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IN THIS ISSUE You don’t want to miss out on . . .

News.................................................. 04 KSA council elects new executive, outgoing vice-presidents optimistic.

Features.............................................. 08 Scientific methods to ace your final exams.

Culture................................................ 13 Graduating fine arts students launch final show, Thirteenth Perspective.

Columns.............................................. 15 Putting the choice into hands of women.

Opinions.............................................. 17 “Rubber duckies in the @kwantlenu Surrey Main courtyard: who’s behind this? #runnermag.”

Students frustrated with lack of information surrounding Compass cards.

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Corrections In the March 24 edition of The Runner, we reported that Board of Governors student candidates Steven Button and Jessica Lar-Son failed to reach us for photos. Really, we failed to contact Lar-Son and Button had preferences to his own photo.

We regret the error.

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As we’ve reported in November, KPU is grossly underfunded compared to other universities, with an operating capability that is half the provincial average. It means longer class waitlist times, fewer available courses and in theory, a slower march to graduation.

Last year, the provincial government had this really super idea to cut adult basic education (ABE) funding and ESL funding. And more recently, they’ve allowed universities to charge tuition on those programs. KPU has recently decided to reflect the government’s decision by, indeed, charging that tuition this coming fall. Some of the faculty aren’t having it, and rightfully so. Intuitively, the university has to look for revenue there now, but those looking to upgrade basic education aren’t exactly swinging at the country club on a Sunday. This is a problem that some KPU faculty are rising against—the implementation of education barriers against people who need education the most.

It’s a problem that expands beyond simply being pushed forward a semester. We’re

talking about debilitating those who are relying on upgrading courses, and in the longrun debilitating people who could contribute to B.C.’s economy in a greater capacity if the province would only invest in them. There is a cost to people who can’t bolster their employment viability. It means more people in entry-level jobs, with lower incomes and less buying power. It means the implicated will have a harder time moving up from lowskilled work. Most importantly, it means more people hard-pressed to support themselves. Hey, better education access actually might be a smart way to deal with that. But the Libs have another thing coming.

The population of the South Fraser region that KPU serves comprises 19.1 per cent of the province. Yet, when I asked the Ministry of Advanced Education about funding priorities, I was told that population was not a factor. Apparently, the demographics of that population aren’t a factor either.

Many immigrants live in the South Fraser region. In fact, this region is home to 25 per cent of B.C.’s visible minorities. The percentage of people in the region without English as their mother tongue is almost 90 per cent.

Then, about 35 per cent of Grade 12 students

in the region failed to write, or failed to pass their English 12 provincial exam. These are enormous, critical indicators of the need for the funding of basic education and ESL education, especially in this region. But barriers are being built to ABE and ESL. Students will need to pay about $1,600 a semester for these courses, courses that were once free.

To add insult to injury, advanced education minister Andrew Wilkinson told Alyssa Morton at The Navigator in February that cuts of about $7-million were needed to sustain postsecondary institutions. Compare that statement with the fact that the provincial government is projecting a $200-million surplus for next year.

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What’s up this MONTH! with Yaunna sommersby! FROM APRIL 15 - APRIL 29 Wednesday Apr. 15 Music@Midweek – KPU Guitar Students Take a break from the last week of classes and stop by to support the music department’s guitar students! Whether you like electric or acoustic guitar, this performance should be fun to watch and listen to.

12 p.m., KPU Langley Auditorium, 20901 Langley Bypass. Free.

Thursday Apr. 16 Men’s Basketball 2015 Player Identification Camp Gentlemen, want to become part of the Eagles? Love to play basketball? Sign up for the Basketball 2015 Player Identification Camp online and show up ready to play hard and have fun. Any questions can be directed to KPU Eagles head coach Vladimir Nikić.

5 p.m. to 8 p.m., KPU Surrey Campus, Eagles’ Nest Gym. Register online. $20 participation fee.

Friday Apr. 17 Psychology Department Celebration of Student Research Students have been working hard in the psychology department so this event is to support and celebrate their research. There will be student presentations, Mensa activities, a talent show and a free lunch. If free food isn’t incentive enough to go, I don’t know what is.

9 a.m. to 4 p.m., KPU Richmond Campus – Room 2550A, Melville Centre for Dialogue.

Register online. Free.

Saturday Apr. 18 TALK Special Event: Dancing in the Aisles The Delta Concert Band is returning to KPU with musical director Jim Tempest to perform.

Light lunch will be provided and there will be music to enjoy. Sounds like a great Saturday afternoon. Register online to get a spot!

11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., KPU Surrey Campus – Cedar Building Room 1205. TALK members: $10, non-members: $20.

Tuesday Apr. 21 Composers’ Concert Another great musical event is being held

by Kwantlen’s faculty of arts. Come on out to listen to a night of beautiful compositions and celebrate the end of the semester.

7:30 p.m., KPU Langley Auditorium 20901, Langley Bypass. Free.

Wednesday Apr. 22 Spring Releaf Tree Planting Giving back to the environment and promoting greener cities is becoming increasingly important. What better way to give back then plant a tree in your own community? Bring your friends, family or significant other and enjoy tree-themed games, a barbeque and plant a tree! Don’t worry, all equipment will be provided.

5 p.m. to 7 p.m., Maple Green Park, 8959 150 Street. Free.

Saturday Apr. 25 Vancouver Opera: Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is opening up shop in Vancouver. Presented by the Vancouver Opera and directed by Kim Colliet, Stephen Sondheim’s dark comedy will surely entertain audiences. Real-life husband and wife team Greer Grimsley and Luretta Bybee star as Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett. Remember, there really is no place like London.

7:30 p.m., Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Tickets $65-$175.

Monday Apr. 27 Health Unit Coordinator (HAUC) Information Session Haven’t had a chance to learn more about the Health Unit Coordinator program?

Use this opportunity to ask questions, learn about the program and make connections with fellow health students.

7 p.m. to 9 p.m., Langley Campus East Building, Room 1645. Register online. Free.

Tuesday Apr. 28 Counting Crows To follow up their seventh album Somewhere Under Wonderland, the band Counting Crows is bringing their world tour to Vancouver. This is the first time that the critically-acclaimed band has returned to Canada in over 15 years.

8 p.m., Orpheum Theatre, 601 Smithe Street at Seymour. Tickets $62.80-$116.25.

Wednesday Apr. 29 Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally’s comedy show One of comedy’s power couples is taking audiences back in time with their live-show, Summer of 69: No Apostrophe. In what promises to be a hilarious night, their show deals with their marriage and features songs, funny talking and heavy ribaldry. Ron Swanson and Karen Walker would be proud.

8 p.m., Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Tickets $40-$55.

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Came for the pizza, stayed for the Playstation KSA gains student approval for new student union building during AGM.

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On March 30, students voted in favour of the Kwantlen Student Association (KSA) taking out a loan to fund a new student union building, among other changes proposed by the KSA. Over a hundred students gathered in Cedar building on Surrey campus to vote for a series of changes to the KSA. Free pizza and soft drinks were offered, as well as a series of prizes, such as an iPad and a Playstation 4.

The event ran a little under two hours, with KSA executives and staff sitting at the front, explaining the reasons for the proposed changes.

Many students, however, appeared to be chatting throughout much of the event, or playing games on their cellphones. Many pizza slices and beverages were consumed, given how many empty boxes were left at the end.

Cody Chisholm, an accounting student, thinks that the KSA is taking advantage of student apathy towards student politics, and needed to offer immediate incentive to attend the AGM. “The free pizza and prizes, that’s insane. A PS4?” he asks.

However, the KSA wasn’t able to pass bylaw changes, for the minimum number of members was not reached. “Quorum for changing our bylaws was 200, however, quorum [was reached] for the special resolutions that we needed,” says Steven Button, KSA’s outgoing vice-president of student services. The loan approval, or debenture, only needed 100 students in attendance.

One of the bylaw changes would have been the removal of an ombudsperson clause, which the KSA argued was poorly written, and didn’t conform to what an ombudsperson was meant to do. Button said that the role should be a joint venture between the university and the student association.

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“Most of the bylaw changes, while positive and good for the society, were housekeeping,” says Button. “What we were most concerned with was ensuring that we got the debenture resolution. We definitely consider the AGM a success because of it.”

The KSA, a society under B.C. law, wanted to pass the bylaw changes to keep up with the new Society Act, which is passing through the legislature.

“It was far more important for us to get the debenture resolution and constitutional amendments in place.”

The student union building project has been long in the making. Kwantlen students approved of a SUB capital fee back in 2009, and has been collected ever since. A loan was still needed to fully fund the project.

Building plans have not been created yet.

“No loans were taken out in the names of students,” says Button. “The society is an entity in and of itself. The governance is han-

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A new set of executives has been selected

by Kwantlen Student Association council to conduct the day-to-day business of the KSA, and act as the faces of the student body.

The new executives are Alison Gonzales as the new KSA president and vice-president of student services; Waheed Taiwo as vicepresident of finances and operations; Alex McGowan as vice-president external and Manpreet Bassi as vice-president of student life.

As for the previous executives, Eric Wirsching didn’t run for re-election, but still has a seat on council as one of the representatives for science and horticulture. Steven Button and Jessica Lar-Son are going for

VP of student services Kayla England Alison Gonzales

seats on the board of governors. Gaurav Kumar Bhulla wants to work at the bank.

As for the new executives, all of them are held in high regard by the outgoing executives, like Gonzales, who has gone from having little KSA presence, to becoming the president within a few months. For the last year-and-a-half, she’s been on the student experience committee. She was the only candidate without “no” votes during the general election.

“It is a pretty big jump I think,” Gonzales laughs, regarding her quick rise. She’s also managed a business for the last five years, as owner and operator of a franchise of College Pro Painters.

“Maybe it seems sudden to others, but since I’ve started getting involved in the KSA, I’ve been following [Button], and I’ve been putting in a lot of effort to get to know about the position, about the KSA, so I don’t

VP of finance Morgan McKee Simranjit (Simran) Goraya Waheed Taiwo

feel like I’m coming in brand-new.” “[Button] and I couldn’t be more different, he’s very bylaws and rules-based, whereas I’m more of an ideas person,” says Gonzales.

“I’m much more focused on the people as opposed to the numbers, so I’m really happy that [McGowan] is on the executive with me, because he’s really focused on the bylaws.”

“I think [Gonzales] is definitely the best person for the job. She has everything that I would have looked for if I were the one voting,” says Jessica Lar-Son, the outgoing vicepresident external and president.

Alex McGowan is not new to the KSA, having served as a council member for the last year as an arts faculty representative.

“I’ve been the chairperson of the external affairs committee,” he says. He has lobbied in Ottawa and Victoria, and he says he’s

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dled by our members, which are students.

In order for the society to take out debt, the general membership, not just the board of executives, needs to approve of that debt.

That’s what happened [at the AGM].”

“No students are going to be responsible for any of this. This is solely on the shoulders of the society.”

Button says that the loan approval was the first step in getting the SUB built. He also adds that more planning needs to be a done, which means speaking with an architectural firm to discuss what they want, in terms of office space, food service space, club space, and so on.

“The KSA would certainly move their office space there. We would certainly have food service in there. We’re planning for KPIRG space. It is going to be the student building.”

Button also says that the KSA will be doing surveys to find out what students want, keeping in mind that club space is currently a limited resource.

“been very active in doing a ‘get out the vote’ campaign for the municipal election and also for the transit referendum.”

“I do not think that there is a better fit,” says LarSon. “I think [McGowan] is the ideal candidate and I’m incredibly happy that he got this position.”

Over the past year, Manpreet Bassi sat on the student committees on finance, governance and student life. She has done teambuilding for council in her term to foster bonds and communication between council members. Bassi also mentions her involvement in developing bursaries.

“My plan for now is to pick up where [Wirsching] left off,” says Bassi, “And also just to ask him what he needs done as well.”

“I supported [Bassi] and [Ali], right from about a month ago,” says Wirsching, outgoing vice-president of student life. A month ago, he wasn’t sure if he was going to run for the position again. He plans to work in a supporting role.

Gaurav Kumar Bhulla thinks that Waheed Taiwo is a good fit for his old position. Bhulla elaborates that he and Taiwo met several times to talk about what the position consisted of.

Bhulla attributes his work with the KSA in helping to get his new job at the bank.

Taiwo has studied in Nigeria and Finland, and has work experience as a manager and supervisor.

“I’m happy to say that I see him as very competent,” says Taiwo, referring to Bhulla.

“What he showed me so far, as an outsider looking in, is very positive. I’m looking forward to an opportunity to look for [the other things] and to see how I can add value for them.”

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On March 19 and 20, Fossil Free Kwantlen, with sponsorship from Kwantlen Public Interest Research Group and the KSA, hosted a series of talks on fossil fuel divestment and green jobs.

“The event was to show students the industry, why it’s beneficial to everyone, what jobs it can create, what things can happen; but it’s also to show what the barriers are, and what we can do to change those barriers,” says Inderpal Brar, former KPIRG director and organizer of the event. By his estimates, somewhere between 12 and 20 people showed up.

Both days were heavily packed with information and networking sessions, running nine hours each day. George Heyman, an MLA for

the Vancouver-Fairview electoral region, was speaking at the event among many others, including Michael Mehta, an environmental social scientist and co-founder of GabEnergy, a non-profit organization.

Divestment is the practice of removing investment for economic, but also political goals. In the case of fossil fuel divestment, the idea is to remove funding from the advancement of fossil fuels, thereby lowering the value of it. Some proponents of the divestment movement might advocate for this funding to go towards solar and wind energy.

Those within the divest movement believe that oil companies are doing damage to the environment, and by removing as much cash as possible, it will make it more difficult for them to do so. For example, if oil goes below a certain price, it would become financially unfeasible to do fracking, which

is an extremely expensive process.

“The main idea is that if it’s wrong to wreck the planet, then it’s wrong to profit off of that wreckage,” says speaker Julie Van de Valk from DivestUBC. “That’s a really moral stand, and by having divestment campaigns, by divesting from fossil fuels, we’re really sending a signal to government that these companies don’t have what you could call ‘social license.’

It’s not okay for us to just keep going statusquo. There’s no community that says that they want climate change to happen.”

Van de Valk argues that divestment is an “effective tactic” for universities against climate change.

“Divestment isn’t going to change the world overnight, but it’s going to be a piece in a larger puzzle that we can take a part in,” she adds.

“At UBC, we say we just want out of fossil fuels, because we know that it’s morally

A speaker addresses a crowd during Full Indie Summit 2014. Kellan Higgans Photography.

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The games industry can seem awfully stagnant, with change happening slowly and security trumping ambition. Fortunately, you need only look to the industry’s grassroots to find the real innovation.

Vancouver has been a major hub for the games industry for some time with several major publishers, including Electronic Arts (EA) and Capcom, running studios in the city.

As Vancouver’s role in the mainstream games industry has developed, so too has a strong community of smaller independent studios that have sprung up alongside the industry giants. Recent indie hits such as Crypt the Necrodancer, The Fall and Don’t Starve have been

developed right here in VanCity by small, but dedicated, independent developer teams staffed with passionate developers.

In 2010, a group of indie developers recognized the developing community and formed Full Indie, a volunteer organization dedicated to bringing indie devs in Metro Vancouver together to share ideas, network and support each other. The group holds a developer meetup once a month and holds other events like presentations and socials. Vancouver developer Alex Vostrov was one of the founders of Full Indie, and developer Yannis Fyssas joined soon after.

According to Vastrov, the idea behind Full Indie is, “What if you could bring together all of the indies in Vancouver and have them share knowledge and experience and support each other so that indies can really get all the benefits that you might get in a large organization?’”

Fyssas worked for EA until a round of layoffs drove him and a few others to decide to “drive their own destiny forward” as an independent studio. Vostrov also worked for EA on the FIFA franchise before quitting in favour of the creative freedom that working with a small independent studio offers.

Chris Bourassa is a Vancouver indie developer with Red Hook Studios. Currently Bourassa is working on gothic turn based roguelike called Darkest Dungeon.

“The best part of working on an indie game is feeling like you’re on the trail of something that could be really special and feeling inspired and seeing that echoed in the people you’re working with,” says Bourassa. “And the idea of being an underdog is really appealing.”

Vostrov’s story of leaving a major publisher to work with an indie team is a common one among

wrong to invest in those companies,” says Van de Valk. “Some university campaigns have used the divest-invest strategy, so you divest in fossil fuels and you invest in renewables.”

“A university will have fund managers, or they’ll employ a company that does their fund management, and they will be buying oil and gas company stock directly,” says Rob Baxter, the founder of Vancouver Renewable Energy Cooperative.

The oil shock of the last year might have demonstrated that oil isn’t the best investment, Baxter says. Worldwide oil production had been increasing in the United States and Canada, while demand for it has been dropping in Europe and China.

“I think it’s an important tactic that can work, and it would be great if Kwantlen goes forward with it,” says Baxter.

indie developers. Many developers get fed up with the restrictions and the lack of creative input that comes with working on a team comprised of more than a hundred people. These developers often turn to the indie scene for a smaller, more creative environment. As developers have left the major industry players in the city, they’ve gone on to form the many indie teams of Vancouver.

“As a rule [in the industry], especially as an entry level worker, you’re not going to get a lot of creative input,” says Vostrov. “Chances are, if you want to make a really big creative change, if you want to work on something changing genre, you’re not going to get to do that.”

The indie life isn’t without its challenges, particularly in an expensive city like Vancouver. Without the resources and funding provided by multimillion dollar publishers, developers often have to fund their projects out of pocket at their own financial risk or resort to crowdfunding campaigns.

“A lot of indie developers face real present risks as far as money and time,” says Bourassa. “There’s a whole logistical component that comes with being an indie.”

Fyssas stresses that the next big challenge for indie devs is going to be getting games noticed in an ever-more-crowded marketplace. “There’s just more and more and more games out there,” says Fyssas.

Vancouver’s indie development scene has been and continues to be growing steadily.

As it grows it’s becoming more interconnected as developers learn from each other.

Bourassa’s current project Darkest Dungeon is currently in early access on Steam with full release for PC and PS4 expected later this year.

Full Indie is always looking for volunteers who share their passion for indie games.

Vostrov and Fyssas thank their current co-volunteers: Alain-Daniel Bourdages, Alvin Hung, Nadim Hejeili and Matt Ryan.

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KPU staff rally to keep continuous intake courses accessible Proposed changes would have students paying more for Adult Basic Education.

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Proposed changes to KPU’s pricing model for various continuous intake programs could soon have students paying more for Academic and Career preparation courses, domestic ESL classes and Adult Basic Education, unless instructors can change the minds of university brass.

Up to this point, these classes have been tuition-free. However, it was recently announced by the university that full tuition fees are to be charged for these courses along with the announcement of 40 per cent section cuts to the ACP department’s funding. In response, instructors of these courses are calling for a reversal of this decision, sighting decreased ac-

cess to these courses for low income students.

Courses affected by the decision include adult upgrading courses and ESL courses for domestic learners. Often, these courses are used as stepping stones to meet entrance requirements for KPU degree programs, gain grade 12 equivalency and to increase employability. The affected courses cover a range of academic areas including English and mathematics.

“We’ve got a bunch of people out there that don’t have the literacy levels that they need to be successful in our society,” says Geoff Dean, ACP co-chair.

In response to the change, Kwantlen’s ACP faculty members held a meeting on March 13 to consider their options and express their concerns and, in many cases, outrage over the decision. The meeting, which was lead by Geoff Dean, resulted in

a plan-of-action that includes a letter writing campaign to government and KPU officials, establishing a presence on social media and reaching out to media sources.

The group hopes to have a more public meeting in the near future which will include aboriginal and poverty groups as well as the general public. The hope is to engage the public and advocate for the necessity of these programs in their current accessible form.

“Let’s keep [continuous intake] tuition free because it’s that ease of access [which] gets people into this institution,” says Dean.

This change in KPU’s policy reflects recent changes to B.C.’s University Act by the provincial government. Currently the University Act requires that KPU offer these Adult Basic Education and ESL courses to students. This requirement was put in place in 2008 along

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with funding provided by the province and a requirement that these classes be tuition free.

However, the province announced late last year that as of May 1 it will no longer require that these courses be tuition free and it will no longer be providing funding, essentially passing the cost of these courses to the student. In place of provincial funding the province will offer support for low income upgrading students in the form of Adult Upgrading Acts.

In a letter handed out to attendees at the meeting, KPU’s ACP instructors argue that eligibility for these Adult Upgrading Grants is far too restrictive and that many low income students will still be left without access to these courses. They also argue that tuition-free continuous intake programs can be kept financially sustainable using income generated by ACP’s fixed intake courses. They believe that these course offerings are an important tool to improving literacy rate and employability in this province and therefore, despite the change in the provincial government’s policies, KPU still has an obligation to keep these courses tuition free and accessible for all.

“The payoff is that for every dollar you invest in someone’s education, that individual is going to pay back two or three or four dollars to society within the next couple of years,” says Dean. “It should be viewed as an investment that will set our society up for better things down the road”.

When asked to comment on the changes, KPU’s vice-provost Salvador Ferreras assured that KPU is making these decisions with accessibility in mind, saying, “We are working on creative solutions that will ensure the broadest access possible.”

Ferreras says details on the changes are still being worked out. Time will tell exactly what the changes will look like and how they will affect accessibility.

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One of the latest programs to be rolled out of Kwantlen Polytechnic University is a new journalism minor.

KPU’s journalism program was one of the first bachelor degree offerings back in 2001. Since then, the curriculum has had a complete overhaul. It now includes a number of communication studies courses and fits the framework of a Bachelor’s degree.

According to a survey of students in journalism and communications courses last term, there was ample interest in studying for a journalism minor.

Journalism studies challenge a student to work in a multitude of multimedia environments. They’ll develop skills in research, production, writing and learn to communicate across a number of formats including video, photography and interactive graphics. Some of the course offerings in the journalism minor include Multimedia Storytelling, Reporting, Photojournalism, Social Issues Journalism and Computer Programming.

According to Beverley Sinclair, head of the KPU journalism and communications department, “Every employer is looking for people who are excellent communicators in many media, who have a professional attitude, and who are easily adaptable to change.”

Furthermore, this minor is available to any faculty as well, opening it up to students not necessarily looking to pursue journalism.

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Sinclair went on to mention the rewarding nature of this minor for personal and professional development.

“You will gain an understanding of all the ins and outs of Freedom of Information requests, court documents, and other sourc-

es of information,” says Sinclair.

Kwantlen Polytechnic University was prompted to develop this minor in journalism not just because it is a priority to develop a curriculum that will provide students with what they need to be successful in their careers, but because

the students were asking for one. The program is still undergoing further development.

The development of the program has been approved, and will be implemented in September 2015 for the fall semester.

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The River Rock theatre was overflowing with long lineups to sign-in and will call.

Predictably, almost everyone at the event was dressed impeccably. Graduating students of KPU’s fashion program showed off the work of 39 graduate students at the River Rock hotel, a two-minute train ride from Richmond campus. Each designer had three outfits each, modelled on stage. Most of these clothes are made by hand.

The April 9 event was packed, the entire theatre filled with high school students, friends, family and industry. Media was present as well, with several video interviews being conducted in the lobby.

All of the designers’ work was featured on stage via three models, music and walking choreography. A custom video was displayed as well, but it was hard to see, given the lighting. Most of the models had the same choreography, though a few opted for a more creative route.

Most designers have targeted a niche market or audience with their wares. Exam-

ples include clothes for cyclists that won’t catch on gears, maternity wear for pregnant women, and children’s clothing.

Fashion students at KPU are encouraged to make clothing that is marketable. For this reason, much of the clothing is accessible, but some lines are more niche than others.

The KPU fashion program has links to Lululemon, Arc’teryx, MEC and other Vancouver-based clothing companies.

Denise Mok’s line, iona, might fit perfectly into the Vancouver scene. “It’s a bit of a niche, I have a lot of friends who sail, and it’s always been fun watching them. I noticed that their clothes are always the same, the colours are the same, so I wanted to do something a little different.”

“I thought it would be fun to take something that’s popular in Vancouver, but give it a good mix and have it a little more fun and feminine to play with.”

Tyler Froese’s clothing line, Bridge Fine Goods is on the casual side, with a focus on high quality jeans made with Japanese denim.

“All of the denim is made on old-school shuttle looms, so it’s selvedge denim sourced out of Japan,” he says. Froese’s clothing is meant to change and age with the wearer, and

is a little more traditional in its appearance, and the way they’re made. Froese already has a separate business making backpacks via Nocturnal Workshop, based in Vancouver.

Yng Chern’s line, Kai, is a women’s outdoor line, inspired by her time in Finland.

Her clothing is meant to have a nice fit while being functional. “I’m dealing with traditional outdoor fabrics such as moleskine, which is like a brush canvas, and wool. Less to do with technical wear, and more to do with the heritage of outdoor adventurers,” says Chern.

“A lot more people kind of find their own way to put more creativity in it.”

One of these people might be Sofia Fiorentino, whose line, No Paradigm, can be described as genderless and loose fitting.

Though her clothing is further towards avant-garde, it’s meant to be worn by anyone, regardless of body type or gender. “It’s a line that’s not with any limitations, no gender, no age, no nationality, no cultural anything. It actually touches on a lot of culture.

Combined with different ways of wearing clothing that you find around the world. I based it on a person that travels a lot, so it picks up things here and there.”

NOCTEX is the line of designer Negin Izad,

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whose work is also more avant-garde. Some might mistake her work for that of Damir Doma or Attachment. Pieces are made with dead-stock fabrics from the U.S. and meant to fit loosely. She already has her own store.

“It was just something I did on my own, I just came into the right connections and, my dad was always an entrepreneur, so he always encouraged me to do that,” says Izad. “I’ve been doing this by myself for a few years now. This is the first few months that I’ve been hiring people, mostly on contract, fortunately I work with a factory that’s in Vancouver, so a lot of the people I work with are production managers, and people inside the factory. I’m actually getting more part-time employees going full-time within the next year when I’m expanding.”

James Knipe wanted to do something a little more unusual with his collection Habits of Youth, which is very minimalist. He says that he was inspired after spending six months in Helsinki, Finland. “I didn’t want to do something typically ‘West Coast,’ I think that Vancouver is starting to grow as a fashion leader,” says Knipe.

“It’s time to start pushing more than that typical athletic or West Coast style.”

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One province under real-time intelligence New crime-fighting centre in Surrey draws critique.

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Informally known as the new “crimefighting centre,” the Real Time Intelligence Centre—B.C.’s (RTIC-BC) official opening in Surrey was presented to the public via a live-streaming event held at B.C. RCMP headquarters. The press conference highlights the successes and benefits of the centre, although there are concerns over civil liberty, and critical evaluations of the opening of such a centre.

RTIC-BC quietly opened and became the first real-time intelligence centre of its kind in Canada, and became operational on June 2014 of last year. It began closing the gaps on the way communications between police and other law enforcement agencies were coordinated. However, its origin lies in a series of committee reports submitted to the city of Surrey, Richmond and the Vancouver police board in February of that year outlining the need for the implementation of the intelligence-led policing centre.

Intelligence-led policing is more of a business model and managerial philosophy, where data analysis and crime intelligence is the objective from which serious crimes and offenders are targeted by police. Under this there is an understanding that police can use crime data and information to combat crime, mainly street level violence and order-maintenance crimes.

As noted in the reports, this type of targeting has been carried out in more than 70 metropolitan regions in the United States, including New York, Boston and L.A. The justification for establishing such a centre come from a recent study by the Memphis Police Department that outlines serious crime reductions. This, combined with the RCMP also publishing their early

successes in the form of suppressing specific life-threatening incidents after monitoring nearly 42,000 “emergency events” shows a lack of evaluation at this point in time for criminology professor Dr. Greg Jenion. Jenion’s current research focuses on crime prevention and community safety.

“They speak of the successes, but I don’t see any evaluation of the successes. You [would] think it would be clear enough for an evaluation study to show it,” says Jenion. Alternatively what is most spoken about is the recent technological advancements and the “Ability to store, search, retrieve and analyze a vast amount of data linking unconnected criminal events, but more information can make the job more difficult not less difficult,” says Jenion.

According to Jenion, when looking at geographic profiling of crime across regions it is clear that “most of the crimes that are solved in terms of even serial homicide are done with good old fashioned police work. The technology only kicks in the very small amount of scenarios that are quite concerning, but don’t really make up the majority of situations that you see.”

“Line level officers, the people on the street, are best able to give you the pulse on the community,” he says. “Data sets are fine, but people still have to interpret that information, and so the more human intelligence you have the better.”

He’s not convinced that digital information is going to be able to overcome or replace human intelligence.

“I’m not discounting the value of digital intelligence, but those numbers, the interpretation of them has to be done from on the ground.”

Now that it is fully deployed, the centre has become the central depository for the collection, analysis and dissemination of intelligence information from 19 separate databases to all Lower Mainland police officers. This provides real-time support with

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serious crimes such as murder, home invasions, violent robberies, serial sex offences or gang related shootings. The centre is also staffed not just by RCMP, but also by municipal police services including the Abbotsford Police, Delta Police, New Westminster Police, Vancouver Police and Transit Police Services, along with other law enforcement.

Consequently this means that there has been a breakdown of what Jenion refers to as information silos: there is no longer a separation of intelligence services or organizations.

In this regard, silos provide legal protections because each of these agencies have different legal mandates and responsibilities. So when the agencies come under one umbrella Jenion suggests there is a risk.

“There is an incredible power that can be at anybody’s fingertips, [and] this power may be wielded in a way that is reducing harm for society, something that everybody wants,” says Jenion. “But when it comes to an inappropriate use of the information, or any type of malfeasance that can take place by criminal justice agencies, who is there to make sure that doesn’t happen?”

Similarly RTIC-BC’s mandate also calls for a coordinated response to gangs but, “The number one crime in Surrey is not necessarily gangs at all . . . our problems for violent crime are common assault, stuff like mischief and disturbing the peace,” explains Jenion. “Those are

the number-one volume calls and so do you really need high coordination of information and collapsing of silos to deal with . . . some of the major volume crimes in Surrey that really have nothing to do with any of that?”

Jenion is always in support for a coordinated effort to bring in as many resources as possible, to deal with crime reduction and prevention through strategic management.

He also believes that high technology or specialized programs is something that is missing. Currently, the funding is shared between municipal (50 per cent), provincial (30 per cent) and federal (20 per cent) governments, with an estimated budget of $5.8-million by this summer. This will result in a fully staffed centre with 17 police officers and 26 civilian staff members (analysts and researchers), set to operate 24-7, 365 days a year.

Only in its first phase, the centre will move into its second and third, encompassing additional police municipalities across B.C. and increasing its annual operating budget to almost $8.6-million by spring 2017.

“We need transparency around the evaluation component of how these things are working or will work,” says Jenion. “. . . the cost benefit analysis built-in to making sure that these millions of dollars is being spent on these programs is actually having the [desired] result.”

Interviews with the RCMP and City of Surrey were unavailable as of press time.

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KPU students introduce their spring style.

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As the cherry blossoms begin to bloom, what are students wearing to welcome spring? We asked students two questions:

1. What is your favourite thing you’re wearing today?

2. What do you like best about spring fashion?

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1.“My favourite thing here is this sweater, because my friend designed this himself. He has a poetry outlet that he runs, it’s called “Write Path Productions” if you see on the back. His poetry is really unique in the sense that it’s kind of guided by his sense of what’s right. It’s not controversial, but it’s not everybody’s sense of right. I like what his outlet stands for so I bought the sweater.”

2. “Wear what you like, do what you like, it’s how we’re meant to operate in this world.”

1.“My favourite thing would be my gold running shoes, I just love the colour.”

2.“I really like prints right now, and the pastels.”

1.“Probably my shoes. Just classics in my mind.”

2.“The fact that it’s between summer and winter and I can wear pretty much whatever I want.”

1.“I love my watch, it’s a Farm Fresh watch and it’s just a basic leather strap. I think it’s really classic right now.”

2.“I’m just excited to get into those outfits where you don’t have to layer and layer and layer. I’m just excited for it to be warm and I can wear things to the beach.”

1.“Right now it’s definitely my leather jacket. I got it for my birthday, and, yeah, it’s pretty dope. It’s something you don’t see every day.”

2.“I like spring fashion because it’s a mix between winter and summer, so you’re not showing too much, and you’re not layering up too much. You have the option of switching it up, giving a little bit of layers, but also a little, you know—wear sandals, wear opentoed heels, like I am.”

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A Call for Palestinian Justice The BDS movement in academia continues to grow.

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Nearly a month ago, on Feb. 17, the Stanford University 16th undergraduate senate voted to divest from corporations that were seen as complicit in human rights abuses in Israel and Palestine. This isn’t the first university to pass a resolution that called for a similar divestment. In fact, the University of California, Berkeley, Irvine, Riverside, San Diego, Santa Cruz, Los Angeles and Northwestern University have all passed resolutions calling for the university to divest in a similar manner. Loyola University Chicago passed a divestment resolution, but the student president, Pedro Guerrero, vetoed it.

But why are student governments and unions calling for universities to divest? The answer lies within the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

The BDS movement takes inspiration from the South African anti-apartheid struggle and is a result from a 2004 call from a group of Palestinian intellectuals and cultural workers who advocated for a Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). The following year, the BDS movement was launched.

In recent times and in the past in Israel, West Bank, and Gaza, there have been human rights violations, illegal settlements, raids and military incursions committed toward the Palestinian people. The BDS movement is a non-violent campaign to counteract what many see as Israeli war crimes and occupation in a manner that is consistent with peaceful activism. Palestinian social justice groups have been formed at various universities across North America for a call to end university support for these atrocities.

Dr. Steven Salaita is an advocate for Palestinian justice and most recently filed a lawsuit against the University of Illinois – Urbana Champlain for the alleged wrongful termination of his teaching position at the university. He’s also been touring North America at various universities and community centres, speaking about academic freedom and his experiences.

On the BDS movement, the Palestinian scholar and author says: “[The BDS movement]

faces a significant amount of misinformation.”

The movement has a number of goals that it seeks to accomplish. As the name implies, it’s a three pronged movement which seeks to boycott, divest, or sanction Israeli or nonIsraeli corporations, universities or institutions, which are complicit in human rights violations of the Palestinian people. It is not targeted at specific people or academics: rather, it seeks to fight the systematic injustices.

It has three major goals which Israel must comply with, by recognizing the right to selfdetermination of Palestinian people. These include ending its occupation and colonization of all Arab lands and dismantle the West Bank barrier, recognize the fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to full equality, and respect, protect, and promote the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as in accordance with UN resolution 194.

The movement applies to all Palestinian people since its goals address the interests of Palestinian refugees, citizens of Israel, and those under occupation. However, there are those who are critical of the movement.

Some of these include Anti-Defamation League, the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, Alan Dershowitz, the Reut Institute, Norman Finkelstein, and in September 2014, over 620 academics, most of which were North American and Israeli, signed a petition that was anti-BDS in orientation.

According to Salaita, the success of a movement that is so highly criticized is dependent on how you define success.

“Its ultimate goal is to contribute to a project that liberates Palestine from Israeli occupation, and in that sense it still has much work ahead of it,” he says. “. . . In terms of putting pressure on Israeli institutions and generating a conversation about Israeli occupation in spaces where it was ignored, I would say it has been hugely successful.”

There has also been a large rise in the number of organizations at colleges and universities that advocate for Palestinian rights.

One of these groups, the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) has over 115 chapters at American universities, according to a report from the Anti-Defamation League.

With a significant number of chapters at colleges, what stands to question now is

whether or not the BDS movement can trans“In that case, where there is no actual inlate its success into the academic sphere. vestment, I think that it can serve as an im“We’ve seen a number of scholarly asso- portant symbolic art of solidarity,” Salaita ciations vote and pass resolutions to adhere says. “It’s extremely troubling, yes . . . a lot of to academic boycott,” says Salaita. “Some universities have profited from South African of the negative Israeli policies are being dis- Apartheid, in the past, and a lot of them profcussed in places where they were previously it from various forms of militarism or politiignored or margincal aggression. This is alized. It’s really inonly one example of “The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions spired a lot of people (BDS) movement and Universities BDS move- many in which uni. . . It’s my sense that versities can or have ment is growing and has been successful.” made money . . . in the academic boycott is successfully changproblematic politics.” ing the terms of the conversation of IsraelThere has also been a heated debate Palestine, especially when compared to 10 or amongst many Palestinians and Israelis, and 15 years ago.” the world in general, regarding the one state However, along with this success are a or two state solutions. In brief, the former number of difficulties and critiques that the requires one state for Palestinians and Israemovement still faces. It’s difficult for the BDS lis, whereas the latter requires two separate movement to make a call for a state to sanction states for the two peoples. The two state soIsrael because most likely this state has diplo- lutions requires the establishment of 1967 matic relations and is unwilling to jeopardize borders. In fact, a 2014 poll found that 53 per them. But there has also been institutional op- cent of Palestinians indicated they would be position from universities, explains Salaita. in favor of a two-state solution, according to A real concern from some academics is the Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey that the BDS movement will seek to silence Research. Likewise, 60 per cent of Israelis them, and thus breach academic freedom— sampled said they would support a Paleswhich would be a contradiction of sorts. tinian state if the prime minister reached an However, that isn’t a concern for Salaita. agreement, according to a 2014 survey done “Academic boycott, for instance, focuses by the Dialogue Institute. Ironically enough solely on Israeli academics and institutions. the same survey finds that 54 per cent of IsIt doesn’t preclude the individual participa- raelis don’t believe Prime Minister Benjamin tion of the citizens of the state of Israel in Netanyahu when he says he wants to propublishing, in research collaborations, and mote peace based on a two-state solution. traveling to attend conferences. Those who The one-state or two-state solution has organize for various academic boycotts are an impact on the BDS movement, as well. deeply attuned to the sensitivity of academ“It’s an extremely important question. I ic freedom. If you look at who these have think in the abstract, most people agree the most affected, it’s not affecting the oppo- ultimate goal is to end Israeli occupation, nents of the boycott and it’s not affecting Is- but most people see it, quite rightly, as solely raeli scholars or students,” Salaita explains. one element of a much broader political and “Breaches of academic freedom continue to activist process . . . the Palestinian Campaign have an overwhelming effect on Palestinian for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Isstudents and academics.” rael [which is] located in Palestine doesn’t As recent trends have indicated, for uni- take a specific position,” says Salaita. “U.S. versities, divestment is on the rise. Many of PACBI, which is the organization located these institutions have had financial stakes and in the United States, has followed suit, and thus have been called upon by students to stop doesn’t take a formal position. Sooner or funding Israeli occupation. This is something later these questions are going to have to that Salaita suggests would be a violation of worked out . . . it’s going to be a favourable some element of their mission statement. How- moment when it happens.” ever, there are those universities who may not have financial gain from this situation.

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The Arts Club is making a move A new stage in the Olympic Village is a testament Vancouver’s theatre scene.

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Quality and innovative theatre are not exclusive to Broadway and New York. Vancouver’s Arts Club theatre company was founded as the Arts Club of Vancouver in 1958, and is now the biggest theatre company in Western Canada. On March 16, the Arts Club announced that they will be closing the Revue Stage and opening the West First Stage in November, a new theatre on West 1st Ave. in Vancouver’s Olympic Village.

The club has deep roots in innovation, as the original Seymour Street Stage had to be converted from a gospel hall before the company’s inaugural season in 1964. Both the Seymour Street and Granville Island Stage were open to the public by 1979. A few years later, the company underwent another change and opened its Revue Stage in 1983. After 27 years at the Seymour Street Stage, the Arts Club closed it for demolition in 1991 and was back to operating two stages again until it opened the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage.

Bill Millerd, managing artistic director of the Arts Club, has been involved with the

company since 1969 and is responsible for most of the company’s recent growth. “The great thing about this new space: First of all, it’s going to seat 250, but it actually is going to be a flexible seating space,” explains Millerd.

“By that I mean, you’ll be able to see plays in different ways, different viewpoints.”

Crews will be able to change the seating arrangements from one set-up to another within four hours. This type of set-up may be common in New York, but Millerd notes, “There are not too many spaces in Vancouver that can do this.” Adding this new space and having different seating options may also allow the Arts Club team to expand the already diverse repertoire of productions they can produce.

“We can now inspire and entertain a broader cross-section of our community, and I very much look forward to the reaction from patrons old and new to this wonderful mix of lauded plays, celebrated musicals, and world-premieres from some of Vancouver’s greatest artists,” executive director Peter Cathie White clarified in a recent press release. “I’m particularly proud that we are continuing our great tradition of heralding new Canadian voices and stories on our stages.”

Along with the announcement of the new stage, the full schedule for the 2015-

2016 season was released.

“We’re premiering a work by playwright Morris Panych and singer-composer John Mann that is out on the Granville Island Stage in October,” says Millerd. “We have a really exciting and controversial play called Disgraced, opening the Stanley theatre’s season in September. Certainly the productions at West First (are exciting), being the inaugural season. In particular, there is a premiere of a piece by Amiel Gladstone and Veda Hille called Onegin.”

Having the opportunity to premiere new

shows in both the Canadian and global theatre scene may be a testament to Vancouver’s growing arts culture, as well as the continued success of the Arts Club. Millerd feels that it can also be attributed to the consistent support from Vancouver audiences.

“I’ve always thought the audiences here are really very smart, very aware of what is going on,” he says. “A lot of them travel to see shows elsewhere. I think you can never underestimate our audiences, so to give them the variety of plays that we do is exciting.”

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Thirteenth Perspective KPU BFA program

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A more immersive experience is what’s in store for visitors to this year’s KPU Bachelor of Fine Arts graduation show, 13th Perspective. Taking place on April 17, in an enormous studio space provided to the fine arts department at the Cloverdale campus, the event will feature 12 graduating students exhibiting mixed media and painted works ranging in a number of mediums including sculptures and installations.

Organizing the event alongside the fourth-year students are Kent Anderson, professor of sculpture and 3D studies, and Sibeal Foyle, professor of painting and drawing. As Anderson explains, the students’ final exhibition, “Would be like a final concert or an endof-the-year test that encapsulates everything, but in this case it’s kind of encapsulating about four years of education.”

An artist’s inclusion may only be a single piece, but overall the show will feature multiple works that deal with the theme of urban decay. These include both architectural and theatrical works, with the majority

being paintings along with a few ambitious sculptural pieces. Students generally take a “whole year to kind of tease out their own personal vision,” says Anderson.

Authored by the class itself, the name 13th Perspective arose out of recognizing not only the 12 artists in the show, but also the audience who is in this case invited to become the 13th participant.

“You’re after some kind of dynamic response, provocative responses,” says Anderson. “BFA shows are to be judged on their energy and experimental nature because these students have been pushed to

make art for art’s sake.”

For Anderson, the public should view the show as a laboratory of research around visual art, as opposed to “Emphasizing how ‘much does that cost?’ Art has to reflect life, and life is political.”

Students and the public are invited to the opening night reception that will include both live entertainment and an awards ceremony.

The exhibition will showcase work by: Alan Canning, Alyx Essers, Angelai Lai, Caitlan Gray, Gunilla Kay, Jenine Sarchet, Katie Sture, Mark Stewart, Merry McMullen, Miriam Severson, Pauline Tiongson and Rosaura Ojeda.

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Title: Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination Author: J.K. Rowling Release date: April 14 Genre: memoir/advice Synopsis: Harry Potter fans and the Harvard graduating class of 2008 will likely never forget J.K. Rowling’s powerful commencement speech. In this short book, Rowling shares her wise advice and personal experience surrounding failure and success.

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Title: The Dead Land Author: Benjamin Percy Release date: April 14 Genre: thriller/sci-fi Synopsis: A post-apocalyptic reimagining of the Lewis and Clark stories, the world has been devastated by a super flu and nuclear fallout. After finding out there is a growing civilization outside their sheltered community, Lewis Meriwether and Mina Clark lead a group on a mission to reunite the States.

Title: A God in Ruins Author: Kate Atkinson Release date: May 5 Genre: fiction/literature Synopsis: A companion novel to Life After Life, this story follows Teddy Todd as he struggles to integrate back into civilian life after World War II. Atkinson’s novel deals with themes of losing innocence, war and peace and being misunderstood.

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Title: 99 Days Author: Katie Cotugno Release date: April 21 Genre: young adult/fiction Synopsis: Molly Barlow has gotten herself into some relationship trouble and is about to have one long, awkward summer. She was not expecting to have to spend summer vacation with Patrick, whose heart she broke, and his brother Gabe, whom she broke it for.

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Title: Magonia Author: Maria Dahvana Headley Release date: April 28 Genre: fiction/literature/fantasy Synopsis: Aza Ray suffers from a debilitating lung disease that makes it difficult for her to breathe. In a strange turn of events, she ends up being swept up into the world of Magonia. Aza soon discovers that Magonia and Earth may be at war.

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Walking the streets of Vancouver, one may end up near the set of the next major Hollywood blockbuster. It’s hard not to drive through the Lower Mainland without seeing film crews, set location markers, crew parking signs and trailer circuses. Since the 1970s, Vancouver has shared with Toronto the affectionate monicker “Hollywood

North”, and Vancouver deserves the title for being so close to Hollywood itself. A quick plane ride or road trip from Los Angeles and you are in Hollywood 2.0.

The film and visual effects industry in Vancouver has expanded and gone through a lot of change in the past decade. It’s no surprise, then, that the newly Vancouverbased Sony Pictures Imageworks, which has had teams involved with films such as Cast Away, I Am Legend, Godzilla, Alice in Wonderland and the Spider-Man franchises, had rep-

resentatives at Kwantlen’s Career Day on March 3. In late May of last year, the company announced that they would be relocating their headquarters from Culver City, California to Vancouver’s Pacific Centre.

Stephen Winters, a member of the Production Services and Resources department, and Stephen Hassard, the Systems Administration Manager, both came to the Surrey campus in hopes to promote student interest in the company. Building that interest and finding talent can be difficult in an ever-changing

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industry, and the importance of this task was not lost on Winters and Hassard.

“We actually want to see what each school is specifically teaching. It allows us to better understand where the curriculum is going and where the students are. We get a feel for the kind of student body they are getting,” says Winters.

Hassard feels it’s important to let people know there’s a need for artistic talent and coming to career day events allows them this opportunity. “A lot of people don’t realize that we have technical positions that are supporting the artists as well,” he says. “It helps us kind of show students what Imageworks does and hopefully drum up a little bit more interest.”

With the relocation of headquarters comes the relocation of some employees, a reality that Winters is familiar with. “I was relocated a year ago and while I was relocated, there is a big push where we are no longer trying to relocate people from LA. I think it was more getting the management and the people who can train people up here that was critical.”

Winters and Hassard are in agreement that the visual effects industry in Vancouver has only gotten bigger and will likely continue to grow.

“It is a continued change that we are going to see in the next few years,” says Winters. “Hollywood and L.A. are always going to have their production companies, but I think Vancouver is always going to be known as the visual effects hub of North America.”

The future of the industry is hard to predict, but Winters believes technology will definitely have a role. “We’ve seen every five or so years, a shift where something bigger and better has come out in the technology that has really revolutionized how we are able to make the film that much better. For me, I’m really looking forward to seeing the next new thing that’s going to help make things better.”

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Video Game Logic Shadow of the Colossus.

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Genre: Third-Person Action-Adventure Release: (PS2) October 2005 (PS3) September 2011 (PS4) 2014 Platforms: PS2, PS3 and PS4: PlayStation Now (streaming) Writer’s Note: Shadow of the Colossus was played on PS4’s streaming service PlayStation Now and requires a fast internet connection to be played optimally without any lag.

Every industry has its influential outliers that set the course for future endeavors, and for the medium of video games Shadow of the Colossus is definitely one of those. Nearly 10 years old now, the game doesn’t stand on the shoulders of giants—in this case, it is the giant.

The game is a bare-bones structure upon which a fantastical mythology is hung. This is also where the difficulty in discussing the game arises, as spoilers may detract from the experience of playing the game firsthand. The plot follows the protagonist, a young man named Wander, who enters a shrine in a land forbidden to mortals carrying a deceased girl, Mono, in hopes of resurrecting her from the dead with the help of Dormin, an unearthly entity who first tasks him with defeating sixteen enormous creatures (colossi) who inhabit the plains.

With an almost non-existent backstory, players are immediately thrust into an immersive world and given just enough to care about the story without it feeling time-consuming.

For those whom patience is not a virtue, the almost 15-minute extended opening setup may seem unbearable—but the remaining, seemingly endless hours of gameplay are well worth the wait. Again, this is one of those

unique game experiences where the action is purposeful within a relatively simplistic quest that players have to see through to the end.

In many ways, the game is a throwback to childhood fairytales, but without the western tradition of the prince simply bringing the princess back from the dead with a kiss. In glorious Japanese folklore fashion, the game brings a maturity to the lengths that a clichéd protagonist must go to in order to save the one he loves. The most shocking aspect is how the game manages to accomplish so much with such little dialogue, especially during the long periods of time when players must ride across expansive landscapes on horseback where the only sound is the dirt kicked up from your trusted companion’s hooves.

The atmosphere this achieves is one of both isolation and despair, particularly during the sixteen different boss fights that provide a sense of scale unmatched by many video

games. This is largely due to the art direction, sound design and sweeping orchestral score of these confrontations, which provide the backdrop for players to really figure out how to navigate the puzzle-like gameplay.

The sense of accomplishment that comes from defeating the colossi, some as big as skyscrapers, is quite indescribable, especially when the difficulty increases with each successive boss.

While this Sony-exclusive, re-mastered version includes high-definition graphics in 1080p, 3D support and PlayStation Network trophies, whatever version or system you choose to play it on, it’s a game that must be played through to the end. It’s a game for anyone who’s ever wanted to experience a poignant, interactive action-adventure puzzle in a form that truly brings childhood dreams of monster hunting to life. “But heed this, the price you pay may be heavy indeed.”

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CAUTION: discusses sensitive issues Let’s talk about one of the most controversial topics in society—abortion. This matter seems never-ending because it’s one of those

topics that splits society right down the middle.

According to Debate.org, abortion is one of their biggest and most divisive issues, as the poll usually stands at more or less 50 per cent while most other topics predominantly lean to one side or the other. So even though abortion is legal in Canada and certain other countries, there will always be a large portion of the population trying to push for it to be abolished.

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Anti-choice groups are often—but not always—religiously motivated. Christian and Catholic populations aren’t the only ones that are against abortion, though, as some muslim people do not believe in it as well. However, the Islamic laws might have a less restricting approach to it. According to “Islamic Ethics of Life: Abortion, War, and Euthanasia” by Gene Outka, it is acceptable for a woman to get an abortion if the pregnancy is a threat to her life.

Unlike the Christian and Catholic belief, Muslims believe that the mother’s life is the primary concern because she is the actual existing life, while the fetus is only a potential life.

Anti-choice groups often come with loaded reasons as to why abortion should be abolished.

One of the biggest reasons why people are trying to put a stop to abortion is because they want an end to sex-selection abortion. Even though most doctors in Canada will not perform an abortion procedure if they know it is for the purpose of sex-selection, it still happens under false pretenses. But abolishing abortion won’t solve this problem, it’s merely indicative of the larger patriarchal problem facing society.

If female and male babies are equally valued, sex-selection abortion will disappear.

If the anti-choice movement is religiously motivated, they might say it’s a sin to play God because the right to abortion means the right to determine the existence of someone’s life. They will also argue that the fetus—at any stage—is considered a fully living thing and that it’s morally wrong to take one’s life. This is often argued with the biological definition of what a “living” thing is, which is when something has the capacity to grow, reproduce, metabolize, etc. But under this definition, why is it way more acceptable to kill a cow than it is a human? So-

ciety often views the human life to be more important than an animal’s. We don’t often think about where this idea comes from, but it’s rooted in the Christian faith—that human life is superior to other species. There are people who believe that a human’s life is equal to any other animal’s, so at the end of the day, the value of someone’s or something’s life is depended one’s opinion.

Julianna Baggot, a published novelist from the University of North Carolina, once said, “I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large—especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others—nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.”

Not only does Baggot argue it’s okay for someone to be pro-choice while you’re personally anti-choice, but she is also saying that pregnancy isn’t such a light topic for other people to govern. Especially when it’s men governing women. Men do not have to deal with the physical complexity of childbirth, so they should not have a say in whether or not a woman should keep her baby.

I want to make it clear that being prochoice is not about encouraging women to have irresponsible and unprotected sex all they want because an abortion is an easy-fix.

Pro-choice is about allowing women to have control over their own body and life decisions. This does not mean restricting women to abortion only under certain circumstances like rape or physical complications (mother or child). Women should have the right to choose if they want to keep a fetus, whether it’s financial or emotional reason, or even if they simply do not wish to have a child at all.

scent. In 1979, the Shah was overthrown in a coup by the people of Iran, and after a lengthy hostage crisis, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to the country, after leading a movement from exile.

The Ayatollah was completely unlike the Shah, in the sense that he was fiercely antiAmerican. Women’s rights in the country were reversed, and there were many, many more political prisoners under Khomeini than there were under the Shah.

Despite the landmass of Iran sitting on

top of many millions of cubic metres of oil, they don’t have the refineries to process it into fuel. They’re also being hampered heavily by economic sanctions, but that might be changing after the implementation of their deal with America. Iran needs to get power from somewhere, and understandably they’d rather not be reliant on other countries to do so. It wouldn’t be surprising, then, if the leadership in Iran really was after nuclear power-not, as critics claim, a nuclear weapon.

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After 12 years of negotiations, the United States mediated a deal with Iran. In exchange for reducing their nuclear capability, numerous sanctions hindering the economy of Iran will be lifted.

Shortly after the deal was announced, President Obama said that the guidelines, if fully implemented, would prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.

“Iran will face strict limitations on it’s program,” Obama claimed at a White House press conference. “Iran has also agreed to the most robust and intrusive inspections . . . ever negotiated for any nuclear program in history. This deal is not based on trust, it’s based on unprecedented verification.”

Iran has always been the subject of American political rhetoric. For the last several years, Iran has been attempting to build nuclear facilities to power their country, though it’s heavily speculated, especially amongst politicians in the United States and Israel, that their true intention is to construct a nuclear weapon. There has yet to be any concrete proof that such a weapon is being developed. “[It’s] a mathematics game. The more countries that have nuclear weapons, the more chances that they’ll be used,” says Allen Sens, a political science professor at UBC. “Another angle is that the last thing the Middle East needs is another country with a nuclear weapon.”

Israel and other western powers are con-

cerned that if Iran were to develop nuclear weapons, they would sell them to Hezbollah or Hamas, whom Israel and much of the world view as terrorist organizations. Another concern is that Iran’s government could be replaced with a coup, which isn’t unrealistic given the intensity of the 2009 and 2011 protests.

It would be in America’s best interest to appear to oppose a dictatorial state. That is to say, a dictatorial state that doesn’t listen to them.

The United States had better relations with Iran before the 1979 revolution, during the time of the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

Pahlavi came to power after the CIA orchestrated a coup d’etat in 1953 for British MI6, removing Mohammad Mosaddegh from power, a secular leader who was democratically elected in 1951 by the people of Iran. It turned out that the British didn’t like his idea of nationalizing the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, which is known today as British Petroleum (BP).

Mossadegh’s idea was extremely popular in Iran, and he was adored as a result. For years, much of Iran’s vast oil money was leaving the country. The British took Iran to the world court over the matter of nationalizing their own oil, but they lost. President Harry S Truman of the United States was asked by the British for help in changing the regime, but he wasn’t interested. Eisenhower soon came into office, and he proved to be a little more malleable. He only needed to be reminded that the Russians were trying to court the Iranians.

After the coup took place, the Shah gave Western governments everything they asked for, namely oil. He also had help in setting up a secret police force to stifle de-

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ESL and ABE funding cuts reflect a disturbing path for our province University administration needs to fight back.

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Why am I angry? I am writing this mid-semester, finals coming up in a week and assignments due yesterday. I’m behind on readings, behind on sleep and caught up on Supernatural. Why am I writing this? I’m writing this because I hate where this province is going.

I feel compelled to say something about what is going on in our province and where we are going. We are rushing at an alarming rate to a seriously underfunded and irrelevant postsecondary environment. Like bullet train fast.

The Liberal government is cutting funding to universities and colleges, ending funding for programs like ESL and Adult Basic Education and increasing barriers to repay student loans (which are being employed increasingly as tuition fees increase to cover the costs accruing from the government cuts).

It started last year with the federal government eliminating funding for ESL programs for post-secondary institutions. The province gave one-time funding to reduce the impact of the cuts, but the following year the institutions would be left to figure out where they stand. Not surprisingly, most decided to charge tuition fees for the program rather than fund it from their existing,

yet dwindling, coffers.

Now we are facing cuts to ABE. Programs that help students take the first steps to enter university. These are programs that will educate the people who live and work in our province so they can contribute to our overall social well-being and the economy. Without access to free ABE some of the most vulnerable populations in B.C. are left struggling to get by.

Administrators at KPU and admin apologists claim they are not to blame, and they cannot bite the hand that feeds them. Well I say the hand stopped feeding them a long time ago. The hand is starving us, at what point will the University admin and community realize this and fight back?

They hold consultation after consultation and look inwards for solutions when the cause of the problem is external to our institution. The solution will not be found internally, especially when the leadership won’t take a pay cut. The perception to which they listen is part of the problem.

The University administration has jumped on the bandwagon of calling for the cap on tuition increases to be lifted so they can charge more for less. Those who have benefited from these programs and those who work in them have been calling out for help. When do we join them for the sake of all our futures?

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Compass Cards scheduled for May at KPU

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Students need to be pointed towards adequate information.

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Transit users at Kwantlen Polytechnic University will have to start using the Compass Card beginning in May. Unfortunately, there is very little information regarding the transition from U-Passes and the Compass Card, and things are going to be confusing for students.

Sometimes new things can greatly improve the efficiency of school life. In order for it to be a positive change, it needs to be very clearly mapped out. Students need to know exactly what is going on and how things are going to happen.

If a student were to search for information on the upcoming Compass Cards on the internet, they will find two pages. The first is on Kwantlen’s U-Pass/MultiPass page.

The second is on Kwantlen Student Association’s (KSA) MultiPass website.

On both pages, the only reference to the Compass Card is one section explaining a trial run currently being done. There is no

set release date shown. It doesn’t tell students how it works.

Having said that, there is a link to TransLink’s website, which does have a little bit more information about the Compass Cards.

In terms of general use, the frequently asked questions page on TransLink’s website does an adequate job of explaining the Compass Card use for the average user.

For students, the website only says the Card will be linked to a school account, which leads to a login website where students can link the card, but the individual Compass Card number is required in order to do so.

It would seem the tentative release date for the Compass Cards is going to be May 1.

According to the TransLink website, there is already a select group of students testing it out. When the Compass Cards are available, students will be able to pick them up at the bookstore. At this point, students will have to load the Compass Cards monthly in order to use them. This is where it gets a little fuzzy.

Currently, with the U-Pass, students only need to show the pass to the bus driver to get

on. There is no hassle with loading credit into the card. It’s quick and simple. The U-Pass offers unlimited transit in the Lower Mainland area for free, as long as you have the pass.

With the Compass Card, students will have to load them up monthly. For the regular public, the Compass Cards offer two payment styles. The first style is to load money onto the card. People can load however much or little money they want on the card. If someone only wants to have the card for emergencies, they can load only enough for one three zone trip. If someone uses transit more often, they can load up more.

The second style is to load a monthly pass right into the card. This works the same as a physical pass. People have to choose a one, two, or three zone pass.

According to the TransLink website, the two styles can be mixed. If someone has a two zone pass, and they want to go three zones, the pass will pay for the first two zones and the loaded credit will pay for the rest.

Presumably, when students load the card online, it will put an unlimited monthly

pass on the card. This way, it will give students the same benefit as the U-Pass, except you have to tap in and out.

Considering the benefits of the two passes, the U-Pass and the Compass Card, are completely identical, the question remains: is it worth the switch? Why fix something that isn’t broken?

One advantage is students will get to keep the Compass Card after their schooling is over, allowing for further use. Also, students won’t be required to come to the school after receiving the card. They can reload the card online.

Overall, the switch to the Compass Card will not inconvenience students at all once everything is set in motion. The trouble is, students need to know what is going on. According to an e-mail received by KSA Multipass, there will be information pamphlets available prior to launch. Hopefully, they will come out sooner rather than later.

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Listeners raise eyebrows at new host of CBC’s Q.

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For the dedicated people who follow CBC’s Q, the new host of the show is going to be very important.

Following the dismissal of Jian Ghomeshi, Q recently announced their pick for the new host. Shadrach Kabango, also known as Shad, is a hip-hop artist. He will be taking the reins from Ghomeshi.

Shad’s career as a hip-hop artist will undoubtedly help him out as the new host.

The energy and passion from his career as a musician can easily transfer to this new po-

sition. Ghomeshi was also a musical artist.

In that, they have something in common.

Listening to the introductory show on March 12, Shad seemed very comfortable with the position. His voice sounded calm and relaxed, and his passion could be felt as he talked with various artists and veteran journalist Anna Maria Tremonti.

There are people out there who criticized Shad’s choice of songs on his first guest host.

Rapper Tre Mission displayed his talent, and some of the listeners were not impressed with the style of music. According to a Globe and Mail article, one listener said on Twitter that he “[appreciated] that some people like this kind of music, but it’s inappropriate here

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- that is not your audience, never will be.”

We have to remember that Shad does have a passion for rap music. It makes total sense that he would choose this style for his first guest host.

It’s what he’s most likely most comfortable with.

This does not mean, however, that every episode of Q will feature this kind of music.

We have to see what Shad has in store for us in the next while. The specific song choices are not something we should be judging based on one episode. What’s more important is the feel of Shad’s energy we get while he’s hosting.

In the same Globe and Mail article, one listener commented on the fact that Shad used the word “dope” while he was hosting, and it was implied that this type of vocabulary

is inappropriate. The listener also stated that the “program isn’t the same without Jian.”

With a new host, the personality of the show is going to change slightly. Shad is going to use different vocabulary than Ghomeshi, and that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Another Twitter user responded to the previous comment by reminding us all that, “The former host, during inception, began the program by saying ‘Yo, yo, yo, what is up Canada.”

There is no denying that Q is going to have a different feel. There’s no way Shad is going to create the same experience that Ghomeshi did. It doesn’t matter who you choose to replace him, it’s going to be different.

While this may turn away some of the more dedicated Q fans who are used to Ghomeshi’s style of show, it also gives the show a chance to bring in a new audience. People who are fans of Shad already certainly will have their ears open.

Change is something that has the potential to scare people. People don’t always like to leap into something different, especially when what they had before was comfortable and familiar to them. However, change can also be a very good thing, and Shad taking over will be one of those things if we give him a chance.

The combination of his past experiences, his passion for music, his calm and friendly personality, will all be a very good fit for Canadian listeners. It’s certainly going to be a different experience than what we might expect from Q, but change is good.

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Under the guise of Islam, ISIS has committed yet another atrocious crime that clearly defies the laws of the religion it holds so firm to. Ancient artifacts at a UNESCO world heritage site, the fortress city of Hatra in Iraq were destroyed by a group of militants. This follows destruction in a number of religious and cultural sites in Ninevah.

We have seen them murder innocent lives, defying the law of the Prophet (peace be upon him) when he said, “A Muslim remains enjoying the safety and protection of his faith so long as he doesn’t commit unlawful murder.” We have seen them destroying the environment, tainting one of the 10 rules of warfare set down by Abu Bakr. Now, they have destroyed the property of the state, deciding to neglect another rule: the unjust destruction of someone else’s property.

Having no real policing powers, UNESCO, the organization that was given authority over the classification of heritage sites across the world, was left defenceless as multiple locations were vandalized in what they described as “acts of barbarism.”

In terms of international response, that was about it. The United Nations has empowered an organization to decide what on this planet qualifies as beautiful and historic, but does nothing when these sites are destroyed.

ISIS believes that these sites were a source of knowledge that may promote paganism and/or satanism within their controlled territory. However, these sites were mainly used as tourist attractions, and not as holy places of worship. In fact some of these sites, such as Jonah’s tomb, were destroyed even though it was a place of worship for many Muslims who believe in the same Sunni sect of Islam that ISIS claims to follow.

The historical significance of some of these landmarks is uncanny. These sites were

unparalleled in the Muslim world as breeding grounds for the knowledge of anthropologists, historians, and religious figures from all over the world. UNESCO does not establish just any piece of ground as a historical site because it has been sitting there for thousands of years. These sites and landmarks all played a pivotal role in history at some point and have been classified as significant due to those reasons. What ISIS has done is taken a chunk out of history and smashed that chunk with sledgehammers and power tools.

But what ISIS has achieved as a direct result of these barbaric acts is far more devastating to the Islamic world. As a religion of peace, Muslims are taught to respect all faiths and not to destroy places of worship, whether it is a mosque, synagogue, church, or an idol. ISIS claims to serve the interests of Islam but have done nothing to prove that.

If anything, they have done the complete opposite by twisting the religion to serve their political and social goals. After destroying the image of Islam by murdering innocent people in their own country, it’s easy to assume that it would be pretty difficult to hold on to the preconceived social construct of religion in their land. As people begin hating Islam because of the guise that ISIS has adopted, people would naturally gravitate towards other religions and to maintain this Muslim majority they have been forced to remove the other religions from the equation.

These crimes committed by ISIS are secular by nature. We have seen it over and over again with every single step they’ve taken thus far, that they not only counter Islam with their devious ways, but seek to destroy the name of Islam for everyone. There is already a negative view of Islam throughout the world with Islamic extremism on the rise and Muslim countries in constant political turmoil. Throw a group such as ISIS, flying the banner of Islam, and the situation will only grow worse.

Although Islam is a part of their name, it has never been a part of their belief system.

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