The Cascade Vol. 22 No. 31

Vol. 22 Issue 31

November 19, 2014 to November 26, 2014

In love with the green wall since 1993

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Briefs Winter registration begins Winter 2015 semester registration for many students begins today, November 19. A $200 deposit is necessary for access to courses. Avoid wait-times by dropping a cheque off at the mailbox beside OReg if you have any payments left to make.

Registering online through MyUFV has yielded slowdown and delays during the first few days of the registration period in the past, but IT services did perform some MyUFV maintenance in October, so perhaps this is the semester things will change.

Kinder Morgan and police attempt to silence protestors BURNABY — In an ongoing public battle between local citizens and Houston-based energy company Kinder Morgan, a court order for protestors to disperse has escalated tensions in the area. The Peak reports that hundreds gathered at a survey site to stand against pipeline work, where Burnaby RCMP read the order, but did not attempt arrests as of Monday, November 17. Re-elected mayor Derek Corrigan said to the Vancouver Sun that he wants to prevent any arrests. “We are going to utilize the system in order to make sure this doesn’t proceed,” he said.

“This is the beginning of what is a long war to protect our rights.”

TRU student union creates on-campus voting station KAMLOOPS — In an effort to make voting more convenient for students, faculty, and staff, the Thompson Rivers University student union helped bring an advance polling station to campus for the most recent municipal election. “At an advance polling station, anyone from the public can vote,” VP external Leif Douglass told the Omega. TRU’s student population numbers over 13,000, while up to 880 students live in residence; 280 voters used the polling station.

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Election round-up

Whether you voted or not, don’t miss the details about the outcome of Saturday’s municipal elections in Abbotsford, Chilliwack, and Mission.

Shame on fat-shamers Attacking people for their weight reflects ignorance and misunderstanding, argues UFV alumnus Chris Towler.

International Education Week at UFV Highlights included a cultural garden and a discussion of Métis history and culture. Simon Grant and Martin Castro have the details.

Run the Jewels 2 hits the ground running The highly-anticipated hip-hop album gets full marks from Martin Castro.

Basketball stars shine

Both the men’s and women’s teams dominated the UNBC Timberwolves this weekend. Nathan Hutton has more.

Do we treat teachers like part-time cashiers?

KATIE STOBBART

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

My resignation was premeditated. I typed a letter. I folded it in careful thirds, firmly pressing the creases straight.

It was about two years ago, and despite being mostly happy with the people I worked with and the environment I worked in, I quit my job at a local grocery store.

Most students are familiar with the pitfalls of casual, part-time work. We often have to balance entry-level positions while we study, the theory being that the evils of working at minimum wage are worth it to pay for education that will someday result in something better.

But my school performance was slipping. I was often taking extra shifts to work fulltime hours, and bending over backward to impress my supervisors so I could move up to the customer service desk instead of just the till. That is, until I was informed that to accomplish that goal, I would have to be available full-time — for part-time hours.

Eventually, working fulltime hours for part-time wages and no benefits, beVolume 22 · Issue 31 Room C1027 33844 King Road Abbotsford, BC V2S 7M8 604.854.4529 Editor-in-Chief katie@ufvcascade.ca Katie Stobbart Managing Editor valerie@ufvcascade.ca Valerie Franklin Director of Business Development joe@ufvcascade.ca Joe Johnson Webmaster ashley@ufvcascade.ca Ashley Mussbacher Copy Editor kodie@ufvcascade.ca Kodie Cherrille News Editor michael@ufvcascade.ca Michael Scoular

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Despite accreditation and experience, sessional faculty face similar frustrations as students do in entry-level positions. ing asked to do work from a higher payscale without equivalent compensation, and having difficulty trying to coordinate hours between three different departments and supervisors was enough to make me throw up my hands.

The final straw was my main supervisor releasing the new schedule before fall semester started, and confirming what I had suspected: he didn’t want to work on Monday, so I wouldn’t be able to balance work and school.

So at the end of that shift, I Opinion Editor brittney@ufvcascade.ca Brittney Hensman Culture Editor nadine@ufvcascade.ca Nadine Moedt Arts in Review Editor sasha@ufvcascade.ca Sasha Moedt Sports Editor catherine@ufvcascade.ca Catherine Stewart Production and Design Editor stewart@ufvcascade.ca Stewart Seymour Art Director anthony@ufvcascade.ca Anthony Biondi Production Assistant shyanne@ufvcascade.ca Shyanne Schedel

brought the letter down from the lunchroom and tucked it into the daily communication binder. Then I hung up my apron and walked out the automatic doors for the last time.

It felt good. I felt relieved.

I’m sure I’m not the only student who has had a similar experience.

But I didn’t think it was a feeling that might hit home for many of our instructors.

Sessional instructors, as you’ll read in our feature this week, often work full-time

hours for lower pay than fulltime faculty earn. They struggle to secure benefits, and they fear ascending into more secure positions will never be a reality, no matter how hard they work. Some also fear speaking out could cost them what little they have.

To a certain extent, that kind of precarious standing is expected in an entry-level position. But the obvious difference between casual parttime, entry-level positions in a grocery store or retail environment and faculty positions in a university are that the people filling sessional positions have spent thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours earning degrees which are supposed to give them a competitive edge.

Despite accreditation and experience, they face the same realities — and worse — I accepted as part of being a cashier, and ultimately the same ones that spurred me to quit. It’s a sobering thought for anyone thinking about becoming a professor: you can work as hard as you want, but for factors often beyond your control, it’s just not in the cards.

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alex@ufvcascade.ca Alex Rake Varsity Writer nathan@ufvcascade.ca Nathan Hutton Arts and Culture Writer martin@ufvcascade.ca Martin Castro Contributors Simon Grant, Jeremy Hannaford, Daniel Holmberg, Charlynn Jelier, Beau O’Neill, Jasmin Sprangers, and Chris Towler.

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Inside the geography batcave

Using luminescence dating, students search the past for signs of how climate and landmass form MEGAN LAMBERT

THE CASCADE

The “batcave” is on the top floor of Abbotsford’s A building, up a single flight of stairs.

Hidden behind a two-way darkroom door decorated with stuffed bats (toys, not taxidermy), Libby Griffin, Jordan Bryce, and Maureen Eyers analyze grains of sand in near darkness.

Griffin is a recent UFV graduate pursuing her master’s at SFU, and Bryce is planning a similar route, hoping to get her Ph.D. Eyers’ geology fieldwork has taken her to the Arctic, Greenland, and BC. “I do geophysics,” she says.

“We use different machines to blow holes in the ground, seismic explosives, all that stuff.”

Eyers adds that even though she has worked in the geography field for years, she’s also looking to incorporate her degree into her work outside the university.

Using a Risø TL-OSL reader with a beta irradiator, the geography students date sediment — taking samples of sand and analyzing how much radiation they emit. Bryce explains the process: Grains of sand are exposed to light, and the electrons recombine at the centres, giving off excess energy as luminescence.

The machine measures how much luminescence the particles give off, in order to know how many electrons were in a sample.

“It’s crazy to think about, because you can’t see it in a grain of sand,” Griffin says, “but it’s holding all of this energy.”

The machine prints out a graph, and with data analysis geologists are able to calculate the age and the last time they were exposed to sunlight.

“Once it goes into the machine we get all this data and it takes a lot of interpretation,

a lot of data analysis,” Griffin says.

“It doesn’t just spit out, ‘Oh, this is 2,000 years old,’ unfortunately.”

Working with the Hakai Beach Institute and a group of students from UVic’s geography department, students like Griffin, Bryce, and Eyers hammer aluminum tubes into dirt or sand cliffs to collect the sand — which they then douse in hydrochloric acid to remove any organic or biological matter.

In an even darker room attached to the whirring Risø machine, the wet lab is where they manually sift through the sand to separate quartz and felspar — Earth’s most common minerals. Griffin notes that quartz lets off a small amount of light, making it difficult to track data.

They use the liquid lithium metatungstate (LMT) to separate the two further. The grains are then treated with an acid to smooth over any erosion or impurities, and are made similar sizes to keep the data consistent.

The data from coastal BC — places like Haida Gwaii and Quadra Island — can be collected into a larger pool to help track tides and climate over thousands of years. “It can tell us about past environmental change,” Bryce notes.

For her honours project, she says, “I’m going to be dating this ancient beach sand that’s buried, so it can tell us that sea levels were high enough to form a beach at that location.”

Griffin says that her work at UFV started with a Friday morning class she shared with Eyers — their prof and now supervisor, Olav Lian, opened up student positions for lab work.

“It’s great that UFV has these opportunities,” Griffin says — and just like the bat cave, “I think a lot of students have no idea that they even exist.”

Top: Toy bats mark the entrance to the geography luminescence lair.

Above: Students dig for samples in the field, then take the sand back to sift for data.

Below: In the darkroom lab, the small amount of light let off by quartz becomes usable.

Image: Libby Griffon

Image: Christina Neudorf

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Recapping the municipal election MICHAEL SCOULAR

THE CASCADE

The campaign signs are (mostly) gone, the parties thrown, the conclusions drawn. The candidates now await the removal of “-elect” from their titles before they get to work, and the public, having survived another sudden grab for their attention, can go back to wondering if their interests will be noticed in City Halls.

Municipal decisions rarely bring more than half of eligible residents into the process, and this year was no different, but across BC there was a slight increase: in Mission, about 1,000 more voted than in 2011; in Chilliwack an increase of over 5,000 reversed a downward trend that plagued the city’s political discourse; and in Abbotsford, voting numbers remained the same even without an additional controversial referendum question as there was three years ago. Data from decades past suggests these rises and falls tend to fall within a limited range in the current system, but there is also the possibility suggested by Mission councillor Jenny Stevens: “I think particularly this generation of young people are probably better informed than earlier groups; [they are] less gullible.”

Mission slate shut out Mission’s changes were the most dramatic. After three years following a complete election of a newly formed slate called the Citizens for Responsible Municipal Government (CRMG), all but one incumbent (Stevens, who left the group prior to the campaign period) was voted out.

The slate’s approach to City Hall prompted harsh comment from numerous community members and multiple candidates. Jim Hinds, one of the five new councillors, described the block-vote tactics of the CRMG as a repetitive scenario where “an item comes up, the council votes ... and that’s it. It’s been described as a benevolent dictatorship, because you have no say.”

Stevens and Hinds are joined by Pam Alexis, Danny Plecas, and Rhett Nicholson, who ran and finished with the seventh, ninth, and 12thhighest number of votes, respectively, in 2011, and Carol Hamilton, who was an incumbent school trustee.

Randy Hawes, who was

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mayor of Mission in the 1990s prior to three terms as a Liberal MLA, was voted in as mayor. His return to municipal politics was prompted by the CRMG term, which he initially supported before coming out in opposition against.

In Mission, work in the downtown area, which is also an area where the town’s drug-addicted citizens have become a priority, has taken up a prominent amount of City Hall attention. Hawes described his approach to the issue when he said, “I think we have now a situation where some of the people running say that the homeless problem is not our responsibility, [that] it’s the responsibility of the health authority and the government. But it’s our problem and it’s getting worse, and so I believe that we have to do something about it. You can’t talk about revitalizing downtown until you deal with that problem.”

Chilliwack re-elects Gaetz, and two new young council members In Chilliwack, the fact that there were candidates besides the incumbent mayor at all was one difference from the 2011 ballot. Though Sharon Gaetz was re-elected by a wide margin, the city’s two other candidates for mayor (Cameron Hull and Raymond Cauchi) spoke of the need for choice, and cited that as significant reasons why each ran without any prior political experience.

All but one of the city’s incumbents who ran again remain at city council, but the two new candidates elected, Chris Kloot and Sam Waddington, are relatively young

representatives of, respectively, the farming and business community.

Gaetz said before the election, “I know students don’t just vote for someone because they’re the same age, but there is something about someone who understands the demographic and the culture surrounding your generation. I think it’s important for students to get out and talk to those people that are running that are new and young and fresh, and maybe even idealistic, and to get behind what they believe and see their point of view.”

Waddington, running for the first time, led all council candidates by almost 1,000 votes.

Chilliwack’s downtown was a major topic throughout the last mayor and council term and the 2014 campaign, both for its crime-rate and its widespread changeover, as the City continues with its plan of purchasing land, clearing buildings, and readying them for new purchasers.

Re-elected incumbent Ken Popove, who will be re-joined

by Sue Attrill, Jason Lum, and Chuck Stam, addressed the project saying, “My kind of line there is doing nothing hasn’t worked. That’s a workin-progress.”

A narrow margin for mayor in Abbotsford In Mission, people turning online due to CBC and Global coverage focusing almost solely on Vancouver, Surrey, and Victoria could follow results by an automatically refreshing results page, while Chilliwack had hourly tracking for voter turnout and instant updates for voting station reporting.

Abbotsford, on the other hand, had a dead website, and a mayoral race separated by a handful of votes. Henry Braun ended up ahead of incumbent Bruce Banman, but by a narrow margin: 16,171 to 15,594.

While the two candidates were pitted as combatants in debates and various forms of advertisement, Banman, like the candidate he narrowly defeated in the 2011 election (George Peary), was affected by a small number of notorious decisions made during his term as mayor, most notably his involvement in embarrassing “action,” and later a decision to halt action, that would have addressed, in part, the homeless in Abbotsford.

Braun, who attempted to clarify statements made in public forums on his blog and ran as a voice of reason next to Banman’s political performance, will be working with all but one incumbent who sought reelection (Bill MacGregor) from the last term.

A council of no majority The major force of change in this election in Abbotsford came from a new slate dubbed Abbotsford First, which saw four of its five members elected to council: Sandy Blue, Kelly Chahal, Brenda Falk, and Ross Siemens. Running together, the group was able to arrange public speaking events, afford larger signs, and assert itself in the community’s landscape at a scale that eclipsed individual candidates (of which there were 30, a higher-thanusual number partly owing to the opening up of at least two council seats).

Online, however, their campaign followed in the management tactics seen used by

Banman and the CRMG slate in Mission, where dissenting views or questions were deleted from Facebook and individual accounts were not used on Twitter. MacGregor and incumbent Dave Loewen were the target of criticism from the group; how council collaborates or emerges divided with the shift in representation will be a point of interest in city council. As Abbotsford First member Vince Dimanno was not elected, the slate does not hold a voting majority; the four other spots are held by incumbents Loewen, Les Barkman, Moe Gill, and Patricia Ross.

Council candidate Tina Stewart asked during the campaign about the group’s online identity, suggesting the common practice of indicating initials for posts on shared accounts: “A step towards transparency and away from hiding behind your slate. Somehow I doubt any of your candidates are actually manning any of the social media outlets.”

Blue elsewhere described the process of engaging with the community as a focus of the slate’s approach to politics, taken in conjunction with communication with the group’s advisory board: “It’s not just reaching out, but really listening and trying to assimilate that into our collective learning,” she said.

Mayor-elect Braun, speaking before voting day, described his process for avoiding the trap of keeping within a small group of people in local politics: “I make it a habit to get out of City Hall, because if you stay there long enough, you have a skewed view of the city ... I make it a practice to get out in the community, to talk to people, to go to the highways and byways and coffee shops, to hang out with university students to get their input.”

Politics in practice How the promise of listening to university students translates into the practice of the next four years of municipal politics depends on numerous factors, but according to the past month of speeches and interviews, “transparency” and “openness” were voted in.

Inauguration of the new mayor and council will take place December 1 for Abbotsford and Mission, and December 2 for Chilliwack. City Hall meetings can also be streamed live or viewed after completion online.

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SNAPSHOTS

Curtailed commentary on current conditions

Wartime ultimatums

Wrinkles

Where’s your spirit, man?

Sloth walk

Charlynn Jelier

Scott Protter*

Anthony Biondi

Jasmin Sprangers

I know most of us have barely given wrinkles any thought, but as I was looking through a magazine the other day, it struck me how wrinkles are seen as unattractive.

Everyone wants to look eternally youthful. Instead of realizing this is impossible, cosmetic companies work hard to make aging hold off by creating tons of anti-aging and wrinkle creams.

I believe wrinkles tell a story. Instead of being ashamed of wrinkles when we are older, we should embrace them. Maybe you will get wrinkles around your eyes from laughing and smiling all the time. Maybe it’s because you scrunched your head in concentration during many hours of lectures while attaining a doctorate in psychology.

Maybe they will be from worry as a loved one serves time overseas.

Whatever the case, wrinkles add character, and are a beautiful reminder of the life we have lived and are living.

Die now or die later! The terrorist threat is accelerating, and I’m sick of people disrespecting the Canadian military in the face of this approaching evilness. If you people keep saying interference might make things worse, our brave soldiers will have no choice but to silence you! Then you’ll be sorry!

Clearly, the more involved we get with the Middle East, the less violence will reach us in Canada. The fewer anti-war, Harperdoubting nerds around here, the fewer people I will have to punch in the gut.

Some pretend they hate ISIL’s violent ways, then turn around and suggest that our involvement with the Middle East created them. Hypocrites! The modern media makes me sick with its liberal circle-jerking.

We should use the media to promote our elected leaders’ decisions and boost morale for the common people! Devote yourself to our leaders, or wander aimlessly in an orgy of fear.

There seems to be a lot of blustering going on about Christmas music. Just recently, the mall has switched over their radio tracks to the Yuletide tunes for the next month and a half. It seems even the thought of Christmas music is enough for people to make a sort of long-winded groan coupled with a distasteful rolling of eyes.

I welcome the music. Christmas music is consistently, with some exceptions, a much easier listen than most pop songs and typical mall shanties. It’s cheery and uplifting and carries a nice classical tune I can get into.

The shopping season seems to have ruined the joy of perfectly good Christmas songs, as it has with everything else. But we can resist the destruction of this holiday!

We can enjoy Christmas music again if we treat it as it should be treated: a relaxing show of Christmas spirit.

As a person who always seems to be in a hurry, one thing that really grinds my gears is people who meander through the hallways at a snail’s pace — or even worse, a person on the crosswalk moving at half a snail’s pace.

I understand that some people have shorter strides, and I don’t expect everyone to run everywhere (just imagine the chaotic mess of broken ankles and spilled coffee that would ensue). But picking up the pace when crossing the sidewalk at an uncontrolled crossing would be quite courteous, as lights are only red for so long.

I don’t mind if you feel like walking slowly in a group in the hallway as long as you leave space for people to pass. It takes time to get from class A to class B — factor in the busy hallways and it gets a bit more difficult, especially with different buildings.

*Scott Protter, a regular satire-writer for The Cascade, writes under a pseudonym.

Fat-shaming: it’s a big deal CHRIS TOWLER

UFV ALUM

When I was in elementary school, I remember one of the first times I was allowed to walk home. I was excited, nervous, and ready to embrace some newfound independence. I had made it just outside of the school parking lot when several older kids rolled up on their bikes and started pelting me with rocks and names: fatty, lardball, chubster, pig, etc.

But already at the age of six, the name-calling was nothing new.

This continued well into my high school years. I have since lost a significant amount of weight, but the mental scars remain deeply

embedded in my psyche.

I am constantly reminded of the awful and sometimes violent ways we treat people viewed as overweight. A while ago I read a story about a young woman who was physically assaulted at a SkyTrain station by a pair of young men for being fat. When I was younger, I viewed these assaults as primarily my fault. Maybe I was too dumb or was just a bad person. Had she done something to these men, other than dare to exist within their purview?

As I’ve grown older I’ve come to realize fat-shaming (and bodyshaming) is something we as a culture love to do. We live in a society of rampant, imagined, selfstyled individualism which tells

us anything is obtainable if you set your mind to it, and therefore fat people simply choose to be fat.

And in a world where we believe individual agency is the be-all and end-all, choosing to be fat is the greatest moral failing of all.

Then people rationalize, saying only the lazy can be fat, only the stupid can be fat, only the gluttonous, the greedy, the slothful ... In this context, hatred of fat people is really one of the last bastions of “safe hatred.” If they choose to be fat, it’s their fault and that makes bullying okay, right?

Those who engage in such degradation defend themselves by saying they do it to motivate and encourage a healthier lifestyle.

Nothing could be more offensive.

Not only is it incredibly superficial, but it reflects a stupefying level of misunderstanding about body weight and health issues.

Fat is a symptom of much deeper causes: depression, anxiety, metabolic issues, and much more. The ironic thing is that studies show those who eat for comfort are only spurred to eat more when they are unsurprisingly stressed out by being harassed for being overweight. Being fat is the most visible symptom of another affliction. Where, exactly, are the shamers for binge drinking, chronic drug use, and smoking? It’s not there because those are socially approved methods of self-destruction.

Moderation and knowledge are

key in all things. I want to create a place where people like the lady at the SkyTrain don’t have to live in fear of being assaulted simply because of how they look. As for myself? Even though I can intellectualize these arguments, to this day I still struggle to accept myself despite losing well over 100 pounds. Has the quality of my life improved after losing weight?

Certainly. But it has arguably less to do with the physical change than it does the reality of how differently I am treated by other people as a result. If fat-shamers purport to do what they do out of a perverted sense of concern for others, then perhaps they should consider the long-term health consequences of their bullying.

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Break the rules for goodness’ sake ALEX RAKE

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We generally like rules. We invent them to structure our lives and keep ourselves safe. For example, we ban murder because we don’t want to be murdered; we structure games with rules so that there can be a fair winner; we don’t feed homeless people because ... I guess we don’t care about homeless people. Evidently, some rules are more reasonable than others.

Not all rules are just, useful, or necessary.

Rules do not define what we can and cannot do. If that were true, then it would be physically impossible to murder, cheat, and feed homeless people, and there would be no need for rules to prevent these actions in the first place. Rules only establish what we are and are not allowed to do.

The passiveness of a statement like “you’re not allowed to do that” begs the question: not allowed by whom?

People create rules. Sometimes people create rules with misguided or self-serving motives. The kids who insist on their right to be first player because they’re the

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Who makes the rules? And who says they’re ethical? guest are often the same kids who insist on being first player because they’re the host; they invent and fight for these rules to put themselves in (arbitrary) positions of power. Officials who pass laws against feeding the homeless,

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as they did in Fort Lauderdale, want to reduce homelessness by limiting these people’s ability to survive, revealing that the law is not for the homeless’ sake but for the lawmakers’ own comfort — or perhaps for an easy step toward

breaks the rule.

Thou shalt not steal. Socks shalt not be worn with sandals. Never talk back to your mother. Give the customer what they want. These are all generally accepted rules, but there are situations where they must be broken (except perhaps for the socks and sandals thing — I would agree that it is too wet around here for that to be practical fashion). What I mean is rules can prevent us from doing actual good in the world. When it comes to dilemmas like whether you should lie to officials or have the Jews you’re hiding in your attic killed, or whether you should expose the bad practices of a corporation that employs you or remain silent as per your contract, breaking the rule has less of a negative impact than obeying it, and following the rule becomes wrong. The elderly man who was arrested for feeding homeless people in Fort Lauderdale understands this.

Question everything so you understand it more fully. Defy arbitrary power so it cannot control you. Break unreasonable rules — they aren’t always there for the population’s protection.

What do you think about the UFV shuttle expanding to Langley?

Emily MacKinnon

“I’m so for it if it means there is more transit opportunities for me. Right now I’m driving and filling up my tank more than twice a week sometimes, which is hard as a theatre major [because] everything is out in Chilliwack.”

Courtney Kelly

“The first initial shuttle was a huge deal for me as I didn’t have my license originally [and] that was the only way I could get to classes. If anyone in Langley has the same issues then yes, it’s definitely a good thing.”

Sara Simpson

“Definitely. I live in Langley and it would save me a lot of money on gas.”

Amy Macklin

the political power that can come with reducing social problems like homelessness. We must evaluate rules, including written laws and unwritten conventions, in order to avoid following the unjust schemes of others.

Because a rule’s power depends on the number and enthusiasm of the people following it, it is up to people to defy a rule when it is unjust, useless, or unnecessary. Many institutions banned Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, at first because Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer were perceived as bad influences on children, and, more recently, because of the novel’s heavy use of the dreaded “N-word.” The idea that this book in particular should be banned based on the influence it might have on society or its use of unpleasant language is absurd, because the book uses its characters and language to illuminate serious issues in society, namely racism, dishonesty, and arbitrary rules. This example merely illustrates how if more people defy the banning and read the book, the more people will understand the absurdity of the banning. In this way, breaking the rule literally

“It’s a good thing because I live in Langley.

It would save money.”

Sidra Kahn

“I think it should be a choice. I don’t go from Chilliwack to Langley, so if you want to use it you should opt in and pay the extra fee, and if you’re not going to use it you can opt out of it.”

Morgan George

“If you are making the choices to go to a campus that is a half an hour away, you are consciously making the decision to eat whatever costs come with it ... It’s not fair to put that on the backs of everyone else, especially for $10 a semester.”

Steve Latham

“I would be much more for it if there were a campus out there. I think in Chilliwack it makes sense: there [are] two campuses. I take a class out there and if I needed it, say if I were to lose my license hypothetically, it would be nice to have that [option].”

Travis Lukey

“It makes sense because we have a lot of students out in Langley. I can see the benefits, and $10 is just $10, so I’m not opposed to it.”

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Sprucing up your place on a student budget NADINE MOEDT THE CASCADE

At times students have to prioritize: eating in, buying used, bussing to campus. At times we have to simply go without: without vacations, without a car, without your favourite sparkling wine.

But the sacrifice shouldn’t have to extend to one’s living space.

Our living space is important; it can be our safe place, a place to relax, study, or to do what makes us happy. A place that reflects oneself.

So, while on a student budget we may have to pass on the original art and woven area rug, it shouldn’t mean we have to sleep on an air mattress or eat over the sink.

However, search “student apartment” and you’ll find a Pinterest frenzy of crafty kitsch.

Framed wrapping paper? DIY lentil candle holders? Pinterest seems to be exclusively for those who don’t mind the cutesy and have a green thumb for crafts.

My suggestion for the student decorator is to keep it minimalist.

Furnishing your apartment can be done almost entirely secondhand; check out the local thrift shops (Value Village is one of the more expensive options here, stick with MCC), and keep an eye on the weekend garage sale flyers in the Abbotsford News. Multiple home and estate sales will often advertise the presence of furniture; make sure to arrive early with cash for the best selection.

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Decorating on a budget can be enjoyable and rewarding.

If you need to furnish quickly, Ikea is a budget friendly option; however, its products are of poor quality and will chip easily.

The only piece of furniture not to buy used is your mattress; you can find a cheap one at warehouse-style outlets online, or, if you prefer to test the mattress out before buying, at Ikea, Wal-Mart or Overstock Mattress Clearance in Surrey. When buying used bed frames, make sure you research how to find bed bugs. Various online resources can guide you through the steps, from what they look like to where they live in bed frames. If you don’t want to chance it, try to negotiate a deal with your mattress supplier; often they will give you a discount if you purchase a frame.

Search “student apartment” and you’ll find a Pinterest frenzy of crafty kitsch.

Buying used means you can’t necessarily match your furniture.

However, if you don’t mind putting in a bit of effort, consider buying unpainted pieces and staining them together for a more complementary look.

Look no further for decorations than your growing collection of textbooks. Throw up some bookshelves for that oh-so-classy library you started when you en-

rolled at UFV. Plants are another inexpensive way to brighten your apartment.

Visit a nursery — there are several good ones on the Fraser Highway; Cannor Nursery in Abbotsford is good, though a little more pricey — and find some friends. You can find a decent selection of beautifully painted clay pots at garage sales and in thrift shops (these are often marked up at the nursery, so avoid purchasing them there). A large potted jade or Norfolk pine can provide beautiful decoration on a balcony or indoors.

For the artistically inclined, try buying your own canvases and channeling your inner van Gogh; Michael’s will often have buyone-get-one 50 per cent off sales on their blank canvasses. You can also find student art at the yearend visual arts silent auction for relatively cheap.

When starting out on your own, remember that your living space should be considered an investment. Buy furniture that will last and won’t fade with any particular fad. While various online resources can guide your DIY projects and point you in the direction of budget decor, remember to stay true to your preferences. If you aren’t into mason jars, don’t decorate with mason jars.

A budget may limit some of your purchases, but it certainly doesn’t limit your options. Research and a willingness to put some time into your living space will pay off with a unique space to call home.

Style on Campus

Dapper pea coat and hidden layers look cool and feel cozy BEAU O’NEILL CONTRIBUTOR

For this week’s Style on Campus we have history student Rory, in a cozy but fashionable outfit which he sourced from Canadian and American clothing stores.

“I take my style from the world around me,” says Rory, whose inspiration right now comes from the seasonably cold weather. He describes his style as “a little dated, with plenty of plaid and layers.”

Starting from the ground up, Rory’s style begins with his fashionable shoes: brown suede loafers he picked up in a shoe store from our neighbours down south. This style of footwear is popular for its comfort and craftsmanship, but is a little lacking for our winters, as they may leak without proper

treatment in heavy winter rains, and they’re a little chilly without warm winter socks.

Spraying shoes like this with Scotchgard or another waterproofer can make them nearly impermeable and therefore perfect for our wet winters.

Black jeans are a smart choice for this season’s weather, as they absorb the scant wintry solar rays and insulate against the cold. Layers can be added underneath pants to add an extra shell of warmth for those really nasty windy days.

Covering the core is a pea coat as dapper as it is thick, covering many hidden layers of plaids and shirts, which make for the perfect winter coat for dry, sunny, and frigid days.

Topping this outfit is the ultimate Canadian accessory: a Canucks hat that keeps in those unruly curls. The only thing more Canadian would

be, of course, a toque. Just a reminder: toque weather is fast approaching, so be prepared for the sight of messy hair as more of your classmates don and doff the necessary hipster accessory. Wait, toques are still cool, right?

This is an outfit that doesn’t sacrifice function for style.

“It looks good and feels better,” says Rory. Rory has a complete philosophy of style: “Form and function should go together like yin and yang, not like oil and water. I don’t compromise and nor should you.”

Rory has shown that you don’t have to sacrifice either comfort or practicality in this weather — you can have your cake and eat it too, in style.

The pea coat is from Winner’s, the shoes from an unremembered retailer in the States, and the pants from Banana Republic.

Upcoming

Events

November 21 Winter Formal

Want to relive your fall-winterspring-whatever high school formal experience? Sure you do!

SUS and a long list of student organizations are hosting a winter formal Friday at 6 p.m., so dress up and come out to the north gym to party! This free event is exclusively for UFV students (bring your ID) and will feature food, a martini bar, a dance floor, and prizes.

November 21 Fusion art show

Abbotsford Art Gallery is hosting their fourth annual contemporary art show featuring Fraser Valley artists Min Ma, Shannon Ravenhall, Kirsten Sheffield, Donna Zhang, and Hong Zhu, as well as Vancouver Island painter Pieter Molenaar and BC interior sculptor Vance Theoret. Opening night will be held Friday evening, and will include refreshments and door prizes. The night starts at 5 p.m.

November 22 Farm Fest 2014 Join BC’s Young Farmers (BCYF) for this year’s Farm Fest at UFV’s CEP campus in Chilliwack. The day starts at 2 p.m. with a tour of the new Centre of Excellence for Agriculture, followed by a variety of speakers. The keynote features mobile technology expert Peter Gredig; other topics addressed will include tax tips for farmers, recent trade deals, and youth involvement with agriculture on a global scale. A buffet dinner from BCYF local growers will be served. The event is free, but requires pre-registration at info@ bcyf.ca.

November 22-23 West Coast Christmas show The West Coast Christmas show is back at Tradex! Come out for unseasonably early Christmas food, decor, free samples, culinary presentations, and gift ideas from various artisan vendors. Among other presenters, floral designer Wayne Louie will show us how to create the perfect wreath. Tickets start at $6. Go to www.westcoastchristmasshow.com for more information.

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Sessional instructors on the frin

priorities, despite impact in clas

By Vanessa Broadbent and Alex Rake

If you go to university and get a degree, you’re on a better track for a highpaying, secure job. Or so we’re told. For many, the goal is to teach at a university in their specialty, earn a decent wage, receive benefits, and most of all, find job security. Yet even after years of hard work and education, fewer instructors reach this goal than you might think.

Instead, many instructors are hired on a temporary contract basis. Even in a situation where they are teaching enough courses to be earning a living wage, these “sessional” instructors are not guaranteed basic job security.

“Every four to eight months you’re constantly scanning the job board, hoping to God that somebody has either died or retired and opened up a job,” says history instructor Clare Dale. “You’re always applying for work. You’re always trying to figure out how you can get things done on a budget. There is no stability whatsoever.”

Dale is also the non-regular contract faculty rep of the faculty and staff association (FSA).

Though students may not realize it, roughly 30 per cent of courses are taught by sessional instructors, who do not have status as full-time employees of the university.

Diane Griffiths, associate VP of human resources, describes the difference between fulltime and sessional faculty as the path each is on.

“To clarify … they’re both faculty. One is tenure-track; the other is hired course-bycourse,” she says.

Sessional faculty have limited

say in the courses they teach each semester, since courses are divided among regular full-time faculty first. “[Full-time faculty] get the courses they want, the days they want, the hours they want, line them up in a nice tight schedule, get the time off that they want, get sabbatical. Then the sessionals are those necessary to fill what’s left over,” explains English and communications instructor Ashton Howley.

This structure often makes it difficult for sessional instructors to plan anything beyond their immediate circumstances.

In a 2013 draft of her dissertation on sessional professors in BC universities, Madeleine Hardin, an associate professor of communications at UFV, drew on her past experiences as an associate dean and department head, noting that “justin-time” hiring, or the practice of hiring sessional instructors to teach courses shortly before the beginning of semester, was fairly common.

Hiring at the last minute also makes it difficult or impossible for sessional instructors to access benefits that full-time faculty — and, to a lesser extent, students — enjoy, even if they are technically available.

“There is language in the collective agreement that speaks to [sessionals] being able to get benefits. Practically speaking, no [they can’t],” Griffiths says.

In section 28 of the 2012-14 Collective Agreement between UFV and the FSA, sessional employees have access to benefits,

but this is dependent on the following year ’s courseload.

“A huge majority of sessionals know that clause doesn’t offer them a reality for health and welfare benefits,” Griffiths says.

Mathematics and statistics professor Karamjit Dhande agrees there is added stress from never knowing if there will be a job to count on in the upcoming semester.

“If I don’t get a contract, it’s in the back of [my] mind [and] worry is there. When you are worried, your output is affected,” he says. “You find other ways to deal with it, but the anxiety and ‘what if’ affects your performance … maybe minutely in some cases, and maybe seriously in others.”

For sessional instructors to move beyond these problems, there are additional obstacles that stand in the way of securing full-time positions. Griffiths says that for most, the chances are slim. Sessionals are subject to more frequent performance reviews, as well as instructor evaluations from students.

However, despite the perception that positive comments can only help in administrative decisions, their effect is negligible when it comes to an actual change in status.

“They certainly help, but it goes back to the reality [that] the stars really have to align for that to happen,” says associate dean of faculty Ken Brealey.

Communications instructor Linda Howell’s current position is one example of the rarity of opportunities instructors have to move up into more stable positions.

“I’m closer to retirement than I am to beginning a career,” Howell says. “I would just like to have 10 very good years … but I don’t expect that now.”

This isn’t the case everywhere, according to Howley, who says other BC institutions often hire their sessional instructors as faculty when jobs become available.

“Why not hire the people you’ve allowed to work in your institution for years?” Howley asks. “You’ve seen their progress, you see their evaluations.

Kwantlen and Douglas have regularization — hiring sessionals as full-timers as positions [become] available — but not UFV.” Douglas College’s collective agreement contains a section devoted to “internal selections for regular faculty from contract faculty,” while Kwantlen’s states, “In the event a regular position is advertised and the position has been filled by a non-regular type 2 faculty member for two or more years, the non-regular type 2 faculty member who has been filling the position will be given preference over other applicants providing the qualifications, abilities, and experience of the non-regular type 2 faculty member are equal to the other applicants.” UFV’s agreement contains no equivalent language.

At UBC, sessional faculty have access to extended health, dental, vision, and other benefits.

However, despite the varying details of sessional contracts, the overall story regarding how these instructors are used by

universities remains consistent.

Dale, before coming to UFV, originally studied at the University of Toronto. “I remember when I started my PhD, the chair of the department said there was going to be a wave of retirement and a wave of hiring, so, ‘Don’t worry, there’ll be jobs for everybody.’ There were some retirements; a lot of people now don’t retire at the age.”

But the natural end of professorial careers did not lead to a corresponding entrance into the vocation for Dale’s and subsequent generations.

“What you couldn’t foresee,” she says, looking back, “is that many universities weren’t going to replace bodies with bodies. What has happened is people with full-term jobs have gone and they haven’t been replaced.”

These inequalities are at the forefront of Dale’s mind as the FSA is about to begin negotiations for their next collective agreement; the current edition is up this year. “[Negotiations] will probably start somewhere near the end of term,” she says. “Probably by the middle of February we should know one way or the other if there’ll be a need to strike. [At] this place, the history is that they settle. That’s why sessionals get a little angry ... everybody who isn’t permanent, whether they’re admin staff or sessional, are [typically] sold down the river. The concessions are given to the fulltime faculty.”

Dale adds that the position of sessionals isn’t even at the bottom of the ladder at UFV. “It’s not just the sessionals

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that are in a dire straits; it’s also the auxiliary, the admin workers, the contract admin workers — in fact, if anything, they’re treated worse than the sessionals are.”

Sessional instructors want their employment regularized because the conditions of working as a sessional are often a broad sign of inequality at the university.

“Sessional instructors don’t earn as much as they ought ... we’re not just paid less, we’re paid WAY LESS, capital letters,” Dale says. “The bottom line is one-third of your professors are get-

ting screwed financially.”

While a full-time faculty professor can make anywhere between $53,899.96 and

$86,610.51 (usually closer to the latter) for teaching an average of seven courses per academic year, a sessional instructor will

only earn $42,573 to $53,903 for doing the exact same amount of work. For comparison, a public school teacher in Abbotsford, before salary increases based on the most recent contract signed by teachers takes effect, starts at $42,802.

It is not very easy for sessionals to teach that many classes, Howley explains. “For me to make [as] much [as faculty], I would have to teach 13 or 14 courses — but sessionals here are capped.” Facing lower wages and course-capping, sessionals often need to teach at multiple universities at once in order to make something close to a living wage.

Factoring in travel time and the commitments of managing completely different groups of students, institutional environments, and faculty relationships, sessional instructors can be stretched thin. Classes sometimes run for shorter than their allotted times as instructors commute between campuses, and instructors’ availability to be consulted outside of class time can also be limited as a result of balancing multiple non-faculty positions.

Howell looks at the current landscape and sees the use of sessional instructors only growing, unimproved.

“More and more people will be hired on contract basis, and fewer and fewer people will become regularized or become full time,” she says. “I think it’s exactly what’s happening [now] ... and universities should resist it as much as they can.”

Communications instructor

Peter Clayton writes in Words and Vision, the UFV FSA newsletter, that “respect for sessionals means fair remuneration and access to benefits for those who need them. A secondary pay scale serves only to undermine our professional status and the work we do.”

The question, then, is why sessional instructors stay within a working environment that is not weighted in their favour.

For academically trained scholars searching for any position in a crowded workforce, UFV has been a relatively comfortable institution for many instructors.

“I love the friendliness of people of UFV and [its] collegiality,” Howell says. “I find that is one of the strongest things that makes me want to keep working here despite the fact that it’s very clear that I am a member of what has been called ‘the precariat.’”

Sessional instructors may care and contribute just as much to UFV as any other employee, but according to Dale they are not respected as much for it.

“I keep hearing from [sessional instructors] that they have [just] as much loyalty to this institution. They want as much for it to succeed as the full-time faculty,” she says.

“They’re as invested in this place as anybody else, and one of the main things that they’re concerned about is that they don’t seem to be getting the respect they think they deserve — and I think they’re right.”

With files from Michael Scoular and Katie Stobbart.

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Métis Awareness Day celebrates the resilience of Métis tradition SIMON GRANT CONTRIBUTOR / PHOTOS

The Aboriginal Resource Centre for UFV held its annual Métis Awareness Day at U-House Thursday. The Métis Awareness gathering also doubled as Louis Riel Day, which is usually celebrated on November 15. Elders from Chilliwack Métis Nation and Métis Nation BC gathered to showcase several different talents of Métis tradition and to recollect the history of its unique peoples.

“It’s unique what happened in Canada, as a new people was created. It’s important to celebrate and talk about that today,” said vice provost and associate vice-president, academic Peter Geller during his introduction.

Several booths had been erected to speak about different aspects of Métis art, life, and future, and a potlatch lunch was served with traditional bannock bread and buffalo stew. Elder Joe Smith presented many different tools used in the early 1800s, as well as three rare photo reproductions of paintings depicting the three battles fought by Louis Riel’s rebellious forces during the Red River Rebellion. Métis Nation BC had two booths to illustrate their functions of identifying and registering unknown Métis and their services in giving better access to education and employment for Métis.

The elders also gave several presentations of their cul-

Marion Gonneville teaches the Red River jig, a traditional Métis dance derived from early Scottish settlers. ture. UFV’s elder in residence T´ít´elem Spath (Eddie Gardner) sang UFV’s welcome song, donated by a previous elder to the school, to open the ceremony.

Marione Gonneville (her Cree name is White Cloud Dancer) presented a unique style of dance, known as jigging, that combined the Aboriginal dancing styles of Canada with European music. She danced the

Jim Middleton models the traditional Capote.

traditional Red River Jig and the Belt Jig, derived from the early Scottish settlers’ highland traditional sword dance, and taught part of the dance to audience members. Jim Middleton presented Hudson Bay blankets and spoke of their significance to the Métis people. Originally known as “chief blankets,” these were originally white to act as camouflage during winter hunting; their value was denoted by embroidering black stripes into the blanket. They could also be sewn into traditional Métis overcoats called capotes.

Other aspects of the culture were celebrated during the day; the Métis flag — with its white infinity symbol representing the European and the Aboriginal meeting in the middle to form one eternal nation — was displayed for the audience.

The elders then took turns sharing their stories about the history of the Métis Nation: its origin stemming from integration of early French fur traders with Aboriginal Canadians; their search for identity; the call to self-governance in Manitoba and the subsequent Red River Rebellion; and the residential schools, recalled with bitter remarks. Still, the elders look to the future, hoping to raise awareness about the Nation, celebrate its resilient and adaptive culture, and to bring the unidentified members of its nation into its fold.

Elder Joe Smith presents Métis artifacts.

Elder Bill Foye speaks on the future of Métis culture.

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UFV Talks discusses empowerment of aboriginal youth

Student heritage explored at Cultural Garden MARTIN CASTRO THE CASCADE

Stó:lō Nation presented the Spirit of Community youth group, who presented on empowering aboriginal youth.

SIMON GRANT CONTRIBUTOR / PHOTOS

In conjunction with International Education Week and the Exploring Global Indigeneity series, UFV Talks presented Stó:lō Nation’s Spirit of Community youth group. Representative spoke on empowering aboriginal youth and on her work with Sto:lo nation’s aboriginal children.

“The most important thing necessary for a society to survive is its children,” Paul said.

“Children are a precious gift, and what happens to kids is very important.” She believes the youth are a reflection of the health of a society, and wants to eliminate the term “youth at risk” because “all children are at risk as both parents have to work,” leaving the children unattended. She also noted social media has a huge impact on children’s mentalities.

Paul argued that in Western society, children are not valued the way they should be and youth are often put at the bottom of the priority list. She referred to a skewed idealism when adults and teachers often make the mistake of telling kids that life will be different in the “real world.”

She wants adults and teachers to realize that children are in the real world from the moment they “enter the human realm, enter into a family, into the community, into the municipality, to the provinces, into a country.”

Paul also noted that while adults and teachers think they know best for a certain situation, when a connection is made between the older and younger

The event closed with a game of Slahal, a traditional game and means to avoid violent conflict. demographics, an optimistic synergy is created. She wants to promote that synergy.

While she believes that children are not necessarily struggling, they need to be seen as “innovators, problem-solvers, and people.” She referred to Dr. Martin Brokenleg’s Circle of Courage, and the four things a child needs to survive: belonging to a group and the identity that is derived from belonging; opportunity to master skills learned from elders; the independence to take responsibility for their actions; and generosity to give what they

learned and mastered to future generations. She concluded by saying she wanted youth to be given more ability to contribute to the community they are a part of.

The second half of the event was the playing of Slahal, put on by the Spirit of the Community Youth. Slahal is a very old game, played up the coast and into the interior of British Columbia and Washington. It was played before European colonization as a substitution for war. In the game, two sides compete for a desired object — traditionally hunting

or fishing grounds, but in modern times for money. Two team members from one side hide a male piece (usually carved bone) in one hand, and a female piece in the other. The opposing side guesses for the female piece in each of the player’s hands. If the opposing team wins the guess, they receive a stick for each correct guess. The game is won when all 11 sticks are won by one team.

As part of International Education Week, the UFV International Student Club organized a “cultural garden,” which featured displays from the wide array of student backgrounds. The garden, which ran from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, drew attendees to the UFV global lounge in B223, where they were immersed in a mosaic of many cultures to which students at UFV belong and represent. There were displays put on by students hailing from China, Japan, India, Ethiopia, Iran, and Korea, as well as locally, with the presence of a Aboriginal Peoples display.

Chelsey Laird from UFV International, an organizer of the event, spoke on the inception of the cultural garden: “International students in the community have [participated] in a [local] event called AbbyFest,” said Laird. Kerstin Stausberg, another organizer of the event, who had participated in AbbyFest previously, commented on its role as inspiration for the cultural garden event held at UFV: “[AbbyFest] was a similar event [to what we have] here … people from the community came and presented [their cultural heritage], UFV was just a part of it.” Stausberg said that AbbyFest was used as a model on which UFV International based the cultural garden. “What [AbbyFest] didn’t have, though, was food, [as we do], so that really helped to draw students in.”

The event drew in a huge crowd that stayed at a large size throughout the day, as different types of ethnic music played and students and organizers mingled and spoke to one another about their cultures and heritage.

One of the event’s biggest draws was the food (provided by Sodexo), which included delicacies from all over the globe. Some of the most popular morsels were the fried rice, pork, and chicken offered at the Chinese stand, as well as the samosas and pakora offered at the Indian stand. A lot of students were drawn by the enticing promise of free nourishment, only to stay and not only learn about other cultures, but also enjoy themselves and make new friends.

Morris Prosser, who ran the Aboriginal Peoples booth, spoke on how well-received the event was, as well as his hopes for the event early on: “[I hope that] people enjoy what they’re doing, and what they’re seeing.” He also hoped that “people come out [of the cultural garden] with a deeper understanding of what it means to be indigenous and what it means to be a global citizen.”

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CROSSWORD A pH imbalance

by VALERIE FRANKLIN

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Giant gray animal with a prehensile trunk. (8) Mythological fire-bird. Also the name of a pub beside UFV. (7) A frolicking female nature spirit common in Greek mythology. (5) A short, often pithy phrase written on a tombstone. (7) Stick one of these little lines between two words to show they’re connected. (6) An ancient Egyptian king. (7) The shape of a ball. (Also the name of a great Michael Crichton sci-fi novel.) (6)

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Star Signs from Sybil la Clair

Aquarius: Jan 20 - Feb 18: Replace all of your vowels with emojis this week and see what you get.

Gemini: May 21 - June 21: Drink coffee, but not at 10 p.m.

Pisces: Feb 19 - March 20: The season finale of your semester will end with some kind of closure.

Cancer: June 22 - July 22: Your fish will communicate to you in strange but wonderful ways.

Aries: March 21 - April 19: You’ll have feelings about the amount of homework you have this week.

Leo: July 23 - Aug 22: If you start your holiday shopping now, you won’t leave it until later.

Taurus: April 20 - May 20: The time of scarves and lattes is upon us, but for some reason you’ll be cold.

Virgo: Aug 23 -Sept 22: You’ll find love in a hopeless place.

Libra: Sept 23 - Oct 22: Make sure you are fit as a fiddle and ready to sing to the tune of your clicking keyboard.

Scorpio: Oct 23 - Nov 21: You will not meet a manic pixie dream girl this week.

Sagittarius: Nov 22 - Dec 21: A double shot of espresso is both necessary and necessary.

Capricorn: Dec 22 - Jan 19: Everything will be fine and everyone will love you.

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Nymphomaniac explores more than just mindless sex ALEX RAKE

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Writer and Director Lars von Trier ’s two-volume Nymphomaniac will leave you hot and bothered — but mostly bothered, as any valuable film should.

The plot concerns the nymphomaniac Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg) telling her life’s story to the man who helps her after finding her beaten and lying on the ground. The man, named Seligman (Stellan Skarsgård), illuminates certain aspects of her stories by comparing them to what he has read in literature. The film tells Joe’s stories visually, featuring Stacy Martin as a younger Joe and Shia LaBeouf as her many-time lover, Jerôme.

The stimulating combination of Joe’s sexual odyssey and Seligman’s strange digressions make the total four hours of the two volumes pass like an hour and a half. The previous films in von Trier ’s “Depression Trilogy,” Antichrist (2009) and Melancholia (2011), never managed to hold my attention as keenly as this one.

The acting engages as much as the storytelling. Gainsbourg and Skarsgård have wonderful chemistry, and they never act more or less comfortable around each other than would make sense for acquaintances in their evolving conversation. As well, Gainsbourg makes it easy

The director’s cut of Nymphomaniac was released September 10 — with a whopping length of five-and-a-half hours. to understand the paradoxically oppressive and liberating power of Joe’s nymphomania by letting her conflicting pains and desires show on her face and rattle in her voice, never letting it devolve into melodrama. Even Shia LaBeouf, with his weirdly feigned English accent, helps you forget that you are watching Shia LaBeouf. Most important of all, every actor

Gainsbourg makes it easy to understand the paradoxically oppressive and liberating power of Joe’s nymphomania.

succeeds at having believable sex.

One of the aspects of the film that may be unwelcome is the apparent realness of everything that happens on the screen.

The genitalia are real! The intercourse is real! Although the actors had body doubles that performed the sex, this is difficult to notice and you really get the sense that you are watching

Charlotte Gainsbourg get fisted, for instance. However, the sex in the film doesn’t function like pornography, nor does it work as shock value. Though it is indeed both erotic and unsettling, it’s neither glorified nor made ugly; no matter how kinky it gets, it is simply shown as it is, albeit framed in interesting ways.

The kinkier Joe becomes and the more Seligman reveals about his character, the less the sex seems important. It becomes why the sex happens and what the sex leads to that really holds the attention. In other words, the characters’ actions become less important than the characters’ psychological journeys. By making sex the focus of his twovolume film, von Trier counters sex’s usual power to distract from serious thought. This is especially disorienting to a culture that simultaneously mystifies, condemns, and celebrates sex, but disorientation like this provides a good opportunity for self-reflection that can be hard to find in movies.

A five-and-a-half-hour director ’s cut of the film was released on September 10. Whichever version of this unsettling, thought-provoking movie you see, be warned that it is probably not something you want to watch with your mother.

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The Ubisoft façade is crumbling JEREMY HANNAFORD CONTRIBUTOR

It’s sometimes difficult to be a fan of a drawn-out series. It’s even more difficult to be a supporter of the company that produces said content. We all make up excuses like “it’s different this time around,” or “I’m really in it for the story,” or the typical “I had nothing else to play.”

There are certain instances where companies have carried out this process without offending the fans’ intelligence or their wallets. 343 Industries has done this by providing the HD remastered versions of the Halo series. The recent Halo 2 anniversary edition is a prime example of great fan-service.

But the idea of fan-service seems to have totally escaped other companies’ minds. One of these companies is Ubisoft.

Their Assassin’s Creed series

is a series some gamers can’t be bothered with, considering its lack of true ambition in many of its titles. I myself have been drawn to the series for its connection to important moments of history. There have been some let-downs from time to time, but after playing Black Flag for hours on end, my hope in the series had been rekindled.

That is, until Unity came out and completely buried that hope in a deep dark cavern from whence it may never return.

Unity is more of a disappointment than the grueling AC3 ever was. Unity’s story is a dumbed down version of Ezio’s first entry; the combat has somehow become even more dumbeddown than ever thought possible, and the technical side of the game is an absolute mess.

Unity does have its strengths; the game looks fantastic when it wants to and the building-traversing is the best in the entire

series. But these do not excuse the plethora of issues this game shouldn’t have. What is truly damning about Unity is the fact that it represents the final deteriorating piece in the Ubisoft façade.

In his article published in Forbes.com last week — entitled “Congratulations Ubisoft, You’re the New EA” — Paul Tassi listed the lies or failures the company had produced in this year alone. Those items include the falsified graphic resolution of the ultimately unremarkable Watch Dogs, Ubisoft’s stipulation that no review of Unity was to be released until 12 hours after the game’s launch, and the decision to have Unity run at 30 frames-per-second for a more “cinematic” experience. The latter two are prominent issues with Unity, as the game is riddled with glitches and framerate issues — it has the look of a game released too early.

Ubisoft isn’t the only company to have let down their fans this year. They just so happen to be the latest entry in the avalanche of failed launches and products.

These acts are inexcusable for a company that has supposedly put so much into its products. Black Flag looked like a step in the right direction, with not only a different AC experience but also a means of asking about the player ’s experience after every mission. But these supposed attempts at listening to the players has all been tarnished by Unity’s release.

But Ubisoft isn’t the only company to have let down their

fans this year. They just so happen to be the latest entry in the avalanche of failed launches and products. Drive Club’s online issues are still present three weeks after its launch; Destiny wasn’t the be-all, end-all of games; and GTA V’s highly anticipated multiplayer heists have yet to arrive, despite the game being over a year old. But it doesn’t create any sort of excuse for Ubisoft. This company once had a great image and a great line of games. Now upcoming games like Far Cry 4 or the Division are at risk of also being half-baked products. If Ubisoft continues this behaviour, they will never regain the credibility that they once had, and will suffer the wrath of angry internet nerd attacks, like EA has for the past several years.

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Christian talent shines at Covenant Awards

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AARON LEVY

CIVL STATION MANAGER

Slime 1 Energy New Dimensional Lung 2 White Deep Fantasy Pink 3 Ariel pom pom de Courcy 4 Johnny Alien Lake

5 Cowards World Champions of Male 6

Chastity Stamina Mantis Hondo

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8 Sloan Commonwealth The Facts 9 Fuck Abandoned Rebel Spell 10 The Last Run Daze 11 Teen Paradiso Nailheads 12 The Victim of War At The Fakes 13 Laugh Dethrone The Crown Caves 14 Sinoia Beyond the Black Rainbow Giants Once 15 Where Stood

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Live Above The Soupcans Incesticide II

Mothers Temple & 17 Acid Melting Paraiso UFO Astrorgasm From The Inner Space

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The New Pornographers Brill Bruisers

CIVL Station Manager Aaron Levy spent a day at Cultus Lake with the CIVL Board of Directors this weekend for visioning, so here are some cold weather songs! Get it?

The Neighbourhood “Sweater Weather” They’re from L.A., where I don’t think there’s a tonne of sweater weather on a regular basis, but the thought of putting your hands in the arms of my sweater when you’re cold is kind of totally romantic. Good song with a singer whose sweet silky vocals warm you up.

Weezer “Island in the Sun” Hip, hip, hop. This video was famous for its cute, cuddly animal characters, I’m sure none of whom benefited financially from warming the hearts of MTV/Canada viewers for months in the aftermath of 1999’s Weezer comeback green album. “And it makes me feel so fine I can’t control my brain.”

Gob “Soda” I feel like I’ve included all of these songs in shuffles before, but when you’ve been around as long as Gob has, and you’re from Langley, and you have a new album, and people like your “Paint It Black” cover more than the Stones’ original, you’ve earned repeat visits. Jumpina Lake.

Modest Mouse “Beach Side Property” This song is actually about politics, despite Modest Mouse’s commercial aquatic theme through their last few years (Florida, sinking themes, etc.)

“We’re going union like they say, we’ll buy the congregation, then one day you’ll find us sitting in your chair with big ideas of stocks and shares.”

Long drive.

The Lonely Island “I’m On A Boat” T-Pain recently sang sans-vocoder, and was awesome. Also, I know a guy working at a pub in town who looks exactly like Mr. Newsom himself, Andy Samberg. (He’s married to MilkEyed Mender’s baby-voiced chanteuse Joanna Newsom.) Remember, mermaids are subject to the same consent laws as humans.

Love and Outcome, a Christian Canadian duo, rocked the GMA awards.

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The Gospel Music Association (GMA) held their annual Covenant Award ceremony close to home in Langley on Thursday November 12. The Covenant Awards go to Canadian Christian musicians, producers, and songwriters who aspire to share their faith with the world through music.

The GMA artists reflect various genres — beyond just “gospel” — including pop, folk, praise and worship, jazz, blues, rap, and rock, with lyrics that consist of Christian content.

Artists paraded around in their leather bombers and their skinfade haircuts — whether Christian or not, you can spot a musician a mile away from their attire.

Some of the nominated artists who won awards were Abbotsford’s homegrown musicians.

The pop-rock brothers formerly known as Starfield were both there supporting their new musical identities. They have parted musical paths after 15 years of leading teens, youth, and young adults in churches all over North

America. Jon Neufeld is now a solo artist and worship leader in Portland, and Tim Neufeld has adopted a new rockabilly / gospel style in his new band Tim Neufeld and the Glory Boys; however, their new sound is still laden with his old pop-rock roots.

Also, the Christian worship guru Brian Doerksen has taken a step back from writing church worship music and started a new band called the Shiyr Poets. Their goals as a band are to take the poems and songs of the biblical King David and transform them into contemporary Christian tunes.

Other new artists were represented at the Covenant Awards as they emerge into the small pond of Canadian Christian music.

Many were husband-and-wife duos, including Love and the Outcome, who released their album in August 2013. Lead singer Jodi King leads from synth and a floor tom while she belts her chick-rock vocals, and is accompanied by her bass-playing and back-up vocalist husband. Aesthetically their attire and merchandise achieves a grunge / punk style, but their sound would be classified as poprock. They won three awards, in-

cluding Seasonal Song of the Year, Album of the Year, and Group of the Year.

Amanda Cook, with her powerhouse vocals that could lead an army, is Canadian-born but is currently a worship leader at Bethel Church in Redding, California.

She won Best Female Vocalist of the Year, Song of the Year, and Praise and Worship Song of the Year for her song “You Make Me Brave.”

Dan Bremnis won Male Vocalist of the Year, Artist of the Year, and Recorded Song of the Year, as well as Pop Song of the Year for “Beautiful.”

There were many other talented musicians who did not receive awards; however, their talent and authenticity spoke louder than the wooden plaque that winners received. Mike Edle, a singersongwriter from Alberta, and the City Harmonics — who played with extreme passion and tightness — were only two of the few artists who were not simply talented musicians, but maintained their humble attitudes as participants in this year’s Covenant Awards.

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Album Review

Hip-hop’s favourite bromance yields Run The Jewels 2 Heard she was pregnant, I’m guilty I reckon cause I hear that good shit can hurt baby’s brain / Heard he was normal ‘til three and then he stopped talkin’/ Since then, ain’t nothing been the same.” He later finds out the baby was all right, but can’t shake his distress over what he’s done.

El-P’s verse on the same track takes a different angle.

It’s a scathing and unforgiving criticism of the US military and its actions. The verse is written as if it were coming from the military itself: “We’ll teach you to move without mercy and give you the tools to go after the causers of hurt / You’ll become Death, you will take breath / This is for everything you’ve ever loved / Use all the pain you’ve felt in your

MARTIN CASTRO THE CASCADE

Following up the critical success of Run the Jewels, Atlanta rapper Michael Render, a.k.a.

Killer Mike, and New York native Jaime Meline, also known as El-P, released the latest fruit of their collaborative genius in the form of Run the Jewels 2.

The record is particularly full of vivid imagery only Run the Jewels can deliver, a mixture of ridiculous violence and hilarity.

The record’s production is as appropriate as it could be, considering the two men rapping over it; heavy, sometimes dissonant beats blast and drone on in a lumbering and ominous manner that’s as dark and brooding as anything you’ve ever heard.

There are no pop beats here; they’ve been trampled to death by the rumbling colossus that is RTJ2.

“Jeopardy,” the first track on the record, starts with an ominous production that increases in tension as the track goes on.

Killer Mike starts calmly spitting in his distinctive southern drawl that gradually builds up in intensity with the track, then gives way to El-P’s verse which lets the listener know they’re in for an uncompromising ride.

On “Oh My Darling Don’t Cry” Killer Mike and El-P trade verses, complementing each other ’s styles beautifully; the track also boasts some hilarious imagery courtesy of El-P as he proclaims, “Style violent, give a fuck if you deny it, kids / You can all run naked backwards through a field of dicks.” This ain’t your grandma’s top-ofthe-pops hip-hop, and El-P and Killer Mike make damn sure you know that.

Capitalizing on the inertia of “Oh My Darling,” “Blockbuster Night Pt. 1” kicks in with a pulsing, unforgiving beat. If your introductory poetry classes failed to instill in you a firm grasp of the concept of alliteration, look no further than this track, as both rappers

RTJ2 is one of the most powerful hip-hop records of the year. flawlessly stack verse atop of verse, forming a lofty throne of hip-hop royalty from which they rule their own unforgiving realm.

Rage Against the Machine’s Zack de la Rocha makes a (slightly annoying) guest appearance on “Close Your Eyes (And Count To Fuck),” but both Killer Mike and El-P deliver on the track. El-P’s apparent dislike for what he considers to be a corrupt justice system comes through: “We out of order, your honour, you’re out of order / This whole court is unimportant, you fuckers are walking corpses,” a sentiment that Killer Mike seems to share.

“Lie, Cheat, Steal” is also lyrically and rhythmically astounding, and is one of the standout tracks on the record.

Again, there’s some very striking imagery on the track (“A wild one who’ll swim like directly after he’s eaten / while holding a toaster oven that’s plugged with a fork in it / Cause death by electrocution’s like life in New York, isn’t it?”)

“Early” is a track that very

clearly communicates Big Mike’s contempt for the abuse of power by police, as he describes a routine search by a policeman that ends with the narrator in the back of a police car witnessing the harassment of his wife: “Saw the copper pull a gun and put it on my gorgeous queen / as I peered out the window I could see my other kinfolk and hear my little boy as he screamed / As he ran toward the copper, begged him not to hurt his mamma cause he had her face-down on the ground.”

There is no shying away from controversial topics on this record, but unlike many other rappers, there is no indication of ignorance on either El-P’s or Killer Mike’s part — these are two of the most well-informed rappers I’ve ever come across.

The most striking track on the record is “Crown,” featuring vocals by Dianne Coffee.

The first verse goes over Killer Mike’s history as a drug dealer, as he regrets selling cocaine to a pregnant woman. He swears to himself that he “won’t be the same kind of man that puts cocaine in this lady’s hand /

This ain’t your grandma’s top-ofthe-pops hip-hop, and El-P and Killer Mike make damn sure you know that. life as the currency, go out and trade it for blood / You are not you, you are now us, we are the only ones that you can trust.”

As well as being a strikingly powerful statement, the verse is also sublime poetry and a direct attack on military action in general: “You are the smoldering vessel of punishment born to do nothing but justify us … everything you’ve ever been is replaced by the metal and fire of the weapon you clutch.”

Run The Jewels 2 is not only one of the best hip-hop records to come out this year, it’s also an open letter, written by two experienced, educated, talented, and severely pissed-off men, aimed at the crumbling social circumstances which surround them.

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Soundbite Damien Rice — My Favourite Faded Fantasy

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Irish singer-songwriter Damien Rice’s third studio record reminds me of crisp fall and winter days: calm, relaxed, and intimate.

The singer has kept relatively quiet throughout the 12 years that have led to My Favourite Faded Fantasy, releasing only one other record since his debut. However, as much as Rice’s brand of folk is catchy and evocative of calm nights spent by a fireside, on the whole it’s not incredibly different from his debut record. One wonders, “Hey, Damien, what have you been doing with all your time?”

Tracks like “My Favourite Faded Fantasy” are worthwhile, though. It’s a lot more punchy and rock ’n’ roll than Rice’s previous excursions out of the folk genre, and builds up to a great climax; however, it still plays like an indie-rock ballad, so there’s really nothing new here. Rice shows a growth in instrumentation with tracks like “It Takes a Lot to Know a Man,” which has more levels than his straightforward and simple folk roots.

There’s still some good, simple folk here, though, folks. (Hah, get it? Folk? Folks?) Anyway, tracks like “The Greatest Bastard” play not so much like the slightly upbeat folk that Rice displayed in his first record, but more like the melancholic brand of acoustic ballads that Dan Mangan is partial to, but simpler and more straightforward than Mangan’s work. But whether you condemn Rice’s simplicity or applaud his bare-bones approach, this record is — while not made up of particularly memorable tracks — a body of works that play quite well together. If ever you need a record to put on while you sit by a fireside sipping hot chocolate or peppermint tea, this is it.

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Volleyball teams dominate against top competition NATHAN HUTTON

contest was a lot different, and saw the Cascades that we all know dominate against lessthan-stellar competition.

They dominated the Royals in three straight sets and proved that the night before was a mistake and nothing else. First year Mandelyn Erikson told Cascades Media after the game, “It definitely means a lot to us. We came together as a team — we all strived towards a common goal, and it ended up working out in our favour. We had fun. That was the biggest thing for us, I think.”

Both teams have next weekend off and are then at home for their last action before the holidays against the Camosun Chargers.

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While all four indoor Cascade teams were in competition this weekend, it was the volleyball teams that impressed against the Douglas College Royals.

The Douglas College men’s team came into the weekend as the number-two ranked volleyball team in the country, and the highest-ranked team from BC. This week was also special for the Cascades, who climbed into the national rankings for the first time in over a year.

The Cascades came into the weekend shorthanded, missing a number of their players including Ryan Thain, Kurtis Stromdahl, and Nick Bruce, who were all unavailable due to injury. The loss of these three players, who regularly contribute to the offence, was a big hit to the Cascades, who were going into their biggest game of the year. It was a stat that made the final result most surprising.

The Cascades were pounded in the first set (25-12) and it looked as if they were about to get steamrolled by the Royals.

It was at this point where the tides seemed to turn. The Royals won the next two sets 25-18 and 25-23. After dropping the fourth set, it seemed that the fifth and final set would be full

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This was the biggest game of the year, and the Cascades showed everyone what they’re made of. of drama. The fifth set, which only goes to 15 instead of 25, saw the Cascades take a quick 9-4 lead and control the rest of the set to win 15-10, and come away with their biggest win of the season.

Head coach Kyle Donen told Cascades Media, “It’s a character win, especially with what we put on the floor today. We had quite a few injuries, so we didn’t even know what our lineup was going to be going into the game.”

Although the action the next day provided the Cascades with loss in three straight sets, the Cascades men’s volleyball team will take a lot of positives from this weekend after defeating one of the top teams in the country without three of their stars.

However, the women’s volleyball team struggled in their Friday contest and weren’t able to gain any traction. Ultimately, they fell to the unranked Royals in four sets. The Saturday

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Basketball returns to UFV and makes an impression NATHAN HUTTON THE CASCADE

Both the men’s and women’s basketball teams had their home openers this weekend, and it couldn’t have gone any better. Both teams began their regular season up in Kelowna against the UBC-O Heat, and came away 2-0. The homeopeners against the University of Northern British Columbia were expected to be much of the same.

The women got their game going first, and completely controlled the tempo against the T-Wolves. The T-Wolves started the game with pressure against the Cascades whenever they tried to bring the ball up the court, and continued with that pressure all game long. It was something that coach Al Tuchscherer said they had prepared for.

“We were prepared for their pressure, we haven’t seen a press like that this year — the

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“It doesn’t matter if you win as long as you give everything in your heart.” — Michael Jordan zone pressure. It was something that we had prepared for a little bit during the week. I thought we did an okay job — there was a couple possessions where we fumbled it a little bit, but other than that, I thought we did an okay job.”

The most compelling stat of

the game comes from the total number of shots taken by the Cascades, versus the number taken by the T-Wolves. The fact that they only hit six more shots than the T-Wolves is not that compelling, but the Cascades ended up taking 30 more shots than their opponents. It came

out to 78-48 in shots attempted.

The discrepancy in attempts can be attributed to many different scenarios, including the fact that the T-Wolves turned the ball over 30 times, or that the Cascades out-rebounded them 21-9 on the offensive glass, creating second chance opportunities.

Overall, the Cascades would go to win their home-opener 83-57 in their usual dominating fashion, and then finish the weekend with an 81-57 win in their Saturday action.

The men’s basketball team, like their female counterparts, came into the weekend 2-0, and looked to control the tempo against the 0-2 T-Wolves. The first game of the weekend was the first time that the UFV fans got the opportunity to see Manny Dulay in his new point guard role, and he impressed, notching 17 points with a trio of assists and a steal.

The Cascades impressed in the first game and walked away with the easy 82-59 win.

The second game of the weekend, for some reason, troubled the Cascades; they couldn’t get anything going and failed to hit even easy shots.

The Cascades trailed by as many as 14 points, but came up with big play after big play to somehow retain their perfect record. The team came together in the last quarter and outscored the T-Wolves 20-9, including a pair of treys from Vijay Dhillon, and the go-ahead bucket from Nate Brown, to win the Cascades the game.

“Thank goodness we battled back, and the guys stayed together,” Cascades head coach Adam Friesen said to Cascades Media after the game. “But we’ve got to come out of the gates with a lot more urgency, and play at a higher standard than we did tonight. We have to find our energy based on the defensive end, not the offensive end, and if we keep this up, a loss is probably coming. We can’t keep squeaking by with close wins.”