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" I\nu\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2>\nUGANDA BOUND\nAfrica Development Initiative takes off.\nPage 3\nRUNNING WITH SESSIONALS\nYour summer earnings beat their semester haul.\nPage 8-9\nWINTER PALACE ON ICE\nLonger construction time predicted.\nPage 11\nwww.ubyssey.bc.ca\nVol.LXXXVII N\u00C2\u00B036\nTuesday, 21 February, 2006\nJ'Well, we could always move to Fort McMurray\" since 1918\nU-Pass expansion at an impasse\nCity's post-secondary\nschools will have\nto wait until 2007\nby Eric Szeto\nNEWS EDITOR\nVancouver area post-secondary students eagerly awaiting the expansion of the U-Pass to their institutions will have to wait until 2007 as\nnegotiations for the highly successful program have come to a grinding halt.\nNegotiations for the expansion\ncame to an impasse late last year\nwhen TransLink and the student\ncoalition responsible for administering the expanded program couldn't agree on a fixed price for the universal bus pass.\nProponents in the coalition are\nin a furor because TransLink is proposing that prices vary between different colleges. In most cases, the\nsuggested prices would be substantially higher than what students at\nSFU and UBC now pay.\nUBC and SFU, the only institutions in the Vancouver area that\nhave the U-Passy currently, payJ>2.2\nand $24.50 per month respectively.\nHeidi Taylor, a College Board representative at Douglas College, said it\nis unlikely that other schools will be\nwilling to pay more for the pass.\n\"There is absolutely no way\nwe're going to sign on for bigger\nprices than what UBC or SFU is paying right now/ Taylor said.\n\"I think it would the most ridicu-\nSee \"Impasse\" page 2.\nSmashy smashy\ni\nA crowd of spectacle-hungry students congregated before reading break to solemnly witness the systematic destruction of Main Library's\neastern wing. As the demolition machine made way for the expansion of the Irving K Barber Learning Centre, two stubborn seagulls\nfluttered at the peak of the pummeled structure, refusing to concede their perches until the building gracelessly collapsed. With the loss of\nthe library's anachronistic stacks, hallucinogen-addled students must now take their mushroom trips elsewhere. Michelle mayne photo\nSocial space to unify science students\nby Colleen Tang\nNEWS STAFF\nConstruction that began mid-\nJanuary for the creation of the Abdul\nLadha Science centre, a social area\nfor science students, is slated for\ncompletion this fall.\nCurrently there has not been\nany central location for Science students at UBC. The existing social\nspace for science undergraduates\ncan only accommodate 30-40 people while there are over 7,000 science students, said Patricia Lau,\nScience Undergraduate Society\n(SUS) president.\n\"The reason for this building is\nthat currently our social space has\nreached its maximum capacity.\"\nThe Science faculty is currently\nbehind in terms of a large social\nspace comparatively to the faculty of\nArts, said Lau. The Abdul Ladha\nWORKING MEN: The centre is calling for two and a half floors.\nWhat about the other half? yinan max wang photo\nScience Centre is a bigger version of\nthe one in Buchanan D, she added.\nThis project was student based,\nsaid Paul Harrison, associate dean\nof Science.\n\"I was involved in discussions of\nthe project but it really came from\nthe students and the deans and people like me were there to help.\"\nThe science centre, which is\nplanned for East Mall between Hebb\ntheatre and the Chemistry/Physics\nbuilding, will sit directly across from\nthe Student Union Building (SUB).\nHarrison indicated that this\nspace was \"inadequate for a Science\nbuilding but not for a social space.\"\nHe also believes this building will be\n\"beneficial for students [and] important for the life of undergraduates to\ndirect their activities.\"\nThe Abdul Ladha Science Centre\nwill be 7,000 square feet and two\nand a half levels. The main floor will\ninclude SUS offices, a study space,\ncomputer tenninals, while the second floor will have a patio and a\nkitchen, said Lau. The half floor will\ncontain couches and an informal\nspace, she added.\nIncrease in construction costs\nresulted in delays to the project as\noriginal pricing went up from $1.7\nmillion to $3.2 million\u00E2\u0080\u0094a significant\ndifference from the project's 2003\nestimates.\nA bulk of the funding came\nfrom Abdul Ladha who donated $ 1\nmillion for the project\u00E2\u0080\u0094hence the\nbuilding's name.\nThe SUS was able to fund the\nremaining sum with support from\nthe SUS, the faculty of Science, the\nBoard of Governors, UBC Properties\nTrust and through student fees.\nAll current and former SUS presidents involved in this project hope\nthis building will bring the science\ncommunity together into one space.\n\"It is going to be a really good\nbuilding; it's going to be really\nfancy...and a good place to go,\"\nsaid Lau.\nReka Sztopa, former SUS president present during the initial planning of the social space expressed\nher positive sentiments toward the\nnew space.\n\"I'm excited it's finally happening.\" The goal for her was to \"have a\nspace where science students feel is\ntheir place. I want to see a vibrant\nsocial space.\"\nFor Dan Yokom, another former SUS president, this space was\nabout creating a \"science community\" and \"creating greater networks for scientists.\" U\nCiTR, meet your\nnew sister, GIRO\nby Jenn Chrumka\nNEWS WRITER\nThe space is the size of a small bedroom, tucked in behind the student\nnewspaper. This is where CIRO, the\nSouth Okanagan's first campus and\ncommunity-based radio station, is\nbeing conceived.\nLocated in Kelowna at the\nUniversity of British Columbia's\nOkanagan (UBC-O) campus (formerly\nOkanagan University College), there\nhas been a closed circuit radio station\nbefore, but never an FM station that\nbroadcasts from the campus.\nCameron Baughen, the FM\nLicensing Committee chair, commented, \"we think that the time has\ncome for this kind of station to\ncome forward.\"\nBecause Kelowna boasts a strong\nartist community, a campus rich\nwith opportunity and a wide diversity of local bands, some are wondering why a station like this hasn't\ncome forward yet.\n\"Musically, there's a lot of bands\nand artists who don't get represented by other stations in Kelowna,\"\nsaid Baughen. \"CIRO could be a\nSee\"CIR0\"page2.\nm.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0:Ub 2 News\nTuesday, 21 February, 2006 THE UBYSSEY\nTransLink says it is committed to expanding the U-Pass to alLpost-secondary schools in the Vanncouver area\n\"Impasse\" from page 1.\nlous thing for us to bring forward a\nreferendum to our membership\nsaying, 'Hey lets pay twice as much\nthey do over at SFU and at UBC.\"\nShe said TransLink can demonstrate its commitment to helping\nstudents get decent prices for\ntransportation to and from school.\n\"It's very clear that all of us want\nthe same thing,\" she said. \"It's a universal bus pass and it should be the\nsame across the board.\"\nChrista Peters, executive director of Vancouver Community\nCollege student union, feels that\nTransLink is penalising students\nwho don't go to university.\n\"I think it's ridiculous to have\ndifferent prices for people that are\nusing the same system,\" said Peters.\n\"You're not going to be able to convince students...that they should\nhave to pay $ 10 a month more than\nsomebody who studies at UBC.\"\nSo far Capilano College,\nDouglas College, Emily Carr\nInstitute of Art and Design,\nKwantlen University College,\nLangara College, Native Education\nCentre, and Vancouver\nCommunity College are vying for\nthe expanded U-Pass.\nVP Planner for TransLink, Glen\nLeicester, said that there are a myriad of reasons why the program\nhasn't expanded yet.\nComing to a common pricing\npoint, administrative problems\nand achieving successful referenda\nin all the schools participating are\nhurdles still yet to be overcome, he\nexplained.\nIn addition, the increased rider-\nship will further strain an already\ntaxed transit system. Delivering\nnew busses to account for the\nincrease, he said, is a main priority before instituting an expanded\nU-Pass.\n\"There's a lesson learned from\nUBC and SFU,\" said Leicester, \"and\nits transit usage grew by higher\nthan we expected and so that did\nresult in some crowded busses.\"\nThe introduction of the U-Pass\nsaw a 50 per cent increases in rid-\nership at UBC and SFU in 2003.\nThis, said Leicester, created a\nwaft of bus overcrowding problems.\n\"We certainly don't want to rush\ninto the colleges and create more\nproblems,\" he said.\nTransLink, Leicester explained,\nis fully committed to improving\npublic transit by expanding the U-\nPass as was recommended in the\nannouncement of the $3.9 billion\nGateway Program.\nThe project, announced last\nmonth by the provincial government, is dedicated to alleviating\nthe burgeoning traffic problem by\nimproving road and bridges in the\nLower Mainland.\nLeicester noted that when an\nagreement does come into place,\nschools would integrate the U-Pass\nprogram in phases. The first few,\nLeicester said, would be implemented in 2007 while the remaining schools would be added the following year. II\nCIRO, UBC-O's FM radio station will be up and running in two years given CRTC approval\n\"CIRO\" from page 1.\nstrong conduit for [those bands] to\nreach people.\"\nTo actually turn a campus and\ncommunity radio station into a\nfully operating FM one takes a lot\nof effort. Developing stations face\nlong, slow, growth processes, are\ntypically under-powered and operate on very minimal budgets. But\nthe group of people working\nbehind CIRO is committed to realising their goal of creating a thriving radio station.\n\"Since 2003 we've reached a lot\nof milestones and we have a lot of\npeople in place\" said Rob Madu,\nthe project coordinator. \"It's very\nmuch a collective of people, trying\nto make a go of it,\" he said.\nThe collective have already\nsecured space, applied for grants\nand received funding to purchase\nequipment. They've launched a\nwebsite (www.ciro.ca), formalised\na name and with it an identity.\nCurrently, they are broadcasting\nprograms from their website and\nhave recently established a board\nof directors for a non-profit society.\nLydia Masemola, station manager of CiTR, UBCs campus station, is helping CIRO by providing\ninformation regarding bylaws, constitutions and the structural details\nof campus stations.\n\"I'm always excited to hear\nabout any new conununity/cam-\npus radio station starting up,\" she\nsaid. Assisting young stations is\npart of her role as president of the\nNational Campus and Community\nRadio Association but she is particularly enthusiastic about CIRO's\nprogress. She sees CIRO as a kind\nof twin station. Though the two\ncommunities are very different,\nthe fact that they share the same\noverarching institution, UBC,\nestablishes a unique relationship.\nThe importance of campus\nand community radio stations,\nMasemola said, lies in their ability to \"give voices to students of\nthat particular campus or outlying community.\"\nThis is exactly what the group\nbehind CIRO intends to do. The\nvision and voice of the station\nwill come directly from the community itself, and from different\ndemographics that normally go\nunheard.\n\"Hopefully there will be some\nniche programming that happens,\" said Madu \"and groups in\nthe community or students who\nwill take on a variety of issues that\ninterest them.\"\nBaughen also hopes the station will be able to promote the\ndifferent communities in the\nSouth Okanagan. \"There's a really strong movement here, all\nover,\" he said. \"We haven't experienced any negative feedback\nfrom what we're doing and that's\na pretty positive thing.\"\nThe big challenge will be to\napproach the Canadian Radio-\ntelevision and Telecommunications\nCommission (CRTC), the regulatory agency responsible for\nbroadcasting and telecommunications in Canada, who could\ngrant CIRO an FM license. But\nbefore they take that step,\nBaughen wants to make sure that\neverything is ready, so that when\nthey do present themselves, it\nwill be as a very strong candidate. Given CRTC approval,\nBaughen hopes they will be operating as an FM station in about\ntwo years. II\n'TWEENS\nLyle Wilson carves \"Wee-\ngit Releases the Light\"\nMuseum of Anthropology\nUntil March 2006\nPublic carving of an eight-foot\ntall yellow cedar sculpture in\nthe Great Hall.\nTaste Indonesia\nVancouver Public Library\nMarch 7 7,6-9:30 pm\nGado-Gado Indonesian\nStudents Association of UBC\npresents a night of Indonesian\nfood, dance and performances.\nGranville Island\nWinterruption Festival\nGranville Island\nFebruary 24-26,2006\nCure your winter blues with a\nfestival of food, music, theatre,\nand more.\nThe End of Suburbia\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nOil Depletion and the\nCollapse of the American\nDream\nWood Theatre 6\nFebruary 23rd, 7:30pm\nDocumentary screening\npresented by the Green Party\nClub of UBC.\nLouisiana Purchase\nShadbolt Centre for the Arts\nFeb 21-25\nA bumbling Republican\nsenator from the North is\ncaught up in a sex scandal\nafter going South to investigate dirty government doings\nin this Big Easy musical.\nCLASSIFIEDS\nccommoaation\nI'M SEEKING A ROOMMATE\nTO SHARE A BEAUTIFUL TWO-\nBEDROOM GROUND-LEVEL\n(NOT BASEMENT!) suite literally 1.5\nblocks from the corner of Broadway and\nMac Donald. Rem is $487.50 + utilities.\nMale or female welcome, but please\nno smokers or pers. If you can move\nin March 1st, please email Graham:\ngiavender@grnail.com.\noiumeer upporuirmies\nGRAD STUDENTS. = The Vancouver\nSociety for Sexuality, Gender, and Culture,\na non-profic society, seeks members for\nworking committee and board member\nroles. This is an extraordinary volunteer\nexperience for Grad students in the area\nof Healch, Counseling, Jkhicarion. or\nBusiness. Contact: Michael. VSSGC@\ntelus.net or (778)837-1575\nVOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR TWO\nUPCOMING EVENTS @ Science\nWorld for Odyssey of the Mind, a\nprogram designed to encourage problem\nsolving in school, children. Must be able\nto attend training sessions in Burnaby.\nEmail odysseybc@gmail.com for more\ninformation.\nGET OFF THE COUCH AND GET\nMORE OUT OF LIFE. Spend two\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 four hours a week hiking, biking, and\nreeling like a kid again. Be a Big Brother:\nCall 604.876.2447 exr 246 or www.\nbigbrothersvancouver.com\nMAKE A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE!\nVolunteer overseas with Youth. Challenge\nInternational on a hands-on development\nproject lor 5-12 weeks. Ready to go\nnext month? This summer? Visit www.\nyci.org to find out more!\nuyase\nFOR SALE: 1991 CHEVY TRACKER.\n150,000 km. Manual 5sp. Great\ncondition, little ext. wear. Aircare. Hard/\nsoft top. Bike/ski/board rack, Mp3/CD\nplayer. \u00C2\u00A75000. Call Laura 604.290.2400\nnnouncemeius\n14TH ANNUAL WOMEN'S\nSPIRI l'UALf i 5f CELEiSKATION.\n(\"rearing Sacred Space. Friday March\n3- Saturday March 4 Chalmers Institute,\nVancouver School of Theology, UBC\nCampus. Friday evening reception, art\nshow, and multifaith celebration. Saturday\nmultifaith experiential workshops from\nvarious spiritual traditions. Registration\n$60 - Si .15. Contact Chalmers Institute\n604-822-9815 or www.vst.edu.\nSPARTACUS YOUTH CLUB CLASS-\nFROM BERLIN TO MOSCOW- THE\nICL'S FIGHT AGAINST CAPITALIST\nCOUNTCRREVOLUTION- FOR\nNEW OCTOBER REVOLUTIONS!\n5:00 PM Wednesday February 22 Room\n224, Student Union Building UBC\").\nContact Spartacus Youth Club at 604-\n687-0353, email TLLT@look.ca\nTHE US BLOCKADE ON CUBA. A\nViolation of Cuba's Human Rights Film\nand Discussion featuring: John Walter\nfrom Pastors for Peace at UBC: Tuesday\nFeb 21 12:00 SUB room 209 at the\nUnitarian Church (49th Ave. and Oak\nSt.):Saturday Feb 18 6:30pm for more\ninformation: www.vancubasolidarity.\ncom Come out and learn more about the\nUS economic blockade on Cuba, and\nthe Pastors for Peace caravan that sends\npeople and goods to Cuba in opposition\nto the blockade.\nCOALITION AGAINST WAR ON\nTHE PEOPLE OF IRAQ AND\nINTERNATIONALLY US/UK OUT\nOF IRAQ! Canada Out of Afghanistan!\nCanada/US/France Out of Haiti! On\nthe 2nd Anniversary of the Invasion\nof Haiti: ***RALLYand MARCH***\nVancouver Art Gallery (Robson St\nSide) 3PM - SUNDAY, February 26,\nOrganized by Mobilization Against War\nand Occupation. For more information:\nwww.mawovanaiuver.org f infb@\nmawovancouver.org j 604-322-1764\nUBC CIRCLE K VOLUNTEER CLUB\nIS HOSTING A CAMPUS-WIDE\nFOOD DRIVE FOR THE UNION\nGOSPEL MISSION SOUP KITCHEN\nIN THE DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE.\nDrop off non-perishable items from\nFeb 20 to Mar 3 at any location: SUB\n266,Brock Hall (south entrance),Science\nAdvising ofncc.Arcs Advising,\nInternational House,Engineering (Kaiser\nRm 1100),Forestry (by Atrium), Land and\nFood Systems (GRS office, Macmillan\nRm 346),School of Music,SUS lounge\n(LSK 202),Nursing Student Lounge.PSA\n(Kenny 2007)\nmpioyment opportunities\nADVENTURE! Teach English\t\nWorldwide. Earn Monev. Get TKSO.L\nCertified in 5 days. Study In-Class,\nOnline, or by Correspondence. No\ndegree or experience needed. 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Much of the music Glass has\ncomposed has been for his ensemble,\nwhich is generally made up of amplified woodwinds, synthesiser, and a\nsolo soprano voice. Under the direction of Michael Riesman, the group\nhas been touring all over the world,\nperforming the scores of the Qatsi\ntrilogy five to screenings of the films.\nThe Koyaanisqatsi tour comes to\nQueen Elizabeth Theater on February\n23, and features Philip Glass himself\non keyboard. II\nThe world Is waiting for you\nWhat are you waiting for?\nTake a Gap Year Abroad! Experience the world.\nTravel CUTS has been offering independent travel\noptions and specialized programs for over 35 years.\nwork in a cafe in Australia\nvolunteer to build a school in Costa Rica\nteach English in Thailand\nlearn to speak Spanish in Madrid\nVVnu f\|orthwest^J|i|\nWe're Passionate\nFuture in Natural\n,.,,\u00E2\u0080\u009E,\u00E2\u0080\u009E5JP!\nThe high quality of the professors at Northwestern is a\nhuge strength! The professors are very straightfor-ward\nabout the amount of work that is required, but I\nI will look back and realize thallifca^^\nof the best/* \"^^^^^^K^-\n- Chris Grier, chiropractic student, Student SenJBiRiiient\n ^NORTHWESTERN\nHEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY\n2501 West 84th Street, Bloomington, MN 5543 \\n(952/800) 888-4777, ext* 409 www.nwhea8th.ec8u fi Culture\nTuesday, 21 February, 2006 THE UBYSSEY\n\"I still cannot fathom how someone looks at another person and does\nnot see a reflection of themselves, does not see another human being.\nPeople can be taught hate, but they can also be taught to love, and\ntogether we can all give our world a more human face.\"\n- Juliet Karugahe, University of Toronto, Canada/Rwanda, MRH 2001\nof REMEMBRANCE\nand HOPE\nA STUDEMTS' LEADERSHIP MISSION TO POLAND\nMay 22-29, 2006\nThis dynamic educational leadership program teaches university students of different\nreligious and ethnic backgrounds of the dangers of intolerance through the study of the\nHolocaust. The overall goal of the program is to promote better relations among people\nof diverse cultures. We bring hundreds of students to Poland to demonstrate the horrors\nof the Holocaust, and the obligation upon each one of us to create a world in which\nreligious and ethnic diversity is cause for celebration rather than discrimination.\nScholarships based on merit and financial need will be granted on a competitive basis\nto students expressing a strong commitment to the program's goals.\nFor a complete program description, please visit our web site:\nwww.remembranceandhope.com\nFor further information, Your local campus representative\nplease contact. OR Jenni Stoff: 416-597-9693, x29 /1-800-663-1848, x29\nJHE41BYSSEY-\nBe one of the first to\nstop by SUB 23, to\npick up a free movie\npass to a preview\nscreening of:\nRunning\nScared9\non Thursday,\nFebruary 23, 2006\n7:00 p.m. at\nTinseltown 12\n(88 West Pender st).\nTICKETS TO\nCONCERT IN HALIFAX\n> Roundtrip airfare to Halifax & 4 nights accommodation for you & a friend!\nViP access for 2 to see The Trews - then meet the band!\n2 tickets to the 2006 Juno Awards!\n$200 spending money!\nDetails at www.travelcuts.com\n*Yr -SEE \u00E2\u0096\u00A0;:\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0:\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nTJHEtREW;\nON. TOUR ACROSS\nV, CANADA NOW! /\nWHO FORGOT THE PLACARDS? The Knoll team strike a pose atop their namesake, yinan max wang photo\nThe Knoll: new tactics of media\ndemocracy in the campus revolution\nFunding from AMS resource groups enables nascent student\npublication to address the question of what is to be done at UBC\nby Catherine Hart\nCULTURE WRITER\nThe Knoll is ah uprising\u00E2\u0080\u0094a. provocative opening line for the latest publication to hit the UBC campus. But\nfar from being a wannabe attempt\nat fomenting weak-kneed student\nrevolution, I found this paper to be\nan intelligent attempt to engage an\napathetic student body in issues\nthat thirty years ago might have\nprompted passionate activism.\nA self-described \"history of\nprotest and student activism on\nthis campus/ The Knoll has memorialised the imminent demise of\nthe hilly greenspace outside the\nSUB to provide a lasting place for\nfree exchange, a printed forum\nopen to contradiction and conflict\neven within itself. Begat by the\nResource Groups, but blossoming\ninto a collaborative means between\nfaculty and students, The Knoll was\na result of different people wanting\nto bring together divergent and\nconvergent topics of social concern\nin a serious student paper.\nCo-editor Lyle McMahon hopes\nthat The Knoll will amplify dialogues that go too often unheard\nout here at Point Grey.\n\"The focus is on creating discussion, because that's not going on at\nall,\" says McMahon. \"It's not about\npropaganda and pushing our\nviews; we wanted it to be accessible.\" He adds: \"And not boring\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nunlike an academic journal.\"\nThe result? Editor Rob Parungao\nsums up the contents of The Knoll\nfor me as \"Arts, Academics, Action.\"\nThe first issue contains articles that\nprovide a history of activism on\ncampus, offers incitement to vote in\nboth the national and AMS elections, and generates discussions\nabout multiculturalism and feminism\u00E2\u0080\u0094all interspersed with student\npoetry and art.\nThe Resource Groups are given\nspace to advertise, with a view to\ndeveloping this from a tagline into\na forum. These collectives, which\ninclude Fride UBC, Colour\nConnected, the Women's Centre,\nthe Social Justice Centre, and the\nStudent Environment Centre, are\nconcerned with a range of social\nissues and rely on AMS student\nfees. In turn, they provide the only\nform of advertising in The Knoll,\nwhich relies solely upon the\nResource Groups for funding.\n\"It was important for it not to be\ncornmercially asphyxiated,\" said co-\neditor Nate Crompton. As a result,\nthe paper is a reflection of the students of UBC, and not the influence\nof adveritiser and marketers.\nAlthough only in its infancy,\nThe Knoll still landed itself in trouble with the AMS a few weeks ago\nover endorsements for the AMS\nelection. \"It was a symbolic clash\nwith power,\" said Crompton. \"Which\nis what The Knolls all about\u00E2\u0080\u0094challenging bases of power.\" The editors did acknowledge that an\ninfraction had occurred. \"It's\nimportant to recognise that rules\ndo exist, but what's more important is that we're generating\ndialogue,\" said Crompton. \"Although we were advocating certain\ncandidates, we're not trying to\nconvince people of our views but\nrather we were trying to get\npeople interested.\" He adds: \"We\nhave a viewpoint but we're not\nenforcing it on anybody\u00E2\u0080\u0094the focus\nis interactivity*.\nInteractivity and discussion are\nThe Knoll's most important attributes, as is its affiliated website\n(http://www.theknoll.ca) indicates.\nThis is probably the easiest way\nfor the regular Joe on campus to\nget involved\u00E2\u0080\u0094all submissions are\nonline.\n\"There's a big focus on outreach\non our part, because it's come out\nof the Resource Groups,\" says\nco-editor Rebecca Hall. \"We want\nto bring other people in to get\nnew perspectives.\" And on a practical level, a publication takes a\nlot of work, so there's always plenty to do.\nThe paper will continue to be\npublished sporadically, and if funding and coordinating allows, look\nfor The Knoll to appear on a monthly basis. The website being the\neasiest way to stay in touch, and\ncheck for the sophomore issue as\nFebruary ends. II THE UBYSSEY Tuesday, 21 February, 2006\nCulture 7\nNo, this isn't about poon in case you were wondering jackass\nBEAVER\nPresentation House Theatre\nuntil February 25\nby Jill Orsten\n. CULTURE WRITER\nOn a cold and rainy night, I had the\nmixed pleasure of attending\n\"Beaver/ a theatrical play written\nby Claudia Dey. Falsely advertised\nas a comedy, \"Beaver\" has some\nvery funny moments but is definitely a drama. It's the coming of\nage story of Beatrice, later nicknamed \"Beaver,\" who's journey\ninto the scary reality of adulthood\nis traced from the death of her\nmother to her wedding day.\nBeatrice is left to live with her\ngrandmother and aunt because her\nFather Silo is deemed an unfit parent, thanks to his penchant for\ndrink and chronic unemployment.\n(Allow me a brief sojourn to\ndeclare that Byron Chief-Moon\ndoes an outstanding job with the\nrole of Father Silo, portraying both\nthe cruel master of alcoholism and\nthe enduring yet undependable\nlove he shows for his daughter.)\nThe play begins on a winter day\nin Shania Twain's Ontarian hometown, Timmons, as the characters\nleave the funeral of Beatrice's\nmother. The play is just as cold to\nthe audience as the opening scene\nis to the characters, but after the\nthaw an uncomfortable attachment forms between the viewer\nand the over accentuated and\nstereotypical characters. The play\ncentres around the difficulties and\nproblems of small towns, where\nthe choices seem so often to be\nstay and rot in a continuum of\npoverty and addiction, or leave to\nthe world outside of the town,\nwhich is rumoured to be flat and\nfull of nothing.\nI was struck by the magnificent\nperformances by the whole cast.\nBut the plot is as predictable as the\ningredients in Captain Crunch\n(sugar, more sugar, and crunch\nberries) except in this case there's\nvery little sweetness. Saccharine\nhopes aside, \"Beaver* is worth the\ncommute to North Vancouver and\nthe inevitable run across the street\nat intermission for rice crackers\nfrom a convenience store\u00E2\u0080\u0094just\nmake sure you come back for the\nsecond act. 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If you've ever\nmade more than $ 11 dollars an hour, that\nputs you in a potentially higher pay-scale\nthan about one-quarter of faculty at UBC,\nwhere a growing coterie of professionals\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nalso known as 'sessional instructors' or 'contract staff\u00E2\u0080\u0094are earning one-third less than\nstarting high school teachers.\nIt's a nation-wide problem that's been\ngetting increasing attention lately, even if\nmany students still seem completely in the\ndark about the pay and working conditions\nof a significant number of their teachers.\nNevertheless, in an era of cutbacks, modern\nuniversity administrations are banking on\nhuge financial savings by replacing ever-\nincreasing numbers of tenured faculty (or\nfull-time profs) with temporary, contract\npositions.\nThe trend is a sort of echo of the equalisation\u00E2\u0080\u0094some might argue McDonaldisation\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nplaying out in many sectors of society. But\nwhen you throw higher tuition and skyrocketing university enrolment into the mix, a\npattern emerges where it seems both students and faculty are left holding the short\nend of the stick.\nGypsy faculty caught in\nrevolving doors\n'Gypsy faculty' and 'road scholars' are two\nrecently coined, tongue-in-cheek terms that\napproximate the sketchy business of trying to\nwork for a university nowadays. If anyone\ncould fit the 'gypsy' bill, it's Erica Paterson.\nClosing the door to her spartan office with a\nhot cup of coffee in hand, she looks a little like\nJanis Joplin. And when she starts talking about\nher experience as a sessional instructor, it\nturns put she's even got a hint of the\nsongstress' gravelly voice to boot\nOnce her children were grown and had\nmoved out, Paterson finished her PhD in theatre studies and then spent a number of years\nliving in Latin America, where she helped\nfound a university on a small island off the\ncoast of Honduras.\nThese days, she's in her second term as a\nsessional instructor for the Department of\nEnglish at UBC. Unlike many contract staff,\nPaterson isn't gunning for a full professorship.\n'I'm a little unusual/ she admits, explaining that while she loves to teach, she just isn't\ninterested in keeping her nose to the academic grindstone. She wouldn't enjoy the constant\npressure to publish, lecture, research and beetle about in a kafkaesque bureaucracy.\n\"I like the freedom/ she explains.\nIn this respect, Paterson reflects thousands\nof gypsy faculty across Canada.\nFreedom and flexibility aside, Paterson\nfinds the plight of sessionals instructors at\nUBC unacceptable.\nFirst off, there's the fact that sessionals are\npaid peanuts. Not just at UBC, but across the\ncountry. Paterson candidly admits she earns a\nscant $5,200 per course. Given the maximum\ncourse-load sessionals are permitted to teach\nis three per semester, that puts her maximum\nearnings at a paltry $31,200 per academic\nyear\u00E2\u0080\u0094before taxes.'\nShe said she sat down one time and calculated roughly what that breaks down to as a\nper-hour wage. Since she puts in 15 hours a\nday, six days a week, her hourly wage works\nout to about eight or nine dollars an hour.\nJames Turk, executive director of the\nCanadian Association of University Teachers\n(CAUT), says that's below the national average,\nwhich is between $ 11-13 an hour.\nPart of the problem is that sessionals are\nnot paid for the time required to prepare a\ncourse. Neither are their efforts to prepare\n\"If rr is okay for universities\nTO EXPLOIT THEIR FACULTY,\nDESPITE THE FACT THAT THEY\nARE WIDELY PERCEIVED TO LEAD\nTHE WAY IN TERMS OF ETHICAL\nDIRECTIVES, THEN WHO IS TO SAY\nTHAT ANYONE ELSE CAN'T TOO?\"\n-Petra Ganzenmueller\nSessional Instructor\ncourse outlines, readings, assignments or master the material.\nThe nature of contract teaching is\nephemeral, which is to say there are* no\nguarantees that contract staff will teach the\nsame class from one semester to the next. As\na result, they often have to run the same\nbling-less gauntlet to prepare and master\ncourses every four months.\nHere's where the plot thickens. Paterson\ngoes on to explain that sessionals are normally\nhired on very short notice\u00E2\u0080\u0094usually a week or\ntwo before students plunk themselves in their\nchairs and poise their pens to start taking\nnotes. By that time, she's only had two weeks to\nprepare three university-level courses; as such\nthe quality of her teaching isn't at all what it\ncould be if she were given the time to properly\nprepare, like tenured faculty are.\nThe hitch in this scenario is student evaluations: feedback from students is the only\nmeans departments have to evaluate the sessional faculty they employ. That throws contract staff in a catch 22: they're given insufficient, unpaid time to prepare and then expected to perform by an audience with great expectations, an audience that doesn't know what's\nat stake. The upshot is less than inspiring for\nstudents or their teachers: the quality of the\ncourse is diminished, and the person teaching\nis put under supreme stress.\n\"If I could see anything change in terms\nof our situation, it would be that prep period/ says Paterson. \"We would be hired a\nmonth before classes start with a decent\ntime to prepare/\nRoads scholars and glass\nceilings\nUnlike Paterson, Petra Ganzenmueller does\nwant a tenure-track position at UBC\u00E2\u0080\u0094she wants\nto be a full professor. Though she comes across\nas somewhat shy and unassuming in her small\noffice in the Soviet-inspired Buchanan Tower,\n\"FOR EVERY SESSIONAL\nINSTRUCTOR WHO WANTS A\nSHOT AT TENURE-TRACK\nAPPOINTMENT, THERE'S AT\nLEAST ONE WHO'S HAPPY\nTEACHING ON CONTRACT, OR\nWHO IS AFRAID OF THAT A\nMOVE TO CONVERT SESSIONAL\nPOSITIONS TO TENURE-TRACK\nMEANS THEY WOULD LOSE\nTHEIR JOB.\"\n-Vicky Smattman\nOrganising and Collective\nBargaining Officer\nCanadian Association of\nUniversity Teachers\nas Chair for the Sessional Faculty Committee\nshe's been unrelenting in her work to fight for\na better deal for contract faculty at UBC.\nStilL in the eightyears she's toiled for the\nUniversity as an instructor in the Central,\nEastern and Northern European Studies\ndepartment, Ganzenmueller has realised\nsomething that sessional instructors all\nacross North America have been finding out\nin recent years: that the trend toward hiring\ncontract staff is creating very real hurdles\nfor them to ever get permanent, tenured\npositions.\nIt works like a revolving door. You graduate with a PhD heavily in debt and start looking for work at an academic institution.\nUnless you've already somehow managed to\ncobble together a lengthy list of publications\nand research projects, chances are you'll end\nup picking up work as a sessional instructor\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nto keep current with what's happening in\nyour field, you tell yourself.\nBut once you've taken on the three or possibly four courses you need to pay down your\nstudent loan and cover the rent, you realise it's\nimpossible to find the tune to do research and\npubhshing.\n'Initially, let's say for one or two years/\nillustrates Ganzenmueller, \"being a contract\nacademic provides you with some income and.\nvaluable teaching experience while you are\nsearching for a tenure-track position/\n\"Depending on your discipline and specialisation, this position may not come up for\nsome time. The longer it takes, however, the\nmore difficult it gets. At that later stage in your\ncareer launch, a multitude of hindrances kick\nin: Most importantly, your dissertation has a\nshelf life. This is now compounded by oppressive teaching loads taking away considerable\ntime from research agendas/\nShe adds that \"substandard incomes\" sideline trips to conferences, which are an important forum for presenting papers and networking with other professionals.\nSo, far from promoting career advancement, Ganzenmueller says that sessional work\neffectively hinders it, creating a glass ceiling.\nMeanwhile, the university administration\ngets two and half professors for the price of\none entry-level tenure-track professional.\nUBCs VP Academic office counters that the\nUniversity has ironed out this inequity by\ninstalling tenured positions for what they term\nteaching and research streams, both of which\nare full-time, tenured positions. But\nGanzenmueller argues that, \"few to none of\nthese positions ever become available.\"\n\"Why?\" she asks, rhetorically, \"As\n[employees with these positions] are paid\nsignificantly higher salaries than their non-\ntenured colleagues, a position with tenure\nand fair pay attached does not benefit the\ncorporate bottom line.\"\nCanadian universities and the\nIn an article about sessional faculty she wrote\nfor The Ottawa Citizen in November of 2005,\njournalist Maria Kubacki pointed out that:\n\"[fjull-time faculty salaries and benefits are the\nsingle biggest item in university budgets.\"\nTammy Brimner and Mark Oldham, both\nUBC Faculty Relations representatives working\nin the VP Academic's office, underscored the\nsame fiscal reality in an interview with the\nUbyssey in January. Asked why the University,\nsimply doesn't move away from contract\nteaching and research positions in order to\noffer instead more full professor spots,\nBrimner, a senior manager, gave the simple,\nself-evident reply:\n\"Budget.\"\n_^ She explained that the money used to pay\nprofessor's salaries comes from the government under a transfer scheme called GPO.\nThese are fimited resources, and with recent\ncuts to education\u00E2\u0080\u0094per-student funding\nalone is $2 billion less than it was a decade\nago\u00E2\u0080\u0094administrations are scrambling to find\nways they can cut corners and curtail spending. Faculty agreements, which provide for\nmore pay each year for tenured staff, combined with shrinking government subsidies\nsets the stage for an unsavoury fiscal cocktail: \"You have expanding pressures on a\ndiscreet pile of money/ relates Brimner.\n\"That makes it difficult.\"\nResponding to the criticisms of\nGanzenmueller and other contract staff sharing similar feelings of professional frustration,\nBrimner is less than sympathetic: \"If an individual wishes to move into [a tenure track\nposition], it's not for the University to create\nopportunities just because they are here, do\nyou know what I'm saying?\"\n\"As an employer, we hired them to teach,\nand that's what we asked them to do. If they\nwant to do something else, they need to take\nthe steps necessary in order to meet the criteria for another position/\nBrimner also pointed out that the responsibility doesn't rest solely on the shoulders of\nadrninistrations; individual departments have\nan equal hand in the creation of sessional\nappointments. And while the collective agreement provides for a minimum salary, it's up to\nthe departments to set the rates at or above the\nminimum.\nBoth science and commerce pay well above\nthe minimum to retain and attract the best\nand the brightest, the rationale being, as\nBrimner explains, that chemists and physicists\ncan make connections with industry and be\nlured away.\n\"We have to try and match those salaries in\norder to recruit and retain the people that we\nhave/ she said.\nYou could almost predict the conclusion:\nhiring at universities takes on the familiar ring\nof supply-and-demand capitalism. Science and\ncommerce, worth more to the market, are paid\nat a premium. The liberal arts can take a fiscal\njump in the lake.\nby Bryan Zandberg | Features Editor\nphoto by Yinan Max Wang | Photo Editor\nIn the meantime, Brimner and Oldham say\nit's up to contract staff to negotiate a better\ncontract at the bargaining table.\nTenure, or getting a hold \u00C2\u00A9f\nacademic freedom\nTurk says that the Canadian Association of\nUniversity Teachers is watching hiring patterns closely at Canadian universities, where\nhuge numbers of professors of the baby\nboomer generation are expected to retire in\nthe next decade. He says he's concerned that\nadrninistrations will continue with their fiscal\nruse of replacing tenured positions with contract staff.\nEven Turk hasn't escaped the plight of\nbeing a sessional instructor. Talking by cellphone at an airport in Winnipeg, he tells the\nstory of teaching a night course at the\nUniversity of Toronto, where he couldn't get to\nhis mail, had no email address and couldn't\neven do up the reading lists for his course\nbecause he was denied a library card for all of\nAugust, the rationale being that his contract\ntechnically didn't start until September.\nThese days he's more concerned about contract teaching's challenge to academic freedom and integrity. He insists academic freedom is protected by tenure.\nTurk makes a compelling case. He explains\nthat tenured faculty can openIyq\u00C2\u00BBooh pooh and\neven condemn deans, university presidents\nand major corporate donors without fear of\nreprisals. If you're tenured, you cannot be\nfired without just cause.\nNot so for contract staff: \"If you're a sessional, nobody has to do anything to get rid of you/\nhe says. \"They just don't renew your contract\"\nTurk makes a hypothetical example of a\npharmaceutical company that is a major\n\"if you're a sessional,\nnobody has to do\nanything to get rid of\nyou. They just don't\nrenew your contract.\"\n-James Turk\nExecutive Director\nCanadian Association of\nUniversity Teachers\ndonor to a university's budget A sessional who\nwas openly critical about the adverse affects of\none of the company's drugs would be sticking\nhis or her neck out According to Turk, the\ncompany wouldn't even need to threaten to\nwithdraw funding; the administration would\nlikely be more than happy to take it upon itself\nto censor the faculty member in order to keep\nthe donation money a-flowin.'\nThus, Turk fears that the vulnerabihty of\nsessionals only invites abuses. But he adds\nthat they could also lose their jobs just for challenging the prevailing ideology of any given\ndepartment.\n\"You don't teach what you think is right,\nyou teach what will allow you to keep your job.\"\nAs for the matter of administrations\nboasting about the newly created teaching\nand research streams\u00E2\u0080\u0094which would be\ndecently paid and tenured\u00E2\u0080\u0094Turk thinks it's\na terrible idea.\n\"We're bitterly opposed to the fragmentation of an academic's job. We think that what\ndistinguishes a university, as opposed to a\nhigh school for example, is that the\npeople...are supposed to be breaking new\nground in their field.\"\nTurk recalled his undergrad years at\nHarvard, where there was a policy in place that\npaired the most senior professors with first\nand second-year students. As such, he was\nprivy to the teachings of Nobel laureates James\nWatson and George Wald.\n\"My second year political science course\nwas taught by Henry Kissinger,\" he boasts.\nTurk said these high-profile pedagogues\ncommunicated nothing short of an ardent love\nfor learning.\n\"The notion was that you want people\nwho are doing significant work, and are\nexcited about their work, teaching students,\"\nrelated Turk.\nHe sees the newly christened teaching and\nresearch streams as just another cost-cutting\nmanouever invented by administrations. \"The\nvictims are the faculty and the students.\"\nGanzenmueller agrees, taking issue with\nthe compartmentalision of an academic's\nwork based on her own first-hand experience.\n\"The idea of the 'teaching-only' position\nconveniently ignores the everyday realities\nof academic work. It allows UBC to make\npolicy on the fiction that teaching, research\nand service are separable when, in fact, all\nof these activities are vital and integral parts\nof the academic profession and are all mutually dependent.\"\nAs for students, they get crammed into\nhigh-enrolment first and second-year Arts\nand Sciences courses with overworked,\nunderpaid and burnt-out teachers. A far cry\nfrom Nobel laureates.\nRespect and two-tier\nteaching\nTurk says one of the\" main aims of CAUT has\nbeen organising contract staff into the faculty\nassociations (or professors' unions) at their\nrespective universities. But it isn't easy.\n\"It's impossible to generalise about contingent academic staff/ wrote Vicky Smallman,\nthe Organising and Collective Bargaining\nOfficer for CAUT. \"For every sessional instructor who wants a shot at tenure-track appointment, there's at least one who's happy teaching on contract, or who is afraid that a move to\nconvert sessional positions to tenure-track\nmeans they would lose their job.\"\nGanzenmueller isn't afraid to speak out\nand ruffle feathers. She openly denounces\nUBC for paying Tip-service\" to its own glossy\nTrek 2010 mission statement, which reads:\n\"The University of British Columbia will\nprovide its students, faculty, and staff with the\nbest possible resources and conditions for\nlearning and research, and create a working\nenvironment dedicated to excellence, equity,\nand mutual respect.\"\nGanzenmueller contends that, far from\nliving up to its own standards, UBC has cultivated a \"two-class system/ where tenure-\ntrack faculty and sessional faculty work side\nby side under vastly different salary and\nworking conditions.\n\"If it is okay for universities to exploit their\nfaculty, despite the fact that they are widely\nperceived to lead the way in terms of ethical\ndirectives, then who is to say that anyone else\ncan't too?\"\nPaterson agrees. \"I mean, I thought we\nalready did the equal work for equal pay battle/ she says. 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If\nyou're lucky, the audience might\nlaugh every few minutes; if you're\nveiy lucky, every minute or so. And\nif you're extremely lucky, the audience will barely be able to stop\nlaughing before the next joke hits.\nIn the case of Here on the Flight\nPath, playwright Norm Foster is an\nextremely lucky man.\nFoster has written a charming and\nwitty story about a man Hving.in an\napartment in the city and his interactions with the various people who\noccupy the apartment next door, each\none passing through his life in a different way. The Arts Club Theatre's\nproduction of the play does wonderful justice to Foster's sharp one-liners\nand effortless banter.\nThe play has only two actors, giving it an intimate perspective and\nallowing the audience to really get\nimmersed in the brilliant dialogue.\nJennifer Lines, who plays three different women, is phenomenal in\nlending her vivid stage presence to\neach character while at the same\ntime distinguishing their unique\nqualities. The women, Faye, Angel\nand Gwen, are smart and feisty,\nand Lines approaches each portray\nal with realistic warmth and compassion. Lines' co-actor, David\nMackay, plays John Cummings, a\ndivorced newspaper columnist who\nfreely dispenses- opinions on relationships, love, sex, friendship, and\nhis favourite subject, women.\nThe play takes the form of one\nlong illustrated monologue that\nCummings experiences with each\nof the women who live next door,\nand Mackay's delivery is flawless.\nHe brings Jo life a character who is\nsarcastic and somewhat bitter, at\none point suggesting that all people\nshould come with resumes so that\npotential suitors can know what\nthey're getting into before entering\na relationship.\nAt the same time, John has a\ngreat capacity to love, whether that\nlove is platonic or otherwise, and\nit is this idea that truly gives substance to the story. This play is\nintelligent, funny and sweet\u00E2\u0080\u0094qualities that develop out of a combination of good writing and exceptional acting. It is a reminder of the\nvalue of having good neighbours\nand friends to help us out when we\nneed them. It also suggests that\nconnecting with the unlikely people at unlikely times can bring\nhumour and healing. The only\nsmall downside is that the audience's laughter at times drowns\nout the lines, but this can really\njust be seen as a sign of an enjoyable and well-written comedy. N\nUBC Diploma in\nAccounting Program\nIf you are a university graduate seeking a professional accounting\ndesignation, you can fast-track your education through the UBC\nDiploma in Accounting Progam (DAP). UBC DAP's curriculum is\nrecognized by the Chartered Accountants School of Business (CASB)\nand satisfies most of the CMA and CGA program requirements.\nAPPLICATION DEADLINES FOR 2006\nCourses starting in May:\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 March 1, 2006 (International applicants)\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 March 31, 2006 (Canadian applicants)\nCourses starting in September:\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0June 5,2006 (International applicants)\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 July 7,2006 (Canadian applicants)\nl\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00A3\nw\nTo learn more call 604 822 8412\nor visit www.sauder.ubc.ca/dap\nSAUDER\nSchool of Business\nOpening Worlds\nTHE/UNIVERSITY ar;BR.lt(S;HC:6:LUM.B'l.A; THE UBYSSEY Tuesday, 21 February, 2006\n-&r-\nSports 1]\nT-Birds win Pacific Division semifinals\nby Megan Smyth\nSPORTS EDITOR\nOn Friday night UBCs women's basketball\nteam took on UVic in what was one of the most\ndefensive games of the season. UBC ploughed\nthrough and pulled off a 56-38 win in the first\ngame of the Pacific Division semifinals at War\nMemorial Gym.\n\"We knew they'd be changing up their\ndefensive schemes and we wanted to make\nsure that we were all reading and being intelligent ball players out there and making good\nchoices/ commented coach Deb Huband.\nKelsey Blair led the scoring for the\nThunderbirds with a total of 14 points. \"For\nme it's just about going out there and playing,\nand if it happens to go in my direction that's a\ngood thing,\" said Blair.\nTeammate Tina Lum followed close behind\nBlair, scoring 13 points during Friday's game.\nLum, who just returned from a course excursion to Bamfield, quickly had to switch from\nstudent to team player for the important weekend match-up.\nIn order to be on the same page as her\nteam Lum had UVic's stats faxed to her in\nBamfield. \"I read the stats over there and then\nI met with Deb [Huband] after practice yesterday just to get a handle on their stuff, and then\nI went for it,\" related Lum.\nOverall, the scoring for UBC was very bal\nanced with nine out of ten players who\ndressed for the game pulling in points for the\nteam.\nUVic struggled late in the game as they\nweren't able to score for the first five minutes\nof the second half.\n\"We knew it was going to be a defensive\nbattle and that both teams were going to\nknow each other's stuff and know each\nother's personnel, so we knew we were\ngoing to have to execute and we knew we\nwere going to have to defend what was coming at us,\" said Blair.\nUBC dorninated the court for the majority\nof Friday's game and was able to pull off a fairly easy win.\nSaturday's game was a different story.\nThe Vikings came back hard during\nSaturday's rematch.\nErica McGuinness was the top scorer and a\nkey player in Saturday's game and Blair got in\nthe winning shot in the last eight seconds of\nplay, for a UBC 66-64 win over UVic.\nAs Huband said during the weekend match\nagainst UVic, \"there's no Simon Fraser if you\ndon't get by Victoria.\"\nNow UBCs on to face SFU in the Pacific\nDivision final this Friday and Saturday at\nSFU's Burnaby Mountain campus. It will be\ntough competition as SFU proved to be the\nonly team the T-Birds couldn't beat in conference play. II\n^\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00BB\nWinter Sports Centre ready by 200\nPractice ice scheduled to open for next year's varsity ice hockey conference season\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00C2\u00A7$\nby Megan Smyth\nSPORTS EDITOR\nBoth the men's and women's UBC hockey\nteams will soon be playing on brand new ice\nrinks, but not before losing their practice and\ngame space for at least an entire season.\nThe current UBC Winter Ice Sports Centre is\nscheduled for closure to all users on March 31\nand demolition is set to begin on April 1, the\nvery next day. Construction on the new Olympic\nfacility to be built in its place will begin shortly\nafter that\nCurrently the facility holds four rinks, dressing rooms, the ThunderBar and little multi-purpose space. According to Joe Redmond, VP UBC\nProperties Trust, the administrative body handling the development project, the new facility\nwill include three sheets of ice, dressing rooms\nand a great deal of space with, to date, an\nunspecified function.\nAlthough UBC will be receiving a brand new\nfacility, the campus will be losing one ice surface in the process. The final project will house\na practice rink, the existing T-Bird rink\u00E2\u0080\u0094which\nseats about 1,200 spectators\u00E2\u0080\u0094and the main\nOlympic-size sheet of ice with a seating capacity\nof 5,000.\n\"There is an area in the building, about\n5,000 square feet, which is unallocated at the\nmoment It may be used for a fitness centre or\nphysiotherapy centre after the Olympics.\nDuring the Olympics this space will be used for\ndressing rooms/ explained Redmond.\nThere are also some upper areas within the\nbuilding that are not yet identified in their long-\nterm use, explained Redmond. These areas will\neventually be used for things like the\nThunderBar and a hall of fame or alumni area.\nWhat will it cost?\nThe new state-of-the-art, world-class facility is\nexpected to cost just over $48 million.\nRedmond emphasised that the funds are coming mainly from the Vancouver Olympic\nOrganising Committee (VANOC). $38.5 million\nhas been put forward by VANOC, another $ 1\nmillion has been donated by Rona, a hardware\nand renovations company, but the rest of the\nfunds have to be provided by the University.\nWith such a project costs are obviously\ngoing to be high, but UBC was able to save\nmoney in one area. \"The ice plant is being reused; it's being taken out, rebuilt and put\nback to use\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094all in an effort to save on\nexpenses, said Redmond.\nIt has been suggested that the many metres\nof frozen ground recently discovered under the\ncurrent twin rinks was the reason UBCs Board\nof Governors decided to approve a $4 million\naddition to the $5 million that UBC had already\ncommitted to the project.\n\"Under the twin rinks there has been\nmechanical and electrical problems so the\nground has been frozen, but the ground has to\nbe excavated anyways,\" explained Redmond.\nConsequently, UBC believes the frozen ground\nshould not cause construction delays. In reality,\nno one will be able to tell the depth of the frozen\nground and the problems it may cause until\nexcavation begins on April 1, if everything proceeds as scheduled.\nWhere to play?\nThe closure of the UBC Winter Sports Centre is\nnecessary for the development of the new facility, but is causing great problems and concerns\nfor many users.\nBesides the UBC varsity ice hockey teams\nthere are many other groups who use the current ice facilities. Intramural leagues, figure\nskating participants, and community hockey\nleagues are just a few of the users who will be\ndisplaced when the facility closes its doors on\nMarch 31. UBC has not offered any alternatives\nfor the users who will be without practice space\nfor the duration of the construction.\nGaye Collins, President of the Vancouver\nThunderbird Minor Hockey Association\n(VTMHA), a group that organises the competitive youth teams west of Fraser Street, estimates that her organisation uses about 47-50\nhours a week at UBC for the approximately 900\nplayers involved with the organisation.\nThe City of Vancouver has told the VTMHA\nthat there is ice space available within the city;\nin fact a study done in 2003 concluded that\nthere was actually an excess of ice space that\nwas not being utilised by anyone at all.\nCollins, however, is skeptical. \"We haven't\nseen what ice that is; I'm assuming it's during\nthe early morning times. There is a limited time\nframe when we can use the ice, especially when\nyoung people can use it and the City of\nVancouver says that the ice can be used until\nmidnight, but children can't use those hours,\"\nlamented Collins.\nIn addition to ice space availability, many of\nthe displaced organisations have other concerns with city rinks. The VTMHA, as well as\nother hockey organisations currently renting\nice space at UBC, have programs where players\nrange in age from five to 17 years old. Some of\nthe rinks in Vancouver simply are not equipped\nto handle the older players.\n\"We have issues in that some of the rinks [in\nthe City of Vancouver] aren't safe enough and\nlarge enough for our 15-17 year olds, and we\nhave 14 teams of that age. We have to have ice\nat night time and at rinks that are safe, so we\nhave been limited/ explained Collins.\nA large portion of the VTMHA program is\nthe five to eight year olds, and the only option\nCollins can envision for this group is to \"cram\nthem into the city on their ice.\"\nThe UBC men's and women's varsity ice\nhockey teams are stuck in the same situation as\nother current users of the facility. Both UBC\nteams are looking for a fall time practice facility,\nideally close to UBC, for the entirety of next year.\nMilan Dragicevic, the UBC men's hockey\ncoach, has been told that there is no ice available from seven in the morning until 11 at\nnight. \"We're probably going to have to go into\nRichmond and practice at Minora Park, and\ncoincide with the women's team so we have ice\nat the same time/ he predicted.\n\"There will probably have to be a bus or a\nshuttle to pick up the players at UBC and take\nthem out to Richmond and then shuttle them\nback,\" suggested Dragicevic, \"which is going to\nbe a huge inconvenience for a short period of\ntime because now the players need a two hour\nwindow for practice and getting back to class,\nwhereas if you're shuttling people to Richmond\nyou probably need a four hour window between\nclasses,\" he added.\nFinding a facility to host home games for the\nThunderbirds is another issue for the varsity\ncoaches. Women's ice hockey coach Dave\nNewson is looking into some creative options to\naccommodate the team during facility construction. \"Our sport is still relatively young so we\nwant to showcase it around the province. We\nwill play some home games at various sites\naround the province, maybe UBC Okanagan\nand maybe a series of games on Vancouver\nIsland,\" indicated Newson.\n\"For [men'sj home games it's a Utile bit of a\nconcern right now,\" said Dragicevic. \"We've\napproached the Vancouver Giants to see if we\ncan play some games at the Coliseum. Since our\nhorde base will probably be Richmond we'll\nprobably play some games there. The , other\noption is to get inside the community and go to\nthe various minor hockey towns and play a\nweekend in Burnaby or a weekend in Delta.\"\nFinding practice and game venues will be an\nongoing challenge for both UBC ice hockey\nteams in the upcoming future, but both coaches\nagree that the temporary relocation of training\nand game facilities will not have a negative\nimpact on recruitment\n\"I don't think it will be a concern with\nrecruiting players, because really it's a short-\nterm situation/ stated Dragicevic. \"If they can\nlive with it for a few months they are going to\nmove into a brand new facility the following\nyear that will be the nicest university faculty in\nCanada. I think it will enhance it and enhance\nthe profile of the hockey team.\"\nNewson echoed these sentiments in regards\nto finding new talent for the women's team:\n\"the new facility will be a major draw; it already\nis. The number of recruits we have coming in is\nthe best year we've ever had. I think one year of\npain isn't really scaring anyone off.\"\nWhen will it open?\nSo when exactly will the many users be allowed\nback into the fabulous new ice facility? Recent\nmurmurs suggested that the practice ice sheet\nwould be usable in November or December of\nthis year. This opening date has now been\npushed back.\n\"Two rinks should open as soon as we can\nget them operational,\" said Redmond. \"There\nwill be some life safety and fire code issues. It\nreally is a code issue rather than a construction\nissue. We're trying to get those rinks open as\nsoon as possible.\"\nThe predicted opening date for the practice\nrink\u00E2\u0080\u0094and hopefully T-Bird rink\u00E2\u0080\u0094is now early\n2007.\nAccording to Redmond, \"eveiything will be\ncompleted in the summer of 2008/ But he\nnoted that a final construction schedule has not\nyet been agreed upon.\nBird Design-Build Ltd is in charge of the\nactual building and construction portion of the\nproject and progress on the facility will depend\non demolition and the evaluation of any hazardous materials found during teardown.\nDirector of UBC Athletics and Recreation,\nBob Philip is excited about the new\nThunderbird Winter Sports Complex, but has\nalso been involved with the difficult task of making sure UBC will be financially secure over the\nconstruction period.\n\"We've factored into our budget for next year\ntwo different things. One, the loss of revenue\nfrom the arena and two, the one-time costs to\nrelocate the teams,\" declared Philip.\nAs UBC will lose one existing ice surface,\nPhilip acknowledges the possibility of gaining\nan additional ice surface in the future after the\nOlympics. \"If there was a partner willing to go\nin with us that's something we'd consider, it's\nnot totally out of the question. It would not be\npart of the new complex, but it could be built\nright next to it and be connected somehow,\ntherefore it would be maintained and managed\nby the same people,\" he described.\nOnly time will tell if construction begins,\nproceeds, according to schedule and costs\nremain at predicted levels. II 12 Sports\nTuesday, 21 February, 2006 THE UBYSSEY\nD RAW US SO ME E D|T GR AP HIC S!\n^caordinatinq'(\u00C2\u00ABmbyssey;be.ca:;\n/> -^y^Wwfr^A'\nr*~\nTravel CUTS has sent over 1 million\npassengers to Europe over the years.\nThis is YOUR year.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 STUDENT/YOUTH AIRFARES\nm RAIL & BUS PASSES\nb TOUR OPTIONS\nb ISIC CARDS\nb HOSTEL MEMBERSHIPS\nb STUDENT RATE INSURANCE\nTravel CUTS is owned and operated by the Canadian Federation of Students.\nSUB Lower Level\n^ <\nQueens\nmmm^ UNIVERSITY\nUBC sports reading break recap\n*UBC SHOOTS IT IN! The Lethbridge Pronghorns were no match for theT-Birds. yinan max wang photo\nSpeeding down the slopes\nOver reading break the UBC alpine\nski team was in Mission Ridge,\nWashington competing in their\nlast conference race of the season.\nClear skies provided perfect conditions for some of the best slalom\nraces by the UBC team. Trevor\nBruce skied the best run of his\ncareer, coming in 3rd place during\na race on February 11. Andrea\nLustenberger pulled in her best\nrun of the season during the\nwomen's slalom event, finishing\n4th on February 11 and 2nd on\nFebruary 12. The UBC team\nadvances to the regional championships in Steamboat Springs\nColorado and hopes to do well\nenough to move on to nationals in\nMaine in March.\nDingers a plenty\nUBC seems to be picking up after\nthe worst start to a season in\nthe baseball program's history.\nThe T-Birds lost their first four\ngames, but since then their bats\nhave caught fire. On February 13\nUBC won 16-8 in Claremont,\nCalifornia against the Claremont-\nMudd-Scripps Colleges. The\nThunderbirds gave themselves a\nValentines Day present with a 9-3\nwin against the Division 1 Cal\nState Northridge in California. The\nnext day UBC took down the\nPepperdine Waves 4-1 in Malibu\nCalifornia. On February 16 the T-\nBirds received their first loss of\ntheir away series when UBC lost 4-\n3 to Division 1 University of\nCalifornia Santa Barbara. The\nThunderbird's home opener\nagainst Oregon Tech occurs on\nMarch 18 at Nat Bailey Stadium.\nHockey heads to playoffs\nAfter losing home ice advantage\ndue to Calgary's win over the\nUniversity of Alberta, the UBC\nmen's hockey team took to the\nroad over reading break. On\nFebruary 11, the T-Birds won 5-4\nagainst the Calgary Dinos, but\nunfortunately their luck turned\nduring the February 17 game\nwhen the Dinos beat the T-Birds 4-\n2. When the Lethbridge\nPronghorns came to town on\nFebruary 18 UBC pulled it together\nand got themselves a 3-2 victory.\nNext up for the T-Birds is a trip to\nCalgary to once again take on the\nDinos and open the playoffs.\nWomen's playoff dreams\ndie\nUBCs women's hockey team lost out\na playoff spot after their 5-2 loss\nagainst the Alberta Pandas on\nFebruary 10. With their playoff hopes\ndashed, the women lost 6-0 the next\nnight when the Pandas shut the Birds\nout. The Thunderbirds finished up\nwith a 5-11-4 record but unfortunately just out of the Canada West Playoff\nseries.\nNordic skiers grab gold\nThe UBC Nordic ski team returned\nfrom 100 Mile House with some\ngreat results from the first BC Cup\nCompetition of the season. After a\nlong drive into Northern BC on\nFriday the team made it through\nthe 10km classic technique race\nwith first place finishes in two different age groups from Elliot\nHoltham and Nathan Wolfe. These\ntwo T-Birds were golden again on\nSunday when they both took the\nfirst spots in their sprint races.\nUBC looks like one of the strongest\nNordic teams and therefore hopes\nfor some great performances at\nthe Canadian College and\nUniversity Championships, the\nNational event, in early March.\nRugby.World Cup at UBC\nSeven UBC men's rugby players\nhave been included in the Rugby\nCanada U19 and U21 tryouts.\nFirst-years Nick Daniels, Ben\nJones, Charlie Jones, Ben Johnson\nand Sam Penhall are joining second-year John Georgas in Arizona\nthis month for some test games\nagainst the USA team. During this\ntraining camp all players on the\nCanadian team will be vying for a\nspot on the Rugby Canada team\nthat will be traveling to Dubai for\nthe U19 World Cup in Dubai.\nThird-year Tyler Hotson was chosen to be a part of the U21 team\nand travel to the Cayman Islands\nat the end of April. UBCs\nThunderbird team traveled to the\nWorld Cup series in California and\nlost after a close game against\nBerkeley. The second World Cup\ngame will be played on March 25\nat UBC, again against Berkeley.\nT-Birds swim at World Cup\nUBC Thunderbirds swimmer Scott\nDickens was in Belo Horizonte in\nS DOW\nB a %\u00C2\u00BB 9 *\u00C2\u00A3\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00C2\u00BB\nGRADUATE STUDIES at Qtieens\nWhere the best get better\nContinue your education with us WWW.qiieenSU.Ca/sgSr THE UBYSSEY Tuesday, 21 February, 2006\nSports 13\nThe Thunderbirds have been busy skiing\nthe hills, hitting home runs, scoring goals\nand trys and swimming up a storm\nBrazil over the break competing in\nthe final stop on the World Cup\nshort course circuit. Although\nDickens didn't pull of one of his\nbest times, it was still good enough\nfor gold. Dickens swam the 200m\nbreaststroke in 2:12.17. Dickens\nfinished in 8th place in the 50m\nbreaststroke. Darryl Rudolf, another swimmer representing UBC,\ntook the 8th spot in the 50m butterfly race. Unfortunately UBCs\nBrian Johns and Callum Ng pulled\nout of their finals due to food\npoisoning.\nMen's V-Ball crushed\nThe UBC men's volleyball team finished off the regular season with a\n3-1 loss to the Alberta Golden\nBears on February 11. The T-Birds\nheaded to the University of\nManitoba to begin the Canada\nWest playoffs. UBC didn't play\nManitoba during the regular season. UBC played in the first game\nof the Canada West quarterfinals\non February 17 and 18 and unfortunately lost to the Bisons in both\ngames. The T-Birds played hard\nthis season but missed their\nchance at a berth to the national\nchampionships.\nT-Birds host CW final four\nThe Manitoba Bisons were beaten\ndown by the UBC women's volleyball on February 11. The women's\nteam finishes up first in the\nCanada West rankings after one of\nthe best seasons in the program's\nhistory. On February 16 the\nWinnipeg Wesman came to UBC to\nbegin tin* Canada West quarterfinal series The T-Birds served up\na loss to the visiting Wesman. The\nnext day UBC finished off\nWinnipeg with a score of 3-1 The\nT-Birds will now be hosting the\nCanada West final four this\nThursday and Friday where the\nteams will battle for three berths\nto the CIS national championships II\nSTAFF\nMEETING\nAGENDA\n1) Welcome hack\nfrom reading\nbreak!\n^iniros\n3) I went\nskidooing.\n\u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00BB m m.m*M*m\nwnaz ana t%ju\n\7\n4) Special Issues\n5) WRCUP\n6) Next year's\nstaff\nM \u00C2\u00ABi\u00C2\u00ABM rr: foreign ^Affairs. : Affaires'etrangerefe;\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ^'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2''.:: Canada \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0'>, \u00E2\u0080\u00A2' \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Canada;-.' .\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0080\u00A2'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0' r~::rr\nCanada\n\"\u00E2\u0080\u00A2***&,\n\u00C2\u00AB*L\nj&- * 14. Opinion/Editorial\nTuesday, 21 February, 2005 THE UBYSSEY\nX#*\u00C2\u00BB*\n.\"WeT\n\"_X\u00C2\u00ABr\ni,\"*\"\nis paltry pay for a PhD\nIn case you thought UBC was a\nparagon of employment equity\u00E2\u0080\u0094a\nbeacon of equal work for equal pay\nshining in the dark night on Point\nGrey\u00E2\u0080\u0094let us give a much-needed\ncheck to your reality.\nUBC pays a scant wage to\nmany of the smart people we mistakenly call 'professors' here on\ncampus. Even if you can't tell the\ndifference between an assistant\nprofessor and a sessional instructor, the University administration\nsure can.\nThat's because an assistant professor makes around $78,000 per\nyear, while a sessional lecturer\nonly makes about $30,000. No\nmatter that both may have PhDs\nfrom the same prestigious university, the same amount of scholarly\npublications, the same amount of\nadrninistrative and professional\nexperience: the increasing reliance\non contract faculty means that UBC\nhas found a cash saving cow that\nthey're bent on milking. More than\ntwo profs for the price of one.\nThe Canadian Association of\nUniversity Teachers estimates that\nsessionals earn an average of $ 11-\n13 per hour, and some would say\nthey earn less. The present contract between faculty and the\nUniversity is conveniently shortsighted, failing to remunerate contract staff for the significant contributions they make to the academic\nenvironment we enjoy here\u00E2\u0080\u0094work\nsuch as meeting with students\nneeding help, marking, committee\nwork and, most of all, the prep\nwork involved in putting courses\ntogether. Instead, UBCs 628 non-\ntenured staff are predominantly\nhired a few weeks before classes\nstart each semester and then\nexpected to impress the students\nthat will later evaluate them.\nTo be fair, UBC is by no means\nthe only administration in Canada\nor the States to be exploiting its\nemployees by paying vastly different wages for comparable work-\nbut that certainly doesn't justify it.\nInstead of following the pack, the\nadministration should be leading\nthe way by increasing the minimum three-credit wage paid, up\nfrom the unsatisfactory 5,200\nbones doled out at present. Sure,\nit's up to the union to negotiate\nsuch things, but then again if the\nUniversity wants to sell itself as\nbeing a bastion of gushy happy\nfeelings in literature like the Trek\n2010 document, it has a vested\ninterest in living up to what it\nclaims to do.\nAnd to be even more egalitarian, it isn't purely the fault of the YP\nAcademic's office. Individual faculties are given the option of doing\nwhat the Department of Physics\nand Astronomy has done in the\npast: they give an ad hoc bonus of\nseveral thousand dollars to compensate for the time a teacher has\nto invest to get a handle on a new\ncourse. It's a simple gesture that\nwould make all the difference in\nthe world for some struggling\nsessionals.\nBut then again, the increasing\ndependence on contract faculty\ndoesn't bode well for the future of\nacademic freedom, neither on our\ncampus or elsewhere. The serv-\nice-provider-and-client corporate\napproach we're embracing is disgusting\u00E2\u0080\u0094cranking up enrolment\nand then undermining academic\ntenure makes for an industrial\neducation: not many of us are\nhappy about paying higher and\nhigher tuition fees for a less\nenriching experience.\nNor are we thrilled by the idea\nthat highly skilled-faculty at the\nUniversity are making less than\nstarting high school teachers.\nThe next contract between faculty and the University is currently\nunder negotiation. If UBC truly\nwants to brighten the academic\nlandscape a little, now would be a\ngood time to change a light bulb\nor two. 11\nCoach Steph\nAsk Coach Steph is a bi-weekly\nadvice column appearing in the\nUbyssey. If you have a question\npertaining to life management,\ncareer preparation, self\nactualisation or just need\ngeneral advice email\nsteph@visionswithoutborders.ca.\nStephanie Tait is a Personal\nand Professional Leadership\nCoach who works with young\nprofessionals helping them\ncreate the lives and careers they\ntruly desire. Visit\nwww.visionswithoutborders.ca\nfor more information.\nDear Coach Steph\nI have recently started dating a girl\nwho enjoys letting out sounds during our ldvemaMng. True, it is both\nhot and appealing, but I feel for my\nroommates who have to endure\nthe noise. I hve in residence, so\nalmost nothing is private. There is\nno way for my partner to not make\nnoise\u00E2\u0080\u0094it's just what she does. What\nshould I do^so my roommates\ndon't hate me? By the way, my bed\nsqueaks very loudly as well.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Sincerely,\nSqueaky Bed\nDear Squeaky Bed,\nCongratulations for having a problem many men (and women)\nwould love! Well, maybe not your\nissue of having a squeaky bed, but\nhaving a. sexual partner who enjoys\nyour lovemaking so much she can't\nhold it in is quite a compliment to\nyour abilities (perhaps you want to\nreconsider my withholding your\nreal name...).\nMy advice\u00E2\u0080\u0094enjoy every minute\nof it! Lovemaking is one of the\nmost beautiful acts two humans\ncan create and experience together. For some, it can be a critical factor in buuding a healthy relationship. It's not often people share\nsuch intimate love making with\none another that they must scream\nin ecstasy to release their pleasure.\nAsking your partner to withhold\nher noise would be like asking her\nto keep her feelings for you to herself, which is a big 'no no' to ask of\nany woman.\nWith regards to your roommates, it doesn't sound like you\nhave actually spoken to them about\nthis issue. It sounds like you're\nassuming they will hold a grudge\nagainst you for some reason, and it\nis not clear why you have jumped\nto this conclusion. Some people\nreally enjoy hearing other people's\nsexual noises (there's a whole\nindustry around this\u00E2\u0080\u0094just walk\ndown the Granville strip); some\npeople are indifferent to it; others\nfind it quite offensive. It sounds\nlike you've assumed your roommates fall into the third category,\nwhen they may actually be quite\nenjoying having you as their\nroommate.\nWhat is more, your roommates\nmight not even be able to hear\nyour partner at all. First, have a\ntalk with them to see what, if any-\ntliing, they can hear. If it turns out\nwhat they can hear bothers them,\nconsider one or a number of the\nfollowing options:\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Put vour mattress on the floor.\nThis will at least quiet your bed.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Turn up your music. Put on\nsomething that compliments sexual screams.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Close your windows and stuff a\nsheet under your door. This will\nhelp contain her noise in your\nroom, and thereby allow you to\nenjoy it more yourself.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Make love in places other than\nyour room. You may find somewhere where noise is less of/ not\nan issue, like out in nature.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Make love when you know your\nroommates are not home, like\nmid-morning, mid-afternoon, or\naround dinnertime. Whoever\nsaid lovemaking was reserved for\nTaed time'?\nWhatever you do, fully enjoy your\nlove making. It sounds like you\nhave found something special with\nyour partner and it would be a\nshame to hold back from any of it\nto not risk offending your roommates. Who knows\u00E2\u0080\u0094the joy they\nhear you creating with your partner may spark something in them\nto have in their own lives too. II\nLetters\nWhere the money went\nRe: \"Where has all the money\ngone?* [Ubyssey editorial, Feb.7].\nImportant question. The answer is\nthat the $ 10.3M in bursary support\nat UBC Vancouver went to eligible\nstudents with the greatest financial\nneed, in keeping with Board policy.\nThat included 43 students who\nreceived more than $10,000 in\nnon-repayable grants, with the\nlargest award being $33,000. As\nnoted, the amount was 16 per cent\nless than the previous year. This\nwas due to modernisation of the\ngovernment's need assessment\nformula and higher loan limits,\nchanges that had been urged by\nCASA (the AMS is a member) for\nseveral years.\nThis change will even out as\nsome costs increase and loan levels remain constant. What is most\ntelling is the experience over the\nlast several years. During the period after the tuition freeze, bursary\nsupport provided by the\nUniversity at the Vancouver campus grew from $4.6M in 2001 to\n$12.3M in 2004 and the number\nof students receiving bursaries\ndoubled to 3,455. During this period, funding required under the\npolicy exceeded the budgeted\namount and the University\naccessed one-time contingency\nfunds to ensure it met the access\ncommitment. Student Financial\nAssistance and Awards will continue to meet students' emergency\nneeds for the remainder of the\nterm and any budgeted funds not\nspent this year.\nUBCs bursary program is the\nstrongest in the country; the average bursary for undergraduates in\nfirst-degree programs was $3,100\nthis term. That said, student debt\nand access impacts are a pressing\nconcern and the adniinistration will\ncontinue to work with student\norganisations at each campus and\nvarious levels of government to\nminimise debt, increase knowledge\nof assistance available and strengthen financial planning and credit\nmanagement skills for students.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Brian Sullivan\nVice President, Students\n^ ,\"\n?v';-w^-\u00E2\u0080\u009E\nStreeters\nHOW MUCH DO YOU\nTHINK SESSIONAL\nINSTRUCTORS GET PAID\nPER COURSE?\n\"I haye no idea/\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Amanda Wang\nCommerce 1\n'I say $5,000 per course.*\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Jermey Tse\nCommerce 1\n\"I haven't really thought about it.\nLet's say $2-3,000.'\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Steve Chang\nBiochemistry 4\n\"I have no idea.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Scott Napier\nEarth and Ocean Sciences\ngraduate student\n\"That's kind of hard to say, maybe\n$3,000.\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 Yassen SavOv\nArts 5\n\u00C2\u00AB\"(\u00C2\u00A3\u00C2\u00BB\"\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Streeters coordinated by\nColleen Tang and Kellan Higgins THE UBYSSEY Tuesday, 21 February, 2006\nOpinion IS\nSomething is rotten in the state of Denmark\nby Steven Klein\nTempers continue to flare and pundits continue to churn out words\nabout the now infamous and uninspired Danish cartoons. The debate\nhas been framed as one between\nfreedom of speech and Islam, but\nthis continuous harping about the\ndangers to our secular democracy\nblinds us to what the vast majority\nof Muslims are really angry about\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nthat the cartoons perpetuate orientalist caricatures of Muslims as\nscary, dark-skinned and primitively\nviolent, unable to live peacefully in\nEurope. Lurking behind the ideas\nexpressed in these cartoons is an\nexclusionary, racist Europe, and a\ncontinuously imperial West.\nFocusing on the Islamic extremists\nallows the Western media to ignore\nthe very real hostility directed\ntowards moderate Muslims by\nEuropean society.\nThe cartoons first received\nattention in the Islamic world when\nDanish Muslims, upset with the\nlack of action by the Danish government, used them as an example of\nthe racism pervading Denmark.\nThe government in Denmark currently depends on a far-right anti-\nimmigration party, the Danish\nPeople's Party, to maintain a majority, and the newspaper that first\npublished the cartoons, Jyllands-\nPosten, has historically been associated with the far right in Europe,\nsupporting Mussolini in the thirties. Xenophobia has become a pronounced problem in a nation that\nonly twenty years ago was almost\nentirely white.\nThe situation in Denmark is\nonly a snapshot of what is happening all over Europe, and the media\nalarmism over the Muslim\nresponse to the cartoons is feeding\nthe xenophobes. Suddenly, parties\nand groups that campaign for the\ncreation of police states are the\nchampions of secular democracy.\nOverall, overt racism, such as vio\nlent attacks, is on the rise, and\ncovert racism, the perceptions that\ncolour our interactions, is as firmly\nentrenched as ever.\nSo, the real point of the protests\nin Europe is a deep-seated resentment over the continued exclusion\nof Muslims from white European\nsociety and not any violation of\nIslamic law. The media, motivated\nby a mix of sensationalism and\ncultural chauvinism, have distorted and obscured this fact. This was\nclearly demonstrated by the generally dismissive coverage of the\nrecent protest in Trafalgar Square,\nwhere 5,000 Muslims and groups\nacting in solidarity gathered to\ndecry Islamophobia in Europe and\nits expression in the Danish cartoons. The British media was more\ninterested in the hundred or so\nprotestors at the Danish embassy\nwho called for religious violence,\nletting them drown out people like\nDoctor Azam Tamimi, the director\nof Institute of Islamic Political\nThought, who told the BBC before\nthe Trafalgar protest, \"we have the\nright to be angry, but we have to do\nit within the remits of the law,\nand we have to respect the rights\nof others.\"\nThe situation in the Middle East\nis more complicated. Decades of\nWestern meddling has violently dissolved the Islamic social order and\nreplaced it with direct domination\nor thinly veiled puppet regimes.\nFor all our recent bluster about secular democracy, we have spent the\nlast century consciously undermining it in the Islamic world. For\nexample, could anyone .honestly\nsuggest that the protests currently\noccurring in occupied Afghanistan,\nthe deadliest so far, are really about\nthe cartoons? Come on! They are\nrooted in feelings of powerlessness\nin the face of a foreign occupier, the\ndisintegration of Afghanistan's civil\nsociety, and the rise of anarchic\nwarlords who are just as oppressive, if not more oppressive, than\nthe Taliban. This is not to say that\nextreme Islam is not a troubling\nand pressing problem, but to\nignore the complex nature of the\nemotions and ideas fostering it,\nand our role in creating them, is to\nmake impossible the fight against\nIslamic demagogues.\nBetween the 'clash of civilisation' alarmists and Islamic fundamentalists, a third way must be\nfound. The battle needs to be fought\nalongside Muslims for full inclusion that rejects the crypto-racism\npermeating Western discourse as\nwell as extremist Muslim demagogues. There needs to be a reaching out to those Muslim groups\nwho affirm that co-existence will\noccur only under the banner of secular democracy. In Europe and\nCanada, this task of reaching out\nfalls largely on the left. Let's hope\nwe.don't miss the point.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Steven Klein is a second-year\narts student\nReprinting cartoons upholds liberal-democratic west's resolutions\nby Mario Rubio\nThe Ubyssey has chosen not to\nprint the controversial cartoons of\nthe prophet Mohammad that\nrecently ignited a firestorm of violent protest throughout the Muslim\nworld. This decision is the prerogative of the publication's editors and\nI do not wish to call into question\ntheir rationale for choosing to act\nin this way. However, it would be\nincorrect to claim that running the\ncartoons at this point would serve\nno purpose other than to splash oil\nonto an intractable fire. Reprinting\nthe drawings, as UPEI's The Cadre\ndid last week, serves to uphold the\nresolution of the liberal-democratic\nWest to prevent itself from being\nbullied by the growing wave of religious extremism in the Muslim\nworld.\nThe terrorist attacks in London\nthis past summer elicited a\nresponse among the general public in Britain that echoed that of\nthe American response to 9-11\nand the reaction of Spaniards to\nthe 2004 attack on their railway\nsystem: we must not change our\nway of life. Doing so by succumbing to the fear fomented by a\nminority who choose violence as\ntheir voice in global affairs would\nbe granting the perpetrators an\nundeserved victory. Similarly,\nrefraining from printing cartoons\nbecause of the startlingly violent\nresponse of Muslim extremists\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nwho in Gaza last week called on\nthe elusive Osama bin Laden to\nmake Denmark his next target-\nwould be tantamount to abandoning our ideals and allowing ourselves to be dominated by fear.\nClearly, the extremist protestors that rioted in the streets of\nMuslim cities from Beirut to\nJakarta last week do not represent\nthe moderate majority of Muslims\nthroughout the world. Nobody can\nplausibly deny that. Accordingly,\nthe overzealous reaction of this\nminority faction must not dictate\nthe action or, more ominously,\ncoerce the decisions of the press\nin the free and democratic West.\nRacism and bigotry shall not be\ntolerated, but the threat of violence against Western countries\nmust not elicit a passive response.\nRe-printing the cartoons at this\njuncture would thus be to act stoically in the face of extremism and\nto prevent the long arm of violence\nfrom influencing our decisions.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Mario Rubio is a fourth-year\narts student\nJob Posting - AMS First Week Coordinator\nThe Firstweek Coordinator works with the AMS Events department and other\norganizations to plan and implement our week-long welcome series of events in\nSeptember 2006.\nDuties & Responsibilities:\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Creating and scheduling Firstweek programs and events\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Coordinating all marketing and promotions for Firstweek\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Recruiting, training and supervising the Firstweek staff\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Managing or delegating management for all events during Firstweek\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Securing all necessary venues, equipment, power, artists, and special staff\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Creating and managing a budget, in consultation with Budget Committee\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Liaising with campus and AMS organizations to ensure a comprehensive and\ncoordinated student orientation and welcome experience\nExperience / Qualifications\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Event management and programming experience an asset\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Familiarity with student life at UBC (must be a current UBC student)\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Strong leadership skills and the ability to manage a First Week staff\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 Creative promotional and marketing ideas\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 The ability to work collaboratively and communicate effectively\nTime Commitment\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Minimum 30 hours per week May - September (will be much higher immediately before and during Firstweek)\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Occasional office hours during the school year, with emphasis on transitioning\nthe 2007 Firstweek coordinator in the spring\nCompensation\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 $7000; 1 week paid vacation\n^S\nApplications should be e-mailed to applications@ams.ubc.ca with the job\ntitle included in the subject heading and a resume and cover letter attached as\na single file in a standard file format.\nAlternately, they can be hand-delivered by February 26, 2006 to:\nGavin Dew , Vice-President Academic & University Affairs,\nChair of the Appointments Committee c/o Alma Mater Society\nRoom 238 - 6138 SUB Boulevard , Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1\nAMS Annual General Meeting\nMonday, Feb. 27/06, 12 noon @ The SUB South Alcove\nThe general public is invited to attend the AMS Annual General Meeting on\nMonday, Feb. 27 at noon in the SUB South Alcove. Reports will be provided\nby the AMS President Spencer Keys and the General Manager, with remarks\nfrom new incoming president Kevin Keystone.\nANTI-APATHY DAY #2: Corporations & the University\nSUB South Side Alcove (near Starbucks) on Monday, February 27at 6:30pm\nHave you noticed that corporate involvement is on the rise at Universities\nacross North America? Ever wonder whether it is for education or the bottom\nline? Come out and chat with our panel of experts to find out more about the\nsituation at UBC!\nAMS Job Fair 2006!\n\"Bring your resumes and meet your future employers\"\nIntroducing UBC students to prospective employers for\npart-time, summer, full time, work abroad and post\ngrad opportunities.\nMain Concourse - Student Union Building, 10am to 4pm\nMarch 15th & 16th only . 16 Sports\nTuesday, 21 February, 2006 THE UBYSSEY\n^r--.,.-.\nClan cut down by\ntowering T-Birds\nBasketbirds go into Pacific Division finals riding\n22 game unbeaten streak; UVic next opponents\nby Eric Szeto\nSPORTS STAFF\nSomebody must have reminded the UBC\nThunderbirds to bring their brooms and raincoats Saturday night.\nNeeding only one win to sweep their playoff\nseries against the dismal SFU Clan, the undefeated basketball Birds vied for the clincher not with\na hard working, gritty effort, but with the long-\nball as UBC pulled off an easy 82-63 victory to\nmove onto the Pacific Division finals.\nThe initial minutes for the Birds emulated\nthe UBC dance team's performance: flat and\nout-of-sync. Easy layups were missed, ten-foot\njumpers rattled off the rim and the defense\nlooked porous, as SFU, not known for their\noffensive prowess, held on to an early seven-\npoint lead.\nAdditionally, the early notable play of SFU's\nAaron Christensen and Nolan Holmes, who both\nfinished with double-doubles, kept the Birds\ngrounded, as both big men scored off the numerous second chance opportunities provided by\nUBCs poor first half rebounding.\nBut as it has been in many cases all year, all-\nstar guard Pasha Bains kept the Birds witbin\nstriking distance after hitting a series of threes\nthat not only weathered the early SFU storm but\nallowed enough time for the recalcitrant Birds to\nget their heads into the game and also take a\nslim lead going into the half.\nIt was a game of role-reversals for the Birds\nin a relatively uneventful second half. Guards\nCasey Archibald and Jason Birring, cold in the\nfirst half, blistered offensively as each player\nhit a trio of threes, while Bains went frigid,\nscoring only one field goal in the second.\nArchibald and Birring finished strong; collecting 13 points each, and contributed to the\ngrowing 23-point lead.\nSFU staged a modest comeback during the\nfoul-plagued half, cutting the UBC lead down to\n14 in the early minutes, only to have it hindered\nby stronger defensive play by forward Bryson\nKool. On an earlier play, Bryson took a hard\ncharge which led to no call, and, instead of\nmouthing off the officials, on the ensuing defensive play countered with a big block.\nWith frustrations mounting and the season\non the line, SFU's composure slowly unraveled\nas a double technical was awarded after a livid\nSFU forward Enny Unaegbu disputed a questionable call that had him foul out. This gave UBC\nfour free throws and thwarted any last ditch\neffort by SFU to mount a comeback as UBC\nregained a comfortable 19 point lead.\nBains led with 20 points in the first half and\nfinished with 22 points and seven helpers while\nguard Jordan Yu finished with ten points and\nfive assists.\nUBC, still undefeated, will go into next\nweekend's tilt playing host to the UVic Vikes.\nThe Vikes have had UBCs number in the past\nas they swept the Birds in last year's Pacific\nDivision finals. 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