The Cascade Vol. 26 Issue 15

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Infinite peace since 1993

Feature: UFV's Cafeteria pg. 9-10

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UF V PRESIDENT A Q& A with UF V ’s new president, Joanne MacLean .

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MEMES Some provide sage and healing advice.

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ALBUM RE VIE W Jo Passed ’s new album redifines itself.

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STAFF Editor-in-Chief Joel Robertson-Taylor joel@ufvcascade.ca Business Manager Quintin Stamler quintin@ufvcascade.ca

Managing Editor Cat Friesen cat@ufvcascade.ca News Editor Jessica Barclay jessica@ufvcascade.ca

Production Manager Caleb Campbell caleb@ufvcascade.ca

Opinion Editor Jeff Mijo-Burch jeff@ufvcascade.ca

Production Assistant Renée Campbell renee@ufvcascade.ca

Features Editor Jen Klassen jen@ufvcascade.ca

Copy Editor Kat Marusiak kat@ufvcascade.ca Illustrator Amara Gelaude amara@ufvcascade.ca Illustrator Simer Haer simer@ufvcascade.ca

Europe will use teleportation by the time we build a train

Culture & Events Editor Cassie de Jong cassie@ufvcascade.ca Arts in Review Editor Martin Castro martin@ufvcascade.ca Distributor Alena Zheng distributor@ufvcascade.ca

Online Editor Jeff Mijo-Burch jeff@ufvcascade.ca

THIS WEEK’S CONTRIBUTORS Daniel Liebe Michelle Pahl Janice Lang Cover: Caleb Campbell Back Cover: Renée Campbell

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@UFVCASCADE FACEBOOK.COM/UFVCASCADE INSTAGRAM.COM/THE.CASCADE Volume 26 · Issue 15 Room S2111 33844 King Road Abbotsford, BC V2S 7M8 604.854.4529 The Cascade is UFV’s autonomous student newspaper. It originated under its current name in 1993, and achieved autonomy from the university and the Student Union Society in 2002. This means that The Cascade is a forum for UFV students to have their journalism published in an entirely student-run setting. It also acts as an alternative press for the Fraser Valley.

The Cascade is funded with UFV student funds, and is overseen by the Cascade Journalism Society Board, a body run by a student majority. The Cascade is published every Wednesday with a print circulation of 1,000 and is distributed at Abbotsford, Chilliwack (CEP), Clearbrook, and Mission UFV campuses and throughout the surrounding communities.

The Cascade is open to written, photo, and design work from all students; these can come in the form of a pitch to an editor, or an assignment from an editor. Writers meetings are held every second Monday at 2:30 p.m. in The Cascade’s office on the Abbotsford campus.

In order to be published in the newspaper, all work must first be approved

by The Cascade’s editor-in-chief, copy editor, and corresponding section editor. The Cascade reserves the right to edit submissions for clarity and length. The Cascade will not print any articles that contain racist, sexist, homophobic or libellous content. Letters to the editor, while held to the same standard, are unedited, and should be under 200 words. As The Cascade is an autonomous student publication, opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect that of UFV, The Cascade’s staff and collective, or associated members.

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JOEL ROBERTSON-TAYLOR EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Last week, Premier John Horgan called on Ottawa to investigate gas costs within the province. He said at a news conference that Ottawa should protect consumers.

B.C. unsurprisingly has the highest gas rates in Canada. According to GasBuddy.com, a U.S.-based gas price monitoring company, gasoline in Metro Vancouver was at $1.61 cents a litre last week. That’s a continental record — gas prices have never been this high.

The lowest rates in B.C, according to Gasbuddy.com, are in Dawson Creek and Vanderhoof, at 126.9 and 128.9 respectively, which isn’t much less than the Canadian average.

And according to Global News, gas analyst from GasBuddy.com, Dan McTeague, predicts that gas prices could continue to rise through the summer.

Public transit is a problem in the Fraser Valley, yet it’s probably the solution. The onus is on the municipalities to provide better service where they can and find the funding for it where they currently can't. Ottawa should protect consumers by providing more funding for public transit.

Really, every level of government should invest more into public transportation. The cost of owning and operating a car is way too high. For most of what a car’s worth, it’s not worth having.

The UFV-SUS shuttle is the greatest and most tangibly helpful resource offered to UFV students by the Stu-

dent Union Society. The only thing it lacks is freedom beyond the pick-up/ drop-off points. That’s where Fraser Valley transit falls short. I drive a car, but would prefer to take public transit. The shuttle is great, but I do go to places other than CEP, Abbotsford campus, and Langley’s Carvolth exchange.

While there are companies that offer rideshare cars to be hosted at university campuses (Zipcar; check it out) and there’s nothing major stopping the university itself from investing in a fleet of Priuses (Prieese?), better regional and local public transport would reduce the fuel cost burden, and significantly reduce traffic.

In February, according to Daily Hive, Abbotsford Mayor Henry Braun proposed the space between east and westbound traffic on the Trans-Canada Highway should be used for light rail transit (LRT).

Braun said that his trip to downtown Vancouver from Abbotsford takes him between 1.5 to 2 hours during morning rush. Traffic conditions will only worsen as the affordable housing crisis forces more people further from Vancouver.

According to the CBC, Trans-Canada Highway widening was finally approved in March. The expansion is to six lanes from four — one more lane each direction.

That expansion should have been made a decade ago. With the completion date set for 2019, the expansion is meager. It’s also only from 216th to 264th street in Langley, with a promise to “eventually” widen to Whatcom

Road.

Once upon a time, light rail transit traversed the Fraser Valley.

Early October 1910, the British Columbia Electric Railway Company (BCERC) train, connecting Vancouver and New Westminster with Chilliwack by means of a line equipped to be operated by electricity, made its inaugural run.

In 1950, the train’s service ended when upgrades were deemed too expensive.

It’s funny how over 100 years ago an electric train connected the Valley, but no such solution exists today. Hell is raised over the right for a pipeline to pass through the Valley (“We need more oil to lower gas prices!”), but the LRT remains a bone thrown a couple times a year and buried shortly after.

The Fraser Valley can’t afford not to invest in LRT. When the BCERC train line was first built, the Fraser Valley’s population was 18,000, according to Leewood Projects’ study on the interurban LRT. According to Statistics Canada, the population in 2016 was 295,934.

The Fraser Valley has become far too large to rely on the single highway passing through it — the highway having been built for 1960s’ infrastructure — and an express bus to Langley. Another lane in each direction is a band-aid.

Public transit is one of the most important utilities a government can provide. The Fraser Valley’s MPs and MLAs need to get serious about advocating for LRT. As the young worker and student groups become more vocal about their expectations for government — as they demonstrated in the last provincial and federal election — local politicians will have to respond to their needs. Ignoring public transit benefits is primitive. Citing a lack of funding is misappropriation.

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Jessica Barclay — News Editor news@ufvcascade.ca

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NEWS BRIEFS

Speaking to the president appointment; it's not for life. It's a short period of time, and I'm going to give it all of my energy to help us to succeed, and then it will be the opportunity for a new leader with new ideas and new passion and energy. And that excites me.

What do you see around the university that really calls to you in the sense of needing your attention?

UFV offers first-year courses for four degrees on Chilliwack campus

One of the things that I'd like to engage the community on, hopefully starting this fall, is to look at our statements around our vision, our mission, and our values. The ones that we have are good, but they've also been around for many years. Having this goal statement to be the best undergraduate, or to deliver the best undergraduate education in Canada — I think it's time for us to consider a new statement and have a vision of where are we trying to get to long-term.

I'm talking right now with communities across the university (faculty councils, our deans and the vice presidents, and other administrative units) and it seems to me that we have very good plans. Let's unpack those plans and make sure that we're enacting them, but maybe we could redefine our statements, so there’s a kind of pervasive understanding across our campus of where we're trying to get to and what we're doing.

One of my goals as president is to walk around the campus and be able to stop into any employee’s office and ask, “What's the vision of this university?” And they would have no trouble saying the vision is this, this, and this.

Starting in fall of 2018, UFV will offer the first-year courses of four bachelor degree programs on the Chilliwack campus at Canada Education Park. The degrees will include the bachelor of arts, the bachelor of arts in criminal justice, the bachelor of business administration, and the bachelor of science.

The course offerings have been planned to avoid scheduling conflicts, and will include required first-year electives.

“We recognize the value in giving students the option of studying in their home community for at least the first year of their degree programs while they adjust to postsecondary studies,” Alisa Webb, associate dean of arts, said.

HED: Elizabeth May pleads guilty to criminal contempt

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Elizabeth May pleads guilty to criminal contempt Green Party of Canada Leader Elizabeth May has received a $1,500 fine after pleading guilty to criminal contempt for protesting at a Kinder Morgan work site. On March 23, May violated a court injunction by protesting within five metres of the Trans Mountain terminal in Burnaby.

B.C. Supreme Court Justice Kenneth Affleck denied the recommended $500 fine, saying that May's political position held her to a higher responsibility than the other protesters arrested with her.

“I clearly respect the rule of law,” May said.

“But in a democracy, there is room for non-violent civil disobedience.”

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UFV President Joanne MacLean. (UFV Flickr)

JOEL ROBERTSON-TAYLOR EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Are you excited? Of course you're excited.

I am so excited. I'm beyond honoured to have this opportunity. I'm really interested in working with our students, working with our faculty, working with the staff across the campus, and working in our communities to really reach the full impact of the UFV’s goals. So yeah, totally excited.

Why do you think you were chosen as president?

Gosh, I mean, I think that I’m seen as the right leader at the right time for UFV, somebody who has had experience at other institutions outside of this one. I've had 27 years at two institutions in southern Ontario, but I've also been here at UFV almost six years. I think I'm viewed as a good choice because I have those different perspectives. I understand the culture of this place, the mission, the people, but also have ideas and perspective from other universities in Canada and maybe this was the right time to have that kind of leadership.

How will you keep your finger on the pulse of some of the university and all the students?

Well, it’s obviously a difficult task because

UFV is bigger than it used to be, more complex than it used to be, but I really believe in this term walking the waterfront.

I really believe in being out on campus and out in the community, being present, and I think that I have to make a really concerted, intentional effort to be at things, to go to events, to be involved in our campus. Just as a member of the constituency, right? I find that's the way to get to know people, that's the way to hear what people are thinking, to value everybody who is working together, to help us to achieve our vision.

How do you see yourself as president and as an individual fulfilling the role? How much of yourself do you put into it? How much do you leave behind?

I think the role of a president of a university is pretty much a 24/7 kind of thing.

That's not to say there won't be times when I will go on vacation or try to have a weekend to myself, but I view it as a role in which I am giving myself to the institution to be president, to be engaged in and to contribute to things that happen in the evenings and through the week and on the weekends and so on.

This is my chance to walk in the shoes of trying to lead and enable, support, and celebrate the accomplishments of the people of this university. I'm appointed to a five-year term. I think successful presidents do a second term or at least part of one, and that's what I aspire to do. But it's not a long time, right? It's not a 30-year

Can you give some examples of how your vision might materialize?

I think the vision of the institution needs to be co-created among the people of the institution, and having a vision statement will hopefully create that by energizing the entire community to say “These are the words that are really meaningful to me around what we're trying to do.” We know we're a university, we know that we are an undergraduate teaching-intensive university. I don't see a change to that, but I'd like to articulate what that vision is.

You mentioned the phrase “providing the best undergraduate education in Canada” and it being time to change that vision. What would you aim for instead?

Well, I think it's a phrase that is aspirational. We absolutely want to do that. I'd love to have something that's maybe just a bit more concrete than that. How do we operationalize that or how do we know if we've achieved it? Are there any metrics that would help us to know if we'd actually got to being the best at something and what does it really mean to be the best? I think it has meaning, but it's hard to be concrete about whether you've achieved it or not. It's just like anything at an institution, it's effective to have a refresh.

Then where do you see the most room for growth?

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NEWS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 have a strategic enrollment management plan. One of the things we’re going to do in the next year is to have a refresh of it.

It was a plan that went to 2019 as a fiveyear plan. I think the refresh will help us understand something about enrolment growth. Are there areas of specific focus?

How many of a certain type of student should we have?

I think there's lots of room for growth for the university to really communicate what it is we're doing and how well we're doing — to tell our story, to tell our students’ stories, to tell our alumni stories, to tell our faculty stories and the teaching they're doing, the research they're doing.

We'd been a smaller college and morphed into a university college, and we’re certainly more complex than when we started out. It's just the natural growth of things and as we move forward, we are working to be intentional about what it is we're doing and telling people about how well we're doing — that's a really good thing for an institution to be doing so we can take pride in it. I know as the president of UFV that we're doing really well in a lot of different areas, but I'm not so sure that within, everybody knows. I'm not so sure that our communities know. I'd like to change that.

What is UFV doing really well in?

We really care about students. Our people here, the faculty, staff, and administrators, do a phenomenal job of ensuring that we understand the importance of ensuring the decisions we make put the students first.

We have very good people here, but mostly very good people who care about our students. They care about student experience and want to help them. As an institution, we're focused on the importance of a pedagogy that isn't just about teaching, it's about learning. That is fundamental, and I feel that we're doing a very good job of that here.

How can UFV be a more innovative educational leader?

Well, you are what you attend to, right? I really believe in being intentional around what it is we're trying to achieve. That's why I'm interested in that vision statement.

It's all our jobs to ensure the supports are there for faculty, and that we're doing what we can to resource new technologies and innovative ways of doing things. How do you get that? Well, you're intentional

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about it. You talk about it, you run workshops, you run professional development days, you send faculty and administrators out to look at how others are doing it, and you bring that good learning back.

I think we're doing our piece there.

There’ll always be work to do there because technology's changing; practices are changing, new knowledge is being developed.

Innovation is about new ideas, better ways of doing things, incorporating new design principles, new technology, new ways of considering things, and being open to them. I think that comes with an institution that has its instructional component.

For faculty, it comes with a willingness to be those who advance new approaches.

Does the university have a role in providing students with affordable housing?

Yeah, and I'd love to see more resident space for UFV students; we have Baker house. It's great, but it's not big. And if there was an opportunity for us as an institution to grow, I think we would be seriously looking at that.

What should students, faculty, and staff expect from you?

That I will work very hard on their behalf, that I will engage with them and listen to them. Recognizing that for one person who might do this, there'll be someone who says exactly the opposite, right? So it's not about just doing what people may wish but through the process of listening and learning and discussing, I hope to be a president that people will say, “She’s a part of us. She's not just in an office squirreled away in a corner of the building and we never see her.”

I see my role as a leader is in serving the institution and working with it. I think those are fundamental pieces. If you work very hard and you engage with people and you bring all of the best ideas forward, then I think the potential for success is heightened, and that's an approach I would take. I've always been about teamwork — I started my career as an athletic coach, and I've always been in and worked with teams. I hope for us to be an organization that can benefit from that. I'll work very hard to try to do what's in the best interest of the institution as a whole.

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Coast Capital Savings donation continues to support peer resource centre JESSICA BARCLAY NEWS EDITOR

Coast Capital Savings has continued its support of the UFV Coast Capital Peer Resource and Leadership Centre (PRLC) with a donation of $50,000. The donation will help the centre with its ongoing work providing holistic support to students with peer-to-peer guidance and mentorship, and helping students find resources

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around UFV. Joanne MacLean, UFV president and vice chancellor, said the continued support allows UFV to implement student support and referral services.

“UFV is very pleased to continue offering new ways of supporting student success,” said MacLean. “It is well-documented that peer-to-peer engagement helps students learn and further develop their skills.”

In addition to providing students with

mentoring and leadership services, the PRLC hosts and supports a variety of events and initiatives. In 2016/17, the centre hosted LGBTQ awareness training, sponsored a booth at Fraser Valley Pride, and brought guest speaker Benjamin O’Keefe to speak at the President’s Leadership Lecture series. This last academic year, the centre helped introduce a sexualized violence prevention program, coordinated the distribution of naloxone kits on campus, and offered “Wellness

Wednesdays” and visits from Mac the support dog.

Over the next academic year, the PRLC plans to expand its services to the Chilliwack campus, explore food insecurity solutions for students, and offer sex-positive programming as well as specialized support for trans students.

Coast Capital Savings has donated over $425,000 towards UFV mentorship and leadership initiatives since 2008.

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Q&A with Heather DavisFisch JANICE LANG CONTRIBUTOR

Heather Davis-Fisch is an associate professor and the theatre department head at UFV. Heather is also the co-editor of the Views and Reviews section of Canadian Theatre Review.

What led you to choose a career in theatre?

Cody Shabbits and Markus Tonsaker present at the B.C. Tech Summit. May 16, 2018. (The Cascade)

JOEL ROBERTSON-TAYLOR EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Two UFV students were asked for resumes while presenting their final project — an automated control system that could be used in an industrial setting — at Western Canada’s largest technology conference.

Cody Shabbits and Markus Tonsaker recently graduated from UFV’s Automation and Robotics Technician course, a twosemester diploma program. They facilitated a booth at the B.C. Tech Summit, May 14–16, where they demonstrated an automated industrial process based on skills they learned in the course.

The Automation and Robotics Technician diploma teaches the building, maintaining, calibration, and integration of automation and control systems.

Shabbits’ and Tonsaker’s presence at the Summit gave UFV a chance to present some of its unique educational offerings, and was a networking opportunity for Shabbits and Tonsaker.

“On our final day at the Tech Summit, Cody and I were both approached by VP and CIO of Teck, Kalev Ruberg,” Tonsaker said. “Mr. Ruberg asked for a resume from Cody and I. I'm expecting hopefully to be contacted about a job offer at Teck.”

Teck is a metals and mining company and is Canada's largest diversified resources company.

Shabbits’ and Tonsaker’s demonstration is entirely automated to portion a precise amount of liquid from a series of holding tanks into a mixing cup. The mixture’s temperature is specifically regulated and its bubble time (representing carbonation) can be adjusted through inputs from their handheld controller. After the process is complete, a robotic arm picks up the cup, places a cap on it, and puts it onto a tray.

“Simply put, it is a demo of mixing controlled amounts of three different liquids into a larger tank, then heating the mixed liquid to a desired set point of up to 50 degrees Celsius,” Sabbits said.

Their machine represents what can be done through automation. This particular system could be used in a microbrewery or for ingredient mixing in a food plant, but the concept isn’t limited to a specific process and has many different industrial uses including energy and manufacturing.

“We accomplished this task by programming Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) that are widely used in the industry,” Shabbits said. “Along with these was our Human Machine Interface (HMI) which is essentially a touch pad controller for turning on/off anything we wanted in the system. We custom designed all of the layout (graphics, tags, animations, etc.) for this controller.”

Tonsaker said the diploma has taught him how to program robotic arms, work with various PLC brands, work with pneumatics and hydraulics, and many different sensors and actuators, as well as a variety of process control methods.

“Automation and Robotics has taught us a lot about the industry,” Tonsaker said.

“We have learned immense amounts of knowledge on pneumatic pistons and controls, PLC programming languages and application, electro-pneumatic actuation of valves and pumps through an HMI, robotic arm skills, troubleshooting, and even knowledge in agriculture equipment.”

In regards to looking toward entering the workforce, Shabbits said he’d like to end up with a job that focuses on installing, repairing, or upgrading manual facilities to automated ones.

“I really like the hands-on aspect of it, while still dealing with the computer programming part as well. It’s a nice combination of electrical and mechanical work,” he said.

Tonsaker said he’d like to start a business related to the skills learned in the course.

“I am considering any job related to what I have learned in school,” Tonsaker said. “This will allow me to be financially ready to start a business.”

I did theatre throughout high school, then planned to major in history at university, but kept taking theatre courses and realized that what I was really interested in was the intersection between cultural history and performance. I taught in different contexts (sports at camp, swimming, children's theatre, tutoring, as a teaching assistant at university) before deciding to pursue an academic context, so I knew that I was interested in teaching in some form as a career path.

What are some of the challenges that you’ve encountered while working in the theatre department at UFV? The biggest challenge has been related to our physical location — at Chilliwack North, the program was very isolated and it became increasingly difficult to attract audiences and students to shows and classes. One of the biggest projects for me as head has been advocating for the move to Abbotsford and working with campus planning, the dean's office, and facilities on renovations.

Now that UFV Theatre has been moved from Chilliwack, how do you go about cultivating an audience in Abbotsford?

We have been very fortunate that we have a built-in audience of students, staff, and faculty. Most of our productions this year sold out, as our temporary performance space in Abbotsford only seats 30 people. I am interested in making sure that students and the UFV community find out more about what we do — the other courses we offer, why theatre courses can benefit students in other programs, such as business or sciences, and why theatre and performance studies provide an important way of understanding the media-saturated world we live in.

Do you feel that UFV allocates adequate funding for its theatre program?

Theatre, and other creative arts programs like visual arts and graphic design, are expensive to run, as we have small classes and require dedicated, well-equipped facilities. We would definitely benefit from more funding, but I feel that the university and especially the college of arts are very supportive

of theatre and creative arts and do as much as they can to support our students and programs. I would say that the bigger problem is with how postsecondary has been funded across B.C. for the last five-plus years, especially for teachingintensive universities — the budget cuts from the previous government are still impacting programs.

Looking back on the productions that you’ve been involved with, what are some of the highlights?

My work is primarily the more academic side, but the projects I'm most proud of are ones where we have worked with community partners. We have collaborated with the Stó:lō Nation on staged readings and a devised production (Grand Theft Terra Firma), and a highlight is seeing how theatre can generate conversations and provoke new ideas.

Are there any upcoming productions that you are particularly excited about?

Our next season is very exciting, but as a Canadian theatre historian, I'm particularly excited that the department is staging Herman Voaden's play Rocks in November. Voaden was a theatrical visionary whose ideas about art were linked with the Group of Seven and were very ambitious about scenography and design. It's almost like he imagined the potentials of digital technology in performance 80ish years ago, and I think our production will really explore his aesthetic and design philosophy.

What are your biggest strengths as an educator?

In classrooms, I think I do a good job of creating an active learning environment, especially in academic courses like theatre history. Students incorporate performance activities and theory, and that helps them learn more about course topics. In one-on-one situations with students, I think I am a really enthusiastic research mentor — when students are interested in specific topics or want advice about applying for grad programs, I spend a lot of time learning about their work and thinking about how to best give them support on their projects.

When you have downtime away from teaching, what kinds of things do you like to do?

I have two little kids, ages one and three, so my downtime from teaching is mostly spent with them. When I get free time I like being outside and skiing and biking.

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OPINION

Jeff Mijo-Burch — Opinion Editor opinion@ufvcascade.ca

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Hyphen-nation Bananas about bananas As a child, I loathed everything about bananas. The stringy bits that peel off and get stuck to your finger, the ugly brown colour they turn (far too quickly, if you ask me), and of course, Satan’s anus — you know, the small sharp thing at the tail end of a banana. People willingly eat these? No thanks.

But I’ve moved past all this. I put bananas in smoothies, on my cereal and toast, and I even eat them on their own. I’ve learned to look at the stringy bits as no more than minor complications, and even rapidly ripening bananas don’t hinder me anymore — I just make banana bread!

I think the problem was one of maturity. I’ve learned to look at bananas, not as a strange fruit that could be detrimental to my health, but as a compact snack that comes in its own packaging, and tastes damn good too.

Cat Friesen

Brief bits of bite-sized brevity

SNAPSHOTS

Bane of the pale ones Q: How many gingers does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: None. We hide in the dark.

There is something cruel about having to sit inside all day when you know for a fact it’s a beautiful day outside. Especially when it’s been a beautiful day outside for the past week, and you haven’t been able to soak up a single ray of it. People say it’s healthy to spend more time outdoors, and believe me, I’ve tried. But I carry a particular curse that prevents prolonged sun exposure… it’s called being ginger.

I cannot tell you how many times I have spent a day outside where I reapplied my sunscreen every hour, wore a sunhat, hid under shade at every possible moment, and STILL burned my skin so bad that I came home two whole shades brighter than a lobster. My genetic code has decided that I must spend my life as a cave troll, hiding from the light and hissing whenever someone opens a blind. So, if any of you needs me, you can find me, my freckles, and my pasty white skin cowering under a desk until fall when the clouds come back.

Illustrations: Amara Gelaude

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Our society is at a turning point in what we call ourselves. Hyphenated names (as mine recently became) are on the rise, as it stops becoming expected for wives to simply take their husbands’ surnames as their own, and instead one or both join their names together, or leave them unchanged and pass on a hyphenated surname to their children. It’s a great way for people to feel like they’re members of both sides of the family, to share a name, and to still hold on to the name they’ve grown up with.

The problem is, it’s an unsustainable solution.

Sure, my name went from two syllables to three. No biggie. But what if I had a child who married the offspring of The Cascade’s illustrious editor-in-chief, and they combined their names? Little Bobby Mijo-Burch-Robertson-Taylor would be a bit of a mouthful, and the length grows exponentially from there. It’s not a viable long-term solution, and it would be wise to look to other cultures who have different methods of combining familial names in a more manageable way.

But hey, that’s a problem for future generations to worry about.

Jeff Mijo-Burch

Curtailed commentary on current conditions

I’m not what you’d call an adrenaline seeker

Cassie de Jong

I sit in my lawn chair, binoculars in hand, beer beside me. My grandma walks over and asks if I’m planning on doing anything with my Saturday. My fiancé comes outside and asks if I want to play a game. I can’t, I say, I’m busy with my newfound favourite hobby of all time: bird watching.

Possibly the most relaxing hobby ever invented, bird watching (for me at least, and I am far from a professional) involves sitting very quietly outside, looking through a little bird identification book, searching for your favourite birds and discovering new ones, cold drink in hand to help stave off the dehydration.

Bird watching is thirsty work.

So far I’ve spent hours outside in the fresh air watching eagles build a nest, two little finches feed their little finch family, swallows swooping over corn fields, and my cat attempting to eat about 20 starlings, three robins, and an eagle. All from the comfort of my chair.

Jessica Barclay

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Deep fried philosophy //

Memes helped me battle anxiety

I like memes

MICHELLE PAHL CONTRIBUTOR

I like memes. They are the new millennium’s version of the fortune cookie: sage advice, deep thoughts, or clever quotes presented in bitesized pieces, accompanied by lovely visuals.

Without memes, I’d never have learned about the poetry of Rumi, or been inspired to read his work.

Without memes, I would have encountered far less philosophy. Without memes, I wouldn’t have been able to fully appreciate the wit of Will Ferrell.

Most helpful are the inspirational and philosophical ones. They have replaced the daily quotation book reading I used to engage in each morning. It’s the work of minutes to find a post on social media that applies to whatever you happen to be dealing with.

Some are like junk food — tasty, but they don’t satisfy. Some offer more. Quotes from Stoic philosophers seem especially popular of late. My exposure via the decorative word-bite inspired me to expand my knowledge. A favourite philosophy book is one I discovered after reading an online quote from Epictetus’ The Enchiridion. It’s a short read, but I’ve found almost every entry to be insightful and salient.

The quote from the opening pages is a favourite: “Some things

are in our control and others not.

Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions.

Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.”

“The only thing in our control is our own actions.” I never gave that idea much thought before. I assumed my brain was its own independent entity. The idea that I had control over what I thought, that I could choose what thoughts to attend to, seemed revolutionary.

I have struggled with anxiety for most of my life. Particularly challenging is the way in which your thoughts run away from you. They take you down dark and twisted roads and leave you miserable and panicked. For years, my method of dealing was to try and chase the thoughts away with fairly unhealthy coping mechanisms. The quote by Epictetus changed that.

My thoughts don’t just happen. I have control over what I pay attention to. Control of the self is actually one of the few controls we have.

Thoughts rise up in the brain, but they don’t have to be accepted. I can choose what I want to embrace.

So, bring on the memes. Share the things that you love with the world.

You never know who might be paying attention, or what it might inspire.

And still no Firefly??! //

Brooklyn Nine-Nine and the power of public outcry JEFF MIJO-BURCH OPINION EDITOR

It’s easy to dismiss people with opinions on the internet (especially when those opinions don’t line up with your own), but it’s becoming increasingly clear that corporations are listening, and are well aware that caving to public demands, when they’re feasible and unified, is a great publicity move.

Certainly that concept is nothing new, but it’s fascinating to see which outcrys have the power to enact change, and which are ignored and slowly fizzle out. These days, it seems like any change will bring hundreds of passionate voices out of the woodwork, whether that’s in support or opposition. The most recent notable example is the cancellation of sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Fox opted not to renew the show after its fifth season. It wasn’t a huge shock to TV ratings watchers, as the

show had seen a sharp viewership decline, especially since being moved to Sunday from Tuesday midway through the season. Still, the show’s dedicated fanbase did what any TV fanbase does when their beloved show is cancelled: they made a lot of noise about it on social media.

The news quickly trended across platforms, but what’s different is that this time, the people with the power to continue the show were listening. The fan outcry (with the show’s producers and actors spurring it along) caught the right people’s attention. NBC, a network that had previously passed on the show’s pilot, got a hold of the rights and ordered another 13 episodes of Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

It certainly couldn’t happen to a better show — Brooklyn NineNine carries on the great tradition of Parks and Recreation, also a product of creators Michael Schur and Dan Goor, providing one of those rare sitcoms that can be gen-

uinely funny without being mean, something that’s far too rare in comedy.

The question is, will Brooklyn Nine-Nine also follow in the tradition of another recent sitcom saved from cancellation? The show has had a strong run, making it five years without a drop in quality or losing main cast members, but you don’t have to look far back to see a similar story that played out with Community. Community also had a large cult following online, and when it was cancelled by NBC, fan outcry lead to another 13-episode season, in that case on Yahoo Screen.

It wasn’t great.

Now, NBC is probably going to fund a primetime sitcom better than Yahoo Screen (which I’ll be honest, I forgot even existed — I’ve never heard of anyone watching anything other than Community on it), and Brooklyn Nine-Nine isn’t going through the same sort of leadership and cast turmoil

Community was, but it may be wise to check our optimism as we celebrate the renewal. It also would not be a shock if this 13-episode run is the show’s last, though certainly the writers will be aware of this and use the opportunity to finish it off with a bang, rather than setting up a range of new storylines and ending on a cliffhanger like some past seasons have.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine isn’t the only show saved from cancellation this year, with science-fiction drama The Expanse being granted new life and a fourth season on Amazon Prime Video after being cancelled by SyFy, but the list of cancelled shows not being pulled out of the trash can is far longer.

Lots are new shows that never found their footing, but others such as Quantico, Kevin Can Wait, and Scorpion did have multiple seasons and find a solid audience.

So what’s different?

They had an audience, but they didn’t have the right audience.

There’s a trend amongst the shows that get brought back — they’re popular with younger, internetsavvy audiences. If you look at TV ratings, they can be wildly different from which shows get talked about on Twitter or Reddit, and it’s those shows that have a smaller, dedicated following that tend to be brought back. Their fans know how to protest their cancellation en masse, and make enough noise to make the shareholders of some other network say “Hey, could we make some money and buy some goodwill off of that?”

In the case of Brooklyn NineNine, NBC has the goodwill for now, and it will be fascinating to see if they can support the show enough to keep its quality at a level where it will make them that profit.

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 2018

Social Justice //

Social equity vs. social equality Are attempts to undo historical wrongs just setting different wrongs in the future?

DANIEL LIEBE CONTRIBUTOR

One of the most recent viral videos of Jordan Peterson reminded me of a harsh lesson all of us will have to subject ourselves to learning one way or another. Simply put, one cannot undo past hardships, and past hardships don’t grant moral license to impose hardships as retribution. I’m making reference to the recent Munk Debates that took place in Toronto between Michael Eric Dyson, Michelle Goldberg, Jordan Peterson, and Stephen Fry. The primary topic of the debate surrounded the distinction between what those on the far-left currently consider progress, and what others from the centre-left onward deem political correctness.

A significant amount of this debate detoured around the ethics of group rights rather than individual rights. This section of the debate without question highlighted the “superstars of clash,” so-tospeak, on stage. I’m talking, of course, about the heated exchange between Michael Eric Dyson and Jordan Peterson.

Dyson argued in favour of group rights specifically for the advancement of those who identify with categories of individuals that have historically been oppressed. In other words, affirmative action.

Peterson, on the other hand, argued against the implementation of group rights by claiming they would divide people on social issues rather than unite them. Peterson’s point was that advancing people through virtues in victim-

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hood status would pit people of different genders, races, and so forth, against one another in an overly tribal “oppression Olympics” of some kind.

What Dyson gets right is his understanding of how colonialism, particularly in the West, has not in an absolute sense, but in a general one, elevated a certain demographic to having a greater chance of socio-economic autonomy.

However, what’s ironic of Dyson is that he claims to hate privilege, yet so drastically wants it for the group he identifies with. Please keep in mind, it’s hard to buy into an argument for more privilege, regardless of category, when it comes from a Princetoneducated academic such as Dyson.

People like Michael Eric Dyson are why critics such as Jordan Peterson exist with growing popularity, and more people throughout the West continue to associate the left with self-righteous inward thinkers. To be fair, Dyson is a smart man with some valid points; then again, he’s a textbook example of why more people continue to roll their eyes at the left. If you need more convincing of this fitting label, feel free to find this debate online and fast-forward to the point when Dyson resorts to calling Peterson a “mean mad white man.” Say what you will of Peterson, you can’t say he resorts to name calling.

Suppose we do adopt Dyson’s desire for increased affirmative action as a form of group rights

for pretty well everybody under the face of the sun except for the straight white man. Is this actually right? By the way, don’t buy into any arguments from those interested in this proposition if they disguise themselves as being interested in equality when in reality they are interested in mandated equity.

In the West, we need to start having a serious conversation that adequately contextualizes how we

tory, slavery has been the norm, women have been deemed inferior, and multicultural societies have been seen as a waste of time.

We have zero historical reference points to go about conducting an equal society besides regarding the atrocities committed by the Soviet Union throughout the 20th century (as Peterson likes to point out).

To counter that point, just because we’ve never invented a perfect society doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try for one.

I’d hate to live in a world in which we accept our faults and have no regard for history. Yet, I’d hate to live in a society in which we chase the impossible dream of being able to absolve all of history’s scars in exchange for creating new ones. Two wrongs don’t make a right.

As I pointed out in the beginning, one cannot undo past hardships, and past hardships don’t grant moral license to impose hardships as retribution. When someone breaks your heart, you have the right to be mad at them about any social or mental repercussions you’ve endured. You can confront the person who did you wrong all you want, but that’ll never undo the past. It’s within your right to let the person who wronged you to be aware of your suffering, but it’s not equally right of you to become a similar beast.

The lesson being, it’s best to go forward with your scars and never sink down to the level of those who wronged you.

“In the West, we need to start having a serious conversation that adequately contextualizes how we are in the midst of uncharted social conditions” are in the midst of uncharted social conditions. Our current experiment of telling anybody they can be anything in society is a valuable one, but it’s also an experiment that can fail, and it wouldn’t be the first social experiment to do so.

Society is a mile wide and an inch deep. Yes, society is elastic, but it also has a breaking point should it be stretched enough. We’re no longer trying to accept one group that identifies with being historically oppressed. Instead, we’re trying to accept all of them, at the same time. In theory, this sounds great. In practice, this may be the hardest exercise of tolerance the human race has ever attempted.

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It’s a safe estimation to make that a majority of the straight white men in the West no longer have certain backwards social ideals that were once widely celebrated throughout the majority of our history. Regardless of who you are, be thankful we live in a saner time. So here’s a thought: let’s not exchange past civil unrest for future civil unrest. We can recognize that some of history’s past social wrongdoings have had some lasting effects on certain demographics. Although, just because we can recognize that as we venture into the future with different intentions, we don’t necessarily get licence as a society to adopt excessive guilt and allow future mandated inequalities.

At the end of the day, we live in a liberal society. That means equality of rights not equality of outcome. We can guarantee those who identify in groups of the historically oppressed equal rights to compete, but we should cautiously refrain from making it so that they have mandated handouts in the form of group rights that cement a form of privilege others of which cannot compete with. Should we further venture down the road of granting equity rather than equality through finding virtue in victimhood over historical wrongdoings that either don’t exist in the present to the same extent or not at all, we run the risk of learning nothing from our past and creating future civil unrest.

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istorically, food has helped link humans together. It is more than just a substance consumed for health benefits — it’s a way of bringing people together in celebration, in mourning, and in community.

In our community on campus, the Cascades Café serves this purpose for students.

With the need for a constant caffeine drip in our veins, or a pick-me-up after a particularly long and boring class, the cafeteria serves as a meeting place for us to eat, and talk, and congregate as a student body.

In years past, school cafeterias have received a bad reputation. Students are served overly-processed, non-nutritional options, and the dreaded “Freshman 15” readily makes an appearance on most undergrads at some point.

Some universities have managed to excel in providing eateries that students are happy to frequent. University of Guelph was rated by Huffpost as having one of the best on-campus cafeterias in Canada, complete with candy stations, and five different meal plan options. University of British Columbia was tenth, featuring food trucks and international cuisine at Totem Dining Hall. What factors go into making a cafeteria “good?”

How do these universities balance nutrition, sustainability, and affordability when it comes to their menu items?

Sustainable is a buzzword passed around on all the cool peoples’ lips. To be sustainable right now refers to using local ingredients, using utensils and other foodwares that are biodegradable, and providing jobs to people in the community. Consumers are advocating for environmentally friendly practices, and for increased sensitivity on the impact they have on the community and the international flora and fauna.

John Garrett, the chef manager at Dana Hospitality (the company that runs UFV’s cafeteria), comes from a fine dining back-

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ground, and worked at Horizons on Burnaby Mountain before starting at Dana Hospitality. He received a medal from the B.C. Chefs’ Association, and wrote a cookbook called Horizons: The Cookbook. Dana Hospitality is in their second year serving at the UFV campus.

As much as possible, Dana procures local ingredients. The fresh dairy comes from Fraser Valley Farms, the pork from Britco in Langley and Johnston’s in Chilliwack, the bread from Monte Cristo Bakery in Delta.

The cranberries are from Richmond, and the chicken is from Sunrise Poultry in Langley, and Hallmark Farms, a family-run farm located in Abbotsford. All the salmon is B.C. wild caught and Oceanwise, and seafood is MSC certified, meaning that it is certified by the independent nonprofit organization Marine Stewardship Council as meeting the standard for sustainability.

There are nine categories of products listed on their website that come locally.

This means the money spent by the university and its students goes back into the local economy. This means we support the farmers right down the street from campus.

Sustainable food also means buying seasonal. It involves integrating menu items with the food available throughout the year.

It means pears in the fall, strawberries in the summer, and squash in the winter. Sustainability makes sure that what is being produced is able to be reproduced; for every person, every step of the way.

Not only is the food sustainable, Dana has taken into consideration the products they use on a regular basis, attempting to reduce their carbon footprint and use environmentally safe items.

“All of our disposable food service packaging and utensils are all biodegradable. This is much more expensive to buy than regular

paper products, but Dana feels it is worth the extra cost to reduce our carbon footprint,” said Garrett.

According to the Statistics Canada website, in 2014 B.C. produced over 2.7 million tonnes of waste. That is an increase from 2012 by over 100,000 tonnes. That’s a lot of trash. Even for a university on the smaller side, our contribution to this number still matters.

In 2008 UFV signed the University and College Presidents’ Climate Change Statement of Action.

The document states that the university is “concerned about global climate change and its potential for adverse health, social, economic and ecological effects.” The document states that the university recognizes its responsibility to advance knowledge, demonstrate leadership in the community, nationally and globally, and that the expectations can be fulfilled by the university by sharing knowledge and research with students and the public. Included in this was the pledge to reduce the carbon footprint of the university, that they will reduce greenhouse emissions, and disclose and be accountable for their actions.

While the signing was over 10 years ago, it is encouraging to see that the university let these values inform their decision to hire Dana Hospitality, an outside company who also adheres to its ideals of creating a sustainable school community.

But there are more factors than simply the food sourcing and the products used that go into qualifying if a university cafeteria is sustainable. The financial aspect needs to be taken into consideration. How much of the money put into the café is expected to come out of students’ pockets?

Staff turnover plays a factor in financial stability. According to Management by Menu, a foodservice textbook: “[E]mployment time is shorter than in many other industries be-

“There is a difference between eating food with substance, and substances that resemble food.” cause it is often a means of livelihood while one prepares for a career in another area.

This is a contributing factor to the high labor turnover rate.”

The Cascades Café and the Spirit Bear Café aren’t student-run. This means there is potential for a stable, long-term group of staff members employed by Dana.

“We have a small local group of dedicated chefs and food service associates working in the café. I am proud to say we have a very low staff turnover rate,” said Garrett.

According to a study done by the Centre for Hospitality Research at Cornell University, staff turnover costs $5,864 per employee. With line cook positions having a 110 per cent turnover rate per year, and managerial positions being at about 60 per cent per year, that cost is terrifying.

A low turnover rate means less money is spent on time training new hires, meaning more money to spare that can go toward creating sustainable and nutritious menu items for the students.

The food is sourced locally, and most of the items made in the cafeteria are made from scratch.

“All of our soups are made from scratch daily, all of our sauté station sauces have been developed in-house and made from scratch. These include teriyaki, Szechuan, spicy peanut, red curry, yellow curry, sweet and sour, etc.,” Garrett said. “All of our entrees are made from scratch including the beef curry on today, lasagnas, Southern fried chicken, taco salads. We have our own inhouse-made taco seasoning, seasoned salt, cajun spice.”

In a time when so many of our products are prepackaged, chemical-laden, and overlyprocessed, it’s refreshing to see whole foods and natural ingredients used at a university.

“We make as much from scratch as we possibly can. I personally have been developing our recipes since day one, and we now have a very large recipe binder in the back,” said Garrett.

For many restaurants, it’s difficult to make a profit. Therefore, easy is usually the best option.

Prepackaged, dump-and-cook, ready-made meals are more typical than one would expect. Cafeterias are no exception.

Dana Hospitality seems to be bucking the stereotype of the cafeteria experience, and is doing a lot to step up and provide students with healthy options.

“Our sous chef Kristina, who has been with us since October, came from the Pan Pacific Hotel Vancouver, and to give you an idea of our level of real cooking, she noted right away that she was amazed [by] how

much we actually made here at UFV from scratch,” Garrett said. “Fresh baked banana bread, diablo cookies, apple loaves, lemon loaves, Rice Krispies squares, Caesar dressing, our own house-made croutons, etc. — the list goes on.”

Garrett noted there was a pot of chicken stock being made while we spoke. Not only that, but that the sauces on the sauté station are all made from scratch, as are all of the soups and entrées. They reference the binder of recipes daily.

“There is a huge 40 litre pot of chicken stock on the stove that I started this morning. It will simmer for five hours until we take it off … and have our delicious homemade chicken broth for our soups and sauces,” said Garrett.

Many of us know that health is important, and as students it is especially so. A study conducted by the University of California in Berkeley discovered that what we eat has an effect on our cognitive function. The study found that when the nutritional value of the food consumed was increased, so did the test scores of the students.

“Medical and nutrition literature has long argued that a healthy diet can have a second important impact: improved cognitive function,” states the abstract of the research paper, “School Lunch Quality and Academic Performance.” “Students at schools that contract with a healthy school-lunch vendor score higher on California state achievement tests. … The test score gains, while modest in magnitude, come at very low cost.”

While a fast food burger is a quick way to fill the hole in your stomach, the price paid doesn’t balance out against the $1.49, when realizing that what is put into our bodies affects performance throughout the day, including our academic pursuance.

But how much we pay in the café for our food fix can come across as unjustifiable when staring down that dollar menu during exam time. Money is tight during the best of times, but when it comes to something so mandatory as food, it becomes almost impossible to pay more than we think is fair.

A staff member at UFV commented on Twitter regarding the price of chocolate milk in the cafeteria. Robin Pittman, from the educational technology services department, tweeted: “I need to know why at the

#UFV cafeteria I am paying $3.15 for 500ml of chocolate milk, but $1.12 for the 750ml of the same (Dairyland chocolate milk) at Walmart. I hope Dana Hospitality pays well & provides good benefits to their employees here. I can afford, but can students?”

“I’m not sure what to say about that, other than our mark-up is below industry standard,” said Garrett. “On that particular product we are running an approximate 50 per cent food cost.”

To calculate the price they need to sell this item for, there are a few factors that need to be taken into consideration. How much the item costs to procure, and how often the item is sold. If it’s expensive to buy for the restaurant, and doesn’t sell that often, it means that it’s going to have a high food cost. This means the cafeteria doesn’t make a lot of profit on this item.

Places like Walmart, Superstore, and Safeway can have a lower food cost because they have greater buying power, and can therefore receive better deals. That means they can buy, and sell, at a lower price than a school cafeteria could. So, comparing our university cafeteria to Walmart doesn’t create the best argument when considerations are taken into why these items are priced the way they are.

Looking at what goes into the food in the Cascades Café, it makes more sense why the prices are what they are. Using local ingredients is expensive, and so is making food that requires more effort than dumping it out of a bag. The fact of the matter is that when it comes to calculating how much a menu item can be sold for, there’s a lot more that has to go into that calculation than one may realize.

At the end of the day, the food can be healthy, it can come from a sustainable source, and you can figure out how to justify the price. But what you really want is something that tastes good. Eating is a necessity to life, but it doesn’t have to be a chore.

There is a difference between eating food with substance, and substances that resemble food.

School lunch rooms have often been criticized. They’ve been victims of stereotypes and environments where cardboard mac and cheese and pathetic excuses for salads have been allowed to thrive. The Cascades Café has decided to put an end to this ridiculous trend, and instead forge a path that enables students and staff alike to eat better and perform better in school and life.

The price may be an area of contention, but what goes into the making of a fair price is a lot more complex than just fixing a number to a plate. To determine if it is justified, dig a little deeper and try a little harder to understand all that goes into making that sandwich perched on your plate.

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 30 2018

UFV Event //

Preview: National Aboriginal Day Awareness event CASSIE DE JONG CULTURE & EVENTS EDITOR

UFV’s Indigenous Student Centre (ISC) has something big in store for the Abbotsford campus next month. On June 13 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. all students have been invited to join together and celebrate Aboriginal culture at the National Aboriginal Day Awareness event. The event will take place on “the green” at the Abbotsford campus, and will provide an opportunity for students to learn about Aboriginal culture through interactive activities.

The list of attractions also features cultural performances, display booths, and local Aboriginal vendors.

According to the director of UFV’s Indigenous Student Cen-

tre, Lorna Andrews, the goal of the National Aboriginal Day Awareness event is to create awareness of National Indigenous Peoples Day, which takes place the following week on June 21. The Government of Canada’s website describes National Indigenous Peoples Day as “A day for all Canadians to recognize and celebrate the unique heritage, diverse cultures and outstanding contributions of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.”

The impressive list of interactive activities currently scheduled at the National Aboriginal Day Awareness event includes cedar weaving, carving, storytelling, rattle making, and Halq’eméylem language lessons. There will also be display booths where students can learn about Aboriginal gene-

alogy, Métis culture and history, and traditional herbal medicines.

The very popular Stó:lō Bannock food truck will be making an appearance to provide delicious traditional food at reasonable prices. All interactive activities, display booths, and vendors will be available from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and the cultural performances will occur between 11:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.

While the Aboriginal student club and the Student Union Society have co-hosted this event before, the past few events have been hosted exclusively by the ISC. The ISC has offices on the Chilliwack campus in the “400 Wing,” and on the Abbotsford campus in the Student Union Building. There they act as a vital resource that promotes and

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supports Indigenous student success. They aim to assist and support UFV students of Indigenous ancestry in their studies, or personal related issues. Their services can be provided to Indigenous students across all of UFV’s campuses upon request, and their activities are open to all students.

By providing a “home away from home” on campus for Indigenous students, their support helps to connect Indigenous peoples at our university.

This annual event first took place in June of 2005, and has existed in a variety of different forms. They have previously hosted a pow wow, and over the past four years they have expanded to include a diverse range of Aboriginal cultures in Canada. The ISC plans to continue hosting the Na-

tional Aboriginal Day Awareness event on an annual basis, with the hope that other areas within the university are able to join in as co-hosts.

This event is open to anyone and everyone. The objective of the National Aboriginal Day Awareness event is to inspire our communities to act on ensuring relevant and reciprocal education for Indigenous students, and to raise awareness about Aboriginal culture and history through performance, engaging activities and display booths, and supporting local Aboriginal vendors.

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Visual Art Show //

Telling tales of local women in art List of all female artists and authors involved in the Reach Gallery’s new exhibition.

Strong women in the local art industry stand proud after months of work. (Cassie de Jong/The Cascade)

CASSIE DE JONG CULTURE & EVENTS EDITOR

The Reach Gallery has recently unearthed new contemporary narratives by expertly combining elements of art and storytelling into their new exhibition Tales Untold. This exhibition features a number of accomplished women from a range of practices. The list includes artists Rebecca Chaperon, Davida Kidd, and Chris Reid, and accomplished B.C. writers Susan Musgrave, Zsuzsi Gartner, Erika Thorkelson, and Chelsea Rooney.

An opening reception was held for the new show at the Reach last Thursday, May 24. During her opening speech, the Reach’s executive director Laura Schneider stated that the artists featured in Tales Untold were chosen due to their aesthetic and thematic commonalities. All the work follows a feminist narrative that despite its history, is quite relevant today. Several speakers at the event used the #metoo movement as an example of how women are now being encouraged to speak out and find their own voice, and how that voice is present in these artworks. The bodies of work also follow themes of storytelling, fairy tales, dreams, and even nightmares, which inspired the collaborating writers involved in the exhibition to provide rich and evocative text in the form of poetry and prose. Their texts are displayed among the artwork.

One of the artists featured in Tales Untold is UFV printmaking instructor Davida Kidd. Kidd’s inspiration stems from science

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fiction and anything that explores how we are evolving as a species. Her work explores the strange and the unknown, including themes of new technology and culture. She describes her work as psychological landscapes reminiscent of film stills that feature characters that fit certain stereotypes and psychological profiles.

In an interview Kidd stated, “When you have artists that all deal with narrative work, there are threads that just start to crisscross.” Some of the works that Kidd provided for the exhibition are a few years old, but there

are also brand-new works in the show. The narrative aspects of her work have always been present, so there is a visible connection between the old and the new.

Laura Schneider made sure to point out the importance of collaboration in putting together an exhibition such as this. The three artists exhibiting in the main space of the gallery worked with four published B.C. authors, who inspected the artwork, and wrote short pieces of creative fiction to narrate the art. This was done instead of the traditional factual write-ups that usually accom-

pany fine art in museums and galleries. The idea to represent the work exclusively in creative writing was first brought forward by Rebecca Chaperon, who wished to inspire the exhibition’s audience to analyze the work in a more creative way.

In an interview, when asked about her overall experience writing about art in this context, local B.C. author Zsuzsi Gartner stated, “At first it was a challenge, but I liked Rebecca’s work to start with.” Gartner mentioned that she had previously come across Rebecca Chaperon’s work and loved it, so she was pleasantly surprised when the artist approached her about participating in this exhibition.

Gartner wrote about Chaperon’s recurring cave witch character that appears in her paintings.

The title of her written piece is How to make love to a cave witch.

The general mood of Chaperon’s work was also incorporated into Gartner’s interpretation. Gartner spun a myth from the paintings and fleshed it out in many different ways. Her writings were presented as excerpts from fictitious books including a scientific study of the cave witch, cave witch the cookbook, cave witch the personal account, and many more.

In regards to the unorthodox explanations of the artwork means, the newest member of the Reach’s team, Adrienne Fast, commented, “By opening up the creative process to other kinds of creative responses, we discover things about the artists that we wouldn’t have discovered otherwise.” There emerged in the written works some unexpected themes regarding topics such as

The Reach’s Executive Director Laura Schneider during her opening speech.

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sexual violence against women and determining who in our society has the authority to speak on such matters. Those themes have been expanded upon in the gallery space.

In February of this year, the Reach hired Adrienne Fast as their new curator of art and visual culture. This was Fast’s first experience with changing over exhibitions at the establishment, and she expressed that she could not be any happier that these are the exhibitions she had the privilege of introducing first in her new position. She also voiced that she could not be prouder of the team she now works with.

In addition to Tales Untold, two more exhibitions opened at the Reach last Thursday. Also making their debut were Procession by Dutch artist and master printmaker Saskia Jetten, and Of The Standard Of Taste by Andrea Hooge and Kathleen McGiveron.

Fast took the time to introduce Jetten’s work during her speech, stating that, “She is pushing forward against the limits, and is trying to see what else printmaking can be, and what it can do.”

Jettens work is comprised of a number of installations that depict figures and use a variety of distinct materials and elements.

Her works deal with identity and selfhood, and reveal more and more to the beholder the longer you spend with each piece.

Of The Standard Of Taste by Andrea Hooge and Kathleen McGiveron is housed in the Reach’s atrium gallery, and was organized by their Aboriginal curatorial assistant, Andrea Pepper, who introduced the exhibition as a comparison of contemporary art, the aesthetic of kitsch, and the roles that commercial platforms such as Instagram and Etsy play in the critical reception of contemporary art.

Author Erika Thorkelson, in addition to publishing written work in the show, is the host of The Storytelling Show from Vancouver Co-op Radio. Throughout the night she could be seen recording certain bits of the event, to be broadcast online at a later date. According to the radio’s website, The Storytelling Show airs every Sunday from 9:00 to 10:00 p.m.

Overall, the Reach’s new set of exhibitions aim to break down the boundaries between the audience and the artist through new forms of experience and observation. Tales Untold and its accompanying exhibitions will be on display at the Reach until September 2, 2018.

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 30 2018 Made by Cassie de Jong

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1: The lead singer of The Beatles.

2: The word spoken most by the Daleks in Doctor Who.

3: A place you go to watch movies and eat popcorn.

6: Italian style ice-cream.

7: A succulent plant often used in moisturizing lotions.

9: The edge of a piece of clothing that has been folded under and sewn down.

10: A unit of land area equal to roughly 4,425 square metres.

11: An Italian astronomer who revolutionized astronomy with his discoveries regarding telescopes.

12: A French cheese that is pale in colour with a slight grayish tinge and has a rind of white mould.

13: Water droplets that form on grass and other outdoor items every morning.

15: Small blackish-purple berries native to South America that have become popular in smoothies.

16: Medical issue where the blood supply to part of your brain is suddenly interrupted or reduced.

17: The professor that leads the X-Men. 18: The fear of spiders.

4: A person who is hired to draw pictures for magazines, books, or newspapers.

5: The white or gray powdery residue left after you burn something.

6: A candy that is meant to be chewed and never swallowed.

8: A bird of prey with a large hooked bill and massive wingspan.

10: A Hawaiian greeting.

13: A female deer.

14: The substance used to make candles.

LAST ISSUE’S ANSWERS: Across 1: Greenhouse Gas 5: Advocate 8: Mare 9: Hyperglycemia 13: Lawn 14: Hound Dog 17: Determination

Down 1: Gaza 2: Echo 3: Edamame 4: Siberia 6: Char 7: Envy 9: Holland 10: Endnote 11: Goth 12: Cyan 15: Duet 16: Gown

Illustration by: Amara Gelaude

Horoscopes // Astrological mysteries rudely interpreted by Lady May Aries — Mar 21 to Apr 19 Having been named after the god of war, your destiny spells wrath and vengeance.

Though usually this just results in you writing the words “CLEAN ME” on strangers’ filthy cars in an attempt to be passive-aggressive.

Learn some new tactics soldier, even your comebacks are looking lackluster.

Taurus — Apr 20 to May 20 No matter how hard you try to convince yourself that you’ve still got fashion sense, that periwinkle sweater your grandmother knit you for Christmas that you continue to wear for some reason proves to me how much you need a wardrobe overhaul stat. Go shopping tomorrow, and don’t go by yourself.

Gemini — May 21 to Jun 20 You spend most of your time at events hidden in a corner, simply watching other people.

Most people think you’re shy, but really you just listened when mother taught you that when you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. At heart you’re salty and you know it.

Cancer —Jun 21 to Jul 22 You’re a matchmaker at heart. Though this doesn’t mean you’re always a successful or well-timed one. You’ll be the first person in the afterlife to set up a dating service for the recently deceased. Though the first profile on your list will be your own, you hopeless romantic.

Leo — Jul 23 to Aug 22 A new acquaintance or not-so-close friend of yours is having a crisis and may require your support. Therefore, you should probably just avoid people altogether for the remainder of this week. You don’t need that kind of responsibility in your life.

Virgo —Aug 23 to Sep 22 We know you have the reflexes of a cat, but that doesn’t mean you have nine lives. If you read your bucket list out loud to yourself, it would sound more like a list of ways to trigger near-death experiences. Quit drawing on your cat eyeliner so perfectly and start living like a human being.

Sagittarius — Nov 22 to Dec 21 Watch your back this week for people who might take advantage of your warm, caring, and otherwise gullible nature. You have a nasty habit of only seeing the good in everyone, and easily trusting. The stars warn you that not everyone you know is that good, or worth your trust.

Capricorn — Dec 22 to Jan 19 Did you ever notice that if you shorten Capricorn by six letters you get “Cap”? You might as well throw on your sailor’s hat and stick a parrot on your shoulder this week. A storm is brewing, and you may need the extra leadership skills.

Libra — Sep 23 to Oct 22 You are so anal-retentive you rival the obsessive-compulsive powers of most librarians. Your friends consider you to be the most moronic genius they know. Whether they mean it as a compliment or a curse is your call, but I’m sure you’ll have no trouble keeping track of which ones point it out the most.

Aquarius — Jan 20 to Feb 18 This week you will find yourself in a scrap to end all scraps. There is no telling at this point who will end up the winner. But I can tell you that none of your friends will send you a “get well” letter, and your grandma will likely send a “thank you” letter to the other guy.

Scorpio — Oct 23 to Nov 21 You think you’re so funny, but this week your witty mouth is sure to land you in a heap of trouble. You’ve gotten on the last nerve of everyone you’ve ever trusted. It would be best to quit while you’re still breathing and run off to live with your most distant relative in the countryside.

Pisces — Feb 19 to Mar 20 This is a good week to lay low and keep your guard up. You should start to notice very soon that things are rustling in the bushes as you pass, and an eerie quietness erupts every time you enter a room. Be afraid, be very, very afraid.

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Martin Castro — Arts Editor

arts@ufvcascade.ca

WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 2018

Movie Review //

CHARTS

SHUFFLE

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ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER REBOUND

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HALEY BLAIS LET YOURSELF GO

CIVL Station Manager Aaron Levy is happy to be back in town. It’s a New Day Co-Op. :)

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FROG EYES VIOLET PSALMS

The Game — 100 ft Drake

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NAP EYES I’M BAD NOW

5

CHARLOTTE DAY WILSON STONE WOMAN

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HAZY 4 LETTER WORD

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SUZIE VINNICK SHAKE THE LOVE AROUND

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LUCAS LEMONS LEMON DROP

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CLAIRE MORTIFEE MEDICINES

AARON LEVY MATHEMARITHMETICIANISTA

Staying true to yourself is the theme in this collab that name drops the Biggie/Pac dispute — which may or may not have led to either or both’s untimely demise — as well as flame throwing from Meek Mills and a Bermuda Triangle reference to the world’s greatest basketball player.

Tool — Forty-Six and Two In honour of the previous track’s implementation of simple arithmetic in the chorus, Drake claiming “All I ever ask is keep it eight more than 92 with me, 100.” Here’s another song that focuses on a math problem, but perhaps also keeps it real in a chemical way, sort of.

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MUTUAL BENEFIT THUNDER FOLLOWS Radiohead — 2+2 = 5 THE LIGHT

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NOE SOUDY NO MORE LOVE SONGS

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KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD GUMBOOT SOUP

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DANA SIPOS BLUE RIDGE

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BERNICE PUFF EP

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BHURA MIDNIGHT PHASE

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ANEMONE BABY ONLY YOU AND I

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MARTIN LIZOTTE UBIQUITÉ

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STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS SPARKLE HARD

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OH SEES OVERTHROWN

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TAMPA BELATED LOVE

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Thom Yorke is no stranger to songs that utilize numerical relations in order to illuminate traits of the modern life, here lamenting the hold of propaganda as it relates to absolute power and the need for an acquiescent populous, eating up doublethink and regurgitating party slogans like MAGA et al.

Yo Gotti — Rack it Up This song joins us due to the featured verse, split in two on the video version, wherein our heroine insists on recognizing that she enjoys, desires to, or effectively accomplishes the act regularly of racing to China, where I’ve recently returned from visiting over the past 10 days or so!

What was missing from Avengers: Infinity War? JEFF MIJO-BURCH OPINION EDITOR

You might be familiar with the phrase “jumping the shark.” It’s used to refer to a point in a series where a show, having reached its peak and used all of its best ideas, does something outrageously over-the-top in an effort to raise the stakes, but it ultimately is the start of that series’ decline.

While sitting in the theatre, watching Avengers: Infinity War, a thought hit me around halfway through and stuck with me throughout the rest of the (exceedingly lengthy) runtime: this is like watching a shark get jumped in slow motion, with no emotional weight whatsoever.

Maybe that’s unfair. I don’t think that Marvel movies will all be downhill from here, and I’ve felt burnt-out on the films for a few years now, but the successive successes of Spider-Man: Homecoming, Thor: Ragnarok, and Black Panther had my enthusiasm reinvigorated going into Infinity War. And Infinity War sucked all of that enthusiasm right back out.

A lot of people loved Infinity War, and I understand (and envy) those people. It’s everything the archetypical Marvel movie tries to be cranked up to an absurd level. Massive, CGI-filled action scenes that drag on, well-established characters tossing quips around, and all the crossover interactions fans have been waiting for after years of teasing.

And yes, moment-to-moment, the movie can be a lot of fun. I’m a Thor fan, and seeing him interact with the Guardians of the Galaxy was everything I wanted it to be. The team-up of Iron Man, Spider-Man, and Doctor Strange was a bit more grounded, but provided a fun dynamic. However, these were just moments, and now, having had some time since seeing the movie, I remember them in a more vague sense of enjoyment than with any concrete details. It’s wholly ephemeral entertainment. As for the rest of the movie, it for the most part plays itself very seriously, but still lacks emotional weight.

I’m going to get into total spoilers now, so be warned, because I expect lots of people who have seen the movie are questioning why I’d say it has no emotional weight. Characters die, people are distraught, and horrible things happen. But the movie doesn’t sell them well. It’s so massive in scale and so dramatic that it undercuts any actual human moments. Deaths before the end of the film are telegraphed ahead

of time, built up so that you know they’re coming, as if the movie is saying “Get ready to feel some major emotions!” Gamora’s is the biggest example, of course — the whole film is setting us up for her to die, preparing us emotionally, and the problem is, when she ultimately does, we see the sorrow filtered not through her friends (until later, when it’s diluted) but through Thanos.

And maybe that’s the problem.

Thanos is the main character of this film. He’s a villain, yes, but he’s the only one given enough screen time to feel fleshed out beyond just relying on viewers’ memories of earlier movies.

But he’s not a sympathetic character in the least, so when the filmmakers try to make us feel his sadness at needing to sacrifice his beloved daughter for his goals, we’re left conflicted — are we sad that Gamora is gone, or because Thanos is showing he has emotions, or because he’s one step closer to his goal? Are his moments of humanity meant to make us empathize with him, or show us that he’s a monster who would do anything to reach his goals?

The other issue with deaths is one that comes from the metanarrative of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). What I mean is that there’s a story in the films, but there’s also a real-world story of how these films are made, and for a lot of fans (even those who aren’t die-hards, which I’ll readily admit includes myself), that story gets more attention than the one within the movies.

So when Gamora dies, many of us already know that Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn said that the third movie in his series would focus on her.

We know that, at the climax of the movie, when Avengers are dying left and right, this cannot possibly be permanent. Doctor Strange, Spider-Man, and Black Panther have only had one movie each (and the latter two were recent, and fantastic, hits), so can we really believe that they’re just dead in an instant, while Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor (who’ve been staples for years and are certainly nearing the end of their contracts) are amongst the few survivors? Thanos literally used time travel moments before the massively fatal climax of the film to bring Vision back to life (briefly), establishing that no death in this story has to be permanent.

So when all of those characters die, it isn’t sad. I just sighed, knowing this will be undone in the next Avengers. Once you introduce time travel into a story, its events lose an immeasurable amount of gravitas, because you know if anything gets too bad to be believed, the heroes can just reverse it.

Superhero movies are at their best when they tell human stories in crazy ways — stories that give us a chance to connect with their characters, cheer for them, laugh with them, and understand who they are. When they succeed at that, we have incredibly memorable films that can be fun for a huge variety of audiences, are emotionally engaging, and stick with you. Avengers: Infinity War is the opposite of that. It’s so busy creating flashy, immediate gratification that it forgot to include any real substance. A lot happened in it, and I didn’t care about any of it.

ARTS

WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 2018

Album Review //

Jo Passed’s debut flies lopsided and glorious MARTIN CASTRO ARTS EDITOR

Jo Passed’s Their Prime seems to have climbed out of the murky intersection between the kind of pre-Led Zeppelin rock that ostensibly died out in the early-’70s and Daydream Nation-era Sonic Youth.

Opener “Left” gives listeners the impression that Jo Passed is more anxious than they end up being, because although the tracks that follow are just as full of tension, they reveal themselves to be entirely conscious of themselves.

At 12 tracks, Their Prime is full of enough content to populate two more concise, distinctly different versions of the band’s debut. However, where the difference between the lackluster “Facetook” and the manic “Millennial Trash Blues” is most apparent, is within the first four seconds of either track (despite the fact that they do not follow each other chronologically).

“Millennial Trash Blues” is

Soundbites //

know-how and conviction to abandon each musical phrase for a new one after only four seconds while still making a somewhat coherent musical (or instrumental) statement, Their Prime turns out to be both incredibly relaxed for a record as fraught with dissonance as this, and unpredictable for something so laidback. Tension materializes and dissipates in the same breath, and for all one might try, there’s never a clear winner within any one track. It’s never all noise or all ethereal whispers, almost always it’s a revolving flapjack of both: each side distinct, yet part of the other.

This doesn’t mean the record itself is erratic in direction; if anything, it sets out in one on the first track, but meanders consistently in the tracks that follow, while still sticking to the general path.

Like a child finding their path to a house through the woods, Their Prime does not fly straight, but man, are the detours ever worth it.

Soundbites //

Blessed/Tunic Blessed/Tunic split There is a long creative history of splits in the punk scene that has definitely been addressed in this particular collaboration between Abbotsford homeboys Blessed and Winnipeg’s Tunic. The first track may be asking us to “calm down,” but the request seems rather counterintuitive compared to the energy output produced by the two groups.

These bands share little in common, yet somehow the two tracks work off one another in a way that makes complete sense. The instant I switched on this split I was hit by familiar vibrations in Sound by local favourites Blessed. The first half seems pretty chill, which creates a false

magnificently manic and infinitely danceable — more of a punk jam than the record’s opening track would have one believe. That said, “Facetook” is equally downcast, but opts to throw on a hazy, lo-fi outfit instead of a more aggressive alternative.

This, perhaps, explains the band’s allure: its seemingly effortless two-track existence, at once rock-and-roll and at once its antithesis.

Even mid-riff, such as on “Repair,” the instrumental conflagration gives way to a passively-wrought chorus that advances, apparently, in spite of itself, relying on leftover inertia to make it through the track’s mid-point. Always reveling in an anxious build-up that acknowledges its own release before turning towards the pop-tinged area of the music landscape, “Repair” perhaps best encapsulates the version of postpunk that Jo Passed offers us: always self-referential but never snobby. As if the record were set on letting listeners know that the band has the

Mint Field Pasar de Luces sense of security before the song drops you unsuspectingly in the middle of the real action. Near the end of the track, the momentum really starts to pick up, which is excellent foreshadowing for Tunic’s electrifying, fast-paced sound.

Sound and Teeth Showing are two tracks that could have been genuinely strong as individuals, but are exponentially stronger as a duo. In many ways they are two wildly different sides of the same coin. It seems like it shouldn’t work, but it does, which is the intriguing part.

Cassie de Jong

Oftentimes, when we think of shoegaze, the image that comes to mind is of four or five young European (English) or American men huddled over a sea of guitar pedals and synthesizers. Although the genre has seen a moderately steady revival in the past decade, it was delightfully surprising to see this particular debut pop up on my radar. At surface level, the most surprising thing about Mint Field is, of course, the two young women on stage: Estrella Sanchez and Amor Amezcua.

(Surprising both because women are largely absent from the genre, and even more so that the duo hails from Tijuana.)

In a feat that’s more indicative of the

access afforded to outsiders by the internet than of anything else, Pasar de Luces is both thoroughly steeped in shoegaze conventions and entirely fresh, presenting a more boisterous wall of sound than many of their present-day contemporaries (Cigarettes After Sex, for instance). Mint Field’s debut record relies less on catchy hooks to pull us in, and more on sparse, lumbering sonic mountains, enveloping the listener in a distinctly dream-like atmosphere.

Martin Castro

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The Cascade Event s Calendar Community, UFV Events, Music, Art, Culture Note: Some of these events require tickets, most are on Facebook.

If something catches your eye, take to the internet for more details.

JUNE 3

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JUNE 1

JUNE 2

Read aloud to Therapy Dogs @ Fraser Valley Regional Library (Abb.) 3 - 4 pm Spring 2018 Wine & Art Walk @ Downtown Abbotsford. 4 - 8 pm Thistle Dew @ Field House Brewing Co. (Abb.) 7 - 10 pm Brian O’Brien & Lowell Friesen @ Tractorgrease Cafe (Chi.) 7 - 9:30 pm

UFV International Summer Social @ Mill Lake Park (Abb.) 12- 8 pm Strawberry Rhubarb Sour Release @ Raven’s Brewing (Abb) Noon - 8 pm UFV Mental Health Awareness Club & Psychology Student Association Open Mic Night @ SippChai Cafe (Abb.) 7 pm Midnight Farmteam @ Tractorgrease Cafe (Chilliwack), 7 - 9:30 pm KNOWN Live w/ Felonius Chino, MG Dilla & Travis Murray @ The Railyard (Mis.) 7:30 pm

Yarrow Days 2018 @ Yarrow Central Road (Chi.) 8 am Drum Making Workshop @ BigFoot Moccasin (Abb.) 11 am - 3 pm Death at Northfolk - A Murder Mystery Event @ The Stage in Mission 5:30 - 11:59 pm

Yarrow Days 2018 @ Yarrow Central Road (Chi.) 8 am Auction For A Cause @ Tractorgrease Cafe (Chi.) Noon - 2:30 pm Call to Dance XVI - A Celtic Celebration @ Abbotsford Arts Centre 3 - 5 pm CR Avery @ Tractorgrease Cafe (Chi.) 7 - 9 pm

JUNE 7

JUNE 8

JUNE 6

JUNE 4 Paint Night @ Townhall Public House (Abb.) 6:30 - 9 pm

Paint Night @ Captain’s Cabin Pub (Mis.) 7 - 10 pm

JUNE 9

JUNE 10

Sign making with Antlers and Arrows @ Highstreet (Abb.) 1 - 4 pm Raiseberry 2018 @ The Reach Gallery Museum (Abb.) 6:30 - 9 pm All Ages Punk Show! Alien Boys, Car 87 and More @ Temple Music Academy (Abb.) 7 - 11 pm Roots & Blues Night w/ Brandon Isaak @ Tractorgrease Cafe (Chi.) 7 - 9:30 pm Tony O’Hara & Soloman Janzen @ The 14th Avenue Pub (Mis.) 8:30 - 11:30 pm Amadis @ The Railyard (Mis.) 7 - 11 pm

Fraser Valley Children’s Festival @ Fraser River Heritage Park (Mis.) 10 am - 4 pm Aboriginal Arts & Culture Day 2018 @ Kariton Art Gallery (Abb.) 10 am - 5 pm Desis in the Diaspora: Youth Visual Arts Exhibit @ Gur Sikh Temple (Abb.) 3 - 5 pm Jack Mercer & The Whiskey Bandits @ Tractorgrease Cafe (Chi.) 7 - 9:30 pm

Paint n’ Take ‘Acrylics w/ Nan @ HOFA Art Supplies (Abb.) 11 am - 2 pm Colour Tongues Live @ The Stage in Mission. 7 - 11:59 pm Celtic Night with Knacker’s Yard @ Tractorgrease Cafe (Chi.) 7 - 9:30 pm

JUNE 12

Marketplace by MCC Grand Opening @ 34377 Marshall Rd. (Abb.) 9 am - 9 pm Maan Farms Goat Yoga - Wine + Unwind @ Maan Farms (Abb.) 7 - 9 pm Body. Wine. Jewels. @ Chilliwack Cultural Centre 6 - 9 pm Awake O Sleeper + Carter & the Capitals w/ The Afternoon @ The Vineyard (Chi.) 7-10 pm Bottom Shelf Shelf Bourbon Trio, Knudson & Connaughton, The Great Atlas @ Captain’s Cabin Pub (Mis.) 8 - 1 am JoyRide @ Friendly Mike’s Pub (Chi.) 8 pm

JUNE 13

Landscape Sketching w/ Glenn National Aboriginal Day @ HOFA Art Supplies & Framing Awareness Event @ The Green (Abb. Campus) 10 am - 2 pm (Abb.) 2 - 4 pm Neil Osborne (54-40) @ Tractorgrease Cafe (Chi.) 7 - 9:30 pm