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It’s an exciting and stressful time, for so many reasons. Welcome to the fall semester. Let’s make it a good one.
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The Cascade is UFV’s autonomous student newspaper. It originated under its current name in 1993, and achieved autonomy from the uni versity 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 other Wednesday with a print circulation of 800 and is distributed at Abbotsford, Chilliwack (CEP), Clearbrook, and Mission UFV campuses and throughout the surrounding communities.
Looking ahead to the highs and lows Ah, the fall semester. A time of excitement and stress for every student. New classes, professors, and perhaps even starting at a new school can all be incredibly intimi dating. But the weather is still great and due dates are just distant clouds on the horizon. To our new students: welcome! What you’re holding (or reading on a screen) is The Cascade, UFV’s autonomous student newspaper. Since 1993, we’ve provided an out let for UFV students to see their words and thoughts in print while learning the ropes of journalism, as well as serving as an alternative news outlet for the Fraser Valley. Every second Wednesday we share the latest stories that are important to UFV students and the members of our wider community. We hope you’ll take a few minutes to flip through this paper and see what we’ve put together!
CONTRIBUTORS Caleb AndreaCampbellSadowski WWW.UFVCASCADE.CA @UFVCASCADE FACEBOOK.COM/UFVCASCADE INSTAGRAM.COM/UFVCASCADE Volume 30 · Issue 11 Room S2111 33844 King Abbotsford,RoadBCV2S7M8604.854.4529
Welcome to fall 2022
A lot has happened since we printed our last issue on June 15. Here at The Cascade, we’ve said farewell to a number of graduating members of our team. We’ve also brought some awesome new people on board, and many of us have shifted into new positions — check out the masthead to the left of this article to see our entire team!
peoples. We are grateful to be able to work and learn on this beautiful land. Editor-in-Chief Jeff jeff@ufvcascade.caMijo-Burch Business Manager Stephan St. stephan@ufvcascade.caAmour News Editor Rachel Tait rachel @ufvcascade.ca Jr. News Editor Emmaline Spencer emmaline @ufvcascade.ca Culture & Events Editor Anisa anisa@ufvcascade.caQuintyne Arts in Review Editor Kellyn kellyn@ufvcascade.caKavanagh Digital Media Manager Wilson wilson@ufvcascade.caAgyapong Features & Cover Niusha Naderi Illustrator Iryna Presley Illustrator Lindsey Roberts Production Assistant Brielle Quon Managing Editor Sydney Marchand sydney@ufvcascade.ca Creative Director Lindsey lindsey@ufvcascade.caRoberts Copy Editor Aasha aasha@ufvcascade.caKhoyratty Features Editor Brad brad@ufvcascade.caDuncan Opinion Editor Kait kaitlyn@ufvcascade.caThompson Sports Editor Teryn Midzain teryn @ufvcascade.ca Distributor Gurtaj Dhami Varsity Writer Esher Sira Staff Writer Eva Davey The Shuffler Aaron Levy Kickback ......3 Climate resilience project grant ......5 BeReal .......6 Conscious Consumer.......8 7....... Self improvement culture 19.......Snapshots7 Cascade Kitchen 14 ....... UFV soccer 1 5 ....... Formula 1 Demi Lovato HOLY FVCK review......18 Gloris Gonzalez interview.....19 OPINIONNEWSARTSVanOpen returns ......13 UFV Basketball ......15 Study Break ......16 Ekta Podcast . ......17CULTURESPORTS 19......What We Do in the Shadows 4...... UFV employee campus cards
On a personal note, I am honoured to have been entrusted with the title of editor-in-chief, something I never would have anticipated when I first walked into The Cascade’s office at this same time six years ago. I’m excited to walk in the footsteps of many great EICs before me. There’s a lot of exciting things going on at UFV this se mester. On the academic side, our feature article explores the significance of UFV’s new Halq’eméylem certificate, and we dig into new funding for an exciting Climate Re silience Project. Our campus culture is also moving the right way: don’t miss our preview of SUS’s giant Kick back event or our coverage of the brand new student-fo cused Ekta podcast!
Of course, throughout all of this, it’s critical that we remain safe and compassionate. The COVID-19 pandemic is still ongoing, and though waves come and go, it shows no signs of stopping. After over two years on this roller coaster, we’re all exhausted. I get it. UFV lifted its mask mandate on March 11 of this year, following the lead of the Public Health Officer. However, as a place of educa tion, a place that prides itself on accessibility and inclu sion, I heartily urge you to consider joining me in wear ing a mask in your classrooms, and I encourage UFV to reinstate that requirement. COVID-19 is airborne, and by wearing a properly fitted mask, you can protect yourself, as well as classmates, professors, and the UFV staff. It is a small inconvenience that can quite literally save lives.
The Cascade is open to written, photo, and design work from all stu dents; these can come in the form of a pitch to an editor, or an assign ment from an editor. Pitch meetings will be digital for the remainder of the semester. Please email managing@ufvcascade.ca to be put on the assignment email list. In order to be published in the newspaper, all work must first be ap proved 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.
The SUS Kickback 002 event is being host ed by the Student Union Society (SUS) on September 22 from 2:30-6:30 pm on the green at the Abbotsford campus. The Kickback event was first introduced in Fall 2021 by SUS President Nikiel Lal for students to connect and make friends with others at the university and have free beer to drink. This free event is open to all current UFV students and there will be an assortment of different activities and games for them to partake in. Due to the success and popularity of this student engagement event, it has now turned into an annual occurrence. Lal said that it will be “bigger and bet ter” than the one in 2021. Lal explained that this year’s Kickback 002 event will be greater than last year in regards to the number of sponsors attending, free give aways and that there will be two breweries instead of one. Lal also hinted at exciting games such as wipeout, spike ball, gladia tor jousting gear, dunk tanks, caricatures, photo booths and a DJ. Lal mentioned that some of the spon sors this year will include Ford and Red Bull. UFV students can also anticipate free beer at the event, however there “will be limitations” set in place and students can find more information regarding this on SUS’s social media. Different UFV departments, clubs and associations, Student Life, The Cascade, etc. will be setting up tables and connect ing with students at Kickback 002.
“Students will be able to sign up through our Eventbrite and then once they come to the event, they will have to come and check in and receive their wristbands for the event,” Lal explained. Students will need to be registered one week in advance of the date via Eventbrite and will also need to bring their student ID cards and the confirmation that they will receive af ter they register from Eventbrite, as this event is intended for UFV students only. Lal mentioned another opportunity for students to get involved in the event is to volunteer at the Kickback 002 event. Stu dents interested can sign up to volunteer on the SUS website. When asked if there will be prizes or giveaways for students attending this year’s Kickback 002, Lal explained that while he and his staff were still finaliz ing the list, there will be lots of lanyards and shirts, as well as a variety of different giveaways to be provided by the various sponsors attending the event. Lal said, “As your SUS president, I am excited to be able to share such a crucial part of students’ post secondary experi ence. I guarantee it'll be really fun and one of the highlights of your post secondary experience with lots of good memories, and I'm really glad to be able to share that with students, and I really look forward to meeting everyone, and I really hope they have fun.”
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SUS // SUS Kickback 002: bigger and better! RACHEL TAIT Kick off the semester on a positive note Kickback 2021 (UFV Flickr).
Canadian Government rep resentatives take a stand against Hockey Canada After the revelation of multiple sexual assault allegations within Hockey Canada, there have been calls for a change in leadership within the group. Amid the rising calls for a shift in leadership, the board of directors claim they will continue to support Scott Smith, the current president and chief executive officer. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has since made his own comments on the sub ject, claiming that Hockey Cana da has lost the confidence of the government and of Canadians in general. Trudeau mentioned that the longer it takes Hockey Can ada to see this, the harder it will be on them. The sports minister of Canada has also expressed in detail the importance of why there needs to be a change in leadership.
“I love how they're putting so much focus on Indigizing UFV, and I'm happy to be a part of it.”
As of August 2022, there has been a new card design available to staff that embodies the vision of UFV. The de sign was created by Chantelle TrainorMatties, a UFV graduate and local In digineous artist. The update to the card features: blue herons, a hummingbird, and a sturgeon, with the incorporation of the classic swoop of UFV. Sheila St. Laurent, UFV Campus Card Coordinator, mentioned, “I started in the Card Office in 2010, and the de sign that I inherited was what we pre viously had. It’s been around for about 15 years.” She noted that the employee campus card has been long overdue for an update, especially when considering that the student campus card was rede signed in 2015. The project of redesigning the card has been a topic of discussion for sev eral years, but finally came to the fore front in late 2021. As the cards are a branch of representation of UFV, the project was led by the UFV marketing team. Breanna Willock, the Market ing Manager, was quick to reach out to Trainor-Matties and start the design process. According to Willock, “Chan telle is incredibly talented and appre ciates being a part of UFV’s efforts to Indigenize the Trainor-Mattiesinstitution.”mentioned she was first reached out to in July of 2021 and was excited to be working with UFV once again. She said, “I remember be ing on holiday when I got the email in July 2021 and I actually started sketch ing ideas right away for fun.” TrainorMatties said that she was “inspired by the UFV coat of arms and the UFV leaf logo,” and that her “idea was to combine the two, along with [her] contemporary Northwest Coast formline.” A big part of designing the new card was figuring out how to show as much of the design as possible, and deciding on what tones of colour best suited the final card design. Though part of the design is covered in the final product, it still encompasses the vision of UFV. Trainor-Matties said, “I illustrated two blue herons, a hummingbird and a stur geon. I knew one of the leaves was go ing to get covered, but that was okay be cause it was the second blue heron, so there was at least one of them visible.” When asked if the student card would also go through a redesign, St. Laurent mentioned that updating the student card may be something that is looked into in the coming years, but for now it will be kept as is from the last revamp. The last update to the student campus card was in 2015 when the campus card office was moved to the Student Union Building. The current design is a repre sentation of the relationship between UFV and the Student Union Society, as shown in the green and blue wave vi sual.The new employee campus card was created with the intent of inspiring new and current employees while also spreading the value and goals of UFV to anyone who sees the cards. According to Willock, “Handing out an employee card with meaning is just one small personal component that new employ ees will be welcomed with.” She contin ues, “it’s more than just an employee card, it’s now something that is woven into our identity as an institution.”
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- Emmaline Spencer NEWS BRIEFS Abbotsford’s “The Cabin” to close September 30 A daytime drop-in centre for people experiencing homeless ness, The Cabin, will close at the end of September due to a vote by the Abbotsford City Council. The choice to close the space earlier than the one year grant time was made so that The Cabin would not be closing right before the cold season. The space initial ly opened in a rush due to flood ing in late 2021 and had a rocky start due to the immediate need for the centre. The Cabin was run by Archway with the support of Matsqui-Abbotsford Impact So ciety, 5 and 2 Ministries, Drug War Survivors, CEDAR Outreach, and the Abbotsford Restorative Justice and Advocacy Associa tion. According to Abbotsford Police inspector, Kevin Murray, The Cabin was an integral part of combatting homelessness and reaching out to marginalized and vulnerable communities.
Chantelle Trainor-Matties. (Photo: Joshua Trainor-Matties)
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Assistant Professor, Anna Griffith, col laborated with Associate Professor, Ch antelle Marlor (school of culture, media and society), Hannah Celinski (depart ment head of arts studies), and student research assistant, Kyla Mitchell-Mar quis, on the Creativity Lab for Climate Resilience project that was funded by the $10,000 Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) grant. The SIF grant is designed to en courage change and provides funding for major projects within Canada that will be beneficial for the environment. The Cre ativity Lab for Climate Resilience project brought together members of the commu nity to discuss serious issues pertaining to climate resilience in a series of labs. Griffith shared her thoughts on the pro cess of bringing the project together, her initial reactions to receiving the funding, and how it helped to bring this project to life.“There's so many amazing projects that happen at UFV. There’s so many people working in really interesting ways, so I was really surprised and heartened that they find creativity and this exploration of interdisciplinary conversations worth while,” said Griffith on her surprise at re ceiving the Accordinggrant.toGriffith, the Creativity Lab for Climate Resilience project can trace its roots back to 2019, when she worked with Celinski on another project after receiv ing the innovative teaching grant. “We worked with a faculty focus group and had faculty from 10 different disci plines at UFV, from sciences to humani ties to staff members and we talked about the best ways to let ideas generate across disciplines. We took those findings and created a framework for facilitating cre ative idea generation across the disci plines which we tested in a few labs,” said Griffith.Theresults of this project helped Gri fifth and her team “develop the methods” that they further explored in the Creativ ity Lab for Climate Resilience project .
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“One of the things that was expressed is that many people want to continue to have these conversations and want to continue to work across communities, across disci plines and everyone was really energized by the work and so hopefully this is just the“Whenstart. [people are] given the permis sion to play with ideas or pushed with tight time limits on how they have to in teract with one another, they rise to the challenge and they find it fun, they laugh, and all of their barriers start to come down and the ideas start to flow better,” Griffith added. The interactions with different mem bers of the community helped Griffith and her team find varying perspectives to different questions that were posed in each lab and the thoughts that came out of these labs became part of a “sea bank of ideas” which was in the process of be ing written up for publication at the time of the interview. The project exceeded her expectations because of the various groups of people who partook in the proj ect and the ideas and perspective that they offered. Griffith adds that she hopes to continue working with this method with more students in the future.
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For the Creativity Lab for Climate Resil ience project, Griffith and her team used “the creativity lab method” which she ex plained as, “enhanc[ing]s idea generation across the disciplines and [seeing] if that would also work across communities.” They achieved this by “expand[ing] who was invited into these labs” and they ended up working with various members of the community such as UFV students, employees from the UFV office of sustain ability, the Fraser Valley Conservancy, the Gold News Transition Initiative, the Ab botsford School District, The Abbotsford Community Foundation, local artists, the Fraser Basin, the Abbotsford Arts Council and Fraser Health, to name a few. “Sustainability is something that's re ally important to me and the work that I do,” Griffith added. “Each of the labs had a different focus question and it brought together people from different disciplines at the university and different represen tatives from community groups and then just some people who aren't necessarily affiliated with this special interest group but they just were interested in this ques tion and they came to have the conversa tions.”Griffith explained that the labs brought members in the community together to work on “creating solutions and ideas on how to actually move the Fraser Valley to ward climate resiliency.” During the interview, Griffith explained one of the themes that came up was edu cation and the function it plays in giving young people the knowledge and the voice they need to share their ideas, because they are invested in and concerned about climate change more so than adults. “They have great ideas because they are not so limited in their thinking,” said Griffith.Griffith explained that people were “surprised, pleased and inspired by the fact that the university was willing to give money to hold these conversations.” She stated that although “many of the organi zations are actively working on conserva tion or sustainability issues or climate re generation issues, they don't necessarily have a really strong relationship with the university. What this grant has allowed us to do is to start to make some of those relationships, to create some bridges with the community and then hopefully those relationships [will] continue to build.”
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At the end of the day, BeReal is a social media app, and every one of them — including this one, has its downsides. And along with the negatives, there is eventually the de cline in popularity. When I first down loaded the app I thought to myself that it really was just a glorified Ins tagram story, only way less fun. There were days when I posted my morning coffee alongside a pretty sunrise (cute!), and there were also multiple days in a row where all people saw was my lunchroom at work (less cute!). It was at this moment, while posting my third lunchroom post, that I realized this app gives me the dreaded F.O.M.O. It made me feel as though I was wasting my days away working, because I was forced to compare my life to my friends who were at cute bookstores and farmers markets.
"It was at this moment while posting my third lunchroom post that I realized this app gave me the dreaded F.O.M.O, because in that moment I saw friends go to cute bookstores and farmers markets."
Social media is not a competition, so why does BeReal feel like it is? It has become a trend on TikTok, to show off your BeReal of the day but only if it is “cool enough.” If you look at #BeReal on TikTok you will no tice one common theme: everyone wants to “win” at BeReal. Posts range from peo ple waiting in front of the Eiffel tower to putting off their posts until a concert starts in order to capture a BeReal, showing us ers are slowly straying from the authentic feel of the app to make sure they have a fun daily post. It has even become a trend to see who can make the funniest “at the wrong time” BeReal to garner views on TheTikTok.app itself has a promising premise, but it isn’t hardwired in many of our brains (including mine) to be overly authentic on social media anymore. When my friends first started talking about BeReal, it was divided into two kinds of people: those that wish for a simpler time before influ encers and those that pride themselves on not being influenced. Since its takeoff, Be Real has become almost what it sought to destroy, for there is still a “discover” page in which people have to actively choose to share their posts worldwide. In the year 2022 it has become difficult to be authen tic online, and if BeReal truly wants to achieve that then there is work to be done. Until then I will stick to my glossy Insta gram stories.
EVA DAVEY The app that claims it's not like the others is slowly becoming its own worst fear
Does BeReal Deserve it’s #1 Spot?
Like a lot of young people I am a prod uct of my time. This essentially means I spend far too much time scrolling through my social media feeds, yet I never felt the urge to download the app BeReal. The app itself claims it’s different from the ones that their users have downloaded in the past, as it promises a way to be your most authentic self. The app itself is basic in form and in premise. Every day, users get a notification that it is “time to BeReal” and from there they take a photo of the view in front of them at the same time a selfie is taken. These photos are then shared to friends (not followers) to view. In all hon esty, nothing about the app’s model stood out to me — I was peer pressured into downloading it. After watching many videos on TikTok of people using the app, and having my own friends claiming I needed to down load it, I decided to bite the bullet. BeReal both prides and markets itself on being the anti-Instagram, anti-influencer social media. Except, does it really do this? Users can still retake and delay the upload time of their daily posts, so the model itself does allow room for non-authenticity. The creators of the app balance this by ensur ing that your friends' posts cannot be seen unless you have posted your own BeReal. Personally, I found this approach very ef fective, because above all else, I use social media to be nosy. The downside to the late posting is the fact that the app will expose their users on how late they have posted their pho to, and also display how many times the photo was retaken (the latter only be ing available once you hit ten friends). It was when I realized my friends could see that I waited until my morning walk to post my daily photo instead of when I was laying in bed (not very real of me) that I felt something strange. I felt guilty. Thankfully, that did not last long once I saw how late my friends were posting, too. Personally, I find the time limit to post provides Gen Z with a very similar stress that Snapchat streaks gave its OG users back in that app’s popularity.
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Self-improvement culture hinders more than it helps ROBERTS let perfect be the enemy of good.”
7 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2022 VOL. 30 // ISSUE 11 Lifestyle // Another school year is about to begin, and autumn is just around the corner; Sep tember will bring with it all the things that have come to feel like tradition. Shorter, cooler days, pumpkin flavored things, ex istential dread… it’s enough to make an anxious undergrad on year seventeen of her four year program sentimental. I can tell that time does indeed continue to pass because my algorithm across TikTok and Instagram are pumping self-improvement content into my feeds like it’s going out of style: ADHD cures! Time management so lutions! Get organized for back-to-school! Join an accountability group, download a meditation app, find out your personality type, and fix your procrastination prob lems!As a recovering perfectionist who sur vived the “perfect 6:00 a.m. morning rou tine” heyday on 2014 YouTube, it’s all got me thinking a lot about my own goals for this upcoming year and how deeply my perspective has changed as a result of some pretty life-changing and real challenges that I have faced since my first semester. I have a feeling that many of us are in the same boat, because let’s face it, the last few years have been a rough time to be a young adult trying to find their way in the world. In the words of the great poet and philoso pher Olivia Rodrigo… God, it’s brutal out here. So in case you’re struggling, I wanted to share some of my advice. To my fellow students who anxiously wait for the start of fall classes as a “new semester, new you” type fresh start; to those who have vi sions of grandeur about the new day planner/bul let straight-AintoandyournallyandyouEgyptianjournal/ancientsundialhavepurchasedhowitwillfihelpyougetshittogethertransformyouthetype-A,studentof your aspirations; to those of you who are panicking because you’re not sure about your major anymore or you failed a class or you feel like you’re falling behind where you should be, take a deep breath… and lower your standards. I don’t mean this in a nihilistic or cyni cal way. Ambition and passion are great, and having goals and trying to better your self is a noble thing. But there is a saying that I have made my mantra after years of membership at the church of never-ending “self-improvement;” don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. I think this is an especially important piece of advice for students, as so many of us are at a point in our lives where de cisions that viationuseryThetooftersectoverwhelmingfeelinwithalacklifeexperiencegiveuscontext.ideathatevchoicedefinesandeverydefromour ideals is a moral failing leads only to a cycle of shame that ties our performances to our self worth. I could go on about how a lifetime of comparing our lives on social media has made self conscious perfectionists out of many of us, or about how capitalism has convinced us that if we aren’t functioning at maximum productivity every waking moment then there is something wrong that a podcast, book, or micro-dosing mushrooms will surely fix. But what mat ters is how we take care of ourselves in this world that is so hostile to those of us who are simply trying to be. Lower your standards. Be okay with the ups and downs — that day planner is likely doomed to sit blank on your desk after the first fews weeks, and chances are you will find yourself procrastinating once again at some point this semester. That is fine. It isn’t the mistakes we make that hurt us, it’s the shame spiral that comes with telling ourselves that mistakes are unacceptable. So I hope you’ll join me in setting a gen tler, kinder tone for yourself as we all head back to the grind this month — go easy on yourself, and when in doubt practice these invaluable words of affirmation: “good enough.”
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The increase in popularity, I think, comes down to the sheer amount of op tions available on the site for practically pennies. Consumers are flooded with an endless stream of cheap, on-trend items, making it easy to place large orders with out breaking the bank. Customers can or der dozens of crop tops, sunglasses, and bathing suits for under 50 dollars. I get it, the temptation is real, but it has to stop. The site publishes new designs for pur chase at an alarming, and honestly fucking unnecessary, rate. In 2021, Shein added an average of 2,000 new designs on their web site each day and it is estimated that this number is continuing to rise. Some sources have noted that Shein’s ‘Daily New’ tab of ten lists over 6,000 new products available for purchase. I truly cannot even fathom the need for that many new designs on a daily basis. At times, customers have access to hundreds of thousands of different unit designs to choose from. And how do they get this many design ideas you may ask? Oh boy, let me tell you. When I first heard of the brand, I quickly learned that Shein was notorious for ripping off design ideas from black creators and small indie brands without their permission. There have been a number of cases against the brand that showcases Shein’s pattern of stealing designs from creators and in all cases, Shein markets the styles at a much lower price than the authentic design. The brand is the perfect example of fast-fashion. But unlike other fast-fashion brands, Shein is labeled as an “ultra fastfashion” brand because of how quickly they are able to produce new styles and in turn, how quickly their products end up in theInlandfill.orderto manifest these stolen designs into a finished product, the company has at least 17 factories that are contracted under them to sew, produce and pack products. Shein’s business model uses the “price per item” policy which pays their employ ees per completed item, instead of paying them an hourly wage or salary. Due to this policy, many of the workers have been re corded to clock in 75-hour work weeks, with many employees taking only one day off per month, in order to make ends meet. So not only is this brand creating large en vironmental impacts by promoting this kind of hyper-consumerism, but the com pany outright exploits its employees in the process.Soyes, while I am all for saving money and living on a budget, I refuse to support Shein and I encourage you to do the same. I would be as bold as to argue that the brand is one of the worst fast-fashion companies in 2022 and it is continuing to gain mo mentum at an alarming rate due to its af filiation with influencers on TikTok, Insta gram, and YouTube. Sure, your outfit may be cute but by supporting the brand you are also supporting their shitty business policies and unethical design strategies. If you’re trying to save cash but looking for a new wardrobe, there is another option: thrift! I promise you that you can find ontrend items at your local MCC thrift store or on second-hand apps.
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8 VOL. 30 // ISSUE 11WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2022 Column // ThThis summer I was on the hunt to find the perfect bathing suit. My Instagram page was flooded with ads for cute strappy bikinis and I was determined to find one that I felt comfortable and confident in. Be ing the broke-ass student that I am, I am al ways on the lookout for a good deal. I will often go to multiple second-hand stores be fore I decide to buy a single shirt or pair of pants. But although I typically thrift most of my clothes, I draw the line at bras, un derwear, and bathing suits. I always buy these new. In my quest to find the perfect bathing suit, every recommendation I received from friends and family suggested that I check out Shein — I refused. The brand first became more popular over the pan demic, increasing in value by 60 per cent in 2021, and has since exploded in sales reaching an estimated value of $100 billion by the end of 2022. For reference, H&M, another popular fast-fashion brand, is cur rently valued at $17.11 billion. Shein even surpassed Amazon in retail app down loads this past year.
In the weeks leading up to this se mester, saying that I was stressed, frus trated, and angry is an understatement. I hadn’t worked the entire month of Au gust, which just isn’t an option for me as a full-time student who lives on his own, has to pay rent and take care of all the bills.Then I saw a blessing from a TikTok: the kid who loves corn. As a Chilliwack boy, corn is my town’s national vegeta ble, and so I immediately related to this kid’s genuine love for all the aspects of the delicious starchy vegetable. Corn is amazing. A big lump of knobs, it has the juice, you can’t imagine a more beauti ful thing. The kid’s purity and genuine love for it reminded me of the little joys of summer that make the season amaz ing. Corn. It just made my summer bet ter and less stressful. So thank you for saving summer, Corn Kid.
I got glasses recently. Well, that’s not strictly true. I got glasses in December of 2016. But they had a very weak pre scription and I only ever wore them for nighttime driving. It wasn’t until I re cently started needing to lean towards my screen that I fully made the plunge. Adjusting to glasses is a weird thing. The first few days are wild. My eyes hurt all the time, I couldn’t keep them on for very long, I was always conscious of how they sat on my nose and ears, and worst of all: smudges. Why are there always smudges? Fingerprints, a hair, a piece of dandruff, or almost worse, a glare that looks like a smudge. My glasses were so clean during that first month that I could’ve safely performed a very tiny surgery on the lenses. Now, after a few months. I get con fused seeing my face in the mirror with out them. It’s surely a matter of days until I “lose” them without realizing I’m wearing them. But I still see every smudge. And I still constantly clean them, at least on my shirt. That part goes away eventually, right? Right?
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Did you know that this beautiful pa per you are reading was written and produced entirely by students? When I first started at UFV I was quite intimi dated to reach out and contribute to UFV’s student press. I spent my first semester convincing myself that I was too inexperienced and too disconnected from UFV for the executives in charge to agree to publish my work. But one day I just said, “fuck it,” and I pitched an article to write. Since then, I haven’t looked back! So take it from me, if you have been thinking about contributing to the paper for a while, or if this is your first time reading this masterpiece of work, I encourage you to reach out to me via email at sydney@ufvcascade.ca and join our contributor list. Do you have a strong opinion about something? Want to review the next trashy Netflix show? Dream of chatting with some of UFV’s sports teams? We want to hear from you (seriously, we really do) and would love to read your articles. Let’s get you pub lished, baby! You can be a contributor, too! Sydney Marchand
The time is flying and everything is dying Emmaline Spencer SNAPSHOTS
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The days are passing me by faster and faster. I can’t help but constantly be astounded by how much time has gone by without my notice. I still recall the moment time seemingly slowed to a halt for me. My mother had died and I felt trapped. Whenever time felt like it would start moving again, someone else would die and I’d be left confused and grieving. Someone once told me I was like a car crash victim that didn’t know they were in a car crash yet. Here I am, awake and aware of the crash, coming to terms with the fact that it has been nearly five years since the passing of my mother. I’ve lost so much more in this time and continue to anticipate further loss. Beyond the looming deaths that occur around me, I find that I’ve wasted my own time, hung up on my own grief. There’s a part of me that wishes to turn back time so that I could enjoy it, but all that’s left is to make the best of my time going forward without the weight of the past. Time is flying and everything is dying, but I can keep trying.
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UFV introduces first graduate certificate of upriver
The objectives of the Halqu’emėylem graduate certificate program Halq’em’ėylem history and it’s last fluent speaker
Siyamiyateliyout, Elizabeth Phillips, is the last fluent speaker of this language alive today. She held onto this precious language by having imaginary conversations in her head with her parents while attending St.Mary’s residential school in Mission from 1947 to 1954, a setting where children were punished for speaking their mother tongue. Philips dedicated her life to Halq’eméylem preservation and translation as she learned how to write down what was traditionally an oral language in hopes that this knowledge would not be lost. There are three principalmain dialects of Halq’eméylem: upriver, downriver, and island. This certificate (along with all UFV Halq’eméylem courses) cover the upriver dialect, whose native speakers can be found predominantlymainly in Chilliwack, Chehalis, Sumas, and the surrounding areas.TheCoqualeetza Cultural Education Centre, incorporated as a non-profit in 1973, serves the Sto:lō people by offering culturally relevant programs and services that enhance self-esteem and pride, such as Halq’eméylem
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“The graduate certificate will add on to what’s available in the sense that now students are able to go beyond learning and then go to teaching the language,” said Mary Stewart, an assistant professor in Halq’eméylem who has been teaching the language for the past 22 years.There are currently six Halq’eméylem courses offered at UFV that are designedmeant to develop students’ pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. This graduate certificate is meant to produce teachers that will ensure this language gets passed along to the next generation. “This program responds to an emergency: the survival of Halq’eméylem, this is the main importance,” said Ghizlane Laghzaoui, associate professor in UFV’s modern languages department and Chair of the Halq’eméylem Program Working Group. “It is putting back a missing piece
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This fall, a new graduate certificate is being offered at UFV with a cohort of students already enrolled who hope to revitalize the endangered Indigenous language of upriver Halq’eméylem, originally spoken by members of the Stò:lō nation. The Halq’eméylem graduate certificate will help to improve students’ proficiency in the language, prepare them for their future careers and roles as language revivalists, teachers, and specialists, and provide them with opportunities to, as Joanne MacLean explained it, “incorporate, promote, and sustain the Halq’eméylem language in their everyday lives.” The Halq’eméylem graduate certificate will help to improve students’ proficiency in the language and prepare them for their future careers and roles as language revivalists, teachers, and specialists. As UFV President, Joanne MacLean explains, the program will provide students with opportunities to “incorporate, promote, and sustain the Halq’eméylem language in their everyday lives.”
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“The loss that we see in language across Canada and in this territory is not only the loss in language,” Christine Seymour, Fraser Cascade’s Indigenous education principal, told the Fraser Valley Current. “It’s not just a reflection of loss of language. It’s reflected in the loss of culture as well. So Indigenous people right now are working really hard to get back on our feet, but also to recover those important things that we’ve lost throughout over 100 years of the residential school system in Canada.”
This graduate certificate program will attempt to tackle some of these challenges head on. Stewart, who has been involved in language revitalization since 1994 and has taught at UFV since 2013, observed that over the past five years there has been a resurgence of people who are interested in learning the language. Stewart, along with her colleagues, were motivated to create this graduate certificate to “prepare for the future” and produce more teachers to replace those who are nearing retirement age and fill the void of qualified teachers who are able to instruct classrooms in Halq’eméylem.
Stewart recognized that learning this language was not solely for knowledge requisition, but said that students found it healing and empowering to learn this endangered language, especially for those students who attended, or whose parents or other relatives attended residential schools, where the speaking of Indigenous languages was forbidden.“It’smore than learning the language,” said Stewart, “it’s part of them.”“Indigenous languages embody and express ancient knowledge of environment and social relations, and thus deeply connect students to the way of thinking and being of their ancestors” said Marianne Ignace, director of Simon Fraser University’s First Nations Languages Centre. Challenges in language revitalization instruction, curriculum development, and historical archives. In 1977, this cultural center was the site where the oral language of Halq’eméylem was first alphabetized into a written language with the help of linguist Brent Galloway and the Coqualeetza Elders Group.
A 2013 study identified some challenges of Halq’eméylem language revitalization, including: lack of fluent speakers in the community, scarcity of curriculum available for teaching younger students, and a shortage of government-certified teachers competent in the language.
Stewart reflected that the main barrier to language revitalization was the lack of curriculum and materials to teach students.
“The big challenge of instructors is the lack of resources. ,” said Stewart. “I can’t go out and buy a curriculum … It’s always an ongoing process of developing curriculum, that’s our goal. The idea that one day, we can have [materials] available.”
The many reasons to learn Halq’emėylemThe effects of learning and teaching Halqu’emėylem Sophia Moreno belongs to the first cohort of students enrolled in this graduate certificate. Her goal in learning this language is to be able to teach Halq’em’eyélem to elementary students as well as elders who lost their grasp of this language while in residential school.“Wedon’t want the language to leave,” said Moreno, whose objective is to ensure there will always be fluent speakers of the language.“Keepin mind that you will not be the last to learn and speak Halq’eméylem,” said Laghzaoui, when asked what advice she would give to students enrolled in this certificate will add on to what’s available go to teaching the
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A 2009 study found that children who were learning Halq’eméylem as young as age three, in programs like the Head Start program and Seabird Island’s Language Nest, were able to pronounce the difficult throaty words in the language, and children often came home using the language, which sparked interest in their parents.
“This stands as an interesting example of how language initiated in the preschools may have a repairing effect on a lost generation of language users,” wrote researcher Margaret MacDonald. UFV’s graduate certificate will create a new generation of teachers that will continue to pass on this knowledge to their students. This graduate certificate is the first step to creating Halq’em’ėylem immersion schools and no longer having to speak in terms of survival when talking about this language.“Iunderstood being Stó:lō,” said Dianna Kay, Halq’em’eyélem instructor with UFV, “but I never really understood being Stó:lō until I started [learning] the language, and things just made sense.,” swáyel (eh sway-el) skwi:x (tel sk-wee-sh) (Chel tel alet sa) kwe’lo. (Tel ee t-sel qu-ah la) (Tel ee t-sel qu-e)
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UFV currently supports the annual, community based Halq’eméylem Translation Contest, a day where Indigenous youth are given the opportunity to demonstrate their skills in endangered languages and further expand their vocabulary. The availability of Indigenous language programs across the Fraser Valley region varies, as some students have access to full university-level courses, and others may only participate in just this one workshop every year. This signals a need to train more language teachers so that students have the opportunity to learn the language spoken by their ancestors.
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After a three-long-year hiatus due to COVID-19, the Odlum Brown VanOpen returned to its traditional home at Hol lyburn Country Club in beautiful West Vancouver this August 13-21. The week could not have been better for tennis. Van couver welcomed the event with beautiful clear skies, giving both fans and players a gorgeous view of English Bay between matches.Local food and drink vendors of fered tastings throughout the week-long summer event, making it one of the best ways to spend August days in Vancouver. While the tournament is typically small er in comparison to the Grand Slam Opens, like the Rogers Cup and the US Open, this year, the Odlum Brown was given the dis tinct pleasure of being a full WTA Tourna ment as part of the WTA 125 tour, and a re turning fan favourite, the ATP Challenger Tour. These tournaments are the second highest level of competition for the men’s and women’s tennis leagues and give up coming tennis stars in the lower rankings a chance to showcase their talent and earn some money. A special trio of matches graced tennis fans at Odlum Brown this year: Canada’s Eugenie “Genie” Bouchard played her first professional tennis match on August 14, after a 17-month recovery from right shoul der surgery. Bouchard’s first match was a doubles match alongside Kayla Cross from London, Ontario. Bouchard and Cross faced off against two Italian talents, Lucia Bronzetti and Elisabetta Cocciaretto, and defeated them, but unfortunately lost on August 19 against the strong doubles duo of USA’s, Asia Muhammed and Ja pan’s Miyu Kato. Bouchard lost her draw match on Au gust 16 in two sets 2-6, 2-6 against the Netherlands’ ArianneSaturday,Hartono.August 20, saw the men’s and women’s doubles finals play out. The powerhouse duo of Miyu Kato and Asia Muhammed won the women’s doubles final over Hungary’s Timea Babos and the US’s An gela Kulikov 6-3 and 7-5. The match was thrilling to watch, with a back-andforth second set that saw both pairs taking turns in the lead before Muhammed and Kato rallied back to win. This year’s win marked both Muhammed’s and Kato’s second doubles titles at Odlum Brown. Muhammed won back in 2014, and Kato has back-to-back doubles titles, winning in Japan’s2019. Ben McLachlan and Sweden’s Andre Goransson won a fantastic and dramatic men’s double’s final over Phill ippines’ Treat Huey and Australia’s JohnPatrick Smith. It was a nail-biter back-andforth match that saw no clear winner until the third and final set, ending 11 games to 9 for McLachlan and Goransson. Vancou ver marked a back-to-back doubles win as a duo for McLachlan and Goransson, hav ing won the Chicago Challenger doubles a weekSunday,prior.August 21, the final day of the tournament and saw the finals for the men’s and women’s singles. The WTA 125 singles were won by Valentini Gramma tikopoulou, of Greece, in a 6-2, 6-4 over the second seed player Lucia Bronzetti. Bronzetti was the second seed and one of the favorites to win the title. She had a dominant performance all tournament long, only going into extra sets once. But it was Grammatikopoulou who battled all the way through qualifying, won the final, and made history at the VanOpen for being the first woman to battle her way through qualifying and win the finals and her first WTA title. Relaxed and poised, Gramma tikopoulou only dropped one set through out the entire tournament. Falling behind in the first set and dropping 2 games to 0, Grammatikopoulou came back with ag gressive tactics and came to win 6 straight games and take the first set, and repeated her performance in the second to win.
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Frenchman Constant Lestienne won the men’s ATP Challenger single title in three games 6-0, 4-6, 6-3 over fellow country man Arthur Rinderknech. Lestienne has been on a roll this summer, winning 19 out of 21 of his latest matches. Vancouver marked the Frenchman’s third ATP Chal lenger win and title in the last two months, winning the Malaga Open in Spain in June and Pozoblanco in July.
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Alanna Sydenham (Jordie Arthur / UFV Cascades)
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As another school year rolls around, stress levels and anxiety start to rise as the time for chilling with friends and staying up late are coming to an end. This upcoming school year will be the University of the Fraser Valley’s 48th year as a university and the womens and mens soccer teams have revamped their rosters with many new players. both teams have already kicked their seasons off in dramatic fash ion. The Cascade had the opportunity to chat with players Alanna Sydenham and Jeevan Dhaliwal about the teams mindset and the upcoming season. The women's team had their home open er August 26 at Rotary stadium and faced an experienced UBC squad. Unfortunately for the Cascades, the Thunderbirds were able to find the back of the net eight times without a goal by the Cascades. The Cas cades came back fighting their next game against the University of Victoria Vikes! As soon as the whistle blew UFV looked like a much better team than the night be fore. The communication from the team was much stronger and before long the Cascades were able to create a fantastic opportunity for a goal. After 90 minutes, the game ultimately ended in a draw, 0-0 but the performance from the Cascades showed promise of a team with great po tential.Alanna Sydenham, a fourth year de fender for the Cascades who chatted with The Cascade about the team's mindset after the opening weekend, said “it’s a different mindset this year for sure. We have a lot of new young talent. We're just trying to really get going from the start to try and figure things out early. Everyone's really excited we have the same mindset, we are all super committed this year and want the sameThething.”men's team also started their sea son off a little shaky, after playing a great first half against Thompson Rivers Uni versity in the Cascades home opener, the Cascades' defense lost focus and let a goal in right before the half-time whistle. The Wolfpack was able to hold onto the lead for the rest of regulation, giving the team their first loss of the season. Luckily the boys were motivated after the loss and came back to prove themselves at Rotary Stadi um, playing a great game that resulted in a win, 2-0. Goals from Mikael Mainella and Manpal Brar gave the Cascades their first win of the season. This season both of the soccer teams are welcoming many new faces to the field The Cascade asked Jeevan Dhaliwal how the team's relationship is and how the first years on men’s team are fitting in. “They're super nice guys, we've all grown super close, even over the short period of time we've had together. It's the type of relation ship where you can just call the guy up af ter practice and say, ‘hey, I thought you did this really well. But I think you could have done this even better.’ Giving little tips on the field during practice. We all know that first year players need to break the ice not just with us, but also on the field. That can be hard, but we're always there to give tips and answer any questions they have.” Both of UFV’s soccer teams proved how resilient they are and that after a tough loss they were able to come back and con quer the next challenge.
Jeevan Dhaliwal (Jordie Arthur / UFV Cascades)
The Runnin’ Rebels trip began on Au gust 16 against the University of Brit ish Columbia Thunderbirds (UBC). The game was electric and was played in a packed War Memorial Gym on the UBC campus. UBC’s stars shined early and ig nited the game. Former B.C. Provincial MVP James Woods was on fire all night and finished the game with 33 points. Sukhman Sandhu, a former UFV player had an impressive 23 points, 12 rebounds and knocked down 4 shots from beyond theThearc.Runnin’ Rebels were no slouch and came out the gates quickly. Keshon Gil bert showed his versatility by going on a scoring barrage early on in the game and ended his night off with nine points and six assists. But it was Jackie Johnson III who led the way and finished the game strong with 16 points and three steals. Although both sides played highlevel basketball, the Runnin’ Rebels definitely seemed “jet-lagged” as they were a step late on defensive rota tions. This left UBCs shooters enough time to make quality shots, ultimately helping them win the game 79-72 and upset the Runnin’ Rebels first game in TheBC.
Formula 1 lived up to its “F1 Circus” nick name in spades this summer break with too much drama to adequately report on in one single article. Drivers' contracts were the main talk of the show, coming in left and right. 4-time world champion, Sebas tian Vettel announced his retirement from F1 at the end of July. The fan favourite, Daniel Ricciardo, was let go from his con tract with McLaren Racing. A contract war between Alpine Racing and McLaren fight ing to see who had rights to Formula 2’s current champion, Oscar Piastri, gripped the centre Fernandostage.Alonso ignited the summer drama with his abrupt announcement re garding his departure from his current team (Alpine Racing) at the end of 2022 to join Aston Martin in 2023. Alpine re sponded with an announcement that their reserve driver, Oscar Piastri, the current F2 Champion, would be driving for them in 2023. The young Australian immediately denied this claim. At the time, Piastri was rumored to be taking Ricciardo’s now va cant seat at McLaren alongside Lando Nor ris next season. This has since been con firmed.Thiscaused a great contract war between Alpine and McLaren that lasted through out the month of August until the Contract Recognition Board (CRB) decided on Sep tember 2 that McLaren’s contract with Pi astri was the only valid contract. The CRB’s ruling left Alpine in an embarrassing light. Losing world champion caliber drivers, and now having to pay both McLaren’s and Piastri’s legal fees, the French team is scrambling and has yet to choose their driver line-up for 2023 with limited options left.Now, to what the sport is all about, the races. After a month away from the smell and taste of burnt rubber and fuel, rac ing fans got to embrace the impact of the revving engines on August 28 at the Bel gium Grand Prix, kicking off a glorious three back-to-back-to-back racing week ends. Max Verstappen and Red Bull Rac ing destroyed the competition, starting in the 14th position due to grid penalties after taking power unit upgrades to his RB-18. The Dutchman had a brilliant drive through the grid to end in first and to win the Belgium Grand Prix with more than 15 seconds between him and his teammate Sergio Perez, who finished second. Red Bull and Verstappen repeated a win on September 4 at the Dutch Grand Prix, in one of the more exciting races of the 2022 season. Both a Virtual Safety Car and an actual Safety Car saw some action that brought in some drama near the end of the race along with more Ferrari blunders. Fer rari’s idiotic (at best) strategic moves, Pit Stop decisions, and Race Day antics have all but kissed theirs and Charles Leclerc's chances of being the F1 Drivers and Con structor’s champions goodbye. Ferrari’s terrible race day decisions have been the topic of freshest F1 memes posted daily across social media platforms, much to F1 fans' joy and sadness. However, it was Mercedes who had the most bogus strat egy decision on the grid today, losing out their best chance to win their first race of theWithseason.Lewis Hamilton in first and team mate George Russell in second, Mercedes chose to box both drivers at the end of the Safety Car but allowed George Russell to change onto soft tires, losing a position to Verstappen, and put Hamilton onto fresh and colder mediums with less grip to de fend his position. Red Bull chose to change Verstappen onto soft tires themselves, and with better grip, Verstappen easily over took Hamilton at the race restart to go on to win the Dutchman’s home race. Even though the F1 Season is not at its end, at this point, Red Bull’s brilliant Prin cipal Strategy Engineer, Hannah Schmitz, and Max Verstappen have allowed Red Bull to run away with both the Drivers and Constructors Championships.
Basketball // One of the most recognizable names in college sports, The University of Nevada Las Vegas Runnin’ Rebels (UNLV) found ed in 1957, made a trip up to our beauti ful province British Columbia this past month to take on some of Canada West men's basketball’s top competition. The Running Rebels compete in the NCAA Division 1, the top NCAA division, in the mountain west conference in 16 sports.
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Runnin’ Rebels woke up to a new challenge on August 17, as the University of Calgary Dinos visited to play UNLV. Once the ball was tipped, the Run nin’ Rebels looked like a different team and were firing on all cylinders. UNLV played great team basketball, with ev eryone on the team scoring points, and multiple players scoring in the double digits. It wasn't the Dinos’ night as they lost to the Runnin’ Rebels 104-74 and were outscored by the Rebels in everySomequarter.players that stood out for the Dinos were Aidan Smith and Martynas Sabaliauskas who both knocked down multiple triples and kept the game fun to watch.Thefinal match-up for the UNLV Run nin’ Rebels was against our very own University of the Fraser Valley Cascades and their new roster for the 2022-23 sea son. Similar to their game against the Dinos, UNLV started fast and with high energy but so did the Cascades, and the first quarter ended with the Rebels only up by five points 26-21. Throughout the game, the Runnin’ Rebels' offensive game plan started to show as they took a commanding 53-38 lead at the end of the half. The Cascades' hopes of winning this game started to slip out of grasp, until first-year Clay Kurtz found himself at the free throw line three consecutive times, shooting 5/6 to bring the Cascades within ten. With six minutes left in regulation, the score was 72-69 for UNLV and the crowd was on the edge of their seats. Unfortunately, the Runnin’ Rebels proved just how experienced and dis ciplined their team is, taking the game over and outscoring the Cascades 19-1 and winning the game 91-70. The Cas cades Guard Dylan Kinley led the teams’ scoring with 20 points, followed by the versatile forward Chris Jackson with 19 points.This year's Cascades features six firstyear players and many new faces to the squad. Returning to the Cascades is 4th year guard and leader of the team Dylan Kinley and 2nd year forward Dario Lo pez. First years, Jaydan Bains and Clay Kurtz, both locals from the Fraser Valley, will be exciting players to watch this sea son. Kurtz won 3A provincial MVP with GW Graham in 2020 and will be rejoining a teammate who was on that provincial team: current Cascades player Matthias Klim. The Cascade’s mix of skilled youth and experienced veterans should make them a fierce squad in Canada West this season.
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UNLV Runnin' rebels men's basketball team travels to British Columbia to take on three Canada West teams Formula One // TERYN MIDZAIN The great F1 summer circus
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Aries — Mar 21 to Apr 19 Suppose you’ve caught yourself acting like an emotional projectile ready to explode. In that case, you might be going through a bit of involuntary stress — unwrap whatever’s causing you to flip your emotions on a dime and remember that those around you bear witness to it too.
ANSWERS:Across: 2.Uno 3. 5.PictionarySorry8.Scrabble Down: 1. Connect4Monopoly4.6.Chess7.Jenga Sudoku //
1. A game of property management based on the streets of Atlantic City. 4. Get four coloured disks to match in a 6.row.A game of strategy with more possible combinations than there are atoms. DOWN 2. The classic card game that ends 3.friendships.Agameinvolving pawns and the tendancy to apologize. 5. A player chooses a word and draws an image that other players have to 8.guess.Acrossword puzzle in board game form. ACROSS
Taurus — Apr 20 to May 20 Do something weird today, you deserve it. Next time a scam caller dials your phone number, ask them how their day was and if they have any good book recommendations.
What’s with the stoicism, Gemini? It might seem cool and a little bit mysterious to be cold and off-centred, but to the jury of the court you’ve only managed to get a few eyebrow raises and questioning remarks. Warm up to compliments and don’t be afraid to open up.
Cancer —Jun 21 to Jul 22 For what Taurus lacks, dear Cancer, you have an abundance of it — confidence is your virtue but the rise of social media has beaten it into a rotten pulp. While you think you could triumph over any supermodel in a game of runway, the other half of yourself picks a part at what you don’t have and what you could need. Prioritize all that brainconsuming energy into your work or studies.
Leo — Jul 23 to Aug 22 Have you gone a single day without playing devil’s advocate? See what it’s like being a spectator instead of sparring in the stadium — you might learn a technique or two.
Libra — Sep 23 to Oct 22 If you had a nickel for everytime a negative thought stopped you from pursuing some life-altering opportunity, then you’d have Sagittarius — Nov 22 to Dec 21 You might have good aim, Archer, but don’t always trust your intuition slightly skewed by your own personal biases. Consult someone you trust (or several people) before pursuing anything serious.
Aquarius — Jan 20 to Feb 18 As much as you’re against the idea, criticism can actually help you drastically improve and become a better version of yourself.
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Pisces — Feb 19 to Mar 20 Stop that pattern of lousy, self-destructive behaviour and embrace the beauty of kindness, stability, and good health.
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Gemini — May 21 to Jun 20
Scorpio — Oct 23 to Nov 21 Those specialized YouTube tarot readings won’t manifest you any good grades. Procrastination is horrible but so are those descending test scores. Capricorn — Dec 22 to Jan 19 As the school year approaches, you find yourself anxious at the prospect of failure. Or, in your standards, a B+. Overachievers need rest days too. Remember to prioritize
Virgo —Aug 23 to Sep 22 “What do you mean my actions have consequences?” (That was you, Virgo, right after you were told that self-deprecating humour actually reduces your performance
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Students and staff interested in listening to the first episode can find it on Apple Mu sic, Spotify, and Student Perspectives, where Surtees interviews UFV students Bradley and Billie, who share their own in-depth sto ries while navigating the intertwining com plexities of life in Canada. a podcast series that seeks to amplify UFV student voices
In a time of much-felt isolation, student voices are finally being heard in passionately spoken personal stories
9. If you hear a ‘pop,’ or see the in dentation on the top of the lid sit flat, they have sealed properly and Kitchen:
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“It was very clear to me that when I was speaking to faculty and to staff, I don't nec essarily have the lived experience that our students are having,” Surtees described. “And what they really wanted to hear was the student voices, they wanted to know, ‘Does what I do matter? Do they care? What do they think?’ And I thought, well, I need to find a way to connect student voice to our faculty and staff. I asked for recommendations from faculty for inspiring students, but I also just met students in my travels around campus and got to talk to them. And just ask them, you know, is there a story you would like to share with the UFV community here, and I was so surprised that most of them said, ‘You think people would be interested at all?’ And then they would say, ‘Well, yes, please hear my story.’ And I was really touched by that.” And while students exchanged their per sonal experiences for a willing ear, the plat form gave them free rein to talk about their lives leading up to that point. As Surtees re called the process, “The way it would work is that students would come, we meet first and just have a general chat about their life about where they came from, their home commu nities, about what made them feel powerful and powerless on campus and that's really become the central question of this podcast.
Brine Ingredients: 8 cups water 6 cups distilled white vinegar (5 per cent acidity) 1/3 cup granulated sugar 6 Tbsp pickling salt
The project itself was a learning process, as Surtees explained. It was a journey worth all its rewarding moments, and eventually the name would spring from that, too.
The Cascade Kitchen is a student-run food column that brings you budget-friendly recipes and cooking tips. If you want to see your own recipe featured next, get started by reaching out to culture@ufvcascade.ca. This year I decided to take the plunge and pickle, can, and preserve an ex cessive amount of food for the winter. Grocery prices are killing my wallet and so I spent last weekend canning 50 jars of pickles. Truly, there is noth ing more satisfying than seeing them all set out on my table, ready to be eaten. I grew up watching my mother and grandmother take on the task and despite how time-consuming it can be, it was relatively easy! It’s important to review the current canning guidelines for your elevation before you begin. It’s canning season, baby. Let’s make some pickles. Prep time: 1 hour. Makes: 6 quarts Jar Ingredients: 6 lbs pickling cucumbers (these are different than regular, Eng lish cucumbers) 12 garlic cloves, peeled A handful of flowering pickling dill (regular dill will work fine, too) Seasonings of choice (I like red pepper flakes, peppercorns, bay leaves, mustard seeds)
8. Carefully remove them and place them on a towel-lined surface and rest for 24 hours.
I credit Sundeep Hans for that question.”
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6. Wipe the rim of the jar with a clean rag dipped in white vinegar to ensure that your jars are clean and will seal properly. Then screw on your lid.
7. Place the jars back in the water bath, and keep two inches of water above the jars. Return to a boil and start your timer and let them sit in the water for 10 minutes. If for some reason your water stops boil ing, start the timer once it returns to a boil.
“This podcast couldn't have happened without a massive amount of consultation, so I consulted many faculty of colour. Ex perts in social justice, including our won derful Equity Diversity Inclusion director, Sundeep Hans, and I asked them, you know, what should be included? Where do I need to be careful, what things do I need to think about to do this in an ethical way?
Students are asked to do things for free all the time, students are asked to put in work and then don't necessarily get the credit that they deserve. So it takes a long time. It's tak en a year to get this podcast on the road and an entire year to make everything happen. But it was a good year. And that's because if you want to do something, you have to do it right.”“Andyou need to take the time to build the relationships and make sure that you're hearing the people that need to be heard.”
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— Canning 101 Column // SYDNEY MARCHAND
Homemade Dill Pickles Victoria Surtees is the Internationalization Specialist at the Teaching and Learning Cen tre, which seeks to incorporate Indigeniza tion, equity, diversity, and inclusion into new teaching techniques for the classroom.
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5. Once packed, carefully pour the hot brine over your prepared jars. Leave ½ inch headspace.
“I was brought on two years ago, when there was this huge surge in internation al student recruitment in particular, and there was this need to think about how are we working with these students in the classroom and creating inclusive spaces for them?” said Surtees, who through several years of living in France and Montreal un derstands what housing instability can feel like.“I know what it's like to live without the certainty that you're allowed to continue liv ing in that place, and how stressful that can be. So I bring a lot of empathy to the role, I think, and I am always looking for voices to amplify and highlight as I continue this work.”And what sprung from student courage and the collaboration of many talented, in novative creators became EKTA.
“I also learned about the concept of Ekta. So that's the title of the podcast, Ekta, learn ing differmarently together. When I first started this podcast, I didn’t want to have an English name. And I know that sounds may be crazy, but for me, English is the language of colonization. It pushes out other cultures, it pushes out other languages. They call it a killer language. And so for me to create space for other cultures and perspectives, part of that, embodying that, was to choose a word that wasn't English.”
Method: 1. Sterilize your jars by washing them thoroughly and then placing them in a hot water bath on simmer for 10 minutes. Remove jars when done and place them on a towel-lined surface. 2. Combine all of the brine ingredi ents in another pot and bring to a boil. Once boiling, lower to a sim mer. 3. While your brine is simmering, pack your sterilized jars with gar lic, dill, and any other seasonings you prefer. 4. Pack 6-8 washed cucumbers (de pending on size) into the jars, en suring that you are leaving a cou ple of inches of headspace.
If people are interested and they want to talk to me, they want to share their own story with me, I can find a way to make that story heard in other forms. So I do encour age them to reach out to me. I’m always happy to listen and to find a way to perhaps organize or communicate something to fac ulty and staff about their stories.”
Fracture - Travis Murray
A selection from former Fraser Valley Music Award winner and several time nominee, local DJ Travis Murray, who headlines the SUS welcome back event Kickoff later this month. As the weather shifts quickly, let’s hope for a ‘fracture’ in any precipitous pat terns for long enough to enjoy the outdoor festivities! In the last couple of years, it seems that pop-punk and hard rock music has been sneaking its way further into the mainstream pop sound. While metal and punk rooted bands like Bring Me The Horizon and The Devil Wears Prada began incorpo rating elements of alt-rock, pop, hip-hop, and electronica, artists such as Machine Gun Kelly, YUNG BLUD, and Demi Lovato are taking on heavier guitar sounds, lyrics, and styling themselves alterna tively. There almost seems to be a reversal happening, and while the reception to long-time fans within respective genres is occasionally hit and miss, the trend of experi mentation is great for music. While the implementation of alternative genres in pop music does pave a great road for further creativity, it’s not without its issues. The “carefree” characteris tic often associated with punk tends to be misin terpreted as an endorsement for or romanticiza tion of toxic behavior. I’ve been following the rise of hard-rock influ ence in pop music for a while and while I generally enjoy a lot of the music I’ve come across in this journey, I must admit to becoming distubed and jaded with the glorified toxicity within said forays that come primarily from straight/cis male art ists. When I heard that Demi Lovato, both sober and recently out of the closet as non-binary, had released a pop-punk influenced record I had to check it out immediately. The results did not dis appoint. In the 11 days between first listening to the record and typing this review, I’ve listened to the whole thing more times than I can count on both hands. The album, titled HOLY FVCK, offi cially dropped on August 19th, 2022 and it rocks significantly harder than you think it will. To say that this album is pop-punk inspired is a drastic oversimplification. HOLY FVCK instead resembles more of an explosive, bombastic loveletter to every genre and era of alternative music. Tracks on the front end resemble more of the poppunk sound people would expect; “SUBSTANCE” closely resembles the Blink-182 sound from their Take Off Your Pants and Jacket era, “SKIN OF MY TEETH” echoes Green Day’s American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown. However, as the record progresses, songs get increasingly more varied and heavy. The track “29” sounds like it could’ve been inspired by Pixies with biting lyrics, haunt ing choral harmonies, and a beautifully mixed combination of electric and acoustic guitars.
Perhaps the biggest surprise, however, is the track “HEAVEN” which almost immediately called to mind Motionless in White with bouncy drums, thundering distorted guitars and scratchy, growly, vocal inflections. “BONES” features in sane chorus breakdowns using glitchy synths, dis torted guitars, and metal influenced drums that could easily have been featured on Bring Me The Horizon’s POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR record.Instrumentals aside, the lyrical quality featured on this album is poetic, inspired, and beautiful. Songs touch on healing from trauma, growth, sobriety, and calling out predatory behaviors with zero sugar-coating. There is a clear theme throughout these tracks of spitting in the face of those who abuse their power, as well as growing from past mistakes. Where other artists in this genre take an approach of blaming others or so ciety in general for their hardships, Lovato walks the path of self-accountability. In songs where they call out past abusers, they refuse to be their victim. Many of the tracks feel like the lyrics were carefully read over, drafted and re-drafted, and chosen specifically to maximize impact. It’s not hard to see Lovato and their crew spending hours going over the material and making sure that ev ery word says exactly what Lovato wants to com municate. The result is a collection of songs where no song sounds repetitive or tossed in as filler. Amidst the torrent of alternative inspired popmusic, Demi Lovato has come along with a record that doesn’t just raise the bar, but power lifts it overhead, grapples it like a javelin, and throws it smashing through the ceiling. Where other main stream artists adopt the style and aesthetic but ditch the critical thinking and perpetuate toxic ity, Lovato encourages listeners to deconstruct destructive, toxic patterns of thinking and behav ing; all while delivering a phenomenal tribute to every subgenre of rock music. If you’re looking for a record that will provide an absolute slapper of a soundtrack full of bangers as well as emotional highs and lows to cap off your summer and transi tion into fall, HOLY FVCK is the album for you.
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AARON LEVY CORNY GUY The Of Love In LeBlanc Chiac Disco Art D'Ecco After the Head Rush Jason Blaine Diamonds in the Desert Kaina It Was a Home Samantha Savage Smith Fake Nice KD Surreal If I Die Tonight, Bury Me in Song Corn - Songify This ft Tariq and Recess Therapy An admission to start off the school year: I’m not on TikTok. But: do you know what is these days? Corn is on TikTok, and it’s doing great things. Like most things in life, as long as your cholesterol can take it, when you try it with butter, everything changes.
KELLYN KAVANAGH ARTS Demi Lovato’s hard-rock influenced record is a beautifully writ ten, emotionally resonant collection of songs that will have you pumped to enjoy a riotous night out with the homies before your first therapy session.
Dollar - Sidhu Moose Wala If he wasn’t already a legend prior to the tragic events that marked the beginning of this summer and the premature end of a grassroots surge in the crossover music career of Sidhu Moose Wala, he’s been anointed with legendary status now. #1 artist I’ve had requested of all time.
Demi Lovato’s HOLY FVCK is a beautifully explosive, anthemic, bar-raising record Music //
CIVL Station Manager Aaron Levy welcomes you back to school with a set of tunes to bite into over the next couple of weeks! Sister Ray Communion Kiwi Jr. Chopper OK Vancouver OK OUTSIDE COMPUTER The Sadies Colder Streams Kamikaze Nurse Stimuloso Frankie Cosmos Pink Tiger Mark Sullivan Promenade Home Soccer Mommy Sometimes, Forever Metric Formentera Angel Olsen Big Time Jerry Paper Free Time Tess Roby Ideas Of Space Pierre Kewnders José Louis &
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Real Deadly - Snotty Nose Rez Kids
Seemingly every two or three lines strung together from the Kidz are drenched in revolution, humour, wordplay, and exquisite flow. Just one such snippet from this pick, whose music video is set in the lab, sans pens and pads: “Party in the back, chief and council in the front.”
The vampire mockumentary sitcom What We Do in the Shadows wrapped up its fourth season at the start of September, and it did not disappoint. While the final episode had not yet aired at the time of writing, the first nine continued the show’s upward trajectory, and cemented the show among my favourite comedies.
We’ve all been involved with the Chilli wack scene basically since our early teens. So for us to come up in this scene and watch it grow… it's awesome. We also prac ticed at my house which is on the [Skwah First Nation] reserve that the band hall is on, that's where I have grown up. There's never been any sort of punk or hardcore shows, or even shows in general put on there. I also thought it would be a big draw for surrounding communities and people in my own [community]. The people who go to your shows are as important as the people who play them. You said no one else had per formed at the Skwah First Nation band’s hall before, so what’s it like being the first people to do that? I’m really excited. It’s really crazy to think honestly. We love all the bands that we’re playing with, they’re people we’ve known for a long time. Just personally for me, it’s really sick, too. It’s like history. It’s the first one. It's fun. Has that been stressful? I think the most stressful part of it is just anticipating and waiting to hear back from people. Shows in August will start get ting booked in May or June, and it was in July that I started asking bands. So many things need to be in place to have one gig. There has to be collaboration and commu nication, between twenty people at least. Does Smuther have any plans for the immediate future? [September] 9 we’re going back to Redgate in Vancouver, but we’re currently in the process of booking a tour for midOctober. We definitely wanna do more. I think our plan is probably just like every couple of months do a big show. Just be cause like, for Chilliwack specifically, that seems the best way to go about it. Find the band Smuther on instagram @smuther.muther.fucker for updates on music and shows in the upcoming future, as well a link to Bandcamp in their bio where you can support them. You can also find them on all major streaming services. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
An interview with Smuther guitarist and UFV Alum Gloris Gonzalez
We’ve been together for just about over a year, but actively gigging for seven months. I think actually we’re a lot closer to our one year anniversary than I thought we were. It's been nine or ten months. What is Smuther’s message as a band? As a band our main message is anti-co lonial and anti-capitalist sentiments. We also try to encourage listeners to challenge long held and outdated beliefs that they might have, engage in community based action, promote inclusivity and harm re duction in and beyond the music scene. You have played around the Fraser Valley, do you play anywhere else? We actually mostly gig in Vancouver just ‘cause thats where all the hardcore stuff happens. The scene is big enough to sup port having shows every week or every other week. We’ve only played a handful of Chilliwack shows, and [shows] in Kam loops. We mostly play in the Valley though. The event, Rez Rock, does take place in Chilliwack, and you’re put ting it on yourself. Why did you choose Chilliwack?
Gloris Gonzalez has had a busy year, from graduating from the University of the Fra ser Valley to performing throughout the Fraser Valley as guitarist of the hardcore band Smuther. After sitting down with Gonzalez I learned quite a bit regarding the hardcore punk music scene, particu larly when he explained the difference in genres between the bands perform ing at the Rez Rock event (which takes place Skwah First Nation land located on Sto:lō territory). The band Gonzalez is a part of, Smuther, is classified as hardcore punk while the other bands performing at the event (Ghaul, Groza, and Dog With A Man’s Face) range from garage rock to death metal. Between life and a weekend full of shows, The Cascade was able to sit down with him for an interview about the music event he organized and the hardcore scene in general. How long has Smuther been a band?
Based on the 2014 film of the same name, What We Do in the Shadows fol lows the lives of four vampires and their familiar living in a mansion on modernday Staten Island. This fourth season sees the leads dealing with a crumbling home, a vampire nightclub, and something resem bling parenthood, all against the backdrop of an urban fantasy setting that is growing increasingly intricate with each season. The mockumentary style builds upon the groundwork of sitcoms like The Of fic e or Parks and Recreation, using that format to cleverly reveal or obscure infor mation as needed to make storylines and jokes land more effectively. The vampires frequently break the fourth wall by ad dressing the documentary crew, and this is taken to an even greater extreme in the season’s eighth episode, which sees the vampires and their mansion as the subject of an HGTV-style home renovation show, complete with its own unique style. The new season also manages to re invigorate one of its weaker points from past seasons. While three of the vampires are your typical Dracula-type creatures (in terms of power, if not personality) the fourth is an “energy vampire” named Co lin Robinson (Mark Proksch) who draws his strength by boring those around him. It’s a funny concept, and Proksch has done great work with it in the first three sea sons, but the joke of a boring character can wear thin, and the writers clearly realized this. At the end of season three, Colin Rob inson died, and from his chest cavity burst a brand new energy vampire: a baby, with adult Proksch’s head CGI’d on top of it. Baby Colin Robinson is a great anchor to the season as he rapidly ages and develops a passion for musical theatre, Roblox, and hitting walls with hammers. His transfor mation radically changes the dynamic he has with vampire Laszlo (Matt Berry), who continues to be the most consistent source of laughs on the show in his new role as a pseudo-father.
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What We do in the Shadows soars, batlike, to new heights Television // JEFF MIJO-BURCH
What We Do in the Shadows also holds onto a dynamic that worked so well in the past, especially in season three: a classic sitcom will-they-won’t-they between fa miliar Guillermo (Harvey Guillén) and the vampire he serves, Kayvan Novak’s Nan dor the Relentless. The show has not shied away from queer representation in the past, but to see the slowly building inter play between Guillén’s wannabe vampire (who is also a proficient vampire hunter) and Novak’s ancient warrior turned mod ern softie is a real treat.
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Where What We Do in the Shadows stumbles a bit is with its female charac ters. Natasia Demetriou’s Nadja has shone in past seasons, and while she has a fair amount of screentime with a plotline cen tered on her opening a vampire nightclub, she has few of the season’s standout mo ments. The show has increased the num ber of female characters, with Kristen Schaal becoming a part of nearly every episode and the addition of Nandor’s wife from when he was human (Parisa Fakhri) being brought back to life, but neither has the same level of focus as the male leads. Still, despite that shortcoming, What We Do in the Shadows is absolutely worth your time and attention. With 40 episodes out and at least two more seasons on the way, it’s absolutely worth your while to let these vampires turn you into a fan.
Smuther brings hardcore to Chilliwack
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September Abbotsford Career Fair @ Online, 11:00 am - 2:00 pm. Building a Student-Centred Syllabus @ Online, 1:00 - 2:00 pm.
Taste of Abby Night Market @ Jubilee Park, 5:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Learn to Play: Star Wars RPG @ Boardwalk Cafe & Games, 7:00 pm.10:00 p.m. Backyard Flix @ The Green UFV Abbotsford, 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm. Paint Nite: The Original Paint & Sip Party @ Wings Abbotsford, 7:00 pm. Taste of Abby U-Pick Fall Harvest @ 1356 Sumas Way, 9:00 am - 2:00 pm. CEP U-Pass Distribution @ CEP A1422, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm . Out of the Shadows: Indigenous Art Unveiling @ Library Rotunda Abbotsford (G102) 10:00 am - 11:00 am. Dungeons & Dragons Walk-in Adventures! @ Boardwalk Cafe & Games, 6:30 pm.
UFV CommunitySportsEvents Event Campus Rec Culture Bend and Brew @ Lake Bottom Cider Chilliwack, 11:30 am - 1:30 pm. Weekly Dungeons & Dragons Drop-in @ Nerd Haven Games, 11:30 am. Chilliwack Jets vs. Surrey Knights @ Sardis Sports Complex Chilliwack, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm Stage p.m.@
Taste of Abby U-Pick Fall Harvest @ 1356 Sumas Way, 9:00 am - 2:00 pm. CEP U-Pass Distribution @ CEP A1422, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm. Sidewalk Chalk n’ Chill @ Abbotsford Campus, 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm. Graphic & Digital Design Student Social @ Abbotsford Campus Building K, 5:00 - 7:00 pm. Research Centres, Labs, and Institutes Showcase @ Abbotsford Campus B121, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm. Taste of Abby U-Pick Fall Harvest @ 1356 Sumas Way, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm. Games Night @ Abbotsford Campus Global Lounge B223, 4:30 pm7:00 pm. Taste of Abby U-Pick Fall Harvest @ 1356 Sumas Way, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm. Abbotsford Block Party @ Exhibition Park, 4:00 pm - 9:00 pm. Abbotsford Block Party @ Exhibition Park, 11:00 am - 9:00 pm. View our website for more details on current, local events.
