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" *3e 1 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 J&h\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0- i M _^_m\nOur Campus\nOne on one with\nthe people who\nmake UBC\n>3\nPut your\nbone in\nour dog\nWRITE FOR OPINIONS\nBrian Piatt I f eatures@ubyssey.ca News\u00C2\u00BB\nEditors: Kalyeena Makortoff & Micki Cowan\n01.26.2012 | 3\nELECTIONS\u00C2\u00BB\nElection infractions committed by Senate and BoG candidates\nMicki Cowan\nNews Editor\nThis year's elections have been\nfairly tame for elections administrator Carolee Changfoot.\nLastyear saw the disqualification\nand then reinstatement of a presidential candidate, Omar Chaaban,\nand slating accusations leveled\nagainst current AMS President\nJeremy McElroy and VP External\ncandidate Mitch Wright.\nThis year, seven candidates have\nbeen placed in the \"penalty box\"\nfor election infractions. \"Both\nKatherine Tyson and Carven Li\npromoted their campaign via social\nmedia before the campaign period\neven started,\" said Changfoot.\nCaroline Wong also ended up in\nthe penalty box. \"Her volunteers\ngot the message at the wrong time\nand ended up postering before her\nmaterial was even approved,\" said\nChangfoot.\nThe idea behind the penalty box\nis that voters see the names of those\nwho committed infractions when\nthey go to vote online. \"Generally\nthe penalty box will be put up where\nit is right now; it's very close to the\n'vote here' button. It's in a visible\nplace,\" she said.\nAccordingto a news release sent\nbythe 2012 Elections Committee,\nthe most recent additions to the\npenalty box are Erik MacKinnon,\nDawei Ji, Aaron Sihota and Jordan\nStewart for participating in slatelike activity.\nMacKinnon's name was at the\nbottom of an email sent to the\nFaculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences\nthat also included statements\nsupporting other candidates from\nthe faculty.\nMacKinnon said that when he\ninquired about sending out the\nemail with the IT announcements,\nthey informed him they would only\nsend out one email. In order to be\nfair to the other candidates from\nhis faculty, he informed them ofthe\nopportunity and submitted their\nwrite-ups along with his.\n\"I specifically put in the email to\nMargaret Nicholson, who handles\nthis at Pharmacy, that it can't go out\non my behalf and if it has my name\non it [that's] a violation of elections\nrules,\" said MacKinnon. His name\nwas also misspelled at the bottom\nofthe email. MacKinnon sees it as\na mistake. \"I made it very clear that\nthe...intention was never to run as\na slate, we don't even have similar\nviews on anything.\"\nAlthough the candidates and the\nfaculty stated itwas unintentional,\nthe committee has still found them\nin violation of code. They will each\nreceive a penalty and a fine often\nper cent of their maximum spending limit. 13\nSCHOLARSHIPS \u00C2\u00BB\nPresident's Entrance Scholarship axed\nMing Wong\nContributor\nIn a bid to maximize its effectiveness in attracting students,\nover six million dollars' worth of\nUBC's scholarship budget is being\noverhauled.\nThe UBC President's Entrance\nScholarship (PES) program, which\ngives one-time financial awards to\nincoming students based on their\nhigh school grades, will no longer\nbe awarded as of January 1, 2012.\nThe PES was set up as a financial incentive to persuade students\nto choose UBC over other post-secondary institutions. But UBC said\nthat research shows the scholarship is not determining students'\nchoice to enroll at the university.\n\"Our reputation, choice of program [and] our geographic location, were much more powerful\nconsiderations than a $500 PES,\"\nsaid James Ridge, associate VP\nand registrar of UBC Enrolment\nServices.\n\"The award itself was not a\nsignificant factor\u00E2\u0080\u0094in some cases,\nit appeared not to be a factor at\nall\u00E2\u0080\u0094in choosing UBC. So we began\na few years ago to think there\nmight be a much better use for this\nmoney.\"\nThe scholarship was a tiered\nprogram which automatically offered $500 to $4000 scholarships\ndepending on admission averages of\nthe applicant.\nOther Canadian schools such\nas the University of Toronto and\nMcGill still provide an entrance\nscholarship based on admission\naverages.\nThe decision, made by members\nofthe university executive through\na budget process, was made two\nyears ago and it has been winding\nNews briefs\nWingmen shown to be lying for\ntheir friends\nA new UBC study investigated how\nmuch \"wingmen\" lie for their friends.\nThe study showed that wingmen\nwill lie to improve their friends' reputations and downplay their worst\nqualities.\n\"I think that we defend the\nimpressions of those that matter\nmost to us.\" said Jennifer Argo. a\nprofessor at the Alberta School of\nBusiness.\n\"You're willing to mend other\npeople's impressions for them if\nthey can't do it themselves.\"\nAccording to the study, empathy\nmotivates people to lie for others.\n\"If you're low in empathy, you're\nnot a good wingman,\" said Argo.\n=HOTO COURTESY KALYEENA MAKORTOFF\nThe elimination of the President's Entrance Scholarship will allow UBC to fund more Go Global opportunities\ndown since then, phasing out lower\ntiers ofthe scholarship.\nRidge says 70 per cent of awards\nfunding went to PES. \"At any given\ntime we have three times more\ncontinuing students than we have\nentering students, so we really did\nwant to adjust that imbalance.\"\nThe approximately $6.1 million\ndished out to the PES annually is\nnow being put towards Work Study\nbursaries and multi-year Major\nEntrance Scholarships.\n$2.5 million will go toward student Work Study salaries, $1.2 million will be allocated to Go Global\n(funding students' travel costs and\nExistence of arsenic bacteria\nchallenged byUBCprof\nUBC microbiology professor Rosie\nRedfield has performed experiments\nwhich seem to disprove the groundbreaking, controversial discovery of\nbacteria which incorporate arsenic\ninto their DNA.\nIn December 2010 a research\nteam led by Felisa Wolfe-Simon\nclaimed to find a bacterial strain living in an arsenic-laden lake which\nsometimes used arsenic in place of\nphosphorus.\nRedfield led a group criticizing\nboth the results and the haste with\nwhich they were published. Redfield's\nfindings were posted on her blog,\nand have not yet been submitted to\na peer-reviewed science journal.\nother uses) and $1.1 million will\nfund bursaries.\nAdditionally, about $500,000\nwill be used to stabilize endowed\nawards that were impacted by the\nrecession. $150,000 and $100,000\nwill go respectively to the Major\nEntrance Scholarship and the\nLoran Scholar programs, and\n$500,000 will be allocated to a variety of programs, such as moving\nscholarship and bursary applications fully online.\n\"We wanted to align the money...\nto programs that were elements of\nour strategic commitment to give\nto students to enrich education\nUBC study examines\npolygamous marriage\nA study on monogamous marriage\nfound that polygamous societies\ntend to have greater levels of crime,\nviolence, poverty and gender inequality than societies that practice\nmonogamy.\nUBC professor Joseph Henrich,\nwho led the study, said this is due to\nthe increased social competition between men in cultures where women\nare less evenly distributed, which\nincreased chances that men would\nengage in criminal behaviour competing for the women available for\nmarriage. The study concluded that\nmonogamy leads to improvements\nin child welfare and less conflict in\nhouseholds.\nopportunities,\" said Ridge.\nBeatrice Collier-Pandya, a first-\nyear Engineering student, suggests\na balance between bursaries and\nrewarding incoming students with\ngood grades. For herself, scholarships were a factor but it wasn't the\ndeciding one.\nBut third-year Arts student\nChristy Fong received a PES when\nshe was accepted to UBC, and said\nthat itwas important in her final\ndecision.\n\"I would've chosen UBC whether\nor not I got a scholarship, but I think\nthat having it offered to me really\ninfluenced my choice to go here.\" 13\n\"Shit UBC Says\" goes viral\nA YouTube video titled \"Shit UBC\nSays\" has gained nearly 36.000\nviews since it was posted on Sunday\nThe video was written by UBC\nstudent Kaveh Sarhangpour. with\ncontributions from David Pratt and\nThomas Jeffery. who also acted in the\nthree-minute film. The video featured\nKevin Lee and Enzo Woo as actors.\nIn it. students get lost in Buchanan,\nplay Starcraft while conversing in\nKorean, yearn after Blue Chip cookies, hint at the phallic shape of the\nclock tower and struggle to pronounce \"Ubyssey\"\nThe video follows the meme established by the popular video series\n\"Shit Girls Say.\" the first instalment of\nwhich has 12.7 million views. 13\nCONFERENCES\u00C2\u00BB\nAfrica Awareness\nInitiative expands\ncampus focus\nALEXANDRA DOWNING/THE UBYSSEY\nConrad Compagna\nContributor\nThe words of Zimbabwean author\nNoViolet Bulawayo have been a rallying cry for students and faculty\nthat have called for an African studies major.\nBulawayo, a professor at Cornell\nUniversity, spoke at the African\nAwareness Conference held at UBC\nlast week. She said that in a school\nthat prides itself on creating global\ncitizens, neglecting other parts of\nthe world while emphasizing East\nAsia is not enough, especially when\nso many students are volunteering\nin Africa.\n\"[When] I hear sentiments like,\n'You are the first African writer ever\nto visit my classes,' then it becomes\na cause for concern,\" she said.\nThe conference hosted guest\nspeakers from UBC and around the\nworld in an effort to expand focus\non a continent that has often been\nportrayed as aland of famine and\nwar.\nCritical study ofthe continent\nremains badly underfunded at UBC,\norganizers said.\nThe initiative, founded in 2002,\nhas urged the university to expand\nits African studies program, which\ncurrently only offers a minor.\n\"I would say that UBC, at the\nend ofthe day, it's a commercial\ninstitute,\" said Osaze Omokaro, an\nAfrican Awareness Initiative executive. \"The sort of rhetoric that we've\ngotten from the administration is,\n'Ifyou can show us the demand for\nthe African studies program, we'll\nwork on the African studies program. And I think that there's something quite wrong with that.\"\nOne student who attended the\nconference, Maneo Mohale, said the\nAfrican studies class she wanted to\nget into was so packed there were\ntwo wait lists.\n\"I don't necessarily buy into the\nrhetoric that you've been given that\nthere is not enough demand for the\nclass,\" she said. 13 4 I NeWS 0126.2012\nELECTIONS))\nPlace Vanier hosts AMS elections debates\nGEOFF LISTER PHOTOS^HE UBYSSEY\nVP Finance debate\nDuring Tuesday's AMS election debates at Place Vanier, Tristan\nMiller, the sole candidate for VP Finance, took questions concerning his vision ofthe AMS's financial future.\n\"The sustainability fund in itself is here to provide funding\nfor sustainability projects on campus,\" said Miller. \"[What] I\nwould aim for is to directly approach faculties rather than having them apply to this fund. Not that many people actually apply to it, because people have to come and find that money.\"\nWhen asked about his position regardingthe AMS's relationship with clubs, Miller said, \"Moving to a system where they get\na week-long period three times a year to elect someone to look\nafter the money is one ofthe things I would do differently.\"\nMiller was then asked about what he would have done during\nthe controversy surrounding the Gaza flotilla donation. Though\nhe couldn't remember all the details ofthe event, he said he\nwould not have withheld the money.\nThe next question pertained to the amount of financial control the AMS should hold over resource groups.\n\"They view the AMS as an organization in opposition to\nthem. They view us as encroaching on their autonomy. We deserve the right to know what they spend their money on.\"\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Scott Macdonald\nPresident debate\nThe presidential candidates voiced their opinions on issues\nranging from Gage South to student engagement.\nOn Gage South, Alyssa Koehn said the Gage South petition\nwas a good example ofthe AMS communicating well with the\nstudent body.\nMatt Parson placed importance on designating the land as\nacademic rather than making it available for market housing.\nMeanwhile, Ben Cappellacci focused on how he worked on\nthe issue as VP Academic two years ago. \"The future is uncertain. It should remain a priority in the AMS to make sure it\nsuits the students' needs,\" he said.\nAll three candidates had different ideas of howto reach\nout and involve students. Koehn stressed the importance of\nfixing the AMS's website and generally being more clear and\ncollaborative in communications. Cappellacci's solution was to\ncollaborate with groups on campus. \"A simple way would be to\ncreate a video or presentation on what's happened at the AMS\nCouncil,\" he said.\nParson had a very concrete example of how to engage the\nUBC population. He plans to speak with four different students every day and document the meetings in a blog.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Micki Cowan\nVP Administration debate\nWith little difference between their platforms, VP\nAdministration candidates Elaine Kuo and Caroline Wong\ntried to make their respective cases to the audience at Place\nVanier.\nWongtouted her strong background in the workings ofthe\nAMS, while Kuo focused on helping student clubs and enhancing student life and involvement.\nBoth candidates agreed that the under-utilization ofthe\nClubs Benefit Fund and the Sexual Assault Initiatives Fund\nwas an issue to be rectified. They each pledged to improve\ncommunication on how students, clubs and groups can apply\nfor and receive money from the funds.\nWhen discussingthe new SUB project, which is part ofthe\nVP Admin portfolio, both Wong and Kuo spoke on the need to\nkeep students updated on its progress and to promote sustainability initiatives. Wong mentioned the idea of putting similar\nclubs in the same room to help solve the issue of too many clubs\nand not enough space.\nOne issue the candidates differed on was whether clubs\nshould be able to include \"UBC\" in their name. Kuo supported\nthis, while Wong didn't take a side. 13\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Colin Chia\nAPPLY NOW\nFOR GRAD SCHOOL\nWITH MORE THAN 100 PROGRAMS,\nYOU'LL FIND YOURS AT CARLETON\nCarleton offers you a truly unique grad experience.\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Shape your own education based on your research or study interests\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Work with recognized faculty and industry leaders\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Parliament, government, national libraries, major research labs\nand industry are just down the road\nDeadlines fast approaching for funding consideration\nApply today! oi.26.2oi21 News 15\nAMS ELECTIONS \u00C2\u00BB\nWould slates improve our elections?\nThe AMS banned student political parties in 2004, but the debate hasn't disappeared\nA Student Movement in Action\nThe suliit Progressive Actian Netwtrk.\nseeks te establish proactive change on\ncamiis. Bv representing the interests il\nstiiflents tram diverse backgro linns, the\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0I Is a cillecrJvc ill united in the\ncommon interest of working te\nenhance the Hues of students at\nUBC.\nSPAN is a student network whose\nPrinciples are roetel Ii die\nHeals of representation,\nacademics, education,\ncommunity, democracy,\ngu stain ami its/, and\nglobal citizenship\n.studentprogress.ca\nJan 17 - 23 Go to: www.ams.ubc.ca/eleefinns\nBefore the slate prohibition, posters such as these decorated the UBC Vancouver campus\nKalyeena Makortoff\nNews Editor\nWhen many student unions hold\nelections, voters are given a choice\nbetween a number of student political parties called \"slates.\" But this\nyear marks the eighth consecutive AMS election with a strict ban\non slates, to the point where even\n\"slate-like activity\" can result in\nfines or disqualification.\nSlates have been in and out of\nUBC's political culture since the\n1970s, accordingto AMS archivist\nSheldon Goldfarb. Between 1991\nand 2002, 56 out of 60 elected executives were part of slates, leaving\nindependent candidates in the dust.\nAn apparent systemic bias\nagainst independent candidates\nand the highly adversarial environment created by competition\nbetween slates were the main\narguments for banning slates in the\nAMS. In 2005, when independent\npresidential candidate Spencer\nKeys won the election, he succeeded in banning slates altogether.\nBut, as anyone who's involved in\nAMS politics knows, this didn't put\nthe slate debate to rest.\nWhat's wrong with slates,\nanyways?\nProponents of revivingthe slate\nsystem have argued that we've\nthrown the baby out with the\nbathwater. If slates came back, we'd\nhave better engagement, better\ngender and minority representation, and more accountability.\nNow graduated, longtime Arts\ncouncillor Matt Naylor was a\nstrong advocate for bringing slates\nback to the AMS. He backed the\nstudent engagement argument, saying that allowing slates would be\nanother way to draw new students\ninto student politics who otherwise\nmight not know where to begin or\nwould rather unite with a group of\nstudents who had similar concerns.\nVoters might also be better engaged and informed with a slate\nsystem. Richard Johnston, a UBC\npolitical science professor who\nholds the Canada research chair in\npublic opinion, elections and representation, said that voter turnout\nis likely hurt by not having slates.\n\"We're talking about a relatively\nlow-information environment\n[in AMS politics]. How do people\nnavigate in low-information environments? They look for crutches,\nthey look for proxies, they look\nfor cue-giving entities,\" Johnston\nexplained.\nImagine ifyou were given candidates for members of parliament,\nbut only the names, Johnston said.\nThen, imagine you were then given\neach candidate's party label.\n\"Merely by giving you those [labels], I would be telling you 75 per\ncent of what you need to know.\"\nFormer VP External Tim Chu\nagreed. \"It really does not help\nwhen you have students who are\ngoingto school, taking five courses,\nworking a part-time job to pay\ntuition fees and you're trying to\nask them to do research on...30,40\ncandidates.\"\nThe information is inconclusive\nabout voter turnout after the loss of\nslates; some years are higher than\nbefore and some are lower, and factors such as the voting system likely\nhave a large effect. But Naylor said\nthat it's still a matter of being transparent with students who aren't on\nthe inside ofthe AMS.\n\"Candidates already help one another, and those relationships play\nout in Council. The only thing the\nslate ban does is deny that information to the voting populace.\"\nAnother problem is that candidate's political views can be buried\nin their platforms, with their full\nposition only being disclosed after they've been elected to their\nposition.\n\"Think about it,\" said Chu. \"If a\nright-wing slate starts up on campus where their position is, 'It's\nokay for tuition fees to increase,'\nhow many students will be voting\nfor them?\n\"[But] that's actually the position\nof a lot [ofthe] AMS executive, and\npeople don't know that because\nthey're running as independents,\"\nChu argued.\n\"They're talking about their\nown experience and how they're\nbest suited for the job, but we don't\nquite know exactly where they\nstand.\"\nPolitical parties can also ensure\nethnic minorities and women are\nnot left behind.\n\"Ifyou're concerned [about]\nincorporating more women into political life, you have to take steps to\nmake it happen,\" said Johnston. \"It\nhelps to have a centralized nominating process that sets up quotas...\nIf there are no parties, there can't\nbe any quotas.\"\nThere used to be a quota for women in each slate, and while it did\nlead to more women running and\nwinning, women were often elected\nto VP Finance or VP Administration\npositions. However, no women have\nbeen elected AMS president since\nthe abolition of slates.\nToxic slates\nBut there are others that think\nthe AMS isn't the place for\npartisanship.\n\"Some view the AMS as a student government, but I see it as it\nlegally is\u00E2\u0080\u0094the Board of Directors\nof a $30 million non-profit service\nproviding organization,\" said\nJeremy McElroy, current president\nofthe AMS. He considers himself\npolitical, but tends to avoid placing\nhimself in parties. \"While people\nmay disagree on issues, we are\nbased on a consensus model that\naims to bring about the best possible outcome.\n\"Needlessly politicizing Council\nwould not engage students more,\nit would only bring more division\naround the table.\"\nKeys said this is exactly what\nhe saw before he banned slates. In\nhis experience, political competition was an underlying current in\neverything that Council did.\n\"The environment itself was\ntoxic...It doesn't make sense to have\nthat kind of a hyper-partisan environment that poisons everything\u00E2\u0080\u0094\neven the smallest of decisions in\nregard to who sits on an appointments committee\u00E2\u0080\u0094for what you\nactually got out of it.\"\nr PROVEN RESULTS.\nFRESH SOLUTIONS.\n*. ____Wki\nOono Chirllo Brian Duong\nAMS PRESIDENT VPF: NANCE\nSam Saini\nVF EXTERNAL\n:*\nSpencer Keys\nVP ADMIN\nHkk Seddon\nSENATE AT LARGE\nDani Bryant\nVPKMiMK\nChris Lythgo\nBOARD OF GOVERNORS\nGeoff Duck\nSHUHAMfifif\nChristine Lenis\nBOARD OF GOVERNOR\nwww.StudenlsForStudents.ca\nJohnston said this holds for most\npolitical party systems. \"Parties are\nseen as getting in the way of proper\ndeliberation, and indeed, they do!\nWe know that the extremes of partisanship can often get in the way\nofthe real business of politics.\"\nThe existence of parties also\ntends to produce boundaries and\noppositions that can get artificial\nand rigid.\nAccordingto Keys, in the days of\nslates, AMS councillors were not\nfriends, didn't spend any time with\neach other and everyone stayed on\ntheir own side of campus. When\nexecutives from different slates\nwere elected, it caused infighting\nthat might not be resolved until 9\nmonths into a 12 month position.\nStudent unions that have slates\nsometimes have rules that mitigate\nthe problems that plagued the\nAMS. Keys points to the University\nof Alberta, which has strict rules\non slates and doesn't have the\nculture of divisive politics that the\nAMS did.\nQueen's University, in comparison, has compulsory slate voting,\nwhere you only have one vote,\nand you vote for a slate. But there,\nslates don't continue from year to\nyear, meaning their brands aren't\nassociated with certain political\nviews. Instead, slates simply take\non the initials of a coalition of people running for executive position.\nTo slate or not to slate\nSo the question remains: has the\nAMS had enough cool-off time\nafter slates, or are they inherently\nwrong for student politics at UBC?\nIn 2009, a proposal to resurrect slates was introduced, but the\nmotion did not achieve the two\nthirds of Council support required\nto pass.\nBut slates have since been\nbrought into the Student Legal\nFund Society (SLFS) race. The\n2009 SLFS board passed a resolution to allow them, said Naylor.\n\"[We] thought that slates would\nprovide valuable information to\nstudents who weren't likely to get\njazzed up about the six individuals\nrunningto sit on the board ofthe\nlegal fund.\n\"I think it's helped the society\nby providing some stability, and\nalso by fostering debate about the\nsociety.\"\nThis year a new slate, using the\nname of an old slate called Student\nProgressive Action Network\n(SPAN), has entered the race,\nproviding a left-wing perspective to challenge the incumbent\nslate, Students for Responsible\nLeadership.\n\"A contest of ideas is going to inject some innovation into that race,\nand that society,\" said Naylor.\nBut Keys doesn't think the AMS\nwould be able to sidestep the polarization that comes with the re-\nintroduction of slates, and insisted\nthat projects like the new SUB\nwould never have passed under a\npartisan system.\n\"Look at what the AMS has accomplished since slates have been\ngotten rid of, and compare that\nwith the accomplishments in the\nsame period of time before slates\nwere gotten rid of and then tell\nme slates are better,\" said Keys. \"I\ndon't think you can.\n\"Everyone I've ever seen that's\nadvocated for a slate system in the\nlast ten years, not a single one of\nthem actually saw slates in action.\nThe only people who saw slates...\nhave said, it's better the way things\nare now.\" 13 6 I SpOrtS I 01-26.2012\nThe\nUBC\nSailing\nClub:\nTrying\nto catch a\nbreeze\nSomewhere in between competitive and social, the UBC sailing team joins the growing\ncollegiate sailing movement in the Northwest\nPhotos and story by\nGeoff Lister\nIt is a brisk, wet early October\nmorning on Lake Washington\nin Seattle. People dressed in\nheavy rain jackets walk from\ntheir cars to the dock at Sail Sand\nPoint in Magnuson Park, a former\nnaval base that is now a sprawling\nsports complex.\nInside the open doors of an old\nwarehouse is the dry storage for\nthe UBC collegiate sailing team. A\nsail lies on the floor. Neil Roberts\nand Karl Jensen, both engineering\nstudents, are debating about which\nnumber to apply to the new sail.\nAnother member ofthe team\nwalks in. \"We've got to be on the\nwater in ten minutes,\" says Becky\nPower, a fourth-year student in\nintegrated sciences.\nA crisp number eight is stamped\nonto the sail as the team rushes\ndown the dock to get out on the\nwater. The fresh sails fly into the\nair as other members scramble to\nset the rudder and tiller together.\nThe team is ready to set out into\nthe drizzling bay for a day of racing\nat the University of Washington's\nCascadiaCup.\nThe UBC collegiate sailing team started in 2009\nafter students from\nthe AMS Sailing Club\njoined the Inter-Collegiate Sailing\nAssociation (ICSA), a governing\nbody that includes teams from\nacross the United States and\nCanada.\n\"We were talking one day, and\nQueen's [University] has quite a developed [team] and we were talking\nabout how we all considered going\nbecause of that,\" says Power.\n\"We decided that [a team] would\nbe an excellent addition to the\nschool because a lot of sailors get\ndeterred from coming to UBC\nbecause there is no collegiate program, and then they will go out\neast to McGill or Queen's. We kind\nof want to keep otner sailors here\nand get more people involved on\nthe West Coast.\"\nThe AMS Sailing Club provides\nUBC's team with access to boats,\nequipment and training facilities. The team recently\nbought new sails\u00E2\u0080\u0094a\nsmall advantage, as sails\nlose their effectiveness\novertime.\nCollege sailing competitions, called regattas,\nrequire teams of two\nto sail small boats of\nthe same model, most\ncommonly the 13-foot\nFlying Junior. The skipper \"drives\" the boat,\ncontrolling the main sail\nand the steering, while\nthe other sailor is responsible for the weight\ndistribution ofthe\ndelicately balanced bats.\nThey're also responsible\nfor the jib, a smaller sail\non the front ofthe boat.\nHost schools provide\nall ofthe boats and basic\nequipment, although\nmost schools bring their\nown sails, rudders and\ntillers. These simple\nboats level the playing\nfield and keep the cost of\nregattas down.\nCompared to the other\nschools at this regatta,\nUBC is an amateur\nclub. UBC holds open\npractices twice a week\nduring the school year,\nand many ofthe team members\npractice only once a week and don't\nconsistently practice with the same\nteammate. Only two of the teams-\nPower and Byron Roehrl, and\nJensen and Roberts\u00E2\u0080\u0094have sailed\ntogether before.\nM\n2. Xio\nfter riggingthe boat,\nthe teams push out onto\nthe lake. A lackadaisical\nfour-knot breeze ripples\nacross the surface and the boats\nslide through the water quietly. The\nstart line bobs about half a kilometre\n*?j>;\nreaches zero. A quick start is key\nto a good race, buttoeingthe line,\noften crowded by more than 20 other\nboats, is a complicated dance. Boats\nthat push the limit are penalized\nby having to come back around and\nrepeat the start.\nUBC comes slow out\nofthe gate, with boats 4\nand 8 placing 15th and 18th\nout of 23 boats in the first\nrace. Scoring is calculated\nby adding up how well a\nteam places over several\nraces; each division completed eight races over the\nweekend. The winner is\ndetermined bythe lowest\ncumulative team score\nat the end ofthe regatta.\nThe boats sail two races\nand then switch sailors; if\nthe B division doesn't sail\na series, the A division's\nraces are discounted.\noffshore, stretching 100 metres to another buoy. The committee boat, a 16-\nfoot dinghy, sits on one end, setting\nthe course and managing the start.\nSailing races start on a sequence,\nwith the aim being to cross the\nstart line exactly as the countdown\nhe rain permeates everything.\nMy camera bag\nis soaked by\nthe second race and I'm\nsuddenly glad I paid for\nweatherproofing.\nThe wind, on the\nother hand, isn't nearly\nas consistent. After two\nraces (and just enough\ntime for the B division to\nsail to the line) it drops\nI to a whisper. Half an\nhour later, rippling water\nlures the teams back\nonto the course.\n\"Some people say\n[sailing] is 60 per cent athletic and\n40 per cent mental, so it's a large\ncomponent of sailing. The environment is a huge factor in sailing. You\nhave to be extremely adaptable,\"\nsays Power. \"Sitting onshore, you\nhave to keep an open mind and you\ncan't get frustrated because when\nyou get frustrated you're just not\ngoingto do well.\"\nThe wind picks up consistently\nthrough the afternoon. The wind has\nsailors hauling themselves out ofthe\nboat to hike out, flatteningthe boats\nagainst the stiff breeze.\nSailors train in and out ofthe\nwater. Sitting halfway out of a small\nskiff for hours requires more than\njust patience\u00E2\u0080\u0094it demands a gym\nmembership.\nWe decided that [a team]\nwould be an excellent\naddition to the school...\nA lot of sailors get\ndeterred from coming\nto UBC because there is\nno collegiate program,\nand they...go out east to\nMcGill or Queen's.\nBecky Power\nMember of the UBC sailing team\n\"Sailing's a sport you can get into\nno matter your level of fitness or\ngeneral health, but in order to get to\nthe top you've got to be on top ofyour\ngame just like any other sport,\" says\nRoberts. \"Ifyou look at top sailors,\nthey'll all be training on the water\nfour or five days a week and in the\ngym six days a week.\"\nFor some, the wind isgivingthem\nmore trouble than a sore abdomen.\nSmaller and more inexperienced sailors suddenly find their boats upside\ndown. As they flail to right themselves, frigid October water rushes\ninto every crevice of their boat,\nshockingtheir senses and their pride. 01.26.2012\nSports 17\nBecky Power looks out across a windless Pontiac Bay Sunday morning.\nNeil Roberts packs up sails at the end of the weekend regatta.\n\"It's frustrating when I let it\ncapsize. I've never been afraid of\ncapsizing because I've been around\nthe water so much, it's more, 'Oh\nno, now I've lost my position in the\nrace and I'm goingto come last,'\"\nsays Power, who managed to keep\nher boat upright for the weekend.\n\"But ifyou're pushing it, it's kind of\ninevitable.\"\nSailing may be competitive,\nbut it's not a varsity sport on\nthe western seaboard. While\ntop boats at regattas have\ncompetitive crews that have sailed\ntogether since kindergarten, local\nteams have people sailing in their\nfirst competition ever.\n\"It makes for a more challenging\nsituation at times, because you have\nto expect the unexpected, flailing\nand capsizing and doing odd random manoeuvres that are moderately annoying or dangerous at times,\"\nsays Jensen.\nUBC's team has made outreach\na key part of their mission. At this\nmeet, they've brought new sailors to\nteach them how to race.\n\"Most people on our team have\nraced before, but there's a couple of\npeople who grew up in [recreational\nsailing] programs. You definitely\nneed to know how to sail before\nyou join our team, but we're all for\nteaching and improving your knowledge of racing,\" says Power.\nWith varying levels of experience\nand points not counting towards\nnational rankings, this weekend's\nregatta has a slightly more relaxed\natmosphere.\n\"This was a small regional regatta,\" says Power. \"Ifyou're at the\nwestern championships you take\nthings more seriously. [If] it's like\na local regatta, it's not necessarily\nserious...It's competitive yet fun; we\nlike to let loose and have fun.\"\nTickets to a Sam Roberts concert\non Friday were purchased before\nthe trip. When the team arrived on\nFriday, they headed to a frosh party\nat the University of Washington\nbefore leaving to see Roberts play at\na local bar. The small bar is packed\nwith Canadians who have come\ndown to see him.\nOn Saturday, fresh off the water,\nthe team wandered for several blocks\nbefore arriving at a keg party held\nat a University of Washington team\nmember's house.\nAs I wandered around the party\ntaking photos and watching sailors\nfrom various teams banter back and\nforth, I could see a gradual osmosis of brotherhood developing. The\nsharing of drinks and stories was just\nanother facet of sailing's most fundamental requirement: the necessity\nof trust. And while most team sports\ncreate this, there is a certain amount\nof artifice in games created for stadiums and arenas.\nBut there is something pure in\nsailing, the necessity of two people\ntrusting each other as they combat\nnature's angst; howlingwinds and\nthe cascading waves of frigid, icy\nwater.\nThe team arrives on a clear\nSunday morning to awa-\nterskier gracefully carving\nacross a perfectly flat lake.\nTeams mingle, talking about sailing\nor school, while others sit in their car\nto catch up on homework.\n\"I'm kind of used to it. There's a\nsocial aspect of sailingthat occurs on\nno-wind days, so it's kind of a natural\npart of sailing culture,\" says Roberts.\n\"It's not ideal but there's good things\nthat come from it. A lot of my best\nfriends I've made hanging out at\nregattas.\"\nEventually a gentle puff of wind\ncoaxes the teams out onto the water.\nIt's slow going and races are abandoned and restarted as the wind\ncomes, shifts and goes. UBC's boats\nare placing well enough; veteran\nteam members Ryan Cutting and\nJen Grierson take a big early lead\nby charging the entire fleet in the\nwrong direction on the start line,\ncalled port-tacking the fleet.\nThe racing ends in the early afternoon and presentations are made.\nSailingteams rarely stay for trophies,\nas gettingback home at a reasonable\nhour takes precedent over waiting\nfor hardware. UBC places 11th and\n12th out of 23 boats.\nAs for UBC's sailingteam, it's\ngrowing despite undesirable winter\nconditions.\n\"It's not really developed quite yet,\nbut our goal is to become more like\nthe Queen's team,\" says Power. \"It'd\nbe nice for us to eventually get to that\nlevel. Obviously the team is only a\nyear old, so we're still in the testing\nphase.\n\"I think that with UBC, it's more\nto promote people to continue racing. It's a little bit competitive-\nlike, we didn't win, but it's not the\nOlympics.\" 13\nIf you're at the western\nchampionships you\ntake things more seriously. [If] it's like a local\nregatta, it's not\nnecessarily serious...\nIt's competitive yet fun;\nwe like to let loose.\nBecky Power\nMember of the UBC sailing team\na\nisr\n** ^fe^-W\nKarl Jenson and Mike Fischer cross the line for a first place finish on Sunday \u00C2\u00BB\nubyssey.ca/culture\nGet\nenlightened oi.26.2oi21 Opinion 19\nThe Ubyssey's official endorsements\nA1VIS Elections for the 2oi2_i3 ams executive\nEndorsements\nThis year, 12 Ubyssey editors and volunteer staff met for two and a half hours to decide\nwho we would endorse in the AMS elections. We operate on a one-person, one-vote\nsystem, and this year, in the interest of transparency, we're releasing our internal vote\ntotals as well. Coordinating editor Justin McElroy, being the cousin of current AMS President\nJeremy McElroy, did not take part in discussions or voting for our endorsement of president.\nThe vote totals differ slightly, as some staff did not vote on certain races. For a full explanation\nofthe thought process behind our endorsements, visit the AMS Elections blog on our website.\nPresident\nMatt Parson: 11 for, O against\nFor the first time in recent\nmemory, there are three\ncompetent candidates for\npresident. Alyssa Koehn is\npassionate about student\nengagement and has a\nproven desire for involvement with campus. Ben\nCappellacci is a great\nspeaker and did a good job as VP Academic\nwith the AMS. And Matt Parson is hardworking and has experience in many levels of\ncampus life.\nBut when you break down both what was\nsaid in the debates and the candidates' platforms, Parson has so much more to offer than\nthe others.\nParson has clear, specific plans for dealing\nwith the most important issues facing both\nUBC and the position of president. These\ninclude governance, Gage South, housing\naffordability, student mental health and student engagement.\nWe especially appreciate that Parson\nknows enough about campus issues to speak\nin detail on all the planks in his platform.\nWith the new Performance Accountability\nRestriction (PAR) on $5000 of executive\npay next year, there is a good chance he will\nachieve his goals.\nAnd for the first time in recent memory,\na presidential candidate is willingto pledge\nsomething concrete in terms of engaging\nthe student body. Parson plans to meet 1000\ndifferent students as president and document this in a blog. It's lofty, but it's better\nthan anything we've heard from the other\ncandidates.\nWhile Cappellacci's overall vision is\ninspirational, his plan for leadership is\nreminiscent ofthe current president, Jeremy\nMcElroy. They both speak about grandiose\nvisions for the society, but back it up with\nlittle detail. With so many clear issues to be\nworked on this year, the AMS needs someone\nwho has a more focused plan.\nKoehn's lack of experience in a VP position\nis one thingthat holds us back from endorsing her\u00E2\u0080\u0094we would have likely endorsed her\nfor one of those positions instead. We're\nalso concerned that by focusing so largely\non student engagement, she would not help\nthe AMS gain ground on many ofthe other\npolicy areas that it has been working on.\nAgain, these are three strong candidates\nand the AMS would benefit from all of them.\nBut Parson is knowledgeable and passionate enough to take the AMS in the direction\nit needs to go\u00E2\u0080\u0094and that's why we've unanimously endorsed him.\nVP Academic\nKiran Mahal: 6 for, 4 against\nWe are endorsing Kiran\nMahal by a narrow\nmargin over Bahador\nMoosavi. Iqbal Kassam\nis passionate, but lacks\nthe knowledge of UBC\nnecessary to oversee\nthe very broad portfolio\n^^^^^^ he's runningfor. Carven\nLi's platform, while having its share of good\nideas, is too focused on issues that aren't\npressing for the portfolio, such as athletics\nfees.\nBoth Mahal and Moosavi have the skills\nrequired to make good VP Academics.\nBut though Mahal might not be as qualified when it comes to the university affairs\npart ofthe portfolio, she has a clear vision for\nits academic responsibilities. The emphasis\nof her campaign on student mental health\nalso impressed us. As SUS president, she has\nshown that she can competently manage the\nresponsibilities required of an executive.\nMoosavi is well-rounded and reliable in his\nwork on Council, and we think it would be a\nsignificant loss if he left the AMS. Ultimately,\nthough, we feel that Mahal's strength on academic policy outweighs the balance Moosavi\nwould bring.\nWe should also add that The Ubyssey will\nnot comment on Party Rock's candidacy; an\noffspring of Rock has been sitting in our office for a week, giving us a conflict of interest\nin this matter.\nVP Administration\nCaroline Wong: 9 for, O against\nWe are unanimously endorsing Caroline Wong for VP\nAdministration.\nWong's experience as\nan AMS rep sitting on the\nBusiness and Facilities\nCommittee and chairingthe\n_ Student Life Committee has\ngiven her a reasonable grasp\nof many aspects ofthe VP Admin portfolio, and\nshe is known to possess a strong and efficient\nwork ethic.\nHer platform contains concrete plans for the\nnew SUB regarding sustainability and disability access, touches on some positive new plans\nfor club administration, and also has a strong\nfocus on improvingAMS services (although\nthis issue partially falls under the VP Academic\nportfolio).\nElaine Kuo demonstrated a fundamental\nlack of experience in this portfolio. Though\nshe has been president ofthe English Club,\nat the AMS level she has only served as a\nstudent-at-large on the Student Administrative\nCommission. Her platform focused on AMS\nclubs to the exclusion of all other issues.\nCompared to Wong, Kuo also showed a general\nlack of confidence and knowledge in debate.\nThere are a number of areas in which Wong\nneeds improvement, however. Demonstrating a\nlack of knowledge regardingthe Clubs Benefit\nFund, she stated in debate that it could be used\nfor travel expenses but was correctly informed\nby Tristan Miller that this was not permitted.\nHer communication style could also use more\nprofessionalism. But on the whole, there was\nconsensus that Wong's experience and knowledge gave her a clear advantage over Kuo.\nW >\nVP Finance\nTristan Miller: 9 for, O against\nTristan Miller is a very\nwell-qualified candidate\nfor VP Finance, and we are\nunanimously endorsing\nhim in this uncontested\nrace. Due to his work as\nI vice-chair of the Finance\n, Commission, Miller has\nsolid knowledge ofthe\nAMS's finances and his proposal for having\nCouncil adopt three-year plans is a good idea\nthat will help bring consistency to the society's budgetary priorities.\nOur endorsement does come with a small\ncaveat. In the past, there has been an issue with the VP Finance not being able to\ncommunicate effectively with the student\ncommunity, as Miller has pointed out in\nsome of his interviews. The problem is that\nMiller leaves much to be desired in his public\nspeaking skills. He has promised to increase\nconsultations with other AMS organizations\nbefore making decisions, but for this to work\nhe will need to improve his ability to speak in\nfront of large groups.\nWe do wish he had some competition\nto force him to defend his positions more\nrobustly, but we are confident that Miller\nwill be a dependable and trustworthy VP\nFinance.\nVP External\nKyle Warwick: S for, 4 against, 1\nabstention\nWe are endorsing\nWarwick, but the vote\nonly passed by a narrow\nmargin. The race for VP\nExternal is uncontested,\nwhich means a vote\nagainst Kyle Warwick\nis essentially a vote for a\nby-election and a hope for\nmore candidates.\nThe chief concerns about Warwick are his\npolitical ties (he ran as a Liberal candidate in\nthe last federal election) and his mismanagement ofthe executive pay raise as chair of\nthe Legislative Procedures Committee. But\ngiven that the Liberals have been reduced to\nthird-party status, this is less of a concern\nthan it might normally be. We also hope that\nWarwick has learned something about the importance of public relations after the pay raise\nfiasco that he bears some responsibility for.\nYet there are many reasons Warwick\ndeserves this endorsement. His knowledge\nof policy at every governmental level is unrivaled on Council, which is a particularly\nimportant asset in the VP External portfolio. He brings a long institutional memory\nto the executive and pays close attention to\ndetail during debates. Warwick also has a\nproven commitment to advocating student\nissues and can back up his rhetoric when\nchallenged.\nFinally, on a personal level, Warwick is the\nleast egotistical candidate that the AMS has\nhad for a longtime, which is refreshing in\nstudent politics. He consistently puts principle before politics and values the importance\nof open, honest debate.\nWe always prefer competition in election\nraces, but Warwick will serve the AMS well\nin this position.\nDissenting Opinion\nWhile Warwick is extremely knowledgeable\non the inner workings of AMS bylaws and\ncode, his lack of plans for federal lobbying is\nexcluding UBC from important debates that\ncould impact students.\nWarwick's political affiliation as a staunch\nfederal Liberal\u00E2\u0080\u0094he ran for them as a sacrificial lamb in the 2011 federal election\u00E2\u0080\u0094opens\nthe door for partisan politics influencing\nAMS policy. He may claim it won't be a\nproblem, but it has always been a problem\nwith partisan VP Externals in the past. He\nwas also the leading advocate ofthe PAR\nperformance bonus for executives, which\nwas bungled terribly and disillusioned many\nstudents.\nAlso in question are Warwick's abilities\nin advocacy itself. Having knowledge ofthe\nissues is one thing, but convincing others to\ntake your side is another. There is no doubt\nthat Warwick is a very intelligent, passionate\nindividual and an asset to the AMS, but he\nisn't the ideal candidate for VP External. 13 IO I Opinion 101.26.2012\nBoard\nof Governors\nSeat L Sean Cregten, 10 votes\nSeat 2: Erik MacKinnon, 6 votes\nRunner up: Justin Yang, 4 votes\nThe two students elected to UBC's\nBoard of Governors have a giant\nresponsibility. On the affordability\nof education, on governance ofthe\nlargest urban area in Canada without a municipal government and on\nletting the most powerful people at\nUBC know exactly what students\nthink, their voice is crucial.\nThe good news is that all seven\ncandidates have the experience\nand passion to be a positive force\non tne Board. It's the strongest\nfield any of us have seen. The bad\nnews is we have to choose two.\nFor our first choice, we are endorsing Sean Cregten for the Board\nof Governors. The vote was unanimous in his favour.\nHis two years as AMS Associate\nVP for Academic & University\nAffairs has given him the knowledge, contacts and sense of history\nto succeed in the role. On Gage\nSouth and land use issues, he has\nsecond-to-none expertise among\nthe candidates. Most importantly,\nhe knows how to manage the fine\nline of being respectful to the\nadministration while pointing out\nthe ways their plans do not benefit\ncurrent students. His lack of vigorous campaigning means his chances of winning are small, which is\na shame. But you won't be disappointed ifyou vote for Cregten.\nSumedha Sharma has served on\nthe Board for the past year, and\nwhile she is passionate and knowledgeable, her tangible accomplishments are few. Nobody will\naccuse her of not working hard,\nbut we feel it's time for a different\nperspective on the board.\nTagg Jefferson, despite having\nthe least campus-wide experience,\nhas impressed us with his nu-\nanced answers. However, his lack\nof knowledge on the governance of\nUBC (at least when he was interviewed by our writers) precluded\nus from seriously considering his\ncandidacy.\nMike Silley, though helped by his\nexperience on the AMS executive,\nwas too vague on anything other\nthan tuition increases for us to\nhave confidence on what he would\ndo on the Board. In addition, complaints by councillors and fellow\nexecutives about his work this year\ngave us pause.\nCandidates aside from Cregten\nwho received the most consideration by us were Erik MacKinnon,\nMatt Parson and Justin Yang. The\ndebate for Matt Parson was brief-\nwhile we have high confidence in\nhis abilities, the many potential\nconflicts that could arise from being president and a Board member\nmeant that ultimately we couldn't\nconsider him.\nJustin Yang is, in many ways, an\nideal type of Board candidate. We\nhave no doubts that if elected, he\nwould be diligent, competent and\ncourteous, while pushing forward one or two ideas that would\nbenefit all students. Yet his self-\nacknowledged problem of passivity\nwould hinder his effectiveness in a\ngroup of 18 very powerful and very\nwealthy people.\nWhich leaves us with Erik\nMacKinnon. We endorse him\npartly because he ran the best\ncampaign of any candidate in this\nelection\u00E2\u0080\u0094if you want to represent\nall students, you should put the\nenergy in to getting their support,\nand MacKinnon did that. But we\nalso endorse him because we know\nhe would work hard, be reasoned\nin his opinions and speak out when\nhe felt it necessary. We haven't\nhad a Board member that was a\nreal public advocate for student\ninterests in some time. MacKinnon\nwould be a breath of fresh air.\nHowever, a note on the elephant in the room\u00E2\u0080\u0094MacKinnon's\ndocumented history of offensive\nstatements about women and\nminorities on his personal blog,\nBald Truth. We condemn those\nstatements unconditionally. But\nultimately, even those most put\noff by MacKinnon's past statements acknowledged that when\nhe wants to act professionally, he\ndoes so. Now he has to understand\nthat if elected, he'll be representing all students; with many of\nthem, he's already at two and a half\nstrikes. Our endorsement is for\nMacKinnon, not for Bald Truth\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nand we hope he\nwon't make us\nfeel silly in\nsix months.\nSenate\nJustin Yang\nKiran Mahal\nKatherine Tyson\nMontana Hunter\n(all unanimous)\nFive out ofthe six candidates in this\nrace will be elected. We are unanimously endorsing four of them: Justin\nYang, Kiran Mahal, Katherine Tyson\nand Montana Hunter. The other two\ncandidates, Dawei Ji and Barnabas\nCaro, both failed to get enough support from our editorial board for\nendorsements.\nYang, the incumbent, continues to\nhave an outstanding understanding of\nacademic issues and will provide needed experience to the body's student caucus. Mahal is focused on academic\nissues and will be able to translate that in a useful way to Senate, with strong\nideas on how to bridge rifts between Senate and AMS Council. Katherine\nTyson's skill set will apply better to a role on the Senate than it did to the\nrole of AMS VP External, and she appears ready to forcefully argue for her\npositions.\nUnlike the first three, Montana Hunter has less experience on the issues,\nalthough he has expressed a willingness to learn and will comport himself\nwith maturity on a body where students must work side by side with professors and staff.\nBoth Ji and Caro possess less of an understanding ofthe workings of\nSenate and do not have the experience to support themselves stepping into\nthe role. Caro is passionate and well-intentioned but did not impress us with\nhis knowledge ofthe issues, while Ji is outspoken but lacks substance in his\npositions.\nUH-HHi'H\nItudent\nvs\nStudent Legal Fund Society\nWe unanimously endorse a split board\nIn the race for the Student Legal Fund Society (SLFS) board of directors, we\nare endorsing a split board. We believe both slates are flawed, and wouldn't\nwant to see either with full power. However, we're endorsing a ballot with\nfour seats for the Student Progressive Action Network (SPAN) and two seats\nfor the Students for Responsible Leadership (SRL). Ultimately our decision\nwas a result of both the SRL's refusal to fund many legal initiatives and the\nnumber of sensible proposals from SPAN.\nBecause the board has nine total members, a four-person block from\nSPAN would mean that they would be able to push initiatives such as funding Freedom of Information requests and criminal background checks for\nstudents, but would still have other board members to act as a check.\nWe have qualms about specific candidates on both slates, such as SRL's\nMaria Cirstea, who appears to have no interest in the SLFS, and SPAN'S\nArielle Friedman, who irresponsibly managed funds as treasurer ofthe\nSocial Justice Centre. However, SPAN is offering new ideas and enthusiasm\nto a board that has lacked both. And that's a good thing.\nThe referendum questions\nCOURTESY MICHAEL KINGSMILL\nQuestion 1: Reducing the Student\nSpacesFee\nYes 8, No 2\nWe endorse voting yes to this question. Although students put plenty\nof money into this fund everyyear,\nlittle of it is used and even less will\nbe needed in the future. With a\nnew SUB, the costly renovations\nthat are regularly needed to keep\nour current aging building in shape\nwon't be needed. Part of the reason\nthe AMS is in bad financial shape\nis because too much of their money\nis forced to go into funds that can't\nbe spent properly\u00E2\u0080\u0094and this helps to\nrectify that.\nQuestion 2: Putting the Endowment Fund in code\nYes 10, Abstain 1\nWe endorse votingyes to this because the new AMS Endowment\nFund is a good idea. Our student\nunion should have a fund where they\nkeep the principal but spend the\ninterest, creating a more sustainable\nbusiness model. It's important to\nprotect large endowment funds from\nmanipulation from future councils,\nand codifyingthe fund through a\nreferendum will do that.\nQuestion 3: The Whistler Lodge\nYes S, No 4, Abstain 1\nVirtually every member of our staff\nagreed there is very little hope of\nthe AMS running the Whistler\nLodge well anytime soon. It was\nbuilt by the Varsity Outdoors Club\nwhen Whistler was a sleepy outpost, the AMS took it over, and now\nthey simply do not have the capacity or the organization to effectively manage it in the 21st century.\nHowever, we were also in agreement that the AMS did not do their\ndue diligence in tryingto sell the\nlodge. Getting rid of a much-cherished service that many students\nfeel passionately about should\nrequire transparency and building\na case. Our student union didn't do\nany of this.\nThe question is, what matters\nmore: being accountable to stakeholders, or immediately saving the\nAMS quite a bit of money? A slim\nmajority of us believed that since\nselling the lodge is inevitable, the\nsooner the AMS gets on with doing so the better. But we wouldn't\nargue much ifyou voted the other\nway.\nQuestion 4: Selling three pieces\nof art from the Permanent\nCollection\nYes 1, No 9, Abstain 1\nWe overwhelmingly endorse voting\nno. The question is not transparent and students do not know what\nthey are authorizing the AMS to\ndo. The Permanent Collection has\nmany culturally significant pieces\nof art and it would be a shame to\nsee them sold because the AMS\ndoesn't wish to pay $9000 annually\nin insurance fees.\nFurthermore, the AMS has recently stated that they are looking\nto sell their most expensive pieces\u00E2\u0080\u0094which are the strongest pieces\nin the collection. One of these is\nLawren Harris's Mountain Spirit.\nHarris is one of Canada's most\nrenowned painters and Mountain\nSpirit was a gift to the AMS from\nMaclean's magazine. Selling paintings that were previously received\nas gifts is a massively insulting act.\nPierre Berton, Canadian icon\nand former Ubyssey editor, was\nthe managing editor oi Maclean's\nwhen the AMS received this piece.\nBy selling it they are tarnishing\nthe trust created between one of\nUBC's most famous alumni and the\nstudent union. If we give the AMS\nthe permission to do this\u00E2\u0080\u0094to legally\nsell a culturally significant gift\u00E2\u0080\u0094we\nare giving our elected executives\npermission to shine an incredibly\nnegative light on this campus.\nTo be clear, we aren't against the\nidea of selling a couple pieces of\nthe collection to have funds available for maintaining (and building\nupon) the collection. That's a good\nidea. But do it transparently, and do\nit honestly. 13 Scene\u00C2\u00BB\nPictures and words on your university experience\n01.26.2012 | 11\nHUMOUR \u00C2\u00BB\nAll in the name of art\nLet's sell those moldy old paintings and get some art students will actually understand\nWarnes\nWorld\nBryce\nWarnes\nOn the upcoming referendum,\nstudents will decide whether to\ngrant the AMS the right to sell the\nthree most valuable works from\ntheir \"Permanent\" Art Collection.\nThe collection is being stored in\nless-than-favourable conditions, and\nthe AMS can't afford the insurance\nand security payments necessary to\ndisplay it.\nI hope this passes and that the\nAMS sells the pieces. Current predictions point to the sale bringing\nin a giant heap of money, destined\nfor the Student Art Fund. Some of\nthat cash can go towards improving the situation ofthe unsold\npieces.\nMore importantly, that money needs to go towards art that\nstudents will actually enjoy, art\nthat will appeal to UBC's masses.\nInstead of being stored in a dank,\nleaky room, the AMS's art should\nbe on permanent display as murals\naround campus. Further, these\nnew works of art need to appeal to\nthe majority of students.\nAnd the best place to find art\nthat appeals to a broad swath of\nthe student population is at the\nImaginus Poster Sale.\nFor instance, how about a portrait of Bob Marley smoking an immaculate doob, spread across the\nsouth face of Buchanan Tower? If\none image sums up the Faculty of\nArts, it's Tuff Gong blazin'.\nThe front of Henry Angus would\nlook great with a film still of\nTony Montana wielding his \"little\nfriend.\" What image better summarizes Sauder mentality than\na coked-up gangster mercilessly\nmowing down other human beings\nin pursuit of wealth and fame?\nImagine the interior walls of\nthe BirdCoop graced with giant\nprints of Da Vinci's \"Vitruvian\nMan.\" That way everyone who is\nsweating and straining towards\nperfection can fix their eyes on the\nimpossible ideal they're pursuing.\nStills from Fight Club belong on\nall ofthe frat houses, due to implications of violent homoerocitism.\nI'd like to say there's a place\nsomewhere on this campus for\nAudrey Hepburn in Breakfast at\nTiffany's, but she's smoking a cigarette in that picture. If people see\nthat, they could very well take up\nsmoking, a habit which is morally\nWrong.\nThose \"Keep Calm and Carry\nOn\" posters would provide handy\nadvice in the Bookstore, where\nthe cost of textbooks often throws\ncustomers into fits of anxiety and\ndismay roughly equal to that experienced by British citizens during\na hypothetical Nazi invasion.\nThere is a chance that the cost\nof maintaining all this public art\n(keeping Bob's spliff lit, wiping\njizz and blood from the Fight Club\nmural, etc.) would be prohibitive.\nEJ Hughes and other BC art heirlooms could learn a thing or two from the Imaginus poster sale\nJONNY WAKEFIELOTHE UBYSSEY\nIn that case, I recommend the\nAMS begins hiringtheir own artists to churn out work.\nI'm picturing a Grapes of Wrath\nsituation here, where the AMS\npresident pulls up in front of an\nindependently-owned coffee house\n(perhaps the Boulevard) in a Ford\nroadster, watch fob dangling from\nwaistcoat pocket, cigar a-puffing,\nand enters the building.\n\"Y'all lookin' fer work?\" s/he\nhollers to the baristas behind the\ncounter.\nShortly, jalopies begin parking\noutside the SUB. They are piloted\nby men and women with new tattoos and thick-framed glasses,\ntheir improvised truck-beds loaded with easels, cameras, modelling\nclay and iMac workstations.\nBefore long, AMS businesses\nand clubs are graced with oil\npaintings of anime-eyed pop surrealist heroines, Super-8 dream\nsequences set to ambient micro-\ntechno, indecipherable India ink\ncontour drawings and Polaroids of\nhalf-naked skinny chicks smoking.\nAll in the name of Art. 13\nDiscover. Invent. Design. Build.\nManage. Change. Learn.\nIf you are looking for an advanced career in today's knowledge economy, Canada's\nlargest engineering school provides a breadth and depth of graduate programs to\nhelp you succeed. 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The event is a battle royale for the heads\nof undergraduate societies, as well as AMS executive candidates. Contestants attempt to\nwrest a Jello-soaked sock from their opponent's foot.\nbusiness.humber.ca\nBCIT\nengineers.\nAre you interested in sustainability and innovations in building science?\nThe BCIT Building Science Graduate program offers a unique,\ninterdisciplinary approach that teaches the theory and practical skills\nnecessary to deliver durable, healthy and energy-efficient buildings.\nLearn more about these degrees:\n> Master of Engineering (MEng)\n> Master of Applied Science (MASc)\nApply now for September.\nbcit.ca/buildingscience\nIt's your career.\nGet it right."@en . "Newspapers"@en . "Vancouver (B.C.)"@en . "LH3.B7 U4"@en . "LH3_B7_U4_2012_01_26"@en . "10.14288/1.0128737"@en . "English"@en . "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en . "Vancouver : The Ubyssey Publications Society"@en . "Images provided for research and reference use only. 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