The Cascade Vol. 28 Iss. 02

JANUARY 15 TO JANUARY 21, 2020

VOLUME 28 ISSUE 02

Slipping, sliding, nearly dying since 1993

UFV BATHROOMS: THE GOOD, THE BAD, the unsettling 10

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When armageddon is trending

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Cascades basketball Weekend sweep

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the "cats" movie is fatphobic

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News Editor Jessica Barclay jessica@ufvcascade.ca

Opinion Editor Andrea Sadowski andrea@ufvcascade.ca

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Arts in Review Editor Chandy Dancey chandy@ufvcascade.ca

Digital Media Manager Anoop Dhaliwal anoop@ufvcascade.ca Photographer David Myles Staff Writer Aleister Gwynne Staff Writer Nicholas Ashenhurst- Toews

Sports Editor Alex Jesus alex@ufvcascade.ca Illustrator Kayt Hine Illustrator Kelly Ning Sports Writer Nic Jackson

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Staff Writer Krystina Spracklin

The Shuffler Aaron Levy

CONTRIBUTORS Amanjot Dhaliwal Kaitlyn White

Cover Photo: David Myles Back Cover: Elyssa English

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ARTS

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OPINION

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NEWS

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FEATURE

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Managing Editor Nadia Tudhope nadia@ufvcascade.ca

CULTURE

Executive Editor Jessica Barclay jessica@ufvcascade.ca

18.......CIVL Shuffle

Study Break.......16

NEWS Building K grand opening......3

4......Transit changes

Rashad Mammadov......4 OPINION Editorial.......5

5.......Dear Robin

Australian wildfires.......6

7.......Conflict in Iran

What is codependency?.....7 CULTURE 13.......Criminal Justic Student Association

Cascade Kitchen......13

SPORTS Adam Friesen .......14

15......Men's and women's basketball

ARTS Cats......17 Cascade Rewind......19

18......The Art Assignment 19......Soundbites

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2020 news@ufvcascade.ca Jessica Barclay — News Editor

NEWS NEWS

UFV //

NEWS BRIEFS

From restaurant to classroom Building K opens with a traditional Sto:lo ceremony

Shipping companies avoid Arctic Over 21 companies that ship or carry goods internationally have signed a pledge to not ship products along routes through the Arctic. According to Dan Hubbell of the Ocean Conservancy, which coordinated the campaign, the companies that have signed control approximately a third of the shipping industry, and include three of the five top shipping countries in the world and 1,366 ships. The pledge is part of a larger campaign against environmental threats.

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JESSICA BARCLAY The grand opening of Building K on Jan. 10 marked its official transition from a restaurant to a place of learning.

The building was opened with a Sto:lo ceremony, hosted by Terrington Prest, and was attended by a number of UFV officials, including Joanne MacLean, UFV president, and Tripat Sandhu, Student Union Society president.

Paul Esposito, previous owner of Finnegan’s, attended the ceremony and spoke on the history of the establishment.

The 1.6-acre property was purchased from the Esposito family in fall 2018 for just under $10 million.

Previously Finnegan’s Pub and Phoenix Ballroom, the building has now been converted to a classroom and office space to facilitate those displaced by ongoing renovations to Building A. The building has a total of 10 classrooms, two computer labs, and a meeting room, along with several offices currently hosting criminology faculty members.

The university plans to use the building as swing space throughout the ongoing remediation projects on Building A east and Building D. Building A is estimated to be complete in September 2020, with the Building D project starting as soon as space for the displaced classes are available after

the completion of Building A. Building K had a soft opening this fall on Nov. 4. A total of 95 instructors teaching classes, 22 faculty with offices in the area, and 3,100 students were moved from Building A east to Building K as renovations in Building A started.

According to the university, Building K is the short-term plan for the newly purchased land.

UFV has not announced their long-term plans for the lot.

The companies involved in the project included “Chernoff Thompson Architects; DIRTT, a manufacturer of modular walls; Chandos Construction; Williams Engineering; and Heritage Furniture,” according to UFV Today.

Killing of grizzly bear results in call for change to Wildlife Act After a resident of the village Kingcome shot and killed a beloved grizzly bear for getting too close, Mike Willie, owner of the Indigenous tour company Sea Wolf Adventures, is calling for changes to the operations of the B.C. Conservation Officer Service (COS). Willie, along with other members of the community, had contacted the COS regarding two bears, including the one killed, that were getting too close to people in the village. According to Willie, the community wanted the bears relocated; the COS said in a statement that these bears were poor candidates for relocation and would be a risk to the public during capture. As a result of the bear’s death, Willie is hopeful for changes to the Wildlife Act that will encourage nonlethal methods of dealing with bears.

According to government statistics, over the last eight years COS has killed more than 4,500 bears.

“Obviously, if the Wildlife Act, which is the policy that the COS fall under, had more Indigenous and First Nations input, there wouldn't be these 4,500 bears put down,” Willie said.

Building K. Abbotsford, BC. Jan. 10, 2020 (UFV Flickr)

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NEWS Community//

Abbotsford bus schedule changes Everything you need to know about the most recent transit update

NICHOLAS ASHENHURSTTOEWS B.C. Transit has announced more changes to the Fraser Valley bus scheduling.

About six months ago, the transit system had a large-scale restructuring in an attempt to update the system for patrons’ needs. After receiving feedback from the community, B.C. Transit has taken to instating some relatively minor schedule and route changes in an attempt to make the system run a little smoother.

The changes detailed, announced on Dec. 23, were to expand service hours in the Central Fraser Valley Transit System.

Mostly, this includes adding trips, extending routes, and “minor service improvements” in both the Abbotsford and Mis-

sion areas. These changes were in effect as of Jan. 5, 2020 and can be found on the B.C. Transit website under service changes.

According to B.C. Transit, most of these changes aim to improve the overall quality of service. Most major routes, including the 1 Highstreet/UFV, 2 Highstreet/ McMillan, 3 Clearbrook/Huntington, 7 Sumas Mountain, 5 Clearbook/Bourquin, 6 Gladwin, 12 UFV/Bourquin Peak, and 21 Aldergrove/Abbotsford, as well as the 31 Mission Connecter, have all seen some kind of service change. Number 1 has seen an increase in trips on weekdays and Saturday. The 12, along with the 5, 6, and 21 have all seen service level and schedule changes in the hopes to improve reliability. The 2 has seen increases in trips on all days as well as all Sunday trip routes

extending to the Abbotsford Rec Centre.

Finally in the Abbotsford area, the 3 bus from the university to Highstreet will see an increase in the number of trips made on Saturdays.

For students living in the Mission area, changes have been made to several lines in the hopes of improving the overall transit system. As previously mentioned, the 31 has seen service changes in the form of allowing the bus to run on stat holidays. In a similar vein, the 35 Hatzic and the 39 Shopper Shuttle have also seen service added on stat holidays, as well as on Sunday. The only real significant change in this update is the 40 East Mission Night Bus route being discontinued, to be replaced by 33 Cedar Valley and 34 East Side, which will both be gaining ser-

vice on Sundays, holidays, and in the evenings on weekdays and Saturdays.

As always, it’s recommended that if you are planning any major trips to check the schedule, which can be found online at bctransit.com, or at major bus stops such as Borquin in the near future. B.C. Transit has also updated their Rider’s Guide to reflect these most recent changes, and it can be found aboard your bus of choice, in an online PDF, or by contacting the local B.C. Transit system. These changes appear to be in response to the comments made by the riders of the buses, and with luck will provide travellers with a better, more reliable local transit system in the near future.

Q&A //

Rashad Mammadov, teacher and journalist New professor works to bring journalism into focus at UFV

ALEISTER GWYNNE Rashad Mammadov started teaching journalism courses at UFV last year, and has big plans in mind for journalism at UFV. Next fall, Mammadov will start running an investigative journalism course as part of the communications department’s initiative to offer a journalism minor. Development for the minor is still in progress but will be progressing to a “university-wide discussion in the coming months,” according to Mammadov.

Tell us about yourself and some of the things you have done in the past.

I am originally from Azerbaijan. I started as a journalist in the late 1990s in my hometown, Baku. A big part of my work was related to the early steps of formation of the school of investigative journalism in my country; it was always one of my main areas of interest.

I started my teaching career in my alma mater, Baku State University in the early 2000s. After a few years my research career path took me to the United States. I started teaching in the U.S., mostly journalism and visual communication-related courses. In 2017 we moved to Boston, and I started a tenure track position at one of the universities in Massachusetts. Last year, I accepted the position of assistant professor in the communications department here at UFV. What made you decide to come to UFV? UFV’s premise of student-oriented curriculum is close to my heart. I enjoy academic research, and I am currently working on two projects that look at how Westernoriented mass communications theories function in non-Western societies. However, my true passion in academia has

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always been teaching students skills and knowledge that would prepare them for the workplace realities and hopefully give them a head start in their careers. UFV’s focus on quality, experiential learning, and community engagement is what I was looking for a long time. When I was offered a position, it was an easy choice.

What made you decide to get into journalism, and why is it important in your opinion?

Journalism is often called “the fourth estate,” one of the pillars of democracy.

Journalists hold those in power accountable for their actions. It adds another, very important player into the system of checks and balances and ensures that even if all others go corrupt, there will be someone with the ability, responsibility, and the calling to maintain a functioning democracy.

I come from a country with very specific journalism realities, not commonly observed in Western societies. All of the benefits of free speech that Canadians take for granted we had to struggle for. I started my career in the times when journalism in Azerbaijan was still trying to understand its role in a changing, postSoviet political and economic system, but it was already helping build a better life for people. So, at the time it felt like the right path.

Are there any personal projects you are working on, either now or in the near future?

I am always sort of in the field. I believe you cannot effectively teach journalism unless you remain attached [to] the newsroom for a long time. I am working with a team of journalists who report on issues of interest in my hometown and oc-

Rashad Mammadov.

casionally write editorials, mostly on the international politics in the Middle East and former Soviet states. [The] current big project that takes most of my time these days is a textbook on visual communications.

isting courses, using the journalism minor as a framework, we are in a unique position to fill that gap.

What else would you like to do or see at UFV?

The best part about being here at UFV is how welcome people around here make you feel. Everyone in the communications department and the university had been nothing but helpful and friendly, which made my transition as smooth as possible.

You don’t know what to expect when you start in a new institution, students can be different from what you are used to, but I was impressed by students’ positive attitude, preparedness, and high motivation.

UFV, overall, exceeds all my expectations.

UFV has great potential to create a competitive journalism program. The communications department has a solid foundation of efficient journalism courses.

British Columbia experiences a significant shortage of journalists in the newsrooms, but it is a part of a bigger problem of the changing business models in the industry.

Newsrooms increasingly rely on freelancers instead of staff reporters. However, no other program in the province helps students specialize in that particular work routine. With slight adaptation of the ex-

Is there anything else you would like to add?

Responses were over email, and have been edited for length and clarity.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2020 opinion@ufvcascade.ca Andrea Sadowski — Opinion Editor

Editorial //

A word for the trees JESSICA BARCLAY There are giants in our forests, trees towering hundreds of metres high that an entire family can barely reach around, standing hand-in-hand.

The B.C. government is currently assessing the management of old growth forests in the province. As part of this process, an independent panel of two people are conducting surveys across the province to access the cultural, ecological, and economic values of these forests and will be bringing their conclusions to the government this spring.

Around 33 per cent of the 13.2 million hectares of old growth forests in the province are under some level of protection, including in parks, ecological reserves, and management areas. Large portions of the unprotected forests are available for logging, and many in B.C. are angry with the current unethical logging of these delicate ecosystems.

Last February, a letter with over 20,000 signatures was sent to the B.C. premier calling for a reduction in logging of old growth forests. In September, Vancouver Island residents protested in front of the B.C. Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy building as part of the climate protests to express disapproval for current logging practices on the island.

People have reason for their frustrations. A 2018 investigation by the Ancient Forest Alliance, which was reviewed by the Narwhal last year, found that B.C. Timber Sales was not complying with regulations designed to protect old growth forests in Nahmint Valley.

This government organization is responsible for auctioning off provincial logging permits. Their lack of compliance with laws sets

a disturbing precedence. When they don’t follow old growth logging practice outlines, it cascades to other related industries, causing more damage to the forests.

The old growth rainforests of B.C. are one of the most unique habitats in the world and are home to many at-risk species that can’t survive without the forests.

The marbled murrelet is a seabird that only nests in the branches of old growth trees, and is listed as threatened by the federal government. The northern spotted owl also only nests in old growth forests that are at low elevations. B.C. is thought to have less than 100 adult pairs left.

However strong the opinions of the people are, the government has a tendency to listen the closest to its own panels and the people they have chosen to manage those panels.

Currently there are a group of only two people trying to gather the opinions and perspectives of a province of five million, which they will be presenting to the government in spring of this year. The online questionnaire will be available until Jan. 31, and both online submissions from industry professionals and general emails to the panel are still open.

The B.C. government has chosen to ignore the unethical logging practices of the forest industry regarding old growth forests. These are complex ecosystems, housing hundreds of unique species and trees well over 150 years old.

Old growth ecosystems take a lifetime to develop, but only a season to destroy. When these forests die, these animals die with them, and we lose trees that have watched over this land since before you were born.

OPINION

Advice //

Dear Robin

ROBIN HALPER Life is tough and confusing and weird.

We all need help sometimes, and when you need an expert opinion, you turn to an expert opinion-giver like Robin Halper. Whatever problem you’re facing in life, Robin will have a solution.

The Cascade cannot guarantee the effectiveness of Robin’s unique approach to life, but if you’re in a jam, get some advice by writing to halp@ufvcascade. ca Shoe commitments Dear Robin, In your wise opinion, what’s the best way to stay warm while walking from my car to class when staying fashionable by wearing cute shoes that aren’t in any way winter boots?

Sincerely, Cold on campus Hello, Thank you for highlighting my wise opinions, but there’s no need to kiss ass; I will answer your superficial problems regardless. If you’re that dedicated to wearing your cute shoes regardless of the rain and snow, then wear winter boots from the moment you leave your house to the moment you walk into whichever building for your class, remove the boots and store in a tote bag (which you will now lug around all day), then slip on your

little shoes. Of course, doing this is absolutely ridiculous because wearing warm shoes from the beginning of the day until the end of the day is simply a much more wise way to do things, but you don’t seem too interested in that.

Robin Gym jerks Dear Robin, At the gym, some people wear their headphones but still have music coming straight out of their phone.

It’s super annoying and I don’t know how to tell them to quiet down their music so I can channel my zen on the elliptical. What should I do?

Sincerely, Irritated ears Hey, These people are not just at the gym: they’re sitting in the comfy couch-chairs that are scattered around Building A, they’re on the top floor of the library, and they’re at the back of your VA 101 class.

They need to be stopped. Next time you encounter one of these people, turn to them and say, “Your headphones don’t seem to be working.”

Turn back around and continue your life, and hopefully they feel shame.

Robin

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OPINION World //

More than fires

Australia's wildfire crisis sheds light on the reality of climate change

AMANJOT DHALIWAL Wildfires in Australia are not a new phenomenon. They tend to happen every year, but are now beginning to make headlines for different reasons. A dangerous trend is becoming more apparent — the wildfire seasons are getting worse and are causing more damage than ever before. A

“One of the problems our generation has is that we pay attention to something while it is trending and forget about it once it isn’t.” total of 17.9 million acres have burned in Australia and over 28 people’s lives have been taken by the flames. Approximately 1 billion animals have been killed, and several of these species are now at risk of extinction. To make things worse, summer has only just begun in Australia and more wildfires are almost certain.

Australia’s wildfire season this year has a lot to teach us. The heated debate around climate change and its implications are embodied in the disaster. People are taking sides and pointing fingers at the causes of the fire: is it proof that climate change is real, or is it just another example of human stupidity in history?

Over the duration of three months, only 24 people are facing charges of arson and contributing to the wildfires in Australia. There was a lot of attention pointed toward the arsonists and their role in the crisis. However, this attention is misdirected. Arsonists have always existed — whether they light the fires on purpose or accidentally leave a trace behind after camping. Fires naturally occur in many habitats, Australia included, as natural forces like lightning strikes often act as ignition. Instead, there is something more concerning happening. Something is beginning to fuel these fires more than ever, allowing them to spread and get to dangerous, rarely seen levels.

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Extreme drought together with record high heat and strong winds are all factors that combine to create the perfect environment for a wildfire. Rare conditions like these are predicted to become more common across the globe as the effects of climate change continue to become more visible. Australia’s average temperature has gone up by one degree since 1910, and there has been a trend of longer fire seasons following the change.

The primary focus should be on preventing the conditions that cause fires to become unmanageable. The fires are going to continue to happen, but the worsening conditions of the planet only make their impact greater. As has been preached for years, it will eventually be too late to do anything about climate change if we wait for the effects to settle in before taking action.

From paying attention to food options, effectively using transit, supporting local climate change movements, and voting for people that will treat climate like the imminent problem it is — there is at least one thing all of us can do.

One of the problems our generation has is that we pay attention to something while it is trending and forget about it once it isn’t. It’s easy to forget about a crisis on the other side of the world once we stop hearing about it and stop connecting with the people it affects. Videos from Australia of koalas clinging to humans for water have become viral lately — connecting people around the world with the same passion for change. One of the positive things that came out of these last couple decades is the increasing ease

of circulation of information around the world. The connection between continents is as strong as it has ever been. As long as the conversation around climate change remains prominent in media, the chances of governmental change and policy action rise alongside it.

Millions of dollars have been donated

through sharing Australia’s situation on social media and every cent counts, as billions are going to be needed to deal with the aftermath. The Australian government has already promised billions of dollars toward the damages as well, so there is plenty of monetary support already available for the crisis.

You can help by donating through several organizations, like the Red Cross, which help deal with the aftermath of the fires. It is also important to remember the people on the frontlines of the battle, and it is possible to directly donate to the fire service and support the families of firefighters who passed away battling the fires. However, even if you cannot donate millions of dollars like celebrities, keeping the conversation going on social media and focusing at tent ion towards the crisis is just as important.

Illustration by Kayt Hine

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2020

OPINION Relationships //

What is codependency?

When you just aren’t happy being alone ANDREA SADOWSKI Are you trapped in a relationship that you feel you are constantly making sacrifices for? Do you continually ignore your own needs in favour of your partner’s needs?

Codependency means belonging in a dysfunctional relationship in which one partner depends on the other for fulfilling their emotional needs, and usually by doing so they enable their partner’s selfdestructive, addictive behaviour. Codependency is an addiction in itself — an addiction to love and being in a relationship.

If you were raised in a dysfunctional family, you have a greater chance of finding yourself in a codependent relationship.

Adults who were raised by one or more parents who were emotionally unavailable are often left with a feeling of deprivation and guilt that plays into their future relationships. Those raised in dysfunctional homes where their emotional needs were not met may attempt to fill this void by attaching onto an equally damaged partner.

Codependents fear abandonment, which is why they will stay in relationships that offer them nothing but heartbreak. Abandonment issues can be rooted in childhood trauma, and cause codependents to latch onto their partner out of fear of being alone

Codependent relationships are onesided relationships in which one person sacrifices their own health and well-being to support their partner’s irresponsible, reckless behaviour, or their poor mental or physical health. One partner will enable the other’s poor life choices by bailing them out of situations they got themselves into, and making up excuses to accommodate this unhealthy behaviour.

You may ask, why does one stay in a relationship that causes so much stress? Codependent relationships often thrive because of trauma bonding. Instead of falling in love slowly and steadily, people with past traumatic family wounds and abandonment issues will often fall in love hard and fast and create emotional bonds with their partner through abusive, traumatic experiences. At first you feel loved and cared for by your partner, but eventually abusive behaviours will shine through and take over the relationship, leaving you trying to fix what went wrong. The traumatic experiences of giving and receiving abuse can act as the glue that holds a codependent relationship together, as you both relive your original trauma with one another.

Codependency is a hard addiction to break, as one always wants to believe that their partner will change their reckless be-

haviours. Codependents desperately try to “save” their partner by changing themselves to suit their partner’s needs and letting go of every boundary they try to set.

This fantasy of their partner getting better, and this idea of who they could be together if their partner healed from their own addictions, is what allows the codependent to ignore their partner’s abusive behaviours toward them.

Codependent relationships eventually come to an end, as one partner will become emotionally, financially, and physically exhausted from constantly putting themselves last. Resentment starts to fester within the relationship, causing strain, tension, and ultimately termination.

After reading all of this, you may have realized that you struggle with codependency, and that realization is the first step to recovery. It is possible to recover from codependency, or “love addiction,” but as with any other addiction, it will take a great deal of time, patience, and persistence to get better.

You may consider joining a Codependents Anonymous group, which allows you to go through a 12-step program to heal from your addiction and learn to build healthy relationships. These groups are wonderful for people in recovery as

you are able to meet people who share your same struggles, which combats feelings of isolation you may have developed while being in a codependent relationship.

You can try to heal from past childhood trauma that may be at the root of codependency issues by meeting with a counsellor.

UFV offers free counselling services to all its students, and the student healthcare plan offers extensive mental health and counselling options as well.

Consider separating from the person who you’re in a codependent relationship with. This is the hardest part of recovery as you may still love the person whom you need to detach from, but it is necessary in order to heal and be able to focus on yourself and your own needs again. You must come to the conclusion that your partner is responsible for their own life, and their actions will have consequences that you cannot continue to let them avoid. You are not to blame for their addictive, abusive behaviours, and there is absolutely nothing you can do to change them.

To break the cycle of codependency you must first love yourself enough to not be afraid of being alone. Know that you are worthy of love and worthy of being in a healthy relationship with someone who reciprocates that feeling of love.

World //

A taste of Armageddon Not with a bang, but with an incoherent, late-night Twitter thread

KAITLYN WHITE Late one evening last week, I sat cozied up on my couch with a tin of leftover shortbread. New Year’s Eve party decorations were still hanging in my apartment, Christmas lights still twinkling cheerfully on the tree. That wonderful clean-slate optimism of a brand new year was still fresh, and full of potential.

That is, until notifications started to light up my phone. Cozy holiday cheer was snuffed out by familiar dread in the pit of my stomach. The weary exasperation of “What’s happened now?” #WorldWarThree is four of the five top trending topics on Twitter.

The fifth is #FranzFerdinand.

After Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s top military commander, was killed by a U.S. drone strike on Jan. 3, 2020, social media flooded with speculation about whether the assassination would trigger a third World War, echoing how the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand set World War I in motion over 100 years ago. When I undertook writing this piece, I planned to comment on the potential retaliation from Iran leading to another American war in the Middle East and possibly the re-election of U.S. President Donald Trump. But these are chaotic times, and that was six whole days ago.

Ever since America fell through the real-

ity TV looking glass, it has become apparent that anyone who pays attention to U.S. politics will inevitably wind up pulled into their strange, outrage-fatigued wonderland where it seems President Trump is always up to something shocking. Now, only days into 2020, it feels like history isn’t so much repeating itself as it is doing a freestyle, acid-jazz interpretation of the greatest hits.

O n Wed ne s day, Iran fired ballistic missiles at a U.S. airbase in Iraq, d e s t r o ying empty buildings and vehicles. A few hours later, Ukraine Airlines Flight 752 crashed in Teh ra n, killing a l l

176 people on board. Thursday, the New York Times released a verified video of what appeared to be Flight 752 being hit by a missile minutes before it crashed. By Thursday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that it was not a mechanical failure that caused the catastrophe but that it was likely shot down. On Saturday, Iran admitted responsibility for accidentally downing the plane due to “human error.”

Way back in the olden times of last Friday, the general perspect i v e that I saw reflected in my c owo rkers, peers, a n d friends mirrored a

pretty standard Canadian brand of tepid optimism. The thing I heard repeatedly was that this was just another example of U.S. interference in foreign countries, and that it wouldn’t have much to do with Canada. Headlines insisted that the killing of Soleimani was a very dangerous escalation that would have real consequences, but I’ll admit that it was difficult to feel anything other than cynicism. Now, 176 innocent people are dead, 57 of them Canadians, and it is impossible to feel anything other than anger and pain for the devastated families.

President Trump pushed the U.S. to the brink of war with Iran, and 176 innocent people were caught in the crossfire.

I don’t know what will happen next, but I believe The Late Show host Stephen Colbert summed it up well, exclaiming “This is what has been keeping you up at night for the last three years! It wasn’t the baggy suits, it wasn’t ‘covfefe.’ It was his ability to wage war with no understanding of consequences.”

Memes about Fortnite players “noscoping” and “killstreaking” their way through the Middle East fill the spaces on my newsfeed between world leaders subtweeting each other threats of military action. To quote Alice herself, “curiouser and curiouser” indeed.

Illustration by Kayt Hine

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BRIEF BITS OF BITE-SIZED BREVITY

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CURTAILED COMMENTARY ON CURRENT CONDITIONS

Illustrations by Kelly Ning

Would a discount hurt?

The bad book list Bill Gates and Barack Obama are avid readers, and a couple times a year they will each release lists of their current favourite books. The type of books in these lists vary, from their favourite reads from 2019 or which five books to enjoy this winter.

Of course I don’t have over 100 million followers, but I have several hundred, which is close enough. Therefore, in order to stay original, I’m going to share the most disappointing books I read in 2019 so that you can avoid them in 2020.

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Everybody, Always by Bob Goff: His first book, Love Does, Does, was excellent. He talked about throw-

ing caution to the wind in order to show others you love and care about them. This one was just him flexing all the good that he’s done in the world with his fat bank account.

2. The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline: Did I miss something, or was this book actually just not good or interesting? Why wasn’t there more worldbuilding?

3. The Perfect Girlfriend by Karen Hamilton: I’m all about psychological thrillers but this just left me thinking, “Okay, but why?”

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price and get stamped again, so next time you can get 20 per cent off your purchase, and so on up until you get 100 per cent off. It would encourage students to buy more books at the bookstore to fill up their cards, and it would help them avoid getting cleaned out by really expensive book purchases. The store keeps making money and students can save. Everybody wins. Well, maybe the school won’t make quite as much money, but surely some savings on textbooks is the least they could do.

Aleister Gwynne

Carissa Wiens

Imposter syndrome

Tim Hortons tragedy With a heavy heart I would like to inform you of some awful news I learned this week: Tim Hortons has pulled Beyond Meat patties from its menu. I’ll let you take a moment for that sink in.

All vegans are in mourning as our only meal option from this beloved fast food chain has been cruelly taken away from us, just as SUS has taken away so many of the shuttle bus times.

The day I discovered this painful news was the second day of January. I was rushing to the airport and pulled into the Tim Hortons drive-thru for my usual order of black coffee and an

I just spent over $100 last week for one textbook. Considering how much these ludicrously overpriced textbooks take out of our savings, I don’t think it is unreasonable to ask for some sort of program to help students save on their course materials. What I think the campus bookstore ought to do is create a coupon card system, like the one they had at Fairgrounds or Spirit Bear for coffee. When you buy a textbook at the bookstore, they could give you a card and stamp it once. The next time you buy a textbook there, you can either turn the card in and get 10 per cent off your purchase, or you can pay full

everything bagel with a Beyond Meat patty, lettuce, and tomato. However, the lady through the intercom told me “We no longer carry Beyond Meat.”

Devastated, I tried arguing with the voice through the intercom. “It must be a mistake. I’ll do anything, just please find me a Beyond Meat patty somewhere in the freezer! There is nothing else I can eat on the menu!”

And finally, “Okay, just give me a hashbrown.”

Andrea Sadowski

Imposter syndrome is said to be a persistent feeling of inadequacy, despite any evidence of success, and I can’t be the only one to suffer from it academically. I’m a high-performing STEM major, and even I can’t help but feel like I’m just not up to par. I have classmates who dedicate themselves to lab work with several professors, who seem to understand class material faster, and who take internships in hospitals over the summer. Despite already bordering on a workaholic, I feel compelled to take on more just to feel on the same level as my peers. Ultimately, my

message to others who feel the same way is this: recognize consistent or small successes as being caused by internal factors, not external ones that happened by chance. Erase the pressure of comparison, and celebrate what you’ve accomplished rather than mull over what you haven’t.

Even Nobel prize winner Maya Angelou felt anxiety about possibly being a fraud, but the important thing is that she didn’t let it debilitate or stop her from trying to achieve.

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Nadia’s declassified bathroom survival guide the number one bathrooms to take your number twos

by Nadia Tudhope In my years as a UFV student, I’ve used a lot of washrooms. Some of the bathrooms here may traumatize you, confuse you, or at the least, dampen your day and leave a weird smell in your nose. Everyone is much better off with a pleasant bathroom experience, so to save new students an unpleasant one and inform current students of what’s available to them, I’ve ranked some of UFV’s most notable women’s and gender-neutral bathrooms. Heed my wisdom.

Building A long boys (Building A) (W)

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Once again, it’s the many stalls that make these bathrooms winners. The long bathrooms in Building A get bonus points for having ledges to dump your stuff on while you pee, so you don’t have to hang all your stuff on the bathroom door, slowly soaking up germs. However, the paper towel bins are always overflowing — not as a janitorial failing, but because everyone who uses these washrooms is too cowardly to compress the piles of balled-up paper towels to reveal that the bin is not, in fact, that full.

8/10

This bathroom framed me for murder (Building A) (W) The vibes in here are rancid. The abhorrent blood-washed-out-ofa-white-garment pink that saturates this bathroom is hell upon the eyes. Something about it makes my skin itch. It reminds me of a grandmother I never had. It often smells strange in here, and the tiles feel as though they will never be clean. There’s an element of claustrophobia in its design that is frankly unnecessary. To dry your hands with paper towel is to risk being hit by the door.

In one harrowing experience, a girl in the stall next to me had a whole conversation on speakerphone while she pooped.

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The salad bar (Building S) (GN)

Nature’s bathroom: The great outdoors (Building S) (W)

This bathroom is weirdly long for the number of stalls it has (a feeble two). Aesthetically, it’s nicer than the average UFV bathroom. The gender-neutrality of this bathroom is perhaps a lie: there are no little trash cans in the stalls, so if you are menstruating, you have to carry your used products all the way across the bathroom to the garbage can that is supposed to be for paper towel only, and hope no one is going to walk in to witness you cradling a pile of bloody trash. One time, our Creative Director found a variety of cut vegetables and fruits, unflushed, in a toilet here. Also, the water pressure in this bathroom sucks.

1/10 Shower time (Building C) (W) Again, this bathroom is a winner simply for the impressive amount of stalls.

This is a bathroom that respects women. However, it is strangely long and, appearance-wise, terrible. Plus, one of the sinks makes a weird noise that I can only describe as a robot screaming. Inexplicably, there is a shower here. The curtain does not close.

This may be the bathroom with the highest number of stalls, and for that it has my utmost respect. There are never lines for this bathroom. Whoever designed it must have been using all of their brain cells. The mirror situation is a setback though. I feel as though the framed photos above the sink in place of your typical bathroom mirrors are making some sort of statement on vanity and obsessions with appearances, and yet, there are two full-length mirrors to either side of the sinks. Beguiling. Nevertheless, good for mirror selfies and checking yourself out if you are okay with being conspicuous about it. The nature photos above the sink do redeem themselves by being soothing to my psyche.

8/10

The forgotten (Building C) (W)

5/10

No one is ever in this bathroom, so if you like privacy and use women’s washrooms, this is the bathroom for you. The fogged window in the large stall is an intriguing addition. I love the red frame. Although the bathroom’s overall aesthetic is pretty standard, in line with UFV’s outdated and washed-out appearance for bathrooms, a clear effort has been made to liven it up.

7/10

Darkness reigns in Finnegan’s grave (Building K) (W)

Clearly, no effort has been made to convert this from a pub bathroom to a UFV bathroom, and that’s what makes this particular water closet fun and fresh. The looming doors make you feel small the minute you step into a stall, and yet the rest of the bathroom is designed to invoke claustrophobia. The dark colour scheme at times makes me feel as though I have stumbled into a bathroom in hell. And yet, the UFV logo has been stamped onto the soap dispensers to remind me where I truly am, and so the university may make its feeble mark on this washroom, which refuses to stop belonging to Finnegan’s. Graffiti remains in every stall, as if the past is ever-haunting the present.

Sometimes I look at this graffiti and wonder what happened to these girls.

6/10

Secret bathroom (Redacted) (GN) This bathroom is excellent purely by virtue of being secret.

Using this bathroom feels exactly like opening the bookshelf doors into my childhood best friend’s secret room (maybe my experiences are not universal). It is remarkably clean! I have seen cleaners more often in this bathroom than in every other UFV bathroom combined. The toilets are sparkling. 10/10, would consider cheek-to-seat contact.

D E T C A D E R

The poo palace (Building K) (W)

In stark contrast to its sister, this Building K bathroom is made up of light colours and open spaces. If the bathrooms at the south end of Building K are hell, these are heaven. The tall stall doors feel protective here, rather than oppressive. The black-and-white tile floors invoke nostalgia for an era I was not a part of, and give a sense of being inside a dated, charmingly tacky mansion. There is an entire section of this bathroom dedicated to mirror selfies, and for that I applaud this bathroom’s architect. They know what the people want.

There are two soap dispensers to every sink here, although I suspect this was with the intent to make UFV’s mark upon soap dispensary here, too. You will notice, of course, that while these soap dispensers seem identical to any other on UFV campus, only in Building K are they marked by the university itself.

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2020 culture@ufvcascade.ca Carissa Wiens — Culture Editor

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Spotlight on UFV’s Criminal Justice Student Association CARISSA WIENS

The Criminal Justice Student Association (CJSA) meets every Wednesday from 12 - 1 p.m. in room K173. Find them on Facebook at UFV Criminal Justice Student Association (CJSA), on Instagram @cjsa.ufv, and on Twitter @UFV_CJSA to stay updated with future meetings and events.

This interview is with Dakota Pope-Kuiper, the CJSA president and second-year criminology student and Bhavneet Parmar, the CJSA treasurer and first-year criminology student.

How did the CJSA form and what inspired its creation?

Pope-Kuiper: It’s been around much longer than either of us have been at UFV, but when we joined the group this past October it was falling apart. A lot of the students beforehand were graduating or studying abroad, so it was really just one person, Liam, holding it all together. But since then we’ve been able to get together an entire five-member executive team and around five new members. Plus we’ve updated our social media and have a Facebook page, Instagram, and Twitter account.

Getting 10 members in just a few months is a big accomplishment. How did you do it?

Parmar: I would say excitement. Everyone in the group has such great ideas and a lot of motivation to make this into something bigger than just wanting to put in volunteer hours, but really wanting to grow this club.

Pope-Kuiper: One of the executive members that came after the three of us [Dakota, Bhav, and Liam] is a friend of mine from my classes, so I got her on board that way, then ended up getting another member on board that way too, and then a couple of people found out through social media.

What do you think the purpose of the club is?

Pope-Kuiper: I definitely think our purpose right now is — other than building it — is getting people excited about volunteer work and building that part of your resume. I can’t speak for other majors, but for criminology it’s really important that you volunteer because it looks so good on your resume.

Parmar: When you’re going into a field, whether it’s as a lawyer, or working in

CULTURE

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Cascade Kitchen: Soy butter cookies

social work, or whatever it is, you have to be able to have connections with the community in some aspect. This club is a perfect opportunity to get your foot in somehow. And that makes such a big difference, whether that’s on your resume or just knowing people that can give you more opportunities that way.

Just to clarify, does the CJSA meet and do volunteer work together, or what is it you actually do as a club?

Pope-Kuiper: We mainly plan events, and that is what it’s been in the past.

Since we’re rebuilding we can go in any direction we want. One event we’re planning right now is a recruitment fair for a bunch of employers (in the crim field) to come out on Feb. 27 in the SUS building. Right now we’re trying to get people interested in the group that way.

We’re trying to rebuild and get people interested in criminology.

We don’t do a lot of volunteer work like you mentioned, but we do stuff just around campus right now.

You mentioned there are five executives and about five other members.

How do those other five members benefit from being in the CJSA? Pope-Kuiper: They definitely benefit from even being associated with it; they get that on their extracurricular activities and can put that on their resume.

As executive members get up in their years here, they’re going to graduate, so if you’ve been in there [the CJSA] for a long time you’re more likely to get an executive position later on. And also even having the ins and outs with the faculty members.

Parmar: And I feel like a lot of people don’t know this, but every person that’s enrolled in the criminal justice program is a member of the CJSA. It’s just their choice whether they come out to meetings or not. So everyone is welcome to come to the meetings. They don’t have to let us know; they can just show up.

Pope-Kuiper: By being a criminology major or having a minor in criminology, you have the right to come out and vote for new executive members and vote in elections. You have the right just by being in that program. I think it’s just something that isn’t advertised enough, which we’re working on, but everyone’s welcome!

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Not peanut butter cookies. Jan. 10, 2020. (Nicholas Ashenhurst-Toews)

NICHOLAS ASHENHURST-TOEWS The Cascade Kitchen is a student-run food column that brings you budget-friendly recipes and cooking tips. Check back weekly for something new to try in the kitchen, or if you want to see your own recipe featured next, get started by reaching out to culture@ufvcascade.ca.

Peanut butter cookies will forever be a nostalgic favourite treat for me. Unfortunately, around the age of seven I developed a mild peanut sensitivity which, while not lifethreatening, did mean that I completely cut peanut products out of my life.

Something I had been wondering for years was if I could just replace the peanut butter with some other similar substance. There is a wide assortment of replacements for peanut butter, including other nut butters, such as almond, sunflower, pea, and soy butter. I decided to use my favourite alternative: soy butter. While not quite what I remembered, this recipe yielded an adaptable smooth dough and cookies that crumble wonderfully.

Ingredients: 2 1/2 cups flour 1 tsp baking powder 1 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp salt 1 cup butter, room temperature 1 cup white sugar 1 cup packed brown sugar 2 eggs 1 cup soybutter, room temperature Method: Combine the butter, white sugar, brown sugar, and soy butter in a large bowl until they are smooth. Beat in eggs one at a time.

In seperate bowl, sift the dry ingredients together, then combine with the butter mixture, adding the dry ingredients to the wet.

In bowl, refrigerate the dough for 1 hour.

Roll into 1-inch balls and place on a greased cookie sheet. Flatten each of the balls with a fork to create a decorative criss-cross pattern.

Bake in a preheated 375 F oven for about 10 minutes, or until cookies begin to brown.

Soy butter and jam cookie variant: Follow all steps until flattening the dough.

Instead of using a fork, use thumb or back of a spoon to indent the dough and fill with fruit jam.

Bake at 375 F for 15-17 minutes.

Optional chocolate dip Melt chocolate in a double boiler or in a microwave at 10-second intervals until smooth.

Dip half of a cooled cookie in chocolate.

Place on parchment lined baking pan and let dry.

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SPORTS

VOL. 28 // ISSUE 02 sports@ufvcascade.ca Alex Jesus — Sports Editor

Men’s Basketball //

Adam Friesen talks about his coaching journey ALEX JESUS In sports it is often the case that the athletes are known as the deciding factor in winning or losing. Some teams or athletes, however, are known for their coaches and the value they bring. UFV men’s basketball coach Adam Friesen brings his own set of skills from the bench. Friesen’s style of nononsense coaching has come to be something of a fan favourite at UFV, with his passion on full display. He’s successfully led the Cascades to multiple playoff appearances and many memorable games.

For Friesen, growing up with a father that coached basketball was beneficial, as he was able to not only learn from him, but be surrounded by others who knew and appreciated the coaching side of the sport.

“My dad would take me around as a kid and bring me to dinners and different things that he’d have with his friends who were a lot of the times often also coaches. So the people I was around when I was growing up as a kid were basketball coaches,” Friesen said.

As he progressed through his journey as a basketball player, Friesen went on to play on provincial teams before spending his university career playing at both the University of British Columbia and Trinity Western University. He played for many different coaches, but while he learned from all of them, he also realized the significant aspect of understanding yourself so that you can lead others.

“I think a big part of coaching is just understanding who you are. You know? You can’t try to be somebody else. You have to be yourself, and that’s I think the most im-

portant thing with coaching. If you don’t understand that, then life gets hard.”

One skill in coaching that may go underlooked from time to time is the ability to successfully transition with new groups of athletes. All teams change, sometimes during the season, so in coaching, adapting and having new perspectives is key to any group’s ability to win and grow. Friesen sees a lot of positives with his current roster so far.

“I think it’s been really fun to watch. Almost everybody on the team has been here for multiple years, and I think it’s really been enjoyable to see the group just grow as a group in general, on and off the court.

On the court, players have really taken on new roles this year.”

Specifically, there are many players that have impressed Friesen at this point in the season, but for him, watching the seniors grow as athletes and leaders has been a very special part of his time as a basketball coach at UFV. “It’s been fun to watch Matt Cooley, Sukhjot [Bains], and Parm [Bains] take on that senior leadership role. That’s always enjoyable, to watch people in their senior

phy winner, a prestigious award given to the top college football player in the United States each year. Clearly, not much has changed, because Henry won the 2019-20 NFL rushing title for the regular season.

On the weekend, Henry didn’t just break the internet with his shocking highlights against yet another quality team.

This time he broke the record books too. Henry is now the only player in the history of the NFL to rush for over 180

Game/Date: UFV at UNBC / Friday, Jan. 10 Score: UFV 79 UNBC 67 Game/Date: UFV at UNBC / Saturday, Jan. 11 Score: UFV 75 UNBC 71 Adam Frisen. Jan. 4, 2020. (UFV Athletics)

year take another stride in their games, in their leadership.”

There is no doubt that Friesen has developed his own unique style of coaching the Cascades, as he can often be heard from the bench, enthralled with a fiery passion for the games that’s often not seen from other coaches. While Friesen is nowhere close to being done coaching, it’s evident that his wisdom, love, and passion for the role garners respect, as well as admiration for his obvious commitment to his players.

Come watch Friesen and the UFV Cascades when they take on the coach’s old team, the Trinity Western Spartans. The first game will be held in Langley at Trinity Western University at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 16. The second will be held at UFV on Saturday, Jan. 18 at 7 p.m.

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gate when the Xbox One was released back in 2013, it is important to note that the leadership has changed. In his time as the head of Xbox, Phil Spencer has flipped what it means to be an Xbox gamer. When the Xbox One was first announced, it was marketed as an “all in one” entertainment system. Now, the company prides itself on having the most powerful console ever.

Heading into the next generation, Xbox has removed everything that damaged the reputation of the Xbox One at launch, and has worked to become the best place

Men’s Basketball Game/Date: UFV versus UNBC/ Friday, Jan. 10 Score: UFV 87 UNBC 72 Game/Date: UFV versus UNBC / Saturday, Jan. 11 Score: UFV 87 UNBC 58

Women’s Volleyball Game/Date: UFV versus Vancouver Island University / Friday, Jan. 10 Score: UFV 0 VIU 3

yards in three consecutive games: a feat completely unprecedented given that modern offences have all but moved on from running in favour of passing the football.

It’s not a trend, nor is it the new norm; however, Derrick Henry is reminding football fans that running is not obsolete in 2020.

Game/Date: UFV versus Vancouver Island University / Saturday, Jan. 11

Alex Jesus

Men’s Volleyball

Why Xbox will win the next generation Six years ago, the Xbox One and PS4 were released; however, the PS4 quickly began to outsell the Xbox One. With Xbox recently revealing the Xbox Series X at the Game Awards, fans have become curious to see which company’s next generation console will dominate the years to come. Although the PlayStation brand has been more significant in pop culture over the last few years, I believe the Xbox Series X will push the company back to the top of the console wars.

Although Xbox stumbled out of the

Jan. 10 – Jan. 12, 2020

Women’s Basketball

Derrick Henry is changing the NFL this year In the sport of football, and more specifically the National Football League (NFL), the trend over the last 10 years has been teams passing the ball significantly more often. The running backs of the league who once had the spotlight as the top players other than quarterbacks were now running less. Today, only a few teams have specific rosters for running the ball. One of them is the Tennessee Titans. Their star would happen to be Derrick Henry, the 2015 Heisman tro-

UFV Cascades Sports Scores

to play games. Gone are the days of the lackluster Kinect and always needing to be online. In recent years, Xbox has implemented GamePass (a Netflix-like service for downloading games) and backwards compatibility with games.

Spencer has even announced that current generation controllers will work on the Xbox Series X. Also, Xbox has been buying up studios which will pay off in the long run.

Nic Jackson

Score: UFV 0 VIU 3

Game/Date: UFV versus Vancouver Island University / Friday, Jan. 10 Score: UFV 1 VIU 3 Game/Date: UFV versus Vancouver Island University / Saturday, Jan. 11 Score: UFV 0 VIU 3

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2020

SPORTS Women’s Basketball //

UFV’s women’s basketball team starts a winning streak over the weekend After travelling to northern B.C., the Cascades faced off against UNBC for two exciting games NIC JACKSON This weekend the Cascades headed north to take on the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) in Prince George.

Prior to the weekend, UFV’s women’s basketball team held a regular season record of 6-4, with their most recent game having been a win at home against the University of British Columbia (UBC).

During Friday night’s game, some of the Cascades put up some impressive stats. During Taylor Claggett’s 36 minutes of play, she was able to grab 30 points for the Cascades. While Claggett was a force on offence, she also showed her defensive presence by grabbing the most rebounds in the game, with 15. Claggett’s dominance on the court over the weekend helped her break UFV and conference records.

The Cascades began Friday’s game eager to start a winning streak. In the first quarter, the visiting team was able to outscore the UNBC Timberwolves by 13.

This resulted in the Cascades starting the second quarter up 23-10. For most of the second, they were able to keep this lead; however, with 1:04 left in the half, UNBC’s Maria Mongomo scored a layup from the key, which gave the Timberwolves their first lead in the game. With little time left in the half, the Cascades and Timberwolves shared possession a few times, which resulted in the teams leaving the first half tied, 42-42.

The next quarter was very similar to the last two. The two teams continued to battle for every possession, but the Cascades were able to head into the fourth

with a small lead over their hosts, 62-58.

Although the game was close up until the end of the third, the Cascades were able to run away with the win in the last quarter.

In the fourth, they outpaced the Timberwolves 17-9.

After winning Friday night’s game, 7967, the Cascades had less than 24 hours to try and repeat their success. Fortunately for them, they were just able to hold on late in the game. In the first two quarters of play, the Cascades built a lead of 37-24.

When the second half started, it looked like they would continue to dominate; however, the second half saw them battling to hold their lead. While the third quarter saw them only get outscored by three, in the fourth the Cascades were outscored 22-16. Luckily for the visitors, UNBC ran out of time, and the Cascades won 75-71.

After finding two wins over the weekend, the Cascades now have a record of 8-4. This means that UFV’s women’s basketball team sits in fifth place, out of 17, in the Canada West standings. Currently, the Cascades are only four wins away from first place, but UFV only has eight more games in the regular season.

The Cascades will hopefully continue their winning streak next weekend, when they take on the Trinity Western Spartans. Next Thursday, Jan. 16, the Cascades will be hosted by the Spartans in Langley, while Saturday, Jan. 18, they will face off in Abbotsford, at the Envision Financial Athletic Centre. The games will be held at 6 p.m. and 5 p.m., respectively.

Women’s basketball team. Nov. 15, 2019. (UFV Athletics)

Men’s Basketball //

UFV’s men’s basketball team finds success in Prince George After hosting UBC the previous weekend, the Cascades began their first road trip of 2020

Matt Cooley. Jan. 4, 2020. (UFV Athletics)

NIC JACKSON This weekend the UFV men’s basketball team began their first road trip of 2020.

The Cascades were hosted by the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) in Prince George for games on both Friday night and Saturday night.

Although the Cascades were coming off a journey inland, it didn’t take long for them to find the first basket of the night.

With less than 15 seconds off the clock, the Cascades’ Matt Cooley was able to drop the ball into the basket with a layup for the first two points of the game.

The Cascades, however, were not able to keep the lead for long. Nearly 15 seconds after the Cascades’ first two points, UNBC’s Vova Pluzhnikov took the lead with a basket from the three-point line.

This back-and-forth attack continued throughout the rest of the quarter.

Heading into the second, the two teams were tied at 19 points. While the Cascades and the Timberwolves were eager to break the tie, the two teams continued evenly scoring for most of the second quarter. With just under a minute left in the first half, the score was tied at 42-42. Although it looked as if the two teams would take the tie with them into the second half, both Cooley and Sukhjot Bains of the Cascades were able to sink a two-point shot within the last 36 seconds.

The second half of the game started with the Cascades leading by only four points, 46-42; however, they were able to hold the lead for the rest of the game. In the third and fourth quarter the visitors

were able to outscore the Timberwolves 41-30, which resulted in a 87-72 win for the Cascades.

The Cascades entered their Saturday game against the Timberwolves with confidence. After only two minutes of play, the Cascades were able to score their 11th point of the game, while the hosting team was at three. Although UNBC eventually started to chip away at the Cascades’ lead, UFV was still able to leave the quarter with a lead of 20-16.

At the beginning of the second quarter, the Timberwolves eventually tied the game at 22 points. With the tying basket, the home team looked like they were gaining momentum, but the fans were quickly silenced when the Cascades increased their score by 16 in the same time the Timberwolves scored five.

The second half started with the Cascades up 43-33. This lead continued throughout the third; however, it was the fourth quarter where the Cascades showed their dominance over their northern opponent. The fourth quarter started with the Cascades leading 62-47.

In the last quarter UFV was able to grab another 25 points, while UNBC scored another 11. This resulted in the Cascades winning their third game in a row, with a score of 87-58.

The Cascades will continue their road trip next weekend in Langley, against the Trinity Western Spartans on Thursday, before hosting the same team two days later. The first of the two games will be on Jan. 16, with a start time of 8 p.m., and Jan. 18 with a start time of 7 p.m.

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STUDY BREAK Crossword //

VOL. 28 // ISSUE 02

Made by Andrea Sadowski

DOWN

ACROSS

1: Messily smear.

2: A sport occasionally involving beams.

2: The only adult figure in Max and Ruby’s life.

5: _ _ _ _ and void.

3: A special type of ink used by copy machines and laser printers. Apparently does not come from squids.

8: Twitter thinks we are entering the third one of these, globally.

4: A party. Or, what you throw when your nemesis dies.

7: What some birds do, and also neo-nazis on a certain social media.

11: Shrek’s home.

13: A criminal organization that enjoys dealing drugs and running restaurant fronts.

6: A sir, legally.

9: Like an ostrich, but not that.

10: Unmoist.

11: Something Americans love to do when they slip on wet floors or spill hot coffee.

12: Does it rhyme with potato?

14: Cardiff giant, Fiji mermaid, e.g.

15: An amount of a thing.

LAST ISSUE’S

ANSWERS: Down: 2: Reel 4: Apostrophe 5: Barrel 6: Goner 8: Thursday 10: Acute 11: Arrow 12: Witch 14: Talk

Across: 1: Bar 3: Ladybug 7: Oxygen 9: Telegraph 11: Air 13: Patriot 15: Wheel 16: Honey

Snakes and Lizards

Horoscopes //

Illustration by Elyssa English Your weekly life predictions as told by Ang the Great

Aries — Mar 21 to Apr 19 Your love life will thrive this week; if you are single you may be meeting the love of your life very soon, and if you are in a relationship you will experience greater emotional depth with your partner.

Taurus — Apr 20 to May 20 Do not try to rush things in terms of your professional life this week — work on your goals slowly and steadily and you will find favour with those above you. Be patient, work hard, and a promotion will come.

Gemini — May 21 to Jun 20 This week will feel like a roller coaster for you.

You will experience many ups and downs — with your emotions, in your relationships, and even in your finances. Be careful not to lash out in response; stay calm and the feelings will pass.

Cancer —Jun 21 to Jul 22 Your personal relationships will thrive this week — that means it’s a great time to ask for a raise, introduce your partner to your parents, or even ask your friends for a favour. People’s approval of you and your ideas will come easily this week.

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Leo — Jul 23 to Aug 22 This week will prove to be very trying for you: assignments will pile up and you will work long hours, and this could damage both your health and your personal relationships. Be sure to prioritize and take things one step at a time.

Sagittarius — Nov 22 to Dec 21 Pay attention to the fine print in your syllabus this week, as you may have overlooked some assignments that could be due. However, you will gain favour with your professor and they will forgive your lapse in punctuality.

Virgo —Aug 23 to Sep 22 You will be very short-tempered this week and may start petty arguments with your friends, family, or partner. You should probably buy little gifts for people now so that they will accept your apology more readily when this phase passes

Capricorn — Dec 22 to Jan 19 An incredible opportunity will come your way this week; be open to all possibilities of growth and renewal in all areas of your life.

Receive this gift with open hands and know that you are so deserving of this wonderful opportunity.

Libra — Sep 23 to Oct 22 Be careful not to make too many financial indulgences this week in unnecessary luxuries, as the stars read that your paycheque may be less than expected or even late, so you might not be able to pay off all your bills.

Aquarius — Jan 20 to Feb 18 With Venus transiting through your sign this week, you will experience a sense of harmony in all aspects of your life, especially your romantic relationships. Great gains will come to you this week as Earth’s twin planet has come to bless you.

Scorpio — Oct 23 to Nov 21 You will feel unappreciated for your hard work at your job this week, and may grow resentful toward your employers because of it. However, just continue to shine like the star you are and those in charge are sure to take notice.

Pisces — Feb 19 to Mar 20 Don’t shy away from trying something new this week. This is the perfect time to open your life up to trying new things and having new experiences. Get your hands dirty and be ready to learn!

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2020 arts@ufvcascade.ca Chandy Dancey — Arts Editor

ARTS

Movie //

Cats’ fatphobia is a big deal Celebrities trump characters in Tom Hooper’s adaptation

human beauty standards, being fat is an accomplishment. However, in the movie, Bustopher sings his own song, so his standing in the community isn’t affirmed by anyone else, and though Corden’s performance is fun, there are a lot of “jokes” that are just him eating and being hungry. Because he’s fat. And that’s funny.

Turning Cats’ two fat characters into jokes when they’re originally well-respected members of the Jellicle community is more than just problematic from a body-positive perspective: it undermines Cats’ central themes of community, love, and respect. These are themes that Tim Hooper fails to communicate throughout the film due to his focus on the A-list celebrities in the cast.

On stage, every background actor is constantly engaged in the scene because the audience can see them at all times, so when Bustopher Jones appears, the audience can see all the cats bow, salute, or rush to clear a seat for him. Hooper’s claustrophobic framing shows only one or two principal actors in the majority of shots; the few wide shots in the movie are largely reserved for highly choreographed dance numbers. This means that, unlike in the stage versions, there are dozens of relationships and reactions amongst the Jellicles that are entirely absent. The background characters have few opportunities to build their own narratives, and the world of the film feels emotionally empty compared to that of the 1998 version and many other productions. This even extends to the film’s emotional climax — when Victoria touches Grizabella’s paw. It has weight in the stage show since all the Jellicles are constantly touching throughout the play while treating Grizabella as repulsive, but it doesn’t hit as hard in the movie because there’s much less contrast.

Overall, despite some good performances and refreshing orchestration, watching Cats 2019 feels a bit like when you want to get mad at your boyfriend for always saying “love you” instead of “I love you.” The important part is technically there, but it feels a little hollow. Cats is, ultimately, better suited to the stage than Tom Hooper’s screen. You can find DVDs of the 1998 version for less than the cost of a movie ticket — and if you do want to give Cats a chance, that’s what I recommend.

MIKAELA COLLINS As soon as I saw that Rebel Wilson and James Corden were cast as Jennyanydots and Bustopher Jones, respectively, in Cats 2019, I groaned. Not because I don’t like them as actors, but because they’re both comedic actors; at that moment, I knew that Jenny and Bustopher would be reduced to a pair of walking fat jokes.

And I was right.

If you’re not familiar with Cats, it’s based on a series of narratively unconnected poems by T.S. Eliot, and it’s basically a series of vignettes about different cats — called Jellicle cats — who live in or around a London alleyway. Some of the cats are asking their leader, Old Deuteronomy (Judi Dench), to be chosen as this year’s Jellicle choice — that is, the cat who will die and be reincarnated.

Full disclosure: I’m a big fan of Cats, especially the professionally filmed version of the 1998 production, and that’s what I’ll be comparing Cats 2019 to. However, there are lots of productions of Cats on YouTube, and no one version is definitive.

In the 2019 movie, Jennyanydots and Bustopher Jones are both candidates for the Jellicle choice, and they each are the lead vocalist for their respective songs, which are basically their applications to cat Valhalla. In most productions of the stage show, Jennyanydots’ song is sung

by Munkustrap, the narrator, and a chorus of other cats. She is framed as a genuine pillar of community service because she teaches music to delinquent mice and runs a boy scout troop for cockroaches. (I know, but bear with me.) Jennyanydots is fat in the stage show, and still highly respected. In the movie, Rebel Wilson sings Jenny’s song mostly by herself, out-ofbreath, off-key, and clumsy from the first word. Jenny is portrayed more as a pathetic pageant mom as she totes her briefcase of tap dancing cockroaches around, looking for their big break.

Bustopher Jones is usually not considered for the Jellicle choice; rather, he simply shows up for the Jellicle Ball and the cats sing his song as a greeting. The chorus of Bustopher’s song in the stage show goes, “And we're all of us proud to be nodded or bowed to / By Bustopher Jones in white spats.” Bustopher is highly esteemed, in part because of his size.

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VOL. 28 // ISSUE 02

ARTS YouTube //

CHARTS

SHUFFLE

1 Common Holly

AARON LEVY

2 Woolworm

Levy knows you're as flustered as he is with this weather lately.

3 Chain Whip

Animal Collective - “Winter's Love”

When I Say to You Black CHILLED FOR FOUR HOURS Lightning CIVL Station Manager Aaron Awe

14 Lashes

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Alexandria Maillot Benevolence

5 Blessed Salt

6 Divorcer

Debt Jubilee

7 YEP

Sport

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Sigh Images

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Alien Boys Night Danger

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11 Jo Passed

Their Prime

A beautiful, wistful, upbeat, ghostly little what I'll call a ditty, with organic, tapping percussion, toy guitar strums and slides with bare fingers on noisy strings, and those now-iconic poly-rhythmic, symphony-on-acid vocal harmonies that have so come to characterize Animal Collective to a generation of people who don't listen.

Cage was like the angrier, eternally underground, whiter, trashier, hipsterier, shorter, bulkier Eminem. I don't know if he's actually shorter than Marshall, but in my mind he is. He came up in Detroit and made his albums about it, but just never recorded a single song called “My Name Is.” Wintersleep Macabre”

12 Begonia Fear

13 Sore Points Not Alright

14 Angel Olsen All Mirrors

15 Sue Decke

Outskirts Of Love

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“Danse

This song could be a cacophonous anthem of a synesthetic experience to mirror that of the worst times on Highway 1 at this time of year, and so I caution you: take heed of your speed, and don't try to catch up with anybody but yourself and the road beneath you.

Shotgun Jimmie - “Late

& The 1 Last Year”

Sunday Wilde & The 1 "And I walked you home / Eyed Jacks And the sky was clear / And it

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The Tesla Coils S/T

18 Angel Forrest

Hell Bent With Grace

19 Diplodocus

Hell Bent With Grace

20 Skye Wallace Skye Wallace

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The Art Assignment offers a fresh perspective on classicism, modernism, and more

Cage - “Hell's Winter”

Badge Époque Ensemble Badge Époque Ensemble

Wilde 16 Sunday Eyed Jacks

They’ve got educational content down to a fine art

was filled with stars / Like we were filled with beers / And I got distracted in a winter wonderland / And I felt nostalgic and wanted to hold your hand / But I didn't know you well enough to ask / … pretty badass."

CHANDY DANCEY The Art Assignment is an educational YouTube series that premiered in 2014 with the mission to bring art and its history to the digital masses. It combines the talents of its hosts Sarah Urist Green, a former art curator, and her husband, John Green, an author and vlogger. Beginning with the goal of introducing viewers to a new artist with each episode, the series allows each creator to give an art assignment that can be replicated at home and shared with others through a hashtag on social media.

Emphasis is continually placed on pushing the boundaries of what is and isn’t considered art. For example, is action in itself art? The Art Assignment proposes it is through their first episode titled “Meet me in the Middle,” where it encourages viewers to draw a line between themselves and another participant then meet exactly in the middle. For some this was meeting in a room in their house, while for others it meant meeting on an island between countries.

While The Art Assignment celebrates the classics of art, it also doesn’t stick up its nose at contemporary work. It promotes the creation of art beyond what viewers expect in terms of mediums like paint and sculpture; it makes art more accessible and erases boundaries. Not every-

one can be the next Van Gogh, but most people have the ability to perform the assignment featured, learn something new, and become part of a community that documents it for others to see.

There are 60 art assignments spanning over three years of video content. But, as the times have changed so has the channel. In mid-2017 it was announced that The Art Assignment would be halting assignment videos and expanding to include episodes on art history and content outside of just artist spotlights. This led to really unique content like a sub-series called “Art Cooking” that replicates dishes eaten by the likes of Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, and Picasso as well as meals that appear in still lifes. It brings art to life in tangible ways that’ll delight any foodie while also stimulating academics.

This change in content was also marked by a departure from low-production, downto-earth interviews with lesser known creators to more heavily edited, animated videos. This elevation in quality appeals to a wider audience but diminishes the charm seen in earlier episodes and the sense of community that seemed to permeate them. Nevertheless, the change is understandable as it establishes the channel as a source of professional, serious art commentary.

In a way, the new content of

the channel is a smart move to remain relevant in a rapidly evolving digital media landscape. Although they could have stuck to rehashing the importance of older, classic works, which is of interest to a niche group of people, their array of current topics helps ground the discussion firmly in the present. The channel’s most recent videos range from questioning if modern art is pretentious, to exploring how Instagram is changing art, to showing what revolution and resistance looks like in art. These pertinent topics are delivered in short, punchy packages along with catching visuals, combining to create content that’s able to compete with clickbait titles and stylish thumbnails that seduce viewers away from informationheavy videos. It’s the metaphorical equivalent of sneaking in your veggies by loading them with cheese.

The Art Assignment is thoughtful and provoking art journalism disguised in visually appealing, bite-sized videos.

Although its content has gone through two eras, it’s hard to be upset with the changes that occurred after 2017. Both types of content are freely available and thoroughly entertaining, showing that, at its heart, The Art Assignment has stayed true to its mission of providing accessible and educational art content to a wider audience.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2020

ARTS Soundbites //

Rewind //

What’s cooler than being cool? A Cold Fact CHANDY DANCEY

Pink Floyd features The Later Years In 2016, the pioneering psychedelic rock band, Pink Floyd, released a box set called The Early Years, featuring their music from 1965-72. Last December, they followed it up with another box set, The Later Years, featuring music from 1987 onward. The box set includes 16 discs, comprising five CDs, six Blu-rays, and five DVDs, including remixed songs and unreleased live performances. After Roger Waters’ departure from the group in 1985, the members continued to perform under the name Pink Floyd, this time led by David Gilmour.

The divide between these two eras and the box set years isn’t exact — that is, there are some missing years — but the band is generally known for the “Gilmour-era”

(later) and the “Waters-era” (earlier). This re-release of music may be an attempt by the band to stay relevant or an attempt to feature each musician.

Either way, Pink Floyd is still relevant; their music is highly political, and the box set includes tracks such as “The Dogs of War” and “Us and Them,” each track about the senselessness of war — and with the global rise in violent political tension, it couldn’t be more timely. This set is targeted toward hardcore fans, and will probably only be listened to by them, but like all great art, it transcends time.

DARIEN JOHNSEN

Half Moon Run’s A Blemish in the Great Light Listening to Half Moon Run for years has allowed me to really appreciate the times when they decide to change things up.

Their brand new record A Blemish in the Great Light is more than a change in sound; it’s a complete shift in their writing, and that’s okay.

Their 2019 record integrates folk and altrock but introduces a more pop-based sound that totally shifts the focus from rough and edgy to songs that sound a little more swingy and fun.

Songs like “Then Again” bring Half Moon Run’s traditional sound back, but a completely new shift in sound can be found in “Favourite Boy,” which is the melodic love

song you never thought you would hear from a group so famous for their grit. The hardcore fans might not appreciate a love song from their formerly dark and edgy altrock band, but hey, it’s their new sound.

The best part about the album and the band itself is that A Blemish in the Great Light probably isn’t where Half Moon Run is going to stay in terms of their sound. They are constantly changing and moving forward.

That said, A Blemish in the Great Light offers a very new pop-style set of songs with just enough grunginess to keep listeners happy.

ALEX JESUS

Cold Fact, an album released in 1970 by an up-and-coming artist by the name of Rodríguez, doesn’t just have banging music — it incited a revolution.

The album, predicted to be a wild success, absolutely flopped after its release in the U.S. But, after records were smuggled into South Africa, it blew up to be a sensation that encouraged citizens to question apartheid, the racial segregation that was instated by the all-white government in 1948. The ’70s were particularly heavy with protests and rebellions against laws that controlled where black Africans could go, what they could do, and who they could be.

Rodríguez became a household name in South African but was also completely unaware his music was being c e l ebrated until dedic at e d f a n s tracked him down.

His entire m i nd-bogg l i ng story was made into a documentary titled Searching for Sugar Man (free to watch on Kanopy for any UFV students interested).

The tracks on Cold Fact focus on issues that plagued inner-city Detroit, but truly they’re universal.

“This Is Not a Song, It’s an Outburst: Or, the Establishment Blues,” although having a long-winded title, is a short and sweet song that reads like poetry set to some laidback but funky guitar. Rodríguez didn’t have much to his name when he wrote the album; he had nothing to lose and chose to lay out his thoughts uncensored and bare.

The song laments: “The mayor hides the crime rate / Council woman hesitates / Public gets irate / But forget the vote date … Gar-

bage ain’t collected, women ain’t protected / Politicians using, people they’re abusing / The mafia’s getting bigger, like pollution in the river.” It was written 50 years ago, yet every single concern addressed still rings true today. The instrumentals used in this track, and the album in general, are minimal, focusing on lilting guitar notes and the occasional percussion or horn.

He doesn’t need much other than his voice to get his message across, and his lyricism is reminiscent of Leonard Cohen.

Not every song is purely political, however. Other than gripes about the “Rich Folks Hoax” or “Inner City Blues,” Rodríguez dabbles in themes of addiction, introspection, and romance.

“Soon you know I’ll leave you / And I’ll never look behind / ‘Cos I was born for the purpose / That crucif i e s y o u r mind” is a chilling line f r o m “ C r u cify Your Mind” that counteracts the yearning and lovelorn chorus of “I Wonder.”

It goes: “I wonder how many times you’d been had / And I wonder how many plans have gone bad / I wonder how many times you had sex / I wonder do you know who’ll be next.”

Cold Fact is the album that got a second chance. It impacted South Africa deeply with its political roots, uncensored messages, and critique of society. Make no mistake about it: the intense appreciation for this album is completely justified. The tracks are poignant in addressing social issues that frustratingly remain relevant today, and on top of that they’ve got the charm of clever lyrics and twangy guitar. It’s everything you could want in a ’70s album, and that’s a Cold fact, baby.

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Note:

Some of these events require tickets, most are on Facebook. If something catches your eye, take to the internet for more details.

• Co-operative Education Information Session @ Abbotsford Campus B121, 2:30 – 3:30 p.m.

• Haq and History Opening @ UFV (Abbotsford) B136, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.

• Live Music @ S+L Abbotsford, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.

• Haq and History @ Abbotsford Campus B136, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.

• Drag Queen Music Bingo @ The Stage, 7:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m.

• An Evening with Switchcraft @ Captains Cabin Pub, 8:00 p.m. – 1:00 a.m.

• Clay Scott @ Trading Post Brewery and Tasting Room, 7:00 – 10:00 p.m.

• Geeks Who Drink Trivia Night @ Trading Post Brewery and Tasting Room, 6:30 – 9:30 p.m.

• Co-operative Education Information Session @ UFV (Abbotsford) B121, 2:30 – 3:30 p.m.

• Resolution of Wellness: Goal setting and management @ UFV (Abbotsford) S1111, 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

• Tucked & Loaded @ The Stage, 9:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m.

• Adrian Bellue @ Tractorgrease Cafe, 1:00 – 3:30 p.m.

• Lisa Rae Simons @ Dead Frog Brewery, 2:30 – 6:00 p.m.

• Boardwalk Puzzle Challenge @ Boardwalk Cafe and Games, 6:30 – 9:30 p.m.

• Carrie-Oke with Carrie Dawn @ The Stage, 7:00 p.m. – 12 a.m.

• Tyler Clark @ Trading Post Brewery and Tasting Room, 7:00 – 10:00 p.m.

• Artist Open House @ Ravens Brewing, 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

• Youth Open Stage @ The Railyard, 6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

• Stand Up Comedy @ The Railyard, 7:00 – 11: 00 p.m.

• Gender Diversity Workshop @ Abbotsford Campus A225, 9:00 – 11:00 a.m.

• Caitlin Canning @ Trading Post Fort Langley Eatery, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.

• Kyler Pierce @ Trading Post Abbotsford Eatery, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.

• Bend and Brew @ Dead Frog Brewery, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

• Steve Halfnights @ Dead Frog Brewery, 2:30 – 6:00 p.m.

• President’s Leadership Lecture Series Presents: Dr. John Jansen @ Abbotsford Campus B101, 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.

• Book launch for Lenore Newman’s Lost Feast: Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food @ UFV (Abbotsford) Library, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.

• Erik Matthews @ Trading Post Fort Langley Eatery, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.

• Kellen Saip @ Trading Post Abbotsford Eatery, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.

• Design Thinking Innovation Workshop @ Abbotsford Campus A225, 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

• UFV Theatre student pop-up performance: Dog Sees God by Bert V. Royal @ Abbotsford Campus D105, 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.

• Lord of the Rings Trivia Night @ Dead Frog Brewery, 7:00 – 11:00 p.m.

• Open Mic Night @ Trading Post Brewery and Tasting Room, 6:30 – 9:30 p.m.

• Live Music @ S+L Abbotsford, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.

• Let’s Dance for Mission Hospice Society @ The Stage, 6:00 – 7:00 p.m.

• UFV Theatre student pop-up performance: Dog Sees God @ Abbotsford Campus D105, 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.

• Geeks Who Drink Trivia Night @ Trading Post Brewery and Tasting Room, 6:30 – 9:30 p.m.

• Winter/Spring 2020 Exhibition Opening Reception @ The Reach, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

• Open Mic Night @ Trading Post Brewery and Tasting Room, 6:30 – 9:30 p.m.

• Live Music @ S+L Abbotsford, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.

• SUS ALP Module: The Revitalization of Indigenous Languages with Marny Point @ Evered Hall, 5:00 – 6:00 p.m.

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Glow Yoga @ Abbotsford Campus E105, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

Begonia @ Tractorgrease Cafe, 7:00 – 10:00 p.m.

Art-making for newcomers to Canada @ The Reach, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

Geeks Who Drink Trivia Night @ Trading Post Brewery and Tasting Room, 6:30 – 9:30 p.m.

• Physical Activity at Every Size Workshop @ Abbotsford Campus K173, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.

• 2019 Mission Business Excellence Awards @ The Stage, 6:00 – 8:30 p.m.

• Brad Pedwell @ Trading Post Brewery and Tasting Room, 7:00 – 10:00 p.m.