The Cascade Vol. 21 No. 10

Vol. 21 Issue. 10

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March 20 to March 26, 2013

Implying we’re classy since 1993

The Art of

Revolutionary Patience p. 10-11

Civil rights leader Jack O’Dell reflects on his life’s work and its lessons for achieving social change in the 21st century

SUS election results withheld p. 3

How not to break up with your hairstylist p. 14

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INSIDE THIS WEEK’S ISSUE Opinion

News

Arts & Life

Sports & Health

Connecting UFV to outer space since 2013

A short rant about phone calls

Mainland Ho!

You may have noticed there’s a giant satellite dish installed on the Abbotsford campus library building. Ever wonder what it’s for? Newcomer Katherine Gibson explores at least one of its uses in a chat with Dr. Lucy Lee, UFV’s dean of sciences.

Does anyone really like talking on the phone? Amy Van Veen tackles the awkward pauses, painful small talk and the disturbing lack of body language and facial expressions that characterize the delicate art of conversational telephone use.

Jasper Moedt got lost on the dark, rainy streets of Chilliwack as he looked for the venue where Brett Wildeman and West My Friend would play on their Mainland Ho! tour. Luckily he found TractorGrease tucked in an obscure place – check out his review of Wildeman and West My Friend’s live music!

Sometime before Paul Esau could walk, his father told him he was going to be a basketball player. The story of a father, a son and the game which both divided them and brought them together.

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A complicated game

EDITORIAL

Bon voyage, Martian settlers! (and don’t come back?)

NICK UBELS THE CASCADE

If you’re a space junky like me, this week’s news that Bas Lansdorp will be seeking civilian candidates for a planned Martian expedition in 2022 might have made your intrepid heart skip a beat.

As a kid, astronaut was one of the top vocations on my career wish list. Time, in its realitycheck sort of way, has managed to dampen this spirit with other, more reasonable dreams – and that’s okay. I have trouble enough with my ears at 30,000 feet, let alone exiting earth’s atmosphere altogether. But the prospect of my non-aviation-savvy-arts-major self having the chance to become a pioneer for the space age gave me a jolt, albeit temporary, of that childhood promise of endless stars and distant solar systems viewed from the vantage point of a spaceship’s porthole window.

The catch? You have to be willing to die on Mars.

And it is here that my confidence takes its first hit. Dying alone in a plume of red dust may be a glorious end to a space western, but it’s not my idea of a good time.

Unlike The Darkness’ classic sophomore record One Way Ticket to Hell ... and Back, Lansdorp’s Mars One program isn’t promising any return journeys on this voyage into the beyond.

This makes sense. A trip to Mars is expensive and time-

consuming. Getting back is even more costly. And if the plan is to set up a permanent colony, a lifetime commitment is both prudent and necessary. Ray Bradbury and Buzz Aldrin have already argued persuasively for such a premise.

It’s just not for me.

Which makes me wonder: who is it for?

The Mars One mission is looking for people who are reliable enough to carry out their duties with care and commitment and also insane enough to agree to what seems like a bit of a foolhardy adventure. That seems like an impossible combination to find in any one person.

Furthering my uneasiness about this whole endeavour is the fact that the company responsible plans to turn the day-to-day life of the brave crew into a reality show.

When the astronaut selection process begins to resemble a casting call, Houston, we have a problem. Would you be willing to put your very life in the hands of the cast of The Real World? How about choosing to live out your days in their company?

Thanks, Lansdorp, but I’ll pass.

I will, however, watch the success of this proposed mission with great interest over the coming decades. If a reality show funded by an eccentric Dutch entrepreneur is what it takes to make the first giant leap in human space exploration in almost 50 years, then so be it.

I’m hopeful for the project’s

Volume 21 · Issue 10 Room C1027 33844 King Road Abbotsford, BC V2S 7M8 604.854.4529 Editor-in-chief nick@ufvcascade.ca Nick Ubels Managing editor amy@ufvcascade.ca Amy Van Veen Business manager joe@ufvcascade.ca Joe Johnson Online editor michael@ufvcascade.ca Michael Scoular Production manager stewart@ufvcascade.ca Stewart Seymour Art director anthony@ufvcascade.ca Anthony Biondi Copy editor joel@ufvcascade.ca Joel Smart News editor news@ufvcascade.ca Dessa Bayrock Opinion editor opinion@ufvcascade.ca Nadine Moedt Arts & life editor arts@ufvcascade.ca Sasha Moedt Sports editor sports@ufvcascade.ca Paul Esau News writer jess@ufvcascade.ca Jess Wind

Mars: one of the final frontiers. success, but concerned in spite of my instinct for heady optimism.

If NASA has trouble landing fairly hardy exploration bots on the red planet, what chance is there for a successful manned mission funded by an upstart non-profit venture?

In a post-Cold War era of government cutbacks and corporate growth, private and non-profit ventures like these will likely

Image: Wikimedia Commons

begin to crop up more often (I’m looking at you, Richard Branson).

If that’s the case, Mars One’s reality show premise leaves its success a dubious prospect at best.

I’ll save my support for a mission with a better outlook.

Until then, the final frontier can wait.

UPCOMING EVENTS Mar 20

Mar 22

Mar 23

Mar 26-28

Makin’ pancakes, makin’ bacon pancakes

Would you like some Life of Pi with that?

Great Scott – great skate!

Vote for Board of Governors student reps

There will be pancakes, there will be bacon. University Christian Ministries wants to make you breakfast, so who are you to say no? Pop into A building at CEP campus and fill up a plate with the most important meal of the day. It promises to be delicious and fulfilling – and did I mention it’s free?

It’s that time of semester where you need to get out of the library and do something, anything, that isn’t related to school – but you’re also broke.

Have no fear: the Reach has your back and is offering a free screening of Life of Pi at 7 p.m. to take your mind off the books ... and onto a movie based on a book.

You know what they say: skating is like walking but with sharp metal bits strapped to your feet.

Okay, nobody says that.

No matter how you want to describe it, you can do it for free this Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Prospera Centre in Chilliwack.

Bring your own skates or rent some for $3.50 when you get there.

Yeah, we know you’re tired of voting on stuff, but come on – democracy is at work here! Log back into myUFV one last time and enter your votes into the now-familiar platform. You can find more info about the candidates at ufv.ca/secretariat/elections, and poke around the kind of things BoG gets done.

Photojournalist blake@ufvcascade.ca Blake McGuire Varsity writer Jasper Moedt Staff writer Katie Stobbart Contributors Katherine Gibson, Jeremy Hannaford, Maurice Moutot, Ashley O’Neill, Ryan Petersen, Jasmine Proctor, Melissa Spady, Tim Ubels, Griffy Vigneron Printed By International Web exPress The Cascade is UFV’s autonomous student newspaper. It provides a forum for UFV students to have their journalism published. It also acts as an alternative press for the Fraser Valley. The Cascade is funded with UFV student funds. The Cascade is published every Wednesday with a circulation of 1500 and is distributed at UFV campuses and throughout Abbotsford, Chilliwack, and Mission. The Cascade is a member of the Canadian University Press, a national cooperative of 75 university and college newspapers from Victoria to St. John’s. The Cascade follows the CUP ethical policy concerning material of a prejudicial or oppressive nature.

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Election results delayed; committee conduct called into question DESSA BAYROCK THE CASCADE

Students hoping to find out which candidates will be representing them on the Student Union Society (SUS) board of directors for the coming academic year will have to wait a little longer than expected.

Tuesday night’s extraordinary board meeting called by SUS to ratify election results was adjourned after a mere 28 minutes, 10 of which were spent in a recess. No election results were announced nor ratified after student guest Olaf Nilsson requested a number of electoral committee documents be shared with the public.

The requested documents were listed in a letter that was handed out to board members and guests.

Notably, Nilsson wishes to see a list of all electoral committee members, as well as the identities of those who filed complaints against Chris Doyle’s campaign.

Nilsson charged that the complaints which resulted in Doyle’s expulsion from the presidential race on the eve of the voting period would not be “substantiated” if the committee refused to reveal the identities of the complainants.

Except for the chief electoral officer, the identities of electoral committee members have been kept anonymous for recent elections.

The SUS governing manual, which provides regulations that

SUS directors prepare for extraordinary board meeting to ratify election results. bind both SUS and the electoral committee, does not require electoral committee members’ identities to be kept anonymous, but nor does it state they must be “read into the record,” as Nilsson suggested was customary.

Likewise, there is no policy in

place that states complainants must be identified; the governing manual states the electoral committee “shall have the power to hear appeals and complaints” and “may make a discretionary ruling on matters relating to the Election not explicitly mentioned in this

Image: Reace Buchner

policy, subject only to review by the Board of The Society.”

In the absence of SUS bylaws stating otherwise, Nilsson invoked section 37 of the BC Society Act, which states documents must be available to inspection by members with reasonable notice.

However, interim president Shane Potter stated that the electoral committee is not directly bound by the BC Society Act, since they are formed by the university and are not technically part of SUS. “The elections committee is not an organ of the Student Union Society,” he said. “They are under the university senate.”

“This I don’t believe is the case,” Nilsson replied.

“We will review this with our legal team and see if this is something we need to respond to,” Potter stated.

Nilsson requested the documents be supplied to him by noon the next day – a deadline a mere 18 hours away.

“That is still a reasonable request,” Nilsson stated after the meeting.

He also objected to allowing the electoral committee to present their report before these documents were made available, suggesting it could leave SUS liable to do so.

Nilsson’s letter ends with a statement that he is prepared to take proceedings to the Supreme Court of British Columbia if necessary.

“Govern your affairs accordingly,” the letter concludes.

When asked if he was acting on behalf of Doyle, Nilsson replied in the negative.

According to Facebook, Doyle and Nilsson have been friends since November 2012.

UCM skips breakfast, begs forgiveness JESS WIND

THE CASCADE

After receiving funding to serve breakfast to students on the Chilliwack campus, the University Christian Ministries (UCM) club failed to fry up one morning.

UCM serves free pancake breakfasts to students every Thursday morning in U-House, and the student group set out to offer a similar service at Canada Education Park campus (CEP) in the fall 2012 semester.

“The hope was to do it every week,” UCM president Derrick Uittenbosch explained. “We’ve done about four of them now and then just missed this last one a couple of weeks ago.”

When they originally applied for funding to the SUS board, they had as many as six volunteers lined up to serve bacon and pancakes. By January many of those volunteers were no longer available.

“They just kind of dropped out,” he said. “Schedules got changed.”

Uittenbosch didn’t blame the missed breakfast on low volunteer numbers, but instead took full responsibility.

“That was completely my fault,” he explained. “I was on the island during spring break ... I came back, [it] completely slipped my mind and so the rest of the team didn’t show up in Chilliwack.”

Fortunately for the hungry students, members of Student Life and SUS stepped in when they realized that UCM wasn’t going

Image: roboppy/ Flickr

Makin’ bacon pancakes. Take some bacon and I’ll put it in a pancake. Bacon pancaaaakes!! to show.

VP social Chris Doyle said that it was the second breakfast missed by UCM. “There have been two breakfasts at this time where they have said, ‘This is going to be a UCM pancake breakfast,’ and then they weren’t able to show up,” he noted.

After the second missed event, Doyle said SUS contacted UCM to plan out a schedule that would allow the breakfasts to go ahead as

planned.

“We’ve talked to them; we’ve decided on specific days they can do it and they are planning to run those days,” Doyle said.

Uittenbosch confirmed that they will be closing out the semester with two more breakfasts at CEP, one in March and another in April.

UCM was originally granted $600 for the breakfasts in the fall.

“Until Tuesday, all $600 was still in the bank account, it hadn’t

been used yet because we didn’t have the people to do it so we hadn’t gotten any of the supplies,” Uittenbosch explained.

“We’ve just actually bought those supplies a couple of days ago.

We’re just getting the last couple of griddles from Costco today.”

Doyle assured that future decisions to fund UCM wouldn’t be affected by the club’s rocky start to Chilliwack pancake breakfasts.

“So as long as they’re being responsible with the funding we

give them, it should in no way affect what we do in the future other than make sure that we have constant communication with them,” he explained. “[SUS will] make sure that they can still manage their events and they don’t need any extra help.”

After the delay to get the griddles sizzling in Chilliwack, Uittenbosch admitted that his original plan wasn’t realistic.

“We haven’t been able to jump into that plan as quickly as we’d been anticipating,” he said. “It’s just a bit of a delayed timeline.

We may have been a bit ambitious last semester.”

Despite the delay, Doyle is positive about the future of UCM’s Chilliwack pancake breakfasts.

“I’m just very hopeful that they’re able to manage the events that they’ve set out for the rest of the semester and then next year being able to do the same thing they do in Chilliwack that they do in Abbotsford,” he said. “If they do, they are honestly going to be one of our best community building groups and events that UFV has.”

Uittenbosch said that they have doubled their supplies with the funding from SUS, eliminating the need to transport between the campuses. He has begun speaking with other Chilliwack students that are interested in helping and is working out a strategy to make the UCM pancake breakfasts a success in the fall 2013 semester.

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IN BRIEF Wall Street ends lower on angst about Cyprus bailout plan (Reuters) – Stocks fell on Monday after a plan to tax bank accounts in Cyprus to help pay for the country’s bailout stoked worries that it could threaten the stability of financial institutions in the euro zone.

European officials have said the measure is a one-off for a country that accounts for just 0.2 per cent of European output. The fear is that savers in larger European countries will become nervous and start withdrawing funds, although there was no immediate sign of that on Monday.

“There are worries about whether there will be any spillover from the Cyprus situation,” said Nick Sargen, chief investment officer at Fort Washington Investment Advisors in Cincinnati, which oversees more than $45 billion.

Two Canadian prisoners break out in brazen helicopter escape

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two Canadian inmates broke out of prison in broad daylight on Sunday by climbing into a helicopter hovering over a detention center northwest of Montreal, according to media reports.

The helicopter was hijacked earlier in the day from tour company Heli-Tremblant by two men armed posing as tourists, according to The Globe and Mail. The helicopter’s pilot was ordered to fly to the prison in St-Jérôme, about 37 miles outside of Montreal, the newspaper reported.

Once the helicopter arrived at the prison, the two inmates climbed up to it using ropes or cables, the newspaper said.

Both fugitives, identified as Benjamin Hudon-Barbeau, 36, and Danny Provençal, 33, were believed to have been injured in the escape.

By late Sunday, police had arrested three men, including one of the escaped prisoners, Hudon-Barbeau. Police had the second escapee, Provençal, surrounded, The Globe and Mail said.

China criticizes U.S. anti-missile North Korea plan (Reuters) – China said on Monday U.S. plans to bolster missile defences in response to provocations by North Korea would only intensify antagonism, and urged Washington to act prudently.

“The anti-missile issue has a direct bearing on global and regional balance and stability.

It also concerns mutual strategic interests between countries,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told a daily news briefing.

U.S. Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel announced plans on Friday to bolster U.S. missile defences in response to “irresponsible and reckless provocations” by North Korea, which has threatened a preemptive nuclear strike against the United States.

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Sapphire satellite the newest addition to UFV KATHERINE GIBSON CONTRIBUTOR

A little under a month ago the Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) launched a satellite named Sapphire into space.

Sapphire isn’t just the first satellite ever launched into space by the DND; it is also directly linked to a satellite dish on top of the library building at UFV’s Abbotsford campus.

Sent primarily to monitor debris and keep track of the orbit of other satellites, Sapphire will actively aid Canadian security.

As Lucy Lee, the dean of sciences at UFV, explains, “satellites are not entities on their own; they have to communicate with Earth.”

In order to support the communication process between Sapphire and the satellite dish, open locations outside the satellite interference of larger cities are chosen – open locations like Abbotsford’s UFV campus. Beyond this, the location must be sturdy enough to maintain the dish and

keep it stable.

“You need a building—a base— that is sound, doesn’t shake, and is really well built,” Lee says, “And our library [building] fits this well.”

The Sapphire also fits into a larger conversation regarding sustainability. Bottom line: space is becoming crowded.

“Right now there are approximately 3500 satellites in orbit,” Lee says, “and that number is growing.”

“There are lots of launch rocket remnants,” she continues, “There are also mission-related debris and fragmentation debris from objects that have broken apart or collided in space.”

The growing presence of this type of debris is what causes problems.

As Lee explains, “the probability of collisions is increasing with every satellite we send up into space.”

These collisions—most notably a crash between an American and Russian satellite in 2009—create

Image: kennedy space center

This sparkly sphere isn’t a disco ball, it’s satellite Sapphire 3. massive amounts of debris that remain orbiting in space and further add to the crowding. In order to help prevent these collisions, scientists need access to specific technology capable of tracking

and plotting debris.

Enter Sapphire, a satellite created with this exact intent in mind; not only is it helping track space junk and prevent accidents, but UFV is helping it along.

Monument honours lives six years after collision KATIE STOBBART THE CASCADE

In 2007, three women were killed on their way to work when the van transporting them and more than a dozen other farm workers collided with another vehicle.

The van had only two seatbelts for its passengers, the tires were improperly inflated, it was overloaded and the driver was not properly licensed to operate the commercial vehicle in poor weather conditions.

When a third vehicle hit it from behind, the van flipped onto a concrete median near the Sumas exit on Highway 1.

Six years later, plans for a monument honouring the lives of Amarijit Kaur Bal, Sarabjit Kaur Sidhu and Sukhvinder Kaur Punia are being finalized.

The monument will be erected at Mill Lake; against the serene waterscape and overlooking the trail that winds around the lake.

The figures of three women will rise from the trunk of a six metre -high tree, their arms spreading skyward as the tree’s branches.

The image calls to mind mythological dryads—the guardians of trees—but these guardians will symbolically watch over the future safety of farm workers.

“It honours and celebrates the women and it reminds us [that] the fight for safety and justice is not over,” explained Jim Sinclair, Federation of Labour president, when he spoke at a vigil on Sunday, March 10.

Two months after the accident, the Farm Workers’ InterAgency Compliance Committee was formed by the province to work toward the goal of enforcing worker safety, which includes agricultural workers. Since then, there have been quarterly reports on roadside and work site inspections.

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The Golden Tree Monument is a reminder that the fight for farm worker safety is not over.

For the 2007 incident, however, Sinclair noted at the vigil that criminal charges against the company were refused by the crown.

“While there has been little justice, the families and the Federation of Labour will continue to fight for change,” he promised.

The monument “represents our continued struggle to make farm workers safer,” said Jagjit Sidhu, husband of the late Sarabjit Sidhu, according to a release by the Federation of Labour. “We are proud to dedicate this monument to all farm workers in BC.” The Golden Tree Monument

is the first of its kind in Canada.

The project was approved by a unanimous vote from Abbotsford City Council, and $100,000 will be contributed by the province and by the Worker’s Compensation Board toward the completion of the monument project.

Dean and Christina Lauzé of D’Arts, who also created a monument in Victoria and the Unity statue in Abbotsford, will begin to produce the full-scale monument later this year.

The artist’s rendering of the monument portrays the gold tree on a grassy knoll at Mill Lake,

bathed in sunlight, its branches bearing bright red apples. This seems appropriate to echo the movement of a community toward change: rising up from roots in the past, reaching for light, and bearing fruit – the promise of future growth and learning from tragic events like the collision in 2007.

Charitable donations can be made to the project care of Abbotsford Community Services.

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SCIENCE ON PURPOSE Chinese cyber-attacks increasing in aggression

ASHLEY O’NEILL CONTRIBUTOR

Thanks to the world wide web, we’re living a more convenient lifestyle but also a more dangerous one.

We use online services for social networking, shopping, updating account info and casual lollygagging.

We surrender personal information to companies over the internet to gain access to services such as Facebook, email, Paypal, bank information and even our university website.

The internet knows a lot about you, and if the company whose services you use suffers a security breach, someone else could quickly have access to your personal files.

An organization called Mandiant specializes in investigating and resolving computer security compromises. In a report earlier this year, titled APT1: Exposing One of China’s Cyber Espionage Units, they claim that since 2004 there have been security breaches at hundreds of organizations around the world.

The group they hold responsible for the majority of security breaches are referred to as “Advanced Persistent Threats” (APT). The report focuses on the most prolific of the groups, APT1, which is one of more than 20 APT

groups originating in China.

Mandiant has evidence pointing to the fact that not only is the APT sector stationed in China, but APT1 may work in close relation with the Chinese government.

“The Chinese government may authorize this activity, but there’s no way to determine the extent of its involvement,” Mandiant states in the executive summary of the report.

Mandiant theorizes APT1 likely receives direct government support, which is why they are able to wage such an intensive cyber espionage campaign against American, Canadian and some European businesses. APT1 and Unit 61398 of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) are similar in their mission, capabilities and resources, and PLA Unit 61398 is located in the exact location to which Mandiant tracks APT1 activity.

Part of their investigation included tracking APT1’s activity to four large networks in Shanghai, two of which are where Unit 61398 is located in the Pudong New Area.

Mandiant claims that APT1 has already stolen hundreds of terabytes of data from at least 141 organizations.

“Increasingly, U.S. businesses are speaking out about their serious concerns about sophisticated,

Image: harbus.org/ edited by Anthony Biondi

Internet safety is an increasing North American concern. targeted theft of confidential business information and proprietary technologies through cyber intrusions emanating from China on an unprecedented scale,” stated Tom Donilon, President Obama’s national security adviser, addressing the Asia Society in New York.

He spoke on behalf of the White House a little under two weeks ago in demanding the Chinese government stop the widespread theft of data from American computer networks and instead agree to “acceptable norms of behaviour in cyberspace.”

APT1 is aggressive in their at-

It’s quizzin’ time

tack methodology, refining and redesigning their techniques over years of practice to steal large columns of valuable intellectual property. Once they establish access to a system, they periodically revisit the victim’s network to steal new intellectual property.

Mandiant was able to track a number of APT1 personas who made “poor operational security choices” that exposed their identity.

“UglyGorilla” is responsible for authorizing malware and registering domains belonging to APT1. “DOTA” registers email accounts to phish for information

– sending spoof emails targeting specific organizations in fraud attempts to have the user give up confidential data. A significant creator of AURIGA and BANGAT malware families used by many APT groups stems from a “SuperHard” persona.

Mandiant’s report fully details the immense scale and duration of APT’s operation. The attacks are increasing in complexity and design as we attempt to learn more about these cyber-attacks.

It is often difficult to estimate how much data APT1 steals per intrusion. APT1 deletes the compressed archives after stealing data, leaving hardly any evidence behind of a pilfered file. Any minor evidence of a breach that is left behind is usually overwritten during regular business activities and before Mandiant has time to investigate.

Firewalls and other security applications do not monitor or identify data theft because these applications are more programmed towards keeping hackers outside of the system instead of preventing loss once a hacker has gained access.

There is a large organization of people behind these attacks, with at least a dozen and potentially hundreds of people in the ranks.

Just think about that next time you assume your information is safe on the internet.

Seven teams go head to head for the grand knowledge prize at LITSA’s quiz night

DESSA BAYROCK

THE CASCADE / TEAM YOLO

MISSY SPADY

CONTRIBUTOR / TEAM ‘90s

We sent two moderately undercover operatives to record the action at the first annual Library and Information Technology Students Association (LITSA) Quiz Night.

While it stormed and poured outside, seven teams pitted their wits against one another in a fierce search for improved knowledge. All proceeds went to fund scholarships and conference fees for LITSA students in the future.

Team YOLO and Team ‘90s valiantly held their own ... or so they pretend.

Team YOLO: I successfully lured three other students onto my quiz team, mostly because I kept them in the dark about the fact that our name is Team YOLO. Five rounds, 10 questions per round, one minute per question.

That doesn’t sound so hard, right?

Team ‘90s: Like the overpowering sparkle of the ‘90s, I bullied my team mate into the evening’s festivities.

Team YOLO: We arrived at the quiz hall AKA AfterMath campus lounge a little late, but it was a pretty laid-back atmosphere and no one seemed to mind our tardiness. Students in multi-coloured wigs attempt to portray librarians as “fun.” There were snacks.

There was fruit. More important-

ly, there was beer on special.

Team ‘90s: More important than two plates full of cookies? I think not. I did appreciate the colourfulness of the hosts.

Team YOLO: Speaking of hosts ... I think I’ve found a new best friend. Her name is Smitty the librarian, and she is the killingest of MCs. Let the record show she could take Alex Trebek with one hand tied behind her back.

Team ‘90s: Seconded. I don’t think they could have found a better quizmaster. Spunky and hardass. She made a room of maybe 20 people feel like a mob ...

And I mean that as a compliment.

Her signature instruction: “Drum roll, please.”

Team YOLO: I don’t think any of us knew we were capable of such musical hand-to-table drumrolls until she became our conductor.

Team ‘90s: In unison, no less.

Team YOLO: We were all feeling pretty good about ourselves ... and then they started talking about the Dewey decimal system.

Team ‘90s: Horrible flashbacks to my elementary school days where books had to be looked up by hand. Oh, the horror. Alcohol definitely helped my self-esteem, although it couldn’t prepare me

for the onslaught of questions I had no idea how to answer.

Team YOLO: Quick! What was Tolkein’s middle name!

Team ‘90s: I only remember the second one, which was Reuel. I have never heard that name before in my life.

Team YOLO: That’s because it’s not actually a name at all.

But quick, what U.S. state has the most active volcanos?

Team ‘90s: Hawaii?

Team YOLO: That’s only what they want you to think. It’s actually Alaska! But quick! Can you correctly identify this passage from Farenheit 451?

Team ‘90s: I thought some of the questions were completely unfair. What if I’ve never read that book? That’s just setting me up for failure! Which turned out to be a theme of the evening.

What was the most challenging question for you?

Team YOLO: Well, it honestly didn’t matter – because after I steered my team incorrectly two or three times they just stopped listening to me. Everyone wins!

I I chose to interpret it as a sign from the powers that be that it was time for another beer.

Team ‘90s: Which, if I am not

mistaken, was when you started getting questions right and everyone discredited you entirely.

Is that too sappy?

Team YOLO: Sometimes it’s hard to be such a vibrant YOLOer. But other times it’s not so bad.

Like when SMITTY HERSELF picks up your battle cry.

Team ‘90s: Yes. But I’ll let it slide because you have the most team spirit. You’re supposed to be sappy. I think my favourite part, aside from winning candy, was the dramatic interlude of thunder and lightning between questions.

Team ‘90s: And gloriously gets the whole pub involved in a battle cry-a-long. No wonder you took home the title of Most Team Spirit.

Team YOLO: The weather certainly made for an interesting backdrop. Man, was it pouring. It made the snug atmosphere of the pub just that tiny bit cozier.

Team YOLO: I take full credit for that. And you know what?

Despite some rough patches and impossible knowledge standards, I would rate the night a 10/10 would quiz again.

Team ‘90s: It made everyone a little more grateful to be inside drinking beers rather than outside in the shower downpour.

Even more perfect, the storm had passed by the time the event was over.

Team ‘90s: Absolutely! Even though my team took home the title of Best Golf Score— Team YOLO: —which means the lowest score—

just

Team ‘90s: —we arguably took home the best prize: homemade marshmallow bark. A literal armful of it. I regret nothing. I think essentially everyone won something, one way or another, which is always a good time.

Team YOLO: Absolutely correct. At the end of the night, be it through t-shirts or friendly trash talk or marshmallow bark, we were all winners. Winners of fun.

Team YOLO: You could say it was like we weathered something together.

Team ‘90s: We sure did. And I’m not just talking about the weather. Getting through some of those rounds was painful to say the least.

Team YOLO: But we got through it. We learned some stuff, and we also helped to fund the LITSA annual scholarship.

Team ‘90s: Knowing all the money was going to a good cause made it worth the stink of failure I had to wash off when I got home.

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Money growing on the SUS tree

What happened at the board meeting

JESS WIND

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Last Friday’s regular SUS board meeting at the Mission campus marked the final board meeting for the 2012/2013 SUS board of directors. We know most of you declined to attend for a reason, so we’ll keep the summary brief: of 16 decision items on the agenda, 10 of them considered funding for student groups and over $10,000 was granted in total.

The board also looked at honouring an informal agreement with UFV athletics regarding funding.

Finally, the recent referendum results were ratified and the future of the Health and Dental service on campus was discussed.

Money, money, everywhere: SUS doles out cash to clubs and associations Of the groups that requested funding, all of them were granted some or all of their requested amounts.

The Visual Art Student Association was granted funding for their BFA Grad show, the Video Games club was granted funding to purchase audio recording equipment for an upcoming event and CIVL radio was granted funding for their Battle of the Bands event. The Association of Student Philosophers, the Criminal Justice Student Association and the Agricultural Student Association and the Badminton club were also granted their claims.

After a lengthy process between SUS and the Biology and Chemistry Students Association (BCSA) spanning several meetings, the amount they were owed, the student group was granted the remainder of their semester funding. The process took longer than usual, since the BCSA chose the little-used option two as how they wished to receive funding.

By unanimous decision, the Theatre Students Association was granted funding for their upcoming 18th annual Directors’ Festival.

With all this cash handed out, there was discussion surrounding the amount of money left in the clubs and associations budget. Interim VP finance Ryan Petersen assured the board that there were sufficient funds available to support the requests.

In total, SUS granted $10,815 to student clubs and associations.

SUS sends student to research conference in Quebec City Fourth-year chemistry student Meagan Beatty requested money from SUS to travel to Quebec City and present her research. She has been working on a project in organic chemistry since May and hopes to impress the judges at the poster competition at the Canadian Chemistry Conference.

“It’s not just about the poster,” she said in her appeal to the board. “It’s about networking with other universities across Canada. I hope to go to grad

school in organic chemistry so it’s the perfect time to talk to people, get noticed. If people like you, they adopt you into their group and that’s what I’m hoping to do.”

The board voted and came to a unanimous decision to fund Beatty’s trip and research presentation.

Official numbers from the Transit and Health and Dental referendums The official numbers regarding the three recent referendum questions were presented at the meeting. The Transit referendum passed with 807 students voting in favour of a bus between Chilliwack and Abbotsford campuses; 265 students voted against the question.

The Health and Dental questions both failed. The first, regarding a fee increase for increased service, had 596 students vote for the increase and 464 vote against it. This was less than the 60 per cent majority needed to pass referendum questions. The second question regarding a five per cent increase per year to the Health and Dental fee to account for inflation saw 534 students respond in favour and 530 respond against.

VP social Chris Doyle expressed his concern for the majority not being recognized as a victory.

“I can’t get past the point that a majority of the students want

something, but not enough of a majority for us to support it,” he said.

General manager Meghan McDonald expressed that the responses were affected by a lack of a “no opinion” option on the ballot. Interm president Shane Potter agreed and mentioned the likelihood of the referendum being rerun in the future.

Representative-at-large Jay Mitchell responded by asking for further research into the Health and Dental service on campus.

“Before we consider looking to up our health and dental fee through another referendum, we should look into other service providers,” he said. “Our service used to be much better than 60 and 80 per cent. It used to be 100 and 80 per cent.”

Potter agreed that more research was necessary before moving forward with another Health and Dental referendum question.

Informal agreement between previous SUS board and UFV Athletics is brought to the table.

UFV Athletics requested $5000 from SUS as part of a long-standing agreement developed by previous boards.

There has been correspondence on the subject between McDonald and David Kent, sports information and marketing coordinator of Athletics, since December.

McDonald requested a funding request form be filled out, as per

SUS internal policies, and confirmed that it was filled out in the days prior to the board meeting.

She suggested that internal process be followed going forward so as to avoid a similar conflict.

Doyle noted that when the budget was created for the 2012/2013 year, $5000 was allotted to go to Athletics. That allotment was wiped out during the budget reform at the EGM when many lines on the SUS budget were reallocated to keep AfterMath open.

However, Petersen assured the board that there is enough money in the budget to grant the amount, should the board make that decision.

Many board members were wary to rescind the informal agreement, as it would jeopardize a long-standing relationship with UFV Athletics.

Ultimately, VP academic Dan van der Kroon amended the motion to include the $5000 amount pending further explanatory discussion with McDonald.

The next board meeting will be April 2 in Abbotsford with the newly-elected board of directors. As always, regular board meetings are open to the public, and students are invited to attend or follow the action on Twitter with the hashtag #thingsSUSdoes.

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WHO IS WHO AND WHO DOES WHAT

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Shane Potter

Dan van der Kroon

Ryan Petersen

Jay Mitchell

Chris Doyle

Interim president of SUS, previous VP east. Also involved in Humans VS Zombies on campus and looks good in argyle.

AKA @shanerpotter

VP academic. Spearheads advocacy on campus, including a steady hand in the Cinema Politica offerings every month. Wears a lot of green. AKA DvdK.

VP finance, former rep-at-large.

Five years of experience with SUS and has a penchant for bow ties.

Has been known to sport muttonchops.

Seasoned rep-at-large, previous SUS president. Recognizable by his overwhelming common sense, sarcasm and backwards ball cap.

AKA @therealb0wser.

Chris Doyle is currently filling the role of VP social. He is always smiling and usually in AfterMath.

He is not, however, on Twitter.

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OPINION

Dessa Bayrock

NICK UBELS

Katie Stobbart

AMY VAN VEEN

Sodexo: king of cheap curmudgeons

Beating bus stigma

Winter is also beautiful

File your taxes, file your sanity

Well, Sodexo, you’ve done it again. You’ve topped your own record as the king of chintz.

You might not be able to charge students for the hot air they make use of whenever they wander into the cafeteria, but you sure as hell can charge them 88 cents for a cup of hot water.

For as long as I can remember, thrifty students have been able to bring their own tea, and brew it on campus free of charge with a handy little hot water tap in the cafeteria.

Now this particular tap belongs to Sodexo, and Sodexo has realized that no one was paying for the privilege. With a speed lacking in their morning till lineups, Sodexo cracked down on this like Johnny Cage cracks bones in Mortal Kombat. God forbid students get water for free!

In all honesty, Sodexo, I think I owe you one. After one too many orders of curly fries I was beginning to soften up to you. Now you’ve reminded me that you are, indeed, the corporation who has no sympathy for students – and especially not students who are trying to save money.

“You’re crazy for taking the bus!”

Beloved New England singer Jonathan Richman took on this kind of criticism in 1990, but the stigma around taking public transit still remains in North America.

It’s evident from a comparison between the ads on the outside of the bus and the ads on the inside that certain fundamental assumptions about the demographic of bus riders still resonate for many of us.

On the exterior of the bus, ads for new condo developments and the like target the well-off automobile drivers stuck behind a city bus in traffic. Inside the bus, there’s an ad taken out by the Abby PD to warn gang members that they’ll catch them “riding dirty,” careeradvancing recruitment banners from local colleges, a Crime Stoppers number and a Salvation Army shelter welcome message.

Driving a car rather than taking a bus is still a status symbol, a message to the rest of the world that you’ve got your life together. Even if regularly-scheduled routes were available, I wonder how many people in three-piece suits would be found standing in the aisles of the number three.

Until we can overcome this gap between lip service to and real use of public transit, we’ll never succeed in clearing up our congested city roads, and reducing our gasoline consumption and subsequent air pollution.

It’s exciting to watch spring happen.

For weeks, I have been scrutinizing the garden in front of my house, waiting. When my family moved there last summer, the garden was unruly and overtaken with grass, so I have been looking forward to this revelation: what grows here? What flowers or herbs will be born from the mystery of tiny white bulbs in the soil? Green shoots, less than a few inches tall, build my anticipation for the season to come.

Yet as glad as I am that winter will soon be over (knock on wood), I know that the joy I get from observing the tiny sprouts, and my enthusiasm when I spot the baby buds on the tips of barren branches, would not be possible or nearly as splendid without the season that comes before.

In the last tenuous grasp of the colder, greyer, shorter days it is possible to look back and see that the winter was also beautiful. The occasional snowfall blanketing the dormant earth, moisture gleaming on the frosted tips of grass, the briskness of a cold wind – all of these are full of promise. The promise of rebirth.

It’s tax season.

That time of year when my nerves are on edge. Every time I get a tax form in the mail or myUFV reminds me of where to download my T2202A form, I panic.

What if I forget something? I have this gnawing fear that one wrong move will land me in jail for tax fraud. Eleven months out of the year, I could care less about white collar crime, but that one month, as the tax deadline winds down, I am a mess.

What if somehow I insert the wrong number into the wrong box? Will TurboTax be there for me? Will H&R Block? I wonder about the possibility of becoming an Ashley Judd-esque character, wrongly accused and telling prison guards I didn’t mean to claim that income as tax-deductible. I don’t even know what tax-deductible means!

Tax season is like an iceberg.

Most of us poor fools only see the tip of it. We merely scratch the surface of the ins and outs, the complications, the exceptions, the loops in the system. We furrow our brows and wait to see if the government of Canada lets us pass by or if they decide to sink us with an audit and a reassessment.

It’s the season of tax.

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The overwhelming awkwardness of the phone call AMY VAN VEEN THE CASCADE

Can we all agree that talking on the phone is the worst?

I wonder if Alexander Graham Bell—or whoever actually invented the telephone and didn’t just steal the patent—would have appreciated a phone call if he knew that years later, letter writing could be sped up to the lightning speed of a text message.

A phone call has too much suspense. Too much uncertainty. Too much je ne sais quoi because I don’t actually know what is on the other end of the line.

The only problem is that the phone call is still the preferred and necessary means of communication for cutting out all the subtext and questions that arise from the confusion over poorly-worded texts and emails.

Ideally, everyone would talk face-to-face and all the missed nuances of tone of voice mixed with body language and facial expres-

sion could clear up a lot of unwanted miscommunications, but unfortunately we don’t all live in the same cul-de-sac. (Actually, maybe that’s not such a bad thing.

It would be a little crowded, constantly seeing your dentist, doctor and telemarketer selling credit cards and getting their mail.)

So the next step away from this almost perfect understanding is the telephone, but for me the telephone is wrought with so many more problems than a simple text message.

First of all, there’s the small talk.

That horrid small talk that everyone charades their way through to get to the real point of the phone call. If you just want someone to pick up a coffee for you, you have to first ask them about their day, share lamentations over the changing weather patterns, waste a few more precious daytime minutes with some forced laughter before eventually saying, “Hey, do you think you could pick me up a coffee on your way to the office?”

Secondly, there are the many awkward pauses that come from the novice phone callers calling on the phone. Awkward pauses are fine face-to-face because much can be said with a raised eyebrow or a huff of breath. But awkward phone pauses? They eat away at you until you spurt out something just to fill the space. This is especially evident in those phone conversations you have with someone who wasn’t the intended recipient of the phone call, like when you call a landline to talk to your friend and her husband picks up and the two of you have to share pleasantries while waiting for her to come to the line.

Personal phone calls would be better with hold music, but I suppose that might be a little rude.

And thirdly, these two problems combine to create the ultimate downside of the telephone call: the distracted “uh-huh.” Let’s face it, when one person gets talking about something or decides to answer truthfully your polite “how’s your day going,” it takes a while

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The phone call is wrought with tension. for the two of you to come to the intended subject of the phone call.

But while the person on the other end rattles away, punctuated by small talk and awkward pauses, your mind wanders. It either wanders to an outstanding to-do list or the doodle that has formed under the power of an idle pen. It wan-

ders away and you don’t even realize it until the person on the other end asks if you agree. It’s like Ross and Rachel and the 18-page letter all over again.

Do you agree?

Uh huh, phone calls are the worst.

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Coastal clean-up should be a collective effort KATIE STOBBART THE CASCADE

Most of us have—at some time or another—visited the Pacific coastline. Living so near the ocean has its joys: summer afternoons basking in sunlight and salty wind, building sandcastles or beachcombing for treasures that wash up in the foamy waves.

However, there are dangers associated with our proximity to the large body of water. As we saw two years ago, high-magnitude earthquakes can trigger larger waves or a tsunami, which can overwhelm coastal cities like our own.

In March 2011, a tsunami devastated the densely populated island country of Japan. Connected by the same ocean, we are not unaffected by this tragedy.

Though the bulk of debris from the tsunami has already sunk, roughly 1.5 million tons are still afloat in the Pacific ocean, and it is unclear how much of this detritus will make its way to the west coast of North America, or when it will arrive.

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Beachcombing will become very interesting in coming months.

Small coastal communities are not prepared to process mass amounts of debris. Currently beach clean-up is taken on by volunteers,

mostly local residents. Yet this is not a task that can be ignored or postponed until after the debris washes up on the shore.

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It can be difficult to clean up after an event when there is no one to blame. Who is responsible for handling the aftermath of a natural disaster? Who will provide the resources and the time required to cope with the pieces of Japan that drift in our direction?

I think the answer to this is complicated, but it boils down to a collective effort.

With thanks for the aid that Canada supplied during the crisis (over $4 million were donated to relief efforts from Canadians), Japan has offered to help fund clean-up efforts on the West Coast by giving $1 million to the federal government. So far all three levels of government have been covering the costs associated with clean-up.

These are both steps in the right direction. It is vital to avoid, as much as possible, the pollution of our coastal waters – and in some cases to prevent invasive species clinging to the debris from taking root and posing a risk to native species of marine life.

What I would like to see moving

forward is increased involvement from other communities that are close to our coast. Why not extend a helping hand to our neighbouring communities that happen to be situated on the water’s edge?

Even those of us who live further inland take advantage of our ability to access nearby beaches in White Rock, Vancouver and on our coastal islands. British Columbia is set apart by its natural splendour – it’s one of the reasons many of us choose to live here. It is to all of our benefit, then, to ensure that our natural environment is protected.

If you would like to participate in cleaning up the coast as debris from the tsunami washes up, you can visit www.shorelinecleanup. ca/tsunami to offer your time.

We are all connected, and when tragedies occur it is important to recognize those things that connect us; the Pacific Rim is linked by one sea – an ocean that also brings our local communities together.

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Re: Student Union Building could include corporate sponsor Editor:

It’s troubling to hear that the Student Union Society was contemplating selling off the name of the Student Union Building to the highest bidder. UFV has already given up any ability to ensure students get tasty food at reasonable prices through its totally unreasonable contract with SODEXO, the Belgian multinational.

Why should students have to endure yet more humiliation by having their space named “the Envi-

sion Credit Union Student Centre” or something equally absurd?

Everyone knows that the very best name for the Student Union Building is the Albus Dumbledore Memorial Building.

UFV needs a little bit of magic.

The SUS has an opportunity to provide it. So, ask yourself: why not Dumbledore? ~Jack Brown UFV Alumni President of the UFV Student Union Society, 2009/2010

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Viral videos: hijacking our collective consciousness GRIFFY VIGNERON

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For a while now, my YouTube page has been dominated by videos of office workers, students, regular people, shaking and shimmying it up. The Harlem Shake videos has been one of the latest videos in an incredibly long and lengthy line of videos to go viral.

And just like a majority of viral videos, I may have had a bit of a laugh at the first one, but the repetition gets old fast.

Aptly named, viral videos are a cultural obsession of our modern fast-moving ADD-afflicted generation. Within often hours, these videos hijack our cultural consciousness and spread like wildfire through the forest of social networks.

But they usually die out just as quick. Those that stick around

get old quick (the Harlem Shake has infiltrated my feeds since last month). They’re kind of like that joke your friend tells you every time you see him. You know, that one you don’t even laugh at anymore – or wait, did you even laugh at it in the first place?

Viral videos are also a representation of our culture’s colossal ability to waste time. You have to have time to watch a music video about dancing Koreans, or sneezing pandas, or something else that’s obviously not relevant to anything productive going on in your life.

Some videos are less a result of obvious planned time wasting— like rick rolling or screaming Taylor Swift goats—but even in those cases, the ones perpetuating the trend have too much free time.

Now, I’ll admit, some videos to have gone viral, may have done so for a potentially good purpose.

Image: Youtube

Are your views wasted on the next “bought” viral sensation?

While it’s debatable, such videos may have not been an entire waste of time. Kony 2012, while controversial, pushed for a cause, and Susan Boyle was an impressive show of talent. If you’ve got a talent and you go viral, that’s an impressive feat. I’m certainly not against supporting talent.

However, I have one qualm with these kinds of videos. It’s hard to tell how exactly where the views for these videos come from. How many views are earned versus paid for? As the marketing website Reelseo puts it, “[t]his is the essential question behind what most people refer to as viral videos.”

Many videos, especially music videos, are spread via paid advertisements instead of true, honestto-goodness, word-of-mouth social networking. Meaning, while you may be thinking you’re watching something that everyone else enjoys, you may instead be simply wasting your time on a video with “bought” views.

Really though, while I may not personally appreciate the overabundance of whatever the latest viral video is, who am I to make claims on their existence? While I sit here pondering the reason and meaning in wasting another 30 seconds watching the latest Harlem Shake video, you perhaps, simply enjoy it (though seriously, it really should have gotten old for you by now). And perhaps for some people, that’s all that really matters.

The Steubenville rape: nothing to do with football NADINE MOEDT

THE CASCADE

The Steubenville rapists have been found guilty; Trent Mays and Ma’Lik Richmond have been sentenced to a maximum of four years in a juvenile facility. Elsewhere in North America, a twisted culture absolves these types of crimes with a scary ease. Is this a result of a male-dominated and sportsobsessed culture, as Jezebel’s Doug Barry suggests, wherein “athleticism is confused for heroism,” or is it something that runs deeper?

There are numerous articles blaming the actions of these two young men on the veneration of athletes; anti-sexism activism Jackson Katz says in the NY Daily News that he “believes the Steubenville

football players had been conditioned to dehumanize women.”

The athletes, he continued, “were never encouraged to see the victim as someone who might be humiliated or traumatized by their actions.” They instead viewed their peer as “one of the rewards that comes from being a football star.”

When considering the reaction of mainstream media to this story, the sympathy directed to the perpetrators may be a reult of this athelete veneration. Articles reporting the court proceedings are accompanied by sympathetic images of the rapists, crying pitifully, or have their despairing and apologetic statements highlighted.

Commenters have fallen into the victim-blaming trap candidly.

CNN’s correspondent Poppy Harlow responds with incredible

insensitivity to the victim: “It was incredibly emotional – incredibly difficult even for an outsider like me to watch what happened as these two young men that had such promising futures, star football players, very good students, literally watch as they believed their life fall apart.”

She later insinuates that “alcohol” is to blame for the boys’ actions. Nowhere to be seen is her sympathy for the helpless girl who was violated repeatedly and humiliated over a period of six hours.

Good Morning America’s coverage was decidedly sympathetic towards the boys, with an emphasis on the “demise” of the rapists’ dreams of playing football.

One of the coaches of the boy’s football team is a bit more aggressive in his victim-blaming.

“The rape was just an excuse, I think... What else are you going to tell your parents when you come home drunk like that and after a night like that?” said Hubbard.

“She had to make up something.

Now people are trying to blow up our football program because of it.”

Yet this crime was not committed simply because these boys are football players and therefort felt entitled to do as they please, as many people are suggesting. Sympathy for the rapists may be a result of a sports-obsessed culture, but the actual rape? This is a result of a rape culture, one that excuses the perpetrators through victim blaming and slut shaming. The rapists could have been utterly unathletic and the story would have been the same; the victim would

be forced to defend herself in her community and prove that she is not a “slut,” she would be threatened on social media sites and humiliated before her peers by those in positions of power.

The question here should not be about why the mainstream media sympathizes with these boys—whose football careers have been “cruelly” cut short—and have been placed on a grotesque, sports-infatuated pedestal. In the end, this has nothing to do with football. The question should simply be why these boys were raised in a culture that taught them that it is okay to rape one of their classmates.

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fter a lifetime of service in some of the most vital social movements of the 20th century, Jack O’Dell says that there is still “unfinished busi-

ness” in the cause of human equality and freedom.

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Jack O’Dell on the legacy of the 20th century battle

over 47 years actively advancing the cause of social justice, civil rights and peace in his home country of the United States and around the world.

A crowd of roughly 50 students, professors and community members, including one grey-haired man proudly sporting a merchant marines baseball cap, gathered at UFV’s Abbotsford campus last Thursday to listen to O’Dell speak about his experience in the civil rights movement and its relevance today.

“You do what is possible,” he said. “Usually, you can generate enough to keep on steppin’.”

In decades following the second world war, O’Dell was a member of the merchant marines, the National Maritime Union and the Communist Party before joining Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) as a director of voter registration and fundraising.

He spoke eloquently about Dr. King’s legacy, disdain for accolades and fundamental message of peace.

“He understood what the meaning of life is,” O’Dell said. “We are all a part of the human family.”

O’Dell eventually decided to leave the SCLC in 1963 after external pressure from Democrats who feared associating with one-time Communist Party members. This opened up the opportunity for O’Dell to write for Freedomways magazine, one of the black freedom movement’s leading journals. In his 21 years as associate editor, he wrote dozens of editorials and in-depth essays addressing the most pressing issues in the civil rights movement during those turbulent decades following Dr. King’s assassination.

After 40 minutes behind the podium, the 89-year-old activist turned the tables, opening the floor to the audience for what was a robust and open forum about how to tackle the important social justice issues of the 21st century. It was here that O’Dell seemed to take most interest, taking detailed notes on comments from students and answering with vigour to match a man half his age. He was visibly energized by the lively discussion.

O’Dell fielded questions about the national treasury, affirmative action, slacktivism and veteran’s rights during the meeting.

He criticized the use of unmanned drone attacks and the treatment of returning soldiers in the United States, where more troops have died from suicide at home than in the battlefield over the last six months.

“Justice and peace are indivisible,” O’Dell said.

In the final stage of O’Dell’s 47-year career in the United States, his focus shifted outward, to the cause of international peace in places like South Africa during the struggle to end apartheid. He was also the director of Pacifica public radio network, a senior adviser in Jesse Jackson’s two presidential campaigns during the 1980s and a member of the PUSH/Rainbow Coalition, which concerned itself with addressing inequality and racism internationally.

“Our place,” O’Dell said, “is to assist our respective countries to become the standards of rights, privileges and national morality that can moved toward a different age in history in which we recognize each other as brothers and sisters and we save our planet Earth from the destruction a negative attitude will surely bring.”

“That’s what’s at stake. And I’m sure we’re going to do all right.”

I spoke with Jack O’Dell over the phone early last week about the legacy and enduring lessons of the twentieth century civil rights movement.

By Nick Ubels. Photography by Blake McGuire.

What do you see as the most pressing issues of the present moment in terms of social justice and peace in Canada and abroad? What deserves our most attention right now?

Essentially, we need to address the money we spend on war. Dr. King already laid that out in the Riverside Church speech. The point is that year after year, spending more on war than social programs is a country approaching spiritual death. We don’t live by killing people, as a society I mean.

So that is the vision that we are trying to institutionalize in the country as a whole and in the movement: that war and violence and poverty are not things that people should be forced to live with.

These are not natural functions of our existence. We’re not naturally at war with one another or naturally poor. Wait, no. Not in the midst of all this wealth we have. It is this reformation that we seek. And the inequality and the fact that people think they’re going to the armed forces because it’s a job. Some people just sign up because they need work and there’s no work back home.

Now wait a minute. That won’t stand. You can’t have a society worthy of the name called democracy as long as those are the priorities. We need to have other priorities that make us more human, more democratic, more of a community. The world is our community. You can’t even have community in your own country with distorted values. We have to kind of be looking at things the same way. And there’s no reason not to.

What are we going to pass on to the next generation? What would my generation pass on to your generation is we didn’t fight to improve life? And war and corporate greed and insulting people who have a different lifestyle or a different national identity, these are all impediments to a life of democratic rights and reasonable happiness for everybody.

In your life as a civil rights, social justice and peace activ-

ist, you’ve taken on a really wide range of leadership roles in different organizations. How would you characterize the diversity of your experiences and involvement in different movements over the years?

I would characterize it as a sampling of life. Life is diverse. Diversity is one of the characteristics of nature itself. If one is involved in a movement that reaches out and it is all-encompassing, like our movement was, it’s likely that you will have a variety of experience with different segments of the population, different ideas and different institutional frameworks.

And all of that, of course, is very valuable for us as human beings.

What was it like the first time you saw Dr. King speak?

I was working in the insurance business in Birmingham and a bunch of us got in a car and went down to Tuskeegee. He was invited to speak there because the Tuskeegee movement was facing a situation where the black vote had grown in strength and the city council had voted to move the black community out— in terms of the gerrymandering of the districts—of Tuskeegee proper and put them in the rural area so that they couldn’t elect somebody to the city council.

That was the issue.

And so what I was impressed with was this. When he got up he said, “You know, I’m here to support you, but you already have leadership here. You have a leadership here that’s worthy of your full support and we’ve all heard them here this evening. I’m not going to make a long speech because they’ve said all that needs to be said on this occasion. I’m very happy to be here.

I support this movement 100 per cent, but trust this leadership. And this is what we have to do all over the south: we have to build local leadership.”

That was an act of common sense, but also of great leadership character. He said, “I know you all came to hear me, but I want you to reflect on the quality of leadership you have here.”

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e against institutional racism, the military-industrial complex and inequality in the United States of America and beyond

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That’s what he saw as the remedy in terms of building a grassroots movement. And he was right.

What was your experience at Freedomways like?

Speaking personally, it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. Because I would not have found the time to do the writing that I did.

The writings last, you know what I mean? Some other things are forgotten, but if something is published in a magazine – Freedomways was published in 1500 libraries across the world and libraries had bound volumes in England and Wales and France so I said, “woah.”

It feels good to know that I had the opportunity to do some studying and do some writing and get it published because that is a contribution. If Freedomways had just been one of those magazines like JET magazine or something like that, I probably would have turned it down, but Freedomways was a magazine that was founded on the idea of completing the Second Reconstruction and Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois’ work.

He was one of the inspirations for Freedomways magazine. I was very happy to do that and very lucky.

It’s interesting what you were saying about the writing enduring because I was recently reading through Climbin’ Jacob’s Ladder, which collects some of your essays from your time at Freedomways as well as some of your other writing.

There was one phrase I wanted to ask you about from the title essay, first published in 1969 right after the death of Dr. King, where you wrote about the need for “revolutionary patience” in the cause of social justice. What did you mean by that? Is such patience still needed today?

Social justice, in our societies here in the West, is an ongoing effort.

Women have had to fight for their right to vote, Latinos for their right to live here as immigrants, labour for the right to organize. Social justice covers that wide range of effort that has been at the base of America ever since its founding, the right to

be respected as a citizen and enjoy the rights of every other citizen.

My point was: it’s necessary to recognize that it’s a lifelong effort.

Without the sacrifices many people have made, our movement would not go anywhere. Some people make a fine contribution and then they’re out of there. But some people have to make it a more or less lifelong activity.

Of course, I had travelled in the merchant marines and I had seen other countries, so I was not crazy about living in the United States.

But I said if there was a movement to end segregation, I would give my time to it. And I found that movement and I stayed there 47 years.

Things that are important often don’t happen overnight. That is, they are the result of an investment of time, energy, thought. And also, you have to study what you’re trying to change, because it has a framework and a structure. It isn’t just changed by your energy. It’s about knowing how to dismantle it.

And that means you need to listen respectfully to the arguments and so forth and to recognize that we’re all human and that some of those people who are on the other side of the fence when you start will be on your side if you can establish a dialogue, if you can have the kind of attitude toward them that we should be talking, rather than contesting each other’s position.

None of us know everything.

And there’s something to learn, even from the people who are on the opposite side from you. Why do they think that way? What in their life has brought them to that conclusion? All of that is in the process of growth and development of the individual and the movement because that’s what the movement is: a tide of individuals who have decided that change is necessary.

In 2005, you proposed a sort of democracy charter, which outlined some goals for social justice and there was a lot of big things on there that line up with Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Second Bill of Rights, which he unsuccessfully tried to bring in and was intended

to provide security and equality.

Your charter includes universal health care, ending homelessness, restoration and protection of the environment and an accountable prison system among many other things. Eight years later, how much progress do you think has been made towards some of these big goals?

Very little. But these goals have not been on the agenda, really. It’s been on some people’s minds and some people on paper agree, but they have not been on the agenda of action in the same sense that other things have been. It’s in its early stages.

As you know from reading that, I got that idea from the Freedom Charter in South Africa, which they adopted in Kilptown in 1955.

Well, it took them until 1990 to even start implementing any of that, and that’s 40 years.

The test of the value of a document like that is whether or not it addresses the changes that need to be made. Too often our movement is just working on one thing at a time, so to speak, and the perspective is limited because all we have on our agenda is getting rid of a particular thing. A more holistic viewpoint can sustain a movement to go from one thing to the next because it is probably the dismantling of a whole number of things and the creation of new things to replace it that constitutes what we’re really trying to do.

We’re trying to make America a truly democratic country, but the culture has not promoted that, because the culture is in the hands of the people who benefit from America the way it is. So change does take time, along with patience and thoughtfulness and recognizing that it may change a little bit at a time and then there’s a great change.

Like the 1960s saw a profound change. We’d been against segregation for a long time, since Plessy V. Ferguson in 1896. That doesn’t mean that all the other time was in a vacuum. No, people were working on it in the zig-zag or whatever until you get to that moment where it

becomes irreversible and the change kicks in. Understanding that is part of the art of being able to survive.

Otherwise you’re fraught with disappointment and it can cause you to break out of the ranks. Something is going to happen if you’re on the right course.

Testing the right course is how people receive what you’re saying.

Some people receive it, but they don’t act upon it. You have to know they’ve heard you. You have to know how you say something, because you might have a good idea, but you got to learn how to express it to catch people’s imagination.

That’s a learning process.

So the time is not wasted. It’s well-spent, but you have to understand that it will take time.

And that should be, not the reason to delay doing things, so to speak, but to understand that you have to build that understanding into your proposition. This will take some time.

And in the course of that time, what you’re proposing could get improved considerably.

I told the folks down in Oakland and a couple of other places that have been working on this democracy charter, “You need to test this. This is not in stone.” I put this out for the purpose of developing something that people will gather around like they did in South Africa. The Freedom Charter held the South African movement together over the period from the time where the people were locked up in the early 1950s. When we were there in the 1980s, with Jesse Jackson and our delegation, the Freedom Charter was the thing that was holding people together because that was a vision of the South Africa they wanted.

They knew what they were against, but the Freedom Charter was the vision of where they were going, where they were headed.

And those two things are dialectical, aren’t they? It’s where you are now, but where you’re trying to go.

That’s always the case.

That’s the role that I want the democracy charter to play for us.

What is the America we seek?

And that isn’t just in little sections of, like, okay, I want such and such a thing. It is holistic. Everyone is looking at the country from the vantage point of their situation. So what do we see as common that we can unite around? And that’s the America we seek.

And so we seek a different America. Let’s be clear on that. If we don’t seek a different America, we’re in serious trouble because there’s a whole crowd in the United States that’s ready to take the country back because they’re profiting from it.

The one per cent, they’ve got a plan. We better have one, too.

That’s something I was going to ask about. The democracy charter outlines and articulates specific long-term goals. Do you think that’s something that the Occupy movement and other sort of social movements these days could benefit from having?

They must have it. But take from that what they can use and substitute the rest. The point is you need to have a long-term vision because it’s going to take a long time.

If we get surprises and we accomplish something sooner than we planned, good! [Laughs] Who’s going to complain about that?

But the likelihood is that it’s going to take some time. So if you’re prepared for the long haul, you are really prepared, you know what I mean? You are really prepared. If you just prepare, two or three little demonstrations and think “we’re gonna get this,” you’ve prepared on a lot of luck, on a roll of the dice, you know? And you may get lucky.

But supposing you don’t, whatcha going to do, drop out? You’ve got to have a long-term view. Social change is a long-term proposition, but that time is not wasted because what you’re trying to achieve is worth the sacrifice of the long-term.

Part two of our interview with O’Dell, including more on his involvement with Freedomways, his membership in the Communist Party and the “cloak” of anti-communism can be found online at ufvcascade.ca

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Album Review

The Delfonics Adrian Younge Presents The Delfonics

July Talk July Talk

Unless you were either born before 1974 or are a Quentin Tarantino soundtrack aficionado (See Jackie Brown), you’ve probably never heard of the Delfonics. The legendary Philadelphia soul group known for classics like “(La-La) Means I Love You” and “Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This Time),” have had their most recent records demoted to the nearest clearance bins alongside other failed comeback records. However, the Delfonics look to change all that on their newest release, which finds the veteran group taken under the wing of soul music revivalist and composer Adrian Younge, who co-wrote all 13 songs with the Delfonics’ lead man William Hart. His gritty compositional skills and musical supervision help the Delfonics stay true to their trademark sound, all the while fusing it with Younge’s hip-hop informed sensibility. These sparse arrangements allow each song the proper room to breathe, and this bare bones style is most striking on the evocative opening track “Stop And Look (And You Have Found Love).” In a pop music culture where automation and electronics are becoming a staple, Younge brings a welcomed warmth and soft backbeats that should satisfy both soul and hip-hop fans alike.

The first track, “The Garden” begins with Peter Dreiman’s deep gravelly voice and a heavy rock beat. It’s catchy – but not what draws you in. It’s when Leah Fay starts singing: “Keep yer head above the water / And breath before / the ice of the lake / I ain’t gonna let him / twist my wrist / I ain’t gonna let him / kiss these lips.” Her voice is clean and light against the raw hoarse rock-grovels of Dreiman’s vocals. And it’s this strange juxtaposition of raw emotion and dainty bubble-gum voice that keeps you listening to the whole self-titled album, July Talk. The Toronto band channels southern sound, stomping rock and soul. The lyrics move from dysfunctional relationships (which works awesomely with Dreiman’s heavy emotion and Fay’s lightpop voice), romance and the gritty small towns of the South. Dreiman’s unique vocals don’t stop the diversity of the tracks as it might have: “Having you around” starts easy and soft without the pounding drums, and surprisingly, Dreiman’s hoarse voice smooths out adequately – enough to not sound ridiculous in a Nickleback-esque way.

It’s a strong combination for vocals that makes for a unique sound for July Talk to move forward with.

Tim UBELS

I can’t help but feel certain nostalgia when it comes to Blink-182 and that’s why I find it difficult to listen to their older albums. Although, it makes me undeniably happy that their hiatus a few years back wasn’t permanent. And here we are with Dogs Eating Dogs, their second album after having reunited.

Blink is still in a reformation and while there is a traditional sound on here, their complicated past and side projects meld into who they are now. And that’s a little bit of many things including remnants of Angels & Airwaves. So it’s hard to put Blink-182 as being one type of punk as they’re rediscovering and it’s interesting. While some aspects may not work in certain regards, it’s the unknown of where they’re heading that I find fascinating and this EP is really boding well for a full length.

With Dogs Eating Dogs we’re given five tracks with a variety of sounds. Starting it off is “When I was Young” which is considerable, then followed by the most classic Blink song, and the title track, “Dogs Eating Dogs.” However, a favourite is “Disaster” which borrows the trademark sound from their previous self-titled album. After that they turn down the tempo considerably with “Boxing Day.” At the end, there’s a lot for a long-time fan to be very content with.

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used to be imprinted on the tape find gaps and quiet moments to surge through, no matter how hard we try to cover them up.

The Next Day is the spiritual successor to the Berlin trilogy, a series of three dark, ambitious and varied late ‘70s records the artist produced in a city physically divided

by Cold War politics. Unexpectedly released on Bowie’s 66th birthday, reflective mid-tempo comeback single “Where Are We Now?” puts none-too-fine a point on this focus.

In answer to “Heroes”’ pair of lovers “standing by the wall,” Bowie explains to his former flame/self that he “had to catch the train from Potsdamerplatz/ You never knew

that, that I could do that.” Once part of the death zone separating East and West Berlin, Potsdamerplatz is now a thriving centre of international finance and entertainment, with sleek, tall skyscrapers reaching towards the sky. The success of this space is a symbol of a reunited Germany. During the 1970s, it would have been an impossible dream to imagine such a prosperous and bustling square occupying this divided space.

Bowie has always positioned himself as an outsider, whether as Ziggy Stardust, the alien rock idol foretelling humanity’s eminent extinction, or as the emaciated, drugaddled amoral and asexual Thin White Duke. Throughout his career, he’s had on foot in the mainstream pop music world and another in the post-modern art scene, acting as a bridge between the two.

In his 2005 biography on the singer, Strange Fascination, David Buckley sums up Bowie’s contribution to popular music in his particular talent for engaging “ideas from outside the mainstream—from art, literature, theatre and film—and to bring them inside ...” This position, coupled with a constantly shifting stage persona, destabilizes the identity. Bowie’s effort to address this sense of self is built into the title of the first single, “Where Are We Now?” but it haunts the rest of the album in which Bowie catalogues and refashions the elements of his career, crafting a sort of musical autobiography.

The Next Day sounds most like the Berlin trilogy it responds to, but within that, it also flexes to encompass moments from through-

out his 23-album discography. In a way, these references seem to stretch further and further backward with each track. “How Does the Grass Grow?” opens with the same sort of driving rhythm and pitch-shifted guitars of “Heroes” before collapsing into a chorus that recalls Aladdin Sane-era yeah yeah yeah yeah yeahs. The ascending chord changes of the bridge instantly bring to mind the prechorus of the 1982 hit duet with Queen, “Under Pressure.”

“You Feel So Lonely You Could Die” is a waltzing guitar-rock ballad that nods to Elvis Presely’s “Heartbreak Hotel” in its borrowed lyric and structurally recalls The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars’ desperate plea of a closer, “Rock and Roll Suicide,” before dissolving into to the very same simple drum riff that opened “Five Years.” While that signature drum riff faded into 1972’s Ziggy Stardust, it fades out here, instead. It was a suprisingly emotional moment for me; “Five Years” remains a favourite track and was my first introduction to Bowie beyond radio staples like “Changes.”

Rather than a pop album, The Next Day is a revisionist collage of elaborate and theatrical chord progressions, quicksilver melodies, melodramatic lead guitar lines, soulful horns, gospel choirs and other half-remembered artifacts of yesteryear colliding uncertainly with the present.

And it was alright.

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Berlin trilogy, “Heroes,” with a plain white square bearing the new album’s title obscuring the singer’s intent face and framing hands.

It is a transgression against pop history and the backwards-looking, museum-curating tendency of those who strictly subscribe to classic rockism. It is an act of war against the David Bowie mythos, which he forged and destroyed at will throughout his career.

The artwork sets the stage for an album haunted by the past. It acknowledges that memory always bleeds through. It’s an effect much like old recordable cassette tapes that have been used and reused over the years: the ghosts of what

Blink-182 Dogs Eating Dogs EP

Marnie Stern breaks open her newest album with “Year of the Glad,” racing guitars and interspersed statements of “new friends and old dreams / and everything’s starting now,” the seriousness of seriously good fretwork scored instead to positive spins on calamity next to exuberant, nonsensical shouts like non-standard punctuation. There’s elements of post-punk in the way Stern slices up lyrics into word-at-a-time double-back staccato and elongated past-range vocalizations as guitars drop and rise again to riff, but there’s too much experimentation with structure and colliding perspectives to make classification worthwhile. With each of The Chronicles of Marnia’s 10 tracks there is a similar aggressively-accelerated timing of guitars that everything else has to catch up to, yet each finds an individual space – these aren’t earworms so much as pulsing atmospheres, identified by a restless phrase, which always (“Nothing Is Easy,” “Hell Yes”) seeks for light, a place of positivity without delusion, and finds it partly in plays with language: the titles that find no echo in the song they name, the way misery can be owned and turned into mirror affirmation (“Proof of Life”).

Some music plumbs fears to sell them back to us; Stern does it to overcome through sheer will of energy.

David Bowie – The Next Day

Pop stardom feeds on youth.

When Pete Townsend of The Who penned the line, “Hope I die before I get old,” it’s hard to say whether it was anarchic posturing or a sincerely bleak vision of the middleaged or, God-forbid, senior rock star trying to reconcile age and disruptive mission statement. These beliefs were only cemented with punk’s lock on youth as a sign of credibility amd anti-establishment ethos: don’t trust anyone over 30.

It’s forced the hand of many artists who have become parodies of their youthful versions in old age.

The Rolling Stones and Madonna come to mind as once-vital and now cringe-worthy artists who have failed to age gracefully.

The biggest failure of these artists seems to be an inability to acknowledge and adapt to the decades of life between their productive 20s and the present. Paul McCartney tackled his over-65 status with a charming nod and an ear worm melody in writing a remarkable pop record in 2007 about mortality, Memory Almost Full. Fittingly, David Bowie has taken a more serious tack.

His first record in 10 years, The Next Day finds musical chameleon David Bowie reconciling with his past in a more overt manner than the already self-referential singer has ever done before. This is evident from first glance at the album artwork; The Next Day subverts the iconic record sleeve of Bowie’s landmark 1977 art rock record and second movement of the so-called

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Mainland Ho! tour at TractorGrease

CHARTS

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The Bicycles Stop Thinking So Much Suuns Images Du Futur This Hisses Anhedonia

Peace The World Is Too Much With Us

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Shuffle AARON LEVY

CIVL STATION MANAGER

CIVL station manager Aaron Levy wants to congratulate UFV students for securing a one year trial for a shuttle bus between Abbotsford and Chilliwack. Here are some bus songs!

West My Friend proves you can never judge a book by its cover.

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Pissed Jeans Honeys

Classified Classified

Iceage You’re Nothing Close Talker Timbers

Stolen Organ Family Band The Glitter Cream Supreme Tape

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Eagle Lake Owls Eagle Lake Owls

The Grapes of Wrath High Road

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Random Dander First Delivery Teen Daze The Inner Mansions Mother Mother The Sticks Gal Gracen Blue Hearts In Exile Bibio Silver Wilkinson

Dirty Beaches Drifters/Love Is The Devil

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Ghostkeeper Horse Chief! War Thief!

Anonymous – “The Wheels on the Bus” A classic for children between the ages of two and six. Written by no one and everyone all at once, and covered by everyone from Fred Penner to Barney to Jonathan Richmond and the Modern Lovers, to Madonna impersonator Mad Donna.

Who sings the first round on this bus?! Me?!

Kriss Kross – “I Missed the Bus” These guys were the original Bieber. Before Lil Bow Wow, before Willow Smith, even before McCauley Culkin was really breaking through with Home Alone, Kriss Kross were the original child prodigies of the music machine. And it’s something that you can guarantee they’ll never, ever, ever do again. They promise.

C.R. Avery – “The Bus to Baton Rouge” Recorded in Avery’s should-be classic, smoke stained, BobDylan-with-grills style; a hiphop, beat-boxing slam poet for the ages. On his penultimate album, The Great Canadian Novel, Avery covered Tom Waits and Lucinda Williams, and also added a few of his own strokes of brilliance to the Can-con canon.

Refused – “Worms of the Senses/Faculties of the Skull” “I took the first bus out of Coca-Cola ... ” Where’s my royalty cheque for this? Exclusivity agreements usually include benefits for the endentured. “ ... city, it made me feel all nauseous and shitty. I took the first bus downtown, cause they didn’t want me hanging around.” All that needs saying.

West My Friend joined Brett Wildeman for the Mainland Ho! tour of the Valley.

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The Mainland Ho! tour came to the Fraser Valley last week and I was fortunate enough to be able to catch a show as the two groups, Brett Wildeman and West My Friend, took the stage to showcase their respective talents.

My night began winding through the rainy roads of Chilliwack trying to find TractorGrease Studio, a small multimedia studio run by local music enthusiasts.

After a nervous few minutes peering down alleyways through the dark rainy night, the warm glow of the studio caught my eye and I shuffled inside, unsure of what to expect of a place with such a creative name.

The inside of the building was another world completely. A full recording studio and stage was set up. I immediately felt at home as I found a well-worn couch to settle into.

The studio began to fill up as Brett Wildeman opened his set. As he stood up on the stage alone, barefooted and unshaven, you could feel Wildeman’s calming presence radiating across the room through his raw and soothing vocals. The man gave off the sort of vibe you might imagine from someone from the sunshine

coast, in touch with the world around him and at peace in the moment. Wildeman treated the audience to a full set of his songs, ranging from sombre love songs to descriptive tales of life events.

To close his evening up Wildeman played a song off his upcoming album mother | earth, entitled “Foreign Affairs” that addresses the issues surrounding the oil pipeline and the faults of the Harper government.

As Brett Wildeman closed up, West My Friend took to the stage and began to set up. I must admit that at first I was sceptical. This group on the stage was not your ordinary group, there was an abundance of suspenders, bushy beards and plaid shifts. I wasn’t quite sure what to make of this group of seemingly mismatched individuals.

As the group began I soon realized why I had been taught to never judge a book by its cover.

The band’s lead singer, Eden Oliver, had a voice that was naturally entrancing and when complemented with the bands various musical talents the sound was a pleasant surprise. The band was on stage for over an hour while the audience soaked up every melodic moment of it. The group brought a unique indie folk sound that is really refreshing in today’s

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local music scene.

Jeff Poynter, West My Friend’s accordion and vocalist, commented on the tour, praising the variety of locations the band got to perform at, as well as the amount of inspiring people the band has come into contact with. When asked when the band will release their sophomore album, Poytner joked, “another album is definitely coming in the next couple years – perhaps next winter we’ll hole ourselves up in a cabin and emerge with an album in hand.”

In any case, look out for West My Friend in the coming years as this talented group continues to make a name for themselves.

As For Brett Wildeman and his musical future? The young artist is set to release mother | earth this August. There will also be a few tours in the near future – a Vancouver Island bike tour, as well as a BC and Alberta tour.

In the end, the honest and down-to-earth sounds of both groups restored my faith in the musical world today. In a world where honest and clever lyrics are drowned out by catchy pop tunes and obnoxious one-liners, both West My Friend and Brett Wildeman are an oasis of natural talent in a desert of over-produced, under-talented pop artists.

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ARTS & LIFE Dine & Dash

Birchwood Dairy

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Birchwood Dairy offers more than their beloved ice cream.

1154 Fadden Road, Abbotsford BC 604-854-1315 www.birchwooddairy.com Hours: Monday to Saturday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. (winter hours) Price: up to $7.49

AMY VAN VEEN

THE CASCADE

Nestled against the backdrop of green-scaped and snow-topped mountains, with the openness of the Sumas prairies in their backyard, Birchwood Dairy offers a momentary urban escape for those wanting some fudge, ice cream and a light lunch.

For those who have heard the name and can only think of visions of ice cream cones dancing in their heads, Birchwood Dairy offers a little more than a delicious scoop of grasshopper pie in a waffle cone. The farm sells their own cheese (including fresh curds for poutine-lovers), milk, local produce, Mt. Lehman honey and fair trade coffee amidst other basic grocery store necessities and Dutch treats like dropjes.

The yellow barn also sells freshly baked goods, frozen pies for only $5.99 and the best brand of perogies to be found in the Valley – Abbotsford’s own Helmi’s. Not to be confused with the Yellow Barn, of course, which is situated

further east on Highway One. While traveling south on Whatcom Road down from the highway, a large sign beckons drivers to turn left onto Nelles Road and Birchwood Dairy sits at the turn onto Fadden Road.

The shop opens to a cooler filled with various kinds of ice cream with a small seating area on the right that overlooks the front lawn with its ivy-covered trellis where lovebirds can sit and while away the hours. To the right of the ice cream cooler and small kitchen area is the rest of the shop where locals and tourists alike can grab fresh ingredients and delicious homemade fudge.

Their sandwiches—served on white and brown bread—are only $3.99 while soup can be added to the order for a total of only $6.49. I got the turkey sandwich on brown with a corn and bacon chowder soup of the day. The homemade bun was soft and the fresh turkey, tomato, lettuce and cucumber served as the perfect filling-tobread ratio. The chowder was full of flavour – and full of chunks of bacon, although it was fairly runny for what I expected would be a chunkier chowder consistency.

The farm has longer hours during the summer months when I’m sure the produce shelves stock up and the heat of the day bring more people in to enjoy the ice cream.

But as the spring sun mixes with the nippy winter wind, a local stop for soup and a sandwich seems almost idyllic so close to campus.

My capricious relationships with hairstylists AMY VAN VEEN

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I have had three long-term relationships ... with hairstylists.

It’s a tricky thing, a relationship with one’s hairstylist – or hairdresser, if you prefer the term. It requires a great deal of intimacy and an even greater amount of trust. This person is in control of the thing you have to wear every day and the thing you cannot hide.

Every ounce of vanity is sitting on top of our heads. A bad makeup job and you can just wash it off and start over. Even a botched eyebrow job can be fixed with a certain deal of penciling in and brushing through. But a bad haircut? That can only be survived with swallowed pride, headbands, bobby pins and copious amounts of product.

My first relationship was awkward, as they always are. I didn’t really know her very well, but she cut my mom’s hair and as a pre-pubescent girl who wanted to start feeling grown up, it was the logical next step to sit in someone’s basement hair studio instead of in the middle of the bathroom where my mom would blunt cut my long locks.

The hairstylist was friendly enough. I was, of course, too insecure to ever say anything, so she mostly looked past me and talked to my mom while occasionally trying to get me into the conversation.

But my chubby face remained stoic as I saw the one or two inches fall down the black cape I sat under while I twiddled my thumbs and did my best to be the bonsai tree she groomed.

Until one year I spoke up. It was the seventh grade and I was in high school. I was in the big leagues. I wanted a change. Despite the fact that I had moved at this point, I kept up the long distance relationship. It was getting a little dull and I felt I needed to spice it up. Solution? “I want short hair.” She smiled and nodded in that patronizing way that adults have with pre-teens.

I wanted to be Meg Ryan in You’ve Got Mail. I wanted to be Meg Ryan in Addicted to Love. I wanted to be Meg Ryan in I.Q. Okay. I may have just wanted to be Meg Ryan.

However, the trust wasn’t there with me and this hairstylist. We couldn’t survive a drastic change.

The thing about round-faced seventh grade tomboy me wanting to be a 30-something actress with cheekbones was that I ended

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A young girl’s foray into the vicious cycle of haircuts. up looking like my brother. At the time I thought I looked hot to trot, but I look back now with a head hung in shame. It built character, I tell myself now. It gave me enough delusional confidence to survive middle school.

It also left me not requiring a haircut for a year and a half as it grew out. And by that time me and hairstylist number one had both realized we weren’t right for each other. No phone calls, letters or MSN messaging was needed to confirm that which we both knew.

However, my foray into hot tools left my hair looking a little distressed, so I was left to find another stylist. I followed my mother to another basement studio where I struck the perfect deal: I would babysit her two kids for free haircuts every few months. As with any new relationship, I made sure not to make the same mistakes I made with the last one – which meant no drastic changes. Long layers and trims were what I opted for. When my friends started to get bangs, I timidly asked for nonexciting bangs – the kind you can sweep aside or pin back or pretend don’t exist if you want to. This was my haircut all through high school.

These were not exciting times for me and my hairstylist, but they were secure; they were reliable.

After graduation, I got the same itch for something new that I had in middle school. I was in new territory. I was an adult! (Or so I told my foolish, deluded self.) It was time for something new. It was time to leave hairstylist number two behind. It was a messy breakup.

I started seeing someone new.

She worked in a salon. I got my

hair shampooed in the fancy freestanding sinks instead of the wash basin originally meant for laundry.

It was glorious having a disposable income and perfectly coiffed hair instead of the free wash-andwear. But it was also awkward when I would continue to babysit for number two, and she noticed the new flip and bounce. We parted our ways with an unspoken, “it’s not you it’s me” shrug.

My new hairstylist was amazing. We just clicked. She knew what my hair needed, she knew what I wanted. She nodded and listened when I came in with big plans for a bob. We had a good talk about if I could handle it or not.

She was there every step of the way and it turned out perfectly.

Every six to eight weeks I would come back for the same bob maintenance. Every six to eight weeks she’d chat, I’d listen. And then that moment came when we both knew it was time for a change. We stared at my hair in the mirror. We both agreed it was time. No more bob.

We stayed together as I went from the short hair to long hair category.

We stayed together for a long time.

After I moved away for half a year, I went back to her almost straight out of the airport. But the spark was gone. The time had changed us. There was something missing.

It might be something time can heal. Maybe we just need to get back into the swing of things – get out of this awkward patch.

Or maybe, heaven forbid, it’s time to see how many other hairstylists there are in the Valley.

playing the game on the easiest level of difficulty – it’s better than not playing it at all. It’s also important to find games that can be saved easily and often.

Another great tip she suggests is to skip the side quests and other extras that pad out many games’ play time. In other words, if you want to beat Grand Theft Auto, only play the crucial story missions, and don’t get caught up just driving around or trying to get 100 per cent in the game. The key is to progress through games while also playing in smaller chunks.

Lastly, Amini suggests making games a part of your bonding time – find a game you can play with your partner or with your close

friends. These multiplayer “dates” let you enjoy gaming, while also allowing you to make time for your loved ones. If you’ve got kids, find a game you can all enjoy together.

It’s quality time they’ll remember forever – and it’s fun for you too.

While it’s important to realize that gaming isn’t a top priority, it’s also important to realize that gaming isn’t just a waste of time.

It can be a fulfilling experience that expands your creative impulses, gets you thinking and improves your reflexes. If you miss playing games, you can find the time for it. However, being an adult means that gaming needs to be done responsibly. Like most things, it’s all about finding the right balance.

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Trying to find the time to game JOEL SMART

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Few things are as rewarding as getting into a great video game.

They can put you in the shoes of others, or allow you to explore worlds and stories in a way no other medium can. But, they also suck up a lot of time.

You can easily sink 50-100 hours into a well-made game. A good movie takes up about two. As we get older and find ourselves in long-term relationships and cursed with the increased responsibilities of living on our own, games almost invariably get moved down the list of priorities. For university students trying to ace their classes,

the battle to find time to game can seem overwhelming – but it is possible.

The first step in making time for games is to identify what kind of free time you have, and how you’re spending it. You might have a few hours each evening, or you might have 25 minutes on the bus or train on the way to work or school. That’s going to determine what type of game you can play.

Tina Amini wrote an illuminating article for Kotaku on this very subject, and her first rule was to eliminate games that require an unrealistic time commitment – games like World of Warcraft or EvE Online. While some people can find the time for such games,

they’re simply unrealistic for most.

If you’re struggling to find the time to game, skip the MMOs and look for games with shorter playlengths. If you play just one hour a day, you can beat most indie games within a week. That might be a good place to start, if you’re trying to re-introduce gaming into your schedule. Shorter games also allow you to play a larger variety of games, which can make the experience more rewarding.

Amini also suggests a couple of other things to make gaming a more realistic option. If you watch a lot of TV or doing other similar hobbies, try cutting down on that time to play games, rather than adding them on top. As well, try

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CROSSWORD

Spring has sprung ACROSS

2. A synonym of “spring.” (6 letters) 4. Hometown of The Simpsons. (11 letters) 10. Also known as spring salmon, the largest pacific variety. (7 letters) 11. One of the top attractions in Turkey and formerly the Greek city of

Hierapolis. (9 letters) 12. This singer-songwriter was named MusiCares Person of the Year in 2013.

(11 letters)

DOWN

1. The first day of spring. (6, 7 letters) 3. The ___ festival is celebrated in Japan in the spring. (6, 7 letters) 4. Another name for a Labradinger. (11 letters) 5. A breed of dog, called a springer ___. (7 letters) 6. An idiomatic expression used to imply old age: “You’re no spring ___!” (fowl)

(7 letters) 7. A painting by Sandro Botticelli. (9 letters) 8. “Violin Sonata No. 5” was composed by ___. (9 letters) 9. Also known as spring onions, green in colour. (8 letters)

by KATIE STOBBART

LAST WEEK’S Answer Key Across 4. KALE 5. RADISH 8. ONION 9. BEET 10. SPINACH 11. TOMATO 13. LETTUCE 14. ARUGULA Down 1. CARROTS 2. BEANS 3. CHICORY 6. ARTICHOKE 7. POTATO 9. BROCCOLI 12. PEAS

The Weekly Horoscope Star Signs from Swamp Bob Aquarius: Jan 20 - Feb 18 Jupiter suggests that to bolster your social life you should adorn yourself with shards of orihaclon. Venus suggests you should try getting out of the house more, bathe on a regular basis and stop telling people how imprisoning all the homeless people would fix the economy.

Gemini: May 21 - June 21

The end of the semester has you burnt out with your creativity at a standstill. Mars recommends bedalazzing your favourite ball cap with opal to help stimulate those creative juices. He also notes that a similar effect can be achieved (though medically frowned upon) by mixing Redbull in your espresso and watching Adventure Time for several hours.

Libra: Sept 23 - Oct 22 Your sense of self is lost. Venus recommends a yearlong soul-searching pilgrimage through the slopes of the Himalayas.

Pluto states that you should just hang some Tibetan scepter quartz in an easternfacing window and save yourself the airline fare.

Cancer: June 22 - July 22

Scorpio: Oct 23 - Nov 21

Your sideshow as a magician is failing even with the help of your magic tanzanite crystals, Saturn recommends buffing up your magic skills with some tabular crystals. Mars suggests that you work on your sleight of hand as magic is not real.

You find yourself constantly running into doors and tripping over your own feet.

Saturn strongly suggests fashioning some rhodonite into a classy set of earrings of tiepin. You will still be a klutz, but at least you will look good when next you trip over the first spring rabbit.

Your chakras are out of line. Neptune recommends hanging yellow jasper around your neck to help align your solar plexus energies. If it is a large enough piece it can also provide a great work out for your abs.

Aries: March 21 - April 19

Leo: July 23 - Aug 22

Sagittarius: Nov 22 - Dec 21

Your emotions are still in turmoil over your last breakup. Jupiter states that to release this negative aura you should meditate with some chalcopyrite (or achieve similar results by flinging it at your ex).

You will find yourself beset with a string of bad luck. The planets whisper black magic is afoot. A shard of petalite will help you to ward off the brunt of it – or a sincere apology and plate of cookies to the one working the spell will also remedy matters.

Pisces: Feb 19 - March 20

The planets sense your growing tension about your upcoming graduation as you are released into the working world. Venus recommends weaving shards of laser wand crystals into your hair to provide direction and make you seem more employable.

Taurus: April 20 - May 20

Virgo: Aug 23 - Sept 22

Your stress, anxiety and high fibre diet will have you “blocked up.” Mercury states that sleeping with danburite under your pillow with smooth things along. Uranus adds that if that fails then the old standby of a double spiced prune cocktail with a chaser of espresso should get the job done.

A pendent of aquamarine will bring you feelings of courage and peace. Mars also suggests that enrolling in a local Silat martial arts class will produce similar results.

Capricorn: Dec 22 - Jan 19 The planets just want you to know that no amount of muscovite will encourage angelic contact with yourself. Especially not after what you did at the last house party with that tube of toothpaste and serving spoon of bean dip.

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ARTS & LIFE Film Review

Dead Man Down MICHAEL SCOULAR

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In the opening scene of Dead Man Down, Colin Farrell’s character is receiving a thoughtful speech from his friend about his meaningful connection with his family and why it makes him feel important. The meaning of the scene to the audience is as empty as Colin Farrell’s infinite gaze. It isn’t until much later on that we realize the full intent of the scene. This procedure of revealing the importance of scenes well after they have come and gone becomes routine in the movie.

Dead Man Down is tale of revenge. But from whose point of view, you are uncertain. Continuity doesn’t describe this confusion more so than narrative source. The film starts from Viktor’s (Colin Farrell) perspective as it follows his actions in the world of criminal activity. While his motives are unclear at first, he seems driven to meet the ends. Soon he meets

Beatrice (Noomi Rapace), a woman who bares scars on her face.

Noomi Rapace channels a broken version of herself. A women who was appreciated her beauty now fears the very thing she nurtured.

But then an abrupt conjuncture reveals itself between the two that was unknown to the audience yet both of them knew about it. This

sudden twist comes off as clunky because the audience had no inclination of there being a twist to begin with. When a similar kind of reveal occurred in The Sixth Sense, it was shocking but it was relevant to what the audience had experienced. In the case of Dead Man Down; it is random and confusing.

And this isn’t the first time that

this happens. The narrative truly begins to lose focus as the switch between the audiences being unaware of the characters intentions to the audience being able to see something so unbelievably evident yet the other characters can’t see it is stressing.

Director Neils Arden Oplev works once again with Noomi Rapace. The two collaborated on the films that launched Rapace’s career in western cinema, the original Swedish The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series. But unlike their previous work, the story they are portraying isn’t as well made or organized. Just because you add big names to something incoherent doesn’t mean it will make it coherent.

For almost the entire film, it displays the self-damaging conditions of revenge and how even bad people can find happiness. The film almost tries to be different by trying to say that revenge isn’t always the answer. Why kill for those who are dead and buried when you are still

able to live? But this is all thrown to the wayside in the final minutes as it reverses its approach and just chooses straight out revenge. It has its moments, both entertaining and boring, but it can’t hide its inconstancies.

The film is a blotchy yet peculiar kind of clutter, especially in its production. Eyebrows could be raised during the opening credits as it is revealed that WWE Films produced this features. Yes, World Wrestling Entertainment is making movies that don’t feature their “athletes” as leading characters.

Wrestler Wade Barrett does have a small role in the film, but actual actors make up the rest of the cast.

I have a suspicious feeling that this film only got off the ground because of WWE’s funding. When the wrestling entertainment industry is producing films that acquire talent like Noomi Rapace and director Neils Arden Oplev, I don’t know whether to be intrigued or terrified.

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A letter to heterosexual people LADY ORACLE

Sex columnist

Dear heterosexuals, As a little girl, I always thought that I would marry a boy when I grew up. I never questioned that belief – never mind the marriage part, but the heterosexual part.

From day one, we are swamped with images, advertisements, stories and media that all tell us the same thing – heterosexual is “normal.” Now that I’ve reached the age that I know I’m hetero, I realise how messed up that is.

“Normal,” is a dangerous word.

Anything other than “normal” is “abnormal” – different, immoral, a person who belongs in the “other” category. And by “othering” people, we treat them like second-class citizens (this social phenomena isn’t limited to sexuality, but also race, class and even age).

There is an enormous pressure to be heterosexual in our culture.

Not only be heterosexual, but to appear heterosexual. To play the gender roles for fear of being “othered” – for fear of being harassed, insulted, physically harmed. To appear other than heterosexual could jeopardize your friendships, your home life, your job. Imagine how your life would be different if you identified as something other than hetero.

Sexuality is, like much of our nature, socially constructed. And boy, did we construct our sexuality. Dating, romance, sex, relationships – there is so much ideology surrounding it all! But, unlike what our culture tells us, straight-arrow heterosexuality is not the default setting on our biological sexual programming. We shouldn’t have to be told how to conduct ourselves as heterosexual; we shouldn’t just accept being told, “this is what you’re supposed to be doing, this what you’re supposed to like ...”

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The Genderbread Person version 2.0 from ItsPronouncedMetrosexual.com illustrates the complex definition of one’s own gender.

It’s passive. And we’re not all cut from the same cloth, even if we have heterosexuality in common.

Sexuality is fluid, blossoming, changing and free. We shouldn’t be locked into: “Look good. Be sexy. Attract a woman/man.”

On itspronouncedmetrosexual. com, there is a chart that might be more accurate in defining your sexuality. It’s called The Genderbread person – and yes, it does have a picture of a little “gingerbread man” character. But there are four categories—each with two linear arrows starting at a dot—wherein you can chart your own sexuality.

It begins to capture the complexity of what real human sexuality is.

First of the four is Gender Identity. The top arrow is womanness, the bottom is man-ness. The further right along the arrow you go, the more “woman-ness” or “man-ness” you feel inside. This has nothing to do with physical appearance, mind you. For example, a person who identifies as “genderless” would mark themselves at the very left end of both; a person that identifies as “woman” would have a lower mark for the “man-ness” arrow and a higher one for the “woman-ness.”

The next is Gender Expression.

Do you express yourself as butch?

Femme? Androgynous? Or anything in between? Move up and down on the “masculine” and “feminine” lines.

Next is Biological Sex, which includes what your genes and genitals look like: male, female or intersex ... XX, XY, XXY, XYY or other.

The last section is Attracted To: Men/Males/Masculinity?

Or Women/Females/Femininity?

Move up and down the arrows.

It is interesting to chart your own sexuality. And even if you identify as entirely heterosexual, it

is empowering to think: what does that mean to me? How do I and other heterosexuals “other” people of different sexualities? What privileges do I have—granted, invisible ones—that I wouldn’t have if I weren’t hetero? Take responsibility for your own sexuality. Don’t take for granted those invisible privileges. Don’t let people tell you what it means to be heterosexual – how you should date, have romances, fall in love or commit yourself to marriage.

Come out to yourself and to the world as heterosexual. And do it on your own terms.

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ARTS & LIFE Book Review

A Post-May Adolescence – Olivier Assayas MICHAEL SCOULAR

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Recalling the 1960s and ‘70s, written in 2005, translated into English by Adrian Martin and Rachel Zerner and published last year, Olivier Assayas’ A Post-May Adolescence is a work of shifting positions, timeframes, tenses and forms – a work of criticism, a memoir and a “letter to Alice Debord.”

Assayas’ autobiographical account of his coming of age—from school to practice, political messages to beliefs—is set in a period of remove. Assayas grew up in the time just following the events of May ‘68 in France, and as a filmmaker, Assayas belongs to a rarelyclassified generation of French directors neither as radical as those before nor as acceptably standard as the international crossovers of today – a barely-noticeable wave after the wave (at least in quantifiable size).

This in-betweenness, though valuable in its own way, means that as Assayas’ book opens, it is with the recognition that politically “it was all over,” and as it continues Assayas always considers with self-effacement his own film and art.

But because there was this “after” of the era, the pressure of a standard briefly set up then fallen before, Assayas enters as a teenager into a torrent of ideas—some attractive, some attached—that not only exist as texts but present themselves as possible actions. The volatility of the school day, the impulsive, accelerated action after its

conclusion, “a larger horizon than the one given to young people today,” gives Assayas’ memories of education typical unsureness, but also a forcefulness that, though rash and momentary, exceeded silent revolt of thought against “the stifling solitude of decomposed collective values.”

Assayas was a part of school vandalism, strikes, marches and pamphlet distribution, but for the most part this is not aggrandized; Assayas—at the time, apparently, and certainly now—is against the romanticism, the standardized, reductive view of the era (he rejects the term “movement” entirely), often shrunk into symbols and clothing and copied images. This was real, problematic and as complicated as transition always is when viewed from ground level.

Assayas picks apart the dogma and methods that were no better than the ones they were seeking to replace, but what surfaces is an overall changeability – allegiances could switch as groups collapsed or disbanded, the one regularity of alternative presses were their short life-span but also their constant emergence, and “the frisson of physical disgust provoked by discussions with interlocutors who, the day before, I would have considered close friends concerning the veracity or lack thereof and the significance or lack thereof” of Solzhenitsyn, Sartre, Orwell and other authors of division.

Translated from French, Assayas’ prose is dense, though this is not unfitting given the type of political existence that is being

waded through, the collision of irreducible memory and an articulate present concerned with many of those same ideas. While the perspective gained by time means these can be named, there is still a constant questioning. This is not sure, this is “how did those events really come to be,” and “how did they come to form what is at present.” The same questions, then, continue to be posed today, and are in Assayas’ most recent film Apres mai (in limited release in a matter of months), a film linked closely to this text, and in the same way caught between the reformation of—becoming immersed in memory—and the gaining of perspective to see things as they truly are – though things will always be limited by this single point of view.

The major political conviction of Assayas’ youth as well as those around him, naturally, never finds resolution, but where this book finds its most alive portions and finds a stepping-off point is in Assayas’ discovery of personal voice through art – the major one being Guy Debord and situationism.

“Thought and style are one and the same,” Assayas writes, introducing the major part of his life where Debord became an influence, (also the focus of two attached essays, one coming from his time as critic writing for Cahiers du Cinema) and this style comes to mean many different things.

There is the concept of detournement, “the diversion of preexisting aesthetic elements which are then turned against their original meaning and put to new use,”

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With Assayas, this is not simply reference or name-dropping, but a considered understanding through another that has in turn become the new form of his own personality – a subversion become convention turned again into new ways of disruption and engagement, a situation from the past, still present.

Quantum of knowledge: Skeptics Café

Colour blocking JASMINE PROCTOR

CONTRIBUTOR

Many might say that the colour-blocking trend is on its way out the door and in some cases, they may be correct. But for right now, I say they are dead wrong.

You see, this is a trend that has been reoccurring again and again for the past couple seasons, and I don’t see it ending anytime soon. I mean why not? If you can make it work, why not try it out and take the risk. As long as you have the right tools and tricks to pull it off, I say go for it.

Essentially, colour blocking is meant to be done with solid coloured pieces. No stripes, patterns or polka dots – just one solid colour on top and one on the bottom. This creates the whole idea of “blocking,” of putting them side by side or in this case, one on top of the other.

Now before you start experimenting with this trend, it is best to lay down some foundation first. To start off with, let’s look at the most basic trick: the rule of complementary colours.

For those of you who don’t know, complementary colours are basically the colours that sit directly across from one another on the colour wheel. To give you an example, take the colours yellow and purple. These two colours will look great when blocked together because they – well, they complement each other. With this rule, I would put the warmer toned colour on the top, with the cooler toned colour on the bottom. This way, you are bringing more richness and warmth to your upper half, which brings more focus to your face.

Now comes the more complicated trick: the rule of two thirds. This rule will only work if you want to colour block three items in your outfit, like using the top, bottom and shoes. For this, you want to make an equilateral triangle anywhere on the colour wheel, and the three points will give you the colours that will look best together. Confusing, I know. But once you get the hang of it, colour blocking will become much simpler.

To give an example, you could do a cobalt blue, yellow, and orange combination. Or, to play things down

which is part of the case for Assayas’ films’ stability in look even as they pursue radical ideas, and there are the young discoveries that shape a sensibility towards interpretation of the world: Warhol, Ginsberg and importantly the music of The Velvet Underground (and later The Clash, before Assayas turns to criticize what punk rock cleared away and left in replace).

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A colour wheel shows you the best complements.

a bit, try a chocolate brown, pink and peach mix. All of these mixtures will create a well-structured, colourblocked outfit.

Accessorizing the colour blocking trend is probably the simplest thing out of this whole process. Just keep it basic and neutral. Nude is my recommendation, as it ties the whole look together and keeps the focus on your main pieces. That is, unless your accessory is part of your colour blocking scheme. If that’s the case, you then want to keep either your shoes, or some other minor detail of your outfit neutral. You have to have balance.

Another tip would be to not block over three colours in one outfit. It’s just too much. Remember, this look is simplistic and minimalistic, not tacky and dated.

So make sure you keep within those ideals and you’ll be looking chic in no time.

Is there a meaning to life, and is it the same for everyone?

This was the question students and presenters attempted to answer last Wednesday at UFV’s first Skeptics Café.

The discussion ranged from Nietzsche to Egyptian hieroglyphics as the 20 or so attendees bandied logical and philosophical structures like hot potatoes amongst the tables of UFV’s AfterMath campus pub.

The event was sponsored by University Campus Ministries (UCM) and was led by Andy Steiger and Greg Harris, both staff at Abbotsford’s Northview Community Church.

Steiger, who is also founder and director of Apologetics Canada, opened with the premise that meaning is necessary to living, and that such meaning must be “objective” rather than “subjective.”

For the former he quoted Tolstoy “[Without meaning] it is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us,” for the latter he proposed that life requires “meaning to be of infinite duration.” As an example he used the idea of language, which, meaningless when interpreted subjectively, is an invaluable tool when attributed objective meaning.

While the first Skeptics Café ended in a vibrant discussion, some members of the audience were surprised by the nature of the event. “At first I thought it was kind of misleading because the posters indicated it was kind of a skeptic’s thing or a skeptical conversation,” said Matt Janzen, a UFV student from the Theatre department, “and then [Stieger] comes out and starts talking about God and that meaning is derived from God, or that God is the author of our lives. So that was kind of interesting.”

Darren Suderman, another student, was also surprised. “I agree that I definitely wasn’t expecting it to be given by a Christian even though I’m a Christian myself. I definitely was expecting it from a more skeptical outlook ... [yet] I think it’s really great for people to learn to think for themselves and to dialogue openly about these issues because some people really don’t like thinking about them or talking about them ever.”

Despite the surprise, the event fostered some good debate and provocative questions.

While no consensus was reached on what the “meaning” of life actually is, Steiger, Harris, and their audience took a courageous peek into the machineries of the infinite and all left smiling.

An accomplishment in itself.

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Why I let my father win PAUL ESAU

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I don’t know when I first held a basketball.

I was probably two or three and there’s probably a photo of it in an album somewhere. Most likely it was Christmas, since my dad spent the first decade of marriage with the word “basketball” at the top of his Christmas list.

It didn’t matter how many basketballs he got, that word stayed at the top, not that we could afford decent basketballs in those early years.

When I was seven or eight we bought a portable hoop from a neighbour and set it up at the top of our driveway. It sits there to this day, staring down the 20 per cent grade to the street below. We used to joke we had our own ball machine, since every rebound would roll right back down the driveway.

I’ve spent a lot of time staring at that hoop, shooting on that hoop, cursing that hoop. When I think about my basketball-playing days, I think of that hoop, of the hundreds of games of “Around The World” I’ve played on that hoop.

And the man I played against.

My father didn’t just collect basketballs every Christmas, he was the sport’s physical incarnation in our house. He was the one who signed me up for all the Fri-

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Mr. Esau teaches Paul a little about basketball and a little about life. day night leagues and the summer camps, the one who, when I wanted to go inside, would say “20 more shots.” Becoming a true basketball player, for me, was supposed to be the moment I could beat my father one-on-one (in a game to 11, possession after three). That was the true rite of manhood.

Honestly, I can’t remember if I ever did beat him. At some indeterminable point I realized that I did not love basketball the way my father did, and I turned in a different direction. I played him occasionally after that, but never aggressively, never the way real

father-son competition is meant to be played.

I know that hurt him. He loved the game and he wanted me to love it the same way. He could tell childhood stories of practicing outside in sub-zero Albertan temperatures, forced to adapt his shot to compensate for gloves. He sacrificed for the game; I sacrificed the game for my other dreams.

I always thought that at some future point I might get back into basketball, perhaps join a men’s league, and finally return to the gym with my father. It was on the agenda somewhere between a day-dream and my “five-year

plan.” I figured I could always return to form, using the maturity of a 20-something academic to compensate for the burgeoning athleticism of a high-school senior.

What I didn’t realize was that my father’s time had run out.

No son really understands the effects of time until they compare the image of the father of their youth to the one before them as a young-adult. I remember my father as the white Albertan beating upstart players from the college team, the man with stories of playing street ball in the Fresno ghetto.

Then I blinked, somewhere between 19 and 22, and life, as it often does, changed the rules.

I can’t remember the last time my father played basketball. I should know, he always retells his defeats and triumphs over dinner on the days when he competes (in almost any sport). But sometime, a few years ago now, he simply stopped playing. It was only recently that he revealed why he’d had to quit.

I didn’t notice at first. In my mind basketball was too much a part of my father to be separated from him. Despite his age he had always worked harder, competed harder, been more intense on the court than I cared to be. It shocks me, even now, to think he’ll never unwrap a Christmas basketball again, or get his photo taken on a court wearing those horrible pas-

tel ‘80s shorts.

And it hurts me, as I know it hurts him, that I’ll never really be the player I could have been. I’ll never shake his hand after that final, eleventh basket, and look him in the eyes as the baton is passed to the next generation of Esau athletes. The chance to complete that rite of passage is gone for good.

I wish I’d realized it was slipping away.

Yet my father is not a man to give up on sport peacefully. Six months ago he drove to Vancouver to buy a squash racket, and returned with an ugly, stubby implement that made me laugh.

“Why?” I said, “squash is a sport for sweaty old men!”

At that point he didn’t answer, he just looked at me, and I felt the uncomfortable premonitions of something I didn’t want to understand.

He plays squash almost every day now over at Apollo. Sometimes he wins. Sometimes he loses. Every time, I hear the scores over dinner.

Every once in a while I tag along and play this alien game that was not at all a part of my childhood.

We used to play to 11 points, but then one day I got to 11 first and my father decided that, actually, we were playing to 15.

I’ve never reached 15 first.

And I hope I never do.

Impressive season comes to a close for Cascades basketball JASPER MOEDT the cascade

A fourth quarter comeback came just short for the UFV women’s basketball team as their hunt for the school’s first-ever national championship came to a close in the opening round of the Final Eight national tournament.

The Cascades trailed the Saint Mary’s Huskies by 14 coming into the fourth quarter, but managed to cut the deficit to just one point late in the game. That was as close as the comeback would get as the Huskies managed to re-establish their lead in the closing minutes. At the final buzzer the Huskies walked away with a 62-57 victory. In the loss the Cascades were led by forward Kayli Sartori who scored 17 points and dished out six assists, as well as Sarah Wierks who contributed 14 points and 11 rebounds.

On Saturday night the Cascades returned to take on McGill University in the consolation side of the draw. The women just didn’t seem to have any gas left in their tank after the previous night’s emotional fourth quarter comeback attempt. McGill had their way on offence, using big second and third quarters to build to their eventual 70-52 victory. In the loss the Cascades were led for a second night by Sartori who had 15 points in the game.

The Saturday night loss marked the second straight night the Cascades were not in tune offensively or defensively. As a squad that feeds off its defensive intensity to fuel its fast-paced offence, the women looked out-of-sorts against teams that took care of the

ball and forced UFV to run a halfcourt offence more frequently.

Undoubtedly this Cascades team, that has set such high standards for itself, will be looking at plenty of game tape over the course of the offseason to dissect where they went wrong and what they can do to prepare for next year’s playoff run. With this weekend’s results the women’s squad finishes eighth in the country.

This showing at the national tournament comes as a disappointment for a team that maintained a fairly high national ranking throughout the year and ended the year with the best regular season record in school history at 18 wins and only four losses. The Cascades managed to earn their first ever berth to the Final Eight tournament by defeating the University of Saskatchewan 2-1 in a best of three series, and then moved on to take bronze at the Canada West Final Four. The bronze medal was the first medal women’s basketball has earned in their time competing in Canada West.

Despite an unfortunate showing at this year’s national tournament, the UFV fans have plenty to look forward to in the coming years. This year’s edition of the Cascades does not graduate any players and will look to bring a full roster of returners back.

Many of the team’s players move into their fifth and final year of eligibility next year and will combine with the talent of some of the younger players on the squad to create an extremely deep and talented squad in the upcoming 2013-2014 season.

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Heat Report: Potential prospects for potential playoffs?

strated potential with his athletic style of play, although he disappointed management by going 1-4-0 with the Heat. This season Orito suited up for TPS in the SMliiga in his native Finland, and had quite the bounce-back year.

He could be added back into the goaltending mix next year for the Heat lineup.

TIM UBELS

CONTRIBUTOR

The AHL playoffs are fast approaching, and although the Abbotsford Heat are in a dogfight for positioning in the tight Western Conference, they could receive some help at the end of the season. Calgary Flames’ prospects currently playing in junior—at the college level and overseas— could potentially become available to play for the struggling Heat once their own seasons are over, giving them more options down the stretch.

Jon Gillies – Goaltender The six-foot-five, 215-pound teenage tender, selected 75th overall in last year’s NHL Entry Draft, had a stellar year at the college level. The rookie tender posted a 15-10-6 record with a 2.06 goals against average and .932 save percentage playing for the Providence Friars. The American net minder also received the honour of representing his country at the U20 World Junior Championship this past winter. Although the Flames have a huge stockpile of goaltending depth at the moment, Gillies could hold the key to the franchises goaltending future in a few years and may see some time in a Heat uniform before making his way to the big leagues.

Johnny Gaudreau – Forward Gaudreau has emerged as one of the elite players in college hockey, winning the Hockey East scoring title with 46 points despite being injured for part of the season.

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Heat prospect Joni Orito handles the puck during a warm-up for Finland’s junior national team.

Playing alongside fellow Flames’ prospect Jon Gillies, Gaudreau helped lead the United States to a gold medal at the World Juniors and found himself on the tournament all-star team. Despite his stellar resume, it might be wise for the Flames’ management to let the five-foot-seven Gaudreau remain at Boston College for all four years in the NCAA, allowing him time to harness his game before turning pro.

John Ramage – Defenceman In his fourth year with the Wisconsin Badgers, team captain John Ramage remains steadfast in his

play, providing leadership, shutting down the opposing team’s top players and chipping in on offence whenever he can. Finishing up his senior year with 13 points in 36 games, the offensive defenceman is eager to find out if his performance with the Badgers is enough to earn him an entrylevel contract from the Flames this summer and a potential spot with the Abbotsford Heat.

Patrick Sieloff – Defenceman Playing in the OHL with the Windsor Spitfires, Sieloff is a stay-at-home defenceman who dishes out crushing body checks

and isn’t afraid to drop the gloves. Although Sieloff has been shut down for the rest of the year with a nagging groin injury, the young blueliner brings leadership skills along with the ability to make solid breakout passes. If he ever makes his way to the Heat lineup, opponents may begin to think twice before skating across the blue line.

Joni Orito – Goaltender Orito is a player Abbotsford Heat fans should already be familiar with. The Finnish net minder played nine games with the team last season and demon-

If I could marry March Madness, I would

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Gonzaga’s Kelly Olynyk (13) is a player to watch during this year’s March Madness. He also happens to hail from Canada.

NATHAN CROSBY THE OMEGA (TRU)

KAMLOOPS (CUP) — I remember my first year at Thompson Rivers University (TRU) trying to watch March Madness in a local bar. It was St. Patrick’s Day, 2011, and I was wearing my festive green Michigan State shirt.

It was a great Patty’s day; the tournament started on the same day you get to drink green beer.

Actually, that might go down as one of the greatest days of my life.

I also missed my afternoon classes; which led to a valuable lesson in priorities. Back then I didn’t have Personal Video Recorder.

The greatest tournament in sports is about to begin. I say it’s the greatest tournament in sports because no other sport would have the guts to organize a oneand-done scenario challenge like National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) men’s basketball provides us. If this is new to you, think of it as a warm-up to the Stanley Cup playoffs.

There are five rules about mak-

ing your bracket; (1) History often repeats itself; (2) Don’t pick Syracuse; (3) the person who wins probably doesn’t watch basketball; (4) Don’t pick teams based on nicknames, team colours, logos or if they are “Your Team;” and (5) balance adventurous with realistic when filling out your sheet.

Rule four can be flipped if you just want to go crazy and pick whoever. Save the headache.

The universal agreement this year is there is no consensus pick to run the table. It’s anyone’s tournament. So it’s the opposite of last year when everyone picked Kentucky and everyone was right.

There are 11 teams that will be favoured to win it all.

The Usual Suspects: Kansas, Ohio State and Duke.

The Blasts from the Past: Indiana, Michigan and Georgetown The Cautionary Picks: Louisville, Michigan State and Gonzaga If you slept through the men’s basketball season, here are some stories you should be aware of before you turn on your TV Thursday morning: The fall of Kentucky: Once again, the Wildcats were built for another long run. Then, their highly-touted NBA prospect Nerlens Noel, proud owner of the flat top hairdo, tore his ACL in a game against Florida in February.

The team has been okay since, but that’s not an adjective people use

to describe Kentucky.

The Dunk Tank: Louisville’s Chane Behanan (six-foot-six, 250 pounds) had the dunk of the year and mismatch of the year by ploughing through DePaul’s Worrel Clahar (five-foot-11, 186 pounds).

Wolverines and Hoosiers: The rebirth of the two once-powerhouses, Michigan and Indiana, has them as popular picks to go deep after years of mediocrity and NCAA violations.

A Non-Major Number One: Gonzaga went two weeks atop the AP poll, led by Canada’s own Kelly Olynyk (son of TRU athletic director, Ken Olynyk). The Mullet is scoring 17.7 points and shooting 65.2 per cent this season. The Zags, who play in the obscure WCC, have their share of critics but have owned their conference, only losing to non-conference opponents Illinois and Butler early in the season.

Speaking of Canadians, here are some key ones that you should cheer for: Olynyk’s teammate Kevin Pangos, Anthony Bennett of UNLV, Bryson Johnson of Bucknell and freshmen Nik Stauskas of Michigan and Olivier Hanlan of Boston College.

Continue reading if you want my advice.

VCU and Butler are as wellcoached as any team and have the goods to give the top seeds a run for the Final Four and they have

Coda Gordon – Forward In his second year with the WHL’s Swift Current Broncos, the playmaking winger demonstrated poise beyond his years on the offensive end, taking on the role of the dependable winger who’s willing to make a pass over taking a shot. Although he has struggled balancing his two-way game, the young forward has managed 112 points in 136 games, while only amassing 33 minutes of penalties since joining the Broncos.

Development will take time for Gordon, and although Swift Current has clinched a playoff spot this year, Heat fans should get excited about the prospect of seeing Gordon sharpen these skills and learning to balance his defensive game in Abbotsford in the years to come.

While these players could potentially be on their way to Abbotsford in the not too distant future, as of right now the Heat need their core players to step up and play better down the stretch if they want to stay in contention for a playoff spot. The Heat look to halt their current freefall in the standings when they return home for a weekend double-header against the Rockford Icehogs.

done it before. Rule one; history repeats itself.

I like Georgetown and Creighton. Otto Porter Jr. for the Hoyas and Doug McDermott for the Bluejays are game changing players; guys who even the best defenses can’t stop when the game is on the line. The Hoyas blew up Syracuse 61-39 in February.

Remember Rule two; don’t pick Syracuse. Every year I tell myself they are going to break through and then they disappoint. So this year I’m not picking them, which means they will probably win the National Championship.

Never be afraid to go for upsets, even if they’re ridiculous. Every year the tournament gets more competitive. Remember, two 15 seeds won last year, Lehigh and Norfolk State.

Two teams I’d be careful with are Miami and Michigan State.

The Hurricanes destroyed Duke 90-63 in January but stumbled at the end of the season, losing three of their last five, including a loss to Wake Forest (13-18). The Spartans can never be counted out when coach Tom Izzo is at the helm, but down the stretch they lost three in a row to Indiana, Michigan and Ohio State.

So organize your time well, accept that you have no clue who will win and if you miss class trying to watch the round of 64, I hold no responsibility.

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UFV Legend: Brittany Stewart JASPER MOEDT THE CASCADE

Volleyball is a sport that glorifies the big hit. The star middles or powers are most often the centre of the attention on the court ; they are the ones earning the big points. This year’s women’s volleyball team was no exception.

For the casual fan who followed the squad throughout the regular season and a run into playoffs there was no doubt that the Cascades, with the likes of Jenna Evans, Katie Bilodeau, Kayla Bruce and Kierra Noot, had a plethora of highlight reel players. In the squad’s run to a provincial and national title the offensive stars were the point of focus on and off the court.

Despite the recognition that some of the offensive stars received, the women would not have had near the level of success they achieved this year without the stellar play of their fifth-year libero, Brittany Stewart.

Stewart is an unlikely hero. She quietly went about her season doing the dirty work, diving all over the floor, keeping balls alive and ensuring that the team’s offensive stars had a chance to get those big hits that the crowd celebrates. To the untrained eye Stewart is just a small piece on a squad full of stars, but ask anyone involved in the program and they will be quick to point out just who keeps the team together. “[Stewart] is a great source of

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The libero might not be the most glamorous position on the volleyball court, but it is important. stability on our team. She’s the best captain I’ve ever had, and has given a great example to myself and others about what a leader should be like,” said Kierra Noot, a third-year middle from Surrey.

Part of what leads to the lack of recognition for Stewart outside of

her own locker room is a general unfamiliarity with what a libero actually does and the importance of the position. “A libero is a more or less a defensive specialist.

They wear a different coloured jersey, and are only allowed to play in the back row (the back

two-thirds of the court). They are the best serve receiver and best defender on [the] team,” Noot explained briefly. After talking to a few more knowledgeable sources, I learned that the libero is essentially the primary defender on the court, yet also the individual who

is most often responsible for setting the offensive attack by feeding the setter a good pass.

Stewart has spent five years at UFV. Five years of sprawling on the court, saving points and not expecting a thing in return. It is only fitting that finally, in her fifth and final year of eligibility, Stewart was recognized at the national championships with a first team All-Star award. The Cascades will have a massive void to fill in their lineup next season as they lose not only their on-court leader, but the captain who was considered the glue that held the team together.

As many of her fellow Cascades and individuals surrounding the program will tell you, Stewart has accumulated huge respect through her five years at UFV. Kayla Bruce, a fellow fifth-year senior, summed up the consensus of thoughts on Stewart: “Brittany is hardworking, honest and passionate and has great leadership skills. She brings laughter and joy to the team and makes everyone feel like they have a special role on the team.”

Looking ahead at the years to come, Cascades fans can only hope that there is someone in the ranks able to fill Stewart’s shoes.

In the meantime, we can look to Stewart as an example of the best combination of athleticism and leadership, a true Cascade.

The Cascade is now hiring an interim sports editor!

Our current sports editor is taking a leave of abscence for the summer, which means we’re looking for someone to fill in for our 6 biweekly summer issues published between May and late July.

Applicants must be registered in at least one, three-credit class at UFV during the fall 2013 semester.

Responsibilities include assigning, writing, and editing copy for the sports section as required; attending editorial and writers meetings; completing final edits in inDesign.

Please send resume, cover letter and sample sports article to Paul Esau at esau@ufvcascade.ca by April 2 to be considered for the position.

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