Capilano Courier // Volume 48 // Issue 19

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I'm On A Boat

Babes On Bikes

International Womens Day

Turnt Up Transit

Sad Skiers on Sad Slopes

The Evolution of Man to Machine

Edible Botany

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CONTRIBUTING WRITERS:

Carolina Vinueza, Keara Farnan, Kevin Kapenda, Steve Tornes, Sabrina Kuhn, James Martin, Joe "The Poet" Louis, Christine Beyleveldt, Jasper Grau

Taylor Lee is a sport-loving, adventure-seeking designer/ illustrator with an aversion to taking it easy. Check out more of her work on Instagram @taybritlee

CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS:

Taylor Lee, Guillem Rovira, Ekaterina Aristova, Cristian Fowlie, Ksenia Kovhevnikova, Megan Collinson, Sydney Parent, Arin Ringwald, Danielle Mainman, Vivian Liu, Samantha Smith, Crystal Lee THANK YOU

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The Staff

Leah Scheitel Editor-in-Chief

Therese Guieb News Editor

The Capilano Courier is an autonomous, democratically run student newspaper. Literary and visual submissions are welcomed. All submissions are subject to editing for brevity, taste, and legality. The Capilano Courier will not publish material deemed by the collective to exhibit sexism, racism or homophobia. The views expressed by the contributing writers are not necessarily those of the Capilano Courier Publishing Society.

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Andy Rice Managing Editor

Alva Tee Arts + Culture Editor

Andrew Palmquist Production Manager

Faye Alexander Features Editor

Gabriel Scorgie Opinions Editor

Cheryl Swan Art Director

Carlo Javier Lifestyle Editor

Ricky Bao Business Manager

Brandon Kostinuk Web Editor

Letter From The Editor Leah Scheitel, Editor-in-Chief

For all the badass ones “I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession which I entered before my husband was in public life.” – Hillary Clinton I sat in the dentist's chair for 45 minutes this morning. My faithful dentist, Dr. Yamoka sliced open my mouth for what should be the last time to scrape off some excess gum tissue from previous operations. Local anesthesia was all that they provided me with, for fear of developing an addiction to oxytocin. So I sat there, with a thin cloth as a veil, watching his white latex gloves slowly get stained with my blood. It was weird, because although I couldn’t feel anything (the drugs are good) I started crying. Maybe it was seeing the blood, or the realization that this is the last time my mouth will go under the knife, or the idea that my relationship with my dentist is coming to it’s demise – it’s been the longest relationship I’ve had with a man in a long while. Whatever the reason, this operation made me sad.

Since smashing my teeth out in a bike accident in April of 2013, I have had eight operations for a total of $37,000 worth of work. And for over a year, I took to impressing people with the ultimate trick of being able to take my false teeth out on a whim. This backfired a few times, resulting in one pair getting tossed into the garbage and another getting misplaced at my grandmother’s funeral. There were many morbid jokes from my family to compound this mistake. But it’s all coming to an end, and soon, I will have a new set of teeth and can finally be able to take Dr. Yamoka off of speed dial.

If I’m being honest with myself, I’m primarily sad that this endeavour is ending. For nearly two years, I’ve had battle scars. I’ve had continual and visible wounds to show that I was tough, that I could handle shit. My toothless grin was my personal illustration of that one-hit-wonder song from the 90s, where they get down, but then they get back up again. With the renovations of my mouth complete, I won’t have that proof anymore. Sure, I will know what happened, and how it altered me, both for the better and for the worse. But how will I be able to show others? I’ll lose the empathy I’ve crutched on for a long time, and just be another girl with a story, but no scars.

After regurgitating the details of the accident that checkered my smile, people would usually respond with sentiments of being a badass or tough for handling it in the fashion that I did. Two things need to be said to this. First off, I couldn’t have done it without the support of many friends and family who, luckily, love me. With their help, I held fundraisers and collected some money

towards the operations. And with their help, the emotional turmoil and insecurities began to ease.

It wouldn’t have been as easy without them, all of them.

Secondly – and this is the thing that I have to remember – is that this accident isn’t what made me tough, or able to conquer it. It provided an opportunity for me to show how I can handle intense pressure and smashing up my once perfect mouth. But it’s not what taught me how to do that. The people in my life taught me how to do that – most notably, the women in my life.

I come from a long line of strong women. More than one of my maternal grandmother’s aunts were some of the original suffragettes in Canada, and fought tooth and nail for women’s rights. My grandmother instilled in all of her children, and especially in the girls, how to be self-sufficient and the importance of independence. This is also the same woman who could ensure that all her seven kids were well-dressed and well-mannered for every Sunday mass of their childhoods, and all on a shoestring budget. All of her kids grew up to be relatively well-adjusted and amazing people.

Her strength is apparent in them in ways that I’m not even sure that they notice. My Aunt Sara is the epitome of emotional strength, as her husband has suffered from debilitating MS for half of their marriage. He hasn’t had the use of his legs in a decade and is now confined to hospital bed, but it doesn’t hinder my aunt. She has developed this odd sense of humour and just does the shit that she needs to do to get by. It’s a sight to awe.

It’s apparent in my mother too, who, as far as I’ve experienced, has never let anyone tell her what she could or could not do. She has done amazing things, such as building Timon and Pumba, among other props and trinkets, for the Broadway show, The Lion King to becoming a professional flight attendant at age 52. And when she heard that I hit my mouth, causing thousands of dollars in damage, she just said “Okay, let’s find a way to fix it.” No guilt, no pity, just solutions.

This is why it’s stupid and selfish for me to be saddened by the completion of my dental repairs.

I don’t need a toothless grin as a show of strength or to prove my badass factor. I have to trust that it will be apparent in me when it needs to be, as it is in my mother, aunts and multiple other women in my life. Tough isn’t an appearance but an action, and luckily, I have learned from the masters of how to use it properly.

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The Voicebox is back, ready to humbly respond to your questions, concerns, and comments about anything. To inquire, just send a text to 778.855.9942 to anonymously "express" and "voice" your "opinion" and "thoughts" on any "subject" or "issue." And, as long as it's not offensive, we will publish it here, right in the Voicebox. It's a win - win, or whine - whine whatever way you look at it.

Do any of you guys know Taylor Wilson? My friend has a crush on him, and apparently he knows everyone on campus, so…

Hey, if there is a tourism info night then why don’t you highlight the sick programs brah? There was something about mountain biking down mountains and getting bank… Also you should offer cooking lessons or recipe ideas for you readers, on second thought maybe drink of the week you guys sound like total lushes.

Tourism info night? Sick programs? Mountain biking?

What on earth are you talking about? You’ve clearly found a recipe for “drink of the week” and slammed a few back already. Hey, did you know that Gabe is single?!

I hear the business editor is a big shot in the music industry.

Why is he with the Courier?

Can you please explain what Spotify is and why Canada does not have it? I mean, in Europe/South America it’s the shit.

Spotify is a music streaming service where many of the larger record companies have licensed their artists’ songs and made them available for your listening pleasure.

Limitations and annoying ads exist on free streaming, but a paid subscription allows for additional options like downloading and the ability to listen to songs offline.

The company was started over in Sweden back in 2008, and sometimes it just takes a little longer for cool European stuff to make its way over here. Take IKEA for instance, which first opened as a mail-order catalogue back in 1943. Canada didn’t hear a peep until 1976 when stores finally started popping up all over the place. I’m pretty sure Spotify is a thing in Canada now though.

Didn’t they roll that out in September?

Jasmine Watkins @jl_watkins So far I’ve written about #TheDress and #WhiteLlama.

Journalism.

Stephanie @BrutalStephanie Hold up. Did @CNN really put the #WhiteLlama on the air?

Joey @joeyishellagood Everyone shut the hell up, it's #whiteandgold. I asked the damn #WhiteLlama and he agrees.

Matthew Craig @MCraiger58 Was firmly planted on team #blueandblack last night, but this AM it appeared #whiteandgold. How has this not happened before? #WhiteLlama Disapproving Mike @obsolete29 Haters gonna hate hate hate. #TeamWhiteAndGold #WhiteLlama #LeftShark Stacey Slager @yarnsalad Thanks to #WhiteLlama and #BlackLlama, the Internet now loves llamas.

We need a llama emoji now.

WTOC Mike Cihla @MikeCihla So much for #NetNeutrality. We're ALL talkin #TheDress if #blackandblue or #whiteandgold. Cant wait for #WhiteLlama / #BlackLlama 2 chime in Eric Jensen @EricJohnJensen Black llama taken into custody. White llama still on the loose. #WhiteLlamaPrivilege Jason Hart @jasonahart #WhiteLlamaPrivilege RT @exjon: Oh I see, mr. policeman.

Pull over the Black llama.

Jeff McCabe @buzz4t The Llamas have been captured. The reign of llama terror has ended. Naturally, the cops grabbed the black one first. #WhitellamaPrivilege

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I think Therese knows him, but then again she knows everybody on campus too. The only time I’ve ever seen Taylor Wilson was last Friday when we all witnessed him bail HARD on the concrete by the dumpster outside our office. For such a bad fall, he made a pretty good recovery. Who knows, maybe he’ll fall for you too. But he’ll probably fall for Therese first.

We don’t have a business editor, but we do have a business manager. However, I’m like 99 per cent positive that he’s not the Chinese pop star you and I both wish he was. Are you referring to another member of our staff perhaps? Take another look at the masthead and try again for next week’s VoiceBox! I’ll save you some space.

Most important news of the week, Llamas went on the loose. Cops apprehended the black one first. #WhiteLlama #WhiteLlamaPrivilege

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NEWS

THERESE GUIEB NEWS EDITOR

NEWS@CAPILANOCOURIER.COM

Housing hurdles MANY OBSTACLES BEING FACED IN OBTAINING A CAMPUS RESIDENCE Kevin Kapenda × Writer

Capilano University’s facilities are expanding but the one thing that the school will not be getting anytime soon is campus housing. Of the Lower Mainland’s five universities, only University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University have campus residences, while Kwantlen, CapU and University of the Fraser Valley do not. Since CapU’s influence is growing throughout the Metro Vancouver region and is welcoming more and more international students every year, campus housing would allow students from outer suburbs or other countries to live and study in one safe location. Though the demand for student residences at CapU is strong, obstacles related to municipal land ownership and provincial laws regulating BC universities are what may ultimately prevent the school from building them.

Since the beginning of the school year, the Capilano Students' Union (CSU) has been shining light on multiple issues of concern to students, including student housing and the need for campus residence. CSU President, Brittany Barnes, believes that campus housing would provide a lot of benefits for international students, students from out-

side the North Shore and Vancouver area.

“Many students come to Capilano because it’s the cheapest university in the region, but most of our students don’t live on the North Shore. Many of our students live in Surrey and Langley because they are the most affordable municipalities.”

Campus residences also take a lot of stress off students who spend multiple hours commuting every day to and from CapU. “Campus housing would allow students from places like Surrey to improve their quality of education and mental health by no longer having to dedicate three to four hours a day to transit,” Barnes explains. She adds that student housing on campus would also yield other advantages for students like safe and secure housing for people who may be new to the area or country. “As a parent of a student or student, I would feel wary of looking for housing on sites like Craigslist because you never really know who you’ll end up living with and that can be quite scary, especially for students from outside BC or Canada,” argues Barnes.

One of the hurdles facing the possible construction of student residences in the surrounding area of the campus is the cost of acquiring land from the District of North

Vancouver. “The amount of money that the district wants for the land is outrageous and the university administration doesn’t think it’s an appropriate number,” says Barnes. She also adds that the cost of purchasing land from the municipality is rather problematic for the University because there are provincial laws limiting what institutions can and cannot with regard to their spending. “Another element is getting funds to buy the land and build the residences. Under the University Act, which is legislated and enforced by the Provincial Government, universities such as our own are not allowed to accrue debt, which is something the school would need to do to build residences,” says Barnes, “The law states that Capilano must have a balanced budget every year.” Barnes also explains that the government is unwilling to fund a possible campus housing project at CapU because it would dip into their annual budget and the amount of money they spend on advanced education.

To assist students with housing, the CSU has been committed in helping their members find affordable places to live, with or without campus residences. “The ability of students to find good, affordable housing is important to the CSU. Until we succeed in

getting residences on campus, the CSU will continue to offer our housing registry service to students, which is available on our website,” says Sacha Fabry, CSU vice president for University Relations. Barnes is also involved in discussions regarding the possible creation of student housing in the Lonsdale area of the City of North Vancouver. “I’ve spoken recently with the City of North Van Mayor [Darrell Mussato] about an innovative idea to create a student housing building on lower Lonsdale, which would not only serve Capilano but SFU, UBC, BCIT’s Marine Campus as well as other post-secondary institutions in the region,” says Barnes.

While student housing would mainly benefit the people who would be living in them, Barnes insists that the construction of campus residences would also have a positive impact on the future economic and social growth of the CapU community. “If campus housing were to be built, all types of things would start to be built around them, like successful small businesses that the [provincial] government is all about. Student housing at Capilano would also create demand for other things, like a campus pub.”

student voices set to improve the campus SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS MEET REGULARLY WITH BULCROFT Kevin Kapenda

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Relationships between many university heads and their student population are often non-existent or tense at best because most of the decisions made by university executives have an impact on students. Capilano University President, Kris Bulcroft has decided to consult students in her decisionmaking process through an initiative she calls Student Voices. Student Voices is a discussion forum between Bulcroft and select scholarship recipients who get together to examine and solve various issues facing CapU’s student population. Both Bulcroft and the students involved in the discussion believe that the meetings have led to many improvements and plans on campus that otherwise may have never been thought of in the first place.

Student Voices was started in 2011 by Bulcroft after she felt that she needed a group of students to regularly consult with on matters related to the university experience. “As a president and a decision maker, I felt that I needed to have a group of students that I could bounce ideas off of and listen to their perspectives of Cap,” says Bulcroft, “Student Voices was also a great opportunity for students to get to know me better and for me to get to know some of them.” In order to be admitted into Student Voices, students must receive a Capilano Excellence Award or the Paul Gallagher Scholarship for Excellence.

While Student Voices meetings are always attended by Bulcroft and the scholarship recipients, other students are often invited

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to attend the discussions if their topics are of relevance to the groups they represent.

“I may also invite the CSU or other groups on campus to attend the discussions as well depending on the subject of the meeting,” explains Bulcroft. “Other types of students that have been included in the discussion meetings are international students from the mentorship program and students involved with the First Nations Student Centre.”

Some of the common themes that have been discussed at these meetings with Bulcroft in-

clude the need for residences on campus and other issues related to student housing, as well as transportation to and from CapU. One of the main reasons why Bulcroft started Student Voices was to find out things she didn’t know about students on campus, and what she could do to ease some of those concerns. “One of the common themes that comes up a lot when I talk to students is the desire to have more collaborative or common spaces because many students have said they know the students in their programs, but have a desire to know students across programs and the university,” says Bulcroft.

She consulted Student Voices members and other student groups on ways she could bring them together to help solve this concern. “Some of the decisions about where to put the centre for international experience, the student union space, the Aboriginal gathering space, really came about through my conversations with [Student Voices] about the need for spaces that were more colourful, more social, less formal, more flexible,” recalls Bulcroft. She also adds that her decision to cluster all those spaces in the Library building was done to make it easier for students to socialize and regularly cross paths with each other in a central area.

Capilano Excellence Award Recipient and former Capilano student, Amanda Zayonc, believes that her meetings with the president really gave her a chance to voice her concerns or interests to her, while also getting to know more about how the University is ran.

“Every meeting was a bit different, which allowed us to talk about a wide variety of

subjects with the president,” says Zayonc, “Meeting with the president gave me and the other students another perspective on the issues facing this university and what they were doing to fix them.” Some of the ideas Zayonc brought to the table during Student Voices included student concerns about WiFi service, the possible creation of a volunteer trip to Ecuador for students and ways to make computer access more accessible on campus. According to Zayonc she felt that it was the relationship between her fellow award recipients and Bulcroft that made Student Voices so interesting. “Most students don’t get to sit down with the president and have her ask you what you want done for the University,” adds Zayonc.

Though student voices has helped Bulcroft communicate with students, hear their concerns and collaborate with them, she says that she wants like to increase her contact with them by potentially finding ways to expand the Student Voices program and include more of their peers. “I think I would definitely be open to having an open house in which students who have signed up could come down and voice their questions to me about a subject like student housing, for example,” says Bulcroft. For now, she feels that her open-door policy has worked and is connecting her with tons of students and issues she would have otherwise had to go and seek out herself. “I have a blog where many students have contacted me through it and came to my office to chat with me on many occasions.”

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CSU PLANS A BIG BUDGET YACHT PARTY

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On April 11, the Capilano Student’s Union (CSU) is taking its usual year end jubilations and cranking it up with a yacht party called Rock the Boat. This is a big step up from its previous efforts that include limo rentals and club nights.

“We wanted to do something that this campus has never seen before. We wanted to really bring it up to the next level,” says Zofia Rodriguez, CSU vice president of Student Life and organizer of the event.

Once onboard the “Queen of Diamonds” yacht, attendees will have three floors to let loose on. The vessel will be stocked with several bars and there will be a complimentary dinner of pasta, burritos and salad. The CSU has also scheduled three DJs to play that night DJ LUVLYF, DJ FKYA and a third student DJ. The yacht will float out through False Creek then return to the dock around Science World where party-goers can attend the after party from 10:30 pm until 1 am at an undisclosed location in the nearby vicinity.

The main reason for the creation of Rock the Boat is that this is the first year that the CSU has been outside of the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS). The CSU believes that its new structure has a lot to prove to CapU students through hosting

an event this big. Rock the Boat has been in the works for a few months getting support from the Student Life committee and eventually getting the green light from the CSU Board of Directors.

It’s clear that the event has turned into a passion project for all of the people who are working on it. The CSU is trying to build confidence in its students so that it can host even bigger plans down the road. “In September, I’m hoping we are going to have a really kick ass back to school,” states Rodriguez. She

says that if the CSU would want to leave an impression with the students a pub night will not cut it.

Approximately $15,645 will be spent for the yacht party. The biggest expenses include the yacht at around $7,300, followed by the DJs at $3,500. The yacht service was decided by thorough research on local companies.

Bigger name DJs were originally picked but the focus eventually turned towards newer local talent.

According to Rodriguez, the CSU is

only anticipating making back an estimated $8,000 which comes to a total loss of $7,600. “It’s not a problem,” states Rodriguez “We want to subsidize the cost for students. We don’t want to charge $70, $80 $100 per ticket...I’m happy to have that loss because we are delivering what the students want.” The funding comes out of the CSU’s event line budget, the loss is fully intentional and is seen as a necessary expenditure.

The demand for Rock the Boat has exceeded all expectations with early bird tickets selling in a day and the next tier tickets disappearing in a few hours. Tickets are expected to be completely sold out for the event.

The scale of Rock the Boat has been brought into question on how reasonable the budget is. Justin Pham, a third year music student at CapU, is concerned about the budget losses. "It's disheartening that they are using that much money from students to do it. Did they take a survey before doing this? This is the first year that they are doing it, but what's the point of it really?" Pham says.

Many students are unaware of the cost of Rock the Boat. However, the CSU will still be going through with it and using student fees from 7,000 students that only 400 will be able to attend to pay for the expenses.

Free Money SHEDDING LIGHT ON AWARDS OFFERED ON CAMPUS Therese Guieb × News Editor

a term of reference for gift agreement for that donation. That agreement outlines what the selection criteria is for the award. There are guidelines that are set up for donors so that every student is given financial support as much as possible. “Depending on what the criteria is that guides what the selection process looks like, if it’s a scholarship for students who demonstrate academic excellence, usually those have a program or area of study that the fund is supporting,” explains Tiemer about where the funds are being distributed.

Scholarships are offered every semester and new ones are established almost every year. This year is an inaugural year for entrance scholarships for high school students who would like to attend CapU. The newest scholarship that is being offered is the We Act scholarship. This scholarship is eligible for students who participated in the We Act educational program at their high school and were also invited to attend We Day. This scholarship also supports students who have scholastic excellence and have demonstrated academic achievement as well as community involvement. It covers all of the direct educational costs for the recipient, including four years worth of tuition and tuition surcharges. It's guaranteed for the first year and renewable for the second, third and fourth years “assuming that the student continues to maintain full-time studies and keeps their grades up,” notes Tiemer. The CapU Excellence Scholarship (CapX) is a similar entrance scholarship that is offered by the school.

According to Tiemer, CapU scholarships can offer up to $5,000, like the Scotiabank

Award for Business Studies. “Values change term over term, it’s really dependent on the available funding and what’s been spent in a given term or not. What usually happens is that funds are available for an academic year, and we really look to the departments and faculty who are adjudicating the awards to determine which term is the most optimal term to give out that award, based on the criteria,” she says.

Aside from handling scholarships and bursaries, the Financial Aid and Awards department offers a number of financial literacy and financial well-being initiatives for students to help them understand awards, loans, support the cost of their education and create a budget. Out of an estimated 7,000 CapU students only 10 per cent of the student body takes advantage of the scholarships that are offered by the school. Students only need to log in to their student information website service (MyCap) account to apply and access a scholarship application which only takes five minutes to complete.

“Just apply, do not assume that you are not going to be eligible and you’re not going to be the one selected for it,” advices Tiemer, “I see the same names over and over again who are selected for awards because they figured it out. They realize that they’ve applied for awards and they end up getting an award. It’s self-fulfilling as they as they continue to go through their program.” Scholarships are not only a way of financial support but recognition of the work that a student has exhibited.

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Free education is unheard of in BC but that that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to attain one. Scholarships and bursaries are some of the resources that could be used by students to get their tuition partly paid for or fully waived. Students only need to apply for one as they are completely non-repayable, unlike student loans.

The difference between bursaries and scholarships is that bursaries support students who demonstrate some sort of financial need, and finances would be a barrier for them in paying for their education.

Scholarships, in general, support academic excellence. “At Cap we have approximately 300 scholarships, bursaries and awards that we administer,” says Lindsay Tiemer, supervisor of Financial Aid and Awards at Capilano University. Both bursaries and scholarships that are offered grant financial aid to students, but they differ in the guidelines and processing that are used in selecting the respectable recipients. Any student can apply to receive a bursary or a scholarship, it just depends if the student is eligible for the criteria that was mentioned for the specific award.

If a student applies for a bursary which is available every semester, he or she must complete an application before the given deadline. When the bursary application period is over, the Financial Aid and Awards department reviews the applications and identifies which program the student is in and either consults the faculty in which the

student is enrolled in or the department selects the recipient themselves in accordance to the provincial government’s student aid procedure. According to Tiemer, the selection process depends on the criteria of the award or bursary. “We don’t send out financial needs info to anybody outside of the finance office,” states Tiemer, “If it’s a bursary and it supports financial needs of students in a particular program or some area of study or even just general financial needs without limiting to their program of study the same [selection] process will be followed.”

Scholarships have a slightly similar selection process as bursaries but are still dependent on the criteria that are given. “When scholarship applications close we pull the list of all students who have applied for scholarships and we do some filtering to identify which program they’re in,” explains Tiemer, “We'll try to filter as much as possible to meet the individual selection process and we send the list of applicants out to the department and the faculty who then makes the selection of whom the scholarship recipient would be for that scholarship in that term.”

CapU is named as one of the lowest budgeted post-secondary institution in the province. However, the budget cuts do not affect scholarships and bursaries that are offered by CapU. Those come from a separate awards fund. “Seventy per cent [of scholarships and bursaries] are established and created by external donors,” says Tiemer. The donor outlines what their intent is and what type of student or area of study that they are looking to support. The donor then works with the Capilano University Foundation to create

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arts + Culture

ALVA TEE ARTS + CULTURE EDITOR

ARTS@CAPILANOCOURIER.COM

look at her go THE RISE OF LADY BIKER SCENE Sabrina Kuhn × Writer

Harley Davidson Motorcycles; three words that automatically bring to mind images of thick, tattooed men who are rough around the edges, bordering anywhere from middle aged men looking for kicks to outright criminal biker gangs as depicted on the wildly popular TV series, Sons of Anarchy. Despite how masculine the portrayal of motorcycle culture is, there is a large group of women claiming it for themselves and radicalizing it to find empowerment.

Becky Goebel, a business student in her final year at Capilano University and coplanner of an all-ladies biking event called the Dream Roll, is one individual who is part of this movement. “As a female motorcyclist in the community, it’s important to speak up and let other ladies know that ‘if I can do it, anyone can do it,’” she says, “And what better way than to come together for a weekend to ride, communicate and feel inspired by one another?”

Goebel is expecting a lot of work to be done in planning an event of the magnitude.

Other all-women rides such as the annual all female motorcycle adventure, Babes Rideout, have seen upwards of 500 individuals riding in packs and camping out. Ladies who participate in the Dream Roll will be riding their motorcycles from wherever they live to the base of Mount Adams in Portland, where they will spend a weekend in the national park that surrounds the volcano. While visiting various destinations, there will be bands, bonfires, bouncy castles, tons of food and plenty of other great activities. The biggest hurdle has been insurance protocols since

they differ greatly in the US from those here in Canada. Even with complications, Goebel is certain that they won’t be the last to have a motorcycle related event in this national park.

Motorcyclists have their own code of conduct when it comes to the road. While some of the code is explicitly stated and tested when one applies for their licence to ride a motorcycle on public roads, some applies only when large groups of riders go on route together. For example, if a rider needs to pull over, they are to wave past if they don’t need help so that the flow isn’t lost and the group doesn’t become separated. Guidelines such as these are created under the consideration of people who may be strangers to a given area and only have a map and the group to rely on.

There is a massive supporting network of lady bikers ranging from female students to mothers who have a passion for biking. Many have taken on entrepreneurship and have started clothing lines, blogs, resource sites and various other rides of their own in order to potentially engage other women in their areas with the sisterhood and comradeship they’ve found in biking culture. “Through the Dream Roll, we hope to communicate to ladies around the globe that any type of woman, bike and personality can ride a motorcycle and be a part of a culture - even if there happens to be more men affiliated with it than ladies,” says Goebel.

TJ Schneider, owner of a downtown motorcycle-clothing store called The Shop, says that when they first opened, only a

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handful women would enter the store. “I think they saw it as an all-boys club,” he says, “We’ve started carrying women’s apparel, more and more women come in every day. I think it’s awesome.”

A beautiful exhibit of all sorts of women who ride can be found on Womensmotoexhibit.com, a photography project designed to showcase the realm of ladies who are passionate about motorcycling. By putting faces to this idea, the project also aims to reclaim any preconceived notions about the type of women who ride motorcycles. On each photo, there is a message attached from each woman sharing how their love for motorcycles began and how empowered they feel by

being part of a greater community.

“Motor biking is just something where once you do it, you know if you love it or not the same as anything else,” says Schneider.

He says that he often questions himself why, but he comes up with the same answer each time. “I just do.” The same reasoning can be justified for anyone, whether that person may be a male or female.

Women are proud to be motorcyclists and for those who have invested their heart and souls into this movement, popularity doesn’t seem to matter. For them, it’s all about meeting other like-minded individuals and enjoying the beauty of an outdoor sport as a community.

arts and horticulture CAPILANO GRAD TACKLES ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES Carlo Javier

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In a comic titled “Pollinators and Our Food”, a boy named Teruhiko is magically turned into a bee in order to see the ecological importance that pollinators have. He lives the life of a honeybee and comes to learn how industrialization and urbanization have destroyed spaces that were once habitats for insects.

In “Bottled Water”, Teruhiko goes on a journey to understand the harsh realities behind the mass consumption of plastic water bottles. He learns the role that multinational corporations play in the sourcing and production of water.

He meets the God of Wine and learns about the often-overlooked uses of water in agriculture, energy and essentially, every aspect of life.

Teruhiko is the constant lead character in a series of comics in the online graphic novel, Green Tea Philia. Created by Ayaka Nomura, a 2015 graduate of Capilano University’s Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies program (LSBA), Green Tea Philia aims to illustrate and discuss environmental issues that persist today. It tackles topics such as pollution, overconsumption and the powers at the hands of multinational corporations.

Nomura began the blog in the fall of 2014, after being inspired by other LSBA students who completed their graduation projects by eschewing the use of traditional thesis papers.

Students exercised their freedom to explore creativity by working with film, blogs and other platforms to convey their message. For Nomura, bypassing the paper would give her work the opportunity to reach a wider audience, as opposed to being limited to those within the school grounds. “I thought these new mediums engage more people than the traditional papers, which often only circulates within academia,” she says.

Green Tea Philia’s name is inspired by the significance of the drink to Nomura’s life.

Her family has a tea farming business in Shizuoka, Japan. After learning the difficulties that the business has been facing, Nomura went on to incorporate subjects such as overconsumption of resources and food systems around the world.

The series of comics is inspired by the work that the First Nations’ community does in the preservation of the environment. The main character acts as a bridge between cultures and understanding. Teruhiko is not only a foreigner learning about environmental issues, he’s also a symbol of multiculturalism. Several

characters are rooted from Japanese, Celtic and Greek mythology as well.

“I participated in an environmental event in the fall of 2013, facilitated by the faculties of Capilano University and Aboriginal people in BC,” says Nomura, “I was very impressed by their passion and their rich culture.”

Beyond the environmental issues that it tackles, Green Tea Philia also acts as a varied perspective on the culture of the First Nations. For Nomura, her art doesn’t speak directly for the First Nations’ community, but instead is meant to reflect her profound experiences with the community and act as another platform for awareness.

“I was shocked how little I knew about them. I thought I wanted to share their wonderful knowledge and rich culture with people who are not familiar with them. This is why I made Raven, Salmon, Thunderbird, Coyote, and other aboriginal animal Gods [into] characters,” Nomura explains.

Several instalments of Green Tea Philia are noticeably inspired by Japanese manga. For Nomura, growing up in Japan has made it inevitable for her to be influenced by the prevailing style of Japanese animation. She cites Ozama Tezuka, most famous for Astro Boy, and Shotaro Ishinomori, creator of Cyborg 009 ,

as famous Japanese authors who have inspired her work. As of late, Nomura has also broadened her style by studying fashion illustrations as well as Western cartoons.

However, Nomura does understand the potentially sensitive nature of art, particularly when it delves into topics that pertain to the status quo and topics that are significant to religion, culture and race. “I always try to respect the depiction of my characters, since I’m using many animism Gods as my characters,” she says.

Art is often utilized as a medium of selfexpression and freedom of speech. As much as it is produced for entertainment and creative thirst, it’s also proved to be equally as effective as a form of commentary on sociopolitical issues.

“I believe art has its unique elements and strengths when it comes to communication different from writing,” says Nomura, “I think this tradition should be continued because it is non-violent yet it can carry ideas and messages to many people.”

For more information make sure to visit their website, Greenteaphilia.Wordpress.com

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improving campus life through technology CAPILANO'S TECH TEAM MAKING A CHANGE Christine Beyleveldt × Writer

For many of Capilano University’s students, learning to work with the slow Internet connection that feeds nearly 10,000 devices across campus and having to adapt to alternate forms of technology is a daily struggle. Situations such as MacBook Pros being unable to connect to out-of-date Windows devices supplied by classrooms, failed uploads onto Moodle and technology that isn’t working properly are some of the most common sources of frustration for students and faculty alike.

The IT services team at CapU has set out to improve the quality of facilities on campus, developing the annual Classroom Technology Lifecycle Replacement Project.

Their operations and changes often take place in the summer months as to allow for classrooms to be fully equipped and functioning once the fall semester begins. “There is more availability of the rooms during that time,” says Neil Harrington, the IT manager in charge of the project, “There are a lot of classes that still exist throughout the summer, and so from a scheduling perspective, we needed to make sure we can still meet all of those needs.”

There are three main goals that the IT department has outlined, First, to replace all out-of-date technology from computers to projectors in order to get the main Internet connection back online again. Second, they hope to repair the general infrastructure of classrooms across campus including chipped floor tiles, scratched or unstable podiums and lighting. Lastly, they would like to update the old software of the computers available to students and staff throughout the Library and inside classrooms to the new Windows 7 with standards specific to coursework, as requested by faculty.

Though it may seem that students are the ones to suffer most from challenging technology, it is just as much a dilemma for the staff. Susan Doig, the director of facilities at CapU, explained in an interview with the university’s blog, Your Daily Cap, the uncomfortable position an instructor could experience when faced with dysfunctional technology. The face of a screen can go blank, slides disappear and thus, the lecture is forced to a halt. “You stand there and you stutter and you phone for help but it’s the evening and nobody can come. The whole time you’re being judged,” she said.

In the Library building, a resource known as Classroom Support Services is available to students wishing to practice working

with the technology CapU has to offer.

A brand new projector and podium have been installed in this centre, providing a space for anyone who may need to rehearse a tricky presentation with faster and more accurate technology.

Here, one is able to receive assistance with editing and video or sound recording, as well as the rental of technology. “This classroom support gives students a tutorial on how to use iMovie and other project editing equipment,” says Ashley English, a student of CapU’s Retail Marketing program, “Students usually do iMovie projects and editing on their own time, [but] since I’m not a computer savvy individual, this project editing tutorial and assistance could be helpful.”

There are dozens of classrooms available for use at CapU and the amount of effort that goes into maintenance for each one is astonishing. Wires that run through ceiling panels to control lighting and ventilation, podiums that hold more use than just a solid place to stand, storage for computers and projection devices and a whole lot more occupy one single room, causing a renovation to become extremely laborious very quickly.

CapU’s IT team strives to maintain solid communication amongst all departments to ensure that all needs are met. According to Doig, individual departments usually submit

requests for renovations and those requests will then be met when all of the maintenance services are able to collaborate.

Efficiency is key in the process to make sure that everything is done as quickly as possible and to the best that it can be.

“What we’ve been doing in the past couple of years is bringing all of the people together that are actually responsible,” says Harrington, “We make sure they’re all talking together, so we can do this.” For their success in maintenance, the IT services were presented with a Team Award for Service and Innovation last month. “What’s exciting is having the satisfaction that we’re all on the same page. We deliver more and everybody’s less stressed,” Doig said.

To date, the Technology Lifecycle Replacement Project is to thank for the successful installation of Google Chrome, Adobe Acrobat and Flash Player as well as the most recent Microsoft updates throughout classrooms.

All that remains is for the upper levels of the Arbutus building to go through with their renovations. With 99 per cent of the Technology Lifecycle Replacement Project completed, CapU will be officially up to date and functioning well.

let's see them move it, move it VANCOUVER'S INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL BACK IN TOWN Alva Tee × Arts + Culture Editor

same vision. “Two heads are better than one,” says Bourget, “If one of us sees something, we just lobby together and present it and gladly include it in the festival.”

The co-producers of VIDF aren’t the only ones crossing over to work together. Many of the local companies within Vancouver have done so as well. “There’s a lot of crossover in that we’ve all been in each other’s pieces, in and out of each other’s works,” says Barton, “It’s fun that there’s this history and this thread between all of us. And just to see where all of us have grown, or gone and how we are developing.” She says that she loves seeing how much 605 Collective has grown in such a short amount of time.

For herself, Barton likes to challenge the world that she is going to create throughout her choreography, and she believes that pushing herself to not fall into the same routine, and always trying new things, is what helps her grow. The piece that she will be dancing in VIDF 2015 is exactly that, and though

nervous for the audience’s reaction as it isn’t like her norm, she knows that it is exactly what she was trying to achieve. To her, a choreographer’s own goal being reached is the definition of success. “I’m open for anything really,” she says.

Bourget hopes that this openness is a big part of what the audience will enjoy— seeing the dancers push themselves every year, the different groups that are brought in and the different styles, all in hopes to make the festival better and better each year. “That’s my favourite part,” she says, “When I see people applauding, when I hear them cheering, when I see them standing up and their comments to me about how much they enjoy the festival, it makes it all worthwhile.”

Vancouver International Dance Festival will take place from Mar. 8 to Mar. 28 at various venues throughout Vancouver.

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pany from Japan is one such group. “Their work contains everything,” says Bourget, “Humour, beautiful dancing, great music, extraordinary costumes, so we wanted to bring them.” In the summer of 2013, both Bourget and Hirabiashi went to Japan to study with the dancers and got to know them, as they believe getting to know their partners as people as well as artists is important.

Vancouver-based dance companies 605 Collective and Out Innerspace were two others that Bourget and Hirabiashi believed would impact the audience. “They are the beginnings of another generation of choreographers coming out of the city,” says Bourget, “Vancouver’s a really wonderfully eclectic place for all different kinds of things — it’s true of dance, true of music and true of theatre, so we wanted to represent that generation in our festival.”

Because both Bourget and Hirabiashi can’t always travel together, they have to trust each other enough to know that they share the

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“What I love about dance is all the things I feel like I can’t see or express with words, I get out with movement,” says Amber Funk Barton, artistic director of dance company theresponse., “When I get to perform, I feel a different aspect of myself, I feel so much stronger than I am as a person walking around every day.”

Barton’s company is one of nine that will be participating in the 15th season of Vancouver International Dance Festival (VIDF), and each company promises to offer something unique. “We wouldn’t want to do a week or two weeks of the same kind of aesthetic,” says Barbara Bourget, co-producer of VIDF, “It’s really nice to open one’s mind to different processes and different aesthetics and different points of view in dance because it’s as different as every individual does it.”

Bourget explains that this vision is something that really appeals to her and her coproducer, Jay Hirabiashi. They do their own work that way and to them, it’s wonderful to find people who are working in the same way. When scouting for companies to participate each year, they look for that authenticity and expression. “You know, really, really delving into that and finding ways to move that forward in terms of the creative process,” says Bourget.

Not only will VIDF 2015 offer stunning performances by all types of dancers, but the festival will also include workshops within its three-week span that begins Mar. 8. Bourget and Hirabiashi bring in the kinds of artists who steal their attention and who they really believe will have an impact on the on the audience.

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James Vincent McMorrow Feb. 26, Vogue Theatre written by Carlo Javier It only took two songs into his set list before James Vincent McMorrow began to demonstrate a lesser-known skill that he had. For his second appearance in Vancouver, the Irish singer delighted the crowd not only with his impressive and rangy falsetto, but also with a constant stream of humorous anecdotes and witty banter with the sold out crowd at the Vogue Theatre on Feb. 26. After a soulful opening by Kevin Garrett, McMorrow took the stage to an ecstatic Vancouver audience. He alternated between several guitars and a keyboard and treated the crowd to songs from his first album, Early In the Morning and a strippeddown version of his post-dubstep inspired latest release Post Tropical. Songs like “Higher Love” and “Cavalier” perfectly illustrated McMorrow’s trademark falsetto and even demonstrated his proficiency on the keyboard. At one point midway through the concert, several audience members actually gave the crooner a standing ovation after a powerful performance of “Gold”, one of the standout tracks from Post Tropical.

His humour, however, wound up becoming the real treat. McMorrow cheekily agreed to an audience member who excitedly pointed out his talent. He didn’t hold himself back in poking fun of the weather in other Canadian cities such as Edmonton and Winnipeg, even saying that Edmonton has about two months of tolerable weather, while the rest of the year is “biblical.”

Near the end of his set, McMorrow, took the time to delve into a long story about appearing in an early morning show hosted by “Oprah’s friend Gayle,” prompting the crowd to cheer for more jokes. For his encore, McMorrow covered Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game” and once again showed another layer to his music by playing a stripped-down, microphone-free version of “And If My Heart Should Somehow Stop”. It was barren and it had a very minimal use of the falsetto that has been his trademark since he entered the scene. After a vibrant show, there couldn’t have been a better ending than the minimalist tune.

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Another Eternity

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A new-age church seems like a rather odd venue for an inappropriate comedy show. But that didn’t stop John Mulaney from filling the giant theatre to the best of his abilities. The SNL veteran writer and star of his own sitcom, Mulaney performed to a packed and enthusiastic audience on the last night of the North West Comedy Fest. The crowd was young, clad in the standard Vancouver uniform of toques and plaid, but loved Mulaney, as he performed for just over an hour. His set was a mix of jokes about married life, growing up in with his staunch, Republican father and kids – there were a lot of kid jokes, which was interesting for a guy who doesn’t have any yet. He was able to mock himself, as his darkest joke was in reference to his own sitcom’s terrible ratings, and the fact that it might not survive to see a second season.

His best jokes of the night were the ones that revolved around his father. He compared their relationship to that of one between a criminal and detective who put aside their differences and work together, which many people can relate to in their own paternal relationships. He ended the night with a 10-minute story about how he met Bill Clinton as a child, which had the audience on their feet at the end of it. Apparently, his mom Ellen had quite the soft spot for smooth Mr. Clinton, and his father hated him for it, creating quite the family dynamic.

Mulaney is just a dorky white guy from Illinois who constantly gets asked if he’s gay. He is the ultimate proof that wit, charm and smarts will get you places in life, even if it doesn’t get you there for long.

Edmonton’s underground darlings are back following their successful 2012 debut, Shrines.

Their hotly anticipated follow up, Another Eternity, via, Last Gang Records might not be what fans have come to expect, lacking that signature 90s future-pop vibe that launched them out from the depths of Alberta’s stony plains.

It’s been three years since their last album and vocalist Megan James and beats mastermind Corrin Roddick have departed their haunted harrowing sounds and found themselves in mainstream territory, residing mainly in the state of pop. Where Purity Ring continues to thrive is lyrically, with James a powerhouse behind the pen, adding depth and real feels to even their most EDM-infused new tracks, such as

“Flood on the Floor”, and the bubbly pink pop of “Push Pull.” Although the duo has honourable intentions, looking to branch out and find themselves as a main stage act, what’s disappointing is that in doing so, they are abandoning their unique ability to create the evocative darkness. As a result, there’s times when Another Eternity sounds like the new soundtrack to the upcoming season of “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic”. Honestly, if you close your eyes during tracks like "Sea Castle", all you can picture is Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle getting down to this with grade school morals. If you loved Purity Ring for their ominous vibes, stick to the Canadian manic pixie dream girl, Grimes.

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Apparently this play is a “top secret farce”, and I’m really into top secret things these days. Spies are super duper sexy. This play is about a guy at a fishing lodge in Georgia who doesn’t want to meet any friends, so he pretends to not speak English. That’s a good trick. I’m going to use it sometime. Anyways, apparently it’s really good and won some awards. It’s also on campus, so you should probably go.

Hip Hop Karaoke at Fortune isn’t the only Monday night karaoke spectacle. There is also Earmuffs, hosted at the Cobalt, which is my favourite dirty and dingy bar in the city. It’s free to get in, the bouncers are babes, and there are six dollar doubles, which are needed. The drunker you are, the better the karaoke is going to sound. And overall, the Cobalt is just a baller of a time.

Okay, I know I have written about it before, and likely too many times, but I’m just trying to re-iterate the fact that if you haven’t experienced this, you really must. It’s probably the best thing to do in the city on a Monday night. Also, host Scott Patey, and his sidekick Joel are approaching their 200th show.

By my calculations, this is show 198 for them. Go before it gets so packed for their 200th show that you can’t find a seat. Tell them I sent you.

It’s Movie Monday, which I know has become your favourite date of the week. When else do you get to hear my unsolicited opinions of good movies?

This week, I’m going full Oscar on you and suggest watching any one of the eight movies dedicated for best picture. For the highest version of entertainment, go see American Sniper, take Scott Moraes, our old Courier friend, with you, I promise you it will be the most entertaining commentary.

Juicy's Birthday

Job Search Strategies Workshop

Blaxploitation

80's Night

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My roommate, Jewish Lucy — aka Juicy — is having a birthday so we all must dance for it. Juicy makes me grilled cheese sandwiches when I’m at school late and always buys the toilet paper, so I love her. I’m inviting you all over to my house so we can have a dance party and group hug Lucy.

She’s worth it.

Oh man, graduation is looming and I don’t have a job. This workshop, which I believe is hosted by Nancy Tran, (who is also lovely, if you haven’t met her) is all about the strategies and tactics that will help you find a job for when you graduate. You know, so you can get paid, and then look impressive when you show up to the bar with a wad of cash. I like those people.

That’s a hard word to pronounce. I’ve only read it, so I can only imagine what it sounds like when it is probably pronounced. This is a night dedicated to that weird word, which is a movie genre from the 70s and 80s. They will be showing a bunch of vintage trailers for awesome looking movies about urban crime and drama, and you just get to sit back, sip on some brews and watch the magic unfold.

Today is 80s day in the office, so as I’m writing this, I’m serenaded by the soothing sounds of Kim Mitchell singing about patio lanterns lighting up his life. I have to confess, it’s comforting to my soul, a shitty sign that I might be in love with the 80s.

The only thing that would make this song better is that if I was dancing with a handsome and tall man, and it was the start of something romantic. I’m so going to this 80s night. If you know of any tall and handsome men, send them there too.

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MACS has rebranded into CAPUMA, and they are hosting an event to reveal their new brand.

There will be some pretty powerful speakers and people there to rub shoulders with, so look important. Walk in with a smile and walk out with some new connections, and maybe even a date that you didn’t have to find on Tinder. Those Marketing students are pretty cute.

Come see Lena Dunham’s boyfriend slay it onstage, because this guy is mostly famous for dating the girl from Girls. Jack Antonoff, as people call him, was also one of the jerks behind FUN. I say jerks because it was a terrible band with songs so annoying they would be stuck in you head for days. Tonight, we are not young, Mr. Lena Dunham, and I’m going to go just to tell you that.

Snag is a pretty cool thing, where they get locally talented artists to draw something in a bar setting for the evening. The artists draw, you drink, and at the end of it, they raffle off their newly minted masterpieces. It’s five bucks for a ticket, but it’s pretty cheap for a chance to win some of that art. Many Courier friends are all stars at Snag, including Katie So – the genius behind the Bad Boyfriend cartoons – and Shannon Elliott. Check it, and support local art.

I often think I’m too funny, and have thought a couple of times about doing stand up. But then I think that I would literally shit myself onstage, and people would just think that it was a cheap way to get laughs and wouldn’t even spare me a sympathy chuckle. So I cower away, and laugh at my own hilarious jokes. Don’t be like me. Get balls, stand up on stage, and make people laugh.

I just settle for taking out my wittiness on writing these calendars.

Cat Killer

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I have to start by saying that I absolutely do not condone cat killing. Last night, when I got into my building, there was a random cat that needed a home, so I opened the first door I saw and gave it to the guy in there. I distribute cats who need love. Anyways, this is a play about a video gamer who likes to kill cats. Alva says the masks are scary, which means they probably pretty cool.

Man, campus is blowing up with events and things to do. They be bringing the entertainment in hard, which is nice. I mean, we get to be serenaded between classes. This guy, Martyn Joseph, has created over 30 albums. That’s a lot of albums. The only thing I’ve created 30 of is ill-researched Calendar entries. This guy is beating me at life.

This is a collection of random talents. That’s all it tells me. It doesn’t actually tell me who this Paul Anthony guy is or what he is actually good at. For all I know, he could be Marc Anthony’s younger and not as vocally talented brother, who just sings covers of Marc Anthony’s songs. Fortunately, I don’t think that’s true. It also tells me that it’s co-hosted by Ryan Beil, and he’s funny. Go just for that.

This guy’s show sold out early, and it’s all because his song “I Can’t Do Without You” is on heavy rotation on Soundcloud. Hell, I listened to it three times today. I also listened to the rest of the album, and I’ll give it a bonafide review right here: It’s the kind of music you can put on repeat and make out to for five hours. Although it’s sold out, there are some tickets on Craigslist and scalpers can be really friendly when you need them to be.

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The First Nations Student Services department is hosting an event, showcasing First Nations performances and artists. There will be traditional songs and dances, which will likely be really educational to anyone who hasn’t experienced them before. It looks fun, and chances are Carlo will be there, trying some new dance moves, and creeping on some people as part of his journalistic duties.

Sweater Beats – a.k.a. Antonio Cuna – is a DJ and musician that is apparently pretty good. He’s garnered the support of some pretty big names, such as Diplo, Annie Mac and Para One. I listened to his song while writing this blurb, and I didn’t think it was repulsive, so that’s a good start.

And from me, that’s an A++ review.

The Duvettes are a local Vancouver band, made up of five fine folk who like to play cover songs in all types of genres. Really, when you think about it, that’s pretty vague, as it could be rap or hip-hop or reggae or “world music” – whatever that means.

Hopefully, it’s an all Drake cover band and they just play Drake tunes over and over again. They also host good parties. At their first show, the crowd drank record booze sales. Rowdy.

Jon & Roy have created some of the softest lovemaking music to come out of the West Coast in the past decade. Think Jack Johnson meets a slight bit of Robyn Thicke and then they hang out with Justine Timberlake, but JT is too cool and doesn’t really want to hang out with them.

That creates Jon and Roy. If you’re into some mellow booty moving music, this is your jam.

Expect a lot of flannel and toques to be worn – a lot.

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You probably don’t care about this at all, but my favourite cousin is getting married and I’m going to write about it. Marriage is rare in my family, and most of us have settled for singledom, therefore Cam getting married is crazy. And he promised me that there would be at least two hot and single guys there, and that they would have jobs.

Believe me, I’m going to look good and get drunk at this wedding.

It’s our Features Editor Faye’s birthday, as she slithers into her last year of her 20s with ease. There are benefits to being in the upper 20s, such as the ability to give less of a fuck about certain things and the confidence to call people out on their horse shit. Faye is a master of both of these things, which is just a tidbit of what makes her that cool. Stop by a story meeting to find out what else she’s got going on. Let me tell you, it’s a lot.

The Mainstreeters' Drag Ball is a drag show of epic proportions. Featuring Vancouver’s finest drag ladies, performers and Vera Wong emceeing the entire event, it promises to rival any good drag show at the Cobalt. There’s also going to be awards, and that just makes everything better. It’s not really fun unless there’s a loser involved.

Big Sugar was quite the 90s rock band, with some anthem-like songs and heavy guitar sounds. That all gets stripped away at this show, as the band is back to serenade crows, unplugged. You gotta go see this, as it’s like the Nirvana acoustic album and performance of 1993, but just 22 years later.

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Dead Poets Reading Series

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It’s a day to bow down to all them badass bitches out there. It’s also probably a day where it is not politically correct to call them “badass bitches” but I did. Take a moment to remember some of the cooler women in life, like Hillary Clinton, Carly Rae Jepson and my mom. Hug your moms today!

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This sounds pretty morbid, as people are celebrating the poems of their favourite dead poets. Why can’t they celebrate the poems of living people? It’s not like poets are celebrated regularly – I’m sure it’s a fairly thankless profession. Anyways, there will be readings from some famous dead poets and then discussions about their work and life. If nothing else, it will give you another talking point at your next cocktail party.

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The Twilight Sad is a three piece band from Scotland, and I’m guessing they got their name because they watched Twilight, realized that Robert Pattison is famous for no reason, and got really sad about it. That’s what happens when I watch that movie. These guys are on tour debuting their new album Nobody Wants To Be Here and Nobody Wants to Leave. Sounds like everyone else in a movie theatre watching Twilight too.

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You could already hear the gnashing of sabers well before the new rounds of collective bargaining commenced earlier this month between Capilano University and the Capilano University Faculty Association (CFA).

While many post-secondary institutions settled their respective collective agreements last April, the CFA and University took time between the Mar. 31, 2014 expiration of the previous contract to prepare for the new bout of talks. Both sides first tabled their proposals on Feb. 3, and then met again on a handful of dates, with more to come in March.

Though, with a Protocol Agreement stating that the parties agree to negotiate “in a spirit of mutual respect and maintaining a positive University and CFA relationship,” it was apparent both sides were preparing for an arduous undertaking.

In a Feb. 17, 2015 online bulletin entitled University concession demands sour our negotiations, the CFA wrote there is, “No progress and a huge gap in perspectives.” Further on, “The position of the university is in direct opposition to our proposals as is its attempts to strip many of the best elements of our contract.”

But with strict budget constraints and the exhaustion of alternate funding avenues, something’s got to give, and if it isn’t the province, then faculty and administration must find a way to inch closer in their respective terms of agreement or else a strike or lockout, while unlikely, could ensue.

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CapU, represented by a six-person bargaining committee led by Parveen Mann, director of human resources, extended a 73-page proposal addressing employee benefits, paid educational leave and the regularization of positions, among several other points. As per the University Act, CapU must operate annually on a balanced budget. So with an already projected shortfall for next year, the dominant principle behind CapU’s proposals seems to be fiscal control and conservatism.

As an example, on regularization, the University proposes, “When a non-regular, RLT or a combination of an RLT and non-regular employee has worked at least half time over two terms for a minimum of two consecutive academic years, a new regular position shall be established so long as work at the commitment level is assured for the next academic year.”

As well — and these were points duly highlighted by the CFA on its website — the University seeks shorter intervals between evaluations for regular employees (two, instead of every five years) and proposes no regularization if there is no guarantee of ongoing work after a five-year period. Further, the University proposed that a reduced employee is not entitled to a severance package during the first two

years of regularization, while moving to reform Paid Education Leave by effectively narrowing the scope of access.

While the above is a cherry-picked list to a robust, multi-sectioned proposal, it’s nonetheless fair to claim that the University’s overall position in the ongoing negotiations is one that places importance, perhaps strategically, on the fluidity of its academic programming and compensation commitment.“With regards to our proposals, Capilano University must manage its limited resources in a fiscally responsible manner,” Mann confirms.

THE CFA’S POSITION The CFA’s mandate is clear: job security. CFA president, and one of nine representatives on the faculty’s bargaining team, Brent Calvert, explained it currently feels very much like hanging in limbo with the faculty’s previous contract having lapsed nearly a year ago, with still plenty of bargaining left to do. Faculty seek, as Calvert discussed at length, and as stated on their official site, “regularization in an environment of threats of layoffs; basic guarantees of academic freedom and a democratic workplace,” as well as “fairness and equity in compensation.”

On Feb. 3 and 6, the CFA tabled its 39-point proposal, available at Capilanofaculty.ca, which extended terms related to layoffs, regularization, vacation days, benefits items, buyout options to program mergers and transfers, and much more.

For instance, the proposal’s opening clause, states the purpose as “To provide enhanced employee livelihood protection against layoffs or changes caused by budgetary pressures.”

In addition, proposal nine states that faculty wants to “Allow members with greater seniority to opt for a buyout to prevent new reductions of other members in the functional area or to prevent continuation of reductions in the functional area.”

Again, it’s unfair to cherry-pick items, but these are examples of proposals that indicate a reversion to the faculty’s directive for stability in a chaotic environment as result of seemingly perennial budgetary concerns. Hence, the fiscal framework and context is wholly important, most especially to understand the current position of the parties, in 2015.

THE CHRONICALLY UNDERFUNDED “The bargaining process will affect the budget due to resulting salary increases, which will decrease the amount of money available for other expenses,” explains Cindy Turner, CapU’s vice president of finance and administration, lay-

ing out the significance of the scenario. While a gross oversimplification, as there’s much more to this than salary, the point is clear: economics are paramount.

In spring 2013 this was ever more the case.

CapU made substantial cuts to programming offered at CapU, which was in breach of the University Act in lieu of the lack of consultation afforded to the Senate. In fact, not much of the university community was advised. Faculty won the ensuing legal case. But, as Calvert discussed, though it was a legal win, it changed nothing in actual terms.

The courses and programs cut then remain essentially non-existent today. And removed were long-standing programs in computer science and studio arts, which first began operating in 1969 and 1981, respectively. The signs of change were, and remain, evident.

As Turner explained, CapU’s new Strategic Implementation Plan still to be formally approved, recommends the realigning of faculties from five, into three. “This is to break down silos and barriers, organize faculties based on our strengths and ensure we are operating in a way that best suits the needs of our students,” explains Turner.

In return, Calvert explained, it feels more like the culling of faculty’s influence. The Senate must yet review, discuss and approve the recommendation before any formal change occurs, however, much like the cuts made two springs ago, and this is an indication of a shifting future, one constrained by a low standard of funding. The question some ask is, ‘where is the leadership’, especially since the warning signs have been flashing for years.

BLOCK-FUNDING AND CAPILANO David Eby, MLA for Vancouver-Point Grey, has stood in the legislature and repeatedly raised the issue of chronic underfunding at CapU. Last year, he stated that CapU received $6,932.72 in block funding per Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) student, considerably lower than Kwantlen ($7,388.63), a similar university. At over 5,400 FTEs, that’s about a $2.4 million difference.

Comparatively, Langara College, Eby conferred, was around $6,232 and Douglas, $6,986. Furthermore, funding from the provincial government is estimated to decrease, in total.

The projection for 2015-16, as outlined in the preliminary budget is, $38,008,185.

The Ministry of Advanced Education provided CapU with a total of $38,936,659 for the 2014/15 school year. The year previous, 2013/14, the province provided $40,072,105 in operational grant money.

On top of applying the maximum two per cent increase to tuition fees and implementing a five per cent budget reduction across all departments with the help of faculty for 2014/15, CapU has remained in tight fiscal position leading into next year — but, this is neither new nor surprising.

THE AVISON REPORT July 2012, Donald Avison submitted a report commissioned by University President, Kris Bulcroft, to examine the “circumstances of the institution.” Avison reported, summarily, that “When viewed against the backdrop of historical funding decisions made in respect of other public post‐ secondary institutions – and particularly with respect to the other institutions that fall within the class now designated as ‘special purpose teaching universities’ – it does not appear that Capilano was afforded the benefit of equitable treatment.”

The report confirmed that days leading up to the announcement of re-designation in 2008, the funding agreement with CapU was withdrawn and the University’s senior leadership was asked to sign-off on a revised document essentially stating that the now newly-knighted university must absorb the costs associated with the transformation. Had CapU received the support as per

AVERAGE OPERATIONAL GRANT GIVEN BY THE MINISTRY OF ADVANCED EDUCATION TO UNIVERSITIES: $120M AVERAGE OPERATIONAL GRANT GIVEN BY THE MINISTRY OF ADVANCED MINISTRY OF EDUCATION TO COLLEGES: $31K

to the current fiscal parameters while still providing the best learning environment possible. The blame game does nothing to plug the funding gap — or million dollar gaping hole.

MORE TO COME With such economic implications looming over the bargaining table, along with the recent episode of cuts to even long-standing programs, it’s clear why administration and faculty seem on such opposing ends of the scale. The latest update regarding the bargaining process was that the university “will not agree to any proposals that are outside of public policy and the public sector compensation mandate.” But, as Mann states, “Because we are still in the early stages of bargaining, it's too early in the process to predict when there will be potential for agreement.”

Faculty of course wish for greater job security in a seemingly precarious position and, if otherwise, a reasonably comfortable safety net to catch those caught in the economic constraints.

Such demands, in total, run counter to the fiscal

reality strongly tethered to the provincial government and university policy. While comment from the province could not acquired in short notice, there are certainly questions to be asked about the ministry.

Not only did CapU not receive transitional or an ongoing boost of funding in 2008, it continues to be underfunded on a block-funding basis as Eby and administrators have repeatedly brought the province’s attention to. But it falls on deaf ears.

Amrik Virk, then-minister of advanced education, even stood up in the legislature during a budget debate to offer “a lesson in history,” stating that, “When Capilano was designated as a teaching university in 2008, it was agreed that no additional funding would be provided for that change in designation.” An awe-inspiring remark, given, as Avison had reported, “It is, without doubt, clear that Ministry representatives recognized that significant funding resources would be required to properly support Capilano’s transition to university status.”

Funding, as Avison’s history recounts, was pulled in the days leading up to the announce-

ment. CapU was left with nothing else to do but to march into its new designation while cloaked and armored as if no promotion was even realized. Either way, CapU was at a competitive disadvantage. What’s more, while CapU did end the last fiscal year in March 2014, with an unintended surplus of $1.337 million, it was too late to make use of it, as advised by Turner, VP of finance and administration. Even still, Turner added, the government doesn’t permit post-secondary institutions access to their accumulated surpluses, and efforts by the University to affect this have been denied.

So, as the CFA and University inch for dollars in the ensuing negotiations, it’s important to consider the context, the part played and to be played by the provincial government and the livelihoods at stake. Both sides are justified in staking the best position for their interest. But most important, and the end goal, is determing the aftermath of negotiations and how they will impact the learning environment for CapU students.

Five more dates in March will be scheduled for bargaining.

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the agreed-to terms, $6.3 million in transitional funding and $6 million in ongoing base improvement funding to accommodate the increase in student enrollment and further expansion, would have been provided for 2008/09.

In the same report, Avison ominously wrote, “The implications of these decisions taken in April of 2008 are now beginning to manifest themselves and can be expected to become even more obvious in future years.” Three years later, and despite a projection of over $30 million in tuition money and around $38 million from the provincial government, CapU is still slated to fall short by approximately $1.2 million, according to the 2015/16 projected budget. So as the signs of economic peril loomed for years, with no action taken by government despite repeated pleas from administrators, it’s difficult not to share blame between both parties, one, for ignoring the matter, and the other for allowing it to fester until the boiling over in 2013.

It’s from this vantage faculty perceives the series of developments in the years leading up to the current negotiations. Nevertheless, for faculty and university still to manage is how best to adapt

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THE CYCLE FOR CHANGE DETAILING BOTH SIDES OF THE TRANSIT VOTE

According to BC Stats, by 2040, the population of the Lower Mainland will increase by almost a million people. Some bus routes are already filled to capacity, and traffic congestion in Vancouver is among the worst in North America. According to the Mayors' Council, "Traffic congestion already costs our regional economy about $1 billion each year in increased transportation costs and lost productivity. With one million more people moving to the region in the next 30 years, this will double to $2 billion if we don't improve our transportation."

Between Mar. 16 and May 29, registered voters of Metro Vancouver will be able to vote for the 2015 Metro Vancouver Transportation and Transit Plebiscite. Public transportation affects everyone, regardless of one's personal use of it, moreover, you will directly see the result of your vote in the upcoming referendum. In order to make an informed decision, it’s vital to have all the details. Here is a rundown on the details about the upcoming plebiscite.

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In June, the Mayors' Council approved a $7.5 billion plan to improve public transportation. Initially, the Mayor's Council wanted to get $250 million through the BC Carbon Tax, a levy on carbon used to encourage reduced emissions. However, the BC Government vetoed the use of the Carbon Tax as a possible form of revenue and this has made some BC residents angry.

"I think it is still a better option than the PST," says Darrell Mussatto, Mayor of the City of North Vancouver.

A new plan was developed in December, and it was approved by the provincial government, whereby the $250 million will be raised through an increase in the PST in Metro Vancouver. The plan will now go to a referendum as per the campaign promise of the BC Liberal Party.

The idea of even having a referendum has been opposed by the Mayors' Council. "I think referendums are a poor way to do public policy," says Mussatto. "I think this is a real lack of leadership by the provincial government, they should be working with us to get the funding sources necessary." Instead, the province is leaving the choice to voters.

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Why Vote Yes? The main argument for voting Yes is that with almost a million people coming to the region, an investment in transportation infrastructure is needed to prepare. Such an influx of people will affect everyone so something needs to be done. "Specifically for the North Shore, one of the biggest benefits, I see is a 50 per cent increase to seabus service," explains Brittany Barnes, president of the Capilano Students' Union. Other major benefits would be an express B-Line between Capilano University and Metrotown, two more B-Lines on the North Shore, a Subway along the Broadway Corridor to Arbutus Street, Light Rail Transit in Surrey and Langley, and the Pattullo Bridge replacement.

There is a concern that Translink will be inefficient with the revenue, as seen by the high salaries by upper management. "It's important to remember that with the question that's attached to this Transit and Transpor-

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tation Plan," says Barnes, "it mandates that all of the funds collected through this tax go directly to these projects, so they can't be allocated to Translink salaries or anything like that." In other words, all the money raised through the tax will go directly in transportation improvements.

Why Vote No? The main leader of the No faction is the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, represented

by Jordan Bateman. They agree that public transportation is needed, but they disagree on how those improvements should be delivered. "The vast majority of people want more transit, they want more transportation options," says Bateman, "But they don't trust Translink to deliver them because Translink has done nothing in the last 10 years to convince us that they'll do anything except waste our money."

When asked about the audits included in the ballot, Bateman countered, "Every dollar government spends, any government in British Columbia, is checked by an auditor. The problem is, by the time the auditor gets involved, the money has already been wasted. Public reporting and auditing, that's just the mayors trying to sucker voters into thinking that there is some extra level of scrutiny. There won't be, this will be treated the same way as all the other money Translink has wasted."

A No vote "will force a complete shift in how Translink does business, it'll force government at all levels to address Translink's broken record, Translink's broken culture, and it'll force our elected officials to take things seriously," explains Bateman.

Plan B If the No side were to win, what would happen? According to Bateman, many of the projects already have a source of funding.

The Surrey Light Rail will proceed since their mayor has already said they have an alternate option. The Patullo Bridge will have a toll so it will not need a tax. "It's only in this plan so the mayors can trick voters into supporting it. That will proceed no matter what. The only major project that doesn't have a plan B is the Arbutus subway, and I will submit to you, that after 10 years in power, the failure to have a plan B to fund Arbutus subway is a failure of Gregor Robertson as mayor, not a failure of taxpayers for not paying enough," says Bateman.

However, Mayor Mussatto doesn't think that the Mayors' Council should be held responsible. "This is the biggest misconception. People think that the mayors operate on transit, but we don't. The mayor has two jobs, one is to say yes or no to a property tax increase. We don't manage the system, we don't say which bus routes go where, we don't say what the tax is going to be, we don't have any of that influence. That's the Translink board that does that, through their staff. That's an unelected, unaccountable board. The other job the mayors have is that they will provide names of people we think might be good on the Translink board, but the province has no obligation to put those people on the board."

Premier Christy Clark has suggested that the Mayors' Council could raise property

taxes in order to pay for the public transportation upgrades. "In my opinion," wrote Green MLA Andrew Weaver on his website, "This could be the greatest abdication of responsibility we have seen so far. To reject mayors' initial strategy to raise funds, to then force a referendum on them that the mayors didn't want, and then to suggest that it is the Mayors' responsibility to find the funding if the referendum fails, is indicative of a provincial government that is lacking leadership and is doing all it can to avoid taking responsibility." Even Bateman, according to the Surrey Leader, responded, "To go after a No vote and immediately raise a different tax to pay for their wish list would be exceedingly politically risky for them."

mend. Because of that, Mussatto lays the fault on the provincial government, "Seven, eight years ago we were voted the best transportation system in North America. What's changed? Not a lot, just the reputation. Because of what? Because of fare gates? Provincial government. Because of governance?

Provincial government. Because of excessive salaries for senior bureaucrats? Provincial government." According to both sides, there is a major issue in how the provincial government, the Translink board, and the Mayors' Council interact.

How to Vote?

A Common Enemy

You must be registered in order to vote. If you are unsure of whether you are registered, you can call Elections BC at 1-800-6618683, or you can go to their website. Starting Mar. 16, you'll get a mail in ballot and you will have until May 29 to mail in your vote.

The two sides do have some commonalities.

They are both frustrated with Translink, citing unaccountability, a need for transparency, and unusually high salaries for upper management. "They need to embrace true transparency and accountability principles," says Bateman, "They need to release the last 15 years of secret board meetings ... and we need to lock the board of directors, the mayors, the premier, and minister of transportation in a room together, to talk about how to better manage this system."

"We know about the senior salaries," counters Mussatto, "I get that, and I agree with him, I think those salaries are bloated and way excessive, but what are you going to do, cut the salaries of bus drivers?" The Mayors' Council does not choose or hire Translink board members, all they can do is recom-

The ballot question is: Do you support a new 0.5% Metro Vancouver Congestion Improvement Tax, to be dedicated to the Mayors' Transportation and Transit Plan?

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barren slopes HOW CLIMATE CHANGE IS AFFECTING VANCOUVER'S SKI RESORTS Christine Beyleveldt × Writer At the peak of one of Vancouver’s many mountain resorts, a skier stands poised, knees bent, and poles planted in the compacted snow. They push off from their position, tuck their poles under their arms and hurtle down the slope. The wind stings their cheeks as they race through the trees, spraying up fresh powder as they leave the peak behind, and then, the horrific sound of grating stone hits their ears, and an instant later they slam to a halt. Before them is a barren hill, all dirt and stones, with the odd patch of ice showing through the weeds. Grouse, Cypress, and Seymour mountains rise beyond the North Shore, yet the slopes are strangely desolate, where fresh white powder should be lining the ground and capping off the evergreens, only dirt and rocks show.

Vancouver has never been blessed with snow on a regular basis. The warm Pacific waters keep the temperature of the lower mainland higher on average than most Canadian cities, and when snow does fall, the coastal rains usually wash it away within a matter of hours. However, 2014/15 has been a particularly rough season for skiers. While snow doesn’t fall close to sea level, the peaks of the coastal mountains usually have white peaks long into May or even early June. Vancouver is known for unusually warm winters on occasion, but this year has been unlike any other, Grouse and Seymour Mountains went on standby in the middle of February, closing the majority of their ski lifts. Seymour claims to enjoy an average of about 500 inches of snow per season, but this year they haven’t even reached 150 inches yet. Mountain staff members are saying that they haven’t had such warm weather in close to 50 years, indicating that a more perma-

nent change in climate patterns is occurring.

“This is precisely what the climate community has been saying for several decade will occur,” said Andrew Weaver, the deputy leader of Canada’s Green Party on the AM 980, “We will get increasing extreme events, less likelihood of snow, more increased summer drought, and increased extreme heat waves and on and on and on.”

The lack of snow in the mountains this past season is partially owed to El Niño, a climatic warm phase that occurs when the warm waters of the southern Pacific Ocean circulates north, bringing higher land temperatures with it. It’s not uncommon for these periods of sudden warmth to strike every few years. The winter of 2008 saw one of the biggest snow dumps on Canada’s west coast in years. Nearly 65 centimetres fell over the span of a few days and Vancouver was named the city with the largest snowfall that year. Yet, in 2010 when the world’s eyes fell on Vancouver for the Winter Olympics, the city’s ski resorts were either creating their own snow or flying it in from the Rocky Mountains. People are remaining positive, believing that the 2014 season is another case of El Niño and not something more drastic. “It's continuing to look similar to the Olympic year when we had warm sunny days through many of the event days then had a ton of snow and great deep powder conditions late in the season,” Cypress Mountain published last week.

By looking over yearly snowfall reports since the 1960s, it does indeed show that temperatures are rising, and the snowfall levels are in decline. Statistics show that since the beginning of the twentieth century, Cypress Mountain’s annual snowfall has nearly halved. Environmental Canada released a statement in early December announcing that El Niño would be responsible for an irregularly warm winter this season, but it does

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not rule out global climate change as a threat to future Canadian winters. For recreational skiers especially, the environmental changes that are taking place should be a cause of great concern.

Each of the mountains throughout the lower mainland has taken steps to reopen the slopes for business. While it would have been possible for skiers of previous generations to ski at lower altitudes, those slopes are now in abandoned ruins; trails are cut from the peak where it’s still cold enough for snow to remain on the ground. In 2010 Grouse Mountain unveiled the Eye of the Wind, a 1.5-megawatt wind-powered turbine that would supposedly be able to generate enough power for 25 per cent of the mountain’s resources to operate by.

Unfortunately, the lack of wind has proven otherwise, and the turbine serves as a tourist attraction rather than an eco-friendly alterna-

tive to electricity produced by burning coal.

Whistler village has also done its part; the mountain resort is on a mission to entirely eliminate its carbon footprint. The Fitzsimmons Creek Project saw the inauguration of a hydroelectric dam across the valley separating Whistler from Blackcomb, capable of generating nearly five times the power of the Grouse Mountain turbine.

Even if this unusually warm winter has been product of El Niño, it doesn’t mean that the public should just breathe a sigh of relief and start stocking up on winter supplies in anticipation of the massive snow dump we may receive next year. Climate change is still an issue, and the only way to guarantee the survival of Vancouver’s ski resorts is to start taking responsibility for the environment.

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“Tonight we celebrate Hollywood’s best and whitest, sorry… brightest,” said Neil Patrick Harris, host of the 89th Academy Awards, during his opening Oscars speech. It was a joke that got praise by many people who were critical of this year’s Oscars due to the lack of diversity among the nominees. People were so outraged by the lack of diversity that they went to the great length of tweeting #OscarSoWhite, and got it trending on Twitter. Others made the enormous sacrifice of not watching the Oscars altogether, forcing themselves to spend time with their family, or read a book. And yes, while the Oscars were undeniably white this year, it’s not a big deal.

First, it’s important to remember the sheer incompetence on display at the Oscars. Remember, these are the same people who awarded 12 Years a Slave the Best Picture of 2014, even though two of the judges that voted for it never watched the movie. Lupita Nyong’o also won Best Supporting Actress for her role as Patsey. People were also upset by the per-

ceived snubbing of Selma, a historical movie about Martin Luther King Jr.’s campaign to get equal voting rights via a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965. Saying the movie got snubbed is a fair criticism, considering that The Theory of Everything, a historical movie about Stephen Hawking, was nominated for multiple major awards, and even earned Eddie Redmayne an Oscar for his portrayal of Hawking. However, movies get snubbed all the time. Even this year, Interstellar was only nominated for best original score and special effects, despite the fact that it has grossed over $500 million since its release. It’s not as if Selma was completely ignored either. It still won an Oscar for best song, and was nominated for best picture. It may not have been nominated for as many awards as people may have liked, but the same can be said for nearly every movie.

Even though the nominees in this year’s Oscar’s may have lacked diversity, this year’s performers and presenters were the most diverse group in Oscar history. Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Lopez, Viola Davis, Idris Elba, Kevin Hart, Oprah Winfrey and nine other minority presenters took the stage this year. People have

managed to criticize even this by claiming that the diversity of presenters is meant to cover up the lack of diversity of nominees. “The presentation [of minorities] onstage does not bear any resemblance to the nominees and therefore the winners," said Rev. Al Sharpton to the LA Times. "One has to wonder whether or not the Academy was trying to compensate with optics for what they didn't do with operations." But this is holding the Academy to an impossible standard, as well as assuming that even if it was to compensate for lack of nominees, that it is inherently bad to do so.

If there is a lack of diversity in the nominees and the Oscars still want a diverse show, then having many minorities as presenters and performers makes sense. It’s a better alternative than arbitrarily nominating movies for awards just to reach a diversity quota. Movies should be nominated based on their merits and nothing else, and what an Academy judge deems to be good may differ from what the people at home think. Selma may have deserved to have been nominated in more categories than it was, but to claim that it was left off the ballot primarily because the actors were black isn’t

telling the whole story.

This year wasn’t a good one for diversity amongst Oscar nominees. But with these kinds of events there is always going to be something that could be better. No event will be as diverse, either by gender or ethnicity, as people would like. Even so, Alejandro Iñárritu, the Mexican-born director of Birdman won three awards this year. The Academy has been trying to make the show better reflect those watching at home. Each year there has been more minority presenters than the last, and it was only a year ago that 12 Years a Slave won multiple awards, and the year before that it was Django Unchained. There will be years that are less diverse than others, but it doesn’t mean that it’s intentional. Interstellar deserved multiple nominations just as much as Selma did, and though it’s unfortunate that there weren’t more minorities nominated, it isn’t as big of a deal as the media has made it out to be.

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the sun sets on sun news WHY ITS DEATH IS BAD FOR CANADIAN DEMOCRACY Kevin Kapenda × Writer After almost half a decade of right-wing commentary and Judaeo-Christian rants, Sun News Network has ceased all operations due to failing to find a new owner. While much of the media coverage has been centred on what their demise means for progressive Canadians, little attention has been paid to what their death means for social conservatives, and more importantly, our democracy. Though Ezra Levant’s tirades on the denial of climate change may not have appeared to be that democratic, they were indeed so, because Levant and his colleagues shed different voices on issues that seemed unspeakable to the other news networks. Sun News Network is gone and as Canadians, we should mourn its death, because critics of the status quo will no longer have a medium to vent their frustrations, and most importantly, contribute to our democracy.

Sun News was often associated with the Conservative Party and its most ardent supporters. The network was dubbed “Fox News North”, because many of its hosts and personalities had public or official ties to the Conservative Party of Canada, which is paralleled to the Republican Party in the US. Though

the network was undeniably right-wing, that didn’t always mean their news was populist Conservative. Sun News was one of the first media outlets to be highly critical of former Alberta Progressive Conservative Premier Alison Redford, during a time where she ran oil-rich Alberta into deficit and gained a reputation for racking up large travel expenses. This criticism, of what would appear to be one of their own, led the network to throw their support behind the formerly robust Wildrose Alliance Party, which is a further-right opposition party in Alberta. Global, CTV and CBC all have similar centrist slants on their coverage of politics, and it was very clear that Sun News was never going to earn mainstream acceptance like their competitors. Being far-right may not be the most convenient of positions on the political spectrum to occupy, but it’s just as necessary and deserving of a voice as any other ideology or Populist Party.

With that said, on Feb. 13, Sun News failed for good and broadcast for the last time. Unlike many of their jobless hosts who still believe there can be another one, there will probably never be another profitable Conservative news channel in Canada, regardless if it’s included basic cable package, for overt conservative news. The people who watch news networks

don’t watch news on cable networks, and the people who watch news on cable networks don’t watch news networks either. Unless Sun News gets played before popular American dramas like NBC’s, ABC’s and CBS’s nightly national newscasts, or after them like CBC’s The National, Conservative news channels will never be able to get enough Canadians to watch their shows on a consistent basis. Their downfall cannot be attributed to a lack of blonde female presenters or a lack of support for Conservative politics, but instead a viewing population too small to cut into the few viewers who actually watch the CTV and CBC News Networks.

While it’s no surprise that Sun News eventually bowed out to market forces, their demise is nothing to be celebrated because it has serious implications for the strength of democratic communication in Canada. There is a false conception in Canada that media is and must be neutral or unbiased. No media or journalist can be unbiased. Whether they’re interviewing someone, or writing an op-ed, it’s impossible to refrain from some kind of bias or desired framing. An unbiased story cannot exist, because then there is no story, just plain old numbers and facts. Sun News was just as biased as CTV, Global and CBC, but only seemed more biased because their reporting style was far less diplo-

matic than those of its competitors. Sometimes Canada needs someone to stand up for Israel or question whether or not Supreme Court Justices, Parliamentary Officers, and Cabinet Ministers must be proficient in both English and French. Sure they were mean, and borderline intolerant, but the reliability of climate science and public funding of aboriginal governments are things that need to be challenged for the sake of our democracy. No discussion around any issue, popular or fringe, is bad for any democracy and Canada has lost a defender of free speech in Sun News Network.

The headlines from progressive outlets like the Huffington Post and the Tyee that claim Sun News Network went out with no fanfare may be true, but in many ways Sun News was not a channel, but rather a medium for prominent Conservatives, like BC’s Jordan Bateman and Alise Mills, to talk about issues of concern to them, that are often ignored by mainstream television news. If progressives are right about Sun News’ irrelevance, they shouldn’t care if it’s off the air or not anyways. It’s our democracy on the other hand that should, because the views of many Canadians, will no longer have a home in television news to voice their opinions on issues that are unpopular or too offensive for regular news networks.

occupy bathroom THE BENEFIT OF CREATIVE PROTESTS Sabrina Kuhn × Writer

× Vivian Liu movements arise and they acknowledge those structures without alienating the viewer.

When the outcome is as dire as violence against women, transmisogyny and racism, to name a few, it’s important not only that people are made aware of the cause, but that they are convinced that there is a need to be critical towards traditional media and their representation of events.

That is where SFU’s Shit-In organizers really succeeded. As seen with any movement regarding gender and sexuality in the public sphere, people tend to get heated very

quickly because one on side, there are the people who are affected daily by policies that oppress and belittle them, and on the other are people who rank on a spectrum of unintentional ignorance, to outright hatred and skepticism. The Shit-In is truly a unique way to challenge the power structures and bureaucracy involved in making a change in the institutional sphere. With the broad scope of media attention the Shit-In received, it will force the University to make a swift decision in regards to if they will repurpose men’s washrooms into gender inclusive ones

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Traditional rallies and marches as a form of protest have earned the title of “traditional” for a reason. These are tried and true methods that usually draw media attention, which is what a movement needs in order to become a discussion and consequent action. However, as seen with the early development of the AIDS movement in New York City circa 1980, sometimes protests become so politically and emotionally charged that it necessitates the need for other ways of spreading an organization’s message. Creating not only awareness but also ways of forcing the public to keep their attention on the cause at hand is a challenging task that often requires a dose of creativity.

A perfect example is Simon Fraser University’s (SFU) Shit-In for gender inclusive washrooms. The creative protest, where students camped out in a men's washroom, garnered the attention of the Georgia Straight among other publications. The tongue-incheek name paired with the unusual yet appropriate location for an occupation is reason enough to garner interest. The Shit-In also employs an incredibly valuable tool in protest and awareness movements: humour.

The reason why shows such as The Daily Report with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report are incredibly valuable outlets for social justice awareness is that it hyperbolizes the situation at hand to point out just how ludicrous the state of affairs are. Their brand of humour is easily accessible on The Comedy Network and is expressed in such a manner that it isn’t overwhelming to someone who doesn’t have higher education on the subject matter. These shows recognize that there are privilege and power structures at play when

or not. It's a chance for SFU to join the likes of McGill University, UBC, University of Toronto, Carleton University, and the University of Alberta whom all have some form of policy in favour of creating safe places for transidentified and non-binary folk to have access to washroom facilities. The best way to take away the power that any authority has is to poke fun at it, which will anger the authority that takes itself seriously, and usually results in true colours making their appearance.

The best way to force people to pay attention will depend on the circumstance.

For instance, The Snatchel Project is a prochoice group in the United States and their campaign’s mission is to encourage people to knit or crochet a vagina or uterus, attach the message “Hands off my uterus! Here’s one of your own!” and send them to anti-choice congress members. It’s likely that the recipients will get the message fairly loud and clear when they check their mail and find it full of knit vaginas. Among the other campaign tactics used, these personal messages amplify the voices that are on the street.

Protests are all about being heard, and sometimes it takes some creativity in order to attract the listeners. It’s no better or worse than traditional rallies, but it is something different that will attract the media, whom crave creative stories to break through the monotony of everyday news, and that media attention will propagate a message faster than picket signs on the street corner. In theory, the most successful protest will be the one with the most concise information, the most organized way of disseminating that information, a massive following, and the clever use of wit. The only wrong way to protest is the way that doesn’t work, and the only way to find out if it works or not is to take action.

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a tale of two cities A 'FAILED' LOVE AFFAIR: A POEM

Joe Louis × Columnist Joe Louis has gotten around. Born in Toronto, bred in Seattle, and living in the city, he has weaved through many cities and experiences. Because of this, he is a fan of long walks and hip-hop music, and has a slight penchant for challenging authority. His column will explore how life can transfer into the classroom, and with any luck, how the classroom can relate back to daily life.

A lot of the biggest lessons in life are found serendipitously. We bump into them by accident, and these small fumbles that alter our orientation are multivariate in nature. They can stem from impulsive or seemingly innocuous decisions, for instance my decision to enrol in the Semester in Dialogue program at Simon Fraser University.

This putatively minute scholastic divergence brought me to CityStudio, an innovation lab

within SFU’s Communication Department.

Here I was introduced to a new form of educational interaction and engagement. It brought what had previously been learned or taught abstractly or theoretically into the realm of the practical and the personal. CityStudio, in a profound sense, altered the syncopation of my education.

The emphasis was now placed back onto my potentialities and my contributive capabilities. The conversations at CityStudio concern the creation of a sustainable future, and how we can fit into it. My idiosyncrasies were valued and seen as potentially important insights.

The poem below was written as my op-ed for CityStudio. It’s a description of the tension that I experienced when confronted with the awareness of my own vast potential. This new notion of the self, of myself, was at odds with all those stories, the ones concerning my own ineptitudes, that I had been defining myself with for years. What I learned, via this seemingly innocuous scholastic divergence, was that one’s ineptitudes, or one’s fumbles, can, on occasion, be the catalyst for one’s contributions.

Failure, though painful, ought to be embraced, as it necessarily precedes growth.

I first met failure when I was a very young boy. I was riding my bike for the first time and fell. Failure made me feel like I was powerless to gravity, that I would never get back up; I could hear him taunt me as I cried.

Failure has been with me every day, quietly undermining my progress. Explaining again and again how I am too weak to go on, that I will never be the person I want to become.

Failure and I have been through a lot, such as the time I was kicked out of high school. Failure told me my dreams of changing the world and making a difference were finished. Failure told me I should give up.

Failure was with me that time I was travelling in Ecuador and Colombia. We sat and talked over drinks before I tried salsa dancing for the first time. Failure told me I was too clumsy and never to try to salsa dance again.

Failure was with me when I failed that university course. He whispered in my ear that I was a fool for trying to learn macroeconomics, that I

am too stupid for math anyway.

Failure has been with me at CityStudio, to explain his and my relationship to others; I thought the others would laugh because no one is such good friends with failure, only losers.

Failure told me not to explain how he and I fell in love this semester; he said they wouldn’t understand. I told him I had to explain our romance to the world, otherwise I would always be asking, “what if?”

Finally, I fell in love with failure. Even now we are planning to run away together to Peru or Fiji, or perhaps back to the wilderness for another season of tree planting.

Failure and I practice inappropriate public displays of affection. We canoodle when I should be working. Failure used to hate me, and I him; it turns out failure is just like me, he was just seeking acceptance.

Only by establishing boundaries with failure were we both truly allowed to co-exist and love one another. I see failure and I living a long life together, a life full of making mistakes, laughing and repeating it all again.

the shape of things to come THESE MIGHT NOT BE THE DROIDS YOU'RE LOOKING FOR James Martin × Columnist

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Few elements of science fiction captivate the imagination as much as artificial intelligence, but actually defining it is tricky. While computers have long excelled at activities associated with human geniuses like playing chess and solving complex math problems, some of the hardest challenges computer scientists continue to work on are things a young child can do naturally like incorporating common sense, emotions and context into their thinking. Hypothetical “strong” or “full” general artificial intelligence that can match or exceed humans in most measures like Star Wars’ C-3PO or 2001: A Space Odyssey’s HAL would be an unimaginably powerful development if it ever comes to be, but even more limited and specialized “weak” or “narrow” AI still promises to change the world and become an ever increasingly ubiquitous part of our lives in the near future.

There is no single definition for what constitutes artificial intelligence, but generally-accepted guidelines consider it capable of choosing an appropriate response based on external stimuli, and modifying that response to improve its success rate as circumstances change. Some ideas of AI include ability to physically interact with the world through a robotic body, while other models focus on the purely information-based aspects. By these criteria, many modern computers already qualify as narrow AI. A contemporary example is IBM’s

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As a long time Courier contributor, we like to think that we know James Martin. He is talented with instruments, and likes any coffee that is right in front of him. His primary hobby is building spaceships for little green men, and dreaming of the world they would live in. It’s because of this hobby that he is able to write about the future of technology, which is what his column is dedicated to.

Watson, the computer that won Jeopardy in 2011.

For the contest, Watson’s programming was adjusted to fit the game’s answer-with-a-question format, but the underlying mechanic of how the computer analyzes language and weighs the most relevant answers is applicable to many any field that involves understanding large volumes of complex information.

There are several reasons why this technology will see maturation in the next decade. First, the ever-increasing trend of collecting and digitizing every piece of data on every subject imaginable is necessary for providing the knowledge base an AI system requires. These vast quantities of information are far too complex for a human to interpret, but perfect for allowing a machine to piece together a bigger picture. Additionally, continuing advances in natural language processing mean that human interactions with AI will start to more closely resemble a contextually informed conversation rather than a string of unrelated queries and responses. Although the continuing increases in memory and processing power are

critical to AI’s success, what sets it apart from the computers of previous generations is the ability to intelligently put these resources to work without the direct and explicit input from human operators.

Medicine is likely to be one of the first areas to see major benefits from improved AI. An excellent example is in the field of epidemiology, where the recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa was recognized by the Boston-based Healthmap system a full nine days before the WHO announced the epidemic. Healthmap works by aggregating, filtering and processing information from medical records, government websites, news organizations and social media to piece together trends in infectious diseases that may not be visible in traditional data sets. Drug development is another area that will significantly benefit from AI, as computers with an intimate understanding of all processes in the human body will be able to calculate more effective treatment options. Diagnosis will benefit too.

Doctors will still have a job, but an AI assistant would be able to recognize trends on a scale too

broad for a single human to notice.

Another area also well suited to AI assistance is law. Lawyers need to research and process huge quantities of information not only from written laws but also past cases and precedents. A legal AI with sufficiently advanced language interpretation abilities would be a huge asset when searching for relevant records. Similarly, any other disciplines that deal with large and complex sets of information and interactions such as logistics, utilities distribution, traffic management and economics stand to see themselves reinvented with AI. Despite all the positive potential, some of the world’s most forward-thinking futurists like Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking warn that AI may also be something to fear if we are not careful. Setting aside the more fantastical idea of a sentient robot uprising like the ones portrayed in the Terminator franchise, the proliferation and integration of non-sentient AI could also prove dangerous for its own reasons. The fear is that decisions made by an entity that lacks a true human understanding of values, ethics, and common sense could have disastrous unforeseen consequences that an AI wouldn’t understand the significance of. Even if an AI was unable to carry out its recommendations without the approval of a human operator, the risk remains; how is a human supposed to foresee the side effects of a course of action so complex that human minds needed an AI to calculate it in the first place? Of course human programmers will do their best to mitigate such risks, but it is likely impossible to account for every potential “mistake” that could be made by a mind that, by design, is fundamentally alien to our own.

As artificial intelligence extends its helpful hand into our everyday lives, our best course of action is to remain wary, not to fear that it will turn against us, but rather to be cautious that we do not trust in it too blindly. Our machines will exceed us in many measures, but they will never be perfect to our imperfect eyes.

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house of common sense MISERABLE NEW YEAR FOR LYING LIBERALS Kevin Kapenda × Columnist

Kevin Kapenda has been the Courier’s unofficial political correspondent for the past two years. This year, we just made it a bit more official. Through his column, he will be delving into the world of politics and highlight what students should pay closer attention to.

He’s doing the hard political work so you don’t have to.

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It would suck to take Justin Trudeau’s order at McDonald’s. Though you’d be meeting Canadian royalty, he would probably take forever to decide what he wanted, and then ask to change or add things to his order after it had begun to be made. Like a bad customer, Trudeau has shown himself to be unable to commit to prior statements, and unwilling to announce a detailed platform that Canadians have been demanding for almost two years. Instead, the Liberal leader spends his days vaguely accusing the Harper government of just about anything, like impoverishing the middle class or being intolerant of Muslims. Politicians are not judged in a court of law, and shouldn’t be allowed brush off questioning because they might be wrong.

Withholding information from voters, like refusing to release a policy book until the election campaign starts, is just as bad as lying to them.

Trudeau may be far from the confrontational brutes that Harper and NDP Leader, Tomas Mulcair are, but will probably never defeat them until he chooses to announce his positions, instead of flip flopping between the Government’s and Official Opposition’s policies.

Harper went into the December break a wounded warrior, and emerged a defiant maverick in 2015. Trudeau’s inconsistent perfor-

mances have fuelled Harper’s rise in the polls, and put the Conservatives back in pole position to win another election. Harper’s surging numbers, which are being described by CTV News and Threehundredeight.com as his strongest since Trudeau became the Liberal leader almost two years ago, can mainly be attributed to his messaging on funding trades education, balancing the budget, lowering taxes and fighting terrorism. Mulcair’s response to rising Conservative support in Canada has been to attack Harper even more and expose various flaws in his agenda. On the other hand, Trudeau’s answer to Harper’s very Happy New Year has been to move his own message to the right, by choosing to support some of the Conservatives’ positions and bills. Though he’s by no means out of the race, desperately turning his back on students, environmentalists and progressive Canadians to

target Harper’s suburban voters is a strategy that won’t help Trudeau in the long run. His scruple and lack of explicit stances on key issues will only continue to make him look inexperienced and in a way afraid of voters. Political leadership in Canada has always been measured in black and white, not in grey or a mixture of blue and orange in Trudeau’s case.

When the Conservatives announced they would table a new Anti-Terrorism bill in the aftermath of the Parliament Hill and Paris shootings, the Liberals came out and said they would support the legislation, before even seeing it. Bill C-51, which was introduced by the government in early February, has been met with concerns from past politicians and legal experts who say it will lack sufficient civilian oversight. What’s even more confusing than the bill itself, is why the Liberals would support a

mass expansion of our surveillance state that is being objected to by three of its former Prime Ministers. The answer to that question is clear but less obvious. Since becoming Liberal leader in 2013, Trudeau has stumbled on many issues, including ones concerning national security and the War on Terror. When he has been required to lead and sound competent on issues regarding counterterrorism laws, he has instead attacked the government for fighting terrorism while failing to bring alternative policies to the table. There’s no doubt that Trudeau’s attractive features will continue grace the cover of Chatelaine magazine for years to come. But there are serious doubts about whether he can indeed govern this country and be good for anything more than questioning government policies he has no answers to.

Trudeau is on the border between winning the election and losing it. If he were to lose this election after leading in the polls for so long, his defeat would resemble the Seattle Seahawks’ last minute collapse against the New England Patriots in last month’s Super Bowl. His refusal to lead on issues of mass importance like the construction of pipelines, oil development, counterterrorism and middle class economics are only going to keep suburbanites in Harper’s coalition and radical progressives in orange ridings. Attacking Harper because he’s Harper isn’t working anymore, and like the NDP, Trudeau’s going to have to start doing what he hates the most: getting specific. Whether it’s his plans for marijuana, his views on the origins of terrorism or his position on the Northern Gateway Pipeline project, Trudeau has made ambiguity his middle name, and saying nothing to Canadians at this point, is just as bad as lying to them. If Trudeau continues to fence-sit for the rest of the year, the only fence he’ll be staring at come October will be the one outside 24 Sussex Drive.

Staff editorial THINKING OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM Carlo Javier × Lifestyle Editor

× Megan Collinson enough, Leah insisted on meeting us at a nearby bar instead. Here came one of the many significant things about life that Leah has taught me — and she has taught me a lot, both intentionally and without her even knowing. She taught me how to properly and effectively pour beer. More importantly, she taught me about the ethics and the manners that surrounded it.

Reacquainting myself with a bicycle and the ethics around beer pouring are just two of the lessons I’ve learned in the past few years. These lessons are the ones that you don’t actively seek.

As cliché as it is, these are the ones that happen because of being with the right people at the

to talking to girls, or what drink to buy for someone if I have to. Note: not every lesson I learned from Leah involves alcohol, but most of them do.

In recent years, the state of education in BC has suffered through tumultuous times. Problems have been caused by a lack of funding, further cuts to funding or the lack of jobs in the field. I don’t necessarily think that it’s a big enough of a problem that the province should address it, but I do think that there is a connotation that classrooms hold the answer to growing up and transitioning into an adult.

They are important, and significantly so, but they’re not everything. The social environment provided by a university is just as important.

This is a place where I met people from varying age groups and varying sub-cultures. It’s a nod to CapU’s small community feel and it’s a nod to the Courier as well that I have been able to meet mentors in both a professional and a social environment.

It’s a fitting environment, too. Anyone can teach something, no matter how insignificant it might seem. I think that’s the overlooked value of post-secondary education, it’s not just what we see inside the classroom. Maybe everyone does think this way, and maybe it just so happens that I’m just starting to notice it.

Regardless, it’s like what I told Andrew after brushing up on my bike riding skills: learning something is pretty satisfying.

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It sounds embarrassing but until this past Tuesday it had been nine years since I’d last ridden a bicycle. It’s only because the landscape of where I’ve lived for the past nine years is not the friendliest to cyclists.

On the eve of my 21st birthday, the Courier's Production Manager and all around good dude, Andrew Palmquist, quite literally gave me a crash course on biking, because contrary to popular belief, people do forget how to ride a bike. I crashed and I embarrassed myself several times, but ultimately, I regained the balance and the ability, and I managed. Later that night I told Andrew about the simple joy and satisfaction borne out of learning something, particularly something that you don’t necessarily see from a PowerPoint projection.

A similar event happened last spring after attending East Side Beer Fest on a whim with our Managing Editor, Andy Rice. Three hours of unlimited beer and baguettes resulted in two fairly drunk journos wandering up Commercial Drive wanting to meet their boss’s beloved cats. Yeah, we wanted to see Leah Scheitel’s infamous pet duo of Min and Hank – I said Min first because sometimes the second banana needs their time to shine too. Smartly

right place and at the right time. What I find most interesting is that these are things I encountered during my time in university, where by all accounts, education within the classroom is treated as most important.

I can’t really accurately gauge the value of education. Over the three years I’ve spent at Capilano University, I’ve learned about the differences between the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court.

I’ve slowly gotten better at citing and building a respectable bibliography. I’ve seen my papers pass with flying colours and fail miserably, I’ve come close to alleviating my once awful attendance issues and I’m still working my way towards getting a piece of paper that proves that I can communicate effectively.

These are things that I’ve learned because I paid for them. These are things that I hope one day translate into something that can help me get a steady, sustainable and secure career.

At the same time, I think that students such as myself tend to be so focused on what’s inside the classroom that we tend to neglect the practicality of what’s outside.

Make no mistake, I love learning about history and politics but that shouldn’t take away from the value of lessons we can learn from people who are not teachers by trade. I don’t think anyone in my immediate network would have been a better teacher than Leah when it comes to pouring beer, or when it comes

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Student-Favourite Resource Has Suffered From Recent Budget Cuts

Keara Farnan × Writer In 1985, Capilano University – then known as Capilano College – decided to create a Writing Centre in order to promote academic writing.

The Writing Centre first began in the home of the Humanities Division at Lynnmour, located at the southern side of the Library. By 1980, the space had transitioned into office-use for CapU, allowing students to sign up for 30-minute appointments.

In the official documentation of its history, titled Writing Centre/Writing Across the Curriculum, Rosemary Coupe of the Writing Centre wrote that, “The Centre was an English department initiative, funded by English department sections.” The document also made emphasis on the importance of the role that then English Coordinator Jean Clifford played in the development and sustainment of the Writing Centre.

Clifford is credited for having initiated the writing of Centre handouts, which served the purpose of covering all aspects of scholarly writing. These handouts are still available today.

Apart from academic writing, the Writing Centre is also home to Creative Writing students who enjoy writing poetry and short fiction. Students also get the chance to conduct their work through several vintage typewriters that the Writing Centre has acquired over the years. “[The Writing Centre] has collected over a

× Crystal Lee dozen typewriters, and there are plenty of students who want to use them. Slow writing is especially useful for short fiction and poetry – the difficulty of writing with a typewriter have really amp up a young writer’s approach to writing a particular piece,” says Anne Stone, creative writing and english instructor at CapU. “We also have gathered chapbooks – small independently writer-produced books and literary magazines,” she adds.

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Capilano University’s booming international student community isn’t just focused on the international students themselves. It also highlights some of the campus’ exceptional student leaders.

One of the ways that the Centre for International Experience (CIE) accommodates its host of international students is by placing them in groups to be taken under the wings of some of CapU’s most outstanding individuals. One of these leaders is 3rd Year Business Administration student, Pardis Daneshyar.

The tasks before becoming a mentor in CapU are not as daunting as one might think. Students open for the responsibilities and challenges simply must apply online, go through a screening and partake in an interview before Stasa Andric, international outreach and events officer of the CIE, decides on a position.

For Daneshyar, she has maintained the position of team coordinator for two years, where she works with a team of several local individuals in preparing plans and events for each year’s batch of international students. Each mentor typically works with two or three mentees for the duration of the year.

This year, Daneshyar’s team operates under the title “CosmoVans” a named derived from a collective desire to have “space-like” theme.

One of the initiatives that CosmoVans started was to host bi-weekly lunches or dinners where international students get the opportunity to try dishes from a variety of other cultures. Another event that CosmoVans led was a post-valentine’s celebration titled “Sing Away Your Sorrows.”

The group brought students to Malone’s Bar and Grill downtown where they were not only able to enjoy karaoke, but also sing in their native languages.

Outside of CIE’s mentorship program, Daneshyar also serves as the vice president of CapU’s International Business Association, a

Hannah Douglas, an Early Childhood Education student regularly uses the Writing Centre and says that the facility’s capability in providing one-on-one guidance as well as giving critical feedback to a student’s work is extremely helpful in the improvement of a writer.

“I have grown as a writer and been provided with beneficial strategies to help with the structure and grammatical mistakes I tend to make in my assignments,” she says, “Benefits have been yielded by the Writing Centre by only providing students with general feedback on their writing rather than editing it thoroughly. If the instructor is to critique the student work then it is not the student’s ideas on the page, but the teacher’s, which is technically cheating,” she adds.

“I would recommend that all CapU students attend the Writing Centre. It’s not just a place where you can ask your questions and thoughts, but one where you can pick up useful handouts and study for an upcoming test or midterm. It’s useful for those who get distracted while studying in the library, other places on campus and at home,” concludes Douglas.

Although the Writing Centre can provide a learning environment for many students on campus, the staff has had to take budgetary pressures into account and make significant changes, not only to the Writing Centre itself, but to the English Diagnostic Test (EDT) as well.

According to Stone, divisions from Arts and Sciences offered a five per cent reduction towards balancing the budget, however, this reduction dropped to seven per cent by the end of the negotiations. Yet the biggest difference in the Writing Centre has been the due to the results of the changes with the EDT. The revenue generated by the English department from the EDT had traditionally dictated the staffing of the Centre, “Changes in EDT requirements vastly reduced that income and so, we lost what were traditionally our EDT-funded faculty hours in the Writing Centre as well,” says Stone.

The changes marked another 20 per cent in cuts, totaling a 27 per cent budget cut in the Writing Centre in just a year. The cuts have resulted in the Writing Centre opening half an hour later and closing two hours earlier each day.

In the future, Stone and other Writing Centre faculty hope to expand learning hours in order to best accommodate students and better adapt to the changes implemented by last year’s budget cuts.

“The Writing Centre is always reinventing itself, always searching out new ways to meet students needs,” she says.

by Carlo Javier What are some of the challenges that you have faced working with international students?

What was your first word as a baby?

“Water.”

“The biggest challenge, and this is hands-down, is that international students are scared and they [feel they] can’t trust us. So we need to really connect with them and make them feel like we are honestly there for them an not just because we want to promote an event.”

Really?

“My mom says it all the time, she imitates me.

In Farsi it’s “Ab.”

What are some lessons that you have learned while working with international students?

What are some of the moments you’re most proud of? Like accomplishments?

“I learned a lot about teamwork. People are from different places, they have different things on their plate and they don’t necessarily want to do what’s allocated, so you need to figure out what they want to do.”

“I don’t have accomplishments.”

I think that’s gonna be really funny on here.

"I honestly don’t feel that I have accomplishments, I haven’t yet."

Can you answer my go-to breakfast question?

group that she has been a part of for two years.

Beyond the university, Daneshyar has also dabbled in the business of sweets. “Me and my boyfriend, we own a honey company,” she says.

The couple sells honey from Prince George and has seen a rather rapid growth during their work, having their product sold in 15 different stores in just six months. “In the past three weeks, we got Loblaws on Lonsdale, which is our first bigchain store, and we got Loblaws in Richmond,” she says.

Daneshyar’s commitment to on-campus and off-campus responsibilities has not limited her work in other extra-curricular activities. She also coaches soccer for French kids ranging from ages three to 16.

“I really like Eighties on Lonsdale, it’s like $5.95 and you get coffee, you get your two eggs, toast, sausages, potatoes and two bacon strips. All that is for $5.95”

What’s your favourite elective?

“I would say Critical Thinking, just because I’ve never done anything similar.”

Do you like going to concerts?

“I’ve only been to three, and I went to see The Weeknd three times.”

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2015 is set to be a big year for food services at Capilano University. In just a few months, the institution will open up a bidding process to find its next great cafeteria operator. It’s a thankless job full of criticism and complaints, but also a potentially lucrative one that’s expected to draw several high-profile applicants. But what if nobody submits a bid and all we’re left with are boarded-up Tim Horton’s and a couple of vending machines? Then what do we do? The edible gardens next to the Bosa Building aren’t doing much these days and squirrels are really fast runners. Could anyone actually survive off a wooded section of the CapU campus eating nothing but

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written by Andy Rice / illustrated by Samantha Smith

native plants? We sent our managing editor, Andy Rice, to find out. After pigging out on all kinds of questionable things, here’s what he found.

Western Sword Fer Polystichum munitum

Salal Gaultheria shallon

Black Hellebore Helleborus niger

Cherry Laurel Prunus laurocerasus

These evergreens can be found in nearly every corner

The berries and leaves of this plant were once a favou-

The infamous Black Hellebore can be found growing

This plant isn’t native to BC at all — it actually belongs

of the campus. They’re not super tasty, but in a pinch

rite food staple among the Salish people. Reaching ma-

in several patches adjacent to the Dogwood building,

over in Southeastern Europe, but it happens to grow

you can peel and eat the rhizomes year-round as many

turity in July and August, the dark purple fruits have a

once home to CapU’s oft-forgotten Horticulture pro-

quite heartily in North America in the form of hedges

First Nations groups once did. In the spring, when the

sweet taste that can vary drastically from bush to bush

gram. Hellebores may have pretty flowers and wacky-

and shrubs, and in a few random spots on campus.

plants are sprouting new chutes out of the soil, you can

depending on what has died or defecated nearby. The

looking leaves, but don’t eat them. Just don’t. Not only

Despite the fact that it’s related to Bay Laurel (Laurus

also harvest the young “fiddleheads” and fry them up

berries can be dried and made into cakes, pies, jams,

are they profoundly poisonous but they taste like it too.

nobilis), which gives us those fancy bay leaves used

with a bit of butter. Western Sword Fern isn’t the best

fruit leather, or eaten right off the bush as an appetite

The plant’s toxic foliage is rumoured to have killed

to flavour soups and sauces, Cherry Laurel is far less

variety for this (try the Ostrich Fern for the real deal)

suppressant or a light snack. Similarly, another plant

Alexander the Great after an unfortunate mishap, and

edible and will make you feel like your insides are on

but it’ll satisfy the craving. Another campus-dwelling

called Oregon Grape (Mahonia aquifolium) has edible

was once used as an herbal aid for weight loss in Rus-

fire and your lungs are the size of two shrunken wa-

fern, Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum), is considered

berries as well, although binge-eating them can be

sian medicine — probably because nothing makes you

ter balloons. The berries, seeds and leaves all contain

a delicacy in some parts of the world. However, it’s

toxic or deadly. Thankfully, those ones are really sour

shed those pounds faster than a slow death. Before

cyanogenic glycosides, which is just an elaborate way

cancerous as shit when eaten in large amounts. No

and far less desirable to eat. You’ll find patches of them

modern medical advances, Hellebores were also used

of saying “poisons attached to tasty sugar molecules.”

joke — when uncooked, the chewing of bracken re-

on the path between the daycare centre and Birch, or

to treat insanity, while simultaneously triggering side

Due to their cyanide content, they smell like almonds

leases hydrogen cyanide and the plant also contains

in the forest next to the Fir building. Oregon Grape can

effects ranging from tinnitus to tongue swelling. So

when you crush them up and the vapours may cause

a chemical compound called ptaquiloside, which is

be popped like Gravol to reduce indigestion, made into

unless you really want to have a colourful psychotic

you to feel weak and light-headed. They’re also really

carcinogenic to animals, including humans, and has

wine or even used as a natural dye after boiling down

episode that includes projectile vomiting all over your-

bitter and soapy to taste. A mouthful of Cherry Laurel

been linked to many cases of stomach cancer.

the stems and berries.

self, stumbling around the upper parking lot, tearing

probably won’t kill you, but you might wish you were

out large tufts of your hair and stuffing them into other

dead.

people’s pockets, stay away from the Hellebore garden.

Jacob's Ladder Polemonium caeruleum

European Holly Ilex aquifolium

Bigleaf Hydrangea Hydrangea macrophylla

Primroses might just be the only thing growing on

This perennial herb was once harvested each summer

If spiky leaves aren’t a good enough indicator that Holly

While the young leaves and pompom-like flowers of

campus that’s truly edible without any digestive con-

for its roots, which were dried and taken internally

might not be the tastiest or most convenient snack on

the Hydrangea plant are moderately toxic due to the

sequences. Both the leaves and flowers of this decora-

to treat epilepsy, headaches, toothaches and animal

campus, then be forewarned about all the vomiting and

small amount of cyanogenic glycosides (poison sugar

tive perennial are fair game and can be picked as you

bites in ancient Greece. Elsewhere in Europe, Jacob’s

diarrhea you’ll be dealing with if you happen to ingest

molecules) they contain, the mature leaves and shoots

would with fresh salad greens, and eaten in a similar

Ladder was used to treat rabies and keep a hefty case

any of the plant’s Christmassy little berries. Although

can be consumed relatively safely in several different

manner. Depending on the variety they may be slightly

of syphilis on the down-low. These days, its medici-

they’re a favourite winter snack for birds, it takes only

ways. In Japan, the leaves are fermented to make a

more bitter than your average head of lettuce, but still

nal usage isn’t very common, although the flowers are

20 of these small, red fruits to kill a house pet or a

caffeine-free herbal tea called Amacha, which literally

enjoyable nonetheless. And, if you’ve got a few weeks

a really pretty blue colour and can be used to make

small child. An adult will likely survive such an encoun-

means “sweet tea”. The beverage is used in religious

of your life to spare, the leaves can also be dried and

an edible garnish — that is, if you happen to still be

ter, but not without a great deal of stomach pain. The

ceremonies to honour Buddha’s birthday and is also

boiled into tea, while the flowers can be fermented

concerned about garnishes while starving to death on

leaves of a Holly plant, however, are completely edible

believed to help ease the effects of allergies and pre-

into wine. Not only will this plant provide you with side

campus or violently purging the contents of your intes-

and are sometimes used as a tea substitute due to their

vent inflammation of the gums. The leaves can also

salads for days, but it’ll get you drunk too!

tines after feasting on Hellebores or Holly in the name

richness in caffeine. Yerba mate, a favourite drink of

be dried and powdered to create a flavouring agent

of article research. You can also boil the roots to make

hippies and South Americans, actually comes from a

for other foods.

a quick remedy for a cold or cough, or become your

closely related variety of Holly, (Ilex paraguariensis),

cat’s new best friend by tossing them a leaf or two.

and is quite delicious.

Nobody knows why, but they seem to love the smell .

Tulips Tulipa gesneriana

“Sorry to break it to you, but I don’t think anyone at CapU

Tulips may look suspiciously poisonous, but believe it

is going to be able to survive on plants alone. There’s just

or not the flowers are completely edible. Best eaten raw, the petals offer a flavour ranging from something

Tea Time

quite earthy and pea-like to a more watery taste, like

random leaves and flowers. Even when you do finally find

that of young lettuce or cucumbers. The stems and leaves are also edible, with a flavour similar to green

David isn’t the only one who can make tea. In fact, ev-

beans. When it comes to the bulbs, however, there

erything from grass to cherry blossoms can be steeped

are conflicting reports floating around regarding their

in boiled water to make this popular beverage. All you

edibility, so it’s generally best to avoid eating them alto-

need is a kettle, a couple of funny looking plants and a

gether. Some say they can be dried and safely added to

quick Google search, and you’ll soon find out you have

flour or cereal, but a whole ton of Dutch people ended

the power to put Tetley and Tazo out of business with

up in a morgue during the 1940s due to an overzealous

your own concoctions using English Heather, Mountain

suggestion by the government to adopt tulip bulbs as

Ash berries, pine needles and more.

the newest starchy vegetable. So, unless you want to take home the award for the dumbest death of 2015, you should probably leave them in the ground.

too much margin for error when going around snacking on something edible, it’s basically just salad, the most disappointing food of all time. The only guarantee in this experiment is extreme hunger and a case of diarrhea so bad you’ll need a skin graft.” - Andy Rice

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shotgun reviews WHO SHOULD REPLACE KRIS BULCROFT, THE BO$$?

ANNA KENDRICK

JACK SPARROW

When it comes to picking a new university president, very few people come to mind, especially any of those at Capilano University who I know personally. Anyhow, Anna Kendrick has got to be one of the most humorous actresses in show business. Who wouldn't want her to perfectly pitch her great ideas for CapU? Maybe she can even sing them to us using her perfectly pitched singing voice. She knows how to lead the Barden Bellas to victory and how to score one hot guy, so why do not take on a university next? Not only would Anna Kendrick be able to show CapU her snide sense of humour and killer dance moves, she could perhaps provide some of us with a short role in Pitch Perfect 3, if there is going to be a third installment. Do you guys think there will be a third installment? I don’t know. I am sure we would all like to be able to brag that Anna Kendrick is the president of CapU, who wouldn't? I mean the lady is incredible and insanely hilarious at the same time. Vote Kendrick for President.

After thinking through this thoroughly and considering Gollum as Capilano University’s new president, I decided that he was way too creepy to be taken seriously, while Gandalf was too high - I mean gray. What our school needs is someone that can put us all in order. We want this person to command our respect, but at the same time, we want to be able to crack jokes with him and share a lustrous bottle of rum, or two, or three.

Captain Jack Sparrow is the anti-hero we need and deserve. A charismatic man who will win our hearts with slimy lies about how much he loves us and our beloved programs. The board members would be all confused and would never get to an agreement because of his abilities to negotiate, or in other words, his ability to hide his own motives.

I think he would make an excellent choice. He’s a survivor that does not use force or weapons, but he will fight if he has to. The treacherous man will be our doom, but at least we’ll get drunk and have a good time. Pirates of the Caribbean 5: A Drowning University, I can almost see it.

- Keara Farnan // Barden Bella - Carolina Vinueza // Swashbucklin' Writer

ANDY UNDERWOOD LITERALLY / CLAIRE RICE ANYONE ELSE This shotgun was late because I put some serious thought and deliberation into who I thought should steal the reins out of Bulcroft’s hands. The decisionmaking tool that I’m learning about in Todd Newfield’s Decision Making class even paid off, and I used a SMART analysis. But still, at the end of the day, I was left with two people I thought would be great, so I decided to get creative and meld the two great minds of Andy Rice and Claire Underwood together. Claire Underwood, wife of political mastermind Frank Underwood, is an obvious choice because she has waterfalls of grace, poise and class to use at her discretion. And let’s be honest, that’s something that Bulcroft always was missing – some poise. Plus Claire is a boss and a bitch, just like me.

Hell, I hope to take over for her one day. Andy Rice is an asset because he spends hours researching new ways to poke fun at Bulcroft. From creating spoof ads for everything from Bulcroft Buick to Bulcroft Realty, through his research he has garnered some interesting techniques that should be used in the running of our fine university. With Underwood’s poise and Rice’s scathing critical eye, we would have a figurehead that would make Christy Clark’s government look like the Babysitter’s Club.

- Leah Scheitel // Supreme Courier Bitch

Like Leah, I too have thought long and hard about this question. I’m still not sure I have an answer. I do think former Studio Arts professor George Rammell would do a pretty good job. Articulate, passionate and moustachioed to the highest degree, who better to understand Kris Bulcroft’s shortcomings than a man who openly criticized her platform with an art piece that drove her to a fit of public rage? Or how about Susan Doig, CapU’s sweetas-pie facilities manager, who cares deeply about sustainability, animals and her husband’s coveted créme brûlée recipe? She also drives a Smart car with zebra stripes, which totally puts Bulcroft’s Prius to shame. What does Rammell drive? I hope it’s not a Westfalia or something, but it probably is. You can’t run a university and drive a Westfalia.

I’m afraid we might have to take him out of the running. Sorry, George. So who else is there? The lady who handed me my coffee at Tim Hortons in the cafeteria this morning might do an OK job, and I bet Carlo and Therese would vote for her.

Maybe she could cut a few more programs and turn CapU into a training school for Tim Hortons employees. You could do a double-double major in Coffee Thermodynamics, or get your PhD in Customer Relations. The D stands for doughnut, by the way, because customers love the D.

- Andy Rice// Can't Decide

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