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ONE ON ONE WITH THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE UBC
David Wilson has coached the UBC wrestling team since 2006.
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Wilson pins down
wrestling at UBC
Raul Arambula
Contributor
UBC wrestling coach David
Wilson's first foray into sports
was playing goalie for his junior high school's hockey team
in Springhill, Nova Scotia. He
quickly earned the nickname
"Red Light," because whenever
the opposing team would score
a goal, a red light above the net
would blink on.
"Once you get a nickname
like Red Light, that's when you
know that hockey is not for
you," said Wilson.
Instead, Wilson moved on to
the school's wrestling team. In
the beginning, he said, he was
not really good at the sport. He
considered himself a "creative
and unorthodox wrestler. They
would show me a move, and I
would just make it my own."
It wasn't until high school
that he met good coaches who
introduced him to the art —
and technique — of wrestling.
"I started to love wrestling
... and technique," he said. "I
loved doing a move that no
body else was thinking."
He quickly excelled in
the sport, and after graduating from high school, he
was one of Atlantic Canada's
top young wrestlers. Wilson
was recruited by Concordia
University, where he joined
the Montreal Wrestling Club.
In the years that followed, he
wrestled under the tutelage of
renowned wrestling coach Dr.
Victor Zilberman and trained
alongside Olympic medalists.
Despite his love ofthe sport,
Wilson admitted the wrestling
world is brutal.
"Many quit after high school.
There's no money on this.
There's no dream to play professionally. You can dream to
go to the Olympics, which only
handfuls actually get to go."
In 2006, Wilson came to
UBC and volunteered to become a wrestling coach. He was
the one who single-handedly started the university's
wrestling program.
"I made it into a club. We
practiced and received support
from parents. We had a small
budget and we went from
there."
In the years that followed,
Wilson has worked to establish
the club as an official UBC
varsity team. There have been
plenty of negotiations, but he
has seen no concrete results.
"They never saw wrestling
as part of a roster of sports," he
said. "We lobbied with them
about wrestling and we've been
doing that since I've been on
board."
Under his guidance, the
Wrestling Club has become a
centre for student wrestlers
from countries around the
world, including Japan and
Argentina. Wilson even invites
his Olympic class friends to
teach his students some moves
and skills.
Wilson emphasized that
wrestling teaches far-reaching
skills. He motivates his pupils
daily to work hard and not
give up.
"If you excel on the mat, you
can excel off the mat." Xi
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DITORS WILL MCDONALD + LAURA RODGERS
MONEY»
SHHS TOTAL COSTS
UBC GIVES $11.8 MILLION IN INTEREST-FREE LOANS
"UBC requires [Student
Housing] to take out
internal loans for building
new residences from the
UBC endowment, and
charges profit seeking
levels of interest on
these internal loans of
approximately 5.75%. UBC
is lending to a part of itself
and requiring a highly
profitable return."
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Interest-free loans for faculty, admin total $11.8 million
Arno Rosenfeld
StaffWriter
UBC's practice of offering interest-free housing loans to recruit
select faculty is more widespread
than previously known, according
to information obtained through the
Freedom of Information Act.
The university currently has
outstanding personal loans totalling
$11.8 million offered to administrators and top-level faculty.
The Ubyssey has also learned
that the loans, administered by the
UBC Treasury and referred to as
"interest-free" by human resources,
do in fact have interest charged on
them. UBC Treasurer Peter Smailes
said that the faculty ofthe individual given the loan picks up the tab
for interest.
"We don't charge the individual,
but the actual faculty pays for it,"
Smailes said.
For example, inthe case of university librarian Ingrid Parent, the
UBC Library pays the interest on
NEWS BRIEFS
Man missing from UBC
hospital found
Cory Krushell, a 21-year-old patient at UBC Hospital, was found
on Tuesday after he went missing
for three days.
Krushell disappeared after he
left the hospital for a walk last
Saturday night. He was found
Tuesday when a Coast Mountain
Bus Company driver recognized
him at the UBC bus loop around
8 a.m.
According to Sgt. Peter
Thiessen ofthe RCMP, it appears
Krushell went to Surrey and back,
but details of his trip are unknown.
"At this point we haven't been
able to determine where exactly
he went and why. He required
some medical attention first,"
Thiessen said.
UBC graduate may have violated
probation for Stanley Cup riot
UBC graduate Camille Cacnio
has been accused of violating the
terms of her probation for participating in the Vancouver Stanley
Cup riot.
Cacnio was sentenced to two
years of probation for participating in a riot. Cacnio was caught
on camera taking men's clothing
from Black and Lee Formal Wear
on Jan. 15,2011.
Hersentence included 150
hours of community service and a
10 p.m. curfew.
Cacnio has a court date scheduled for Jan. 14. Xi
her $600,000 housing loan. Parent
is tied for the largest loan with
Sauder School of Business Dean
Robert Helsley, whose faculty is also
paying the interest on his loan.
UBC defends the practice
of offering the loans, currently
numbering 47, as common among
top universities and essential for
attracting quality professors and
administrators to Vancouver.
"Because ofthe cost of housing
in Vancouver, UBC would be unable
to recruit outstanding faculty
without some kind of housing
assistance," Vice-President Human
Resources Lisa Castle said in a
December interview.
Offering interest-free loans is not
a common practice in recruiting employees inthe private sector, accordingto Denise Baker, associate dean
ofthe Sauder School of Business and
an expert in recruitment.
"I am not aware of very many
companies who offer interest-free
loans," Baker said. "If it does hap-
MEDICINE»
pen, it is at the very high executive
level and would be negotiated and
not standard practice."
Other universities in Canada
vary in their approach to offering
loans to their faculty. Simon Fraser
University has a process for offering
subsidized loans to their faculty. But
DougThorpe-Doward, SFU's director of academic relations, did not
comment on whether SFU offered
any interest-free loans inthe model
of UBC's executive loan program.
Dawn Palmer, associate
vice-president of human resources
at Langara College, said she was
unaware of any such loans being offered to Langara faculty. However,
Palmer noted that in her previous
human resources job at Provincial
Health, the hospital she worked for
offered such loans to attract doctors
to Vancouver.
A spokesperson for the University of Toronto said in a written
statement, "Some of our divisions
may use [interest-free loans] as a re
cruitment tool." The spokesperson
added, "It is not a program run
centrally at the university."
AMS VP Academic and University Affairs Kiran Mahal said the
university needs to get creative to
make housing more affordable for
students, not just faculty and administrators. A great deal ofthe rent
students pay for housing on campus
is used to pay interest on money
loaned from the UBC Endowment
to UBC Housing. Mahal said that
the university could save students a
significant amount of money on rent
if the university cut the interest rate
for student housing.
"The same consideration needs
to be given to students.... We face
exactly the same constraints ofthe
Vancouver housing market... and
don't have as high earning potential
as these top-level administrators. So
it's time for the university to look at
student housing the same way," said
Mahal, a
—With files from Neal Yonson
Health-related programs to integrate
Ming Wong
Senior News Writer
Dietetics and dentistry may not
have much in common at first
glance — but that's about to change
at UBC.
The university is working to integrate a wide variety of health-related disciplines, from nutrition to
kinesiology to nursing to medicine.
"What we really want to do is
to have people in health professions work together, train together, do research together," said
Hugh Brock, associate provost of
academic innovation.
UBC's goal is to have a model
that reflects the global trend of
patient-focused health care. Instead of having patients be treated
by different health professionals
for separate diagnoses, the patient
would be treated in one spot by
a team. The buzzword is "interprofessional," and UBC wants
that idea to be prominent in its
health-related education, practice
and research.
The basic structure of all the
faculties will remain the same.
But the Schools of Nursing and
Kinesiology will be moved out of
the Faculties of Applied Sciences
and Education to undetermined
locations. Other changes include
a joint admissions office for the
health professions and streamlining services such as IT and
human resources.
"Medicine, dentistry, pharmacy
— we teach similar courses. We
do research in similar areas," said
Chuck Shuler, dean ofthe Faculty
of Dentistry. "The concept is how
can we get all these people who
are now separated by... faculty
type barrierfs], how can we get
them talking together and be
productive."
Shuler sees potential in
Dentistry collaborating with dietetics. "What you eat is probably
related to how [many] cavities you
have and things like that, and we
don't have a good link to them [at
the moment]."
At one point, UBC considered
a super-sized "Faculty of Health"
for all disciplines. But Brock said
that idea has been scrapped, with
the university focusing on integration instead. Ideas currently
being discussed include integrated
teaching on topics such as ethics,
collaborative research among
different disciplines, and clinical
placements with trainees.
"I think that students can hope
for a more coordinated approach
to training future health care
professionals," said Brock, putting
emphasis on going out to the field
in teams.
Currently, the operating budget
for the Faculty of Medicine is
larger than all ofthe other health
professional departments combined. Shuler isn't too worried
that Dentistry and other smaller
departments will be compromised,
but he acknowledged that others
might feel differently.
"In an academic institution,
you're always protecting your
territory, like turf wars. So I think
there probably are some [faculties]
that are resisting, but at this point
... it's too early to say."
Cindy Pan, a second-year pharmacy student, likes the idea of seeing more interprofessional practices within the health disciplines,
but she said she's concerned that
those practices may be happening
too early for students who don't
have enough depth in their studies.
"One ofthe drawbacks of trying
to encourage this collaboration
so early on is that you don't know
enough about your own profession
and you don't know the boundaries
of your own profession," she said.
"I think that will be kind of
cool, to get to know people from
different faculties and stuff like
that, and to get a different outlook
on things," added first-year kinesiology student Claire Boothe.
Brock said the announcement of
the integration will be made later
this month. He is hopeful it will be
implemented by the summer.
"There's pretty good consensus
that health care ofthe future will
be very different from health care
of now, and UBC needs to move in
that direction." Xi
RSDAY, JANUARY 10, 201:
SUSTAINABILITY »
Forestry renames
department to
include word
conservation
VAN YASTREBOVFILE PHOJWHE UBYSSEY
The Faculty of Forestry rebrands for
greener image.
Will McDonald
News Editor
A department in the Faculty of
Forestry is giving itself a facelift.
On Jan. 1, the department of
forest science changed its name
to the department of forest
conservation science.
Department head John Richardson said the name change
reflects the department's focus
over the last few years. Only
three ofthe department's 20
faculty members have degrees
in forestry.
"Forest sciences itself
kind of has the implication of
thinking about growing trees
better to have more trees cut
down.... Very few of us are
actually doing things like that,"
said Richardson.
Conservation is usually
considered to fall under other
departments, such as biology,
ecology and botany. But Dean
of Forestry John Innes said the
faculty plans to work with other
disciplines rather than overlap.
Innes added that the name
change is related to the faculty's
image as a whole.
"The name change may increase the numbers of students
who are interested in [conservation], because they don't
necessarily find it when they are
searching for potential courses at
UBC," said Innes.
"That's something we have
been working on fairly carefully
over the last three or four years,
trying to ensure that people
understand what we actually do."
Innes said the changes
toward sustainability were
happening through the whole
faculty, but Richardson said
he didn't think the faculty as a
whole would change its name to
reference sustainability.
"The world of forestry is just
too big and it just didn't seem to
fit for the faculty. But it does fit
well for our department within
Forestry," said Richardson.
"I think there's just too much
momentum.... I think that's going to just stay the way it is."
Third-year kinesiology student
David Bai thought the new name
was a good idea.
"Everybody wants to be green
nowadays. Green has ceased to
be just a colour and more of an
adjective, so [it's] great for them,"
said Bai.
Innes said the faculty continues to work on its perception
in campus.
"I'm hoping that the image
we're conveying is one of stewardship of a finite resource. We
are tryingto ... get over that we
are concerned about sustainability and sustainable management
of resources and we'd like to
get over that we go well beyond
forest," said Innes. Xi Culture
ANNAZORIA
URSDAY, JANU
PERFORMANCE ART »
Break the fourth wall at the AMS Art Gallery
Film-influenced performance art pieces will be interactive, thought-provoking
Rhys Edwards
Senior Culture Writer
The term "performance
art" is much maligned,
and little understood.
It often conjures up
confused, alienating
imagery: rambling provocateurs
reading poetry, smearing their
bodies with a variety of liquids
and injuring themselves while
solemn-faced audiences look on.
On Jan. 15, several visual arts
students hope to change this preconception. In a Celluloid Garden, a
special event held in the AMS Art
Gallery, will feature a series of live
performance art informed by the
medium of film. A live screening
of Stanley Kubrick's last film, Eyes
Wide Shut, will follow. The event is
open to the public.
"We left it deliberately open so
that it wouldn't be closed off or
esoteric to people who just wanted
to check out the gallery space,"
said Katherine Enns, a performer in the show and a fourth-year
BFA student.
"It's also kind of fun because no
one that I know of really knows
what performance art is. It's a really vague definition,... so it's kind of
fun to give people that ability of,
'Here, this is what performance art
is,' and expose them to that."
Accordingto Olivia Dreisinger,
a volunteer at the gallery and one
ofthe performers inthe show, In
a Celluloid Garden will expose
the public to performance art and
promote connections between
In a Celluloid Garden will exhibit at the AMS
various clubs and organizations
on campus.
"[We wanted to] foster an actual
community on campus," remarked
Dreisinger, who is a fourth-year
English honours student.
Although the artists come from
different backgrounds and majors,
they share a common experience: they all took VISA 390, the
new performance art class inthe
departments of art history and
Art Gallery on Jan. 15.
visual arts. UBC is one ofthe only
institutions in Canada to offer
this course at an undergraduate
level. Now, In a Celluloid Garden
will provide an opportunity for
the artists to collaborate outside
ofthe classroom and engage with
the public.
Hailey McCloskey, a senior
anthropology student who will
also be performing in the show,
remembers her experiences with