on campaigns\nthroughout departments on\ncampus,\" Auerbach said. \"If you're\nlooking for a coffee and donut\nmorning, an international food fair\nor a 50/50 draw, you can find one\nin an area near you,\" Auerbach\nsaid of the range of fundraising\nactivities available for campus participation.\nUpcoming events this month\ninclude the annual Land and\nBuilding Services International Food\nFestival and the UBC-Ritsumeikan\nOpen House. Visit the website at\nwww.unitedway.ubc.ca for campaign event details.\nFor more information on this\nyear's campaign, upcoming events,\nor how to donate, please contact\nLiz King, Campaign Coordinator, at\n604-822-8929 or\nunited.way@ubc.ca. \u00E2\u0096\u00A1\nFor the Record\nThe September 2 issue of UBC\nReports provided an incomplete\ndescription of the new Institute for\nComputing, Information and\nCognitive Systems/Computer\nScience building nearing completion at 2366 Main Mall. Half\nof this complex, which is directly\nlinked to the existing Centre for\nIntegrated Computer Systems/\nComputer Science building, pro\nvides office and laboratory space\nto accommodate the expansion of\nthe Computer Science Department\nat both the undergraduate and\ngraduate levels. 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In\nfact, there has been a 83 per cent\nincrease from 1991 to 2000 for\nbabies born to Canadian mothers\nover 35, according to the Canadian\nPerinatal Health Report, 2003.\nIn addition, many women wait\nuntil they are over 35 to have their\nfirst baby and a UBC researcher\nwonders if we know as much as we\nneed to about the risks of delayed\nline for births, but risks do start to\naccelerate in later years.\"\nAs reproductive organs age,\nfunction appears to diminish, says\nLisonkova, and points to research\nthat wanted pregnancies occur less\nfrequently after the age of 35.\nHowever, research findings vary\nas to risks posed by increased\nmaternal age.\nSome studies report greater risk\nof pregnancy complications such as\npremature delivery, stillbirth and\n\"Women aren't really told ofthe biological\ndisadvantages - particularly for the first baby.\"\nchildbearing.\nPhD student Sarka Lisonkova has\nlaunched a two-year study to look\nat impacts of delayed childbearing\nin B.C. It is the only population-\nbased study in North America to\nexamine trends in pregnancy outcomes as well as individual risk,\nmultiple births, and newborns' need\nfor health-care services, in both\nrural and urban settings. She will\ncompare statistics for mothers over\n35 with those for mothers aged 20-\n35 years, and will also examine the\nwhole spectrum of age categories.\n\"Women aren't really told of the\nbiological disadvantages - particularly for the first baby,\" says\nLisonkova, who had her first child\nat 28. \"There's no arbitrary dead-\nlow birth weight. Some risks might\ndecrease, however, if mothers have\nalready had a first child before the\nage of 35 years.\nOther studies have reported no\nassociation between age and outcome when factors such as obesity,\nillness and prior reproductive\nproblems are taken into account.\nLisonkova will review the effect\nof such risk factors as smoking and\nfertility problems in her research.\nIn B.C., birth rates have dropped\nover the last five years for all\nage groups except mothers aged\n35 years and older, who give birth\nto approximately 8,000 babies\nannually.\nB.C. has the second highest proportion in Canada of live births to\nWalk-In Clinic\n604-222-CARE (2273)\n\u00C2\u00A9\nUniversiry Village Medical/Dental Clinic\nWalk-ins and Appointments n Extended Hours\nwww.u11iversitvvilla2eclinie.com\nConveniently located in Ihe UBC Village above Staples\n#228-2155 Allison Road, Vancouver, BC V6T 1T5\nA UBC study on mothers over 35 may help planning for maternal and infant health services\nmothers over 35 years and the\nhighest proportions for those\n40-44 years.\nLisonkova is eager to find out at\nwhat age reproductive risks\nsignificantly increase and how risks\nmay change over the decade 35-45.\n\"Maybe as new generations are\ngetting healthier and living longer,\nthe reproductive system functions\nquite well for longer,\" she says.\n\" Or maybe this is true only for\ncertain groups of women who\nstick to a healthy lifestyle and are\nfree of illness or complicating\nconditions.\"\nLisonkova says B.C. offers the\nopportunity to create a uniquely\ncomprehensive study, thanks to\nresources offered by the B.C.\nLinked Health Database and the\nB.C Perinatal Database Registry.\nThese databases allow her to study\nhealth services used by large population groups and link them to\ncomplete obstetrical data for\napproximately 200,000 births\nduring the period 1998-2002.\nUsing this and other B.C. vital\nstatistics data, she will plot and\ncompare a 10-year trend in health\nservice use for babies of both older\nand young mothers.\nLisonkova believes that her study\nwill help guide planning for maternal/infant health services and that\ndifferences between rural and\nurban areas may reveal valuable\ninformation to help allocate\nresources in the province. 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There will be an opportunity to submit questions to the\nspeakers and university administration via the Webcast\nLink to the Webcast from 12 noon onward on October 29 at www.ubc.ca REPORTS | OCTOBER 7, 2OO4 | 5\nUBC Education Alum Helps Restore Afghanistan Agriculture\nBY ERICA SMISHEK\nProving that you can go home\nagain, UBC alumnus Tooryalai (Toor)\nWesa traveled to Afghanistan this\nsummer as part of an international\neffort to revitalize his former country's agriculture system after two\ndecades of war.\nAt the invitation of the University\nof California Davis, Wesa trained 40\nAfghanistan-native agricultural specialists (or \"extensionagents\") on\nissues related to grape growing,\nincluding use of chemicals, irrigation,\npicking, cleaning, storing and packag-\nSuddenly there was international\ninterest in Afghanistan.\"\nFollowing 9/11 and the subsequent\narmed conflict, there was also international demand for someone with\nWesa's agricultural expertise, his\nknowledge of the language, culture\nand traditions of the country, and his\ncontacts. After teaching a course in\nUBC's Dept. of Asian Studies in fall\n2002, Wesa contacted various international organizations, educational\ninstitutions and companies about\nopportunities in Afghanistan. He\nor political issues on the side, people\nare skeptical and try not to get very\nclose to them. If it's purely a reconstruction issue, and if people are honest, hardworking and committed, the\nAfghan people will have respect for\nthem.\"\nAgriculture is central to\nAfghanistan's economy, with more\nthan 70 per cent of the population\nassociated with the sector. Prior to\nyears of conflict and drought,\nAfghans were self-sufficient in wheat\nproduction - the country's main crop.\nWheat must now be imported.\nAccording to many in the international renewal effort, one of the challenges of reviving the agricultural sector and moving it quickly towards\nself-sustainability is to give farmers an\nalternative to poppy cultivation,\nwhich provides the raw material for\nopium and heroin. A recent report\nreleased by the United Nations Office\nof Drugs and Crime indicates that\nopium production in Afghanistan is\nestimated at 3,400 metric tons.\nPoppies are estimated to earn approximately eight times more income per\nhectare than wheat, with less water\nand fewer inputs.\n\"Farmers are not interested in poppies,\" says Wesa. \"It goes against religious and social norms. They want\nalternatives. If other economic sources\nare introduced to the farmer, the\nmarketing channels for surplus products, equal development and working\nopportunities for Afghan women,\nand protection of natural resources.\nWesa says capacity building is not\na priority for most international\norganizations. But he believes educating extension agents and farmers on\nissues such as orchard, farm and\nfamily management, tree crops, and\npost-harvest technology is key to a\nrenewal plan.\n\"You have to train people first,\nthen bring the technology,\" says\nWesa, who knows first-hand how\nyears of conflict have taken a toll on\neducation and the very composition\nof Afghan society.\n\"The main problem is the lack of\nprofessional people,\" he explains.\n\"We lost three or four generations.\n\"Any child born since the first day\nof the Soviet-backed government\n[April 27, 1978; the actual Soviet\noccupation occurred December 27,\n1979] has had almost no formal education. There is no infrastructure now.\nThere are no classrooms. There are no\nlibraries. There are no teachers. There\nare no labs. Kabul University, as the\nmother of all universities within the\ncountry, is nothing more than a high\nschool, with limited qualified faculties,\na lack of research facilities and academic journals, and few teachers qualified to teach foreign languages.\"\nWesa intends to continue to participate in international renewal efforts in\nAfghanistan. And he hopes his own\nchildren - now 18, 21, and 22 and all\nstudents at UBC (the oldest in medicine, the others at the Sauder School\nof Business) - will travel there to\nshare their expertise one day. \u00E2\u0096\u00A1\n\"Farmers are not interested in poppies,\" says Wesa. \"It goes against\nreligious and social norms. They want alternatives. If other economic\nsources are introduced to the farmer, the farmer will grow other crops.\nRight now, the warlords are forcing them to grow poppies.\ning. These agents will then train the\ncountry's grape growers.\n\"It's exciting to be there and to see\nthe impact these kinds of programs\nare having,\" says Wesa, who received\nhis PhD in Educational Studies, with\na focus on adult education, from\nUBC in 2002. \"I'm more effective\nthere in Afghanistan than I am here.\"\nBorn in Kandahar in 1950, Wesa\nreceived a bachelor of science degree\nin agricultural economics and extension from Kabul University in the\nearly 1970s and a master of science\nfrom the University of Nebraska-\nLincoln in 1977. He taught for many\nyears at Kabul University, advised the\nAfghan government, the Food and\nAgricultural Organization of the\nUnited Nations and international\nNGOs, and served as the first\nPresident of Kandahar University for\n10 months before leaving the country\nwith his physician wife and three\nyoung daughters at the end of 1991.\nAfter a period in Hungary and\nSwitzerland, the family came to\nCanada and Wesa ended up at UBC.\nHis work this year in Afghanistan (he\nhad two other short-term assignments in the winter and spring) is a\nlogical extension of his UBC PhD\nthesis, which focused on the Soviet\noccupation's devastating impact on\nthe agricultural infrastructure and, in\nparticular, the educational component\nof agricultural extension. To collect\ndata, he interviewed and surveyed\nexpatriate Afghanis who worked in\nduring the Soviet occupation.\n\"My UBC classmates were worried\nabout my country and wondered\nwhy I wanted to pursue my PhD thesis on the agricultural extension system there. They didn't think it would\never return to normal life and were\nconcerned I would never get the\nopportunity to apply my experience\nthere,\" says Wesa.\n\"But I believe that without strong\nextension programs, there is very lit\ntie hope for renewal. I believe in my\npeople. I believe in my country. I\nthought that hopefully when I finished my PhD, I could go back and\nshare my expertise.\n\"I was in the last stages of my thesis when September 11 happened.\neventually completed three short-\nterm assignments in the country for\nChemonics International, a global\nconsulting firm that performs its\nwork under contract to the U.S.\nAgency for International\nDevelopment and other bilateral and\nmultilateral aid donors.\nWesa has been able to bridge the\ngap between local Afghanis and the\nnon-Afghanis who are part of the\ninternational effort to revitalize the\ncountry.\n\"Those who are really working in\nagriculture or any other development\nsector - they are welcome,\" he\nexplains. \"But if they have religious\nfarmer will grow other crops. Right\nnow, the warlords are forcing them to\ngrow poppies. They are held hostage\nby the warlords. Farmers want a normal life for themselves and for their\nchildren.\"\nGrapes are just one of many horticultural crops that can provide a high-\nincome alternative to poppy cultivation. Such crops address the country's\nown food and nutritional needs while\nalso producing something for the\ninternational market.\nIn addition to crop alternatives,\nmost experts agree that restoring\nAfghanistan agriculture will take\nimproved technology, capital, suitable\n(Clockwise from top left) The international effort to revitalize agriculture took Wesa\nto Laghmani, a village in Parwan Province north of Kabul; UC Davis' Ken Tourjee\nleads a grape marketing pilot project that sends grapes to India from Afghanistan;\nUBC alumnus Toor Wesa (far right) and agricultural extension agents meet with\nAfghani grape growers. 6 | UBC REPORTS | OCTOBER /, 2OO4\nMargaret Visser on\nThe Meaning of Saints\nOctober 20-21,2004\nWednesday, October 20,8:00 pm\nTotem Park Residence Commonsblock, UBC\nThursday, October 21,12:00 pm\nTotem Park Residence Commonsblock, UBC\nThursday, October 21,8:00 pm\nThe Chan Centre, UBC*\nTickets are free but must be obtained in advance\nat vie Regent College reception, 5800 University\nBou/erant Vancouver, Phone; 604.224.3245\nW^xu.\nwww.regent-college.edu/laing\nLDCofUege\nS\u00C2\u00BB MEWS TV | RADIO\nUBC Public Affairs has opened both a radio and TV studio on campus\nwhere you can do live interviews with local, national and international\nmedia outlets.\nTo learn more about being a UBC expert, call us at 604.822.2064 and\nvisit our web site at www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/experts/signup\nGrowing Healthy at Work\nUnique symposium will explore the connection between\nworkplace and personal health.\nBY HILARY THOMSON\nWorkplace bullies, humour and\nhealth, and the role of the manager\nare among the topics to be explored\nat UBC's second annual health\nsymposium.\nCalled Cultivating Healthy\nChange, the free symposium will\ntake place Wednesday, Oct. 27 from\n7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Chan\nCentre for the Performing Arts.\nUBC is the only Canadian\nuniversity to offer such a day-long\nsymposium supported by the\norganization and open to all\nemployees, according to Deb Jones,\na national consultant on healthy\norganizations, who has interviewed\nhealth promotion personnel at\nUniversity of Victoria, University of\nToronto and University of Calgary.\n\"There is a great interest in workplace health at all these universities,\nhowever, none have developed\nanything like UBC's annual\nsymposium,\" says Jones.\nGerry Latham, manager of UBC's\nHealth Promotion Program, says the\nunderstanding of organizational\nhealth and its relationship to personal health has risen tremendously on\ncampus since last year's symposium.\n\"We know the pace of change is\ndetermined by employees themselves\nso this year we're emphasizing not\nonly how individuals can make a\nchange for themselves but also how\nthey can lead a change toward a\nhealthy workplace,\" says Latham.\nOpen to all UBC faculty and staff,\nthe symposium includes two\nfeatured speakers. Linda Duxbury,\nof the Sprott School of Business at\nCarleton University, will talk about\nher study of 10,000 Canadian\nemployees and their views on\nwork-life balance and conflict,\nincluding factors that make balance\ndifficult and suggestions for coping.\nCanada's Man-in-Motion Rick\nHansen will talk about the power of\nsetting life goals, achieving balance\nand dreaming big dreams.\n\"The focus continues to be on\nboth the individual as well as the\norganization and this year we want\nto address some deeper issues,\" says\nevent coordinator Dana Mahon, of\nthe Dept. of Health, Safety and the\nEnvironment, which is presenting\nthe symposium.\nThe day will feature six breakout\nsessions that cover topics ranging\nfrom managerial skills needed for\na healthy workplace, to depression,\nbuilding personal resilience to\nchange, the value of laughter and\nyoga.\nA health fair will take place\nduring the event in the concourse of\nthe Chan Centre and will feature\ninteractive exhibitions such as blood\npressure, blood glucose, bone\ndensity and blood cholesterol testing,\nas well as information booths on\nhealth-care providers, fitness\nprofessionals and health and\nwellness resources.\n\"UBC senior administrators have\nmade it clear that they're serious\nabout creating a culture shift that\nwill enable and reinforce employees'\nefforts to maintain a work-life\nbalance,\" says Latham. \"We want\nto give employees the right tools to\nhelp build a healthy workplace and\nto take responsibility for their own\nhealth once they leave work.\"\nFor more information on the\nsymposium, visit\nwww.hse.ubc.ca/health-symposium. \u00E2\u0096\u00A1\nPICTURE PERFECT.\nINTRACORP\nARGYLL HOUSE EAST\nAT CHANCELLOR PLACE\nINTRODUCING ARGYLL HOUSE EAST - with wide-open views\nof the Pacific Ocean, Coastal Islands and Coast Mountains, surrounded\nby countless cultural, social and out-door opportunities. 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It would take 60 years for anything resembling it to\ndevelop. \u00E2\u0096\u00A1\nNew Computer Science\nDegree Program\nStudents from diverse working world backgrounds can gain\ncomputer expertise. BY GAYLE MAVOR\nAs classmates go, they couldn't be\nmore different.\nLaura Asian is a 34-year-old\nsingle mom with a Master of\nPsychology who has spent most\nof the past four years since she\narrived from Romania working in\ngroup homes with teenagers at risk\nand their parents.\nSaylor Bale holds a Master of\nNeuroscience from Washington\nState University. Prior to coming\nto UBC, she was doing research\nrelated to cellular and molecular\nbiology at the Max Planck\nInstitute in Germany.\nBut these two new UBC students\nare among the first to be accepted\ninto an unusual new bachelor of\ncomputer science degree designed\nfor individuals who already hold\nat least a bachelor's degree and\nwould like to add computer\nexpertise to their education and\nwork experience.\nOffered through the department\nof computer science, the Bachelor\nof Computer Science (Integrated\nComputer Science) is 20-month\nsecond degree program that is the\nfirst of its kind in Western Canada.\nAsian says she gathered the\ncourage to apply to the program\nin spite of \"not being particularly\ngreat at math, and with only\naverage computer skills\", because\nit was one of the few programs\nshe could find in her online search\nthat was not designed for\n\"computer geeks.\"\nHer motivation was also ignited\nby the lack of computer experience\nshe witnessed while working in\ngroup homes. She was often the\nperson who ended up troubleshooting and, as a result, began to recognize a genuine interest in learning\nmore. Since applying to BCS (ICS),\nshe has also inspired her 15-year-\nold daughter Ioana to enroll in a\ntechnology immersion program\noffered through King George\nSecondary school in Vancouver's\nWest End.\n\"I can envision,\" she says, \"the\nfuture possibility that Ioana and I\nmight actually be capable of creating our own consulting firm\nfocused specifically on addressing\nthe computing needs of the social\nservices sector in Vancouver.\"\nSmaller class sizes, a greater\nemphasis on communication and\ntechnical writing skills, and an\noptional Co-op component are\nsome of the program's features.\nTwenty-nine students with backgrounds ranging from linguistics to\nmedicine are currently enrolled,\nand the diversity of their education\nal backgrounds helps to enrich the\nlearning environment.\nBCS (ICS) director Paul Carter,\nan instructor in computer science,\nemphasizes that this two-year\ndegree provides students with all\nthe core courses that are expected\nof students taking the four year\nBachelor of Science degree. In addition to Computer Science courses,\nthe program offers 15 credits of\nupper level electives that allow students to expand on their previous\neducation or branch out in a completely new direction and explore\nthe interdisciplinary nature of computer science in the world.\n\" Increasingly, computers are the\ndriving force in research as witnessed in the Human Genome\nProject and other large research\nprojects. Computing professionals\nare key partners in collaboration\nwith other experts to propel\nadvances in so many areas of society, \" says Carter.\nHaving a well-rounded background and up-to-date computer\nknowledge is definitely a plus by\nindustry standards.\nJon Stevens, a program/product\nmanager with Absolute Software, a\ndowntown Vancouver firm that\nprovides a guaranteed computer\ntheft recovery and secure asset\ntracking service, says that when\nhe's recruiting for a software developer, he's more likely to choose\nsomeone with real world experience, in addition to their degree.\n\"The ideal candidate is someone\nwho can understand the business\nneeds and financial constraints of\nthe project and can work in teams\nor on their own. Strong written\nand verbal communication is vitally important as is the ability to\nadjust the communication dependent on the audience - from sales to\ntechnical staff,\" Stevens says.\n\"A breadth of technical skills is\nalso a bonus - most software\ninvolves a user interface and a\ndatabase so I look for a developer\nwith both these skill sets. Finally I\nlook for experience in the complete\nsoftware development lifecycle -\nfrom analysis/design through coding, testing and implementation. A\ncandidate with all these skills will\nbe very marketable.\"\nBCS (ICS) evolved from a previous diploma program known as\nAlternate Routes to Computing\n(ARC) designed in 1998 by computer science instructors Ian Cavers\nand George Tsiknis.\nThe next intake to the BCS (ICS)\nprogram is in September 2005 with\nan application deadline of\nFebruary 28, 2005. For more\ninformation, visit\nwww.arc.cs.ubc.ca. \u00E2\u0096\u00A1\nA New Entrance for\nUbL continued from page 1\nhub for the campus with a major\npublic space above a transit station\naccommodating 53,000 transit trips\na day, and providing university-\nrelated shops and services for\nstudents, faculty, staff and campus\nresidents.\nCampus participation will be an\nimportant element of the competition, Pavlich said. UBC students,\nfaculty and staff will be invited to\ntake an active part in campus\ncommunity roundtables at the\nshortlisting stage of the competition\nin November 2004. Similarly,\nfinalists' proposals will be put on\ndisplay for public viewing, and a\ncampus community questionnaire\nand poll in March 2005 will help\nto inform the final juried selection\nof the winning entry in April 2005.\nFor further information on the\ncompetition visit www.university-\ntown.ca or call the University Town\nhotline at 604-822-6400. \u00E2\u0096\u00A1\nHuman Kinetics prof. 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BY HILARY THOMSON\nJoanna Staniszkis harvests mulberry leaves for her silk project.\nGreen College Writer-in-Residence\n2005-2006\nGreen College at the University of British Columbia invites\napplications from Canadian writers for the positron ofWriter-\nin-Residence.The term of the residency will be for three months\nbetween September 1,2005 and April 30,2006, subject to funding\napproval.\nThe Writer-in-Rosidence will work with the Green College\ncommunity through individual consultations and through the\nColleges established reading series. She or he must live at the\nCollege for the duration of the term, and will be provided with\nroom, partial board and a stipend of $1 6,000.\nWriters with a minimum of one book in print who have made a\nsignificant contribution to their area of specialty over a number\nof years, are invited to send their applications to:\nWriter-in-Residence Selection Committee\nGreen College\n6201 Cecil Green Park Road\nVancouver, BC V6T 1Z1\nApplications must include a curriculum vitae, 20-30 page writing\nsample and two letters of reference,\nApplication deadline: Postmarked December 37,2004.\nFor further information, please go to: www.gfeencol1ege.ubc.C3\nRaising silkworms for a new project\ninvolving UBC landscape architecture\nstudents and Lower Mainland street\nyouth is the next step in Joanna\nStaniszkis' long and creative\nassociation with UBC.\nStaniszkis is a practicing textile\nartist who joined UBC in 1969. An\nassociate professor in the Faculty of\nAgricultural Sciences, she teaches textile design as well as design and creativity in the landscape architecture\nprogram. She is one of 29 individuals\nto be honoured for reaching 35 years\nof service at UBC. In addition to this\ngroup - known collectively as\nTempus Fugit, or Time Flies - the\nQuarter Century Club will induct\n47 faculty and librarians who have\nreached 25 years of service at a\ndinner to be held Oct. 19.\nStaniszkis' project explores the\ncycle of silk production. Six mulberry\ntrees have been planted at the rear of\nthe MacMillan Bldg. on campus to\nserve as a leaves-to-go fast food outiet\nfor the hundreds of silk worms she is\nraising.\n\"I have discovered there is a tradition in many countries of children\nraising silk worms as a hobby,\" says\nStaniszkis. \"With these little creatures,\nI hope to give street youth something\nto care for and a low-tech pastime.\"\nShe has planted mulberry cuttings\non the roof of Vancouver's Covenant\nHouse, a crisis intervention centre\nand residence for homeless and\nrunaway youth. The trees will mature\nin about two years when she plans to\nengage the residents in raising worms,\nproducing silk and creating art\nobjects of silk cocoons and \"reeled\"\nor roughly spun silk.\nIn her own art, Staniszkis is using\nboth cocoons and worms - which\nlook like caterpillars - to create\ninstallations such as an antique pair\nof silk slippers \"decorated\" with\ncocooning silk worms.\nOf her 35 years at UBC, Staniszkis\nhighlights a couple of changes: the\nincrease in international students in\nher classes, and changes in the overall\nlook of the campus as construction\ncreates new and interesting spaces\nbetween and around buildings.\nSomething that hasn't changed is\nher love of teaching and joy working\nwith students, she says.\n\"I have a whole big group of students who continue to correspond\nwith me over the years about their\ncareers and exhibitions of creative\nwork.\"\nFor a complete list of 2004 Quarter\nCentury Club inductees and Tempus\nFugit members, visit\nwww.ceremonies.ubc.ca/qcc. \u00E2\u0096\u00A1\nLetter tO the Editor continued from page 2\nal experience. If anything, I believe\nthat this international perspective is\ncritical in shaping 'exceptional global\ncitizens'. However, I do have a problem with these experiences speaking\nfor and being held more highly in\nregard than the lived experiences of\nthose in and from Developing\ncountries. We do not seek western\npity, instead we seek respect. For\nwithout this respect, the west continues to violate the freedoms and rights\nof those in developing countries.\nThe two dominant images of\nAfrica are wild animals and safaris\nand poverty and strife. And while we\ndo not disagree that these two images\nare present in Africa, there is a lot\nmore to the continent. What this\narticle should have and could have\nacknowledged was the successes that\nhave been achieved in Uganda and\nSenegal where the HIV/AIDS statistics\nhave actually reduced. In Uganda, the\nprevalence rates have reduced from\n14% to 8%. The article could have\nacknowledged that part of the reason\nwhy there is such limited access to\ntreatment is because the rich pharmaceutical companies of the west would\nrather make astronomical profits than\nsave millions of lives. The article\ncould have presented a more balanced\npicture of the AIDS crisis in Africa.\nBut the article was not interested in\ndoing so. The moral finger-pointing\non Africans for not accepting western\nremedies such as condoms without\nrecognizing the sexual politics of\nsouthern Africa and the fact that a\ncondom may be meaningless in a\nsituation where one sometimes has\nlittle freedom to exercise the choice to\nhave sex or not presents a simplistic\nand poor analysis of the HIV/AIDS\npandemic in Africa.\nIt is time that Africa was\nrepresented for what it is. Moreover,\nit is time that Africans were\nempowered to speak for themselves.\nIn the 21st century, with technology\nat its peak, we need not rely on others\nto tell our story. 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