"CONTENTdm"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1211252"@en . "University Publications"@en . "2015-08-26"@en . "2013-11-18"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/Ubysseynews/items/1.0126413/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " w\\nHOLLYWOOD NO MORE? // Legendary local cinema on Broadway threatened with closure, renovation P8\nIMPROMPTU AID // UBC-affHated conservation group hard at work in villages hit by Super Typhoon Haiyan P3 // Page 2\nWHAT'S ON l THIS WEEK, MAY WE:\nMONDAY /18\nCAN THE WORLD\nHANG TOGETHER?\n8 P.M.-9 P.M. @ COACH HOUSE OF\nGREEN COLLEGE\nPoli sci PhD Charles Roger gives a\ntalk on taking on the world's challenges through global cooperation.\nFree\nTUESDAY ' 19\nTOONIETUESDAY\nALL DAY \u00C2\u00A9WHITE SPOT\nWondering what that lineup\naround Tim Hortons is about?\nIt's Toonie Tuesday at White Spot\nwhere the original Triple O's burger\nis only $3.33 every Tuesday. This\nis not a paid advertisement, but\nanin-case-you-didn't-get-it-and-\nwere-too-afraid-to-ask-someone-\nand-didn't-want-to-Google-it.\nOUR CAMPUS//\nONE ON ONE WITH THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE UBC\nWEDNESDAY' 20\nDIRT! THE MOVIE\n7:30 P.M. @ FREDDY WOOD THEATRE\nUBC's Engineers Without Borders\nchapter screens Dirt! The Movie.\nAfterthe film, there will bea panel\ndiscussion with experts from\nan environmental journalist, the\npresident of Fair Trade Vancouver\nand more.\n$5 suggested entrance donation\nTHE\nCOVER\nOur photo editor returns to Totem for the first time since first year. The\nwalkways keep both residents and photographers dry on a dreary day.\nPhoto by Carter Brundage.\nVideo content\nCheck out our \"UBC Football Men\" video\nairing now at ubyssey.ca/videos.\n^|THE UBYSSEY\nNOVEMBER18.2013 | VOLUMEXCV| ISSUE*\nEDITORIAL\nCoordinating Editor\nGeoff Lister\ncoordinating@ubyssey.cs\nManaging Editor, Print\nMing Wong\norinteditor@ubyssey.es\nManaging Editor, Web\nCJ Pentland\nwebeditor@ubyssey.es\nNews Editors\nWill McDonald +\nSarah Bigam\niews@ubyssey.es\nSenior News Writer\nBrandon Chow\nochow@ubyssey.es\nCulture Editor\nRhys Edwards\neulture@ubyssey.es\nSenior Culture Writer\nAurora Tejeida\natejeida@ubyssey.es\nSports + Rec Editor\nNatalie Scadden\nsports@ubyssey.es\nSenior Lifestyle Writer\nReyhana Heatherington\n\"heatherington@ubyssey.es\nFeatures Editor\nAmo Rosenfeld\nfeatures@ubyssey.es\nVideo Producers\nLu Zhang +\nNick Grossman\nvideo@ubyssey.es\nCopy Editor\nMatt Meuse\neopy@ubyssey.es\nPhoto Editor\nCarter Brundage\nehotos@ubyssey.es\nIllustrator\nIndiana Joel\njoel@ubyssey.es\nGraphic Designer\nNena Nguyen\ninguyen@ubyssey.es\nWebmaster\nTony Li\nwebmaster@ubyssey.es\nDistribution Coordinator\nLily Cai\ncai@ubyssey.es\nSTAFF\nCatherine Guan, NickAdams\nKanta Dihal, Marlee Laval,\nAngela Tien, Carly Sotas, Alex\nMeisner, Luella Sun, Jenny\nTang.AdrienneHembree^\nMehryar Maalem, Jack Hauen\nKosta Prodanovic, Olivia Law,\nJethroAu, Bailey Ramsay,\nJenica Montgomery.Austen\nErhardt, Alice Fleerackers\nBUSINESS\nBusiness\nManager\nFernie Pereira\nrpereira@\njbyssey.ca\n604.822.668l\nAd Sales\nMarkSha\nadvertising\u00C2\u00AE\njbyssey.ca\n604.822.1654\nAd Sales\nTiffany Tsao\nwebadvertisinc\n\u00C2\u00A9ubyssey.ca ~\n604.822.1658\nAccounts\nGraham\nMcDonald\naccounts\u00C2\u00AE\njbyssey.ca\nEditorial Office:\n3UB24\nSO 4.822.2301\nBusiness Office:\n3UB23\nStudent Union Buildinc\n6138 SUB Boulevard ~\nVancouver. 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The UPS shall not be\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2esponsible for slight changes or ty-\naographical errors that do not lessen the value or the impact of the ad.\nThe business of comedy\nKaidie Williams\nContributor\n\"Comedy is the truth masked by\nhumour,\" says Ed Hill, a budding\nstand-up comedian in Vancouver.\n\"Often, the truth is ugly and\ncomedians make it something\nacceptable.\"\nHill was born in Taiwan in\n1984. In 1994, while he was still\nin elementary school, his parents\ntook him and his brother to Canada\nfor a permanent \"vacation,\" which\ninvolved school, work and worst of\nall, taxes.\nAfter graduating from Pinetree\nSecondary School in Coquitlam,\nHill attended UBC in 2002 and\njoined the Arts faculty family as a\nmember ofthe honours psychology\nprogram. However, he fell out of\nlove with his choice. He remembers listening to a lecture during a\nhistory class, when the professor\ntold everyone to close their eyes\nand consider the following scenario: \"You are 45 years old and it's\nMonday morning. What are you\ndoing?\"\nAs he sat at the back ofthe class\nreflecting, Hill said to himself:\n\"Not this.\"\nA few years after his graduation in 2006, Hill went through\na terrible breakup. His road to\nrecovery led him to a comedy class\nthat encouraged him to get back on\nstage and channel his comedic personality into a business. He built a\nnetwork of people through Google\nand Facebook, and spread his\ninformation through these media.\n\"It's amazing how quickly you can\ntrack people,\" he said.\nOn Oct. 31, Hill released his new\ndebut comedy CD, Canasian. The\n=HOTO COURTED ED HILL\nEd Hill's advice on how to achieve success: \"Don't play Candy Crush.'\nalbum was recorded live at a comedy club in Taipei. Its cover shows\nHill as a child standing in front of a\npark near his home.\n\"I look like a little Korean Dictator,\" said Hill.\nFor his inspiration, Hill admires\nLouis C.K.'s work ethic and Dave\nChappelle's insight.\nHe commented that although\nhis job may seem like all fun and\ngames, a lot of work goes on behind\nthe stage and the laughter.\n\"The audience only sees 30 to\n45 minutes of me, but my preparations take a lot more time. I always\nhave homework,\" said Hill. His job\nnever stops.\n\"You are in control 100 per\ncent ofthe time. You are a business,\" he said. \"I don't report to\na boss, I report to the man in the\nmirror.\"\nThe nature of Hill's occupation\nmakes it easy to become swayed by\nalcohol and drugs. He prides himself on the discipline he developed\nfrom attending UBC, which forced\nhim to grow up quickly. He believes\nit is important to make the most of\nevery situation. For Hill, everything in life serves a purpose.\n\"I am my greatest critic,\" he\nsaid. He loves the challenges that\ncome with his job, and he values\nevery hour in his day.\nHis advice on how to achieve\nsuccess is simple: \"Don't play\nCandy Crush. It wastes your life.\nBuild a network of successful individuals, keep your family by your\nside and find affordable coffee.\"\nIndeed, Hill attributes his success to McDonalds' double double\ncoffee \u00E2\u0080\u0094 since it was, and still is,\nthe most affordable. XI\nSFU\nVANCOUVER SPEAKER SERIES\nclimate\nwars\nf riday november 22, 7 pm\na lecture with gwynne dyer\nModerated by Georgia Straight editor Charlie Smith\nTickets $20 at sfuwoodwards.ca\nSFU's Goldcorp Centre for the Arts\nDjavad Mowafaghian Cinema\n149 West Hastings Street\n^ WOODWARD'S\nSFU'S VANCITY OFFICE OF\nCOMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT\nSFUl\u00E2\u0080\u0094'\nPUBLIC\nSQUARE\n.ARy // News\n)RS WILL MCDONALD + SARAH BIGAM\nMONDAY, NOVEMB\nAID\u00C2\u00BB\nCRIME \u00C2\u00BB\nTwo bikes stolen\nfrom UBC bike\ncages\nField staff hand out relief packs to villagers in Panay, Philippines.\n=HOTOCOURTESYOFTHE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYOF LONDON\nUBC team leads aid for 60,000 in Philippines\nSarah Bigam\nNews Editor\nBiologists and social workers from\na UBC-related conservation group\nare providing impromptu aid for\nisolated communities in the Philippines to help with the aftermath of\nTyphoon Haiyan.\nProject Seahorse, a UBC-Zoo-\nlogical Society of London collaborative sustainability group who works\nto protect seahorses and create\nsustainable fishing practices, was\nworking on marine conservation\nprojects with Filipino fishing communities when Typhoon Haiyan hit\nthe impoverished area on Nov 8.\nAccording to Project Seahorse\ndirector and co-founder Amanda\nVincent, the typhoon cut across the\nexact areas where all of their sites\nwere located.\n\"We did a quick assessment\nand discovered that in many ofthe\nNEWS BRIEFS\nUBC receives $12M in federal\nresearch funding\nOn Nov. 14, the federal government\nannouncedthattheywouldbe\nappointing 10 new Canada Research\nChairs (CRCs) to UBC. Including\nthe three CRC positions that were\nrenewed and the two that have been\nadvanced, this represents a $12\nmillion increase in federal funding.\nThe CRC program recruits highly\nesteemed researchers in sciences,\nengineering and humanities and establishes research professorships for\nthem at post-secondary institutions\nacross Canada.\n\"We are supporting cutting-edge\nresearch at Canadian universities\nand fostering innovation by helping\nresearchers bring their ideas to the\nmarketplace,\" said minister of state\nGreg Rickford during the announcement at the University of Calgary.\nThisyear, the federal government\nprovided 135 new CRCs worth\n$108.9 million to 41 post-secondary\ninstitutions through the program.\n\"The [CRC] program has helped\nUBC and other Canadian universities\nrecruit and retain bright minds in all\ndisciplines from around the world,\"\nsaid John Hepburn, VP research\nand international at UBC. \"We have\nalready seen the scientific and economic impact of their discoveries.\"\nCRC was created in 2000 with\nan annual budget of $300 million\nto establish up to 2,000 research\nprofessorships. UBC has the second\nlargest number of CRC allocations in\nthe country, xi\nvillages where we worked they lost\n75 to 90 per cent ofthe houses, and\nthat is also the schools, and the\nhealth centres, and just everything,\" said Vincent.\nAs part of their working strategy, the team sets up local teams\nin the communities in which they\nwork to carry out the conservation processes. Their Filipino\nteams quickly got advice from aid\nagencies and are now working\nto distribute aid, in coordination\nwith the local government and\nother community organizations.\nProject Seahorse has been\ndelivering aid in Panay, Bantayan\nand Danajon Bank for several days\nnow.\n\"We managed to get hundreds\nof kilos of rice into one community\nwith canned fish and canned meat\nand soap and basic aspirin sort\nof medicine just so they can deal\nTECHNOLOGY\u00C2\u00BB\nMedeo connects\npatients with MDs\nover the Internet\nAusten Erhardt\nStaffWriter\nA company co-founded by a UBC\ngraduate connects patients with\ndoctors over the internet.\nMedeo, which saw its first\npatient in January 2013, facilitates\nvideoconferencing between B.C.\nphysicians and province residents.\nThe service allows anyone with\nB.C. Medical Services Plan coverage\nto connect with a doctor using a\nmobile device or a computer with\na webcam.\nRyan Wilson, the company's\nCEO, graduated from UBC with a\nbachelor of commerce in 2008. He\nsaid that ofthe 39 staff employed at\nMedeo's Vancouver office, 65 per\ncent graduated from UBC over the\npast ten years.\nMedeo currently has over 180\nparticipating physicians, 49 of\nwhom signed up in October. It\ncan function as a drop-in clinic,\nwhere users see whichever doctor\nis available soonest, and it can also\nhelp users find a permanent family\ndoctor.\nThe service fulfils certain roles of\na traditional medical clinic: it provides access to medical records created while using Medeo, facilitates\nreferrals to specialists and sends lab\nresults when they're completed. Patients are notified via text message\na few minutes before their doctor is\nready for the appointment.\nwith the pain from their injuries,\"\nsaid Vincent.\nYesterday, the first 2,000 relief\npacks were sent to coastal communities in Danajon Bank.\n\"At the moment, we're just focusing on getting food, water, pills and\nsoap in, and then soon we'll start\nmoving towards the bigger issues,\"\nVincent said. \"It's a real and very\ndifficult situation.\"\nProject Seahorse currently works\nwith 40 towns and villages, totalling\n60,000 people. Vincent said there is\ncurrently no other aid going to these\ncommunities.\n\"Because they're somewhat\nisolated fishing villages, somewhat\nremote from the main track, any relief is goingto take a very, very long\ntime to get to them, if it ever does,\"\nshe said. \"Relief in the Philippines is\nnot [even] getting to the major cities\nyet properly.\n\"We are the people able to help.\nThere is nobody else, so it would\nbe unconscionable for us to turn\nour backs and say, 'Sorry, we're a\nresearch unit.'\"\nTheir aid work is being supervised by the ZSL, who will be\nauditing them.\nThe group has started a fundraising campaign for their relief fund.\nSo far, they have raised \u00C2\u00A340,000\nfrom donors.\n\"The first thing is to make sure\nthat we're just getting the emergency relief in... then eventually\nstart partnering on rebuilding.\n\"We're really proud ofthe work\nwe're trying to do, but we're even\nprouder of our Filipino researchers\nand social workers. A lot of them\nhave damaged houses and missing\nfamily members, and yet they're just\ngetting on with it. So it's quite, quite\nextraordinary, their resilience.\" XI\n65 per cent of Medeo staff are UBC graduates from the past decade.\n=HOTOCOURTESYOFMEDEC\n\"Medeo is much more than just\nSkype for doctors,\" Wilson said.\nHowever, he said that the service\nis not intended to be a complete\nreplacement for seeing a doctor in\nperson.\nWilson hopes that Medeo will\nsave time and money for both doctors and patients. He said the service\nshould be able to put users in front\nof a doctor faster than most regular\nwalk-in clinics. Medeo can also refer\nyou to a specialist and, occasionally, have you see him or her the\nsame day.\n\"If you went on Medeo right now\nand wanted to see a doctor, you'd\nwait well under an hour,\" Wilson\nsaid. \"Probably five to 10 minutes.\"\nThese time savings could impact\ngovernment healthcare spending\nas well. Wilson estimated that if\nMedeo were to be broadly implemented, it could save the B.C.\ngovernment hundreds of millions of\ndollars.\nGranger Avery, a UBC Faculty\nof Medicine clinical professor and\nexecutive director ofthe Rural Coordination Centre of B.C., believes\nthat telehealth services like Medeo\ncould be a boon for the health care\nsystem, particularly in rural regions.\n\"If telehealth services were to be\nwidely and properly implemented,\nthe time savings could be huge,\"\nsaid Avery.\nMedeo's software works on any\nmodern computer with a webcam,\nrunning Google Chrome. It can also\nbe accessed on iOS devices, and will\nsoon be available on Android.\nAlthough the company is discussing the possibility of national and\ninternational expansion, Wilson\nsaid B.C. is their current priority.\n\"This is our home. We really want\nto knock it out ofthe park here.\"\nI..J rl 1 1\nKm.x^H\nwmm\ni\n\^^^^\nifi >'^-rffeii\n-1 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0Unfa MuglM |\n=ILE PHOTO GEOFF LISTER3THE UBYSSEY\n60 bike thefts are reported yearly at UBC.\nMariam Baldeh\nContributor\nThe Chemistry Secure Bike Parking facility has become the latest\nlocation of bike thefts on campus,\nwith two bicycles recently stolen\nfrom the new bike cages.\nBike thefts aren't a new phenomenon on campus, but Barry\nEccleton, director of Campus Security, noted that the two bikes were\nstolen within days of each other.\nAccording to Eccleton, around 60\nbikes are stolen each year at UBC.\n\"Someone must have gotten a\nhold ofthe [bike] codes because\nthere was no sign of forced entry,\"\nsaid Eccleton. \"These thefts are\nusually done on a very businesslike,\norganized basis, by professional,\nprolific thieves who specialize in\nknowing which bikes are valuable.\"\nEccleton said bike thieves often\nhave access to the tools needed to\ndefeat locks \u00E2\u0080\u0094 usually cutting pliers\nor small bolt cutters that can easily\nbe concealed.\nAlthough preventing bike thefts\nbecomes more of a challenge due to\nthe high volume of bikes on campus, Eccleton said there are things\nthat cyclists can do to protect their\nbikes. Eccleton said cable locks are\nparticularly vulnerable because\nthey can easily be cut. He recommended high quality, solid steel\nU-locks because they are much\nmore difficult to remove.\nAdam Cooper, UBC's transportation planner, said security\nmeasures are in place to address\nbike security. \"Reducing theft is\nan important goal for our department,\" he said.\nUBC has 10 stand-alone secure\nbike parking facilities, providing\nover 1,000 weather-protected\nbike parking spaces on campus.\nAdditionally, according to Cooper,\na new secure bike parking facility\nis currently being proposed on the\nwest side ofthe Engineering Design\nCenter on Engineering Lane. The\nEDC bike cage is planned to accommodate approximately 65 bikes,\nand will have day-use lockers and a\nrepair stand. Construction is slated\nfor 2014. Cooper is optimistic that\nthis will be the best secure bike\nparking project to date.\n\"I always park my bike [in a\nsecure bike parking facility], and\nI've never witnessed or had my\nbike stolen, but I guess it just goes\nto show that you can never be too\ncareful,\" said Efua Emil, a third-\nyear Arts student.\nCooper said UBC has also developed videos in partnership with\nthe AMS Bike Co-op to educate\nstudents about bike safety.\n\"We often find that many bikes\non campus are not properly locked\n... which makes their bicycles easier\nto target for theft. As such, we\nconstantly promote the message\nof using a hardened steel u-lock\nand encourage cyclists to use our\nfacilities as a way to reduce the risk\nof theft.\" a NEWS I MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18,2013\nRESIDENCE LIFE \u00C2\u00BB\nIs there a professor in the house?\nMichael Griffin moves into Totem Park for Faculty in Residence program\nAna Gargollo\nContributor\nA UBC professor is living in\nTotem Park.\nMichael Griffin, an assistant\nprofessor of Greek and Roman\nphilosophy, has been living on\nthe second floor of Shuswap\nhouse since Nov. 1. This is part\nof an initiative called Faculty\nin Residence, being piloted by\nStudent Housing and Hospitality\nServices (SHHS) in Totem Park\nthis year.\n\"The idea is to bring the faculty\ncloser to the first-year experience\nand give ... a human face to the\nfaculty,\" said Griffin, \"and also to\n... add an academic dimension to\nevents and build a bridge between\nthe academic and social dimensions of first-year life.\"\nGriffin was contacted by\nJanice Robinson, director of residence life and administration at\nSHHS, about participating in the\nprogram. He said his experience\ndoing graduate work at the University of Oxford made him want\nto get involved.\n\"[Oxford] had professors,\ngraduates students and undergraduates living and working\ntogether in a college and I really\nliked that, having all the students\nand faculty together,\" Griffin\nsaid. \"I thought this would be\na great chance to get to do that\nkind of thing, to get to here to\nmeet people on a more casual\nUBC philosophy professor Michael Griffin has been living in Totem Park for two weeks.\nbasis to actually get to know\nfaces. Otherwise, UBC canbe\nthis very big place.\"\nGriffin currently runs a table\nin the commonsblock on Wednesdays and is planning to have dinner with different floors, starting\nwith his own. He is also available\nfor help with academics.\nSo far, Griffin said he has had\na positive experience living in\nTotem. \"It's almost like respiration to see a campus change\nevery year, with people coming\nin September and leaving in the\nsummer and coming back. It's\nlike the campus is breathing. It\nalways feels very alive.\"\nPHOTO CARTER BRUNDAGE3THE UBYSSEY\nSecond floor Shuswap resident Jessamine Kara Liu went to\nthe movie night Griffin hosted\nearlier in the month, which 40\nresidents attended to watch The\nMatrix.\nLiu said she wouldn't be\nlikely to seek him out. However,\naccording to Liu, the dynamic of\nthe floor hasn't changed since\nGriffin's arrival. \"It's not like I'm\nmore conscious about the noise\nlevel or anything,\" she said.\nSome students living in Totem\nPark, however, are not aware that\nthis has been going on for two\nweeks now.\nMistuko Obo, a resident from\nham'lasam', knew Griffin hosted\na movie night, but did not know\nhe was actually living in Totem\nPark.\n\"Professor in residence sounds\ncool. It's just something I have to\nget to know better,\" said Obo.\n\"I'm not sure it's well known\nenough that he is a professor,\"\nsaid Jan Bartolome, the residence advisor for second floor\nShuswap. \"But I think when\npeople do realize that and they\ndo have that conversation with\nhim, they'll be more involved.\"\nGriffin plans to stay in Totem\nfor the trial run until the end of\nthe year. If all goes well, the project will continue in future years.\n\"Everybody's been very\nfriendly [and] very welcoming,\nand it made me grateful for\nthat because I kind of came in\nthe middle of things, so it's a\nlittle weird.\" Griffin said. \"It's\nan all-new program idea but\neverybody's been awesome. The\nRAs have really made me feel\nat home.\n\"I've liked it a lot and haven't\neven had any fire alarms after 2\na.m. yet.\" XI\nTERRORISM \u00C2\u00BB\nCampus lecture spurs debate on Islam and terrorism\nUBC Islamic studies professor Rumee Ahmed addresses students in the Global Lounge\nPHOTO CARTER BRUNDAGE3THE UBYSSEY\nRumee Ahmed studies suicide bombings, torture and terrorism.\nAriela Karmel\nContributor\nThe Islamic perspective on terrorism was subject to debate and\nscrutiny in the Global Lounge on\nThursday night.\nRumee Ahmed, a professor of\nIslamic studies in the Department\nof Classical, Near Eastern and\nReligious Studies, gave a lecture on\nIslam and terrorism before opening\nthe floor for discussion with the\naudience. Ahmed specializes in the\nstudy of suicide bombings, torture\nand terrorism.\nThe lecture began with a question: what is a terrorist? Ahmed\nsaid, \"The problem ofthe definition\nof a terrorist is that the word is\ntoo narrow and broad at the same\ntime.\" Fraught with inconclusive\nand ambiguous connotations\ndepending on one's context, Ahmed\ncited this \"inexact nomenclature\" as a major problem within\nour society.\nIn the Islamic tradition, Ahmed\nsaid it is more important to ask\nwhat terrorism does than what it is.\n\"To ask what something 'is' is\nan anathema to Islamic tradition;\nthe word 'is' does not even exist in\nArabic,\" said Ahmed.\n\"I define a terrorist in terms\nof what it does, and its effect on\npeople: it creates fear, promotes a\nsocial or political ideology, and does\nnot distinguish between civilians\nand non-civilians.\"\nMost visibly, terrorism causes peoples and governments to\nreshape priorities. \"The typical\nreaction is that security becomes\nmore important than anything else.\nIn the name of security, everything\nbecomes justifiable,\" Ahmed said.\nAhmed said that, when threatened, people respond based on\nself-interest when they should be\nfocusing on the needs of others.\n\"Those who suffer the most from\nacts of terror are always minority\ngroups, women and those with the\nleast, and we should be expending\nour energies to help them,\" said\nAhmed.\nHe added further that in a culture of fear, it is very easy to turn\naway from those in need and to foster a society of blame and isolation\nrather than interconnectedness.\n\"An us-versus-them mentality\narises, which creates a perpetual\ncycle of blame and conflict where\nthere is no victor,\" said Ahmed.\nHe said the Islamic message is\nto create \"aman\" or safety inside\noneself and for factions to come\ntogether in mutual support to\nbridge the divide. \"In the absence\nof prophethood, we are all the\nsame,\" Ahmed said.\nThe majority ofthe event was\ncomposed of discussion. One\ntheme that was repeatedly raised\nwas the clash between practicality\nand idealism. Several audience\nmembers wondered whether\nprioritizing security might be a\nlogical and practical reaction to\nterrorism, despite the issues this\ncauses.\n\"From a religious perspective,\nsalvation should be man's main\nconcern and not security. And\nwhen we continue to operate with\na knee-jerk response, a vicious\ncycle ensues,\" Ahmed replied.\n\"Religion doesn't operate on\npracticality, but assumes an ideal\nsituation.\"\nStudents had mixed responses to\nthe lecture. Amna Chaudhry, a first-\nyear pharmacy student, generally\nagreed with what the professor\nhad to say, but took issue with the\nidea that religion doesn't operate on\npracticality but solely on ideals.\n\"There are many practical elements of religion that are compatible\nwith our society,\" said Chaudhry.\nAmna Ellnour, a second-year linguistics student, enjoyed Ahmed's\nlecture. She agreed with his message that by prioritizing the needs\nof others instead of succumbing to\nself-interest and fear, a better society canbe built.\nHowever, Ellnour questioned\nthe assertion that the onus seemed\nto be put more on society instead\nof on terrorists themselves. She felt\nthat not much was discussed about\nactual terrorism, what it stems from,\nor how to interpret it. \"Instead of\ndiscussing how to better react to\nterrorism, I would have liked to\nhear about what it is about a culture\nor society that inspires terrorists,\"\nsaid Ellnour.\nThis event was presented by the\nPakistani Students Association as\npart of an initiative called Destination South Asia which began\nin 2012. According to marketing\nrepresentative Ali Sikandar, this\ninitiative entails various lectures and\nworkshops, culminating in a conference in March which will focus on\nthe politics, economics, fine arts and\nsociety of South Asian countries. II National\nCOUNSELLING \u00C2\u00BB\nConcordia opens Sexual\nAssault Resource Centre\nConcordia now has a Sexual Assault Resource Centre.\nPHOTO BRANDON JOHNSTON3THE LINK\nAlejandra Melian-Morse\nThe Link (Concordia)\nMONTREAL (NUW) - After\ntwo years and a thousand-strong\npetition, Concordia's highly anticipated Sexual Assault Resource\nCentre is finally open.\nConcordia's Centre for Gender\nAdvocacy, which promotes gender\nequality and empowerment among\nmarginalized groups, had been\nadvocating for a sexual assault\ncentre on campus since the spring\nof 2011 due to the high rate of sexual\nassault \u00E2\u0080\u0094 which includes any unwanted act of a sexual nature \u00E2\u0080\u0094 on\nuniversity campuses.\n\"Around one in four students\nexperiences some kind of sexual\nassault during their post-secondary\ncareer,\" said Julie Michaud, the\nCentre's administrative coordinator.\n\"[The Centre] thought that was\ncompletely unacceptable and that\nit just didn't make any sense that\nthere was no dedicated service to\nmeet the needs ofthe survivors at\nConcordia given that statistic.\"\nThe outline the Concordia\nadministration proposed after announcing its plans in April to open\nthe new SARC by this fall included\nmany ofthe Centre's original goals,\nsuch as the inclusion of all genders\nand the hiring of a social worker to\nhandle counselling and academic\naccommodation, to name a few.\nThe university has committed\nonly one year to the project, but Michaud says she doesn't think it will\nbe dismantled anytime soon. \"Just\nthe fact of creating a sexual assault\ncentre sends a strong message to the\nConcordia community,\" she said.\n\"Its very existence, that there's a\nplace called the Sexual Assault Resource Centre, is really important.\"\nMuch ofthe new centre's focus\nwill be on assault prevention.\n\"For too long, the sexual assault\nprevention advice that has been\ngiven out has been, 'Don't walk\nalone at night, don't dress like a slut,\ndon't leave your drink unattended,\ndon't flirt with someone you don't\nknow,'\" said Michaud.\n\"But it's not up to the potential\nvictim of sexual assault to prevent\nthemselves from being victimized,\nit's up to the person who wants to\nhave sex with someone to check\nin and find out if the other person\nis actually consenting, and that's a\nskill that canbe learned.\"\nMontreal has various resources and services for sexual\nassault, but Michaud says there\nare many advantages to a Con-\ncordia-based centre.\n\"It's nice to have a person on site\nin an official Concordia office be\nable to, if necessary, call a... professor who a survivor might not feel\ncomfortable asking for accommodation and say, 'I'm wondering if\nwe might be able to make arrangements to accommodate this person\nwho is going through a rough time,'\nor helping somebody get to and\nfrom classes if the perpetrator is a\nfellow student, for example.\"\nSocial worker Jennifer Drum-\nmond, the SARC's recently hired\ncoordinator and the one full-time\nposition at the centre, echoed\nthe sentiment.\n\"The good thing about having\nsomething on campus is that it offers immediate support, immediate\ncrisis intervention and immediate\ninformation,\" she said.\nDrummond added that she's now\nin the process of putting together\na wide range of resources for the\nConcordia community, including\ncrisis intervention, referrals and\nvolunteer opportunities.\nEducating and raising awareness\nabout sexual assault prevention will\nalso be one ofthe resource centre's\nmain goals, according to Michaud.\n\"The best way to talk about what\nconsent is and how to make sure\nyou've got it is to actually have a\nconversation with people, because\nthen that gives you time to pull out\nall ofthe cultural baggage and ideas\nabout sex,\" she said.\nVolunteers at the SARC will be\nholding workshops to start the conversation with the community.\nDespite the focus on prevention,\nDrummond says the SARC will\nprimarily be a safe space for sexual\nassault survivors where they can get\nthe help needed to move forward.\n\"When someone comes and\nmeets with me... they can expect\nsomeone who's non-judgmental.\nThey can expect what we discuss\nto be confidential, they can expect\nto be treated with respect and to\nbe believed and [they can expect]\nsomeone who will go over their\noptions with them and provide them\nwith support,\" said Drummond.\nThe SARC is currently looking to\nfill a roster of volunteers to staff the\ncentre.\nVolunteer opportunities are\navailable to anyone interested, but\nDrummond said she hopes to bring\nsurvivors of sexual assault together\nfor support.\n\"I think there's something really\npowerful in survivors working with\nother survivors,\" she said. \"I think\nthat the expertise and knowledge\nthat people have from their own\nexperiences is huge and that's something that you don't learn at school.\"\nUltimately, Michaud says the\nopening ofthe SARC marks a step in\nthe right direction for the university.\n\"I think there might be a bit of\na fear that if we talk about sexual\nassault as something that happens...\npeople will think that it's a problem\nat our university,\" she said. \"But the\nreality is that it's a problem at every\nuniversity. Talking about it doesn't\nindicate that it's a particular problem [at Concordia], it just indicates\nthat you're actually dealing with it,\nwhich is a really positive thing.\"\nMOVEMBER\u00C2\u00BB\n'Staches can lead to slacktivism\nJeremiah Rodriguez\nThe Western Gazette (Western)\nLONDON (NUW) - With men\nbeginning to avoid the razor this\nmonth, a new study says people\ngrowing facial hair for prostate\ncancer awareness might not\nbe more likely to fork over any\ndough to the cause.\nIn the Journal of Consumer\nResearch, scholars at UBC have\npublished findings that support\nthe idea that small public token\nforms of support lead to \"slacktivism.\"\n\"What we find is that symbolic token action is very public in\nnature. We find that when people\nare asked to donate something\nmore meaningful like time and\nmoney, they aren't any more\nlikely to help,\" said Katherine\nWhite, co-author and associate\nprofessor at the Sauder School of\nBusiness at UBC.\n\"Organizations like charities\nand social causes have to think\nabout what their goals are,\"\nWhite added.\n\"If your goal is to generate\na certain amount of monetary\ndonations then it's suggested that\npublic forms of support might not\nlead to an increase of donations\ndown the road.\"\nWhite and her co-authors Kirk\nKristofferson, a PhD student in\nmarketing at Sauder, and John\nPeloza, of Florida State University, were inspired to understand\nthe rise in the public perception of \"slacktivists\" who may\nincorrectly associate a click with\nfinancial support which campaigns may be gunning for.\nIn the experiment, participants offered a private token\nform of support were more inclined to donate time and money\nwhen prompted afterwards.\nFILE PHOTO KAIJACOBSON3THE UBYSSEY\nMoustached men aren't as willing to part with their cash as their razors, according to a study.\n\"We do find that find that if\npeople can make their first act more\nprivate or if they really think about\nhow their own values align with the\ncause, you can flip the effect so that\nthe small act of token support can\nmake them more likely to support\nlater,\" White said.\nAdam Hahn, a post-doctoral\nstudent in social psychology at\nWestern, said that this type of\nsymbolic support without engaging\nis nothing new, but outlets like\nFacebook, hashtags and other public\ntokens of supports have certainly\nmade it easier.\n\"Media forms like Facebook\nhave created new ways to engage\nin impression management that\nwe didn't have 20 years ago,\"\nhe said.\nHahn added that the study\ndidn't necessarily mean that Mov-\nember moustaches had a harmful\neffect on fundraising, or that\npublic supporters of awareness\ncampaigns are any less supportive\nthan people who did nothing.\nEXPLORE YOUR CAREER OPTIONS\nDiscover the full-time and part-time\nprograms that will help you advance\nyour career.\nWednesday, November 20\n5-8 pm\nBurnaby Campus\n3700 Willingdon Avenue\nGet a head start. Explore online now.\nbcit.ca/biginfo\nIt's your career.\nGet it right. // Sports + Rec\nEDITOR NATALIESCADDEN\nMONDAY, NC\nHOCKEY\u00C2\u00BB\nWomen's hockey T-Birds flying high\nSeventh straight victory puts UBC atop Canada West standings for first time in team history\nJenny Tang\nStaffWriter\nAfter a rest over the Remembrance Day weekend, the UBC\nwomen's hockey team faced off\nagainst the University of Saskatchewan Huskies on Friday and\nSaturday and were able to extend\ntheir winning streak, putting\nthem on top ofthe Canada West\nregular season standings for the\nfirst time in team history.\nOn Friday, the Thunderbirds\nwere eager to continue their\nvictories and scored on three of\ntheir four power plays. Freshman\nHannah Heisler scored two of the\nthree much-needed goals, both at\nthe beginning and the end ofthe\ngame.\nAssisted by captain Christi\nCapozzi and assistant captain\nSarah Casorso, Heisler managed\nto tip in Casorso's shot from the\npoint in the last five minutes of\nthe first period.\nAdding to the goal tally in the\nsecond period was Tatiana Rafter,\nwho lengthened her lead in the\nCanada West scoring rankings\nwith her 10th ofthe season.\nThe Huskies bit back with two\nmore goals in the third period\nfrom their top scorers Cami\nWooster and Julia Flinton. With\nthe scoring neck and neck, the\n'Birds needed one more goal\nto win.\n[There was] all kinds\nof stuff we could make\nexcuses about, but\ngreat teams find ways\nto get through that and\nour competitive spirit\npulls through in those\nsituations.\nGraham Thomas\nUBC women's hockey head coach\nHeisler answered again and\nwent on to tip in her second\npowerplay goal. She was helped\nby Casorso and Rafter in the last\n10 minutes ofthe third period,\nand UBC came out victorious\nwith a 3-2 win.\n\"I wanted to go out there and\nfight for first, and we did, and\nnow we're first,\" Heisler said excitedly. \"It was a big team effort.\nBoth my goals were tipped from\nthe point and they were nice shots\nfrom the point first. We just need\nto keep the momentum and build\noff it, don't let them get back and\ngive it to them tomorrow.\"\nCoach Graham Thomas was\nhappy with the victory but was\nstill aware of their flaws.\n\"We still need to work on our\nconsistency, that's for sure.\"\nhe said. \"Sometimes we get the\nmentality that we can go at 70 per\ncent, 80 per cent, maybe, and then\nthey'll just sit back. [But] that's\nnot the case here, they're going to\npush back.\"\n\"[The powerplays] really bailed\nus out tonight,\" Thomas admitted.\n\"That's not always going to happen, and we've got to make sure\nwe [don't] rely on that to score\ngoals every game because that's\nkind of unheard of.\"\nOn Saturday night, it looked\nlike the odds were against the\n'Birds, as they had players who\nweren't at their best and refs who\nweren't on their side. Nevertheless, UBC was keen on cushioning\ntheir first-place standing and\ntriumphed with an overtime goal\nfrom Nikola Brown-John to seal\nthe victory.\nThe game opened with neither\nside scoring and lots of back-\nand-forth play. However, just 46\nseconds into the second period,\nUBC opened with an exciting goal\nby Casorso, who slotted the puck\nin the net with a cross-ice pass\nfrom Rafter.\nHowever, penalties would\nplague UBC at the end ofthe\nsecond period. The Huskies had\nthe 'Birds scrambling on a four-\nminute penalty kill and managed\nto even the game when Kaitlin\nWilloughby shoved the puck in.\nRight as that four-minute\nmajor was ending, Rafter took an\ninterference penalty, and Rebecca\nUnrau joined her in the box to\nserve an unsportsmanlike penalty\nafter Thomas argued with the ref.\nThat gave the Huskies two full\nminutes of 5-on-3, but the 'Birds\ndefence was able to limit their effectiveness, and goalie Samantha\nLangford made some beautiful\nsaves to keep the score even after\ntwo periods. She would go on to\nclock 30 saves on the night.\nWith the score remaining\ntied at 1-1 at the end ofthe third\nperiod, the game was sent to\novertime. Less than two minutes\nin, UBC was shorthanded again\nas Brown-John was sent to the\nbox for unsportsmanlike conduct.\nLangford and the 'Birds defence were again able to hold off\nthe Huskies.\nFinally, 8:48 into the 10-minute\novertime period, Brown-John put\nthe winner past Huskie goalie\nKaren Lefsrud for UBC's seventh\nstraight victory.\n\"[There was] all kinds of stuff\nwe could make excuses about,\nbut great teams find ways to get\nthrough that and our competitive spirit pulls through in those\nsituations,\" said Thomas after\nthe game.\nThomas was particularly\npleased with his goaltender.\n\"[Langford] was unbelievable. She\nhasn't started in a while, [but] had\nan opportunity here and totally\ntook the ball and ran with it.\"\nHe has also been impressed\nwith Casorso's two-way performance throughout the season.\n\"Her competitive spirit \u00E2\u0080\u0094 I just\ncan't go back to that enough. You\nchallenge her at anything and\nshe will fight to make sure she\nwins. She makes good defensive\nplays, she makes good offensive\nplays and makes good plays at\nlate times and she's a big leader\nback there.\"\nPHOTO JOSH CURRAN3THE UBYSSEY\nAbove: Sarah Casorso opens the scoring in the second period. Below: UBC celebrates Nikola Brown-John's overtime winner.\nNow on a seven-game win\nstreak, UBC has a target on\ntheir back.\n\"Teams want to knock you\ndown and take you out,\" Thomas\nsaid. \"Teams are going to come\nat us, so let's have some fun and\nwelcome the challenge.\"\nThe 'Birds will face off with\nthe University of Manitoba Bisons\nfor the first time this season next\nweekend in Winnipeg, and then\nreturn home to play the University of Lethbridge Pronghorns\nbefore the winter break. XI\n=HOTO JOSH CURRAN3THE UBYSSEY\nWOMEN'S\nHOCKEY\nBY THE NUMBERS\nBIRD DROPPINGS\nMen's basketball (2-4) Men's volleyball (5-3)\nFriday @ TRU: 78-65 L Friday @ WIN: 3-2 L\nSaturday @ TRU: 86-56 L Saturday @ WIN: 3-0 W\nWomen's basketball (4-2) Women's volleyball (8-0)\nFriday @ TRU: 65-57 OTL Friday @ WIN: 3-1W\nSaturday @ TRU: 71-54 W Saturday @ WIN: 3-2 W\nMen's hockey (3-8-1)\nFriday @SASK: 6-3 L\nSaturday O SASK: 3-0 L\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A27 \u00E2\u0084\u00A2fc\u00E2\u0084\u00A2 A wins-losses-draws so far this season\nWB9BX wins-losses-draws at this point last year\ntime in team history that UBC has been in first place\nin the conference standings\ngoals scored by UBC, the most in the conference\ngoals by Tatiana Rafter, the most in the conference\npoints by Rafter, also the most\ngames in a row in which Rafter has a point\nasssists for Sarah Casorso, second-most in the\nconference MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2013 | SPORTS + REC\nRUNNING \u00C2\u00BB\nDavid Slade engineers success on the track\nFifth-year student athlete races dean of material engineering in support of United Way\nJaime Hills\nContributor\nToy cars and cops and robbers:\nseems like a simple life that\nmight not be more than a child's\nplayground routine. But for David\nSlade, it was the beginning of\nmuch more.\nThe two biggest aspects of\nSlade's life seem to have been\nconfirmed at a young age. He is\nnow a fifth-year UBC engineering\nstudent on the varsity track and\ncross-country team.\nSlade knew he wanted to go\ninto engineering from the get-go.\n\"I feel lucky in that sense. I know\na lot of people who have switched\nfaculties,\" he said. \"I knew from\na very young age that I wanted to\nbe an engineer.\"\nHe also learned very early on\nthat Mom knows best. \"I had a\nlittle remote control car that I\nloved when I was a kid, and it\nbroke one day,\" Slade recalled.\n\"I took it apart, figured out what\nwas wrong, put it back together\nand it was working again. [My\nmom] kind of put the idea in my\nhead that 'you should be an engineer' and I thought, that's kind\nof cool.\"\nThe idea went from being\n\"kind of cool\" to something that\nstuck with him throughout his\nhigh school career. Now, after\nfive years at UBC and a summer\ninternship with Powertech Labs,\nSlade is ready to get going in his\nengineering career, looking to\nbecome employed by a testing or\nconsulting company.\nSlade also loves to run. This too\nhe learned early on in life, with\ngames on the playground in elementary school being no problem\nfor him. He was quick to mention\ncops and robbers, in which all\nhe had to do to win was outrun\nsomeone. Seems like a good mentality for a cross-country runner\nto have.\nIn October, UBC held an event\nfor the United Way, the university's designated charity, to raise\nfunds and awareness for the\ngoals ofthe organization. The\ndean of material engineering,\nMarc Parlange, proposed a challenge to his students: he would\npersonally match the fundraising\nefforts of anyone who could beat\nhim in the race.\nA friend of Slade's took the\nopportunity to sign him up, without his knowledge and as a joke,\nand informed him of it a week prior to the race. Rather than leaving\nit as a joke and removing himself\nfrom the race, Slade thought,\n\"Why not?\" He started calculating the money he could bring in.\nSeeing as running is what he\ndoes, no training was required.\nHe proceeded to focus instead on\nraising funds through his peers,\nprofessors, friends and family.\nOf course, with a competitive\nspirit, Slade had to look up Dean\nParlange first to confirm that\nhe could in fact win the race. \"I\nwanted to make sure he wasn't\nsome ex-national athlete.\"\nWith most of his races being\neight kilometres long, a two-kilometre race would feel like a piece\nof cake. All he had to do was take\nit back to his playground days\nof cops and robbers, and simply\noutrun the dean of his faculty. \"I\ndidn't know what to expect,\" he\nsaid. \"They told me, 'Just run with\nthe dean for the first kilometre\nand then do your thing.'\"\nWhat Slade did not see coming\nwas two members ofthe triathlon\nclub also participating in the race,\nand taking off from the beginning. Naturally, as a competitive\nathlete, Slade was having none of\nthat. He just had to beat them \u00E2\u0080\u0094\nwhich, in winning the whole race,\nhe did.\nSlade didn't know much about\nUnited Way before his involvement in the race, but he is now not\nonly well-informed, but excited\nto share what he knows. The\nmission statement of United Way\nis to \"strengthen our community's\ncapacity to address social issues,\"\nsomething Slade was able to do\nthrough his outreach in fund-\nraising within his own community, spreading knowledge and\nincreasing awareness. In just over\nDavid Slade is a fifth-year Engineering student on the varsity track and cross-country team.\na week's time, he raised $491 for\nthe organization.\nSlade's team is preparing for\nCanadian cross-country nationals at the end the November. But\nunfortunately, with the recent\ndiagnosis of a stress fracture\nin his foot, he will be unable to\ncompete, putting an end to a fall\nseason in which he was \"batting\n1.000\" \u00E2\u0080\u0094 in other words, getting\n100 per cent personal best times\nin all his races.\nHowever, in the spring, like\nmany of his fellow Thunderbirds,\nhe will be graduating, and preparing to take on whatever comes\nafter UBC. But if he keeps it up the\nway he's going, he'll be doing much\nmore than fixing toy cars and\nplaying cops and robbers. 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