"CONTENTdm"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1211252"@en . "University Publications"@en . "2015-09-17"@en . "2008-09-26"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/Ubysseynews/items/1.0128681/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " EMI\n>\nBYSSEY\nSeptember 26,2008 \ www.ubyssey.ca\n'd of Franklin since 1918 \ volume xc, number 8\n1 newspaper is published Tuesdays and Fridays\ndescends on campus\nLiberal leader answers student\nquestions, ignores Nardwuar /\nby Kalyeena Makortoff\nNews Staff\n\"t was a Tuesday afternoon and students were\ngathered outside of Hebb Theatre en masse. Music\n-was playing. The megaphones were out. This\nmay have been a campus spectacle typically ignored\nby passers by, but it was the 23rd, and Liberal leader\nStephane Dion was soon to arrive. see page 3\nGRAPHIC BY BRANDON ADAMS\nAltiMUJUw? ncmxd\nTODAY YOUR HOST\nIS\nLILLOOET\nARTWORK\nPAGE 7 THE UBYSSEY WWW.UBYSSEY.CA\nSEPTEMBER 2\nFri. Sep 26, 7:15pm, Granville 7\nThu. Oct 9, 7:15pm, Granville 7\nA Road to Mecca: The\nJourney of Mohammad\nAsad (Austria, 92 min.)\nIn these days of rampant\nIslamophobia, this fascinating and valuable documentary\ntells the story of one of the\nmost influential Muslims of\nthe 20th century\u00E2\u0080\u0094Muhammad\nAsad, who began life as an\nAustrian Jew. Asad's peripatetic life included an important\ntranslation of the Koran, a stint\nat the UN, and helping to establish Pakistan. \nSun. Sep 28, 9:15pm, Granville 7\nThu. Oct 2,10:45am, Cinematheque\nThe Equation of Love and\nDeath (China, 95 min.)\nA tour de force by China's finest young actress, Zhou Xun,\nanchors Cao Baoping's black\ncomedy/thriller. She's a tough\ncabbie, whose quest for her lost\nlover pits her against a couple\nof hapless drug runners. With\na frenzied, labyrinthine plot\nthat twists right up to the end.\n\nSun. Sep 28,11:00am, Granville 7\nSat. Oct 4, 7:00pm, Ridge\nSun. Oct 5, 7:15pm, Granville 7\nControl Alt Delete\n(Canada, 93 min.)\nWhen computer geek Lewis is\ndumped by his longtime girlfriend, he becomes obsessed\nwith internet porn. After a\nwhile, he begins a strange sexual relationship with the machine\nitself. When Lewis starts dating\nthe new receptionist Jane, he\nrealizes he may not be the only\none harbouring a dirty little\nsecret. Cameron Labine directs.\n\nSun. Oct 5, 7:00pm, Granville 7\nMon. Oct 6, 4:00pm, Granville 7\nPossibility of an Island\n(France, 95 min.)\nControversial French novelist\nMichel Houellebecq directs this\nmysterious, semi-science fictional drama that engages ideas\nabout cloning, environmental\ndevastation and the destruction\nof human kind, all set in some\nof the most cinematographically\nstunning locations imaginable.\nBenoit Magimel and Patrick\nBauchau co-star. \nFri. Sep 26,11:30am, Granville 7\nTue. Sep 30, 9:15pm, Granville 7\nWaltz with Bashir\n(Israel/Germany, 87 min.)\nAri Folman's animated documentary tells the story of the\n1982 Sabra-Shatila massacre of\nPalestinian refugees through the\ndirector's own reclaimed memories. \"Folman's eerie animated\nimages have a way of jarring us\nout of our comfort zone... The\nemotional dislocation and the\nunreal quality of war is written\nin every frame.\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094The Times\n\nSun. Sep 28,10:00am, Granville 7\nThu. Oct 2, 9:30pm, Granville 7\nSun. Oct 5, 1:00pm, Granville 7\nWhen Life Was Good\n(Canada, 86 min.)\nTerry Miles's atmospheric,\nelliptical film focuses on a trio\nof upscale urban bohemians\nas they try to gain some control over their lives and their\nrelationships. It's a naturalistic,\nimprovisational film, graced\nwith spot-on performances.\nBest of all, Miles has a sharp\neye for evocative, random detail\nthat gives the movie a dreamlike feel. \nThu. Oct 2, 9:30pm, Ridge\nTue. Oct 7, 1:30pm, Granville 7\n7\nVjf*\nThe Good the Bad the\nWeird (South Korea, 127 min.)\nKim Jee-Woon's exhilarating homage to Sergio Leone is\nthe hit of the year in Korea,\nand here's betting you'll find\nit a blast too. Set in 1930s\nManchuria, with the occupying\nJapanese army, the underground\nChinese resistance and assorted\nbandits in the background, it\nfocuses on three Korean anti-\nheroes (played by top stars\nSong Kang-Ho, Lee Byung-Hun\nand Jung Woo-Sung) as they vie\nfor a treasure map. \nThu. Sep 25,10:00am, Granville 7\nFri. Sep 26, 9:30pm, Granville 7\nSat. Sep 27, 3:30pm, Granville 7\nChomsky and Co. (France, 127 min.)\nDaniel Mermet and Olivier Azam's revivifying documentary\ncomes from a European perspective and poses a number of challenging questions. Greatly benefiting from direct access to Noam\nChomsky himself, the film also more generally celebrates critical\nthinking and folds in several other leading \"anti-establishment\nintellectuals.\" \nSat. Sep 27, 3:00pm, Granville 7\nTue. Sep 30, 10:30am, Granville 7\nSun. Oct 5, 9:30pm, Cinematheque\nGenerously sponsored by:\nTHEUBYSSEY\nThe Atom Smashers (USA, 81 min.)\nAt Illinois' Fermilab, physicists race to find the elusive Higgs'\nboson, theorized to be the missing link that will explain existence.\nIn Bush's America, though, military spending, not science, is the\npriority. An exploration of the beautiful truths and frustrating\ndifficulties of particle physics, Clayton Brown and Monica Long\nRoss' captivating documentary examines the intersection between\nscience, politics and culture on an international scale. \nSat. Oct 4, 6:00pm, Granville 7\nSun. Oct 5,10:45am, Cinematheque\nWed. Oct 8,1:30pm, Cinematheque Editorial\nIf you'd like to submit a letter, please contact feedback@ubyssey.ca\nSeptember 26,2008 \ Page 10\nOur view\nThe problem with a mixed UBC community\nWe've talked a lot about the War on Fun. The police crackdowns on\nbeer gardens, the harassment to some of our photographers and the\nincreasing problems that seem to plague our campus. These problems,\nhowever, have seemed to increased in significance in the last 15 or so\nyears\u00E2\u0080\u0094coincidentally, during the time which the campus has increased\nmarket housing.\nHere's the problem with the UBC mixed sustainable community\u00E2\u0080\u0094it\ndoesn't work.\nThe best example of having a calm homoogenous community is\nretirement town homes. In these gated communities only adults 55 or\nolder can live. They are meant for the empty nest baby boomers who\nwant to get away from a large house and move into a tighter community\nof people ofthe same age. People less than 55 are specifically banned\nfrom living there, and that's fine. No young person would want to live in\na community full of his or her parents and vice-versa.\nSadly, this idea seems lost on the higher ups who designed the Official Community Plan (OCP) some years ago. Billed on the OCP website\nas a \"diverse and stimulating place for living, working, and learning in\nharmony with the environment\" the plan hopes to take that magic word\neveryone is using today, sustainability, and apply it to a new UBC. Campus and Community Planning (CCP) believes that having a multi-generation community will create a better community in the long run.\nAs evidenced by the recent increase in RCMP response, complaints\nfrom neighbours and the limitations of Special Occasion Licences\n(SOLs), the University is caught in a war between the groups that share\na space on campus: the older and well off residents, and students, who\nare at the beginning of their lives.\nLets take the absolute worst example of planning at UBC\u00E2\u0080\u0094the fraternity village and its surrounding neighbours.\nIt would be naive for UBC to believe that by putting the fraternities in\nthe middle of residential neightbourhoods that they would be quiet.\nThis fact somehow escaped CCP despite the fraternities' reputation\nas party centres. The fraternity village was plunked in the middle of:\nan RCMP station, the newly constructed Greenwood Commons, older\napartments, and beside a preschool. What did they think? That students\nwould never leave or come home drunk? That no one would be out and\nabout past 10pm?\nNow it would seem the University is trying to appease the residents\nthat have moved onto campus (who presumably knew full well that they\nwould be living beside students). The RCMP response to the fraternities\nhas seemed to increase in the past few years. One example is the RCMP\narbitrarily imposing a hundred person limit on the houses.\nThe problem with the current setup is that no one wins. There will\nalways be fraternities in the fraternity village. They will always have an\nelevated level of noise compared to the surrounding neighbourhood.\nThe RCMP simply can't respond in full force to every noise complaint\nthey get; the work and manpower would be ridiculous.\nDespite the evidence ofthe problems a mixed community is causing\nat UBC, the OCP plan will provide another problematic area on campus.\nThe temporary bus loop (located beside Maclnnes Field) is slated to become market housing (Although this plan isn't set in stone). The area\nlocated between the new underground bus loop, Gage and the Village.\nThere is no doubt that if market housing is built, people will complain\nabout the drunk and noisy kids at three in the morning on Pit night.\nStudents will be drunk, they will be loud. The University should\nmove forward from this assumption instead of believing that they can\nchange how students behave. And of course, a potential renter or buyer\nshould be aware that this is a student campus. If they don't like the student atmosphere, maybe they should settle down in another beautiful\nlocation in our fair city. \a\n'Let's decide the name...in 15 minutes'\nLast night, in the council chambers of the SUB, AMS councillors\u00E2\u0080\u0094the\nhighest elected officials of the student body population\u00E2\u0080\u0094devoted all their\nenergy to solving critical student issues at UBC.\nWas it housing, you ask. No. Perhaps transportation? Try again. Textbook prices? Negative.\nYour elected representatives engaged in a 15 minute discussion\nabout the name of a committee that deals with compensation and HR\nconcerns. After intense debate, and after a motion to rename the committee \"The People Committee\" was narrowly dismissed, and council\nultimately decided to defer the issue until the next council meeting.\nWe acknowledge that the title of a committee may be important for\nsay, an influential public initiative (i.e. AMS electoral reform) where\nthe title of the committee must be clear, catchy and relevant for ease\nof public communication. However, an influential public initiative this\nwas not. This committee is designed to codify hiring procedures within\nthe AMS, basically to put down in writing what goes on day to day.\nThe name-game was not only a potent barbiturate, it highlighted\nan indulgent facet of the AMS where councillors spent their\u00E2\u0080\u0094we like\nto think\u00E2\u0080\u0094valuable resources nitpicking over a name just to hear themselves talk and engage in \"democracy.\" Granted, as Batman himself has\nsaid in an online video, the AMS undertakes plenty of worthwhile projects that serve all UBC students. But there's an obsession with process\nthat occasionally veers its head into council meetings, where hours are\nspent debating slight word changes in motions that will be forgotten in\nsix months time. So, AMS councillors, next time you find yourself in that\nsituation, we encourage you to bite your tongue, and just get a motion\npassed or defeated. Who knows? Maybe you'll be able to get to the Pit a\nlittle bit earlier. \a\nIn the Editorial \"These are some of my un-favourite things,\" we stated\nthat we hate \"old people.\" We would like to retract that statement and\napologize to anyone it offended.\n/\nTHIS WEEK, UBC WAS VISITED BY THE\nRARE 'BESPECKLED PANDER-FROG'\n(POLITIK PARISIANDOUCHEBAGUS)\nby Trevor Wolf\nLetters\nDear Sirs:\nRegarding your editorial of Sept.\n23 \"No such thing as an equity\ngulag.\" You say \"We're in Canada,\nwhere basic principles of equality are protected even above free\nspeech.\" I've read the Canadian\nCharter of Rights and Freedoms,\nand I must have missed that part.\nFreedom of expression is listed\nas a fundamental freedom right\nat the start. Equality is mentioned\nonly in regards to equality under\nthe law. Nowhere is equality\nplaced above freedom of speech.\nYou also say \"The point of the\nequity officers is to give people\na course of action to take if they\nfeel discriminated against.\"\nBut people already have many\ncourses of action. They can complain to the Equity Office, an institution specifically designed for\nthat purpose. They can complain\nto a university administrator,\nwho is obliged to deal with the\ncomplaint. If these avenues fail\nStreeters\nto satisfy, they can go outside\nof the university to the BC Human Rights Commission, or in\nextreme cases they can go to the\npolice. And both in and out ofthe\nuniversity there are many organizations willing to assist.\nSo what is the real purpose\nof these equity officers? You suggest that they could act as a kind\nof referee when passions get high\nduring AMS events. But I doubt\nthat AMS events are plagued\nwith shouting matches filled\nwith racial and sexist epithets.\nYou are solving a problem that\ndoesn't exist. And in regards to\nsimple shouting matches, what\nbusiness is it of equity officers to\ndiffuse the situation? What has\nthis to do with equity? Students\nhave a right to heated debate if\nthey so wish, and some things\nare worth shouting over. Given\nno sensible purpose for having\nan equity officer at every single\nAMS event, students would be\nright to be paranoid. Will these\nofficers give talks on equity, and\nif so how political will these talks\nbe? Will they file reports, and if\nso, will they name names? Will\nthey attempt to control what is\nsaid\u00E2\u0080\u0094and how it is said\u00E2\u0080\u0094at AMS\nevents? Are they attempting to\ncontrol what is said simply by\ntheir presence?\nAnd above all, students will\nwonder why the university trusts\nthem so little that they must be\nmonitored at every single AMS\nevent. Why is Big Brother watching them?\n-Stewart Trickett UBC\nComputer Science '79\nEditor's note: In the Charter of\nRights and Freedom, the limitations clause of section 1 and the\nnotwithstanding clause of section\n33 allow certain infringements to\nthe to the Charter in demonstrably\njustifiable cases. These have been\nused uphold laws against obscenity and hate speech (R. v. Butler\nand R. v. Keegstra respectively).\nWhat do you think about the new improvements to Translink's bus routes to campus:\nLu Zhao\nAnimal Biology 3\n\"Well I'm\nhaven't really seen any\nimprovements...\nEveryone just\ncrams in one\nbus. And sometimes the buses\nskip stops for\nsome reason.\"\nKristina Horbender\nLand and Food Sys 4\n\"I haven't really \"They've just \"The lines have\nseen that much been so-so, it's been insane...\nimprovement... been same as So I think they\nI do know that always, it feels just need to\nthey have a new like. It's not get more buses\nbus route which been worse, going, like I\nI have used a which is great. don't see a big\ncouple of times, But it hasn't change.\"\nthe 33, which been really bet-\nis good. But ter.\"\ndefinitely this\nbus has to come\nmore often.\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Coordinated by Tara Martellaro and Li Kathy Yan, with\navier Vela\nScience 2\n\"Lastyear the\nbuses were\nreally crowded,\nespecially at\npeak times...I\nthink it's getting\nbetter, but many\nthings could be\nimproved. 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