"CONTENTdm"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1211252"@en . "University Publications"@en . "2015-09-11"@en . "2013-11-28"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/Ubysseynews/items/1.0128329/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " SECRET // Page 2\nWHAT'S ON i THIS WEEK, MAY\nTHURSDAY 28\nHANUKKAH\n6P.M.-8P.M. \u00C2\u00A9IRVING RM 261\nCelebrate Hanukkah with Chabad\nJewish Student Centre\u00E2\u0080\u0094the first\nannual Hanukkah party on campus.\nThere will be latkes,donuts,dreidel\ngames, menorah lighting and much\nmore.\nFree\nMENTAL HEALTH+\nSPIRITUALITY\n5 P.M.-6 P.M. @ SUB PARTYROOM\nSharon Smith speaks on mental\nhealth and spirituality. She will share\nher personal stories on depression\nand offeradvicein approaching\nmental health.\nFree\nCOLLOQUIUM\n5 P.M.-6:30P.M. @ BUCHB218\nCome to Colloquium's second interdisciplinary social of theyear.\nWe will discuss the story of Malala\nYousafzai and howthe media has\nbeen a vehicleforthe promotion of\neducation for women in the Swat\nvalley, and, arguably, on a global\nscale.\n$2 for non-members, free for\nmembers\n1 :\nMM\n\u00E2\u0096\u00BA\nFRIDAY ' 29\nPOLAR BEAR SWIM\n3 P.M. \u00C2\u00A9WRECK BEACH\nGet your paws wet in near-freezing water with hundreds of fellow\nstudents. We can't really think\nof a better way to shrink your...\nholiday worries.\nFree\nSATURDAY ' 30\nPINATA WORKSHOP\n10A.M.-1P.M.@MOA\nA key part of Mexican celebrations, come learn how to make a\ntraditional Mexican pihata in this\ntwo-day workshop. Visit http://\nmoa.ubc.ca for more info.\n$30 per person, $30 per one\nparent and child, $25 for MOA\nmembers\nON\nTHE\nCOVER\nThe circle on the front could've been a lot of things\u00E2\u0080\u0094a beer coaster,\na clock with hands made of beer bottles\u00E2\u0080\u0094but we finally decided on\nPonderous Lady. Illustration by David Marino. Photos (clockwise): Geoff\nLister, Colin Chia, Carter Brundage, Geoff Lister. 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The UPS shal not be\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2esponslble for sight charges or ty-\naographlcal errors that do not lessen the value or the Impact of the ad.\nOUR CAMPUS//\nONE ON ONE WITH THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE UBC\nComedy and design \u00E2\u0080\u0094 Samuel McFaul can do it all.\n=HOTOKOSTAPRODANOVIC^HE UBYSSEY\nSamuel McFaul lives and\nbreathes design\nSophia Yang\nContributor\nCreative design is a gateway to\nevery aspect of life, according to\nSamuel McFaul.\nIn his time as Environmental\nDesign (ENDS) Student Society\npresident, Samuel has created\nendless close-knit friendships,\nchowed down on late-night\nChinese food and scrubbed\nthe occasional plate or two in\nthe architectural studio on the\nsecond floor ofthe MacMillan\nbuilding.\nMcFaul is currently in his\nfourth and final year ofthe\narchitectural core and landscape\nhonours program in the Faculty\nof Applied Science, a program he\nsays that is an extremely competitive and fits the persona of\n\"go-getters\" and \"goal-achievers.\"\nComing out of high school\nimmediately knowing that architecture and design was right\nfor him, McFaul also took extra\ncredit courses at the Emily Carr\nUniversity of Art and Design.\nA long time Vancouverite, McFaul has lived in B.C. all his life,\nenjoying post-rock \u00E2\u0080\u0094 This Will\nDestroy You in particular \u00E2\u0080\u0094 and\nthe quirks and perks that come\nwith being an ENDS student.\nOne of those perks is using one\nofthe department scooters to\nget around places. It is a regular\nsight to see an Environmental\nDesign student emerging from a\nwondrous haven known simply as \"the studio\" on a silver\nscooter.\n\"Everything is based around\nthe studio,\" McFaul said. \"It\ntruly is the core ofthe program.\"\nThe studio, a pristine location\nthat consists of four smaller studios for 24-30 students each, is\nthe central location for architecture and design students.\nWhen asked about other\naspects about his life, McFaul\nchuckled.\n\"The studio and the entire\nprogram becomes your life.\nEveryone is your friend. Essentially you live with them,\nsocialize with them [and] study\nwith them.\"\nBut that still leaves times for\nsome comedy every now and\nthen. As an UBC Improv member\nsince 2011, McFaul brings the\nfunny and the design eye for the\nteam. He revamped the club's\nvisual image and designed the\nnew banners for the official\n2013-2014 academic year.\nAs the ENDS representative\nlast year, McFaul made it big\nwith the creation of a new course\nin collaboration with the School\nof Architecture and Landscape\nArchitecture.\n\"The concept was a design\nbuild course where we, the\nstudents, worked with the city\nand community groups to build\na variety of projects across the\ncity.\"\nAfter contacting CityStudio,\nan energetic hub of learning\nand leadership where students\nco-create solutions on the\nground with city staff, the idea\ncame to life after close work\nwith city planners and community leaders.\nThe motive behind the project\nwas the lack of three-credit\ncourses on offer.\n\"We wanted a design build\ncourse, so we wrote one,\" McFaul said. \"[It] goes to show, if\nyou care about it, you can make\nit happen.\"\nIt's safe to say that McFaul\neats, bathes and breathes design \u00E2\u0080\u0094 and he isn't the least bit\nashamed of it.\n\"The entire program definitely embeds itself into your life,\nfrom the lecture series to how\nyou think about solving a problem. Everything revolves around\ndesign for me.\" XI\nTIME TO HOARD UBYSSEYS AS\nWRAPPING PAPER.\nGREAT FOR THE ENVIRONMENT.\nGREAT FOR US.\nGREAT FOR MOM WHO GETS YOUR\nCRAPPY DOLLAR STORE GIFTS.\nCome by SUB24. We like people. // News\nORS WILL MCDONALD + SARAH BIGAM\nATHLETICS \u00C2\u00BB\n=HOTO WILLMCD0NALD3THE UBYSSEY\nToope held a press conference to address rumours surrounding UBC's athletics review.\nToope talks UBC athletics review\nUBC president addressed rumours surrounding the process\nC J Pentland\nManaging Editor, Web\nAt a press conference Tuesday\nafternoon, UBC President Stephen Toope addressed the media\nto dispel rumours surrounding\nthe university's sports targeting\nreview.\nIn addition to stating the facts\nregarding the evaluation and decision-making process ofthe athletics review, he also announced\nnew procedures for completing\nthe review.\nToope said the primary goal\nof the review is to sharpen the\nfocus on high-performance excellence, while expanding opportunities for a greater number of\nUBC students to participate in\nNEWS BRIEFS\nCar crash near campus, no\ninjuries reported\nThree cars were involved in an accident nearcampus last night.\nAt 7 p.m. on Tuesday, a car went\noff course and crashed into two\nother cars on SW Marine Drive and\nKullahun Drive, according to Sgt.\nDrew Grainger of the university\nRCMP.\nGrainger said there were no\ninjuries, but the driver of the car that\nhit the other two was issued two\ntickets. One was for failure to keep\nright and the other was for driving\nwithout consideration.\n\"We suspect that he may have\nbeen undertheinfluenceof alcohol,\nbut there was not enough information to charge him criminally with\nthat,\" said Grainger.\nNone ofthe people involved in\nthe accident were UBC students.\nC20 shuttle rerouted, C22 to\nbe terminated\nIn November of last year, Campus\nand Community Planning decided\nto consolidate the C20 and C22\ncommunity shuttles, and on Nov. 14,\nspecified the new route.\nThe current C22 shuttle, identified\nas being underused, will be terminated and have its service hours\nreallocated to two new C20 routes.\nThe a C20 shuttle will leave every\n15 minutes in one of two directions.\nBoth shuttles now go to Wesbrook\nPlace. One ofthe routes will go\nalong Marine Drive behind the residences and the other will go along\nWest Mall in front of them, xi\ncompetitive sports at different\nlevels. To fulfill this goal, the\nnumber of varsity teams will be\ntrimmed from its current number\nof 29.\n\"This review is vital to the future health of UBC Athletics. The\nuniversity simply cannot sustain\nexcellence for 29 varsity teams\ninto the future on our current or\nprojected budget,\" said Toope,\nwho added that the University of\nWashington supports 19 varsity\nteams while operating on a much\nlarger budget.\nTeams that don't receive\nvarsity status will become competitive club teams that will still\nreceive some support from UBC.\nTo determine which teams receive varsity status, the Depart-\nMEDICINE\u00C2\u00BB\nUBC establishes\nnew centre for\nindigenous health\nBrandon Chow\nSenior News Writer\nA new UBC centre for indigenous\nhealth is set to open next year.\nApproval for the Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Health was\nbeen passed by the UBC Senate on\nNov 20. Set to open in January 2014,\nthe centre will replace the former\nInstitute for Aboriginal Health,\nwhich has lacked funding recently.\nLeah Walker, a curriculum developer for the Division of Aboriginal People's Health who has worked\non developing the new centre, said\ntheir goal is to preserve programs\nfrom the former institute as well as\ncreating an intersection for aboriginal health programs across a wider\nrange of health disciplines.\nWalker said a group of faculty\nand staff in UBC's Faculty of\nMedicine came up with the idea\nfor the centre after discovering\nthat their division of Aboriginal People's Health, focused on\naboriginal admission into the\nfield of medicine, was in danger of\nbeing shut down.\n\"So that was happening, and then\nthe UBC College of Health dean\nwas having their own circle around\n[aboriginal health programs] and\nthey said, 'Your idea for a centre\nshouldn't be medicine specific, it\nshould be across all the health disciplines,'\" she said.\nment of Athletics and Recreation\nwill help coaches collect data on\ntheir teams relevant to the criteria, which judges teams on five\ncategories: competitive success,\ncompetition and progression;\nsupports for competitive success;\ncommunity support and tradition; partnerships; and fit with\nuniversity mission. AMS clubs\ncan also gain varsity status.\nToope reinforced that UBC\nhasn't come to any conclusions\non the status of specific teams.\n\"I cannot emphasize strongly\nenough that no decisions have\nbeen made, either as to how\nmany sports may remain at the\nvarsity level, nor as to which\nsports will be at the varsity\nlevel,\" said Toope.\nTo help UBC coaches who\nhave reportedly lost several\nrecruits to other schools due to\ntheir teams' uncertain future, the\ndecision process will be sped up.\nToope, who repeatedly stressed\nthat a key part of UBC and the\nCIS' overall mission is to keep\ntop Canadian talent in Canada,\nannounced that the initial results\nof the review will be released by\nmid-January 2014.\nA second stage will follow for\nthe unconfirmed teams that will\nallow them to develop a framework for meeting the criteria for\nvarsity status. The final decision\nfor those teams will be made at\nthe end of February.\nToope also clarified that the\nreview process is not a cost-cutting measure. No funds are\nbeing cut from the athletics\ndepartment's budget, and no\nmoney will be take from varsity\ntowards recreation or well-being programs. UBC will also\ncontinue to provide roughly\n$300,000 to the Millennium\nBreakfast, which provides student-athlete scholarships.\n\"We are talking about using\nthese funds in a more effective\nway so our student athletes benefit\nfully from their experience here.\"\nDespite the decision being\nmade shortly, Toope announced\nthat two more UBC sports\nalumni will be added to the advisory board ofthe review to give\nalumni more of a say. However,\nToope stated that during the consultation for the development of\nthe model, most alumni indicated\na high level of support.\nIn addition to the information\non the review, Toope said the CIS\nwill be a part of a high-performance pilot project in women's\nhockey that partners with\nHockey Canada. The program\nwill provide a full cost of living\nsupport in order to keep the best\nCanadian student-athletes in\nCanadian programs. Canadians\nwill not be forced to sit out a year\nif they transfer to a Canadian\nschool from the NCAA. XI\nThe new centre will be be run from the School\nWalker said part ofthe challenge\nofthe former institute was that they\nweren't hosted by any faculty within\nUBC. The new centre will preserve\nsome ofthe programs such as the\nAboriginal Health and Community Administration and Summer\nScience programs, while offering a\nbetter support structure within the\nFaculty of Medicine.\nLine Kesler, director ofthe\nFirst Nations House of Learning,\nsaid other programs from the\nformer institute will be moved\nover to Land and Food Systems,\nsuch as the Culturally Relevant\nWellness program.\nWalker also described an\naboriginal health administrator\ncertificate program that will also\nbe brought over to the new centre.\nThe program, which was formerly\nrun through both Continuing Studies and the Institute for Aboriginal Health, didn't have enough\nparticipants to run last year,\nthough Walker now believes they'll\n=HOTO CARTER BRUNDAGE3THE UBYSSEY\nof Population and Public Health\nhave a large enough network to\nrun again.\n\"We are able to work closely with\nthe health directors' association to\nfigure out how to make sure that\nprogram continues to be appealing\nand, more than appealing, relevant\nto health care workers in communities. So I think that program is\nactually going to be safer and more\nimproved in the new unit,\" she said.\nThe new centre will operate in a\nvariety of different locations. Walker\nsaid fundraising for a new building\nwould be a large task, and for now\nthey will operate within the School\nof Population and Public Health.\n\"[The School of Population and\nHealth] is a very supportive environment that has a couple of different\nplaces. For example, my office is\ndowntown by St. Paul's Hospital...\nwhich is perfect because it's very\nclose to the First Nations Health\nAuthority, and we have a very strong\nconnection to the School of Public\nHealth.\" XI\nGIFTS \u00C2\u00BB\nUBC alum\ndonates $2M to\nSauder\n=HOTOCOURTESYMARKMUSHET\nJohn Montalbano donated the money.\nSarah Bigam\nNews Editor\nThe Sauder School of Business\nhopes to direct $3 million towards\nleadership education for women and\nminority groups.\nUBC alum John Montalbano\nhas donated $2 million to Sauder to\ncreate a new position in the school's\nleadership program called the Montalbano Professorship in Leadership\nStudies: Women and Diversity.\nSauder has also pledged to raise\nan additional $900,000. According\nto a media release, $500,000 will\ngo towards MBA scholarships to\nsupport women who want to take on\nsenior roles in business, $200,000\nto PhD research in leadership for\nwomen and diversity and $200,000\nto community engagement initiatives associated with the professorship. RBC Wealth Management has\npledged an additional $125,000 for\nthese initiatives.\n\"There are just not enough\nwomen and minorities in leadership\npositions,\" said UBC President Stephen Toope at an event this morning\nannouncing the donations.\n\"By supporting learning and cultivating confidence in women and\nminorities early in their education\nand careers... we have the opportunity to change thinking, to change\npractices and to change the culture\nof business,\" said Robert Helsley,\nSauder dean.\nMontalbano is the CEO of RBC\nGlobal Asset Management. He said\nthe donation is meant to combat the\nlow numbers of women and minorities in leadership roles, which according to recent data have changed\nlittle since 1987. He said the position\nis named for his parents.\n\"The gift is in the memory\nof my mother, who... bet on the\nindependence of women and won,\"\nsaid Montalbano.\nAn international search has\nstarted for a faculty member to fill\nthis position. According to Helsley,\nthey aim to find somebody to start\nin September 2014.\nHe said the person chosen will be\ninvolved in research on the impact\nof diversity or lack of it in the business world. He said the professor\nwould be teaching courses in these\nareas and will likely be involved in\ncreating new courses about diversity, workplace equality and respect\nfor other cultures.\n\"I expect and hope they'll drive\nthe curriculum on this issue,\" said\nHelsley.\nHelsley said discussion about this\nposition began in the spring and has\nno relation to the FROSH chants\nthis September.\nThis position was announced the\nsame day as the release of Sauder\nstudy which found that women\ndirectors get better deals in mergers\nand acquisitions. According to the\nstudy, which looked at a sample of\nacquisition bids in the US from 1997\nto 2009, each female director on a\nboard reduces the cost of an acquisition by 15.4 per cent. XI NEWS I THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2013\nSEA TO SKY CRASH \u00C2\u00BB\nWARDS OF THE PROVIHCE \u00C2\u00BB\nDistracted driving not a factor in crash\nNames of UBC students who died released by coroner\nUBC to waive tuition for wards\nArno Rosenfeld\nFeatures Editor\nThe fatal Sea to Sky collision\non Saturday morning was not\nthe result of distracted driving, RCMP Staff Sgt. Brian\nCumming confirmed.\nWhile the full investigation is\nexpected to take a month, Cumming said drunk driving and use\nof a cellphone while driving have\nbeen ruled out as causes ofthe\ncollision, which took place about\nfive kilometres north of Lions Bay\non Nov. 23.\nFour women, all UBC students\nbetween the ages of 19 and 20,\nwere driving north on the Sea to\nSky Highway in a Jeep Cherokee\nwhen their vehicle crossed the\nmedian and collided head-on with\na Chevy pickup truck, RCMP said.\nThe driver ofthe Jeep lost control\nofthe vehicle while going around a\nbend in the road. The driver ofthe\npickup was treated at the scene for\nminor injuries.\nValentine Leborgne and Olivia\nSonja Robertson, the two women\nwho were killed in the collision,\nwere roommates and second-year\nstudents at UBC.\nThe two students, both 19,\nwere remembered by friends in\na memorial event on campus at\nthe Chan Centre on Monday. The\nmemorial was organized by Lebor-\ngne's father, a family friend and\nFUNDING \u00C2\u00BB\nPHOTO GEOFF LISTER3THE UBYSSEY\nA wreath was placed at the scene of the crash in memory of the victims.\nLeborgne's boyfriend with assistance from UBC Student Services.\nThe other two women involved\nin the crash are being treated at\nVancouver General Hospital and\nLion's Gate Hospital and are both\nexpected to recover, said friends\nwith knowledge ofthe situation.\nLeborgne attended high school\nin northern California before coming to UBC and Robertson came\nto UBC from a town in southern\nOntario, perched on Georgian Bay.\nThe B.C. coroner's office\nconfirmed the names ofthe two\nstudents in a press release Monday\nafter receiving permission from\nthe families ofthe two women. XI\nDean of Arts to fund scholarship\nEliot Escalona\nContributor\nDean of Arts Gage Averill will\nbe offering a new scholarship for\ninternational students next year.\nAverill will fund the $2,400\nscholarship out of his own\npocket. It will be aimed at international students pursuing dual\ndegrees in the Faculty of Arts.\n\"I was really deeply impressed\nby the quality of ... [international\nstudents pursuing dual degrees],\nand also by how tough it is going\nto be for a lot of them with the\ninternational tuition rates,\"\nsaid Averill.\n\"We want to be a university\nwhere our students can have impact on the whole world, where\nthey can travel, and be mobile\nBOARD OF GOVERNORS \u00C2\u00BB\nand part of that is attracting\nstudents from all over.\"\nThe scholarship will reward\nstudents who show promise\nof succeeding in a demanding\nacademic environment and who\nshow passion for what they do, as\nwell as an interest in giving back\nto the world.\n\"If we had students receiving this bursary and they fit\nsome of that criteria, I think I\nwould feel very very proud of it,\"\nsaid Averill.\nFlavie Denolle, a first-year\nstudent in the Faculty of Arts\nfrom France, thought the new\nscholarship was good idea. \"It's\nvery very expensive for international students so there [are]\nnever enough scholarships,\"\nDenolle said.\nDenolle also praised the\nscholarship requirements\nfor including criteria beyond\nacademic performance.\nKathleen Clark, a fourth-year\nArts student from Canada, said\nshe has mixed feeling about the\nscholarship.\n\"I understand why some international students need it more,\nbut there are also amazing people\nwithin Canada who need help\ntoo,\" said Clark. \"Some people here\nhave nothing, and they should be\ngiven the same opportunities for\nfinancial support.\"\nShe does agree with the dean\nthat it must be challenging for\ninternational students to pay\nsuch high tuition rates, but said\nUBC shouldn't ignore its domestic applicants. XI\nMilica Palinic\nContributor\nUBC has decided to waive tuition\nfor wards ofthe province.\nOn Sept. 17, the Board of Governors approved a proposal to waive\ntuition for youth who are or have\nbeen wards ofthe province and who\nare eligible to attend UBC under\nregular admissions processes.\nThe waiver will apply to both the\nOkanagan and Vancouver campus.\nUBC will cover all four years of tuition for an undergraduate degree.\n\"The vast majority of youth in\n[provincial] care never complete\nhigh school and very, very few\ngo onto pursue post secondary\neducation,\" said VP Students Louise\nCowin. \"It's thought that tuition\nis one ofthe barriers they face in\nterms of having any aspiration of\ngoing to university, and so a decision\nwas made to remove that barrier\nof tuition so that those who are\nacademically eligible would be able\nto attend UBC.\"\nPeople become wards ofthe\nprovince when they are separated\nfrom their parents at less than 16\nyears of age, and age out of government care when they turn 19.\nUrsula Baer, a PhD student studying German literature, was a ward\nofthe state growing up in Europe.\nHer university tuition there was\nwaived. Baer said that had it not\nbeen, she would never have been\nable to attend university.\n\"There was no way, even with\nworking. At some point, it's just too\nmuch,\" said Baer. \"Here, I was very\nlucky. I got a research grant and\nwas able to continue that way, but\nI know that the tuition waiver is so\nkey.\"\nBaer emphasized that there are\nnot only financial, but also psychological barriers preventing wards\nfrom attending university.\n\"One ofthe hardest things [for a\nchild aging out of care] is to really\nbelieve that they can achieve something they meant or that somebody\nactually cares what happens to\nthem,\" Baer said.\nShe said the tuition waiver\ngives provincial wards a chance\nto achieve more than what society\noften expects of them.\n\"When I was a child and a teenager, it was pretty much assumed\nthat most of us would somehow end\nup with teenage pregnancy or on\ndrugs or other things, and it's really\nhard to fight against that, to prove\nsociety wrong,\" she said. \"I think\n[this] would change the attitude\nin society, to show these kids are\nworth it and they are able to do it.\"\n=HOTOCOURTESYURSULABAER\nUrsula Baer was a was a ward of the state.\nBaer is also involved in work\nto establish a mentoring program\nfor government wards at UBC.\n\"There are so many other aspects\ninvolved when you don't have parents and you can't call home and\nask for advice.\"\nCurrently, Baer is doing her dissertation on the function of foster\nchildren in German literature.\n\"There are several universities\nwho are moving in this direction,\"\nsaid Cowin, \"and I personally\nthink it's important [because]\nthese are children who have been\npart ofthe child welfare system,\nand one could argue that [they\nare] among the most vulnerable\npeople in Canadian society.\"\nUBC is following the example\nof other universities across\nCanada, including the University\nof Winnipeg and the University\nof Toronto. Until now, UBC did\nnot have any specific programs\nfor youth in government care.\nThe only options those students\nhad for financial support were\nbursaries, entrance scholarships\nand academic awards \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the same\nas any other student.\nCowin said universities and\ncolleges should work closely with\nhigh school counselors and youth\nagencies to help develop the aspirations of youth in care so they see\nthat university and college education is a viable option for them.\nUBC associate professor of\nsocial work Richard Sullivan\nestimates that one to two students come to UBC as wards of\nthe province per year. Even with\nthe waiver, he predicts that this\nnumber will not exceed 15. XI\nBoG briefs: Board releases millions for construction\nAt yesterday's Board of Governors meeting, UBC's highest\ndecision-making body released millions of dollars for\nconstruction projects.\nPONDEROSA COMMONS\nThe Board released $75,329,485 for\nconstruction ofthe second phase of\nPonderosa Commons.\nThe design and program revision\nhave reduced the cost per bed from\n$115,037 to $105,342. Primary\nbenefits for students and faculty\nwill include 1,158 new upper-year\nresidence beds, collegia for commuter students and new academic\nspace to replace aging facilities. A\nfew proposed areas were removed\nfrom the building to reduce overall\nconstruction costs.\nStudents are expected to be able\nto move into Phase Two before construction is complete on all units.\nLoans for the building will be\nfinanced through student housing\nas well as working capital. Annual\ndebt service will be sourced from\nhousing rental revenue, amenity\nspace revenue and the central\noperating budget. These loans are\nexpected to be repaid over a period\nof up to 30 years.\nTo date, expenses for Phase One\nof Ponderosa Commons have been\n$80 million.\n-Tammy Kwan\nENGINEERING STUDENT\nCENTRE\nThe Board released $4.22 million\nfor construction of a new Engineering Student Centre. The centre\nwill be built in the courtyard\nbetween the CEME Building,\nthe Fred Kaiser Building and the\nMacLeod Building. It will be two\nstories and 934 square metres.\nA loan of $1.76 million was\nalso approved to support the\nproject. The loan will be repaid\nby the Faculty of Applied Science\nand Engineering Undergraduate\nSociety student fees over a period\nof up to five years at a rate of 5.75\nper cent per year. The total capital\nbudget ofthe centre is estimated\nat $5,220,000 and the operating budget is set to be $86,500.\nConstruction is set to begin in\nJanuary 2014.\nLOON LAKE DINING HALL\n$200,000 was released to undertake schematic design of a new\ndining hall, which is meant to\naccommodate more people, at the\nLoon Lake facility at the Malcolm\nKnapp Research Forest.\nThe current hall, which is 40\nyears old and seats 100 people,\nwill be converted to accommodation. The new hall will be built\non a site that is currently accommodations. It will include a new\nkitchen and washrooms and seat\n150 people.\nThey were also authorized to\nproceed with selecting a contractor. The preliminary capital\nbudget ofthe project is set to be\n$3 million. The project has been\nfully funded through donations\nand the Faculty of Forestry has\ncommitted to cover any shortfall in funding. The new dining\nhall should be completed by\nJune 2015 and the old dining\nhall should be converted by\nJune 2016.\nOLD SUB RENEWAL\n$500,000 was released for to\nbegin schematic design for the\nrenovation ofthe old SUB.\nThe SUB will become the UBC\nLife Building when the AMS\nmoves to the New SUB. Student\nservices such as counseling and\nenrolment services will be centralized in this building. It will\nalso include a new fitness facility,\nas demand for the Birdcoop, with\n5,500 members, outstrips its capacity of 140 people at a time.\nTwo more collegia have also\nbeen proposed for this building. The capital budget for\nrenovations is predicted to be\n$58,250,000, $54 million of\nwhich is expected to come from\nVantage College revenues. The\nBoard won't be asked to approve\nconstruction until Sept 2014,\nwhen there is more data on income from Vantage College. The\nproject is set to be completed in\nJune 2016.\n-Sarah Bigam II Culture\nRHYS EDWARDS\nBZZR\u00C2\u00BB\nBrewing a better business\nHow students are influencing the future of campus pubs and bars\n=HOTO GEOFF LISTER3THE UBYSSEY\nTim Yu helps run Koerner's Pub with his wife, Brittany. Despite its popularity, the pub only\nrecently reopened after two years of management issues.\nReyhana Heatherington\nSenior Lifestyle Writer\nWhat would it take to resurrect\nthe Pit?\nIs a new manager with time\nspent in the Cayman Islands\nthe answer?\nGary Carlson, the new general\nmanager ofthe Pit Pub, is on a mission to reanimate the storied university hangout. He comes from a\nbackground in \"cocktail mixology\"\nand has been in the nightclub business for about 30 years, including a\nfive-year stint as a senior bartender in the Cayman Islands. Most\nrecently Carlson worked as the\ngeneral manager ofthe Back Forty\nSaloon in downtown Vancouver.\nThroughout its 35-year history,\nthe Pit has never needed to work\non client outreach, but Carlson\nsaid the market has clearly shifted\nsince then.\n\"[The Pit] had always done\nwell, [there] was always a captive\naudience,\" Carlson said. \"But now\nthe market seems to have changed\na little bit where we have to do\na little more to bring people in,\nwhich we're doing.\"\nGraeme Gilbert, a fourth-year\ncommerce student, said he was\nexcited to go to the Pit when he\narrived on-campus in his first\nyear. \"It felt like a rite of passage,\"\nhe said. His parents would tell\nstories of partying at the pub and\nseeing friends being carried out by\nbouncers while they were students\nat UBC.\nRecently, though, Gilbert has\nnoticed a change. \"Even on the\nbusier days it still feels a bit different,\" he said.\nWhen Carlson first started as\nmanager ofthe Pit seven weeks\nago, he scheduled one-on-one\nmeetings with his staff \u00E2\u0080\u0094 mostly\nstudents \u00E2\u0080\u0094 asking them, \"This is\nyour bar, what do want to see?\" He\nattempted to respond to concerns\nby implementing changes including new drink specials, later hours\nand reinstating the in-and-out\npolicy.\nAlong with responding to\nstudent feedback, Carlson is also\ncollaborating with groups like the\nNight Club of UBC to use their\npromotional networks and set up\nregular DJ nights.\nLuc Briede-Cooper, a first-year\nphysics major and an executive\nofthe Night Club, said Carlson's\nvision for the Pit lines up with the\ngoals ofthe unofficial electronic\nmusic club.\n\"They want student talent to be\nperforming... which is what we're\ngoing for,\" Briede-Cooper said.\n\"We're trying to reach out and\nbuild something.\"\nThe Night Club provides resources for DJs and promotes their\non-campus events as alternatives\nto parties where \"getting drunk\nand flailing around on the dance\nfloor\" often seems to be the\nmain objective.\n\"It's more about enjoying\nyourself, enjoying the music and\nenjoying it with everyone else,\"\nBriede-Cooper said. \"We're creating an outlet for that where [students] can go and share that with\neach other and with us through\nthese dances around campus.\"\nThough Briede-Cooper considers himself a \"bedroom DJ\", his\ngoal is to help other student DJs\nbring electronic music beyond\ntheir dorm walls out to crowds\nat UBC.\n\"They're stuck in their room\nand we're trying to make that\nroom the whole campus,\" he said.\nMANAGING THE\nCHANGES\nPubs and bars around UBC are\nused to the instability inher\nent in running a business on a\nuniversity campus.\nMike Mahony, general manager\nof Mahony and Sons on the UBC\ncampus, said sustaining a restaurant at UBC is a difficult undertaking.\n\"It's a very tough business,\" he\nsaid. \"Particularly with a location\nlike this, with the fluctuations in\npopulation and different events\ngoing on at different times. It can\nbe quite the challenge.\"\nMahony said his business aims\nto bring in everyone from families to students, and to connect\nwith students and other patrons\nby focusing on their community\ninvolvement in campus sports and\nfestivals.\n\"We get to sort of build relationships with them on [a] one-on-one,\ngrassroots level, and help build the\nbusiness by promoting and helping\ntheir causes and vice versa,\" Mahony said.\nAs popularity waned at the Pit,\nsome saw the Bimini Public House,\non Fourth Avenue in Kitsilano, as\nan antidote to what had become\na somewhat stale Wednesday Pit\nNight. UBC alum and Bimini's\ngeneral manager Chris Badyk\nsaid the rise of cooking shows and\nthe associated \"cool\" factor has\nresulted in a shift in the pub and\nbar business.\n\"The food and beverage industry\nis cool now and a lot of people are\nentering it, which has spawned\nmore little restaurants and pubs and\nbars,\" Badyk said. \"There's so many\nplaces to go now. You've got to be\nvery hungry for that market share\nand you've got to reach out to everybody and you've got to back that up\nwith your customer service.\"\nBrittany Yu, general manager of\nthe recently reopened Koerner's\nPub, said she and her husband,\nUBC business alum Tim Yu, want\nto contribute to a more vibrant\ncampus life by giving students a\nreason to stay at school after class.\nYu said she has heard from many\nstudents who travel abroad that\nUBC lacks on-campus life, and her\ngoal is to \"breathe some life back\ninto it.\"\n\"That's what makes university\nlife so great,\" Yu said. \"You're\nhanging out with everyone who's\ngoing to that same university.\"\nKoerner's, which targets a more\nmature age group, limited its initial advertising only to Facebook\nposts. Still, the positive patron\nresponse was overwhelming,\ngiven the bar's location in the far\nnorthwest corner of campus with\nlimited food options and a bevy of\noverworked and underfed graduate students. \"I could spend lots\nof time on Yelp and lots of time on\nFacebook and Twitter, but really\nthe best marketing I'm going to get\nis the people who are coming here\nalready,\" Yu said.\nYu doesn't see the Pit as direct\ncompetition, but rather as another\noption for students to generate a\nstronger community out on the\nwestern tip of Point Grey.\n\"I think competition always\nhelps because the more bars that\nare on-campus, the more we can\ntry and keep people on campus,\nwhich is our goal.\"\nWith a range of venues on campus each targeting varying clientele, it is unclear what will become\nof Pit Nights in their final year in\nthe old SUB. The only guarantee is\nthat more changes will come.\nBadyk knows the increased\ncompetition among businesses results in more options for students\nand creates a need for originality\nin the form of themed events and\ndrink specials.\n\"Maybe we're just the new kid\non the block for a while and all\nofthe sudden the Pit's going to\nbe back the way they were in a\nmonth,\" Badyk said. \"So you just\nnever know.\" 'tJ\nPHOTO GEOFF LISTER3THE UBYSSEY\nUBC alum Chris Badyk runs Bimini's on Fourth Avenue. The bar has become a popular\nalternative to the Pit Pub on Wednesday nights.\nMUSIC \u00C2\u00BB\nUBC grad blends\nclassical and pop\nin new video\n=HOTO COURTESY TIFFANY DESROSIERS\nJulie Gordon\nStaffWriter\nUBC music alumna Tiffany Des-\nrosiers is on the cusp of something\ngreat.\nThe video for her latest single,\n\"Fearless,\" released in October,\nis only the first in a projected\ntrilogy. Considering that the video\nfeatures Vikings and an ethereal\nDesrosiers dashing through the\ntrees of Stanley Park, the upcoming productions should be equally\nexciting.\n\"The back-in-time idea is meant\nto represent my classical roots,\nwhile still being a modern music\nvideo and recording,\" said Desrosiers.\nDesrosiers started classical\nsinging lessons at the age of eight.\nShe was in acting classes at the\ntime, but was inspired to try singing by some of her fellow students.\nDesrosiers didn't begin to sing pop\nuntil she saw an 'N Sync concert --\nfrom that moment, she knew what\nshe wanted to do in life.\nShe lists Celine Dion, Adam\nLambert and Josh Groban as\nher musical influences. Coming\nfrom both a classical and pop\nbackground has given her a rare\nmusical sound.\n\"Classical is very technical,\nwith no room for error. Pop is\nabout the imperfections, that's\nwhat gives it style,\" she said.\nIt wasn't until later in her teens\nthat Desrosiers tried her hand at\nsongwriting. She now writes many\nof her songs, including \"Fearless.\"\nOriginally from Langley,\nDesrosiers continued her education at UBC, graduating in 2010\nwith a bachelor of music in vocal\nperformance. She cites the numerous recitals, voice and technique\nlessons as the most important\ncontributions to her singing.\nOne memorable challenge\nincluded learning 11 songs in three\nweeks. The pieces she and her\ncohort sang were in an assortment\nof languages, including French,\nGerman, Italian and Latin; in addition to the songs themselves, the\nclass had to take language courses\nin order to understand what they\nwere singing.\nDespite her success in music,\nDesrosiers admits the endeavour is\nvery expensive. She currently has a\nfull-time job in administration for\nschool boards, and works on music\nat night. Much of her promoting\nhas to be done herself. \"You get\nused to being told no,\" she said.\nIn addition to music, Desrosiers\nhas one other great passion.\n\"I love animals!\" she said. She\nhas two dogs, a Cavalier King\nCharles and a Havanese.\nBalancing a full-time job, two\ndogs, a music career and life is no\neasy feat \u00E2\u0080\u0094 but Desrosiers gets it\ndone. 'tJ The life and\ndeath of a\ntextbook\nby Gabriel Germaix\nTextbooks\nhave a life.\nThey have fathers,\nmothers and\nsiblings. They\ngrow and expand,\nexperience midlife\ncrises, and\neventually die,\noften out of sight.\nThere is much to\nbe said about the\nhidden life of a\nprofessor's best\nfriend, and much\nyet to be learned.\n'Just as most books start in\nthe brain of their author,\nthe inception of textbooks\nis often in a university professor's mind. Professional\nwriters are a minority in\nthe business, mainly because the amount of work\nrequired is very high.\nJulia Gordon teaches Calculus III, as well as higher\n\"evel math classes, at UBC.\n\"To write a good calculus\ntextbook is a tremendous\neffort,\" she said.\nGordon believes the\ncash prize attraction is at\nbest a background motivation. \"People have mainly\nacademic motivations for\nwritingtextbooks,\" she said,\n\"and I think there are better\nways for making money.\"\nSome people, like James\nStewart, author of a best-\nselling calculus textbook\nused at UBC, can afford a\nfive-story 18,000-square\nfoot designer house and\nlegitimately claim to have\npaid for it with the money\nmade from books alone. But\nfar from every author can\nclaim such fame and wealth.\nMany professors start\nwriting simply because they\nthink they can do better\nthan existing textbooks,\nor have a different point of\nview on the subject.\nAfter months or years of\nlabour, the book is sent to\neditors, as a regular novel\nwould be. The difficulty of\ngetting published is a function ofthe stability and size\nofthe existing market; an\ninnovative calculus textbook\nmay still have trouble facing\nthe Stewart colossus, for example. If there is room for a\nnew textbook on the market,\neditors will give it a definite\nshape, and a new textbook\nis born.\nTo know if they will\nlive and prosper, editors\nsend the textbooks to the\nteachers who select them.\nIn his office, where shelves\nfull of used textbooks cover\nchon explained the rush that\nhappens at the beginning of\nthe year.\nEach year, editors send\ntheir own reference textbooks directly to him. \"As I\nam listed as the coordinator,\neditors usually find me,\" said\nManchon, a senior Spanish\ninstructor. \"Textbooks are\ncoming out all the time, so I'm\nalways assessing the textbooks,\nand when a new edition comes\nup, it is a good time for us to\nreview it all and see if we want\nto consider other textbooks.\" If\nnew, interesting content does\ncome up, Manchon passes on\nthe new material and discusses\nit with other professors.\nAmong the selection criteria,\nlittle place is made for the price.\n\"I try not to think about the\nprice. It is never going to be\ncheap,\" Manchon said. Despite\nasking for a custom edition\nthat leaves useless parts ofthe\nComo se Dice textbook out, the\nSpanish professor observed\nthat the price only dropped by a\nsmall amount.\nInstead, for Manchon, the\nmain criterion is academic.\n\"The idea is to find a textbook that fulfills my sense of\na pedagogical approach and\nhopefully one that also is going\nto be accepted by all\" \u00E2\u0080\u0094 in other\nsive and practical.\nGordon faces the same challenge in mathematics. \"UBC\nhas 1,700 students in first-year\ncalculus,\" she said. \"It becomes\nan industry. [The content] has to\nbe fairly standard. It shouldn't\nvary that much from professor\nto professor.\"\nThe textbook acts as a baseline for every teacher and allows\npost-doctorates, graduate\nstudents and senior professors\nalike to spread uniform knowledge. \"You need a solid basis,\"\nGordon said.\nTHEFATEOF\nTEXTBOOKS\nThrough administrative\nchannels, the list of textbooks\nends up on the UBC Bookstore's\nbuy list. While some students\nprefer to shop on the Internet or\nat the discount textbook shop,\na vast majority buy them at\nthe bookstore. Debbie Harvie,\nmanaging director of University\nCommunity Services (which in-\nI. eludes the bookstore), explained\nthe process.\n\"[The bookstore] will look at\nlast year's history of sales, at the\nnumber of students expected in\nthe class... and then determine\nwhat our initial order quantity\nis.\" Old books are also\nbought from wholesalers,\nstudents or other universities that don't use them.\nAs for unsold new\nbooks, they are returned to\nthe publisher, while some\nofthe used ones canbe returned to the wholesaler. If\nthey can't be handed back,\nthey are put on Amazon.\n\"If the book has no value,\ncan't sell it, we will donate\nit to Books for Africa,\"\nsaid Harvie.\nCome the end ofthe\nterm, students face a\nchoice: to keep or sell the\ntextbook. For Gordon, two\nfactors should be taken into\naccount when facing this\ndecision: family, and future\nuse of a textbook. Your old\ngeography or chemistry\ntextbook could very well\nfind another life in your\nlittle brother or sister's\nstudies; if not, students can\nsell their books at 50 per\ncent of their new price if\nthe bookstore has put them\non their buy-back list.\n. As for high-level, specialized books, they might\nhelp students who pursue a\ncareer where the knowledge they contain will be\nput to use \u00E2\u0080\u0094 as in teaching,\nfor example.\n\"Those are the books\nyou want to keep and keep\nreferring to,\" said Gordon.\n\"Some of my friends kept\ntheir old university books\nand still use them.\"\nOld habits die hard, and\nso do the best textbooks.\nFROM PAPER TO\nPIXELS\nThe textbook world, however, has recently undergone a little revolution\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 one might say a kind of\nmidlife crisis \u00E2\u0080\u0094 especially\namong lower-level books.\nThe introduction of online\ncomponents has started to\ndeeply alter the way they\nare used.\nSome textbooks got a\nfacelift when editors started to add CDs, and later\nInternet codes, to access\nspecific online content.\nFor many teachers, such\nan introduction was highly\nbeneficial. Before the advent of online components,\nfor instance, some Spanish classes\nused to last four hours, while others\nlasted three hours and one hour\nof lab. This difference became an\nissue which the online components\nofthe Como se Dice book solved, as\nManchon explained.\n\"The best scenario was for\neverybody to teach equally for three\nhours,\" he said. \"What the online\nwork allowed us to do was to include\na fourth hour.\"\nAnd as for editors, online components, unlike hardcover textbooks,\ncan be set to have a limited lifespan.\nPhysical textbooks have a system of\npose, but in an imperfect way.\nAndrew Rechnitzer, associate\nprofessor in the math department,\nconfirmed this. \"I find new editions\nfrustrating,\" he said. \"Usually we\nwould be happy working with older\neditions.\"\nGordon feels similarly. \"Some\nnumbers change, some problems\nsometimes disappear, some problems reappear, but it's not such a big\nchange. It really is for the purpose of\nmaking more money, and that is just\nnot fair.\"\nBy introducing electronic components such as discs or Internet access\neditors manage to limit the secondhand market. Giants in the educational technology industry help them\nin the process: Quia and its parent\ncompany, IXL Learning, have a large\nshare in the market for the online\ncomponents of language textbooks.\nThe same goes for NelsonBrain,\nwhich hosts Aplia and other widely\nused online programs.\nWhen asked about the working relations such firms maintain\nwith editors, John Barth, technical\nmarketing lead at IXL Learning,\nanswered: \"The editors that work on\nthe content work in-house here ... and\n[the manager of that team are] not\nopen to sharing anything about the\nprocess.\"\nOne thing is for sure: the lifespan\nof modern textbooks is shrinking. But\nthere is hope for textbooks' afterlife.\nThe slow vanishing of hardcover\nbooks may lead to a new form of textbook: the open textbook, made of free\nonline PDF files. Rechnitzer wants to\nexamine the potential of this future.\n\"I think something is starting to\nchange,\" he said. \"There's a lot of resources inside a really good textbook,\nlike Stewart's. And there aren't free\ntextbooks which are quite of that\nstandard yet. But I think it will come.\nIt may take a while. \"Any changes\nare slow, unfortunately,\" Rechnitzer\nsaid \u00E2\u0080\u0094 leaving the destiny of textbooks in the hands of universities,\nstudents and editors alike. 'tJ THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2013 | CULTURE\nMALE GROOMING \u00C2\u00BB\nOn the merits ofthe moustache\nAs Movember comes to an end and complaints about slactivism\nsubside, students reflect on the meaning of facial hair today\nPHOTO KAIJACOBSON3THE UBYSSEY\nThough many men exploit Movember as a cheap excuse to avoid grooming, matters of moustachery are hairier than they may seem.\nJenica Montgomery\nStaffWriter\nShort and scruffy, fine and fluffy\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 the end of November means\nbidding farewell to a bevy of illustrious beards and moustaches.\nAt university campuses and\nworkplaces across the world, the\nmonth of November has become\nknown as No-Shave November,\nor Movember. Since the Movember charity was first inaugurated\nin 2004, men have grown their\nfacial hair in a show of support\nfor cancer awareness. While the\njury is still out on how effective\nMovember is at actually creating\nawareness of prostate and other\nmale-specific cancers, many\nstudents still participate in the\nactivity that has quickly become a\nyearly ritual.\nSome see participation in Movember as a form of lazy activism,\na way to show support for a cause\nwithout actually committing\nto it. The original purpose of\nNo-Shave November was to raise\nmoney and awareness for cancer, but it's easy to see how the\nmovement has become a reason\nfor young men to neglect socially\nsanctioned grooming.\nAccording to No-shavenovem-\nber.com, a website hosted by the\nAmerican Cancer Society, \"the\ngoal of No-Shave November is to\ngrow awareness by embracing our\nhair, which many cancer patients\nlose, and letting it grow wild and\nfree. Donate the money you usually spend on shaving and grooming\nfor a month to educate about cancer prevention, save lives and aid\nthose fighting the battle.\"\nHowever, the Western Gazette\nrecently reported that a study conducted by UBC scholars supports\nthe hypothesis that small public\nforms of support lead to \"slacktiv-\nism.\"\n\"I figure, lots of people grow\nthings but don't raise any money,\nwhich is not really the point,\" said\nTom Antle, a third-year mechanical\nengineering student.\nHowever, regardless ofthe yearly\ntradition, many young men grow\nfacial hair because they enjoy it, and\nthink it adds to their appearance.\n\"It's an individual preference,\"\nsaid Ariel Gelmon. \"I enjoy having\na beard, it gives definition to my\nface.\"\n\"I kinda like it a little scruffy,\"\nAntle said. \"I just don't like being\ncompletely clean shaven. It's not\nnatural. Also it's a huge pain every\nmorning to shave.\"\nGrowing facial hair has become\nculturally associated with a certain representation of men \u00E2\u0080\u0094 an\nimage that some young men wish\nto align with, but not necessarily\nhow men on campus see their\nfacial hair.\n\"Someone on Vine said, 'Trust\nme, I have a beard,' as in, you're a\nwise man if you have a beard. But I\ndon't necessarily agree with that,\"\nsaid Gelmon.\nIt's easy to point to men in pop\nculture who are ostensibly \"bearded and wise,\" such as Gandalf and\nDumbledore, but these are not\nnecessarily the connotations that\nmen on campus aspire to when\nmaintaining their facial hair.\n\"[I'm participating] kind of\njust because. I did [Movember]\nlast year for fun with work,\" said\nJordan Traas, a third-year mechanical engineering student, who\ndescribes his current facial hair as\n\"the pervy 'stache.\"\nFor many, the decision to grow\nfacial hair is a personal decision\nnot motivated by the desire to\nattract partners. Much like a\nhairstyle, tattoos or personal\ndress, young men on campus see\ntheir facial hair as an extension\nof themselves.\n\"I don't really care about what\nthey think,\" said Gelmon. \"I\nwould hope they would like it as\nwell, [but] I wouldn't shave it for\na woman. My mom asked me to\nshave it, but I won't.\"\nWhile it's easy to scoff at the\nincrease in \"pervy 'staches\" across\ncampus as a form of lazy activism,\nmoustaches and beards are just as\nmuch of an expression of personal\nchoice as choosing what you're going to wear in the morning \u00E2\u0080\u0094 they\njust take a little more patience and\npersistence. 'tJ\nIT'S TIME TO SHAVE. WHAT'S YOUR STYLE?\nThe 5 O'clock Shadow\nbeard, but you want to know what\nit would look like. Or you forgot to\nt for you. You c;\nThe Chinstrap\nour beard into\nYou know your life is complete\nwhen you become known around\ncampus as \"the guy with the big\nbushy beard.\" You should just\nstart wearing plaid and spending\nyour weekends camping in the\nlike it, you keep it.\nMUSIC \u00C2\u00BB\nSchool of Music says Hallelujah to Handel's Messiah\nPHOTO COURTESY VINCENTL.CHA3\nOver 250 students will perform on stage for the first full rendition of the Messiah in 15 years.\nRachel Levy-McLaughlin\nContributor\nGeorge Frideric Handel's Messiah\nmarks the start ofthe holiday season every year, all over the world.\nFor the first time in 15 years, the\nUBC School of Music will perform\nthe Messiah in its entirety this\nSaturday, Nov. 30.\nWhile portions ofthe Messiah\nhave been performed at UBC in\nthe past decade, this is the first\ntime it is being performed in its\nfull grandeur since at least 1998,\nwith a full choir and orchestra\nplaying for two and a half hours.\nAccording to Graeme Langager,\nconductor and director of choral\nactivities at UBC, the decision to\nallocate the time necessary to put\ntogether such a complex piece of\nmusic was made in order to give\nmusic students an unprecedented\nperforming opportunity.\nThe performance is one of few\nthat combines several musical\nensembles: the University Singers,\nthe UBC Choral Union, the UBC\nSymphony Orchestra and members ofthe UBC Opera ensemble.\nIn combination, over 250 people\nwill perform on stage. \"It gives\nus a chance to do justice to some\ngreat works we wouldn't be able\nto otherwise, like the Messiah,\"\nsaid Marty Borch, a member ofthe\nUniversity Singers.\nAccording to Laurie Townsend,\ndirector ofthe School of Music,\nLangager has chosen to give all of\nthe solos to students in order to\n\"showcase students, giving them\nthe opportunities.\" Langager has\ndecided to use the talents of almost\n20 members ofthe choral ensembles\nfor the solos occurring throughout\nthe piece \u00E2\u0080\u0094 something \"very untrad-\nitional,\" according to Townsend.\nMany ofthe ensemble members\nhave performed bits and pieces\nofthe masterpiece before, but for\nmost \u00E2\u0080\u0094 including Langager \u00E2\u0080\u0094 this\nis their first time performing it in\nits entirety.\n\"This is my first opportunity\nto conduct the whole Messiah,\"\nsaid Langager, \"and it is one of\nthose milestones in a conductor's\ncareer.\"\nNeedless to say, Langager is\nexcited \u00E2\u0080\u0094 as Borch said, \"Dr. Lan-\ngager's and the choir's excitement\nis infectious\".\nWhile the performance is an annual tradition for many, the School\nof Music will not perform the\npiece every year. Langager hopes\nto perform it often enough that\neach student will have the opportunity to perform or attend during\ntheir time at UBC. Anticipation for\nthe performance has led to tickets\nselling faster than nearly any other\nin the school's history.\nDespite the novelty ofthe performance, Townsend simply emphasizes it as a seasonal perennial.\n\"[It's] one of those things done\nat Christmas. It has become a\nChristmastime tradition,\" she\nsaid.U\nHandel's Messiah will be performed\nat the Chan Centre this Saturday at\n8 p.m. A discount rate is available for\nstudents. // Sports + Rec\nEDITOR NATALIE SCADDEN\nURSDAY, NO\nHOCKEY\u00C2\u00BB\nCapozzi and Rafter to hit the ice with Team Canada\nUBC women's hockey duo heading to Italy for 2013 FISU Winter Universiade\nReyhana Heatherington\nSenior Lifestyle Writer\nWhat were you doing when you\nwere 15 years old?\nFor two UBC varsity hockey\nplayers, Grade 10 was the year they\ncommitted to an athletic journey\nthat would ultimately put them on\nan international stage.\nChristi Capozzi and Tatiana\nRafter will jet off to Trentino, Italy\nin December to represent Canada\nat the 26th biennial 2013 Winter\nUniversiade. They will compete in\nthe same country where the inaugural tournament was held in 1959.\nRafter, a fourth-year gender,\nrace and social justice major, is\na forward and the leading scorer\nfor the Thunderbirds. She said the\nreality of playing in Italy first hit\nhome for the pair when their Team\nCanada equipment arrived two\nweeks ago.\n\"Christi and I just got our\nhelmet and gloves when we played\nSaskatchewan],\" Rafter said with\nexcitement. \"Then it kind of felt\nlike, 'Oh, we're actually going.'\"\nA native of Winnipeg, Rafter\nalso grew up playing competitive\nbasketball, and decided to focus on\nhockey in Grade 10 by enrolling in\nuniversity prep school Balmoral\nHall. But Rafter credits setbacks,\nincluding being cut repeatedly\nfrom Team Manitoba, with pushing her to reach her full potential.\n\"I got cut from that team three\nyears in a row, and that was probably the best thing to happen to me\nbecause it added so much fuel and\nmotivation for me,\" Rafter said. \"[I\nhad a] 'this isn't gonna be the last\nyou see of me' kind of attitude.\"\nWhen it comes to keeping\nfamily and friends up to date on\nher busy life, Rafter said she can\ncount on her father, who will\nbe accompanying her to Italy\nnext month.\n\"People send me texts or messages saying, T ran into your dad. He\nwouldn't stop talking about you,'\"\nRafter said, laughing. \"He's always\npumping my tires. I don't need to\ntell anyone what's going on with\nme because they'll hear it from\nhim first.\"\nCapozzi and Rafter are two\nof five players from the Canada\nWest division to participate at the\nInternational University Sports\nFederation (FISU) event.\nThis is the first year two players\nwill represent UBC at the tournament, which also includes alpine\nskiing, snowboarding, figure\nskating and speed skating; in 2009,\nMelinda Choy stood between the\nposts for Team Canada.\nCapozzi, the UBC Thunderbirds\nteam captain and a fifth-year\nkinesiology major, said while she\nhas friends who have competed\nat the Summer Universiade, she is\ngoing into the tournament with a\nfresh perspective.\n\"I'm not really sure what to expect, but I'm excited,\" she said.\nCapozzi began playing hockey\naround age five in Kelowna and,\nlike Rafter, also made the choice\nto focus on hockey in Grade 10.\nHer involvement in other sports\ndropped off as she grew to prefer\nthe hockey atmosphere.\n\"I hated going to soccer practices and I just liked the speed and\nthe physicality of [hockey] and the\nenergy around hockey,\" she said.\n\"It's something different.\"\nThe FISU tournament has a\nspecial significance to Capozzi.\nHer family is Italian on her\nfather's side. Her grandfather,\nthe late legendary sports figure\nHerb Capozzi, was captain ofthe\nUBC football team in 1947 and\n1948. Capozzi said her family is\nlooking forward to streaming the\ngames online.\n\"My dad was super excited and\nso was my mom, and everyone's\nreally supportive and looking\nforward to hearing about it and\nwatching the games online.\"\nUntil then, Capozzi and Rafter\nare focused on the remaining few\ngames with UBC before heading\noff to Trentino.\n\"Our regular season is what's\nreally important,\" Capozzi said.\n\"That's my team.... Right now, it's\nabout the UBC team.\"\nThough the university athletes\nfrom across Canada will have little\ntime to gel as a unit before playing\ntogether, Rafter said the players\nrecorded three-minute video biographies to help with team bonding\nbefore they arrive in Italy.\nThe Canadian squad is undefeated at FISU, and they have\noutscored their opponents 97-10\nsince women's hockey was added\nto the tournament program in\n2009. As the defending Canada\nWest champions, Capozzi said the\nUBC team mirrors Team Canada\nthis year.\n\"We've been playing with a\nlittle bit of a target on our back\nbeing the team to beat as the defending champions,\" she said. \"So I\nthink it's similar to that going into\nthe FISU tournament.\"\nGraham Thomas, head coach\nofthe UBC women's hockey team,\nsaid players often get chances to\nplay internationally when teams\nfind success collectively.\n\"When the team does well, the\nindividual recognition and individual opportunities that come out\nof it are greater, and this [tournament] is a good example of that,\"\nThomas said.\nWhile the mid-December\ncompetition is fast approaching,\nboth players still have two regular\nseason games and exam preparation to contend with.\n\"I think it's going to happen\nquick for them,\" Thomas said.\n\"[They] play our last games, write\na couple exams and they're gone\nto Italy.... It's crazy. So I think it\nis going to come up on them fast.\nI just hope that they can prepare\nand we can help them prepare.\"\nAmidst the hectic fall schedule, Rafter recently came across a\nuniversally applicable quote that\nshe reflects on when anxiety starts\nto creep up.\n\"If I'm feeling a little stressed\nout about pressure, I think, 'pressure is a privilege,' and I need to be\nthankful for that pressure and use\nthat,\" she said.\nThough playing in Vancouver\nthis weekend is the main priority\nfor Capozzi, she is grateful for\nthe opportunity to progress as an\nathlete while representing UBC\nand Canada in Trentino.\n\"I want to show my best and\ntry to develop as a player playing\nat a high level and then just take it\nall in,\" Capozzi said. \"I just want\nto enjoy it and see if I can bring\nanything back that's going help\nthis [UBC] team.\"\nAs Rafter looked at the UBC\nteam credo in her team's lounge in\nThunderbird Arena, she became\nemotional, describing how years of\nhard work have led to this honour.\n\"I'm just very happy that I can\ngo to this tournament and my\nPHOTO JOSH CURRAN3THE UBYSSEY\nAbove: UBC'sTatiana Rafter (left) and Christi Capozzi (right) have led UBC to a 10-3-1 record so far this season, the best in Canada West.\nBelow: Capozzi has played over 100 games for UBC and was chosen as the team's captain this season.\nfamily and friends have believed in\nme all this time,\" she said, through\ntears. \"They're always going to\nremember that I went, and I'm\ngoing to feel like I really made\nthem proud.\"\nThomas said he has \"all the confidence\" in Rafter and Capozzi's\nabilities as not only talented\nathletes, but poised individuals\nas well.\n\"They'll represent our current\nplayers and the coaches with a lot\nof dignity and a lot of class, and\nI know that they'll do well over\nthere,\" he said.\nThe UBC women's hockey team will\nclose out 2013 with games Friday\nand Saturday at 7p.m. at Thunderbird Arena.Xl ; *in Canada West\n#13 TATU\nVNA RAFTER\nForward\n19 (1st)*\n10 (1st)*\n^ for 4\n#20 CHRISTI C\nDefence\n3 for 3\nAPOZZI\n1 POSITION .\n. POSITION\n1 POINTS .\n. POINTS\nGOALS i\nASSISTS\n1 SHOOT- ,\nOUT i\n. SHOOT-\nL OUT THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2013 | SPORTS + REC\nT-BIRDS 5-ON-5\nTHE INTERNATIONALS\nBRYLLE\nKAMEN\nBasketball\nParis, France\nMAGGIE\nSUNDBERG\nBasketball\nMansfield,\nConn.,U.S.A.\nDOMINIK\nBUNDSCHUH\n^ k Vienna, Austria\nAMELIE\nSCHUMACHER\nRowing\n\"The World\"\n1. If you didn't come to UBC, where would\nyou be?\n2. How has your diet changed since moving\nto Canada?\nI'd beatSouthernCal.l\nhad an offerto playthere\nwhile I was recruited to\nUBC, and I chose UBC.\nI'd say less fast food.\nAlso grocery shopping\nis so expensive here I\ncan't make my gourmet\ndinneraslusedto.\nPlaying basketball\nsomewhere!\nSo much sushi and\npoutine.\nI would bestudying in\nAustria with a lot more\nmoney in my pocket.\nNo schnitzel, questionable beer. However,\nmy stomach must\nhave developed a new\nenzyme to breakdown\nsushi rolls.\nProbably University\nof Guelph because I\nwanted to stay in an\nEnglish-speaking\nenvironment.\nnow eat bagels and\nsometimes bacon and\nhash browns for breakfast. It took me two years\nbefore I could do that.\nI'd probably be in the\nU.K. That was one ofthe\nmost common places for\nstudents in my school to\ngoto, but it wasn't really\nwhere I wanted to go.\nIt hasn't changed so\nmuch, the only difference is notbeingable to\nbarbecueatall!\n3. What's your favourite hobby?\nWhen I'm not playing\nbasketball orstudying,\n1 actually spend most\nof mytimetalking to my\nrelatives.\nRap battling.\nArguing with neighbours, who say that my\npiano istoo loud and\nthat 1 shouldn't play it\nafter 10 p.m.\n1 love turning up the\nmusic in my living room\nwhen my roommates\naren't around and imitating Beyonce's dance\nmoves.\nBaking. 1 love baking\ncookies or cupcakes on\nthe weekends with my\nroommates.\n4. What would you say is the most \"Canadian\"\nthing you've caughtyourself doing?\n5. Name one other Canadian place you'd like\nto visit and what you'd want to do there.\nwouldn't say hockey:\nstill don't understand\nthe rules. I do more\nyoga and longwalks.lt\nfeels like life has slowed\ndown.\nA road trip through the\nnorth and explore the\nterritories where there's\nonly one person every\ntwo to three square\nkilometres.\nSaying \"eh?\" Usually\nincorrectly...\nI've heard Nunavut is\nnice.\nhaveboughtCarharrt\njean overalls and actually\nwearittoschool.My\niPod has more country\nthan yodelling and I own\na belt buckle.\nI want to see Halifax, so\nlean run around the city\nand yell \"Haaaaalifaaaax,\nNova Scotia\" like everyone does here.\nsay \"sorry\" all the time,\neven though I am not.\nI want to go to the Yukon\northe Northwest Territories, seethe northern\nlights and throw a cup of\nhotwaterintotheairto\nmake snow.\nOccasionally I find\nmyself saying \"eh\" and\nhave to do a double-take.\nI'd love to goto Chur-\nchill and see the polar\nbears. That's definitely\non my bucket list!\nHOT\nOur take on the latest happenings in the world of\nUBC sports\nColeman Allen The third-yearswimmer won five gold medals at the\nCanada Cup swimming competition this past weekend in\nToronto, earning himself $1,700 in prize money. Note:he\nwas competing for his club team, not UBC varsity.\nKris Younq 'ts 'iarc't0 'Deat a season in which you finished top\n10 in the conference in points, rebounds and assists per game and took home MVP honours, but\nher nine steals were the clear difference-maker in\nUBC's win over Winnipeg last week. Her 27 points\ndidn't hurt either.\nFILE PHOTO CARTER BRUNDAGE3THE UBYSSEY\nColeman Allen won the 200m freestyle, 100m butterfly and 100m individual medley, as\nwell as two relay golds at the Canada Cup swim meet.\nThe six-time defending CIS champs Women's\nhave won 10 straight and are unde- volleyball\nfeated so far this season. But don't\nget too excited j ust yet \u00E2\u0080\u0094 they won\n20 in a row lastyear, so there's still\na lot of work to be done to get that\nrecord-breaking seventh straight\ntitle.\nThe injury-plagued men's basketball squad\ndropped two games to Thompson Rivers a\ncouple weeks ago, a team they had never lost to\nbefore. Thankfully, they're on the mend and held\non for two wins at home this past weekend to\npush back to 4-4. That's as many as they lost all\nlastyear, though.\nMen's basketball\nThe ice is cold, and so is the men's\nhockey team. They've lost five\nstraight games and are sitting second-last in Canada West at 3-10-1.\nMen's hockey\nNOT\nKris Young guards a Winnipeg player.\n=HOTOWILLMCDONALD3THE UBYSSEY II Opinions\nHow I got street\nharassers out of my head\nLLUSTRATIONDAVIDMARIN03THE UBYSSEY\nProvince columnist Tony Gallagher seems ready to throw a tantrum over anything.\nLAST WORDS//\nGOOD REWARD OR\nMISSING THE POINT?\nJohn Montalbano was named\nchairman ofthe UBC Board of\nGovernors for the upcoming year\none day after he donated $2 million to the Sauder School of Business for a leadership program\naimed at women and minorities.\nThis is good and bad.\nIt's good that UBC is perhaps\nrewarding generous donors supporting important causes when\npicking a new chairman. It is\ngood Montalbano is donating to\nsupport an important cause\nThe bad part is that \u00E2\u0080\u0094 well,\nmaybe UBC should have appointed a woman or minority to serve\nas chairman instead of a rich\nwhite man who wants to help\nwomen and minorities.\nAlso, we love to rag on Sauder\ndean Robert Helsley, and here's\nanother opportunity: at the\npress conference announcing the\ndonation, Helsley said he first\nstarted thinking about the need\nto increase programs for women\nand minorities after the racist\nchant and the rape cheer at the\nstart ofthe year.\nReally?\nIt did not occur to you before\nSeptember of this year maybe\nsuch programs were needed\nat any other point in your long\ncareer? With leadership like that,\nit is no wonder Sauder students\nthought misogyny and racism\nwas okay.\nIF YOU WANT CAMPUS\nSPIRIT, DRINK FOR IT\nIn our cover feature this issue,\nthree separate on-campus businesses \u00E2\u0080\u0094 the Pit Pub, Koerner's\nPub and Mahony's \u00E2\u0080\u0094 all claim\nthey are trying to build stronger\nties with students.\nThey seem to believe they have\na responsibility to reach out to\nstudents in order to develop some\nkind of campus spirit.\nOtherwise, students will keep\nheading to Fourth Avenue, or\ndowntown, for their share of\nnightlife (though whether a nightlife is what constitutes \"spirit\" is\nanother subject entirely).\nBut as Mike Mahony points\nout, the student market here is\nvolatile. There's only so much\nthese businesses can do to satisfy\nthe fickle whims of students.\nAt the end ofthe day, it's the\nstudents themselves that dictate\nwhat campus spirit is, and what\nform it takes.\nStudents want to have their\ncake and eat it too.\nWe want a vibrant campus\ncommunity, but if local businesses or institutions (often\nstudent-run themselves) aren't\nproviding the best possible deal,\nwe disappear instantly and flock\nto the other clubs, pubs and bars\nthat have monopolized Vancouver's nightlife industry.\nStudents want to\nhave their cake and\neat it too. We want\na vibrant campus\ncommunity, but if\nlocal businesses\nand institutions\naren't providing\nthe best possible\ndeal, we disappear\ninstantly and flock\nto the other clubs,\npubs and bars that\nhave monopolized\nVancouver's nightlife\nindustry.\nYes, the onus is on businesses\nto advertise themselves and compete for their share of the market. But students need to recognize that loyalty is a fundamental\ncomponent of tradition, and as\nsuch, the only way we're going\nto get the traditions that foment\ncampus spirit is by pressuring\nour campus institutions and\nbusinesses to become what we\nwant them to be \u00E2\u0080\u0094 rather than\njust leaving them in the cold.\nEVERYONE SHUT UP, THE\nSPORTS REVIEW IS FINE\nThe local media uproar about the\nUBC sports targeting review has\nmany athletes' and donors' blood\nboiling about teams being \"axed.\"\nReading the coverage in The\nProvince and The Sun feels like\nreading the tabloids.\nEvery UBC student pays\nroughly $200 towards UBC\nAthletics, and you can bet the\nvast majority of those students\nwould love to have some extra\ncash back in their pockets if\nthey were given the choice, so\nan internal review as to how\ntheir money can be better spent\nis absolutely necessary. Some\nteams will without a doubt lose\nsome funding under this new\nmodel, but they will not cease to\nexist entirely. Many of those that\nwill be \"cut\", or moved into the\ncompetitive club tier \u00E2\u0080\u0094 which, by\nthe way, will still receive some\nfunding from the university and\nlikely carry the Thunderbird logo\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094 already function on a relatively\nsmall budget to begin with. By\nallowing some current non-varsity clubs into the UBC Athletics\numbrella, the Thunderbird brand\nwill surely grow.\nThe university's mistake\nis in saying that no decisions\nhave been made. While this\nmay be the case from an official\nstandpoint, it's pretty clear that\ncertain teams aren't going to\nlose their status. For example,\nit was recently announced that\nUBC will be hosting the 2016\nCIS basketball championships\nat Thunderbird Arena. By being\npolitically correct, Toope clears\nthe way for certain columnists\nto insinuate that beloved teams\nlike basketball are going down\nthe drain, when realistically they\naren't going anywhere. If only\nthose columnists (and the donors\nby their sides) would spend more\ntime and energy growing the\nThunderbird fan base, Athletics\ncould fill seats and support all of\nits many teams.\nDon't wait until someone dies\nto give them flowers. Go support our athletes. A ticket to a\nThunderbirds game costs less\nthan an espresso drink at Starbucks ($2).\nMAKING IT EASIER FOR\nFOSTER KIDS TO GO TO\nUBC\nUBC's support for wards ofthe\nstate currently attending class is\ncommendable. This part ofthe\nyouth population is vulnerable,\nwith few support mechanisms.\nThey can't go home for the summer.\nThere is no home to live at during\nschool. And there are almost certainly no savings to rely on.\nAccording to Vancouver Island\nUniversity, 64 per cent of Island\nwards are aboriginal, one ofthe\nmost underrepresented populations\nat universities. Combined with a\nlack of resources and support, it's\nno wonder that of UBC's 40,000\nundergraduates, only two students\ncame to UBC as wards ofthe state.\nUBC's tuition waivers may\nencourage more kids in foster\ncare to pursue post-secondary\neducation. It's great that the\nuniversity is stepping up to provide an opportunity that these\nkids would never get, even as\nthe province tightens the noose\naround b the school's budget. XI\nOP-ED\nMELISSA FULLER\nMONTREAL (NUW) - It's hard\nto pinpoint when exactly it started\nto affect me, but one moment definitely stands out. I was waiting at\na bus stop wearing a strapless shirt\nand shorts when a guy yelled out,\n\"I'd love to bend you over,\" and no\none reacted.\nThe street was crowded with\npeople, including five other people\nat my bus stop, but no one glanced\nour way. Why would they, when\nthis has become a completely\nnormal moment to witness at two in\nthe afternoon?\nI shot the man a disgusted look,\nto which he added, \"Whatever\nbaby, you don't dress that way to be\nignored. Don't blame me for giving\nyou what you want.\" This was the\nfirst time someone put the blame on\nme for their advances.\nThe changes started off small.\nOne winter I started keeping my\nscarf on indoors to cover my chest.\nThen I started wearing oversized\nsweaters to hide my figure.\nIt didn't matter what I wore\nbecause I would throw a scarf and\nsweater over it just to reach a base\nlevel of comfort. Once summer\ncame around, every skirt, dress and\npair of shorts I owned felt too short,\ntoo tight, too something. I worried\nabout the way I moved in them\nand obsessed over how I might be\nperceived in every piece of clothing\nI owned.\nI want it to be clear that negative\nbody image wasn't the source of\nthis discomfort in the slightest.\nI love my body and how I look in\nmost of my clothes. My obsession\nwas with the attention I thought\nmy clothing choices brought. I\nstopped seeing items of clothing\nfor what they were and instead saw\nthem as symbols of past experiences, tainted by the sexual harassment I'd experienced in them.\nMy favourite high-waisted\nblue shorts became the man on\nthe street that widened his eyes\nand turned to stare at my ass in\nthem. My white V-neck became\nthe cashier at Starbucks who took\nmy order and my money without\nonce taking his eyes off my breasts.\nMy black leggings became the two\nguys at Tim Hortons who laughed\nas they offered to pay me $50 to\ngrab my ass while I waited for my\nmorning coffee.\nPicking a shirt to wear became\na choice of which one covered my\nbreasts the most. I started considering how \"rapeable\" certain skirts\nwere. This led to my conclusion\nthat shorts were safer because they\nwere harder for a rapist to get into,\n=ILE PHOTO GOEFF LISTER3TH E U BYSSEY\nbut with the downfall that they\nmight attract more attention since\nthey revealed more shape.\nThese considerations became\npart of my daily routine and\nbecame second nature whenever\nI changed clothes. I found myself\nlonging to wear less layers but feeling like it wasn't worth the loss of\ndignity and control I felt when men\nobjectified my body.\nI know that dressing a certain\nway doesn't excuse any kind of\nharassment, but knowing it and not\nletting it affect me through internalized victim-blaming were two\ndifferent things. For a while, my\nactions were in line with the belief\nthat changing the way I dressed\nwas key to avoiding the attention I\ndidn't want.\nI never would've admitted\nit before, I blamed myself for\nthis attention.\nThis made getting dressed a\ndaily anxiety-inducing experience,\nsince I thought it would make all\nthe difference in how I'd be treated\nthat day, and that I was somehow in\ncontrol of this. I stopped dressing\nfor myself and let street harassers\nwin by letting them into my head\nand my wardrobe.\nThe thing is, nothing changed\nwhen I stopped wearingthe skirts\nand dresses I considered \"rapeable,\"\nor when I spent the day choking in a\nturtleneck. Last winter I was wearing a knee-length, puffy parka with\na hood on and someone pointed at\nme while loudly telling his friend\nthat he'd \"tap that.\" Changing the\nway I dressed hadn't made street\nharassment happen less, it had only\nmade me feel less like myself.\nEnough was enough, so this past\nsummer I made the decision to take\nback the short shorts. I wore them\nevery day until I felt comfortable\nenough to show skin whenever I felt\nlike it. I started dressing completely\nfor myself again, and it was fucking\nawesome.\nDid I still get verbally harassed\non the street? Absolutely. Was it\nmore than when I was covering myself up? Nope. But the harassment\ndid become a little easier to deal\nwith when I felt like myself.\nIgnoring this invasive problem doesn't make it go away, but\nacknowledging and talking about it\ncould. Sharing our experiences and\nfinally placing the blame squarely on the perpetrators' shoulders\ncould. Seeing people publicly stand\nup against it when they witness it\ncould. But most importantly, in my\nexperience, not allowing it to take\naway our sense of self and worth\ncould be the biggest way we fight\nback against street harassment\nEditor's note: this originally ran in\nThe Link. 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