vol. 1 issue 8 | June 16, 2009
NEWS AND CULTURE NEWSPAPER FOR THE STUDENTS OF KWANTLEN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY
News & Politics
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Judge suggests SFSS hold another referendum over CFS split BY KENDRA WONG THE PEAK (SFU)
BURNABY (CUP) – After nearly 13 months and four court cases, the decision of whether or not the Simon Fraser Student Society’s referendum to leave the Canadian Federation of Students was legal, is still undecided. The court case resumed last Monday and Tuesday at the Supreme Court of British Columbia after the case was originally presented in February, and the judge failed to come to a decision. Similar to the rst court case, the judge still had not come to a conclusion at the end of the two-day period. Both the CFS and the SFSS lawyers used the time to reinforce the arguments made in February in front of the court. The legitimacy of the referendum, held on March 18 to 20, 2008, is in question, as is the petition by the SFSS to have the referendum results recognized. The CFS is also demanding the payment of $430,000 in membership fees. On the second day, one of the main issues in front of the courts was if the case was suitable for a ruling on an 18A. An 18A would allow the judge to make a deci-
sion based on the evidence before him. The SFSS wanted the 18A because they “wanted [the court case] determined,” claimed SFSS lawyer Susan Coristine. “The students need to know, they need to know where their fees are going. There needs to be a resolution.” Coristine presented her positions, taking up the greater half of the eight-hour long court case. First, she claimed the bylaws during the 1995 CFS Annual General Meeting were not enacted because they did not have quorum at the meeting. She claimed, “[the] validity of [the] bylaws were vague.” CFS lawyer Martin Palleson argued that Derrick Harder, the SFSS president at the time, received proof of the bylaws attached to documents from Titus Gregory, a former SFSS politician. The letters contained Gregory’s afdavits, which referred to the bylaws in the 1995 CFS AGM, therefore proving the bylaws. Her second position argued that the problems of the Referendum Oversight Committee, a body designated by the CFS to oversee the referendum, should not be a valid reason to overturn an entire referendum. At the time of the referendum,
the CFS did not want the referendum to coincide with the SFSS elections, and since the referendum date should be established before the creation of the Referendum Oversight Committee, they had no jurisdiction over the dates. While the validity of the referendum was the centre of the February court cases, the CFS decided to focus their attention on the last application – the unpaid membership fees that continue to be collected by the SFSS. The CFS lawyers’ most aggressive argument claimed that if the SFSS thought the referendum was valid, why were they still collecting fees on behalf of the CFS? They want to “recover the funds from that time period [after the referendum] to the present, in which the SFSS is still collecting the fees.” The CFS lawyers further argued that under the University Act, it is not the responsibility of the SFSS to collect the money on behalf of the CFS – it is the job of the university, meaning the SFSS has no power to collect the membership fees. Depending on the outcome of the case, the funds collected by the university will either be distributed to the SFSS or the CFS.
Hmmm I wonder if there is anything else I can privatize in this province...
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Licensed marijuana growers allowed to increase supply BY KAITLAN DENNENY THE CORD WEEKLY (WLU)
OTTAWA (CUP) – Following a count ruling, on May 25 the federal cabinet announced that licensed medical marijuana growers are now able to increase the number of patients they supply. Licensed growers can now supply to two patients as opposed to one. The change from cabinet came in response to a federal court
ruling the previous year that opposed the limit of marijuana producers to one licensed patient. With the regulations as they were previously, Island Harvest – an organic marijuana company – was restricted to one patient per licensed employee, despite hundreds of alternative requests from approved marijuana users. As the approved requests were denied, thousands of patients were forced to buy the product illegally, which was determined to be a violation of constitutional rights.
Changes made to Ontario student financial assistance BY LINDA GIVETASH THE CORD WEEKLY (WLU)
WATERLOO (CUP) – John Milloy, Ontario’s Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities, announced earlier this month that the province will see changes to its Distance & Textbook and Technology Grants, available to Ontario post-secondary students. The new requirements only permit students who qualify and receive the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) to receive the grants. This decision was made in light of the provincial budget released in March, which takes the world’s current economic situation into account. “We are going through some pretty extraordinary economic times,” said Milloy during a conference call with the Canadian student media. With the new change to the grants, the provincial government will save just over $100 million. In addition to the requirement changes for the grants, the government will not be increasing the amount given. Originally, the Textbook and Technology Grant was meant to increase to $250 per
student annually as of the fall 2009. “The Textbook and Technology Grant will continue at the $150 level, we will not be able to increase it,” said Milloy. Saad Aslam, chair of the Wilfrid Laurier University Students’ Union board of directors, expressed his concern for students whose families have been affected by the recession. “There are a number of students whose parents may have lost jobs.... If they lost their jobs in May or over the summer they wouldn’t be eligible for OSAP.” Aslam, who has also been involved with the Ontario University Students Alliance (OUSA) and the Canadian Alliance of Students Association (CASA), is concerned with ensuring that post-secondary education is accessible to all students regardless of their nancial situation. The effects that the grant changes will have on students will not be clear until the fall. They do, however, reect the impact of the economic crisis on funding for post-secondary education. “We quite frankly don’t have all the resources that we thought we had,” said Minister Milloy.
Feature: Is this the end of Canadian peacekeeping? BY MARIANA IONOVA RYERSON FREE PRESS
TORONTO (CUP) – Ray Kokkonen, along with his fellow veterans, marks national holidays by donning his blue beret, decorating his chest with polished medals and proudly marching in a long, winding column through the streets of Saint John, New Brunswick. Peacekeeping is a central part of Kokkonen’s identity. He believes the same holds true for Canada. As president of the Canadian Peacekeeping Veterans’ Association, Kokkonen has seen rsthand just how important peacekeeping is to Canadian veterans and the pleasure they derive from their service. “People are very, very proud of it,” said Kokkonen. “It’s an honour to wear the blue beret.” This pride is shared by many Canadians. It stems from a long
history of heavy involvement in United Nations peacekeeping that, over the years, has become Canada’s trademark in the international community. In the last 60 years, Canada has contributed over 120,000 troops, taken part in nearly every UN peacekeeping mission and, along the way, earned respect both at home and abroad. But Canada’s generosity seems to have run its course in recent years. Only 126 Canadians are currently on UN peacekeeping missions, according to the most recent available UN data. Canada, once a major contributor of troops, has dropped to 55th place on the list, and now lags behind France, the United States and the United Kingdom. “Canada has always provided relatively huge numbers for UN peacekeeping operations, and we are now down to a busload,” said Joan Broughton, Public Information Ofcer at the United Nations
Association of Canada. The Canadian government acknowledged that the UN is in sore need of troops when Ambassador John McNee, Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations, addressed the Security Council in January. But McNee made no promises to contribute troops. “We must be cognizant of the strengths, but also the limits of peacekeeping operations, and only mandate those missions that have reasonable prospects of achieving results,” said McNee. “The international community must be realistic about what is achievable within the resources we are willing or able to provide.” Instead of pouring the majority of military expertise into UN peacekeeping operations, as in the past, the Canadian government has opted to concentrate its resources in the NATO-led, UNsanctioned operation in Afghani-
stan, where approximately 2,500 Canadian troops are currently deployed. The large-scale mission has drained Canada’s already limited army reserves and few troops are left for other commitments. But although the operation in Afghanistan is not a peacekeeping mission by denition, the Canadian government maintains that a commitment to peace underlies Canada’s involvement in the conict. “The fundamental commitment to peace and improving the lives of others remains a cornerstone of Canada’s foreign policy,” said McNee during his address and went on to say that Canada’s presence in Afghanistan is “a part of this commitment.” In Broughton’s view, however, the mission in Afghanistan differs in that it does not ask troops to simply mediate but it requires them to actively end a conict. As a result, Canada has left its
peacekeeping role behind for the much more contentious duties of a “peacemaker.” “When you get involved in a situation like Afghanistan where there are signicant political implications, you are clearly taking one side over the other,” said Broughton. “Peacekeepers by denition are neutral. They don’t take sides . . . and the fact that we have chosen to deploy most of our military forces into peacemaking instead of peacekeeping is a choice we’ve made as to where we will put our focus.” The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade did not comment on Canada’s current level of involvement in UN peacekeeping despite multiple invitations to do so. It is not yet clear how Canada’s drawback from peacekeeping will affect national and international public perception, but according to Broughton, Canada’s reputation has begun to suffer.
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Kwantlen helps local business with GUESTS BY CHRIS YEE CONTRIBUTOR
A new initiative, the Guildford Unique Essential Skills Training for Sales (GUESTS) program, seeks to help small retail business owners at Guildford Town Centre and their workers develop the skills that are essential to thriving not only in the current economy, but in the future as well. The new program is a partnership between Kwantlen Polytechnic University and Guildford Town Centre, with funding by the BC Ministry of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development (ALMD). Designed for businesses employing less than fty people, the GUESTS program consists of free basic skills training tailored to the needs of retail employees. Volunteer tutors are assigned and learning plans are made according to the needs of the business owners and their employees, as assessed by a skills assessment. In the current economic downturn, business owners and workers alike now face greater challenges in doing business. Hardest hit are small businesses and those who work for them. They have less at their disposal to deal with the increased difculty in doing business that the current situation entails. Many of those small businesses are retail businesses, where the challenges - and the competition are even harsher than before. There are nine basic skills that the GUESTS program aims to develop, including those related to literacy (reading & writing),
numeracy (math), technological skills and intercultural competencies. Kwantlen’s regional literacy coordinator, Judith Mclean, says that the development of a number of these skills is important in the multicultural environment at Guildford Town Centre, especially in the areas of literacy and intercultural skills. Training will consist of on-site classes as well as classes at facilities such as libraries and community centres. The employees will be taking these classes before and after their work shifts, as well as during slow business hours. The GUESTS program has also partnered with the Progressive Intercultural Community Services Society (PICS) and the
OPTIONS: Services to Communities Society to provide supports to employees in the program. PICS will provide assistance in multiple languages, while the OPTIONS Society will provide child care services. The issues of language barriers and child care are those that employees at Guildford Town Centre have cited most often as barriers to training, says Judith Mclean. The GUESTS program will serve as a pilot program for future retail training initiatives
in BC. It will run for nine months, and employees participating will be given skills assessments before and after the program’s course, in order to gauge the program’s effectiveness. Training materials developed for the GUESTS program will be adapted for future training programs, which may even serve larger businesses. Judith Mclean says the proposed GUESTS program has been well received by business owners at Guildford Town Centre, many of whom wish to see their employees advance in their careers and lives, as well as taking advantage of the free training offered by the program. Mclean also said that the GUESTS program is currently looking for tutors. Orientation sessions were held on May 22nd and 23rd, with another set of sessions to take place on July 15th, 22nd and 29th. Initial volunteer training sessions will also be spread out during this time, to a total of nine hours. Mclean expects the GUESTS program to commence once the month of July is out. For more information about becoming a tutor, contact Brett Palmer (Co-Op Student/Regional Literacy Assistant) by phone at 604-599-2324 or by email at brett. palmer@kwantlen.ca. For information about the project, contact Judith McLean (Regional Literacy Coordinator) by phone at 604-599-2324 or email at judith.mclean@kwantlen.ca.
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15th Annual Kaushal’s Kwantlen Klassik WHERE: Mylora on Sidaway WHEN: June 19 WHAT: Last year the tournament raised over $7000 for the Kaushal Kwantlen Klassik Scholarship, which now sits at over $66,000. For more information contact Patrick Duffy at 604.599.2550 or patrick.duffy@kwantlen.ca.
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Editorial/Opinion
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Creative Writing Kwantlen Parking: Reformation! Payment Without Progress +%(,23($4
Show of hands for those who’ve taken a Creative Writing class? Now, show of hands for those who’ve earned poor marks for a piece you feel was better than, say, a B-. It happens all the time. The problem with grading creative writing is that art is completely subjective. What may strike one person as absolute garbage may strike another as an epic read. Take James Patterson, novelist of such ripping yarns as !iss the (irls and +long /ame a 2pider. Literary critics nd his work hammy and disposable but his name frequently appears at the top of best seller lists. While the pipe ‘n’ slippers crowd prefer Salman Rushdie, Patterson is just ne for the average folks seeking some escape. Of course, there’s a critical standard for “good” writing and “bad” writing, but “good” novels such as 6ride and 6re7udice typically bore the socks off the vast majority, even if they don’t know
what constitutes good writing. Nevertheless, which books make the Top 10 year after year should be weighted by both critical analysis and imbecile analysis. Just like the Oscars. The same should go for the grading system at Kwantlen’s Creative Writing department. Instructors are more educated than their pupils. And while they have more expertise in the eld, their opinions alone should not make up the whole of an individual’s mark. The rest of the class might love what the instructor thinks is shit. So, the :unner advocates a new grading system for the department. Each piece is read by all students in the class, as well as the instructor. Everyone grades each other’s writing, and 70 per cent of the mark is weighted on the instructor’s grade, while the remaining 30 per cent is weighted in the class’ collective average. That way, the grade is a bit more representative of how effective the piece really is.
Olympic-ticket buying a farce
!"#*/3(-#.22) MEDIA EDITOR
Last December, the Vancouver Olympic Committee gave hopeful Olympic attendees the opportunity to ‘win’ the chance to buy tickets for events at next year’s Winter Games. I missed out on the lottery entirely, but found comfort in knowing that a second round would be released on the weekend
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of June 5th. I logged onto the ticket-buying site early Friday morning and found myself stuck in a ‘virtual waiting room’ that refreshed the page every 30 seconds. After about an hour and a half, I nally found myself at the ticketbuying screen and of course, all of the tickets within my price range were gone. No, I do not wish to pay $1,100 for an opening ceremony ticket. Even $175 is a lot, but at least it’s not half the cost of my car. After another hour of scouring for any affordable tickets in anything remotely interesting, I logged off the site frustrated and without tickets. Our schools are shut down for the Olympics, our parking lots are taken over for Olympic parking, but thanks to the fractured ticketing scheme, how many students will actually be attending the games?
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Parking on the Surrey campus has become a game of musical chairs during all but the summer semester. The summer is a welcomed time on campus, as we no longer have mountainous mounds of snow covering a quarter of the stalls, and do not have to endure the off road experience of the overow parking lot: an experience that makes students con-
sider buying an SUV to ensure they get their vehicle back after class. The overow lot with its potholes, pools of mud, and individuals that believe that the roadway is one large parking stall makes parking interesting, to say the least. We assume that the money we pour into the meters to avoid parking tickets would go towards improving parking, yet there is no progress. Moreover, simply paying has become a task in itself. The overow parking requires certain coins, and other meters simply do not work or have no paper to give you an all important receipt. The receipt has become the golden ticket to remove “accidental” tickets that seem to be given on random cars. I have been given a ticket after paying, and had to call Impark and be on hold for an hour to read them my receipt so that they would nullify the costly ne. We seem to only be paying
to avoid the inconvenience of a ticket and ll the pockets of Impark and, to an extent, Kwantlen. Where is the progress? There is a blatant disconnect between what we pay and the improvement of our parking facilities. How is it that the days when seventy-ve cents bought you a whole day’s parking privileges had better parking maintenance than today’s four dollars? Will the overow ever be paved and numbered? Will the meters be maintained so that we do not have to search for a meter that works and/ or hope that there is paper for a receipt for when we get that “accidental” ticket by Impark’s male meter maid who must be escorted by security? We have worked to become an institution that is on par with UBC, SFU, UVIC and TWU, yet our parking facilities remain below par. There is a problem. Will it be xed, Kwantlen?
Lines are for suckers: Are you a sucker, too?
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Summer his here. Did you notice? In any case, this is the time when parents start taking their kids out for “family events.” It’s when couples go to the Aquarium and to Playland and to the mall to buy matching bathing suits. It’s when 400 twenty-somethings descend on the same movie theatre at the same time on opening weekend. The time is now ripe for people to enjoy themselves. Summer is when everyone is everywhere all of the time. Crowds descend by the hundreds at all locations across the city, and that means
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only one thing: lines. Lines galore. Lines for the bathroom, for hamburgers, for roller coasters. Lines to ask questions about what that other line is for. People wait passively and patiently while the line moves at a sloth’s pace towards its nal destination, wherever that may be. It’s truly a beautiful thing to see humanity act so harmoniously in this way. Nowhere else does mankind work so well together than when waiting for the Tilta-Whirl. That old lady wants to go before you? Of course you’ll let her on rst. We’re all in this together folks! Well, I say phooey. Lines are for suckers. Case in point: at the Sasquatch festival earlier this year, there were massive lines leading to the portable toilets (they were called Honey Buckets, for your information). These lines were ridiculous – 20 minutes long at times. I was caught in one of these while the pressure in my bladder pressed so aggressively against my lower abdomen that I could actually see it bulging. No exaggeration. It looked like an impatient fetus pushing for freedom.
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Anyway, after waiting that rst fateful time, I walked into the Honey Bucket zone and saw dozens – maybe a hundred or more – portable toilets, all lined up like boutiques on Granville St., just waiting to be used. The line was useless – the smart ones just needed to walk to the front of the line, where the crowd turned impatient and aggressive, and walk right in. No waiting. I did that a dozen times throughout the weekend. When I got back, I carried on with that behaviour. At the pool, at McDonald’s, at da club etc. I’d walk to the front of any line with authority and a positive attitude. I’d act like I was supposed to be there and most assumed I was. If someone called me on my B.S., I’d give them an excellent excuse like, “I’m V.I.P.” I’m nice about it – there’s no need for confrontation. My line-cutting abilities have earned me precious minutes of my life that I would have lost otherwise. I feel healthier. My skin is smooth, wrinkle-free. Line-cutting has turned me into the superior human being that I am today. Just kidding. I was always like this.
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Culture
vol. 1 issue 8 | June 16, 2009 | page seven
What To Do and Where To Do It How to spend your summer in the Lower Mainland Fusion Festival Gay Pride Parade
August 2nd Downtown Vancouver Rainbows and short-shorts
Bard on the Beach
May-September Vanier Park, Vancouver Shakespeare outdoors
July 18-19 Holland Park, Surrey World music, delicious food
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August 22 - September 7 East Hastings, Vancouver Gambling, dirt bikes and pig races
VANCOUVER Lantern Festival
July 25 Trout Lake, Vancouver Bring a lantern, prance around
RICHMOND SURREY LANGLEY
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Aboriginal Day
June 19 Surrey Arts Centre, Surrey Cultural arts and activities
Langley Farmer’s Market Salmon Festival
July 1st Steveston,Richmond BBQ and festivities
Berry Picking
June to September Various farms, Ladner Mmmm berries
Surrey Canada Day
July 1st Cloverdale Amphitheatre Bif Naked and 54-40
Every Thursday Kwantlen Langley Campus Local vendors, organic food
Summer: Best Enjoyed Frozen Summer’s here, so sit back, put your feet up, soak up the sunshine and the forest fire smog, and enjoy an ice cold glass of one of these fantastic frozen drinks! And then get back to your summer class, you poor, masochistic fool. B" $ICTORIA A+MOND
Bellini Enjoy the taste of B.C. peaches, wallowing in self-loathing, lamenting that you’re not in a real university like UBC. ¾ cups frozen peaches 1 tsp lemon juice 1 oz peach schnapps Puree in a blender until smooth, then mix in: 3 oz champagne
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1 mango, peeled and chopped. ½ cup plain yogurt ½ cup milk ½ cup ice cubes Blend until smooth. Optional: garnish with cardamon, toasted pistachios, or a dollop of yogurt.
1 oz tequila
Blend and serve in a chilled glass.
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