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England removed from KSA external affairs committee Kayla England, faculty of arts representative for the Kwantlen Student Association (KSA), was removed from her position on the standing committee of external affairs, during the KSA Sept. 11 council meeting. According to senate representative Steven Button, it had become apparent that England was not in attendance at a number of meetings. In her defense, England expressed that after trying to come in contact with Christopher Girodat, previous director of student services, she was unable to get a response.

“Every meeting was scheduled during my class time . . . I didn’t send any regrets, I didn’t send any emails because they weren’t being listened to in the last three months,” she said.

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Manitoba passes gay- straight alliance bill The Manitoba legislature passed the Public Schools Amendment Act on Sept. 13, providing all schools with support and the resources need to start gay- straight alliances, according to reports by Xtra. The act was introduced in early 2013, by Education Minister Nancy Allan, and was implemented in order to create an inclusive, safe environment for students, and to educate not only students but also teachers in “diversity.” Along with supporting LGBTQ students, the act is meant to also address all types of bullying.

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Student association approves $350,000 for new transit shelters.

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Commuting for Kwantlen students is about to become a bit drier with the newly approved transit and shuttle bus shelters around campus.

The Kwantlen Student Association (KSA) has approved $350,000 for the building of shuttle and transit shelters to further accommodate students using the MultiPass and inter-campus shuttle bus.

Currently, waiting students are either forced to stand inside with no way to see when the shuttle is coming, or outside facing inclement weatger.

“Regardless of weather, they’re just going to be standing there,” says the KSA’s director of student services, Arzo Ansary.

The shelters, slotted to be built starting later this year, will be located at all of the KPU campuses.

Funding allocated from the existing MultiPass reserves will be used to build three

covered stops at the Surrey, Langley and Cloverdale campuses at $16,000 each, according to figures provided at the Aug. 7 KSA council meeting.

The budget will also cover upgrades for up to two TransLink stops at each KPU campus except Langley. These shelters have been estimated to cost $50,000 - $100,000 per campus and will feature LED displays of bus time arrival estimates.

“It’s a service students are using . . .

I’d like to have better coverage for the winter, and help give people more information anout when buses get here so they’re not sitting there guessing.”

All told, students are looking at a potential bill of up to $348,000.

Benjamin Newsom, former MultiPass coordinator for the KSA, believes these covered shelters will benefit those using public transit and Kwantlen transport indelibly.

“It’s a service students are using . . . I’d like to have better coverage for the winter, and

help give people more information about when buses get here so they’re not sitting there guessing or staring at their watch.”

Upgrades of bus stops are complicated, as respective cities buy certain stops from TransLink. This will require collaboration between both the Richmond and Surrey engineering departments.

Inter-campus shelters will feature a seated bench and room for up to 10 people to stand underneath.

Services between campuses now run up to 15 hours a day and this future upgrade is correlated to the “exponential increase in the number of users of the campus shuttle,” says Ansary.

Since the implementation of the shuttle service in fall 2011 and the MultiPass in fall 2012, many students have turned to utilizing free transit options. According to Newson, the Kwantlen shuttle transported an average of 1200 riders every week during the previous spring and fall semester.

Along with rising numbers of shuttle users, Newsom says that “consistently, 70 per cent of the student population are picking

up U-Pass cards every month.”

Although the spending has already been approved by the student association, Guarav Kumar, the KSA’s director of finance, believes there are some concerns with the current proposal.

Thinking of potential instances of vandalism and damage done to the shelters, he cited future maintenance bills as something that needs to be considered.

Still acknowledging that shelters will be an asset to students, Kumar also said that he wants to “make this motion according to budget,” cutting it from $350,000 to $150,000.

“We really need shelters at the Richmond campus, but in Surrey the bus service is very good. After every six or seven minutes you can catch the 319 or the C75 or the 301.

I don’t think it’s as beneficial to the Surrey campus as it is for Richmond,” says Kumar.

If building plans continue, the newly upgraded inter-campus shelters will be used to showcase shuttle schedules and advertisements for events and programs happening at Kwantlen.

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Kwantlen student and band in serious car crash, one still unconsious

Tommy Alto performing at Vern’s in Calgary.

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Tommy Alto suffer injuries from a car crash on Aug. 26.

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Kwantlen student Tom Vander Kam and his Tommy Alto bandmates are still recovering from a serious car accident in late summer.

The crash occurred on the morning of Aug. 26 on a road near Hope, following the last night of Tommy Alto’s recent tour. Still not entirely sure how it happened, Vander Kam says that after a long night of driving, their tour van veered off the road, hit a boulder and went into a barrel roll.

“The fact that we’re all alive came down to sheer physics,” says Tom Vanderkam, frontman of Surrey band Tommy Alto. He and his bandmates survived a car crash three weeks ago, from which they are still recovering.

“If the impact had happened differently, or the density of the terrain had been different, we could very well not be here right now.”

Every member of the group suffered injuries, ranging from puncture wounds

and concussions to soft tissue damage and cracked ribs. However, drummer Chartwell Kerr and bassist Paul Engels fared the worst.

“Both of Chartwell’s legs were shattered in the accident,” says Vander Kam. “Paul had chest trauma [which caused] a collapsed lung and cracked rib, as well as severe head trauma.”

Engels is still in a medically induced coma at Royal Columbian Hospital, but Vander Kam says he’s making progress. Kerr was recently discharged from the hospital in a wheelchair.

Although the accident was devastating to all involved, Vander Kam says he and his bandmates are making it through the aftermath by staying as positive as they can and visualizing the future.

“At this point, we’ve basically got two options,” the frontman says. “Sulk and feel terrible about things we have no control over, compromising our immune systems and dragging out the healing process — the very last thing we want to do — or focus on recovering, and never stop thinking about

the glorious moments that will be our first rehearsal, our first show, our first tour back together as a band.”

“Music is our life together, and life has to go on. This is only a temporary setback. It’s a big blow, but we’ll overcome it.”

According to Vander Kam, Tommy Alto has already been through a lot before this accident, just by working through the regular trials and tribulations of trying to make it in a band.

“The whole music industry is incredibly brutal. It’s cutthroat, it’s competitive,” he says.

“The fact that we’ve been able to musically express ourselves, bundle our songs together in a physical and live format, and make our craft self-sustainable to the extent of such rapid growth is a bigger challenge than lots of people could even fathom. We’re incredibly proud of our accomplishments thus far.”

He says that each show on the recent tour could not have gone any better.

“Every tour hits a few snags here and there; it’s to be expected. But especially given that we planned, routed, organized,

booked [and] promoted the entire tour independently with zero budget, the excursion was a miraculous success,” he says.

“The response from the crowds greatly surpassed what we’d hoped for, especially as a relatively unheard-of out-of-town band.

Shout out to the 150 or so kickass people at Vern’s in Calgary for moshing throughout our entire 45-minute set!”

Although the lead singer attended KPU for physics classes all of last year, he put university on the back-burner this year in order to throw himself into music, and plans on finishing his degree at a later time.

Guitarist Ben Klassen is “in the same boat,” says Vander Kam. He attended KPU for general studies classes, with the goal of becoming an architect, but had also decided to focus on the band for now.

“This whole experience has made us appreciate our existence more,” says Vander Kam. “No one should ever take a single moment for granted. The most ridiculous and unexpected bullshit can completely alter everything.”

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School daze: Kwantlen welcomes back new and returning students (1) A KPU student tries her luck at grabbing cash in the Money Machine during Langley’s Welcome Week event. Bianca Pencz/The Runner (2) The Kwantlen Student Association gives its valiant best against KPU’s athletics department in a high stakes game of tug o’ war. Better luck next year KSA! Samantha Lego/The Runner (3) The athletics departments pulls off an undeniable win, trouncing the KSA, and hoisting their tug o’ war trophy in victory. Samantha Lego/The Runner (4) Kari Michaels and Lauren Vion showcase their culinary skills on Tuesday, Sept. 10, in a free vegan cooking class in KPU’s cafeteria on the Surrey campus. Samantha Lego/The Runner

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Ancient Chinese fortune-telling reveals modern fates How one of the world’s most mysterious occupations can make tellers a fortune.

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“I’d guess about 50 per cent of them go to fortune tellers,” says Richard Mo about the Metro Vancouver Chinese community. The 27-year old has spent the last seven years helping his uncle, Peter Fong, with his fortune-telling practice.

Fong operates from out of his Vancouver home, and Mo assists him with English-to-Cantonese translation.

Their clients usually come on a per-year basis, mostly around the Chinese New Year, to find out what the next 12 months have in store.

Mo says that the most common fortune-telling technique is Four Pillars of Destiny. The pillars represent the year, month, day and time of your birth. Not a lot of people know their time of birth, but Mo says it is crucial for a fortune teller to know, as it raises the accuracy of a prediction from 75 per cent to about 90.

The information is run through a set of calculations to determine how it aligns with other data from Chinese astrological calen-

dars. It’s an ancient method, and fortune tellers learn some of the trade through a collection of textbooks titled “Sheng Chen BaZi” in Pinyin — or Four Pillars of Destiny.

Chinese fortune telling is a traditionally male practice. Encyclopaedias of the time denigrated the few female tellers who existed as “foolish,” according to Texas university professor Richard J. Smith in his paper, “Women and Divination in Traditional China: Some Reflections.”

Moreover, key aspects are not recorded in order to preserve an oral tradition, so that immoral characters can be weeded out in the recruitment process. Scryers of the Chinese tradition believe the power to foretell can be used for very detrimental purposes, when in the wrong hands.

That is why 59-year-old Sherman Tai, a full-time fortune-teller living in Richmond, was in a unique position when he began the art. At the age of six in rural China, he was taken under the tutelage of a Tibetan Monk, who said Karma had lead him to Tai. Today, he keeps a Buddhist shrine in his office about five feet from his desk, which is covered in magazines that he’s appeared in. Yet he emphasises that religion is not the basis for Chinese fortune-

telling and that it can be practised by the secular as much as the religious.

Tai wears the casual business wear of a real estate dealer. Clean-cut, and with black, rectangular-frame glasses, his appearance definitely belies his unusual occupation. Mo dresses much in the same way, except with the more fashionable edge of a young man, his hair carefully and stylishly gelled.

Since fortune tellers are expected to have earned a certain amount of life experience before the community can take them and their fortunes seriously, Tai waited 31 years after first meeting the Tibetan monk to start doing it professionally. He moved from Hong Kong to Canada just one year later.

The monk had also taught him Feng Shui, and Tai has been consulted for various building projects, from athletic facilities for Vancouver’s 2010 Olympics to Richmond City Hall.

Tai used Feng Shui to make a prediction — at the behest of some media outlets — that the Canucks would not win the Stanley Cup in 2011, six months prior to the playoffs. He saw the placement of the Olympic Torch near water the previous year as an ominous sign, fire and water being two

of the five integral elements in Feng Shui.

The placement indicated to Tai that the loss would lead to trouble as well, which he says later manifested in the form of the riots.

Tai also claims to have foretold more significant global events, such as the inauguration of Obama, the financial collapse of 2008 and the Japan earthquake. To make predictions of happenings on this scale, Tai uses an astrological calendar and observes the relationships between the Sun, Moon and stars in combination with more mundane data, such as political or economic information.

Rebutting skeptics of the authenticity of his profession, Tai cites the overall accuracy of his predictions, as well as the fact that

At the age of six in rural China, [Tai] was taken under the tutelage of a Tibetan Monk, who said Karma had lead him to him. techniques like the Four Pillars of Destiny have been around for thousands of years.

Tai says that the fortune-telling side of his practice — what he calls “personal consultation” — has been garnering fewer new Chinese customers, but people of other eth-

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nicities are filling the void, such as Koreans, Middle-Easterners, Indians and Westerners.

He says that all ethnic groups ask the same questions because, “We are all human and we all have the same desires.” Popular topics include love, money, health and family.

“The new generation doesn’t like it much,” says Mo, but he does say that some younger girls have come to see them. Mo thinks a lot of the younger people who go to fortune tellers go just for tradition’s sake or to appease their families.

One thing’s for sure: Fortune-telling can make you a fortune. Mo says his uncle gets an average of $2,000 per telling. A client’s first prediction takes about 16 hours for the fortune teller, because they’re setting up a new file, but all subsequent tellings take four hours.

Mo adds that you can charge a lot more money if the calculations indicate that your client will become rich, since they will clearly be able to afford it. The robust income is why Mo would like to do it parttime, after he has finished his training.

Tai’s lowest fee is $30. This gets you just one question regarding the coming year answered. He often fulfils these kinds of requests en masse, such as when he was

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hired by the CGA to tell a fortune for each of the 50 attendants at one of their events.

Sometimes, a fortune teller predicts that a client will suffer bodily harm. In such cases, Tai will recommend some mitigating measures. Tai says that when he consulted the HSBC CEO in 1994, he told him that he should take his upcoming vacation in a cold climate to reduce the damage of an inevitable injury. The CEO ignored his advice by going to Thailand and got into a car accident that put him in the hospital.

Tai says that skeptical clients usually become believers after such incidents.

“Mo adds that you can charge a lot more money if the calculations indicate that your client will become rich, since they will clearly be able to afford it.”

Ominous fortunes can elicit hostility from clients, even when they come true.

Mo’s uncle once predicted that a bartender would get into a fight and lose badly. Fong had said the man should assume a pacifistic attitude and apologize in the case of a confrontation over the coming weeks. The man didn’t, get beaten badly, and called Fong, leaving him several caustic voice-mails.

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Feminists come in all shapes and sizes and they don’t always agree with each other.

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Could the term “slut-shaming” be more harmful than helpful?

While it’s more widely-used than ever, the phrase is far from perfect.

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It’s rare that feminist buzzwords make it as far into the mainstream as the term “slutshaming” has. However, what happens now that some feminists have said they don’t think the term should exist in the first place?

Currently, Googling the term gets you almost 800,000 hits. A more specific search like, say, “Miley Cyrus” and “slut-shaming” will still get you 115,000 hits, and everyone from progressive news outlets to Christian webzines have used the term in their headlines.

But for all the people using it, can anyone explain exactly what it means?

In a Huffington Post article titled “SlutShaming and Rape Culture,” the term is described as “shaming or ridiculing girls” for being supposedly promiscuous, for being loud rather than quiet, dynamic rather than submissive, or independent rather than dependent on men, and for wearing, well, virtually anything other than a Victorian dress

and bloomers.

If reading through the above explanation gave you a sense of déjà vu, you might already know why the term is being criticized.

In her article for Feminist Current, “It’s not ‘slut-shaming,’ it’s woman hating,” Meghan Murphy pleads with her readers to ditch the “confusing” term because the word “misogyny” is in the dictionary already.

“This whole ‘slut-pride’ thing and terms like ‘slut-shaming’ reinforce the very dichotomies feminism works to destroy,” Murphy writes. “Like sex, don’t like sex, whatever. You aren’t a ‘slut’ either way. You’re a woman.”

“The problem with the word ‘slut’ is that there’s no actual definition; everyone has their own idea. At the end of the day, you’re perpetuating a word that means hating a woman.”

Kari Michaels, co-founder of Women Organizing Opportunities for Women (WOOW), agrees that the term’s attempt at “slut” reclamation could be more trouble than it’s worth.

She also doesn’t see a difference between what media have coined “slut-shaming” and plain old misogyny.

“Part of that stems from the implicit attachment to gender that slut-shaming has,” she says. “You’re automatically targeting a woman. You’re talking about female sexuality and appropriate behaviour for women.”

Michaels admits she uses the phrase ocasionally, because it’s been so popularly embraced, but says that something like “sexshaming” could easily replace it.

“The problem with the word ‘slut’ is that there’s no actual definition; everyone has their own idea. It can mean sexual activity and lack of sexual activity,” she says. “At the end of the day, what are you perpetuating? You’re perpetuating a word that means hating a woman, and why would we want to do that?”

Michaels also brings up the fact that certain groups are more comfortable with the idea of reclaiming the slur than others. Women of colour, specifically black women and Latina women, have a very different history with the word than white women do.

A lack of sensitivity towards that is partly why “Slutwalk,” an anti-slut-shaming protest march that has taken place in many different parts of the world, has been accused of indifference in the face of concerns over the slur in its name, because many of those concerns come from women of colour.

Yet more people have expressed distaste for the term “slut-shaming” because it is often used in reference to underage girls or victims of sexual assault.

In a post on the social blogging website Tumblr, a user called Kstipetic linked to an article in which the reporter referred to the community-wide bullying and harassment of a 14-year-old rape victim as “slut-shaming.”

“Here is a wonderful example of how pointlessly hurtful this phrase can be,” the user writes. “The phrase implies that the victim is being ‘shamed’ for being a ‘slut.’ The reporter is implicitly calling the victim a slut.”

“So please, just stop it with this phrase. If you want to reclaim an insult for yourself, fine, but it’s not possible to reclaim an insult on another person’s behalf.”

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Dance till you drop: ecstasy overdoses and undereducated youth

“How to stay safe when you’re doingdrugs” is never a lesson yo’re going to learn from a school textbook.

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Ecstasy or MDMA-related deaths could be preventable.

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A drug is a powerful thing, not just chemically or physically, but culturally. This year, ecstasy — or MDMA as it’s known in its purer form — was popular not just among ravers, but among bored teenagers and college-going students alike.

Unfortunately, widespread usage hasn’t translated into widespread education on the risks and safety of taking ecstasy or MDMA. Overdoses or deaths related to the drug have occurred here in Canada, in the United Kingdom, and so frequently in the United States that an entire music festival in New York was canceled.

EDM artist Diplo recently made waves with comments to Rolling Stone magazine on the lack of education youth are receiving about drug safety.

“It’s going to sound weird, but we need to teach kids how to do drugs, the same way we teach them about drinking responsibly and having safe sex,” he’s quoted as saying. “Instead of

acting like drugs don’t exist, acknowledge that drugs will be at a festival and address them.”

“We’re such a conservative culture that we’d rather not talk about the things kids want to do, even though they’re going to do them anyway. We’d rather ignore it to solve the problem.”

Lisa Campbell, current outreach director of the Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy, and a member of the DanceSafe board of directors, agrees that ignorance is the worst approach.

“The CSSDP sees drug use as a public health issue versus a criminal concern,” she says. “According to B.C. provincial health officer Dr. Perry Kendall, and other public health experts, MDMA is a substance with lesser harms than alcohol when at its pure form, at a proper dose.”

“What is killing youth is not MDMA, but the adulterants that are added to MDMA in an unregulated market. [In fact] the only way you can be sure that you are taking real MDMA is if you test it.”

Indeed, some of the people who died in this country after taking ecstasy unknowingly ingested pills that contained PMMA,

as reported in the Huffington Post. The toxic chemical was given the cutesy nickname “Dr Death” by the media.

Campbell says her and her organization do a number of things to reduce the likelihood of anything similar happening again.

There are some main tips that everyone who eats E should know, like drinking plenty of water to keep from overheating, but also not drinking too much in order to avoid waterpoisoning. (Yes, that is a thing.)

“MDMA is a substance with lesser harms than alcohol when pure and at a proper dose. What is killing youth is not MDMA, but the adulterants added to [it] in an unregulated market.”

Taking too big of a dose is always a recipe for disaster, and Campbell says that asking a trusted friend to stick by you, ready to get you medical attention as soon possible if anything should go wrong, is never something you’ll regret.

“On top of information, we also provide tools to reduce the harm, including straws for safer snorting and in some cases drug

testing kits,” she says. “This model of peer education is mainstream in Europe, with an European Union funded network consisting of hundreds of government funded organizations which provide the same services.”

“We are hoping to build a similar network in North America, linking the TRIP! Project, DanceSafe, and other safer partying groups.”

With ecstasy becoming more mainstream, Campbell says that drug education needs to become mainstream in turn.

While pop stars like Miley Cyrus sing about “dancing with Molly” — another nickname for MDMA — and indie darlings like Sky Ferreira are arrested for ecstasy possession, Campbell says adults have an obligation to talk about drug use with younger people, and not just try to sweep the pills under the rug.

“Drug education needs to be not fearbased, but fact-based. And authorities need to partner with organizations like DanceSafe to deliver these messages,” she says.

“We need to empower youth to take control of their health, rather than stigmatizing them as drug users. Just because we provide information on safer drug use doesn’t mean we are enabling someone to use drugs.”

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The Runner

No. 79

Tough

6

9 8 3 8 9 2 1 1 2 3 7 2 1 3 4 5 2 5 6 4 3 4 5 7 6 8 6 5

5 7 4

3

9

3 2 1 1 8

© 2011 Syndicated Puzzles, Inc.

9

12

SUDOKU Previous solution - Medium

4 6

You can find more help, tips and hints at www.str8ts.com

7 6 4 5 3 1 8 9

4 5 2 5 4 7 3 6 5 9 6 4 7 8 4 9 6 7 8 7 9 8 2 3 3 2

No. 79

Easy

3 9 4 5 3

5 2

How to beat Str8ts – Like Sudoku, no single number can repeat in any row or column. But... rows and columns are divided by black squares into compartments. These need to be filled in with numbers that complete a ‘straight’. A straight is a set of numbers with no gaps but can be in any order, eg [4,2,3,5]. Clues in black cells remove that number as an option in that row and column, and are not part of any straight. Glance at the solution to The solutions will be published here in the next issue. see how ‘straights’ are formed.

1

7

1

3 4 8

2 8 1 6 9 7 5 3 4

1 6 3 4

2 2

Previous solution - Very Hard

1

6

2

5

8 4 6 © 2011 Syndicated Puzzles, Inc.

STR8TS

Procrastination

September 24 / 2013

6 7 5 3 4 2 9 8 1

4 9 3 5 8 1 2 7 6

3 1 8 2 6 5 4 9 7

9 5 4 7 3 8 6 1 2

7 6 2 4 1 9 8 5 3

5 3 7 8 2 6 1 4 9

8 2 9 1 7 4 3 6 5

1 4 6 9 5 3 7 2 8

To complete Sudoku, fill the board by entering numbers 1 to 9 such that each row, column and 3x3 box contains every number uniquely.

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